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Inaugural Healthy Living Expo
and 5K promotes wellness
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Eric DeGrechie
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Staying healthy is a
challenge we all face. Increased
workloads and
family responsibilities are
factors for many as Americans
too often put their
own personal wellness on
the back burner.
For those looking
for ideas and information
on how to improve
their health, the inaugural
Healthy Living Expo
promises to provide the
perfect setting to meet all
your wellness needs. Dozens
of health and wellness
vendors will be part of
this exciting new health
fair Sunday, Aug. 25, at
Northbrook Court, 1515
Lake Cook Road.
THE WILMETTE BEACON
Wilmette’s Herguth carved
own niche during storied
journalism career
A golden era of Chicago
newspaper journalism
can arguably be said
to have occurred from the
mid-1950s into the 1980s,
when the internet began to
undermine the printed daily
newspaper business model.
Armed with a combination
of grand wordsmiths,
street-smart columnists,
relentless investigators,
old pros who could rewrite
Bible chapters in an hour if
asked, the occasional scallywag,
and lots of shoe
leather, the Chicago Sun-
Times, Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Today and Chicago
Daily News slugged it
out day by day, deadline by
deadline, to beat the competition,
and in the process
grab readers’ attention.
“We have done this
event the past three years
in our Southwest suburban
area and have had really
great success,” said
Heather Warthen, chief
events officer of organizer
22nd Century Media, publisher
of The Northbrook
Tower. “We were looking
to bring a new event
that was health-focused to
the North Shore so it just
made sense.”
For those so inclined, a
chance to run a 5K is also
in the mix Aug. 25. The
5K and expo begin at 8:30
a.m. with the latter running
until 1 p.m. In addition
to the 5K, there will
be a Kids 50-Yard Dash.
Walkers are also encouraged
to take part in the
festivities.
In the midst of that colorful
journalistic maelstrom
stood Bob Herguth,
who during his tenure at
the Chicago Daily News
from 1955 to 1978 and the
Chicago Sun-Times from
1979 to 1999 carved out
a kinder, gentler, eternally
optimistic style and niche
uniquely his own.
A few, but not many of
the longtime Wilmette resident’s
old colleagues and
friends at the Daily News
and Sun-Times still click
the keyboard for a living.
One of them is nationally
respected Sun-Times
obituary writer Maureen
O’Donnell, who upon Herguth’s
death on May 22,
2019 at age 93 summarized
his professional life
this way.
“Chicago journalism
is famous for bulldog reporters
who rake muck for
Health and wellness
vendors will be set up
for consultation post-race
with family-friendly activities
abound. Chicago
Sky Kids Zone will have a
variety things for children
to do at the all-ages event.
“While our south event
is held in January, we
thought the end of the August
would be a perfect
time with families getting
ready for the new school
year,” Warthen said.
Registration for the 5K
is $35 and includes a race
T-shirt. Registration deadline
is Aug. 9. People can
register for the 5K by visiting
22ndCenturyMedia.
com/5K. For more information
on the expo itself,
visit 22ndCenturyMedia.
com/health.
the public good. Robert
J. Herguth had a different
approach. His gentle demeanor
and lighthearted,
pun-filled way of viewing
the world made interview
subjects open up to him.”
Reporting by Alan P. Henry,
Freelance Reporter. Full
story at WilmetteBeacon.
com.
THE LAKE FOREST LEADER
Fire department rescues
woman from roof of
burning home in Lake
Forest
A female homeowner
was found on the roof of
her burning home in Lake
Forest in the early morning
hours on Friday, May
31, according to a press release
from the Lake Forest
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