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the glenview lantern | April 26, 2018 | 3<br />
Glenbrook students<br />
raise $10k at annual<br />
burger-eating contest<br />
Sarah Haider<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
It all started as a prank.<br />
Fifteen years ago, a<br />
group of Glenbrook South<br />
and Glenbrook North students<br />
raided the McDonald’s<br />
at Glenview’s Plaza<br />
del Prado in an attempt to<br />
buy every burger the staff<br />
could make. Nowadays,<br />
the tables have turned.<br />
On Saturday, April 22,<br />
12 competitors from GBS<br />
and GBN were put to the<br />
test, stretching their stomachs<br />
to devour a combined<br />
122 hamburgers in<br />
30 minutes at the 15th annual<br />
Burger Day.<br />
“It’s not every day you<br />
get to see a group of students<br />
do something like<br />
this,” said Jack Joselit,<br />
GBN Burger Day board<br />
member. “I know my<br />
friends are all going to<br />
come out and support us<br />
doing this. As teenagers<br />
and students, we are not<br />
always given respect, and<br />
when we can put something<br />
on and make a difference<br />
for our community<br />
for a good cause, it’s<br />
impressive and I’m proud<br />
of what we’ve done.”<br />
The competitors ate one<br />
burger after another to<br />
cheers from friends and<br />
family. The rules were<br />
simple: eat as many burgers<br />
as possible in the allotted<br />
time without throwing<br />
them back up.<br />
Although GBN won<br />
a trophy and bragging<br />
rights at the competition,<br />
the event’s ultimate<br />
reward was the money<br />
raised for the Ronald<br />
McDonald House of Chicagoland<br />
and Northwest<br />
Indiana, which provides a<br />
nearby place for families<br />
to stay while their children<br />
receive treatment in<br />
hospitals across the area.<br />
“We call it a competition,<br />
but really we are all<br />
here for the same charity<br />
and it’s just a really special<br />
thing that you don’t get<br />
between the two schools<br />
ever,” said GBS student<br />
Gracie Hambourger, the<br />
event’s first solo female<br />
president. “As much as it<br />
is an eating competition,<br />
it’s just a chance to be together<br />
for a day.”<br />
For the competitors, it<br />
was also an opportunity<br />
to take part in a long-lived<br />
legacy in the North Shore<br />
community. GBS eater<br />
Zach Lehman stated the<br />
experience was “the cherry<br />
on top” of his senior<br />
year. Lehman prepared for<br />
the competition by going<br />
without food for 15 hours<br />
after a water polo tournament<br />
to rev up his hunger.<br />
GBN seniors Luke Frishman<br />
and Adam Rabin<br />
have been looking forward<br />
to participating in<br />
the event since they heard<br />
about it as younger students.<br />
“It’s something [we’ve]<br />
always wanted to do and<br />
[we] are really excited<br />
for it, but once it gets to<br />
today, you start to realize<br />
the actual challenge you<br />
have to do, instead of just<br />
[thinking], “Oh, I get to<br />
eat as many cheeseburgers<br />
as I want,” Frishman said.<br />
This year, the Spartans<br />
proved they had the ultimate<br />
hunger for success,<br />
winning the competition<br />
after devouring a total of<br />
62 burgers. The Titans<br />
scarfed down a combined<br />
60 burgers.<br />
Thanks to the seven<br />
months of planning and<br />
fundraising from the<br />
Burger Day student board,<br />
as well as burger and water<br />
donations and fundraising<br />
guidance from the<br />
McDonald’s store owner<br />
Chris Prucnal, the event<br />
raised more than $10,000<br />
for the charity.<br />
“It’s remarkable that<br />
you have a group of high<br />
school kids that have put<br />
so much passion to help<br />
other kids and who have<br />
so much dedication to<br />
put on an event like this<br />
for Ronald McDonald<br />
House,” Prucnal said.<br />
“The kids get all of the<br />
credit. I try to give them<br />
guidance and point them<br />
in the right path, but it’s<br />
really all about them. The<br />
efforts are theirs.”<br />
For more information on the<br />
Ronald McDonald House<br />
charity, visit www.rmhccni.<br />
org<br />
Glenbrook South’s Zach Lehman competes in Burger Day on Sunday, April 22, at the<br />
Plaza del Prado McDonald’s in Glenview. Sarah Haider/22nd Century Media<br />
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