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BY MICHELLE MULLINS Special to the Tribune December 24, 2014 9:58AM

The village of Homer Glen which now owns Woodbine Golf Course plans to eventually create a 103-acre community park here. | Susan DeMar Lafferty/Sun-Times Media

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Updated: December 24, 2014 12:13PM

More than 100 dead trees need to be removed from the former Woodbine golf course and banquet hall property before the village allows residents to use the land, officials said Tuesday.

Village board members agreed Tuesday that, for safety reasons, residents should not use the village-owned Woodbine property until the trees are removed.

Village manager Cameron Davis said the village plans to hire a contractor remove the dead trees and hopes they will come down this winter. Meanwhile, the village has placed no ice skating, no fishing and no swimming signs on the former golf courses ponds and will install snow fences to block public access to the property.

The village bought the 103-acre Woodbine golf course and banquet hall out of foreclosure last December. Under an agreement with the Ludwig family, who owned the course, golf and banquets were allowed to continue this year, and the village would take over the property by years end.

Trustee Margaret Sabo said she had concerns that the public will want to use the land now that it belongs to the village, but stressed that it is not ready for public use yet.

Sabo said the village board needs to discuss rules and regulations regarding the use of the land and evaluate the property. She said she wants to ensure that residents in the nearby subdivision are protected and that the police will patrol the area.

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Published: 19:02 EST, 23 December 2014 | Updated: 04:30 EST, 24 December 2014

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Croydon based boiler insurance company Kwik Fix Plumber Ltd formerly Boiler Shield Ltd repeatedly called elderly people encouraging them to take out policies.

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Going against conventional wisdom, Regine Gries let the bedbugs bite. Credit: Medill DC/Flickr

Going against conventional wisdom, Regine Gries let the bedbugs bite. A lot.

The biologist let the pests in her laboratory feast on the blood in her forearmsto the tune of some 180,000 bitesin the name of science. In doing so, shes helped discover a previously unidentified bedbug pheromone that could help identify and fight future infestations.

When bedbugs move into a building, eradicating them is an expensive process fraught with anxiety and frustration. Many researchers are working on improving bedbug detection methods because existing techniques are often costly or too time consuming for routine monitoring. Some think that baiting traps with bedbug pheromones could provide an affordable way to detect infestations before they become severe.

But researchers have been missing an important piece of the pheromone puzzle, namely the arrestant compound that bedbugs use to tell one another that a particular habitat is a safe place to hunker downbetween a mattress and a box spring, for instance.

A team of biologists and chemists at Simon Fraser University, in Canada, led by Gries, her husband Gerhard J. Gries, and Robert A. Britton now believes it has identified the arrestant: histamine, a simple compound humans produce during immune responses (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201409890). Bedbugs, the team found, release histamine in their feces and in their cuticles, the skin they shed after a blood meal. This sort of waste accumulates in the bugs favorite hiding spots, often near a food source. The researchers are now working to turn their discovery into commercialized bedbug traps.

The researchers identified histamine, along with a cornucopia of other chemicals, using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. To test how bugs in the lab respond to each potential pheromone, they then had to gather an enormous collection of cuticles and feces to get enough material to identify what the arrestant was, Britton says. Getting bedbugs to shed and defecate the requisite amount required an awful lot of feeding, hence, the nearly 200,000 bedbug bites endured by Regine.

Beyond uncovering histamine, the team also determined that bedbugs produce five key volatile organic compounds, including 2-hexanone and dimethyldisulfide, to attract one another. Armed with this discovery, the researchers concocted a cocktail of histamine and alluring volatiles to bait traps. Because the compounds are all rather simple and easy to synthesize, Britton says, the chemical cost per trap was less than 10 cents.

The researchers tested their bait in bedbug-infested locations around Vancouver and found that their pheromone blend not only lured bedbugs into traps, but also kept them there, a crucial and challenging step in detection.

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