Thomas Garcia holds a photo of his son Johnny. The 13-year old boy drowned Tuesday after he tried to retrieve a ball while swimming with two friends in Lake Michigan near Waukegan Harbor. (MIchael Schmidt/News-Sun)
The family of a 13-year old Waukegan boy is mourning his death after he drowned trying to retrieve a ball while swimming with friends in Lake Michigan near Waukegan Harbor. Grieving family members said Wednesday that Johnny Garcia was an active boy
who loved playing soccer with his two sisters and friends during his
free time. "We are so sad right now," said his aunt Irene Salgado through tears. "We can't believe this happened."
Lake County Fair 2008 Rides, fun and food!
The bright lights, loud music and sweet smell of funnel cakes are calling kids and adults alike to the Lake County Fair during the six-day festival scheduled to run through Sunday. From carnival rides to livestock, this year's fair is poised to be action-packed.
The News-Hound A summer lost
The Hound must have missed something. The Cubs are battling for a National League pennant. The White Sox are battling for an American League pennant. These are first-place teams. Yet, we see the Blackhawks are going to play a New Year's Day game at Wrigley Field and the Bears training camp opens today in the pride of Kankakee County, Bourbannais. What happened to summer?
Sub-$4 gas a welcome relief
Lake County drivers were eager to fill up their tanks at local gas
stations Wednesday after fuel prices dropped below $4 for the first
time in months. There were long lines at many pumps in
Waukegan, North Chicago, Beach Park and Zion as the price for unleaded
gas plummeted to $3.99 or less.
Besides sunburn and parking, what can you get for free at the Lake County Fair? I wandered around the entire fair to find out and wound up with two bulging bags of freebies weighing about nine pounds total.
The Taylor/Allen Cheerleading Era has begun at Libertyville High. And judging from the first impression, the school maintenance department better start building a new trophy case now. Libertyville won in all three divisions at the Super CDA Camp in Tinley Park.
The next stop for the Beach Park Thunder age 10-under travel girls
softball team is the ASA "B" Northern National Championships in
Rochester, Minn. On Saturday, a local restaurant will donate a portion of
proceeds from sales to the team to help pay for the trip to Minnesota.
Moon-struck Grayslake teen wins trip to Space Camp
When Matthew Rasmussen's parents took him downtown to the Adler
Planetarium one afternoon in May, you can imagine his surprise when he
discovered the trip was actually to announce him as the winner of
ComEd's Shoot for the Moon essay contest. Rasmussen, 14, of Grayslake, was selected out of 450 entries to win the grand prize: a trip to Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala.
Happy Tequila Day!
"Do they have a card for this holiday yet?" asked Kim Martinez, of
Beach Park, as she enjoyed a drink at Clover's in Waukegan on Wednesday. The
holiday in question is National Tequila Day, which is celebrated today,
and Illinois happens to be the fifth-largest tequila consuming state in
the nation.
Comics, film and figurine fans flock to Comic-Con
The most passionate Spider-Men, Storm Troopers, Harry Potters and other
pop-culture fanatics are headed south for their annual pilgrimage.
Comic-Con, the country's biggest comic-book convention, begins Thursday
at the San Diego Convention Center.
