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8 | August 24, 2017 | The lake forest leader NEWS
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Mocha-chan
The Sorkin family, Lake
Forest
Mocha-chan is a 13-yearold,
8 pound, Japanese
‘Tiny Toy’ poodle. He was
born in Japan and spent
his first four years in
Tokyo, before moving to
Boston and then to Lake
Forest. When he plays
with squeaky toys, the sound makes him howl,
as he doesn’t seem to realize that HE is the one
causing the squeaks. Mocha will do most anything
for a treat, but almost nothing without one. He has
his family well trained.
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THE WILMETTE BEACON
Family of murdered
man raise mental illness
awareness
The Nelson family, of
Wilmette, has suffered unimaginable
pain due to the
tragic and untimely death
of their son, Grant, who
died over the Memorial
Day weekend while working
as an Uber rideshare
driver.
Despite their grief,
however, they stand committed
to stamping out the
stigma associated with
mental illness, while advocating
for the safety of
rideshare drivers everywhere.
The Nelson family
gathered with friends at
the Runner’s Edge Monday,
Aug. 14 in Wilmette’s
Plaza Del Lago
to promote the upcoming
National Alliance on
Mental Illness of Cook
County North Suburban
Walk/Run. The event is
scheduled for Sept. 24
at Clark Street Beach in
Evanston.
Grant Nelson, 34, a
graduate of New Trier
High School, was fatally
attacked in May in Lincolnwood.
He picked up
a rider in the early morning
hours of May 30 a few
blocks from a Walmart in
Skokie and, minutes into
the ride, near the corner
of Touhy and Lincoln avenues
in Lincolnwood, the
rider began stabbing him.
He eventually succumbed
to his injuries.
Tina Nelson, Grant’s
mother, has been involved
with NAMI since 1998,
when she first sought help
for one of her own family
members. The support,
compassion, education
and friendship she found
at NAMI motivated her to
not only become a board
member, but a facilitator
of programs as well.
“There is hope for those
afflicted with mental illness,”
she said.
Reporting by Alexa Burnell,
Freelance Reporter. Full story
at WilmetteBeacon.com.
THE GLENVIEW LANTERN
Holocaust survivor
celebrates 100th birthday
at retirement home
Frederika Halski smiled
broadly as she clutched a
bouquet of flowers presented
to her by Vi at the
Glen in celebration of her
100th birthday on Aug.
10.
It was a smile reflective
of a comfortable adult life
as a loving wife, mother of
two, grandmother of four
and great-grandmother
of three. That happiness
has extended to her life at
Vi for the past 13 years,
where until a recent fall
she enjoyed line dancing,
art classes, playing games
and the company of many
friends.
Frederika was also “incredibly
emotionally resilient,”
said her daughter
Joyce Frank, and it was a
resilience earned the hard
way, as her smile masked
an unspeakable darkness.
Her parents, their siblings
and roughly 200 members
of her extended family
were killed in Poland by
the Germans during the
Holocaust. She escaped
death by hiding with others
for 22 months in the
crawl space of a home, and
coming out only at night
to eat whatever scraps of
food kind neighbors could
share with them.
Joyce, her sister Alma
and other family members
were told pieces of her
harrowing story over the
years, but Frederika preferred
to downplay it.
“She would talk about
it if you asked her,” Joyce
said. “I wouldn’t say she
was haunted by it, but it
was extremely painful.”
Reporting by Alan P. Henry,
Freelance Reporter. Full
story at GlenviewLantern.
com.
THE GLENCOE ANCHOR
Water plant intake pipe
cleaning closes beach this
week
An excessive build-up
of sand and sediment will
be cleaned out of Glencoe’s
Water Plant intake
pipe and the Glencoe
Beach will be tentatively
closed from Monday-
Thursday, Aug. 21-24.
The Village approved
a $250,000 contract with
Northern Divers USA,
Inc. of Spring Grove, to
begin this process, which
started Monday.
The cleaning will require
the use of seven
diesel engine pumps operating
continuously over
a period of several days
to flush out the sand and
sediment. These pumps
will be located on Glencoe
Beach just south of
the Glencoe Water Plant,
according to a Village
press release.
For the safety of residents
and Glencoe Beach
patrons, the water will
be closed during the pipe
cleaning due to the dangerous
undercurrent that
the pumps will create in
the work zone near the
beach. No swimming,
sailing or kayaking near
Glencoe Beach will be
permitted.
During the week of July
31, a biennial inspection
of the Village of Glencoe’s
24-inch water intake
pipe, which extends 3,300
feet into Lake Michigan,
revealed a heavy buildup,
Public Works Director
David Mau said. The pipe
is the primary source of
water to the Glencoe Water
Plant.
“The inspection is a
regular maintenance project,”
Mau said. “Anytime
they find this, usually in
the intake cones, they can
clean it out themselves
and flush it out at the end
of the pipe. This year, they
noted they were seeing
more material further into
the pipe.
“Water levels and the
rising and falling of the
lake level creates different
movement of sand
along lakefront. A number
of factors happen and it
churns up the water and
sentiment, which can enter
the pipe.”
Reporting by Megan Bernard,
Contributing Editor.
Full story at GlencoeAnchor.
com.
THE NORTHBROOK TOWER
Strong opposition to
Northbrook assisted living
proposal continues
Indications are that the
proposed Heritage Woods
assisted living facility
at Techny and Shermer
Road will be voted down
when the Northbrook Plan
Commission reconvenes
on Sept. 5.
A standing room only
crowd that spilled over
into an adjacent room
with a television monitor
came to Village Hall on
Aug. 15. The meeting was
the second hearing on the
proposal that was introduced
in December and
again there was an angry
outcry from residents of
the neighborhood.
Plan Commission members
intend to vote no after
a resolution to approve
the 105-unit facility is
drafted and presented at
the Sept. 5 meeting.
Reporting by Neil Milbert,
Freelance Reporter, Full story
at Northbrooktower.com