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LakeForestLeader.com sound off<br />
the lake forest leader | January 12, 2017 | 15<br />
Social snapshot<br />
Top Stories<br />
From LakeForestLeader.com as of, Jan.<br />
9<br />
1. Girls Basketball: Scouts lose<br />
Summerville in win over Giants<br />
2. Top web sports stories of 2016<br />
3. Cartoon illustration takes the win for<br />
Holiday Card Contest<br />
4. Year in Review 2016: Gorton<br />
Community Center continues to bring<br />
fun events to the community<br />
5. Semi-truck trailer fire causes $250K in<br />
damages<br />
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From the Editor<br />
Set a resolution you can keep<br />
Alyssa Groh<br />
alyssa@lakeforestleader.com<br />
Every year we get<br />
the chance to set a<br />
resolution for the<br />
year of something we will<br />
stop doing or something<br />
we will accomplish. Some<br />
people are able to stick<br />
with them and achieve<br />
their goal and many of us<br />
fail at meeting our goal.<br />
I can remember every<br />
resolution I have ever set<br />
and have not achieved it<br />
year after year.<br />
The closest I have ever<br />
come to meeting a New<br />
Year’s resolution was last<br />
year. My entire life I have<br />
been addicted to pop.<br />
Last year I began thinking<br />
about how terrible my<br />
pop intake was for me. So<br />
I decided to stop drinking<br />
pop cold turkey on New<br />
Years Day, 2016.<br />
I was surprised I had<br />
made it four months.<br />
This year I started to<br />
think of what resolution I<br />
could make for myself and<br />
was having a hard time<br />
coming up with something<br />
I felt I could achieve and<br />
something I truly wanted<br />
to do.<br />
As I put more thought<br />
into and thought about<br />
what resolutions are, I<br />
realized maybe we should<br />
all be approaching resolutions<br />
differently than we<br />
are. Everyone thinks resolutions<br />
have to be something<br />
you have to change<br />
in your everyday life.<br />
Why can’t we set a goal to<br />
do something by the end<br />
of the year? Something<br />
that is more attainable.<br />
So I began to think of<br />
things I really want to do<br />
this year. Go on vacations,<br />
buy a material item I have<br />
been wanting for a long<br />
time. But then I started<br />
to think how does that<br />
make be a better person or<br />
impact other people in a<br />
positive way?<br />
Then it hit me. I have<br />
always said I want to volunteer<br />
abroad. This year<br />
one of my first stories as<br />
Editor of The Lake Forest<br />
Leader was about eighth<br />
graders at Deer Path<br />
Middle School who set<br />
a goal to give back 2017<br />
hours of community service<br />
as a class. After that<br />
story I wrote an editorial<br />
about how we, adults, can<br />
learn from them. I urged<br />
residents, and myself, to<br />
find a few ways to give<br />
back no matter how busy<br />
we may be.<br />
So, this year, I have<br />
decided as part of my<br />
New Year’s resolution I<br />
will be going abroad to<br />
volunteer wherever I may<br />
be needed.<br />
I have never been one<br />
to accomplish resolutions<br />
before, but I think this is<br />
one I must accomplish.<br />
Gorton Community Center posted this<br />
photo on Jan. 1. Gorton Community Center<br />
posted this photo to wish residents a<br />
Happy New Year.<br />
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Check out The City of Lake Forest<br />
“Today we say good-bye to one of the top<br />
influential leaders in Orange County. The<br />
City of Lake Forest wishes Robert Dunek a<br />
happy retirement” @LakeForestCA.<br />
On Jan. 6 The City of Lake Forest, tweeted<br />
about the retirement of City Manager<br />
Robert Dunek<br />
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An intriguing number from this week’s edition<br />
Woodlands Academy of the Sacred<br />
Heart was named the No. 1 best<br />
Catholic high school in Illinois by<br />
Niche, an independent research<br />
company, Page 12<br />
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