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8 | May 17, 2018 | The highland park landmark News
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Fitness studio celebrates
one-year anniversary
Joe Coughlin, Publisher
Native plants placed to deter
flooding at river cleanup
Hilary Anderson
Freelance Reporter
Kismet is what brought Gyrotonic
to Highland Park. Kismet and Sharon
Burack.
The unique fitness method uses fluid
movements to stretch and engage numerous
muscles and joints. Burack heard of
the trend while in New York when her
friend mentioned it in passing.
Then, the next day, another of Burack’s
friends, this time a doctor, mentioned the
technique on a phone call.
Not long later, Burack paired with Amy
Pena and founded Spryl in the spring of
2017 within a cozy storefront in downtown
Highland Park (1781 Green Bay Road).
On May 2, Burack, Pena and company
hosted an open house to celebrate the oneyear
mark.
“We’ve been getting busier and busier,”
Burack said. “It’s taking off.”
For more information on Spyrl or Gyrotonic,
visit www.spyrlchicago.com.
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Mother Nature smiled
on volunteers at Highland
Park’s Larry Fink Memorial
Park who gathered
there for the 26th annual
Chicago River Day.
The Friends of the Chicago
River set aside the
day to remove trash from
the river’s banks including
those along numerous suburban
locations.
Although thunderstorms
were predicted for the
morning, it did not rain
one drop while nearly
three-dozen volunteers
worked.
“I looked at the radar,
saw we were in a clearing
and said there would be no
rain during the time of our
event,” said Liz Ettelson,
an employee for the Park
District of Highland Park.
“We cleaned up the area
and now want to put our
efforts toward planting
rain gardens to absorb the
runoff that comes during
heavy rainstorms. These
areas in this park usually
flood.”
Ettelson pointed out sections
marked off with red
tape where native plants
were to be placed in the
ground.
“Studies show this also
increases the water quality
of the Chicago River,”
Rebecca Grill, manager of
natural areas for the park
district said. “These native
plants absorb more water
than turf does.”
Grill carefully removed
Blazing Star and Rough
Blazing Star plants from
the back of a pickup truck
and placed them in a
wheelbarrow. When fully
grown, they produce a cascading
effect.
Highland Park High School senior Alli Borcherding
digging a hole for plants. Photos by Hilary
Anderson/22nd Century Media
Volunteer Katherine Lasonde digging and planting.
“We have about one
thousands plants that need
to get into the ground and
hope to put in at least 800
today,” said Grill.
Teri Borcherding and
daughter, Alli an HPHS senior,
were among the first
volunteers to show up.
“I am taking an environmental
science class,” Alli
said. “We must care about
our environment and learn
more about how we can
protect it.”
Teri watched a video a
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