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The Northbrook Tower<br />

Northbrook’s Award-Winning Hometown Newspaper northbrooktower.com • January 24, 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 48 • $1<br />

A<br />

Publication<br />

,LLC<br />

Winter storm<br />

doesn’t slow<br />

down fun of<br />

Northbrook<br />

Park District’s<br />

annual<br />

carnival,<br />

Page 3<br />

Logan Yang, 5, of Northbrook, is nothing but smiles as he gets a heart-shaped<br />

balloon on Saturday, Jan. 19 at Village Green Park during the Northbrook Park<br />

District’s annual Winter Carnival. Rhonda Holcomb/22nd Century Media<br />

Devastating fire<br />

Early-morning explosion, fire destroys<br />

Northbrook home, damages two<br />

others, Page 6<br />

The results<br />

are in D225<br />

board analyzes<br />

data from school<br />

calendar survey,<br />

takes next step in<br />

its decision-making<br />

process, Page 8<br />

Finding the right<br />

fit The first installment of<br />

Private School Guide, INSIDE


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Pet of the Week8<br />

Editorial31<br />

Puzzles34<br />

Faith36<br />

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Home of the Week42<br />

Athlete of the Week45<br />

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THURSDAY<br />

Jazz/Blues Salon Concert:<br />

John Primer<br />

7 p.m. Jan. 24, Northbrook<br />

Public Library, 1201<br />

Cedar Lane. Legendary<br />

blues guitarist and twotime<br />

Grammy finalist.<br />

John Primer and his band<br />

will perform a set followed<br />

by a question and answer<br />

session. Reserve a spot.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(847) 272-6224 or visit<br />

northbrook.info.<br />

FRIDAY<br />

My First Yoga<br />

10-10:30 a.m. Jan. 25,<br />

Northbrook Public Library,<br />

1201 Cedar Lane.<br />

Kids will learn basic poses<br />

in a fun, easy-to-follow<br />

class. Reserve a spot. For<br />

ages 3-5. For more information,<br />

call (847) 272-<br />

6224 or visit northbrook.<br />

info.<br />

SATURDAY<br />

Trains, Trains, Trains<br />

Noon to 4 p.m. Jan. 26,<br />

Northbrook Court, 1515<br />

Lake Cook Road. The<br />

Mid-America Modurail<br />

Club will be holding an<br />

HO train exhibit. The exhibit<br />

will be located in the<br />

lower level, near Neiman<br />

Marcus. The exhibit will<br />

also be held from noon to<br />

3 p.m. the next prior. For<br />

more information, call<br />

Bruce at (847) 480-0853.<br />

SUNDAY<br />

Craft Swap<br />

1:15-3:30 p.m. Jan. 27,<br />

Northbrook Public Library,<br />

1201 Cedar Lane.<br />

Drop off any unneeded<br />

materials Friday and Saturday<br />

and return on Sunday<br />

to find free materials<br />

for your next project. You<br />

do not need to drop off materials<br />

in order to pick up<br />

free materials at the swap.<br />

Materials can be dropped<br />

off on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(847) 272-6224 or visit<br />

northbrook.info.<br />

MONDAY<br />

Adult Open Gym<br />

Basketball<br />

8-10 p.m. Jan. 28, Greenbriar<br />

Gym, 1225 Greenbriar<br />

Lane. The Northbrook<br />

Park District holds open<br />

gym basketball at Greenbriar<br />

Gym. Players pay a<br />

fee, enter the gym, choose<br />

sides and play a game.<br />

Daily fee is $5 per person.<br />

For information call (847)<br />

291-2993.<br />

TUESDAY<br />

Brain Games with Cece<br />

11:15 a.m. Jan. 29,<br />

North Suburban YMCA,<br />

2705 Techny Road. Cecelia<br />

Thomas Isenman of<br />

Arden Courts Northbrook,<br />

will lead this free session<br />

of Brain Games to demonstrate<br />

the benefits of<br />

thinking “outside the box.”<br />

We’ll do warm-up exercises<br />

and delve into flexible<br />

thinking exercises to<br />

stretch your mind. RSVP<br />

to (847) 272 7250 or online<br />

at NSYMCA.org.<br />

WEDNESDAY<br />

Books on Tap<br />

7-8:30 p.m. Jan. 30,<br />

Landmark Inn, 1352<br />

Shermer Road. Join for a<br />

discussion of “If the Creek<br />

Don’t Rise” by Leah<br />

Weiss.<br />

UPCOMING<br />

Live Podcast Recording<br />

and Performance<br />

7-8:30 p.m. Jan. 31,<br />

Northbrook Public Library,<br />

1201 Cedar Lane. Local<br />

music podcast Friskie<br />

Morris Sessions records a<br />

special live episode at the<br />

library. The podcast will<br />

feature an interview and<br />

performance by Chicago<br />

rock band Mutts. Check<br />

out their music, for fans of<br />

Tom Waits. Reserve a spot.<br />

For more information, call<br />

(847) 272-6224 or visit<br />

northbrook.info.<br />

February Topics: Juul and<br />

Vapes<br />

6:30-8 p.m. Feb. 12,<br />

Glenbrook North High<br />

School cafeteria, 2300<br />

Shermer Road. The Glenview<br />

Northbrook Coalition<br />

for Youth is hosting a Taco<br />

Tuesday” presentation iscussing<br />

JUUL and vaping.<br />

This is its first presentation<br />

that will include both parents<br />

and their teens. Visit<br />

GNCY.org to register by<br />

Jan. 31.<br />

Blood drive at Temple<br />

Beth-El<br />

8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Feb.<br />

17, Temple Beth-El, 3610<br />

Dundee Road. Temple<br />

Beth-El will hold a blood<br />

drive on Feb. 17. It is<br />

sponsored by Vitalant<br />

(formerly Lifesource).<br />

To schedule an appointment,<br />

please contact Joan<br />

at jfreud36@comcast.net<br />

or call 847-272-4554.You<br />

can also visit vitalant.org<br />

and use group code NB66.<br />

Donors will receive a coupon<br />

for a pint of Culver’s<br />

frozen custard.Donors<br />

should bring a photo ID<br />

and eat a healthy breakfast<br />

with no caffeine. One donation<br />

can save up to three<br />

lives.<br />

ONGOING<br />

Take Off Pounds Sensibly<br />

Want to lose weight?<br />

Come join TOPS (Take<br />

Off Pounds Sensibly) in<br />

Northbrook. 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 />

Israeli Dancing<br />

7-9:45 p.m., Wednesday<br />

nights, Bernard Weinger<br />

JCC, 300 Revere Drive.<br />

Join Israeli Dance teachers<br />

Jim Rust and Harriette<br />

Leibovitz for a fun dance<br />

class. Exercise; expand<br />

your mind; make friends.<br />

Let yourself be teleported<br />

briefly to Israel. No partner<br />

or experience needed,<br />

just a willingness to have<br />

a great time. $10/week/<br />

person. Contact Abby<br />

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3627 for more information.<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 because it feels good<br />

and is good for you. Call<br />

(847) 571-7553 for more<br />

information. The laughter<br />

club will not meet on Jan.<br />

30, 2019, but will resume<br />

every Wednesday after at<br />

the usual 7 p.m. start time.


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Snowfall sets seasonal scene for Winter Carnival<br />

Hilary Anderson<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

After more than 6 inches<br />

of snow blanketed Northbrook<br />

late Friday, Jan. 18,<br />

into Saturday, Jan. 19, the<br />

scene at Village Green Park<br />

for the park district’s annual<br />

Winter Carnival could<br />

not have been more fitting.<br />

Held in the early-afternoon<br />

hours on Jan. 19, the<br />

seasonal event gave residents<br />

the chance to enjoy<br />

winter-themed activities in<br />

a true winter wonderland<br />

setting.<br />

Many local families took<br />

on the sub-freezing temperatures<br />

and faced the elements<br />

to enjoy the carnival,<br />

with the added touch of the<br />

newly fallen snow.<br />

“Everyone came dressed<br />

for the occasion and weather,”<br />

said Laura Wassinger,<br />

Northbrook Park District<br />

recreation supervisor for<br />

special events and senior<br />

center supervisor. “We had<br />

hot chocolate waiting along<br />

with popcorn.”<br />

Many started their day<br />

with a horse trolley ride<br />

pulled by Jake and Jim,<br />

who obviously loved the<br />

attention they got as they<br />

paced around downtown<br />

Northbrook with each of<br />

their loads.<br />

Not to be outdone with<br />

wanting their share of attention<br />

were the animals in<br />

the petting zoo.<br />

“Watching the children<br />

connect with the animals is<br />

precious,” Wassinger said.<br />

“But watching some of the<br />

adults pet them is as though<br />

they are recalling a special<br />

memory of long ago.”<br />

A DJ made a temporary<br />

home in the Village Green<br />

Park’s gazebo and coordinated<br />

the many events of<br />

the day.<br />

A balloon man, crafting<br />

Olivia Aguilesa, 4, of Northbrook, and her dad, Bobby,<br />

play bingo.<br />

winter-themed creations,<br />

bravely stood outside<br />

throughout the event, making<br />

all kinds of creatures<br />

for visitors who made it<br />

out.<br />

There were carnival<br />

games under a tent and<br />

board games creatively<br />

remade for both children<br />

and adults. A favorite was<br />

based on the classic board<br />

game Operation.<br />

“Even the adults liked it<br />

but they had to bend down<br />

inside the tent,” Wassinger<br />

laughed. “Wish we had recorded<br />

the laughter. It was<br />

fun to hear.”<br />

For more photos,<br />

please visit<br />

Northbrook<br />

Tower.com.<br />

Along with the traditional<br />

classic games of bingo,<br />

tables filled with craft activities<br />

lined the inside.<br />

A magic show inside the<br />

community room entertained<br />

those who wanted to<br />

warm up a bit and shake off<br />

some snow.<br />

When some of the hearty<br />

souls finished the traditional<br />

games, they resorted to<br />

old-fashioned ones in the<br />

snow — making angels,<br />

and creating snowmen.<br />

Even some adults threw<br />

snowballs at each other,<br />

while all the time laughing.<br />

“It was a fun carnival,”<br />

said one young visitor. “I<br />

want to come back next<br />

time and go on another trolley<br />

ride with Jake and Jim.”<br />

Alejandro Vasquez, 4, of Northbrook, sends a frog in the air with a whack of his<br />

mallet while playing a game at the Winter Carnival.<br />

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No injuries reported after early-morning multiple-home fire in Northbrook<br />

Officials say<br />

‘explosion’<br />

occurred, cause<br />

under investigation<br />

Martin Carlino, Editor<br />

Northbrook firefighters<br />

responded to reports<br />

of an explosion and fire in<br />

the 2500 block of Melanie<br />

Lane in Northbrook at approximately<br />

6:20 a.m. the<br />

morning of Jan. 16, according<br />

to Northbrook Fire<br />

Chief Andrew Carlson.<br />

Carlson told The Tower<br />

an off-duty firefighter on<br />

his way into work was the<br />

first one on the block. The<br />

first Northbrook fire truck<br />

was on the scene eight<br />

minutes after the department<br />

received a call from a<br />

neighbor around 6:20 a.m.,<br />

per Carlson.<br />

Carlson said the fire was<br />

already starting to extend<br />

on both sides of the house<br />

when crews arrived.<br />

“The houses on this<br />

street are about 20-30 feet<br />

apart, so the first house was<br />

almost entirely engulfed in<br />

fire pretty quickly, so when<br />

the first fire truck got here,<br />

it was already extending to<br />

the house on either side,”<br />

A Northbrook residence in the 2500 block of Melanie Lane caught fire around 6:20 a.m. the morning of Jan. 16. The fire quickly spread to two<br />

neighboring homes. Photos by Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media<br />

Carlson told The Tower.<br />

Carlson said the department<br />

made sure the occupants<br />

of the original home<br />

and the occupants of the<br />

neighboring homes exited<br />

safely. The residents were<br />

able to get out on their<br />

own, according to Carlson.<br />

No residents or firefighters<br />

sustained any injuries,<br />

per Carlson.<br />

The first home that<br />

caught fire is “mostly a<br />

total loss,” Carlson said. A<br />

press release from the Village<br />

of Northbrook says<br />

the home was destroyed in<br />

its entirety and the neighboring<br />

homes sustained<br />

very serious fire damage<br />

as well. All three homes<br />

are uninhabitable, per the<br />

release.<br />

“The house to the north<br />

has some damage, the<br />

house to the south has more<br />

damage,” Carlson said.<br />

As of publication time on<br />

Monday, Jan. 21, Carlson<br />

told The Tower the department<br />

has done what it can<br />

in terms of its own investigation.<br />

He said there’s<br />

nothing obvious, suspicious,<br />

or intentional at this<br />

time.<br />

“We are still pretty confident<br />

that the insurance<br />

company will send out<br />

some experts to investigate<br />

some of the appliances at a<br />

minimum,” Carlson said.<br />

“We really don’t know<br />

when that will be yet.”<br />

Carlson said about 12<br />

other fire departments assisted<br />

with extinguishing<br />

the fire Wednesday morning.<br />

Village officials said Northbrook police and fire<br />

responded to a report of an explosion. The cause of the<br />

explosion is still under investigation.<br />

The fire destroyed one residence and significantly<br />

damaged two others.<br />

Pictured is damage to one of the neighboring homes.<br />

Chief Carlson said the fire quickly spread to two other<br />

homes.


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week’s Pets of the Week.<br />

Both are adopted and have<br />

recently moved to Northbrook<br />

from Colorado. Their<br />

favorite pastime is chewing<br />

on each other when not<br />

chasing tennis balls. They’ve also been enjoying<br />

going to the beach. In a pinch, a walk around the<br />

neighborhood will do just fine. They hope to make<br />

many new friends in the coming weeks, at the<br />

Northbrook dog park!<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 />

17-member committee to weigh<br />

school calendar survey findings<br />

Neil Milbert<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Hanover Research has<br />

released the extensive<br />

findings of its Glenbrook<br />

High School District 225<br />

school calendar survey<br />

and Superintendent Dr.<br />

Mike Riggle discussed<br />

them at length at the board<br />

of education’s Monday,<br />

Jan. 14 meeting.<br />

“What do we do with it<br />

now that we have it?” Dr.<br />

Riggle asked. “These calendar<br />

guidelines only set<br />

a framework.”<br />

In the opinion of Board<br />

President Skip Shein, “It’s<br />

kind of mind-numbing<br />

trying to piece it together.”<br />

Answering his own<br />

question, Riggle said the<br />

next step is to put together<br />

a 17-member committee<br />

made up of two Glenbrook<br />

North and two Glenbrook<br />

South students, four parents<br />

of students, two<br />

teachers from each of the<br />

schools and five members<br />

of the administration “to<br />

take a close look at the<br />

survey and see if there is<br />

anything undervalued or<br />

missed.”<br />

“We’re not rushing to<br />

do anything at this stage<br />

of the game,” he emphasized.<br />

There were 7,707 stakeholders<br />

who participated<br />

in the email survey —<br />

2,479 students at the high<br />

schools, 606 teachers<br />

and staff members, 2,120<br />

GBS and GBN parents<br />

and 2,502 parents of students<br />

at feeder grammar<br />

schools.<br />

They were presented<br />

two options:<br />

1, Adopt the college<br />

calendar and have the<br />

school year begin in early<br />

to mid-August, holding<br />

first-semester exams before<br />

winter break and ending<br />

the year in late May<br />

2, Or perpetuate the<br />

traditional calendar that<br />

calls for school to start in<br />

late August, with first-semester<br />

exams after winter<br />

break and the end of the<br />

school year in early June.<br />

Hanover Research recommended<br />

District 225<br />

“should consider adopting<br />

the Option 1 calendar.”<br />

“The survey results indicate<br />

that more than half<br />

of all stakeholders prefer<br />

to have final exams taken<br />

prior to winter break,”<br />

the research firm’s report<br />

states. “Students prefer<br />

the Option 1 calendar, and<br />

while school staff slightly<br />

prefer the Option 2 calendar,<br />

they also indicate<br />

that the Option 1 schedule<br />

would not adversely<br />

impact their classroom<br />

and curriculum planning.<br />

Most parents also indicate<br />

that the Option 1 schedule<br />

would not adversely affect<br />

family vacation planning<br />

and other activities.”<br />

Other recommendations<br />

were that District<br />

225 “should secure buyin<br />

from parents of feeder-school<br />

students” if it<br />

adopts the Option 1 calendar<br />

and “should consider<br />

offering resources and<br />

supports that help students<br />

manage the stressors that<br />

they face in school.”<br />

BY THE NUMBERS<br />

Stakeholders who participated in the email survey<br />

Total participants: 7,707<br />

GBN, GBS students who participated: 2,479<br />

Teachers and staff members: 606<br />

Glenbrook parents: 2,120<br />

Parents of students at feeder grammar schools:<br />

2,502<br />

Of the respondents, 76<br />

percent favored the Option<br />

1 schedule because<br />

first-semester exams<br />

would be held before the<br />

winter break, but only 18<br />

percent liked the Option 1<br />

start date in early to mid-<br />

August.<br />

Of the feeder-school<br />

parents, 57 percent of the<br />

parents favored Option 2.<br />

“People who opted for<br />

Option 1 said very clearly<br />

the reason they favored it<br />

was the date of the exams,<br />

and people who opted for<br />

Option 2 favored it was<br />

because of the start time<br />

in late August,” Riggle<br />

said.<br />

The fact that there is a<br />

significant disparity in the<br />

overwhelming approval<br />

for the earlier semester<br />

exams in Option 1 and<br />

a huge unfavorable response<br />

to the early school<br />

year start time in this option<br />

poses a dilemma for<br />

District 225 officials.<br />

Board members Dr. Sonia<br />

Kim and Karen Hanley<br />

suggested a solution: a<br />

shorter first semester.<br />

“There’s nothing in the<br />

state rules that require balanced<br />

semesters,” Riggle<br />

said. “The only requirement<br />

is 176 student days<br />

and we do 178.”<br />

Riggle told the board<br />

his concern with the unbalanced<br />

schedule is if<br />

the days are too far off.<br />

The current schedule has<br />

89 days in each semester.<br />

Riggle said he believes 84<br />

in the first and 92 or 93 in<br />

the second could potentially<br />

work.<br />

“We’re going to communicate<br />

early and often<br />

with the feeder districts,”<br />

Riggle said.<br />

Riggle noted Township<br />

High School District<br />

113 in Highland Park and<br />

Deerfield introduced the<br />

unbalanced schedule this<br />

year and “it is very popular,”<br />

while Lake Forest<br />

and Stevenson also have<br />

instituted unbalanced semesters.<br />

“At Loyola Academy<br />

60 percent to 70 percent<br />

of the courses are yearlong,”<br />

he added, “and you<br />

(teachers) can break up<br />

finals whenever you like.”<br />

Dr. Riggle reiterated<br />

that there is no sense<br />

of urgency because the<br />

2019-20 calendar already<br />

has been established, giving<br />

the 17-member committee<br />

ample time to study<br />

the Hanover calendar survey<br />

findings and submit a<br />

report to the board for discussion.


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From Jan. 17<br />

30-year-old woman flown to hospital after rear-end truck collision<br />

Megan Bernard<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

A serious car crash on<br />

Interstate 294 closed the<br />

highway during rush hour<br />

Thursday afternoon, Jan.<br />

17, in Northbrook.<br />

The crash occurred between<br />

a gray Toyota SUV<br />

and the back of a truck tractor<br />

semi trailer at the Willow<br />

Road exit, according<br />

to Mike Link, Illinois State<br />

Police master sergeant.<br />

At 2:58 p.m. Jan. 17,<br />

the woman, later identified<br />

as a 30-year-old resident<br />

of Orland Park, struck<br />

the rear of the semi-trailer<br />

when it was parked off of<br />

Interstate 294 in the right<br />

striped gore area with activated<br />

emergency hazard<br />

lights, according to a Illinois<br />

State Police release.<br />

All traffic lanes temporarily<br />

closed from both<br />

directions on I-294 while a<br />

Flight For Life helicopter<br />

landed on the highway and<br />

transported the driver to a<br />

local area hospital with serious<br />

injuries, Illinois State<br />

Police Sergeant Jacqueline<br />

Cepeda told The Northbrook<br />

Tower.<br />

“The driver of the Toyota<br />

suffered life-threatening<br />

injuries due to the crash,”<br />

the release says.<br />

As of publication time,<br />

the driver is in stable<br />

condition. Police said the<br />

driver was charged with<br />

improper lane usage and<br />

that that was the contributing<br />

factor to the crash.<br />

The driver of the truck,<br />

a 41-year-old man from<br />

Plainfield, did not suffer<br />

any injuries.<br />

Additional reporting by<br />

Alyssa Groh, contributing<br />

Editor<br />

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Remnants from a car accident that caused a helicopter to land on Interstate 294 on<br />

Thursday, Jan. 17, in Northbrook. Photo submitted by Danny Brodson<br />

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Personal belongings stolen from stockroom at NB Court<br />

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unknown person(s) at 5:53<br />

p.m. on Jan. 12.<br />

Police do not know the<br />

exact amount of personal<br />

items that were taken.<br />

In other police news:<br />

Jan. 17<br />

• A resident of the 2300<br />

block of El Cid Lane reported<br />

they observed damage<br />

to their front door<br />

with it partially open. The<br />

resident stated that various<br />

items were taken.<br />

• Adam D. Tracey, 33, of<br />

Northbrook, was charged<br />

with driving with expired<br />

registration, failure to notify<br />

SOS of address change,<br />

and driving with a suspended<br />

license at 10:48 a.m. in<br />

the 500 block of Dundee<br />

Road.<br />

Jan. 16<br />

• A complainant reported<br />

that an unknown subject<br />

used their information to<br />

open a credit account and<br />

make a purchase in the<br />

1000 block of Willow.<br />

• Unknown subject(s)<br />

broke a window on a vehicle<br />

parked at the Five Seasons<br />

Country Club at 4:38<br />

p.m. and removed a laptop<br />

computer.<br />

• Two male subjects left the<br />

Lord and Taylor store, located<br />

in Northbrook Court,<br />

without paying for several<br />

purses at 3:34 p.m.<br />

• A resident of the 1100<br />

block of Antique Lane reported<br />

they received a notice<br />

regarding a fraudulent<br />

charge.<br />

Jan. 14<br />

• Elmer O. Perez, 31, of<br />

Chicago, was charged with<br />

disobeying a traffic control<br />

device, driving with<br />

a suspended license and<br />

charged on an arrest warrant,<br />

at 2:14 a.m. in the 700<br />

block of Skokie. Officers<br />

on routine patrol observed<br />

a vehicle commit a traffic<br />

violation. Officers stopped<br />

the vehicle and learned the<br />

driver was driving with a<br />

suspended license, and also<br />

that the subject had an outstanding<br />

warrant from Du-<br />

Page County.<br />

Jan. 12<br />

• Jose Ramirez-Hernandez,<br />

40, of Wheeling, was<br />

charged with improper<br />

lighting (no rear registration<br />

light), improper lighting<br />

(taillight) and driving<br />

with a suspended license<br />

at 2:32 a.m. near the intersection<br />

of Landwehr and<br />

Walters.<br />

Jan. 11<br />

• Chamiram Odicho, 24, of<br />

Skokie, was charged with<br />

illegal transportation/possession<br />

of liquor, failure to<br />

signal, and driving with a<br />

suspended license at 10:06<br />

p.m. near the intersection<br />

of Shermer and Pfingsten.<br />

• A worker at the Renaissance<br />

Hotel, located in the<br />

900 block of Skokie Boulevard,<br />

reported two male<br />

subjects staying at the hotel<br />

were contacted regarding<br />

their credit card being declined.<br />

The two men left<br />

the hotel without paying<br />

the balance due.<br />

• Martin Contreras, 55, of<br />

Elgin, was charged with<br />

driving while under the<br />

influence, illegal transportation/possession<br />

of liquor<br />

and improper lane usage<br />

at 12:27 a.m. near the intersection<br />

of Dundee and<br />

Pfingsten.<br />

EDITOR’S NOTE: The<br />

Northbrook Tower’s Police<br />

Reports are compiled from<br />

official reports found on file<br />

at the Northbrook Police<br />

Department headquarters<br />

in Northbrook. Individuals<br />

named in these reports are<br />

considered innocent of all<br />

charges until proven guilty in<br />

a court of law.


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the northbrook tower | January 24, 2019 | 11<br />

Locals enjoy Village’s first Coffee with a Cop<br />

Staff Report<br />

The Village of Northbrook<br />

invited residents to<br />

join Northbrook’s finest<br />

for a cup of coffee Jan. 16<br />

at Big Apple Bagels for<br />

the first-ever “Coffee with<br />

a Cop” event.<br />

From 7-9 a.m. residents<br />

got opportunity to meet<br />

some of Northbrook’s police<br />

officers in a casual atmosphere<br />

and chat over a<br />

cup of coffee.<br />

Longtime Northbrook resident Lee Bergstedt shares<br />

an old newspaper article with officers Worthington and<br />

Kappos.<br />

RIGHT: Northbrook resident Wayne Buttermere enjoys<br />

a cup of coffee with Northbrook police officers (left to<br />

right) Adam Worthington, Patty Kappos and Thomas<br />

Moore. Photos by Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media<br />

Northbrook Junior High sixth-grade student Jonah Kasdan and his dad, Terry, talk<br />

with Northbrook’s finest.<br />

Village president Sandy Frum (far left), Chief of Police Roger Adkins (left), Big Apple<br />

Bakery owner Maria Barbosa (center) and officers (left to right) Worthington, Kappos,<br />

Ochab, Moore and Kuramitsu pose for a group photo.


12 | January 24, 2019 | The Northbrook tower news<br />

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In Memoriam<br />

Northbrook’s Hass remembered as lifelong learner<br />

Submitted to The Tower<br />

William “Bill” J. Hass,<br />

71, of Northbrook, died<br />

naturally on Jan. 7 in<br />

Breckenridge, Colo. doing<br />

what he loved best, skiing<br />

on the Rocky Mountains.<br />

An avid and accomplished<br />

skier, Hass enjoyed<br />

heli-skiing in the Canadian<br />

Rockies and yearly trips<br />

with his family to the Colorado<br />

mountains.<br />

A former partner with<br />

Ernst & Young, Hass authored<br />

two books, one of<br />

which he co-authored with<br />

his former professor at the<br />

University of Chicago,<br />

famed economist Arthur<br />

Laffer. Hass penned “The<br />

Private Equity Edge: How<br />

Private Equity Players<br />

and the World’s Top Companies<br />

Build Value and<br />

Wealth” with Laffer.<br />

from the village<br />

Plan Commission Recap<br />

On Tuesday, Jan. 15,<br />

the Plan Commission held<br />

its regular meeting. At the<br />

meeting, the Commission<br />

held a public hearing for<br />

a special permit for Glenview<br />

Blaze Baseball (1880<br />

Holste Road).<br />

The Commission recommended<br />

approval, which<br />

will be considered at the<br />

Village Board meeting<br />

News Briefs<br />

Northbrook Chamber to<br />

welcome Village President<br />

for annual State of the<br />

Village<br />

Northbrook Village President<br />

Sandy Frum will offer<br />

insight and perspective on<br />

key issues facing the community<br />

at the annual State<br />

of the Village Address and<br />

His other<br />

book,<br />

“Board<br />

Perspectives:<br />

Building<br />

Value<br />

through<br />

Strategy,<br />

Risk Assessment<br />

and Renewal<br />

Hass<br />

(CCH)”, co-authored with<br />

Shepherd V. Prior IV, received<br />

praise as a “thorough<br />

compendium of<br />

strategic thinking” and “a<br />

great tool for improving<br />

communication between<br />

the Board and senior managers<br />

of any organization.”<br />

Hass is the inventor of<br />

the “Bone Fone”, having<br />

secured international and<br />

domestic design patents.<br />

Bone Fone was an early<br />

hands-free alternative to<br />

headphones and what were<br />

on January 22. The Commission<br />

also conducted a<br />

public hearing and recommended<br />

approval for Banjo’s<br />

Self Dog Wash (527<br />

Dundee Road), which will<br />

be considered at the Village<br />

Board meeting on Feb. 12.<br />

The Commission was<br />

presented with a brief<br />

summary of the history of<br />

Northbrook Court and its<br />

current zoning. Lastly, staff<br />

Luncheon. Hosted by the<br />

Northbrook Chamber of<br />

Commerce, the public<br />

is welcome to attend the<br />

event at the Renaissance<br />

Chicago North Shore Hotel,<br />

933 Skokie Blvd. in<br />

Northbrook, at 11:45 a.m.<br />

on Monday, Jan. 28.<br />

President Frum’s interactive<br />

presentation will<br />

then bulky headsets and<br />

portable stereos in the early<br />

1980s. His inspiration<br />

was being able to listen to<br />

music while cruising down<br />

the mountains, for which<br />

Bill earned his nickname,<br />

“The Music Man,” from<br />

Sandburg Ski Club buddies.<br />

A Chicago native, Hass<br />

graduated from Lane<br />

Technical High School in<br />

1965. Graduating from the<br />

University of Illinois/Chicago<br />

in 1969 Summa Cum<br />

Laude, Hass was first in his<br />

class and was, therefore,<br />

the Bell Honor Recipient<br />

at the University of Illinois/Chicago’s<br />

School of<br />

Engineering.<br />

Hass was the co-founder<br />

of the University of Illinois<br />

Engineering Alumni Association<br />

and held many<br />

discussed various enforcement<br />

and tracking mechanisms<br />

for special permits<br />

and business licenses to<br />

eliminate businesses operating<br />

without proper zoning<br />

approvals. The next<br />

Plan Commission meeting<br />

is Tuesday, Feb. 5.<br />

highlight challenges and<br />

opportunities receiving attention<br />

in 2019, including<br />

a discussion of proposed<br />

redevelopment projects,<br />

the impact of the recent and<br />

upcoming elections, the<br />

Village’s legislative priorities,<br />

and anticipated facility<br />

improvements for the Police,<br />

Fire, and Public Works<br />

positions throughout his<br />

career contributing to the<br />

Alumni Association and<br />

College of Engineering<br />

programs.<br />

Hass received his MBA<br />

in finance on a full scholarship<br />

from the University of<br />

Chicago Booth School of<br />

Business in 1971.<br />

A former Chairman for<br />

the Turnaround Management<br />

Association, the national<br />

organization of more<br />

than 9,000 members, Hass<br />

is in the Turnaround Hall<br />

of Fame, is a renowned<br />

educator, mentor and team<br />

member of the Association’s<br />

many programs, and<br />

helped spearhead its huge<br />

growth from early inception.<br />

He was vice president<br />

and a founder of the Private<br />

Directors Association,<br />

On-street parking ban after<br />

2 inches of snow<br />

The Village of Northbrook<br />

bans on-street parking<br />

on public streets after 2<br />

inches of snow. The purpose<br />

of this ban is to allow snow<br />

removal equipment to safely<br />

and efficiently remove<br />

snow from roadways.<br />

Vehicles parked on roadways<br />

during winter storms<br />

make it difficult for snow<br />

and ice control equipment<br />

to maneuver, increases the<br />

chances of accidents, and<br />

Departments.<br />

She will explain Village<br />

resources to keep local<br />

businesses up-to-date,<br />

including website links to<br />

Village Board and Plan<br />

Commission meetings, informative<br />

memos by Village<br />

staff on important<br />

topics, and the Northbrook<br />

Notify mass notification<br />

an association whose goal<br />

is to create, sustain and<br />

enhance private company<br />

value through the active<br />

use of boards of directors<br />

and advisory boards, advocating<br />

excellent practices<br />

in board formation and<br />

governance.<br />

A resident of Northbrook,<br />

Hass is survived by<br />

Debby, his wife of 41 years,<br />

their children, Veronica<br />

(Greg Goodrich), Charles<br />

(Kristen) Hass, Andrew<br />

(Lindsie) Hass, and five<br />

loving granddaughters,<br />

Giselle and Isla Goodrich,<br />

Elizabeth and Emma Hass,<br />

and Mila Hass.<br />

In lieu of flowers, contributions<br />

may be made<br />

to: UIF/UIC Engineering,<br />

Memo Line: Bill Hass<br />

Memorial. Mail to UIC<br />

Please see Memoriam, 36<br />

cause snow to be left on<br />

the street after the vehicle<br />

has been moved. Vehicles<br />

remaining on the street after<br />

2 inches of snow will be<br />

ticketed and may be towed.<br />

For more information<br />

on snow and ice control,<br />

please visit www.northbrook.il.us/snow.<br />

From the Village is information<br />

submitted by the Village<br />

of Northbrook<br />

system. Registration for the<br />

State of the Village Address<br />

Luncheon is $30 by Jan.<br />

24, or $35 at the door. Call<br />

(847) 498-5555 for reservations<br />

or email info@<br />

northbrookchamber.org.<br />

Submitted to The Tower<br />

News Briefs are compiled by<br />

Editor Martin Carlino.<br />

New courses<br />

proposed<br />

for 2019-20<br />

school year<br />

Submitted by District 225<br />

The District 225 Board<br />

of Education reviewed new<br />

courses and modifications<br />

recommended by the administration<br />

for the 2019-<br />

20 school year at its Monday,<br />

Jan. 14 meeting.<br />

Glenbrook North recommended<br />

four new course<br />

offerings during the regular<br />

school year, which include<br />

sports and fitness,<br />

total body conditioning, advanced<br />

data structures and<br />

algorithms, and investigating<br />

physics and chemistry.<br />

In addition, GBN has<br />

recommended two new science<br />

courses to be offered<br />

only in summer school,<br />

which are history and philosophy<br />

of science and organic<br />

chemistry.<br />

Glenbrook South proposed<br />

one new course<br />

entitled technology and<br />

career applications. This<br />

course would be offered to<br />

students at the instructional<br />

level.<br />

“Each year, District<br />

administrators and teachers<br />

evaluate 20 percent of<br />

course offerings and make<br />

recommendations to revise<br />

and enhance the curriculum,”<br />

said Assistant Superintendent<br />

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Amended historical<br />

preservation ordinance<br />

approved ‘to ensure public<br />

health’<br />

Applicants seeking a<br />

demolition permit in Lake<br />

Bluff will now need to<br />

provide a hazardous construction<br />

materials remediation<br />

plan for asbestos,<br />

lead-based paint, creosote<br />

treated materials and underground<br />

storage tanks.<br />

This change comes after<br />

the Lake Bluff Village<br />

Board meeting Monday,<br />

Jan. 14, when the board of<br />

trustees unanimously approved<br />

an amendment to<br />

the Lake Bluff Municipal<br />

Code regarding historic<br />

preservation.<br />

The amended ordinance<br />

passed in a 6-0 vote, with<br />

trustee Barbara Ankenman<br />

recusing herself from the<br />

vote since she works for<br />

the property owner’s architect<br />

of record.<br />

“The Village desires to<br />

promote the preservation<br />

of older homes, while ensuring<br />

that homeowners<br />

are provided flexibility<br />

to adapt all homes to the<br />

changing needs of families<br />

and the community,”<br />

Village Board President<br />

Kathleen O’Hara said.<br />

The adopted ordinance<br />

also requires applicants<br />

seeking a demolition permit<br />

to submit a demolition<br />

schedule that will enable<br />

inspection of demolition<br />

activities when hazardous<br />

construction materials are<br />

believed or known to be<br />

disturbed, removed or remaining<br />

during construction.<br />

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reflect industry best<br />

practices to ensure public<br />

health,” O’Hara added.<br />

Including this requirement<br />

not only reflects industry<br />

best practices to<br />

ensure public health, but<br />

it also continues a practice<br />

that the Village had put in<br />

place for many years, according<br />

to Village Administrator<br />

Drew Irvin.<br />

“This is really codifying<br />

it and laying (it) out with<br />

great specificity,” Irvin<br />

said.<br />

Reporting by Stephanie Kim,<br />

Freelance Reporter. Full<br />

story at LakeForestLeader.<br />

com.<br />

THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK<br />

City Council approves<br />

$80K arch for city’s 150th<br />

birthday<br />

Residents passing by the<br />

corner park at Deerfield<br />

Road, Hickory Street and<br />

Laurel Avenue can look<br />

forward to a 24-feet-wide<br />

and 8-feet-tall archway<br />

this fall.<br />

The sculpture, and the<br />

location celebrating Highland<br />

Park’s 150th birthday,<br />

received a unanimous<br />

green light from the City<br />

Council at its Monday,<br />

Jan. 14, meeting.<br />

Michael Szabo’s piece<br />

received approval over<br />

28 other hopeful artists<br />

looking to make a lasting<br />

imprint on the city. Contestants<br />

submitted their<br />

proposals last fall and four<br />

finalists were chosen by<br />

the Cultural Arts Advisory<br />

Group of the Cultural Arts<br />

Commission.<br />

Szabo’s sculpture, an<br />

arch from one angle and<br />

a ribbon from another,<br />

will be made of stainless<br />

steel and patinated bronze,<br />

and can be viewed on the<br />

city’s website. The three<br />

other sculptures were a<br />

23-foot-tall ribbon, an inclusion<br />

of native birds and<br />

a trail-marker tree. After<br />

extensive input from the<br />

community and phone interviews<br />

with the four finalists,<br />

the advisory group<br />

recommended Szabo’s<br />

submission.<br />

“We were moved by the<br />

elegant aesthetic of the<br />

work, the fluid form ... and<br />

the artist’s idea of work<br />

that evokes a gateway to<br />

the community of Highland<br />

Park and the next<br />

150 years,” said Cathy<br />

Ricciardelli, the advisory<br />

board’s chair.<br />

The $80,000 sculpture<br />

is planned to be installed<br />

in September, and its acquisition<br />

and installation<br />

costs will be paid for by<br />

the city’s public art fund.<br />

Currently, the fund has<br />

approximately $82,000,<br />

which the City Council<br />

can approve for expenditures<br />

not within the city’s<br />

budget because it has already<br />

been appropriated<br />

for art purchases, according<br />

to Assistant City Manager<br />

Rob Sabo.<br />

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Glenview Village Board<br />

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ordinances<br />

Glenview is one step<br />

away from adopting Cook<br />

County’s minimum wage<br />

and sick leave ordinances,<br />

effective July 1.<br />

The Glenview Village<br />

Board voted 4-1 in favor<br />

of compliance during their<br />

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Trustees were originally<br />

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Glenbrook North students<br />

headed to the Northbrook<br />

Public Library Jan.<br />

10-15 to get in their final<br />

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final exams.<br />

In addition to a quiet<br />

place to study, the library<br />

brought in therapy dogs for<br />

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The therapy dogs were provided<br />

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Students smile for a photo while preparing for final<br />

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Heejean Lee take a brief break from studying at the<br />

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Northbrook-based Keshet showcases Buddy Basketball program<br />

Players take floor<br />

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Submitted Content<br />

Keshet, a nonprofit that<br />

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employment and residential<br />

opportunities for<br />

adults and children, showcased<br />

its Buddy Basketball<br />

program during halftime of<br />

the Jan. 9 Northwestern v.<br />

Iowa game at Northwestern<br />

University’s Welsh-Ryan<br />

Arena.<br />

Children and adults<br />

with intellectual and developmental<br />

disabilities,<br />

all whom participate regularly<br />

in Keshet’s Buddy<br />

Program, hit the court and<br />

show off their enthusiasm<br />

and courage<br />

The game gave the community<br />

the opportunity to<br />

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learn more about the organization<br />

its core mission:<br />

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Keshet player Avi Lesser leads the Northwestern<br />

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Hickory Point students donate dog, cat toys<br />

Handmade toys<br />

given to Orphans of<br />

the Storm<br />

Submitted by District 27<br />

Hickory Point students<br />

recently made 232 dog<br />

and cat toys for a local<br />

animal shelter as part of a<br />

recycling effort sponsored<br />

by the school’s PTA.<br />

The students knotted<br />

and braided long pieces<br />

of fleece for dog toys<br />

and stuffed small fleece<br />

pillows for cat toys. The<br />

scraps of fleece were donated<br />

by Project Linus,<br />

a volunteer organization<br />

that provides handmade<br />

blankets and quilts to<br />

children in traumatic situations.<br />

“The project expands<br />

the children’s basic<br />

knowledge of recycling,”<br />

said Rivka Daar, a member<br />

of the PTA’s environmental<br />

committee. “The<br />

students are introduced<br />

to the concepts of sustainability<br />

and upcycling,<br />

which empowers them to<br />

think of their own ways to<br />

reuse items creatively.<br />

“The students also contribute<br />

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community as they reduce<br />

waste and create value<br />

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would have been<br />

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Students made 107 toys<br />

for cats and 125 toys for<br />

dogs during their art periods<br />

Dec. 17 through Dec.<br />

20.<br />

This is the sixth year the<br />

Hickory Point PTA has<br />

spearheaded the Trash to<br />

Treasures project. In that<br />

time, students donated<br />

more than 625 cat toys<br />

and 750 dog toys to shelters<br />

across the country.<br />

“The children feel good<br />

knowing they are doing<br />

a kindness for the planet<br />

and an animal at the shelter,”<br />

Daar added.<br />

All of this year’s toys<br />

were donated to Orphans<br />

of the Storm in Deerfield.<br />

Hickory Point kindergarten students Mia Hamano and Joshua Daly work on stuffing fleece into cat toys that were<br />

donated to animals at Orphans of the Storm. Photos submitted<br />

Hickory Point art teacher Mara Lovisetto helps Lily<br />

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Second-graders David Xie and Razi Atighi work<br />

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Glenbrook North High<br />

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Night returns to GBN<br />

Professor and author<br />

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Tickets now on sale for<br />

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Social snapshot<br />

Top Web Stories<br />

From northbrooktower.com as of Monday,<br />

Jan. 21<br />

1. UPDATE: No injuries reported after earlymorning<br />

multiple-home fire in Northbrook<br />

2. Update: 30-year-old woman flown to hospital<br />

after rear-end truck collision in Northbrook<br />

3. Joe Klein ready to make mark at figure<br />

skating nationals<br />

4. Northbrook native and wife capture hearts of<br />

many with New Year’s resolution for once-aweek<br />

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5. Police Reports: Northbrook residence<br />

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from the editor<br />

Township continues to serve community<br />

Martin Carlino<br />

martin@northbrooktower.com<br />

Last week’s edition<br />

of The Tower<br />

featured a story<br />

detailing how Northfield<br />

Township is offering<br />

assistance to residents in<br />

need because of one of the<br />

longest federal government<br />

shutdowns in U.S.<br />

history. Yes, once again,<br />

the local township is here<br />

to help and serve the community.<br />

The Northfield Township<br />

— representing most<br />

of Northbrook, Glenview<br />

and a part of Northfield<br />

— is encouraging federal<br />

workers to reach out<br />

for help with food and<br />

emergency assistance.<br />

These federal employees<br />

can take advantage of<br />

the Northfield Township<br />

Food Pantry, located at<br />

2550 Waukegan Road in<br />

Glenview, which offers<br />

both fresh and nonperishable<br />

food items five days<br />

a week.<br />

In case you missed<br />

some of the details of last<br />

week’s article, to receive<br />

assistance, residents who<br />

are federal employees<br />

should present their<br />

government IDs, proof of<br />

residency and identification<br />

for others who live in<br />

their households.<br />

Northfield Township<br />

Supervisor Jill Brickman<br />

says it best in a press release<br />

sent to The Tower.<br />

“One of our top responsibilities<br />

is helping<br />

people through short- or<br />

long-term hard times,”<br />

Brickman says. “We hope<br />

the resources we offer can<br />

make things a little easier<br />

for federal employees who<br />

are not receiving their<br />

checks.”<br />

We don’t always get<br />

the chance to highlight<br />

the township’s day-today<br />

operations in The<br />

Tower. The township is<br />

a wonderful resource for<br />

the communities it serves.<br />

Government shutdown<br />

or not, Northfield Township<br />

is here to support and<br />

serve residents in the best<br />

way possible.<br />

Rehearsals for The Lion King Jr. @nbjh28<br />

are in full swing! Four days a week from<br />

now until curtain on March 14.<br />

Northbrook School District 28 posted this<br />

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go figure<br />

17<br />

District<br />

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

225 Superintendent Dr. Mike<br />

Riggle said Jan. 14 that a 17-member<br />

committee will soon be formed to<br />

analyze the results of the district’s<br />

school calendar survey. Please see<br />

Page 8 for more information.<br />

nfyn<br />

From Page 20<br />

leave for workers in the<br />

village. The board previously<br />

voted to opt out of<br />

the ordinances but reconsidered<br />

after Glenview<br />

residents overwhelming<br />

supported implementation<br />

through a ballot referendum<br />

during last year’s<br />

general election.<br />

“There are a lot of diverse<br />

opinions [on this issue],”<br />

Jenny said. “That’s<br />

what makes us a great<br />

community. … But it’s<br />

clear to me … that the<br />

vast majority of residents<br />

have spoken through the<br />

referendum, and for that<br />

reason, I think we have to<br />

implement a policy that is<br />

reflective of that.”<br />

Only Trustee John<br />

Hinkamp dissented.<br />

“I don’t feel this helps<br />

workers,” Hinkamp said.<br />

“It’s proven to eliminate<br />

jobs. … This is a bad law.<br />

It’s always been a bad<br />

law.”<br />

Reporting by Chris Pullam,<br />

Freelance Reporter. Full<br />

story at GlenviewLantern.<br />

com.<br />

THE WILMETTE BEACON<br />

Community seeks to<br />

assist Wilmette Coast<br />

Guard during government<br />

shutdown<br />

Wilmette residents,<br />

businesses and churches<br />

want to help.<br />

They are looking for<br />

ways to assist those tangibly<br />

affected by the government<br />

shutdown.<br />

One group is the United<br />

States Coast Guard, who<br />

has members on duty at<br />

Wilmette Harbor 24/7.<br />

“The Coast Guard and<br />

TSA are under Homeland<br />

Security and are not exempt,”<br />

said Denise Zeir,<br />

longtime Wilmette resident<br />

and owner of Wilmette’s<br />

Zier’s Meat and<br />

Poultry. “The Coast Guard<br />

is the only group in the<br />

U.S. military that is not<br />

exempt.”<br />

When the government<br />

shutdown began on Dec.<br />

22 , Zier, along with her<br />

daughter, Elizabeth, immediately<br />

found ways to<br />

help. Initially, they learned<br />

the Wilmette Coast Guard<br />

staff, which consists of<br />

about 25 people, hoped<br />

the situation would change<br />

and asked everyone to wait<br />

until Jan. 15 when their<br />

next paycheck was due.<br />

Unfortunately, that money<br />

never came in.<br />

The situation is made<br />

even more difficult because<br />

the Coast Guard has<br />

strict rules about accepting<br />

donations of any kind from<br />

the public.<br />

“They also were very<br />

humble and hopeful,” Zier<br />

said. Their rules include<br />

the following:<br />

• Each Coast Guard officer<br />

is only allowed to<br />

receive a food gift card<br />

of up to $20 per occasion<br />

— from Jewel, Whole<br />

Foods, Mariano’s, Trader<br />

Joes, Fresh Market, Grand<br />

Store. They can receive<br />

no more than up to $50 in<br />

food gift cards on the second<br />

occasion.<br />

Reporting by Hilary Anderson,<br />

Freelance Reporter. Full<br />

story WilmetteBeacon.com.<br />

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serving generations<br />

Grandpa’s Place dishes out the classics after 122 years, Page 41<br />

Northbrook teacher releases first album with band, Page 35<br />

Hickory Point music teacher Allison Orobia (pictured center) and her band The Oh Yeahs recently released a debut album. Photo Submitted


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the northbrook tower | January 24, 2019 | 35<br />

Northbrook educator<br />

finds joy in making music<br />

Martin Carlino, Editor<br />

Leslie Beukelman, Allison<br />

Orobia and Sarah Marie<br />

Young all have different<br />

musical backgrounds.<br />

However, the trio behind<br />

the band The Oh Yeahs<br />

shares an important similarity,<br />

the love of making<br />

music and performing together.<br />

The Chicago-based<br />

band, featuring Orobia, a<br />

music teacher at Northbrook’s<br />

Hickory Point Elementary<br />

School, formed<br />

nearly four years ago after<br />

first performing together<br />

for a charitable event.<br />

Now, the trio of longtime<br />

friends is celebrating<br />

the release of its debut,<br />

self-titled album.<br />

“I think the cool thing<br />

about us is that our voices<br />

are so different and we<br />

write music and ... it just<br />

blends so nicely,” Orobia<br />

said of the debut album’s<br />

sound. “It’s really a nice<br />

collection that I think represents<br />

us pretty well.<br />

Orobia said the band’s<br />

newly released album consists<br />

of nine tracks, which<br />

are a mixture of original<br />

songs and covers. Each<br />

band member wrote two<br />

original works featured on<br />

the album, and the remaining<br />

three songs are covers.<br />

The group spent approximately<br />

a year working on<br />

the album, focusing on the<br />

development of its sound<br />

and the music set to be featured<br />

on it.<br />

With Orobia on guitar,<br />

Young on the baritone,<br />

ukulele and cajon, and<br />

Beukelman playing the<br />

trumpet and melodica, the<br />

band offers listeners a signature<br />

sound, heightened<br />

Northbrook educator Allison Orobia (pictured left) and<br />

her band The Oh Yeahs recently released a debut, selftitled<br />

album. Orobia teaches at Northbrook’s Hickory<br />

Point Elementary School. Photo Submitted<br />

by three-part harmonies.<br />

“We’re all singers, so the<br />

harmonies and the singing<br />

are really the main focus<br />

of the band,” Orobia said.<br />

The band is playing several<br />

album release-style<br />

shows to help promote the<br />

new record. A show at 7:30<br />

p.m. on Jan. 30 at Chicago’s<br />

Untitled Supper club is<br />

next up on the list, followed<br />

by a performance on Feb.<br />

20 at California Clipper.<br />

Performing live music is<br />

something the bands cherishes<br />

and uses to showcases<br />

its passion.<br />

“I think when you see<br />

us, you can just tell that we<br />

love each other, we love<br />

what we’re doing and that<br />

we love making music,”<br />

Orobia said.<br />

Future plans for The Oh<br />

Yeahs include a tour this<br />

summer, which is still in<br />

the works. Orobia said it<br />

will likely be a Midwest<br />

tour.<br />

The group’s hope is to<br />

continue writing, playing<br />

and bringing original music<br />

to listeners.<br />

Orobia, who’s now in<br />

her third year at Hickory<br />

Point, started her musical<br />

teaching career at Skokie’s<br />

Madison Elementary<br />

School. After years there,<br />

she left to perform in productions<br />

of “Miss Saigon”<br />

at Drury Lane Theatre.<br />

She then returned to<br />

teaching and now couldn’t<br />

be more grateful of where<br />

her lifelong love of music<br />

has brought her.<br />

“I feel super blessed to<br />

be able to perform as well<br />

as teach and to also be supported<br />

in all places,” she<br />

said.<br />

For more information<br />

about the band, visit theohyeahs.com.


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Faith Briefs<br />

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Women’s Havurah Book<br />

Club<br />

Join at NCS for or<br />

monthly Canasta game at<br />

7 p.m. on March 6. Don’t<br />

worry if you don’t know<br />

how to play, we can teach<br />

you. Great fun for everyone.<br />

For more information<br />

and questions, email<br />

stevevwbus@aol.com and<br />

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

Morning Minyan<br />

Join morning minyan<br />

followed by breakfast on<br />

weekdays at 7:15 a.m. and<br />

on Sundays and holidays at<br />

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

(847) 509-9204.<br />

St. Giles Episcopal Church (3025 Walters<br />

Ave.)<br />

Community Breakfast<br />

Join for a monthly, free<br />

community breakfast held<br />

each second Sunday from<br />

9-10:30 a.m. in the church<br />

basement. All are welcome.<br />

Our Sunday morning worship<br />

service begins at 10:15<br />

a.m.<br />

Men’s Night Out<br />

St. Giles men and their<br />

male friends and family<br />

are welcome to gather at<br />

Grandpa’s in Glenview,<br />

across from the downtown<br />

train station, at 7 p.m. on<br />

the second Tuesday of the<br />

month. For more information,<br />

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 />

khutba (sermon) by Imam,<br />

followed by the prayer<br />

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

For more information, call<br />

(847) 272-0319.<br />

Sunday Talk<br />

Every Sunday the Islamic<br />

Cultural Center will hold<br />

a discussion at 12:30-1<br />

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

call (847) 272-0319 or visit<br />

www.icc-greaterchicago.<br />

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 />

correlate the study topic<br />

to modern daily life. No<br />

charge. For more information,<br />

contact Rabbi Berger<br />

at (847) 205-1910 or hbglobemet@aol.com.<br />

Casual Morning Minyan<br />

On Saturdays at 9:30<br />

a.m., join for a Shabbat,<br />

lay-led, participatory service<br />

held in the mishkan.<br />

The one-hour service is informal<br />

and open to young<br />

and old alike. After worship,<br />

many participants remain<br />

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 />

Class<br />

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 />

run by women<br />

for women. For more information,<br />

call (847) 564-<br />

8770.<br />

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (1133<br />

Pfingsten)<br />

“The Case for Christ”<br />

Series<br />

Join on a riveting quest<br />

for the truth about history’s<br />

most compelling figure on<br />

Sundays from 9:20-10:20<br />

a.m. For more information,<br />

visit GloriaDeiNorthbrook.<br />

org.<br />

Northbrook United Methodist Church<br />

(1190 Western Avenue)<br />

Line Dancing<br />

Join Tuesday nights from<br />

7-8 p.m. for $50 per sixweek<br />

session.<br />

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 on Friday, Jan. 25,<br />

night at 6 p.m. when Cantor<br />

Kahan is not with us, soloists<br />

include Jane Heyman<br />

and Susan Coren. Early<br />

oneg is at 5:30 p.m. For<br />

more information, contact<br />

Shaina at (847) 205-9982.<br />

Congregation Beth Shalom (3433<br />

Walters Ave.)<br />

Sisterhood Book Club<br />

Join TBE Sisterhood<br />

for monthly book discussion<br />

and BYOL (bring<br />

your own lunch) on Feb.<br />

2 from 12:30–2 p.m. in the<br />

Podolsky Library. Upcoming<br />

selection is Crashing<br />

Through by Robert Kurson.<br />

No charge, RSVP to Shaina<br />

Farwell at (847) 205-9982<br />

or sfarwell@templebeth-el.<br />

org.<br />

Shabbat Yeladim<br />

Join for a fun Shabbat<br />

experience for children<br />

ages 7 and younger on Feb.<br />

2 at 5:30 p.m. Wear your<br />

favorite PJs and learn about<br />

Jewish Bedtime Ritual plus<br />

a complimentary dinner<br />

followed by prayers, singing,<br />

story, craft and oneg.<br />

RSVP requested for dinner:<br />

jhadesman@templebethel.org.<br />

There is no charge.<br />

JNF 11th Annual TBE<br />

Breakfast<br />

Join JNF and Temple<br />

Beth-El on Feb. 3 at 9:30<br />

a.m. for annual breakfast<br />

featuring guest speaker<br />

Izzy Ezagui, decorated<br />

squad commander in the<br />

IDF and author of Disarmed.<br />

No cost to attend,<br />

RSVP by Jan. 28 at juf.org/<br />

templebethel.<br />

Darchei Noam Glenbrook<br />

(3465 Techny Rd.)<br />

Shabbat services 9 a.m.<br />

followed by kiddush. Daf<br />

Yomi weekdays 5:30 a.m.,<br />

Sundays 7:15 a.m. Shacharit<br />

weekdays 6:30 a.m.,<br />

Sundays 8:30 a.m. Mincha,<br />

maariv and other study opportunities<br />

variable, For<br />

more information, please<br />

contact margo@darcheinoamglenbrook.org<br />

or (224)<br />

306-9364.<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 />

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Damon F. Evenstad<br />

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died Dec. 29.<br />

He is survived by his<br />

wife of 62 years, Joan La-<br />

Mair, sons Philip, Steven<br />

and Harry, his twin brother<br />

Ramon (Mary); brother<br />

Paul (Virginia); and sister<br />

Sonia. Sister-in-law Barbara<br />

LaMair, nieces Robin<br />

and Amy, and nephew<br />

John.<br />

Beverly R. Wartinbee<br />

Beverly R. Wartinbee,<br />

nee Dempsey, 90, of<br />

Northbrook, died.<br />

She was the wife of the<br />

late John R. Wartinbee;<br />

mother of Ron, Tim, Beth<br />

and the late Julie Wartinbee;<br />

sister of Barry, Max<br />

and Bruce Dempsey, Andrea<br />

Cook and the late<br />

Dean Dempsey. Services<br />

and interment will be<br />

private. In lieu of flowers,<br />

memorials may be<br />

made to Village Presbyterian<br />

Church, attn: Library<br />

Committee, 1300 Shermer<br />

Road, Northbrook, IL,<br />

60062.<br />

Robert A. Coe<br />

Robert Alan Coe, 81, of<br />

Northbrook, died.<br />

He was the beloved and<br />

adored husband of Roberta<br />

Coe; loving father of Mark<br />

(Shari) Coe, Chad (Jill)<br />

Coe and Jamie Coe; cherished<br />

grandfather of Justin,<br />

Geoffrey, Breana (fiancé<br />

Jay), Jordan and Zachary<br />

Coe, Taylor, Brendan,<br />

Ashley and Alec Wise,<br />

friend Zulie; dear brother<br />

of Barbara (Gerald) Saperstein<br />

and brother-in-law<br />

of Randye (Steve) Martin;<br />

favorite uncle of Mindy,<br />

Cary (Michelle) and Meredith;<br />

caring step-father of<br />

Jeff, Howard (Ali) and Ed<br />

Wise; step-grandfather of<br />

Jesse, Brandon and Nicholas;<br />

step-great grandfather<br />

to Luna;<br />

In lieu of flowers, donations<br />

may be made to Keshet<br />

at www. keshet.org.<br />

Rosemary Johnsen<br />

Rosemary Johnsen, 92,<br />

of Northbrook, died Jan. 8.<br />

She was born on Oct.<br />

29, 1926, in Decatur, the<br />

daughter of William Jennings<br />

and Gladys Reagan<br />

(Burley) Heer. Johnsen<br />

married Aleck Johnsen on<br />

June 14, 1947, in Decatur.<br />

She was a member of<br />

Trinity Lutheran Church<br />

where she was a member<br />

of the choir, altar guild,<br />

and active in many other<br />

organizations in the<br />

church. Johnsen worked<br />

in the World War II War<br />

effort followed by Illinois<br />

Bell as a telephone operator<br />

in Decatur, Champaign<br />

and Rockford. She was<br />

involved in many community<br />

leadership activities<br />

including P.T.A., Jaycees,<br />

Jenny Lynn, Cornucopia<br />

Food Panty, League of<br />

Women Voters and political<br />

interests.<br />

Survivors include her<br />

loving spouse, Aleck; children,<br />

David (Amalia), Steven<br />

(Kathryn), and Frances<br />

(Mark) Gasbarra; son-inlaw,<br />

Dieter Jedan; grandchildren,<br />

Nicole (Jason),<br />

Noelle (Brian), Heather<br />

(Caleb), Aleck (Cara),<br />

Dean, Mark (Elaina), Megan<br />

(Ryan), Craig, Allison<br />

(Paul), Benjamin, Joshua,<br />

and William; great-grandchildren,<br />

Jacob, Kate, Sarah,<br />

Lane, Lauren, Lillian,<br />

Bay, Luke, Aaron, Lorelei,<br />

Adelein, Zachary, Pierce,<br />

Brooks, and Rose Marie;<br />

brother, Bill E. Heer; and<br />

many cherished nieces,<br />

nephews and close friends,<br />

all of whom filled her life<br />

with love and adventure.<br />

Predeceased by daughter,<br />

Nancy; sister, Barbara<br />

(James) McNaught; and<br />

sister-in-law, Eileen Heer<br />

and other cherished family<br />

members.<br />

Private family services<br />

will be held.<br />

In lieu of flowers, memorials<br />

may be made to<br />

Trinity Lutheran Church,<br />

200 N. First St., Rockford,<br />

IL 61104. To share a memory<br />

or send an online condolence,<br />

visit olsonfh.com.<br />

Have someone’s life you’d<br />

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who was part of the Northbrook<br />

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GBN’s Casey takes second place in Walgreens ‘Expressions Challenge’<br />

Submitted Content<br />

Walgreens rolled out<br />

the red carpet for high<br />

school students from<br />

across Chicagoland who<br />

were honored for using<br />

their talents in creative<br />

writing, visual arts and<br />

multimedia to voice their<br />

perspectives on challenges<br />

that impact teens<br />

as part of the 2018 Walgreens<br />

Expressions Challenge.<br />

Finalist Cam Casey,<br />

a senior at Glenbrook<br />

North High School, received<br />

second-place<br />

honors in the Media Arts<br />

category for his video<br />

“Falling.”<br />

Casey received an<br />

award plaque and a<br />

$1,250 cash prize. Teachers<br />

and schools also<br />

were honored with cash<br />

awards for their participation<br />

in and dedication<br />

to the competition, and<br />

for supporting the teens’<br />

involvement.<br />

From Oct. 1 through<br />

Nov. 30, more than 3,000<br />

teens submitted entries<br />

expressing their perspective<br />

on topics that affect<br />

their peer group while<br />

attempting to help other<br />

teens make healthy decisions<br />

for their future.<br />

The Expressions<br />

awards ceremony, which<br />

celebrated the teens and<br />

their creativity, took<br />

place on Jan. 10, at the<br />

Museum of Contemporary<br />

Art in Chicago.<br />

The spirited ceremony<br />

was hosted by news reporter<br />

Leah Hope, WLS-<br />

TV. Walgreens executives<br />

gave remarks of praise to<br />

the aspiring students and<br />

Cameron Logan delivered<br />

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The Walgreens Expressions<br />

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The Challenge motivates<br />

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opinion on critical life issues<br />

they face daily.<br />

To learn more about the<br />

challenge and to view the<br />

student submissions, visit<br />

www.ExpressionsChallenge.com.<br />

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■7:30 ■ p.m. every<br />

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Quintet featuring Jim<br />

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(847) 432-0301)<br />

■7 ■ p.m. every Monday:<br />

Trivia<br />

HIGHLAND PARK<br />

Bennett Gordon Hall<br />

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Grandpa’s Place still growing after 122 years<br />

Jason Addy<br />

Contributing Editor<br />

When the Middletons<br />

purchased Grandpa’s Place<br />

in 2003, the family immediately<br />

got down to work<br />

modernizing the 106-yearold<br />

fixture of Glenview’s<br />

culinary scene.<br />

They updated the original<br />

bar area, redid the<br />

walls, added modern<br />

touches and built a small<br />

parlor inside to open up<br />

some elbow room and<br />

create a space to host live<br />

music, said Rory Middleton,<br />

who runs day-to-day<br />

operations at Grandpa’s<br />

with his brother, Kevin, on<br />

behalf of the family.<br />

Middleton said his family<br />

first started looking into<br />

purchasing the property at<br />

1868 Prairie St. around<br />

the turn of the century,<br />

“but the original owner<br />

wouldn’t sell it without the<br />

business,” which started<br />

as Lang’s before becoming<br />

Grandpa Rugen’s and<br />

finally Grandpa’s once the<br />

Dwyer family moved in<br />

nearly 50 years ago.<br />

A decade after taking<br />

over from the Dwyers, the<br />

Middletons completed a<br />

major expansion project at<br />

Grandpa’s, adding a downstairs<br />

room for live music<br />

and private catering, converting<br />

what was once an<br />

off-track betting room and<br />

apartments into an upscale<br />

space to host corporate and<br />

family events, and opening<br />

a patio and second-floor<br />

terrace for patrons to enjoy<br />

in the milder months.<br />

Though Grandpa’s had<br />

more than a century of<br />

success under its belt by<br />

that point, the expansion is<br />

breathing new life into the<br />

restaurant and bar by giving<br />

it a unique “something<br />

old, something new vibe,”<br />

Middleton said.<br />

GRANDPA’S PLACE<br />

1868 Prairie St., Glenview<br />

(847) 724-1390<br />

grandpasplace.com<br />

11 a.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Saturday<br />

11 a.m.-midnight<br />

Sunday<br />

“We wanted it to be a<br />

place where your parents<br />

can go and remember their<br />

time when they were your<br />

age at this bar — because<br />

it’s that old, it has that<br />

much history — but at<br />

the same time make new<br />

memories for the new generation<br />

of people that are<br />

coming in to continue that<br />

legacy,” Middleton said.<br />

Though the Middletons<br />

have drastically revamped<br />

the establishment that first<br />

opened in the late 1890s,<br />

they’ve been careful not<br />

to change the tried-andtrue<br />

recipe for success too<br />

much.<br />

Grandpa’s menu “has<br />

grown with age,” Middleton<br />

said, with the menu<br />

featuring bar-food staples<br />

like burgers, sandwiches<br />

and wings, as well as some<br />

newer dishes like chicken<br />

kabobs and calamari.<br />

“It’s always a matter of<br />

keeping it local, keeping<br />

that sense of history, while<br />

always keeping it relevant,”<br />

Middleton said, noting<br />

Grandpa’s gets much<br />

of its ingredients from local<br />

shops and producers<br />

like Reagan Meats and<br />

Harrison’s Poultry Farm in<br />

Glenview, Gonnella Baking<br />

Company in Schaumburg<br />

and Harrington’s Catering<br />

and Deli in Chicago.<br />

A group of 22nd Century<br />

Media editors stopped<br />

by Grandpa’s last week to<br />

try out some classics and a<br />

few “sleeper” dishes flying<br />

The Grandpa Burger ($11.90) is a half-pound burger served on a toasted bun with a choice of traditional toppings.<br />

Photos by Michal Dwojak/22nd Century Media<br />

The Reuben ($12.95) sandwich is tender corned beef<br />

served with homemade Thousand Island dressing,<br />

sauerkraut and melted Swiss cheese on rye bread.<br />

a bit under the radar.<br />

After a tour of Grandpa’s<br />

many versatile spaces,<br />

we tried calamari ($13.95<br />

for full serving), a dish<br />

Middleton said people always<br />

order again after trying<br />

it once.<br />

“(The calamari) is better<br />

than it has any right to be,”<br />

Middleton joked, adding<br />

many of the restaurant’s<br />

recipes are something of<br />

a mystery as they’ve been<br />

handed down across the<br />

generations.<br />

The simple appetizer<br />

dish of lightly breaded<br />

squid is served with cocktail<br />

sauce and lemons to<br />

add a little zest.<br />

Next, we sampled the<br />

The chicken kabobs ($15.95) is grilled chicken served<br />

on a skewer with tomato, onion and peppers atop a rice<br />

pilaf with Grandpa’s homemade peanut dressing on the<br />

side.<br />

classic Grandpa Burger<br />

($11.90), a half-pound<br />

burger served with Merkts<br />

cheddar cheese and traditional<br />

toppings on a toasted<br />

bun, with a side of fries.<br />

Grandpa’s Reuben sandwich<br />

($12.95) pairs Harrington’s<br />

corned beef with<br />

homemade Thousand Island<br />

dressing, sauerkraut<br />

and Swiss cheese on rye<br />

bread.<br />

To cap off the meal, we<br />

tried Grandpa’s chicken<br />

kabobs, featuring two footlong<br />

skewers loaded with<br />

grilled chicken, onions,<br />

peppers and tomatoes over<br />

a bed of rice pilaf with a<br />

homemade peanut dressing<br />

on the side.


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Athlete of the Week<br />

10 Questions<br />

with Lucie Abbott<br />

Abbott is a leader on the<br />

Glenbrook North girls<br />

swimming and diving and<br />

gymnastics teams.<br />

When and why did<br />

you start gymnastics?<br />

I started when I was<br />

pretty young. I did some<br />

Mommy and Me classes<br />

and continued on. Ever<br />

since I was on pre-teen, I<br />

fell in love with the sport.<br />

What do you like most<br />

about the sport?<br />

The team is really close<br />

and it’s nice to have such<br />

close friends.<br />

This Week In ...<br />

SPARTANS Varsity Athletics<br />

BOYS BASKETBALL<br />

■Jan. ■ 25 - hosts Vernon Hills,<br />

7:30 p.m.<br />

■Jan. ■ 26 - hosts Mather, 4:30 p.m.<br />

■Jan. ■ 29 - at Palatine, 7:30 p.m.<br />

GIRLS BASKETBALL<br />

■Jan. ■ 25 - hosts Vernon Hills, 6 p.m.<br />

BOYS SWIMMING AND DIVING<br />

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

GIRLS BOWLING<br />

■Jan. ■ 26 - at CSL Conference, 9 a.m.<br />

BOYS BOWLING<br />

■Jan. ■ 25 - at IHSA State, TBA<br />

■Jan. ■ 26 - at IHSA State, TBA<br />

GIRLS GYMNASTICS<br />

■Jan. ■ 25 - at CSL Conference, 6 p.m.<br />

BOYS HOCKEY<br />

■Jan. ■ 26 - at Loyola Gold, 6:10 p.m.<br />

■Jan. ■ 27 - hosts York, 4:45 p.m.<br />

■Jan. ■ 30 - hosts Loyola Gold, 7:25 p.m.<br />

Do you have any<br />

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routine?<br />

On beam, I always have<br />

to picture myself doing<br />

every skill before I get up<br />

there.<br />

What is your favorite<br />

sports moment?<br />

Conference 2018 for<br />

gymnastics. It was junior<br />

varsity and varsity both<br />

combined and after every<br />

routine, we would go hug<br />

each other and we were<br />

having so much fun.<br />

What is one thing<br />

people don’t know<br />

about you?<br />

Sometimes I get really<br />

frustrated if I’m not getting<br />

the score I want or being<br />

as consistent as I’d like<br />

to. I get down on myself.<br />

What would you do if<br />

you won the lottery?<br />

I would donate some of<br />

it to some sort of charity<br />

and then the rest of it for<br />

my family because how<br />

much I love them.<br />

If you could be any<br />

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want?<br />

I would want to be able<br />

to turn off gravity.<br />

If you could play any<br />

other sport, what<br />

sport would it be?<br />

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I always thought soccer<br />

was really cool. I was<br />

never really good at it.<br />

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If you could be any<br />

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Shots of the week<br />

Choosing the best Spartans photos<br />

The Varsity: North<br />

Shore Podcast<br />

Guys recap<br />

wrestling,<br />

preview<br />

gymnastics<br />

Staff Report<br />

Glenbrook North wrestler Nico Jung competes at the Central Suburban League<br />

conference meet on Saturday, Jan. 19, in Winnetka. Photos by Gary Larsen/22nd<br />

Century Media<br />

Curling<br />

Northbrook girls take 2nd at regional competition<br />

Submitted by Exmoor<br />

Country Club<br />

Exmoor Country Club’s<br />

esteemed curling program<br />

has a group of rising curling<br />

stars who displayed<br />

their talents in the Midwest<br />

Curling Association<br />

Regional Playdowns Dec.<br />

27 at Exmoor.<br />

The winning boys team<br />

featured Max Kassner, Nick<br />

Schallmo, Koen Brown and<br />

William Ortell, while the<br />

runner-up girls team consisted<br />

of Audrey Zimmerman,<br />

Faith Geake, both of<br />

Northbrook, Audrey Gottschild<br />

and Kasha Kassner.<br />

The boys team advanced<br />

to the 2019 U18 National<br />

Championships March 12-<br />

17 at Chaska Curling Center<br />

in Minnesota.<br />

To determine who would<br />

represent the Midwest<br />

Curling Association at<br />

nationals, teams played a<br />

round robin (8 end games)<br />

tournament.<br />

In the first draw, the Exmoor<br />

boys won 9-0 against<br />

the Waltham boys team.<br />

Teams from St. Louis<br />

Curling Club and Exmoor<br />

Country Club curled<br />

against each other in the<br />

next draw, with both the<br />

girls (10-4) and boys (16-<br />

2) claiming victory.<br />

At the end of the playdown,<br />

after finishing<br />

2-0, the girls team from<br />

Waltham Curling Club and<br />

boys team from Exmoor<br />

Country Club secured their<br />

spots at the U18 National<br />

Championships.<br />

Established in 2017 by<br />

the USCA, the U18 National<br />

Championships was<br />

created as a regional curling<br />

competition for individuals<br />

younger than 18<br />

years old. Twelve girls and<br />

12 boys teams will compete<br />

in March.<br />

Joe Cho competes at the meet.<br />

Anthony Sherman looks on during a match.<br />

The girls team from Exmoor — (left to right) Faith<br />

Geake, Kasha Kassner, Audrey Gottschild and Audrey<br />

Zimmerman — finished second at the regional. Photo<br />

Submitted<br />

In this week’s episode of<br />

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on North Shore sports,<br />

hosts Michal Dwojak and<br />

Michael Wojtychiw recap<br />

Central Suburban League<br />

wrestling, hear from a<br />

Glenbrook South wrestler,<br />

play Way/No Way with<br />

wrestling and preview postseason<br />

girls gymnastics.<br />

First Quarter<br />

Dwojak and Wojtychiw<br />

recap CSL wrestling with<br />

area teams fighting to become<br />

known as the area’s<br />

best team.<br />

Second Quarter<br />

The guys hear from a<br />

Glenbrook South wrestler<br />

after competing at the conference<br />

meet.<br />

Third Quarter<br />

With the postseason on<br />

hand for area teams, Wojtychiw<br />

plays Way/No Way<br />

with how they will do in<br />

the IHSA playoffs.<br />

Fourth Quarter<br />

To finish things off, the<br />

guys preview the conference<br />

invite for area girls<br />

gymnastics teams and preview<br />

some regionals.<br />

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From the Sports Editor<br />

Appreciate Northbrook’s winter jewel<br />

Michal Dwojak<br />

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

It feels like some<br />

things get lost in the<br />

shuffle during the<br />

winter.<br />

I mean, I don’t blame<br />

many people that things<br />

do get lost during the<br />

most unbearable time of<br />

the year, but still, this is<br />

some really impressive<br />

stuff we’re talking about<br />

over here.<br />

What am I talking<br />

about?<br />

Winter sports.<br />

I’m talking beyond basketball<br />

and hockey. Yes I<br />

know when people think<br />

about winter sports, those<br />

two can warm your heart<br />

more than a day during<br />

the summer at a baseball<br />

game. There’s nothing<br />

more electric for me than<br />

a packed high school gym<br />

or an ice rink in a highstakes<br />

game. The energy<br />

is enough to last you a<br />

lifetime.<br />

But I’m not writing<br />

about those winter sports.<br />

I’m not even writing<br />

about the great wrestling,<br />

girls gymnastics, boys<br />

swimming and boys and<br />

girls bowling programs<br />

Glenbrook North can<br />

boast about. If you<br />

haven’t noticed the last<br />

two weeks, figure skating<br />

has stolen The Tower’s<br />

sports cover. Each story<br />

was spotlighted by impressive,<br />

young athletes<br />

who are competing at the<br />

national figure skating<br />

competition.<br />

While I was familiar<br />

with the North Shore<br />

sports scene as a high<br />

school student, I knew<br />

the basics. I knew about<br />

Jon Scheyer and Chris<br />

Collins. I knew Loyola<br />

Academy football was<br />

dominant. But I didn’t<br />

know about the elite<br />

winter sports, especially<br />

in Northbrook.<br />

Last year, I learned<br />

about the Northbrook<br />

Park District’s Speed<br />

Skating club, its rich history<br />

and the contributions<br />

it made to the United<br />

States national speed<br />

skating teams. I wrote<br />

stories about area Olympians<br />

who trained and<br />

had connections to that<br />

club, while also exploring<br />

more into the different<br />

winter sports that I knew<br />

nothing about.<br />

While many of you<br />

probably knew this, I<br />

learned that Northbrook<br />

is quite the winter city.<br />

With the success of<br />

basketball and hockey,<br />

Northbrook offers a lot<br />

of talent when it comes<br />

to competing on the ice.<br />

Who knows, maybe these<br />

young skaters we recently<br />

learned about will go to<br />

represent Northbrook<br />

around the world — dare<br />

I say Olympic Games?<br />

So what’s the point of<br />

me writing about something<br />

that some of you<br />

already know about?<br />

Well, it’s quite simple.<br />

It’s time to appreciate<br />

the forgotten winter<br />

sports. Figure skating<br />

Northbrook resident Abby Slovin is on of the great<br />

skaters to come from the town. 22nd Century Media File<br />

Photos<br />

doesn’t stop when the<br />

Olympics aren’t on your<br />

televisions every four<br />

years. I’m not telling you<br />

to become a diehard when<br />

it comes to skating, but it<br />

wouldn’t hurt to venture<br />

out to that same ice rink<br />

you saw the epic hockey<br />

game to go see a competition<br />

of the best figure<br />

skaters in the area.<br />

Heck, why not try it<br />

yourself? I’m not telling<br />

you to start doing flips<br />

and spins and end up in<br />

the hospital, which would<br />

likely happen to me if I<br />

Joe Klein is currently competing at the figure skating<br />

nationals.<br />

attempted a figure skating<br />

career, but get out there<br />

and skate. There are a lot<br />

of fun rinks in the area<br />

and why not become a<br />

part of the rich tradition<br />

of Northbrook?<br />

This isn’t a column<br />

meant to down the other<br />

winter sports; they’re all<br />

great and deserve your<br />

support. But don’t forget<br />

about the sports that<br />

Northbrook has made a<br />

major impact on throughout<br />

their histories. Why<br />

not become a part of the<br />

strong tradition?<br />

Don’t let it get lost in<br />

the shuffle.


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Athlete of the Year 2018<br />

Tower readers to vote for favorite Spartans<br />

Online contest<br />

begins Saturday,<br />

Jan. 26<br />

Michael Wojtychiw<br />

Contributing Sports Editor<br />

Despite the fact the calendar<br />

year has now turned<br />

to 2019, 2018 still has a<br />

little bit missing from it.<br />

On fields of play all<br />

over the North Shore last<br />

year, student-athletes<br />

soared to new heights,<br />

and in many cases, took<br />

their team along for the<br />

ride. 22nd Century Media<br />

was following the action<br />

with its seven North Shore<br />

publications and websites,<br />

documenting the moments<br />

of glory as well as<br />

the agony of defeat.<br />

Along the way, every<br />

week, papers like our<br />

Northbrook Tower selected<br />

and interviewed a worthy<br />

Athlete of the Week.<br />

At the end of the month,<br />

all Athletes of the Week<br />

from the seven newspapers<br />

were pitted against<br />

one another in the popular<br />

Athlete of the Month<br />

competition, for which<br />

residents decide the result<br />

by voting for their favorite<br />

athlete online.<br />

At year’s end, there are<br />

12 winners, and we’re not<br />

done just yet. Those 12<br />

winners — along with six<br />

at-large contenders selected<br />

by 22CM staffers —<br />

are about to vie for the ultimate<br />

title: 22nd Century<br />

Media Athlete of the Year.<br />

The Athlete of the Year<br />

competition is a two-week<br />

online voting contest that<br />

began at noon Saturday,<br />

Jan. 26, at Northbrook-<br />

Tower.com, as well as<br />

the company’s six other<br />

North Shore websites.<br />

Fans can vote daily for<br />

their favorite student-athlete<br />

until 5 p.m. on Feb. 9.<br />

To avoid voting spam and<br />

abuse, we have restricted<br />

the votes to one per IP<br />

address per day with a<br />

special feature to ensure<br />

votes are being made by<br />

humans. If votes are proven<br />

illegitimate, they will<br />

be discarded and the beneficiary<br />

of the fraudulent<br />

votes may be disqualified.<br />

A winner will be announced<br />

in the Feb. 14 issue<br />

of The Tower.<br />

The Athlete of the Year<br />

2018 Nominees are:<br />

• January winner: Morgan<br />

Paull, Glenbrook<br />

North girls basketball<br />

• February winner:<br />

Tommy Barr, Loyola<br />

Academy boys swimming<br />

• March winner: Hugh<br />

Brady, Loyola boys hockey<br />

• April winner: Drake<br />

Johnson, Loyola boys volleyball<br />

• May winner: Victoria<br />

Nagle, Glenbrook North<br />

softball<br />

• June winner: Isaac<br />

Weinberg, Glenbrook<br />

North baseball<br />

• July winner: Dylan<br />

Garvey, Glenbrook South<br />

boys lacrosse<br />

• August winner: Alex<br />

Arenson, North Shore<br />

Country Day School girls<br />

tennis<br />

• September winner:<br />

Carly Harris, Glenbrook<br />

North girls cross-country<br />

• October winner: Emsela<br />

Orucevic, Glenbrook<br />

South girls swimming and<br />

diving<br />

• November winner: Ellie<br />

Finnigan, New Trier<br />

girls cross-country<br />

22nd Century Media<br />

Athlete of the Year<br />

When: Saturday, Jan.<br />

26, through Saturday,<br />

Feb. 9 (two weeks)<br />

Where: Wilmette-<br />

Beacon.com, WinnetkaCurrent.com,<br />

GlenviewLantern.com,<br />

NorthbrookTower.com,<br />

LakeForestLeader.com,<br />

HPLandmark.com and<br />

GlencoeAnchor.com<br />

Who: Eighteen North<br />

Shore student-athletes<br />

(12 Athletes of Month,<br />

6 at-large contenders)<br />

• December winner:<br />

TBA online<br />

• At-large: Jimmy Mc-<br />

Mahon, Glenbrook South<br />

boys soccer<br />

• At-large: Nicole Kaspi,<br />

New Trier girls soccer<br />

• At-large: Jake Gonzalez,<br />

Loyola Academy<br />

football<br />

• At-large: Natalie<br />

Sandlow, Glenbrook<br />

North girls cross-country<br />

• At-Large: Tom Motzko,<br />

Highland Park football<br />

• At-Large: Halle Douglass,<br />

Lake Forest girls<br />

basketball<br />

Isaac Weinberg won the honor in June.<br />

Glenbrook North girls basketball alumnus Morgan Paull won 22nd Century Media’s<br />

Athlete of the Month contest in January. 22nd century media file photos<br />

Spartans softball player Victoria Nagle won the contest in May.<br />

Spartans cross-country runner Carly Harris won the<br />

contest in September.


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Boys Bowling<br />

Spartans heading<br />

back to state meet<br />

Chris Walker<br />

Freelance Reporter<br />

Ryan Torf didn’t think<br />

he was going to bowl for<br />

Glenbrook North during<br />

at the Hinsdale South sectional<br />

at Brunswick Zone<br />

Woodridge Lanes on Saturday,<br />

Jan. 19..<br />

But the sophomore got<br />

his name called for the<br />

sixth and final game and<br />

he delivered big-time,<br />

firing a 227, the team’s<br />

third-highest score of the<br />

day and enough to lift the<br />

Spartans to sixth place and<br />

qualify to the state finals<br />

on Jan. 25-26 at St. Clair<br />

Bowl in O’Fallon.<br />

“Everyone was doing<br />

well the entire tournament<br />

so I didn’t think I<br />

was going in,” Torf said.<br />

“(Coach Todd) Rubin said<br />

he thought I should go in<br />

and I think I bowled my<br />

best game in a while. It<br />

was very cool.”<br />

GBN may have only<br />

been eight pins off the pace<br />

of fifth-place Notre Dame,<br />

but Lyons was the team to<br />

worry about most in the<br />

end. Only the six teams<br />

with the highest pin count<br />

for both rounds in the sectional<br />

advance to the state<br />

tournament. Situated in<br />

sixth place, that meant the<br />

Spartans had a date at state<br />

for the third consecutive<br />

year. For Lyons, it meant<br />

it was time to turn allow<br />

their bowling shoes to go<br />

into hibernation.<br />

Even with Torf’s strong<br />

game, the Spartans still<br />

only outlasted Lyons by<br />

89 pins. Lyons actually<br />

gained 295 pins on GBN<br />

over the course of the final<br />

three games, but it still<br />

wasn’t enough to catch<br />

them.<br />

“I was beginning to get<br />

afraid that we wouldn’t<br />

make it,” senior Jared Kuper<br />

said. “Our coach says<br />

there’s no defense in bowling<br />

so with one game left<br />

I told my teammates that<br />

this could be the end so we<br />

have to bowl the best game<br />

we possible can. It was<br />

good enough and one of<br />

our subs (Torf), who didn’t<br />

bowl the entire day, had a<br />

227 and brought so much<br />

energy to the team.”<br />

Getting to state again<br />

was far from a given with<br />

this group.<br />

“We lost some seniors<br />

so it was supposed to be<br />

a down year, but we had<br />

some guys come in and fill<br />

those spots,” Kuper said.<br />

“We saw the scores from<br />

regionals so we felt like we<br />

had a good shot of making<br />

it again but then the lanes<br />

dried up and it was tough<br />

to pick up spares toward<br />

the end of the day. So we<br />

had to battle through some<br />

adversity to get to state<br />

again.”<br />

Kuper led the Spartans<br />

with 1,215 pins and was<br />

followed by Logan Cohn<br />

(1,168) and Jacob Paterkiewicz<br />

(1,150) as the<br />

team’s only three kids to<br />

compete in all six games.<br />

Tibor Klein bowled in the<br />

first five and had a high of<br />

211 in Game 4 but slipped<br />

to a 146 in Game 5. Robbie<br />

Weiland also appeared<br />

in three games, concluding<br />

with his game of the day in<br />

Game 6 with a 202. Eliot<br />

Kang also fired in three<br />

games, averaging a 163.<br />

“I’m so glad to be able<br />

to go back for a third<br />

year,” Kuper said. “This<br />

team was a little iffy and<br />

we’ve been up and down,<br />

but I feel we’ve come together<br />

and now have another<br />

shot at it. I want to go<br />

out with a bang and we’ve<br />

never gotten to Saturday’s<br />

final before.”<br />

New Trier was more<br />

than 400 pins off the pace<br />

of Glenbrook North, placing<br />

eighth with a 5,269.<br />

The youthful Trevians<br />

didn’t bowl as well as they<br />

did in regional play as<br />

sophomores Matt Booden<br />

(1,120), Nicholas Henner<br />

(1,098) Max Blake (1,039)<br />

and Jack Eadie (964) all<br />

scored a bit lower than<br />

they did at the Glenbrook<br />

North regional in Mt.<br />

Prospect on Jan 12.<br />

Junior Christian Franke,<br />

who was new to the team<br />

this winter, competed in<br />

one less game in the sectional<br />

than he did in the<br />

regional, but his average<br />

of 176-177 was nearly<br />

identical. Michael Ritchie<br />

subbed for him in Saturday’s<br />

third game and had<br />

a 162.<br />

“We started out really<br />

strong with a 1,022 which<br />

was the best series we’ve<br />

had all season,” Booden<br />

said. “I think that gave us a<br />

lot of confidence and hope,<br />

but in the next few games<br />

we started getting tired. It<br />

happens in tournaments so<br />

that’s something we need<br />

to work on for next season,<br />

building our endurance so<br />

we can bowl consistently<br />

over 900 in tournaments.”<br />

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Saturday, Jan. 19, in Winnetka. Gary Larsen/22nd<br />

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With the postseason<br />

looming and wrestlers<br />

throughout the state aiming<br />

to peak, Glenbrook<br />

North’s Nico Jung recently<br />

added a timely title to<br />

his name: Central Suburban<br />

League champion.<br />

“It’s the first tournament<br />

I’ve won in my wrestling<br />

career and it feels great,”<br />

Jung said, after winning a<br />

CSL title at 170 pounds by<br />

pinning Niles West’s Mohammed<br />

Sami.<br />

“I really wanted to win<br />

a tournament this year and<br />

now I’m just going after<br />

it when the state series<br />

starts.”<br />

GBN placed fourth at<br />

this year’s CSL meet,<br />

hosted by New Trier, on<br />

Saturday, Jan. 19. The<br />

Spartans saw five wrestlers<br />

place third in their<br />

divisions and Jung stood<br />

tall as the Spartans’ lone<br />

champion of the day.<br />

Sami beat Jung twice<br />

last season and he led 2-0<br />

after one period in their<br />

title match.<br />

“I got taken down first<br />

and in the back of my<br />

head I thought ‘I cannot<br />

lose this match. I’ve come<br />

too far’,” Jung said. “I<br />

kept my cool and just kept<br />

wrestling and stuck to my<br />

game plan.”<br />

Jung led 3-2 on three<br />

near-fall points in the<br />

second period but trailed<br />

again 4-3 on a Sami reversal,<br />

before using a<br />

headlock to take Sami to<br />

the mat and pin him at the<br />

3:50 mark.<br />

GBN coach Jason Erwinski<br />

was happy to see<br />

Jung’s hard work pay off<br />

with a conference crown.<br />

“It’s a credit to him,”<br />

Erwinski said. “He’s dedicated<br />

himself to the sport<br />

and he’s a great role model<br />

to our younger wrestlers.”<br />

Erwinski saw five of<br />

his wrestlers win thirdplace<br />

medals, in Joe Cho<br />

(106), Eddie Kline (113),<br />

Benji Rubin (126), Kyle<br />

Williams (152) and Cam<br />

Casey (182). The Spartans<br />

also got fourths from Anthony<br />

Sherman (145) and<br />

Trent Williams (220).<br />

“Nico had a phenomenal<br />

tournament and some<br />

of our guys who took losses<br />

in the semifinal round<br />

came back and wrestled<br />

really well,” Erwinski<br />

said. “It was a great learning<br />

experience for us.<br />

“I thought the way<br />

(Rubin) came back and<br />

wrestled well in his thirdplace<br />

match was nice to<br />

see, and (Casey) lost to<br />

a tough kid in the semi’s<br />

and came back to wrestle<br />

really well.”<br />

Rubin went 4-1 in improving<br />

to 22-12 in his<br />

senior year, capping his<br />

day with a 16-5 major<br />

decision win over Maine<br />

South’s Aidan Hansen.<br />

“I definitely think I’m<br />

peaking now and this<br />

was one of my best tournaments<br />

so far,” Rubin<br />

said. “It came just in time<br />

because in two weeks<br />

we have regionals. Last<br />

year I took fifth here and<br />

I was kind of happy with<br />

that then, but I went into<br />

the tournament this year<br />

thinking that I could do<br />

well. So I’m pretty happy<br />

with this.<br />

“The team did really<br />

well and Nico looked real<br />

good today. He usually<br />

looks good but today, he<br />

was something else.”<br />

You won’t find Glenbrook<br />

South freshman<br />

Will Collins listed on either<br />

of Illinois’ top rankings<br />

lists — at Illinois<br />

Matmen or Illinois Best<br />

Weekly — but odds are<br />

Collins won’t be a secret<br />

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the northbrook tower | January 24, 2019 | 51<br />

Boys lacrosse<br />

Hake ready to run Stevenson show<br />

Michal Dwojak, Sports Editor<br />

Photo submitted<br />

1st-and-3<br />

athletes of the<br />

week<br />

1. Tom Hake (Above)<br />

The Glenbrook<br />

North alumnus is<br />

ready to take over<br />

the Stevenson<br />

boys lacrosse program<br />

as its head<br />

coach.<br />

2. GBN boys bowling<br />

North’s boys<br />

bowling team is<br />

continuing its<br />

dominance in the<br />

sport with another<br />

trip to the state<br />

meet after an impressive<br />

showing<br />

at its sectional on<br />

Saturday, Jan. 19.<br />

3. Nico Jung The<br />

Spartan wrestler<br />

became a champion<br />

when he won<br />

the 170-pound<br />

Central Suburban<br />

League title on<br />

Saturday, Jan. 19,<br />

in Winnetka.<br />

Tom Hake faced an obstacle<br />

from fulfilling one<br />

of his dreams.<br />

The Glenbrook North<br />

alumnus had graduated<br />

from college and worked<br />

at Groupon, which limited<br />

what he wanted to do.<br />

Hake played lacrosse for<br />

the Spartans and served as<br />

a volunteer assistant for<br />

GBN lacrosse who would<br />

help out when he could<br />

during the weekends.<br />

That’s when he realized<br />

he didn’t want to do that<br />

anymore.<br />

Hake left his job at<br />

Groupon and joined the<br />

Spartans staff as the junior<br />

varsity coach for<br />

three years. He left for<br />

Evanston after to become<br />

an assistant coach so he<br />

could get a different experience<br />

as the assistant<br />

coach for the varsity team.<br />

That was all before his<br />

dreams came true: he became<br />

the head coach of<br />

the Stevenson boys lacrosse<br />

varsity team this<br />

school year.<br />

“It was a really great<br />

honor to get the headcoaching<br />

position,” Hake<br />

said. “It’s been one part<br />

of my dream of being a lacrosse<br />

coach. The opportunity<br />

to work at a school<br />

like Stevenson is just icing<br />

on the cake.”<br />

Stevenson athletic director<br />

Tricia Betthauser<br />

Tom Hake<br />

knew Hake was the man<br />

for the job when the two<br />

met. According to Betthauser,<br />

lacrosse searches<br />

are different from other<br />

sports. She relied on a lot<br />

of counsel from different<br />

coaches in the area, which<br />

brought Hake to her radar.<br />

Hake had a plan when<br />

the two met, which impressed<br />

Betthauser. The<br />

Stevenson athletic director<br />

wanted to make a<br />

change with the lacrosse<br />

program, one where it<br />

would reach the same level<br />

of success and have a<br />

familiar culture the other<br />

Stevenson sports have.<br />

The program had the resources<br />

and talent to be<br />

successful, but it couldn’t<br />

meet the levels other Stevenson<br />

programs did.<br />

Hake showed he had<br />

Glenbrook North alumnus Tom Hake will take over as the Stevenson boys lacrosse<br />

head coach. Photo submitted<br />

the intensity she wanted<br />

in the program during his<br />

interview; she’s already<br />

seen the change just a<br />

week into his tenure.<br />

“It’s amazing the transformation<br />

we’ve seen in<br />

the culture of our program<br />

in such a short time,” Betthauser<br />

said.<br />

Hake has started his culture<br />

change with the offseason<br />

meetings his teams<br />

have. The team meets<br />

every Monday for to just<br />

talk about the culture of<br />

the program. The discussions<br />

are different each<br />

week, talking about the<br />

legacy they want to leave<br />

behind, about how to be a<br />

man and treat women and<br />

how to understand themselves.<br />

There are offseason<br />

workouts to do, but<br />

Hake knows the culture<br />

needs to be set before the<br />

program can start winning<br />

at a consistent level.<br />

That’s what he learned<br />

at GBN under boys head<br />

coach Justin Georgacakis.<br />

When Hake entered<br />

the Spartans program as a<br />

player, Georgacakis started<br />

building his program<br />

and there wasn’t a lot of<br />

winning. By the time Hake<br />

was a senior, the winning<br />

followed after the program’s<br />

culture was set.<br />

While Georgacakis<br />

knows Hake will set the<br />

program his own way, his<br />

perspective as a player<br />

who went through a program’s<br />

development will<br />

be beneficial as he starts<br />

his own.<br />

“He’s going to be able<br />

to put his own unique<br />

stamp on that and that’s<br />

going to earn the trust of<br />

those players and build<br />

the program that he wants<br />

to run,” Georgacakis said.<br />

And that’s what he’s<br />

dreamed of doing. Hake<br />

wants to give back to the<br />

sport that gave him so<br />

much, and he’s ready to<br />

start something new at<br />

Stevenson.<br />

“Just to be able to understand<br />

that we are the<br />

whole program, not just<br />

the varsity level,” Hake<br />

said. “It’s bigger than<br />

that.”<br />

Listen Up<br />

“ ... now I’m just going after [winning a<br />

tournament] when the state series starts.”<br />

Nico Jung — The Glenbrook North wrestler after<br />

winning a conference title.<br />

tunE in<br />

What to watch next week<br />

The Glenbrook North girls gymnastics team travels<br />

to Mundelein for the IHSA regional on Wednesday,<br />

Jan. 30.<br />

• 6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Carmel<br />

Index<br />

48 - Athlete of the Year<br />

47 - From the Sports Editor<br />

Fastbreak is compiled by The Tower’s staff. Send comments to<br />

m.dwojak@22ndcenturymedia.com.


The Northbrook Tower | January 24, 2019 | NorthbrookTower.com<br />

Creating his own<br />

Spartans alumnus becomes coach, Page 51<br />

Moving on North bowling moves<br />

on after strong sectional meet, Page 49<br />

Glenbrook North<br />

wrestler Nico<br />

Jung looks on<br />

after winning the<br />

170-pound Central<br />

Suburban League<br />

championship<br />

on Saturday, Jan.<br />

19, in Winnetka.<br />

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Glenbrook North’s Jung wins<br />

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