National Crime Victims’ Rights Week: April 22-28, 2012

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week:

“Extending The Vision; Reaching Every Victim. Justice For Victims. Justice For All.”

During Election 2012, one of the top issues for debate involves National Crime Victims’ Rights for homeowners who become Victims of Crimes after they have purchased real estate property in the Village of Lombard, York Township, DuPage County, Illinois. Many Lombard homeowners become victims of theft, robbery, kidnapping, abuse, torture, harassment, damages and losses, smuggling from criminals who target Lombard residents after they have purchased real estate property in DuPage County, Illinois USA. National Crime Victims’ Rights for Compensation and Victims’ Assistance is a real issue for debate during Election 2012 in the USA.

The Crime Victims’ Rights Act was signed into law on October 30, 2004. Under the Constitution, inalienable victims’ rights include the following:
1. The right to attend criminal justice proceedings;
2. The right to apply for compensation;
3. The right to be heard and participate in the criminal justice proceedings;
4. The right to be informed of proceedings and events in the criminal justice process, of legal rights and remedies, and of available services;
5. The right to protection from intimidation and harassment;
6. The right to restitution from the offender;
7. The right to prompt return of personal property seized as evidence;
8. The right to a speedy trial;
9. The right to enforcement of these rights;
10. The right to appeal denial of constitutional victims’ rights.
11. The right to be treated like a human being.
12. The right to be included in civil proceedings.

Since September 2, 1993, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor and Surviving Family, Daughter Gardenia C. Hung-Wittler, Son-in-law Nathan Scott Wittler Patriquin are Lombard resident homeowners at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard who have become Illinois Victims of Heinous Hate Crimes in District 5, near St. Pius X Catholic Church, the Deicke Home for the Retarded, Easter Seals of Lombard in DuPage County, Westmore Elementary School, the Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White Drivers Motor Vehicles Facility at Eastgate Shopping Center and the Islamic Foundation Center on Highridge Road in Villa Park, Illinois USA.

National Arbor Day on April 27, 2012

Plant Apple Trees on National Arbor Day

Trees are essential in the life of your garden and the sustainable environment. I found that adding Golden and Red Delicious Apple Trees from Stark Bros. Nursery to the yard for the Lombard Brick Bungalow where we lived at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, attracted a wood-pecker, the red cardinals and mates, blue birds, sparrows, and gold finches…along with colorful butterflies, bees, and other natural life in District 5, York Township, for DuPage County, Illinois in the USA.

Apple Blossoms have enhanced the beauty of the Lombard Brick Bungalow and the surroundings with beautiful flowers and a sweet fragrance.

A Lombard Resident Homeowner Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes

The Estate of Roberto Hung & Family was purchased in the name of the late Mr. Roberto Hung, Sr., who became a victim of crime after he purchased Lombard real estate property and became a registered Lombard homeowner for P.I.N. 06-09-315-038-0000, real estate property legally acquired and recorded in Du Page County, during September 2, 1993 through September 2, 1996 and paid in full at the Maple Park State Bank with cash retirement funds, IRA money markets, and 401K monies accrued in employment savings through profit-sharing invested at Felt-Pro, Inc. auto gasket company, also known today as Federal Mogul Corporation Sealing Systems, located at 7450 North McCormick Boulevard, in Skokie, Illinois 60076-8103. Felt-Pro, Inc.–managed and family-owned by Lewis C. Weinberg, the Lehman Brothers, Mr. Kessler, and others, along with son David Weinberg and daughter, Barbara Kessler.

 

In 1996, Mr. Roberto Hung turned 65 years of age and decided to continue working during the day at The Pampered Chef, located at One Swift Road in Addison, Illinois.   Then, Mr. Hung added part-time work hours at night and during the weekends at Dominick’s Food Stores in Oakbrook Terrace to supplement his retirement income.  Mr. Hung became a U.S. citizen in Chicago, of Cuban and Chinese descent.

Mr. Roberto Hung was abused and victimized while he worked for The Pampered Chef in Addison and Dominick’s Food Stores in Oakbrook Terrace in Illinois.  Mr. Hung became a victim of crime after he purchased Lombard Real Estate property at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, one block southeast from St. Pius X Catholic Church and School in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois USA.

 

The late Mr. Roberto Hung Sr., was a retired Cuban-Chinese attorney, who worked as Municipal District Attorney in Santiago de Cuba, while he also served as judge for the Municipal District Court of Santiago de Cuba, in Oriente, Cuba. Mr. Roberto Hung was a graduate cum laude from the Law School at the University of La Habana in Cuba. In the State of Illinois, Du Page County, Mr. Roberto Hung became a Lombard resident homeowner, U.S. citizen, and also a paying member of the Illinois Sheriffs Association, who contributed to local, state, and presidential cash fundraisers, to include donations to the Lombard Fire Department and Police Department, and other national charities. On December 22, 1996, he had written a donation checks for the Lombard Fire Department and to his son Robert S. Hung, after paying his household bills, before he became injured at home, 502 S. Westmore Avenue in Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois.

After Mr. Roberto Hung paid for the Lombard real estate property, he was abused as a resident homeowner, taxpayer, and U.S. citizen. On December 22, 1996, Mr. Hung was injured at home in Lombard after 9:00 PM, before Christmas Day. Mr. Roberto Hung survived the traumatic brain injury when his eldest daughter Gardenia C. Hung provided first responder’s emergency assistance and called 911 in the Village of Lombard. After Mr. Hung recovered from a stroke in 1997, he was throttled and murdered by the respiratory therapist Ben Aguilar at Vencor Northlake Hospital, on June 18, 1998, in Northlake, Cook County, Illinois.

Coincidentally, Felt-Pro, Inc., the automotive gasket sealing magnet, known for a wide-range of worker benefits was also sold in 1998, in the amount of $720 million dollars to Federal Mogul Corporation based in Michigan and nation-wide. Ten years later, Mr. Lewis C. Weinberg died, on Thursday, October 30, 2008, at his Chicago home in Illinois, at the age of 93 years old.  Since Felt-Pro, Inc. was sold in 1997, Mr. Roberto Hung became abused, injured, and eventually murdered, while holding Lombard real estate property, residency, and homeownership in the County of Du Page.

For the record, the estimated market value of the subject property was $272, 850.00 in 2008, plus the value of family, personal, professional business assets of the Hung Family in Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois. The Lombard Brick Bungalow, built in 1927, was damaged extensively by public use and unauthorized access entries by the Lombard Police Department, the Fire Department, the Village of Lombard, and other intruders during the course of municipal services and operations which caused detrimental disaster, roofing water damages , plumbing flooding and demolition losses. On Wednesday, November 5, 2008, the Lombard Fire Department, instigated by Keith Steiskal, and others, demolished the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow at 502 S Westmore-Meyers Road in Du Page. Now the Hung Family is petitioning for cash compensation, restitution, and financial remuneration by the Village of Lombard and others who have publicly used the private property owned by the Hung Family in the Estate of Mr. Roberto Hung Supplemental Care Trust.

FOR THE RECORD, MR. ROBERTO HUNG, NEVER RECEIVED THE SENIOR CITIZENS HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, EVEN THOUGH HE PAID IN FULL FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE LOMBARD HISTORIC BRICK BUNGALOW BUILT IN 1927. On September 2nd, 1993, Mr. Roberto Hung purchased the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow from Debra Y. Sekrecki, with an initial down payment of $2,000, as earnest money paid by personal check, added to the total cash payment of $88,000 at a fixed interest rate not to exceed 8.00% per year, amortized over a period of fifteen (15) years. At the time, Debra Y. Sekrecki had two (2) children, a boy and a girl, lived with Stella, the tenant upstairs, and father Adam Sekrecki. On July 11, 1993, Mr. Roberto Hung signed a Standard Residential Sales Contract from the Du Page Association of Realtors in agreement to purchase the Lombard real estate property at 502 S. Westmore Avenue in Lombard, Illinois 60148-3028, owned by seller Debra Y. Sekrecki. The original closing date was scheduled on September 11, 1993. However, Roberto Hung was called by telephone to appear sooner on September 2nd, 1993, at 3:30 p.m., at the law office of Alan Dakoff, Telephone: 708-966-0488, located at 9291 North Maryland, in Niles, Illinois 60714, U.S.A. Century 21, Action Real Estate provided a Buyer Service Pledge presented by Steve Block, Telephone: 630-627-5500, and Dino, the real estate agent with Roberto Hung, signed in agreement. Afterwards, Roberto Hung received a copy of Rider 412, Buyer’s Inspection which he signed as buyer with Debra Sekrecki, as seller.

In 1993, Century 21, Action Real Estate described in a listing the Highlights of the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow at the corner of Westmore Avenue and Washington Blvd., owned by Debra Y. Sekrecki with tenant Stella. At the time, the Du Page County Real Estate Taxes were only $2,744 for the brick house. After Roberto Hung purchased the same Lombard Brick House, the Lombard property taxes doubled for more than $4,000, without providing the Senior Citizens Homestead Exemption as a tax credit. This Lombard Brick Home is located near Westmore Elementary School and St. Pius X Church School, Jackson Middle School, and Willowbrook High School. George Hornbeck’s Parcel No. 06-09-315038 is a subdivision, spacious 4-bedroom brick home with a second floor in-law or potential income arrangement. There are nine (9) rooms available with hardwood floors. Full finished basement. Front and rear enclosed porches for added living space. Fully fenced yard with a gas grill. There is a 2-car garage. Public transportation is available. This Lombard home is close to school and shopping, near the Eastgate Center and State of Illinois facilities for the Secretary of State Vehicle Licenses Center and the Illinois Employment and Training Center (I.E.T.C.). Action Real Estate for Century 21 was serving Du Page and Cook counties at the Lombard Pines Shopping Center, 1125-J South Main Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148, in care of realtor Dino. The real estate closing documents for purchase were prepared by Attorney Dean G. Galanopoulos and Robert G. Galgan, Jr. Atty. No.1948, at 340 West Butterfield Road, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126.

The First State Bank of Maple Park mailed a letter on November 10, 1995 to Mr. Roberto Hung, which notified the Lombard homeowner that the bank was transferring the servicing of the Loan Mortgage to the Dime Savings Bank of New York, FSB, P.O. Box 985, Newark, New Jersey 07101-0985. Customer Service Park, 231 East Avenue, Suite 200, Tel. 1-800-222-0912. Robert Hung was informed that the mortgage rates would increase as a balloon mortgage for the Dime Savings Bank of New York. Since Robert Hung did not want to incur additional mortgage interest rates, He Decided To Pay in Full Cash for the remainder balance of the Lombard Real Estate Property for P.I.N. 06-09-315-038, Lot 2 in George P. Hornbeck’s Resubdivision of Part of the West one-half of the South West one-fourth of Section 9, Township 39 North, Range 11, East of the Third Meridian, According to the Plat thereof recorded on February 19, 1980 as Document No. R80-10413, in Du Page County, Illinois.

On September 2nd, 1996, Mr. Roberto Hung completed full cash payment of the Lombard Brick Home at First State Bank of Maple, located at 1100 County Line Road, Maple Park, Illinois 60151, in care of Joy S. Reynolds, Tel. (815) 827-4000, Fax. (815) 827-3207, Toll Free No. 1-800-449-2700, while Bruce Madden was president of the First State Bank, and witnessed by his daughter, Gardenia C. Hung, and the bank manager. Mr. Roberto Hung and his eldest daughter, married to Nathan S. Wittler, improved the Lombard Brick house by adding oak cabinets, an exterior halogen flood night light, (2) automatic garage door openers, changed all door locks, added gardening landscaping, apple trees orchard, and perennial flowers, and exotic plant species.

On December 22, 1996, Mr. Hung was injured at home in Lombard after 9:00 PM, before Christmas Day. After recovering from a stroke in 1997, Roberto Hung was throttled and murdered by the respiratory therapist Ben Aguilar at Vencor Northlake Hospital, on June 18, 1998.

We are remembering how Mr. Roberto Hung was murdered at Vencor Northlake Hospital by Respiratory Therapist Ben Aguilar in Cook County, Illinois, while he was a critical care patient under the medical care of Dr. Grodzin, M.D. from Elmhurst Memorial Hospital and previous medical care of Dr. Tom Cornwell M.D., and Nurse Nancy Minch, R.N., with CNA Carol and Jennifer… from Home Care Physicians in Winfield, Illinois USA.

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East Meets West

The best thing about Lombard is The Eastgate Shopping Center, a community neighborhood located along Westmore-Meyers Road, between Wilson Avenue and Jackson, in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois. The Eastgate Center is only five blocks from Route 38, on Roosevelt Road and Westmore-Meyers Road in Illinois. Eastgate is notable for the Drivers Services Facility, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, and the Illinois Employment and Training Center. The Eastgate community has a multi-ethnic and diverse population near Trinity Lutheran Church and School, the Islamic Foundation Center, Saint Pius X Catholic Church and School, and the Lombard Community Church on Madison Street in DuPage County, Illinois. Schroeder’s Ace Hardware and the 7-Eleven convenience stores open regular hours, accesible to the public with free parking. There is also the Chinese Restaurant for Mr. Wonton  featuring authentic Cantonese cuisine, Oriental decor for dining inside, online ordering, and fast delivery.  Eastgate Center combines the best of town and country life in the western suburbs for residential and commercial businesses, educational facilities, banking, laundromat, restaurants, etc. Nearby, Madison Meadow Park hosts many community events, family reunions, picnics, celebrations, athletic and recreational sports during the year, as well as music concerts, fireworks during the July 4th festivities, arts and crafts exhibits, Lombard Food Festival, and many other sports, games, and tournaments, close to the Eastgate Center in Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois. Lombard is a great place for the Lilac Festival at Lilacia Park…

How Are Languages Used As Communications Tools in the 21st Century?

As we move through the new millennium, we need to focus on how languages are used as communication tools in the 21^st century to promote understanding, listening, cooperation, trade, military security, and peace in the world to become more effective and efficient communicators. 

Technology, research, and developments in communications for the 21^st century will regulate how languages will be used as tools in diverse professional fields and disciplines.  In addition, the application of languages as communication tools in the 21^st century is subject to the existing influence of political and socio-economic developments in the world.

According to Philip Howard in his Foreword for The World of Words.  An Illustrated History of Western Languages, new revised edition, I quote, “we can only guess that hundreds of thousands of languages have been spoken since the beginning of the world, from the fact that 2,769 languages are spoken around the world today (the figure depends a bit on what one counts as a language)”.   

Human communication is defined as the process by which people exchange information.  Languages are forms of communication in our everyday world.  We use languages to communicate on a daily basis at home, work, with friends, at leisure.  Languages are an indispensable way to function, interact, and exchange information, especially as our world becomes closer.  Thus, languages become communication tools in the 21^st century as work issues, military protection, and concerns in the world evolve from local to global to become “glocal” in the international arena. 

Given the multilingual population in our planet Earth, there is a need to communicate and listen in more than one language in the U.S.A. and around the world.  The process of active listening is an essential and important factor in communication because it allows us to perceive selectively what the information exchange entails, without overlooking details and steps to follow directions. 

The need to communicate effectively and efficiently in the 21^st century requires a mandatory acquisition of another language, in addition to English, which fulfills an educational requirement in the our country and overseas.  Thus, in the same way that “Education is a tool for success”, languages are used as tools in the 21^st century because these facilitate the process of communication around the world.

Tools are means by which we ease our interaction in a work environment and around us.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines a tool as anything regarded as necessary to implement one’s occupation or profession.  Since languages in the 21^st century are used to perform one’s job, as the work force travels and relocates around the world, in response to employment and military deployment, labor supply and demand, then languages become communication tools in the 21^st century. 

International companies in the United States and around the world require personnel to travel on demand where employee skills are needed.  Consequently, employment relocation and logistics are common factors for global work in the 21^st century.  An awareness and knowledge of languages is an underlying pre-requisite to international employment, deployment, and travel.  So, if one knows two or more languages in the world, chances are that one will travel for work or leisure and become more effective and efficient as a communicator and an employee…

We need to discuss how languages are used as communication tools in the 21^st century to promote understanding, cooperation, trade, and peace in the world. 

Technology, Research and Development: 

                      Videophone,  Videoconferencing, Global Positioning

                      Systems World-Wide Assistance with Satellites,

                      Student Centered Distance Learning for Remote Rural Areas, 

                      Internet Delivery of Instruction On-line, Email Tutorials,

                      Intranet Web-Based Educational Environments
                     Audio Computer-Based Test for ESL Listening Skills

Understanding:   Interpersonal, one-to-one basis, people-to-people;

Interpreting—Consular, Commercial, Legal, Medical, Technical, On-line; Translation—Electronic, Commercial, Legal, Medical, Technical

Listening:               The process of active listening is an essential and important factor in communication because it allows us to perceive selectively what the information exchange entails, without overlooking details and steps to follow directions.        

 Cause and Effect:  The application of languages as communication tools in the 21^stcentury is  subject to the influence of political and socio-economic developments in the world.  

We need to foster the use and application of languages in education to facilitate communication in a global and local sense, around the world  and in our own communities to become effective and efficient communicators. 

The application of languages as communication tools in the 21^st century is subject to the influence of political and socio-economic developments in the world.

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Certified Legal Interpreting and Translation in Illinois, USA

I started language interpreting for Action Translation with the Illinois Industrial Commission in Chicago at the James R. Thompson Illinois Government Center when Joseph Raudonis used to live in Palos Heights, Illinois—I found a job wanted ad in the newspaper and telephoned Action Translation for assignments translating legal documents for Spanish into English.

Then,   I met Carmen Kenny, a legal interpreter at the Arbitration Center in Chicago, who was looking for a freelance interpreter and translator who could share legal interpreting assignments in the Chicagoland area, travel on-site to judicial hearings, arbitrations, depositions, and translate legal documents upon assignment for Carmen Kenny & Associates based in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

A colleague referred me to Arroyave Academy of Languages managed by Guillermo Arroyave himself in Highland Park and Arlington Heights, who was looking for a communications cross-cultural consultant who could teach foreign languages, interpret, and translate from English into Spanish, French, and/or Portuguese, available for travelling around the Chicagoland area—throughout the counties of Cook, Lake, Will, DuPage, Kane, Grundy, LaSalle, etc.

I had been working for Berlitz Schools of Languages in Chicago, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, and Schaumburg as a language cross-cultural consultant. 

By professional referral and networking, I was contacted by Inlingua Schools in Chicago to work as a professional cross-cultural consultant, language interpreter and translator on-site, in the Chicagoland area.

In addition, I was a member of the American Translators Association and Chicago Area Translators and Interpreters Association.In 1990, I found a newspaper job ad from Diplomatic Languages Service, Inc. , based in Virginia, looking for language interpreters and translators in Chicago, Illinois.

During the 1990’s I interpreted and translated for several Translation Agencies:  Burg Translation, Palencia Language Services,  Interlate Systems, Inc., Linguistic Systems, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts, Access Translation managed by Rosa Ridderbusch in Lake Zurich, AIM Translations in Bloomingdale, Illinois. 

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A Community Interpreter

In September 1977, when I was a freshman at Northeastern Illinois University, in Chicago, Illinois, I used to work as a student aide at the Financial Aid Office, for the Veterans Administration Scholarship department and the UNI Scholarship department, when I was not in class, and I also helped the front desk accepting student financial aid forms and advising students about registration procedures. Since Northeastern Illinois is an urban university, the majority of the student population were urban minorities who commuted to school and work to get a college education in Chicago.

Many of the students were Spanish-speaking people who had just arrived from Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean or Spain and needed to enroll in college courses to learn English and get a college degree or validate their college transcripts from their former countries in the United States.

Since these students spoke Spanish only at the beginning at UNI, whenever they went to the Financial Aid Office, they required an explanation in Spanish of all the financial aid requirements to apply for the Pell Basic Grant, the Illinois State Scholarship and/or student loans. When I was not completing Veterans’ Scholarship forms, totaling veterans’ points for scholarship after military service, typing award letters and post cards for the veterans, filing, and/or managing awards letters or denials for other scholarship funds, I would be asked to work at the front desk informing students and answering the telephone in English and Spanish.
If a Spanish-speaking student was interviewed by a financial aid counselor who only spoke English, sometimes I would be called to interpret from English into Spanish. In so doing, I enjoyed the rapport and the language interaction with my fellow students and fulfilled my responsibility to the community by helping Spanish speakers become mainstreamed into the English-speaking community at Northeastern Illinois University and in Chicago, as I had been during my high school years where I only spoke English and French, in a Catholic parochial school, Madonna High School on the Northwest side of Chicago.

After completing my core curriculum for my Bachelor’s Degree, I decided to focus on double majors in Education to teach languages like English, French, and Spanish, Writing, and minor in Linguistics and Athletics. Having had four years of English and French in high school, I was accelerated into more advanced courses in these two disciplines, so I completed my major requirements early enough that I could regain my usage of the Spanish language through specialized coursework for bilingual Spanish speakers. As I became more proficient in my colloquial use of the Spanish language for bilingual speakers in the Chicago area of the Midwest, I interacted between English and French easily, thus I became multilingual. I graduated from Northeastern Illinois University after five years of study with a B.A. in Secondary Education, Type (09) Illinois State Teaching Certificate, English, French, Spanish, and minors in Linguistics, Writing, and Athletics.

It was through one of my friends, Maureen, that I started doing translation work and language instruction at Translingual International. I also taught at Berlitz Language Schools in Downtown Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Later on, I began to interpret at the Illinois Industrial Commission through Accurate Translations for workers’ compensation arbitration hearings for Spanish-speaking employees who had been injured by work-related accidents.

The last two years of college, I was referred and recommended by my French teacher and her physician friend, for a summer job working for an European travel insurance company, GESA Assistance, S.A., based in Barcelona, Spain, with branches in the U.S., Belgium, France, United Kindgom, Germany, Italy, Portugal, some Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Japan, Australia, Mexico, the Caribbean, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Africa. I was hired part-time as a travel insurance representative to assist European travelers with medical-related and other insurance claims, while traveling in the Americas and around the world.

All GESA personnel spoke English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Catalan, Portuguese, Japanese. Most of these travel medical insurance claims were handled through telephone interpreting, facsimile, and designated agents and physicians in the corresponding countries. Assistance was provided on a 24-hour basis and full medical claims reports were written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and any other required language to be passed on via facsimile or by telephone relay to the insurer’s country of origin. Many times I was required to provide emergency medical assistance on world-time, that is to say, observing European time, 8-10 hours ahead of U.S. time, contacting Doctors-on-Call or Physicians Without Borders to effect repatriations, emergency hospitalizations, and/or contact attorneys for legal interventions.  During these emergency situations, I developed a quick way to contact medical personnel and/or legal assistance through a zip code grid identifying the area where the insured called by zeroing in on the address zip code to quickly locate assistance on call, at the last minute. This approach was later on used to organize the U.S. GESA Assistance response to the emergency calls from the insured travelers around the world.

Although this part-time job was not well remunerated, I enjoyed working with foreign nationals who traveled world-wide, interpreting and translating for their claims over the telephone, and using multilingual and cultural skills in an international U.S. and European company. I felt I was a community interpreter as I became an essential link between the insured traveler and the GESA Assistance network around the world.

In the past, I have also worked with a federal agency in Virginia, as a community interpreter assigned to federal investigative work under strict confidentiality. In addition, I have done extensive legal interpreting for workmen’s compensation at the Industrial Commission in Chicago; as well as in the Illinois judicial system in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Will, and LaSalle counties. While doing graduate work for communications at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, I was a also a volunteer community interpreter at the Emergency Room for elderly Spanish and English-speaking patients for a study sponsored by the Gerontological Society of America.

Having worked for the U.S. Department of Labor as a medical claims examiner, and as an insurance customer agent for travelers, also provided excellent background for medical interpreting experience to teach Medical Spanish at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.

So, I have become an incidental community interpreter, in addition to being an educator in Illinois, as I fine-tuned my language skills in English, Spanish, French, and later studied basic Portuguese and Japanese in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

As a community interpreter I feel that I am able to help people using languages to communicate better and assimilate in the community where they live for the benefit of all involved, you, me, and the community. Thus languages are not only used to express our thoughts, ideas, and emotions, but also become working tools for communicating the needs of the community within cultural contexts in the 21st century.

“Frequently Asked Questions about Interpreting” by G.C. Hung, M.A., B.A.,  http://www.americantranslators.org/divisions/FLD/fldfaqs.htm
TIP Lab Seminar for Interpretation and Translation by Holly Mikkelson, Ph.D.

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A Perfect Crime Committed by the Lombard Police and Fire Department

The Lombard Police and Fire Department have been responsible for the crimes committed at the Estate of Roberto Hung and Family while the Lombard resident homeowners were at work, travelling, or out-of-town in DuPage County, Illinois, out-of-state or abroad. Consequently, the Village of Lombard has the obligation to compensate and pay the Hung Family for all the damages and losses to the Estate of Roberto Hung and Family in Illinois, USA. The Hung Family members have been Lombard resident homeowners at 502 S. Westmore Avenue and Washington Blvd. in DuPage County. The Hung Family has purchased two (2) Lombard homes during 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 in York Township, Illinois, USA.

For the last nineteen years, the Family of Mr. Roberto Hung, resident Lombard homeowners and U.S. citizens at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Blvd. have been Victims of Heinous Hate Crime Caused by the Village of Lombard and DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America because they purchased two (2) Lombard Real Estate properties and paid cash for their homes, near St. Pius X Catholic Church and School at 1025 East Madison St. and Westmore-Meyers Road in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America.

THE VILLAGE OF LOMBARD HAS TO PAY THE HUNG FAMILY FOR DAMAGES AND LOSSES TO THE ESTATE OF ROBERTO HUNG AND FAMILY MEMBERS ABUSED AS VICTIMS OF CRIMES SET UP BY THE LOMBARD POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT IN DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS USA.Consulting Media Arts Communications©2012 Gardenia Hung.

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1993-2008 DAMAGES AND LOSSES AT THE HUNG FAMILY REAL ESTATE AT

502 SOUTH WESTMORE-MEYERS ROAD, LOMBARD, DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS 60148-3028

OVERVIEW REPORT BY GARDENIA C. HUNG, M.A.

DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR. ROBERTO HUNG, J.D.

I. BRICK BUNGALOW HOUSE WITH 3-LEVELS: 1ST FLOOR, 2ND FLOOR, BASEMENT, GARAGE

A. FIRST FLOOR.- FOYER/LOBBY FRONT.- DAMAGED DOOR LOCK,SHUT

1. CEILING PANELS STAINED, CRACKED

2. GLASS WINDOW PANES, 6TH WINDOW SOUTH, CRACKED GLASS

8TH WINDOW SOUTH, CRACKED GLASS

3. DOOR BELL IS BROKEN

4. DOOR KNOB IS BROKEN, FORCED

5. DOOR PANEL, STAINED BY FORCED ENTRY

6. DOOR LOCK/KNOB IS BROKEN, FORCED

7. FRONT STEPS, CHIPPED CONCRETE

8. BRICK BASE NEEDS TUCKPOINTING

B. LIVING ROOM.- 25-GALLON AQUARIUM, DEAD FISH, POISONED CLOROX

1. FLOOR-DRILLED HOLE BY UNAUTHORIZED CABLE CONTRACTOR

2. SOUTH WALL SEEPAGE, PEELING PAINT, CRACKED WALLS

3. SOUTH WALL DAMAGE TO ELECTRICAL WIRING SYSTEM

4. CEILING CRACKED PEELING PAINT CAUSED BY WEATHER EXPOSURE, MOISTURE, WINTERSTORMS

C. DINING ROOM

1. CEILING BULGING TILES, FALLING TILES ON THE WEST CORNER

2. WINDOW GLASS BULLET HOLE, UPPER LEFT GLASS PANE, CRACKED

GLASS WINDOW PANE

3. CARPETING.- WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGE

D. MASTER BEDROOM

1. COLLAPSED CEILING OVER TEAK QUEEN-SIZE BEDROOM SET, VANITY

(2) CHEST OF DRAWERS, (2) NIGHT STAND TABLES, (2) LAMPS

2. WALLS DAMAGED BY MOLD, MILDEW, WATER SEEPAGE

3. CARPETING WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGED

E. CORRIDOR

1. FLOOR WARPED WOODEN PLANKS TO BE REPLACED

2. CARPETING WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGED

3. CEILING GYPSUM COLLAPSED, CRACKED

4. ELECTRICAL WIRING SYSTEM DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE

F. BATHROOM

1. CEILING COLLAPSED WHEN PLUMPING PIPES AND FIXTURES BURST

DUE TO EXCESSIVE WATER PRESSURE UNGAUGED BY THE LOMBARD

WATER DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS

2. CEILING WOODEN STRUCTURE DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE

3. PLUMBING PIPES AND FIXTURES DAMAGED

G. GUEST BEDROOM (SOUTHWEST FACING BACKYARD) STUDY

1. CLOSET IS DAMAGED BY PLUMBING PIPES BURSTING DUE TO

UNGAUGED WATER PRESSURE

2. WATER SEEPAGE IN CLOSET ACCESS TO PLUMBING PIPES SHARED BY

THE BATHROOM AND THE BASEMENT LEVELS.

G. STOLEN CLOTHING, BOOKS, FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FILES BELONGING TO GARDENIA C. HUNG

H. KITCHEN

1. SINK PLUMBING PIPES ARE TURNED OFF

2. FLOOR TILES ARE CRACKED, WATER-LOGGED, TO BE REPLACED

3. CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

4. REFRIGERATOR IS DAMAGED

5. DISHWATER IS DAMAGED

6. DISHES ARE BROKEN

I. BASEMENT

1. PLUMBING PIPES BURST DUE TO UNGAUGED WATER PRESSURE

2. COLLAPSED CEILING, CRACKED, EXPOSED PIPES, MOLD, MILDEW

3. WATER SEEPAGE, HUMIDITY, MOLD, MILDEW

4. WALLS CRACKED, PEELING PAINT

5. GLASS VENTS CLOSED/OPEN SCREENS BROKEN, TO BE REPLACED

6. (2) REFRIGERATORS DAMAGED – VERTICAL UPRIGHT/HALF FRIDGE

7. POOL TABLE GREEN MAT IS DAMAGED

8. BAR DAMAGED DUE TO COLLAPSED CEILING, MOLD, MILDEW

9. WASHING MACHINE IS DAMAGED

10. HEATING FURNACE SYSTEM/AIR CONDITIONING IS DAMAGED

11. STORAGE ROOM, BOOK SHELVES, STOLEN BOOKS BY INTRUDERS

12. STORAGE ROOM INSULATION TO BE REPLACED, FINISHED

13. LAUNDRY ROOM, CEILING FIXTURE PANEL CRACKED, BROKEN

14. CEILING PANEL PULLED DOWN

15. WALL PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

J. BACK PORCH.- INTRUDERS USED A HEAT TORCH ON PAINT BEHIND DOOR
CRACKED WOODEN BEAM BY THE WINDOW

1. CEILING LEAKAGE ON RAINY DAYS

2. LIGHT FIXTURE AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEM IS WATER DAMAGED

3. DOOR BELL IS BROKEN, FORCED, PULLED OUT BY INTRUDERS

4. DOOR BELL WIRING IS PULLED OUT

5. DOOR SCREEN IS DAMAGED, INSIDE, OUTSIDE, TORN OFF FROM HINGES, DROPPED OFF, TO BE REPLACED

6. PORCH DOOR IS DAMAGED, CRACKED PAINT, PEELING TO BE REPLACED

7. GLASS DOOR KNOBS DAMAGES TO BE REPLACED

II. SECOND FLOOR

1. STAIRS, STEPS.- WOODEN, WATER STAINED, GLASS DOOR KNOB IS

DAMAGED, BROKEN

2. WALLS, CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

3. STORAGE ROOM INSULATION IS DAMAGED BY INTRUDERS TO BE

REPLACED AND REFINISHED

A. STUDY/HALF BEDROOM

1. PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

2. DAMAGED TO PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER PC EQUIPMENT, STOLEN

CD-ROM DRIVE. STOLEN DOCUMENTS FROM MR. ROBERTO HUNG

B. BEDROOM

1. CLOSED IS DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE, MOLD, MILDEW,

CRACKED WALL

2. CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE CRACKED AND BROKEN GLASS OVER BED

C. KITCHEN

1. CEILING CRACKED AND PAINT PEELING CAUSED BY HEAT TORCH USED BY INTRUDERS, TRESPASSERS AND UNAUTHORIZED ENTRIES

D. PANTRY, TO BE RESTORED, REMODELED, REPAINTED, REFINISHED

1. PANTRY CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING, MOLD, MILDEW

2. PANTRY STORAGE DOOR CRACKED, MOLD, MILDEW, REPLACE

E. BATHROOM, PLUMBING PIPE FIXTURES BURST FROM 2ND TO 1ST FLOOR

PAINT CRACKED, PEELING, TO BE RESTORED, REMODELED, REDONE

F. LIVING ROOM FURNITURE STAINED AND DAMAGED

1. CEILING CRACKING, FISSURE UNDER ROOFING STRESS

2. WALL RETAIN HUMIDITY, MOLD, MILDEW

III. GARAGE

1. GARAGE DOOR OPENER IS BROKEN, DAMAGED, SEARS BRAND

2. REPLACE GARAGE DOOR

3. LAWN MOWER IS DAMAGED, BROKEN POWER STRING

4. ALUMINUM SIDING POST (LEFT) IS CRACKED, BROKEN

5. WOODEN-FRAME STRUCTURE IS DAMAGED BY HUMIDITY

6. CONDUIT FOR ELECTRICAL WIRING WAS PULLED DOWN

7. DAMAGE TO NINE (9) MOTORIZED AUTO VEHICLES, CARS, SUV, MOTORCYCLE, LAWN MOWER, ETC.

8. NEW ROOFING FOR GARAGE TO MATCH THE HOUSE IN AGED REDWOOD SHINGLES

IV. BACKYARD

1. ROOFING DAMAGE TO ROOFING SHINGLES, WOODEN STRUCTURE, WIRING, GUTTERS, DUCTWORK

2. T.V. ANTENNA FOR COMMUNICATIONS KNOCKED DOWN BY CABLE CONTRACTOR HIRED BY THE VILLAGE OF LOMBARD AND UNAUTHORIZED BY THE HUNG FAMILY OR G.C. HUNG

3. SIDE ROOFING DAMAGE

4. FENCE DAMAGED BY EVA AND JOHN CARPENTER & SONS, AS WELL AS BY INTRUDERS, TRESPASSERS JUMPING THE FENCING POSTS WHICH ARE DAMAGED AND SPLINTERED BY SBC TELEPHONE COMPANY AND OTHER INTRUDERS AND CRIMINALS

5. FENCE POSTS ARE BROKEN, SPLINTERED, KNOCKET OUT, KICKED IN

6. GRASS LAWN TRAMPLED, FLOWER BED BORDERS DAMAGED

LOMBARD DAMAGES & LOSSES TO HUNG FAMILY REAL ESTATE PROPERTY, ASSETS, AUTOMOBILES, MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT, ETC. FROM 1993-2007

MEMO OVERVIEW FROM GARDENIA C. HUNG, M.A.

TYPED ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2006, 10:55:35 AM

A New Year’s Twelve Resolutions

 “Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”–von Goethe

     At Midnight, I remembered to observe and follow the old tradition of the Twelve Grapes which are to be eaten one at a time marking the hours leading to 12:00 o’clock sharp, followed by a sparkling grape juice, sipped slowly while recollecting the year’s end, coming to mind all at once, at the prospect of another one.  The New Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve (2012) marks Anniversaries and Celebrations with Hopes for Peace, Justice, Equity, and Fairness tempered with Love, Joy, Meditation, Reflection, Foresights and Insights into the new millennium.

     While I visited the public library, I came across a quote from Gloria Steinam scripted on the wall:  “The Future Depends Entirely on What Each of Us Does Everyday.”

      In the New Year 2012, I have set out Twelve Resolutions as a Lombard resident homeowner, Illinois Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes in York Township, DuPage County, U.S.A.:

1. To protect my personal Civil Rights and Human Rights in the State of Illinois as a Lombard resident homeowner in District 5.
2. To stop being a Lombard Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes.
3. To investigate the reasons why I have been singled out as a Lombard resident homeowner for Abuse of Civil Rights and Human Rights in Housing Under The Law in the Village of Lombard.
4. To identify my Mother who has been sequestered by medical staff, friends, and other relatives for the last six (6) years, since January 12, 2006.
5. To contact Nathan Scott Wittler whom has been estranged since 2001.
6. To uphold the Enforceable Illinois Victims’ Rights Act  under the Constitution.
7. To enforce the Constitution of the State of Illinois, Article I, Bill of Rights, Section 8.1 for Crime Victims’ Rights, Section 12 Right To Remedy and Justice with the National Victims’ Constitutional Amendment  for Illinois Enforceable Victims’ Rights Act.
8. To obtain Compensation and Restitution as a Lombard Resident Homeowner who has become an Illinois Victim of Crimes in District 5, York Township, DuPage County, U.S.A.
9. To set out new personal, professional, and financial goals in the New Year 2012 with high hopes for the future.
10. To maintain personal relationships with others, family, relatives, friends, and associates.
11. To keep a healthy diet, balanced nutrition, and daily exercise during the year.
12. To pray for peace, justice, equity, and fairness for myself and all others in 2012.

 

Deicke Home For The Retarded in Lombard, Illinois USA

YORK TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSISTANCE AT THE DEICKE HOME FOR THE RETARDED IN CARE OF BRUCE THOMPSON AND DARLENE COX FOR VOLUNTEER SERVICE BY GARDENIA C. HUNG-WITTLER IN THE VILLAGE OF LOMBARD, 1005 WEST DIVISION STREET, LOMBARD, ILLINOIS 60148

     My name is Gardenia C. Hung-Wittler, Lombard resident homeowner, taxpayer, and U.S. citizen in Du Page County, Illinois, in the United States of America. I have been involved in community service for the York Township Senior Community Center, at 1502 S. Meyers Road in Lombard in care of Diane Arturi, Michael, and Daniel Dragojevich for Senior Transportation Services during 2009 and 2010. The first week of July 2010, Diane Arturi advised that I was being re-assigned to another community service facility on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010. On Thursday, July 2nd, Pam at the Reception Desk provided a handwritten note with Bruce Thompson’s name and telephone number to report at the Deicke Home for the Retarded. http://www.deickehome.org/,  on Tuesday, July 6th, at 9:00 a.m. at 1005 West Division Street, Lombard, Illinois  60148.

     When I arrived, I met Bruce Thompson and Sherry who was waiting by the lobby door. Bruce Thompson invited to sit in his office and complete the Deicke Home for the Retarded Volunteer Form. During the Volunteer Service Interview, I mentioned to Bruce Thompson that I had been a volunteer at the Deicke Home for the Retarded before on behalf of the Wheaton Friends of the Court Program for John Gar and Peter, court wards, sponsored by Judge Robert E. Byrne and Judge Mehling formerly at the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court, 505 North County Farm Road, at the Du Page County Government Center—during our conversation, I mentioned that I remembered when Peter Fantuzzi was there as the former director of the Deicke Home of the Retarded in Lombard. I told Bruce Thompson that I have been a certified Illinois teacher and faculty at the College of Du Page in Glen Ellyn and Lombard, Illinois. Bruce Thompson provided a copy of the July 2010 Calendar for Activities at the Deicke Home for the Retarded, so that I could select which two (2) days of the week I would visit the Deicke Home for community assistance. I chose to provide community volunteer assistance on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the Deicke Home of the Retarded residents in Lombard, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Thereafter, I have arrived at 8:00 a.m. and sometimes have stayed for activities in the afternoon until 4:30 p.m. or after 3:00 p.m. For the record, I have provided volunteer community assistance at the Deicke Home for the Retarded with laundry folding and bed-dressing for Denise, Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club shopping, outdoor recreational activities, lunch assistance for preparation and serving set-up, pantry cleaning, Sam’s Club Grocery Shopping Day Loading and Unloading, Lake View Nature Center in Oakbrook Terrace, Spirit of Chicago Luncheon Yacht Cruise, Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn, Helen M. Plum Library Scarecrow Crafts Day, Sonny Acres Farm in West Chicago, Sewing and Designing Crafts for Marilyn, etc.

     Afterwards, Bruce Thompson introduced me to Darlene Cox, I told her that I had been there before for the Wheaton Friends of the Court when Peter Fantuzzi had been the director of the Deicke Home for the Retarded. Some of the Deicke Home residents met me and remembered that I had visited them some years ago.

     On Tuesday morning, I was also introduced to Linda Hallenstein and Joyce, the other two staff members along with Crystal, the secretary. First, I was assigned to assist with the Vegetable Garden and the existing weeds around the tomatoes, peppers, Brussel sprouts, cabbages, and zucchini. Then, Linda invited me to play Billiards Pool in the basement—since I had had a billiards pool table at home, I was familiar with playing pool as an amateur. Then, we went upstairs to help set up lunch and the tables, along with the preparation of the lunch meal for serving to the Deicke Home residents.

During the weekly visits for community assistance on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I helped the Deicke Home residents shopping at Wal-Mart and with the groceries loading and unloading from Sam’s Club to the Deicke Home’s kitchen in Lombard.

Also, during the summertime, Linda Hallenstein planned outdoor activities at the Lake View Nature Center on Wild Wednesdays with Story Time in Oakbrook Terrace.

www.vimeo.com/13416253  A Story Time at the Lake View Nature Center

www.vimeo.com/13363343  A Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly on Wild Wednesday

     The first week of September 2010, the Deicke Home residents with Maryann, Joyce, Linda, and Adelle, a senior citizen community volunteer, planned a Lake Michigan yacht cruise with luncheon aboard the Spirit of Chicago organized by Tiffany Weinstein on Tuesday. When I arrived early on Tuesday morning, Bruce Thompson told me that I did not have to stay that day because the Deicke Home resident were going on the Spirit of Chicago Luncheon Cruise at a cost of $36.03 per person paid for them, but he would not pay for me to attend as a volunteer, only for the others. I was rather disappointed that Bruce Thompson would not pay for me as a community volunteer, when I had been providing community assistance every Tuesday and Wednesday, even before… So, I paid for my Spirit of Chicago Cruise ticket by mail, after Bruce Thompson made a telephone and Email reservation for me with Tiffany Weinstein.

     Sometimes, I was assigned to do outdoor detail for picking up twigs and weeds with Marilyn around the front yard, up to corner and all around the Deicke Home, including the indoor walking courtyard and track. Another time, I had to help checking out the glass storm windows and screens which had popped out overnight, all around the Deicke Home.

     During October and November 2010, Marilyn Francik asked me to help her with her Sewing and Mending clothes, as well as some Sewing Projects which Nancy who had left, did not complete for her—such as the Bunny Remote Control Holder and her Memorabilia Pillow with the pink satin recyclable fabric they had left for remnants. In addition, I gave Marilyn several new Thanksgiving fabric material for her holiday gifts for her guardian Stephan, her cousin Evelyn, and also for Adelle, the senior volunteer driver.  I was designing and sewing for Marilyn’s holiday gifts of fabric, as well as for her own sewing needs.  I helped Marilyn with her Pink Satin Memorabilia Pillow, the Bunny Remote Control Holder, Guardian Stephan’s Clown Placemat, Cousin Evelyn’s Thanksgiving Table Runner and Adelle’s Holiday Table Runner.