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Debbia Griggs IntervIewed by: is the new Kris stadalsKy, assistant Herald COrresPONdeNt director at the Morris Area Public Library. PhotograPhS by: lisa PesaveNtO, visual CONteNt COOrdiNatOr

Debbie Diamond Mayor Teresa Kernc has joined Mayors Against Illegal GriGGs Guns Coalition. Morris library assistant Director eresa ernc Lockport resident Debbie T K Griggs has known of the IntervIewed by: good reputation of the JeaNNe MillsaP, Morris Area Public Library Herald COrresPONdeNt for years, and when the Mayor of DiaMonD opportunity arose for a new assistant director at the PhotograPhS by: Prior to becoming involved As a mayor, one of my Can you comment on a cou- facility, she knew it was JeaNNe MillsaP, with the village of Diamond, a: responsibilities is to make Q: ple of those issues? right for her. Herald COrresPONdeNt Diamond Mayor Teresa Kernc was certain the village of Diamond is “I had also heard real- a Bolingbrook police officer for 22 a safe place to live, work and play. Gun violence is avery ly good things about Kyla years. Mayors Against Illegal Guns is a complex problem. However, (Waltermire, the director), a: As a patrol officer, undercover bipartisan coalition consisting of a it can be broken down into smaller and the ship that she runs,” banks of computers. They narcotics agent, evidence techni- large number of mayors who, in an workable problems. Banning assault Griggs said. “And it came bring their children and cian, detective, patrol sergeant and effort to improve the safety in all weapons and assault ammunition at a time when I was look- expose them to alove of lieutenant in professional standards communities, are recommending a magazines is a simple solution to ing for something new.” books or check out a couple and training, she has seen a lot of common sense approach to reduce prevent them from ending up in the Griggs began her posi- for themselves. Libraries gun violence during her law enforce- gun violence in America. wrong hands, as is requiring crimi- tion at the library on Jan. have also been very impor- ment career. nal background checks. These two 7. She has already noticed tant for job searches, she Mayor Kernc has now joined what are some of the rec- recommendations will not solve the how welcoming the patrons said, whether it’s looking many other mayors from across whole problem, but they will address are at the library. The staff through newspaper ads or Q: ommendations made by the the country in the Mayors Against specific parts of the problem. is great, too, she added. scouring the internet for coalition? open positions. Illegal Guns Coalition. The coali- “The staff has tion recognizes that each town and what is a more difficult issue been super kind And today, Ban assault weapons many places of each mayor has a different strategy and assault ammunition Q: to deal with? and super help- At the end for their community, but they all a: ful,” she said. employment only magazines to help get them off agree the principle is “protecting The mental health issue – Being the of the day, accept online our streets and require every gun the rights of Americans to own guns how to handle the people assistant direc- applications. For buyer to pass a criminal back- a: I know I’ve while fighting to keep criminals and the reporting. I am not a men- tor involves just those who don’t ground check. Make gun traffick- really helped from possessing guns illegally.” tal health expert, but Idorealize about a little bit have access to the ing a federal crime and maintain someone, and it internet at their a gun offender registry. Improve that many experts will need to come of everything, what is the home, the library data sharing with state and local together to develop aplan that can including attend- can be dramatic coalition about? is a great no-cost Q: governments and close gaps in be implemented and afforded. ing board meet- sometimes. ings, adminis-“ way to take care mental health data reporting. See ‘Kernc’ • Page 8C trativeduties, of that type of policy, handling Debbie Griggs business. It even reference ques- LibraryAssistantDirector offers basic com- tions and work- puter classes, ing at the circula- right in town. WOW! tion desk. “The people who work in libraries have always been Willareth She loves that she is able WOW! to interact with the library’s here to help people find REWARDS CHECKING patrons, as well as taking ”what they need. 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IntervIeWed bY: jeanne millsap, Herald COrrespOndenT

PHotoGrAPHS bY: lisa pesavenTO, visUal COnTenT COOrdinaTOr

Terry Jensen is the new fire chief in Gardner. terry John Latimer of Morris is on the board and executive Jensen committee of Grundy-Three Rivers Habitat FIRE CHIEF OF for Humanity. GARDNER FIRE DEPT.

Gardner Fire Chief Terry Jensen took over as the IntervIeWed bY: Gardner Fire Protection CHrisTina CHapman, District’s leader last sum- Herald COrrespOndenT ohn atimer mer during a time when J L the district was dealing with some controversy. PHotoGrAPHS bY: He took charge when the lisa pesavenTO, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY district and the fire depart- visUal COnTenT COOrd. ment where separating and the district was tak- John Latimer, a Morris resi- tive committee. would never own their own home to ing over operations. The dent and retired owner of Latimer finally become homeowners. district board decided to worked for both Gardner Construction, is on the board and How and when did you no longer recognize its pre- and South Wilmington. the executive committee of the Q: become involved with the It is very gratifying. When vious chief and there was Grundy-Three Rivers Habitat for organization? A: you own your own home, you some division within the What made you Humanity, the local branch of Habitat have something of yours you can take fire department. Q. want to be a fire- for Humanity International. He just I got involved in late 1999 pride in. You can accommodate into Now the department is fighter? stepped down after asix-year term as A: when Janet Page, one of the and become apart of the community. going strong with 30 mem- president of the organization. original founders, was looking for They feel like they belong, and they bers. Jensen said he Habitat for Humanity is anonprofit someone with construction back- take pride in that and get to know Christian housing ministry that seeks “It’s been a journey,” grew up surround- ground, and I always had an interest their neighbors and care about their A: to eliminate poverty housing and Chief Jensen said. ed by the fire service. His in Habitat. yards and home. ... You get to know father, Gene Jensen, was homelessness. them while they’re building the home, chief from the 1970s until Through donations and volunteer Is there abig need for the and it’s great to see the excitement as Are you a life-long work, its volunteers build low-cost, the late 1980s. Their home services Habitat for Humanity their house nears completion. You’re Q: Gardner resident? no-interest houses for those in need Q: had a fire phone and, when provides? helping people who maybe have not who have put in a minimum of 400 had alot of good things happen to “I’ve lived here all technology improved, they sweat equity hours in the program. Yes. There are alot of people them in their lives. my life,” he said. had a radio and then pag- A: A: living in substandard condi- His mother and brother ers. How did it happen that you What have your roles been in As his career progressed tions in our area. Many of them live both live in Morris, and he recently stepped down as in rental properties that are not kept Habitat? from cadet, to firefighter, Q: Q: has a sister living outside president of the Grundy-three rivers up well. Alot of people are below the to assistant chief, his goals of the county. Habitat for Humanity? income level to be able to own their Primarily, Ijoined to be progressed as well. own home. They don’t qualify for a A: involved in the construction How long have you “When Ibecame second According to our bylaws, conventional or even agovernment end of it. I mostly supervise the volun- Q: been a firefighter assistant chief in 1992, after A: officers can serve three loan. I saw this as a homebuilder. teers and teach them how to properly and for what departments? doing it for awhile, yes I two-year terms max, and Ihad been construct ahome. always wanted to lead. I elected for three two-year terms.I am It must be a good feeling to See ‘Latimer’ • Page 8C “I’ve been in the knew I could do it,” he said. still on the board and on the execu- Q: see afamily that thought they A: fire service since When he told his father 1979. My father was chief he was going to be follow- and I began in the cadet ing in his footsteps, the roll,” said Jensen. older Jensen warned him Morris At that time Gardner had of the politics involved a cadet program, which considering the contro- Country Club allowed underage individu- versy between the then fire als to help with trainings, department and the fire ~An affordable private club ~ act as patients for drills, district. help with hydrants on “When all that was going 2013 MEMBERSHIPS scene and other minor on, he said you need to NOW AVAILABLE jobs. Jensen and his broth- make sure you know what er were both cadets under you are up against and their father. His father make sure you have aplan passed away recently. in place,” Jensen said. “If there was a fire in town, we went on our bikes You took over as to the scene,” he said. Q: chief during a con- A few years later Jensen troversial time between the was 18 and applied to be a former department and the firefighter and he worked fire district. How has your for the Gardner depart- time as chief gone so far? What were some of the chal- ment until 2000. For eight From only years of that time, he was lenges? Memberships the second assistant fire chief. A: “It’s been a change, To suit every type $1,000 Jensen left in 2000, he but we’ve constantly of player Annually! said, because he had some provided service to the differences with the then district. When a fire or Not agolfer? Social Memberships Available! fire chief and joined South ambulance has been called, Wilmington’s depart- we’ve always responded.” No Initiation Fee~NoAssessments! ment. 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Nathan Kelly had the best. Ithink Iwon 12 races drive to be competitive at that year. an early age. Fueled by his father — a long-time suc- Race car driver Nathan Kelly stands Is it important for cessful stock car driver on next to his father, Pat, and the new Q: you to win? the Grundy County circuit car to appear next season. —Nathan has taken an I want the other inch from Pat and run a A: racers to look at mile with it. me and be afraid of who He started racing go-carts they are running against. I at the age of 9and then won want to be that guy. I want his first race three years to be that Kyle Busch or later. Nathan test drove his Jimmie Johnson. first stock car at the age of 14, but they wouldn’t let Do you like NASCAR? him drive at the Grundy Q: Speedway until the follow- I like Kyle Busch. ing season. A: Last summer, he won the Street Stock Division How long have at the Speedway, north of Q: you been racing at town. At the age of 17, he INteRvIeWeD bY: Grundy? is readying to race with T.G. SmiTh, the big boys. His intent herald SporTS ediTor My dad bought a this summer is to run in A: Mid-Am and I test- the Late Model Division ed it at the age of 14, but —adivision in which his PHotoGRAPHS bY: they wouldn’t let me race. father won last year. liSa peSaVeNTo, Then we bought astreet Nathan recently took ViSUal CoNTeNT CoordiNaTor stock from my uncle John, some time away from and Iended up running in working on his new car in that. This is going to be my recent weeks and agreed third season in stock cars. to engage the Morris Daily Herald in a question-and- And you won the answer session. Here’s Q: Street Stock Divison what was discussed. last year. How did that go?

——— I tried not to pay NathaN Kelly A: attention to the Where were you points. I just wanted to Q: born? keep winning. I wanted to break my dad’s win- Joliet. LocaL Race caR dRiveR streak record even though A: I didn’t.

Where were you through the eighth grade, in Kankakee and at Jules Iremember that Your dad had been Q: raised? Have you been and Iplayed baseball from Speedway. A: the top three got Q: mostly retired until Q: involved in athletics the time I was six or seven Idid it for change in the trophies, but there were last summer. Did you ever Rockdale. growing up? years old until the sixth piggy bank, but dad was probably 15 carts in the get achance to see him run A: grade. the one who funded the field. I was a mid-pack run- before this last year? Yeah, I used to whole deal. ner. You’re ajunior A: play basketball When did you start Ialso raced RC cars at I remember going Q: at Coal City High and baseball, but I quit that Q: racing? Leisure Hours in Joliet, Do you remember A: all day to the School. Where else have you to race. but Iquit that because I Q: your first win? races. I know there is a gone to school? Iraced go-carts wanted to devote more picture of me as a1-year When did you stop A: until the age of 15. time to stock car racing. I think I won my old under his Mid-Am car Rockdale Q: playing? That’s what Istarted out A: first race at the in 1997 in the garage in A: Elementary, in. We got ago-cart from Do you remember age of 12. Ialways raced Rockdale. White Oak Elementary, Iplayed basketball Billy Knippenberg. I’d race Q: your first race? with the prize in my eyes Channahon Grade School A: from the fourth acouple of times aweek because Iwanted to be the See ‘Nathan’ • Page 6C and Coal City Junior High. Stop in ... Pat Kelly and discover the miracle of Tempur-Pedic! RetiRed Changing the way the world sleeps! Race caR dRiveR

Pat Kelly is an old war horse at the Grundy INteRvIeWeD bY: County Speedway. Tim SmiTh, While he has won seven track titles both here and herald SporTS ediTor, at Illiana Speedway com- bined, he most recently PHotoGRAPHS bY: found himself the track liSa peSaVeNTo, You’ll be glad champion in the Late ViSUal CoNTeNT Model Division at the you did! local oval. This, after an CoordiNaNTor extended retirement from the sport. What makes his story so again — vowing instead Yo ur Bedding Specialist unique is that both Pat to devote himself to help- and his son, Nathan, each ing 17-year old Nathan’s won a division in the same racing career instead. In season for the first time in fact, the Kellys have a new Grundy history. Late Model stock car in the 807 Liberty Street, Morris, IL 942-0887 He says he’s retired See ‘Pat’ • Page 7C When it comes to “Farmingarming Needs...”Needs... We Can Help With: •Marketing your cash grain •Speculating or hedging all commodities •Real Estate Managing Broker Vicki Geiger and Tana Nordaker have taken the advice •Full line of insurances they give their clients everyday by recently purchasing their new location at the corner of Rt. 47 and Waverly •Health, Life, Auto, Home in Morris.This has proven to be a great time to invest! Our move was made possible by both the current low interest rates and •Farm Business property values.Our great location allows excellent visibility and easy access for our clients. •Federal Crop RE/MAX, the nations #1 real estate franchise has strong recognition to all buyers and sellers. Our goal is •Online Daily Bids &Comments always to make your move as easy a transition as possible. Vicki Geiger Tana Not only is this a prime location but it also reinforces to both Managing Nordaker our community and its visitors that we are experiencing Broker/Owner Broker/Owner growth and success in Grundy County.What a great message 815-228-6843 815-441-3086 to send in todays economy! Sue Ader...... 815-931-0309 Sue Ansell...... 815-545-0180 McArdle Gloria Durkee...... 815-210-1077 Top Grain Commodities &Insurance Meghan Foley...... 815-482-9442 JoAnne Gretencord...... 815-252-3900 Phil Howell...... 815-228-4883 Properties Phil &Karen McArdle Sheila Jackson...... 815-481-1709 Jim Ludes...... 815-712-7786 Contact us at: (815) 584-2155 •[email protected] Karen Marsaglia...... 815-955-2890 -0- )4./3$* % 6833'15 "7 % #-&2!(,2--++ Kim Puckett...... 630-518-8117 Visit us at: 9080 S. StateRt. 47,Dwight •www.macfutures.com Rachel Wolf...... 815-791-4323 www.GetTopProperties.com News &INtervIews 5C Morris Daily Herald Special Section — Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Jason Helland was elected in November 2012 and sworn in December 2012 as the new Grundy County State’s Attorney.

IntervIeWed bY: christina chapman, herald staFF Writer

PhotoGrAPhS FroM: herald Files Jason Helland grundy county state’s attorney

Grundy County State’s going to law school. I once Office; however, there Attorney Jason Helland has saw a poster that challenged were no openings when only been in office a couple you by asking the question I was looking for a job. I of months, but is already ‘Why follow the path, when knew I wanted to work as implementing changes to you can blaze a trail?’ I a prosecutor, so I looked at better Grundy County. wanted to blaze a trail. all the surrounding coun- A native to the area, and ties. When I got hired at the now living in Mazon with Was it always your State’s Attorney’s Office in his young family, Helland Q: goal to become a Kankakee, I had only been said it is his goal to make State’s Attorney one day? there one time in my life, Grundy County a safer but I was hired to do a job place to live. Yes, it has always that I always wanted to do. A: been my goal to In addition, my wife You are a Grundy be State’s Attorney. I have Sara DePodesta-Helland Q: County native, tell us always pushed myself and I knew we wanted to about where you grew up. hard and had a game start a family and needed plan in place to reach my to move back closer to our I grew up on a farm goals. Anytime someone families. With the addition A: in western Grundy told me that I could never of our daughter, Harper County on Nettle Creek be State’s Attorney, it just Rowan Helland, on Nov, Road and graduated from pushed me to work hard- 20, it was a lot easier being Milton Pope grade school er. Just like how every little within a 20-minute drive of in 1990 as the class valedic- leaguer wants to eventually our families. torian. After grade school, play in the big leagues, I I attended Seneca High have known since my JJC I know you have only School from 1990 to 1994. My Herald File Photo days that I wanted to be Q: held the office for a high school graduating the State’s Attorney in my short time, but what changes class was the first class that Republican Jason Helland is congratulated at the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Morris after hometown. I have finally or advances have you already had students from MVK winning the election for Grundy County State’s Attorney. made the big leagues. implemented? and Seneca attend high The John Marshall Law had no idea what my career in law school, I transferred school all four years togeth- School, graduated cum was going to be. I started to the University of St. You had a strong Although I have er. I worked at the Eagle laude in 2003 with a Juris to take law enforcement Francis because I had sev- Q: career in Kankakee A: been in office for Country Market grocery Doctor degree. I have been classes and I instantly knew eral friends who had posi- County, what made you want less than three months, store from 1992 to 2000. My a career prosecutor who that I wanted a career in tive things to say about the to come back to Grundy I have implemented sev- family still lives in western has worked as an intern law enforcement. After five school. County for your career? eral changes to reduce the Grundy County and I live in at the Kane County State’s semesters of law enforce- The reason I wanted wasteful expenditure of tax- Mazon. Attorneys Office and ment classes and earning to become a lawyer was I never wanted payer money. worked as a prosecutor an associate’s degree in law because I wanted a chal- A: to leave Grundy First, I have reduced the Please describe your in Kankakee and Grundy enforcement, I knew that if lenge. I only had one close County. When I graduated amount of office hours that Q: education and work County. Grundy County law I did not get a job as a police relative that had a bach- law school, the first place the State’s Attorney’s Office history. clerk (2001); Kane County officer that I would like to elor’s degree and no one I went to look for employ- is open. ment was the Grundy (2003); Kankakee County work with law enforcement had a professional degree. See ‘helland’ • Page 6C Seneca High School (2004-2012); and Grundy as a prosecuting attorney. I accepted the challenge by County State’s Attorney’s A:(1994); Joliet Junior County (2012-current.) I had several friends College, associate degree who graduated JJC at the in Applied Science in What made you want same time who transferred Law Enforcement (1996); Q: to become a lawyer? to four-year schools to DR. GEORGE ROEBUCK, O.D. University of St. Francis, complete their bachelor’s bachelor’s degree in When I went to JJC degree in law enforce- Political Science in (1999); A: in the fall of 1994, I ment. Since I was interested Providing Complete Income tax prep &filing by afull-time Family EyeCare for 30 Years

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Attorney. I worked for nearly a supporter, Sheriff Terry Helland decade as a prosecutor in Kankakee Jensen Marketti. What will you and and had the opportunity to see two your guys always remember Continued from Page 5C great State’s Attorneys apply their Continued from Page 3C about him? We used to close and 5 p.m., we are craft on a daily basis, Ed Smith and As the then fire depart- now going to be closing at 4:30 p.m. current Kankakee State’s Attorney ment and the district went Marketti was not Second, I have streamlined the grand Jamie Boyd. The only thing that sur- through litigation, the dis- A: only sheriff, but he jury process where we have less wit- prises me now is how many people trict took over operations, was also their adviser, said nesses showing up to testify before recognize me in public places. but did not immediately get Jensen, and so much more. the grand jury. This will save the control of the firehouse. So He told a story of Marketti Grundy County taxpayers thousands You recently implemented for a period of time, fire ser- coming to check on the of dollars over the next four years. Q: Grundy’s first “No Refusal” vices were operating out of members at about 8 p.m. one Third, I have proposed an ordi- weekend. Will we see more of these? Gardner Village Hall. This day when they were mov- nance to dispose of county surplus Will there be other new law enforcement was quite the challenge, he ing back into the firehouse. property that requires a competitive programs from your office? said. Marketti saw there were bid process for the disposal of any “How many chiefs had to about 8 guys still there and county property that is worth more There will be more “No operate out of village hall? all dirty from their work. than $500. This ordinance is going to A: Refusal” DUI weekends in It’s not their building. They He got on the phone and pass at the next county board meet- the near future. The next time I will were fabulous, but avillage ordered the guys a bunch of ing. This ensures that when county implement “No Refusal” DUI enforce- hall is not afire station,” pizzas. property needs to be disposed of, the ment will be St. Patrick’s Day. Too Jensen said. “He said (to the pizza county will recover as much money Herald File Photo many people are losing their life due Firefighters slept in place) take it to the fire as they can. I forsee that the county to impaired driving. two beds in a back room, department. This is Terry will have an auction in the near Jason Helland gives a brief speech The one statistic that most people and their trucks were in Marketti. I’ll be down to pay future to sell former squad cars. after being sworn in as the new Grundy do not know is that 2011 was the first a garage across the street. for it,” said Jensen. Fourth, I have implemented “No County State’s Attorney Monday morn- year that there were less than 10,000 Other equipment was stored Marketti was always there Refusal” DUI weekends. I am tak- ing at the Grundy County Courthouse. fatalities in a year caused by drunk around the town. for the fire department, ask- ing an unprecedented stance on DUI Second, I am looking for ways driving, according to MADD. This is He also received resis- ing what they needed. enforcement in Grundy County. to procure grant money to fund twice as many fatalities that United tance from previous mem- “He was just a guy you I have had to teach people that just a Mental Health Court. Previous States troops have sustained during bers who left when the knew you could lean on ... because something has been done attempts at getting grant money have the entire Iraq War. I will continue previous chief was no longer The guy had aheart of gold. a certain way for the last 30 years, failed. With the closure of state men- to raise public awareness of the dan- allowed to be in charge. It’s ahuge loss for us.” it does not mean that there is not a tal health facilities, such as Tinley gers of drunk driving and implement They would constantly drive more efficient way of doing things. I Park, the need for mental health ser- programs to make Grundy County by the village hall or by fire What are your future have looked at how things are done vices in the community could never residents safe. scenes. Q: goals for the depart- with a very critical eye.” be higher. Although the Governor The fire district is going ment? feels that these services are no longer You are a new father, is father- strong now with 30 part-time Now that you are familiar with needed and could be cut, it could not Q:hood what you expected? members, consisting of 17 The chief is cur- Q: your new position, what are be further from the truth. medics and 13 EMTs. They A: rently working your goals for the office? I am looking to obtain a grant for Being a first-time father at also have some volunteers in on replacing some of the the mental health court, so the county A: the age of 36 entails every town who still respond. department’s apparatuses My goals for the office have can afford to pay for the medication challenge that I thought it would. that will take one to two A: always been to make Grundy that an offender needs while they are Although my daughter, Harper How, if at all, did all of years. A long term goal is County a safer place to live. I am on probation. Many of these offenders Rowan Helland, is only 2-and-a-half Q: this make you abetter to increase how many fire- currently spearheading a couple realize that they suffer from a serious months old, I never thought I would chief and firefighter? fighters are staffed at a time of projects that I hope are success- mental illness; however, they fail to have already bought her an annual from two to three. ful. Prosecutors must not only be take their medication because they membership to the Brookfield Zoo. I “By working with tough on crime, but they must be cannot afford it. Receiving a mental have a soft spot in my heart for that A: all of my crew, I just What is a fun fact smart on crime. health grant would allow us to pay girl. realized how important it is Q: people don’t know One of my goals is to get a for the treatment of the mentally ill The major challenge that I face is to work in a team environ- about you? Veteran’s Court established over while on probation, and reduce the the ability to balance a job that is ment,” he said. the next couple of years. Veterans amount of contacts they have with 24/7, attending community events, The team is currently “When I’m not (at have a specialized need for services law enforcement. The goal of the having hobbies and spending an ade- working on putting their A: the fire station), in the court system and we need to court is to reduce recidivism. quate amount of time with the family. firehouse back together after my closest friends know accommodate them. That is why the being awarded it back by the I’m a huge Cubs fan, and I Illinois General Assembly passed What, if anything, has been What is something fun about court. The firefighters are go to Wrigley Field every the Veterans and Service mem- Q: surprising to you about the Q: yourself that people may not working side by side day and chance I get. I also love the ber’s Court Treatment Act in June Grundy County State’s Attorney office or know about you? night, cleaning, painting and Blackhawks and watch all of 2010. Lawmakers have decided position? reorganizing their home. their games.” that Veterans have different needs I attended Game 2 of the 2005 “Other than that, it’s all from the average individual who is Nothing has been surpris- A: World Series. It was literally Your fire district about the fire district,” said involved in the court system. A: ing to me about being State’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. Q: recently lost agreat Jensen. Nathan Continued from Page 4C “Our families Do you know why he came out of Q: retirement to race last year? have said it best...” He had an opportunity to get A: back in the car and tune it up for me. He’s always said he doesn’t want me Tom and Sheryl, “I would heartily to run with junk. That’s why he did it, Thank you for even though we ended up buying a new Herald File Photo recommend Davis’s to one for this year. everything you did for anyone. They were very Last summer, Nathan Kelly won the Street our family. It made a What are the kind of things you have Stock Division at Grundy Speedway. efficient and tended to learned from your dad as a racer. very difficult time go Q: Dad’s is at our shop in Channahon our every need.” A: in Jim Lawrence’s garage. Mine, I smooth. That you’ve got to be patient gave it to my girlfriend. It was the jacket I A: because you can’t win the race in wanted more than anything. the first lap. Also that you are not going to win the race off arestart. That you Your dad ran at the ASA level. Is Dear Tom, have to make sure people have their room Q: that something you desire to do? To “Don’t change athing. Thank you so much and respect what they want. To be con- keep moving up to the next level? sistent because the person that is going The personal attention for everything you did... to win the race is going to be the one who Yeah, I like to do that. I’d like paid by Tom and his We really felt your has saved it until the end of the race. A: to get to the K&Nlevel, but it’s hard to get there nowadays. But if I staff could not have personal touch in every You guys both won big trophies was to get the opportunity, I’d have to been better.” detail. You are avery Q: from the Grundy Speedway. What take it and then do the best of my abil- did you do with them? ity. Everyone goes fast at that level. It’s a caring person hard level to get to. To Tom and Staff, “U.C. Davis is totally Thank you for being dedicated to everyone like family to me and at all times. Ihave the everyone Ilove. Iwill utmost respect for never forget all you did Tom Dzuryak and staff” for me

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Pat Kelly recently put MDH GENERAL MANAGER down the wrench and Herald File Photo stopped working on the Pat Kelly came out of retire- Robert Wall rarely passes car to engage the Morris ment to win the Late Model up the chance to read a Daily Herald in aquestion Division at the Speedway. newspaper — even if that INTErvIEWED bY: and answer session. Here’s means reading multiple pub- PatriCk Graziano, what was discussed. Not so much. lications in one day. Herald ManaGinG editor A: “Now that Iamback in an ——— Nathan started rac- area where good newspapers PHoToGrAPH FroM: Q: ing at an early age. Is can be found, Imust admit Where were you that something he wanted to Herald Files born? to reading four newspapers Q: do or something you wanted aday,” he said. “The Morris for him? Daily Herald is at the top of Joliet. my list, of course.” A: It’s something Wall began in his new Where were you Iwanted to do raised? A: position as general manager Q: for him. Ihad just gotten of the Morris Daily Herald divorced back when he was on Nov. 5, when he was Channahon. My Robert Wall nine, and I thought that tasked with enhancing what whole life until I took over in A: would be agood thing for the Morris Daily Herald is was 18. November him to do. Something for us able to offer to its custom- to do. He took off in the go- ers, especially its business as general Did you play sports carts and it turned out to be manager of growing up? customers. Q: good for him. For the past year and the Morris ahalf, Wall served as the Daily Herald. I wrestled in You’ve won seven junior high. In publisher of what he calls A: Q: titles, including this two “extremely local” news- the seventh and eighth past season after coming out grades, I played football for papers in Southern Illinois each edition, the topic of chose that particular photo What about the MDH of retirement. The same year — the Daily Republican Chanooka. Nathan wins the Street Stock each story and the location to illustrate the story. Q: has surprised you dur- in Marion and the Benton of each article. Ilooked at Ihave been able to follow ing the first three months of Division, how proud of him Evening News in Benton. Where did you go are you? the ratio of advertising to the storyline of continuing your tenure? Q: then? Simultaneously, he was the editorial content. I looked issues as we report them. ad director for 27 newspa- at the content of the pre- Knowing each of our story- My experience in I’m very proud of pers in the region. Iwas acarpenter A: him. He’s calmed printed inserts and even the tellers helps me evaluate our A: community newspa- at 15 and got my content in the classified ads. content. pers created the expectation A: down a bunch. That was You have been at the union card when Iwas ahard thing for him, but At the same time, I stud- At the same time, our that Iwould find limited 17-18. I’ve been a union Q: Morris Daily Herald for ied the website, morrisdai- staff, both in editorial and resources and a small group once he did, everything just over three months. How carpenter ever since. I lived started going really well for lyherald.com. Ilooked for advertising have done a of staffers wearing a num- in Minooka for roughly a has your view of the newspa- content, any unique features great job of introducing me ber of professional “hats,” him. Ireally am proud of per changed since your arrival? year and ahalf when Ibuilt him. and “entry points” that to the business and com- where multitasking in a way ahouse in Joliet. Then I would draw visitors further munity leaders in Grundy of life. That is certainly true Newspapers have sold that and bought one You’ve got the con- into the site. County. I haven’t met of the Morris Daily Herald. in Morris. Then I sold that A: been an integral After three months, Ihave everyone yet, and the staff However, what surprised Q: secutive wins record part of my professional life and built ahouse in Seneca, at eight and you and Nathan been able to get to know all knows I need to be out on me was the great passion and then bought ahouse in for four decades. When I our reporters, editors and the street. our team feels for our prod- are the first in history to each knew Iwould become the Coal City, where I am now. win adivision at Grundy in the our photographer. Now I These three months have ucts. To aperson, the staff general manager in Morris, can match the storyline given me an opportunity to continually go the extra same season. How does that I took a clinical approach to Do you remember make you feel? to the author and relate to better understand our team mile, work that extra hour, Q: your first race and reviewing the newspaper. their unique style, and I can and the community that write that one more story, what made you decide to go Ilooked at the number of understand why we take the resulted in a deeper appre- follow that one more lead, Idon’t know. I locally written stories in into racing? A: guess it hasn’t images we do and why we ciation of our publications. See ‘Wall’ • Page 8C sunk in yet. Maybe years It’s been almost 20 from now it will. I am more GrundyCounty’sFull Service Printer Since 1948 A: years. Ithink in proud of what Nathan’s 1992. I did it on a dare from done. He faced some adver- aco-worker. So Igot into sity this year and he still Enduro racing and it all pulled it off. escalated from there. Golf at Nathan’s going to run What have been Q: with the big boys this Dwight CountryClub Q: some of your more summer (Late Models) do you memorable moments as a think he’s ready? stock car driver? FORE LESS! Iknow he has all YOUR #1 SOURCE FOR When Iwas in the A: of the tools. Jim No new member or end of A: ASA, we raced at Lawrence is his crew chief PRINTING ©ING the Chicagoland Speedway. and he’s built this car from year assessments. Iremember that Iled the the ground up. But that’s first 60-70 laps in that one. the plan, for him to move Our modernequipment can meet all your No food minimums. It was atelevised race. I up with the big boys. printing needs now and in the future. guess my last win —the Lee Schuler. 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Kernc Latimer What are you working on now? Griggs Continued from Page 2C Continued from Page 2C Q: Continued from Page 2C Do you think banning assault weapons will impact Who are Habitat’s volunteers? We are in the process of selecting That’s something librari- Q: gangs? Q: A: the next two families to build for. ans love, she said. She’ll first ask the patron what authors Some gang members currently possess assault Most of them aren’t in construction. Are there any misconceptions about they like, what books they A: weapons and it will definitely take time to work A: We get a lot of retirees and people Q: Habitat for Humanity that you want have particularly enjoyed who are everything from blue collar workers those out of the system. In the meantime, anything that we to clear up? in the past, and some other to teachers and Com Ed employees. Alot of do to make it more difficult for gang members to obtain questions to get afeel for them barely know which end of the hammer future assault weapons and assault ammunition magazines Yes. Some people think we give their reading preferences. to hold. away houses. We don’t. Our families is a win in my opinion. A: And like most librarians, have to pay a mortgage, but it’s an interest- Griggs herself loves to read. Many people are concerned that they will lose their How many homes has Grundy-Three free mortgage. The principal is a lesser cost, Q: Second Amendment right to bear arms. Q: Rivers Habitat for Humanity built too, than it would normally be because of the But even abook-loving since its inception in 1996? volunteer work and the donations and dis- librarian can have difficul- ty finding the time to read It is not our desire to take away anyone’s Second counted material. with a full-time job and other Amendment Right to Bear Arms. Over 200 years We’ve built a total of nine homes A: responsibilities. It’s some- ago, today’s assault weapons and assault ammunition maga- A: and one rehab. The very first one How does Habitat get its funds for thing she tries to squeeze in, zines did not exist and were not even considered. Fifty years was arehab in Channahon. Our homes are in Q: the materials for the houses? though. from now, Iamsure there will be weapons that we have not Channahon, Gardner, Carbon Hill, Braceville Her favorites include, “The considered or even thought possible. We evolve and so do and Morris. Our single biggest fundraiser is a Particular Sadness of Lemon our weapons. A: golf outing in July, which usually What have been Habitat’s biggest Cake,” by Aimee Bender, Assault weapons are capable of killing mass numbers of raises between $10,000 and $15,000. We have challenges over the years you were to have at least $70,000 or $80,000 for each about a girl who can taste the people quickly and efficiently, unfortunately assault weap- Q: president? home. We depend entirely on donations – emotions of the person who ons and assault ammunition magazines have become syn- monetary and materials. We need that to made a particular food and, onymous with incidents like the one in Connecticut. Our biggest problem when I first got accomplish our mission. “The Language of Flowers,” Our goal is to make our communities safer. Irealize there involved was finding suitable land by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, are those who will not agree. As a mayor, you must decide A: that we could afford. You can’t build one of How can people get in touch with about a girl who just got out what kind of mayor you will be. Will you only make the easy these smaller houses in just any neighbor- Grundy-Three Rivers Habitat for of foster care and how she decisions or will you stand up and make the difficult deci- Q: hood. ... In 2005, Istarted eyeing the old Humanity to donate dollars, materials or their makes her way through the sions. Ibelieve stopping gun violence is worth standing up papermill property (Federal Papermill). I ini- time? world. for and am willing to take criticism from those who disagree tially approached Mayor Kopczick, who was Griggs and her husband with me. very helpful. In 2011, the city agreed to sell us They can call us at (815) 942-1452 or live in Lockport, where they five lots at 80 percent of the appraised value. A: visit our website at www.grundy3riv- enjoy ahobby of making What are your views on hunting? Last year, we broke ground on our first home ershabitat.org. whirligigs. Q: there. Iamastrong advocate of hunting. It is awonderful A: bonding experience for parents and their children. Families eat the meat they kill, and when they have too In the short term, we Ilook for 2013 to be ayear Morris area. While she much, they are able to donate it to the poor. My ex-husband Wall are launching anew of transition in our prod- shopped, I walked up and grew up hunting with his father and he now hunts with publication, the Minooka- ucts, and Iwould hope are down the street and down Continued from Page 7C our son. They have many wonderful memories. That being Channahon Life, in March. readers are delighted with to the canal. I was imme- said, if you need to use an assault weapon and high capacity and make that one more We will be replacing the our improvements. diately impressed by the assault ammunition magazines to take down adeer, then I sales call to make the paper Southwest Herald with a variety of the shops and believe you should consider a different sport. better each day. From the new fresh reader-friendly What about Morris/ the vitality of the busi- veterans with years of expe- design. The major change, Q: Grundy County do you nesses in a community of As aformer police officer, what do you think about gun rience to those who are new however, will be the con- love most? its size. We have been com- Q: ownership as a form of protection? here, I am continually sur- tent. It will be written ing back to Morris to shop prised by their dedication to exclusively for the M-C Life I’ve told this for years. There are many ways to protect yourself and your our paper and its success. readers. A: story a number It amazes me the number A: home. Gun ownership is just one of them. For those As for the Morris Daily of times. I was first intro- of community groups all people who choose gun ownership, it comes with a huge Now that you are Herald, I intend to chal- duced to Morris when devoted to the preservation amount of responsibility and requires a great deal of educa- Q: more familiar with lenge our editorial team to my wife wanted to visit a of the character and the tion, practice and thought. The worst thing aperson can do the newspaper, its other proj- make their stories relevant, local Morris store. Living development of business is to pull agun on an armed intruder and then realize that ects and the city of Morris, enlightening and engaging. 20 minutes away for five in Morris and in Grundy they are unable to shoot and possibly kill another human what new things might read- We intend to take a deep years, Ihad never been to County. being. ers see going forward? look into the needs of our Morris. Needless to say, The spirit of the commu- However, as Ihave said before, Mayors Against Illegal readers and ask the hard when I joined her on her nity leaders and the local Guns is absolutely not trying to take away peoples Second Iamkeenly aware question: Do we meet their shopping trip, I discovered business men and women Amendment Right to Bear Arms. I personally strongly sup- A: that the moment needs? the unique downtown is truly unique. port the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms. our paper leaves the print- Do you think Mayors Against Illegal Guns, with 800 mem- ing facility and is into the bers nationally, has a chance of accomplishing their goals? hands of our readers it Q: ceases to become our paper; Once again, gun violence is avery complex problem it becomes their paper. As A: that requires many different solutions, all of which a result, I want to use the are not simple or inexpensive. Our desire is to recommend best judgment possible in common sense solutions that are simple to implement and making changes. At the that will have positive results. I believe that many of the rec- same time, Iwill continue ommendations Mayors Against Illegal Guns have made are to listen to the community common sense, simple and affordable solutions that will not as they give us feedback on solve the entire problem, but will definitely have a positive how to “make agood thing impact on making communities and schools safer. better.”

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STARTING AT THE TOP FANOFSMALL BALL Steadhamsayscommunityhas Tucker has big presence for helpedmakehimfeelathome small town athletic program PAGE 2D PAGE 4D Scott Spiezio Scott Spiezio, a Morris World SerieS champion Community High School graduate, He was on his way to Oakland Coliseum Iplayed baseball won two last month when the Morris Daily Herald because it was a viola- World Series caught up with native Scott Spiezio. He was tion of contract. Though titles in his touring as aGrand Marshal for the Monster Idid play basketball baseball Energy AMA Supercross and going from one in the city cage league career. venue to the other. because I loved it. I still do. The first venue for Spiezio was IntervIeWeD By: Where have Angels Stadium T.G. SmiTh, Q: you skied? in Anaheim, herald SPOrTS where he made a ediTOr Devil’s Head, Big Bear, name for himself A: Super Cross. I’m still around the world. PHotogrAPHS young and I’m trying to have fun Of course, people FroM: the right way. from the area herald FileS remember Scott Herald File Photo I heard that your band from his baseball Q: Sandfrog had asong played playing days with Scott Spiezio, center, stands with his father, Ed, on the season opener of Dog the the Morris Redskins and then for two years at left, and Anaheim Angels coach Scioscia, at Bounty Hunter? with the University of Illinois. Since then, far right. Spiezio has gone on to make millions play- Q&A session he had with the MDH last Yeah, we were on. ing Major League Baseball for the Angels, month. A: Ithink it was Dec. Seattle Mariners and St. Louis Cardinals. In 12 —the first episode of 2002, he won a World Series with the Angels What made you decide to start work- the season. We’ve also had and in 2006 with the Cardinals. Q: ing with the AMA? two songs played on Friday Since playing his last MLB game in 2007, Night Fights on ESPN Spiezio has spent time out of the limelight Watching those guys going around and also during both col- until recently when he started working with A: gives me an adrenaline rush that I lege baseball and softball Feld Motor Sports and getting on the road miss when I used to play in front of 47,500 games. We also have asong again. That recent account was in the sports people every day. I love Morris, but when in amovie named “I Am,” section of the Morris Daily Herald, but there I’m out in the middle of 60 acres by myself, which is a Christian movie. was much more for everyone to get caught sometimes it’s not that stimulating. I’ve See ‘Spiezio’ up on. started skiing and snowboarding and I’ve Here are portions of the interview the started to do the things I couldn’t do when • Page 6D

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Mark Steadham has been the president and CEO of Morris Hospital This fall, Mark & Healthcare Center for Steadham will Randy and Dana Weese are co-owners almost three years, and he be in his third of Dandy Floor Covering in Morris. credits the community for year as the making him feel at home in president and Morris. CEO at Morris Under his leadership, Hospital and the hospital has achieved Healthcare numerous recognitions, randy Centers. and has continued to grow with the latest technolo- gies the medical field has to offer. eeSe You will be at W Q: Morris Hospital and Healthcare Centers three C0-owner of dandy years this fall. What accom- plishments at the hospital are you most proud of that have floor Covering occurred during your time here? Randy and Dana Weese officially opened Dandy IntervIeweD by: We are proud of a Floor Covering on January Kris stadalsKy, A: number of strate- 7 in the former Bailey’s herald correspondent gic and operational initia- Carpet One facility on tives that were achieved Commercial Drive in over the past year alone. Morris. Randy Weese has PhotograPhS by: While we do not inten- worked in the flooring lisa pesavento, tionally set out to receive business for 35 years. He visUal content recognition from outside is a veteran street stock coordinantor organizations, unsolicited car driver, well known at praise by independent Grundy County Speedway. groups is among the high- the same location. est compliment a hospital What made you All I’ve done since high can receive. decide to open your school was floor covering. In 2012 alone, we were Q: own store? People said I’m brave to named one of the top do this in today’s economy. 10 hospitals in Illinois I ran Bailey’s So far it’s going well; the for safety by Consumer Carpet One. It’s community is standing Reports, twice we received A: been in Morris for 11 years. behind us. an “A” rating on the When Mr. Bailey decided Hospital Safety Score card he was closing, it forced my What need do you fill issued by the Leapfrog IntervIeweD by: wife Dana and I to do some- Q: in Morris? Group, and we were one christina chapman, thing. We have such a good of 20 organizations across herald staFF Writer clientele, so we opened in See ‘Weese’ • Page 5D the nation to receive the Healthcare Advisory Board’s 2012 Excellence PhotograPh FroM: in Employee Engagement morris hospital & healthcare centers Award. Working in partnership with our medical staff, we implemented computerized physician order entry. This by introducing a medica- Most people would of the community. So many is a major patient safety tion dispensing program A: think it’s the win- people have reached out to initiative that allows physi- to assist individuals with ter weather; however, for make me feel a part of the cians to enter their orders the administration of most of my adult life I lived community. Shortly after I directly into the computer, their medications, and the in Kansas, so the winters moved here, I was invited reducing the opportunity expansion of laboratory have not been a big adjust- to church and easily found for errors related to hand- services into Ottawa and ment. a new church home. Plus, writing and transcription. Coal City. The acquisition For me, the biggest Morris and all of our Another way we have and installation of a new adjustment has been a Grundy County communi- raised the bar in the qual- angiographic system in our positive, and that’s living ties really know how to cel- ity of care we provide is newly renovated cath lab so close to a major city. In ebrate their successes and through our Re-Engineered was a major highlight of Kentucky, I was three and a community spirit, whether Discharge Process for all 2012. half hours from Louisville, at the Corn Festival, heart failure patients, I was most proud of the and in Kansas I lived four October Fest, Harvest Days, along with continual incredible support we hours from Wichita. Being 3 Rivers Festival and high improvements in our qual- received from the commu- able to drive into Chicago school sporting events. ity scores for heart attack, nity, with a significant por- on a Friday afternoon for Q: What are some of your heart failure, pneumonia tion of the funding for the a ballgame and be home continued and future goals and surgical care. new cath lab coming from before 11 p.m. is great! for Morris Hospital? In addition, we expanded community donations. A: We will continue to a number of health care What about Morris/ grow strategically through services for our com- You came to Morris Q: Grundy County do our health care centers munities, including the Q: from Kentucky. you love most? and services to assure that availability of Pulmonary What have been some of the quality, local health care is Rehabilitation for people biggest adjustments for you Besides the great easily accessible for those with chronic breathing from living in Kentucky to A: people I work living in the communities problems, an expansion Illinois? with at Morris Hospital, I we serve. of our Lifeline services would say the friendliness See ‘Steadham • Page 5D

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Grundy County Sheriff Marketti taught him to not Kevin Callahan took over as give up and to think out of the department leader under Judge Robert Marsaglia officially the box when trying to solve circumstances he would swears in Kevin Callahan to the cases. have never wished for when position of Grundy County Sheriff. “He was adetective for his friend Sheriff Terry many years and was good Marketti passed away. at it. Ilearned alot being Only in the job a couple around him. We worked of months, Callahan is tak- the Moore case ... We were ing what he learned from investigating that for a long his predecessor and friend time. We looked at him right to move the sheriff’s depart- away, but we had to build ment forward in honor of the case,” he said. Marketti. Edward A. Moore Jr. was Callahan has stepped up found guilty in the 1991 from deputy chief for the death of Morris resident last 8years to run the office Judy Zeman, in which he he has worked out of for attacked, sexually assaulted about 30 years. and killed her by burning her alive. How long have you At that time, they gained Q: been with the Grundy a warrant for Moore after County Sheriff’s Department InTervIeWeD by: some forensic informa- and what have been your pre- christina chapman, tion was discovered. They vious positions? herald staFF Writer knew he was in New York City, but they didn’t know “I started in July PHoToGrAPHS FroM: where. They were try- A: 1983. I’m in my 30th ing to decide how to find year July 1. I started here herald Files him when Marketti told right out of college,” he said. Callahan to call 4-1-1 and His first eight years ask for the New York Police Callahan was a patrol depu- Department. They told the ty, then for one year he was precinct the information a patrol sergeant before he they had and hoped for the was assigned to investiga- best. tions. He spent 12 years in “The detective said New investigations and then the York is a big city, but if he’s late Sheriff Terry Marketti here we’ll find him,” said appointed him as deputy Kevin Callahan Callahan. “Terry and I were chief in 2004. He became like, yeah right.” sheriff after Marketti died in An hour later they called December. back and asked for more grundy county Sheriff information, Callahan told Are you aMorris them they didn’t have any- Q: native? more. “He said, that’s OK, University of Tampa and Grundy County Sheriff’s learned from Terry through the we got him. A robbery team “I was born and Saint Xavier University in office for 43 years, and still In addition to his years? was sent out and found him A: raised in Morris. Chicago. He graduated in does. His father and uncle A: father continuing in a transient hotel.” Iwent to grade school at four years with a degree in were both military police in to work for the sheriff’s “He always stressed Immaculate Conception criminal justice. the Air Force. department as a court bai- A: treating people with How are your guys in School and high school at “I always thought it would liff, his uncle retired as respect. This can be a dif- Q: the department cop- Morris,” he said. What made you want be interesting work and the captain of detectives in ficult job at times, dealing ing? Callahan attended three Q: to be in law enforce- exciting work. It turns out San Bernardino County in with people that we have different colleges. “I am a ment? it actually has been and I California. to deal with, but he always “It’s been a difficult die-hard baseball fan and wouldn’t change anything,” stressed treating people with A: time for everyone played it my whole life. I Callahan was sur- he said. As the county mourns respect, even criminals.” here with his passing unex- played baseball in college.” A: rounded by law Q: the loss of Sheriff Callahan and Marketti pectedly. The staff is coping He went to school at enforcement his whole life. Do you have family in Marketti, you have not only worked in investigations as best as can be expected. and played for Illinois His dad has worked as a Q: law enforcement as lost your boss, but your friend. together are some pretty See ‘Callahan’ • Page 4D Valley Community College, part-time deputy for the well? Can you share what you have difficult cases, he said.

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Judge Robert Marsaglia, right, speaks with Sheriff Kevin Callahan, left, briefly before swearing him in as Sheriff Tuesday night at the Grundy County Board meeting in Morris. he just wants to continue Callahan to provide quality law enforcement that the Continued from Page 3d department has been doing They are avery good for the residents of Grundy group of people who know County and to continue to what they have to do. They be fiscally responsible. do what is expected of them and I am very proud of all of on a fun note, you them.” Q: have competed in The department has 30 the hot Dog contest for four deputies, 14 correctional years now each time taking hane ucker officers, 3part-time deputies down five dogs. Do you plan S T and 15 part-time court secu- to compete again? rity support officers. “I don’t mind doing GSW Athletic director Is there something A: it. It’s fun, but I’m Q: the department will pretty competitive. I hate to be doing to carry on Terry’s lose. Physically it’s not fun, He was born in a small town, and because I want to play basketball memory? but it’s agood cause.” has settled in quite comfortably in InTERvIEWED bY: and Eureka was a place that was another here in Grundy County. T.G. SmiTh, going to allow me to do so. I went on Callahan said he has Tell us something Gardner-South Wilmington High herald SPOrTS ediTOr a campus visit and enjoyed the cam- A: been approached by Q: about yourself that School Athletic Director Shane pus and the community. I went from the Community Foundation people may not know. Tucker has gone from basketball a school of 100 to a college of about of Grundy County to plant a PhoToGRAPhS bY: standout in midstate Illinois, to col- 700, so I guess I like the small school tree in Marketti’s name, and “I am a die-hard lege there, to making a home in the liSa PeSavenTO, size. I was able to meet some great there is discussion of nam- A: baseball fan and a area in the last 17 years. viSUal COnTenT COOrdinaTOr people and build great relationships ing the Grundy County 911 die-hard Cubs fan.” He’s a math teacher in addition to at Eureka, very similar to GSW. center after the late sheriff, Callahan has made alot being the AD at GSW, which is also but this is all preliminary of headlines recently with Any standout moments for something of a rarity these days. He the small town atmosphere and the right now. his recent appointment you or the team(s) you were took time out of his busy schedule traditions and pride were very simi- Q: “I just hope the depart- as sheriff, but that wasn’t around in high school and/or college? recently to engage the Morris Daily lar to Williamsfield. I made GSW ment continues to do their the first time his name has Herald in a question-and-answer ses- my second home and family. I feel jobs to honor his memory,” headlined in the MDH. sion. that the small town allows people to In high school, our team my he said. “Kevin Callahan hurl get to know each other and you are A: junior year went 7-22, and year’s first no-hitter” Where were you born and able to make connections beyond the then the next season we finished the As sheriff now, what printed in the early 1970s where is your hometown? Q: classroom with people. GSW really year 22-5, winning our conference Q: are your goals for the when he struck out 14 bat- made me feel at home, something I tournament and conference overall department? ters and pitched anohit I grew up in a small town of really liked and was looking for in a title for the first time in school his- ball while he played on A: Williamsfield, Illinois popu- profession. tory. Right now, the Morris Boys Baseball lation of 600. Williamsfield is located A: Callahan said Leagues. 30 miles west of Peoria. Did you play sports You’ve coached both boys growing up? Q: and girls basketball at GSW. Where did you go to grade Q: What is the biggest difference between school and high school? coaching boys and girls? Q: I played basketball and A: baseball growing up and in I went to Williamsfield high school. Ihave found that the A: school district and gradu- A: boys and girls that Ihave ated from Williamsfield High School Where did you go to college coached are very hard workers in 1995. My high school had a stu- Q: and did you play sports in col- and wanting to succeed, Iwas able dent population of 100 kids. My grad- lege? to push the girls as hard as Idid uating class consisted of 21 kids. the boys, so in that respect they I went to Eureka College in were very similar. Ifound the girls You also grew up in a small Eureka, Ill., and I played to be much more literal in what I town. Are there any similari- A: Q: basketball for three years while told them. Iremember coaching ties either in personalities or town ref- there. press offense with girls and I told erence points between Williamsfield a girl to inbound the ball and curl and Gardner? Eureka College. Isn’t that around to the open spot and sit Q: where President Ronald there looking for the ball. She liter- I feel that there were a lot Reagan went? Regardless, how did you ally ran to the open spot and sat A: of similarities between end up choosing that college and what down on the floor. Irealized that I GSW and Williamsfield. I think that others did you consider? had to be very specific in my direc- is probably the reason that I stuck tions from then on out. I feel that “Vital Signs of around and became part of the com- Yes, Ronald Reagan did really helped me learn the ability munity of GSW. The people of GSW A: attend and I missed seeing to teach the game and get kids to made me feel at home. I have made him speak at Eureka by one year. understand what we wanted them some great friends at GSW and they He spoke in 1994 at graduation and I to do. GrundyCounty” treated me very well. I think that started in 1995. I ended up at Eureka See ‘Tucker’ • Page 6D •How does our county compare to Ristorante &Pizzeria our neighbors? Banquet Room 1591 Division FRUlAND •How have we done overtime? Morris, IL &Catering Fine Italian American Classic Cuisine •How are we doing in eachofthese MondayNight Special Large Cheese Pizza $10.00 FUNERAl HOME 10 topic areas? 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For a small community hospital, Q: Morris Hospital is consistently on top of technological advances. Are there any upcoming new technologies the hospital is working to obtain that you can tell us about?

Just like smart phones, com- Herald File Photo A: puters and televisions, medi- cal technology is constantly advanc- Mark Steadham says the renovation of the cath lab was a major highlight for ing, and we are committed to keeping Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers in 2012. up with the advances. care, occupational medicine, pediat- practitioners continuing to expand. The new angiographic system in our rics, internal medicine, family medi- cath lab is a perfect example. If you cine, laboratory, mammography, x-ray Morris Hospital recently held a compare the system that we have here and ultrasound. Since then, we have Q: volunteer fair. Why are volun- at Morris Hospital with the equipment expanded services by adding CT ser- teers so important to Morris Hospital and used by other hospitals that perform vices and a general surgeon, and we Healthcare Centers? angioplasty and stenting, you’ll see are increasing our capacity to serve that here in Morris, we are as state-of- the health needs of area employers Our volunteers are one of the art as it gets. In addition, within through our occupational medicine A: the “wow” factors at Morris the past year, we began offering breast program. Hospital. They help us provide that MRI studies, a service that wasn’t pre- Plans are in the works for expand- very important special touch, whether Herald Photo by Lisa Pesavento viously available locally. ing our offerings for residents of it’s greeting our guests at the front Randy and Dana Weese are the co-owners of Dandy Floor We also obtained our own stereot- Channahon and Minooka by adding door, keeping families informed dur- Covering in Morris. actic breast biopsy system so women more specialist physicians at our ing surgery, or taking patients to and can get prompt results when they Ridge Road Campus. from their health care appointments need a breast diagnosis. And, we are with our transportation service. Weese currently in the process of obtaining What are some goals for Morris Of all the hospitals I’ve worked Continued from Page 2D three new CT scanners, one which has Q: Hospital’s other health care cen- at, the Morris Hospital volunteer Obviously, Morris already been installed at our Ridge ters located in the area? program is most impressive of all. I A: needs another pro- Road Campus in Channahon. The believe that is a testament to the gen- fessional flooring store. We other two are replacement scanners Last year, we began com- erosity, commitment and loyalty of didn’t have what Bailey’s for the hospital that will enhance our A: plimenting the physician our local community residents.” offered before — a good ability to serve our patients, especial- services in our health care centers by size showroom, the profes- ly in emergency situations. adding nurse practitioners. Working What is something fun about sional service we give and collaboratively with physicians, nurse Q: yourself that people may not the professional installa- The Ridge Road Campus seems practitioners are licensed and quali- know? I don’t think I am to be consistently growing and fied to serve as patients’ primary pro- tion. going to race this Q: The other stores don’t A: offering more services. Recently the hos- vider. Bringing nurse practitioners Most days, I drive a little Jeep year, because I am too busy pital announced having CT services there onto the Morris Hospital medical staff to work. This summer, I look focus just on flooring like at the store. I am not retir- A: we do. now. What are some future goals for that has been a great way for us to expand forward to spending some time out on ing. I am taking a year off. campus specifically? our primary care offerings in some Lake Michigan sailing. The highlight You are a veteran of the smaller communities we serve, of my summer comes in July when I Will Dandy Floor The Ridge Road Campus where it can sometimes be difficult will spend a week with two of the cut- Q: street stock driver Covering continue at Grundy County. Where else Q: A: opened in October 2009 with to recruit and place a full-time physi- est girls I’ve ever known, my grand- to sponsor racing as Bailey’s initial offerings including immediate cian. We see the use and role of nurse daughters, Alison and Madelyn. have you raced? has?

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ties must be done in a day. Tucker I make sure that I keep myself organized and aware Continued from Page 4D of deadlines and priorities of the day. Luckily, I’m When did you decide kinda of OCD and I need Q: you wanted to be a to have my stuff in order, high school administrator? otherwise it would be very difficult to get anything I decided to become accomplished during the A: a school adminis- day. I always make sure trator when Scott Wenzel that my class work is num- left GSW and I became the ber one. I really try and get AD for the district. Two to school early to work with years into teaching, I was Herald Photo by Lisa Pesavento no one in the building and able to become part of a have my class work orga- cohort with a group of high GSW Athletic Director Shane nized days in advance to school teachers and coaches Tucker says he is most proud allow for things that pop up to get our masters in educa- of the basketball team’s two during the day. tional administration. This undefeated seasons in the is when I began thinking River Valley Conference. What do you like about becoming a school and some of the people from Q: most about your administrator. Gardner, so I guess my jobs? answer to the original ques- Can you provide a tion would be when I was I like that I am still Q: brief description a freshmen in college and A: able to contribute about how and when you got Chris was a sophomore at to the athletic programs and to where you are at now? Eureka. be a part of the student’s educational process with Herald File Photo I graduated from What has been the extracurricular activities. I Former Major League Baseball player Scott Spiezio was honored by the Angels fans this A: Eureka College in Q: highlight of your ten- am able to have an impact past year in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Series. 1999 and began looking for a ure at your respective schools on students that are not in teaching job, I had a friend athletically? my class and help provide from college, Chris Kilbride, positive experience during Spiezio that had went to GSW and I have had many their time at GSW. he said that they were look- A: great memories at Continued from Page 1D ing for a math teacher and GSW. I have had very suc- All things being girls’ basketball coach. I cessful basketball teams Q: equal, if a student How did that applied and got the job at while at GSW. I am most were to ask you for advice Q: come about? GSW in the fall of 1999, and proud of our two consecu- because they wanted to do I have been teaching and tive undefeated years in the what you do, what advice Igotoachurch coaching at GSW every RVC conference. I believe would you give them? A: in Irvine called since. In 2003, Scott Wenzel that we won 23 consecutive the Mariner’s Church, and left for Peotone and I got the conference games. You have to make I’ve met some of my clos- opportunity to become the A: sure that this is est friends there. That’s high school athletic direc- Considering you are something that you are how we got on the sound- tor. Q: still teaching math passionate about and will- track. They produce and in addition to being the AD at ing to fully commit to the write movies there. When was the first GSW, you are one of the few job. I would recommend Q: time you ever heard these days as schools have a that they are very active in So, is Sandfrog of the town of Gardner? tendency to sway away from professional organizations Q: still playing? administrators who also teach and networking because I actually had been and or coach. What’s the hard- for every problem that you We’ve taken a A: to Gardner several est part of doing both? have, someone else has A: little hiatus since times prior to coming to dealt with it. You are going recording our album in GSW High School. Kilbride, I have been fortu- to put in long days and you 2006. We haven’t played who was from Gardner, and A: nate to be given have to want to be there and for along time now, but I would visit Chris in the time during the day to com- not just be there. Kids and now that Ihave some summer for Gardner Days plete my AD assignment. parents will respond to your things behind me, I’m with a bunch of friends. The hardest part has been commitment and you will starting to have apassion So when the position came keeping organized and not have a much more pleasant for it again. I’m writing open, I knew of Gardner losing track of what priori- experience. songs again and, when I’m Herald File Photo not playing basketball, I jam with the kids. Former Major League Baseball player Scott Spiezio, third from left, stands with his father, Ed, at far left, and his two You jam with your sons, Cody and Tyler. Q: kids? How does think all but three guys introduced me, Iwas in that work and who plays were there, and that was the seat. They opened the what instruments? because they are still play- gate and Iran out from ing. there. It was pretty neat. Cody plays the A: drums, Tyler I heard they hon- So where do you go plays the piano and Iplay Q: ored you by color- Q: now? Is areverse guitar. And Tessa is a ing the seat red where your super-ham as asinger. But World Series (Game 6) home I’m not sure. I they can all play every run landed. When did you A: know I’m coming mortgage instrument. My dad has first hear they were going to back (for AMA) on Feb. unbelievable pitch, so I’m do that? 2, but I’m playing it by assuming they got it from ear. Iknow that there’s a him. Iwas playing Christian School —Viola right for you? A: whiffle ball in University — that’s look- Can you tell me Mark Rigazio’s back- ing for ahead baseball Q: about the 10-year yard. He’s got areplica of coach. They’ve contacted If you’re ahomeowner, anniversary celebration the Fenway Park in his back me about that. Angels had this year honor- yard and we were hav- 62 or older,itmay be the ing the World Championship ing ahome run hitting Is that something team? contest. That’s when the Q: you are seriously Angels called. considering? perfect wayfor you to... It was in August It’s nice because it’s a A: and they invited symbol of our comeback. We’ll see. I’m � Eliminate your current mortgage me out for the weekend. That day they had all A: going to check it We had ateam party the members of the team out. loan payment and because Tampa was standing in the middle I’m just wanting to do there, (Rays Manager) Joe of the field for the intro- something that is good, � Receive monthly income for as Madden attended, too. I ductions and, when they clean and positive. long as you live in your home � Stay in your home � Stay on the title

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