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Shermerfest continues to delight in 41st year, Page 3 

Don Sutton snaps a photo of a 1991 Nissan Figaro, owned by 

Shaun Chinsky, of Arlington Heights, on Sunday, Sept. 15, at the 41st annual 

Shermerfest held at Village Green Park. Rhonda Holcomb/22nd Century Media 

Third time’s 

the charm? 

Contentious 

proposal near 

Northbrook border 

now headed 

for third public 

hearing, Page 10 

So it stays 

D225 Board of Education 

approves traditional calendar 

for 2020-21, Page 12 

Start your 

engines Local youngsters 

get hands-on experience at 

annual Touch-a-Truck, Page 20

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In this week’s 

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Pet of the Week............ 8 

Editorial33 

Puzzles36 

Faith38 

Dining Out44 

Home of the Week45 

Athlete of the Week48 

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THURSDAY 

Business After Hours 

5-7 p.m. Sept. 19, Northbrook 

Public Library, 1201 

Cedar Lane. Co-hosted by 

The Northbrook Public 

Library and the Village 

of Northbrook, both the 

Northbrook Public Library 

and the Village of Northbrook 

welcome the members 

to learn about community 

resources at this 

unique networking event. 

Discover the surprising 

things you can create in 

The Collaboratory, a hightech 

makerspace, and connect 

with Village leaders 

to hear about topics of interest 

to residents and the 

business community. The 

price is $20. For more information, 

please contact 

info@northbrookchamber. 

org. 

FRIDAY 

TGIF Bingo and Lunch 

Noon-2:30 p.m. Sept. 

20, Northbrook Park District 

Senior Center, 3323 

Walters Ave. Play bingo 

and enjoy lunch at the 

Senior Center. Sign up 

with your friends for your 

chance to win fabulous 

prizes. Register at nbparks. 

org or call (847) 291-2995. 

SATURDAY 

District 27 5K 

8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 

21, Wood Oaks Junior 

High School, 1250 Sanders 

Road. There’s still time 

to join the District 27 PTA 

5K, 1-mile run and Kids 

Fun Run. The event is fun 

for the whole family! The 

5K begins at 8 a.m., the 

1 Mile race at 8:45 a.m., 

and the Kids’ Fun Run at 

9 a.m. The 5K and 1 Mile 

races are USATF certified 

and they are professionally 

timed. Go to nb27.org/pta/ 

pta-council/pta-5k-race for 

additional information. 

Father-Son Sports Night 

6:30 p.m. Sept. 21, 

Northbrook Park District 

Leisure Center, 3323 Walters 

Ave. You’re invited to 

an evening of basketball, 

floor hockey and soccer. 

Enjoy pizza and soft 

drinks after the games! 

Cost is $35 per couple for 

residents and $45 per couple 

for non-residents. For 

more information, visit 

nbparks.org. 

Great Soil ... Great Plants 

2 p.m. Sept. 21, Reds 

Garden Center, 3460 

Dundee Road. Healthy 

plants begin with healthy 

soil, and fall is a great time 

to prepare your soil for 

next year. In this seminar 

you will learn about the 

organisms in your soil, and 

how to use them to create 

the perfect growing environment 

for your plants. 

We will discuss compost, 

soil amendments and how 

to put your fall leaves to 

work for you. This seminar 

is free, but preregistration 

is required. Please call 

(847) 272-1209 for more 

information. 

SUNDAY 

NCS Drive-in Movie Night 

7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 

22, Northbrook Community 

Synagogue, 2548 Jasper 

Court. Join for a free 

outdoor Drive-In Movie. 

The movie will be “The 

Greatest Showman.” NCS 

will also have a concession 

stand. Everyone is welcome. 

For questions, call 

(847) 509-9204. 

TUESDAY 

Hunger Free Northbrook 

event 

6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 

24, Northbrook Civic 

Building, 2002 Walters 

Ave. Join us for a Community-Wide 

Event to tackle 

hunger in Northbrook. 

Learn more about Hunger 

Free Northbrook and how 

you can help the estimated 

1 in 10 families, including 

400 students in need. For 

more information, please 

call (847) 272 1700. 

Chicago History Museum 

Trip 

10:45 a.m.-4:45 p.m. 

Sept. 24, meet at the Leisure 

Center, 3323 Walters 

Ave. Travel by bus to the 

Chicago History Museum 

where you will have lunch 

from the North & Clark 

Cafe served in the Guild 

Room. After lunch there 

will be a guided tour of 

the Silver Screen exhibit 

which showcases fashions 

from Paris, New York, 

Chicago and Hollywood. 

Registration is required 

and cost is between $99 – 

$109. 

WEDNESDAY 

Women’s Havurah Book 

Club 

7 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 

25, Northbrook Community 

Synagogue, 2548 Jasper 

Court. Join NCS Women’s 

Havura to discuss the new 

selection, “Washing The 

Dead” by Michelle Brafman. 

Join for a lively conversation. 

For questions, 

call (847) 509-9204. 

UPCOMING 

The Scoop on Mulch 

2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 

28, Reds Garden Center. 

Learn why mulching is 

one of the most important 

things we can do for our 

garden. We will cover the 

different types of materials 

used as mulch, where they 

work best, and how to estimate 

how much you need. 

This seminar is free, but 

preregistration is required. 

Please call (847) 272-1209 

for more information. 

Plein Air Painting Festival 

Sept. 26-29, around 

Northbrook. Witness acclaimed 

Midwest artists 

painting “Plein Air” 

scenes around Northbrook 

all weekend. The weekend 

will feature an exhibition 

of artists’ paintings from 

the event, live music, plein 

air painting demonstrations, 

and a Quick Painting 

Competition at Village 

Green Park and downtown 

Northbrook. Visit the 

Northbrook Arts Facebook 

page or northbrookarts.org 

or for details. 

GBN Feeder Basketball 

Travel Team Tryouts 

Starting at 6:30 p.m. 

Thursday, Oct. 3, Solomon 

Schecter, 3210 Dundee 

Road (please enter school 

on Dundee Road side 

of the building). Tryout 

start at 6:30 for third and 

fourth grade boys and start 

at 7:30 for fifth grade. 

Tryouts will also be held 

Oct. 5 at Sports Center 

of the North shore, 600 

Waukegan Road. 4 p.m. 

for third and fourth and 

5 p.m. for fifth grade. No 

preregistration needed and 

no tryout fee is needed. 

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more information. 

ONGOING 

Register for Northbrook 

Action Baseball 

Registration for Northbrook 

Action Baseball 

is now underway for the 

Spring 2020 season. This 

is a chance for boys preschool 

through second 

grade and girls pre-school 

through third grade, who 

are looking to play T-Ball, 

baseball or softball in a 

fun, no-pressure environment. 

The season runs 

from mid-April until June. 

For more information, or 

to register, visit northbrookactionbaseball.org, 

check 

your school electronic 

backpack, or call at (847) 

564-9849. 

NGSA Registration 

Registration for the 

Northbrook Girls Softball 

Association is open starting 

Sept. 16. House League 

is designed for girls second-ninth 

grade regardless 

of their experience, ability, 

or residency. Having fun 

and fast-pitch softball instruction 

without pressure 

are the main priorities of 

the House League. Take 

advantage of the early-bird 

discount and save $40 off 

the house league fee. Go to 

northbrooksotball.com for 

registration and more info.

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‘Cow Pie Moo-lette’ brings new twist to Shermerfest 

Elizabeth Manaster 

Freelance Reporter 

The early morning 

hours of Sunday, Sept. 15, 

were filled with cloudy 

skies and threatening rain 

showers. 

Vintage car collectors 

in the area frequently 

checked the weather reports, 

wondering if they 

would be safe to bring out 

their prized possessions. 

By 11 a.m., the skies 

cleared, and the scene 

was set for a near-perfect 

afternoon for the 41st annual 

Shermerfest. 

The event is put on each 

year by the Northbrook 

Historical Society at Village 

Green Park to raise 

funds for the all-volunteer 

organization to keep its 

buildings open and running 

and to continue its 

programs. 

As the antique cars 

started to arrive at the 

park, booths were set up 

for painting kids faces and 

promoting local clubs, 

while the Sunset Food 

truck was popping corn. 

By noon, music filtered 

across the lawn from the 

gazebo as John McHugh 

and Company’s band 

filled the scene with a mix 

of classic rock and roll. 

Local families strolled 

along the sidewalks enjoying 

free balloons and even 

train rides for the younger 

children. Northbrook residents 

Phil and Sheila Rossi 

were enjoying hot dogs 

with their boys Teddy and 

Franky after the brothers 

took a ride on the train 

and a visit with Carrie, the 

10-month-old Holstein 

cow from Wagner Farm, 

who was to be the main 

attraction later in the day 

at the inaugural “Cow Pie 

Moo-lette.” 

Sitting next to the Rossi 

family were Curt and Linda 

Rodin, along with their 

grandchildren, Sean and 

Cassie, who were also enjoying 

the afternoon. 

“I’ve brought some 

of my cars to Shermerfest 

in previous years,” 

said Northbrook resident 

Curt, who owns a 1958 

Mercedes convertible, a 

1955 Jaguar convertible 

and a 1963 Cadillac. “But 

not this year. This year I 

brought my grandchildren 

because their parents are 

in the hospital with their 

new baby brother, Tony.” 

But there were plenty 

of automobiles to look 

at, including a 1959 red 

Cadillac convertible with 

tail fins designed by Harley 

Earl that had once belonged 

to Atlanta Braves 

pitcher John Smoltz. 

“I bought it at an auction 

in Auburn, Ind.,” said 

Mort Balabam, of Wilmette. 

He told of how his 

buddies all pooled their 

resources at the time so 

that he could pay for the 

purchase he had made. 

Balabam also had to call 

the pitcher himself to find 

out how to turn on the radio 

because Smoltz had 

installed a tape player and 

had rewired the radio. He 

had tried numerous times 

to reach the pitcher and finally 

said, ‘Tell him I have 

Big Red.’ Smoltz then finally 

answered the call. 

If families weren’t so 

interested in the collectible 

car show, they could 

also get a close look at a 

live Swainson’s Hawk, 

who had accompanied 

naturalist Ryan DePauw 

of the Forest Preserves of 

Cook County to the event. 

The hawk sat on De- 

Robert Haymaker enjoys Shermerfest on Sunday, Sept. 15, in his 1966 Ford Mustang convertible. Rhonda 

Holcomb/22nd Century Media 

Pauw’s hand as children 

asked questions and 

checked out the pelts of 

various local wild animals 

and learned a little about 

native wildlife. 

Joy Stuart, marketing 

and communications manager 

for The Northbrook 

Park District, was manning 

a booth and enticing 

youngsters to learn a little 

bit of Northbrook history 

by engaging them in a 

scavenger hunt. Children 

could pick up a card at the 

booth with three questions 

about Northbrook that 

could easily be answered 

with a little investigating 

inside the Historical Society 

Museum. They could 

then return the card with 

the answers for a prize – a 

blue cow bell. 

“We work very closely 

with Judy (Hughes, president 

of The Historical Society),” 

Stuart said. “And 

we were trying to come 

up with a way to get the 

young kids interested in 

visiting the museum. We 

tried to pick questions 

that they could find the 

answers to quickly themselves 

once they were inside 

the museum.” 

At 2 p.m., it was time 

for Cow pie Moo-lette, 

Ron Bernardi’s idea for 

something new this year. 

The plan was to sell 

squares marked off on 

a fenced-in grid. Each 

square sold for $20. Carrie 

the Holstein was then 

brought into the fenced 

area and left to munch on 

grass and hopefully deliver 

a “pie” on one of the 

squares. The owner of that 

Youngsters (left to right) Aleksander Rader and 

Dominika Rader, both of Glenview, and Parker Wozny 

and Morgan Wozny, both of Northbrook, pose for a 

photo at Shermerfest. 

square would then win the 

$1,000 prize. 

Bernardi gamely officiated 

and entertained the 

crowd as the 600-pound 

Holstein wandered about 

for almost 40 minutes, but 

without delivering for the 

disappointed crowd. 

Finally, the cow was led 

out to be taken home and 

Hughes, with the help of 

a youngster in the area, 

drew the winning square, 

No. 39, belonging to Larry 

Kaplan.

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From the Village 

Third annual Plein Air 

Painting Festival to start 

Sept. 26 

Northbrook’s 3rd Annual 

Plein Air Painting event 

will feature up to 35 artists 

from across the region. 

While shopping and 

dining around the Village, 

starting on Thursday, Sept. 

26, you’ll see Plein Air artists 

painting the town as 

they find beautiful scenes 

of Northbrook – sometimes 

in unexpected places. 

Plein Air painters capture 

landmarks familiar 

to the community, while 

others feature nature, architecture, 

and scenes of 

the community that may 

have been “hidden in plain 

sight”. 

Watch artists create 

unique paintings and bring 

scenes to life on canvas. 

Stop by to chat to see what 

they are creating. 

On Saturday and Sunday, 

the Plein Air Painting 

Festival will be held at Village 

Green Park (corner of 

Shermer & 

Meadow) with art on 

display and for purchase, 

along with music and 

painting demonstrations. 

Food is available from 

area establishments. 

Saturday hours are 1 -7 

p.m. with Nocturne painting, 

classic cars, and live 

music from 4-7 p.m. 

Sunday hours are 9 a.m.- 

5 p.m. featuring a plein air 

painting competition from 

9 a.m. - noon, painting 

demonstrations from 2-4 

p.m., and live music from 

noon- 4 p.m. 

Shermer Road multiuser 

path 

The Villages of Northbrook 

and Glenview have 

secured an Illinois Transportation 

Enhancement 

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Program grant for the construction 

of a new concrete 

multiuser (bicycle and pedestrian) 

path on Shermer 

Road, between Willow 

Road and West Lake Avenue. 

This week, the contractor 

will begin root pruning 

and silt fence installation. 

Staff anticipates that crews 

will begin excavation for 

the path during the week 

of Monday, Sept. 23 beginning 

at the southern 

end of the project (West 

Lake Avenue) and working 

north. 

During this time, there 

will be daytime lane closures 

in the work zone area. 

Motorists should allow extra 

time while traveling 

through the area and use 

caution in the work zone. 

From the Village is information 

submitted by the Village 

of Northbrook, www.northbrook.il.us 

Call Noah Pavlina 

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n.pavlina@22ndcenturymedia.com 

Police Reports 

Attempted burglary incident leads 

to ‘soft lockdowns’ at GBN, Maple 

Someone in the 1800 

block of Janke Drive reported 

seeing two male 

subjects attempting to burglarize 

a work van around 

2:23 p.m. on Thursday, 

Sept. 12, an incident that 

prompted precautionary 

measures at Glenbrook 

North and Maple schools. 

After the complainant 

confronted the two men, 

it was reported to police 

that one may have had a 

weapon. 

The incident led to a 

“suspended schedule” at 

Glenbrook North and a 

“soft lockdown” at Maple 

School. 

GBN Principal Dr. John 

L. Finan described the decision 

as a “precautionary 

measure due to a police 

incident at nearby business” 

in an email sent to 

parents. 

Under a suspended 

schedule, the school does 

not allow anyone to enter 

or exit the building, according 

to Finan. 

The suspended schedule 

was lifted at approximately 

2:45 p.m., according 

to Finan. 

Thomas Moore, a 

spokesperson for the 

Northbrook Police Department, 

said the incident 

is still under investigation, 

and it is not yet known if 

one of the subjects was 

armed. 

In other police news: 

Sept. 11 

• Someone in the 1900 

block of Somerset Lane 

reportedly received a telephone 

call from a subject 

who said they believed 

they were a friend of a 

mutual friend. The complainant 

was convinced to 

send the caller, who lives 

in Mississippi, funds. The 

complainant later learned 

it was a scam. 


block of Cobblewood 

Drive reported that they 

discovered someone used 

their credit information to 

obtain a car loan without 

their authorization. 

Sept. 10 

• Unknown subjects attempted 

to use someone’s 

credit cards at the Apple 

Store, 1500 Lake Cook 

Road, without their permission. 

The transaction 

was declined. 

• Jeremiah J. Butler, 26, 

of Glenview, was charged 

with driving with a suspended 

license, driving 

with expired registration 

and operating an uninsured 

motor vehicle at 

7:56 p.m. near the intersection 

of Willow and 

Shermer roads. 


block of Seville reportedly 

discovered damage 

to a door and lock mechanism 

around 9:11 a.m. 

The complainant did not 

believe entry was made, 

or that anything was missing. 

• A resident of the 2400 

block of Farnsworth reported 

that upon arriving 

home, they discovered a 

broken door glass. Officers 

checked the residence 

and found the home had 

been ransacked. Police 

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also found that a safe was 

also entered. It’s currently 

unknown exactly what 

might have been taken. 

Sept. 8 

• Three female subjects 

entered the Bloomingdale’s 

Outlet, 100 Skokie 

Boulevard, at 11:59 a.m. 

and cut the security cords 

on several purses. The 

subjects then left the store 

without paying for the 

purses. 

Sept. 7 

• Someone told police 

that unknown subject(s) 

entered their vehicle, 

parked in the 2500 block 

of Windsor Lane, and removed 

a backpack that 

contained a laptop computer 

and a drone during 

the overnight hours. 

Sept. 5 

• A worker at Nordstrom 

Rack, 100 skokie Boulevard, 

reported at 8:44 

p.m. that four female subjects 

entered the store and 

began looking at clothing. 

A short time later, security 

alarms activated and 

the subjects fled the story 

without paying for merchandise. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The 

Northbrook Tower’s Police 

Reports are compiled from 

official reports found on file 

at the Northbrook Police 

Department headquarters 

in Northbrook. Individuals 

named in these reports are 

considered innocent of all 

charges until proven guilty 

in a court of law.



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and annoying Trixie. Trixie’s hobbies include 

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They are wonderful family members, good buddies 

and they definitely have each other’s backs. 

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Drive, Suite 888, Northbrook. 

In Memoriam 

Former Village President Gerald Friedman 

remembered as ‘rock of Northbrook community’ 

Alan P. Henry 


In 1950, 

E l a i n e 

Friedman 

asked her 

husband 

Jerry to 

drive her up 

to Highland 

Friedman 

Park to attend a wedding 

shower. 

Having always wanted 

to live in a small town, 

and looking to kill some 

time, he decided to check 

out the next-door sparsely 

populated community of 

Northbrook. The following 

weekend they came 

back, bought a home on 

Church Street, and never 

looked back. 

Today, 70 years later, 

it is widely accepted that 

Jerry Friedman, both as 

a village government official 

for 20-plus years 

and as a community force 

for decades more, was 

one of the most consequential 

players in the 

development and maturation 

of Northbrook as an 

economically vibrant, upscale 

suburb. 

Friedman, who died 

Sept. 9, 2019 at age 94, 

was praised by Ron Bernardi, 

another longtime 

pillar of the Northbrook 

community. 

“Thank you for being a 

pioneer, doing the tireless 

work, laying the foundation, 

having the vision for 

the future for Northbrook, 

that we all enjoy today 

and for generations to 

come,” he says in an online 

posting. 

Friedman, who was 17 

when Pearl Harbor was 

attacked, got permission 

from his father to serve 

in the Marines. He served 

in the Pacific theater and 

was awarded two Purple 

Hearts. He then graduated 

with business and 

law degrees from DePaul 

University, became a 

C.P.A. and went on to be 

a co-owner of a successful 

paper packaging business, 

Chippewa Paper Products, 

that primarily serviced the 

food industry. 

In 1959, village president 

Bert Pollak selected 

Friedman to become a 

member of the Plan Commission 

after hearing him 

speak at a public meeting. 

He was soon a Village 

Board trustee and served 

as Village Board President 

from 1973 to 1981. 

Early on, Friedman 

spearheaded the development 

of a master plan and 

helped squire the village 

through the go-go growth 

years of the 1960s and 

1970s. 

For a time, that growth 

was so rapid that the village 

board met twice a 

week and held sessions on 

Saturday mornings, too. 

“It was quite hectic with 

expansion of the village 

and developers coming 

in every week,” he said in 

an interview with “Northbrook 

Voices,” an oral history 

project produced by 

the Northbrook Historical 

Society and Northbrook 

Public Library. It got to 

the point where he sometimes 

lost his voice at 

board meetings just from 

reading the ordinances out 

loud, he recalled. 

Among his notable 

achievements was the establishment 

in 1963 of the 

water treatment plant. As 

he explained it on “Northbrook 

Voices,” the village 

had been buying water 

from Glencoe, which 

kept raising its rates when 

Northbrook expanded and 

needed more water. 

Glencoe then got other 

lakefront communities to 

join them in refusing to 

give Northbrook riparian 

rights. 

“We were just about 

ready to give up when I 

always say God came to 

our rescue,” Friedman 

said. North Shore Congregation 

Israel had purchased 

lakefront land in 

Glencoe to build a larger 

temple and made a deal 

with Northbrook to let 

them build their facility. 

To this day, Northbrook 

is the only off-shore community 

that draws water 

directly from the lake. But 

there was more to the politics 

of water, as Friedman 

explained. 

“If some developer in 

an unincorporated area 

wanted to get our water 

they had to incorporate 

and in order to incorporate 

they had to abide by 

our zoning and building 

codes, and we were able 

to control to a large extent 

how the village was developed.’’ 

In a village newsletter, 

current Village President 

Sandy Frum has called 

the water system “one 

of our greatest assets … 

thanks to the foresight of 

our village officials, under 

the direction of our past 

village president Gerald 

Friedman.” 

Friedman was also instrumental 

in converting 

the fire department from 

a volunteer force to a professional 

full-time department 

and in getting full 

time ambulance service. 

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The Northbrook Civic 

Association, of which 

he was a member, paid 

for the first ambulance. 

He also helped enact the 

1968 Fair Housing Ordinance 

and development 

of Northbrook’s industrial 

park at the site of the former 

Sky Harbor Airport. 

Further, he stood firm as 

Highland Park brought a 

series of lawsuits against 

the village trying to 

block the development of 

Northbrook Court, which 

opened in 1976. 

In retirement, Friedman 

devoted time to numerous 

non-profits including the 

Northbrook Symphony, 

which he helped get off 

the ground, and Jewish 

Council on Urban Affairs. 

He also managed to hit 

three hole-in-ones on the 

golf course. 

“I was there for one of 

them,” said his son, Matt 

Friedman. 

Friedman was a man 

of deep faith, and was a 

founding member of Congregation 

Hakafa. He was 

selected to be its first president 

and remained a vital 

part of its leadership to his 

final days. 

Rabbi Bruce Elder said 

of Friedman: “He was a 

rock of our community 

and a friend to each of us. 

We could always count on 

him being there. We miss 

him dearly.” 

Rabbi Robert Marx, 

who founded Hakafa in 

1983, called Friedman’s 

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Proposed development at Willow-Pfingsten intersection heads for third public hearing 

Residents again 

come out in force 

to air grievances 

Chris Pullam 


A second three-hour 

Glenview Plan Commission 

meeting, which again 

included more than an hour 

of public commentary, still 

wasn’t enough to unpack 

the details of a proposed 

development at the Southwest 

corner of Willow and 

Pfingsten roads. 

During its Aug. 27 meeting, 

the Glenview Plan 

Commission unanimously 

voted to continue the discussion 

until its Tuesday, 

Sept. 10 meeting in order 

to further flush out the proposal. 

Specifically, both 

the commission and the 

developer, GW Properties, 

hoped to walk residents 

through the results of a 

traffic-impact study, which 

GW Properties claimed 

should calm residents’ concerns 

that the project would 

hinder drivability in the 

area. 

Still, a boardroom 

packed with residents opposed 

to the development 

led the Plan Commission 

to schedule a third meeting 

for Thursday, Sept. 24, to 

continue the discussion. 

Currently, the 8.5-acre 

subject property holds a 

two-story, single-family 

residence and several accessory 

buildings. 

As proposed, the development 

would replace 

those structures with several 

commercials buildings 

located on the north 6.2 

acres of the site, including a 

35,000-square-foot grocery 

store and multi-tenant retail 

buildings totaling 28,600 

square feet. The project 

would also include six 

new single-family homes, 

served by a proposed extension 

of Charlie Court, 

on the south 2.352 acres. 

Although the development 

plans discussed on 

Sept. 10 were “substantially 

consistent with the original 

development plans” 

pitched during the August 

meeting, GW Properties 

did make several tweaks, 

according to Glenview 

Planning Manager Jeff 

Rogers. 

Those changes include 

shifting 300 square feet of 

proposed retail space between 

two buildings, modifying 

the location of underground 

storm sewers to 

preserve mature trees, and 

moving one of the trash enclosures 

to a more internal 

location on the site. 

None of the changes directly 

impacted residents’ 

chief concern: how the development 

would impact 

traffic. 

“Traffic at Pfingsten and 

Willow is very, very bad,” 

Glenview resident Jerry Tivers 

said. “Now we’re talking 

about cuts and changes, 

and things are just going to 

get worse, and just so we 

can have a development 

that nobody in this room 

seems to want. 

“If we want something to 

bring in money, why don’t 

we have a gentleman’s club 

or a permanent circus,” he 

said in jest, “both which 

would bring in more money.” 

According to Rogers, 

traffic studies indicate that 

approximately 36,000 vehicles 

use Willow Road 

each day, even though 

an IDOT study suggests 

a maximum capacity of 

34,000 vehicles, meaning 

that current traffic already 

exceeds the intended use 

by 2,000 cars daily. 

To accommodate the 

daily use, Willow Road 

would need to be expanded 

to three lanes in each direction, 

to enable the road to 

handle up to 50,000 cars 

each day. Upcoming IDOT 

improvements wouldn’t 

expand Willow Road from 

its current two lanes. 

They would, however, 

add two new deceleration 

right-turn lanes on Willow 

road in both directions at 

the Pfingsten Road intersection, 

which will help 

ease some traffic burdens 

in the area of the proposed 

development. 

According to Rogers, 

however, current and future 

traffic density has little 

impact on how the Plan 

Commission can assess 

the development, since use 

of public roads isn’t predicated 

on a first-come, firstserved 

basis. 

“Just because there is 

a lot of existing traffic on 

Willow and Pfingsten, that 

is not a sufficient reason to 

deny the development of 

vacant property,” Rogers 

said. “All property owners 

are provided the right to 

use and access public rights 

of way.” 

However, some residents 

took traffic congestion a 

step forward to voice concerns 

about an increased 

potential for traffic accidents. 

“I’ve heard a very sanitized 

report here tonight 

about traffic and anecdotal 

events and data and statistics,” 

Glenview resident Jerome 

Orbach said. “Maybe 

we want to humanize that 

a little bit. I live on Charlie 

Court, and for years 

we had a young man on 

Charlie Court — a boy, a 

terrific young man — he 

was a scout from his head 

Glenview’s Plan Commission will conduct a third public hearing on a proposal from 

developer GW Properties for a project consisting of up to 63,600 square feet of new 

retail and restaurant space. Rendering Courtesy of GW Properties 

to his heart to his feet to his 

hands. If he had packages 

to carry, he would volunteer 

to carry your packages. 

“He was an angel, an absolute 

angel. On February 

22 of ’05, this young man 

rode his bicycle outside 

the safe confines of Charlie 

Court and was killed on 

the corner of Pfingsten and 

Willow [after being struck 

by a car]. The next time I 

saw him was at the Scott 

Funeral Home.” 

According to trafficengineering 

consultant 

Kenig, Lindgren, O’Hara, 

Aboona, which was hired 

by GW Properties to conduct 

a traffic-impact study 

regarding the proposed 

development, there are 

currently 1.15 crashes per 

every 1 million vehicles 

that approach the intersection. 

An estimated 48,050 

vehicles pass through the 

intersection each day. 

While the proposed development 

would generate 

approximately 3,600 daily 

two-way trips, leading to 

an estimated .78 percent increase 

in crashes, that number 

would be offset by an 

undetermined percent by 

IDOT’s pending improvements 

at the intersection. 

For comparison, the 

intersection of Lake Avenue 

and Waukegan Road, 

which services 46,650 vehicles 

per day, experiences 

2.71 crashes per million 

vehicle approaches. The 

Willow Road and Patriot 

Boulevard intersections, 

with 50,100 daily vehicles, 

experiences 1.34 crashes 

per million. 

While some residents 

contested that the studies 

weren’t conducted at peak 

times, Luay Aboona, principal 

with KLOA, said that 

they were conducted in accordance 

with IDOT regulations 

that ensure all data 

is comparable. 

He also told the crowd 

that while the proposed 

development could generate 

3,600 daily trips, some 

will come during off-peak 

hours when traffic is light, 

and many of the trips during 

peak hours will come 

from commuters who were 

already driving past the site 

as part of their normal route. 

“Still, it’s important to 

know that any new development 

will create traffic,” 

Aboona said. “There is no 

doubt that there will be traffic 

generated by this development 

compared to what 

is there now. Commercial 

developments want to be 

7 

at nodes and intersections 

where there is high volume 

of traffic because they rely 

on that traffic for their business 

and visibility.” 

Mitch Goltz, principal of 

GW Properties, took time 

to address another chief 

concern: whether vehicles 

will back up and potentially 

make turns in reverse while 

in front of the proposed 

grocery store. According 

to Goltz, that setup isn’t 

in GW Property Group’s 

plans. 

“Our full intention with 

loading the grocer onsite 

is to come from Willow 

Road,” he said. “We did do 

the test exercise to show 

how that would take place 

off Pfingsten, but we don’t 

intend that trucks would be 

coming from Pfingsten. … 

Again, backing up in front 

of the store is not ideal for 

anybody, and it’s definitely 

not our intent.” 

The Glenview Plan 

Commission will reopen 

the discussion during its 

Tuesday, Sept. 24 meeting. 

Eventually, the Plan Commission 

will pass a recommendation 

for approval or 

denial to the Glenview Village 

Board, which will then 

take a preliminary and final 

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For the third year in a row, 

the North Suburban YMCA 

was honored by community 

voters in the annual 

North Shore Choice Awards 

receiving 11 first-place 

awards. They were: Best 

Camp, Sports Camp, Art 

Studio, Kids Birthday Party 

Venue, Bar and Bat Mitzvah 

Venue, Dance Studio, 

Fitness Center/ Gym, 

Personal Trainer, Spin 

Classes, Swim School, and 

Yoga. 

“We are thrilled to again 

receive this honor by our 

community,” said Howard 

Schultz, President/CEO of 

the NSYMCA. “We’re 

grateful to everyone who 

voted and showed how 

much they appreciate the 

YMCA.” 

Celebrating 50 years of 

service at its Northbrook 

facility, the NSYMCA is 

well-known in the community 

for the breadth and 

quality of its programs, as 

well as its welcoming, 

inclusive atmosphere. 

Located at 2705 Techny 

Road in Northbrook, the 

NSYMCA serves 15 local 

municipalities with a full 

spectrum of classes, camps 

and events for all ages. 

For its golden anniversary, 

the Y launched several 

new initiatives, including a 

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Swim Safety Program, 

Social Responsibility 

Initiatives focused on 

individuals with special 

needs, and S.T.E.A.M. youth 

education opportunities. 

To conclude the year-long 

celebration of its 50th 

anniversary, the Y is 

hosting Fall Fest, a free and 

open-to-the-public 

community party from 4-10 

p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5. 

Fall Fest will be held at the 

Y’s campus and filled with 

food, music and family fun 

for all ages. 

For more information: 

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Generations of families 

have relied on the NSYMCA 

for outstanding activities 

that support youth 

development, healthy 

living and social responsibility. 

A nonprofit organization, 

the Y provides 

financial assistance 

through its Strong Kids 

Fund that enables individuals 

in financial need to 

participate fully in the Y’s 

programs. In addition to 

Fall Fest, the Y is inviting 

community members to be 

forever remembered by 

purchasing a brick in the 

Memorial Brick Wall 

Program. “So many 

families have made the 

NSYMCA their second 

home, and we’re thrilled to 

offer a way to honor them 

through the Memorial Brick 

Wall Campaign,” said Kathy 

Fielding, Vice President of 

Membership, Programs and 

Marketing. 

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Glenbrook High Schools D225 Board of Education 

Officials talk insurance, approve 

traditional 2020-21 calendar 

Neil Milbert 


The Glenbrook High 

Schools District 225 

Board of Education spent 

much of its Monday, Sept. 

9 meeting discussing the 

pre-renewal of the district’s 

health insurance 

plan. 

In 2020, the district will 

move to Jan. 1-Dec. 31 

calendar-year plans, Human 

Resources Director 

Alice Raflores said. 

Consultants projected 

a rate adjustment of 0.2 

percent in the PPO (Preferred 

Provider Organization) 

plans, an increase of 

1.4 percent in the HMO 

(Health Maintenance Organization) 

plans and an 

increase of 6.8 percent in 

the dental plans in 2020. 

“There’s a lot of work 

that needs to be done with 

the consortium,” Raflores 

said. “The overwhelming 

thing is whether or not we 

should still be in the consortium.” 

HMO plans cost less 

than PPO plans but coverage 

is significantly more 

limited. 

PPO plans generally offer 

greater flexibility in 

seeing specialists, have 

larger networks and offer 

some out-of-network coverage. 

Joel Taub, the board 

member with expertise 

in insurance, pointed out 

the average claim amount 

for the 511 district employees 

insured by PPOs 

is $1,400 per person per 

month — almost $30,000 

per family — whereas the 

average cost for each of 

ROUND IT UP 

A brief recap of Board of Education action Monday, Sept. 9 

• Board members approved the appointments of 

Lauren Emmert (GBN social studies) and seven 

support staff members at GBN at GBS. 

• The board authorized payments of 

$3,447,756.62 and $738,682.99 to cover payroll 

costs and accounts payable, respectively. The 

board also signed off on a $16,272.12 reimbursement 

of the revolving fund. 

• In his report to the board, new District 225 Superintendent 

Dr. Charles Johns said: “I’ve spent a 

lot of time with the coaches (of the teams at GBN 

and GBS) to learn their philosophies and approach 

to coaching and I’ve come away impressed every 

time.” 

• GBN Principal Dr. John Finan told the board the 

“GBN Goes Pink” fundraiser to support breast 

cancer research will continue through Friday, 

Sept. 20. 

the 300 people in HMOs 

is considerably less, about 

$7,000 a year. 

“The reason HMOs are 

popular is they’re usually 

less money,” Taub said, 

“Smaller networks with 

more constraints.” 

If cost containment 

isn’t implemented, Taub 

predicted a substantial increase 

in insurance prices 

for the district in the years 

to come because of a combination 

of inflation and 

utilization. 

He said inflation went 

down from 11.5 percent 

in 2007 to 5.7 percent in 

2018, but nevertheless, 

claims amounts last year 

were much higher because 

of utilization. 

“How do we bend the 

cost curve?” Taub asked, 

before answering his own 

question. “We need to 

focus on what we can do 

8 

to can control utilization 

costs through deductibles 

and co-insurance.” 

The Cost Containment 

Committee will study the 

data and make recommendations 

to the board at an 

October meeting. 

Traditional calendar 

finalized 

By a 6-0 vote, the board 

adopted the traditional 

calendar for the 2020-21 

school year that received 

preliminary approval following 

a presentation by 

Assistant Superintendent 

for Education Services 

Dr. Rosanne Williamson 

at the Aug. 26 meeting. 

The Glenbrook South 

and Glenbrook North calendars 

will be identical. 

The calendar calls for 

89 days in each semester, 

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Glenbrook North reported 

that 95 percent of 

the graduating class of 

2019 is pursuing higher 

education this fall at 142 

institutions. 

University of Illinois 

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Madison are the most 

popular college choices 

selected by the former 

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followed by Oakton 

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institutions include 

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with classes scheduled to 

begin Aug. 19, 2020, and 

end June 3, 2021. 

Winter vacation will 

begin Dec. 21, 2020, and 

students will return to 

classes on Jan. 5, 2021. 

Spring break is scheduled 

for the week of March 22, 

2021. 

June 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 

are the designated emergency 

days to offset emergency 

closings. 

“The sentiment is to 

keep the start of school in 

mid-August; regardless of 

the calendar we can designate 

when the final exams 

are,” Williamson told 

the board at the Monday, 

Sept. 9 meeting. 

Quick public hearing 

The budget for fiscal 

year 2019-20 will be presented 

to the board for 

approval at its Monday, 

Sept. 23 meeting. 

A public hearing on the 

tentative budget, which 

was approved by the 

board earlier this summer, 

was held at the Sept. 9 

meeting but no members 

of the public spoke and 

there was no discussion 

by the board. 

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my friend,” he continued. 

“During these past few 

weeks, as the light grew 

dim, we unashamedly said 

that we loved one another. 

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Northbrook resident receives national award for climate change work 

Hilary Anderson 


Jennifer Linton was 

moved to action when she 

least expected it. 

Her catalyst was a viewing 

of “Inconvenient 

Truth,” a documentary 

about former United States 

Vice President Al Gore’s 

campaign to inform people 

about the dangers of global 

warming. 

She took the message to 

heart. 

The Northbrook resident 

embarked on a personal 

campaign to educate 

the public about climate 

change — and try to help 

prevent global warming. 

Her efforts did not go 

unnoticed. 

Gore, who is also the 

chairman of The Climate 

Reality Project, recently 

honored Linton with the 

nonprofit’s Green Ring 

Award at the organization’s 

recent Climate Reality 

Leadership Corps training 

in Minneapolis, Minn. 

The Green Ring Award 

is presented to outstanding 

Climate Reality Leaders 

who have demonstrated an 

exceptional commitment 

to their role as climate 

communicators. 

“Jennifer has an impressive 

ability to unite, inspire 

and empower her community 

to act on climate and 

we are proud to present 

her with the Green Ring 

Award, said Ken Bertin, 

president and CEO of The 

Climate Reality Project. 

“Her passion for organizing 

and activism to enact 

societal change is inspiring 

and her commitment to 

empowering others exemplifies 

what it means to be 

a Climate Reality leader.” 

Linton, who works as 

a graphic designer, remembers 

the concerns she 

had after her first viewing 

of “Inconvenient 

Truth.” 

“The documentary 

frightened me,” Linton 

said. “I became concerned 

about the environment not 

just for me but for the future 

of our 

children, and the world 

in general. I became an 

avid recycler for starters. 

The next time I needed a 

car, I bought a hybrid.” 

When Linton and her 

family moved to Northbrook, 

she thought she 

would do freelance work 

but the need to educate 

about ways to save the environment 

overshadowed 

that idea. 

“I tried to be a conscientious 

parent and looked for 

ways to educate students 

at Glenbrook North High 

School about sustainability 

while trying not to be 

preachy,” she said. “They 

were gentle suggestions. 

Our family stopped using 

plastic bags in which to 

carry groceries and turned 

instead to drinking from 

reusable water bottles and 

storing leftover food in 

Tupperware-like containers. 

I talked about composting, 

not using pesticides 

on lawns and making 

homemade cleaners.” 

At first, her family 

balked. 

“As my children got 

older, they began to understand 

the need to preserve 

the environment and became 

involved.” 

She saw a need for a 

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Gore. Photo Submitted 

“I am so honored to be recognized by Vice President 

Al Gore and to receive Climate Reality’s 

Green Ring Award. Being trained as a Climate 

Reality Leader completely changed the trajectory 

of my life.” 

Jennifer Linton — Northbrook resident on receiving the Green Ring 

Award from the Climate Reality Project. 

and energy efficiency. 

“Who doesn’t love the 

environment,” she asked. 

“A person would have to 

be living under a rock if 

they were not aware of the 

danger of global warming. 

It is terrible that people are 

doing things that are not 

sustainable and damaging 

the environment.” 

Linton became even 

more active in finding 

ways to educate people 

about global warming including 

related events, rallies 

and marches. 

She heard about The 

Climate Reality Project 

and applied, later attending 

training in 2015. 

“That was a transforming 

experience,” she said. 

“It showed us examples 

of climate crises. Some 

of those include extreme 

storms around the world 

and areas that are reaching 

130 degrees especially in 

Middle East locations. Everyone 

has to address these 

issues. No one is exempt. 

It is a learning experience 

at first. Then you get into 

action.” 

Linton in 2018 started 

the Chicago Chapter of the 

Climate Reality Project. 

She said the Chicago 

Chapter has members from 

all over the area, and is 

open to the public. She invited 

all interested to join 

the coalition. 

Since its inception, the 

group has joined the Illinois 

Clean Jobs Coalition, 

which introduced a bill, 

the Clean Energy Jobs 

Act, to bring 100 percent 

clean energy to Illinois by 

2050. 

The ever-passionate 

Northbrook resident Linton 

considers helping raise 

awareness an honor. 

“I am so honored to 

be recognized by Vice 

President Al Gore and to 

receive Climate Reality’s 

Green Ring Award,”she 

said. “Being trained as a 

Climate Reality Leader 

completely changed the 

trajectory of my life. I’m 

grateful for the deep purpose 

I have found and 

thankful for the opportunity 

to use my skills to 

make real, positive and 

lasting change in my community. 

“Simply said, I’m just 

passionate about preserving 

the environment.”



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Northbrook students raise funds for local organizations with lemonade stand 

Chris Pullam 


A handful of Northbrook 

grade-schoolers are proving 

that when life gives you 

lemons, you should make 

the world a better place. 

Over the past four years, 

a simple one-day-per-year 

lemonade stand has transformed 

from a way to 

spend a hot summer day 

to a way to support local 

organizations like the 

Northfield Township Food 

Pantry, Lurie Children’s 

Hospital and Take No Bullying, 

a nonprofit striving 

to limit the impact of bullying 

on children through 

education and communitybased 

prevention. 

Each summer, Northbrook 

neighbors Emma and 

Lainie Fliegel, 13, and Sara 

Fine, 10, pick a new charity 

to support through selling 

pink and yellow lemonade 

for one day at the corner 

of Greenwood Road and 

Brian Drive. 

This time, fellow neighbor 

Naomi Szmuilowicz, 

13, joined the team, and 

the group also sold brownies 

alongside their refreshments. 

They raised more 

than $150, and it all went 

to the Northfield Township 

Food Pantry. 

“For Lurie Children’s 

Hospital, we just thought it 

would be nice to help kids 

like us who have cancer,” 

said Sara Fine, a fifth-grader 

at Willowbrook Elementary 

School. “We supported 

Take No Bullying because 

nobody likes bullying, and 

we wanted to help stop that. 

And this year, we wanted 

people to donate cans to 

the Food Pantry, because 

no one should be hungry in 

our community.” 

“It’s nice to do things for 

other people,” added Naomi 

Szmuilowicz, an eightgrader 

at Maple School. “It 

feels good to have so many 

people want to support it. 

We’re very fortunate, and 

we thought we should give 

back to the people who 

aren’t as fortunate as we 

are.” 

The girls do almost all 

the work by themselves. 

Together, they mixed 

the lemonade, baked the 

brownies and painted the 

stand that displayed their 

products. 

“I don’t normally do too 

much to help with charity, 

but the lemonade stand is 

something I can do over the 

summer to help my community,” 

Lainie Fliegel 

added. “I think it shows 

that you don’t have to do 

too much to make an impact.” 

The effort got an extra, 

unplanned boost the first 

year when a bus carrying 

new Northbrook/Glenview 

School District 30 teachers 

during orientation passed 

through the neighborhood. 

The teachers, as well as a 

few accompanying administrators, 

made a pit stop, 

and a tradition was born. 

“On the first year, we 

opened the lemonade stand 

on a random day as a summer 

activity and it just so 

happened to be the same 

day that the new teachers 

were going through the 

community,” said Becky 

Fliegel, Lainie and Emma’s 

mom. “Lainie was standing 

on the corner at the right 

time, and all of a sudden a 

tradition was born.” 

Each year since then, 

Becky Fliegel, co-president 

of the Maple School PTO, 

contacts Dr. Scott Carlson, 

the principal at Willowbrook, 

to align the dates 

of the lemonade stand and 

the new teacher tour. For 

four years in a row now, the 

group has helped support 

the grade-schoolers philanthropic 

efforts. 

“Knowing they’re supporting 

us helps a lot because 

people drive by on 

the street all the time, but 

they don’t always stop,” 

Emma Fliegel said. “It feels 

nice that the school is helping 

us and helping us raise 

money for the community.” 

Sometimes, the girls 

are even able to meet new 

teachers before the rest of 

their classmates, which 

helps both groups. This 

year, the Fliegels were able 

to meet their new band 

teachers ahead of classes. 

“I think it helps them a 

little bit, too, since they’ll 

already know some of us 

on their first day,” Lainie 

Fliegel said. 

But at the end of the day, 

the girls are just happy 

they were able to make 

an impact with their hard 

work. 

“It shows that even if 

you’re not doing anything 

Northbrook students (left to right) Emma Fliegel, Sara 

Fine and Lainie Fliegal pose with the sign for their 

lemonade stand. Together, the students raised funds 

for local organizations. Photo Submitted 

big, you can still help people,” 

Emma Fliegel said. 

“Even if you’re just sitting 

around at home, you 

can help with something 

as simple as a lemonade 

stand.” 

Although three of the 

girls, including two cofounders, 

will leave District 

30 at the end of the 

school year for Glenbrook 

School District 225, 

they’re optimistic that the 

lemonade stand will return 

next summer. 

THE WILMETTE BEACON 

Intergovernmental 

agreement for stormwater 

project nears approval 

A non-binding agreement 

is now in place for 

the stormwater project 

with the binding agreement 

to be worked out in 

the coming months. 

Steve Wilson, executive 

director of the Wilmette 

Park District, provided an 

update Sept. 9 regarding 

the timeline for putting 

together the binding agreement. 

It was announced 

at the Wilmette Park District 

Board meeting that 

both the Park and Village 

boards passed a nonbinding 

Memorandum of 

Understanding last month. 

The purpose of the MOU 

was to give the Village assurance 

that it can begin 

to incur substantial engineering 

design costs based 

upon the agreed locations 

of the underground vaults. 

Now that the non-binding 

MOU has been approved 

by both boards, the next 

step is the binding intergovernmental 

agreement. 

The district’s legal counsel 

will draft the IGA using 

the West Park Sanitary 

Storage project IGA as the 

base document since it is 

for a similar project and 

between the same two parties. 

The West Park project 

was completed in 2016. 

“We’ve had some recent 

agreement around those 

terms,” Wilson said. “That 

does not mean we’re just 

changing the details and 

sending it on. There’s a 

lot more that’s going to go 

into it, but that’s just the 

starting draft.” 

The district plans to 

send the draft to the Village’s 

legal counsel by 

mid-October. The Village’s 

legal counsel will 

then review the document 

and make suggested edits. 

Once an agreed upon draft 

of the IGA is complete, 

each board will review it, 

discuss and make suggested 

edits if needed. 

Reporting by Todd Marver, 

Freelance Reporter. Full 

story at WilmetteBeacon- 

Daily.com. 

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City officials held a ribbon 

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Sept. 14. 

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Willowbrook School salutes first responders 

7 

Patriot Day 

ceremony marked 

18th anniversary of 

Sept. 11 attacks 

Submitted by District 30 

Willowbrook School 

staff and students donned 

red, white and blue while 

proudly singing “My 

Country ‘Tis of Thee” at 

the school’s Patriot Day 

ceremony on Wednesday 

to mark the 18th anniversary 

of the Sept. 11 terrorist 

attacks. 

Principal Dr. Scott Carlson 

explained that Patriot 

Day is also called the National 

Day of Service and 

Remembrance and told 

the students how Presidents 

George W. Bush and 

Barack Obama named this 

day a national holiday to 

remember those who were 

lost in the 2001 attacks. 

Carlson also stressed to 

the students how important 

it is to thank a first responder 

on this tragic day 

in history. 

“Patriots — like our 

Officer Joel Detloff, of the Glenview Police Department, gives high-fives to WIllowbrook 

students Sept. 11, ahead of the school’s Patriot Day ceremony. Photos submitted 

firefighters, policemen, 

paramedics and soldiers 

— came to the rescue and 

helped,” Carlson said. 

“Americans were scared, 

but we took care of each 

other. We all helped each 

other that day. 

“We remember people 

hurt on Sept. 11 and the 

bravery of the patriots 

who came to the rescue 

of so many people. This is 

a day to be proud of our 

country, our people and 

our community.” . 

“It is now time to show 

appreciation and thank all 

of our local first responders 

who protect us and 

keep us safe every day,” 

Carlson added. 

Present at Willowbrook 

School’s Patriot Day assembly 

were the following 

first responders: Officer 

Pat Staunton from the Chicago 

Police Department 

(who is also the husband 

of Willowbrook Reading 

Specialist Jeannine 

Staunton); Northbrook 

Deputy Fire Chief David 

Schweihs (who is also a 

Willowbrook parent); Officers 

Joel Detloff, Joe 

Curtis and Rafael Donor, 

and Cmdr. Patrick Schuster 

of the Glenview Police 

Department; Lt. Derek 

Selzer and firefighters 

Danny Miller and Vince 

Spalo of the Glenview Fire 

Department. 

Carlson told students the 

Willowbrook students thank local first responders. 

true definition of a patriot: 

“Someone who defends 

their country against enemies; 

a person who feels 

strong support for their 

country; and someone who 

spends their life serving 

their country or community, 

like the aforementioned 

first responders.” 

He reminded everyone 

to thank a patriot, either 

face-to-face with a handshake 

or wave, or by writing 

them a letter. 

“Be a patriot. Follow 

the six pillars of the Character 

Counts! coalition: 

trustworthiness, respect, 

responsibility, fairness, 

caring, and citizenship,” 

Carlson said. 

The assembly concluded 

with a moment of silence, 

led by music teacher Kurt 

Barker. 

Before heading to class, 

teachers and students had 

the opportunity to thank 

first responders while they 

visited the firetruck, ambulance 

and police car that 

were parked in front of the 

school. Groups of children 

handed their handmade 

thank-you cards to the police 

officers and firefighters. 

A first responder wearing 

showed off his thank 

you card, which read, 

“Thank you for your time, 

and for keeping us safe.” 

District 27 students 

reflect on freedom, 

democracy in U.S. 

Submitted Content 

To commemorate Patriot 

Day, students and staff 

at Hickory Point and Shabonee 

took time on Sept. 

11 to reflect on freedom 

and democracy. 

The students sang patriotic 

songs, and in the 

case of those at Hickory 

Point, watch the raising 

of the American flag. 

RIGHT: Hickory Point 

students watch the 

raising of the American 

flag on Sept. 11. Photo 

Submitted

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Glenbrook North’s fall musical ‘Matilda’ to hit stage next week, Page 37 

Glenbrook North students rehearse for performances of their fall musical ‘Matilda.’ Performances of the show run Sept. 26-28 at GBN. 

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GBN students ready 

to showcase fall 

musical ‘Matilda’ 

LEFT: 

Glenbrook 

North students 

perform 

during 

rehearsals for 

the school’s 

fall musical, 

“Matilda.” The 

show opens 

Sept. 26, at 

GBN. 

Productions run 

Sept. 26-28 at 

Glenbrook North 

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Glenbrook North’s upcoming 

musical theater 

production “Matilda” 

challenges the cast with 

the task of using song and 

dance to tell the story of 

a young girl who reminds 

everyone that good always 

triumphs over evil. 

Running Thursday, 

Sept. 26- Saturday, Sept. 

28, the small cast of 

25 GBN students gives 

young performers the 

chance to start the school 

year off on a musical note. 

“Each year Glenbrook 

North and Glenbrook 

South students collaborate 

on a musical production 

but every few years, each 

school presents their own 

production,” Director Julie 

Ann Hill said. “These 

kids are used to performing 

in a large group of 

about 80 actors, but now 

there’s just about 25 cast 

members, meaning each 

one has a greater responsibility 

to bear.” 

Because the production 

occurs so early in the 

school year, preparations 

began last May. 

Students auditioned and 

began learning their parts 

over the summer and the 

cast even had the opportunity 

to see “Matilda” 

Cast members prepare for the upcoming production. 

Photos by Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media 


2019 Fall Musical 

What: “Matilda” 

When: 7 p.m. Sept. 

26-28 

Where: Glenbrook 

North 

Tickets available now 

at www.showtix4u 

at Drury Lane Theater in 

Chicago. 

Upon returning to 

school in late August, actors 

got down to business 

— practicing almost daily 

to learn the choreography, 

additional musical scores 

and their own individual 

lines as well. 

For Senior Courtney 

Mazeika, “Matilda” was 

one of her first big musicals, 

commenting on the 

unique challenge that musical 

theater brings. 

“I’ve performed in 

more plays than musicals 

so it is definitely a challenge 

to mix in singing, 

dancing and acting,” she 

For more photos 

from rehearsals, 

please see 

Page 40 in this 

week’s issue. 

said. “There are a lot of 

different parts and things 

to consider. Plus, we are 

a pretty small cast, so that 

means you really must 

know your part and really 

know it well. ”Mazeika 

said. 

Vocal director Chad Davidson 

echoed Mazeika’s 

sentiments. 

“The order in which the 

actors learn is also important,” 

he said. “It’s hard 

to choreograph a song, 

without learning all of the 

music first. With musical 

theater there are a lot of 

moving pieces and everyone 

has to work together, 

including myself and the 

Director. Collaboration is 

necessary to create a production 

that flows.” 

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Faith Briefs 

Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook 

(2095 Landwehr Road) 

High Holiday Services 

The Prayers are warm, 

The melodies are timeless, 

the people are friendly, 

the children have a program 

and everyone feels 

at home. You are invited to 

High Holiday Services at 

Chabad of Northbrook led 

by Rabbi Meir Moscowitz, 

Rabbi Shua Greenspan and 

Cantor Eli Goldman. We 

have saved you a seat. Services 

conducted in Hebrew 

and English, with insights 

and explanations into the 

prayers. All are welcome. 

Membership and tickets 

not required. Be sure to 

make your reservations at 

www.ChabadNorthbrook. 

com. For more information, 

call (847) 564-8770 . 

Tuesday Women to Women 

Class 

Weekly women’s class 

hosted by Chaya Epstein at 

9 a.m. Women to Women 

is a Jewish women’s organization 

run by women for 

women. For more information, 

call (847) 564-8770. 

Congregation Beth Shalom 

(3433 Walters Ave.) 

Great Round Challah Take 

2 

Be a part of the Great 

Round Challah Take 2 at 


on Thursday, Sept. 19, 

at 6:45–9 p.m. A hands-on 

workshop where you will 

learn new braiding techniques 

and go home with 

two oven-ready challot 

made from scratch. Cost 

is $27 for nonmembers, 

RSVP by Sept. 12 by sending 

payment to 3433 Walters 

Ave, Northbrook, IL, 

60062, or calling Lisa at 

(847) 498-4100. 

Shabbat with a Twist 

Join for Shabbat with 

a Twist, Friday, Sept. 20, 

Oct. 4 and Oct. 18 at Congregation 

Beth Shalom 

11–11:45 a.m. Families 

with children up to Pre-K 

join our clergy for stories 

and songs and then twist 

your own challah with 

dough we provide and take 

it home to bake. Open to 

the community — free of 

charge. For more information, 

call (847) 498-4100 

or visit www.bethshalomnb.org. 

New Year’s Celebration 

Come and celebrate the 

New Year at Congregation 

Beth Shalom’s Family Service 

for families with children 

up to the age of 7 on 

Sept. 30 at 2:30 p.m. The 

whole family is welcome 

for a fun hour of songs and 

stories and to hear the blast 

of the Shofar. This service 

is open to the entire community 

and free of charge. 

Enjoy apples and honey on 

your way home; our sweet 

treat to you. 

Rosh Hashanah service 

HUGS invites to a Rosh 

Hashanah service for families 

with special needs at 


at 3:30-4:30 p.m. on 

Sept. 30. This service is 

open to the entire community, 

free of charge — all 

ages are welcome! For 

questions and to RSVP 

please, contact Eli at (847) 

498-4100 or ecastellano@ 

bethshalomnb.org. 

Second Day of Rosh 

Hashanah services for 

children, families and 

adults 

Join at Congregation 

Beth Shalom for Second 

Day of Rosh Hashanah 

services for children, families 

and adults on Oct. 1. 

Services begin at 8:30 a.m. 

in our Main Sanctuary and 

Pre-K-6th grade alternative 

programming/services 

begin at 9:30 a.m. All services 

are open to the entire 

community and free of 

charge. For more information, 

call (847) 498-4100. 

High Holiday Blood Drive 


will hold a High Holiday 

Blood Drive on Oct. 

6, from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. To 

schedule your appointment 

to donate blood, 

visit vitalant.org and use 

group code NB05 or call 

(877) 258-4825. Prepare: 

eat well, be hydrated and 

bring ID. Give a pint, get 

a pint from Culvers. Appointments 

recommended, 

walk-ins welcome. 

Yom Kippur for Yizkor 

Join at Congregation 

Beth Shalom as we open 

our doors to the community 

on Yom Kippur for 

Yizkor followed by the 

concluding services of the 

day Oct. 9 beginning at 3 

p.m. This event is open to 

the community; no charge. 

For more information, call 

(847) 498-4100. 

Simchat TorahTONE and Ice 

Cream Social 

Join for the Simchat TorahTONE 

and Ice Cream 

Social on Oct. 21 at 5:45 

p.m. Have you ever gone 

to synagogue services and 

been told to sit down and 

be quiet? Well, not tonight. 

Come and sing along and 

dance to the beat on this 

celebratory evening with 

wonderful music. Stay 

afterward for a delicious 

ice cream social. All are 

welcome; free of charge. 


(847) 498-4100. 

Blessing of the Pets 

Congregation Beth 

Shalom will be holding 

a Blessing of the Pets on 

Oct. 27 at 12:15 p.m. In 

keeping with the belief 

that all living creatures 

are sacred and knowing 

how important pets are 

to their families’ lives, on 

this Shabbat of Noach, 

the clergy will bless your 

pets. All friendly pets are 

invited on a leash or in a 

carrier. All members of the 

community are welcome. 


(847) 498-4100. 

Northbrook Community Synagogue 

(2548 Jasper Court) 

Morning Minyan 

Join morning minyan 

followed by breakfast on 

weekdays at 7:15 a.m. and 

on Sundays and holidays 

at 9 a.m. For information, 

call (847) 509-9204. 

Darchei Noam of Glenbrook 

(3465 Techny Road) 

High Holidays 

Celebrate the High 

Holidays with DNG. Rosh 

Hashana services both 

days begin at 8:15 a.m.; 

programming for kids age 

2-7 is 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 

Kol Nidrei at 6pm. Yom 

Kippur services begin at 

9 a.m., again with kids 

programming. Yizkor is 

at noon. For more information, 

visit darcheinoamglenbrook.org 

or email 

info@darcheinoamglenbrook.org. 

Shabbat services 

Join 9 a.m. followed by 

kiddush. Daf Yomi weekdays 

5:30 a.m., Sundays at 

7:15 a.m. Shacharit weekdays 

6:30 a.m., Sundays 

8:30 a.m. Mincha, maariv, 

and other study opportunities 

variable — please contact 

margo@darcheinoamglenbrook.org 

or (224) 

306-9364 for details. 

Temple Beth-El (3610 Dundee Road) 

Kabbalat Shabbat 

Join for a refreshing and 

musical Shabbat Service at 

6 p.m. every Friday with 

Rabbi Helbraun and Cantor 

Kahan. For more information, 

contact Shaina at 

(847) 205-9982. 

High Holiday Children’s 

Services 

Join on Rosh HaShanah 

(Sept. 30) and Yom 

Kippur (Oct. 9) from 9 to 

10 a.m. for a free Young 

Children’s Family Service 

designed for children below 

third grade and their 

parents to introduce them 

to themes of the holidays 

and provide a meaningful 

experience. Service takes 

place at Glenbrook South 

High School. Please sign 

up at bit.ly/tbechildrenservices2019. 

Submit information for 

The Tower’s Faith page to 

m.dwojak@22nd 

centurymedia.com. Deadline 

is noon on Thursday. 

Matilda 

From Page 37 

For Freshman Matthew 

Blonder, a high school 

musical production vastly 

differs from his experiences 

of the past. 

“The talent of the cast 

and the expectations are 

definitely greater than 

anything I’ve done in the 

past,” he said. “Many of 

us have multiple roles, so 

it’s interesting to switch 

from one character to the 

next. I’ve also learned 

how to convey a message 

without saying a word. 

For some of my characters, 

It is all about my 

body language and facial 

expressions that are used 

to send a message.” 

Sophomore Rachel Harris 

plays Agatha Trunchbull, 

most definitely the 

wickedest character of the 

production. The challenge 

of being pure evil is one 

that Harris relishes in. 

“I’ve played the antagonist 

before, but something 

about being Trunchbull is 

especially fun,” she said. “I 

use a lot of humor to make 

her my own; I also rely on 

vocal techniques that make 

me sound very regal and 

wacky. Essentially, Trunchbull 

is just a very jealous 

person, looking to ruin the 

lives of others, but as the 

audience will see, she does 

not succeed.” 

Abby Wrench, also a 

Sophomore, plays a young 

boy named Tommy. She is 

part of the ensemble, commissioned 

with the task of 

bringing individuality to 

the group dynamic. 

“Portraying Tommy 

was very fun, because he 

is a mischievous trickster, 

so there is a lot to work 

with,” Wrench said. “One 

of the things that I learned 

when playing the role of 

a child is that every emotion 

is enhanced. We are 

reminded that children see 

everything in a magnified 

way, so it is very fun to be 

very expressive.” 

Along with Hill and 

Davidson, Annie Jo Ermel 

provided choreography. 

Joel Monaghan provided 

technical direction, as did 

students, Lily Glaubinger 

and Madelyn Lasky. 

In addition, all adult 

directors gave a round of 

applause to the crew and 

tech team, comprised of 

students who provided 

lighting, sound, stage direction 

and more, giving 

many the opportunity to 

participate in much-needed 

behind-the-scenes aspects 

as well. 

Showtimes for “Matilda” 

are at 7 p.m. Thursday, 

Sept. 26- Saturday, Sept. 

28 at Glenbrook North in 

the Center for Performing 

Arts. Tickets can be found 

at www.showtix4u.

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Wood Oaks Junior High 

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Ten Ninety Brewing Co. 

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The Curragh Glenview 

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Potato Creek Johnny’s 

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Oil Lamp Theater 

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performances of 

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City Hall 

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Fred’s Garage 

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■Every ■ Friday: Fred’s 

Garage Fish Fry Fridays 

Winnetka Village Hall 

(510 Green Bay Road) 

■7:30 ■ a.m. on Saturdays: 

Winnetka Farmers 

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Winnetka Historical 

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(411 Linden St.) 

■2 ■ p.m. Sunday, Sept. 

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■Barbecue ■ every 

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Tapas Gitana 

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■6 ■ p.m. every other 

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GLENCOE 

Writers Theatre 

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■Ongoing: ■ Performances 

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Tudor Wine Bar 

(1528, 338 Tudor Court) 

■7 ■ p.m. Sept. 19: Captain 

Beerheart 

(acoustic pirate duo) 

■7 ■ p.m. Sept. 25: The 

Love (Beatles and 

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piano vocal duo) 

Glencoe Beach 


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Henry J. Kalk Park 

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■10 ■ a.m. Saturday, Oct. 

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■11 ■ a.m.-9 p.m. (10 

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Wilmette Wine Cellar 

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Behind-the-scenes look 

GBN students rehearse for fall musical 

North students (left to right) Hannah Dalinka, Abby Rench, Sam Slater and Dani 

Blumenfeld rehearse a scene together. 

GBN student Evan Denenberg performs during rehearsals for the school’s fall 

musical, “Matilda.” Photos by Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media 

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Ten Ninety opens new kitchen on the fly 

Nick Frazier 

Contributing Sports Editor 

If you want something 

done well, you’ve got to do 

it yourself. 

That’s why Glenview’s 

Ten Ninety Brewing Company 

recently started serving 

food made from scratch 

in their own kitchen, a 

change owner Brian Schafer 

says has been well-received 

among North Shore 

residents. 

Ten Ninety was originally 

founded in 2012 in Zion 

but moved to Glenview 

four years later. Schafer, 

a former CFO, was determined 

to bring the food inhouse. 

That meant building 

a brand new kitchen, hiring 

chefs and trying out new 

recipes. 

A brewery first, Schafer 

said the company keeps the 

flavors of the food in mind 

to best accompany the beer. 

“A lot of beers that 

we’ve brewed in the past 

and in the current and the 

future, we think about flavor 

profiles first and brew 

the beer, where a lot of 

breweries brew the beer 

and think about what food 

to pair it with,” Schafer 

explained. “A lot of our inspiration 

comes from food 

when we’re brewing. It’s a 

natural progression that we 

have the food now.” 

Previously, Ten Ninety 

was serving traditional bar 

food. Now, the restaurant 

wants residents to know 

they can order food off a 

diverse menu to pair with 

their favorite pints. 

“We want to let people 

know that we’re not just a 

brewery serving bar food,” 

Schafer said. “We have 

salmon, we have mussels, 

we’ve got different salads. 

We still have a mighty tasty 

burger, we’re doing pizza, 

because we don’t want to 

turn our back on some of 

the biggest sellers and most 

popular foods in the country. 

We’re doing it with 

unique twists; we incorporate 

our beer in every menu 

item.” 

Ten Ninety began rolling 

out a food menu a few 

months ago on the fly. A 

few dishes, like the Ten 

Ninety Burger and the Beer 

Tachos (tater tots, beer 

cheese sauce, crumbled bacon, 

and chive with a fried 

egg on top) are already fan 

favorites. 

There are a few constant 

staples in the menu, but 

there’s also a lot of experimenting 

with dishes to find 

the next crowd favorite. 

“We’re a brewery, so 

we like to experiment,” 

Schafer said. “I tell everybody 

here, ‘If you’ve got a 

good idea and people like 

it, we’ll go with it.’ Good 

ideas can come from anywhere 

at any level in the 

organization.” 

The cooks in the kitchen 

have free range to come up 

with new ideas, and if it 

passes the taste test, it will 

end up on the menu. 

“That gets people excited 

about the job,” Schafer 

said. “More ownership. 

There’s pride because they 

know this is what I’m doing, 

there’s a little bit of me 

going out in every dish.” 

A few lucky 22nd Century 

Media editors got to 

sample a wide range of Ten 

Ninety’s new dishes. 

We started with the 

famed Ten Ninety Burger 

($15), which features two 

grass-fed beef patties with 

sharp American cheese, 

cucumber and diced white 

onion. The burger is cooked 

with Rancorous III, a craft 

beer brewed at Ten Ninety. 

Next up were the Drunken 

Mussels ($15), with 

P.E.I. mussels sauteed in 

Ten Ninety Brewing 

Company 

1025 N. Waukegan 

Road, Glenview 

(224) 432-5472 

www.ten-ninety.com 

4-10 p.m. 

Monday-Friday 

12-10 p.m. Saturday 

12-6 p.m. Sunday 

Juice God, a New Englandstyle 

IPA. Included were 

spicy chorizo and lemon, 

and the appetizer was 

served with crostini. 

Another popular dish 

the 22CM editors tried was 

The Roosevelt pizza ($16), 

a dish Schafer’s daughter 

came up with. The dough 

is made with one of Ten 

Ninety’s lagers, and The 

Roosevelt is a white pizza 

made of gouda, caramelized 

onions, sauteed mushrooms 

and olive oil. 

The next dish was the 

Buffalo Chicken Sammich 

($13), an 8-ounce fried 

chicken breast with crumbled 

blue cheese, tossed in 

MPF Buffalo sauce with 

mixed greens and ranch 

dressing on the side. 

Lastly, we enjoyed the 

mixed greens salad ($8), 

which featured cherry tomatoes, 

cucumber, blue 

cheese crumbles, croutons 

and the Rancorous III vinaigrette. 

The salmon on top 

of the salad was a classy 

touch. 

Ten Ninety is now open 

seven days a week, and 

the taproom hosts trivia 

on Thursdays and even offers 

bags lessons. Schafer 

enjoys getting to show his 

creative side at the restaurant. 

“I’ve always had that. 

It’s something you’ve got 

to suppress a little more as a 

CFO,” Schafer said. “Coming 

into work in shorts and 

a T-shirt is pretty nice.” 

The seared salmon dinner ($20, here shown as a salad) is a healthy option with a 

6-ounce pan-seared salmon filet served on field greens, quinoa and brown rice, 

drizzled with a blackberry sharp wit and butter emulsion and finished with fresh 

parsley and lemon. Photos by Michal Dwojak/22nd Century Media 

ABOVE: Ten Ninety’s 

Drunken Mussels ($15) are 

P.E.I. mussels braised in 

Juice God butter sauce with 

spicy chorizo and lemon 

served with crostini. 

LEFT: A fan favorite, the Ten 

Ninety burger ($15) consists 

of two grass-fed hormone/ 

antibiotic-free beef patties, 

Rancorous III dijonnaise, 

sharp American cheddar, 

house-pickled cucumbers 

and diced white onion.



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September 28, 2019 

11 am –10:30 pm 

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Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Nya Robinson 

Robinson is a member 

of the Glenbrook North 

girls swimming and diving 

team 

When and why did 

you start swimming? 

I started swimming at 

a young age because my 

parents put me in a swim 

class and I just improved 

from then. 

What do you like most 

about the sport? 

I like the competitiveness 

of it at meets. 

Do you have any 

superstitions before a 

meet? 

No, I don’t think so. I 

just think about the positive 

side of it. 

What is your favorite 

sports moment? 

Just whenever I drop my 

time for a certain cut that I 

was going for. 

What is one thing 

people don’t know 

about you? 

People don’t know that 

I’ve lived in five states. 

If you could be any 

superhero, which 

superpower would you 

want? 

I would want to be Spiderman 

because he can 

jump a lot and he can go 

back and forth. 

What would you do if 

you won the lottery? 

I would use it for my 

Photo submitted 

family and then I would 

probably donate some of 

it. 

If you could play any 

other sport, which 

would you play? 

I would play soccer. I 

played for five or six years. 

What is one thing on 

your bucket list? 

To make the Olympic 

Trails or go to Greece. 

If you could be any 

animal, which would 

you be? 

I would be a dolphin 

because I like water and 

they’re always in the water. 

Interview by Sports Editor 

Michal Dwojak 

This Week In ... 

SPARTANS Varsity 

Athletics 

FOOTBALL 

■Sept. ■ 20 - hosts 

Hersey, 7 p.m. 

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL 

■Sept. ■ 19 - hosts Evanston, 

6 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 24 - at New Trier, 

6 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 26 - at Niles 

West, 6 p.m. 

BOYS GOLF 


4 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 21 - hosts Wheeling, 

8 a.m. 


4 p.m. 

Central Suburban League South Division 

Glenbrook North 3-0 overall, 0-0 

conference 

Evanston 1-2, 0-0 

Maine South 1-2, 0-0 

New Trier 1-2, 0-0 

Glenbrook South 0-3, 0-0 

Niles West 0-3, 0-0 

Olympic 

From Page 49 

Team Princeton come back 

from a 17-14 deficit, hitting 

clutch 2-pointers as part 

of an unanswered 7-0 run 

to win 21-17 over a gritty 

3BALL Chicago team that 

had taken the qualifier title 

in Chicago a day earlier. 

“It’s funny how basketball 

works. I didn’t make 

a lot of 2’s until the semifinals,” 

said Hummel. “It’s 

a credit to my team who 

found me open, and the ball 

was going in.” 

Both Hummel and Craig 

GIRLS GOLF 

■Sept. ■ 19 - at Loyola 

Academy, 4 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 21 - at Deerfield, 

1 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 23 - hosts Fremd, 

4 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 26 - hosts Deerfield, 

4 p.m. 

GIRLS TENNIS 


4:30 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 21 - at Power 8 

Invite, 8:30 a.m. 

■Sept. ■ 24 - hosts Glenbrook 

South, 4:30 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 26 - at Niles 

West, 4:30 p.m. 

2019 Standings 

BOYS SOCCER 


7 p.m. 


7 p.m. 

■Sept. ■ 26 - at Maine 

South, 7 p.m. 

GIRLS SWIMMING AND DIVING 

■Sept. ■ 20 - at Deerfield, 

5 p.m. 


North Sprint 

Classic Diving, 9 a.m. 


North Sprint 

Classic, 1 p.m. 

BOYS CROSS-COUNTRY 

■Sept. ■ 21 - at Warren 

Invite, 9 a.m. 

GIRLS CROSS-COUNTRY 

■Sept. ■ 21 - at Warren 

Invite, 9 a.m. 

■Sept. ■ 24 - hosts Evanston/New 

Trier, Niles 

West, 4:30 p.m. 

CCL/ESCC Blue Division 

Mount Carmel 3-0, 0-0 

Brother Rice 2-1, 0-0 

Loyola Academy 2-1, 0-0 

Marist 2-1, 0-0 

Moore of Team Princeton 

came into today’s regional 

action ranked among the 

top 10 U.S. players in FI- 

BA’s 3x3 world rankings. 

Another six players from 

the USA’s top 70 were also 

on display, including Canyon 

Barry of Gator Elite, 

who won gold alongside 

Hummel at the 2019 FIBA 

3-on-3 World Cup and is 

the son of NBA Hall of 

Famer Rick Barry. The 3X 

Regionals are free and open 

to the public. Additionally, 

games will be streamed on 

Twitch at Twitch.tv/NBA. 

The players are competing 

to accumulate enough 

individual FIBA points 

with the goal of moving 

on to the Red Bull USA 

Basketball 3X Nationals 

in April 2020, where 

24 men’s and 24 women’s 

teams will be on display. 

From that event, USA 

Basketball will select four 

players — not necessarily 

all from one championship 

team — for the men’s and 

women’s teams that will 

play in Tokyo less than a 

year from now, should the 

USA qualify, as 3-on-3 

makes its Olympic debut.

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ticed any arm injuries because of 

pitching. 

“In our experience, the different 

motion in fast-pitch softball 

generally results in far fewer arm 

issues than it does in baseball,” 

NGSA President Pat Dunbar says 

in an email. “We are more likely 

to have ‘tired’ arms from too 

much pitching or girls that fatigue 

from the pressure of pitching versus 

actual injuries. This would be 

more true of our higher achieving, 

travel pitchers.” 

Researcher Kristin Thomas 

believes part of the reason why 

coaches and parents have a hard 

time opening their minds to the 

research is the culture of softball. 

For every player she brought up 

who suffered an injury, a coach 

would mention a player who never 

had any arm trouble. 

“I feel like they all know that 

one person and the culture of it, 

those girls are all pretty tough 

and reserved,” Thomas said. 

“The girls aren’t saying anything, 

they’re in a culture where they’re 

not going to.” 

Tekip isn’t against following a 

pitching limit if that’s what’s recommended, 

but he can’t say what 

the reception would be among 

his fellow softball coaches. Tekip 

knows coaches will follow suit 

as soon as USA Softball or a top 

organization requires coaches to 

have pitching limits, just like they 

followed the concussion protocol 

once its became a mandatory part 

of a coach’s training. 

If the research is there and it has 

long-term benefits to the health of 

his players, Tekip is completely 

on board. 

“To incorporate something like 

that into a player safety training 

would be mandatory for coaches, 

I think would be great.” 

Not enough evidence 

The Illinois High School Association 

didn’t waste any time 

instituting a pitching limit in 

baseball for the 2017 season 

when research from the National 

Federation of State High School 

(NFHS) came out that high pitching 

totals could lead to long-term 

arm damage. 

But in softball, there hasn’t 

been a reason to act. 

“The IHSA Softball Advisory 

Committee and the IHSA Sports 

Medicine Committee have not received 

any data that would necessitate 

the need for pitch counts for 

high school softball in Illinois,” 

says Tracie Henry, the IHSA’s 

Assistant Executive Director 

and softball representative, in an 

email, 

Henry mentioned the IHSA 

reviews the NFHS’ studies locally 

and determines whether any 

changes should be made. 

The NFHS receives its injury 

information from an outside organization 

that’s in its 13th year 

of gathering softball exposure injuries, 

a sport that has the lowest 

rate compared to all other sports 

according to NFHS Director of 

Sports Sandy Searcy. In the data 

gathered, the organization tracks 

the type of injury, how long it 

takes to come back from the injury, 

what inning the athlete suffered 

the injury, what position 

they played, how old they are and 

what grade they are in. But, the 

study doesn’t collect the number 

of days, when one pitches and the 

numbers of pitches thrown. 

“We’ve been conducting the 

RIO (High School Sports-Related 

Injury Surveillance) survey for 

over 10 years and it really hasn’t 

been shown to have adverse injuries, 

overuse injuries, any trends 

that we can focus on or point 

to that would indicate that we 

should take a closer look at establishing 

pitch counts for softball,” 

Searcy said. “I think that’s not the 

case in baseball ... . In the world 

of softball, it just hasn’t shown to 

be an issue.” 

Searcy admitted the organization 

doesn’t study the longterm 

effects of pitching in large 

amounts, noting that there’s no 

mechanism for doing so. 

“The injury data we have on 

the shoulder and the elbow just 

haven’t trended toward increasing 

injuries, but what it doesn’t 

track those pitchers that are pitching 

five games in three days, or 

two games in a day, those kinds 

of things,” Searcy said. 

The NFHS maintains a twoway 

relationship with its members 

to determine whether some 

rule changes should be made 

once a new school year begins. 

Searcy and her colleagues try to 

keep a tab on news around the 

country so they can provide its 

members with the best injury prevention 

methods. When it comes 

to softball and arm injuries, they 

just haven’t seen much to warrant 

an edict. 

“We try to keep our thumb on 

this so we know what’s going 

on out there,” Searcy said. “We 

just haven’t seen it. To be honest, 

we’re not tracking that criteria.” 

Looking ahead 

What needs to happen next in 

the softball-pitching debate depends 

on who you ask. 

Researchers believe they’ve 

found the genesis of an issue that 

needs more investigation while 

those who have been around the 

sport their entire lives don’t think 

there’s a reason why the “natural 

motion” belief should be challenged 

Youth coaches like Rick Tekip 

are open to change but haven’t 

seen a reason for that to happen 

while newcomers like Kristin 

Thomas want to see equality in 

the protection of athletes. 

“I think what softball needs to 

do is what baseball did, which 

is put research looking at pitch 

counts and looking at it at a bigger 

level if these female pitchers 

need the same protections given 

to male pitchers by limiting pitch 

counts,” Thomas said. 

It’s the debate Katie Rossmann 

has been a part of since 

she started playing the sport as 

a young girl. She’s now a coach 

teaching players how to protect 

themselves from injuries by 

pitching with proper technique 

and following the same icing and 

stretching habits she started, but 

she also knows limits should be 

placed with the addition of including 

bigger pitching rotations. 

“They shouldn’t throw over 

and over again, it’s not healthy,” 

Rossmann said. 

She’ll do her best to make her 

players as lucky as she was. 

The Varsity: North Shore Podcast 

Guys recap second week of football 

Staff Report 

In this week’s episode of The 

Varsity: North Shore, the only 

podcast focused on North Shore 

sports, hosts Michal Dwojak, 

Nick Frazier and Michael Wojtychiw 

recap the third week of 

football. They recap each of the 

area team’s games, are joined 

by Highland Park head football 

coach David Lindquist, play 

Way/No Way, preview next 

week’s action and talk some 

girls volleyball to finish the episode. 

First Quarter 

The three recap the third week 

of action. 

Second Quarter 

Giants coach Lindquist joins 

the guys to talk about the third 

game against Buffalo Grove. 

Third Quarter 

The guys move on to Way/ 

No Way, where they make some 

predictions with girls swimming 

and diving. 

Fourth Quarter 

With week four next, the three 

preview and make some predictions 

on the next set of games. 

Overtime 

Our hosts go to overtime and 

talk about the start of the girls 

volleyball season. 

Northbrook’s Marver part of 

potential Olympic 3v3 team 

Submitted content 

Half-court action is intensifying 

to find elite 3-on-3 players 

to potentially represent USA 

Basketball at the 2020 Summer 

Olympics in Tokyo, should the 

U.S. qualify. 

At the Red Bull USA Basketball 

3X Regionals today at 

Northeastern Illinois University, 

the Splash Sisters, including 

Northbrook’s Jodi Marver, 

relied on 2-point buckets to roll 

through the bracket and punch 

their ticket to the 2020 Red Bull 

USA Basketball 3X Nationals 

with a 18-15 victory over Glitter 

Gang. It was a flood of 2-pointers 

from all over the court for the 

group of women, some of whom 

played basketball at Yale in the 

Ivy League but were not accustomed 

to this game format. 

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“We’ve never played in a 3x3 

tournament until this weekend,” 

Martha Glodz said. “We just 

wanted to win one game, and now 

we are on our way to nationals.” 

In all, 18 elite men’s and 

women’s teams based on points 

accumulated in the 3X Midwest 

Region, which was comprised of 

Red Bull 3X qualifier action in 

Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, 

Cleveland and Milwaukee, made 

their way to the inaugural Red 

Bull USA Basketball 3X Regionals 

today, along with three wildcard 

teams determined by USA 

Basketball. Teams earned a spot 

by placing in the top four of one 

of the Red Bull 3X qualifiers or 

by winning other tournaments. 

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Boys Hockey 

Spartans hope adjustments 

lead to success, championship 

2 

Glenbrook North boys hockey player Charlie Slovis will be a key-returning player for 

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A 22ND CENTURY MEDIA PRODUCTION 

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about your favorite high 

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Michal Dwojak, Sports Editor 

Evan Poulakidas and 

his Glenbrook North players 

are going to have to go 

through a change in philosophy 

this season. 

No, the ultimate goals 

are still to win a conference 

and state championships, 

but the way the 

Spartans do it this season 

will be different. 

North lost three all-state 

players in goaltender Brennan 

Nein and defensemen 

David Wilcox and Tim 

Burke and will not need to 

sure up things defensively. 

Even though Poulakidas 

is confident in the players 

that he does have this 

season, he wants the entire 

team to be more involved. 

“It’s not just the defensive 

people that we have to 

rely on to play defense; it’s 

our entire team,” Poulakidas 

said. “If we do that as 

a unit each time, we can be 

as good as we have been in 

the past.” 

Part of the pressure will 

come on to the forwards, 

who Poulakidas said is a 

deep group. Each player 

is going to have to play 

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Wheeling added a 

touchdown in the third 

quarter to make the score 

50-13. North’s Joe Pollina 

then drilled a 35-yard 

field goal for the game’s 

final score. 

Looking ahead 

Possibly Glenbrook 

North’s toughest opponent 

of 2019 awaits in 

deeper into the zone, making 

sure they take their opponents 

all the way down. 

Centers will also need to 

more cautious in how they 

play pucks in the middle 

of the rink and not take 

as many chances, which 

would leave the defensemen 

on an island. 

The defense does have 

returning talent in Evan 

Izenstark and Jack Hardesty, 

both of who have 

shown they have the talent 

to compete with the best 

while goaltenders Sam Bilis 

and Matthew Carr will 

bring strong stability in 

net. 

The more emphasis on 

defense also has Poulakidas 

looking for more dedicated 

play. The head coach 

knows his players have 

always played hard, but 

he wants the challenge of 

playing the Spartans to be 

too much to overcome. 

“Everybody has to be 

hard to play against,” Poulakidas 

said. “If you’re 

not hard to play against, 

you’re really not fulfilling 

our expectations.” 

North will have some 

strong offensive balance 

this season, with some key 

returning players mixing 

together with youth. Charlie 

Slovin, Matt Dahlke 

and Andrew Rubin and are 

just some of the talented 

players expected to have 

a big impact this season 

and have helped lead the 

group that Poulakidas has 

a strong bond. The offseason 

workouts were the 

best the head coach has 

seen during his time with 

North, which has him excited 

about the future. 

The Scholastic Hockey 

League will be even more 

tough with the addition 

of three teams: St. Viator, 

Oak Park-River Forest and 

Carmel Catholic. North’s 

depth should help players 

stay fresh in a difficult 

conference, one where 

Poulakidas hopes changes 

will lead his team to reach 

its potential. 

“They’ve really bought 

in to sacrificing for each 

other,” “It doesn’t matter 

who scores or who gets 

credit. They’re really concentrating 

on winning as 

opposed to individual accolades. 

When you do that, 

you have a chance to win.” 

Week 4. 

The Spartans (3-0) 

will match up with John 

Hersey High School (3- 

0), one of the top-ranked 

teams in 7A. 

The Huskies, fresh off 

consecutive nine-win seasons, 

have outscored opponents 

133-41 this season. 

Purdy said the Spartans 

will have to focus on 

Hersey quarterback Jordan 

Hansen, who he described 

as a “tremendous 

quarterback” and a “Division 

1-caliber kid.” 

Hersey also features 

a receiving group Purdy 

called “great” and defense 

he said “attacks” opponents. 

“They are a force to be 

reckoned with,” he said. 

“So we have to be on our 

game.” 

The game is scheduled 

for 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 

20, at GBN.



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Softball’s ‘natural motion’ pitching 

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Katie Rossmann considers herself 

lucky. 

The Glenbrook South softball 

alumna, who played at the University 

of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 

never had an arm injury, despite 

pitching since the age of 5. Other 

injuries came and went, but her 

arm remained unscathed, no matter 

how many times she repeated 

her windmill routine. 

Rossmann watched teammates 

battle injuries after placing an 

enormous degree of stress on 

their arms while pitching. Some 

of her college teammates’ lack of 

experience took a toll on Rossmann’s 

arm too. She did the majority 

of the throwing during her 

sophomore and junior seasons, 

throwing 94 and 137 innings, respectively, 

while the stress grew. 

Yet, she never suffered an injury. 

“Ice, stretch, repeat” became 

her post game ritual until she 

graduated in 2018. 

Rossmann knows she’s an exception 

to the rule. 

Many players followed the 

same routine and still wound up 

with injuries. She tries to instill 

the same habits in her youth softball 

players as their pitching instructor, 

but has found herself in 

the middle of a debate that’s been 

around since she started playing 

the game. 

Rossmann, like many amateur 

pitchers, played an unlimited 

amount thanks to the accepted 

theory among softball coaches 

and parents that the softball pitching 

motion is natural. To many, 

her lack of an arm injury wasn’t 

the exception to the rule. To 

many, she exemplified the rule. 

Researchers are calling the 

rule into question. Many youth 

and high school baseball organizations 

placed pitching limits 

on their pitchers in recent years, 

but softball organizations have 

avoided following suit, despite 

research across the country suggesting 

a limit might be needed. 

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Rossmann feels stuck. Her 

experiences led her to believe 

limitation is necessary, but she 

doesn’t know whether the rule 

can be changed. 

“Yes it is a natural motion, but 

there are a lot of things in it that 

isn’t.” 

No need for concern 

Emily Pater never felt a reason 

to be worried. 

The Northbrook resident and 

sophomore at Kenyon College 

always did what her coaches 

told her when it came to pitching 

since she started playing the sport 

in third grade. 

“I’ve always been told that it 

shouldn’t hurt ever unless you’re 

doing it wrong because it’s a natural 

motion,” Pater said of pitching. 

“Where in baseball, just like 

throwing overhand, it can wear 

your arm out because your shoulder 

is moving in a way where it 

doesn’t really want to, where 

in softball windmill pitching is 

much more fluid and natural.” 

Researchers are now testing 

that assumption of fluidity by 

looking at the windmill pitching 

style. A study published in the 

1998 Journal of Orthopaedic & 

Sports Physical Therapy examined 

the common belief by studying 

the biomechanics of the windmill 

pitching style. 

The paper’s authors looked at 

eight women — six pitched in 

college and two pitched for semiprofessional 

teams. They examined 

how the pitchers warmed 

up and usually pitched before 10 

trials were collected of the subjects 

throwing fastball pitches, 

with the pitchers wearing different 

markers to measure different 

forces placed on their throwing 

and non-throwing arms. 

The pitchers performed the 

same windmill technique nearly 

every softball pitcher uses. Each 

pitcher started by bringing her 

arm back, above shoulder level, 

before moving her pitching arm 

forward all the way around in a 

counterclockwise motion before 

releasing the ball once her arm 

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returned just past her legs. The 

researchers measured the torque 

placed on different parts of the 

throwing arm and compared it to 

the data they already had on overhand 

pitching. 

They found one of the critical 

instances in underhand pitching 

was during the delivery or acceleration, 

where the forces to resist 

distraction at the shoulder and 

elbow were the greatest. In contrast, 

deceleration is the critical 

instance in overhand pitching. 

The study questioned the assumption 

that underhand pitching 

doesn’t create significant stress 

on the shoulder and elbow, suggesting 

that more investigation 

was needed to fully understand 

the influence of underhand pitching 

on overuse injuries. 

Pater’s seen her teammates 

battle different arm ailments. 

They’ve either thrown too many 

pitches or had a flaw in their technique, 

which led to tendonitis and 

negatively impacted their careers. 

Pater became more sore when 

she started pitching collegiately 

and noticed the toll it took on her 

body. College teams feature more 

pitchers, but in a week of practices, 

younger pitchers still throw 

a lot/nearly as much as they did in 

high school. 

Throughout her softball career, 

Pater sometimes pitched five 

to six games in a weekend and 

threw a majority of the games’ 

innings each time she took the 

mound. She never kept track of 

how many pitches she threw and 

there was no set rule for taking 

any time from pitching in a game. 

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“Personally, I don’t see pitching 

too many innings in a short 

time frame negatively impact my 

body, but it might have a bad effect 

on others,” Pater said. 

Pater does think that if a pitching-limit 

rule was to be passed 

it would be to cap pitching in a 

great amount in a small span of 

time. She’s noticed from personal 

experience how many games a 

pitcher can throw in a short span 

of time. 

“I think it is interesting how 

you need one good arm and you 

can keep going.” 

“Nothing natural about that” 

Kristin Thomas will be the first 

to say she’s not a softball player, 

but the sport’s natural motion debate 

caught her attention when 

she went through a sports rotation 

learning during her medicalschool 

residency. 

She studied about ACL injuries 

in her sports book she used during 

her education, where there 

was a chapter about the injury in 

men followed by one about the 

injury in women. Thomas went 

on to learn about throwing injuries 

in men and what didn’t follow 

surprised her: There was no 

chapter on women. 

Thomas started asking around 

about the absence and was 

shocked by the answer that the 

windmill approach is a natural 

motion in women. 

“I said ‘have you watched 

them?’” Thomas said. “There’s 

nothing natural about that.” 

Thomas decided to conduct a 

study to learn more. She and colleagues 

studied 50 NCAA Division 

I, II and III softball players 

from teams and collected pitching 

logs from six of the 14 teams. 

The researchers categorized the 

severity of each pitching injury as 

grade 1, an injury without time 

lost; grade 2, an injury with time 

lost; and grade 3, a season-ending 

injury. Of those studied, 20 pitchers 

had grade-1 injuries, six had 

grade-2 injuries and none had 

grade-3 injuries. 

She examined the players prior 

to the start of the season. Before 

the season began, each player had 

their range of motion measured 

with a goniometer — an instrument 

that measures angles — and 

shoulder strength measured with 

a dynamometer. During the season, 

Thomas collected weekly 

injury surveys from the players 

and pitch logs from the coaches. 

At the end of the season, she categorized 

the players into injured 

and noninjured groups. 

Thomas learned the more a 

softball player pitches, whether 

in practice or in games, the higher 

the risk of injury. 

She also learned more about 

the natural motion belief held 

among the softball community. 

Coaches didn’t keep track of how 

many pitches their pitchers threw 

and told Thomas she was wasting 

her time when she asked to talk to 

players who had no injuries, but 

players told her a different story. 

“It’s almost like where concussions 

used to be,” Thomas said. 

“We’re at this place where we’re 

asking if these girls are OK to 

play and they’re like ‘yeah, im 

fine to play, I’m just chowing 

down ibuprofen after games.’” 

Washington University School 

of Medicine in St. Louis Associate 

Professor, Orthopaedic 

Surgery Matthew Smith was curious 

about the debate too. He 

conducted a few studies at the 

Washington University School 

of Medicine in St. Louis to learn 

more where he evaluated more 

than 100 athletes from ages 14 to 

18 and found that 40 percent had 

some type of shoulder or arm injury 

during the season. 

The researchers used a device 

called a dynamometer that players 

pushed against to give an objective 

measurement of strength. 

The researchers also asked players 

how they felt, how tired they 

were and how much pain they 

were in. Smith could then correlate 

objective measures of 

strength and associate those with 

how the athletes said they felt. 

Smith found that the succession 

of games pitchers threw was part 

of the reason for their injuries. 

Pitchers experienced more shoulder 

pain, fatigue and weakness as 

they pitched in more games, especially 

in weekend tournaments. 

Both Smith and Thomas agreed 

there needs to be more research 

into the matter. Their studies 

didn’t have enough evidence to 

make any formal conclusions, but 

both agreed that pitching limits 

need to be looked into. 

“The challenge is just getting 

people aware that this is not a benign 

movement for the shoulder, 

and if more people are aware that 

it’s not benign, the more likely 

they are to pay attention to not 

overthrow these kids,” Smith 

said. 

Thomas noticed the common 

argument against a pitching limit 

was that many coaches knew 

of players like Pater and Rossmann: 

those who never suffered 

any shoulder injury during their 

softball career. There also isn’t 

as much interest into the topic 

because a major organization 

doesn’t have a vested interest in 

softball like Major League Baseball 

does with baseball, Thomas 

said. 

For Smith and Thomas,the solution 

is simple: more research. 

“Counting pitches in practices, 

in games and we would be able 

to debunk the theory ....” Thomas 

said. “If it’s not, then it’s great 

and they’ve been doing it right all 

along.” 

Coach’s concern 

Rick Tekip has his players’ 

health at the top of his mind at all 

times. 

“Every time out,” the Glenview 

Titans Fastpitch President 

said. “Every time I field a team. 

Every time I start a lineup.” 

He, like many softball coaches, 

doesn’t have pitching counts at the 

top of his mind. New cell phone 

applications like GameChanger 

keep track of every softball stat 

imaginable, including pitching 

counts, but Tekip doesn’t pay 

attention to that stat mid-game, 

sometimes not even after a game. 

The coach hasn’t had a reason 

to pay attention to the stat. He’s 

never had a player suffer an arm 

injury from pitching that he is 

aware of, but he has watched inexperienced 

coaches overwork 

their pitchers, which led to a lower 

velocity late in the season. 

He has a pitching staff of 

seven to eight pitchers but uses 

four or five. There’s isn’t a specific 

science to how he decides 

who pitches when — sometimes 

he just starts the pitcher who’s 

thrown well — but he does want 

to make sure his pitchers are 

rested and icing their arms after 

outings. 

“We also don’t want to overwork 

anyone to the point where 

they’re going to injure themselves, 

get a dead arm or take 

away the opportunity for others 

to get a shot too,” Tekip said. 

“We don’t do an equal number of 

innings and pitches, but I try to 

be as judicious as I can be with 

everybody’s opportunities, being 

mindful that this is a travel program 

and we’re looking for the 

team result.” 

Coaches from the Northbrook 

Girls Softball Association 

(NGSA) also haven’t seen many 

pitching-related injuries, but do 

have pitching restrictions in their 

recreational league. Each pitcher 

can only pitch two innings during 

a game for different reasons: To 

give more girls a chance to pitch, 

to balance out team competitiveness 

and to ensure that the girls 

aren’t overused. 

Coaches from the NGSA declined 

to be interviewed for this 

article, but did write through 

email their coaches haven’t no- 

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Football 

GBN routs Wheeling behind Ciss’s historic performance 

5 

Senior breaks 

three program 

records during 

6-touchdown night 

Martin Carlino, Editor 

Mike Ciss never imagined 

a record-breaking 

night from the running 

back position was a possibility. 

After preseason injuries 

in Glenbrook North’s 

backfield forced him to 

shift from the defensive 

side of the ball to the 

team’s primary running 

back, Ciss entered the 

year with modest expectations. 

But in just his thirdcareer 

game at the position, 

the senior delivered 

a night for the history 

books. 

The 6-foot, 170-pound 

captain scored a schoolrecord 

six rushing touchdowns 

in GBN’s 53-13 

win over the Wheeling 

Wildcats on Friday, Sept. 

13, in Wheeling. In total, 

Ciss broke three program 

records during the win: 

points scored in one game 

(36), rushing touchdowns 

(6) and total touchdowns 

(6). 

“He was on fire,” head 

coach Matt Purdy said. 

“He ran the ball really, 

really well. … He’s been 

tremendous for us. His 

vision on the field is just 

really improving each 

game. 

“I’m so proud of him. 

He takes such great care 

of his linemen, he’s such 

a great teammate and he’s 

such a great leader for us. 

He’s one of those kids 

who does the little things 

right all of the time.” 

Ciss finished the night 

Glenbrook North versus wheeling 

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Glenbrook North 28 22 0 3 53 

Wheeling 0 7 6 0 13 

Top Performers 

1. Mike Ciss, RB — 264 rushing yards, six touchdowns 

2. Quinn Sybert, LB — Six tackles, two sacks 

3. Drayton Charlton-Perrin, TE/LB — 29 receiving yards, 

one touchdown 

Ciss’s record-breaking night 

Rushing attempts: 16 

Rushing yards: 264 

Touchdowns: 6 

Program records: Points scored in one game (36), 

rushing touchdowns (6) and total touchdowns (6) 

with 264 rushing yards on 

just 16 carries — good for 

an average of 16.5 yards 

per carry. He scored all 

six touchdowns in the 

game’s first half. 

Asked if ever imagined 

a performance like this, 

Ciss humbly said “not in 

my wildest dreams.” 

“I have to thank my 

lineman for tonight,” Ciss 

said. "Coach Purdy was 

on them all week … and 

they worked their butts off 

at practice this week and 

it showed. On numerous 

of those touchdowns I had 

lineman downfield blocking 

for me and it helps a 

lot.” 

Ciss’s stats through the 

team’s first three games 

are extraordinary. In 61 

attempts, Ciss has rushed 

for 527 yards. He’s averaging 

8.6 yards per 

carry and his nine rushing 

touchdowns lead the 

team. 

How it happened 

The Spartans’ defense 

forced a three-and-out 

from Wheeling to open 

the game. 

After a blocked punt 

attempt, North started its 

first drive of the game inside 

Wheeling’s red zone. 

GBN scored on just two 

plays when Ciss rushed in 

a 3-yard score, giving the 

Spartans an early 7-0 lead. 

The Wildcats’ next 

drive shuttered after six 

plays and one first down. 

Senior captain Quinn 

Sybert sacked Wheeling’s 

quarterback on fourthand-two, 

forcing a turnover 

on downs. 

The Spartans again 

scored two plays later 

when Ciss rushed home 

an 8-yard score, his second 

of the night. 

North started its next 

drive at its own 29-yard 

line after a three-and-out 

from Wheeling. 

Ciss broke free on the 

drive’s second play for a 

68-yard touchdown run 

that gave North a 21-0 

lead over the Wildcats. 

Ciss scored his fourth 

TD of the night on North’s 

next drive via a 50-yard 

run. The Spartans ended 

the first quarter with 28 

points, their highest total 

for any quarter this season. 

Glenbrook North senior Mike Ciss breaks free for one of his six touchdown 

runs during GBNs 53-13 win over the Wheeling Wildcats on Friday, Sept. 13, 

in Wheeling. Ciss’s six touchdowns broke a program record. Photos by Susan 

Chou/22nd Century Media 

Avery Burow looks for space after getting a handoff. 

The Wildcats scored 

their first touchdown on 

an 8-yard pass after forcing 

a GBN turnover. 

GBN got the points 

right back, producing a 

seven-play touchdown 

drive that ended with 

Dylan Buckner tossing a 

29-yard pass to Drayton 

Charlton-Perrin. 

Ciss rushed in two more 

touchdowns before the 

end of the half — one 

from 41 yards and one 

from two yards out. 

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Boys Soccer 

North showing progress in young season 

6 

1st-and-3 

Athletes of the 

week 

Carlos Alvarez/22nd 

century mieda 

1. Michael Ciss 

(Above) The 


running back 

finished with a 

historic night for 

the Spartans 

against Wheeling 

on Friday, Sept. 

13, rushing for a 

program-record 

six touchdowns. 

2. Nya Robinson 

North’s girls 

swimmer has had 

a strong start to 

the season and 

figures to be a big 

part of a successful 

season for 

this Spartans this 

year. 

3. Quinn Sybert 

The GBN football 

player finished 

with six tackles 

and two sacks in 

his team’s win 

over the Wildcats 

on the road. 


Glenbrook North players 

and coaches are starting 

to see some progress in 

their young season. 

After starting the 1-3-1, 

head coach Paul Vignocchi 

has seen his player develop, 

winning their next 

two games against Grayslake 

Central and Vernon 

Hills. 

“They’re coming together 

as a team, which 

is good,” Vignocchi said. 

“The New Trier tournament 

prepares you for making 

mistakes and things like 

that and fixing those.” 

One major priority for 

the Spartans this season 

has been focusing on defense, 

which his players 

have. They are moving 

to the ball better now and 

stopping their opponents 

from creating different 

Game of the Week: 

• Loyola (2-1) at Mount Carmel (3-0) 

Other matchups: 

• Conant (3-0) at New Trier (1-2) 

• Prospect (3-0) at Highland Park (1-2) 

• Hersey (3-0) at Glenbrook North (3-0) 

• Lake Zurich (1-2) at Lake Forest (2-1) 

• Barrington (2-1) at Glenbrook South (0-3) 

• Warren (3-0) at Libertyville (1-2) 

chances. 

One of the reasons for 

the solid play by the defense 

has been the play 

of senior goalkeeper Nick 

Washelesky, who’s helped 

solidify things on the defensive 

end 

“He’s very calm, he’s 

good with his feet, he’s 

done a nice job providing 

some experience in the 

back for us,” Vignocchi 

said. 

Part of that has been 

thanks to some shakeups. 

Players no longer know 

what the starting lineup 

will be for each game until 

after they’re done going 

through warmups. Vignocchi 

and his staff want to 

see how his players compete 

during practice and 

warmups and wants to put 

his best players out there. 

The change came since 

16-5 

JOE COUGHLIN | 

Publisher 

• Mount Carmel 20, Loyola 17. 

Caravan make a statement to prove 

they’re a title contender. 

• New Trier 

• Prospect 

• Hersey 

• Lake Forest 

• Barrington 

• Warren 

12-9 

the Grayslake Central in 

the Spartans’ final game in 

the New Trier tournament 

and he’s starting to see the 

benefits of it as his team 

enters the middle portion 

of its season. 

“At this point now, we 

have to start playing good 

soccer and the guys that 

are coming off the bench 

have to understand their 

roles and contribute, and 

that will make us a better 

team,” Vignocchi said. 

NICK FRAZIER | 


• Loyola 21, Mount Carmel 18. The 

Ramblers earn their third win 

in a row. 

• New Trier 

• Highland Park 

• Hersey 



• Libertyville 

17-4 

MICHAL DWOJAK | 

Sports Editor 

• Mount Carmel 24, Loyola 17. 

The Caravan take advantage of 

homefield advantage. 

• New Trier 

• Prospect 

• Hersey 



• Warren 

Glenbrook North boys soccer player Nico Adducci 

moves the ball against Maine East on Thursday, Sept. 

12, in Park Ridge. Michal Dwojak/22nd Century Media 

Terminator 

Senior Joey Martens 

has been playing with a 

club on his right arm after 

he broke two bones in it 

during the Lyons game on 

Sept. 5. 

Martens is healthy and 

good to play, and has 

earned “The Terminator” 

nickname from his teammates 

and coaches. 

“He should get it off in 

three to four weeks.” 

15-6 15-6 

MICHAEL WOJTYCHIW | 


• Loyola 24, Mount Carmel 17. The 

Caravan upset the Ramblers at 

home last year. Loyola repays the 

favor this year. 

• New Trier 

• Prospect 

• Hersey 



• Warren 

Lightning in the distance 

The Spartans’ road game 

against Maine East was 

postponed with 21 minutes, 

45 seconds left in the 

first half because of lightning 

seen at a distance. 

The referees paused the 

game when they saw lightning 

in the distance and 

talked to a school administrator 

on duty and decided 

to postpone the game to a 

later time, which was not 

known as of press time. 

North led 1-0. 

MARTIN CARLINO | 

Editor 

• Mount Carmel 24, Loyola 21. In 

a back-and-forth game, Mount 

Carmel’s Justin Lynch leads the 

Caravan on a late, game-winning 

drive. 

• New Trier 

• Prospect 

• Hersey 

• Lake Zurich 


• Warren 

Listen Up 

“He was on fire. ... He’s been tremendous for us” 

Matt Purdy — The Glenbrook North head football 

coach on running back Michael Ciss’ historic 

six-touchdown night for the Spartans in their win 

against Wheeling on Friday, Sept. 13. 

tunE in 

What to watch this week 

The Glenbrook North boys soccer team takes on CSL 

South rival Evanston on Friday, Sept. 13. 

7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 24, Glenbrook North 

Index 

50 - Boys Hockey 

48 - Athlete of the Week 

Fastbreak is compiled by The Tower’s staff. Send comments to 

m.dwojak@22ndcenturymedia.com.

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Growing together Spartans 

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what a night 

Ciss leads Spartans past 

Wheeling, Page 54 

Softball’s windmill pitch comes into 

question by researchers, Pages 52-53 

Northbrook native 

Emily Pater has 

played softball 

her entire life, 

currently pitching 

at Kenyon College. 

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