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No, you probably won’t see the big-bash New Year’s Eve parties this year as you have in years past. But that doesn’t mean we won’t want to kick up our heals and welcome in 2021 with a bang. We’re due. You’re due. This has been a long year. Hope for a better year ahead is almost assuredly in all of our hearts. And there’s good reason to believe 2021 will prove superior for most compared to 2020. With vaccines in different stages of delivery, COVID-19 should fade into the past. But that doesn’t mean folks can’t finish 2020 off with a bang, even a bang they’d rather skip. People will imbibe in the consumption of their favorite alcoholic beverages New Year’s Eve. Coronavirus won’t stop that. The parties will surely be smaller but that doesn’t mean the police won’t have roadblocks and traps on the roadways that night to catch the errant driver who has had too much to drink and shouldn’t be behind the wheel. If you don’t stay home, you might want to stay overnight at your celebratory destina...

More folks from Richmond will probably stay home for Christmas this year what with the coronavirus and all. Not everyone, however. Some people will fly somewhere to spend the holiday with family and friends. Others will pack up the car and drive to mom and dads, or a sibling. No doubt, they’ll observe social distancing and will wear masks, but they will recognize Christmas as a time to spend with others they love. How far from Richmond will they drive?  How far away to mom and dad live? It may amount to nothing more than a drive to another community within the county. Then again, mom and dad may live on the other side of the Lake in Michigan. Or they may have moved up to Northern Wisconsin. Whatever the case, the drive could take several hours and cross a couple hundred miles of roadway. Make sure the car is ready for the Christmas drive to see loved ones This is not the time of year to have a breakdown on the highway or, worse, to have an accident. You want to make sure that you a...

It’s cold, the snow is wet and the last thing you want to do is to walk around your car, truck or SUV, the frigid wind in your face, as you brush the snow from you car in your McHenry driveway. But this is Illinois. If you don’t clear your windows, you can get a ticket. If you drive over the border into Wisconsin, you can even get an ‘Ice Missile Law’ ticket – a law designed to ensure pieces of snow don’t blow off your car and damage other vehicles or obscure the vision of other drivers. Let’s accept the idea that you should clean the snow from your vehicle before heading out onto and beyond those McHenry roads. Having arrived at this conclusion, what is the best way to clean the snow from your car, truck or SUV? The first question is whether you care about the finish of your vehicle. If you have an older vehicle and aren’t that worried about scratches in the paint, get out a push broom and have at it. But if you have a newer, or a nicer older car, truck or SUV, the push broom is likel...

Don’t you just hate coming out to a cold car, truck or SUV in the middle of a Johnsburg winter? You have to sit and wait for the car to warm up before you feel the comforting heat blowing out of the vents. Until then, you hunker down and shiver for as long as it takes. Winter in Johnsburg gets cold, darn cold. Some winters are colder than others but there’s no mistaking this for a tropical paradise in January or February – even in December, March of early April. Universally, a car, truck or SUV will not come with an electric heater to provide warmth in the cabin in winter. The heat is provided by the vehicle’s engine. It’s all part of the heating and cooling system. The way that it works is that you have a radiator, hoses, and passageways in the engine block and heads. You also have hoses that run from the engine to another small radiator under the dashboard. The latter radiator is called the heater core.  As the engine operates, it produces heat. To keep the engine from overheatin...