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Lake Forest and Lake Bluff’s hometown newspaper LakeForestLeader.com • March 22, 2018 • Vol. 4 No. 6 • $1<br />

A<br />

,LLC<br />

Publication<br />

Slithering fun<br />

Lake Forest Parks<br />

and Recreation<br />

hosts annual Reptile<br />

Rampage, Page 12<br />

New guy in<br />

charge<br />

Lake Forest County Day<br />

School names new head<br />

of school, Page 14<br />

Hundreds of students stood on<br />

the front lawn at Lake Forest<br />

High School during the National<br />

School Walkout at 10 a.m. on<br />

March 14, to honor the 17 lives<br />

that were lost in a mass shooting<br />

in Parkland, Fla. Alyssa Groh/22nd<br />

Century Media.<br />

INSETS ABOVE: Students at<br />

Safe Haven School, in Lake Bluff,<br />

made signs depicting messages<br />

of gun violence. Brittany<br />

kapa/22nd Century Media.<br />

Students from local schools<br />

participate in the National<br />

School Walkout, Pages 3-4<br />

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2 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader calendar<br />

LakeForestLeader.com<br />

In this week’s<br />

LEADER<br />

Pet of the Week6<br />

Police Reports6<br />

Editorial15<br />

Puzzles18<br />

Faith Briefs20<br />

Dining Out23<br />

Home of the Week23<br />

Athlete of the Week27<br />

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THURSDAY<br />

Jutta and the Hi-Dukes<br />

7 p.m. March 22, Lake<br />

Bluff Public Library, 123<br />

E. Scranton Ave., Lake<br />

Bluff. This world music<br />

program includes an<br />

eclectic selection of everything<br />

from medieval<br />

Danish songs to Danubian<br />

grooves to Dixieland<br />

dance tunes. Join the Hi-<br />

Dukes for lively renditions<br />

of authentic European music<br />

performed with a mandolin,<br />

a Bulgarian flute, a<br />

guitar, percussion, and two<br />

singing voices. Audience<br />

members are encouraged<br />

to sing along and dance<br />

to the music. For more information,<br />

call (847) 234-<br />

2540.<br />

Saturday<br />

Easter Eggstravaganza<br />

9:30-11:30 a.m. March<br />

24, Deerpath Middle<br />

School, 95 W. Deerpath<br />

Road, Lake Forest. Enjoy<br />

family fun and entertainment<br />

at the Annual Easter<br />

Eggstravaganza. Easter<br />

Eggstravaganza 2018 will<br />

include entertainment,<br />

games, pictures with<br />

the Easter Bunny and of<br />

course, the exciting egg<br />

hunt. Remember to bring<br />

baskets. For more information,<br />

contact John Eldridge<br />

at (847) 810-3940.<br />

Cosplay for Kids<br />

10:30-11:30 a.m. March<br />

24, Lake Forest Library,<br />

360 E. Deerpath Road,<br />

Lake Forest. Come to the<br />

library dressed as a superhero<br />

character. Walk the<br />

runway, pose for a photo<br />

opportunity, make a magic<br />

wand or mask to protect a<br />

secret identity, and view<br />

movie clips of a character<br />

in action. For more information,<br />

call (847) 234-<br />

0636.<br />

MONDAY<br />

Monday Art Day<br />

9 a.m.-9 p.m. March<br />

26, Lake Forest Library,<br />

360 E. Deerpath Road,<br />

Lake Forest. Express your<br />

creative side with new<br />

hands-on challenges every<br />

month! Make a special<br />

project at the Library<br />

or take one home to complete.<br />

For more information,<br />

call (847) 234-0636.<br />

TUESDAY<br />

Build it Day! Towers of<br />

Fun!<br />

2-3:30 p.m. March 27,<br />

Lake Forest Library, 360<br />

E. Deerpath Road, Lake<br />

Forest. Explore STEM<br />

ideas with straws, paper<br />

tubes, cards, and blocks.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(847) 234-0636.<br />

WEDNESDAY<br />

Beach Party Lunch Brunch<br />

Noon-1 p.m. March 28,<br />

Lake Forest Library, 360<br />

E. Deerpath Road, Lake<br />

Forest. Bring your beach<br />

towel and lunch to the Library<br />

Beach Party. Watch<br />

book-related movies, read<br />

some “hot” books with<br />

us, make a lei, and other<br />

beachy fun. Tropical dessert<br />

provided. Hawaiian<br />

shirts optional, but encouraged!!<br />

For more information,<br />

call (847) 234-0636.<br />

THURSDAY<br />

Game Night<br />

7 p.m. March 29, Lake<br />

Bluff Public Library, 123<br />

E. Scranton Ave., Lake<br />

Bluff. Will you settle your<br />

domain in Settlers of Catan?<br />

Outwit your friends in<br />

Taboo? Or defuse bombs<br />

in Keep Talking and Nobody<br />

Explodes? For more<br />

information, call (847)<br />

234-2540.<br />

Upcoming<br />

“Sweet Home Chicago”<br />

Spring Brunch<br />

11 a.m. April 6, Dickinson<br />

Hall, 100 E. Old Mill<br />

Road, Lake Forest. Begin<br />

the morning at our mimosa<br />

bar, enjoy a delicious<br />

brunch buffet and then sit<br />

back to listen to solo artist<br />

Ivy Ford. At only 24 years<br />

old, this accomplished<br />

blues/soul singer performs<br />

regularly at Buddy Guy’s<br />

Legends, the world premier<br />

blues venue, as well<br />

as festivals and events.<br />

This event is $20 for members<br />

and $30 for guests.<br />

For more information and<br />

to register, call (847) 234-<br />

2209.<br />

Moon Mouse at Gorton<br />

11 a.m. and 3 p.m.<br />

April 8, Gorton Community<br />

Center, 400 E. Illinois<br />

Road, Lake Forest.<br />

Moon Mouse is the story<br />

of Marvin the mouse who<br />

wants to be popular. Constantly<br />

bullied and picked<br />

on by the “cool” mice, he<br />

is labeled as a loser and a<br />

geek. To get away from<br />

the continuous badgering,<br />

he retreats into his science<br />

books and world of fantasy.<br />

He longs to have adventures—to<br />

be the hero.<br />

Each show lasts one hour.<br />

Tickets are $15 each and<br />

can be purchased online at<br />

www.gortoncenter.org.<br />

Ongoing<br />

Social Bridge Play<br />

7-9 p.m. Thursday evenings<br />

at First Presbyterian<br />

Church of Lake Forest,<br />

700 North Sheridan Road.<br />

All levels of play are welcome<br />

for social bridge<br />

play. Beginner class available<br />

also - contact Kimberly<br />

Clair at kimjdclair@<br />

gmail.com for information<br />

on Beginner class.<br />

Early Achievers Enrichment<br />

Program - Science<br />

9:30-10:30 a.m. for 2.5-<br />

4 year olds, and 10:30-<br />

11:30 a.m. for 4-5 year<br />

olds, Thursdays through<br />

April 5, Gorton Community<br />

Center, 400 E. Illinois<br />

Road, Lake Forest.<br />

Through fun, interactive<br />

and challenging group<br />

experiments, little achievers<br />

will be exposed to the<br />

sciences, allowing them<br />

to get a jump start on their<br />

passion for STEM. For<br />

more information, call<br />

(847) 234-6060.<br />

Fit for Life<br />

2 p.m. Mondays and 10<br />

a.m. Thursdays Dickinson<br />

Hall, 100 E. Old Mill<br />

Road, Lake Forest. Join<br />

us for a fabulous mix of<br />

fitness, fun and friendship<br />

in an hour-long class consisting<br />

of cardio dance,<br />

strength training, balance<br />

and stretch. We’ll finish<br />

up the hour with a luxurious<br />

stretch. All fitness<br />

levels welcome. Seven<br />

classes and registration is<br />

required. This event costs<br />

$49 for members and $59<br />

for guests. For more information<br />

and to register, call<br />

(847) 324-2209.<br />

Lake Bluff Women’s Club<br />

Noon- 2 p.m., the second<br />

Tuesday of every<br />

month, Grace Methodist<br />

Church, 244 E. Center<br />

Ave., Lake Bluff. Join this<br />

philanthropic club for a catered<br />

luncheon and entertainment.<br />

Help us to help<br />

others. This club is open to<br />

all ladies. For membership<br />

information, contact Donna<br />

Beer, (847) 295-7108.<br />

Monthly Blood Pressure<br />

Checks<br />

10-11 a.m. on the second<br />

Monday of every month,<br />

Dickinson Hall, 100 E.<br />

Old Mill Road, Lake Forest.<br />

Nurse Patti Mikes will<br />

visit Dickinson Hall to<br />

give free blood pressure<br />

checks to anyone 50 years<br />

old and older. No appointment<br />

needed. For more information,<br />

call (847) 234-<br />

2209.<br />

Toastmasters Club<br />

Noon-1 p.m. first and<br />

third Tuesdays of the<br />

month, Lake Forest Graduate<br />

School of Management,<br />

Correction<br />

In the March 8 issue<br />

of The Lake Forest<br />

Leader, a headline<br />

in our Camp Guide<br />

2 special section<br />

claimed that a soccer<br />

program for special<br />

needs players is the<br />

only one of its kind on<br />

the North Shore. This<br />

is misleading as there<br />

are other programs in<br />

the area that provide<br />

soccer for special<br />

needs players.<br />

The Leader recognizes and<br />

regrets this error<br />

Editor’s Note<br />

The Thursday, March<br />

22 edition of The<br />

Lake Forest Leader<br />

was published before<br />

results were available<br />

for the March 20<br />

Gubernatorial Primary<br />

Election. Stories<br />

related to the election<br />

results are to appear in<br />

print in the Thursday,<br />

March 29 edition of<br />

the paper but can be<br />

viewed online sooner<br />

at LakeForestLeader.<br />

com.<br />

1905 W. Field Drive, Lake<br />

Forest. Toastmasters is an<br />

international organization<br />

that aims to help communication<br />

and leadership<br />

skills for professional and<br />

personal growth with unlimited<br />

potential. This club<br />

is open to all. Visit lfgsm.<br />

toastmastersclubs.org for<br />

more information.<br />

To submit an item for the<br />

community calendar, contact<br />

Editor Alyssa Groh at<br />

alyssa@lakeforestleader.com<br />

or (847) 272-4565 ext. 21.<br />

Entries are due by noon on<br />

the Thursday prior to publication<br />

date.


LakeForestLeader.com NEWS<br />

the lake forest leader | March 22, 2018 | 3<br />

<strong>LF</strong>HS students seek change during National School Walkout<br />

Alyssa Groh, Editor<br />

Hundreds of students<br />

walked out of Lake Forest<br />

High School to participate<br />

in 17 minutes of<br />

solidarity for the 17 lives<br />

that were taken during a<br />

school shooting at Marjory<br />

Stoneman Douglas High<br />

School in Parkland, Fla.,<br />

one month ago.<br />

As part of the National<br />

School Walkout, students<br />

stood on the front lawn of<br />

Lake Forest High School<br />

at 10 a.m. on March 14,<br />

most remaining in silent<br />

solidarity for the full 17<br />

minutes.<br />

Some of the students<br />

made signs about gun violence<br />

and many students<br />

donned the colors of Parkland,<br />

explained Emma<br />

Johnson, a junior at Lake<br />

Forest High School.<br />

For many of the students<br />

at Lake Forest High<br />

School, including Student<br />

Body Vice Present Andrew<br />

Arnson, the school walkout<br />

was mainly about remembering<br />

the lives that were<br />

lost during the mass shooting<br />

in Parkland, while making<br />

a powerful statement<br />

about gun violence.<br />

“It sounds strange to<br />

say, but it would be a wasted<br />

opportunity to be able<br />

to continue the momentum<br />

that the students in<br />

Parkland have been gaining<br />

around the country, in<br />

terms of making change,<br />

and bringing attention to<br />

political issues, not just<br />

about gun violence, but<br />

to remind students everywhere<br />

that they still have<br />

a say in their government,”<br />

Arnson said. “... I think it<br />

is important to not only<br />

remember those who died,<br />

but also to keep talking<br />

about the issue and make<br />

sure it doesn’t get forgotten<br />

about. We need to keep<br />

moving forward, and continue<br />

[seeking] change,<br />

and reminding students<br />

that we have a say in our<br />

political system.”<br />

Johnson said the National<br />

School Walkout was<br />

a great opportunity for her<br />

generation to apply pressure<br />

to the government.<br />

“I think the walkout itself<br />

was a great way for<br />

students to get involved,<br />

especially students who<br />

are a part of a generation<br />

that has unfortunately been<br />

shaped by gun violence,”<br />

Johnson said. “When the<br />

youth has such a strong<br />

voice in a matter — like<br />

gun control or just standing<br />

in solidarity — it really<br />

does put pressure on<br />

our government.”<br />

Both Johnson and Arnson<br />

believe it is important<br />

for students to stay<br />

involved and informed on<br />

political issues.<br />

Arnson hopes after the<br />

National School Walkout<br />

people continue to push<br />

for change and keep the<br />

conversation about gun<br />

violence and other political<br />

issues going.<br />

“What I hope comes out<br />

of [the National School<br />

Walkout] is that people<br />

keep talking about this,<br />

that it is not just a oneday<br />

event,” Arnson said.<br />

“Obviously I don’t want<br />

to have a protest and interrupt<br />

school everyday,<br />

but I want people to keep<br />

talking about political issues.<br />

Personally, for me,<br />

I think it is important that<br />

people stay engaged, keep<br />

trying to be informed and<br />

keep learning about and<br />

see what is important to<br />

them, and test their views<br />

by talking to other people<br />

who have different perspectives<br />

than them.”<br />

After a powerful 17 minutes<br />

of standing outside<br />

on the front lawn, Johnson<br />

said the student body felt<br />

Lake Forest High School students stand on the front lawn of the school on March 14.<br />

Photo courtesy of Andrew Arnson<br />

very mixed about the event.<br />

Some students were<br />

happy with the way the<br />

school handled the walkout,<br />

while others were displeased<br />

with how involved<br />

the school was with the<br />

walkout.<br />

Lake Forest High School<br />

did not organize the event,<br />

nor did they try to stop<br />

any student from exercising<br />

their first amendment<br />

rights, said Superintendent<br />

Mike Simeck. Instead, the<br />

school had increased security<br />

on school grounds<br />

and around Lake Forest.<br />

Students who chose to participate<br />

in the walkout were<br />

Hundreds of <strong>LF</strong>HS students stood in solidarity for 17<br />

minutes during the National School Walkout. Alyssa<br />

Groh/22nd Century Media.<br />

directed to the front lawn,<br />

while those who did not<br />

participate were directed<br />

to the commons area inside<br />

the school.<br />

“Our goal was to ensure<br />

a safe and orderly exit and<br />

reentry to the building. It<br />

was not to try to regulate<br />

the speech of the students<br />

inside or outside of the<br />

building,” Simeck said.<br />

Montessori students walk together<br />

Staff report<br />

The Montessori School<br />

of Lake Forest participated<br />

in the National School<br />

Walkout with their own<br />

twist on March 14.<br />

Many of the older children<br />

at the Montessori<br />

School of Lake Forest<br />

have been expressing concerns<br />

about recent violent<br />

events they have been<br />

learning about from the<br />

news, the school wrote in<br />

an email to The Lake Forest<br />

Leader.<br />

The upper elementary<br />

students organized a<br />

Peace and Safety Walk at<br />

the school’s Laurel Drive<br />

Campus.<br />

Children, teachers and<br />

office staff all participated<br />

in the walk. Participants<br />

gathered around the carpool<br />

circle and sang one of<br />

its Peace Ceremony songs,<br />

“May There Always Be<br />

Sunshine.”<br />

Participants walked<br />

around the campus and<br />

finished around the carpool<br />

circle, where they<br />

sang “Shalom.”<br />

Some of the children<br />

carried signs displaying<br />

messages of peace, kindness<br />

and love.<br />

Children, teachers and office staff at the Montessori School of Lake Forest<br />

participate in Peace and Safety Walk organized by students as part of the National<br />

School Walkout on March 14. PHOTO SUBMITTED


4 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader News<br />

LakeForestLeader.com<br />

School supports Safe Haven students during walkout<br />

Brittany Kapa<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

Students made signs for the walkout depicting<br />

messages about gun violence.<br />

#RisetoSaveLives<br />

Students from Safe Haven<br />

School in Lake Bluff<br />

did just that in conjunction<br />

with the countrywide<br />

National School<br />

Walkout. The hashtag<br />

represented the students<br />

right to peacefully join the<br />

National Walkout movement.<br />

Just one month after<br />

a school shooting in<br />

Parkland, Fla., at Marjory<br />

Stoneman Douglas High<br />

School took the lives of<br />

17 teenagers, schools<br />

and teenagers around the<br />

country walked out at 10<br />

a.m. to advocate for stricter<br />

gun laws. All but nine<br />

students from Safe Haven<br />

School participated in the<br />

walkout March 14.<br />

Safe Haven School, located<br />

at 906 Muir Ave.,<br />

Lake Bluff, is a therapeutic<br />

day school home to students<br />

in grades 5-12 that<br />

face emotional disturbances,<br />

learning disabilities,<br />

autism and other health<br />

impairments, according to<br />

Safe Haven’s website.<br />

A group of roughly 35<br />

students, teachers, parents<br />

and school officials<br />

walked from the school<br />

Please see Walkout, 6<br />

Holly Schaefer (middle), the executive director of Safe Haven School, makes a<br />

speech after the 35-person group returned to the school March 14 after participating<br />

in the National Walkout Day. PHOTOS BY Brittany Kapa/22nd Century Media<br />

Regina walkout promotes just and peaceful community<br />

Lake Forest<br />

student helps<br />

organize walkout<br />

Eric DeGrechie<br />

Managing Editor<br />

For Regina Dominican<br />

students Gillian King, and<br />

Beth Gillespie, sitting idle<br />

following last month’s<br />

mass shooting in Parkland,<br />

Fla., was just not an option.<br />

“I started seeing people<br />

talking about walking<br />

out on social media and<br />

I thought we have to do<br />

this,” Gillespie said. “As<br />

students, we see school<br />

shootings a lot, but what<br />

we see after is inaction and<br />

apathy to the problem. We<br />

as students have to take<br />

this into our own hands or<br />

nothing will get done.”<br />

King, a senior from<br />

Lake Forest, and Gillespie,<br />

a junior from Chicago, led<br />

the planning of Regina’s<br />

participation in the National<br />

School Walkout Day<br />

on March 14, at the school.<br />

The student-driven exercise<br />

began at 10 a.m. and<br />

lasted for 17 minutes, one<br />

minute for each student<br />

killed at Marjory Stoneman<br />

Douglas High School<br />

on Feb. 14.<br />

“The first reaction from<br />

the school when we talked<br />

about doing something was<br />

an undoubtable yes. There<br />

was a lot of talk about exactly<br />

what could be done,”<br />

King said. “Walkouts are<br />

very important for change<br />

and solidarity. We also<br />

wanted to do something to<br />

put pressure on Congress.”<br />

Students were dismissed<br />

from class to participate in<br />

four events occurring simultaneously.<br />

In the cafeteria,<br />

students wrote letters<br />

to Congress. In the chapel,<br />

students prayed, reflected<br />

and lit memorial candles.<br />

In the gymnasium, students<br />

signed cards of support for<br />

members of the Marjory<br />

Stoneman Douglas High<br />

School communities.<br />

“We wanted to have activities<br />

for students who<br />

didn’t necessarily want<br />

to go the political route,”<br />

King said.<br />

In addition, students<br />

gathered outside on the<br />

Panther Patio where they<br />

discussed what they were<br />

feeling about the day and<br />

held a moment of silence.<br />

Following the shooting<br />

last month, students wore<br />

red to school in honor of<br />

the students. The success<br />

of that initiative helped<br />

set the stage for March 14<br />

events.<br />

“Gillian and Beth put<br />

their passion for this issue<br />

at the forefront. One<br />

thing that always amazes<br />

me about our Regina girls<br />

Organizers Beth Gillespie (left) and Gillian King, of Lake<br />

Forest, talk about the walkout at the conclusion of the<br />

event. Eric DeGrechie/22nd Century Media<br />

is their confidence and<br />

drive,” said Eleanor Rich,<br />

enrollment and recruitment<br />

associate. “They<br />

have an ability to really<br />

put themselves out there<br />

and do something different.<br />

They speak their<br />

minds, state their opinions,<br />

but also have that respected<br />

by the other girls in the<br />

school.”


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0-100 block of Warrington<br />

Drive in Lake Bluff.<br />

The victim was receiving<br />

unsolicited bank deposit<br />

slips from a subject<br />

followed by a suspicious<br />

email and suspicious<br />

phone call from possibly<br />

the same subject depositing<br />

the checks.<br />

During the investigation,<br />

it was determined the<br />

suspect was actually trying<br />

to pay the victim.<br />

Walkout<br />

From Page 4<br />

to the corner of Waukegan<br />

Road and Route 176<br />

in Lake Bluff and back,<br />

ending with two speeches<br />

about the importance<br />

of the event. With signs<br />

depicting important messages<br />

like, “It’s time. Demand<br />

a plan to end gun<br />

violence,” and “Protect<br />

kids, not guns,” the group<br />

heard honks during their<br />

walk from passing drivers<br />

in support of their stance<br />

and National Walkout.<br />

“It’s a gun issue, not a<br />

mental health issue,” said<br />

Sheila Deal, director of<br />

education services at the<br />

school.<br />

After the shooting in<br />

Florida, the students at<br />

Safe Haven reacted by<br />

forming an advocate<br />

group and having an open<br />

conversation on stricter<br />

gun laws and how they<br />

could support an agenda<br />

that resulted in students<br />

feeling safer at school.<br />

The national walkout was<br />

just the first event on a<br />

larger agenda for the students.<br />

“They don’t want to<br />

be sitting on their couch<br />

In other police news:<br />

Lake Bluff:<br />

March 10<br />

• A two-vehicle accident<br />

that occurred on March 9<br />

in the 900 block of North<br />

Shore Drive, was reported<br />

at 2:45 p.m. at the Public<br />

Safety Building.<br />

March 8<br />

• Retail theft was reported<br />

at 4:40 p.m. in the 900<br />

block of Rockland Road.<br />

hearing about [shootings]<br />

anymore and they certainly<br />

don’t want it to happen<br />

here,” Deal said.<br />

Sophomore Maeve Kucia,<br />

who spoke to roughly<br />

30 peers, teachers and<br />

parents during the walkout,<br />

has dedicated her<br />

time since the shooting<br />

staying up to date on the<br />

issues.<br />

“The fact that I was able<br />

to participate in something<br />

that happened all across<br />

the country and that was<br />

started by the youth, people<br />

who can’t even vote<br />

yet,” Kucia said. “I think<br />

that says a lot about what<br />

the next generation will<br />

be capable of.”<br />

Deal added the students<br />

talked about both sides<br />

of the issue in the weeks<br />

leading up to the walkout.<br />

Some students grew up<br />

with guns in the home and<br />

were familiar with them<br />

and have a respect for the<br />

weapon – others have not.<br />

Deal said the conversation<br />

hasn’t just been emotionally<br />

charged, but has been<br />

fueled by research and<br />

well-informed conversations.<br />

“We are young, we<br />

haven’t lived in the world<br />

March 7<br />

• A property damage accident<br />

was reported at 1:20<br />

p.m. at the Public Safety<br />

Building. The accident occurred<br />

in the 0-100 block<br />

of E. Center Avenue. Both<br />

parties agreed to exchange<br />

information and did not<br />

wish to have a crash report<br />

completed.<br />

March 5<br />

• A civil matter regarding<br />

a female and a local business<br />

was reported at 3:05<br />

p.m. in the Public Safety<br />

Building.<br />

• A two-vehicle accident<br />

was reported with no injuries<br />

at 3:20 p.m. in the area<br />

of Route 41 north of Route<br />

176.<br />

EDITORS NOTE: The<br />

Lake Forest Leader’s Police<br />

Reports are compiled from<br />

official reports found on file<br />

at the Lake Forest and Lake<br />

Bluff Police Department<br />

headquarters. Individuals<br />

named in these reports are<br />

considered innocent of all<br />

charged until proven guilty in<br />

the court of law.<br />

long yet. We’re willing<br />

to become politically<br />

involved,” Kucia said.<br />

“That is our job, it’s our<br />

job to vote. That is what<br />

makes us a democracy.”<br />

In Kucia’s speech to the<br />

crowd she talked about<br />

impending change, and<br />

hoped that the walkout<br />

was just the first step toward<br />

change.<br />

“It’s been 35 days since<br />

the Parkland shooting,<br />

and the fact that it happened<br />

so long after the<br />

shooting tells me that this<br />

isn’t going to be something<br />

impermanent,” she<br />

said. “This is going to be<br />

a lasting struggle for our<br />

safety.”<br />

Her eloquent speech<br />

struck a cord with Holly<br />

Schaefer, the executive<br />

director of Safe Haven, as<br />

well as Deal.<br />

“I’m feeling a tremendous<br />

amount of pride,”<br />

Schaefer said. “I always<br />

feel that. These kids are<br />

very special; they’re incredibly<br />

bright and incredibly<br />

artistic. They<br />

often feel that they don’t<br />

matter, that they’re not<br />

important and that they<br />

can’t make a difference.<br />

This is certainly an empowering<br />

opportunity for<br />

them.”<br />

Schools in Illinois had<br />

different rules for the<br />

walkout, and many parents<br />

were surprised, and<br />

even pushed back when<br />

Safe Haven said they<br />

would be supporting their<br />

students at the walkout,<br />

Schaefer said.<br />

“For our focus, really, it<br />

was about giving the students<br />

a voice,” she said.<br />

“It was not so much a focus<br />

on the gun issue, but<br />

on change and being instruments<br />

of change.”<br />

The experience of the<br />

walkout was more powerful<br />

than Kucia realized<br />

initially.<br />

“It was incredible,” Kucia<br />

said. “I’m not a very<br />

outwardly emotional person<br />

but there is something<br />

about this, something about<br />

the kids rising up that<br />

struck me. ... It’s empowering<br />

to see kids that are the<br />

same age as you, that have<br />

similar experiences to your<br />

own. To see them rising up<br />

like they have, I think that’s<br />

what part of what motivated<br />

me to try and make my<br />

own difference. Even we<br />

kids can say something and<br />

see results.”


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Village of Lake Bluff Committee of the Whole<br />

Divided board moves short-term rentals to plan commission<br />

Alyssa Groh, Editor<br />

There is no doubt that<br />

the Lake Bluff Village<br />

Board of Trustees and<br />

community members have<br />

been divided on the issue<br />

of short-term rentals for<br />

months.<br />

The trustees remained<br />

torn at the Village of Lake<br />

Bluff Committee of the<br />

Whole meeting on Monday,<br />

March 12, where they<br />

voted on sending either a<br />

draft proposal prohibiting<br />

short-term rentals or allowing<br />

short-term rentals during<br />

a two-year trial period,<br />

to the Plan Commission<br />

and Zoning Board of Appeals<br />

for consideration.<br />

In a split vote, Trustees<br />

Aaron Towle, William<br />

Meyer and Barbara<br />

Ankenman all voted to<br />

send the draft proposal to<br />

prohibit short-term rentals,<br />

while Trustees Paul<br />

Lemieux, Mark Dewart<br />

and Eric Grenier voted to<br />

send the proposal to for a<br />

trial run of short-term rentals.<br />

The vote came down<br />

to Village President Kathleen<br />

O’Hara who voted to<br />

send the draft proposal to<br />

allow short-term rentals<br />

and opt out of offering a<br />

referendum.<br />

Trustee Towle raised the<br />

question of offering a referendum<br />

after the split vote<br />

on which proposal to send<br />

to the Plan Commission.<br />

“We have heard from<br />

the most passionate, and<br />

I would like to hear from<br />

those who are less passionate<br />

as well,” he said.<br />

O’Hara told the board<br />

it is their right, as well as<br />

residents right, to ask for a<br />

referendum.<br />

The Trustees each shared<br />

their thoughts on offering a<br />

referendum and again ended<br />

up split on the issue.<br />

Trustees Towle, Meyer<br />

and Ankenman were in favor<br />

of a referendum, while<br />

Trustees Lemieux, Dewart<br />

and Grenier were not.<br />

Trustee Lemieux did not<br />

feel a referendum would be<br />

beneficial at this time, instead<br />

it would just prolong<br />

the issue.<br />

“I would like to put [the<br />

issue] to bed and see what<br />

happens, knowing we can<br />

make changes to this any<br />

time we want,” he said.<br />

Dewart agreed with<br />

Lemieux.<br />

Grenier also felt the referendum<br />

would not help reach<br />

a decision, rather it would<br />

continue to hurt the character<br />

of the community.<br />

He also raised the point<br />

of getting past the emotional<br />

aspect of the issue and<br />

looking at the facts to reach<br />

a decision.<br />

“It is really easy to get<br />

emotional at first and takes<br />

time to get into the factual<br />

aspects,” he said. “I think<br />

a referendum is going to<br />

muddy the waters. What are<br />

we actually going to learn?<br />

“We are also up against<br />

property rights. These are<br />

tangible rights. We are<br />

looking at taking something<br />

away from people<br />

that ordinarily they should<br />

have the right to.”<br />

Ankenman was an advocate<br />

for listening to residents<br />

and offering a referendum<br />

to help reach a decision.<br />

“I feel that I agree it<br />

seems like in the short term<br />

it would feel more painful<br />

because it wouldn’t show<br />

us moving forward, but I<br />

do feel like in the long run<br />

it would give some sort of<br />

indication,” Ankenman<br />

said. “We have invested<br />

so much in this, we have<br />

invested countless hours,<br />

we have invested countless<br />

meetings, countless e-mails<br />

and phone calls. I feel like<br />

if there isn’t an issue we<br />

would be willing to do that<br />

for, this would be it.”<br />

Meyer also felt a referendum<br />

would be the best<br />

choice.<br />

The final vote came down<br />

to O’Hara who stated she<br />

did not want a referendum<br />

and wanted to pass a proposal<br />

to allow short-term<br />

rentals with restrictions.<br />

“I do not recommend the<br />

board advocating, at this<br />

point, for a referendum,<br />

because eventually it all<br />

comes back to us anyway,”<br />

she said.<br />

She reminded the Trustees<br />

the trial period has a<br />

number of restrictions and<br />

they can make changes<br />

whenever they want.<br />

The Plan Commission<br />

and Zoning Board of Appeals<br />

reviewed the proposals<br />

on Monday, March 19,<br />

after press time.<br />

Lake Forest High School District 115 Board of Education<br />

School did not organize National School Walkout, ensured safety during walkout<br />

Miriam Finder Annenberg<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

The tone at the Lake<br />

Forest High School District<br />

115 Board of Education<br />

meeting on Monday,<br />

March 12, was more somber<br />

than usual. The meeting<br />

was dominated with<br />

discussions about a national<br />

school walkout March<br />

14, and an updated school<br />

security report following<br />

last month’s shooting at<br />

Marjory Stoneman Douglas<br />

High School in Parkland,<br />

Fla. that left 17 dead.<br />

“There is a national<br />

school walkout at [10<br />

a.m.] to celebrate and recognize<br />

the 17 people that<br />

were killed in Florida one<br />

month ago,” said Superintendent<br />

Michael Simeck.<br />

“We don’t really know<br />

what we’re going to be expecting<br />

on Wednesday.”<br />

He said administrators<br />

are not at liberty to ask students<br />

if they plan on participating,<br />

but the district<br />

received recommendations<br />

from legal counsel on how<br />

to manage the walkout.<br />

He noted the significant<br />

free speech rights of students,<br />

and, while a walkout<br />

has the potential for<br />

disruption in the school, he<br />

said administrators believe<br />

it would be more disruptive<br />

trying to regulate the<br />

students practicing their<br />

first amendment rights.<br />

Additionally, he said he<br />

wants to maintain the relationship<br />

students and staff<br />

enjoy without teachers<br />

feeling required to police<br />

free speech.<br />

“If there is one thing<br />

that. ... For us is the most<br />

cherished thing we have.<br />

... Our kids have a very<br />

strong and trusting relationship<br />

with our faculty,”<br />

Simeck said. “We don’t<br />

want to place our staff in<br />

that position.”<br />

Without mentioning<br />

specifics or referencing<br />

certain events or issues,<br />

school board president Reese<br />

Marcusson noted what<br />

he called “the positive of<br />

our kids used to getting<br />

their way.”<br />

He said Lake Forest<br />

students don’t quit when<br />

faced with challenges or<br />

perceived wrongs. They<br />

want to know whom they<br />

need to speak with to make<br />

the changes they deem appropriate.<br />

“They don’t accept nonaction,”<br />

Marcusson said.<br />

Also during the meeting,<br />

district Head of Security<br />

Scott Krajniak provided<br />

an update on Lake Forest<br />

High School security measures<br />

and practices.<br />

“We’re constantly examining<br />

ways to ensure<br />

our practices are current,”<br />

said principal Chala Holland.<br />

“We’re engaging in<br />

a comprehensive safety assessment<br />

across our entire<br />

district.”<br />

Krajniak said the district<br />

has recently updated<br />

a number of security measures,<br />

including its visitor<br />

management system,<br />

which handles around<br />

4,000 visitors each year.<br />

Also of note is the recent<br />

move of the security office<br />

to the front office and<br />

revised protocols for students<br />

checking in and out<br />

of school, making sure<br />

they are always accounted<br />

for.<br />

Krajniak said the school<br />

has added five new security<br />

cameras in the past year,<br />

two additional security<br />

personnel, and received a<br />

donated security vehicle.<br />

Additionally, the security<br />

team continues looking at<br />

ways to ensure the protection<br />

of the school.<br />

“We’ve got some changes<br />

in the works as we<br />

speak,” he said.<br />

Placards depicting simple,<br />

basic actions in emergency<br />

situations — such as<br />

lockdowns, lockouts, and<br />

evacuations — will soon<br />

be placed in each classroom.<br />

“I’ve always believed if<br />

you can keep it as simple<br />

as possible, it’s easier to<br />

remember what you’re responsible<br />

for,” he said.<br />

The placards come from<br />

the “I Love U Guys” Foundation,<br />

an organization<br />

promoting school safety<br />

started by a couple who<br />

lost their daughter when a<br />

gunman entered her school<br />

in 2006.<br />

Krajniak also discussed<br />

the potential of installing<br />

a BluePoint Alert system.<br />

Much like fire alarm<br />

pulls, these blue pull<br />

stations alert the police<br />

silently while also alerting<br />

those throughout the<br />

building of an intruder<br />

situation.


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10 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader NEWS<br />

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IN MEMORIAM<br />

THE GLENVIEW LANTERN<br />

Residents, community<br />

leaders, politicians unite<br />

against rail expansion<br />

Don’t turn Glenview’s<br />

neighborhoods into a parking<br />

lot for freight trains.<br />

That was the message<br />

that came across loud and<br />

clear during the public<br />

forum held in Glenbrook<br />

South’s Watson Auditorium<br />

on March 12, which<br />

drew more than 1,000<br />

North Shore residents.<br />

The forum called by the<br />

Village of Glenview was<br />

a response to Amtrak’s<br />

proposal to the Federal<br />

Railroad Administration<br />

to add three daily round<br />

trips to the Hiawatha service<br />

between Chicago and<br />

Milwaukee, increasing<br />

the number of its passenger<br />

trains passing through<br />

Glenview from 14 to 20.<br />

This would also entail<br />

building a two-mile holding<br />

track in West Glenview<br />

to accommodate the Canadian<br />

Pacific and Union<br />

Pacific freight trains that<br />

share the rail line with<br />

Metra, as well as Amtrak’s<br />

Hiawatha and Empire<br />

Builder (cross-country)<br />

passenger trains. The<br />

Glenview tracks would<br />

run north from West Lake<br />

Avenue to Willow Road,<br />

and opponents assert that<br />

they would have a negative<br />

impact on traffic, the<br />

environment and the community<br />

at large.<br />

As a consequence, there<br />

would be increased congestion<br />

on West Lake Avenue,<br />

producing delays and,<br />

at times, blocking traffic<br />

to the hospital and high<br />

school. The holding tracks<br />

alongside the existing<br />

tracks also would necessitate<br />

removing the landscape<br />

buffer and replacing<br />

the greenery with a 20-foot<br />

retaining wall.<br />

“It is clear that this is<br />

one of the largest challenges<br />

Glenview has faced in<br />

the last decade,” said Village<br />

President Jim Patterson.<br />

“We need your voice<br />

and you need to get others<br />

involved.”<br />

Reporting by Neil Milbert,<br />

Freelance Reporter. Full<br />

story at GlenviewLantern.<br />

com.<br />

THE WINNETKA CURRENT<br />

NSCDS joins schools<br />

nationwide for National<br />

School Walkout protest<br />

In a showing of solidarity<br />

with millions of students<br />

nationwide protesting<br />

gun violence exactly<br />

one month after the Marjory<br />

Stoneman Douglas<br />

High School shooting in<br />

Parkland, Fla., dozens of<br />

students and staff members<br />

from North Shore Country<br />

Day School paraded from<br />

behind the classroom walls<br />

to the front of the Winnetka<br />

campus March 14 to<br />

participate in the National<br />

School Walkout event.<br />

At 10 a.m., Middle and<br />

Upper School students<br />

marched in silence to the<br />

east end of campus on<br />

Green Bay Road, hoisting<br />

signs above their heads<br />

displaying messages including<br />

“Stop killing<br />

our generation,” “Never<br />

again,” “Am I next” and<br />

“Enough.”<br />

Glencoe resident Jed<br />

Graboys, a junior who<br />

helped spearhead the walkout<br />

with the Community<br />

Service Club, said he and<br />

several students had been<br />

planning for the school to<br />

participate in a walkout<br />

immediately after the national<br />

movement day was<br />

announced a few weeks<br />

ago. He said in the days<br />

leading up to the walkout,<br />

students held postermaking<br />

activities and the<br />

Community Service Club<br />

led a presentation on why<br />

the protest was necessary.<br />

“Every day, policymakers<br />

make decisions that<br />

they think are the best for<br />

our country, and we as<br />

children, our generation,<br />

is unheard,” Graboys said.<br />

“But now, it’s our time to<br />

speak. Now, it’s our time<br />

to demand change, demand<br />

reform and what we<br />

want, and we have to take<br />

that opportunity.”<br />

Reporting by Jacqueline<br />

Glosniak, Contributing Editor.<br />

Full story at Winnetka-<br />

Current.com.<br />

THE NORTHBROOK TOWER<br />

Northbrook native<br />

co-authors book on Joe<br />

Maddon<br />

Most Chicago Cubs fans<br />

quickly developed an affinity<br />

for manager Joe<br />

Maddon following his arrival<br />

in late 2014.<br />

Now, thanks to the work<br />

of Northbrook native and<br />

GBN graduate Jesse Rogers,<br />

fans of the 64-yearold,<br />

three-time manager of<br />

the year, will get an inside<br />

look at the crucial role<br />

Maddon played in breaking<br />

the Cubs’ 108-year<br />

World Series drought.<br />

Rogers, with the help of<br />

MLB.com’s Bill Chastain,<br />

recently released “Try Not<br />

to Suck: The Exceptional,<br />

Extraordinary Baseball<br />

Life of Joe Maddon,” a<br />

book chronicling Maddon’s<br />

life in baseball.<br />

“It’s a biographical look<br />

at the career of Joe Maddon<br />

and how he came to<br />

who he is as a manger,”<br />

Rogers said. “The things<br />

he’s learned along the way,<br />

the things that make him<br />

unique the things that have<br />

made him a manager that’s<br />

on the track to the hall of<br />

fame. It’s a look at what<br />

makes Maddon tick.”<br />

And to find out just what<br />

exactly does make Maddon<br />

tick, Rogers devoted<br />

countless hours of preparation,<br />

work and research<br />

during the Cubs’ 2017<br />

spring training season. The<br />

final product resulted in a<br />

near 300-page book, released<br />

earlier this month.<br />

Reporting by Martin Carlino,<br />

Contributing Editor. Full<br />

story at Northbrooktower.<br />

com.<br />

THE WILMETTE BEACON<br />

Officials: Langdon<br />

Beach may not open for<br />

swimming<br />

The conditions at Langdon<br />

Beach are worsening<br />

and the Wilmette Park<br />

District will decide in<br />

mid-April whether or not<br />

to open it as a swimming<br />

beach this summer.<br />

At the Wilmette Park<br />

Board’s Monday, March<br />

12 meeting, Superintendent<br />

of Recreation Kathy<br />

Bingham explained that<br />

the district is going to wait<br />

until after some of the<br />

March and April storms to<br />

determine the next step.<br />

“This year the conditions<br />

are very different and<br />

we’ve never seen it quite<br />

like what we have right<br />

now,” she said. “We’re going<br />

to see if we have any<br />

storms that majorly change<br />

the landscape down there.<br />

We’re definitely going to<br />

know a month from now<br />

or five weeks from now<br />

what we think we can do<br />

with that space.”<br />

If the district were to<br />

open Langdon as a swimming<br />

beach this summer,<br />

grading would need to be<br />

done in late April to create<br />

a path to walk down to the<br />

lakefront.<br />

“Traditionally towards<br />

the end of April is when<br />

we bring in the heavy machinery<br />

to do our grading<br />

at the beach. Last year, we<br />

actually created a path and<br />

an area so that we could<br />

get people down there,”<br />

Please see Neighbor, 14<br />

Former Lake Forest teacher left<br />

lasting impact on community<br />

Alan P. Henry<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Catherine<br />

Lenore Sommers<br />

broke<br />

through<br />

gender barriers<br />

at the<br />

University<br />

of Michigan,<br />

taught<br />

Lenore<br />

chemistry and then math at<br />

four Lake Forest schools,<br />

and lived a life dedicated to<br />

faith, family and education.<br />

The longtime Lake Forest<br />

resident died March 9 at<br />

age 91.<br />

Sommers was born to<br />

Leslie and Catherine Olson<br />

and grew up in Escanaba,<br />

Mich., where she was the<br />

high school valedictorian.<br />

At the University of Michigan,<br />

she became the first<br />

woman to receive a bachelor’s<br />

degree in chemical engineering,<br />

and did so with<br />

honors. She then went on to<br />

receive a masters degree in<br />

chemistry.<br />

Sommers worked at Abbott<br />

Laboratories, where<br />

she met Armiger “Joe”<br />

Sommers of Clarksdale,<br />

Miss. They were married<br />

on Sept. 10, 1949 at St. Patrick’s<br />

Church in Escanaba,<br />

Mich., and remained a loving<br />

couple until his death in<br />

2015.<br />

After the last of her five<br />

children started school in<br />

1965, Sommers taught<br />

chemistry at Barat College<br />

and then at Ferry Hall. After<br />

a brief time at Woodlands<br />

Academy, she moved<br />

to Lake Forest High School<br />

in 1973, where she taught<br />

math before retiring in the<br />

early 1980s.<br />

“I remember her being<br />

an excellent teacher,” said<br />

fellow <strong>LF</strong>HS math teacher<br />

Thor Benson. “She cared<br />

about her kids. She tried to<br />

create something different<br />

and exciting for them all<br />

the time, plus she was just<br />

a fun person to be with. I<br />

can remember some of our<br />

math parties in her back<br />

yard.”<br />

Sommers passion<br />

for teaching helped her<br />

grandaughter become a<br />

teacher as well.<br />

“She had a nurturing<br />

way, and she loved education<br />

and that is why I became<br />

a math teacher,” said<br />

Sommers’ granddaughter,<br />

Tracy Pierret, who taught<br />

math for a time at the<br />

School of St. Mary. “She<br />

definitely set the bar pretty<br />

high with women and math<br />

and education.”<br />

In his words of remembrance<br />

at the Church St.<br />

Mary, son-in-law Mike<br />

Pierret recalled Sommers<br />

as a woman with great determination.<br />

It was that<br />

drive, he said, that helped<br />

lead to the creation of a<br />

computer lab at <strong>LF</strong>HS.<br />

“The motivation was her<br />

sincere concern and love<br />

for her students,” he said.<br />

As a mother and a grandmother,<br />

Sommers was an<br />

inspiration.<br />

“She was very dedicated<br />

to family and to God,” said<br />

her daughter Betty Pierret.<br />

“She raised the five of us<br />

and got us all to go to the<br />

colleges we wanted to go<br />

to.”<br />

“What really gave grandma<br />

so much pleasure was<br />

watching her children and<br />

her grandchildren spread<br />

their wings and accomplish<br />

their goals,” said Mike<br />

Pierret.<br />

Their daughter Tracy recalled<br />

how the grandchildren<br />

would often walk to<br />

her house after school at<br />

St. Mary, where she would<br />

help them with their home-<br />

Please see Memoriam, 20


LakeForestLeader.com NEWS<br />

the lake forest leader | March 22, 2018 | 11<br />

Author addresses pressures on girls today<br />

Submitted by Woodlands<br />

Academy of the Sacred<br />

Heart<br />

Best-selling author,<br />

educator and speaker Rachel<br />

Simmons addressed<br />

a gathering of high school<br />

and middle school students<br />

at Woodlands Academy of<br />

the Sacred Heart March 9.<br />

She spoke of the pressures<br />

girls feel today, despite<br />

historic levels of college<br />

attendance and achievement,<br />

referencing what she<br />

refers to as “the achievement<br />

trap.”<br />

“What happens when<br />

you feel you have to be<br />

amazing at everything<br />

you do is you can’t help<br />

but feel un-amazing all<br />

the time,” Simmons said<br />

to the crowd of girls in<br />

grades six through 12 from<br />

Woodlands Academy and<br />

School of Saint Mary, both<br />

NORTH SHORE<br />

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Simmons talked about ways of dealing with the<br />

pressures girls feel today before an audience of<br />

high school and middle school students March 9 at<br />

Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest. PHOTO SUBMITTED<br />

in Lake Forest.<br />

Simmons’ first book,<br />

“Odd Girl Out,” was a<br />

New York Times bestseller<br />

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12 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader NEWS<br />

LakeForestLeader.com<br />

Reptile Rampage attracts curious learners<br />

Katie Copenhaver<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

The Wildlife Discovery<br />

Center held its 22nd annual<br />

Reptile Rampage educational<br />

event and fundraiser<br />

at the Lake Forest Recreation<br />

Center for more than<br />

1,800 visitors on March<br />

11. Wildlife Discovery<br />

Center staff and volunteers,<br />

and numerous additional<br />

exhibitors showed<br />

off reptiles and amphibians<br />

to attendees, hoping<br />

to turn their curiosity into<br />

a lifelong interest.<br />

Wildlife Discovery Center<br />

Curator Rob Carmichael<br />

and his staff were<br />

thrilled with the events<br />

turnout.<br />

Operated by the City<br />

of Lake Forest, the center<br />

provides permanent and<br />

temporary housing for reptiles,<br />

some of whom are<br />

endangered species. They<br />

run both indoor and outdoor<br />

exhibits for the public<br />

and offer educational programs<br />

and special events,<br />

such as the Reptile Rampage.<br />

They also conduct<br />

research and gather important<br />

data for scientific<br />

organizations.<br />

Theresa Greinig, one of<br />

the staff members running<br />

the shop at the event, was<br />

excited to report they were<br />

selling out of some of the<br />

plush animals, including<br />

the turtles, snakes and mini<br />

eagles. She explained that<br />

the toys they were selling<br />

represented animals who<br />

live at the center.<br />

Zach Bulich, an animal<br />

caregiver with the Wildlife<br />

Discovery Center, was<br />

staffing a visual-only exhibit<br />

of venomous reptiles,<br />

which included four snake<br />

species native to Illinois.<br />

He has worked for the center<br />

since 2013 and said his<br />

job is to take care of venomous<br />

animals, large boa<br />

constrictors, crocodiles<br />

and any other animal considered<br />

potentially dangerous.<br />

“We do what we can<br />

to make sure the animals<br />

have the best lives possible,”<br />

Bulich said.<br />

He added that some of<br />

their animals are rescues<br />

and some are donations. In<br />

particular, they have a Komodo<br />

dragon who came<br />

from the Memphis Zoo,<br />

which has a well-known<br />

breeding program for that<br />

species of lizard.<br />

“I recruit the exhibitors,”<br />

said Carmichael,<br />

noting they are groups and<br />

individuals for whom he<br />

has the highest trust and<br />

respect.<br />

Among them were a<br />

number of people from the<br />

Chicago Herpetological<br />

Society, an all-volunteer<br />

organization which meets<br />

the first weekend of every<br />

Debbie Crowley (right), of the Chicago Herpetological<br />

Society, helps Davide Anglolini hold a ball python.<br />

month at the Peggy Notebaert<br />

Nature Museum in<br />

Chicago.<br />

Father and son team Bob<br />

and Dan from the society<br />

attracted a lot of attention<br />

at the far end of the gymnasium<br />

with their exhibit<br />

of a rescued crocodile and<br />

alligator. Dan was handling<br />

the small alligator<br />

and giving kids the chance<br />

to take their photo with it.<br />

Dan explained that they<br />

work with the Illinois<br />

Department of Natural<br />

Resources to rescue the<br />

animals from private owners<br />

who have either voluntarily<br />

given them up or<br />

have had them confiscated<br />

by court order. Neither alligators<br />

or crocodiles are<br />

native to Illinois, so residents<br />

who keep them as<br />

pets in their homes are<br />

generally doing so without<br />

the required license and<br />

might have acquired them<br />

through illegal smuggling.<br />

Dan said when the<br />

animals in their care are<br />

ready, they work with their<br />

partner organizations in<br />

southern states to release<br />

them into the wild.<br />

Claire McPartlin, a program<br />

specialist in public<br />

engagement for the Notebaert<br />

Museum, was representing<br />

the organization<br />

along with a few of their<br />

volunteers.<br />

“We like coming out to<br />

support our partners,” she<br />

said of their involvement<br />

with the Wildlife Discovery<br />

Center’s event. She<br />

was on hand to talk with<br />

people about their current<br />

conservation programs<br />

for blanding turtles, wood<br />

frogs and smooth green<br />

snakes.<br />

Emma Lindquist, 6, of Lake Forest, and Dan, from<br />

the Chicago Herpetological Society, stand with an<br />

American alligator at the Reptile Rampage hosted by<br />

the Wildlife Discovery Center March 14 at the Lake<br />

Forest Recreation Center. PHOTOS by Alyssa Groh/22nd<br />

Century Media<br />

The Friends of Scales<br />

Reptile Rescue was operating<br />

a small petting zoo<br />

with lizards and snakes.<br />

“The crowd has been really<br />

wonderful and interactive,”<br />

said the organization’s<br />

founder Erica Mede.<br />

The reptile rescue was<br />

a repeat exhibitor at this<br />

event. She said that no sales<br />

or adoptions are allowed,<br />

making it a great, no-pressure<br />

way for people to learn<br />

more about becoming reptile<br />

owners. Her group typically<br />

sees its largest number<br />

of adoptions following<br />

this event from people who<br />

have a chance to go home<br />

and give it careful consideration.<br />

Attendees came from<br />

Lake Forest, as well as numerous<br />

surrounding communities.<br />

Other participants included<br />

the Madison Area<br />

Herpetological Society<br />

from Wisconsin, which<br />

had a large exhibit of<br />

animals, from a Mexican<br />

spiney tail iguana to<br />

a Papuan olive python;<br />

the Grove Heritage Association<br />

of Glenview;<br />

The Frog Lady, who made<br />

sure amphibians were represented;<br />

and Crosstown<br />

Exotics, a traveling reptile<br />

and bug show.<br />

For more information<br />

about the Wildlife Discovery<br />

Center of Lake Forest,<br />

visit www.wildlifediscoverycenter.org.<br />

Author<br />

From Page 11<br />

overcome toxic stress culture,<br />

and become resilient<br />

adults with healthy, happy<br />

and fulfilling lives.<br />

In her interactive presentation<br />

with students,<br />

Simmons asked girls to<br />

examine the ways in which<br />

they were being unkind to<br />

themselves and gave them<br />

strategies to practice selfcompassion.<br />

Additionally,<br />

she noted that aiming for<br />

perfection hinders rather<br />

than facilitates healthy<br />

risk-taking by not allowing<br />

for mistakes.<br />

“I stopped taking chances<br />

because I wanted to be<br />

perfect,” she shared of her<br />

younger self. “I wouldn’t<br />

do things because I<br />

was so worried about making<br />

a mistake.”<br />

Simmons emphasized<br />

the need for practice when<br />

it comes to making mistakes<br />

and taking risks, and<br />

gave the students practical<br />

advice for implementing<br />

strategies in their own<br />

lives.<br />

But, most of all, she<br />

wanted to communicate<br />

to the girls their inherent<br />

“enoughness.”<br />

“I want you to know<br />

that the stress you feel,<br />

the pressure you feel to<br />

achieve and do all of these<br />

things perfectly, those are<br />

not your fault. Those are<br />

put on you by some impossible<br />

societal standards.<br />

You are enough as you are.<br />

Just as you are.”<br />

“I feel so fortunate that<br />

our students were given the<br />

opportunity to hear from<br />

this amazing speaker,”<br />

Woodlands Academy Social<br />

Studies teacher Amy<br />

Perry said. “I see firsthand<br />

the pressures high<br />

school girls feel especially<br />

as they go through the college<br />

application process,<br />

I hope today can serve as<br />

one resource to help them<br />

navigate those pressures.”<br />

Perry will continue to<br />

engage with Simmons’ resources<br />

as she participates<br />

in the Conversations with<br />

Rachel program offered<br />

through the National Coalition<br />

of Girls’ Schools.<br />

During this program,<br />

Perry will read Simmons’<br />

latest book, have access<br />

to an Educator’s Guide,<br />

and opportunities to ask<br />

Simmons and enter in dialogue<br />

with fellow educators.


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14 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader NEWS<br />

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Lake Forest Country Day School names new head of school<br />

Submitted by Lake Forest<br />

Country Day School<br />

Lake Forest<br />

Country<br />

Day School<br />

announced<br />

Joy S. Hurd<br />

is appointed<br />

the next<br />

Head of Hurd<br />

School. He<br />

will begin his tenure July<br />

1.<br />

He comes to <strong>LF</strong>CDS<br />

from The Buckley School<br />

in New York City, where<br />

he was director of upper<br />

school (grades 7-9).<br />

Selected from more than<br />

200 candidates from across<br />

the nation, Search Committee<br />

Co-chairs Fred Wacker,<br />

of the class of 1974, and Sameer<br />

Chhabria, of the class<br />

of 1988 shared their experience<br />

of helping search for<br />

the next head of school.<br />

“Throughout the entire<br />

search process, it was gratifying<br />

to hear that <strong>LF</strong>CDS<br />

is held in high regard<br />

throughout the national independent<br />

school community.<br />

During the extensive<br />

time we spent with Joy, it<br />

was abundantly clear he<br />

possessed the qualities and<br />

characteristics required to<br />

lead <strong>LF</strong>CDS to future successes.<br />

His deep knowledge<br />

of education coupled<br />

with his sincere desire to<br />

partner with our faculty and<br />

staff to continue <strong>LF</strong>CDS’s<br />

great legacy of excellence<br />

were visibly apparent.”<br />

Hurd was born and<br />

raised just outside Cleveland,<br />

Ohio, and attended<br />

Harvard College, where<br />

he earned his A.B. in the<br />

classics. His distinguished<br />

teaching career began at<br />

St. Peter’s (NYC) where<br />

he taught Greek and Latin,<br />

and in 2008 to St. Bernard’s<br />

School (NYC), where he<br />

taught Latin, English, and<br />

ancient history in addition<br />

to his duties as secondary<br />

school advisor. After earning<br />

his master’s degree in<br />

private school leadership<br />

from Teachers College at<br />

Columbia University, he<br />

served at Riverdale Country<br />

School (NY) both as a<br />

Latin teacher and as assistant<br />

director of middle and<br />

upper school admissions.<br />

Hurd has been the director<br />

of upper school(grades 7-9)<br />

at The Buckley School in<br />

New York City since 2014.<br />

Hurd serves on the board<br />

of the Academy for Teachers<br />

and on the advisory<br />

board of the Paideia Institute<br />

for Humanistic Study,<br />

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and appreciation of the<br />

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Hurd and his wife Emily,<br />

who has worked in startups<br />

and recently started her<br />

own consulting business,<br />

look forward to leaving the<br />

hustle and bustle of Manhattan<br />

and making Lake<br />

Forest their home.<br />

“Having witnessed the<br />

school’s commitment to<br />

academic rigor, character<br />

education, social-emotional<br />

learning, and design<br />

thinking, I am just as excited<br />

by the school’s current<br />

reality as an institution<br />

of best practices as I am by<br />

its aspirations to develop<br />

its excellence still further,”<br />

Hurd said. “Truly, <strong>LF</strong>CDS<br />

is and will continue to be<br />

a national leader in early<br />

childhood, elementary, and<br />

middle school education,<br />

and we are all fortunate to<br />

be part of such a community<br />

of inspiring, masterful<br />

teachers; eager, kind students;<br />

and supportive, engaged<br />

parents and alumni.”<br />

Neighbor<br />

From Page 10<br />

Bingham said.<br />

Commissioner Bryan<br />

Abbott added that residents<br />

need to be careful<br />

if they’re going to walk<br />

down to the lakefront in<br />

the beach’s current state.<br />

Reporting by Todd Marver,<br />

Freelance Reporter. Full<br />

Story at WilmetteBeacon.<br />

com.<br />

THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK<br />

City Council votes down<br />

Green Bay Road speed<br />

limit reduction<br />

Cars will continue to<br />

legally drive 35 mph on<br />

Green Bay Road after this<br />

week’s City Council decision<br />

to keep the speed<br />

limit the same.<br />

All present members<br />

voted no at the Monday,<br />

March 12 meeting. Councilwoman<br />

Michelle Holleman<br />

and Mayor Nancy<br />

Rotering were not present.<br />

This issue came to<br />

light when Matthew<br />

Vanderkooy, who moved<br />

to the area around Green<br />

Bay Road in June 2017,<br />

felt people were driving<br />

too fast for comfort, The<br />

Landmark reported in January.<br />

He immediately got to<br />

work trying to make the<br />

neighborhood safer for his<br />

two children under the age<br />

of 5.<br />

Vanderkooy brought the<br />

request to lower the speed<br />

limit on Green Bay Road<br />

to the City in August 2017<br />

and the traffic management<br />

committee advised<br />

him to start a petition in<br />

order to show some support<br />

among the residents<br />

on that section of the road.<br />

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17<br />

An intriguing number from this week’s edition<br />

Lake Forest High School<br />

students participated in the<br />

National School Walkout for<br />

17 minutes, Page 3<br />

From the Editor<br />

<strong>LF</strong>HS students take control during powerful week<br />

Alyssa Groh<br />

alyssa@lakeforestleader.com<br />

There is no doubt<br />

that my favorite<br />

part about my job<br />

is having the luxury to<br />

be able to get out into the<br />

community to attend a<br />

variety of events.<br />

Last week was one<br />

of the best weeks in my<br />

career thus far. I spent a<br />

majority of my week with<br />

the young adults at Lake<br />

Forest High School who<br />

took charge in a series of<br />

powerful events.<br />

The week kicked off<br />

on March 14 with the<br />

National School Walkout,<br />

as seen on Pages 3-4 of<br />

this week’s Lake Forest<br />

Leader.<br />

The National School<br />

Walkout had been talked<br />

about for weeks and there<br />

had been a lot of anticipation<br />

regarding the event.<br />

The walkout, which was<br />

intended to remember the<br />

17 lives lost in the Parkland<br />

shooting last month<br />

and to protest gun violence,<br />

has been immensely<br />

covered by the press and<br />

talked about all over the<br />

U.S.<br />

Each school on the<br />

North Shore handled the<br />

school walkout differently.<br />

While most schools did not<br />

organize the event, many<br />

were heavily involved with<br />

the day.<br />

At Lake Forest High<br />

School, students who<br />

participated in the walkout<br />

stood on the front lawn of<br />

the school, while students<br />

who did not participate<br />

were asked to remain in<br />

the commons. The media<br />

was not allowed on school<br />

grounds, but that did not<br />

stop me from attending the<br />

walkout.<br />

I stood on the sidewalk<br />

and watched as students,<br />

by the hundreds, filed out<br />

of the school at almost<br />

exactly 10 a.m.<br />

While no one was exactly<br />

sure how the walkout<br />

was going to go, I stood<br />

there and observed.<br />

Students came out and<br />

stood on the front lawn for<br />

17 minutes in silence.<br />

Although I was yards<br />

away from the students<br />

who walked out, it was<br />

still incredibly powerful to<br />

witness.<br />

Lake Forest High School<br />

students carried themselves<br />

in such a professional<br />

manner. The students came<br />

together to remember the<br />

lives lost in Parkland,<br />

while also standing against<br />

gun violence.<br />

To see the students<br />

come together and use<br />

their voice on such a big<br />

and important matter was<br />

incredible.<br />

As if it wasn’t a powerful<br />

enough day to watch<br />

students take stand for an<br />

important issue, I returned<br />

to the school the following<br />

day for a TEDx event,<br />

as seen on Pages 17-19 of<br />

this week’s issue.<br />

Students and teachers<br />

gave speeches on<br />

important issues, such as<br />

recycling, food waste, the<br />

importance of literacy,<br />

mental health and mindfulness.<br />

As I sat there for a majority<br />

of the day listening<br />

to students give memorized<br />

and well thought out<br />

speeches, I couldn’t help<br />

but be impressed.<br />

You could tell how<br />

passionate the students<br />

were about each issue they<br />

talked about.<br />

They spoke using emotion<br />

and sincerity.<br />

No matter the topic<br />

being talked about, after<br />

the student finished his/her<br />

speech, you felt as though<br />

you wanted to help them<br />

make change to recycle<br />

more, or to keep reading<br />

because literacy is important.<br />

But there were two<br />

speeches that stuck with<br />

me the most.<br />

One teacher spoke about<br />

how six years ago he<br />

walked into a classroom<br />

where his students had<br />

just learned one of their<br />

classmates had committed<br />

suicide.<br />

He spoke about how he<br />

and his students dealt with<br />

that and how they came<br />

together to grieve the loss<br />

of a student.<br />

He shared his own<br />

struggles to overcome<br />

obstacles in his life and<br />

how he learned to cope<br />

with them.<br />

He told the audience<br />

he learned how to handle<br />

stress through mindfulness<br />

and encouraged others to<br />

try mindfulness.<br />

He also told students<br />

how important they are<br />

and how their lives are<br />

worthy, which I think is<br />

important for everyone to<br />

hear frequently.<br />

To end the speeches<br />

was Tessa Kerouac, who<br />

spoke about her struggle<br />

with mental illness.<br />

About a year ago she was<br />

diagnosed with Obsessive<br />

Compulsive Disorder and<br />

took three weeks off to get<br />

therapy.<br />

Her story was empowering<br />

and she really conveyed<br />

her struggle with<br />

OCD, but more importantly<br />

how going to therapy<br />

helped her to cope with<br />

OCD.<br />

She spoke about how<br />

you shouldn’t be afraid<br />

to attend therapy and you<br />

shouldn’t be ashamed to<br />

tell people you have a<br />

mental illness.<br />

And man, did I feel it.<br />

The whole room felt it.<br />

She really put herself out<br />

there and the audience listened<br />

intently and cheered<br />

for her.<br />

He story was powerful<br />

and I am sure it helped<br />

many other students who<br />

may be struggling with<br />

something to feel confident<br />

to reach out for help.<br />

It was a powerful week<br />

at <strong>LF</strong>HS and I know these<br />

students will make a difference<br />

in the world.<br />

The Lake Forest<br />

Leader<br />

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The lake forest leader | March 22, 2018 | LakeForestLeader.com<br />

Keeping up with the times<br />

Max’s Deli strives to be ‘hip and trendy’ with new menu items, Page 23<br />

<strong>LF</strong>HS Students, adults<br />

speak during annual<br />

TEDx event, Page 19<br />

Dr. Chala Holland, the principal at Lake<br />

Forest High School, speaks about her<br />

experience as an educator during the Lake<br />

Forest High School TEDx event on March<br />

15. Alyssa Groh/22nd Century MediA


18 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader PUZZLES<br />

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. “___ there?” (part of<br />

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5. Sounds of relief<br />

9. ___ Hari<br />

13. Intro to space<br />

14. Scenery<br />

16. Goons<br />

17. Neuter<br />

18. Money in Moscow<br />

19. Tachometer rdgs.<br />

20. Rights org.<br />

21. Phony<br />

23. French farce/comedy<br />

writer, Honore de<br />

___<br />

25. Kitchen meas.<br />

26. Sun, for example<br />

28. Van or san followers<br />

29. More patriotic<br />

32. Compete<br />

33. Old age<br />

34. Horoscope revelation<br />

35. Raison d’ ___<br />

37. Part of U.S.N.A.,<br />

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56. Insignia on some<br />

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57. Old Italian money<br />

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59. Croupier’s tool<br />

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30. Performer at<br />

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LakeForestLeader.com life & arts<br />

the lake forest leader | March 22, 2018 | 19<br />

Speeches empower students during annual TEDx event<br />

Alyssa Groh, Editor<br />

Students and adults<br />

alike have been stepping<br />

on stage at Lake Forest<br />

High School for the past<br />

four years to share their<br />

passion and knowledge at<br />

the annual TEDx event.<br />

TEDx stems from TED<br />

talks, which invite the<br />

world’s leading thinkers<br />

and doers to speak for 18<br />

minutes or less. TEDx<br />

events are independently<br />

organized and include a<br />

much smaller audience<br />

than TED talks.<br />

This year, 14 students<br />

and three adults shared<br />

their passion and knowledge<br />

with 100 audience<br />

members on March 15.<br />

This year’s theme for<br />

the TEDx event was Press<br />

Start, which places a<br />

Lake Forest High School student Tessa Kerouac speaks to her peers about mental<br />

illness at the TEDx event on March 22. PHOTOS BY ALYSSA GROH/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />

strong emphasis on community<br />

building and empowering<br />

young people in<br />

Lake Forest, area schools,<br />

and around the world, according<br />

to the TEDx<strong>LF</strong>-<br />

HS website.<br />

And empowering others<br />

they did.<br />

Each speaker shared<br />

their thoughts on a variety<br />

of topics. Students<br />

Emma Johnson and Cristina<br />

Machado spoke about<br />

the need to recycle and the<br />

Lake Forest High School student Aiden Kinsella<br />

explains the different forms of comedy to the audience<br />

at the TEDx event.<br />

need to educate others on<br />

what can be recycled. Megan<br />

Szostak helped teach<br />

her peers how to listen and<br />

understand classical music.<br />

Aiden Kinsella spoke<br />

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20 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader FAITH<br />

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Faith Briefs<br />

St. James Lutheran Church (1380 North<br />

Waukegan Road, Lake Forest)<br />

Women of St. James<br />

Spring Retreat<br />

April 13-15. The Women’s<br />

spring retreat is quickly<br />

approaching, and there<br />

will be opportunities to attend<br />

all or part of the faith<br />

building and fellowship<br />

events. For more information,<br />

visit www.stjameslutheran.org,<br />

or contact<br />

the church office at (847)<br />

234-4859 or email sholmstrom@stjameslutheran.<br />

org.<br />

Church of St. Mary (175 E. Illinois<br />

Road, Lake Forest)<br />

Hotel Toiletries and Soap<br />

Drive<br />

Now through April 8.<br />

Donations of unused or unopened<br />

small hotel-sized<br />

bottles of soap, shampoo,<br />

body wash, condition and<br />

lotion, as well as feminine<br />

products, toothbrushes,<br />

toothpaste, deodorant, razors<br />

and other personal<br />

hygiene items are sought<br />

for donation. No opened or<br />

experienced items. Collection<br />

will benefit the Food<br />

Pantry at Most Blessed<br />

Trinity and other local<br />

ministries. Collection baskets<br />

are located at all<br />

Church entrances, the Parish<br />

Center and both school<br />

offices.<br />

Eucharistic Adoration<br />

Each Wednesday, the<br />

Church of St. Mary offers<br />

Eucharistic Adoration following<br />

the 8 a.m. Mass. A<br />

rosary will be prayed each<br />

week at 6:40 p.m. with<br />

Benediction following at<br />

7 p.m.<br />

Submit information for<br />

The Leader’s Faith page to<br />

b.kapa@22ndcenturymedia.<br />

com. The deadline is noon on<br />

Thursday. Questions? Call<br />

(847) 272-4565 ext. 35.<br />

Memoriam<br />

From Page 10<br />

work.<br />

“She was always there<br />

for us,” she said.<br />

Sommers was a master<br />

bridge player and a wonderful<br />

baker. As an avid<br />

seamstress, she knitted<br />

hats for homeless shelters<br />

and helped start the annual<br />

craft fair at St. Mary.<br />

She was also active in the<br />

Guild of St. Mary, where<br />

she was a member of St.<br />

Anne’s Circle.<br />

“She was a very kind<br />

and organized person and<br />

willing to help with everything,”<br />

said fellow Circle<br />

member Carol Herrmann.<br />

“She was just a wonderful,<br />

smart woman and had<br />

a very strong faith.”<br />

Most Reverend George<br />

J. Rassas Jr., who was the<br />

pastor at St. Mary for 14<br />

years, returned to St. Mary<br />

to deliver the homily at the<br />

March 17 celebration of<br />

Sommers’ life.<br />

“They were people of<br />

great faith…..and were<br />

always grateful for the<br />

blessings they enjoyed in<br />

the long lives together,” he<br />

said of Sommers and her<br />

husband.<br />

She is survived by her five<br />

children and their spouses:<br />

John (Michiko) Sommers,<br />

Richard (Elaine) Sommers,<br />

Robert (Ruth) Sommers,<br />

Mary (Lindley) Specht and<br />

Elizabeth (Michael) Pierret.<br />

She is also survived by her<br />

seven grandchildren: Michael,<br />

Christopher (Lauren),<br />

Karen, David (Mary), and<br />

Peter (Christine) Sommers,<br />

Katherine (Scott) Allen and<br />

Theresa Pierret; and two<br />

great-grandchildren: Casey<br />

Sommers and Armiger Allen.<br />

She was preceded in<br />

death by her younger sister,<br />

Florence Bowers, and her<br />

husband Joe Sommers.<br />

Craig T. Loiacano<br />

Craig T. Loiacano, 58,<br />

of Lake Forest, died Feb.<br />

6 surrounded by his family<br />

at Northwestern Memorial<br />

Hospital in Chicago. He<br />

endured a long battle with<br />

heart and kidney failure. He<br />

was born Nov. 30, 1959 in<br />

Chicago, the youngest of<br />

three children of Lorene and<br />

Thomas Loiacano, and was<br />

raised in the Lakeview area.<br />

After attending Bell<br />

School and Gordon Tech<br />

High School, he graduated<br />

from Northern Illinois University<br />

in 1981 with a bachelor<br />

of science. He started<br />

working at the Chicago<br />

Board of Trade as a floor<br />

runner, then as a trader in<br />

the grain pit, eventually<br />

renting a seat on the exchange.<br />

He was an insurance<br />

agent for New York<br />

Life Insurance and sales<br />

manager for Prudential Insurance,<br />

before starting his<br />

own business.<br />

In 1987, he met Karin<br />

Sandquist and they were<br />

married in Chicago at St.<br />

Benedict’s church in June<br />

1989. They lived in Buffalo<br />

Grove for eight years before<br />

moving to Lake Forest<br />

in 1997. They raised three<br />

children and founded Chicagoland<br />

Bookbuyers as a<br />

family business 20 years<br />

ago. Loiacano bought and<br />

sold used textbooks to high<br />

schools throughout the city<br />

of Chicago and suburbs.<br />

He will be missed in Highwood,<br />

where he worked<br />

and spent time with many<br />

colleagues. Loiacano was<br />

an active volunteer in the<br />

Lake Forest School Districts<br />

and with the Lake<br />

Forest Parks and Recreation<br />

Center. Many remember<br />

him fondly as<br />

“Coach Craig” for both<br />

youth baseball and softball<br />

teams. He spent many<br />

years in ice rinks, cheering<br />

on his daughter figure skating<br />

and his sons playing<br />

ice hockey. He was an avid<br />

Chicago Bears, Bulls and<br />

Blackhawks fan. Besides<br />

instilling a love of Chicago<br />

and sports in his children,<br />

he raised them to be White<br />

Sox fans and took them to<br />

numerous games, as well as<br />

spring training in Arizona<br />

each March. He cherished<br />

relaxing with friends on<br />

Whitewater Lake during<br />

the summers. In the fall, he<br />

enjoyed attending Northwestern<br />

University football<br />

games and tailgating with<br />

his family and friends. He<br />

proudly supported the University<br />

of Michigan and<br />

the University of Alabama<br />

where his children attended<br />

college. He took his family<br />

on many cruises during<br />

winter break; the most<br />

memorable was cruising<br />

through the Panama Canal.<br />

He had fond memories of<br />

visiting friends in Florida<br />

and gambling in Las Vegas,<br />

as well as playing poker<br />

with the J-Birds. He loved<br />

his many dogs; especially<br />

Jackson, who was a great<br />

source of comfort during<br />

his failing health.<br />

Loiacano was a true family<br />

man and will always be<br />

remembered for his wonderful<br />

smile and largerthan-life<br />

personality.<br />

He is survived by his<br />

wife, Karin Sandquist<br />

Loiacano; children, Alyssa<br />

Loiacano, Thomas Loiacano<br />

and Marco Loiacano;<br />

siblings, Laurie Loiacano<br />

Konicek and Kimberly Loiacano<br />

(Rick) Slack; mother,<br />

Lorene Loiacano; inlaws,<br />

Anneliese Sandquist<br />

and Helmut Sandquist; and<br />

also leaves many loving<br />

nieces, nephews, cousins,<br />

aunts and uncles. He is<br />

proceeded in death by his<br />

father, Thomas Loiacano.<br />

The family extends heartfelt<br />

thanks to the nurses<br />

at the Northwestern Lake<br />

Forest Hospital cardiopulmonary<br />

rehabilitation<br />

program he participated in<br />

for many years, in addition<br />

to the nurses and doctors<br />

at Northwestern Memorial<br />

Hospital for their exceptional<br />

care for Craig during<br />

his eight weeks in the Surgical<br />

ICU.<br />

A Celebration of Life<br />

reception will be held on<br />

Sunday, March 25 from 2<br />

to 5 p.m. at Gorton Community<br />

Center, 400 East<br />

Illinois Road, Lake Forest,<br />

Illinois, 60045. Interment<br />

private.<br />

In lieu of flowers, a memorial<br />

fund has been established<br />

for Loiacano’s sons’<br />

for continuing education:<br />

In care of: Alyssa Loiacano<br />

(Executor), Memo: Tom<br />

& Marco Loiacano Education<br />

Fund, Lake Forest<br />

Bank & Trust, 727 North<br />

Bank Lane, Lake Forest, IL<br />

60045.<br />

Joan T. Cook<br />

Joan T. Cook (nee Tallett),<br />

89, of Lake Forest,<br />

died peacefully in her<br />

sleep March 6. She was the<br />

daughter to the late Harold<br />

and Irma Tallett, and was<br />

born on July 11, 1928 in<br />

Waukegan. She received a<br />

degree in education from<br />

The University of Arizona<br />

and a masters degree in<br />

speech therapy from Northwestern<br />

University. While<br />

raising her five children,<br />

she volunteered on the<br />

Lake Forest School Board<br />

District 67 and a variety of<br />

local charities. Colorful in<br />

both wardrobe and sense of<br />

humor, she filled the lives<br />

of her friends and loved<br />

ones with laughter and<br />

love. She is remembered<br />

for the unconditional love<br />

she shared with everyone<br />

she touched and will continue<br />

to be a source of light<br />

and love as we hold her forever<br />

in our hearts. She will<br />

be deeply missed.<br />

She was the sister to the<br />

late Jack Tallett, preceded<br />

in death by her husband of<br />

63 years, Granger Cook,<br />

Jr., She is survived by her<br />

five children, Granger<br />

“Tres” III (Mary Ellen),<br />

Joanne (Kevin) Miller,<br />

Bryan (Patricia), Suzanne<br />

(Brett) Moore and Graham<br />

(Beth); nieces, Judy Tallett,<br />

Tricia (Bob) Stromsted,<br />

Pamela (Patrick) Franssen,<br />

Janet (Kevin Collins) Tallett<br />

and Karen (Michael)<br />

Lindley; nephew, Kevin<br />

(Dee) Cook; fifteen grandchildren;<br />

eight great-grandchildren.<br />

A memorial service will<br />

be held on April 28 at 2<br />

p.m. at The Church of the<br />

Holy Spirit, 400 East Westminster<br />

Avenue, Lake Forest.<br />

Internment private.<br />

To honor her memory,<br />

and in lieu of flowers, donations<br />

can be made to The<br />

Posy Krehbiel Breast Care<br />

Center, 1000 N. Westmoreland<br />

Road, Lake Forest, IL<br />

60045 or www.lfh.org/support_lfh.<br />

Patricia Jemsek<br />

Patricia Jemsek (nee<br />

Brown), 73, of Burr Ridge,<br />

died March 10 at home<br />

surrounded by her family.<br />

She was born on Nov. 20,<br />

1944 in Lake Forest, while<br />

her father was a dentist at<br />

Great Lakes Naval Station.<br />

After his time in the Navy,<br />

her parents, Ted and Odessa<br />

Brown, moved back to<br />

their home town of New<br />

Orleans to raise their family.<br />

She spent her childhood<br />

in New Orleans, graduating<br />

from Mt. Carmel Academy<br />

in 1961. Then in 1965, she<br />

met Frank Jemsek who<br />

swept her off her feet and<br />

brought her back to Illinois.<br />

Jemsek picked up<br />

golf shortly before meeting<br />

Frank, and, with his encouragement,<br />

her passion<br />

for golf grew. Her competitive<br />

spirit led to several<br />

club championships and<br />

sub-70 tournament rounds.<br />

She also loved gardening<br />

and spending time with<br />

her three children and four<br />

grandchildren.<br />

Jemsek was a true blessing<br />

to all that knew her.<br />

She is survived by her<br />

loving husband, Frank;<br />

three children, Marla<br />

(Kevin) Weeks, Katherine<br />

Jemsek and Joe (Meredith)<br />

Jemsek; grandchildren,<br />

Patricia Weeks, Brooke<br />

Weeks, Sawyer Jemsek and<br />

Noa Jemsek; sisters, Bonnie<br />

Montgomery and Cindy<br />

Booth.<br />

In lieu of flowers, please<br />

send memorials to Catholic<br />

Charities, catholiccharitiesusa.org,<br />

or a charity of your<br />

choice.<br />

Have someone’s life you’d<br />

like to honor? Email<br />

b.kapa@22ndcenturymedia.<br />

com with information about<br />

a loved one who was part of<br />

the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff<br />

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22 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader LIFE & ARTS<br />

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Kiwanis Foundation helps enhance music<br />

department at Lake Bluff Middle School<br />

Submitted by The Kiwanis<br />

Foundation of Lake Bluff<br />

and Lake Forest<br />

The Kiwanis Foundation<br />

of Lake Bluff and<br />

Lake Forest continues to<br />

stand by their motto, “To<br />

Serve the Children.”<br />

The Foundation saw an<br />

unmet need at the Lake<br />

Bluff Middle School and<br />

decided to step forward.<br />

For years, the band department<br />

has asked to replace<br />

their old chairs with ones<br />

designed to provide proper<br />

support, promoting a more<br />

natural performance. With<br />

the purchase of 80 chairs<br />

(and movable storage<br />

racks), the students will<br />

now have chairs that help<br />

mimic standing posture in<br />

a seated position.<br />

“When we learned of<br />

the need, it made sense. ...<br />

Knowing there are a variety<br />

of office desk chairs to<br />

aid posture, why wouldn’t<br />

there be some for musicians,”<br />

said David Lee,<br />

foundation president.<br />

The Foundation went<br />

even further by purchasing<br />

additional band instruments<br />

that the district<br />

would own, but could lend<br />

out to a student who may<br />

not have an instrument or<br />

may have be held back by<br />

the limitation of their current<br />

instrument.<br />

Daryl Beese, director<br />

of bands, was ecstatic the<br />

foundation selected the<br />

district to help. The chairs<br />

will see tremendous use by<br />

the students during practice<br />

sessions as well as in<br />

band performances. The<br />

foundation will also find<br />

another local organization<br />

that is in need of 45 used<br />

chairs — recycling at its<br />

best.<br />

For more information on<br />

the Kiwanis Foundation,<br />

visit www.KiwanisLB<strong>LF</strong>.<br />

org.<br />

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TEDX<br />

From Page 19<br />

comedy and helped audience<br />

members understand<br />

the different types of comedy,<br />

while cracking a few<br />

jokes.<br />

Dr. Chala Holland, the<br />

principal at Lake Forest<br />

High School, spoke about<br />

her experience as an educator.<br />

She told the story about<br />

her days as a student teacher,<br />

all that she learned and<br />

how students continue to<br />

help her learn, even as an<br />

administrator.<br />

“It is you (students) who<br />

continue to push me and<br />

my thinking; you continue<br />

to contribute to my learning,”<br />

Holland said during<br />

her speech.<br />

Students also heard<br />

from Dr. Matthew Dewar,<br />

the English and wellness<br />

teacher at <strong>LF</strong>HS, who had<br />

an important message to<br />

share with students.<br />

Six years ago Dewar<br />

walked into his classroom<br />

after his students just<br />

learned one of their classmates<br />

committed suicide.<br />

Dewar shared a story of<br />

his struggles to deal with<br />

his anxiety and or stress.<br />

Through time he learned<br />

to cope with his problems<br />

and stress through practicing<br />

mindfulness. He<br />

helped students understand<br />

what mindfulness is,<br />

but more importantly told<br />

them how important they<br />

are to this world.<br />

“As time goes on, one<br />

thing becomes increasingly<br />

clear to me as a<br />

teacher,” he said. “It does<br />

not matter if you guys can<br />

check off all the boxes<br />

on the rubric of academic<br />

achievement, if at the end<br />

of the day you find your<br />

life so overwhelming or<br />

bereaved of meaning that<br />

self harm seems like a viable,<br />

or even desirable, option.”<br />

To end the speeches Tessa<br />

Kerouac took stage to<br />

tell her peers how therapy<br />

helped her learn how to<br />

live with her mental illness<br />

— Obsessive Compulsive<br />

Disorder.<br />

Kerouac explained she<br />

was diagnosed with OCD a<br />

year ago. She realized she<br />

has obsessive compulsions<br />

in the form of doing things<br />

even in numbers such as<br />

stepping the same amount<br />

of times on each foot.<br />

She took three weeks off<br />

of school to get therapy to<br />

help her with OCD.<br />

“Mental illness is surrounded<br />

by so many stigmas<br />

and stereotypes,” Kerouac<br />

said. “The reason I<br />

am here talking is to break<br />

down that shameful wall.”<br />

She also told students it<br />

is important to talk about<br />

therapy, and not feeling<br />

ashamed of needing therapy.<br />

“Therapy has saved<br />

me,” she said. “I have gone<br />

through a lot in my life. I<br />

will never stop advocating<br />

that therapy is a very<br />

valid option for anyone,<br />

and anyone should be able<br />

to get the help they need<br />

without the social shame<br />

that comes with it.”<br />

To view all the speeches<br />

at the TEDx event, visit<br />

www.tedxlfhs.com.


LakeForestLeader.com DINING OUT<br />

the lake forest leader | March 22, 2018 | 23<br />

Updated Max’s Deli menu boasts fresh, healthy options<br />

Megan Bernard<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

Max’s Deli has been a<br />

long-standing establishment<br />

in the North Shore<br />

for more than 25 years.<br />

To be successful for more<br />

years to come, its owner is<br />

revamping the menu with<br />

more health-conscious<br />

and fresh dishes for the<br />

future.<br />

Joey Morelli, a trained<br />

chef, and his brother<br />

opened up Joey’s Brickhouse<br />

in Chicago in 2004.<br />

After a seven-year run,<br />

they were ready to take<br />

over their grandfather<br />

Bernie Katz’s business,<br />

Max’s Deli at 191 Skokie<br />

Valley Road in Highland<br />

Park.<br />

At first, like the saying<br />

goes, if it wasn’t broke,<br />

they didn’t fix it — so<br />

nothing changed menuwise<br />

at the restaurant.<br />

They did, however, eventually<br />

add a full-service<br />

bakery, so Max’s produces<br />

cupcakes, cookies,<br />

pies, bagels, bailies,<br />

among other baked goods,<br />

just behind the counter<br />

made fresh for customers.<br />

When 22nd Century<br />

Media visited last in 2015,<br />

the deli owners said they<br />

were open to new ideas<br />

and responsive to community<br />

preferences. For<br />

example, we reported that<br />

Max’s rolled out a blueberry<br />

cream cheese that<br />

they said was perfectly<br />

delicious, but the community<br />

didn’t take to it. Later,<br />

the cooks concocted<br />

a jalapeno cream cheese<br />

and it was then one of the<br />

top sellers.<br />

Now, Morelli is ready to<br />

make some more changes<br />

to better the restaurant and<br />

keep up with the times.<br />

Morelli inspires to<br />

turn his “old-school Jewish<br />

deli” into a “fun and<br />

hip” eatery to welcome a<br />

younger crowd and more<br />

families, slightly changing<br />

the dynamic from the<br />

older clientele.<br />

“It’s been a process.<br />

There is nothing fun and<br />

hip about Max’s Deli because<br />

it’s been here for<br />

more than 25 years, but to<br />

evolve to the next level,<br />

we are going to have to reinvent<br />

ourselves or we’ll<br />

die,” Morelli said.<br />

The reinvention began<br />

about eight months<br />

ago, Morelli said, when<br />

he switched over the restaurant’s<br />

chicken fingers<br />

on its children’s menu<br />

by trading the “mystery<br />

meat” with tenders from<br />

Harrison’s Chicken, coating<br />

them in extra fine flour<br />

and frying them in clean<br />

canola oil.<br />

“But the kids wanted<br />

the same chicken because<br />

they were so used to it so<br />

I had some backlash,” he<br />

said. “I hesitated and got<br />

scared. A couple months<br />

later, I talked to enough<br />

customers and just said<br />

‘Screw it. If someone<br />

wants to get mad at me for<br />

this then they will have to<br />

just be mad.’”<br />

The revamping spread<br />

to other parts of the deli’s<br />

menu, including the mac<br />

’n’ cheese, which previously<br />

was shipped to the<br />

store with a pre-made<br />

cheese pouch. Now, Morelli<br />

makes the dish homemade<br />

with his own cheese<br />

sauce (quality American<br />

cheese, milk and butter)<br />

and boiled noodles then<br />

melts it all together.<br />

Other new items include:<br />

chicken and waffles,<br />

an egg-in-the-hole<br />

bagel, a turkey burger<br />

made from the scraps of<br />

turkey they roast in-house<br />

and a veggie burger made<br />

with 12 different vegetables.<br />

Max’s Deli<br />

191 Skokie Valley<br />

Road, Highland Park<br />

(847) 831-0600<br />

www.maxs-deli.com<br />

Open 7 a.m.-8:30<br />

p.m. daily<br />

“Our burgers are no<br />

longer brown discs of<br />

something,” Morelli said.<br />

“They are made fresh in<br />

our kitchen with fresh<br />

ingredients. They are on<br />

homemade kaiser rolls,<br />

too, that we bake right<br />

here.”<br />

There are now also<br />

gluten-free options, like<br />

bagels, wraps and matzo<br />

crackers. And, there’s<br />

a new crowd-pleaser:<br />

make-your-own omelets.<br />

When 22nd Century<br />

Media visited again last<br />

week, we sampled some<br />

of Max’s new dishes and<br />

were pleasantly surprised.<br />

The fresh ingredients<br />

stood out and provided<br />

flavor to what could be a<br />

bland dish elsewhere.<br />

We started with the eggin-the-hole<br />

bagel, which<br />

was served sunny-side<br />

up, and a sesame bagel<br />

with lox and chive cream<br />

cheese. The portions were<br />

generous and the bagels<br />

and trimmings were extremely<br />

fresh.<br />

The mac ‘n’ cheese<br />

was next and instantly<br />

became one of our favorites.<br />

While there are<br />

so many varieties of this<br />

dish, Max’s nailed it with<br />

its homemade take with<br />

the creamy, homemade<br />

cheese sauce you’d have<br />

as a side at Thanksgiving.<br />

Another cherished dish<br />

was the grilled cheese<br />

and tomato basil soup,<br />

which replaced canned<br />

Campbell’s tomato soup<br />

in Max’s kitchen, Morelli<br />

said. Any consumer<br />

The egg-in-the-hole bagel at Max’s Deli in Highland Park features a sunny-side up<br />

egg surrounded by a fresh bagel in a flavor of your choosing. Photos By Jacqueline<br />

Glosniak/22nd Century Media<br />

would be able to tell the<br />

sandwich and soup was<br />

thoughtfully prepared and<br />

made in-house that day.<br />

We also tried the “controversial”<br />

chicken tenders<br />

and fries, and we<br />

preferred them with the<br />

current fresh, white meat<br />

instead of previous “the<br />

sponge meat,” as Morelli<br />

described it.<br />

Looking forward, along<br />

with the reinvention, Morelli<br />

plans to host a milkshake<br />

bar in the summer<br />

for families and children.<br />

The deli’s ice cream is<br />

supplied by Homer’s Ice<br />

Cream in Wilmette.<br />

“It used to be chemically-enhanced<br />

ice cream,”<br />

Morelli said. “Now we get<br />

natural, local ice cream<br />

from Homer’s and I believe<br />

that’s the future of<br />

this place.<br />

“It’s a battle I still<br />

haven’t figured out. For<br />

me, it’s all about a healthy<br />

and homemade menu so I<br />

hope it works.”<br />

Mac ‘n’ cheese at Max’s Deli is a classic homemade<br />

serving of elbow macaroni noodles in a warm and<br />

gooey homemade American cheese sauce.<br />

Chicken tenders at the restaurant are now made with<br />

fresh, all-white meat instead of frozen, GMO chicken<br />

products.


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Athlete of the Week<br />

10 Questions<br />

with George Schoettel<br />

George Schoettel is a junior<br />

at Lake Forest High<br />

School and a midfielder<br />

for the boys lacrosse team.<br />

How did you start<br />

playing lacrosse?<br />

I really hated baseball.<br />

It was really boring. My<br />

mom didn’t want me to<br />

play football. I got like<br />

14 penalties (in my first<br />

game) but we didn’t have<br />

enough kids to keep me<br />

out of the game. My mom<br />

was traumatized because<br />

she was used to my sister<br />

playing lacrosse and she<br />

thought it was going to be<br />

all elegant like the girls<br />

game. She didn’t realize it<br />

was going to be just as bad<br />

as football.<br />

What is your favorite<br />

part of the sport?<br />

My favorite about the<br />

sport is all of the friends<br />

that come along with it.<br />

Literally the lacrosse team<br />

gets really tight over the<br />

course of the season. Outside<br />

of high school, with<br />

my club team, I’ve been<br />

playing with the same<br />

guys since sixth grade.<br />

What is the most<br />

challenging part of the<br />

sport?<br />

A challenging part of<br />

the sport, lacrosse is just<br />

who works the hardest.<br />

Talent helps, but getting<br />

your stick ready, playing<br />

wall-ball every day, you<br />

can really tell who does it<br />

and who doesn’t. If you’re<br />

slacking it’s immediately<br />

noticeable because you’re<br />

dropping passes. The hardest<br />

part is the continual<br />

grind.<br />

What is the most<br />

memorable moment<br />

you’ve had with the<br />

Scouts?<br />

Immediately after tryouts<br />

last year the only<br />

freshman that made the<br />

team asked coach if we<br />

had practice on Fridays in<br />

complete seriousness.<br />

What is a goal you<br />

want to accomplish<br />

this season?<br />

Winning state, definitely.<br />

That’s my No. 1 goal<br />

ahead of everything. We’d<br />

get the first real trophy.<br />

What is your favorite<br />

subject in school?<br />

I’m all over the place.<br />

I’ve taken a lot of different<br />

classes, everything<br />

from computer science,<br />

to chemistry, to AP Language<br />

and French. Most<br />

kids are like either math<br />

or science or really English-minded.<br />

I’m just a<br />

cross I guess.<br />

Where is the coolest<br />

place you have ever<br />

travelled to?<br />

The coolest place I have<br />

ever travelled to was probably<br />

Jamaica. I just like the<br />

general vibe in Jamaica. I<br />

went with my family on<br />

spring break, it was a good<br />

time.<br />

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If you could have<br />

dinner with anyone<br />

living or dead, who<br />

would it be?<br />

Jimmy Hendrix and<br />

Marilyn Monroe. I think<br />

they would be interesting.<br />

I love Jimmy Hendrix and<br />

then obviously Marilyn<br />

Monroe is one of the more<br />

controversial figures in<br />

American history.<br />

What is your spirit<br />

animal?<br />

I would have to say<br />

maybe a koala. I think a<br />

koala would be a cool spirit<br />

animal. They look funky<br />

and they just relax all day.<br />

Who is your favorite<br />

professional athlete?<br />

My all-time favorite<br />

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a classic Chicago guy. He<br />

doesn’t really take (stuff)<br />

from anyone. He always<br />

really hustles and he’s out<br />

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love the way he plays.<br />

Interview by Sports Editor<br />

Brittany Kapa<br />

high school highlights<br />

The rest of the week in high school sports<br />

Girls Lacrosse<br />

Lake Forest 8, Mother<br />

McAuley 4<br />

Audrey Kaus led the<br />

Scouts with three goals<br />

in the team’s first outing<br />

of the season Thursday,<br />

March 15, at home.<br />

Kirsten Larson and Caroline<br />

Skinner both contributed<br />

two goals and Sarah<br />

Considine added a single.<br />

Goalies Mary Dohney and<br />

Grace Kellie each recorded<br />

two saves during their<br />

win.<br />

Lake Forest 5, Montini 4<br />

Audrey Kaus and<br />

Caroline Skinner were<br />

the Scouts’ leading scorers<br />

Saturday, March 17,<br />

against Montini during<br />

the Loyola tournament.<br />

In net Mary Dohney was<br />

a brick wall, recording 11<br />

saves during the match.<br />

Skinner also recorded an<br />

interception.<br />

Maine South 10, Lake<br />

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28 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader SPORTS<br />

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Boys basketball Player of the Year<br />

Cunningham uses growth to achieve career dreams<br />

Michael Wojtychiw<br />

Contributing Sports Editor<br />

For athletes, the hope<br />

is to improve as they get<br />

older, with more experience<br />

and better skills en<br />

route to hopefully earn an<br />

opportunity to play at the<br />

next level, collegiately.<br />

That was the route that<br />

Loyola senior Kevin Cunningham<br />

took during his<br />

four years at Loyola, one<br />

that saw him finish his Rambler<br />

career as 22nd Century<br />

Media’s inaugural boys basketball<br />

Player of the Year.<br />

Cunningham said he<br />

feels that every season has<br />

been one he’s grown in.<br />

“Freshman year was<br />

tough for me because I<br />

was hurt and didn’t play<br />

the whole year,” he said.<br />

“Sophomore year I got hurt<br />

again and missed a couple<br />

games, but since then I’ve<br />

just improved my whole<br />

game. I don’t think there’s<br />

a part of my game that’s<br />

gotten worse or stayed the<br />

same. I think I got stronger,<br />

more aggressive and<br />

became an all-around better<br />

player.”<br />

After having players<br />

like Ramar Evans and Julian<br />

DeGuzman as last<br />

year’s go-to players, Cunningham’s<br />

role changed<br />

this year as a senior. He<br />

moved over to the point<br />

guard position and became<br />

Loyola’s Kevin Cunningham evades a steal attempt by<br />

Notre Dame’s Troy D’Amico during the 2017-18 season.<br />

22nd Century Media file photo<br />

the squad’s primary leader.<br />

“Ramar last year was<br />

our big leader, well and<br />

Julian too, but Ramar was<br />

our captain, he really led<br />

us when times got tough,”<br />

Cunningham said. “That<br />

really helped me because I<br />

looked up to him last year<br />

as a leader and he taught<br />

me so much. He had a<br />

great voice, through his<br />

actions and how he played;<br />

he never got rattled.”<br />

Cunningham’s new role<br />

on the team wasn’t an easy<br />

change.<br />

“I think there were some<br />

difficulties adjusting,” he<br />

said, “I had to go over the<br />

plays and make sure I knew<br />

every position, because I<br />

didn’t really know that one<br />

game I could be playing<br />

point guard, the next at two<br />

guard.”<br />

For the fourth time in<br />

coach Tom Livatino’s nine<br />

years at the helm of Loyola<br />

basketball, and second consecutive<br />

year, the Ramblers<br />

finished with 20 wins and a<br />

regional title. The Ramblers<br />

play in one of the tougher<br />

conferences in the state and<br />

were in one of the hardest<br />

sectional this season.<br />

“[Coach Tom] Livatino<br />

has a great system,” Cunningham<br />

said. “Anybody<br />

who plays for Livatino has<br />

to buy into his system or<br />

else it’ll be hard to get many<br />

minutes. Our team revolves<br />

around defense, getting<br />

good shots and not rushing<br />

shots. It’s just buying into<br />

the culture and I think every<br />

guy in the past two years did<br />

that. That leads to success.”<br />

Girls basketball Player of the Year<br />

Martinez earns award after historic season<br />

Michael Wojtychiw<br />

Contributing Sports Editor<br />

For most basketball<br />

teams, the point guard is<br />

another coach on the court.<br />

They’re the eyes and<br />

ears of what’s happening<br />

on the hardwood.<br />

Loyola Academy’s point<br />

guard, Julia Martinez, was<br />

that and more for the Ramblers<br />

this season. Thanks<br />

to her efforts, the Loyola<br />

star was named the inaugural<br />

22nd Century Media<br />

girls basketball Player of<br />

the Year.<br />

From a young age the<br />

junior knew she wanted to<br />

play basketball and it was<br />

all thanks to family.<br />

“I’ve kind of played<br />

basketball my whole life,<br />

but probably started when<br />

I was around kindergarten,”<br />

she said. “I have two<br />

older sisters who played,<br />

and both my parents were<br />

coaches. Ever since I was<br />

younger, I always knew I<br />

wanted to play basketball<br />

and would play against the<br />

older kids.”<br />

The 5-foot-10 junior<br />

from the North Side of<br />

Chicago averaged 9.9<br />

points per game, 7.3 rebounds<br />

per game, 6.7 assists<br />

per game and 2.8<br />

steals a contest, en route<br />

to leading her team to a regional<br />

title and a sectionaltitle<br />

game appearance.<br />

She came to Loyola and<br />

earned a spot on the varsity<br />

team right away, something<br />

not easy to do at a<br />

school like Loyola.<br />

But that didn’t faze Martinez.<br />

“I feel like when I was<br />

younger, I was so confident<br />

in my game, and I<br />

love the game so much,”<br />

she said. “I came in doing<br />

what I normally do<br />

and actually wasn’t that<br />

nervous when coach (Jeremy)<br />

Schoenecker said my<br />

name for the first game my<br />

freshman year.”<br />

Point guards are usually<br />

one of two kinds, ones that<br />

are a true point guard, and<br />

pass the ball to their teammates<br />

before anything<br />

else, or a scoring point<br />

guard who isn’t afraid to<br />

put up shot after shot.<br />

“I’d probably say I’m a<br />

pass-first mentality point<br />

guard,” Martinez said.<br />

“I look to find my teammates,<br />

looking up court to<br />

see who’s open, giving my<br />

teammates the ball.”<br />

Colleges have taken<br />

notice of Martinez doing<br />

her job and she’s racked<br />

up 12 scholarship offers<br />

from Division I schools.<br />

Martinez announced her<br />

commitment to Saint Louis<br />

University on Friday,<br />

March 16.<br />

But before she gets<br />

ready to head off to college,<br />

she has one year to<br />

help the Ramblers continue<br />

to move further into<br />

the playoffs, something<br />

they’ve done three consecutive<br />

seasons now.<br />

The team made it to the<br />

sectional final this year, after<br />

losing in the sectional<br />

semifinal last season and<br />

the regional final the two<br />

years prior.<br />

Loyola has had a lot of<br />

success during her tenure,<br />

witnessed by Schoenecker<br />

picking up his 200th career<br />

victory this season and his<br />

team winning at least 20<br />

games in a season for the<br />

eighth time in his 10 years<br />

at the helm.<br />

Julia Martinez drives to the basket in a game during the<br />

2017-18 season. 22nd Century Media File photo<br />

“During practice, we<br />

work on a lot of different<br />

aspects, we start off with a<br />

ton of shooting, every single<br />

spot on the floor,” Martinez<br />

said. “We work on our<br />

defense, then our offense.”<br />

During the first half of<br />

Loyola’s Jan. 30 contest<br />

against De La Salle, Martinez<br />

broke the school’s<br />

career assist record, previously<br />

set by Laura Sobieszczyk’s<br />

in 1999 who<br />

had 507. Martinez now<br />

has over 540 career assists<br />

with a year to go.<br />

“I obviously have to<br />

give my teammates a lot<br />

of credit because they’re<br />

the ones putting the ball<br />

in the basket,” she said. “It<br />

means a lot, it’s pretty exciting.”


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the lake forest leader | March 22, 2018 | 29<br />

Girls Basketball Coach of the Year<br />

Lake Forest’s Wilhelm chosen for inaugural honor<br />

Brittany Kapa, Sports Editor<br />

Coaches are often the<br />

needle on a compass that<br />

points players in the right<br />

direction during a long<br />

season.<br />

They string different<br />

players, personalities and<br />

skill sets together into one<br />

cohesive unit. When done<br />

right, the season often<br />

ends in success.<br />

Kyle Wilhelm, the head<br />

coach of Lake Forest High<br />

School’s girls basketball<br />

program, guided a team<br />

punctuated by talented<br />

underclassman and players<br />

who stepped up in the<br />

wake of injury.<br />

The Scouts finished the<br />

season with a 22-10 overall<br />

record and a playoff run<br />

that ended with a loss to<br />

Lake Zurich in the regional<br />

final. Because of his efforts,<br />

the sports staff at 22nd Century<br />

Media chose Wilhelm<br />

as the inaugural Coach of<br />

the Year for girls basketball.<br />

“I was not expecting<br />

this,” Wilhelm said. “I’m<br />

honored and surprised.<br />

I’m surprised in the sense<br />

that I really respect a lot<br />

of the coaches that I coach<br />

against. I see the time that<br />

everyone puts into preparing<br />

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Wilhelm, who finished<br />

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“This group, the seniors<br />

in particular, should<br />

really be looking back on<br />

their career and the mark<br />

that they left,” Wilhelm<br />

said. “They just finished<br />

(with season) wins of 17,<br />

Lake Forest coach Kyle Wilhelm (middle) led a young<br />

girls basketball to a second-consecutive season<br />

winning 20-plus games. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

13, 23 and 22.”<br />

Wilhelm built his program,<br />

with assistant coach<br />

Reanna Perera, by harnessing<br />

the skills of individual<br />

players and rolling<br />

that into success at the<br />

team level.<br />

Wilhelm had two major<br />

challenges this season.<br />

The first was making up<br />

for the two key players<br />

who graduated. The success<br />

of the season prior<br />

acted as motivation for this<br />

year’s squad and Wilhelm<br />

saw evidence of that this<br />

past summer.<br />

“I think the big thing<br />

was ... they came in really<br />

focused this summer and<br />

really determined to meet<br />

and exceed last year’s performance,”<br />

Wilhelm said.<br />

The seconds, unfortunately,<br />

was making up<br />

for Maeve Summerville’s<br />

absence. Summerville suffered<br />

a season-ending injury<br />

at the end of the summer<br />

session. Wilhelm had to<br />

figure out how to make up<br />

25-27 points per game from<br />

losing those three players.<br />

“As the season started,<br />

it was really just challenging<br />

those players to fill the<br />

void that Maeve was leaving,”<br />

he said. “We really<br />

talked about how it wasn’t<br />

going to be one person to<br />

do that. It was really going<br />

to have to be collective effort,<br />

and everyone was going<br />

to have to step up.”<br />

They didn’t disappoint.<br />

Sophomore point guard<br />

Halle Douglass was one<br />

of the team’s top scorers.<br />

Seniors Jen Whittington<br />

and Audrey Kaus stepped<br />

up in a big way and even<br />

Summerville’s younger<br />

sister, Finola Summerville,<br />

helped fill the gaps.<br />

“Jen Whittington, in particular,<br />

was someone who<br />

didn’t get much playing<br />

time last year as a junior,”<br />

Wilhelm said. “She really<br />

took advantage of an opportunity<br />

with Maeve being<br />

out.”<br />

Wilhelm’s centered<br />

around positioning players<br />

in spots that would utilize<br />

their talents. Those talents<br />

paid off in key games, like<br />

their 30-27 Jan. 23 win<br />

against Stevenson. The<br />

win marked the first time<br />

Lake Forest bested Stevenson<br />

in more than a decade.<br />

And like most coaches,<br />

Wilhelm’s passion for<br />

coaching derives from seeing<br />

his team succeed in<br />

key games.<br />

“We started picking up<br />

those signature wins and<br />

every signature win you<br />

get you kind of see the belief<br />

and the expectation of<br />

the team,” he said. “They<br />

raised the expectation-level<br />

themselves.”<br />

Boys Basketball Coach of the Year<br />

Teamwork key for Harris’ success<br />

Brittany Kapa, Sports Editor<br />

Simply put, coaches<br />

champion their players.<br />

In a season filled with<br />

inevitable ups and downs,<br />

it is the coach’s job to keep<br />

their teams on task.<br />

When looking at who<br />

did that the best this season<br />

across 22nd Century<br />

Media area teams it was<br />

a hard decision. Programs<br />

like New Trier and Loyola<br />

Academy stand out as having<br />

coaching staffs that<br />

are undoubtably talented.<br />

However, the sports department<br />

looked deeper<br />

into regular-season play<br />

and chose a coach that<br />

helped lift his team from a<br />

shaky start to a team that<br />

finished the regular season<br />

with confidence.<br />

Highland Park High<br />

School’s Paul Harris was<br />

chosen as the inaugural recipient<br />

for the 2018 Coach<br />

of the Year.<br />

Harris, who just completed<br />

his 19th year as head<br />

coach with the Giants, led<br />

his team to a 15-11 overall<br />

record and an 8-2 Central<br />

Suburban League North<br />

conference finish after a<br />

0-4 start.<br />

“Our mindset as coaches,<br />

and as a program, was to try<br />

and get the guys to focus on<br />

improvement and get them<br />

to remember that past success<br />

doesn’t guarantee future<br />

success,” he said.<br />

The team’s start didn’t<br />

define the Giants’ season,<br />

and Harris even celebrated<br />

a personal accomplishment<br />

in January after nabbing<br />

his 300th career win.<br />

However, none of those<br />

accolades are more important<br />

to Harris than the<br />

growth of his team from<br />

summer 2017 until the end<br />

of the season this year.<br />

Highland Park coach Paul Harris (middle) helped lead<br />

his team out of an 0-4 start to finish the regular season<br />

15-11. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

“When I think about the<br />

season as a whole, I’m just<br />

really proud of how we<br />

competed,” he said. “This<br />

was a group that set high<br />

standards for themselves.<br />

They looked forward to<br />

playing a tough schedule<br />

and they looked forward<br />

to a lot of challenges<br />

throughout the year.”<br />

Even after a rough start<br />

to the season, going 0-4 at<br />

the St. Viator Thanksgiving<br />

Tournament, the team<br />

held its head high and<br />

knew that the only direction<br />

it could go was up.<br />

“They showed tremendous<br />

resiliency,” Harris<br />

said. “With playing a tough<br />

schedule, we weren’t going<br />

to go undefeated this<br />

year. We knew that wasn’t<br />

going to happen.”<br />

Full story online at LakeFor<br />

estLeader.com<br />

Editors Note: Coach of the<br />

Year was chosen by the sports<br />

staff at 22nd Century Media.<br />

The decision was made on<br />

regular-season play and the<br />

development of the team from<br />

the beginning of the regular<br />

season until the conclusion.


30 | March 22, 2018 | The lake forest leader SPORTS<br />

LakeForestLeader.com<br />

Drive, determination keys to Scouts’ success this season<br />

Alyssa Groh, Editor<br />

This season is all about<br />

growth for the Lake Forest<br />

High School girls soccer<br />

team.<br />

The Scouts soccer team<br />

welcomes back only 10<br />

returners from last season.<br />

This year, the team will be<br />

comprised of 14 players<br />

who are new to varsity.<br />

Scouts coach Ty Stuckslager<br />

said this year the<br />

team will need to find its<br />

new identity and work together<br />

as an underclassman-heavy<br />

team.<br />

“Each team has its own<br />

identity,” he said. “So once<br />

the [new players] find out<br />

what it is like to be on varsity,<br />

and once all the girls<br />

find out what it is like to<br />

be on a team together, and<br />

until we find out and trust<br />

everyone on the team, we<br />

are going to have to play<br />

little by little.”<br />

Last year the Scouts girls<br />

soccer team ended its season<br />

in heartbreak.<br />

In the regional championship<br />

of the 2017 IHSA<br />

playoffs the team lost to<br />

Lake Zurich on a penalty<br />

kick. The Scouts ended the<br />

season 12-5-1.<br />

While the team experienced<br />

a lot of success<br />

last year, they will have to<br />

measure success a different<br />

way this season.<br />

“One of our goals we tell<br />

the girls is ‘We base success<br />

on how well we grow<br />

and how well we play,’”<br />

Stuckslager said. “One of<br />

our core words this year is<br />

compete.<br />

“If we leave every game<br />

competing and can look<br />

back and say ‘Win or lose it<br />

doesn’t matter. We competed<br />

in that game and played<br />

well.’”<br />

That will be the Scouts’<br />

new measure of success.<br />

Another challenge for<br />

the team this season will be<br />

the New Trier Tournament.<br />

“The New Trier tournament<br />

is very strong in itself.<br />

It is a tough schedule,”<br />

Stuckslager said.<br />

Stuckslager will look to<br />

the first two area competitors,<br />

Glenbrook South and<br />

Loyola Academy. Both<br />

teams are ranked among the<br />

best in Illinois soccer, and<br />

will prove to be a good test.<br />

In order to help his team<br />

earn success against tough<br />

squads like the Titans<br />

and the Ramblers, he will<br />

change his coaching strategy<br />

from last year.<br />

“We are going to have<br />

to be more intentional with<br />

how we are going to design<br />

certain things,” Stuckslager<br />

said of his new game-bygame<br />

strategy. “Instead<br />

of last year allowing for a<br />

little more freedom within<br />

a system, we are going to<br />

hold to our system ... and<br />

slowly build upon our success<br />

as we go on.”<br />

While the team is comprised<br />

of new players, it<br />

does not lack leadership.<br />

Stuckslager said his<br />

three captains, seniors<br />

Kylie Murray and Dimi<br />

Schweitzer, and junior Leland<br />

Keller, will all lead<br />

the team in experience<br />

throughout the season.<br />

Murray, who plays forward<br />

for the Scouts, said<br />

having a younger team this<br />

year has its benefits.<br />

“Everyone is on the same<br />

level and everyone on the<br />

team offers so many different<br />

skills that are all beneficial,”<br />

Murray said.<br />

With a newer team, the<br />

girls are focused on working<br />

together and defining<br />

themselves as a different<br />

team than last year.<br />

“We have already been<br />

compared to last year’s<br />

team and we are working<br />

to make sure we are our<br />

own team,” Schweitzer<br />

said. “We are focused on<br />

not sticking to the past<br />

and moving onto the future.<br />

It is such a different<br />

style of play this year, so<br />

I think adapting to that for<br />

the returners is going to be<br />

something we have to work<br />

toward.”<br />

Murray added that defining<br />

themselves as a new<br />

team begins with working<br />

together.<br />

“Opposed to last year,<br />

there is not one or two players<br />

that stand out as stars of<br />

the team, instead we are<br />

working together,” Murray<br />

said.<br />

With a focus on competing<br />

and growing as a new<br />

team, Schweitzer said the<br />

team has a new type of determination.<br />

“One of our biggest<br />

strengths this year is drive,”<br />

Schweitzer said. “We are<br />

so determined to do well<br />

and everyone has the mentality<br />

to do their best and<br />

compete at the highest level<br />

possible.”<br />

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LakeForestLeader.com SPORTS<br />

the lake forest leader | March 22, 2018 | 31<br />

22nd Century Media File<br />

Photo<br />

1st-and-3<br />

Stars of the Week<br />

1. Audrey Kaus<br />

(ABOVE)<br />

Kaus scored five<br />

goals, of the girls<br />

lacrosse team’s<br />

12, in the first<br />

two games of<br />

the season. She<br />

recorded three<br />

in the team’s<br />

opening game<br />

against Mother<br />

McAuley Thursday,<br />

March 15.<br />

2. Kyle Wilhelm.<br />

The Scouts girls<br />

basketball coach<br />

was named 22nd<br />

Century Media’s<br />

first Coach of<br />

the Year for girls<br />

basketball for<br />

helping lead his<br />

team to another<br />

regional title game<br />

this season.<br />

3. Mary Doheny.<br />

The Lake Forest<br />

senior, an goalie<br />

on the lacrosse<br />

team, helped her<br />

team in big ways.<br />

She recorded<br />

11 saves in the<br />

team’s 5-4 win<br />

against Montini<br />

and seven against<br />

Maine South.<br />

Girls Lacrosse<br />

Senior-heavy Lake Forest squad hopes for Top 4 finish<br />

Brittany Kapa<br />

Sports Editor<br />

The Scouts have an interesting<br />

roster this season<br />

that isn’t normal for high<br />

school.<br />

The team will return five<br />

four-year varsity players<br />

and coach Catherine Catanzaro,<br />

who is returning<br />

for her fifth season as head<br />

coach, is hoping the team<br />

can improve on their success<br />

last year.<br />

“Our big goal right now<br />

is we want to be Top 4,”<br />

she said. “We really want<br />

to end up in that state semifinal<br />

game. We were so<br />

close last year, we were<br />

one game away, it really<br />

inspired us to put forth a<br />

little more effort in the offseason.”<br />

Those five seniors, and<br />

the chemistry they have<br />

built over the last four years,<br />

will play a major role in the<br />

Listen Up<br />

“I think everybody wants to send them off in a way that<br />

shows how much they are respected.”<br />

Catherine Catanzaro — Scouts girls lacrosse coach, on sending the five<br />

seniors off with a Top 4 finish this season<br />

team’s drive for a strong finish<br />

in the first year the sport<br />

is sanctioned by the IHSA.<br />

“Having these five fouryear<br />

varsity kids is going<br />

to be a very emotional season,”<br />

Catanzaro said. “We<br />

want to make it something<br />

that they will remember<br />

and that looking back<br />

they’ll be really proud to<br />

have built that.<br />

“When you have five<br />

foundational players like<br />

that it’s very rare; I think everybody<br />

wants to send them<br />

off in a way that shows how<br />

much they are respected.”<br />

Grace Geraghty, Caroline<br />

Skinner, Audrey Kaus,<br />

Kara Antonucci and Mary<br />

Doheny are the five seniors<br />

that have been on the<br />

team since freshman year.<br />

Catanzaro has seen these<br />

players grow during their<br />

time with the program.<br />

“To work with them<br />

from their freshman year<br />

tune in<br />

Girls Soccer<br />

The Scouts take their game on the road<br />

and test out their skills against the<br />

Giants.<br />

• Lake Forest at Highland Park,<br />

Thursday, March 22, 4:45 p.m.<br />

until now has been such<br />

a great experience to see<br />

how far they’ve come,” she<br />

said. “They’ve always been<br />

good. You never really, as<br />

a varsity coach, get to see<br />

them in that baby stage to<br />

now being grown ups.”<br />

Last season, the team finished<br />

17-9 and fell just shy<br />

of a Top 4 finish. They did<br />

lose some key players like<br />

Kat Ragusa, a defender,<br />

and Erica Jones, a strong<br />

attack player for the team.<br />

Catanzaro will be looking<br />

toward younger players on<br />

the roster to fill those holes.<br />

Allison Wicks, a sophomore<br />

defender, is expected<br />

to help the back field in a<br />

big way this season. Sarah<br />

Considine, a junior midfielder,<br />

will be a transitional<br />

player for the team,<br />

Catanzaro said.<br />

Another change, but for<br />

the better, is the new format<br />

for playoffs with lacrosse<br />

being an officially<br />

sanctioned IHSA sport.<br />

The sectional seeding allows<br />

for a little more wiggle<br />

room in the beginning<br />

of the season to learn from<br />

mistakes. Last season, that<br />

wasn’t the case and an early-season<br />

loss could spell<br />

disaster for the postseason.<br />

“From our standpoint it<br />

allows us more time to grow<br />

and develop,” Catanzaro<br />

said. “Having a bad game<br />

early isn’t as detrimental.”<br />

The wiggle room gives<br />

the Scouts some time to<br />

gel as a team.<br />

The IHSA sanction is a<br />

step in the right direction<br />

for the sport itself, Catanzaro<br />

said. Having grown<br />

up on the East Coast<br />

where lacrosse is among<br />

the more popular options<br />

at the youth level, it hasn’t<br />

fared the same in the Midwest.<br />

That has slowly<br />

been changing in the last<br />

Index<br />

27 - High School Highlights<br />

27 - Athlete of the Week<br />

10 years that Catanzaro<br />

has seen here. There has<br />

been a growth of interest<br />

at the youth level and has<br />

translated into more and<br />

more girls trying out the<br />

sport.<br />

This season, at the freshman<br />

and sophomore level,<br />

roughly 70 percent of the<br />

girls that tried out for the<br />

lacrosse team were new<br />

to the sport. Varsity players<br />

brought in old sticks to<br />

give younger players the<br />

chance to try the support –<br />

risk free.<br />

“They’re new to the<br />

game and they’re athletes,<br />

they want to have fun and<br />

they want to learn the<br />

game,” Catanzaro said.<br />

“It’s that community feel<br />

and we’re in this together.<br />

We don’t care if you’re a<br />

varsity kid or a kid that is<br />

just learning it. We all play<br />

for Lake Forest and we all<br />

want to get better.”<br />

Area 13 Special Olympics Aquatics Meet returns to Lake Forest College<br />

Submitted by Lake Forest College<br />

Lake Forest College will once against host<br />

the Area 13 Special Olympics Aquatics Meet.<br />

The athletics department welcomes area<br />

residents to the event 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday,<br />

March 24, at the college’s sports and recreation<br />

center.<br />

The Special Olympics is an event held every<br />

year that serves as the qualifying meet to the<br />

2018 State Summer Games. This year a total of<br />

250 Special-Olympian swimmers are expected<br />

to compete and of those, all first place finishers<br />

in their respective divisions will advance.<br />

The athletes competing are all residents<br />

from Illinois, specifically from Northern Cook<br />

County, Lake County and McHenry County.<br />

Lake Forest College faculty, staff and students<br />

along with alumni, friends and community<br />

members are encouraged to come out and<br />

cheer our local Special Olympians to victory!<br />

This even is free and open to the public. Participants<br />

will report to the ready room preceding<br />

the event and will then be paraded out to the<br />

pool deck to enhance the overall experience of<br />

the meet.<br />

Lake Forest College will host the Area 13<br />

Special Olympics Aquatics Meet Saturday,<br />

March 24 at the sports and recreation center.<br />

Photo Submitted<br />

Fastbreak is compiled by Sports Editor<br />

Brittany Kapa. Send any questions or comments to<br />

b.kapa@22ndcenturymedia.com.


Lake Forest Leader | March 22, 2018 | LakeForestLeader.com<br />

Finish with Finesse<br />

<strong>LF</strong> girls lacrosse team looking<br />

for top finish, Page 31<br />

Coach Clutch<br />

Scouts’ Wilhelm named 22CM’s<br />

Coach of the Year, Page 29<br />

Searching for the<br />

Scouts’ Way<br />

Lake Forest girls soccer<br />

looks for new way to win<br />

this season, Page 30<br />

Lake Forest’s Leland Keller (right), pictured here last season, is a returning midfield player and captain for the Scouts girls soccer team. 22nd Century Media File Photo

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