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Thursday, January 14,1999
A Press Publications newspaper ar serving the Huntley community
Volume 38 Issue 40
District mourns death of teacher
Steve Brosinski
Press Publications
The staff and students at Huntley South Elementary School are mourning the death of Terri Baseggio.
Baseggio, who taught fifith grade, died Jan. 4 at Sherman Hospital in Elgin after a brief illness. She was 48. .
Fifth-grade students and teachers were given the day off Friday to attend the funer¬ al at the Querhammer Funeral Home in Crystal Lake.
Huntley South Principal Rhonda Maciejewski said Baseggio will be missed.
"We are in shock. It was sudden and unexpected," Maciejewski said. "We are all going to miss her."
During her seven years at the district, Baseggio taught kindergarten part time and second-grade. Maciejewski said Baseggio coordinated
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two school events: the annual fifth-grade senior citizen breakfast and "Bank at School," a savings account program for students in third- through fifth grades.
"Science was the one sub- see Teacher—page 2
Referendum would raise levy for Fire Dist.
Steve Brosinski
Press Publications
The Huntley Fire District is placing a referendum on the April ballot that would bring the tax levy to the maximum amount, Board President Milford Brown said.
Voters will decide if the Fire District can be allowed to increase the general and ambu¬ lance funds to the maximum 30 cent level per $100 of assessed
valuation. In McHenry County, the general and ambulance tax rates are 20.3 and 12.9 cents, respectively.
Brown said the money can be used to build a new fire station and boost manpower needs.
"The response time is good now, but we want to make sure it stays good," Brown said about the department's ability to han¬ dle emergency calls.
The Fire District recently see Referendum-i)age 2
Photos by Steve Brosinski
Seventh-grader Robert Shepard prepares to answer a question posed to him during Huntley Middle School's Geography Bee. Language arts teacher Donna Werderich holds the microphone as seventh-grader Katie Evert, who came in second place, waits Iter turn to answer a question.
Seventh-grader wins Huntley Middle School geography bee
Steve Brosinski
Press Publications
For weeks, Robert Shepard finished up his homework and then spent hours trying to remember where places like the Cape of Good Hope and Crater Lake were located on the map.
Shepard learned Friday that his hard work paid off when he won Huntley Middle School's Anniial Geography Bee. Even though every Middle School student cracked the social stud¬ ies books in preparation for the contest, only 12 of their bravest classmates competed.
"They get into this every year, and they root for their grade level," Principal Terry Awrey said.
Contestants were allowed to answer one question wrong, before having to bow out. Following a series of six rounds of questioning, Shepard and seventh-grader Katie Evert were the two finalists.
Shepard won when he cor¬ rectly answered that the Inuit people will control Canada's newest territory, Nunavut, in April 1999.
"I studied after I did my homework," said Shepard, of Lake in the Hills.
The three judges were social studies teachers Larry Kahl (seventh-grade), Jim Stotz (sixth-grade) and Dean Torrison (eighth-grade).
Kahl said the bee was a good
"I think this brings attention to those who excel academically."
Larry Kahl
Huntley Middle School social studies teacher
way to motivate students.
"I think this brings attention to those who excel academical¬ ly," Kahl said. "It just brings out the emphasis that we are in a world economy. We stress cur¬ rent events and map work in school."
He added that competition see Geography—page 2