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Works of art 

Northbrook residents 

show off their artistic 

talents, Page 14 

D30 kick-starts Maple 

construction with groundbreaking 

ceremony, Page 3 

Making Waves 

GBN alumnus one of the 

most respected voices in 

water sports, Page 18 

Maple School students break ground for their new school 

during a ceremony on Thursday, April 5, in Northbrook. 

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hometown 

showcase GBN 

grad and band release 

first EP, to play Chicago 

for third time, Page 20 

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Pet of the Week6 

Editorial29 

Puzzles32 

Faith34 

Dining Out38 

Home of the Week39 

Athlete of the Week42 

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THURSDAY 

Northfield Township 

Flooding Discussion 

7 p.m., April 12, Northbrook 

Public Library, 1201 

Cedar Lane. Tim Rueckert, 

Northfield Township Road 

District Commissioner, 

will hold a public meeting 

with Township residents to 

discuss flooding problems 

in the Techny corridor/ 

watershed. The discussion 

will be held in the Northbrook 

Public Library’s 

Pollak Room A, 1201 Cedar 

Lane. Homeowners 

in the Northbrook West, 

Citation Lake and Deercrest 

Lane areas, as well as 

other concerned residents, 

are encouraged to attend. 

Call the Road District at 

(847) 724-7055 for more 

information. 

Self-Defense for Seniors 

1-2:30 p.m., April 12, 

Northbrook Public Library, 

1201 Cedar Lane. 

IMPACT Chicago teaches 

older adults skills for ensuring 

safety and defending 

against an attack. For 

ages 55+. Reserve a spot 

by calling the library or 

visiting www.northbrook. 

info. For more information, 

please call (847) 272- 

6224. 

FRIDAY 

Computers & Coffee: How 

to get Free Movies, Music 

and Magazines 

10-11:30 a.m., April 

13, Northbrook Public Library, 


Learn how to use the apps 

for RBDigital Magazines, 

Flipster Digital Magazines 

and hoopla for free movies, 

music, ebooks and 

eaudiobooks. For more 

information, please visit 

northbrook.info or call 

(847) 272-6224. 

SATURDAY 

Women’s Spring Brunch 

9-11 a.m., April 14, 

The Village Presbyterian 

Church, 1300 Shermer 

Road. All women are invited 

to enjoy a delicious 

meal and wonderful company. 

Meet The Village 

Presbyterian Church’s new 

senior pastor’s wife Missy 

Lundgaard, who will 

speak about “The 3 F’s: 

Faith, Friendship and the 

Future” Cost $15 at the 

door. Questions? Contact 

Kacky Buell at (847) 830- 

7390. 

Tips and Exercises for 

Mature Gardeners 

2 p.m., April 14, Reds 

Garden Center, 3460 

Dundee Road. Get yourself 

ready for gardening 

season by attending this 

informative and interactive 

session. It will have some 

interesting tools and tips 

to help with your gardening 

chores. We will also 

be demonstrating some 

safety and warm-up exercises, 

so come prepared to 

participate. Preregistration 

is required and the event 

is free. For more informatin, 

call (847) 272-1209 or 

email reds@redsgardencenter.com. 

SUNDAY 

Burger Day 

Sunday, April 15, Mc- 

Donald’s, 2800 Pfingsten 

Road, Glenview. GBS and 

GBN will compete in the 

14th annual Burger Day, 

a community event that 

pits the Titans and Spartans 

against each other in 

a burger-eating contest in 

order to raise money for 

Ronald McDonald House 

Charities. Over the past 

13 years, the Glenbrook 

students have raised more 

than $250,000. For more 

information, email burgerdaycharity@gmail.com. 

MONDAY 

Bees, Honey and You 

7-8:15 p.m., April 16, 

Northbrook Public Library, 


Meet suburban beekeepers 

and learn how you can 

help honeybees in your 

own backyard. Cosponsored 

by the Northbrook 

Farmer’s Market. For 

more information, please 

visit www.northbrook.info 

or call (847) 272-6224. 

TUESDAY 

Book Discussion: ‘You 

Know When the Men Are 

Gone’ 

10-11:30 a.m., April 

17, Northbrook Public Library, 


Nancy Buehler leads a 

book discussion. The April 

title will be “You Know 

When the Men Are Gone” 

by Siobhan Fallon. For 

more information, please 

visit www.northbrook.info 

or call (847) 272-6224. 

WEDNESDAY 

42nd Street at The 

Fireside, Fort Atkinson, 

Wis. 

8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., 

April 18. Join the Senior 

Center to watch an aspiring 

chorus girl come to the 

big city and land her first 

job on Broadway. The trip 

includes transportation to 

and from the Senior Center 

and lunch. Register online 

at nbparks.org or call (847) 

291-2988. Member: $129; 

Non-Member: $139 

UPCOMING 

The Comedy Nosh 

7 p.m. Thursday, April 

19, Max and Benny’s 

Restaurant & Deli, 461 

Waukegan Road. This 

monthly Dinner-and-a- 

Show includes dinner and 

live Stand-Up Comedy 

from professional comedians 

from Chicago and 

the region. This month’s 

lineup includes: Ricky 

March (Host), Kat Herskovic, 

Darius Kennedy 

and Peter-John Byrnes. 

$35/person or $60/two 

people. Limited seating. 

Call (847) 272-9490 or go 

to www.maxandbennys. 

com for reservations. 

2018 Spring Promise 

Benefit 

6:30-10:30 p.m., Saturday, 

April 21, The Glen 

Club, 2901 West Lake 

Ave. Guests will enjoy a 

beautiful setting at The 

Glen Club with cocktails, 

hors d’ oeuvres and dinner. 

The evening also includes 

raffle prizes, a wine pull, 

and dancing to a live band. 

At the event one of our 

community partners, Boys 

Hope Girls Hope, will be 

honored with the Heart of 

the Family Award for its 

outstanding contribution 

to the well-being of youth. 

Tickets are $150 per person. 

To register, call (847) 

251-7350. 

Free Comic Day 

11 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, 

May 5, North Shore Comics, 

3161 Dundee Road. 

Free Comic Book Day features 

an amazing selection 

of comic book titles for 

the industry’s most anticipated 

annual event, which 

happens May 5 at participating 

comic book shops 

worldwide. The line-up 

of titles, the great events 

staged by thousands of independent 

comic book retailers, 

and the enthusiasm 

of comic shop fans all over 

the world will make May 

5 a great day to celebrate 

comic books. Limit three 

per family. For more information, 

please call (847) 

480-1996. 

18th annual Lew Blond 

Run 

8 a.m. Saturday, May 

19, Maple School, 2370 

Shermer Road, Northbrook. 

The memorial 5K 

run/walk, 1 mile run (for 

children) supports research 

for ALS through the Les 

Turner ALS Foundation, 

as well as special District 

30 school projects. Funds 

are also allocated for 2018 

scholarships to graduating 

seniors at GBS and GBN. 

Volunteers for the two 

days prior are also needed 

to make the event a success. 

For more information, 

visit lewblondrun.org 

ONGOING 

Laughter Group 

Every Wednesday at 7 

p.m. at Glenbrook Hospital, 

2180 Pfingsten Road, 

Glenview. Join this free 

laughter group at the John 

and Carol Walter Ambulatory 

Care Center’s Lower 

Level, rooms E and F. 

Laugh together and experience 

the changes yourself. 

Call (847) 571-7553. 

Take Off Pounds Sensibly 

Want to lose weight? 

Come join TOPS in Northbrook. 

This organization 

offers a healthy, caring, 

supportive approach to 

weight control at an affordable 

price. Chapter IL 847 

Northbrook meets every 

Wednesday for a weigh-in 

(6:15-6:45 p.m.) and meeting 

(6:45-7:30 p.m.) in the 

back lower level of the 

North Northfield United 

Methodist Church at 797 

Sanders Road. For more 

information, call (847) 

564-3147. 

Chess Club 

Wednesday nights from 

7-8:45 p.m., Northbrook 

Public Library, 1201 Cedar 

Lane. Join weekly 

chess club and meet likeminded 

enthusiasts. For all 

skill levels. Chess sets and 

clocks will be provided. 

For more information, visit 

www.northbrook.info or 

call (847) 272-6224. 

To submit an item for the 

calendar, contact martin@ 

northbrooktower.com or (847) 

272-4565. Entries are due 

by noon Thursday the week 

before the publication date.

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the northbrook tower | April 12, 2018 | 3 

Students toss first dirt ahead of new school construction 

Chris Pullam 

Contributing Editor 

“This project means a great deal 

to us. It means that our students 

will have access to technology 

and learning spaces that will 

benefit their education, and it 

means we will have a consistent 

climate from classroom to 

classroom.” 

Dr. Nathan Carter — Maple principal on the 

importance of building a new middle school for 

Glenview and Northbrook students. 

Twelve Maple School 

students wielding golden 

spades broke ground for 

their new school against 

a backdrop of industrial 

bulldozers, excavators and 

backhoe loaders. 

Wearing red, plastic hard 

hats and winter coats, the 

Mustangs dug their tools 

into the ground and flung 

dirt into the sky amid a 

chorus of cheers at the 

end of Northbrook/Glenview 

School District 30’s 

groundbreaking ceremony 

on Thursday, April 5. 

Then the D30 Board of 

Education took its turn, 

followed by district administrators, 

staff, teachers, 

village leaders, local 

politicians, former board 

members, the architectural 

team from ARCON Associates 

and representatives 

from Nicholas & Associates 

Construction. 

The ceremony began 

inside the school, where 

Maple Principal Dr. Nathan 

Carter and D30 Superintendent 

Dr. Brian Wegley 

addressed a gymnasium 

packed with students, parents 

and key stakeholders. 

Local dignitaries at the 

event included Northbrook 

Village President Sandy 

Frum, Northbrook Village 

Manager Rich Nahrstadt, 

State Rep. Jonathan Carroll 

(D-Northbrook), Shiva 

Mohsenzadeh from the office 

of State Rep. Laura 

Fine (D-Glenview), State 

Sen. Julie Morrison (D- 

29th District), Northfield 

Township Supervisor Jill 

Brickman, Northbrook Library 

Director Kate Hall 

and Glenview Park District 

Director Mike McCartney. 

Also in attendance were 

former D30 board members 

Karen Roloff, Scott 

Margolin and Carlo Cavallero, 

as well as former Maple 

Principal Steven Waitz. 

Carter spent most of his 

time at the podium thanking 

the countless individuals 

who dedicated their 

time to actualizing the project, 

while Wegley outlined 

the fruits of their labor via 

a PowerPoint presentation. 

“This is truly a community 

that cares about its students, 

and they showed that 

during the referendum and 

how they voted,” Carter 

said after the ceremony. 

“This project means a great 

deal to us. It means that our 

students will have access 

to technology and learning 

spaces that will benefit their 

education, and it means we 

will have a consistent climate 

from classroom to 

classroom.” 

According to Carter, 

the current school experiences 

year-round heating 

and cooling issues, and 

students often move from 

warm classrooms to cold 

classrooms and back again 

throughout the day. To 

make matters worse, parts 

Maple students and stakeholders celebrate the construction of the new middle 

school during the groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, April 5. PHOTO SUBMITTED 

The new 111,000-square-foot school will replace the existing 89,000-square-foot 

facility that was built in 1949. IMAGE SUBMITTED 

of the current building 

leak when it rains, forcing 

educators to use sandbags 

to keep water away from 

learning areas. 

“These are environmental 

distractions that our 

students shouldn’t have 

to deal with,” Carter said. 

“Our teachers have done a 

great job managing these 

issues, but they shouldn’t 

exist in the first place.” 

While 14 classrooms in 

the current building lack 

windows and, as a result, 

natural light, the new design 

stresses open space 

and floor-to-ceiling windows. 

It also encourages 

exploration through a number 

of convertible areas, 

such as stairways with attached 

benches for collaboration 

on group projects, 

and innovative learning 

environments, like a twostory 

science space for 

gravitational experiments. 

Several components of 

the old school, such as the 

sports wall, will find a new 

home in the new structure. 

Others, like the area 

celebrating the Six Pillars 

of Character, will be completely 

remodeled. 

“We live those pillars 

every day here at Maple,” 

Carter said. “Our students 

embrace the concept 

as they live their lives. 

They’re not taught separately 

from other subjects 

here. They’re taught parcel 

to everything else at Maple. 

It’s just who we are.” 

Voters in District 30 

overwhelmingly supported 

the construction of a new 

Maple School, with a threequarters 

majority voting in 

favor of the $36.3 million 

bond referendum in April 

2017. 

The District will also 

spend $5.2 million of its reserves 

on the project for a 

total price tag of $41.5 million. 

The majority, $40.6 

million, will go toward the 

new school, with another 

$369,600 and $508,480 

for STEM, classroom and 

parking improvements at 

Wescott and Willowbrook 

schools, respectively. 

In February 2018, the 

board officially signed off 

on the new school, approving 

four contracts tied to the 

construction of the facility. 

The new 111,000-squarefoot 

school, the future 

home of District 30’s sixththrough 

eighth-graders, 

will replace the existing 

roughly-89,000-squarefoot 

facility that was built 

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Max 

The Epstein family, 

of Northbrook 

This is Max Epstein, a 4-yearold 

lab mix. Max use to live at 

the Heartland Animal Shelter 

before he was adopted by the 

Epstein family. 

Max now has three brothers and a sister. Max lives 

in a house with a big back yard that he loves to run 

around in and chase squirrels and other animals. 

Max loves playing keep away, going to the Doggie 

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Police Reports 

$3,000 worth of construction equipment stolen 

Approximately $3,000 

worth of construction tools 

were stolen at 12:38 p.m. 

on April 2 from a residency 

in the 1700 block of Ellendale. 

Unknown person(s) removed 

the tools from the 

property while construction 

work was being done. 

In other police news: 

April 5 

• A resident was alerted by 

their bank processing center 

about four fraudulent 

transactions that occurred 

on recent transactions 

totaling approximately 

$9,200. 

• Darrian Lebranch, 22, 

of Freeport, was charged 

with improper lane usage, 

no valid driver’s license 

and a bond forfeiture warrant 

from DuPage County, 

at 4:17 a.m. in the intersection 

of Willow and Waukegan. 

Officers stopped a vehicle 

after noticing a traffic 

offense. When stopped, 

they learned the driver did 

not have a valid license 

and had an outstanding 

warrant for her arrest from 

DuPage County. 

April 4 

• Cassandra Carr, 46, of 

Joliet, was charged with a 

misdemeanor count of retail 

theft at 7:33 p.m. at the 

Homegoods store, located 

in the 800 block of Willow 

road. Carr was observed 

leaving the store without 

paying for several items. 

She was stopped at Walters 

and Waukegan shortly 

after and a loss prevention 

specialist was able to identify 

her as the subject. She 

was also found to have an 

outstanding warrant for her 

arrest from Will County. 

April 3 

• When a resident of the 

1100 block of White 

Mountain returned home 

from vacation, several 

windows and a rear patio 

door was open. After 

checking their house, they 

found several jewelry boxes 

that contained various 

items missing. 

April 2 


4000 block of Sunset Lane 

returned home from work, 

they noticed damage to 

their rear door. It’s believe 

that entry was not made. 

• Gregory H. McQuillan, 

51, of Mundelein, was 

charged with distracted 

driving (ear buds in), improper 

lane usage, driving 

while under the influence 

BAC more than .08, at 

3:10 p.m. in the 600 block 

of Waukegan. 

• A resident of the 1200 

block of Rudolph purchased 

an item of Ebay 

and was notified that the 

package was delivered for 

them. When they arrived 

to pick up the item, it was 

not there. 

April 1 

• Fernando Montesinos- 

Rojas, 36, of Wheeling, 

was charged with driving 

while under the influence, 

driving while under the 

influence BAC more than 

.08, driving with a revoked 

driver’s license, illegal 

transportation of alcohol 

and improper lane usage at 

9:55 p.m. in the intersection 

of Dundee and Sanders. 

March 31 

• Nurgeldi Rahmanov, 29, 

of Chicago, was charged 

with improper lane usage, 

speeding, driving while 

under the influence and 

driving while under the 

influence BAC more than 

.08 at 4:37 a.m. in the intersection 

of Dundee and 

Midway. 


4000 block of Sunset returned 

home, they discovered 

an interior door had 

been forced open. Several 

closet doors were found 

open and items were thrown 

to the floor. It’s unknown if 

anything was missing. 

• Klevontaye White, 30, of 

Chicago, was charged with 

no tail lights and driving 

with a suspended license at 

10 p.m. in the intersection 

of Dundee and Shermer. 

• Robert A. Groh Jr., 21, of 

Northbrook, was charged 

with driving with a taillight 

out and driving with 

a suspended license at 1:03 

a.m. in the intersection of 

Dundee and Shermer. 

March 30 

• Unknown subject(s) 

broke a window and 

gained entry into a home 

in the 4000 block of Pamela 

Lane at 10:33 p.m. 

• Zakaria Laamrani, 34, 

of Wheeling, was charged 

with retail theft at 4:05 p.m. 

at the Saks off Fifth store 

located in the 100 block of 

Skokie Boulevard. Laamrani 

removed two pairs of 

shorts from the store without 

paying for them. She 

was processed and released 

after posting bond. 

• A resident received a 

phone call from a caller 

stating they were calling 

from the American Police 

Alliance. No further information 

was furnished, but 

the resident was worried 

they had been scammed. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The 

Northbrook Tower’s Police 

Reports are compiled from 

official reports found on file 

at the Northbrook Police 

Department headquarters 

in Northbrook. Individuals 

named in these reports are 

considered innocent of all 

charges until proven guilty in 

a court of law. 

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in 1949. It will be on the 

same Shermer Road location, 

but the main facility 

will be built on the athletic 

field of the current building. 

Construction will conclude 

in time for the 2019- 

20 school year, meaning 

the current sixth-graders 

will start and finish their 

eighth-grade year in the 

new building. 

School administration 

and staff, which have been 

working out of trailers adjacent 

to the current Maple 

building, will be based in 

the Northview Bank and 

Trust building on Waukegan 

Road in Northfield during 

the construction. 

Last year’s referendum 

didn’t include an outline 

for how to replace the administrative 

building connected 

to the current facility, 

but the board approved 

the construction of a new 

two-story structure that will 

be part of the Maple School 

rebuilding project during 

its March 15 meeting. 

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Northbrook D27 Board of Education 

Majority of student fees 

likely to remain the same 

Board will vote at 

April 19 meeting 

Todd Marver 

Freelance Reporter 

With the exception of 

a possible increase in the 

book and materials fee for 

grades 3-5, students fees 

will likely remain the same 

in Northbrook School District 

27. 

The Board of Education 

reviewed the proposed student 

fee recommendations 

for the 2018-19 school 

year at its Thursday, April 

5 meeting. The board is 

scheduled to vote on approving 

the fees at its April 

19 meeting. The District is 

recommending a $10 increase 

in the book and materials 

fee for grades 3-5 

for next school year from 

$45 to $55. The rest of the 

student fees besides the 

book and material fee for 

grades 3-5 are proposed 

to remain the same as the 

2017-18 school year. 

On an annual basis, the 

District reviews and tracks 

the cost of consumable 

resources and online subscriptions. 

This year for grades 3-5, 

the District added several 

new consumable resources 

for the science curriculum 

as well as a new online 

subscription for math. 

Both resources have been 

used heavily this year and 

will be recommended for 

use in 2018-19. 

The online subscription 

was free for the first year 

of use. However, a fee 

structure will be in place 

for 2018-19 and forward. 

The recommended $10 fee 

increase to the book and 

material fee for grades 3-5 

is in order to cover that 

subscription cost. The increase 

will keep the District 

in line with meeting 

the benchmark of a 50 percent 

cost split between the 

Board of Education and 

parents. 

“We do have a new consumable 

resource and the 

online subscription that 

will increase costs just a 

little bit in that area,” assistant 

superintendent for 

finance and operations 

Kimberly Arakelian said. 

“That $10 fee increase will 

help us to maintain that 

benchmark.” 

For grades K-2 and 6-8, 

the District is in line with 

current costs and maintains 

the benchmark of a 

50 percent cost split between 

the Board of Education 

and parents without 

needing to increase the 

book and material fees for 

those grade levels. 

The book and material 

fee for grades K-2 is proposed 

to remain at $40 

and grades 6-8 at $45. The 

grades K-2 school supply 

fee is slated to remain at 

$40. 

The District is continuing 

the school supply ordering 

program for grades 

K-2 for the 2018-19 school 

year. Classroom teachers 

organize and manage purchasing 

of school supplies 

for grades K-2, which is 

why there is a difference 

in fee structure between 

grades K-2 and 3-5. Grades 

K-2 have the $40 school 

supply fee, while school 

supply kits for grades 3-5 

are coordinated through 

the Shabonee PTA. 

“For Shabonee, the PTA 

still coordinates the school 

supply kit for the kids,” 

Arakelian said. “But for 

Hickory Point, it works 

a little bit differently in 

terms of the teachers making 

sure that the classroom 

supplies are ordered within 

the budget.” 

Arakelian added that it’s 

less costly for grades 3-5 

to continue with the school 

supply kits. 

“It saves the parents a 

lot of money,” she said. 

“We actually cost it out 

for grades 3-5 and it’s still 

cheaper to do the school 

supply kit through the PTA 

for those grade levels. But 

we certainly have been 

able to cut the cost in half 

for grades K-2, so that’s 

worked nicely for us.” 

The field trips/on-site 

performances fee for 

grades K-5 is slated to remain 

at $10 and grades 6-8 

at $20. The milk fee for 

all grades is proposed to 

remain at $5, grade 6 calculator 

fee at $15, grade 

6 P.E. uniform fee at $20, 

grades 6-8 yearbook fee 

at $25, grades 3-5 technology 

fee at $50, grades 

6-8 technology fee at $145 

and bus fee for all grades 

at $385. The technology 

fees are directly related 

to the one-to-one student 

netbook program offered 

at each grade level and 

the costs to maintain the 

program. The District will 

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benchmark between a 67 

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12 | April 12, 2018 | The Northbrook tower News 


Winnetka group leads cleanup of NB forest preserve 

Nathan Worcester 


Unseasonably cold temperatures 

on Saturday, April 

7, did not stop members of 

the Winnetka Youth Organization 

(WYO) and other 

North Shore organizations 

from removing invasive 

plants along the River Trail 

Nature Center in Northbrook 

during its Forest Preserve 

Restoration Workday. 

More than two dozen 

people showed up for the 

trail cleanup, which was 

this week’s social service 

opportunity for WYO participants. 

Christina Gikas, executive 

director of the WYO, 

explained the weekly opportunities 

are intended to 

empower adolescents by 

showing them their own 

capacity to make their local 

community a better place. 

Gikas said this particular 

experience was so important 

to the youth involved 

in the WYO. 

“Forests have a lot of 

value to our lives — trees 

allow us to breathe and 

live,” she said. “We are 

responsible as humans to 

help restore and maintain 

their natural state. Volunteering 

for a couple of 

hours a week, or a few 

hours a month, could really 

make a difference.” 

The WYO program 

participants focused on 

the removal of common 

buckthorn, a tenacious, 

berry-laden shrub that 

is not native to the Midwest. 

Buckthorn chokes 

out wildflowers and other 

understory plant species, 

making them a big problem 

for the ecosystem in 

Illinois and nearby states. 

After receiving instructions 

and tools, the volunteers 

made their way to 

an area where buckthorn 

Teens from across the North Shore and surrounding suburbs gathered at River 

Trail Nature Center in Northbrook on Saturday, April 7, for the Winnetka Youth 

Organization’s Forest Preserve Restoration Workday, helping remove invasive 

plants. PHOTOS BY RHONDA HOLCOMB/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

Dylan Gururajan (left), 13, and Jack Sokol, 14, from Boy Scout Troop 912 in Evanston, 

help with workday cleanup. 

plant numbers were especially 

high. Protected from 

the plants by gardening 

gloves, goggles and many 

layers of warm clothing, 

they cleared hundreds of 

the plants over the course 

of two hours. 

Once the teens and 

adult volunteers removed 

the plants using saws and 

other tools, they dropped 

them in a fire pit to burn 

them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 

this was a lot of fun 

for the teenage volunteers. 

Afterwards, Gikas reflected 

on the lasting value 

of this experience for 

adolescents who had not 

previously considered the 

delicate balance of nature 

in their own backyards. 

“Our students have 

never thought about plants 

that may affect the ecosystem 

and how we can volunteer 

to help bring [the 

land] back to its natural 

state,” Gikas said. 

Although the WYO 

has participated in beach 

cleanups before, this 

marks the first occasion 

that they have cleaned up 

Forest Preserve land. 

“This experience was so 

great… We will definitely 

continue to volunteer at 

Winnetka Youth Organization members and Wilmette 

residents Maggie Cao (left), 15, and Sela Cornell, 15, 

clear buckthorn. 

Jerry Attere, a naturalist with River Trail Nature Center 

in Northbrook, talks to volunteers. 

Christina Gikas (left), executive director of the Winnetka 

Youth Organization, and Chloe Craig, 13, of Winnetka, 

clear buckthorn. 

forest preserves,” she said. 

The WYO’s April programming 

also includes 

its annual Spring Benefit, 

which will take place this 

coming Saturday, April 14, 

at Avli Estiatorio in Winnetka. 

At that event, there 

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Northbrook Originals Exhibit opens, features work of Northbrook residents 



On the evening of Thursday, 

April 5, the Northbrook 

Public Library, normally 

a space of silence, 

reflection, and last-minute 

cramming, was alive with 

the sound of local artists 

and art enthusiasts. They 

had gathered for the opening 

reception of the Northbrook 

Originals Art Show, 

which was organized by 

the Northbrook Arts Commission. 

Northbrook Arts Commission 

Chairman Bruce 

Bondy explained that all of 

the exhibiting artists were 

Northbrook residents. He 

also elaborated on the wide 

range of styles on display. 

“You have [the] artists 

who are very focused on 

representation and the idea 

of transcribing what you 

see. And then you have artists 

that are more interpretive 

or work strictly from 

their imagination,” Bondy 

said. 

One artist who bridges 

those categories is Karina 

Llergo. She exhibited 

her oil painting “Break 

Through,” a robust piece 

that drips in Dalian fashion 

from a watery reflection 

overhead past an impasto 

dress to the central female 

figure’s arching, en pointe 

foot. 

Llergo explained that 

this surrealistic painting is 

derived from her own life 

experiences and reflects the 

three central themes of water, 

dance and air that permeate 

her work. 

“I have always been attracted 

to figurative painting 

since I was little, so I 

have always [painted] bodies,” 

Llergo said. “I used to 

be a dancer for many years 

and a competitive swimmer, 

so that’s what I’m 

mixing. ... The water for me 

Northbrook resident Felissa Onixt poses with her work, which is a color landscape 

photograph taken at Red Rock Canyon Open Space in Colorado Springs, Colo. Onixt 

and other Northbrook residents first displayed their work on April 5 at an opening 

reception for the Northbrook Originals Art Show. Photos by Nathan Worcester/22nd 

Century Media. 

represents my meditation 

time. I still swim, so that’s 

where I find my peace and 

my time to think about everything. 

I have four kids, 

so you can imagine that it’s 

always crazy.” 

Llergo credits Northbrook’s 

public swimming 

pools with helping her keep 

up her exercise routine 

during the summer. Her 

daughters, who are students 

at Glenbrook North High 

School, have also served as 

models for her work. 

Artist Ken Call has been 

a Northbrook resident since 

1995. Although he specializes 

in portraiture, Call submitted 

“Sunset Harbor,” a 

watercolor landscape that 

he painted in 2005 for his 

wife. 

He explained that the 

painting was based on several 

pictures that he took 

while living in France. 

“[Northbrook] is such 

a nice community — it’s 

easy to find people to model 

and paint,” said Call, who 

counts John Singer Sargent 

and Norman Rockwell as 

key influences. 

Photographer, painter 

and art therapist Jerry Lidsky 

described his piece, a 

photograph called “Side 

by Side,” in more psychological 

and philosophical 

terms. 

“Art therapy is a nonverbal 

communication,” 

Lidsky said. “So if someone 

is so caught up in 

whatever’s going on in 

their lives that they really 

can’t talk about it, and yet 

the expression comes out in 

the painting or in the drawing 

or whatever it happens 

to be — then suddenly, they 

realize that someone understands 

something — that 

there’s a communication. 

And then it opens up the 

door. So, many times, one 

of the things that I attempt 

to do is open up for myself 

some of that intensity.” 

He explained that by depicting 

his colorful subject 

matter — in this case, flowers 

— on a larger scale and 

in greater detail, he can provide 

himself and the viewer 

what he calls “the entrance 

into another world.” 

“If you allow yourself 

those moments to slow 

down and take the chance 

to go into another space, 

then you experience something,” 

Lidsky said. “So 

that’s what that’s about; 

allowing one to go deeper 

and quieter and closer.” 

Photographer Rob Sills 

hews closer to the abstract 

end of the spectrum. Entitled 

“Autumn Leaves,” 

his submission represents 

autumn leaves at the Chicago 

Botanic Garden using 

images taken with a mobile 

camera. 

Sills then manipulated 

and combined the images 

using Photoshop. 

Jerry Lidsky with his work, “Side by Side.” 

“I’m intrigued with photography 

and finding ways 

of adding abstraction to the 

representation so that it’s 

more of a feeling [and] a 

question for the viewer to 

complete than pure realism,” 

said Sills, who has 

been able to pursue photography 

more seriously 

since retiring from IBM. 

“When I take pictures that 

are more realistic, I tend to 

look at their potential surrealistic 

dimensions based 

on the topic. I’m intrigued 

by color and shape and the 

way those play with each 

other.” 

New Trier High School 

photography teacher and 

photographer Felissa Onixt 

explained that working with 

students had kept her well 

aware of the technological 

changes in photography. 

However, she emphasized 

that she still taught basic 

darkroom techniques to 

her students, who almost 

always said that they preferred 

it to working with 

digital tools. 

“Years ago, when I 

started teaching, to see a 

photograph took days,” 

Onixt said. “We still do 

that at New Trier, too. But 

now pictures are so quick. 

Well, they never were… 

Now we’re still doing film 

in high school, and we do 

digital, but now I’m really 

trying to teach them to slow 

down.” 

Onixt’s piece is a color 

landscape photograph taken 

at Red Rock Canyon 

Open Space in Colorado 

Springs, Colo. This photograph, 

which is appropriately 

titled “Red Rock 

Open Space,” is printed on 

metal. 

“I think when I’m shooting 

I’m just 100 percent 

in my element, hiking 

around,” Onixt said. “It 

gives me a huge sense of 

peace when I’m out there 

with my camera. And then 

when I can bring it in the 

lab, then it’s super fun to 

alter things a little bit.” 

The Northbrook Originals 

Art Show will be on 

display at Northbrook Public 

Library until May 29.

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Feeling good and giving back 

Halo Medicine 

donating portion 

of proceeds to 

Northbrook YMCA 

Jacqueline Glosniak 


For the past three years, 

Northfield business Halo 

Laser & Aesthetic Medicine 

has helped local adults 

combat the aging process 

through their Botox services, 

laser skin treatments 

and platelet-rich plasma 

therapies. 

And, along with helping 

adults feel their best, Halo 

has also made it a priority 

to help combat financial 

strains area children and 

their families may have 

through fundraising for 

various programs at Northbrook-based 

North Suburban 

YMCA. 

After all, Halo owner 

Dr. Promila Banerjee — 

who serves on the board 

for the North Suburban 

YMCA — has strong roots 

with the organization, as 

she and her siblings grew 

up participating in various 

programs with her local 

YMCA while growing up 

in Wilmington, Del. 

So, at the medical center’s 

third anniversary celebration 

and open house on 

April 21, Banerjee and her 

husband, Stan Menezes, are 

hosting a party with specials 

on treatments and earmarking 

10 percent of the 

day’s profits to the Strong 

Kids Charity at the North 

Suburban YMCA, an annual 

fundraising campaign 

which helps give financial 

assistance to families in 

need for YMCA programs. 

This year, many of the 

YMCA’s Strong Kids funds 

will go towards summer 

camp and swim lesson assistance. 

“We firmly believe in the 

Northbrook residents and owners of Northfield’s Halo 

Laser & Aesthetic Medicine, Dr. Promila Banerjee 

and Stan Menezes, are donating 10 percent of their 

anniversary celebration proceeds from April 21 to the 

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local woman and children,” 

Banerjee said. “We are in 

a very affluent community, 

but we don’t realize how 

many families need assistance 

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lessons.” 

At their community open 

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In the last year alone, 

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GBN grad making waves in water sports world 

Martin Carlino, Editor 

Even though Danny 

Amir grew up more than 

1,000 miles away from the 

state of Florida, he always 

knew he would one day 

end up in Orlando. 

Amir, a graduate of 

Glenbrook North in 2000, 

spent his teenage years 

on the chase. But Amir’s 

chase was never one for 

money or affection, rather 

one for unfrozen water — 

a needed means for pursuing 

his near-lifelong love 

of water sports. And Orlando, 

often deemed the 

mecca of water sports, was 

always his end goal. 

“In my mind, I kind of 

always wanted to get down 

to Florida so that I could be 

on the water all the time,” 

Amir said. “When I was 

a teenager, all I wanted to 

do was be on the water all 

day.” 

While living in Northbrook, 

Amir spent his 

summers traveling to Twin 

Lakes, Wis., where he 

learned to water ski and 

developed a love for the 

sport through the Aquanuts 

water ski club. 

Following his time at 

GBN, Amir got a job at 

Munson Ski and Marine, 

where he worked with 

some of the best water-skiing 

equipment available. 

In his early 20s, after 

two years at Munson, 

Amir saved enough money 

and followed his best 

friend Erik Ruck south to 

Florida. 

Once there, Amir knew 

a professional career as a 

water skier may be nothing 

more than idealistic, 

but his passion for water 

sports never faded and his 

goal remained simple. 

“I always kind of knew 

that I wasn’t going to be 

a pro, but my goal was to 

always gain exposure for 

water sports,” Amir said. 

“I wanted to get photos 

and just show people that 

you don’t necessarily have 

to be a champion in the 

sport ... you can still be 

doing something for the 

sport. It was always about 

getting water sports seen.” 

Amir continued to travel 

between the Midwest and 

Florida for the next several 

years, with his water skiing 

as a Aquanut remaining 

constant. 

In 2005, while skiing 

with the club in Wisconsin, 

organizers of the Wakeboard 

National Championships 

asked Amir if he had 

any interest in announcing 

one of the sports biggest 

events, which was slated to 

be held in Kenosha, Wis. 

Amir turned down the 

initial opportunity, but just 

one year later the same opportunity 

presented itself, 

this time with an added 

incentive, a chance to announce 

the entire Wakeboard 

World Series — and 

Amir couldn’t refuse. 

The Northbrook native 

has since gone on to build 

the reputation as one of the 

most respected and recognized 

voices in the water 

sports community. And 

earlier this year, Amir received 

the Water Sports Industry 

Association’s 2018 

Larry Meddock award, one 

of the highest honors in the 

water sports industry. 

The award recognizes a 

person or group who has 

gone above and beyond 

to promote or grow the 

water sports community 

by volunteering, helping 

underprivileged groups, 

or starting an organization 

that grows or promotes the 

sport. 

WSIA’s Executive Director 

Kevin Michael explained 

why Amir was 

a strong choice for the 

award. 

Glenbrook North graduate Danny Amir smiles after receiving the 2018 Larry Meddock award, one of the highest 

honors in the water sports industry. Photos Submitted 

“[He] is not in this for 

the money, and there’s no 

financial reward that he 

would do this for – he goes 

out of his way to promote 

the sport because he loves 

it,” Michael said. 

Now in his 14th year of 

announcing water sports, 

Amir, a self-described 

introvert, can’t believe 

where his life has taken 

him. 

“Announcing was never 

really something that was 

on my radar when I was in 

school,” Amir said. “I’m 

very proud of my accomplishments. 

... I’ve been 

able to travel around the 

world multiple times. ... 

Some of my earliest memories 

are being out on the 

boat. My dad taught me 

how to water ski. Who 

would have thought that 

something we did to get 

away from the real world 

would actually turn into a 

career.” 

Although Amir has accomplished 

a lot over his 

career, his commitment to 

raising funds for various 

charity endeavors is one 

thing that has remained a 

constant. 

Amir has devoted several 

efforts to raising funds for a 

longtime friend of his who 

died from Leukemia more 

than 10 years ago. Amir 

has helped raised nearly 

$20,000 in her memory. 

The storied announcer, 

who is often referred to as 

“Dano the Mano” throughout 

the water sports community, 

doesn’t make it up 

to Northbrook as much as 

he once did. But, his time 

at GBN is one memory 

of Northbrook he’ll never 

forget. 

“One thing that I’ve realized 

about GBN was that 

those teachers worked so 

hard to leave no kid behind,” 

Amir said. “Even 

though I wasn’t in some of 

the highest classes, I feel 

like I got an insanely good 

education. ... It just seems 

like there was a lot of success 

and positivity that 

came out of GBN.” 

Amir interviews Austin Keen during his “Golden 

Mic” podcast. Amir has spent more than 14 years 

announcing water sports. 

Amir developed a love for water skiing at an early age. 

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GBN grad’s band releases first EP, returns to perform in Chicago 


Glenbrook North graduate 

Phil Levine and his band Stone 

Arch Isles have spent the last 

two years writing songs. The 

hope of the two-year endeavor 

was simplistic in nature, one that 

countless bands have worked to 

achieve and one that was embedded 

with the desire of finding the 

perfect compilation of music that 

represents its sound. 

On March 9, 13 months after 

recording commenced, Stone 

Arch Isles released “Kingdoms,” 

a six-song EP showcasing the 

band’s work. 

“[Kingdoms] is such a beautiful 

cumulation for us of the past 

two years of our life,” said Carlos 

Kelley, the band’s drummer. 

The band consists of six members: 

Levine, Kelley, Alex Chapdelaine, 

Matt Gleason, Daniel 

Chapdelaine and Trevor Stroschein. 

After Alex and Daniel Chapdelaine 

became friends with 

Gleason in high school, the trio 

decided to head to the University 

of Minnesota, where they met the 

Northbrook native Levine. The 

addition of Kelley shortly thereafter 

added the final piece to the 

puzzle and the rest is history. 

Now, the band will return to 

Chicago for its third live performance, 

this time through Sofar 

Sounds, a company that specializes 

in presenting music in an 

intimate and respectful setting. 

Stone Arch Isles will play on 

April 14 in Logan Square, to a 

sold-out crowd. 

The band’s performance will 

be videotaped live, a characteristic 

of the show it highly anticipates. 

“We want to bring something 

special to that taping as well,” 

Kelley said. “The more we can 

expose people to all the different 

ways we can sound, the more 

important it is.” 

Per Levine, the band will 

even showcase a unique element 

for the show. All vocals will be 

“straight from their mouths” 

paired with a mixture of an 

acoustic and “very clean sounding 

electric guitar,” according to 

Levine. 

Although it will be the third 

time the band has played Chicago, 

the show will still hold 

special meaning. 

“We’ve been to Chicago twice 

and we’ve really enjoyed it with 

the band,” Daniel Chapdelaine 

said. “It’s always a ton of fun.” 

The performance will hold a 

little extra sentiment for Levine, 

who considers Chicago shows a 

homecoming of sorts. 

“What I love about playing 

Chicago is that it’s an opportunity 

to show the people that gave 

to me and showed me lessons 

that I’m using what they gave me 

... that I’m growing and using the 

lessons that I’ve learned from 

them,” he said. “It’s a way of 

getting to say thank you and it’s 

really special for that reason.” 

Levine mentioned GBN educators 

Julie Ann Robinson and 

Chad Davidson as two of the 

people who taught him great lessons 

while at GBN and helped 

him refine his craft. 

After its Chicago show, time 

on the road is something the 

band envisions more of. 

“We’re going to try and make 

touring more of a thing in the future,” 

Daniel Chapdelaine said. 

Phil Levine (right) and his band Stone Arch Isles perform during a 2017 show. Stone Arch Isles recently 

released “Kingdoms,” a six-song EP. Photos Submitted 

Pictured are 

band members 

(top row, left 

to right) Alex 

Chapdelaine, Matt 

Gleason, Daniel 

Chapdelaine and 

Carlos Kelley, and 

Trevor Stroschein 

(bottom left) 

and Phil Levine 

(bottom right). 

The band will 

perform on April 

14 in Logan 

Square to a soldout 

crowd. 

From the Village 

Plan Commission recommends approval of 

two special permits 

During its regular meeting, the Plan Commission 

conducted two public hearings. 

The first hearing was an application filed 

by Northshore Car Center, LLC, requesting 

special permit approval for an automotive 

repair business with accessory outdoor 

automobile storage and an automotive detailing 

facility. The Commission will vote 

on a resolution at its April 17 meeting. 

The second hearing was on an application 

filed by Wiss, Janney, Elsner Associates, 

Inc., requesting special permit 

approval for two wall signs, with a total 

height in exccess of 20’ from grade. The 

Commission adopted a resolution recommending 

approval and an ordinance approving 

the wall signs appeared on the 

April 10 Village Board agenda. 

Fire Department welcomes 5 new 

firefighters 

Five firefighters were sworn in on April 

2. The Village of Northbrook welcomed 

Daniel Leszka, Eric Brouilette, Thomas 

Longaker, Jack Trimble and Robert Heroux. 

From the Village is information submitted by 

the Village of Northbrook, www.northbrook. 

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New owners of Plaza del 

Lago address rumors 

Soon after Retail Properties 

of America, Inc. 

bought Wilmette’s Plaza 

del Lago for a reported 

$48 million earlier this 

year, talk about the historic 

shopping center’s future 

reached a feverish pitch. 

Rumors of the new owners 

knocking down parts of 

the center and building condominiums 

have circulated 

throughout the community. 

“Nothing at this time is 

set in stone of what we’re 

going to do, but as I’ve 

told the existing tenants, 

our plan is to improve 

what’s there,” said Stacy 

Short, vice president and 

leasing director of RPAI’s 

Western Division. “We 

want to lease the spaces 

that are vacant and bring in 

additional businesses that 

will bring in extra traffic.” 

RPAI, based in Oak 

Brook, currently has 112 

retail operating properties 

that total 20.3 million 

square feet. 

Opening in 1928, Plaza 

del Lago is one of the nation’s 

oldest shopping 

centers. Since 1971, the 

Moss family had owned 

the property when Joseph 

Moss purchased it. Moss, 

90, died in March 2017. 

“We’re excited to own 

the asset,” Short said. “We 

want to make sure that 

people know we are here 

and local to the area.” 

Plaza del Lago, which 

features Spanish-style architecture, 

consists of retail 

and office space. The center 

is anchored by several 

national tenants, including 

Jewel, CVS, and North- 

Shore University Health- 

System. 

Reporting by Eric 

DeGrechie, Managing Editor. 

Full story WilmetteBeacon. 

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THE GLENCOE ANCHOR 

Despite erosion at 

neighboring beaches, 

Glencoe Beach ready for 

season 

It’s full steam ahead for 

Glencoe Beach this season. 

As beach season approaches, 

the Glencoe 

Park District, which manages 

the Glencoe Beach, 

said things are looking 

good, in terms of water 

levels and erosion. 

“The beach is going 

to open as normal,” said 

Bobby Collins, Glencoe 

Park District’s director of 

recreation and facilities. 

“We’ve been monitoring it 

a lot and going down there 

a lot. There have been no 

major changes in the last 

three months.” 

Opening day is planned 

for May 26 at Glencoe 

Beach and it will close for 

the season over Labor Day 

Weekend. 

Recent reports have 

shown water levels rising 

at the beach, but Collins 

said it’s nothing out of the 

ordinary. 

Last fall, as a result of 

rising Lake Michigan water 

levels, Glencoe Beach 

faced a large issue after 

sand movement left a 16- 

inch water main exposed 

at Perlman Boating Beach, 

adjacent to Glencoe 

Beach. The main, which 

went out of service temporarily, 

transported treated 

water from the Village’s 

water plant out to the main 

water network. 

“The water main was 

running the length of the 

sailing beach,” Collins 

said. “We faced so much 

erosion that it was exposed 

but the Village relocated 

it.” 

Reporting by Megan 

Bernard, Contributing Editor. 

Full story at GlencoeAnchor. 

com. 

THE WINNETKA CURRENT 

Expansion of Winnetka 

Community House parking 

lot gets green light 

In a unanimous decision, 

the Winnetka Village 

Council approved a 

special-use permit to allow 

for the long-awaited 

expansion of the existing 

parking lot at the Winnetka 

Community House at its 

Tuesday, April 3 regular 

meeting. 

According to the B-1 

Multiple Family Residential 

Zoning District code 

for the village, parking lots 

are allowed to be designated 

as special use. With 

the approved decision, the 

existing Champion House 

building will be demolished 

so that the parking 

lot can be expanded from 

fitting 20 vehicles to 26 

vehicles. Additionally, 

the Community House is 

proposing the parking lot 

as a temporary or interim 

use for the property, and 

as such, the parking lot 

is being constructed with 

a 2-inch layer of asphalt 

over gravel. It is estimated 

to have a life span of approximately 

five to seven 

years. 

The Community House 

is currently engaged in 

strategic planning for its 

operations and facilities. 

At the completion of the 

strategic planning process, 

it is expected to provide direction 

for the future longterm 

use of the parcel. 

Each body recommended 

approval with the Plan 

Commission and Zoning 

Board of Appeals recommendations 

conditioned 

upon a term being placed 

on the special-use permit. 

However, the council opted 

not to place a term on 

the permit. 

“I’d be in favor of eliminating 

(a term),” trustee 

Kristin Ziv said. 

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Kenyan Senator makes annual visit to Northbrook schools 



Kenyan senator and 

education activist Fred 

Outa came back to Northbrook 

to speak to students 

at schools in Northbrook 

District 28. He has visited 

the community frequently 

since 2004, when the District 

adopted Outa’s K-8 

school, Spurgeons Academy. 

Spurgeons Academy has 

roughly 500 students and 

is located in Kibera, which 

is the largest slum in Kenya. 

Most of the children 

at Spurgeons are full or 

partial orphans. 

Outa himself was once 

an orphan living in Kibera. 

He eventually connected 

with an American couple 

who helped him obtain an 

education in the United 

States. 

“Every year, we have a 

big fundraiser,” said Joli 

Fridman, who is president 

of the Fred Outa Foundation. 

“They help to raise 

money to help support the 

students in our adopted 

sister school over in Kenya. 

… We’ve sent school 

supplies, medicine [and] 

food over the years.” 

Fridman also confirmed 

that the Fred Outa Foundation 

has no administrative 

overhead, meaning that 

100 percent of the money 

raised in Northbrook goes 

to children in Kibera. 

This year, the foundation’s 

fundraiser took 

place on April 7 at Athletico 

in Northbrook and 

featured food, games and 

inflatables. The money 

that was raised will help 

send two high-performing 

girls to high school. 

Outa noted that a previous 

Northbrook District 

28 fundraiser had helped 

him build a high school for 

girls in Kibera, St. Esther’s 

Kenyan Senator Fred Outa talks with students from Northbrook’s Meadowbrook 

School on April 6. Photos submitted 

Girls High School, which 

has not yet opened. 

On Thursday, April 5, 

Outa talked to students 

at Greenbriar School and 

Westmoor School. On Friday, 

April 6, he talked to 

students at Meadowbrook 

School. 

At Meadowbrook, the 

attendees of Outa’s talk 

included Superintendent 

Dr. Larry Hewitt. Outa 

was introduced by Meadowbrook’s 

principal, Pat 

Thome. 

Outa first spoke to the 

school’s kindergarteners, 

first graders, and second 

graders. 

“Jambo!” he said, greeting 

them in Swahili. Most 

of the kids echoed him. 

Outa went on to explain 

the differences between 

life in Kibera and in 

Northbrook. 

“They do not have tarmac 

roads. They do not 

have clean water. There is 

no electricity,” Outa said. 

Pointing to a photograph 

of Kibera projected behind 

him, he explained that the 

pigs in the picture were 

eating filthy runoff from 

the slum’s human dwellings. 

He also explained 

that many of the children 

at Spurgeons subsist on 

one meal a day provided at 

the school. 

“There’s no TV,” said 

Outa to audible gasps. 

After the youngest children 

left, Outa spoke to 

the school’s third, fourth 

and fifth-graders. He gave 

them a more sophisticated 

description of how a place 

like Kibera comes to be. 

“Sometimes they have 

come from the village… in 

their rural homes,” he said. 

“So they came to Nairobi, 

the capital city, to look 

for a job, and when they 

get there, there is no job. 

So they end up in a slum, 

where they can build their 

own hut. … And there they 

live with their children. 

And in this slum, which is 

one square mile, there are 

one million people.” 


that many families have to 

live on one dollar a day. 

“Because of your support, 

we managed to buy 

desks,” he said, showing 

a picture of Spurgeons 

students sitting three to a 

desk. “Some of them now 

have gone to high school 

because of the support that 

you provide. And that’s 

why every year, I come 

here to tell you this story.” 


that providing education 

Outa speaks with students. 

Meadowbrook students listen as Outa discusses the 

important impact D28 has had in helping provide 

education for students in Kenya. 

for girls is especially important 

in Kenya because 

girls as young as 10 years 

old may be married off if 

they are not in school. He 

pointed out that many of 

the girls at the assembly 

might be vulnerable to that 

phenomenon if they lived 

in Kenya. 

Although Outa was 

frank when describing the 

challenges of life in Kibera 

compared to life in Northbrook, 

he also emphasized 

how appreciative he was 

of the community’s support 

thus far. 

“When you go back 

home, tell your parents 

that Mr. Outa says ‘thank 

you,’ because I don’t think 

that they know. … The 

little money that you’ve 

been supporting us with 

has helped a lot of kids 

get education, get meals, 

get pencils, get uniforms 

and get desks. And sometimes 

we treat them when 

they’re sick,” Outa said. 

Outa also suggested that 

Northbrook students could 

begin a pen pal program 

with students at Spurgeons.



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ABOVE: Pictured is the 2017 Wood Oaks Wind Ensemble. The 2018 

Ensemble was selected for the ninth time in the past 11 years. Photos 

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RIGHT: The Field Wind Ensemble is headed to the University of 

Illinois Superstate Concert Band Festival, one of the most prestigious 

concert band festivals in the Midwest, for the sixth year in a row. 

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For the sixth year in a row, the Field Middle 

School Wind Ensemble has been invited 

to perform at the University of Illinois Superstate 

Concert Band Festival, one of the 

most prestigious concert band festivals in 

the Midwest. It will be held Friday and Saturday, 

May 4-5, on the campus of the University 

of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

University Bands and the School of Music 

sponsor the festival. A panel of adjudicators, 

outside of the University of Illinois, 

determines the bands selected based on recordings 

submitted by the schools in February. 

Participating bands are divided into 

four classes: Jr. High, Class A, Class AA, 

and Class AAA. The Field Wind Ensemble 

was one of only six middle-school bands 

from the state of Illinois to be selected to 

perform at the festival this year. 

The Wood Oaks Wind Ensemble was 

also selected for the honor. 

Wood Oaks and Field were two of just 

six middle-school bands selected from 28 

that applied. 

This is the ninth time in the past 11 years 

the Wind Ensemble from Wood Oaks has 

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NORTHBROOK/GLENVIEW DISTRICT 30 

District 30 to hold meeting for 

providers of private schools and home 

schools regarding special education 

services 

A special education meeting conducted 

by Northbrook/Glenview 

School District 30 will take place at 2 

p.m., April 30, at Willowbrook School, 

2500 Happy Hollow Road. 

The purpose of this meeting will 

be to discuss the district’s plans for 

providing special education services 

to students with disabilities who attend 

private schools and home schools 

within the district for the 2018-2019 

school year. 

If you are a parent of a homeschooled 

student who has been or may 

be identified with a disability and you 

reside within the boundaries of Northbrook/Glenview 

School District 30, 

you are urged to attend this meeting. 

Those with questions pertaining to this 

meeting, please contact the District 30 

office at (847) 498-4190. 

School News is compiled by Editor Martin 

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From northbrooktower.com as of 

Monday, April 9 

1. Spartans swim alumna named to All- 

American honorable mention team 

2. GBN grad Sara Dolins to star in ‘Heathers’ 

as freshman 

3. Spartans win Final Flight Baseball Classic 

4. Back to basics: Greenwood offers 

accessible, natural food 

5. Northbrook Community Nursery School 

celebrates anniversary with ‘disco fever’ 

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The NSYMCA Social Club enjoyed a 

delicious dinner at Pinstripes last night! 

If you want to be a part of the Social 

Club, please contact Karen Brownlee at 

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An intriguing number from this week’s edition 

Glenbrook North graduate Phil Levine 

and his band Stone Arch Isles spent two 

years working on its EP “Kingdoms.” 

[please see Page 20] 

from the editor 

A great place 

for local art 

Martin Carlino 

martin@northbrooktower.com 

When I sat down 

to write this 

editorial, the 

temperature outside was 

just north of 30 degrees. 

Hopefully, by the time 

you first sit down to read 

this, the conditions will 

be a little more seasonable. 

Regardless of the outside 

weather, a community 

the size of Northbrook 

offers residents the 

chance to take in countless 

events. Although 

Mother Nature sometimes 

seemingly does its best to 

put the slightest damper 

on some of these, indoor 

establishments throughout 

Northbrook give 

residents a chance for 

enjoyment no matter the 

temperature. 

The Northbrook Public 

Library, a steady place for 

recreation and relaxation 

year-round, is currently 

featuring a display that 

you can surely enjoy on 

a near-perfect sunshine 

day or a cloudy, rainy 

afternoon. For the 16th 

consecutive year, the 

Northbrook Originals Art 

Show, organized by the 

Northbrook Arts Commission, 

is open for viewing 

at the library. 

What makes the exhibit 

even a little more intriguing 

than the great work 

on display is that all of 

the work on display is 

done by highly skilled 

and talented members of 

the Northbrook community. 

The exhibit has a wide 

range of mediums by 

36 Northbrook artists, 

including photography, 

oil, acrylic, watercolor 

and pastels. Still on the 

fence? Check out The 

Tower’s recap of the 

opening reception held 

last week, which includes 

interviews with some of 

the artists that detail the 

thought processes behind 

their work and a behindthe-scenes 

look at how 

the piece came to be. 

Even if you can’t make 

it out right away, there’s 

ample opportunity to 

do so. The Northbrook 

Originals Art Show will 

remain open until May 

29. 

If you recall some of 

my earlier editorials, you 

may remember how I’ve 

used this space as a way 

to communicate my high 

regard for the importance 

of supporting both your 

fellow neighbors and the 

community as a whole. 

What better chance to do 

so than to marvel at the 

hard work of some Northbrook 

residents. 

There’s always a place 

for the enjoyment and 

appreciation of artistic 

endeavors. Even if you’re 

averse to doing so, consider 

giving it a look. 

NFYN 

From Page 22 

Trustee Andrew Cripe 

felt there was no reason to 

have a term imposed and 

require the Community 

House to go through the 

approval process again in 

the future. 

Reporting by Todd Marver, 

Freelance Reporter. Full 

story at WinnetkaCurrent. 

com. 

THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK 

Highland Park Toys R Us 

has six prospective buyers 

The toy wonderland 

may be closing, as the 

company announced all 

stores will close, but the 

Highland Park location 

likely won’t remain vacant 

for long. 

USA Today reported 

that the location has six 

prospective buyers. 

Amerco Real Estate, 

Blue Water Capital, BRFI, 

Festival Development, HP 

Retail Division Capital 

and Pacifica Companies 

are all in the bidding to 

buy the space at 1610 

Deerfield Road, Highland 

Park. 

The company announced 

in January it 

would close or consolidate 

182 of its underperforming 

stores, but then 

announced in March all of 

its stores would close. 

“Toys“R”Us, Inc. today 

announced that it has filed 

a motion seeking Bankruptcy 

Court approval to 

begin the process of conducting 

an orderly winddown 

of its U.S. business 

and liquidation of 

inventory in all 735 of the 

Company’s U.S. stores, 

including stores in Puerto 

Rico,” a press release 

from the company read. 

“Toys“R”Us will provide 

more details about the 

plans for the liquidation 

of its U.S. stores and going 

out of business sales 

in the near term.” 

The company is seeking 

options for its international 

stores in Asia and 

Central Europe. Stores in 

the international markets 

are still open and serving 

customers. 

“I am very disappointed 

with the result, but we 

no longer have the financial 

support to continue 

the Company’s U.S. operations. 

We are therefore 

implementing an orderly 

process to shutter our U.S. 

operations and will pursue 

going concern sales or reorganizations 

of certain 

of our international businesses, 

while our other 

international businesses 

consider their options,” 

Chief Executive Officer 

Dave Brandon said in the 

release. 

Reporting by Xavier 

Ward, Editor. Full story at 

HPLandmark.com. 

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HOW DO THEY COMPARE WITH PRIOR YEARS 1ST QUARTER?? 

1st Quarter Average Home Sale Prices Compared with Past Five Years 

$700K 

Detached 

Attached 

$600K 

$500K 

$519,585 

$601,028 

$584,638 

$669,150 

$576,417 

$400K 

$300K 

$200K 

$259,530 

$296,228 

$289,908 

$296,440 

$322,661 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 

1st Quarter Number of Units Closed Compared with Past Five Years 

85 

Detached 

Attached 

80 

75 

79 

77 

70 

65 

68 

69 

64 

60 

55 

50 50 

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the Northbrook Tower | April 12, 2018 | northbrooktower.com 

‘Totally simple’ Glenview’s So Gong Dong restaurant focuses 

on three main dishes, Page 38 

Northbrook actors perform 

‘Doo-Wop Red Riding Hood,’ Page 33 

Actors from 

Bright Star Theatre 

Company, a subset 

of the NSSRA in 

partnership with the 

Northbrook Park 

District, perform 

during a production 

of “Doo-Wop Red 

Riding Hood.” 

Sarah Haider/22nd 

Century Media

32 | April 12, 2018 | The Northbrook tower Puzzles 


north shore puzzler CROSSWORD & Sudoku 

Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Northbrook, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Lake Forest and Lake Bluff 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur 

Across 

1. Adams of “American 

Hustle” 

4. Person referred to 

8. Year in Nero’s 

reign 

11. Feudal estate 

13. The king of 

France 

14. River to the 

Rhine 

15. Ivan and Nicholas 

title 

16. Still speaking 

out 

18. Relax 

20. Sister city of 

Highland Park in 

Italy 

21. Out of date 

23. Nasdaq rival 

24. Highland Park 

house used in 

“Ferris Bueller’s 

Day Off” 

28. Prefix indicating 

wrong action 

30. Freeze over 

31. Precisely 

33. Actor Lowe 

36. All __ Jazz 

37. 1974 title role 

for Dustin Hoffman 

38. Skating medalist 

Lipinski 

39. Costa del __ 

40. Mideast hot spot 

41. Acknowledged 

42. Venture capitalists, 

abbr. 

43. Luau instrument 

45. ____ Nicole 

Smith 

48. Comics cry 

49. “Diary” singer, 

first name 

51. Gossipy 

55. “Of course” 

59. Cole ____ shoes 

61. Table scraps 

62. Oscar de la ___ 

63. First word of 

“The Raven” 

64. A filthy place 

65. Palm reader, e.g. 

66. Barely get, with 

“out” 

Down 

1. To the stern 

2. Catchall abbr. 

3. One third of a Fab 

Four refrain 

4. Rep.’s colleague 

5. Stumbling expressions 

6. French for law 

7. Membrane, for 

example 

8. Spikes 

9. “Flashdance” singer 

Cara 

10. Hindu sacred texts 

12. End of the week 

13. Calms 

14. Griffith or Rooney 

17. Ages 

19. Aerobatic manoeuvre 

22. Checks 

24. Morsels 

25. Sonic comeback 

26. Oscar winner for 

“Hud” 

27. Daily grind 

28. Failed in terms of 

achieving an ambition 

29. Fluid finish 

32. Bob Dylan’s “___ 

Night Like This” 

33. Assess 

34. Hurler Hershiser 

35. Wished 

37. Driver’s need, for 

short 

38. ___ death do us 

part.... 

41. Oblong veggie 

42. Narcissistic 

44. Nairobi’s land 

45. Sharp 

46. Neat 

47. Naval investigation 

show 

49. Uproars 

50. They’re sometimes 

put on 

52. Personal question 

53. Healthy in mind 

54. Talk, talk, talk 

56. Simple shirt 

57. Compass direction 

58. Paper tray size, abbr. 

60. Abigail Adams, __ 

Smith 

Let’s see what’s on 

Tune in all month in April to Northbrook Community Television, 

cable Channel 17 

7 a.m. and 3 p.m. 

Cemetery Walk - A walk 

through Northbrook’s 

history, presented by the 

Northbrook Historical 

Society 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

American Legion Documentary- 

Featuring 

Northbrook Veterans 

10 a.m. and 6 p.m. 

North Shore Senior 

Center “Mostly Classical 

Piano” - Julian Dawson 

Retired Professor of 

Music from Northwestern 

University performs. 

11 a.m. and 7 p.m. 

Earth and Arbor Day 

2016- Highlights of the 

Annual Celebration. 

11:30 a.m., 7:30 and 

11:30 p.m. 

A Look Back - Little Louie’s- 

A little history about 

one of Northbrook’s 

iconic businesses. 

Noon, 8 p.m. and 12 a.m. 

Edens Theater- The Life 

of a Beautiful Bird. A 

documentary about the 

former theater. 

1 p.m. and 9 p.m. 

Parent University – 

Lauren Bondy, MSW and 

Karen Jacobson, MA, 

LCPC, LMFT “Top Tips for 

Quibbling Sibs” – A must 

for all parents. 

10 p.m. 

Northbrook - An American 

Tapestry- Northbrook’s 

history from 

Shermerville to now. 

answers 

How to play Sudoku 

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that 

has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 

3x3 squares. To solve the puzzle each row, column 

and box must contain each of the numbers 

1 to 9. 

LEVEL: Medium 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan

northbrooktower.com LIFE & ARTS 


‘Doo-Wop Red Riding Hood’ a joyful experience for actors 

Sarah Haider 


Bright Star Theatre 

Company set the stage for 

everyone to shine at its recent 

production of “Doo- 

Wop Red Riding Hood.” 

The musical featured 12 

actors with special needs 

from Glenview, Northbrook, 

Deerfield, Glencoe 

and Highland Park paired 

with 12 companions in 

two performances Saturday-Sunday, 

April 7-8, at 

Northbrook Theatre. 

The theater company, 

in permanent partnership 

with the Northbrook Park 

District, is one of the many 

subsets of the Northern 

Suburban Special Recreation 

Association, an organization 

that provides 

year-round recreation 

programs and services 

for North Shore children, 

teens and adults with disabilities. 

“This is really an important 

program here that 

a lot of people don’t know 

about,” Director Julie Gibson 

Lay said. “Everybody 

deserves a chance to be 

seen by the world ... in 

a way that they feel they 

belong and show what 

they are capable of, rather 

than always being defined 

by what other people see 

them as.” 

Gibson, in her fourth 

year with the program, 

chose “Doo-Wop Red 

The cast performs a song. 

Riding Hood” for the 

yearly production due to 

its catchy music and high 

energy. She described the 

show as a roller coaster of 

fun. 

For Gibson, her main 

goal as director was creating 

a way for the 12 

special-needs participants 

and their companions to 

explore the benefits of theater 

and have a “joyful” 

time doing it. 

“When you are doing 

music and doing a show, 

you aren’t thinking about 

... anything that bothers 

you,” Gibson said. “You 

enter a state of flow and 

are mindful of being there 

in the moment. ... I don’t 

think our [cast] is offered 

that gift often enough, and 

when they are experiencing 

flow and mindfulness, 

their disabilities fall away 

and they feel confident.” 

The musical followed 

the journey of Little Red, 

Big Green and Medium 

THE SPRING 

Purple Riding Hood in 

their search for love. Fullcast 

musical and dance 

numbers outlined the comically 

troublesome plight 

of the three sisters, including 

an improvised song 

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Riding Hood.” Photos by Sarah Haider/22nd Century Media 

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34 | April 12, 2018 | The Northbrook tower Faith 


Faith Briefs 

Congregation Beth Shalom (3433 Walters Ave.) 

Shabbat B’Yachad Dinner and 

Service for families 

Join on April 13 for Shabbat 

dinner at 6 p.m. ($12 adults, 

kids eat free) and stay for family 

friendly services at 6:45 p.m. 

There is a special young family 

service for families with children 

age’s birth through first 

grade and a family service coled 

by our youth and clergy for 

families with children in grades 

second thru sixth grade. Contact 

Matt Rissien at 847-498-4100 

or MRissien@BethShalomNB. 

org for more information and to 

RSVP. All Are Welcome. 

Yom HaShoah Speaker Fern 

Schumer Chapman 

Join the Men’s Club for Yom 

HaShoah Speaker Fern Schumer 

Chapman on April 15 at 10 a.m. 

with a breakfast at 9:30 a.m. 

($7.00 for breakfast). Critically 

acclaimed Chicago-based writer 

Fern Schumer Chapman has 

written several award-winning 

books including her memoir, 

Motherland, which was a finalist 

for the 2018 National Jewish 

Book Award. Twice, Oprah 

Winfrey shows have featured her 

books. A graduate of the University 

of Wisconsin-Madison with 

a master’s degree from Northwestern 

University’s Medill 

School of Journalism, she has 

taught magazine writing and other 

seminars at both Northwestern 

and Lake Forest College. RSVP 

to Bob Goldwin at (773) 791- 

3314 or rubybux@comcast.net. 

Shabbat with a Twist 

Join for Shabbat with a Twist 

on April 20 from 11:00-11:45 

a.m. Families with children up to 

pre-k join the clergy for stories, 

songs and projects and then twist 

your own challah with the dough 

we provide and take it home to 

bake. Open to the community — 

free of charge. 

Distinguished Speaker Bruce 

Feiler 

Congregation Beth Shalom 

welcomes Distinguished Speaker 

Bruce Feiler, The Council of 

Dads: A Story of Family, Friendship 

and Learning How To Live” 

on April 26 at 8:00 p.m. Bruce 

Feiler is one of America’s most 

popular voices on contemporary 

life. He is known for both his beloved 

column “This Life” in the 

Sunday New York Times and his 

six consecutive New York Times 

best sellers. Open to the community 

and free of charge. 

Shabbat Yoga 

Experience Shabbat Yoga, a 

gentle, relaxing yoga session 

inspired by Shabbat as a rest 

day, open to all levels from 11 

a.m.-noon April 28. Open to the 

community at no charge — bring 

your own mat and dress appropriately 

for yoga. 

National Donate Life Month 

Be a part of National Donate 

Life Month and donate blood 

at the spring blood drive April 

29 from 8:30 a.m.– 1:00 p.m. 

Schedule your appointment at 

www.lifesource.org and use 

groupcode NBO5. To donate 

whole blood, you must be at 

least 18 years old (16 or 17 years 

old with signed parental consent 

form) and weigh at least 110 

pounds. Contact Steven Elisco 

@ swelisco@eliscodesign.com 

for more information. 

Shabba-Teen Shabbat Experience 

Join if you are in ninth-12th 

grade for the Shabba-Teen Shabbat 

Experience on May 5, 2018, 

10:30 a.m.-noon. Hang out in the 

Youth Lounge and discuss topics 

that are relevant with Rabbi Ari 

Averbach and Matt Rissien, Director 

of Youth Activities. Topic 

on May 5th: #AskTheRabbi. 

HAZAK 

Join for HAZAK (programming 

for adults over age 55) 

Dine and Discuss, featuring 

Rabbi Carl and Judy Wolkin: “A 

Jewish Year in Our Lives From 

– CBS, Northbrook, IL, USA To 

Sams, St. Albans, Herts., UK.” 

on May 30 2018, from 6:30- 

8:15 p.m., $15 CBS members, 

$20 non-members, light dinner 

included. RSVP by May 24 to 

Bernie (847) 498-4100 x46. 

St. Giles Episcopal Church (3025 Walters Ave.) 

Grace Space 

This is an informal and shorter 

worship service geared to those 

with young children, but open to 

all, at 8:30 a.m.; or worship in a 

more traditional, formal setting 

at 10:15 a.m. A free breakfast 

is served the second Sunday of 

each month from 9-10:30 a.m. 

For more information, visit 

www.saint-giles.org. 

Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago (1810 

Pfingsten Road) 

Juma’ah Prayer 

This prayer includes a khutba 

(sermon) by Imam, followed by 

the prayer from 1-2 p.m. on Fridays. 

For more information, call 

(847) 272-0319. 

Young Israel of Northbrook (3545 Walters Ave.) 

Weekly Monday Night Torah 

Study 

Study Torah with Rabbi Herschel 

Berger, spiritual leader of 

Young Israel of Northbrook, at 

7 p.m. on Mondays. Discussions 

will correlate the study topic to 

modern daily life. No charge. 

For more information, contact 

Rabbi Berger at (847) 205-1910. 

Noah Aronson, Artist-In-Residence 

Noah Aronson, a soulful, energetic 

composer and performer, 

will serve as the guest Artist-In- 

Residence at Temple Beth-El on 

April 13 and April 14. Join April 

13 for a special Shabbat dinner 

at 6 p.m. and a 7 p.m. Shabbat 

Service featuring Noah and Kol 

Beth-El. Then join Noah on Saturday 

morning April 14 at 9:30 

a.m. for service, brunch and 

learning session. And make sure 

to buy your tickets for a concert 

with Noah and his band on Saturday 

night at 7 p.m. Call Shaina 

at (847) 205-9982 to register for 

this exciting weekend of music. 

Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook (2095 

Landwehr Road) 

Tuesday Women to Women Class 

Weekly women’s class hosted 

by Chaya Epstein at 2:15 p.m. 

Women to Women is a Jewish 

women’s organization run by 

women for women. For more information, 

call (847) 564-8770. 

Northbrook United Methodist Church (1190 

Western Avenue) 

Line Dancing 

Join Tuesday nights from 7-8 

p.m. for $50 per six-week session. 

Next sessions starts April 

17. 

The Village Presbyterian Church (1300 Shermer 

Road) 

Women’s Spring Brunch 

All women are invited to enjoy 

a delicious meal and wonderful 

company from 9-11 a.m. 

on Saturday, April 14. Meet The 

Village Presbyterian Church’s 

new senior pastor’s wife Missy 

Lundgaard, who will speak 

about “The 3 F’s: Faith, Friendship 

and the Future.” The cost 

is $15 at the door. If you have 

questions, contact Kacky Buell 

at (847) 830-7390. 

Submit information for 

The Tower’s Faith page to 

m.dwojak@22ndcenturymedia. 

com.Deadline is noon on Thursday. 

Questions? Call (847) 272-4565. 

In Memoriam 

Earl L. Simon 

Earl L. Simon, 73, of Northbrook, 

died. 

He was the beloved husband 

of his b’shert Frannie nee Malin 

for nearly 50 years; loving father 

of Sheila (Craig) Zeldin and 

Stephanie (Neil) Uhler; cherished 

Grandpa and Zaide of Chloe, 

Kylie, Gabriel and Michael; devoted 

son of the late Ann and 

Sam Simon and son-in-law of the 

late Max and Molly Malin; dear 

brother of the late Sheila Simon. 

Professionally he was a passionate 

and beloved lawyer. He 

was also an avid reader, a proud 

University of Illinois alumnus 

and a life-long White Sox fan. 

Most importantly, he was a dedicated 

husband, father and grandfather 

who would go to the ends 

of the earth for his family. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials 

may be made to JDRF or the International 

Pemphigus and Pemphigoid 

Foundation (IPPF). 

Violeta Alzona 

Violeta “Letty” Alzona nee 

Abundo, 83, of Northbrook, died 

March 8. 

She was the beloved wife of 

the late Gregorio L. Alzona, 

M.D.; loving mother of Charis 

Abigail (Joseph) Hsu, Mortimer 

(Liz) Alzona, Katherine (David) 

Genson and Karla Alzona; cherished 

grandmother of Isabelle, 

Megan and Abigail Alzona, Jacqueline 

and Vanessa Hsu, and 

Nancy Genson; dear sister of 

Reynaldo Abundo Sr., Manuel 

Abundo Jr., Alberto Abundo, 

and Concepcion Abundo Arevalo; 

fond aunt of many nieces 

and nephews. 

Emily Delatorre 

Emily Delatorre (nee Szarmowicz), 

83, of Northbrook, died 

Feb. 11. 

She was the devoted wife 

of Antonio Delatorre; beloved 

mother of Helen (Jack) Montgomery; 

Barbara (Robert Paul) 

Blacharczyk; and Elizabeth (William) 

Hintch; loving grandmother 

of Mateo Hintch; and dear sister 

of Henry (Agnes “Pat”) Szarmowicz. 

Delatorre was well-known 

in the Northbrook community as 

a manager at Northbrook True 

Value (Northbrook Ace Hardware). 

She enjoyed the relationships 

she built with her customers 

and coworkers. 

Have someone’s life you’d 

like to honor? Email 

m.dwojak@22ndcenturymedia.com 

with information about a loved one 

who was part of the Northbrook 

community.

northbrooktower.com Life & Arts 


NORTHBROOK 

Northbrook Theatre 

(3323 Walters Ave. (847) 

291-2367) 

■12:30 ■ and 4 p.m. 

Saturday-Sunday, April 

14-15: ‘Madagascar — 

A Musical Adventure 

Jr.’ 

Pinstripes 

(1150 Willow Road, 

(847) 480-2323) 

■From ■ open until close 

all week: bowling and 

bocce 

GLENVIEW 

Johnny’s Kitchen 

(1740 Milwaukee Ave. 

(847) 699-9999) 

■7:30 ■ p.m. every Friday 

and Saturday: Live 

Music 

The Rock House 

(1742 Glenview Road 

(224) 616-3062) 

■6 ■ p.m. Friday, April 

13: Family Night and 

Karaoke 

■10 ■ a.m. Saturday, 

April 14: Piper Phillips 

Acoustic 

■8:30 ■ p.m. Saturday, 

April 14: Victor Brown 

Blues 

■10 ■ a.m. Sunday, April 

15: Owen Hemming 

■Noon, ■ Sunday, April 15: 

Sean Heffernan 

Oil Lamp Theater 

(1723 Glenview Road, 

(847) 834-0738) 

■Through ■ April 19-June 

3: ‘Love, Loss and 

What I Wore’ 

Curragh Irish Pub 

(1800 Tower Drive, (847) 

998-1100) 

■7:30 ■ p.m. every 

Wednesday: Trivia 

LAKE BLUFF 

Lake Bluff Brewing 

Company 

(16 E. Scranton Ave. 

(224) 544-5179) 

■7-9 ■ p.m. Saturday, 

April 14: Live in the 

Taproom — Matt Feddermann 

WINNETKA 

Good Grapes 

(821 Chestnut Court, 

(847) 242-9800) 

■Every ■ Saturday: 50 percent 

off a glass of wine 

with glass of wine at 

regular price and same 

day Writers Theatre Saturday 

matinee tickets 

GLENCOE 

Writers Theatre 

(325 Tudor Court, (847) 

242-6000) 

■Through ■ June 10: 

‘Smart People’ 

Tudor Wine Bar 

(338 Tudor Court, (847) 

786-4267) 

■7:30 ■ p.m. Thursday, 

April 19: One River 

Band 

Binny’s 

(85 Green Bay Road, 

(847) 835-3900) 

■2-5 ■ p.m. Saturday, 

April 14: Spring Wine 

Tasting 

WILMETTE 

The Rock House 

(1150 Central Ave. (847) 

256-7625) 

■6:30 ■ p.m. Friday, April 

13: Family Night + 

Karaoke 

■5 ■ p.m. Saturday, April 

14: Jamie’s Student 

Showcase 

■7 ■ p.m. Saturday, April 

14: ex Cathedra 

Wilmette Theatre 

(1122 Central Ave. (847) 

251-7424) 

■6:30 ■ p.m. Thursday, 

April 12: ‘A New Leaf’ 

Wilmette Historical 

Museum 

(609 Ridge Road (847) 

853-7666) 

■2 ■ p.m. Sunday, April 

15: Lecture — Vivian 

Maier 

HIGHLAND PARK 

The Panda Bar 

(596 Elm Place, (847) 

433-0589) 

■Every ■ Friday: Live 

Music 

HIGHWOOD 

210 

(210 Green Bay Road 

(847) 433-0304) 

■7 ■ p.m. Thursday, April 

12: Liquid Soul 

■7:30 ■ p.m. Friday, April 

13: Ravinia Ramblers 

Buffo’s 

(431 Sheridan Road, 

(847) 432-0301) 

■7 ■ p.m. every Monday: 

Trivia 

To place an event in The 

Scene, email chris@GlenviewLantern.com 

Play 

From Page 33 

when actors used their 

imagination to create choreography 

with inflatable 

instruments. 

On stage, each actor 

stood side by side with a 

companion, who served to 

assist with lines and moral 

support. 

Glenbrook North student 

Rachel Bernstein has 

been companions with 

Glenview resident Lisa 

Krupinski for six years. 

Krupinski, playing Little 

Red Riding Hood, said her 

favorite part of playing the 

lead was all the singing. 

“A lot of people don’t 

realize we have been working 

since September,” Bernstein 

said. “The actors 

spend so much time outside 

of rehearsal learning their 

lines and choreography. 

They put a lot of effort in. 

It’s a feel-good thing. We 

enjoy putting on a show for 

everyone, and I think that 

everyone who comes really 

enjoys the show.” 

For Glenview resident 

Katie McManus, acting as 

the show’s Evil Queen and 

Grandmother made this 

year her favorite production. 

“Katie’s been working 

really hard and it’s 

been great to see her 

grow throughout the few 

months,” said Marlee 

Fradin, McManus’ companion. 

“Katie and everyone 

worked so hard, and 

every week they came here 

with a smile on their face.” 

According to Gibson, 

the show is a “life-changing 

experience” for the actors 

and the companions. 

She credits the program’s 

success to the community’s 

interest in the special 

recreation association and 

the resources provided 

by the Northbrook Park 

District, which lends the 

stage, staff, technical design, 

equipment, props 

and costumes. The continued 

support for the growing 

program is fueled by 

Lisa Krupinski (laying down), Sandra Abrams (left) and Arsheel Lalani (second from left) rehearse a scene of “Doo- 

Wop Red Riding Hood” on Thursday, April 5, at the Northbrook Park District. Sarah Haider/22nd Century Media 

the actors’ dedication and 

passion for exploring the 

world of theater. 

“We have a real special 

group of people that are 

interested in the theater 

company and we do productions 

that match what 

they need, instead of looking 

for people that further 

the goals of a certain 

show,” Gibson said. “The 

goal overall is to find the 

experience theater brings 

to their life. ... It’s about 

sharing the gifts that come 

from theater.” 

For more information on 

Bright Star Theatre or NS- 

SRA, visit nssra.org



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Glenview’s So Gong Dong carves niche within Korean cuisine 

Chris Pullam 


Seunghwa Oh and his 

family immigrated to Glenview 

from South Korea in 

early 2013 to further his career 

with a Korean airline. 

Opening a restaurant 

wasn’t in the family’s initial 

plan, but Oh’s wife, 

Jiyeon Nam, opened So 

Gong Dong on Milwaukee 

Avenue only a few months 

later. She chose the location 

for its proximity to the 

established Asian community 

in West Glenview. 

Several Korean restaurants 

already existed 

nearby, but So Gong Dong 

carved its own niche within 

the popular cuisine. 

Namely, the restaurant 

focuses on soondubu (Korean 

soup), bibimbap (rice 

dish) and Korean barbecue. 

“There are a lot of Korean 

restaurants around 

here, but they don’t have 

a specialty like us,” said 

Oh, who retired from the 

airline a few years ago to 

serve as the vice president 

of SGD DUBU, So Gong 

Dong’s parent company. 

“We just focus on the specialities. 

Our menu is very 

simple. Totally simple. We 

can tell you we have three 

items, that’s it ... but we do 

them well. When people 

want soondubu, bibimbap 

or Korean barbecue, they 

say, ‘Let’s go to So Gong 

Dong.’ That’s our focus.” 

Even with only three 

specialties, the restaurant 

still offers plenty of options 

for the curious diner. 

The soondubu, which accounts 

for 40 to 65 percent 

of sales, is a Korean silken 

(soft) tofu in a savory and 

spicy stew that comes in a 

dozen different flavors and 

four different spice levels. 

Customers can choose 

between hot stone rice, 

noodle or ramen, and the 

most popular flavors are 

seafood and beef. Other 

options include pork, clam, 

vegetable, mushroom and 

dumpling. 

The bibimbap, served 

with soup, is a steamedrice 

dish complete with assorted, 

sauteed or seasoned 

vegetables served on a traditional 

Korean hot-stone 

plate or in a more traditional 

bowl. Options range 

from kimchi (salted and 

fermented vegetables) and 

pork to tofu and chicken. 

So Gong Dong’s final 

specialty, Korean barbecue, 

focuses less on diversity 

and more on tried-and-true 

plates: beef short ribs, marinated 

beef short ribs in a 

special house sauce; chicken 

galbi, chicken thighs in 

a classic Korean marinade; 

beef bulgogi, thin sirloin 

slices with onions in a classic 

Korean marinade; and 

pork bulgogi, thin pork loin 

slices in a spicy marinade. 

Appetizers include 

boiled or pan-fried dumplings 

and seafood pancakes, 

crispy Korean-style 

pancakes filled with seafood 

and scallions. 

According to Oh, the 

restaurant has thrived over 

the past five years because 

the menu is healthy, plentiful, 

authentic and wellbalanced. 

“We use healthy ingredients 

and we provide a lot 

of side dishes compared to 

any other Korean restaurants,” 

he said. “We serve 

typical Korean food. This 

is what you’d eat in Korea. 

And everything is wellbalanced, 

so everyone can 

come and enjoy the food 

for a fair price.” 

Dubu, the namesake of 

the franchise, is a Korean 

name for bean curds, or 

tofu, made from soybeans. 

According to the company 

website, “dubu is a versatile 

ingredient with many 

So Gong Dong 

1615 Milwaukee Ave., 

Glenview 

(847) 257-7394 

sgddubu.com 

11 a.m.-10 p.m. every 

day 

health benefits.” 

It is made by curdling 

fresh soya milk, pressing it 

into a solid block and then 

cooling it. Then the liquid is 

discarded and the curds are 

pressed to form a cohesive 

substance. It can be cooked 

in different ways to change 

its texture from smooth and 

soft to crisp and crunchy. 

At So Gong Dong, the 

stews are served in traditional 

earthenware bowls 

while “bubbling hot.” They 

can be adjusted for very 

different spice levels and 

flavor preferences, with 

options like beef, pork, 

kimchi, oyster, clam and 

shrimp. A raw egg may 

be added to the stew and 

folded into the contents to 

cook from the heat within 

the bowl. 

The Glenview restaurant, 

established in 2013, was 

the franchise’s third location. 

Since then, it’s done 

nothing but thrive, boasting 

12 locations across Illinois, 

New Jersey, New 

York, Massachusetts and 

Ohio. Oh and Nam recently 

opened a smaller version of 

the restaurant in the food 

court of H-Mart, 711 W. 

Jackson Blvd. in Chicago. 

While So Gong Dong 

was established with Korean 

customers in mind, 

food-lovers of all stripes 

will find something for 

them on the menu. 

When I stopped by the 

restaurant with a group of 

22nd Century Media editors, 

we devoured a spread 

of offerings that included 

the chicken galbi ($15.99), 

seafood soondubu jjigae 

The chicken galbi dish ($15.99) at Glenview’s So Gong Dong features chicken thighs 

in a spicy marinade. Photos by Eric DeGrechie/22nd Century Media 

($10.99), seafood pancake 

($12.99), vegetable bibimbap 

bowl ($12.99 dinner 

portion), beef short ribs 

($19.99), mixed ramen 

bowl ($10.99) and fried 

dumplings ($8.99). 

Prior to our visit, I’d 

never tried Korean food. To 

make matters worse, I’m 

a vegetarian, so nearly all 

the food was off limits. Expect, 

that is, the vegetable 

bibimbap bowl, and after 

one bite, I hoarded it at my 

end of the table until my 

chopsticks scraped against 

the bottom of my hot-stone 

rice bowl. 

The dish features carrots, 

broccoli, mushrooms, red 

and green peppers, onions 

and cucumbers topped with 

an egg cooked sunny-side 

up. After blending in a little 

Korean hot sauce, I spent 

the next 15 minutes in absolute 

silence as I devoured 

the dish. 

Xavier Ward, editor of 

The Highland Park Landmark, 

and Eric DeGrechie, 

editor of The Wilmette Beacon, 

had the other six menu 

items all to themselves. 

The seafood soondubu 

jjigae, a savory and spicy 

stew featuring clams and 

The seafood soondubu jjigae ($10.99) is a savory and 

spicy stew featuring clams and shrimp. 

The seafood pancake ($12.99) is made with Koreanstyle 

pancakes with seafood and scallion. 

shrimp, complemented the 

chicken galbi, topped with a 

spicy marinade and a variety 

of hot peppers. On the other 

end of the spectrum were 

the seafood pancake, baked 

with fish and scallions, and 

the beef short ribs, Oh’s favorite 

dish, served in a special 

house sauce.

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high school highlights 

The rest of the week in high school sports 

Boys Volleyball 

March 31 - Addison Trail 2, GBN 0 

April 4 - GBN 2, Wheaton Warrenville 

South, 1 

April 5 - GBN 2, GBS 0 

The Spartans moved the ball well and 

created different opportunities to win the 

match against its rival. 

Girls Water Polo 

April 4 - Evanston 12, GBN 11 

The Spartans tried to hold off the Wildkits, 

but it was to no avail in an overtime 

loss. 

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Gehrs is a key contributor 

on the Glenbrook North 

girls water polo team. 

When and why did 

you start playing 

water polo? 

I just started because I 

didn’t have a spring sport 

and I wanted to try it and I 

fell in love with it. 

What do you like most 

about the sport? 

I love the competitiveness 

of it and the team aspect. 

Do you have any 

superstitions before a 

game? 

I definitely get some 

sprinting in before the 

swimoffs. 

What is one thing 

people don’t know 

about you? 

People probably don’t 

know that I’m a swimmer. 

I was on the varsity swim 

team this year and last year 

and I guess when I come 

out and play polo, they 

don’t know I swim too. 

If you were a 

superhero, what 

superpower would you 

want? 

I would just want to fly, 

it’s pretty sick. 

What would you do if 

you won the lottery? 

I would put it away for 

college and save it. 

If you could play 

another sport, what 

would it be? 

I would say soccer since 

Michal dwojak/22nd century media 

I grew up playing it and 

it came to a point where I 

had to choose travel soccer 

or travel swimming, 

and I chose swimming. If 

it weren’t for the same season, 

I would still play. 

What is your favorite 

area restaurant? 

I like to go to Marcello’s 

for the pasta. Pasta Alfredo 

with chicken is the best. 

What is one thing on 

your bucket list? 

I want to go camping in 

the mountains. I think that 

would be a lot of fun since 

I’m an outdoors person. 

If you could be any 

animal, which would 

you choose? 

I would be a dolphin because 

of the swimming. 

Interview by Sports Editor 

Michal Dwojak

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Shots of the Week 

Taking a look at the best photos 

from the week 

Glenbrook North’s Matthew Zhang prepares to serve 

the ball against Glenbrook South on Thursday, April 5, 

in Glenview. Michal Dwojak/22nd Century Media 

Alexandra Gehrs fights for the ball. Michal Dwojak/22nd 

Century Media 

Senior Jack Garibaldi delivers a pitch in 10-0 win over Twin Lakes. Photo submitted 

ABOVE: The Spartans 

prepare to receive the 

ball. Michal Dwojak/22nd 

Century Media 

LEFT: Glenbrook North’s 

Isabel Herbst (left) looks 

to move the ball against 

an Evanston defender 

April 4, in Evanston. 

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Century Media 

Softball 

From Page 44 

ond time the captain threw 

a no-hitter. Mendelson 

threw a no-hitter toward 

the end of last season to 

help prepare her for a final 

senior campaign. 

Throwing a no-hitter 

was also one of the top- 

10 goals the team had for 

the season, but Mendelson 

being excited to beat 

Deerfield over throwing 

a no-hitter shows the 

type of player and captain 

Mendelson is. She’s more 

focused on what the team 

is doing than her own accomplishments. 

But that doesn’t mean 

the accomplishment is 

anything to scoff at. 

“Most pitchers are likely 

to ever get one in their 

lifetime,” Matsunaga said. 

“I think she can get one 

more. This shows you how 

skilled she is. Sometimes 

she gets overlooked, but 

brings a lot to our team. 

She’s all about team.” 

Now Mendelson will 

focus on accomplishing 

her dreams in her last 

season with the Spartans. 

The captain and the other 

seniors grew up together 

and want to be the ones to 

help GBN win a conference 

championship, one of 

the other top-10 goals for 

the season. The program 

has made progress during 

her time and she’s ready 

to see the progress lead to 

success. 

“It’s really exciting,” 

Mendelson said. “I feel 

like this is the culmination 

of all the work I’ve put in 

all four years. It’s exciting 

looking forward and gets 

me excited for the rest of 

the season knowing there’s 

going to be more and we’re 

going to be growing.” 

Matsunaga thinks her 

pitcher can throw one 

more no-hitter this season. 

Let’s see if someone 

will notice before the final 

pitch this time.



Girls Water Polo 

North falls short in OT 

Michal Dwojak, Sports Editor 

Glenbrook North goaltender Erin Markowitz looks to 

move the ball down the pool on April 4 at Evanston. 

Michael Dwojak/22nd Century Media 

Online content 

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from the game, visit 

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Few teams are content 

after losing a tight, hardfought 

game in overtime, 

but the Spartans looked beyond 

the final score of their 

12-11 loss to Evanston on 

April 4. 

Glenbrook North headed 

into the second overtime 

period with a 11-10 lead 

after a dominating performance 

in the first overtime, 

but the Wildkits responded 

with two quick goals just 

10 seconds apart to take the 

lead and eventually the win. 

It might seem there would 

only be one way to feel after 

such a dramatic finish, but 

the Spartans realize what 

the game meant beyond that 

one night’s fight. 

“It stinks that in the last 

couple minutes of the game 

we lost it, but it was a good 

game on both sides,” Alexandra 

Gehrs said. “I’m 

very happy with how we 

played.” 

GBN rushed out to a 

quick lead in the game when 

Anne Rosdahl scored with 

5:47 left in the first quarter 

to help the Spartans get going. 

The team continued to 

create different opportunities 

even though Evanston 

continued to fight back with 

each Spartan goal. 

Evanston scored a goal 

with a player advantage 

with 31 seconds left in the 

game and had a chance to 

win the game, but the Wildkits 

couldn’t score despite 

having the player advantage. 

Gehrs was the cog to the 

strong offensive machine 

the Spartans put together at 

Evanston. She scored five 

goals in the game where 

she helped create different 

opportunities, including a 

moment in which she on a 

no-look shot in the fourth 

quarter. 

Gaby Hanna and Isabel 

Herbst each added two 

goals while Rosdahl and Julia 

Mastej each scored one a 

piece. 

But the overtime experience 

was something few of 

the players experienced. 

“It was very stressful,” 

Gehrs said. “I’ve never 

been in an overtime game 

before, not really sure how 

it worked. It was pandemonium 

everywhere.” 

Goaltender Erin Markowitz 

was a critical part to the 

Spartans’ success against 

the Wildkits. She made 10 

saves on the 32 shots she 

faced, batting away many 

shots and opportunities 

Evanston threw at her. Markowitz 

maintained a shutout 

in the first overtime while 

facing three critical shots 

that could’ve helped Evanston 

take command of the 

overtimes earlier. 

“I think Erin took it to 

another level,” head coach 

Robin Walker said. “Erin’s 

good, but today, she’s just 

an incredible athlete. … She 

was a big reason why that 

game was as big as it was.” 

Walker was proud of his 

team’s performance despite 

the adversity he thought his 

players faced. GBN faced 

11 ejections while Evanston 

only had two, creating plenty 

of opportunities with the 

Spartans forced to play with 

a player down. 

“The fact that they stayed 

in and kept playing, I’m 

proud of them,” Walker 

said. “That was just a good 

high school game right 

there.” 

The Spartans were 7-3 after 

the loss to Evanston, but 

that doesn’t mean the team 

isn’t happy with the direction 

it’s going. The Wildkits 

were a good benchmark 

to see where the Spartans 

could go this season. 

Walker has noticed that 

this time of year is when 

teams start to put it together 

after learning the style the 

first few weeks of the season 

and after a hiccup because 

of spring break. The 

head coach said the game 

against Evanston was the 

best any of his teams have 

looked returning back from 

spring break. 

Add that with the positives 

he’s seeing in practice, 

it’s not a surprise why the 

Spartans were content with 

an overtime loss against a 

conference opponent. 

“I’m happy with where 

we’re at,” Walker said. 

“Usually this is where the 

kids develop and they get 

into the sync of things. We 

can compete.” 

Softball 

Senior captain Mendelson throws no-hitter 


THIS WEEK IN.... 

SPARTANS VARSITY 

ATHLETICS 

BASEBALL 

■April ■ 12 - at Niles North, 

4:45 p.m. 

■April ■ 14 - Plainfield South, 

10 a.m. 

■April ■ 16 - hosts New Trier, 

4:45 p.m. 

■April ■ 17 - at Deerfield, 

4:45 p.m. 

■April ■ 19 - hosts Deerfield, 

4:45 p.m. 

GIRLS BADMINTON 

■April ■ 14 - at Wildcat Invite, 

8:30 a.m. 

■April ■ 16 - hosts Conant, 

4:45 p.m. 

■April ■ 17 - hosts Maine 

East, 4:30 p.m. 

■April ■ 19 - at Stevenson, 

4:45 p.m. 

BOYS LACROSSE 

■April ■ 18 - hosts Evanston, 

7 p.m. 

GIRLS LACROSSE 

■April ■ 13 - at Deerfield, 6 

p.m. 

■April ■ 14 - hosts 

Does a no-hitter take 

place if no one know realizes 

it happened? 

This was almost the case 

for Glenbrook North senior 

Lauren Mendelson. 

The GBN pitcher knew 

she threw well against 

Deerfield on March 22. 

She limited the Warriors 

to no runs and was happy 

to get the win, but it only 

occurred to her and head 

coach Bridget Matsunaga 

after the coach looked at 

the pitching line and realized 

Mendelson didn’t allow 

a hit. 

“I just finished the game 

and was like, ‘oh, solid,’” 

Mendelson laughed when 

thinking about the moment. 

“It wasn’t really 

anything special.” 

Her teammates didn’t 

avoid her in the dugout 

like many might expect 

when any pitcher is close 

to throwing a perfect game 

or a no-hitter. Matsunaga 

was too busy coaching and 

focusing on what the team 

had to improve on while 

handing out beads — a tradition 

she does at each game 

for strong performances. 

Even when the team realized 

what Mendelson had 

accomplished, she still had 

her mind somewhere else. 

“It was really exciting,” 

Mendelson said. “I don’t 

think we’ve ever beaten 

Deerfield before, so it was 

especially nice to beat them 

with a no-hitter. ... We had 

Barrington, 2 p.m. 

■April ■ 16 - hosts New Trier, 

7 p.m. 

BOYS VOLLEYBALL 

■April ■ 14 - at Glenbard 

West, 1:30 p.m. 


East, 6 p.m. 

SOFTBALL 

■April ■ 12 - at Maine West, 

4:45 p.m. 

■April ■ 14 - at Loyola 

Academy, 2 p.m. 

■April ■ 17 - hosts Vernon 

Hills, 4:45 p.m. 

■April ■ 19 - at Maine East, 

4:45 p.m. 

BOYS TENNIS 

■April ■ 14 - at Harlem Invite, 

9 a.m. 

■April ■ 16 - hosts Warren, 

4:30 p.m. 

■April ■ 17 - at New Trier, 

4:30 p.m. 


4:30 p.m. 

GIRLS SOCCER 

■April ■ 14 - at Mundelein, 

11:15 a.m. 

■April ■ 16 - at Buffalo Grove, 

lost to them so many times 

in the past. It was a cherry 

on top of the cake.” 

Maybe not realizing 

what she was about to accomplish 

helped lead to 

her success. Mendelson 

focused on hitting her 

pitches in the right zone, 

instead of worrying about 

each specific pitch to make 

sure not to make a mistake. 

Her defense also had her 

back, making key stops, 

even though no one knew. 

“Obviously her team 

backed her up and made 

the plays they needed to 

make,” Matsunaga said. 

The feat might’ve also 

not held the same meaning 

given it was the sec- 

Please see sOftball, 43 

6 p.m. 

■April ■ 17 - Maine East, 7 

p.m. 

■April ■ 19 - hosts Deerfield, 

7 p.m. 

BOYS GYMNASTICS 

■April ■ 14 - at Donaldson 

Invite, 4 p.m. 

■April ■ 17 - hosts Stevenson, 

6 p.m. 

BOYS WATER POLO 

■April ■ 12 - hosts Highland 

Park, 6 p.m. 

■April ■ 17 - at Vernon Hills, 

5 p.m. 


6 p.m. 

GIRLS WATER POLO 

■April ■ 12 - at Highland 

Park, 6 p.m. 

■April ■ 17 - hosts Vernon 

Hills, 6 p.m. 


East, 6 p.m. 

BOYS TRACK AND FIELD 

■April ■ 14 - at Bartlett Invite, 

9 a.m.



Spartans swim alumna 

named to All-American 

honorable mention team 

Submitted content 

Sabrina Baxamusa competed 

at the NCAA Division-III 

National Swim 

meet in Indianapolis from 

March 21-24. She was 

named to the All-American 

Honorable Mention 

team for her swim in the 

200-yard freestyle relay 

with her team at Washington 

University in St. Louis. 

They placed 14th with 

a time of 1 minute, 34.85 

seconds. She earned All- 

UAA Conference (University 

Athletic Association) 

honors with this 

same relay last month at 

the conference meet held 

from Feb. 14-17 at Emory 

University in Atlanta. 

They placed second in the 

conference with a time of 

1:34.28. She is enrolled in 

the Olin Business School 

at WashU where she has 

an interest in finance. 

She is a 2017 graduate 

of Glenbrook North High 

School where she was captain 

and four-year letterwinner 

on the girls swimming 

and diving team. At 

GBN she was awarded 

two-time team MVP, 

as well as led the team 

to two-time conference 

championships. She was 

two-time All-State as well 

as two-time All-American 

while at GBN. 

Sabrina Baxamusa is a freshman Glenbrook North 

graduate, who competes for Washington University in 

St. Louis. Photo submitted 

Spartans win Final Flight Baseball 

Classic, remain unbeaten early on 


Just eight games into 

the season, the Glenbrook 

North Spartans have already 

captured a championship 

trophy. 

The Spartans made the 

most of their spring break 

trip to Union City, Tenn. 

by winning the Final 

Flight Baseball Classic in 

dominant fashion. GBN 

finished the tournament 

with a perfect 4-0 mark, 

outscoring opponents by a 

margin of 35-1. 

Senior Jack Garibaldi 

pitched a gem to help the 

Spartans start off the tournament 

with a 10-0 win. In 

six innings of work, Garibaldi 

allowed no earned 

runs on just one hit while 

striking out seven batters. 

GBN capped its victory 

with a six-run sixth inning. 

Chris Karasinski, Jake 

Kieffer and Chris Heywood 

all drove in runs in 

the frame. 

Senior Evan Barnes followed 

up Garibaldi’s wellpitched 

game with one of 

his own. In game two of 

the tournament, Barnes 

tossed seven innings of 

shutout baseball, allowing 

just two hits. Kieffer continued 

his strong tournament 

with another two-hit 

afternoon. 

In the semi-final game, 

The Spartans put forward 

their best hitting performance 

of the tournament 

with a commanding 18-1 

win. 

Karasinski led off the 

game with a solo home 

run. GBN plated seven 

runs in the third inning 

with singles from Garibaldi 

and Brandon Coleman, 

and doubles from David 

Rubin and Karasinski. In 

total, GBN tallied 16 hits. 

The Spartans pose for a team picture after winning the Final Flight Baseball Classic. 

GBN outscored its opponents by a margin of 35-1. Photos courtesy of Aaron 

Weinberg 

Senior Ben Harkey 

twirled a five-hit shutout 

in the championship game 

to help lead GBN to a 5-0 

win over host Union City, 

the no. 4-ranked team in 

Tennessee. Harkey struck 

out five batters while allowing 

just one walk. 

GBN finished the game 

with 12 hits. Karasinski 

went 3-for4 at the plate to 

put the finishing touch on 

his strong tournament. 

Head coach Dom Savino 

was impressed by the 

strong pitching the team 

displayed in each game. 

“Our starting pitchers 

did an outstanding job of 

working very efficiently,” 

he said. “I thought they 

demonstrated great trust 

in our defense by the way 

they challenged hitters. I 

was really impressed with 

their mound presence from 

start to finish.” 

Per Savino, senior catcher 

Daniel Spencer was an 

integral part of the team’s 

success on the mound. 

“Daniel Spencer has 

The Spartans celebrate after their victory. 

done an outstanding job 

behind the plate in all facets 

of the game,” Savino 

said. “I think he increases 

the confidence level of our 

pitchers by the way he is 

able to receive, block and 

throw.” 

Offensively, Savino is 

pleased with the team’s 

consistency throughout the 

entire lineup. 

“The most impressive 

thing so far this season 

from an offensive standpoint 

has been the number 

of different players 

who have contributed to 

our ability to score runs,” 

he said. “Every game we 

play, there is a different 

player rising to the occasion.” 

The Spartans remain unblemished 

on the season, 

sporting a perfect 8-0 record. 

Over the team’s first 

eight games, the Spartans 

have outscored opponents 

75-5.



Spartans down Titans in annual tilt 


Not much needs to be 

added to any meeting between 

Glenbrook North 

and Glenbrook South, 

but when the two met on 

Thursday, April 5, they 

played for more than a rivalry. 

The two teams met in 

the annual “Battle for the 

Cure” match, one won by 

the Spartans 25-15, 25- 

19, in what has become a 

tradition at the beginning 

of each season. Both the 

Spartans and Titans played 

to raise awareness and 

funds to battle Ewing’s 

Sarcoma and other pediatric 

cancers. 

While the rivalry might 

be more than enough motivation 

for the players on 

both teams, it’s fighting a 

disease that has affected 

both programs and brings 

together their efforts far 

beyond just playing volleyball. 

“Hopefully we gathered 

a little bit of money for 

it,” Glenbrook North head 

coach Chris Cooper said. 

“It’s a good thing to do for 

however long we’ve been 

doing it. It adds a nice kind 

of feeling to the match.” 

The Titans’ link comes 

from Bryan Paynter, who 

was a 2004 graduate and 

four-year member of the 

Titans volleyball program. 

Paynter was diagnosed 

with Ewing’s and lost his 

battle in 2007. 

GBN volleyball alumnus 

Teddy Shapiro is in 

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from this game, visit 

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remission after battling 

Ewing’s Sarcoma. 

This was the 11th year 

the Titans have played to 

draw awareness for the 

disease and more than 

$25,000 has been raised to 

help fund research. When 

both head coaches realized 

the impact it had on both 

programs, they decided to 

co-host the annual match to 

help draw more awareness. 

Players from both teams 

wore yellow headbands in 

support, trying to do the 

least they can to support 

the cause. 

“We’re not going to cure 

it, but we’re going to do 

what we can to help fund 

the research to get better 

treatment,” Glenbrook 

South head coach Tim Monahan 

said. “We’re just going 

to keep on doing it and 

do what we can do help 

with better treatment. It’s 

the least that we can do.” 

For coaches and players 

of both teams, although 

they might be rivals on the 

court, it’s nice to have the 

support from both communities 

to pull off a successful 

event. 

“To have it in our communities, 

to have it in our 

programs, it’s great,” Monahan 

said. “We just hope 

we can keep on doing 

more and more. It’s great 

to have this community 

and have this support that 

we have, because we’ve 

got a lot over the years and 

will continue to do so. I 

wouldn’t want to be doing 

this anywhere else.” 

When it came time to 

play, there was no love lost 

between the two rivals. 

The Spartans ran off to a 

commanding start with a 

20-14 lead in the first set 

after the two teams sized 

each other up for the first 

few points of the set. GBN 

held off a late GBS rally 

and took the first set 25-15. 

The Titans came off with 

a stronger start in the second 

set, pushing the tempo 

more and creating opportunities, 

but the Spartans 

started to move the 

ball well, used a late rally 

when the score reached the 

20-point mark and ruined 

any chance the Titans had 

of a comeback to take the 

second set 25-19. 

Cooper was proud to see 

something he hasn’t seen 

much this season. After 

losing his entire lineup to 

graduation, his new players 

are trying to grow accustomed 

to each. 

In the first few matches 

of the season, the Spartans 

have bent when faced with 

pressure. Against the Titans, 

they didn’t. 

“That’s something 

we’ve struggled with not 

only this season, but last 

season too,” libero Matthew 

Zhang said. “Seeing 

that progress is great to see 

and our ceiling is so high.” 

A match like the one 

against their rival is what’s 

going to motivate the Spartans 

as they move further 

along the season. Cooper 

has seen some impressive 

things from his talented 

players and liked the ball 

movement he saw from his 

senior setter Jackson Weil, 

but GBN is ready to show 

how talented it can be. 

“Going into the season, 

a lot of guys were down 

on us,” Zhang said. “We 

came in with a chip on our 

shoulder, proving the haters 

wrong. We have a lot of 

great things coming in the 

future for sure.” 

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Boys Gymnastics 

Spartans make progress at Mundelein Invite 

Michal dwojak/22nd 

Century Media 

1st-and-3 

players of the 

week 

1. Isabel Herbst 

(ABOVE) North’s 

defender provided 

the Spartans with 

a strong defensive 

effort against the 

Wildkits in a 12- 

11 loss. 

2. Casey Mutchnik 

The Spartans’ 

gymnast helped 

lead the way at 

the Mundelein 

Invite, finishing 

fourth at the 

pommel horse. 

3. Jack Garibaldi 

The Spartans’ 

pitcher put 

together a gem 

when he pitched 

for the team in 

Tennessee, allowing 

no earned 

runs in one of the 

wins GBN had in 

the Final Flight 

Baseball Classic. 

David Jaffe 


Glenbrook North’s 

Casey Mutchnik had a consistent 

performance at the 

Mundelein Invite on Friday, 

April 6, and finished 

fourth on pommel horse 

(8.7). 

His highest score came 

on vault (8.95). 

“I was happy to land my 

vault,” Mutchnik said. “I 

haven’t always been landing 

it this season. But it’s 

gotten better and I was 

pleased with how it went 

tonight.” 

He also had an 8.5 on 

still rings and an 8.8 on 

parallel bars. But he still 

felt there was some work to 

do on certain events. 

“My rings overall were 

pretty clean,” Mutchnik said. 

“I got good scores on p-bars 

and pommel. But I feel like 

my routines didn’t go as well 

as they could have. There’s 

still some areas that could 

have gone better.” 

Though Mutchnik is the 

Spartans’ top gymnast, the 

team has plenty of experience 

and leadership as well 

as young talent. 

“We have three seniors 

on the team so I feel like 

even though I have a lot of 

experience, there are a lot 

of guys that are leaders on 

this team,” Mutchnik said. 

“There’s a lot of talent. 

Daniel (Lavrentiev) is only 

a freshman and he’s great 

on floor and has good skills 

in every event. There’s a lot 

to like about this team.” 

Glenbrook North’s Daniel Lavrentiev competes at the Mundelein Invite on Friday, 

April 6. Brittany Kapa/22nd Century media 

Mutchnik had an 8.5 on 

floor and a 48.95 in allaround. 

GBN was ninth 

(137.1) and other scores 

were Lavrentiev on floor 

(8.8) and vault (8.1) and 

Kevin Kapustka on floor 

(8.4). 

Glenbrook South’s Lucas 

Pauker has already had 

plenty of state meet experience. 

But now in his senior 

year, he still wants to continue 

to get better. 

And in a crowded field on 

Friday, April 6, at the Mundelein 

Invite, he took ninth 

in all-around (51.875). 

Pauker was very happy 

with how he did on the h- 

bar, tying for 10th with an 

8.3. 

“I’ve really been working 

on my h-bar routine,” Pauker 

said. “I hit the routine and 

it felt really good to see the 

effort that I’ve been putting 

into it pay off.” 

He was fifth on p-bars 

(9.025) and tied for 10th on 

floor (9.1). 

“My floor was really 

clean and I was able to 

stick my landings,” Pauker 

said. “And on p-bars my 

dismount was better than 

it had been so I think there 

was a lot of good that came 

out of those events.” 

Pauker, who also had 8.7 

on vault, 8.45 on rings and 

8.3 on pommel horse, still 

feels there are improvements 

he can make in order 

to have another successful 

state run. 

“I’m still trying to integrate 

new skills and get my 

routines cleaner,” Pauker 

said. “My goal is to make 

it to the state finals in as 

many events as I can.” 

Max McWilliams got 

an 8 on p-bars and Ethan 

Charvet had 7.9 on floor 

and Arian Gil had a 7.8 

on floor. GBS was 13th 

(129.375) 

Junior Kevin Connors 

has been a very welcome 

addition to Highland Park 

gymnastics. 

All Connors did at the 

19-team Mundelein Bob 

Bohl Invite was win the allaround 

title (55.825) as well 

as the horizontal bar (9.6) 

and the still rings (9.5) and 

he finished with higher than 

a nine in all but one event. 

His dismount on the h- 

bar was extremely difficult 

but he managed to get high 

up in the air and perfectly 

stick the landing. 

“My goal on the dismount 

was to get as much 

height as possible,” Connors 

said. “No one else was 

doing that type of dismount 

so I wanted to make sure it 

looked perfect.” 

Despite not having an 

easy task, he was just as 

strong on rings. 

“The judges were a little 

tough on my score,” Connors 

said. “But I felt I hit 

my routine just about perfectly. 

When you stick it 

exactly the way you want 

to it’s a great feeling.” 

Connors was also second 

on pommel horse (9.3), 

vault (9.425) and parallel 

bars (9.3) and earned an 8.7 

on floor. 

He joined Highland Park 

after previously competing 

in club gymnastics. And he 

is enjoying the aspect of 

competing for a team. 

“Club is very serious and 

the sole focus is trying to 

compete in college,” Connors 

said. “But high school 

you’re competing to help 

your team do as well as 

they can. Everyone fights 

hard in every event and 

that’s really fun to see. I 

was used to it being very 

individual but it’s enjoyable 

competing now in a 

team-oriented fashion.” 

The Giants were fifth 

at the invite with 149.725 

points. Matt Hyatt took 

fifth on vault (9.3) and tied 

for sixth on p-bars (9). He 

also had solid scores on 

floor (8.5) and h-bar (8.2). 

Tim Steves did well on 

floor (8.7), vault (8.2) and 

p-bars (8). 

Listen Up 

“It adds a nice kind of feeling to the 

match.” 

Chris Cooper — The Glenbrook North boys volleyball 

coach on playing in “Battle for the Cure.” 

tunE in 

What to watch this week 

The Glenbrook North girls lacrosse team takes on 

Deerfield on Friday, April 13. 

• 6 p.m. at Deerfield 

Index 

44 - Girls Water Polo 

43 - Athlete of the Week 

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No doubt 

North softball pitcher throws 

no-hitter, Page 44 

Titans and Spartans increase stakes, play for a close cause, Page 46 

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