The Huntley Farmside

              Volume 40 No. 1
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Thursday, February 10,2000
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Jewel, golf course arriving in coming years
by Christopher Petersen
The Huntley Farmside
National grocery chain Jewel will be setting up shop in Huntley sometime in the next couple of years, along with an 18-hole golf course, according to Prime Group Vice-President Phillip Waters.
Waters said that the Jewel store will be unlike any store they've built in the past.
"Jewel has come to the determination that they will have a store unique to Huntley," Waters said. What that means is that the store will at first be built and stocked to suit the needs of current resi¬
dents, but later expand to grow along with the population of the village.
For example, Waters said, the store will initially have a smaller section for baby items. The store will be located at the cor¬ ner of Route 47 and Del Webb Boulevard, putting it right across the street from Sun City. Once the community gt"ows to include more residential areas and more young families, the store will expand to meet their needs.
Water said that the store will be around 50,000 square feet when first built, but will have the capacity to grow to about 70,000 square feet. Waters said that Jewel hopes
to have the store open and operational either in late 2001 or early 2002. In addition to the supermarket, a 50,000 square-foot strip retail center will be built alongside Jewel.
"I think the Jewel is the anchor for. the neighborhood retail development," Waters said.
The golf course will be a full 18 holes, located between the Prime Group's corpo¬ rate park and the Sun City residential area. Waters said that between 180 and 190 acres have been allotted for the project, a rela¬ tively large size for a golf course. Waters called the course a "destination course,"
something that will attract outsiders to the village.
"Eventually what it does is draws out individuals and corporate events to Huntley," Waters said. The plan is for the golf course to eventually include a hotel and convention center adjacent to the course.
The course is being built by Landscape Unlimited, who are using Hale Irwin Golf Designs to develop it.
Waters said that the two projects should go before the village for approval some¬ time this summer, but could not say exact¬ ly when.
Sledding sensations
Diecke Park in Huntley turned into a winter won¬ derland Friday as (from left) Kaylen Radtke, 10, Kurtis Radtke, 11 and Andy Schultz, 11,took a ride down a snow-covered hill.
Press-Republican photo by Steve Bittinger
Huntley's Gargano fulfills modeling dreams, thanks to Oprah
Resident loses 112 pounds, story goes on talk show.
by Christopher Petersen
The Huntley Farmside
When Cindy Gargano was younger, she had a dream that she would be a model. But when circumstances forced her to give up the opportunity she had, Cindy thought she would never have the chance to live out those dreams.
However, just last week the Huntley resident was given the chance to fulfill her fantasies of being in front of the camera, thanks in no small part to Oprah Winfrey.
Cindy said that her shot at modelling professionally came when she was 18. Unfortunately, her boyfriend at the time didn't want her to go through with it. One unhappy marriage later, Cindy had fallen into a pattern of eating that left her dreams of being a model broken.
"Here I was at 250 pounds, thinking this is never going to happen," Cindy said.
Realizing that she needed to do some¬
thing about her weight problem for her health and self-confidence, she embarked on a one-and-a-half-year program of diet, exercise and herbal supplements. When the eighteen months were up, Cindy had lost 112 pounds, almost half her previous body weight.
She sent her story in to the Oprah Winfrey show, hoping to share her success with others. Just last week she got a call from the producers of the show, asking her to come onto the show first as just an audi¬ ence member, but later they gave her .a spot as a guest of the show.
Cindy was treated like a celebrity dur¬ ing her time in Chicago for the taping. She was driven around town in a limousine, got to wear expensive dresses and jewelry, and even got her own photo shoot like a profes¬ sional model.
"It was like a dream," Cindy said. "It was like, 'I can't go back to living a normal life after this.'"
Cindy did not get to meet Oprah herself until the day of the show.
"I think they wanted to see her reaction.
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