The holidays are coming and one thing is sure – more than a few people will have to loosen their belts a little after enjoying those wonderful holiday meals. There’s Thanksgiving with the traditional turkey dinner, including all the fixings and topped off with pumpkin or apple pie. Then Christmas rolls in with anything from a crown roast, to a ham or even another turkey. Once again the sides

Want to help, too? (click here) Less than a month from now, on Saturday, Nov. 19, folks who know me know where they’ll find me; at the 10th Annual Shop With Cop party at the McHenry VFW, 3002 Hwy 120 east of the Fox River. The flyer for the event is above this. You can learn the basic information about the charity from the flyer but I’d like to tell you a little more since this is one of my

Joe has a nice two-and-a-half-car garage attached to his house in Wonder Lake. But, with projects and ‘stuff’ he hasn’t found a place for yet, instead of using the garage for his pickup truck, he has a set of sawhorses and materials on the floor where the pickup truck would go. His wife parks her car in the garage. That’s because she ‘insisted.’ “If you don’t want to clear room in

Oct. 12, 2016: what’s the significance of that date? For not a few Johnsburg residents, that is the first day of the coming winter season that they had to scrape frost off their car windows and windshields. This isn’t necessarily a happy thought but it is inevitable. Winter is coming and, unless you can move to another hemisphere, which isn’t a bad idea, you’ll have to deal with the effects

Imagine if cars didn’t have shock absorbers? Every time the car hit a pothole, your teeth would probably slap together painfully. Every bump in the road would announce itself jarringly. Chiropractor offices would have to expand their waiting rooms to accommodate the increased demand as driving gave more and more people bad backs. Shock absorbers help to make rides more comfortable. They even protect