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Huntley District 158 School Board President Mike Skala held a fund raiser early this week at Crystal Woods in Lakewood.

There was golf.

Cathy Tryon and Mike Skala watch Mike Tryon sink a putt.

And people on the golf course without clubs.

County Board candidates Joe Gottemoller and Mike Skala pose with incumbent Tina Hill.

Lots of posing.

Andy Zinke, a candidate for the 2014 GOP nomination for Sheriff poses with District 5 County Board member Mike Skala.

Potential future colleagues on the County Board were in attendance.

Cathy Tryon and Mike Skala chat with McHenry County Board Chairman Ken Koehler.

State Rep. Mike Tryon was in attendance.

State Rep. Mike Tryon shakes hands with Mike Skala as Chuck Ruth looks on.

State Senator Pam Althoff was present, too.

Mike Skala poses with State Senator Pam Althoff.

Photos were provided by the Mike Skala campaign.

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Three of them, aparently

They had been reported when I did my story about his minimalist campaign disclosure, but I missed them because they were filed separately in the July-September reporting period.

These three contributions of over $1,000 were reported on July 8th. One would assume they were attributable to the June 30th fund raiser at Donley’s.  The threshold for electronic filing is $10,000 in a quarter.

The biggest was from Donley’s Banquets and Wild West Town.  It was for $5,657, presumably an in-kind contribution, even though that’s not the way it was reported.  Randy Donley is retiring from the McHenry County Board this year.

The number seemed high, so I called Donley.  He explained that the Zinke campaign paid “the raw cost of the food” and that the number reported included the profit that his banquet hall would have made had the full cost been charged, plus $15 a person for those who toured the Wild West Town.

Alliance Contractors, owned by Chuck Ruth, donated $1,200, as did John Cederlund.    Cederlund’s address was announced as the original location of the fundraiser.

For contributions under $1,000, folks will have to wait for the next quarterly report, which is due in mid-October.

Of additional interest to some will be that the campaign disclosure report was faxed from the Home State Bank, as you can see below:

The top line of this campaign disclosure report indicates it was faxed from the Home State Bank.

Big doings locally Monday and Tuesday as Sister City representatives from Mexico’s Guadalupe and its state government, Zacatecas visit Woodstock, Carpentersville and Marengo.

President of Guadalupe Rafael Flores Mendoza and Zacatecas Governor Miguel Alejandro Alonso Reyes head a delegation that will land at O’Hare and then travel to the Crystal Lake Holiday Inn.

Monday, according to the schedule from Woodstock Mayor Brian Sager’s office, they will eat breakfast at Woodstock North High School with the Culinary Arts students and faculty doing the honors.

From 10-10:20 they will view a bus donated by Chuck and Helen Ruth and District 200 where photographs will be taken.

The Mexican visitors will visit Sheriff Keith Nygren at the courthouse complex.

Mary Endres Middle School is the next stop.  A tour and a stop at the dual language classrooms is on the schedule before heading off to the McHenry County Courthouse.

There, they will be too late to see the McHenry County Board members swore in and organize, but they will visit Sheriff Keith Nygren for an hour.

Centegra CEO Mike Eesley will provide lunch and show them around the hospital.

After freshening up at the Holiday Inn, a reception is being given by Seasons by Peg and Cobblestones on the Woodstock Square.

Dinner is being held at La Patite Creperi.

Breakfast Tuesday will be at Carpentersville’s La Alcancia Resturant.

Afterward, the group will travel to Chicago to meet with Federal Judge Manuel Barbarsa, who is Rockford-based.

A long lunch is scheduled at Nuevo Leon Restaurant.

After returning to the Crystal Lake hotel, the group will be hosted for drinks, socialization and dinner by Marengo’s Manny and Gina Figueroa.

Wednesday the group flies back to Mexico.

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