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The Northbrook Tower<br />

Northbrook’s Award-Winning Hometown Newspaper northbrooktower.com • December 6, 2018 • Vol. 7 No. 41 • $1<br />

A<br />

Publication<br />

,LLC<br />

Park District details designs, plans for new activity center, Page 3<br />

Northbrook Park District officials are hoping the park’s new 44,200-square-foot, $16-million activity center will open in 2020. Construction is slated to begin in<br />

the summer of 2019. Design rendering courtesy of the Northbrook Park District<br />

Giving Back<br />

Inaugural holiday<br />

NSYMCA event supports<br />

those in need, Page 12<br />

Winter Showcase<br />

GBN students take<br />

to stage with performances<br />

of ‘Leftovers,’ Page 8<br />

Looking good<br />

Latest updates show<br />

progress of new Maple<br />

School, Page 16


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Police Reports6<br />

Pet of the Week8<br />

Editorial31<br />

Puzzles34<br />

Faith37<br />

Dining Out41<br />

Home of the Week42<br />

Athlete of the Week45<br />

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THURSDAY<br />

GBN Orchesis Dance Show<br />

Performances at 7 p.m.<br />

on Dec. 6, 7 and 8, GBN’s<br />

Sheely Center for Performing<br />

Arts, 2300 Shermer<br />

Road. Glenbrook North<br />

High School Orchesis<br />

Dance Company will present<br />

their annual concert,<br />

“Devotion.” Devotion features<br />

the work of leading,<br />

professional guest dance<br />

choreographers and artists<br />

and GBN student choreography.<br />

Ticket cost is $10<br />

and may purchased at the<br />

door or in advance.<br />

Investment and Asset<br />

Accumulation Strategies<br />

7 p.m. Dec. 6, North<br />

Suburban YMCA, 2705<br />

Techny Road. This free<br />

workshop offers insight<br />

and ideas to help make<br />

informed decisions regarding<br />

your investments<br />

and how to make them<br />

grow. Financial educators<br />

Wei Zhang and Le Anh<br />

Blanchard of the Heartland<br />

Institute of Financial Education<br />

will explain how to<br />

think strategically about<br />

investing. Open to the<br />

public. Reserve your seat<br />

by calling (847) 272-7250.<br />

FRIDAY<br />

Santa-Slimeology Lab<br />

6-7 p.m., Dec. 7, Leisure<br />

Center, 3323 Walters Ave.<br />

Get ready for the ‘slime’ of<br />

your life! Save Santa from<br />

sinking snow and customize<br />

your own slimetastic<br />

creations. The fun includes<br />

a slime-themed snack.<br />

Cost is $45 for residents<br />

and $59 for non-residents.<br />

Register at nbparks.org.<br />

Inn Shop Gallery Open<br />

House<br />

7-9 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7,<br />

Northbrook History Museum,<br />

1776 Walters Ave.<br />

All are invited to enjoy<br />

refreshments at an Open<br />

House for the new Artisans<br />

at the Inn Shop in the<br />

History Museum. The Inn<br />

Shop now features original<br />

art and other distinctive<br />

gifts by area artists, and a<br />

number of plein air paintings<br />

also will be on display<br />

and available for purchase.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(847) 498-3404 or (847)<br />

498-0884.<br />

SATURDAY<br />

Advent and Christmas<br />

Concert<br />

4:45 p.m. Dec. 8, Grace<br />

Lutheran Church of Northbrook,<br />

2245 Walters Ave.<br />

Join for a holiday concert.<br />

This event is free and open<br />

to the public — everyone<br />

is welcome. For more<br />

information, please call<br />

(847) 498-3060.<br />

MONDAY<br />

Low Back Pain and<br />

Sciatica: Natural Healing<br />

Approaches<br />

11:15 a.m., Dec. 10,<br />

North Suburban YMCA,<br />

2705 Techny Road. Denise<br />

Schwartz, a licensed physical<br />

therapist, will speak<br />

at the North Suburban<br />

YMCA to discuss the three<br />

main reasons for back pain<br />

and how to heal naturally.<br />

Reserve your seat by calling<br />

(847) 272-7250.<br />

TUESDAY<br />

K-Pop (grades 6-12)<br />

5-7 p.m., Dec. 11,<br />

Northbrook Public Library,<br />

1201 Cedar Lane.<br />

Presenters from the Korean<br />

Education Center will<br />

provide an introduction to<br />

the popular Korean music<br />

genre, K-pop. This presentation<br />

will be in English.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(847) 272-6224.<br />

WEDNESDAY<br />

Gingerbread Workshop<br />

6-7:30 p.m., Wednesday,<br />

Dec. 12, Leisure Center,<br />

3323 Walters Ave. Have a<br />

sweet time with your family<br />

decorating a gingerbread<br />

house. Customize<br />

this festive holiday décor<br />

item with candy, licorice<br />

ropes and gumdrops. Pizza<br />

and soda included. Bring<br />

a box to take your masterpiece<br />

home. Register at<br />

nbparks.org.<br />

UPCOMING<br />

Northbrook Community<br />

Choir Winter Concert<br />

7-8 p.m., Monday Dec.<br />

10, Northbrook Public Library,<br />

1201 Cedar Lane.<br />

The Northbrook Community<br />

Choir presents a<br />

winter concert of uplifting,<br />

joyful music to brighten<br />

your day. For more information,<br />

call (847) 272-<br />

6224.<br />

Cosmic Skating<br />

7-9 p.m., Dec. 15,<br />

Northbrook Sports Center,<br />

1730 Pfingsten Road. All<br />

ages are invited to enjoy<br />

some fun on the ice. Skate<br />

and dance to DJ music.<br />

Entry fee is $7. For more<br />

information, please call<br />

(847) 291-2993.<br />

Holiday Skating Recital<br />

6-9 p.m. Dec. 20, Northbrook<br />

Sports Center, 1730<br />

Pfingsten Road. Join your<br />

friends and register to participate<br />

in the Annual Skating<br />

Recital. Skaters have a<br />

maximum of two routines,<br />

solo and/or group, if time<br />

permits. Routines must<br />

be limited to 90 seconds<br />

or less. Holiday music is<br />

preferred and costumes<br />

and props are optional. For<br />

more information, please<br />

call (847) 291-2993.<br />

ONGOING<br />

Registration for<br />

Northbrook Action<br />

Baseball<br />

Registration is now underway<br />

for the Spring 2019<br />

season. The program is for<br />

boys pre-school through<br />

second grade and girls preschool<br />

through third grade.<br />

This is a chance to play in<br />

an organized league, and<br />

have fun while learning to<br />

play the game. The season<br />

runs from mid-April to<br />

June. For more information,<br />

visit northbrookac<br />

tionbaseball.org or call<br />

847-564-9849<br />

Take Off Pounds Sensibly<br />

Want to lose weight?<br />

Come join TOPS in Northbrook.<br />

This organization<br />

offers a healthy, caring,<br />

supportive approach to<br />

weight control at an affordable<br />

price. Chapter IL 847<br />

Northbrook meets every<br />

Wednesday for a weigh-in<br />

(6:15-6:45 p.m.) and meeting<br />

(6:45-7:30 p.m.) in the<br />

back lower level of the<br />

North Northfield United<br />

Methodist Church at 797<br />

Sanders Road in Northbrook<br />

(northeast corner<br />

of Dundee and Sanders),<br />

Northbrook. For more information,<br />

call (847) 564-<br />

3147 or visit www.tops.<br />

org.<br />

LIST IT YOURSELF<br />

Reach out to thousands of daily<br />

users by submitting your event at<br />

NorthbrookTower.com/calendar<br />

For just print*, email all information to<br />

martin@northbrooktower.com<br />

*Deadline for print is 5 p.m. the Thursday prior to publication.<br />

Current Events Club<br />

Every Tuesday at 1 p.m.<br />

in the Leisure Center,<br />

3323 Walters Ave. Join the<br />

conversation at the Park<br />

District’s current events<br />

group. Connect with others<br />

as you talk about the<br />

latest topics in the news.<br />

It’s free to join for Senior<br />

Center members. Call<br />

(847) 291-2995 to come to<br />

a meeting and start making<br />

new friends.<br />

NorthShore Essential<br />

Tremor Group<br />

The NorthShore Essential<br />

Tremor Group meets<br />

the second Saturday of<br />

every month at the Northbrook<br />

Public Library.<br />

Meetings are held in the<br />

Civic Room, starting at 10<br />

a.m. until 11:30 a.m. For<br />

more information, please<br />

call (847)564-1777<br />

Laughter Group<br />

Every Wednesday, 7-8<br />

p.m., come to the free<br />

Optimists Laughter Club,<br />

John and Carol Walter<br />

Ambulatory Care Center,<br />

lower level meeting room<br />

E, west side of Glenbrook<br />

Hospital, 2180 Pfingsten<br />

Road, Glenview. Park and<br />

enter through Ambulatory<br />

Care Center. Experience a<br />

unique exercise that uses<br />

laughing and breath work<br />

to get happier and healthier.<br />

No jokes needed. Everyone<br />

is equipped to<br />

laugh. Call (847) 571-7553<br />

for more information.


northbrooktower.com news<br />

the northbrook tower | December 6, 2018 | 3<br />

Park eyeing ’20 for opening of activity center<br />

Martin Carlino, Editor<br />

Northbrook Park District<br />

officials are hoping<br />

the construction of a new<br />

44,200-square-foot activity<br />

center at Techny Prairie<br />

Park and Fields will begin<br />

in the summer of 2019,<br />

with the goal of completion<br />

in 2020.<br />

At an open house for<br />

Northbrook residents last<br />

month, the District unveiled<br />

design concepts for<br />

the facility, showcasing the<br />

fitness and wellness opportunities<br />

it will offer.<br />

Per Molly Hamer, the<br />

park district’s executive<br />

director, the activity center<br />

will be two floors and will<br />

include a full gymnasium,<br />

a walking/running indoor<br />

track, a dedicated space for<br />

cardio and strength equipment,<br />

two large fitness<br />

rooms, locker rooms, offices,<br />

a childcare area and a<br />

multipurpose room.<br />

“We really see this facility<br />

as a community gathering<br />

place for the residents<br />

of Northbrook,” Hamer<br />

told The Tower. “I think<br />

it’s more than just an activity<br />

center, it really is a<br />

connection, and we believe<br />

that. The connection to the<br />

outdoors, the connection to<br />

each other, people’s connection<br />

to their health and<br />

wellness. I think it’s really<br />

going to make a difference.”<br />

Hamer continued to say<br />

the facility is one that will<br />

connect “indoor recreation<br />

with outdoor recreation.”<br />

The new activity center<br />

is part of the Park District’s<br />

“2018-2022: New Places to<br />

Play Initiative,” which is<br />

the first phase of the park’s<br />

10-year comprehensive<br />

master plan.<br />

First approved in 2017,<br />

the plan outlines the needs<br />

and goals of the district, determined<br />

through extensive<br />

residents feedback, over<br />

the coming ten years.<br />

Information received<br />

through years of surveys<br />

indicated providing indoor<br />

space, particularly<br />

for fitness and wellness<br />

programming, was among<br />

the Northbrook community’s<br />

top priority for investment,<br />

per Hamer. Based<br />

on the data, the district<br />

decided to build the activity<br />

center to provide the<br />

desired services residents<br />

sought.<br />

The District announced<br />

that Wight & Company, of<br />

An aerial view design rendering showcases areas for<br />

future expansion of the facility.<br />

Pictured is a rendering of the soon-to-be constructed Northbrook activity center, showing the view from the<br />

facility’s indoor walking track. Construction is expected to begin in 2019 with desired completion in 2020.<br />

Renderings courtesy of the Northbrook Park District<br />

Darien, is the selected architect<br />

for the project.<br />

“They are committed to<br />

excellence, as are we, and<br />

they are very interested in<br />

sustainable systems, as are<br />

we,” Hamer said.<br />

The current construction<br />

timeline calls for breaking<br />

ground sometime in the<br />

summer of 2019.<br />

“We hope to break<br />

ground this summer, possibly<br />

late summer,” Hamer<br />

said. “We’re in design development<br />

right now, so<br />

we’re right on target with<br />

our timeline.”<br />

In an effort to maintain<br />

the construction timeline,<br />

there are no current plans<br />

for partnership options with<br />

other agencies in the area.<br />

When first announced,<br />

the Park District was in an<br />

agreement with the Northern<br />

Suburban Special Recreation<br />

Association for a<br />

shared-use facility. However,<br />

Hamer said the park<br />

decided not to move forward<br />

with the partnership<br />

“mostly just because of the<br />

timeline of them pulling together<br />

their financing.”<br />

According to Hamer,<br />

the slated budget for the<br />

facility is $16 million and<br />

is funded through the park<br />

district’s reserves fund and<br />

a bond issue.<br />

The park has the capacity<br />

to issue bonds because of<br />

retired debt from a previous<br />

referendum, per Hamer.<br />

Hamer also said this capital<br />

project will not impact the<br />

tax rate.<br />

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“There will be a fee for<br />

membership, and there<br />

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Those budgets are<br />

being prepared and will be<br />

presented to the board [of<br />

commissioners].”<br />

A comprehensive study<br />

is being done to determine<br />

membership rates for the<br />

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a strong possibility membership<br />

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From the Village<br />

Winter weather operations<br />

Last week, the Public<br />

Works Department responded<br />

to two snowfall<br />

events. The first took<br />

place Sunday, Nov. 25<br />

to Monday, Nov. 26 with<br />

6-inches of snowfall.<br />

The Village’s ice control<br />

crew of seven began<br />

salting operations at 7:30<br />

p.m. and a full plow began<br />

at midnight.<br />

Crews continued plowing<br />

operations through 5<br />

p.m. on Nov. 26, with the<br />

ice control crew returning<br />

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Most restorations were<br />

completed by Nov. 28,<br />

with the few remaining<br />

completed on Nov. 29.<br />

The second snowfall<br />

began on Wednesday,<br />

Nov. 28 and continued<br />

into Thursday, Nov. 29<br />

and brought roughly 0.75<br />

inches of snow. The Village’s<br />

ice control crew<br />

began salting operations<br />

at 10:30 p.m. and concluded<br />

work at 4:30 a.m.<br />

For more information<br />

on snow and ice control,<br />

please visit the Village’s<br />

website at www.northbrook.il.us/snow.<br />

If we can’t reach you,<br />

we can’t notify you! If<br />

you have not already<br />

done so, please sign-up<br />

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system, for<br />

alerts about delayed garbage<br />

pick-up, special<br />

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persons, police activity<br />

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From the Village is information<br />

submitted by the<br />

Village of Northbrook, www.<br />

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Police Reports<br />

Seven Northbrook vehicles burglarized in one-day span<br />

Officers responded to<br />

the area of the 800-900<br />

blocks of Bittersweet<br />

Drive at 2:28 a.m. on Nov.<br />

24 after receiving a call<br />

that a resident’s vehicle<br />

was broken into. Officers<br />

then located two more vehicles<br />

in the area that were<br />

entered. One vehicle had a<br />

purse taken. Nothing was<br />

reported missing from the<br />

other two vehicles.<br />

Later on Nov. 24, officers<br />

responded to the 600<br />

block of Berglund Place at<br />

11:06 a.m. regarding two<br />

vehicles that were entered.<br />

Nothing was reported<br />

missing from either.<br />

Just after, a resident of<br />

the 2300 block of Brentwood<br />

Road reported at<br />

11:31 a.m. that unknown<br />

subject(s) entered a parked<br />

vehicle and removed U.S.<br />

currency.<br />

At 6:13 p.m., a resident<br />

of the 1000 block of<br />

Midway Road reported<br />

that unknown subject(s)<br />

entered their vehicle and<br />

removed an item from the<br />

glovebox.<br />

In other police news:<br />

Nov. 29<br />

• An unlocked vehicle<br />

parked at Life Time Fitness,<br />

located in the 1100<br />

block of Skokie Boulevard,<br />

was entered between<br />

the hours of 9:20 a.m. and<br />

noon. A clutch purse was<br />

taken.<br />

• Unknown subject(s)<br />

hacked into an email account<br />

at Compass Health<br />

Care, located in the 60<br />

block of Revere Drive, and<br />

performed an authorized<br />

fund transfer.<br />

• Korey A. Thomas. 37, of<br />

Woodridge, was charged<br />

on an outstanding warrant<br />

from the DuPage County<br />

Sheriff’s office at 3:30<br />

a.m. in the 4000 block of<br />

Apple Lane.<br />

Nov. 28<br />

• A backpack was reported<br />

missing from the trunk<br />

of a vehicle parked in the<br />

700 block of Skokie Boulevard.<br />

• Shakira S. Webb, 19, of<br />

Chicago, was charged with<br />

retail theft, possession<br />

of stolen property, and<br />

charged on an arrest warrant<br />

from the Cook County<br />

Sheriff’s office for an incident<br />

that occurred on Oct.<br />

3 at the Louis Vuitton store<br />

in Northbrook Court. Detectives<br />

conducted a follow-up<br />

investigation to the<br />

Oct. 3 report and were able<br />

to identify Webb as the offender<br />

in the theft.<br />

Nov. 27<br />

• Officers responded to a<br />

residential burglar alarm<br />

activation at 5:44 in the 0<br />

block of Wellington and<br />

found the residence was<br />

burglarized. Various items<br />

were found missing.<br />

Nov. 26<br />

• Marco A. Rodriguez-<br />

Zuniga, 28, of Maywood,<br />

was charged with driving<br />

with a suspended license<br />

and disobeying a traffic<br />

device at 8:21 a.m. near<br />

the intersection of Pfingsten<br />

and Cherry.<br />

Nov. 21<br />

• Unknown subject(s) entered<br />

a vehicle parked at<br />

8:52 p.m. in the 100 block<br />

of Skokie Boulevard and<br />

took various belongings<br />

that were purchased.<br />

Nov. 20<br />

• A resident of the 2600<br />

block of Prince Street reported<br />

at 9:10 p.m. that an<br />

unknown subject placed an<br />

unauthorized hold on their<br />

mail delivery.<br />

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GBN’s winter showcase highlights students’ creativity<br />

Martin Carlino, Editor<br />

Sadie<br />

Heather and<br />

Chris Wu, of<br />

Northbrook<br />

Meet Sadie,<br />

this week’s<br />

Pet of the<br />

Week. She’s<br />

an 11-year-old<br />

Chow Chow/<br />

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ago from a shelter in the Bronx, NY. She dressed<br />

up as a bumblebee this year for Halloween. Her<br />

favorite things to do are play in the snow, wrestle<br />

with her dad, and give kisses to her younger sisters<br />

Janessa and Aubrey<br />

PLEASE HELP! The Tower needs Pet of the Week submissions!<br />

To see your pet featured as Pet of the Week, send<br />

photos and stories to Martin at martin@northbrooktower.<br />

com or at 60 Revere Drive, Suite 888, Northbrook.<br />

Glenbrook North student<br />

Emily MacDonald<br />

described the task her and<br />

the other cast members<br />

took on for this year’s<br />

winter showcase “Leftovers:<br />

An Experimental<br />

Show” as “complete chaos.”<br />

It’s hard to argue with<br />

MacDonald, as the mission<br />

of the show’s 14-person<br />

cast was to perform<br />

42 original pieces in just<br />

one hour. And to further<br />

add to the challenge, all<br />

of the 42 were chosen in a<br />

completely random order<br />

by audience members.<br />

Despite the daunting<br />

undertaking, the cast was<br />

up for the challenge —<br />

completing all 42 pieces<br />

Thursday, Nov. 29-Saturday,<br />

Dec. 1.<br />

“When we first practiced<br />

we would finish and<br />

almost have 10 left,” cast<br />

member Ryan Currie said.<br />

“Then as we kept on practicing<br />

... we finished with<br />

less and less ... and eventually<br />

we finished with<br />

none left, like tonight. It<br />

was kind of hectic, but it<br />

turned out great.”<br />

GBN alumnus Jake Prizant,<br />

in his second year<br />

as director of the winter<br />

showcase, drew inspiration<br />

for this year’s theme<br />

from The Neofuturists’ —<br />

a famous Chicago theater<br />

company — long-running<br />

show “Too Much Light<br />

Makes The Baby Go<br />

Blind.”<br />

Prizant said he hoped to<br />

add more variety to this<br />

year’s show, as last year’s<br />

theme was strictly comedic.<br />

But, as usual, his focus<br />

was on letting the students<br />

shine.<br />

“I really focused on<br />

improvising when the<br />

kids were coming up with<br />

things, for the most part,<br />

nothing was ever written<br />

Glenbrook North students Courtney Mazeika and Megan Mohrdieck perform Friday,<br />

Nov. 30 during “Blueberry,” one of the 42 student-written pieces performed as part of<br />

GBN’s 2018 winter showcase “Leftovers: An Experimental Show.” Photos by Carlos<br />

Alvarez/22nd Century Media<br />

For more photos,<br />

please visit<br />

Northbrook<br />

Tower.com.<br />

down,” he said. “I wanted<br />

it to be in the kids’ voices<br />

as much as possible. ...<br />

The process was really<br />

about discovering what<br />

was fun for them to do on<br />

their own.”<br />

During the show, items<br />

of clothing hung on a<br />

line behind the students,<br />

each marked with a number<br />

from 1-42. Audience<br />

members yelled out numbers<br />

of the desired pieces<br />

they wished to see. To<br />

complete all within the<br />

time restraints, teamwork<br />

was an imperative factor<br />

for success.<br />

“I don’t think we could<br />

have done as good of a<br />

show if we didn’t work together,”<br />

Sabrina Schoenberg<br />

said. “We had to give<br />

each other confidence and<br />

energy ... and have each<br />

other’s back.”<br />

The 42 pieces performed<br />

varied in style<br />

and duration, with some<br />

The show’s cast performs.<br />

The cast of GBN’s 2018 Winter Showcase<br />

Quinn Cassell<br />

Charlie Chemers<br />

Ryan Currie <br />

Maddie Harris<br />

Rachel Harris<br />

Caroline Lee<br />

Emily MacDonald<br />

Kyle MacDonald<br />

Courtney Mazeika<br />

Megan Mohrdieck<br />

Rose Salzer<br />

Sabrina Schoenberg<br />

Ben Sztainberg<br />

Ida Tello<br />

presenting a more comedic<br />

tone and others offering<br />

a serious or more<br />

straightforward approach.<br />

Regardless of the nature<br />

of each piece, the cast felt<br />

the importance of delivering<br />

a high-caliber performance.<br />

“When time is factored<br />

in, it’s not great to<br />

sacrifice quality,” Currie<br />

said. “Even if we had 30<br />

seconds left and like 10<br />

sketches to perform, you<br />

shouldn’t sacrifice the<br />

quality of the scene because<br />

your goal is to make<br />

people laugh and not to<br />

just finish.”


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West Northfield D31 Board of Education<br />

Requested tax levy calls<br />

for 5.1 percent increase<br />

Neil Milbert<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

West Northfield School<br />

District 31 is requesting<br />

a levy that is 5.1 percent<br />

higher than last year’s tax<br />

extension to ensure receipt<br />

of taxes from new property,<br />

including developments<br />

from the Provenance Development<br />

at Mission<br />

Hills.<br />

Chief School Business<br />

Official Cathy Lauria explained<br />

the proposed tax<br />

levy and the rationale behind<br />

it at the Thursday,<br />

Nov. 29 meeting of the<br />

Board of Education.<br />

The proposed 2019 levy<br />

request totals $17,295,608.<br />

This amount includes<br />

$820,788 for bond and<br />

interest purposes that is<br />

estimated to be levied or<br />

already has been levied.<br />

A breakdown of projected<br />

expenditures is: Educational<br />

fund $14,274,320,<br />

operations and maintenance<br />

$1,300,000, transportation<br />

$500,000, Illinois<br />

Municipal Retirement<br />

Fund $200,000, Social Security<br />

$200,000 and working<br />

cash $500.<br />

A public hearing on the<br />

proposed levy is scheduled<br />

to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday,<br />

Dec. 20, in Winkelman<br />

School prior to the<br />

regular board meeting at<br />

which the finalized version<br />

of the extension will be<br />

voted on.<br />

District schools earn<br />

‘commendable’ grade<br />

Field and Winkleman<br />

received grades of “commendable,”<br />

third-highest<br />

of the four assessments<br />

ROUND IT UP<br />

A brief recap of Board of Education action on Thursday,<br />

Nov. 29:<br />

• The board accepted a $76,800 bid from Chicagoland<br />

Paving Contractors, of Lake Zurich, for an<br />

asphalt fire lane at Winkelman School. The board<br />

rejected higher bids from Abby Paving and Allstar<br />

Asphalt, as well as a nonconforming bid from Superior<br />

Paving.<br />

• Members approved payments of $2,081.881.14<br />

and $874,769.77 to cover warrants for the second<br />

half of October and first half of November,<br />

respectively. They also approved payments of<br />

$439,560.54 and $432,281.10 to cover payroll for<br />

the second half of October and first half of November,<br />

respectively.<br />

• Fifth-grade teacher Kelly Alleya and speech and<br />

language pathologist Karen McGrath had their<br />

requests for family medical leave approved by the<br />

board. Alleya’s leave will run from the beginning of<br />

May 2019 through the end of the school year, while<br />

McGrath’s will begin in May 2019 and end in mid-<br />

October 2019.<br />

• Board members accepted the resignations of<br />

Winkelman library media specialist Judith Lopez and<br />

Field instructional assistant Akhila Lakkamsani.<br />

on the new Illinois School<br />

Report Card to evaluate<br />

public schools in the state.<br />

Field’s grade was 79 and<br />

Winkelman’s was 76.<br />

Traffic study for Field,<br />

Winkelman approved<br />

Acting on the recommendation<br />

of Arcon, the<br />

architectural firm engaged<br />

in the construction projects<br />

at Winkelman and<br />

Field, the board approved<br />

the hiring of Kimley-Horn<br />

to conduct a traffic study<br />

in hopes of alleviating<br />

student drop-off and pickup<br />

problems and traffic<br />

congestion on Landwehr<br />

Road.<br />

Laurie said even though<br />

numerous adjustments<br />

have been made over the<br />

years in an attempt to rectify<br />

the situation, safety remains<br />

a concern.<br />

The district’s renovation<br />

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to the parking lots at<br />

both schools.<br />

Three other school districts<br />

in the area — Northbrook/Glenview<br />

District<br />

30, Glenbrook High<br />

Schools District 225 and<br />

High School District 211<br />

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by Arcon.<br />

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First Holiday Giveback promotes spirit of giving<br />

Hilary Anderson<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Dozens of Northbrook<br />

area families and friends<br />

gathered at the North Suburban<br />

YMCA’s first Holiday<br />

Giveback to participate<br />

in packing “blessings<br />

bags,” which were full of<br />

everyday essentials for<br />

those who are in need.<br />

The event, held Saturday,<br />

Dec. 1, was new to<br />

the community, but one all<br />

who attended found valuable<br />

and purposeful.<br />

“This is a great opportunity<br />

to celebrate the<br />

beginning of the holiday<br />

season,” said Kim Nyren,<br />

NSYMCA senior manager<br />

of community investment.<br />

Once packed, the bags<br />

contained travel-size toiletries<br />

and included items<br />

like Vaseline, Kleenex,<br />

soap, body lotion, granola<br />

bars, band-aids, toothpaste,<br />

hand-sanitizer,<br />

toothbrushes and washcloths.<br />

Many Y members and<br />

other Northbrook area<br />

residents donated many<br />

of the items, as did local<br />

businesses including<br />

Northwestern Medicine<br />

and Yummy Dental, of<br />

Glenview.<br />

Some guests spent their<br />

own money and bought<br />

additional items for the<br />

event.<br />

“We went to Target and<br />

bought needed hygiene<br />

things on the list,” said<br />

Dana Lenhoff and her sister,<br />

Abby. “We are home<br />

from college for the holiday<br />

season.”<br />

“Doing something like<br />

this puts us in the holiday<br />

spirit,” Abby said.<br />

The “blessing bags” station<br />

was operating with absolute<br />

efficiency thanks to<br />

the help of members of the<br />

Junior Girl Scout Troop<br />

4l431 and Y employees including<br />

Eileen Mirochnick<br />

and Kathy Fielding.<br />

“Some people do not<br />

have things they need, so<br />

we are putting them in the<br />

bags for them,” Ava Pearlman,<br />

8, said.<br />

Eden Fishman, 9, shared<br />

similar sentiments.<br />

“We are doing this to<br />

help people who cannot<br />

afford to buy their own,”<br />

she said.<br />

Many adults got into the<br />

giving spirit as well.<br />

“I am a member of the Y<br />

and heard about this Holiday<br />

Giveback program<br />

and thought it was a great<br />

way to help,” Larry Kuehn<br />

said.<br />

He was there with his<br />

daughters Brittany and<br />

Lauren.<br />

“It is so easy to come<br />

and help out for this worthy<br />

cause,” Kuehn added.<br />

“It is great to see people<br />

from the neighborhood<br />

here.”<br />

The three wrote and<br />

decorated kindness letters<br />

and chose precut snowmen<br />

or snowflakes for the task.<br />

Each letter would be put in<br />

a blessing bag.<br />

Meanwhile Karen<br />

Brownlee wrote kindness<br />

messages on a snowflake.<br />

“People need to know<br />

they are cared about and<br />

loved,” Brownlee said.<br />

Elsewhere the adults<br />

continued writing and<br />

decorating their kindness<br />

messages.<br />

Two sisters, Sherri Sheftel,<br />

of Highland Park, and<br />

Julie Hecktman, of Northbrook,<br />

took what they<br />

were doing to heart with<br />

the Y’s Holiday Giveback<br />

event.<br />

“We came often to the<br />

Y when we were kids and<br />

spent a lot of time here,”<br />

Hecktman said. “This is<br />

part of our giving back and<br />

it is so much fun.”<br />

Afterwards, there was<br />

Bailey Wesselink (left), 5, and Kylie Hatfield, 5, put together their holiday blessing bags on Saturday, Dec. 1 at the<br />

North Suburban YMCA’s inaugural Holiday Giveback. Photos by Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media<br />

Divish Goel, 2, of Northbrook, colors as Santa and Mrs.<br />

Claus watch in the background.<br />

hot chocolate and cookie<br />

decorating.<br />

Parent volunteer Katie<br />

Rabenhorst took charge<br />

of giving out cookies for<br />

decorating purposes and<br />

making sure everyone had<br />

enough frosting and sprinkles.<br />

Her husband, Harry, and<br />

children Jacob, 15 and Annie,<br />

13, were there assisting<br />

at the event.<br />

“I brought my family<br />

to the Y for this Holiday<br />

Giveback,” Rabenhorst<br />

said. “I want to give them<br />

and others the message it<br />

is important to help those<br />

who are not as fortunate as<br />

are we. It also is a way for<br />

them to get off their cell<br />

phones for a while.”<br />

Even the Y’s gymnastic<br />

coach, Dawn Irelan, made<br />

time to help.<br />

She distributed hot<br />

chocolate for guests during<br />

Sherri Sheftel, of Highland Park, and Julie Hecktman, of<br />

Northbrook, write messages of kindness on snowmen.<br />

the event.<br />

But a highlight for many<br />

was when Santa and Mrs.<br />

Claus stopped in to check<br />

on the action and get any<br />

last-minute updates as to<br />

what some believers wanted<br />

for Christmas.<br />

The blessing bags will<br />

be distributed to individuals<br />

through Project I Am<br />

and the YWCA Evanston/<br />

North Shore.<br />

Project I Am provides<br />

the blessing bags to homeless<br />

individuals in the Chicagoland<br />

area.<br />

The YWCA’s Domestic<br />

Violence Programming<br />

will deliver blessings bags<br />

to individuals and families<br />

dealing with abuse across<br />

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Chanukah Wonderland connects holiday joy with heritage<br />

Daniel I. Dorfman<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

As the Chabad of Northbrook<br />

and Chabad Israeli<br />

Center celebrated the<br />

opening of their Chanukah<br />

Wonderland in a larger location<br />

at Northbrook Court<br />

for this year’s Jewish Festival<br />

of Lights, officials<br />

did so cognizant of recent<br />

headlines.<br />

“In today’s day and age<br />

we need to expand our<br />

Jewish pride because unfortunately<br />

the news is<br />

not so awesome. So we<br />

are doing that right here,”<br />

explained Chana Teldon,<br />

one of the co-coordinators<br />

of the Chanukah Wonderland.<br />

“The response has<br />

been incredible.”<br />

Teldon said of the four<br />

days the “wonderland”<br />

was open, the large crowds<br />

of the last two years continued,<br />

affirming the decision<br />

to move into a larger<br />

storefront in the mall in<br />

2018. The festival opened<br />

Nov. 25 and 26 and then<br />

for two additional days on<br />

Dec. 2 and 3, as Chanukah<br />

started this year.<br />

“We wanted to accommodate<br />

the large crowds<br />

we’ve been getting the last<br />

two years,” Teldon said.<br />

“It was a huge hit that the<br />

biggest complaint we’ve<br />

had the last two years was<br />

that it was crowded.”<br />

What people came to see<br />

was the Chanukah Wonderland,<br />

which specifically<br />

is a tribute to the Festival<br />

of Lights. Among the activities<br />

in place, children<br />

could jump in a dreidelshaped<br />

(a four sided spinning<br />

top played at Chanukah)<br />

bounce house, make<br />

candles, get their face<br />

painting or create decorative<br />

gelt (money) pouches<br />

or have fun in a tot zone.<br />

This all occurred as a collection<br />

of Chanukah songs<br />

played overhead.<br />

One prominent feature<br />

to this year’s production<br />

included a large “Jewish<br />

unity quilt” that hung over<br />

the middle of the storefront.<br />

The quilt was composed<br />

of many individual<br />

fabrics with the names of<br />

children who entered the<br />

“wonderland.” It served as<br />

an act against anti-Semitism,<br />

particularly the mass<br />

shooting at Pittsburgh’s<br />

Tree of Life synagogue in<br />

October.<br />

“A small act of kindness<br />

can illuminate the<br />

whole world with light<br />

of kindness and remove<br />

the darkness,” explained<br />

Rabbi Menachem Slavaticki<br />

of the reason of the<br />

quilt. “Every small deed<br />

counts.”<br />

Teldon echoed that sentiment<br />

when speaking<br />

about the importance of<br />

the quilt and the corresponding<br />

determination to<br />

not cower in light of recent<br />

events.<br />

“We are here and we are<br />

a strong presence and we<br />

are not going anywhere,”<br />

Teldon said. “It was a terrible<br />

thing that happened<br />

and we are going to combat<br />

that with extra light,<br />

joy and happiness.”<br />

Among those who<br />

stopped by Sunday, Dec.<br />

2 was Northbrook’s Julie<br />

Briskin, who brought her<br />

children Sophia, 5 and<br />

Max, 3.<br />

“I like that it is interactive<br />

with all the stations<br />

for the kids and teaching<br />

them about Chanukah and<br />

I think the quilt is nice,”<br />

Briskin said. “It’s also a<br />

great way to meet Jewish<br />

families with kids of the<br />

same age.”<br />

Tammy Green made the<br />

approximate 30-minute<br />

drive south from Hainesville,<br />

Ill. to catch a glimpse<br />

of the festival with her son,<br />

Lenny Millman, of Northbrook, helps his grandson Bohdi, 6, make a dreidel on Sunday, Dec. 2 at Chanukah<br />

Wonderland, held at Northbrook Court. Photos by Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media<br />

Volunteer Tal Yedlin, 13, helps Jordan and Ema Einhorn,<br />

of Northbrook, make candles.<br />

Jax, 2 who was having a<br />

good time.<br />

“It looked like a fun activity<br />

for a toddler,” she<br />

said as she found out about<br />

the festival over Facebook.<br />

“There’s not a lot of Chanukah<br />

stuff where I live.<br />

It’s fun for the kids with<br />

good music.”<br />

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THE LAKE FOREST LEADER<br />

Lake Forest names new<br />

city manager<br />

Mayor Rob Lansing and<br />

the members of the Lake<br />

Forest City Council have<br />

named Jason Wicha as the<br />

new city manager of Lake<br />

Forest.<br />

Wicha has 12 years of<br />

experience in local government<br />

management. For<br />

the past four years, Wicha<br />

has served as the assistant<br />

village manager in Skokie.<br />

Prior to that, he served as<br />

the village administrator<br />

of Thornton, Ill., and as a<br />

management intern in the<br />

City of Ypsilanti, Mich.<br />

Wicha earned a bachelor<br />

of arts degree in 2003<br />

from Skidmore College,<br />

Saratoga Springs, N.Y. and<br />

a master of public administration<br />

degree in 2007<br />

from Wayne State University<br />

in Detroit, Mich.<br />

“The City Council and<br />

I are impressed with Mr.<br />

Wicha’s professional demeanor,<br />

extensive experience<br />

and his leadership<br />

and management style,<br />

which we believe are an<br />

excellent fit for the Lake<br />

Forest community and<br />

City staff organization,”<br />

Lansing said. “He is wellversed<br />

in municipal processes<br />

and finance, and the<br />

many facets that comprise<br />

a healthy, thriving community<br />

such as Lake Forest.”<br />

Wicha and his wife have<br />

two children, a 7-year-old<br />

daughter and a 4-year-old<br />

son.<br />

More than 70 applications<br />

for the city manager<br />

position were received<br />

and interviews began in<br />

October. Wicha’s appointment<br />

as City Manager is<br />

scheduled for approval by<br />

the City Council at its Dec.<br />

3 meeting. He will begin<br />

work as the city manager<br />

on Jan. 28, 2019. Wicha<br />

succeeds Bob Kiely, who<br />

announced his retirement<br />

from the City in July after<br />

28 years of service.<br />

Submitted by the City of Lake<br />

Forest. Full story at Lake<br />

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THE WILMETTE BEACON<br />

Wilmette fully opts into<br />

county paid sick leave,<br />

minimum wage ordinances<br />

Three weeks following<br />

the Nov. 6 election, the<br />

Wilmette Village Board<br />

unanimously voted to fully<br />

opt into the Cook County<br />

minimum wage and paid<br />

sick leave ordinances at its<br />

Nov. 27 meeting.<br />

On Nov. 6, the minimum<br />

wage referendum was approved<br />

by Wilmette voters<br />

76 to 24 percent and the<br />

paid sick leave referendum<br />

was approved 80 to<br />

20 percent. The sick leave<br />

ordinance mandates that<br />

employees who work at<br />

least 80 hours in a 120-day<br />

period accrue one hour of<br />

paid sick leave for every<br />

40 hours worked, up to<br />

a maximum of 40 hours<br />

per year. The minimum<br />

wage in Wilmette is currently<br />

$11. The minimum<br />

wage will further increase<br />

to $12 on July 1, 2019 and<br />

to $13 on July 1, 2020. On<br />

July 1, 2021 and beyond,<br />

the wage will increase by<br />

the Consumer Price Index<br />

(CPI), or 2.5 percent,<br />

whichever is less.<br />

“The Nov. 6 referenda<br />

correctly and accurately<br />

reflected the County’s ordinances<br />

and were both<br />

approved overwhelmingly<br />

by Wilmette voters,” Village<br />

President Bob Bielinski<br />

said. “Therefore, I<br />

believe the Village Board<br />

should implement the results<br />

of the referenda and<br />

fully opt in to both county<br />

ordinances.”<br />

The current county<br />

minimum wage of $11 is<br />

already in effect in Wilmette,<br />

while the paid sick<br />

leave ordinance will take<br />

effect in the Village on<br />

March 1.<br />

Reporting by Todd Marver,<br />

Freelance Reporter. Full<br />

story at WilmetteBeacon.<br />

com.<br />

THE GLENVIEW LA<strong>NT</strong>ERN<br />

Crafters, shoppers say<br />

farewell to the Holiday<br />

Store at the Grove<br />

The Grove’s Holiday<br />

Store celebrates its final<br />

run this December, offering<br />

local shoppers one last<br />

chance to enjoy the store’s<br />

seminal holiday shopping<br />

experience before it closes<br />

its doors to the Glenview<br />

community for good.<br />

The Holiday Store houses<br />

a sprawling, eclectic array<br />

of holiday crafts made<br />

by local artisans from<br />

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area.<br />

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the most original gift ideas<br />

for the season.<br />

Kris Van Voorhis, former<br />

program supervisor at<br />

The Grove, heads up the<br />

production of the Holiday<br />

Store each year. Last year,<br />

Van Voorhis retired from<br />

her role as program supervisor,<br />

but she’s back to<br />

manage the Holiday Store<br />

in its final year.<br />

Van Voorhis said the<br />

store’s closing is “bittersweet.”<br />

Among the<br />

reasons for shutting the<br />

annual event down is the<br />

need to preserve the store’s<br />

longtime venue, the historic<br />

Kennicott House.<br />

“Kennicott House was<br />

built in 1856, and we are<br />

still walking and working<br />

on the original floors,”<br />

Van Voorhis said. “It’s a<br />

lot of wear and tear on the<br />

house.”<br />

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News Briefs<br />

District 28 school calendar<br />

taking shape<br />

The first glimpse of the<br />

2019-20 school calendar<br />

shows no major changes<br />

from the current calendar.<br />

The proposed calendar<br />

was introduced to the<br />

Board of Education at the<br />

Nov. 20 meeting and will<br />

be reviewed and approved<br />

at the Dec. 11 meeting.<br />

School is currently<br />

scheduled to begin on a<br />

Wednesday after two institute<br />

days open the year<br />

for teachers.<br />

The start and end of the<br />

school year mirrors the<br />

current year and is aligned<br />

with Glenbrook High<br />

School District 225.<br />

The high school district<br />

had been reviewing<br />

a move to start school<br />

earlier in August so that<br />

students could take final<br />

exams before the holiday<br />

break.<br />

However, the district<br />

did not make changes for<br />

the 2019-20 school year.<br />

One proposed change<br />

for the 2019-20 school<br />

year on the District 28<br />

calendar is moving a halfday<br />

institute day previously<br />

scheduled for April<br />

to January 2020, the Friday<br />

before the Martin Luther<br />

King Jr. holiday.<br />

The administrative<br />

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‘Coat Off Your Back’ Drive<br />

Collection barrels are<br />

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28’s schools to collect<br />

new and gently used<br />

coats and clothing items<br />

for Northbrook Rotary<br />

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All donations must be<br />

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left in the collection barrels<br />

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made a continual effort to<br />

give back to the community<br />

and support local charities<br />

by supporting a worthy<br />

cause each year though insalon<br />

fundraising events,<br />

volunteering in the community<br />

and donations.<br />

The salon, located at 840<br />

Willow Road in Northbrook,<br />

has held successful<br />

fundraisers for Sister<br />

Paulanne’s Needy Family<br />

Fund, Baby Steps - Evanston/North<br />

Shore, Locks<br />

of Love, Alliance for the<br />

Great Lakes, St. Baldrick’s<br />

Foundation, Northfield<br />

Food Pantry, Wings, and<br />

Wigs For Kids.<br />

“Our goal is to raise<br />

funds to support Youth<br />

Services programming, as<br />

well as to supply them with<br />

some of the most-needed<br />

items for the families who<br />

have applied for assistance,”<br />

Hogue said. “There<br />

are a number of children<br />

and families right here in<br />

our community who need a<br />

lot of support, and we want<br />

to help brighten their holidays<br />

and make a difference<br />

in their lives.”<br />

Each year, Youth Services<br />

conducts an application<br />

and screening process<br />

to identify families most in<br />

need.<br />

“We know that they’ve<br />

done their due diligence<br />

and that our efforts will<br />

truly make a difference to<br />

people we live and work<br />

amongst us each day — it<br />

feels good to help out,”<br />

Dads learn how to braid their daughters’ hair at a<br />

fundraising event called “Beer and Braids” Oct. 7 at<br />

Andreas Hogue Salon in Northbrook. Photo submitted<br />

Hogue said.<br />

Over the next few weeks,<br />

salon guests will be invited<br />

to donate to the charity, and<br />

in exchange for their donation,<br />

the salon will gift<br />

them a coupon to use toward<br />

products in the salon.<br />

The salon will also have<br />

a donation box, in which<br />

employees are collecting<br />

new cosmetics, toiletries,<br />

coats, mittens, puzzles,<br />

children’s books and more.<br />

The being collected are<br />

among the most asked-for<br />

and needed, as identified<br />

by Youth Services.<br />

“With the collections<br />

box, we are placing a particular<br />

emphasis on collecting<br />

for the moms,” Hogue<br />

said. “The moms are the<br />

ones most often submitting<br />

the needs requests, and<br />

they almost never include<br />

themselves on the list. We<br />

want to make sure that the<br />

mothers are celebrated and<br />

remembered this holiday<br />

season.”<br />

To kick off this fundraising<br />

effort, Hogue hosted an<br />

in-salon event Oct. 7 called<br />

“Beer and Braids,” which<br />

raised nearly $1,000 for the<br />

charity.<br />

“This was a very intimate<br />

event with 15 dads and<br />

their daughters,” Hogue<br />

said. “We taught the dads<br />

how to brush and style their<br />

daughters’ hair.”<br />

While the dads learned<br />

how to make buns and<br />

braids, they also enjoyed<br />

beer tastings courtesy of<br />

Glenview’s Ten Ninety<br />

Brewing Company.<br />

“It was a very fun afternoon<br />

of father/daughter<br />

bonding,” Hogue said,<br />

“and we believe they all<br />

left with a greater appreciation<br />

for our craft, as well as<br />

some new skills to help out<br />

at home.”<br />

Andreas Hogue Salon is<br />

located in Willow Festival<br />

Shopping Center in Northbrook.<br />

Make It Better magazine<br />

readers voted Andreas<br />

Hogue Salon “Best<br />

of Chicago” in 2014, 2015,<br />

2016, 2017 and 2018.<br />

Andreas Hogue Salon offers<br />

a high-end cut and color<br />

experience in a friendly,<br />

energetic environment.<br />

Please call (847) 272-1616<br />

or visit andreashogue.com<br />

to book an appointment or<br />

to learn more.<br />

Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook<br />

was created<br />

to foster the social and<br />

emotional well-being of<br />

children and youth. YSGN<br />

offers various programs including<br />

counseling, crisis<br />

intervention and socialization<br />

groups. For more information,<br />

visit ysgn.org


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Author gives local students out-of-this-world visit<br />

Submitted by District 30<br />

Suzanne Slade is the author<br />

of “Countdown, 2979<br />

Days to the Moon,” which<br />

covers the first journey to<br />

the moon on the Apollo<br />

11 spaceflight; and details<br />

how on July 20, 1969, astronaut<br />

Neil Armstrong<br />

was the first person to take<br />

a step on the moon, making<br />

a “giant leap for mankind.”<br />

Slade, who has a degree<br />

in mechanical engineering,<br />

worked on car brakes and<br />

rockets during her engineering<br />

career, but became<br />

interested about working<br />

on space journey after reviewing<br />

President John F.<br />

Kennedy’s call to land a<br />

man on the moon, and interviewing<br />

the fourth man<br />

on the moon, Alan Bean.<br />

She told this to a group of<br />

parents and students who<br />

attended her evening presentation,<br />

which was held<br />

at Maple School on Nov.<br />

28, courtesy of Anderson<br />

Books.<br />

“The more I learned<br />

about space travel, the<br />

more passionate I became<br />

about the subject,” she<br />

said.<br />

She talked about how<br />

the book went on a journey<br />

of its own, before final<br />

publication.<br />

“I began writing ‘Countdown’<br />

in 2009, and ironically,<br />

the project took<br />

about 2979 days or 8.2<br />

years to complete,” Slade<br />

said.<br />

Since then, the book has<br />

been named 2019 Outstanding<br />

Science Trade<br />

Book, California Reading<br />

Association’s Eureka<br />

Gold Winner, 2018 Junior<br />

Library Guild Selection,<br />

Chicago Public Library<br />

Best of the Books 2018,<br />

2019 NSTA Best STEM<br />

Books List, and more.<br />

The popular book is illustrated<br />

by New York<br />

Times best-selling illustrator<br />

Thomas Gonzalez.<br />

Slade said that she was so<br />

honored to work with an<br />

artist of his caliber.<br />

After discussing Apollo<br />

space journeys, and the<br />

famed moonwalk, Slade<br />

held a contest between<br />

parents and children, about<br />

space travel facts.<br />

The children were the<br />

winners and some of the<br />

facts presented included<br />

the following:<br />

Author Suzanne Slade signs copies of her book “Countdown, 2979 Days to the Moon,” on Nov. 28 during her visit<br />

to Maple School. Photos Submitted<br />

• 600 million people<br />

worldwide watched Neil<br />

Armstrong on live television<br />

take his first step on<br />

the moon in 1969<br />

• July 20, 2019, will<br />

mark the 50th anniversary<br />

of Armstrong’s first step<br />

on the moon<br />

• Suzanne Slade’s newest<br />

book, “Astronaut Annie”<br />

will launch in February<br />

2019, and will be read<br />

by an astronaut from her<br />

post at the International<br />

Space Station<br />

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Slade’s books, visit suzan<br />

neslade.com/books<br />

After the presentation,<br />

the kids had the opportunity<br />

to take NASA selfies<br />

with the author, and a<br />

raffle was held. Winners<br />

of the Anderson Books<br />

gift certificate and gourmet<br />

cookies made by Amy<br />

Kauth’s daughter were<br />

Wescott School fifth-grader<br />

Nicholas Aleakos and<br />

Maple School seventhgrader<br />

Sofia Sommer.<br />

Eight Field students selected to All-Illinois Band<br />

Submitted by District 31<br />

Eight District 31 students<br />

recently won seats<br />

in the 2019 All Illinois Junior<br />

Band, an honors band<br />

hosted by the University of<br />

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<br />

The Field Middle School<br />

students selected for the<br />

honors band were eighthgraders<br />

Justine Liu, (flute),<br />

Trinity Choi (clarinet), Michelle<br />

Lim (clarinet), Mia<br />

Burshteyn (bass clarinet),<br />

Anna Vierimaa (bassoon),<br />

Andrew Jeon (tuba), and<br />

seventh-graders Jessica An<br />

(clarinet) and Claire Yum<br />

(clarinet). Burshteyn and<br />

Vierimaa distinguished<br />

themselves by placing first<br />

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around the state who auditioned.<br />

Middle school band students<br />

from the state of Illinois<br />

were invited to send<br />

in recorded etudes and<br />

scales selected as audition<br />

pieces in early November.<br />

These recordings were<br />

evaluated anonymously by<br />

a panel of judges who then<br />

selected an elite band from<br />

those who auditioned.<br />

The students will meet<br />

on the campus of the University<br />

of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana<br />

for rehearsals<br />

Feb. 8 and 9, giving a<br />

public performance on the<br />

stage of Krannert Center<br />

for the Performing Arts on<br />

Saturday afternoon.<br />

RIGHT: Pictured are<br />

eight District 31 students<br />

recently won seats in the<br />

2019 All Illinois Junior<br />

Band, an honors band<br />

hosted by the University<br />

of Illinois at Urbana-<br />

Champaign. Photo<br />

Submitted


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Top Web Stories<br />

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Consider supporting your local students<br />

Martin Carlino<br />

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Several times in the<br />

past, I’ve used this<br />

space to applaud<br />

the support I see this<br />

community deliver to its<br />

schools, particularly the<br />

students at those schools.<br />

I’ve mostly witnessed<br />

that support firsthand at<br />

Glenbrook North High<br />

School, through events<br />

I’ve covered at GBN.<br />

But even further so,<br />

I’ve heard the same from<br />

our reporters who’ve<br />

witnessed it at the middle<br />

schools and junior high<br />

schools throughout<br />

Northbrook. One of the<br />

great characteristics of<br />

this community is the<br />

multitude of events presented<br />

by its schools each<br />

year that give residents<br />

the chance to enjoy the<br />

excellent work of students.<br />

It’s almost as if every<br />

couple of weeks, there’s<br />

a new chance to marvel<br />

at the talents of Northbrook<br />

students. And<br />

with that, comes another<br />

great chance to do so this<br />

weekend.<br />

Glenbrook North’s<br />

Orchesis Dance Company<br />

will present this year’s<br />

dance show, “Devotion”<br />

at 7 p.m. starting Thursday,<br />

Dec. 6. The show<br />

will also be performed<br />

the next two nights, at the<br />

same time, at GBN.<br />

For more details about<br />

this year’s show, and<br />

additional insights from<br />

the show’s directors and<br />

dancers, please see Page<br />

35 in this week’s issue.<br />

When I had the chance<br />

to speak with some of the<br />

dancers, I could hear the<br />

passion in their voices<br />

when talking over this<br />

year’s show. The dancers<br />

I spoke with both<br />

discussed just how much<br />

they’ve practiced leading<br />

up to these performances.<br />

And when speaking<br />

with Monica Mills, one<br />

of the show’s directors,<br />

I finished our interview<br />

by asking her why she<br />

believes the community<br />

should come out to see<br />

this show. I thought her<br />

answer was wonderful,<br />

and it reads as follows:<br />

“I’m continually impressed<br />

with the fact<br />

that these are teenage<br />

girls and the fact that<br />

you get to witness their<br />

confidence on stage and<br />

their ability to take risks<br />

with the different styles<br />

so they get out of their<br />

comfort zones ... it’s really<br />

amazing to see that<br />

play out.”<br />

Tickets are $10 and<br />

available at the door. I<br />

encourage you to take<br />

this — and the countless<br />

other throughout the year<br />

— opportunity to support<br />

your local students. I can<br />

certainly say they will appreciate<br />

your support.<br />

These are Club Shab students helping<br />

out with counting money for the school’s<br />

“Chores for Cheers” fundraiser. The<br />

students raised $637 for the American<br />

Red Cross through the effort. Way to go,<br />

Dolphins!<br />

Northbrook School District 27 posted this<br />

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

Northbrook Park District is building<br />

a new $16-million facility. Park officials<br />

hope the facility will be completed in<br />

2020. For the full story, please see Page<br />

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Turkey Bowl grows<br />

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On this year’s briskly<br />

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This football tournament<br />

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‘Devotion’ will highlight years of dedication, passion<br />

Martin Carlino, Editor<br />

Glenbrook North Orchesis<br />

dancers will showcase<br />

years of devotion to<br />

their craft at this year’s set<br />

of performances, occurring<br />

at 7 p.m. Thursday,<br />

Dec. 6-Saturday, Dec. 8.<br />

This year’s show, entitled<br />

“Devotion,” will<br />

feature 58 student dancers<br />

performing in 16 choreographed<br />

pieces including<br />

jazz, hip hop, modern,<br />

musical theatre, and a<br />

new style of performance<br />

called step.<br />

Monica Mills, who’s<br />

in her second year as one<br />

of the show’s directors,<br />

along with director Ashley<br />

O’Brien, are helping<br />

lead this year’s group of<br />

dancers through a condensed<br />

time of preparation.<br />

Performances this<br />

year are occurring months<br />

prior to the usual start date<br />

of March.<br />

“This year’s show is<br />

unique because we’re doing<br />

it in the winter versus<br />

the spring,” Mills said.<br />

“So I think at first, the<br />

dancers were worried that<br />

it wouldn’t be the same<br />

experience and worried<br />

about the quality of the<br />

show, but I think they’re<br />

pleasantly surprised to see<br />

that it’s to the same caliber<br />

as last year’s show.”<br />

To combat the earlier<br />

start, dancers and coaches<br />

Orchesis Dance Show:<br />

“Devotion”<br />

When: Performances<br />

start at 7 p.m Dec. 6-8<br />

Where: Glenbrook<br />

North High School,<br />

Center for Performing<br />

Arts<br />

Cost: Tickets are $10<br />

and available at the<br />

door.<br />

commenced preparation<br />

for the show earlier than<br />

normal.<br />

“Since it’s earlier this<br />

year, we started preparing<br />

much earlier,” senior<br />

dancer Sophie Gould said.<br />

“Tryouts were earlier and<br />

we started the process earlier.<br />

People who wanted<br />

to choreograph had to be<br />

prepared much earlier.”<br />

Despite the change in<br />

the show’s schedule, the<br />

group knows it will present<br />

the same level of highcaliber<br />

performances it<br />

always does.<br />

“Throughout my four<br />

years, I honestly think<br />

this is one of the best<br />

shows that we’ve had,”<br />

senior dancer and Orchesis<br />

president Sami Scholl<br />

said. “I think moving the<br />

time up helped us. We’re<br />

just really focused this<br />

year. There’s a lot of variety<br />

in this year’s show<br />

— we have a step piece<br />

this year, which is really<br />

cool because we’ve never<br />

had that before, so a lot of<br />

girls got to try something<br />

new.”<br />

Members of the senior<br />

leadership board joined<br />

together prior to the start<br />

of the school year to develop<br />

the theme of this<br />

year’s show, the thesis<br />

that shapes months of rehearsals,<br />

teamwork and<br />

the overall performance.<br />

After little collaboration,<br />

one word stood out and<br />

resonated with the seniors:<br />

devotion<br />

“We all gathered together<br />

and devotion stuck<br />

out to a lot of us just because<br />

we are very devoted<br />

to Orchesis and because<br />

of the devotion we have,”<br />

Scholl said. “We spend<br />

so many hours together.<br />

We’re just devoted to put<br />

on a good show.”<br />

Of the 16 total dances<br />

within the show, 11 are<br />

student-directed and student-choreographed.<br />

The<br />

remaining pieces present<br />

the dancers the opportunity<br />

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Orchesis dancer Brigette Ricaurte performs during<br />

rehearsals Friday, Nov. 30 at GBN.<br />

Sophie Gould (center) and Orchesis dancers prepare for their upcoming show<br />

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Patricia Jean Lester, nee<br />

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“It’s really cool because<br />

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dance and it’s cool to see<br />

people older than us who<br />

share the same passion,”<br />

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take their time to work<br />

with us, it’s really nice.”<br />

Mills and O’Brien both<br />

hoped to develop a compilation<br />

of choreography<br />

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showcase their artistic visions<br />

and talents, but also<br />

challenge them to take<br />

risks. And, as the final<br />

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“I think [Ashley] did<br />

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guest choreographers that<br />

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zones with their choreography,”<br />

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year’s show began before<br />

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season hits, dancers practice<br />

nearly every night for<br />

countless hours.<br />

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preparation process, it’s<br />

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community to see.<br />

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all spent so much time together.<br />

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experience coming to an<br />

end. I just can’t describe<br />

how much joy this group<br />

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much love and care from<br />

our directors and the crew<br />

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for that. It’s really awesome<br />

for people to come<br />

and see that.”<br />

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at 7 p.m. at the Center<br />

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Northbrook Community Synagogue<br />

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Join for a free night of<br />

Chanukah celebration at<br />

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latkes, sufganiyot and<br />

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Morning Minyan<br />

Join morning minyan<br />

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on Sundays and holidays<br />

at 9 a.m. For information,<br />

call (847) 509-9204.<br />

St. Giles Episcopal Church (3025<br />

Walters Ave.)<br />

Community Breakfast<br />

Join for a monthly, free<br />

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Men’s Night Out<br />

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call (847) 272-6622.<br />

Islamic Cultural Center of Greater<br />

Chicago (1810 Pfingsten Road)<br />

Juma’ah Prayer<br />

This prayer includes a<br />

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from 1-2 p.m. on Fridays.<br />

For more information,<br />

call (847) 272-0319.<br />

Sunday Talk<br />

Every Sunday the Islamic<br />

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hold a discussion at 12:30-<br />

1 p.m. For more information,<br />

call (847) 272-0319<br />

or visit www.icc-greaterchicago.com.<br />

Young Israel of Northbrook (3545<br />

Walters Ave.)<br />

Weekly Monday Night<br />

Torah Study<br />

Study Torah with Rabbi<br />

Herschel Berger, spiritual<br />

leader of Young Israel of<br />

Northbrook, at 7 p.m. on<br />

Mondays. Discussions will<br />

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Casual Morning Minyan<br />

On Saturdays at 9:30<br />

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lay-led, participatory service<br />

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The one-hour service is informal<br />

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many participants<br />

remain for a lively discussion<br />

about the Torah portion<br />

over a bagel and coffee.<br />

Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook (2095<br />

Landwehr Road)<br />

Tuesday Women to Women<br />

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Weekly women’s class<br />

hosted by Chaya Epstein at<br />

2:15 p.m. Women to Women<br />

is a Jewish women’s organization<br />

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call (847) 564-<br />

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“The Case for Christ”<br />

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Join on a riveting quest<br />

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most compelling<br />

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Northbrook United Methodist Church<br />

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Line Dancing<br />

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Alcoholics Anonymous<br />

Every Thursday from<br />

7:30-9 p.m. the church<br />

hosts an AA meeting in the<br />

basement. For more information,<br />

visit www.northbrookumc.com.<br />

Temple Beth-El (3610 Dundee Rd)<br />

Kabbalat Shabbat<br />

Join TBE for Friday<br />

night refreshing musical<br />

service every Friday night<br />

at 6 p.m. Soloists include<br />

Jane Heyman and Susan<br />

Coren. Early one is at<br />

5:30 p.m. For more information,<br />

contact Shaina at<br />

(847) 205-9982.<br />

Congregation Beth Shalom (3433<br />

Walters Ave.)<br />

Shabbat with a Twist<br />

Join for Shabbat with<br />

a Twist on Friday, Dec.<br />

7, and 21 and Jan. 18 at<br />

Congregation Beth Shalom<br />

from 11-11:45 a.m.<br />

Families with children up<br />

to Pre-K join us to sing<br />

songs, hear a story read<br />

by our clergy and twist<br />

your own challah with<br />

the dough we provide and<br />

take it home to bake. All<br />

are welcome, open to the<br />

community, free of charge.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(847) 498-4100.<br />

Distinguished Speaker<br />

Congregation Beth<br />

Shalom welcomes Distinguished<br />

Speaker Amy-<br />

Jill Levine, Agreeing to<br />

Disagree: How Jews and<br />

Christians Read Scripture<br />

Differently. Levine<br />

is University Professor of<br />

New Testament and Jewish<br />

Studies, Mary Jane<br />

Werthan Professor of Jewish<br />

Studies and Professor<br />

of New Testament Studies<br />

at Vanderbilt Divinity<br />

School and College of Arts<br />

and Science and author of<br />

many books including The<br />

Misunderstood Jew: The<br />

Church and the Scandal<br />

of the Jewish Jesus. Join<br />

Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 8<br />

p.m. The event is open to<br />

the community and free of<br />

charge. For more information,<br />

call (847) 498-4100.<br />

Thou Shalt Innovate<br />

AIPAC invites to “Thou<br />

Shalt Innovate,” featuring<br />

Avi Jorisch, author, Thou<br />

Shalt Innovate: How Israeli<br />

Ingenuity Repairs the<br />

World on Jan. 10 at 8 p.m.<br />

The event will be held at<br />

Congregation Beth Shalom,<br />

3433 Walters Ave,<br />

free of charge. Register<br />

for program at www.aipac.<br />

org/CBS and contact Brittany<br />

Cohen at (312) 253-<br />

8968 with questions.<br />

Havdalah, Dinner and a<br />

Movie<br />

Get tickets today for<br />

Havdalah, Dinner and a<br />

Movie on Jan. 12, at 5:30<br />

– 10 p.m. at Congregation<br />

Beth Shalom, 3433<br />

Walters Ave, Northbrook,<br />

IL. Join discussion leader<br />

Reid Schultz to review the<br />

film, Norman: The Moderate<br />

Rise and Tragic Fall of<br />

a New York Fixer (Director,<br />

Joseph Cedar, 2016)<br />

watch the film, and join us<br />

for dinner, movie snacks<br />

and Havdalah. Tickets are<br />

$25 for non-members registered<br />

by Jan. 7 or $32 after<br />

that date. RSVP to Lisa<br />

at (847) 498-4100x46 or<br />

LOrlov@BethShalomnb.<br />

org.<br />

Submit information for<br />

The Tower’s Faith page to<br />

m.dwojak@22nd<br />

centurymedia.com. Deadline<br />

is noon on Thursday. Questions?<br />

Call (847) 272-4565.<br />

A look behind the curtain<br />

Orchesis dancers<br />

prepare for yearly<br />

performances<br />

Photos from this<br />

year’s show will<br />

be in next’s week<br />

paper and available<br />

online at Northbrook-<br />

Tower.com<br />

RIGHT: This year’s show<br />

will feature 58 dancers.<br />

Orchesis dancers rehearse for this year’s show “Devotion” on Friday, Nov. 30, at<br />

Glenbrook North High School. Photos by Carlos Alvarez/22nd Century


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■From ■ open until close<br />

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Glenbrook North High<br />

School<br />

(2300 Shermer Road,<br />

(847) 272-6400)<br />

■7 ■ p.m., Dec. 6, Dec. 7<br />

or Dec. 8: GBN Orchesis<br />

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GLENVIEW<br />

Oil Lamp Theater<br />

(1723 Glenview Road,<br />

(847) 834-0738)<br />

■Multiple ■ showtimes until<br />

Dec. 30: Performances<br />

of “It’s a Wonderful<br />

Life” ($40 adult, $25<br />

student tickets)<br />

Johnny’s Kitchen<br />

(1740 Milwaukee Ave.<br />

(847) 699-9999)<br />

■7:30 ■ p.m. every Friday<br />

and Saturday: Live<br />

Music<br />

The Rock House<br />

(1742 Glenview Road<br />

(224) 616-3062)<br />

■5 ■ p.m. Friday, Dec.<br />

7: Family Night and<br />

Karaoke<br />

■9 ■ a.m.. Saturday, Dec.<br />

8: Gene Lim<br />

■Noon ■ Sunday, Dec. 9:<br />

Sean Hefferan<br />

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(1800 Tower Drive, (847)<br />

998-1100)<br />

■7:30 ■ p.m. every<br />

Wednesday: Trivia<br />

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Woodlands Academy<br />

(705 E. Westleigh Road,<br />

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Dec. 6: Free Christmas<br />

Concert at Woodlands<br />

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Northcroft Park<br />

(1365 S. Ridge Road)<br />

■7-10 ■ p.m. Friday,<br />

Dec. 7: Cocktails with<br />

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Hubbard Woods Park<br />

(939 Green Bay Road,<br />

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■10 ■ a.m.-noon Saturday,<br />

Dec. 8: Santa comes to<br />

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Winnetka Community<br />

Houses<br />

(9620 Lincoln Ave., (847)<br />

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■12:15-1:30 ■ p.m. Thursday,<br />

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Swing Choir performs<br />

holiday songs<br />

Village Green<br />

(533 Maple)<br />

■6-6:25 ■ p.m. Dec. 24:<br />

Holiday Sing<br />

NORTHFIELD<br />

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(401 Wagner Road, (847)<br />

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Holiday Festival<br />

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Chicago Botanic Garden<br />

(1000 Lake Cook Road,<br />

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until Jan. 4): Wonderland<br />

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■11 ■ a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday,<br />

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Concert<br />

■11 ■ a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday,<br />

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Downtown Business<br />

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Fresh is the name of the game for Visconti at R&V Market and Deli<br />

Michael Wojtychiw<br />

Sports Editor<br />

The restaurant business<br />

has always been a part of<br />

Frank Visconti’s life. After<br />

working for his dad as a<br />

child in the industry, it was<br />

only a matter of time before<br />

he would own his own restaurants.<br />

The Visconti name has<br />

been around in Little Italy<br />

restaurants in Highwood<br />

and Lake Forest for four<br />

generations. Eight years<br />

ago, he opened up R&V<br />

Market and Deli in Lake<br />

Forest. Visconti is also the<br />

owner of Visconti Foods,<br />

located next door to the<br />

deli, an importer and distributor<br />

of food directly<br />

from Italy.<br />

“My employees (at<br />

Visconti Foods) were going<br />

to lunch for an hour,<br />

hour-and-a-half, and when<br />

I’d ask why, they’d say,<br />

‘There’s nowhere to eat in<br />

the area,’” said Visconti, of<br />

Lake Forest.<br />

That’s when Visconti<br />

knew something had to<br />

change, especially since<br />

there are 4,800 people in<br />

the subdivision.<br />

When opening the deli, it<br />

was important to have everything<br />

fresh on the premises,<br />

Visconti said. It began<br />

with the hot meals, cold<br />

cuts and sandwiches and<br />

went from there.<br />

The eggplant rollatini ($8.95) at Lake Forest’s R&V Market and Deli comes from a special Visconti family recipe.<br />

Photos by Eric DeGrechie/22nd Century Media<br />

R&V Market and deli<br />

13801 W Laurel Drive,<br />

Lake Forest<br />

randvdeli.com<br />

(847) 816-6468<br />

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-<br />

Friday<br />

Saturday-Sunday<br />

closed<br />

“Fresh is the only way to<br />

do it,” Visconti said. “A lot<br />

of people buy frozen chicken<br />

and more. Why? You<br />

take up five extra minutes<br />

of your time to clean up a<br />

piece of chicken and what<br />

are you doing? You’re giving<br />

a customer a fresh taste;<br />

you’re giving them really<br />

good food.<br />

“It doesn’t take much. A<br />

lot of people like to take<br />

shortcuts and it’s not worth<br />

it. You’re giving someone a<br />

fresh product; you’re giving<br />

them a great flavor.”<br />

Catering is also a big part<br />

of the business and Visconti<br />

said all you need to<br />

do is call a day in advance<br />

to place your order. Lunch<br />

delivery is also available.<br />

A pair of 22nd Century<br />

Media editors stopped by<br />

the Lake Forest deli and<br />

tried some of the more<br />

popular dishes that Visconti<br />

and his establishment have<br />

to offer. Visconti brought<br />

out all six dishes familystyle.<br />

First we tried an Italian<br />

sub sandwich ($7.95)<br />

that, along with the normal<br />

ingredients for an Italian<br />

sandwich, included tomatoes,<br />

lettuce, oil and a vinegar<br />

dressing.<br />

The chicken Parmesan<br />

sandwich ($8.95), according<br />

to Visconti, is the deli’s<br />

biggest seller and another<br />

one of the meals made on<br />

premises. Like many of the<br />

other sandwiches and foods<br />

in the deli, chicken parm is<br />

also available as a meal-togo.<br />

Examples of other grab-and-go’s<br />

include salads,<br />

wraps and desserts.<br />

A third dish was a meat<br />

lasagna ($8.95) made<br />

with fresh pasta noodles,<br />

a homemade meat sauce,<br />

which has spinach in it, as<br />

well as Parmesan cheese.<br />

The ricotta cheese has Parmesan<br />

cheese mixed in it<br />

and all of the products are<br />

fresh.<br />

One dish that has a special<br />

place in Visconti’s<br />

heart is the eggplant rollatini.<br />

It is a dish that his<br />

mom made when he was<br />

a child and he continued<br />

to use the same recipe<br />

when he started selling it<br />

at the deli. One thing that<br />

sets this apart from others<br />

is that it is fried in vegetable<br />

and olive oils. The<br />

deli offers two eggplant<br />

sandwiches: rollatini and<br />

Parmesan. Both eggplant<br />

dishes are $8.95.<br />

The salmon ($9.95) with<br />

vegetables is marinated<br />

overnight in lemon and orange<br />

juice, as well as olive<br />

oil, and then drained the<br />

next day. The combination<br />

removes any true fish smell<br />

and taste from the dish.<br />

The last dish we tried<br />

was the pasta alfredo with<br />

vegetables, which is a side<br />

pasta that patrons can get<br />

with many of the sandwiches.<br />

Visconti, who was born,<br />

raised and still lives in Lake<br />

Forest, has been able to get<br />

more involved with the<br />

community in recent years,<br />

something he’s always<br />

aimed to do. This past year,<br />

he was able to be a vendor<br />

at the city’s Fourth of July<br />

fireworks celebration.<br />

“This was the first year<br />

we did the fireworks,”<br />

Visconti said, “and I had a<br />

blast.”<br />

The salmon ($9.95) with vegetables is marinated<br />

overnight in lemon and orange juice, as well as olive oil.<br />

The Italian sub sandwich ($7.95) that, along with the<br />

normal ingredients for an Italian sandwich, included<br />

tomatoes, lettuce, oil and a vinegar dressing.<br />

The pasta alfredo with vegetables is a side pasta that<br />

patrons can get with many of the sandwiches.


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Athlete of the Week<br />

10 Questions<br />

with Frank Siegien<br />

Siegien has already made<br />

a big impact for the Glenbrook<br />

North boys basketball<br />

team in its fast start<br />

to the season.<br />

When and why did<br />

you start playing<br />

basketball?<br />

For me, I started playing<br />

basketball because my<br />

brother started in fourth or<br />

fifth grade, so I would always<br />

go to the park with<br />

him and shoot around<br />

when I was 4 or 5. The first<br />

team I ever played for was<br />

in second grade, I was 8 or<br />

9. It brought me and my<br />

family together.<br />

What do you like most<br />

about the sport?<br />

I like the relationships it<br />

creates. It gave me friends<br />

and connections that I’m<br />

going to know for the rest<br />

of my life, especially this<br />

group of guys at GBN basketball.<br />

This season class,<br />

I’ve been playing with<br />

them since fourth grade,<br />

we’ve grown really close<br />

over those years. I love<br />

that it allows me to meet<br />

new people.<br />

Do you have any<br />

superstitions before a<br />

game?<br />

I always try to put my<br />

left sock on before my<br />

right sock, and I’ll put on<br />

my left shoe before my<br />

right shoe. I do that because<br />

when I shoot, I step<br />

into it left, right.<br />

What is your favorite<br />

sports moment?<br />

We played at Niles North<br />

and it was a really tough<br />

game that we played because<br />

they were supposed<br />

to win our conference no<br />

matter what. We went to<br />

triple-overtime with them,<br />

it was an absolute battle.<br />

We eventually pulled out<br />

the win.<br />

What is one thing<br />

people don’t know<br />

about you?<br />

My family’s Polish.<br />

Both my parents grew up<br />

in Poland and then they<br />

immigrated here in the<br />

`90s.<br />

What would you do if<br />

you won the lottery?<br />

I would donate a lot of<br />

it to charity, but I think I’d<br />

try to save some money<br />

for college because I know<br />

college tuition is going to<br />

be a lot.<br />

If you could be any<br />

superhero, what super<br />

22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

power would you<br />

want?<br />

I would want teleportation<br />

because I wouldn’t<br />

have to worry about plane<br />

tickets or anything like<br />

that.<br />

If you could play any<br />

other sport, what<br />

sport would it be?<br />

I’ve always been really<br />

interested in football because<br />

a lot of my friends<br />

are on the football team.<br />

What is your favorite<br />

area restaurant?<br />

I really like Lou Malnati’s<br />

pizza, I usually get<br />

plain, deep dish, cheese.<br />

What is one thing on<br />

your bucket list?<br />

I’ve always wanted to<br />

visit Poland because a ton<br />

of my family lives there.<br />

I’ve heard amazing things,<br />

it’s a beautiful country, I<br />

want to visit all my family<br />

there and see how it is.<br />

Interview by Sports Editor<br />

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This Week In ...<br />

SPARTANS Varsity<br />

Athletics<br />

BOYS BOWLING<br />

■Dec. ■ 10 - hosts New<br />

Trier, 4:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 11 - at Niles West,<br />

4:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 13 - hosts Grayslake<br />

Central, 4:30<br />

p.m.<br />

GIRLS BASKETBALL<br />

■Dec. ■ 6 - at Vernon Hills,<br />

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■Dec. ■ 8 - at Wauconda,<br />

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■Dec. ■ 11 - at Lake Forest<br />

Academy, 5 p.m.<br />

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■Dec. ■ 6 - at Vernon Hills,<br />

7:30 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - hosts Glenbrook<br />

South, 4:30 p.m.<br />

BOYS HOCKEY<br />

■Dec. ■ 7 - at Santa<br />

Margarita (in Darien),<br />

11:40 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 7 - at Northstar<br />

Christian (in Darien),<br />

7:20 p.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 8 - at Hinssdale<br />

(in Darien), 11:50 a.m.<br />

■Dec. ■ 12 - at Barrington,<br />

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Athlete of the Month<br />

Orucevic helps Titans earn 2nd win of 2018<br />

Michal Dwojak, Sports Editor<br />

Glenbrook South’s Emsela<br />

Orucevic didn’t only<br />

have a successful November<br />

in the pool.<br />

The Titan swimmer<br />

made the Thanksgiving<br />

month memorable by winning<br />

22nd Century Media’s<br />

November Athlete of the<br />

Month competition, beating<br />

out some tough competitors.<br />

Orucevic won the<br />

monthly battle with 443<br />

votes, edging out Loyola<br />

Academy girls swimmer<br />

Aidan Koconos-O’Malley,<br />

who finished with 349<br />

votes, and New Trier boys<br />

cross-country runner Charlie<br />

Forbes, who finished<br />

with 130 votes.<br />

Orucevic was a key<br />

leader for the Titans all<br />

season long and earned the<br />

support from Titans fans,<br />

helping the school earn<br />

its second Athlete of the<br />

Month win of 2018.<br />

Voting lasted from Nov.<br />

10-25. The Athlete of the<br />

Month contest for athletes<br />

selected in the month of<br />

November gets underway<br />

on Dec. 10 and will end<br />

on Dec. 25. Vote at NorthbrookTower.com.<br />

RIGHT: Glenbrook South<br />

girls swimmer Emsela<br />

Orucevic won November’s<br />

Athlete of the Month<br />

competition. 22nd Century<br />

Media File Photo<br />

g hockey<br />

From Page 51<br />

December Athlete of the Month candidates<br />

Glenbrook South<br />

Kristin Ralston, girls basketball<br />

Michael Bukhalo, boys tennis<br />

Glenbrook North<br />

Grace Heywood, girls volleyball<br />

Nick Redstone, boys crosscountry<br />

Christina Christos, girls basketball<br />

Brian Johnson, boys basketball<br />

Bridget Billig, girls gymnastics<br />

his returning players have<br />

approached the difference<br />

in games this season very<br />

well, taking on a leadership<br />

role to help grow the<br />

program.<br />

“I think they understand<br />

now how hard it is<br />

to win a championship because<br />

they’ve been there<br />

and know what it takes,”<br />

Hamelin said. “They’ve<br />

bought into it.”<br />

Some of the fruit of their<br />

labor is already starting<br />

to show with the performances<br />

of some freshmen.<br />

Glenbrook North’s Molly<br />

Loyola Academy<br />

Jack Fallon, football<br />

Mary Kate Lopez, girls volleyball<br />

Jake Gonzalez, football<br />

New Trier<br />

Ellie Finnigan, girls cross-country<br />

Bobby Soudan, boys hockey<br />

Highland Park<br />

Sebastian Thomas, boys hockey<br />

Abby Smith, girls swimming<br />

Erickson has been all over<br />

the ice for her team according<br />

to the head coach,<br />

creating different scoring<br />

opportunities that he<br />

knows will eventually lead<br />

to large amount of scoring.<br />

GBN defenseman Natalie<br />

Peters has also been beyond<br />

her years this season,<br />

showing a collected side of<br />

herself to help lead on the<br />

defensive front.<br />

It took Glenbrook until<br />

the middle of November to<br />

win its first two games of<br />

the season, but all Hamelin<br />

and his staff want to see is<br />

progress. Once reseeding<br />

happens at the beginning<br />

of the new year, Glenbrook<br />

will fight to compete<br />

Ireland Hieb, girls volleyball<br />

Alexandra Pielet, equestrian<br />

Ryan Foreman, girls ice hockey<br />

Lake Forest<br />

Elijah Fietsman, boys crosscountry<br />

Lauren Garriques, girls crosscountry<br />

Flynn McClellan, girls swimming<br />

Danny Fisher, boys golf<br />

in the Founder Cup bracket,<br />

approaching each game<br />

with the hope of learning<br />

enough to get the program<br />

back to its past success.<br />

“We just want to be able<br />

to compete each and every<br />

night,” Hamelin said.<br />

“Hopefully we’ll be able<br />

to compete for the Founder<br />

Cup.”<br />

The Varsity: North<br />

Shore Podcast<br />

Guys talk<br />

hockey, hoops<br />

Staff Report<br />

In this week’s episode of<br />

The Varsity: North Shore,<br />

the only podcast focused on<br />

North Shore sports, hosts<br />

Michal Dwojak and Michael<br />

Wojtychiw recap of<br />

fun hockey weekend, head<br />

from Glenbrook South<br />

boys basketball head coach<br />

Phil Ralston, play Way/No<br />

Way with hockey and talk<br />

about how the boys and<br />

girls basketball seasons<br />

have gone for area teams.<br />

First Quarter<br />

Michal Dwojak and<br />

Michael Wojtychiw recap<br />

a fun series of games between<br />

the Loyola Academy<br />

and New Trier hockey<br />

teams, all playing for a<br />

good cause.<br />

Second Quarter<br />

The guys hear from<br />

Glenbrook South’s boys<br />

basketball head coach Phil<br />

Ralston after his Titans upset<br />

a top-ranked Evanston<br />

squad.<br />

Third Quarter<br />

After almost a monthlong<br />

absence, Way/No<br />

Way is back, and Wojtychiw<br />

makes some predictions<br />

about the area boys<br />

and girls hockey teams.<br />

Fourth Quarter<br />

To finish things off, the<br />

guys talk about some interesting<br />

basketball storylines<br />

early in the season.<br />

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the northbrook tower | December 6, 2018 | 47<br />

From the Sports Editor<br />

Appreciate different moments sports offer<br />

Michal Dwojak<br />

m.dwojak@22ndcenturymedia.com<br />

Life comes at you<br />

fast, and boy does<br />

that phrase come<br />

true when it comes to<br />

sports.<br />

At one moment, your<br />

team can be at the top of<br />

the mountain with all the<br />

glory, then before you can<br />

finish celebrating, you’re<br />

looking at draft projections<br />

because it all fell<br />

apart.<br />

This mentality can be<br />

different in professional<br />

and college sports, where<br />

years of bad performances<br />

can lead to eventual<br />

success. Yes, for a few<br />

seasons you’re wearing a<br />

brown bag because you’re<br />

embarrassed of your team,<br />

but then you get a high<br />

draft pick or get that fivestar<br />

recruit and everything<br />

is different.<br />

High school sports is<br />

such a different animal.<br />

There’s no tanking or<br />

building programs in high<br />

school sports — though<br />

The Glenbrook North football team was one of the fun stories from the young 2018-19 school year. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

many people will argue<br />

with me that schools have<br />

feeder programs that lead<br />

to continues success —<br />

so you’re relying on the<br />

talent that comes in each<br />

and every year, hoping<br />

you’ll find your Jon<br />

Scheyer, or Jason Kipnis,<br />

or Chris Collins.<br />

That’s what’s so special<br />

about high school sports:<br />

For the most part, you<br />

can’t predict when a<br />

Cinderella story will take<br />

place. Sure you can tell<br />

when a team is going<br />

to be good, but you can<br />

never truly tell a championship<br />

team, for the most<br />

part, until you’re really<br />

into the season.<br />

Some things will<br />

be constants for many<br />

schools, like football<br />

is at Loyola Academy,<br />

but the one thing I’ve<br />

learned during my time<br />

as the sports editor of<br />

The Tower is that things<br />

might seem like they will<br />

go one way, but don’t<br />

use last year’s record as<br />

any indication for how<br />

the next season will take<br />

place. One year’s group<br />

of seniors might be able<br />

to lead you to success,<br />

and then they graduate<br />

and move on.<br />

The reason I bring all<br />

of this up is because this<br />

fall showed how things<br />

might not go as we expect<br />

sometimes. Yes, we know<br />

the Glenbrook North<br />

football team would be<br />

ready to make a postseason<br />

push, but I didn’t<br />

expect them to have the<br />

success they did this year.<br />

The Spartans girls volleyball<br />

team faced a lot of<br />

adversity and managed to<br />

make it to the regionaltitle<br />

match and lost to a<br />

very talented team.<br />

So get out there and<br />

enjoy the different stories<br />

that are left to be told<br />

out there the rest of the<br />

school year. By the time<br />

the winter sports end, I<br />

guarantee there will be a<br />

fun story that we here at<br />

The Tower will be excited<br />

to tell you and I couldn’t<br />

predict to you as I sit here<br />

at my desk writing on a<br />

cold November day.<br />

That’s the beauty of<br />

sports: The best stories<br />

are the ones you don’t see<br />

coming.<br />

Hoops<br />

From Page 50<br />

these kids for a long time<br />

and we’ve always had<br />

team chemistry.”<br />

Two baskets from Press<br />

followed by two from Siegien<br />

got Glenbrook North<br />

(4-1, 1-0) off to a fast<br />

start, but Maine East (3-2,<br />

0-1) fought back and only<br />

trailed 16-13 after a quarter.<br />

The Spartans used an<br />

18-6 scoring edge in the<br />

second quarter to take<br />

firmer control, leading 34-<br />

19 at halftime. After intermission,<br />

it was Press’s<br />

turn on the receiving end<br />

of teammates passes for<br />

easy baskets.<br />

“I like the way Alex cuts<br />

to the basket and we were<br />

able to dump it to him a<br />

couple times,” Weber<br />

said. “These kids share<br />

the ball and hopefully we<br />

keep on doing it.”<br />

An alley-oop from Mirochnick<br />

to Press put the<br />

Spartans up 37-22 in the<br />

third quarter, and a Jack<br />

Joselit tip-in later made<br />

it 43-26. The Spartans<br />

didn’t reach their 20-point<br />

lead until Siegien found<br />

Press for a basket inside<br />

late in the game.<br />

Press was fouled on the<br />

play, he completed the<br />

three-point play to make<br />

it 57-37, and the night’s<br />

scoring was done.<br />

“I liked the fact that<br />

we got the ball inside<br />

tonight,” Weber said.<br />

“That’s our strength. We<br />

have a big kid in (Siegien),<br />

and Brian Johnson<br />

is a big kid at guard able<br />

to post people up.<br />

“We hit some shots<br />

early and I liked the way<br />

we ran the floor tonight,<br />

too. David Mirochnick,<br />

our point guard, is coming<br />

along, and Jeremy Gertz is<br />

giving us good minutes.”


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Wrestling<br />

Williams leads North in season-opening meet<br />

Gary Larsen<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Glenbrook North’s<br />

Trent Williams hit a major<br />

growth spurt since last<br />

year’s wrestling season,<br />

even though he isn’t any<br />

taller or heavier than he<br />

was as a Class 3A state<br />

qualifier at 220 pounds.<br />

It’s the mental game<br />

that has evolved for the<br />

Spartans senior.<br />

“Now that I got to the<br />

state tournament, I’m<br />

more driven and I have<br />

a lot more confidence,”<br />

Williams said.<br />

Currently ranked fourth<br />

in Illinois at 220 by Illinois<br />

Matmen, Williams<br />

has yet to lose through six<br />

dual meets. He pinned all<br />

three of his opponents at a<br />

home quad in Northbrook<br />

on Saturday, Dec. 1.<br />

Williams posted firstperiod<br />

pins against wrestlers<br />

from Conant and<br />

Notre Dame and pinned<br />

his Addison Trail opponent<br />

in the second period.<br />

GBN head coach Jason Erwinski<br />

wants his wrestlers<br />

to be dominant whenever<br />

possible, and he’s getting<br />

what he wants from Williams<br />

this season.<br />

“We always knew he<br />

had it in him but I don’t<br />

know if last year he entirely<br />

knew it himself,”<br />

Erwinski said. “Then he<br />

did, once he qualified<br />

downstate. I think that<br />

that opened his eyes a<br />

little bit.”<br />

Wrestling at the state<br />

finals in Champaign can<br />

be a heady experience for<br />

a first-time state qualifier,<br />

and Williams admits<br />

that he allowed the atmosphere<br />

get to him. “It<br />

didn’t go as well as I expected,”<br />

Williams said. “I<br />

was flustered by the lights<br />

and my nerves got to me.”<br />

Williams lost his first<br />

match downstate by 4-2<br />

decision to Evanston’s<br />

Ramin Abraham, and an<br />

ensuing loss by Abraham<br />

knocked Williams out of<br />

the tournament.<br />

Fueled by the experience,<br />

Williams wrestled<br />

in the offseason for the<br />

first time, leading into the<br />

current school year. He’s<br />

always been a solid mat<br />

wrestler but knew he had<br />

to improve on his feet if<br />

he wanted to climb the<br />

awards stand in Champaign<br />

this year.<br />

Williams worked out at<br />

the Poeta Training Center<br />

in Lake Forest for four<br />

months in the spring and<br />

summer.<br />

“There was no working<br />

on top or bottom so<br />

all you could do was get<br />

better on your feet,” Williams<br />

said. “It forced me<br />

to get better.”<br />

Williams took down<br />

Addison Trail’s Valentin<br />

Soto repeatedly before<br />

taking him down and pinning<br />

him in the second period<br />

of their match.<br />

“Every time I go out<br />

there it’s more than just<br />

winning, it’s about how<br />

I can motivate my teammates,<br />

too,” Williams<br />

said. “Because there are<br />

momentum swings so if a<br />

quick pin will amp them<br />

up more, that’s what I’ll<br />

do.<br />

“This year I know what<br />

I’m doing is going to<br />

work, and it’s just making<br />

me better and better. I also<br />

trust in my coaches and<br />

my training partners are<br />

really great.”<br />

Erwinski is happy to<br />

have Williams as a senior<br />

leader this year.<br />

Glenbrook North wrestler Trent Williams competes on Saturday, Dec. 1, in Northbrook. Gary Larsen/22nd Century Media<br />

“He’s got lofty goals<br />

and aspirations and he’s<br />

a phenomenal leader in<br />

terms of being willing to<br />

stand in front of these guys<br />

and tell them he wants to<br />

be a state champ,” Erwinski<br />

said. “That’s a powerful<br />

example to have in the<br />

practice room.”<br />

Conant won 48-21 over<br />

GBN, but the Spartans<br />

took Addison Trail and<br />

Notre Dame down to the<br />

wire before falling just<br />

short, losing 43-33 to Addison<br />

Trail and 39-35 to<br />

Notre Dame. The Spartans<br />

also forfeited at 145<br />

Saturday, so they chased<br />

a six-point team deficit all<br />

day.<br />

“We still have to learn to<br />

beat a good team because<br />

the difference in the duals<br />

against Addison Trail and<br />

Max Sherman (right) waits for the final call.<br />

Notre Dame was really<br />

one match,” Erwinski said.<br />

“But I love the attitude<br />

and effort we’re showing.<br />

Now we just have to wrestle<br />

with a little bit more<br />

intelligence, and there are<br />

some early-season things<br />

we know we can fix.”


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Boys Swimming and Diving<br />

Schroeder ready to take over<br />

Michal Dwojak, Sports Editor<br />

Jarod Schroeder wanted<br />

a change of pace.<br />

The former swimmer<br />

and college coach missed<br />

too much in the past 15<br />

years and knew he needed<br />

to change his life up to not<br />

miss more. But he didn’t<br />

want to let go of the sport<br />

he loved; he needed to find<br />

a way to keep it in his life.<br />

That’s what brought the<br />

new Spartans head coach<br />

to Glenbrook North this<br />

season. He went back to<br />

school to earn an education<br />

degree and is now working<br />

on his master’s degree<br />

before he can officially<br />

teach, but when the position<br />

opened up at GBN, it<br />

all seemed to make sense.<br />

“This still allows me to<br />

do the thing that I love to<br />

do: Coach swimming, but<br />

also work with students<br />

in the classroom,” Schroeder<br />

said of his decision to<br />

change careers.<br />

His swimming career<br />

took him to different places,<br />

but the North Shore<br />

was his home for the most<br />

part for the past 18 years.<br />

He started coaching with<br />

the Northwestern University<br />

NASA swim club<br />

and worked as a volunteer<br />

for the Wildcats swimming<br />

program in 2000.<br />

Schroeder moved on to<br />

the New Trier swim club<br />

in 2002 before he became<br />

the coach at the University<br />

of Maryland. He returned<br />

back to the North Shore<br />

and became the head<br />

coach at Northwestern after<br />

a few years in the East<br />

Coast.<br />

Schroeder has already<br />

seen the drastic differences<br />

between college and high<br />

Glenbrook North senior diver Ryan Cohn will be a returnee from last season’s Spartans who went to the state meet. 22nd Century Media<br />

File Photo<br />

school swimming. There’s<br />

no time needed to recruit<br />

swimmers around the<br />

country and the season is<br />

far shorter in high school<br />

than college. Collegiate<br />

programs have two months<br />

before the season to work<br />

together; high school programs<br />

have two weeks.<br />

“It’s like a fast-forward<br />

version for me,” Schroeder<br />

said. “So it’s going to<br />

come after you really fast<br />

and I’m really looking forward<br />

to that.”<br />

While the season is different,<br />

Schroeder isn’t<br />

changing his approach<br />

toward his players. There<br />

have been moments early<br />

in the season where he<br />

yelled out a certain swim<br />

the Spartans didn’t know,<br />

but he’s still teaching the<br />

sport.<br />

In his opinion, high<br />

school swimmers are<br />

much more eager to listen<br />

to him because of their experience,<br />

or lack there of.<br />

Schroeder noticed how<br />

college swimmers aren’t<br />

as responsive to his advice<br />

because of the success<br />

they’ve had in their young<br />

careers.<br />

That’s not the case with<br />

the Spartan swimmers.<br />

“What I like about<br />

young kids is that they’re<br />

eager to learn,” Schroeder<br />

said. “They don’t think<br />

they know everything yet.<br />

... They seem very receptive<br />

and open to coaching.<br />

So far they’ve been great.”<br />

The Spartans return key<br />

seniors Ryan Purdy and<br />

Ryan Cohn both return after<br />

strong seasons last year<br />

and both will swim collegiately.<br />

Last year’s team<br />

had success, breaking old<br />

school records, but they’ve<br />

already talked about what<br />

they want to do this season.<br />

But Schroeder wants<br />

to focus on making sure<br />

his swimmers develop as<br />

swimmers, because he<br />

knows how to get to that<br />

next level.<br />

“I want to see growth, I<br />

want them to enjoy what<br />

they’re doing, develop<br />

and passion for the sport,”<br />

Schroeder said. “I want<br />

them to have fun, because<br />

swimming fast is fun.”<br />

2018-19 Spartans Schedule<br />

Dec. 7 — at Glenbrook South, 5 p.m.<br />

Dec. 8 — hosts GBN Sprint Classic, 9 a.m.<br />

Dec. 8 — hosts GBN Sprint Classic, 1 p.m.<br />

Dec. 14 — hosts Maine West, 5 p.m.<br />

Jan. 4 — at Vernon Hills, 5 p.m.<br />

Jan. 5 — at New Trier Diving Invite, 9 a.m.<br />

Jan. 11 — hosts Highland Park, 5 p.m.<br />

Jan. 12 — at Hinsdale Central Diving Invite,<br />

8:30 a.m.<br />

Jan. 12 — at Titan Relays, Noon<br />

Jan. 18 — at Maine East, 5 p.m.<br />

Jan. 19 — at Red Devil Diving Invite, 9 a.m.<br />

Jsn. 19 — at Red Devil Invite, 1 p.m.<br />

Jan. 25 — hosts Deerfield, 5 p.m.<br />

Feb. 1 — hosts CSL Crossover, 5 p.m.<br />

Feb. 9 — at CSL North Conference, 1 p.m.<br />

Feb. 16 — hosts IHSA Sectional (Diving), 9 a.m.<br />

Feb. 16 — hosts IHSA Sectional, 1 p.m.<br />

Feb. 22 — at IHSA State, TBA<br />

Feb. 23 — at IHSA State, TBA


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Glenbrook North had<br />

a 3-1 record to start the<br />

year, but the Spartans<br />

weren’t playing with the<br />

level of blue-collar grit<br />

head coach David Weber<br />

wanted.<br />

That changed in their<br />

Central Suburban Conference<br />

opener, a 57-37 win<br />

over Maine East.<br />

“That was a fun game to<br />

be a part of,” senior center<br />

Frank Siegien said. “Everyone<br />

was diving on the<br />

floor and everyone was<br />

playing really unselfishly<br />

tonight.”<br />

Siegien’s coach agreed.<br />

“If we keep playing like<br />

that, win or lose we’ll be<br />

a fun team to watch,” Weber<br />

said. “They bought<br />

into that concept tonight,<br />

of playing hard, taking<br />

charges, diving on the<br />

floor — not trying to make<br />

the spectacular play, just<br />

the hard-working play.”<br />

In a home game in<br />

Northbrook on Saturday,<br />

Nov. 30, no two players in<br />

the win exemplified that<br />

unselfishness any more<br />

than Siegien and fellow<br />

senior Alex Press, who<br />

finished with 21 points<br />

apiece.<br />

At 6-foot-6, Siegien had<br />

a height advantage inside<br />

against a smaller Maine<br />

East squad, and Weber<br />

was glad to see Siegien<br />

establish his dominance in<br />

the paint from the outset.<br />

“He’s got good hands<br />

inside and we’re really<br />

working on him,” Weber<br />

said. “I think he gets<br />

fouled a lot, and it wasn’t<br />

always called tonight. I’ve<br />

Glenbrook North boys basketball player Alex Press<br />

looks to move the ball against a Maine East defender<br />

on Friday, Nov. 30, in Northbrook. Photos by Gary<br />

Larsen/22nd Century Media<br />

Frank Siegien shoots the ball.<br />

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told him to expect to get<br />

fouled and maybe it’s not<br />

going to get called, but<br />

you still have to finish.<br />

And he did a nice job of<br />

that tonight. He’s been<br />

working on that every day<br />

and it’s paying off.”<br />

Siegien quickly shifted<br />

credit for his fine inside<br />

play in the win.<br />

“I credit my whole<br />

performance to guys like<br />

Alex, David (Mirochnick)<br />

and Spencer (Malkin),<br />

“I’ve been playing basketball<br />

with Alex since like<br />

fourth grade and I absolutely<br />

love the kid. I’ve<br />

been playing with a lot of<br />

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the northbrook tower | December 6, 2018 | 51<br />

Girls Hockey<br />

Glenbrook in different position with new team<br />

Michal Dwojak, Sports Editor<br />

Gary Larsen/22nd<br />

Century media<br />

1st-and-3<br />

Athletes of the<br />

week<br />

1. Adrian Knyazev<br />

(ABOVE) The<br />

Glenbrook North<br />

wrestler had a<br />

strong start to<br />

the season as<br />

the Spartans fell<br />

in their opening<br />

quad.<br />

2. Frank Siegien and<br />

Alex Press<br />

North’s basketball<br />

players each<br />

scored 21 points<br />

in the Spartans’<br />

opening-conference<br />

win over<br />

Maine East.<br />

3. Ryan Cohn The<br />

GBN boys diver<br />

looks for a good<br />

start to his senior<br />

year after a stateworthy<br />

junior year.<br />

Steve Hamelin has<br />

made changes this season.<br />

The Glenbrook head<br />

coach is in a new position<br />

after spending the<br />

past few seasons leading<br />

his team to back-to-back<br />

championship appearances<br />

— and winning one.<br />

Now he has to focus on<br />

the future more than he<br />

did before.<br />

This season has been a<br />

different experience for<br />

Hamelin and some of his<br />

players who went through<br />

the glory year for the program.<br />

There are less wins<br />

and more learning moments,<br />

but he’s looking<br />

forward to the progress<br />

his team can make in the<br />

future, it’ll just take some<br />

time.<br />

“It’s a journey,” Hamelin<br />

said. “You don’t turn a<br />

ship around a corner, it’s a<br />

process.”<br />

While the season is a<br />

few month in, there are<br />

still plenty of things this<br />

year’s version of Glenbrook<br />

hockey has to learn.<br />

After winning a state<br />

championship in 2017 at<br />

the United Center and falling<br />

in the state championship<br />

game against New<br />

Trier this spring, Glenbrook<br />

players and coaches<br />

are going through growing<br />

pains and approaching<br />

games in a different matter<br />

than they have before.<br />

Glenbrook girls hockey player Lily Cataldo is one key player coaches and players are looking forward to returning<br />

this season. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />

One of the key differences<br />

in this season’s<br />

team is the experience.<br />

The program lost seven<br />

seniors to graduation after<br />

last year — many of<br />

whom were state champions<br />

the year before — and<br />

replaced them with eight<br />

new players, seven of<br />

which are freshman.<br />

This youth movement<br />

forced Hamelin to change<br />

the way he’s approached<br />

games this season. For the<br />

past few seasons, especially<br />

last year, Hamelin played<br />

to win games. He wanted<br />

his players to have the best<br />

opportunity to succeed in<br />

the playoffs, and that meant<br />

increasing the amount of<br />

wins to improve the team’s<br />

seeding. He shortened his<br />

lines up when it came to<br />

critical moments in the<br />

game, which didn’t allow<br />

too much time to learn for<br />

the younger members of<br />

the team.<br />

This season is different.<br />

Hamelin is rolling with<br />

his lines so his young<br />

players learn about the<br />

fast tempo of the game.<br />

He knows the only way<br />

for the program to go back<br />

to its past success is to go<br />

through some growing<br />

pains at the moment.<br />

“These girls will never<br />

learn, never develop, unless<br />

we continue to put them out<br />

there.” Hamelin said. “This<br />

year is about getting the<br />

most development for our<br />

girls as we have.”<br />

The change in approach<br />

is also something senior<br />

players have had to adapt<br />

to. Captain Shannon Smith<br />

is now in her fourth year<br />

with the program and has<br />

been through the height<br />

of its success. Now, she<br />

and other players like Lily<br />

Cataldo, who’s missed<br />

the season with an injury,<br />

have to adjust to a different<br />

style of playing and<br />

what the team’s ultimate<br />

goal is. Hamelin believes<br />

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Listen Up<br />

“You don’t turn a ship around a corner, it’s a<br />

process.”<br />

Steve Hamlin — The Glenbrook girls hockey coach on<br />

the different approach his team has taken this year.<br />

tunE in<br />

What to watch this week<br />

The Glenbrook North boys basketball team hosts<br />

rival Glenbrook South on Saturday, Dec. 8.<br />

• 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8, at GBN<br />

Index<br />

48 - Wrestling<br />

47 - From the Sports Editor<br />

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New approach Glenbrook girls<br />

hockey facing different season, Page 51<br />

Change of scenery<br />

New Spartans boys swimming<br />

coach brings new style, Page 49<br />

Glenbrook North’s Frank Siegien<br />

scores two of his 21 points during the<br />

Spartans’ 57-37 win over Maine East<br />

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