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-jr- -jf vnr v- Community: Way wins Miss Algonquin ic Wednesday March 13, 2002 50 cents Weather Today's high: 52' PaqelOA Psurk miseirs prase Hranttley toike pafln planus parks when the weather permits and said they are looking forward to the Huntley Park District extending Deic-ke's bike paths. "1 think bike paths are a fabulous idea, as long as they stay out of people's back yards," Andersson said. Park district officials want to link facilities' amenities with the surrounding area. Tapping into the Lake in the Hills Parks and Recreation Department's trail system could conr nect the local park system, with miles of trails. "We could ride a bike from our parks to Qswego without ever getting on a road, Huntley Park District Director Thorn Palmer said.

More pressing than the long-distance path system plan is connecting the far-flung neighborhood parks with the Stingray Bay Aquatics Center, scried-. tiled to open Memorial Day weekend. "Our goal is to link the inside with the outside (parks)," Palmer said. Park board President Charles York listed this as a short-term goal to be completed in one to five years. Andersson and her three children already pedal the path along Miller Road to a park near their house.

With the aquatics center opening, her family might bike to it if her youngest has the endurance. "For the older kids, I think it would be just great for them if there was a safe vvay to cross the roads," Gentile said. Those living closer to the district's water park, especially those old enough to travel without parental supervision bi.it too young to drive, will benefit most from the linkup. District officials have not investigated funding the connections themselves. "We will and do depend mainly on developers that come in," Palmer said.

The Northwest Herald HUNTLEY Sunshine and temperatures in the low 50s on Tuesday-attracted Jeanie Andersson and Holly Gentile to Deicke Park. Their 4-year-old sons grabbed handfuls of sand and ran from one piece of playground equipment to the next as the mothers talked. The Lake in the Hills residents frequent area Man J) eld in 'x Girl, 16, stabbed in Algonquin lot By JEFF KOLKEY The Northwest Herald Carroccia at truckstop day Sears died, she says had the unfortunate circumstance to run into that man, who put three bullets into the back of his head," Berlin said, 1 rsl almost shouting as he pointed at Carroccia. Sears married Norma Jean Ra-hilly three weeks before his death. Defense Carroccia By BRIAN SLUPSKI The Northwest Herald GENEVA-Tlie night 1 lamp-shire Police Sgt.

Greg Sears was murdered, John Carroccia sipped coffee less than a mile from the crime scene, a truck-stop waitress said. Rhonda Herrmann on Tuesday testified she served Carroccia coffee at the Country Pride restaurant from 8:15 to 8:43 p.mr Sears was shot to death between 8:40 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. June 1, 2000, in an indus-. trial park near the intersection of Interstate 90 and Route 20.

Carroccia, 51, of Marengo, has been charged with murder and is free on bond. I le has pleaded innocent. Hemnann's testimony came after opening statements by Kane County Assistant States Attorney Robert Berlin and defense attorney Stephen Komie. "Greg Sears never made it home that night because he attorney Ste- IT phen Komie laid the groundwork for a trial within a trial, telling jurors that Norma Jean Sears had the motive and opportunity to kill her husband. "Greg Sears had his new will at 4 p.m., and he's dead by 9 p.m.," Komie said.

"After this 21 -day marriage, she doesn't even put a headstone on the man's grave before leaving town." ALGONQUIN Police have arrested a Carpentersville man who allegedly stabbed a 16-year-old girl in the hand and chcst.Saturday in a downtown parking lot. Police arrested Carlos 01-mos, 23, of 166 Golfview Road, on Tuesday on warrants charging him with attempted murder, vehicular invasion, aggravated battery with weapon and unlawful use of a weapon in connection with the Saturday night attack. The Algonquin girl allegedly was attacked at about 8:50 p.m. as she was leaving the southeast parking lot at Port Edward Restaurant, 20 W. Algonquin Road.

"The individual approached her and asked for a ride," Algonquin Deputy Police Chief Ed Urban said. "She said no. He asked again, and when she refused, he pulled a knife and stabbed her in the hand and chest." Urban described the weapon as a fixed-blade kitchen knife. The girl's injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. Olmos had worked with the girl at Port Edward Restaurant until he was fired around Feb.

23, manager Karen Brim said. Brim said the girl had worked at the restaurant two nights a week for about six months and had left early the night of the alleged attack. "We have never had anything like this happen, ever," Brim said. "She had left early because we were a little slow. "He came up to her window and asked for a ride home.

She said her mother wouldn't let her, so he yanked open the door," Brim said. See ATTACK, page 2 Chris Birks The Northwest Herald Sloppy smooch Val Bourland of the Northern Illinois Doq Club Inc. gets a wet kiss from her English springer spaniel, Dooley, during a break in obedience training at the club's Woodstock site. The club helps dog owners learn how to handle their animals. PADS unveils site for day center, seek funds What it's for The $1.1 million Day Services Center'will give homeless a place to shower, wash clothes and receive counseling.

transitional shelter run by PADS. The agency also offers emergency overnight shelter at seven area churches during the winter months. Passageway shelters up to 20 individuals and families until they find permanent places to live. Some stay as long as four months. The day building would serve as more of short- term shelter with an emphasis on the services provided, not the beds, PADS board member Terry Rindal said.

See PADS, page 2 Representatives will reach out to congregations, businesses, organizations and individuals to raise the rest of the money, PADS Executive Director Jack Nichols said. "The response has been overwhelmingly positive," he said. "People see this as a project that will move people back into productive roles in the community." He expects the building to be completed by winter 2002. About 50 people were expected to tour the 6-acre site at 144 1 1 Kishwaukee Valley Road and nearby Passageway, a By JAM I KUNZER The Northwest Herald WOODSTOCK A patch of land along Kishwaukee Valley Road will serve as the site of a new day center for McHenry County's homeless. Representatives of Public Action to Deliver Shelter showed off the area Tuesday in a kickoff ceremony of their "Re-Connecting Homeless with the Community" fund-raising campaign.

The 1 1 million Day Services Center will give homeless a place to shower, wash cloUies and receive counseling. Through private donations and foundations, PADS already has raised $808,000, enough to break ground on the building in April. ury finds Houston mother guilty Standing between her attorneys, Yates showed little reaction as the 1 Jutta Karin Kennedy, (center) mother of Andrea Yates, reacts Tuesday after her daughter was found guilty of capital murder, in a courtroom in Houston in this image taken from television. AP photo judge read the verdict. Her husband, Russell, muttered "oh God" and buried his head in his hands, and some of Yates relatives left the courtroom in tears.

"I'm not cri- in the days of the Salem wi tch trials." He described his client as "very Upset." Prosecutors left the courthouse without comment. The crime attracted widespread attention as a stunned public asked what could cause a mother to systematically kill her children. It also raised new questions about the effects of postpartum depression, which Russell Yates and experts hired by the defense said Yates had struggled with for years. See MOTHER, page 2 ByPAMEASTON The Associated Press HOUSTON Andrea Yates, the 37-year-old housewife who admitted she drowned her five children in the bathtub, on Tuesday was convicted of murder by a jury that rejected her claim of insanity in just 3li hours. Yates was found guilty of two counts of capital murder covering the deaths of three of her children.

She could be sentenced to death or to life in prison after the penalty phase that begins Thursday. tiquing or cnticiz- Yates ing the verdict," defense lawyer George Parnham said. "But it seems to me we are still back I i- -nif ii ir II I- I 2E Obituaries 4C Opinion. 8A Sports 1-8B 1-8E Weather 10 A Index 4E 1-8D 1-8F Comics. 5E Community.

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