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Just a reminder that the minor league phase of the Rule 5 Draft is today at 1pm CT. Its something!

This is about as Cubs-player-does-Cubs-baseball content as it is going to get right now new Cubs outfielder Clint Frazier hitting electronic bombs at a digital Wrigley Field:

I know its just batting practice, but Im still laughing at the distances on virtually every one of those swings. Hes still hitting it 380+ just about every time on swings 80 through 100. To that point, Ill actually drop a serious note: Fraziers swing clearly delivers a great launch angle in the video, which is how hes hitting it 400 feet even when he doesnt go way over 100 mph in exit velocity. I wonder about the relationship to his big strikeout rates, and if hes struck that right balance just yet.

That, in turn, makes me start thinking about Patrick Wisdoms swing, which is a launch angle swing if youve ever seen one, complete with the enormous hole at the top of the zone. Is there a comp there, given the power and the strikeouts? Nope! That comp definitely doesnt play when you start looking at the data: Wisdoms hole is at the top of the zone (and enormous), but Fraziers is at the bottom of the zone (and more modest); Wisdom is near the top of the league in steepest average launch angle, but Frazier is more middle of the pack; Wisdoms average exit velocity is top 50, Fraziers is more middle-of-the pack; Wisdom contact rates are basically the lowest in baseball, Fraziers are merely below average. I saw a powerful righty with a big strikeout rate who was hitting launch angle bombs and wondered about a comp, but theres nothing there in the data to support it. Thats why we check! (At a superficial level, Im actually seeing a little more Ian Happ in the data, if were going to force a Cubs comp. But well just leave it alone for now.)

More fun with Frazier, who is going to be a cult hero among Cubs fans before the season even starts:

Frazier is going to have the longest hair and the biggest beard by April . I mostly joke around with this stuff, but you do wonder to what extent player comfort can impact development and performance at the margins. I know nothing at all about the man other than whats been written publicly, and I know that injury issues are definitely the bigger hurdle. But you just wonder if he was never quite comfortable with the Yankees, and whether that impacted things. This is a guy who was a tip-top prospect when he arrived in New York.

Given how wild the two weeks were before the lockout began, were going to see an increasing push for MLB to institute some kind of artificial transaction deadline in the years ahead, in an attempt to recreate that blitz of activity and attention:

Baseball, as an industry, needs to make this a baked-in feature of its offseason. The stir it created over that two-week period, especially in the days leading up to the lockout, came despite the fact that no one was really quite prepared for it to happen. Oh, there was some foreshadowing, as reporters such as ESPNs Jeff Passan told us that there could be heavy movement in free agency before the expiration of the CBA. Still, seeing that actually come to pass was equal parts stunning, exhilarating and exhausting.

Now, imagine what it would be like if we actually knew there was going to be a spate of activity like that every November and/or December? Like the trade deadline, only way better. MLB could promote it. Media outlets could cover the heck out of it both in advance and while its unfolding. Teams could arrange access accordingly. Such a period would very soon become one of the favorite times of the year on the baseball calendar.

For the most part, I agree with the broad points: for as much as I like the slow burn of the MLB offseason, its hard to deny that condensing the activity and the attention at a national level is good for the sport and good for a large swath of fans. The excitement of a looming deadline its kinda hard to beat. The logistics are where it gets tricky: when is the cutoff, and how do you prevent teams from simply using it to pressure players into lesser deals? And how do you re-open transactions later in the offseason to allow guys who couldnt get deals early on to find deals eventually? And if there is a re-opening at some point, might things look pretty typical, except with a big gap in activity in the middle? (Keep in mind: the reason it works for the NBA is not because there is a deadline, it is because there is a salary cap. The extreme urgency is organic, and in a way that baseball will not be implementing any time soon.)

Basically, what Doolittle suggests is a three-week period from mid-November through the first week of December or right at the end of the Winter Meetings, and then you have a signing moratorium until about February 1 (in other words, a whole lot like what this offseason might look like). You could build in mechanisms for trades during the moratorium, as well as minor league signings. Its certainly an interesting setup. I doubt anything like this is seriously discussed at a CBA level this time around, so it would be years before we could see anything like it, and again, the players would have reasons to be dubious about any kind of artificial deadline. Just something to mull, for now, only for fun.

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Manny Rodriguez is still a tank:

Can you even imagine the work that went into putting this together? So freaking cool:

A fresh episode of Onto Waveland:

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Cornelius Yarber, Jr. December 10, 1993 - November 24, 2021 Waveland, Mississippi - Cornelius Marcello Yarber Jr., 27, of Pascagoula, MS, passed away Wednesday, November 24, 2021 in Waveland, MS. He was a wonderful son, brother, husband, father, nephew, and cousin who will be sadly missed by his family and friends. He graduated from Pascagoula High School in 2012 and faithfully served his country for 8 years in the Army National Guard reaching the rank of Sergeant. He was deployed in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. After his military service he worked for Sabic Innovative Plastics as a Chemical Technician. He was preceded in death by his step-mother, Pamela M. Yarber and his aunt Hilda Faye Roby. He is survived by his father, Cornelius M. Yarber Sr.; mother, Delma Williams; wife, Iliana M. Yarber, three children, Ciana M. Yarber, Sgt Bleu Yarber (Dog) and one unborn; three sisters, Martina D'Shonte Jones, Princess' Jasmine Cierra Edwards, and Kamaya Amos; three brothers, Demetrius Williams, Terrence Howard, Charleston M. Yarber; grandmother, Glenda P. Williams, and loving aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. Visitation will be Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at Edmond Fahey Funeral Home, 110 Necaise Ave., Bay St. Louis, MS 39520 from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm with a Prayer Service at 1:00 pm. Interment to follow at 2:30 p.m. at Biloxi National Cemetery, 400 Veterans Avenue, Biloxi, MS 39531. Edmond Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St. Louis, MS is in charge of arrangements.

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19 Wrigleyville businesses transform into holiday themed spots for everyone offering picture-perfect moments, movies, food and drink specials and more.

TheLakeview East Chamber of Commerceis proud to announce the return of one of Chicagos favorite holiday celebrations, Wrigleyville Wonderland, running now at select venues through the end of February. Wrigleyville Wonderland brings the Holiday spirit to Chicago with 19 Wrigleyville businesses transformed into individualized holiday-themed destinations offering map projections, Instagrammable moments and activations. From the locations dcor to actors dressed in costumes to the holiday themed drinks, there is something for everyone at Wrigleyvilles Wonderland. Press are invited to a kick off party, Thursday, Dec. 9 from 5 8 p.m. More information can be found atWrigleyvilleChicago.org.

All of Chicagoland is invited to Wrigleyville for this holiday-inspired interactive and fun experience, said Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Maureen Martino. Wrigleyville Wonderland is Chicagos largest holiday pop-up district that is sure to inspire and amaze all those experiencing it while sharing the holiday spirit.

Highlights of Wrigleyville Wonderland include:

The 2021 businesses*, in alphabetical order, making the season bright are:

The Country Club Christmas Club

3462 N. Clark StreetThrough February 1, 2022No Cover

Wrigleyvilles original Christmas pop up bar is back. Enjoy a classic Christmas party experience with themed food, drink, music and decor.

Deuces Santa Baby Christmas Bar

3505 N. Clark StreetThrough January, 202210 a.m. and 12 p.m.

You better watch out! Santa Baby Christmas Bar is back offering a multi-room, multi-level, over the top Christmas experience with brunch available on Saturday and Sundays at

Diver at the Park Santas Beach House

3475 N. Clark Street

Santas Beach House is here for its first Holiday season. Join Diver at the Park in their Tulum holiday inspired heated tent with their life sized palm trees decorated for a holiday on the beach. Get your Tulum holiday experience and cocktails in the heart of Wrigleyville.

Winter at Gallagher Way

3635 N. Clark StreetThrough February 20, 2022

Families, visitors and neighbors can celebrate the holidays by taking part in the many seasonal programs and activities at Gallaghers Way Winterland return This year includes the return of the famous Christkindlmarket Wrigleyville, ice skating on an 8,000-square-foot ice rink, curling and skating lessons, Santas Workshop, wreath making classes, holiday movie screenings, special programming at Hotel Zachary and much more. New to this years transformation includes a special celebration of Hanukkah, ice bumper cars, plus even more festive dcor around Gallagher Way.

The Graystone Tavern 8 Crazy Nights A Hanukkah Bar

3441 N. Sheffield Ave.Through January 2, 2022

Back by popular demand for its third year, Chicagos first and only Hanukkah-themed pop-up bar with decorations created for the Jewish holiday throughout the bar and weatherproofed beer garden, including over 14,000 blue and white lights and Hanukkah ball lanterns adorning the ceiling, Star of David and dreidel ornaments, lighted menorah decor, Mensch on a Bench, a Hanukkah sweater wall, an 8-foot inflatable dreidel and more. Throughout the pop-up, a special food menu, ranging in price from $5 to $16, will feature traditional and spins on Jewish favorites like Matzo Ball Soup and three flavors of Latkes including classic with sour cream and applesauce, cilantro jalapeno with chipotle sour cream and herb cheddar with chive sour cream. Board and card games will be available to guests nightly including Connect 4 with Hanukkah gelt, Cards Against Humanity Jew expansion pack, Mitzvah Match, Jewish Guess Who, Dreidel, Apples to Apples Jewish edition and Schmear Build-A-Bagel card game.

Houndstooth Saloon Griswolds

3369 N. Clark StreetThrough January 10, 2022

Inspired by the famous family and the hilarious movies, Houndstooth Saloon has menu selections including Yakkin on a bone, a two-lb turkey leg, Cousin Eddies spiked eggnog and Clarks Cocoa.

HVAC Pub The Christmas Pop UP

3530 N. Clark StreetThrough January 15, 2022

HVAC will be transformed into a winter wonderland featuring Christmas drinks, food and music.

The Irish Oak Leprechanunaka

3511 N. Clark StreetThrough January 31, 2022

Irish Oaks Leprechanuaka is a celebration of St Pattys day during Christmas, where everyday is St Pattys day at The Irish Oak. The bar is decorated from top to bottom in Irish and Christmas themes. So much green and Christmas cheer that you will never want to celebrate a different holiday again.

Wrigleyville Kilwins 25 days of Chocolate

3519 N. Clark StreetThrough December 31

Kilwins will offer caramel apples, hot chocolate and handmade chocolates perfect for gift giving for family, friends or yourself!

Lucky Dorr Lucky Lodge

1101 W. WavelandThrough December 31

Lucky Dorr, Chicagos favorite craft beer destination, will transform into Lucky Lodge. A festive Winterland destination with special dcor, the aroma of hot apple cider and rustic comfort galore.

Moes Cantina Whooville

3518 N. Clark Street

Moes becomes the celebrated holiday town of Whooville while offering a menu of shareable small plates, traditional full-size entrees, signature tacos and a cocktail list featuring house-made sangria, handmade margaritas, premium tequilas, and more.

Casey Morans Rudolphs Christmas Bar

3660 N. Clark StreetThrough December 30

From the creators of Santa Baby Christmas Bar with all the Christmas spirits you know and love at Santa Baby with all new interactive social experiences and an incredible decor. Rudolphs Christmas Bar will host a DIY Wreath Making Workshop November 30, December 7 and 14.

Mordecai Mistletoe

3632 N. Clark StreetThrough January 16, 2022Thursdays Saturdays, excluding Holidays through Dec. 30Reservations are Free

Mistletoe, Mordecais annual holiday pop-up bar, boasts naughty and nice decorations and an exclusive holiday-inspired drink menu, featuring both contemporary and vintage cocktails. Groups of 1-4 can reserve two hour blocks (4 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Tock, Thursday-Saturday.

NOLA Bar & Kitchen A Very Cajun Christmas

3481 N. Clark StreetThrough January 20, 2022

Inspired by the legend of Papa Noel, its a Cajun Christmas Story. In a deep swampy bayou of Louisiana, Papa Noel rides the river in a boat thats pulled by alligators to send out presents. A very cajun Christmas offers unique New Orleans style Christmas decoration with classic cajun eats. Its a place to gather friends and families and let the good times roll. Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Old Crow Smokehouse Santas Workshop

3506 N. Clark Street

Wrigleyvilles award-winning barbecue from the kitchen of pitmaster and MasterChef Tony Scruggs is the home of Santas Workshop.

Rizzos Bar and Inn John Vincents Holiday Sing Along

3658 N. Clark StreetThrough December 30Every Thursday at 7 p.m. and Every Sunday at 5 p.m through Dec. 30

Local singing legend, John Vincent, will be performing some of the holiday hits from all of your old time lounge singer favorites like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Louis Armstrong!

Roadhouse 66 Gas N Grill Jingle Junkie

3478 N. Clark StreetThrough January 8, 2022

Serving up holiday inspired bites and sips in an explosion of cheer, Jingle Junkie and its heated, ski lodge inspired patio is the most festive spot to celebrate your upcoming holiday season. With an extensive seasonal cocktail /beer list and delicious festive bites that are sure to get even the grinchiest Grinch into the holiday spirit.

Stretch Bar & Grill Elfd Up

3845 N. Clark StreetNo CoverThrough January 8, 2022

Back by popular demand for a third year, its a full-blown tribute to the beloved Christmas movie Elf, Elfd Up is a high-energy holiday pop-up bar, perfect for patrons who share Elfd Ups affinity for elf culture. A casual neighborhood Christmas bar, Elfd Up never charges a cover and treats patrons to complimentary fresh elf-shaped cookies nightly at 10 p.m.

Underground Lounge Island of Misfits Toys

952 W. Newport Ave.Through January 31, 2022

Underground Lounge welcomes you to the Pabst Island of Misfit Toys, to come hang out with Bumbles, Dolly, Hermey and others.

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For many travelers at Denver International Airport, seeing James Balogs Extreme Ice Surveytimelapses constructed from hundreds of photos of glaciers retreating around the world, which ran for years on screens in the airports terminalshighlighted a contradiction. Viewers could watch the rivers of ice that are critical to the Earths ability to support life vanish before their eyes on their way to and from flights that are one of the drivers of the warming melting the glaciers.

Balogs photography has always inspired cognitive dissonancethe mental and emotional discomfort that comes with holding conflicting beliefs and attitudes. Learning that the photographer who has for decades documented the impacts of the warming climate, from Hurricane Katrina to California wildfires, descended from a family of Pennsylvania coal miners can inspire such dissonance. So can learning that the man who made iconic photos of species endangered by human actions grew up hunting.

Such contradictions arent so much questions that arise from Balogs photography and writing, but what have driven him to create them. Long before anthropocene was proposed as a term to explain the geologic age in which humans are the most defining force of the planet, he was documenting what the word described for National Geographic, Time, the New York Times Magazine and many other publications. The Earth Vision Institute he founded allowed for the type of long-term focus that a new geologic era would require. The documentaries Chasing Ice and The Human Element took his big ideas to the big screen.

Now, Balogs hefty new book, The Human Element: A Time Capsule From the Anthropocene, presents an anthology of his words and pictures from a lifetime of bearing witness to human impacts on the planet. Inside Climate News excerpt from the book includes an essay, Carbon Inheritance, and, of course, a selection of his iconic photographs.

Michael Kodas, senior editor

By James Balog

Do any of us really have a right to be angry or frustrated about the climate- and-energy crisis without considering how we ourselves have contributed to it? Honestly? Truly? With eyes wide open? I dont think so. We all play a role in producing the problem. No one inhabits a righteous, pure-and-holy aerie above the human condition. Not me, not you, not anybody.

We all drive our chariots of carbon fire. We all rely on carbon fuels to produce our clothing, food supply, lighting, the thermal comfort in our houses, and much more. Do other ties bind you to fossil fuels? Investments, perhaps? Is your comfort and prosperity today derived from a family history linked to oil or coal? Or, to take a broader view of environmental abuse, logging, commercial fishing, industrial farming, or rapacious real estate schemes?

Since such ties weave through many of our lives, allow me to make a sheepish confession: my own familys history is shackled to coal mining. My great-grandfather on my mothers side and my grandfather on my fathers side both mined coal in Pennsylvania. Most of that state is as bucolic and charming as any place ever sculpted by agrarian hands. Yet where mines gnaw at the black seams, the landscape is grim and grimy. Inside those lithic mausoleums, workers metamorphosed the way shale turns to schist. My progenitors would have been ruddy-faced farmers back in their European homelands, but instead turned into hunched-over gnomes, coated in coal dust, half deaf from the roar of machinery, inhaling particles of primor-dial Gondwanaland with one gritty breath after another. To the industrial volcanoes of Pittsburgh, up chimneys of snug homes in Philadelphia and New York, the coal they dug sent the energy of ancient suns floating up to cumulus skies.

I can still picture Thomas, my great-grandfather, sitting hour after hour, as motionless as Mount Rushmore, on a musty, striped corduroy chair by the parlor window of his house. He looked 1,000 years old. Savage labor in the anthracite seams had broken his body. Coal dust fouled those little pockets in his lungs where red blood should have been gleefully slurping up oxygen. Was he in pursuit of doing what you love, as we say in the jargon of our self-indulgent times? No. He needed cash to support his family and was willing to trade away his existence for it; every shovelful of black carbon was an expression of his hope in a dream called America.

Then theres my fathers father, Michael. On October 23, 1946, in Vintondale, Pennsylvania, he and a dozen other miners rode a narrow-gauge railroad into Mine Number 6. In the eternal darkness of geology, their little train thundered along a four-foot-thick seam of bituminous coal. The men lay down in the open-topped coal cars so that 220-volt DC current, coursing through bare copper wire strung on the ceiling of the tunnel inches above their heads, couldnt electrocute them. Miles under the mountains (six or seven, according to my father), the train stopped at a wall of coalthe face, in miners jargon.

Hour upon grueling hour, my grandfather, with hands the size of bear paws and calloused to shoe leather, pried burnable rock from the soul of the Earth. He looked up at the tan stone ceiling. Lit by the harsh carbide beam on his helmet, the roof over his head looked exactly the same as all the other ones of the past 40 years. But on it the hieroglyphs of his fate were written. A rock slab the size of a dining room table spalled off the ceiling and nicked his temple. Within his skull a purple contusion exploded. Minutes later, Michael Balog, age 62, was dead. He returned to daylight, laying under a white shroud, on the clanking catafalque of the mine train. His sonmy father, then 18 years oldrushed home from college. Two days later, he and his family buried their patriarch in a bird-twittering forest a mile upvalley from the mine.

Mountains of sulfur-stinking clinker, a waste rock he and the other miners blasted from within the mountains, will stand forever. The tools of their punishing labor rust to rubble in tranquil Appalachian valleys. So too shall the obstreperous machines of our oil age someday go to rust, leaving nothing but red-brown stains in the sand. Someday.

To the memory of Michael and Thomasand let me not forget their wives, Helen and Anna, respectively, who did their own share of knuckle-bruising work to feed and clothe their familiesI offer thanks for the misery endured. But the wheel of generational destiny turns. How ironic, how mysterious, how improbable it is that fate pushes me, grandson of those miners, into prying up questions about Earth matter; digging not with shovel and dynamite, but with pictures and words; digging not to extract coal, but to end the extraction of coal. To speak and live a different truth from theirs is a task I can no more avoid than they could avoid the coal seams.

Four-and-a-half billion years of Earth history.

Four million years of hominid history leading to Homo sapiens.

Four hundred generations of agricultural history.

Yet only in our 50-year sliver of time do we comprehend what human minds never did before: burning the fossil residue of ancient life poisons our bodies and our world. People of the past never knew this. They did what was necessary in the harsh light of their moment. By the standards of today we cannot judge them.

The urgent task now is to look in our own mirror. Will we shoulder the burdens of the present time with noble determination the way our ancestors did? Are we morally and ethically and intellectually lucid enough to respond in full measure to the knowledge we have about the negative consequences of carbon fuels?

Prospects for the future are muddled. Visionariesinventors and engineers, countries and communities, political and corporate leaders, and, of course, individualsare making genuine progress toward decarbonizing the future. New technologies are bursting with possibility. The availability and quality of electric vehicles rapidly increases. Renewable energy companies are booming, old-line fossil fuel companies are contracting; Royal Dutch Shell has declared that its peak oil-producing years have passed. Government policy shifts. These favorable trends have gone on for years, slowing down under some governments, speeding up under others.

The net effect? Progress toward reducing the amount of junk we put in the atmosphere remains agonizingly slow. Too many fine intentions dangle on moonbeams of promises that never seem to reach fruition, slain by the forces of commerce, government policy, and human behavior. Most transportation still depends on spewing fossil fuel exhaust. Food production still generates vast amounts of carbon. Avaricious abuse of tropical forests still continues. Politics can still be shortsighted, greedy, or corruptand in the American system, entrenched interests are brutally effective at pouring burning oil down from their castle ramparts on those who would dare challenge their dictatorship.

Since we already know what technological solutions will protect the air, the climate, and our health, I see the reduction of carbon output primarily as an issue of power politics, sociology, and psychology. The weight of persistent behavior and long-standing technology blocks imagination. Ideology distorts reason. In America, too many, including some presidents, have hijacked the Founders original ideas of freedom and perverted them into a malignant, anti-social stew. No one has ever been independent to the degree the fanatics claim. We all live in communities of some form or another. No rational human being would imagine we should have so much freedom of speech that we have a right to shout fire in a crowded theater; nor does divine decree give one part of the population a right to rob other people of a clean, healthy, and secure environment. The ideology of freedom has turned into a cancer so malignant that what should have been a massive, united response to systemic hazards like climate change and the COVID pandemic has instead become a Babel of snarling dissent.

History has a malevolent way of repeating itself. Consider this thought from 1918, written by Winston Churchill:

The resources are available, the knowledge is available, the time is available, the result is certain; nothing is lacking except the will. We have never been able to get out of the rut of traditional and conventional methods. We have never been able to plan on a sufficiently large scale, long enough in advance, and with the necessary force and authority to drive the policy through.

Churchill was writing as the convulsion of World War I slaughtered millions of people, and was describing how exasperated he was with government policy that paralyzed technological progress. Take his exact words. Sling them forward a century, to our time. They express the same muleheaded obstinance constraining our current efforts to stop the convulsions of a changing climate. When we cant learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.

Now, early in 2021, with my thoughts and images just days away from being trapped in ink once and for all, a flock of encouraging new policy intentions soars in on the wind. Will these notions acquire the force of enduring law? Quickly? I can only hope so. Otherwise, people of the future will find that greed and corrosive ideology have once again defeated shining ideals. I earnestly hope and pray for the best. Implacable willpower and fierce devotion to natures truth must win the day.

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Watch a timelapse of the Dico demolition in downtown Des Moines

The Superfund site is now clear of the old factory and ready for a massive redevelopment centered on the home of a USL Championship team. Video from the city of Des Moines.

Kim Norvell, Des Moines Register

The Des Moines City Council took the first step Tuesday night in its redistricting process by voting to send one of three proposed mapsto the Polk County Auditor's Office for review.

The maps considered at Tuesday's meeting, all of which were proposed by the city of Des Moines, were a drastic departure from what the city had previously saidit planned to consider.

Initially, city staff said the council would considertwo maps: one proposed by the county and anotherthat had been developedby city staff.

The city-proposed map didnot deviate far from the existing wards, but the county-proposedmap would have pitted two city councilors against each other and drastically shifted Des Moines' four wards away fromthe north, south, east and west quadrants of the city, as they're currently drawn, insteadaligning them with the Des Moines school board's district boundaries, according to county officials.

More: These proposed Des Moines City Council boundary map changes could pit incumbents against each other

But when residents walked into Tuesday's meeting,they were presented with three new maps, two of whichhad never been seen by the publicbefore that night.

"Frankly, I think this meeting is already really ridiculous," said Des Moines resident Bridget Peterson. "The fact that we all came here thinking that certain maps were going to beproposed and then finding out at the last second that they're notis incredibly unorganized."

"You guys issued the news release saying you were going to discuss it. So it's a little disappointing," said Carol Maher, another Des Moines resident."It sounds a little (like a) backroom dealing to me."

City Manager Scott Sanders backtracked on the city's previous statement, saying the county map was only ever a concept and stressing that it was submitted along with the city's newly drawn precinctsbut was not being considered.

While city officials say they understood that the county auditor was trying to make the ballot process easier by suggesting the wards align with Des Moines Public School board's district boundaries,city staff's proposalsaligned precincts with simpler ballots without going in the county's suggested direction.

Each of the three proposalsconsidered Tuesday put one state lawmaker, one school board memberand one council member in every precinct, councilors said.

Theprecincts, created by the city in accordance with state law, have less than 3,500 people in them and decrease the number of precincts from 88 to 79, according to a city spokesperson.

More, for subscribers, previously: Proposed changes to Des Moines' wards would pit two City Council members against each other in 2023

Despite the majority of public comment in favor of Plan 2, which would have added a portion of Ward 3 along I-235 to Ward 1, the council voted to move forward with Plan 3, which instead movesa majority of downtown, currently split between Ward 3 and 4,into Ward 3.

While movingthe entire East Village neighborhood into Ward 3, Plan 3 wouldalso divide Wards 3 and 4 in a straight line down Southwest 9th Street, where they're currently separated by a more jagged boundary.

City officials argued the change would make the wards easier to describe to constituents.

"Partially, I think that confusion is over the Southwest 9th corridor," said Ward 3 council member Josh Mandelbaum. "I think, in that regard, it's a cleaner map and easier to explain."

Incoming Ward 1 councilwoman Indira Sheumaker told the Des Moines Register that others, including herself, advocated for Plan 2 because they felt it was necessary to keep the downtown region separated to promote economic diversity between the city's wards.

"We felt like concentrating that all into one ward not only with the money and economic aspect of all the businesses and stuff over there was going to sort of just change the distribution of that economic concentration ... into one district," Sheumaker said."We wanted to have the possibility of diversity in other wards, and we thought that (map) eliminated sorts of diversity, economic and otherwise."

Some of those sentiments are being felt atthe East Village Neighborhood Association, as its president, Luke Dickens, told the Register he wants the East Village to remain independent of the Downtown neighborhood, which is in Ward 3.

With the East Village being more small business minded, he says it just makes more sense for it to have a different council representative than downtown, saying the two neighborhoods have "different DNA."

"Having a councilperson who represents the south side and the East Village, I think that makes more sensebecause we have different issues thanwhat Court Avenue is gonna have, or Gateway ... there'sa lot of different things," Dickens said.

Ward 1:Under Plan 3, Ward 1 would gain some territory in the Drake Neighborhood, extending from part of University Avenue south to Interstate 235. As a result, Ward 1 would also absorb bot Cheatom and Good Park neighborhoods. Waveland Park would still be divided between Wards 1 and 3 along University Avenue.

Ward 2:Remains unchanged. The boundaries still followalong the northeastside of the Des Moines River heading eastalong I-235 to East University Avenue.

Ward 3:Loses ground in the Drake, Cheatom Park and Good Park neighborhoods as part of the northern border of Ward 3 now ends along I-235 heading west into Ward 2. Ward 3 would gain all of the East Village, effectively putting all of the city's downtown region in one ward. The eastern ward boundary then follows a straight line down Southwest 9th Street, losing all of Indianola Hills to Ward 4.

Ward 4:Loses the East Village neighborhood with its northwest boundary beginning along East 14th Street with the Capitol East neighborhood. Its western ward boundary would then curve south around the outer portions of the East Village and Downtown neighborhoods and run straight down Southwest 9th Street, gaining the Indianola Hillsneighborhood.

Plan 3 will go to the Polk Auditor's Office, where the county will have 7-10 days to review the plan and offer recommendations, as directed by Iowa Code. The city will then reconvene at a public hearing on Dec. 20 to finalize themap and send its materials to Iowa's Secretary of State's Office,as directed by state law.

After each city in Polk County has finalized itsmaps, the county will begin its process to re-precinct, which includes redrawing the Polk County Supervisor districts. State law dictates the Legislative Services Agency draws the supervisor boundaries for39 Iowa counties that require voters to choose a candidate who lives in their district, which includes Polk County.

The county has 90 daysto complete its maps after the state approved new congressional and legislative districts on Nov. 4.

Melody Mercado covers Des Moines city government for the Register. Reach her at mmercado@registermedia.comor Twitter @melodymercadotv.

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Saturday, November 20, 2021, at approximately 12:05 a.m., a 22-year-old man of Waukegan drove to Vista East Medical Center in Waukegan. The man drove there because the passenger in his vehicle, a 22-year-old man of Waukegan, had just been shot, and the driver was seeking medical attention for the victim. The victim succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased after being brought into the emergency room.

Further investigation by police revealed the victim was shot while he was seated as a front-seat passenger in a vehicle in the area of Waveland Avenue and Grandview Avenue in Gurnee. Gurnee Police Officers located the scene and contacted the Lake County Major Crime Task Force to assist with the investigation.

The driver was driving in a reckless manner just prior to the shooting, and based on preliminary information it appears the shooting may have been the result of a road-rage incident. Following his reckless driving, the driver turned onto Waveland Avenue and began to slow down, when a vehicle pulled behind him and an occupant or occupants of the vehicle began shooting at the victims. One of the rounds struck the passenger. The driver and the shooting victim were the only two occupants in the victims vehicle.

The Lake County Coroners Office has scheduled an autopsy for the victim on Monday, November 22, 2021.

This incident is being actively investigated by Gurnee Police Detectives and Lake County Major Crime Task Force Investigators. Anyone with any information is encouraged to call Gurnee Police at: 847-599-7000, or leave an anonymous tip with Lake County CrimeStoppers at 847-662-2222 / http://www.lakecountycrimestoppers.com/

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William "Bill" Joseph Adam, Jr. November 12, 2021 Bay St. Louis, Mississippi - William "Bill" Joseph Adam Jr., 87, passed away Friday, November 12, 2021, at his Bay St. Louis home with his devoted wife, Charleen, by his side. Bill, born November 1, 1934, in New Orleans, LA, was the son of the late William J. Adam Sr. and Amelie Toelke Adam. Although a New Orleans native, Bill enjoyed childhood summers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and fulfilled a dream when he finally established a Bay St. Louis address for his family in the 1970s. Bill loved being on the water and boating and fishing were among his greatest pleasures as a young man. Bill was known as a man of integrity in business and family circles alike. In 1968, after establishing himself as a successful salesman who connected well with people, Bill opened his own business in New Orleans, L&A Plastics, a building products wholesale firm which served areas of Louisiana and Mississippi for many years. He retired in 2000, making Bay St. Louis his permanent home. A lifelong Catholic, Bill possessed a kind and generous nature. His family was his dearest passion. Bill was married to Charleen Wegmann Adam for almost 66 years and maintained a loving and deep connection with his two sons, Bill lll and Steve. Bill was always a food enthusiast, and wife Charleen's culinary skills made for many a joyous and bountiful meal, always shared with an abundance of family. He and Charleen shared a zest for travel, enjoying many adventures at home and abroad during their life together. Antiquing was another great hobby they embarked upon together, discovering treasures for their home and new friendships along the way. In addition to his parents, Bill was preceded in death by his only sibling, Amelie Adam Schwartz, New Orleans. He is survived by his wife and most cherished companion, Charleen Wegmann Adam; his sons, William J. Adam III (Margaret) and Steven C. Adam (Missy), Bay St. Louis; three grandchildren, Matthew Adam (Stephanie), Bay St. Louis, Clare A. Bishop (Jediah), Pass Christian, and Laura J. Adam (Wesley Keel), Westwego, LA.; five great-grandchildren: Brodie, Brantley, Brooks, Declan and Boden; numerous nieces and nephews, as well as great-nieces and nephews. The Adam family would like to offer our sincere appreciation to the nurses of Notre Dame Hospice, and particularly to Pam Williams, who was a steadfast, loyal and loving caregiver for Bill. Masses are preferred but memorial contributions may also be made to the Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor at Ursuline Academy in New Orleans. Private funeral services will be held for the immediate family. Riemann Family Funeral Home, 141 Hwy 90, Waveland is in charge of arrangements.

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Sharon Kay Foster, 80, of Crawfordsville passed away November 15, 2021 at the hospital surrounded by her adoring family. Sharon was born to Carsie and Mary Eggers Brown on February 9, 1941. She was a 1959 graduate of Crawfordsville High School. She married the love of her life, Jon L Foster, on June 21, 1959. He preceded her in death in 2001. They began their life on the Foster family farm in Waveland, Indiana. Sharon enjoyed working on the farm, harvesting and caring for the animals. She especially loved riding horses and later, riding in horse-drawn carriages that she and Jon restored. At the farm, she and Jon built and ran a boarding kennel, and Sharon learned how to groom dogs. Her love of animals never wavered through the years as she raised and loved many dogs. She was active on the board of the Animal Welfare League as well as Lil Bit of Heaven animal shelter. In addition to her love of animals, Sharon was an avid gardener. She was a member of the Flower Lovers Club and her yard was featured on the Garden Tour in 2015. Sharon also served on the board for Pams Promise family shelter. In addition to her philanthropic work, Sharon was an amazing cook and her family and friends always looked forward to family dinners. They especially enjoyed her homemade noodles and desserts.

She was employed as the Social Service Director at Williamsburg Health Care. She also worked at Lithonia Hi-Tek for many years.

She was preceded in death by her parents and step-father, Keith Martin, her husband, Jon L Foster, and two brothers, Larry and Donald Brown.

She is survived by her two daughters, Mary (Glen) Sanft, Crawfordsville, Sherry (Daniel) Murillo, Overland Park, KS, and an honorary son, Douglas Stull, Chicago; six grandchildren, Jacob Foster, Sam Foster, Caitlin (Murillo) Hanna, Savannah Murillo, Julian Murillo and Taylor Murillo; four great grandchildren, and her beloved dachshund, Daisy. Also surviving are nephews and nieces, David L. Brown, Lafayette, Louisa Adamson, Denise Lodato, and Terry Chiros all of California.

She had a caring soul and was always found helping others. She was loved by many and her presence will be greatly missed.

Visitation will be from 2 to 4 PM Saturday at Burkhart Funeral Home. A service will begin at 4 PM.

She will be laid to rest at Oak Hill Cemetery Grant Avenue at a later date.

Donations may be made to the Animal Welfare League of Montgomery County, 1104 Big Four Arch Road, Crawfordsville, IN 47933. Online condolences may be made at http://www.BurkhartFH.com.

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