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opprairie.com news The orland park prairie | March 9, 2017 | 11 FROM THE NEW LENOX PATRIOT Humanitarian efforts lead dental family to Honduras Every year in May, Dr. Shane Sudman and his wife, Sara, of Atrium Family Dental in New Lenox, host a free dental care event for the community. Now, they are paying it forward more than 1,800 miles from their Frankfort home. The couple traveled to Honduras Saturday, March 4, with a group of other medical specialists and volunteers for a weeklong mission trip. It is a journey that hits home for Sara, who was born and raised in Honduras until she was 5 years old, before her family moved to the United States. It will be her first trip back to her home country since she moved. “I think it’s a very neat journey for Shane and I to go on, because he gets to know where I’m from, and most importantly apply what he loves to do the most,” Sara said. From the moment she found out about the trip through the Illinois State Dental Society, she said “I just knew we had to do it.” Sara is to serve as a translator and a second pair of hands to the doctors. Shane will be seeing a minimum 20 patients a day, applying fillings or removing teeth that are not salvageable. “I enjoy what I do,” Shane said. “I’ve always wanted to [be a dentist]. Ever since I was 12, I told my mom that was what I was going to be. So, if someone’s in pain or someone’s got an infection, because people can die from teeth infections ... to help them, that’ll be so rewarding for me.” Reporting by James Sanchez, Editor. For more, visit NewLenoxPatriot.com. FROM THE LOCKPORT LEGEND Lockport Township High School set for St. Baldrick’s Lockport Township High School is to host its annual St. Baldrick’s Foundation event at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 16, at its Central Campus, 1222 S. Jefferson St. in Lockport. The Porters are keeping with tradition, opening the night with a Special Olympics basketball game. After the game, hairstylists from the Lockport-based Studio 305 salon are slated to bust out the buzzers for those willing to bravely shave their heads. LTHS math teacher and event organizer Ryan Visser said the school’s annual fundraising goal is $10,000, but he is hoping to surpass it, as they have in past years. “We kind of fluctuate; we’re always over that $10,000,” he said. “Our highest year, we’ve gotten up in $25,000. Last year, we were right around $13,000-14,000. It’s a pretty impactful event for the students.” In addition to the St. Baldrick’s event and the school held a fundraiser at Pop’s Italian Beef & Sausage, teachers are partnering up to scoop ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery Wednesday, March 15, to raise money to combat childhood cancer. “I really enjoy the support we get from the different athletics, activities and just the student body as a whole, as well as the shaving of the heads,” Visser said. “I think cancer is something that every student has [come in contact with] or will come in contact with. It’s especially important for us to do our part with all that.” All are welcome to join the Porters for their annual headshaving event. To register, visit www. stbaldricks.org/events/ mypage/7678/2017. Reporting by Erin Redmond, Assistant Editor. For more, visit LockportLegend.com. FROM THE HOMER HORIZON Petite Porter Preschool provides teaching experience for LTHS students Inside the halls of Lockport Township High School lies a school within a school. To an outsider, the bright classroom — decorated with multicolored handprints and stockpiled with toys — may seem out of place. But it is actually the home of future LTHS students and is known as the Petite Porter Preschool. The preschool is a program run by College and Career Applications teacher Regan Cronholm. She leads a class of LTHS students who for six weeks assume the roles of preschool teachers. Under Cronholm’s supervision, they plan lessons on an array of subjects suitable for their students ages 2-5. The pint-sized Porters are given 10-minute lessons on everything from music to science, all of which are planned by the high school’s teachers. On Thursday, March 2, the preschoolers were learning about colors. Their LTHS student-teachers arranged Skittles on a plate and asked the preschoolers what they thought would happen if they poured water over them. “They’re going to change colors and magic themselves,” 3-year-old Devin Price answered zealously. And he was right. The preschoolers watched with wide eyes and gasped as the colors melted off the Skittles, forming a rainbow in the water. This, Cronholm said, is just one example of the creativity her student-teachers are showing this year. “I just monitor and make sure everything is going OK; they do all the planning, all the preparation for their lessons,” Cronholm said. Reporting by Erin Redmond, Assistant Editor. For more, visit HomerHorizon.com. FROM THE TINLEY JUNCTION TPHS senior to join United States Naval Academy When Tinley Park High School senior Justin Morgan received his acceptance letter into the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, the news that he had been part of the institution’s 9 percent acceptance rate did not feel real. The application process — on which Morgan had been working for over a year — ended with a selection into one of the most prestigious military academies for young men and women in the United States. “At first it was more of a dream,” Morgan said of his aspirations to attend the academy. “But after each part of the application was completed, I was starting to think to myself, ‘Hey, my numbers are kind of good. I have a chance at this.’ “When I got the acceptance, I really didn’t know what to do with myself. I had spent the last year applying for this, and when it came I just immediately thought, ‘What’s next?’” After a yearlong, grueling application process that required him to pass a fitness test, group panel interviews and receive a nomination from a congressman or senator, Morgan was selected to be a part of the Class of 2021. Out of 17,000 applicants, only 1,200 candidates were chosen. His acceptance makes him the first Tinley Park student to be accepted into the program — and the third in the Village of Tinley Park’s history. “Thinking about how many people have come through Tinley Park High School and Tinley Park in general, and for me to be the first person to do this is amazing,” Morgan said. “I am a mixture of excited and nervous. There is a lot ahead of me, and I am so excited to get started.” Reporting by Ryan Esguerra, Freelance Reporter. For more, visit TinleyJunction.com. FROM THE MOKENA MESSENGER Wife, colleagues reflect on life of former Lincoln-Way teacher, coach James R. High, 77, formerly a math teacher at Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 for 37 years and coach for 35 years, died Feb. 14. He will remembered for inspiring countless former students, athletes and teachers. Sharon High, James’ wife of nearly 55 years, said the two were high school sweethearts, growing up in Momence. James was two years older than her, and he went to Illinois State University for college. When he graduated in spring 1964, they were married months later in August. Shortly thereafter, he started at Lincoln-Way for the 1964-1965 school year. Sharon said James began as a freshman coach for basketball and baseball. “He really liked that, because he felt he taught them the basics — that was their foundation,” Sharon recalled. He eventually began coaching basketball and baseball at the varsity level, and he saw early success. In 1965, per a letter from then-Superintendent A. Hunter Chapman, High led the basketball team to a SouthWest Suburban Conference championship. Chapman wrote, “You have provided all of us with basketball at its very best. Being the smallest conference school and jumping from the cellar to the top in one season is a real credit to the tremendous job you have done. You have made all of us so proud of our team and school.” High’s intensity and inspiring nature as a coach was matched only by his passion for teaching. He taught math classes at D210 for 37 years. Reporting by Jon DePaolis, Freelance Reporter. For more, visit MokenaMessenger.com. FROM THE FRANKFORT STATION Frankfort Library’s Fan Fest lets comic fans geek out Fan Fest at the Frankfort Public Library will feature activities, crafts and art for superhero and board game fans, as well as everything in between, starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 18. For Adult Services Librarian Lisa Moe Meierkort, it is a way to bring some of the excitement of large-scale conventions like Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo to the library. “Obviously ours is on a much smaller scale, but I really wanted to try to get all of those aspects in.” The day will kick off with Artist’s Alley, featuring Chicago-area artists, as well as one local Frankfort artist, Doug Klauba, known for his work on the covers of “The Phantom” and “Project Superpowers” comic books. Three speakers are slated to discuss “Fear and the Origins of the Marvel Superheroes,” ”Wondrous Women: Highlighting Great Women in Comics” and, “Superheroes: the History of the Outsiders.” Of course, no fan convention would be complete without a costume contest. So, the library is to end the day with a parade and contest, beginning at 3:30 p.m. Reporting by Amanda Stoll, Freelance Reporter. For more, visit FrankfortStation.com.
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