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UP, UP AND AWAY The 58th Chicago Air and Water Show makes some noise this weekend along lakefront. IN TODAY'S WEEKEND SECTION CITY OF CHICAGO Post-Tribune $1.25 Friday, August 19, 2016 I Magician's future still in the cards Diagnosed with Parkinson's, Jim Klodzen still performing sleight-of-hand tricks nothing of it until it wouldn't go away. Test after test resulted in a diagnosis through process of elimination. "I have Parkinson's," he told me. We planned to meet earlier this year, but Klodzen put it off while he reassessed his life, and love of magic, with Parkinson's.

After it sank in, he didn't see it as a mean twist of fate, considering his passion for magic that relies on his hands' dexterity. "It could be worse," he said. "It could be cancer." With that said, he performed a "mind reading" effect using a deck of cards. Klodzen asked Kimberly Wise-rum to Davich, Page 2 Jim Klodzen's sad story has nothing to do with his recent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. Nor does it have anything to do with how he must now perform tricky sleight-of-hand magic with an ever-trembling right hand.

No, Klodzen's sad story took place more than 30 years ago. He can't forget it, hard as he may try. When Klodzen was 21, he was at the top of his game with close-up card tricks. "I was the young hotshot with a deck of cards," he recalled. Klodzen went to a Valparaiso bar to watch an old man perform a few parlor tricks for free drinks from other patrons.

The old man possessed mediocre skills at best, he recalled, but he was well liked and didn't mean any harm. "Can I show you a real card trick?" Klodzen asked with young brazenness. The old man left the bar and never came back, Klodzen recalls. "I hurt his feelings," Klodzen said. "To this day, I still regret showing him up like that." These days, at 54, Klodzen is more humble.

He'd never consider doing something like that again. If anything, he may someday be on the other end of that humbling exchange. Jerry Davich Klodzen's right hand shakes uncontrollably from Parkinson's. However, when he picks up a playing card, his hand stops shaking, as if by magic. As soon as he places it down, his hand starts shaking again.

"As soon as I go back to being myself just a nervous guy I start shaking again," he said with a shrug. Two years ago, while practicing a magic effect, his right index finger kept twitching. He thought JERRY DAVICHPOST-TRIBUNE Jim Klodzen, of Portage, reads through an old book on magic with Kimberly Wiseman, branch manager of the Portage Public Library. Bike patrols help police get out of cars, be part of community, officers say KYLE TE LECH ANPOST-TRIBUNE Indiana University Northwest police Lt. Brandon Campbell stands near his bike before setting off on a bike patrol on Wednesday.

By Becky Jacobs and Michelle L. Quinn Post-Tribune METTLE TO THE PEDALS year provided the weather's amenable. And even he has been known to jump on one of the department's three Trek bikes and join in around the campus in Gary's Glen Park section. "I love being on the bike because I love interacting with the community," James said. "The most important thing for police to remember is that we can't live on an island.

We have to be approachable." Building closer relationships with the community is a major focus for the bicycle units, and people are more likely to start conversations with them than an officer in a car, said Officer Justin Reeder, who man-rum to Bike, Page 4 Crown Point police Officer Travis Thomas remembers his bicycle patrol training a couple of years ago. He was out riding with a fellow officer in a Gary neighborhood when they came upon about 10 teens playing basketball in the street. It's what the officers did next that the teens didn't expect, Thomas said: The officers started playing basketball with them. The best thing about bike patrol is the added benefit of getting face time with residents, according to Indiana University Northwest police Chief Wayne James. He said he assigns two officers to patrol every shift except midnights, when they have less staff as a rule, and he plans to have the officers on the bikes all COUNTDOWN TO FOOTBALL Muslim inmate files lawsuit over prison food HUM Merrillville enters with No.

1 ranking James Kirklen, left, an all-state junior wide receiver who caught 59 passes in 2015, stands as key returnee for Merrillville, which has high hopes for a successful campaign. The Pirates, who'll open the season Friday against Andrean, enter with the No. 1 ranking in the region by Post-Tribune. Sports Religious Freedom Act cited in action against sheriff of Boone County Associated Press LEBANON, Ind. A Muslim inmate is using Indiana's religious freedom statute in part to sue the Boone County Sheriff for denying him a diet that follows Islamic dietary laws.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Gannon Thomas against the Boone County Sheriff's Office over its refusal to serve him a halal diet It accuses the Boone County Jail of violating Thomas' First Amendment rights and his rights under Indiana's Religious Freedom and Restoration Act signed by Gov. Mike Pence last year. The religious freedom law states government entities cannot pose a substantial burden to a person's exercise of religion. Thomas, 27, of Indianapolis, is a practicing Muslim and has objected to being served pork and other meat that was not slaughtered according to Islamic laws, the lawsuit said. He was arrested June 21 on burglary and probation violation charges, but the lawsuit said he objected to the food during previous incarcerations "on a number of occasions since 2010," the complaint said.

After being served pork during his current incarceration he complained and filed a grievance, the lawsuit said. The jail commander told him "the only special diets provided were medical diets, and diets based on choice, 'such as vegan, vegetarian, or were not provided," the lawsuit said. "He continues to be served pork and other meat that he believes is not halal," it said. The lawsuit seeks an injunction against the jail, as well as unspecified damages. KYLE TE LECH ANPOST-TRIBUNE.