A Nuisance For Lombard Roofing Water Damages And Losses In Du Page County, Illinois USA

Once upon a time, twenty years ago, a Chinese-Cuban family moved to Lilac Town at the corner of 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard to a historic Lombard Brick Bungalow built in 1927, which was surrounded by a wooden picket fence with only one entry gate on Washington Boulevard. 

While the Chinese-Cuban family members were working very hard to pay their Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow during the day, afternoon, and night, Lombard wildlife, critters, animals, intruders, uninvited visitors, and trespassers would meander into the resident family’s fragrant Lilac garden, apples orchard, strawberry patch, and vegetable garden.   

After several home invasions during the day, afternoon, and after midnight, the daughter called Ralph Schlemer the Handy Man from Elmhurst to install a gate lock to prevent trespassers and thieves from coming into the garden to cut off  fragrant lilac branches, kill the Perkins Peace Rose or access the Lombard home through the garden shed door.  The Elmhurst Handy Man also installed another electrical switch by the porch to turn on a large fluorescent light to illuminate the backyard and keep marauders off the premises, by adding changes to the Schlage door locks. 

All the Lombard resident homeowners’ efforts did not deter nor discourage a nuisance for damaging roofing structure by Critter Detectives in Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois USA.The Lombard home only had one young green Maple Tree in the middle of the backyard surrounded by a wooden picket fence and three Golden and Red Delicious Apple Trees in the backyard. 

One day the daughter noticed that the wooden picket fence posts had been sewed off at the bottom to open up a hole for animals and wildlife to access entry by Chuck, Robyn and Jennifer’s adjoining driveway.  Can you imagine, “Who would use a carpenter’s saw to sew off a wooden picket post to let animals, wildlife and critters into my back yard?”…while the Chinese-Cuban family was working during the day, afternoon, and nights.

The wooden picket fence around the Lombard Historic Bungalow never disturbed anyone until John and Eva Carpenter drove the Station Wagon backwards into the wooden fence posts while they were moving into the Ahrens-Stebens home the Summer of 2001. 

One afternoon, the daughter saw how Eva Carpenter backed into my Lombard wooden picket fence and  said, “You just broke the wooden posts when you backed without looking into the fence, Eva.” 

John Carpenter and the two sons must remember how they use to play basketball in their backyard and the ball would end up over the adjoining picket fence and the young son running after it would climb over the wooden picket fence into the Chinese-Cuban family backyard.

  “Why did the Carpenters’ young son jump into the Chinese-Cuban family’s backyard?” when the daughter saw him jump back home from the porch windows.That was not the only aggression against the Lombard wooden picket fence. 

Another day, the daughter found the squirrels racing around the fence at a maddening speeding, while they chased each other out, all around the backyard, only to jump up to the green Maple Tree. 

Blue birds and red cardinals also made their way into the Lombard garden and feasted on Golden and Red Delicious Apple Blossoms and budding apples. 

There was even a loud Wood Pecker by the Apple Orchard burrowing a whole into the tree trunks to make a nest.

There had never been so many birds, wildlife, animals, and strange people into the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow garden, until the daughter saw a creepy, crawly Opossum or Possum which look like albino giant rats. 

After coming home from work one afternoon, she noticed that the grass had signs of a large reptile, slithering over the green lawn grass while leaving imprints on the backyard.  That day, she found the whole sewed off at the bottom of the wooden picket fence posts by Chuck and Robyn’s driveway on Washington Boulevard.

Then, the daughter saw two masked bandits sneaking into the Lombard garden.  Raccoons behave like crooks and criminals causing damages in the Lombard garden and backyard near the Illinois Prairie Path, the Lombard Lagoons, and all over Du Page County, Illinois USA. 

The critter marauders began to appropriate the backyard and climbed the rain gutter duct by the air conditioning unit to make a nest up on the roof. Another raccoon climbed up the green Maple Tree to cross over and hide on the roof. 

That is when the daughter called Critter Detectives in Lombard at 1294 South Lloyd Avenue, Telephone: 630-916-7678.  According to Critter Detectives, “If You Have Critter Trouble, We’ll Be There on the Double for Nuisance Wildlife Relocation 1 (888) 271-8837.  Critter specialists in the Chicagoland area for 15 years since 1997. 

The Chinese-Cuban family moved into Lilac Town on September 2, 1993. Critter Detectives followed new Lombard homeowners four years after into Lilac Town upon demand of wildlife roaming red foxes, wild renegade coyotes, snakes, raccoons, squirrels, opossum, moles, groundhogs, skunks, beavers, birds, bats, dead animals, and geese hazing.

The brother referred me to Critter Detectives in Lombard to resolve home invasions by raccoons nesting on the roof after trespassing under and above the wooden picket fence posts surrounding the Lombard garden at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard in District 5, York Township, Du Page County, Illinois USA. 

When I would come out to the Lombard garden after work, I felt critter peering eyes gazing at me from the roofing above my head. One morning in May, a Hispanic Critter Detective drove up to the Lombard driveway and set up a Raccoon Trap on the roof of the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow during May before the Memorial Day weekend. 

The Hispanic Critter Detective made a bigger hole to attach the Animal Trap to the Lombard roofing structure in order to catch the roving renegade raccoons who would come and go from this location.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, the Lombard resident homeowner went to observe the ceremony at the Daley Plaza Eternal Flame monument. 

Upon return to the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow, she found one Raccoon caught inside the Animal Trap over the weekend. 

Then Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty knocked on the porch door and talked to her by the doorway saying that the neighbor, Eva Carpenter was disturbed by the Raccoon being caught in the Animal Trap set up by the Hispanic Critter Detective. 

The Lombard resident homeowner asked the Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty, “Why is Eva Carpenter complaining about the Raccoon caught in the Animal Trap?” 

Mark Gouty said that Eva Carpenter wanted the Raccoon released from the Animal Trap and set free.  But, the Lombard resident homeowner said that she had called Critter Detectives in Lombard and “ did not want the Raccoon in the backyard anymore that is why Critter Detectives were called to catch the wildlife animal disturbing the Lombard home roofing and the backyard”. 

So, on Memorial Day weekend, Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty got into the Lombard backyard and picked up the Animal Trap with the Rogue Raccoon inside, as if the Lombard Policeman was arresting the wildlife Raccoon for being in the Lombard backyard inside the Critter Detective Animal Trap. 

The irony was that the Lombard resident homeowner had called Critter Detectives about a nuisance wildlife damaging roofing structure.“Why was Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty intruding upon the Critter Detectives’ Animal Trap with the Rascal Raccoon caught inside during Memorial Day weekend?”

Obviously, Eva Carpenter was meddling in the Critter Detectives’ Animal Trap with the Raccoon inside over the Memorial Day Weekend in the neighbor’s backyard, not the Carpenters’ driveway.

So, Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty said, “I am going to take the Animal Trap with the Raccoon inside and remove the wildlife”. 

The Lombard resident homeowner told him that “Critter Detectives had set up the Animal Trap which belonged to them and they expected to find a Raccoon inside”.

Upon return from the Memorial Day Observance, the daughter who was also a Lombard resident homeowner was upset that Eva Carpenter was interfering with the Critter Detectives’ Animal Trap containing the crooked Raccoon caught inside for the holiday. 

The Raccoon had already built a nest on the roof of the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow and the Hispanic Trapper caught the wildlife nuisance into the Animal Trap.

After the Lombard resident homeowner talked to Mark Gouty, he made the mistake of walking into the Lombard garden, picking up the Critter Detectives’ Animal Trap with a nuisance wildlife Raccoon, and setting the Animal Cage inside the Lombard Police squad car for District 5 in the Village of Lombard.  Mark Gouty said that he would bring back the Critter Detective’s Animal Cage to the Lombard home backyard. 

Forty-five minutes later, Mark Gouty returned with an empty Animal Cage. 

The Lombard resident homeowner asked him, “What did you do with the Raccoon?”  Mark Gouty answered that he drove to the Grace St. Lagoon by North Avenue and released the Raccoon there. 

The Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty released free the criminal Raccoon which had set up a small nest on the Lombard roofing structure overlooking the backyard.

“What!” I said, “that Raccoon is going to find the way back to the Lombard nest on the roof…”  I am going to complain about the Lombard Police releasing rogue wildlife free at the Lombard Grace Street Lagoon by North Avenue, between the Village of Lombard and Addison in Du Page County, Illinois USA. 

I did not know that Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty had to arrest a caged Raccoon on Memorial Day during May.  Eva Carpenter, the Lombard neighbor, and Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty were both accomplices and access to criminal roofing damages caused by the Raccoon when the Lombard Policeman released the wildlife Raccoon entrapped and caged by Critter Detectives at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, Lombard, IL 60148-3028 USA.

The next day, the Hispanic Critter Detective picked up the Animal Trap empty, without the Wildlife Raccoon which had been caught and released over the Memorial Day weekend by Lombard Policeman Mark Gouty who set the Raccoon free by the Grace Street Lagoon near North Avenue between Lombard and Addison in Du Page County.

Unfortunately, the Hispanic Critter Detective did not cover up nor repair the bigger hole he made while setting up the Animal Trap Cage to catch the nuisance wildlife Raccoon during the Memorial Day weekend at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard in District 5, Village of Lombard, Illinois USA.

Afterwards, the wildlife Raccoon returned with another mate to set up the nest in the same location where the first Raccoon had started residence on the Lombard home roof.  The nuisance wildlife continued marauding and intruding upon the Lombard homeowners real estate property ever after that Memorial Day weekend in May.

Lombard Criminal Disaster Roofing Water Damages & Losses at

502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Blvd. in District 5, York Township, Du Page County, Illinois  60148-3028 USA

Copyright 2014 GHWitter.  All Rights Reserved.

A Tailor Manufacturing Company In Kingston, Jamaica

My Grandmother Irene was a Certified Tailor in the world of Men’s Fashion when fine clothing and “haute couture” made trends during the 1930s and 1940s, at a time when Coco Chanel featured tailored clothing for men and women.  In fact, Grandmother Irene met Coco Chanel, the French fashion designer in person for tailoring business referrals and fashion shows at the time.  Grandmother Irene became the manager and owner of a Kingston Tailor Manufacturing Company in Jamaica, Cuba, USA, London, England, France, Italy, and Spain in Europe.  Thanks to my Grandmother Irene and her sewing mistresses friends, I have always had fine fashion garments to wear.  My parents always ordered custom-made dresses designed, embroidered, and sewn by private seamstresses for special occasions.  One of the seamstresses who sewed for our family was named Ana Dela, the mother of Ana Maria, wife of Marcelino Simons, who was related to my Aunt Silvia Simons, daughter of the Engineer Dennis Simons from Kingston, Jamaica.

During the summers, Grandmother Irene offered to teach me how to sew in her antique Singer foot-pedaling sewing machine for fashion, as the French say “haute couture” for custom-made, tailored clothing, “sanforized”.  Grandmother Irene showed me her vintage sewing templates for custom-tailored fashion clothing from Europe, and taught me how to use the fashion sewing templates to cut tailored clothing for ready-wear.  I still have a sample garment which Grandmother Irene sewed to show me how to use Sanforization for men’s shorts.

Sanforization is a process of treatment used for cotton fabrics mainly and most textiles made from natural or chemical fibres, patented by Sanford Lockwood Cluett (1874–1968) in 1930.^[1] It is a method of stretching, shrinking and fixing the woven cloth in both length and width before cutting and producing, to reduce the shrinkage which would otherwise occur after washing.

The cloth is continually fed into the sanforizing machine and therein moistened with either water or steam. A rotating cylinder presses a rubber sleeve against another, heated, rotating cylinder. Thereby the sleeve briefly gets compressed and laterally expanded, afterwards relaxing to its normal thickness. The cloth to be treated is transported between rubber sleeve and heated cylinder and is forced to follow this brief compression and lateral expansion, and relaxation. It thus gets shrunk.

The greater the pressure applied to the rubber sleeve, the less the shrinking afterwards. The process may be repeated.

The aim of the process is a cloth which does not shrink significantly during clothes production by cutting, ironing, sewing or, especially, by wearing and washing the finished clothes. Cloth and articles made from it may be labelled to have a specific shrink-proof value (if pre-shrunk), e.g., of under 1%.

 

Human Trafficking In Illinois

Human Trafficking Awareness in Illinois

Last Thursday, May 15, 2014, the Edgewater Library Community Room featured a presentation about Human Trafficking Awareness by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in cooperation with 48^thWard Alderman Harry Osterman, Illinois Senator Heather Steans (7^th District), State Representative Kelly M. Cassidy (14^th District), U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (9^th District) and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken up more efforts to intercept human trafficking operations in the state of Illinois, nationwide, and around the world to set free victims of human trafficking who are enslaved as senior citizens, mental health patients, women, youth, children, disabled people, in the LGBT group, as well as laborers in agriculture and domestic service, nannies or maids, food service employees, tourist or hospitality workers, janitors, migrant farmers, fishery workers, or as beggars.  Victims of Human Trafficking may also be immigrants, aliens or non-immigrants in the United States of America.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation are focusing on human trafficking awareness efforts to combat and deter the exploitation of individuals who work in labor industries targeted by human traffickers and who are often forced into slave labor or sexual exploitation and prostitution.

According to the FBI profile, You May Be A Victim of Human Trafficking if:

-          You are not being paid for your work, or your wages are held by a boss or supervisor.

-          Your working conditions make you feel unsafe.

-          You are not free to come and go as you please.

-          You feel threatened or members of your family have been threatened.

-          Your personal belongings and Identification Cards and Documents have been taken from you.

-          You are subjected to physical violence or emotional abuse at work or at home where you live.

-          You have had false Identification cards or documents given to you.

-          Your communication with family and friends is restricted or denied by others deliberately.

-          You are denied rest and are forced to work while you are sick or while you have become sick.

Human Trafficking is not just forced sexual exploitation or prostitution.  Victims of sex trafficking can be senior citizens, disabled women or men, LGBT people, teenagers, boys or girls.

Victims of Human Trafficking fall for a variety of scenarios and common patterns of behavior for luring humans into situations of sex trafficking which include:

-          The promise of a good job

-          A false marriage proposal

-          Being sold into the sex trade by parents or family members

-          Being kidnapped by traffickers

Common abuse methods and torture used by sex traffickers are confinement, starvation, physical abuse and injury by beatings, rape, gang rape, threats of violence to the victims and the victim’s families, induced drug use and blackmail with the threat of shaming their victims by revealing their activities to their family and friends, sedition and persecution, harassment, heinous hate crimes, domestic violence, etc.

The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA) is a federal statute passed into law in 2000 by the U.S. Congress. It offers protections for persons in the country illegally who may be victims of human trafficking.

The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act had been subsequently renewed in 2003, 2006, 2008 and most recently in 2013 as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act.[1] There are two stipulations an applicant has to meet in order to receive the benefits of the T-Visa. First, a trafficked victim must prove/admit to being trafficked and second must submit to prosecution of his or her trafficker.

A problem arises from the second portion of requirements of an applicant. Many trafficked persons are extremely fearful of retaliation upon the self or the family and thus serves as a major deterrent to individuals even considering application.

The TVPA allowed for the establishment of the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, which coordinates with foreign governments to protect trafficking victims, prevent trafficking, and prosecute traffickers.[2]

If you have been a Victim of Human Traffic and Sex Exploitation or you may have information about a potential trafficking situation, please contact the FBI Chicago Field Offfice at 312-421-6700.

My Mother's Involvement For More Than 30 Years in My Life

For more than (30) thirty years, I have been a Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes, Kidnappers, Human Traffickers, Murder-For-Hire Conspiracies, Heinous Hate Crimes, Vandalism, Trespassing, Auto Theft, Auto Accidents, Violence Against Women, Theft, Burglary, Home Invasions, Deception, Physical Violence, Torture, Forced Hospitalizations, as the eldest daughter of Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos, Alias Unknown, Senior Citizen, born on February 2, 1938, 76-year-old disabled retiree, former Lombard resident and surviving widow of Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, deceased Lombard resident homeowner, taxpayer in District 5, York Township, in Du Page County, Illinois  60148-3028 USA.  My Mother has completed Graduate Studies for a Master’s Degree in Spanish Literature at Loyola University Lake Shore Campus in the 48^th Democratic Ward, Edgewater neighborhood near Rogers Park, by Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois USA.  Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos abandoned her eldest daughter as a Lombard resident homeowner after the 68-year-old attempted suicide at the Lombard home on January 12, 2006 and survived when the daughter arrived in the afternoon and saved her by providing CPR and called “911” around 4:30 PM, after which the Lombard Paramedics arrived with Dr. Thomas in District 5, York Township, Du Page County, Illinois  60148-3028 USA.

My Mother, Gardenia Fong Ramos, is the sister of José “Pepín”, Alberto, Dulce María who is deceased, Xiomara Fong Ramos de Zayas, and Miguel Fong Ramos, legitimate daughter of Alberto Fong and Irene Ramos Mejías who was a professional certified Tailor and Manager of a Tailor Manufacturing Company and Dry Cleaners in Kingston, Jamaica—who have lived in the city of Santiago de Cuba, in the Caribbean country of Cuba.

During the month of May, Mental Health Awareness Month is a very important issue for all Americans, especially in the Midwestern state of Illinois for Mother’s Day.  Eight (8) years ago, my Mother committed suicide by stabbing herself with a brand new, large stainless steel kitchen knife which the bank TCF at Jewel-Osco had given her as a gift for opening a brand new bank account on Main Street, in the Village of Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois USA. When I returned home in the afternoon from the Harold Washington Public Library, I found my Mother face down on the second floor bedroom of our Lombard home. After I turned her to face me, I found the long kitchen knife stuck in her upper abdomen. Quickly I pulled out the knife, and called “911” for the Lombard Fire Department Paramedics and Dr. Thomas who arrived to help my Mother who was still unconscious with a beating pulse.

The Lombard Fire Department removed my Mother and I have not seen her again for the last 8 years, after she was staying with me at our Lombard home in Du Page County, Illinois.  Prior to the suicidal attempt, my Mother had been hospitalized in the Psychiatric Ward of the Advocate Masonic Medical Center in care of Dr. McKenna and social worker Tilary who discharged her for Thanksgiving, without providing for her the prescribed medications for her mental health condition.  My Mother was forcefully committed to psychiatric care at the Masonic Medical Center in the Lakeview neighborhood by Jim Wilbrot and his friends, after they took her widow’s Social Security Disability cash funds for more than $800 which she had in her purse, while visiting in Oak Park, Illinois.

The Lombard Police Department, Renaldo, told me to find my Mother at the Du Page County Coroner’s Office on County Farm Road in Wheaton, Illinois. When I got to the Du Page County Morgue, the Deputy Coroner told me that “THERE WAS NO BODY” in the Morgue drawer for my Mother. Afterwards, the Du Page County Clerk Gary King, mailed me a Death Certificate for my Mother—but I never found the body nor did they invite me to the funeral in Du Page County, Illinois.

Eight  (8) years have passed and I know that Mental Health caused problems for my Mother after she moved to Lilac Town in 1992.  My Mother relocated to a Lombard home near Sunset Knolls Park and the Lombard Mental Health Crisis Intervention Center on Finley Road near Washington Boulevard in Lilac Town.  My Mother had been previously treated with “Lithium” by Dr. Eduardo Machado at Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Mercy Hospital in Aurora, Illinois, even when Lithium is known to cause blood poisoning and kill patients during the course of medical treatment.  Later, Dr. Machado referred my Mother to Chicago Read Health Center where she was abused as a psychiatric patient by another patient on the ward.

The Chicago Social Worker Mrs. Gardas who worked for the Illinois Department of Human Services has been following up on my Mother’s extraordinary Mental Health experience as a psychiatric patient in Illinois, USA.  My Mother’s Mental Health issues developed during 1978, after she was abused by a Puerto Rican co-worker, while she worked as an employee at Felt-Products Inc., auto gasket manufacturing plant also known as Federal Mogul where my Father worked for 22 years in Skokie, Cook County, Illinois.  Several years have passed during my Mother’s Mental Health experience for me and my family, after she travelled to Harrison and Union City, New Jersey where her second brother and other Cuban-American friends remember her life in Santiago de Cuba, and Cuba.

Mental Health Awareness Month for Suicidal People in May becomes an essential issue for me as the eldest daughter in my family, especially when the Illinois Psychiatric Association does not allow me to see or meet my Mother who surprisingly is still alive—re-organizing her life as a Loyola University Alumni and a professional senior citizen under psychiatric mental health supervision in the State of Illinois, USA.

Du Page County Clerk Gary King and Elmhurst Memorial Medical Center never contacted me to inform me that my Mother was transferred to a Chicago North Shore facility near Loyola University Lake Shore Campus for Rehabilitation and Medical Treatment unbeknown to me, her eldest daughter who was abandoned as a Lombard resident homeowner in the Lilac Town, presuming that my Mother was “dead”—when she was really “unconscious” from a self-inflicted knife wound on the second floor of our Lombard home, 8 years ago.

Many psychiatric suicidal people in Chicago, Illinois survive Mental Health issues and resume their lives under the care of psychiatrists, mental health counselors, therapists, social workers, and many other mental health staff.  Can you imagine how Mental Health Awareness has affected and distressed my life as the eldest daughter in my family, “presuming my Mother committed suicide” when she is really alive as a senior citizen resuming her second life with other people around her, without her immediate family? 

My Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos, Alias Unknown, abandoned me after I saved her from her suicide attempt on January 12, 2006, and helped her by providing medical support with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois health insurance coverage and other assistance for her as a senior citizen.  For the last eight (8) years, my Mother has been Alias Unknown, avoiding me as her eldest daughter, refusing to contact me by telephone, in writing, or in person as an Illinois resident in the 48^th Democratic Ward in the Edgewater neighborhood, near Loyola University Lake Shore Campus by Rogers Park, Lake Michigan, Illinois USA.

My Father's Vacation To Miami, Florida & Queens/Flushing NY

“Roberto Hung’s Vacation To Miami, Florida, and Queens/Flushing, New York in the USA”

In 1993, after Mr. Roberto Hung J.D. purchased Lombard real estate property and moved to the Village of Lombard on September 2, 1993, he developed a thumb infection from a steel metal splinter acquired at work during the 3^rd shift for Felt-Products After Market Auto Parts Division.  Consequently, Roberto Hung developed a fever and a swollen thumb which was festering and required medical attention; then he was hospitalized with a swollen thumb infection at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois USA.  I remember driving to visit my Father, Roberto Hung, who was hospitalized as an in-patient at St. Francis Hospital from Lombard in DuPage County to Evanston on the North  Shore by Lake Michigan.  Since there was no hospital or medical health center in the Village of Lombard, Roberto Hung retained his health care plan at work from the Felt-Products Corporation in Skokie and kept his medical insurance group on the North Shore Clinic near Rogers Park and St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois USA.

After Roberto Hung’s medical leave and recovery from hospitalization, he went back to work at Felt-Pro in Skokie, Illinois, driving every night from Lombard in DuPage County after midnight and around 2:00 o’clock in the morning twilight to his new Lombard Brick Bungalow Home in District 5, near St. Pius X Catholic Church and School in York Township. 

The following year in 1994, during the Spring, my Mother’s youngest sister Xiomara Fong Ramos de Zayas from Santiago de Cuba was invited to visit her and my youngest brother at 342 Harrison near Sunset Knolls Park and Main Street where the Lilac Parade takes place.  I picked up my Aunt Xiomara at O’Hare Airport because my youngest brother was working all day at Allstate Insurance Company  in Northbrook, Illinois.  This family reunion took 23 years to become a special event for all of  us and included more relatives who were planning to meet and gather in our new Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard.  Aunt Xiomara has a lot of pictures, memorabilia, and photographs of her visit in Lombard during Lilac Time—more than enough good memories to return again during Spring 1998, four years later—(after my Father, Roberto Hung was bedridden, disabled, and unemployed following a home invasion and assault which caused a Traumatic Brain Injury and Aneurysm on December 21-22, 1996). 

Later in Spring 1994, Nathan S. Wittler’s parents Reverend Melvin A. Wittler and Mrs. Nancy Wittler Patriquin announced their home visit to the Village of Lombard since they were driving from West Dummerston, Brattleboro in Vermont across the USA on holiday vacation to Hartington, Nebraska to visit Grandmother Wittler and Duane Wittler his brother who lived on the family farm near Lincoln, Nebraska with his sister Virginia and husband George Fox.

When Nathan S. Wittler went on vacation to West Dummerston, Bratteboro in New England to visit the Wittlers at the farm by the West River in South Vermont, I stayed at our Lombard home while I was working in DuPage County and the Chicagoland area in Illinois USA.

Six years before, the Wittlers had met my Father and Uncle Filiberto Hung and his wife Mireya Hung and daughter Ana Mireya Hung Lee during the 1988 wedding at Olive Park by Navy Pier and remembered the Wedding Reception aboard the Star of Chicago along Lake Michigan which was well attended by Nathan S. Wittler’s family including his Grandmother and Uncle Duane Wittler, his Aunt Virginia and husband George Fox, and his brothers Bryan, Kent, youngest sister Heather and her fiancé John Eruren at that time.  In addition, Reverend Melvin A. Wittler and Mrs. Nancy Wittler had invited her brother Dr. David Patriquin and Mrs. Cynthia Patriquin and more friends to attend the Wedding Reception and Dinner aboard the Star of Chicago by Lake Michigan during Father’s Day weekend on June 18, 1988.  My Mother did not attend my wedding day and refused to be involved in the wedding plans and festivities while she lived with my youngest brother during 1988.

From 1988 through 1996,  I was working and lived as a Lombard resident homeowner in DuPage County, Illinois, I was at staying at the Lombard Brick Bungalow while my Father, Roberto Hung was on vacation visiting his family and relatives in Miami, Florida and Flushing, New York.

Afterwards, my Father went on Vacations To Visit His Family Relatives, His Brothers, His Sisters, Nephews and Nieces in Florida and New York.  I drove my Father, Roberto Hung to the O’Hare Airport to catch his flights to Miami, Florida, to visit his oldest brother Miguel Hung, his son Miguel Hung-Simons and wife Pamela Hung Maggiano, Daughter Brittany and son Mike Hung with all the family; also travelled to New York La Guardia Airport near Queens, Flushing where my Uncle Filiberto and Aunt Mireya lived with his family, Ana Mireya, Ileana, Santiago and Grandson Rafael Hung.  Roberto Hung also visited his youngest sister Caridad “Cei-Chieng” Fong and brother-in-law Joaquin Fong and children, Joaquin Jr. and daughter Teresa Tan with her family.

During his travel vacations, my Father, Roberto Hung, also visited his oldest sister Luz “Leing” Mock and her son Guillermo Mock, his wife Millie and other family relatives.

Photo Taken by Mr. Roberto Hung J.D. of His Two Nieces Ana Mireya Hung Lee (Right) and Teresa Fong Hung (Left) in Manhattan with the Empire State Building in the background for New York City, New York USA 

The Dance

The Dance

During the 1970s, Roberto Hung worked at a theatrical dance performance company on the Northwest side of Chicago supplying apparel costumes, ballerina slippers, dance stockings, and leotards for ballet dancers, actors and actresses for theatre performances around the world.  My Father also worked for Marshall Field’s and Montgomery Wards, among other corporate employers in Chicago, Illinois USA.

While I was growing up in Cuba, I met the famous Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso, who was a colleague of my Father at the Universidad de La Habana.

Later on, when I began my college years at Northeastern Illinois University, I became fascinated by the Dance Program sponsored by Libby Komeiko Fleming who taught Ballet, Jazz, Folkloric Dance and Flamenco on campus.  So, I enrolled in the Dance Program as a freshman at NEIU.  In order to participate in the Dance curriculum, I purchased leotards for Ballet I to practice at the Dance Studio which used to be by the A-Wing, near the Theatre.  I also enrolled in the Spanish Flamenco class and Master Classes taught by Libby Komeiko Fleming.  Spanish Flamenco dancing requires special black shoes with heels, Spanish “castañuelas”, and dance stockings which I purchased myself in order to practice for Libby’s flamenco gitano at NEIU on campus.  The Dance Program at NEIU provided extracurricular courses for me which added up to a minor in Dance and Performing Arts to include Voice, Guitar, and Music training.

Thirty-one (31) years after NEIU college life, I can look back to remember that I lost my Spanish Flamenco shoes and “castañuelas” in 1982, after I returned from Summer French Immersion at Laval University in the Ville de Québec, Canada.  When I returned from Canada, some of my personal clothing, Flamenco shoes and “castañuelas” were gone from my closet where I shared an apartment with my Mother and family on the Northwest side of Chicago, Illinois USA.  While I was away in Canada, studying at Laval University for a French Immersion from May-August in 1982, my Mother and her friends took my black Flamenco shoes, “castañuelas” and other personal clothing from me to give away to her friends without my consent or authorization.

For the last thirty-two (32) years, since I graduated from Northeastern Illinois University, I have been losing personal belonging, fashion garments, academic books involving Ethnographic Psychiatry, Japanese I and II books, silk scarves, souvenirs and mementos from my Canadian travels and other trips across the United States of America.  These personal belongings are removed from my possession to be archived and listed in reports by the State of Illinois courts and the U.S. Department of Justice without notifying me as the rightful owner when I have paid taxes and purchased the lost items with receipts for the record.  Why I am targeted as an Illinois Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes?  Since my Mother has been a psychiatric patient in Illinois, the psychiatrists who treat her target me as a Victim of Hate Crimes by psychopaths surrounding their psychiatric practice and my Mother who is under psychiatric therapy. 

After I moved to the Village of Lombard on September 2, 1993 when my Father purchased Lombard real estate property and also provided the $10,000 deposit for my Brother and Mother to buy a Lombard home on Harrison Street near Finley Road, I began to lose household electronics, personal clothing, garments, business resources, kitchen tools, etc.  To date in 2013, twenty (20)  years after I moved to the Village of Lombard, the County of DuPage has not compensated me nor provided restitution for me as Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes in Illinois, United States of America.

As a Victim  of Heinous Hate Crimes in the State of Illinois, I am entitled to Victim’s Compensation and Restitution under the Constitution of the United States of America enforced by the Department of Justice.

 

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