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4 | August 15, 2019 | the homer horizon news homerhorizon.com From Aug. 12 Man dies after crashing into tree, culvert in Homer Glen Thomas Czaja, Editor A Lockport man died Saturday, Aug. 10, from injuries he sustained when the vehicle he was driving crashed into a tree and culvert in Homer Glen, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office. Anthony Kladis, 53, crashed by the intersection of 138th Street and Lemont Road, according to a press release issued by the Coroner’s Office. He was pronounced dead at 3:40 p.m. at the Silver Cross Hospital emergency room. An autopsy performed Sunday, Aug. 11, showed preliminary indications that Klaudis sustained multiple injuries from the crash, according to the press release. The final cause and manner of death is to be determined pending police, autopsy and toxicological reports. The Will County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the crash and did not immediately return a request for comment. For more on this and other Breaking News, visit Homer Horizon.com. visit us online at www.Homer Horizon.com Area Young Rembrandts owner receives national award Butler School among those who offer art program Sean Hastings Contributing Editor Tess Gutkowski, of Mokena, was introduced to Young Rembrandts when her daughter Allie — who is now in eighth grade — was in kindergarten. “I signed her up and after the first two classes — I knew my daughter could draw well for a kindergartner, but she came home with a scarecrow, and I actually went to the teacher and asked her, ‘This is great. Allie colored the picture you drew for her beautifully, when are you going to teach her to draw?’ And the teacher at the time said, ‘Your daughter drew this,’” Gutkowski said. The next semester came around, and they needed a mom helper, so she volunteered. She thought she was just going to be an instructor, but instead she bought her own territory in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. The seven schools the branch partners with are Haines Elementary, Nelson Prairie, Nelson Ridge, Oster-Oakview, Spencer Pointe, Spencer Trail Kindergarten Center and Tyler School. The branch also partners with Mokena Elementary School and Mokena Intermediate School in Mokena; Grand Prairie Elementary and Chelsea Intermediate School in Frankfort; Butler School in Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C; and St. Joseph School in Lockport. Along with owning the branch, Gutkowski also teaches two classes per week. Posing for a photo are (left to right) OJ Reynolds, area representative in Scottsdale, Arizona; founder of Young Rembrandts, Bette Fetter; and Tess Gutkowski. Gutkowski and Reynolds both were honored with the 1,500 Student Award at the groups’ conference on July 25 at the Embassy Suites in Rosemont. Photo submitted And it is the dedication from her and her teachers in all the schools that helped her earn the 1,500 Student Award, which is given to branch owners during a conference on July 25 at the Embassy Suites in Rosemont for averaging 1,500 students per week for the entire school year. “It’s an honor,” she said. “It’s not just my honor. It’s my staff. The teachers I have that are on my team. It’s what they bring to the classroom that helped us retain that 1,500 students a week number. We want to share art with as many kids as we can. “We call it the After School Drawing Club in my schools. They want to be a part of something. Where maybe they’re not sporty, art and drawing is the next best thing to make them feel they are a part of a community.” Gutkowski is now living out her dream of being an art instructor, even though that is not what she went to school for because she was talked out of that idea when she was younger. She was told she needed to go into corporate America, so she spent 18 years working in an office. She said she loved her job and the people she worked with but is now doing exactly what she always wanted. Gutkowski is now letting the students in the program know that art can be a career. “I think the schools today are recognizing how important the arts are,” Gutkowski. “We think schools, the first thing they cut out of their budget is the art or music class. They focus on math, reading, history, which I’m not saying aren’t important, but these kids miss out on a world of a different opportunity. Art can become a career someday. I wish more and more schools would bring it back.” She added they are the perfect partner for schools that already have strong art programs because they can focus on different things and are also a perfect partner for the schools that do not have an art program. She does that because she remembers when she was in seventh grade and had a teacher who made her fall in love with art and allowed her to see it as a possible career. A semester-long project, which required the students to design their own album cover, is what let her and her classmates be creative and show their personality. She called her band “The Fantastics,” and it had big bubble letters and was “so [19]70s,” she joked. It was her first time that she was not “pinned down” to a certain way a piece had to be done. “That is what Young Rembrandts is about,” Gutkowski said. “Of course we have a curriculum that we are following. We are helping children to see a picture and break it down into manageable shapes for them. We work on the same drawing as a team, and that changes from week to week, but we’re really trying to get them to think about the right [side of the] brain.” The students spend 30 minutes following instructions, but for the next 30 minutes are able to add their personality into the painting without taking away from the art they did. Gutkowski is partnered with 94 schools right now and is eyeing triple digits, but she is mostly focused on getting the 94 up and running. Come November, though, she may be knocking on some principals’ doors. She is in her seventh year with Young Rembrandts. She said she is excited to get to 10 years and has already told founder Bette Fetter that she is going to have her for another 10. For more information, visit youngrem brandts.com/swsub urbs.
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