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8 | April 19, 2018 | The winnetka Current news<br />

winnetkacurrent.com<br />

It’s official<br />

Hornstein named<br />

permanent chief<br />

for Winnetka Police<br />

Department<br />

Jacqueline Glosniak, Editor<br />

Following a nearly yearlong<br />

stint as interim chief<br />

of police for the Village of<br />

Winnetka, longtime Winnetka<br />

policeman Marc<br />

Hornstein was officially<br />

named the Village’s new<br />

chief of police on April 11.<br />

Hornstein, who stepped<br />

into the temporary chief<br />

role with the department<br />

last June following the retirement<br />

of Patrick Kreis,<br />

was sworn in to his new<br />

post April 12.<br />

In a Village press release,<br />

Village Manager<br />

Robert Bahan said Winnetka<br />

has been pleased<br />

with Hornstein’s growth<br />

throughout his career and<br />

looks forward to his continued<br />

leadership of the<br />

police department.<br />

“Marc prides himself on<br />

building partnerships and<br />

positive relationships with<br />

residents and community<br />

stakeholders to put the<br />

needs of the community<br />

first,” Bahan said. “The<br />

Village is excited to welcome<br />

his authentic style of<br />

leadership and participatory<br />

management approach<br />

to the police department.”<br />

Hornstein said he is honored<br />

to continue his service<br />

to Winnetka.<br />

“It’s an honor and I’m<br />

really very humbled by it,”<br />

he said. “It’s a wonderful<br />

community. This is a great<br />

organization with a lot of<br />

hard working men and<br />

women who are truly dedicated<br />

to serving the public,<br />

and I’m just a small part of<br />

the puzzle to help everybody<br />

out with it.”<br />

Hornstein has been involved<br />

in the world of law<br />

Marc Hornstein, who has been with the Winnetka Police<br />

Department since 1993, was officially promoted as the<br />

department’s new chief of police on April 11. He served<br />

as the department’s interim police chief since last June.<br />

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enforcement for nearly 30<br />

years. He began his career<br />

in 1990 as a community<br />

service officer with the<br />

Buffalo Grove Police Department<br />

and came to Winnetka<br />

in 1993 as a patrol<br />

officer.<br />

During his career with<br />

the Winnetka Police Department,<br />

Hornstein<br />

served the community in<br />

various roles as a D.A.R.E.<br />

program officer, juvenile<br />

officer, crime prevention<br />

officer and detective,<br />

before receiving promotions<br />

through the ranks of<br />

sergeant, special services<br />

sergeant, commander and<br />

deputy chief.<br />

In his new tenure, Hornstein<br />

said his immediate<br />

goal is to continue fostering<br />

police department<br />

partnerships with various<br />

Village organizations and<br />

other local entities, including<br />

schools and businesses.<br />

“We want to continue<br />

to build on the strong relationships<br />

that we have<br />

with both the stakeholders<br />

in the community and<br />

our residents as well,” he<br />

said. “That’s first and foremost.”<br />

On the horizon, Hornstein<br />

said additional projects<br />

he would like to begin<br />

working on include<br />

wrapping up the department’s<br />

transition to the<br />

Starcom21 public safety<br />

radio network, implementing<br />

an e-ticketing mobile<br />

crash reporting vendor by<br />

the end of 2018 and looking<br />

for ways to repurpose<br />

department space following<br />

the department’s 911<br />

dispatch consolidations to<br />

Glenview last summer.<br />

From the Village<br />

Happ Road study<br />

The Happ Road Steering<br />

Committee met in February<br />

to review the input and<br />

comments from the public<br />

open house, develop consensus<br />

on the preferred<br />

alternatives and to provide<br />

direction on the streetscape<br />

enhancements for the plan.<br />

Over the next couple of<br />

months, the consultant will<br />

be meeting with property<br />

owners whose site may be<br />

impacted by the proposed<br />

improvements and the team<br />

will continue to work with<br />

Cook County and IDOT to<br />

develop alternative parking<br />

locations to mitigate the<br />

loss of on-street parking in<br />

the downtown area.<br />

A final public hearing on<br />

the proposed Phase I plan is<br />

expected to be held in late<br />

spring or early summer.<br />

Tree City USA<br />

recertification<br />

Northfield recently celebrated<br />

it’s 33rd consecutive<br />

year as being certified as a<br />

Tree City USA. To qualify<br />

for certification, the Village<br />

has to meet standards established<br />

by the Arbor Day<br />

Foundation and the National<br />

Association of State<br />

Foresters, including having<br />

a tree board and staff in<br />

charge of tree care, having<br />

a Tree Care Ordinance, an<br />

annual budget of at least<br />

township<br />

From Page 3<br />

was distracted by someone<br />

asking me a question. And<br />

at one point, I saw out of<br />

the corner of my eye that<br />

Bryan had reached forward<br />

and was holding the<br />

boy’s arm. And I turned,<br />

and I looked, and I kind<br />

of wanted to make sure<br />

that everything was OK<br />

and the boy was sobbing.<br />

He said, ‘You changed my<br />

life. You changed my life.’<br />

$2 per capita for trees and<br />

conducting an Arbor Day<br />

Celebration.<br />

Reduced insurance<br />

premiums continue<br />

Due to the hard work<br />

of the Community Development<br />

Department,<br />

Northfield was recently<br />

recertified in the Federal<br />

Emergency Management<br />

Agency’s Community Rating<br />

System.<br />

The Village’s continued<br />

certification allows residents<br />

a 15 percent discount<br />

on new overland flooding<br />

policies or policy renewals<br />

through the National<br />

Flood Insurance Program.<br />

The recertification process<br />

requires an extensive report<br />

on the Village’s ongoing<br />

flood hazard mitigation efforts.<br />

Curbside composting<br />

program<br />

Do you want to become<br />

more environmentally<br />

friendly, but don’t know<br />

where to start? Try the<br />

curbside composting program.<br />

Composting reduces<br />

greenhouse gases, diverts<br />

materials from landfills and<br />

creates a valuable nutrientrich<br />

soil amendment.<br />

Waste Management<br />

offers a voluntary subscription-based<br />

curbside<br />

composting program to all<br />

...Bryan in reaching out<br />

to him said, ‘This is the<br />

work. This is the work.’<br />

“The privilege I have to<br />

witness these things is extraordinary.<br />

Again, that’s<br />

something I [can’t] put in a<br />

spreadsheet and offer to a<br />

financial committee.”<br />

Several community<br />

members and businesses<br />

also received prizes at the<br />

meeting.<br />

New Trier High School<br />

senior Brianna Chou received<br />

the Peer Jury<br />

Scholarship Award. The<br />

Northfield homes. Compost<br />

pickup runs every Monday<br />

during the yard waste season<br />

from April 2-Nov. 26.<br />

Collected compostable materials<br />

are combined with<br />

yard waste and are taken to<br />

the same facility for disposal.<br />

However, unlike yard<br />

waste, compostable material<br />

must be put into a Waste<br />

Management cart due to<br />

Health Department regulations<br />

and animal concerns.<br />

Food scraps that are put<br />

loosely into your cart may<br />

attract unwanted pests. Paper<br />

bags or newspaper are<br />

most commonly used to<br />

wrap scraps. All clean paper<br />

products (cups, plates,<br />

napkins, etc.) should continue<br />

to be disposed of in<br />

your recycling cart. Paper<br />

products that have food<br />

remnants on them (pizza<br />

boxes, used paper towels,<br />

etc.) cannot be recycled<br />

and should instead be composted.<br />

Compost program participants<br />

have priority access<br />

to free compost for<br />

their gardens twice a year.<br />

To enroll in the program<br />

and request a cart, contact<br />

Waste Management at<br />

(800) 796-9696. For other<br />

questions, contact the Village<br />

at (847)784-3554.<br />

Compiled from the Northfield<br />

News village newsletter<br />

Friend of the Township<br />

Award went to the Jewel-<br />

Osco on Green Bay Road<br />

in Wilmette for their work<br />

with the Township’s food<br />

pantry.<br />

Various local historical<br />

societies received the<br />

Township Service Award<br />

for their work inventorying<br />

the Township’s record<br />

books, which date back<br />

to 1850. Rooney then received<br />

the Noyes Award,<br />

and Diane Tye received the<br />

Supervisor’s Superior Service<br />

Award.

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