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Don Wuebbles, 

University of Illinois 

atmospheric sciences 

professor, speaks 

about climate change 

during the Great 

Lakes, Great Issues: 

Our Changing Climate 

presentation Sunday, 

Nov. 3 at the Gorton 

Community Center. Alex 

Newman/22nd Century 

Media 

Panel of experts 

discusses climate in Lake 

Forest, Page 4 

Cardamone 

resigns Audience 

boos board members 

during meeting, Page 3 

Tales of terror 

Lake Bluff History 

Museum shares scary 

stories, Page 10 

Trick or treat 

Snowy Halloween 

doesn’t deter families, 

Page 8

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Thursday 

Trivia for Grades 5-12 

1-3 p.m., Nov. 7, Lake 

Forest Library, 360 E. 

Deerpath Road, Lake Forest. 

Answer trivia questions 

on SAT vocabulary, 

math, chemistry, foreign 

languages, and humanities. 

For every question you get 

right, money is donated to 

the United Nations World 

Food Programme. Bring 

your device. 

Ten People from Illinois 

Who Changed History 

7-8 p.m., Nov. 7, Lake 

Bluff Library, 123 E. 

Scranton Ave., Lake Bluff. 

You probably know Abraham 

Lincoln lived part of 

his life in Illinois, but did 

you know that Walt Disney, 

Betty Freidan and Charles 

Walgreen also called the 

Prairie State home? Join 

historian Leslie Goddard, 

Ph.D., for this lecture on 

10 intriguing Illinoisans 

and how they changed the 

world. Registration is not 

required but recommended. 

Gold & Silver 

2 p.m., Nov. 7, Dickinson 

Hall, 100 E. Old Mill 

Road, Lake Forest. Gold 

and silver; why are these 

metals so valuable? Join 

David Kaz, president of 

DMK Metal, as he shares 

the history, how to invest in 

them, and the value of any 

precious metal items you 

may own. Please bring a 

few items if you are interested 

in their worth. 

Brain, Mind, and Behavior 

Symposium 

5 p.m., Nov. 7, Lake Forest 

College, 555 N. Sheridan 

Road, Lake Forest. 

Lake Forest College presents 

the 2019 Robert B. 

Glassman Memorial Brain, 

Mind, and Behavior Symposium 

featuring a student 

and alumni poster session 

from 5 to 6:40 p.m. in Calvin 

Durand Hall followed 

by faculty and alumni talks 

from 6:50 to 8:30 p.m. in 

the Lily Reid Holt Memorial 

Chapel. For information, 

go to lakeforest.edu/ 

community or call 847- 

234-3100. 

Sportswriter Don Pierson 

6-7pm., Nov. 7, The 

Lake Forest Bookstore, 662 

N. Western Ave., Lake Forest. 

Don Pierson will discuss 

his new book “Bears 

Centennial Scrapbook.” 

Register at (847) 234-4420. 

For more information, visit 

www.lakeforestbookstore. 

com 

“Machinal” Performance 

7:30 p.m., Nov. 7, Lake 

Forest College Hixon Hall, 

555 N. Sheridan Road, 

Lake Forest. Lake Forest 

College presents “Machinal,” 

Sophie Treadwell’s 

1928 play inspired by the 

real-life trial of Ruth Snyder. 

Addition performances 

at 7:30 p.m. Friday–Saturday, 

Nov. 8–9, and Thursday–Saturday, 

Nov. 14–16. 

Tickets: $3 students; $7 

adults. For information, go 

to lakeforest.edu/community 

or call 847-234-3100. 

Friday 

French Market Holiday 

Boutique 2019 

10 a.m.-5 p.m., Nov. 8 

and 10 a.m.-4p.m., Nov. 

9, CROYA/Lake Forest 

Recreation Center, 400 

Hastings Road, Lake Forest. 

The Lake Forest-Lake 

Bluff Artisan Guild will 

host an authentic and lively 

French Market. The event 

will feature the live music 

and a vibrant market atmosphere 

with stalls brimming 

with irresistibly priced creations 

made by the region’s 

most popular artists. For 

more information, please 

visit www.lflbartisanguild. 

com. 

The Power of Social Media 

for All Businesses 

12 p.m., Nov. 8, Lifeworking, 

717 Forest Ave, 

2nd Floor, Lake Forest. 

Lifeworking Coworking, 

in partnership with Score, 

invites you to The Power 

of Social Media for All 

Businesses, a free Lunch 

and Learn session with 

speaker Troy Sandidge. 

Herps and Hops 

6-8 p.m., Nov. 8, Mellody 

Farm Nature Preserve, 

350 N. Waukegan Road, 

Lake Forest. A wide variety 

of reptiles call Lake Forest 

home. Although reptiles 

share some of the same 

traits as mammals and 

amphibians, their unique 

combination of these characteristics 

puts them in a 

class by themselves. Join 

Rob Carmicheal of the 

Wildlife Discovery Center 

to learn more! Join us 

to learn more! Registration 

is required at http://www. 

lfola.org/herps-and-hops. 

Members $10, non-members 

$15. 

Open House for High 

School, Transfer Students 

9 a.m.–3 p.m., Nov. 8, 

Lake Forest College, 555 

N. Sheridan Road, Lake 

Forest. First-year and 

transfer students applying 

to Lake Forest College 

who visit the College 

for the first time will receive 

$2,000 annually 

toward their cost of attendance. 

For information, 

go to lakeforest.edu/ 

openhouse or call 847- 

735-5000. 

Saturday 

Community Blood Drive 

10 a.m.-3 p.m., Nov. 9, 

Lake Forest Library, 360 E. 

Deerpath Road, Lake Forest. 

Drop in or make an appointment 

to donate blood. 

To make an appointment, 

call 877.258.4825 or visit 

https://www.lakeforestlibrary.org/vitalant, 

scroll 

down and search for Group 

Code 441D. 

Tuesday 

Re-valuing Household 

“Stuff” 

11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Nov. 

12, Grace United Methodist 

Church, 244 E. Center 

Ave., Lake Bluff. The Lake 

Bluff Women’s Club presents 

Re-valuing Household 

“Stuff;” What’s Hot-What’s 

Not! What’s in your home 

worth keeping? Judith 

Martin, certified appraiser 

of personal property, shares 

information on what to do 

with items in your home. 

RSVP reservations by Nov. 

4 to (847) 234-3920. 

Author David Sweet 

6-7p.m., Nov. 12, The 

Lake Forest Bookstore, 

662 N. Western Avenue, 

Lake Forest. David Sweet 

will discuss his new book 

“Three Seconds in Munich: 

The Controversial 1972 

Olympic Basketball Final.” 

Register at (847) 234-4420. 

For more information, visit 

www.lakeforestbookstore. 

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Wednesday 

Famous Hollywood 

Couples, Part 1 

Noon, Nov. 13, Dickinson 

Hall, 100 E. Old Mill 

Road, Lake Forest. Join 

us for this juicy lecture on 

some of the most famous 

Hollywood couples in history. 

$20/$25 Non-Members 

Upcoming 

National Take a Hike Day 

1-3 p.m., Nov. 17, Jean 

and John Greene Nature 

Preserve at McCormick 

Ravine, Lake Forest. There 

are over 13 miles of trails 

ready to be explored in 

Lake Forest Open Lands. 

We’ll provide a sneak peek 

of the future Jean and John 

Greene Nature Preserve at 

McCormick Ravine with 

afternoon guided tours. Or 

you can set out on selfguided 

hiking at one of our 

other six preserves. Think 

global, hike local. 

Ongoing 

Toastmasters Club 

6:15 p.m. First and third 

Tuesday of the month, 

Gorton Community Center, 

400 E. Illinois Road, Lake 

Forest. Toastmasters is an 

international organization 

that aims to help develop 

communication and leadership 

skills for professional 

and personal growth. This 

club is open to all.

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Lake Forest School District 67 

Amid boos, board accepts 

Cardamone’s resignation 

Christa Rooks 

Freelance Reporter 

In a room filled to capacity 

by supporters of 

Deer Path Middle School 

principal Tom Cardamone, 

marked by blue ribbons 

pinned to their shirts, 

the District 67 Board of 

Education unanimously 

accepted Cardamone’s 

resignation, effective Dec. 

31, 2019, at its regular 

meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 

29. This decision came 

after a recommendation 

from Superintendent Michael 

Simeck to do so. 

Cardamone has been on 

a leave of absence since 

late September, though 

the reasoning behind this 

has not been identified 

by district administration 

or the school board. And 

though both parents and 

teachers demanded more 

information, little was 

disclosed at the meeting. 

Board President Mike 

Borkowski read a letter 

from Cardamone, wherein 

he explained his reasoning 

for resigning and 

asked for privacy. 

“During my time as 

principal, I’ve always 

tried my hardest to lead 

with integrity while following 

district policies 

and protocols,” Cardamone 

wrote. “Yet I recognize 

there were certain 

aspects of my recent administrative 

responsibilities 

that I did not fulfill to 

the district’s expectations 

with respect to information 

reporting. 

“I know this is an unexpected 

announcement, but 

the best way you can support 

me is to respect my 

privacy and to continue to 

support Deer Path Middle 

School staff as they move 

forward.” 

Both Borkowski and 

Simeck began the meeting 

by addressing Cardamone’s 

resignation with 

prepared statements as 

part of the President’s Report 

and Superintendent’s 

Report, respectively. 

“When I listened to 

the comments from parents 

and staff about how 

awesome Tom has been, 

those comments resonate 

very clearly with me,” 

Borkowski said. “That 

has been my own personal 

experience with him. … 

With that being said, I still 

not only respect Tom’s 

decision to resign, I agree 

with that decision while 

also being profoundly 

sad, but I believe it is the 

right thing for Tom, for 

our school and for our 

students. Yes, I do believe 

that with a very heavy 

heart.” 

Borkowski also addressed 

criticisms that the 

board was not being transparent 

about the events 

that led to Cardamone’s 

resignation. 

“I continue to believe in 

transparency as much as I 

did seven years ago when 

I was first elected, perhaps 

more so, but I have 

now also learned things 

which I did not previously 

understand,” he said. 

“I learned that the legal 

rights of the individual 

employee as well as students 

may conflict with 

the desire to satisfy other 

people’s requests for information. 

I’ve learned 

that releasing information 

can violate employee’s 

rights and their due process. 

… We are not hiding 

behind the law, but rather 

we are standing in front 

of Tom, protecting Tom’s 

privacy at Tom’s request.” 

Borkowski also noted 

that while the board did 

not handle the situation 

perfectly, they were prepared 

to review the process 

and improve it. 

“Were we perfect?” he 

asked. “No, we were not 

perfect. I’m not sure there 

is such a thing as a perfect 

process in this type of situation. 

… There are things 

we could have done better. 

There are many parts 

of the process to be examined. 

Communication 

to staff and parents, how 

internal protocols affect 

public appearances, support 

structures and more. 

Some of these conversations 

have already begun, 

but I commit to you that 

this board and administrative 

team will thoroughly 

examine all aspects of this 

process.” 

He also added that he 

felt communication between 

Simeck and the 

board was “correct” 

throughout the process. 

“The superintendent 

was fully transparent with 

me and by extension, this 

board,” he said. “The 

board has been kept informed 

of all significant 

information and all devel- 

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Experts tackle climate change at Gorton lecture 

Bill McLean 


The comic strip “Frank 

& Ernest” ran a singleframe 

strip featuring three 

planets with facial features 

in newspapers last week. 

Beads of perspiration 

dotted Planet Earth’s face. 

Planet Earth’s reply to 

two planets: “My icecaps 

are melting — stop saying 

I’m breaking out in a cold 

sweat!” 

Humans addressed climate 

change more seriously 

than that at the Gorton 

Community Center on 

Sunday, Nov. 3, before a 

packed audience of 300- 

plus at the John & Nancy 

Hughes Theater. The event, 

“Our Changing Climate,” 

was part of the Lake Forest 

Open Lands’ Great Lakes, 

Great Issues series. 

Tom Skilling, the affable, 

iconic WGN-TV chief 

meteorologist, spoke. So 

did Donald Wuebbles, who 

was the coordinating lead 

author on climate assessments 

that resulted in the 

Intergovernmental Panel 

on Climate Change being 

awarded a Nobel Peace 

Prize in 2007. 

Seth Darling, senior scientist 

and director at Argonne 

Center for Molecular 

Engineering, and Doug 

Sisterson, a research meteorologist 

in the Environmental 

Science Division at 

Argonne National Laboratory, 

also hit the stage for 

enthralling presentations. 

“Huge hit,” Lake Forest 

Open Lands Association 

Director of Education Susie 

Hoffmann said afterward. 

“All these people, coming 

here because they wanted 

to hear hard science, was 

so good to see. Quite a few 

high school students, too. 

“People,” she added, 

Don Wuebbles, University of Illinois atmospheric sciences 

professor, talks about climate change during the 

lecture. 

Doug Sisterson, a research meteorologist with Argonne 

National Laboratory, tells the audience about greenhouse 

gases and temperature. 

“were mesmerized.” 

“I heard gasps around 

me,” said Jenny Akemann, 

who moved from Chicago 

to Lake Forest with her 

family two years ago. 

The esteemed panelists 

shared startling — and, at 

times, frightening — statistics 

throughout the twohour 

gathering. 

A few: 16 of the 17 

warmest years on record 

for the globe have occurred 

since 2000; an estimated 

1 billion air-conditioning 

units will likely be added 

worldwide to relieve humans 

in stifling climes by 

the year 2030, exacerbating 

the issues related to climate 

change because reliance 

on AC adds to our planet’s 

energy burden; and our climate 

is changing 10 times 

more rapidly than it would 

naturally, due mostly to the 

burning of fossil fuels. 

“Sea levels are rising, 

ocean heat content is increasing, 

and the vast majority 

of the amount of 

ice caps in the world is 

decreasing because of human 

activities,” Wuebbles 

explained. “Rainfalls and 

snowfalls … they’re larger 

events now. We have three 

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Doug Sisterson, a research meteorologist with Argonne National Laboratory, gives 

a presentation during the Great Lakes, Great Issues: Our Changing Climate lecture 

at the Gorton Community Center on Sunday, Nov. 3. Photos by Alex Newman/22nd 

Century Media 

Seth Darling (left), senior scientist and director of Argonne Center for Molecular Engineering, 

and Tom Skilling, chief meteorologist at WGN-TV, listen during the Great 

Lakes, Great Issues: Our Changing Climate lecture. Both presented at the discussion.

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Police Reports 


Lake Bluff man charged with DUI in Lake Forest 

George Drowne, 52, of 517 

Lincoln Ave. in Lake Bluff, was 

charged with driving under the 

influence of alcohol and open 

transportation of alcohol following 

an incident on Saturday, Oct. 

26 in Lake Forest. 

Lake Forest Police conducted 

a traffic stop on a silver Toyota 

pickup at the intersection of 

Green Bay Road and East Woodland 

Road at 3:23 a.m. after 

noticing the truck only had one 

headlight. 

When police stopped the vehicle 

and made contact with 

the driver, Drowne, they immediately 

smelled the odor of 

alcohol coming from Drowne 

and they noted he was demonstrating 

signs of alcohol impairment. 

Officers also observed 

a 12 pack of beer in Drowne’s 

vehicle. Drowne was requested 

to exit the vehicle and complete 

some standard field sobriety 

tests. Based on the tests and the 

officer’s observations, Drowne 

was arrested and charged. He 

was transported to the Public 

Safety Building, processed, 

and supplied a chemical breath 

sample that registered as 0.157 

BAC. Drowne was released on 

bond and given a December 

court date. 

In other police news: 

Oct. 25 

• Jose A. Atempa, 30, of Waukegan, 

was charged with expired 

registration and no valid driver’s 

license. Police conducted 

a traffic stop on a black BMW 

SUV at Green Bay Road and 

Ridge Lane after observing 

the vehicle registration was 

expired. When officers approached 

the vehicle and made 

contact with the driver, Atempa, 

they learned the Atempa did not 

possess a valid driver’s license. 

Officers were also notified by 

dispatch that Atempa had an 

outstanding failure to appear 

warrant from McHenry County. 

Atempa was removed from the 

vehicle and placed under arrest. 

He was transported to the Public 

Safety Building where he 

was charged with expired registration 

and no valid driver’s 

license. Atempa was processed 

and released on the FTA warrant 

by posting the $5,000 bond. 

He was given a November court 

date for the McHenry County 

charge and a November court 

date in Park City for the Lake 

Forest charges. 

Oct. 26 

• Paese C. Fia, 25, of Great 

Lakes, was charged with driving 

while license suspended. While 

on routine patrol at Route 41 and 

Route 60, officers had contact 

with the driver of a disabled vehicle. 

When officers spoke to the 

driver, Fia, they determined she 

was driving north on Route 41 

when her vehicle quit working. A 

check of the registration indicated 

Fia was the registered owner 

and her driver’s license was suspended. 

Fia was placed under 

arrest, charged, and transported 

to the Public Safety Building 

for processing. Fia was released 

on bond and given a December 

court date. 

Lake Bluff 

Oct. 21 

• Officers responded to the 900 

block of Rockland Road for a 

report of a loud verbal argument 

between two customers. Officer 

spoke to the complainant who 

stated a subject was angry about 

bank card troubles and stated 

they wanted to kill somebody. 

The complainant stated she did 

not wish to press charges for disorderly 

conduct and the on duty 

manager wanted no enforcement 

if the couple would voluntarily 

leave the business. Officers 

stood by until the couple left the 

bank and no other police service 

was requested. 

• Officer responded to the 500 

block of East Center Avenue to 

assist the homeowner with an 

animal that had fallen into their 

chimney. Officer provided a referral 

to a private animal removal 

company and cleared. 

Oct. 25 

• Noe Montiel-Moran, 34, of 

Highwood, was charged with 

disobeying a stop sign, no valid 

driver’s license and operating 

an uninsured motor vehicle. The 

charges stem from a traffic stop 

in the area of Sheridan Road at 

Sunset Place. He was given a 

November court date. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Lake Forest 

Leader’s Police Reports are 

compiled from official reports found 

on file at the Lake Forest and Lake 

Bluff Police Departments. Individuals 

named in these reports are considered 

innocent of all charges until 

proven guilty in a court of law. 

Lake Bluff Village Board 


Cannabis businesses officially banned 

Bianca Cseke 


The Village of Lake 

Bluff Board of Trustees 

unanimously approved an 

ordinance banning cannabis 

business establishments 

in the village during 

its regular meeting 

Monday, Oct. 28. 

This was the second, 

and final, reading of the 

ordinance, which staff had 

been directed to develop 

after the board’s September 

meeting. Trustees did 

not have any discussion 

about the ordinance before 

a vote was called and 

no one spoke about the 

matter during public comment. 

The board approved 

the first reading at its Oct. 

14 meeting. 

The ban covers cannabis 

cultivation centers and 

dispensaries, along with 

any other businesses related 

to the sale of the drug. 

Marijuana will be legal in 

Illinois for adults over 21 

starting Jan. 1, 2020. 

The Lake Bluff Joint 

Plan Commission and 

Zoning Board recommended 

that trustees consider 

allowing a dispensary 

or other marijuana-related 

business within the village 

because of the potential for 

high sales tax revenue and 

the potential for cracking 

down on illegal marijuanarelated 

activity. 

However, though no 

formal vote was taken 

during the board’s September 

regular meeting, 

they moved forward with 

the process of banning 

marijuana in the village 

by drafting the ban then. 

The board began speaking 

about its stance before 

Gov. JB Pritzker even 

signed the bill, which will 

make Illinois the 11th 

state to legalize marijuana. 

During its meeting on 

June 24, all trustees supported 

a marijuana ban 

and passed a resolution to 

evaluate the classification 

of cannabis businesses. 

“After considerable 

discussion, the village 

board decided to direct 

[the commission] to draft 

an ordinance prohibiting 

the use or sale of cannabis 

in the village,” Village 

Board President Kathleen 

O’Hara said previously. 

Trustees said they 

were concerned about the 

drug’s federal status – it is 

still illegal at that level – 

and the state’s efforts to 

tax more products. 

“And this may just be 

Round it up 

A brief recap of Village 

Board action Monday, 

Oct. 28 

• The board approved 

a resolution approving 

the purchase of rock 

salt for snow and ice 

removal. Because of 

heavier winters in other 

states depleting the 

supply of the rock salt, 

the price increased by 

36 percent this year. 

The estimate of how 

much is needed is done 

in March, and trustees 

mentioned that there 

hasn’t been a problem 

with running out of salt 

the start,” Trustee Aaron 

Towle said in June. “So 

if we can nip it in the bud 

in past years. 

• During water 

main improvements, 

additional needed 

work was identified 

which raised the 

cost of the project by 

about $30,700 more 

than the original cost 

of about $486,000. 

The additional work 

included two collapsing 

manholes that were 

later identified, 

valve issues and 

utility conflicts “that 

necessitated moving 

the water main from 

the parkway to the 

street,” O’Hara said. 

now, at least in Lake Bluff, 

perhaps that will send a 

message.”



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Matisse Magoon Hayman 

The Hayman family, Lake 

Forest 

My eyes are the bluest, 

my nose is the cutest and 

my whiskers are cunningly 

striped. News flash: Ugh. 

You’d think they didn’t 

know I check myself in the mirror. They insist in 

telling me constantly. So tiresome. And repetitive. 

Boring. I’m trying to sleep, okay? The way I throw 

my back legs in the air when I clean my bottom, 

lick my paws after that and give my fur a fluff. 

They cheer when I attack my mousie toys and 

bite their tails off. Every move I make, they’re 

watching me. No privacy. It’s maddening. 

HELP! The Lake Forest Leader is in search of more pets. 

To see your pet featured as Pet of the Week, send a photo 

and information to peter@lakeforestleader.com or 60 

Revere Drive, Suite 888, Northbrook, IL 60062. 

The snow on Halloween night caused Santa Claus 

(actually Charlie Parker, of Lake Bluff) to mix up his 

holidays and arrive at the Lake Bluff Hot Dog Roast on 

Halloween instead of Christmas. 

Lake Bluff PD serves 

Halloween hot dogs 

Staff Report 

The Lake Bluff Police 

Department made sure 

trick or treaters in the village 

had a way of staying 

warm on Thursday, Oct. 

31 with their annual hot 

dog roast. Officers grilled 

the free hot dogs, which 

were picked up by dozens 

of children before they 

went out trick or treating 

on Halloween night. 

Ben Bornholdt, 8, of Lake Bluff, learns that t-rex hands 

weren’t really made for holding as he struggles to carry 

his hot dog and drink during the Lake Bluff Hot Dog 

Roast. PHOTOS BY PETER KASPARI/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 


Max Echevarria, 5, and his mom, Rocio Echevarria, of 

Lake Bluff, walk together on Halloween night. 

Trick-or-treaters have 

a Merry Halloween 

Staff Report 

Snow drifts and slippery 

sidewalks didn’t stop the 

kids and families of Lake 

Forest and Lake Bluff 

from filling their sweet 

teeth on Thursday, Oct. 31. 

Trick or treaters came out 

in full force, showing off 

their costumes and filling 

their bags with free candy. 

A group of friends in Lake Bluff get ready to head off 

to the next house during trick or treating on Thursday, 

Oct. 31. PHOTOS BY PETER KASPARI/22ND CENTURY MEDIA 

LEFT: Scarlet 

Martens, 10, 

left, and her 

friend Dianeli 

Morales, 9, 

both of Waukegan, 

walk up 

a driveway in 

Lake Forest 

for more 

candy.



Lake Bluff School District 65 


Hybrid grade system to be implemented in 2020-2021 

Todd Marver 


Lake Bluff School District 

65 will be moving 

to a hybrid school grade 

system in the 2020-2021 

school year, school leadership 

announced at its 

Tuesday, Oct. 29 regular 

meeting. 

Lake Bluff Middle 

School Principal Nate 

Blackmer, who also serves 

as the district’s assistant 

director of curriculum, 

said the new system will 

combine the traditional 

letter grade system (A, B, 

C, D, F) and a standardsbased 

system (1, 2, 3, 4). 

A few years ago, the district 

transitioned to a standards-based 

system. 

Blackmer said the standards-based 

reporting 

committee would be working 

throughout the remainder 

of this school year to 

make adjustments to current 

processes. 

“The goal is to adopt a 

reporting system that provides 

parents with a letter 

grade that summarizes 

overall achievement in 

addition to providing information 

about progress 

scores meeting the standards,” 

he said. 

Three parents and a 

Lake Forest High School 

student who formerly attended 

D65 schools spoke 

during public comment. 

They felt that the current 

standards-based system 

doesn’t prepare students 

for high school where the 

traditional letter grade system 

is used. 

LBMS and Lake Forest 

High School parent Alison 

Hartline said the LFHS 

board president confirmed 

to her that the high school 

has no plans in the near 

future to adopt standardsbased 

grading. 

“The bottom line is that 

unless Lake Forest High 

School adopts standardsbased 

grading, Lake Bluff 

Middle School is not preparing 

them properly for 

the traditional grading 

system at the high school,” 

she said. 

Lake Bluff Elementary 

School, LBMS and LFHS 

parent Eva Rice said that 

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A brief recap of School Board action from Oct. 29 

• The board approved a resolution to adopt an 

e-learning program. 

• The board approved the truth in taxation hearing 

for Dec. 19. 

• The board tabled approval of the first reading of 

the community use of school facilities policy. 

• The board approved the personnel report. 

heard at freshman orientation 

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they started and she felt 

graduating LBMS eighthgraders 

aren’t prepared for 

this with the current standards-based 

system at the 

middle school. 

“Do our eighth graders 

know what a GPA is?” she 

asked. “They don’t receive 

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are confusing and subjective.” 

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Lake Bluff History Museum tells of village’s hauntings 

Peter Kaspari, Editor 

It was a night of more 

than one type of spirit as 

guests joined the Lake 

Bluff History Museum at 

the North Shore Distillery 

to hear scary stories about 

some of the village’s most 

mysterious hauntings. 

About 60 people showed 

up for Spirits in the Night, 

the second of the museum’s 

Distilling History series, 

which was held at the distillery, 

located just outside 

of Lake Bluff in Libertyville. 

Lake Bluff History Museum 

volunteers and board 

members took turns sharing 

stories of hauntings, 

spirits and unexplained 

happenings that have been 

documented throughout 

Lake Bluff over the years, 

including some of their 

own personal experiences. 

Local construction 

company owner Bill Raymoure, 

a museum docent, 

told a story about a house 

he was working on in east 

Lake Bluff. The house’s 

owner had told stories of 

the house being haunted. 

Raymoure recalled one 

story the woman told about 

how she came home one 

night to see all the lights 

on in her house and loud 

music playing. Furious that 

her teenage children were 

partying, Raymoure said 

the woman stormed into 

the house - only to find it 

completely dark and quiet, 

and her children sleeping 

peacefully in their beds. 

But Raymoure said he 

didn’t really believe anything 

until he saw something 

paranormal himself. 

One day, one of his workers 

went to the house to do 

some work, but couldn’t 

get in. Raymoure showed 

up because he knew where 

the spare key was, but was 

unable to find it in the spot 

the homeowner said it 

should have been. 

Meanwhile, Raymoure 

noticed a woman on the 

second floor of the house. 

He assumed that this woman 

was the daughter of the 

homeowner. 

Raymoure called the 

homeowner and learned 

she was in Florida. When 

he asked if she could have 

her daughter answer the 

door, he was shocked to 

hear that the homeowner’s 

entire family was with her 

in Florida. 

“The two of us looked up 

and we saw a young woman 

in the window, halfway 

behind the drapery,” Raymoure 

said. “And as we 

watched, she pulled back, 

disappeared. But before 

she did, I’ll never forget 

that wry smile she had on 

her face and the house keys 

dangling from her pale fingers.” 

The other construction 

Steve Kraus, treasurer of the Lake Bluff History 

Museum, tells a story of Lake Bluff’s haunted history 

during Spirits in the Night on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Peter 

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worker immediately ran 

back to the car and Raymoure 

said he never returned 

to work. 

Lake Bluff resident Phil 

Gayter told a story about 

a house he once owned in 

town. He went to look at 

it with his daughters and 

found that the back door 

was open. 

Gayter and one daughter 

went in before realizing 

they probably shouldn’t be 

in the house without the realtor, 

who then entered the 

front door with Gayter’s 

other daughter. 

To calm the realtor’s 

nerves that there was nobody 

else in the house, 

Gayter yelled out “Hello!” 

“And all four of us heard, 

‘Hello?’ as clear as day,” 

he said. “My kids and the 

real estate agent dashed to 

the car. I went, ‘Hey, this is 

cool! Somebody just shouted 

‘Hello!’” 

From that day forward, 

Gayter said the house had a 

“cryptic” vibe to it, but he 

never let it bother him. 

“I always felt it was a 

good house.” 

Steve Kraus, treasurer 

of the Lake Bluff History 

Museum, said some people 

believe the first residents of 

Lake Bluff, John and Catherine 

Cloes, are involved in 

a haunting as well. 

Kraus said the family 

became known for bricks, 

especially after John Cloes 

went out to California for 

the Gold Rush and never 

returned to Lake Bluff. 

In 1855, the family built 

a brick factory to accommodate 

their growing business. 

According to Kraus, 

something happened during 

the construction that 

has led some to believe the 

area is haunted. 

Kraus said an argument 

broke out between two 

bricklayers. One of them 

struck the other with a ball 

peen hammer, killing the 

other bricklayer. 

The dead bricklayer was 

supposedly stuffed into the 

wall and bricked up. 

“A few weeks later, 

Katherine was there to 

do the final inspection,” 

Kraus said. “She was walking 

with her son, Ben. She 

turned to Ben and she said, 

‘Did you hear that?’” 

Katherine Cloes reportedly 

told her son she heard 

sobbing and wailing and a 

slight scratching sound. Nobody 

else heard the sound, 

and Cloes never told anyone 

else about what she’d heard. 

But Kraus said, to this 

day, he has people come 

up to him and say, on some 

nights, they’ll go to the 

ravine not far from where 

the factory was and they’ll 

hear sobbing and scratching 

noises. 

Spirits in the Night was 

the second event in the 

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Former HPHS tennis coach 

files federal lawsuit 

against district, parents 

After losing his job last 

year and filing a lawsuit 

in the Lake County courts 

against Township High 

School District 113, former 

Highland Park High School 

tennis coach Stephen Rudman 

has filed another lawsuit 

in federal court on Aug. 

15. 

The lawsuit was filed 

by Northbrook attorney 

Steven Glink on behalf of 

Rudman, who is seeking 

$150,000 for a civil rights 

violation and defamation 

by the district, members 

of the district’s administration 

and parents of students 

who played on Rudman’s 

tennis team. 

Rudman was let go from 

his position at the school 

Aug. 1, 2018, after officials 

at the district received a 

letter from attorney Neal 

Takiff, alleging Rudman 

was physically and verbally 

abusive toward his tennis 

players. 

According to the lawsuit, 

Rudman was made 

aware of the letter on July 

23, 2018, and met with the 

district’s assistant superintendent 

of human resources 

and administrative services 

and interim co-superintendent. 

A parent identified in 

the lawsuit by their initials, 

who wished to remain 

anonymous, spoke to The 

Landmark and said their 

family members witnessed 

Rudman’s verbal abuse 

first-hand. 

“It was an after-season 

party at a player’s house,” 

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The Great Pumpkin Contest 

Posted to LakeForestLeaderDaily.com 1 day ago 

3 residents carve their way to victory 

Eric DeGrechie 

Managing Editor 

Though we’re not sure 

if The Great Pumpkin visited 

Linus this year, we do 

know that the North Shore 

is filled with some talented 

carvers. 

Entries to the annual 

Halloween contest came in 

fast and furiously once the 

calendar neared Oct. 31 as 

many entrants wait until 

the last minute to dust off 

their special carving tools. 

We’re sure many of you 

wonder how we go about 

deciding which creation 

is the best so I’m going to 

take you behind the scenes 

for the first time this year. 

When our deadline for entries 

concluded on Friday, 

Nov. 1, the editors printed 

up photos of each submission 

and we began lining 

them up along the floor 

in the middle of our office. 

With so many entries, 

they took up some space. 

We then started walking 

around the pile and 

commenting on the ones 

we liked best. We even 

brought in our sales team 

and the publisher to help 

narrow things down. 

In the end, though it was 

admittedly difficult, we 

made choices of our favorite 

pumpkin carving for 

three different categories: 

Best in Show, Most Scary 

and Most Funny. Here are 

the winners: 

Mary Roberts, of Highland Park, won Best in Show in 

our annual The Great Pumpkin Contest with her entry of 

Jack and Sally from “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” 

Photos submitted 

Karen Graves, of 

Glenview, takes home 

some delicious treats 

from Gail’s Brownies for 

Most Scary. 

Best in Show 

Mary Roberts, of Highland 

Park. In this ode 

to “The Nightmare Before 

Christmas,” Roberts 

carved characters Jack 

Skellington on one side 

and Sally on the other. For 

her win, Roberts will receive 

2 tickets to see the 

Blue Man Group. 

Most Scary 

Karen Graves, of Glenview. 

Speaking of nightmares, 

this entry of what 

appears to be a cannibalistic 

clown definitely 

scared us and that’s worth 

something. In this case, 

the winner will receive 

some brownies from our 

friends at Gail’s Brownies, 

featuring decadent 

desserts. Find out more at 

Andrew Attea, of 

Glenview, takes home 

some delicious treats 

from Gail’s Brownies for 

Most Funny. 

www.gailsbrownies.com. 

Most Funny 

Andrew Attea, of Glenview. 

Just one look at the 

toothy grin on this jacko’-lantern 

and you can tell 

the creator had some fun 

carving it. The winner will 

also receive some brownies 

from Gail’s Brownies. 

Thanks again for all your 

entries. Keep an eye out for 

our next contest — Holiday 

Greeting Card Contest. 

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opments throughout the 

entire process.” 

Simeck also shared 

his sadness at the turn of 

events, while stating he 

respected Cardamone’s 

decision. 

“Mr. Cardamone was 

somebody who genuinely 

cared about everyone,” 

he said. “That has been 

evidenced in the school’s 

and the community’s reaction 

to his absence. My 

recommendation to accept 

his resignation may also 

seem at odds with those 

statements. The fact of the 

matter is I am profoundly 

saddened by this turn 

of events, but I respect 

Tom’s decision to resign.” 

As the meeting moved 

to public comment, over 

a dozen teachers, parents 

and community members 

spoke against the administration’s 

recommendation 

to accept Cardamone’s 

resignation. 

Lana Raines was one 

community member who 

spoke in support of Cardamone 

and questioned the 

process to remove him. 

“A thought that’s been 

expressed over and over 

throughout this situation 

is that something just feels 

wrong about it,” she said. 

“I, for one, am extremely 

concerned with whether 

Mr. Cardamone was provided 

with a fair and just 

process. 

“I do understand privacy 

issues and I respect 

that, but I do not understand 

why the administration 

could not provide 

a minimal amount of additional 

information at the 

outset to quell the terrible 

rumors that began immediately. 

“Tom has 23 years of 

impeccable service to our 

schools. He is beloved in 

our community, a man of 

integrity and character. It 

is hard for me to believe 

that he has done something 

that does not warrant 

a second chance. If 

anyone deserves a second 

chance, it’s Tom Cardamone.” 

Jack Hirschfield expressed 

his frustration at 

the communication process, 

particularly noting 

the district’s reaction to 

Freedom of Information 

Act requests and the further 

speculation it caused 

among the community. 

“Your inability to effectively 

communicate has 

led to a monthlong crisis 

that never should have 

been,” he said. “And in 

the process, that’s led to 

hundreds of families and 

thousands of people taking 

time to focus on the 

crisis, time taken away 

from focusing on our children.” 

Calling the response 

from Simeck and the district 

a “pure knee-jerk, ridiculous 

reaction,” he said 

that the district’s reaction 

has led to more confusion 

and speculation. 

“[It] did significantly 

more harm and left notably 

more questions and 

speculation once again, 

questions and speculation 

that continue to go unanswered 

and grow the community’s 

frustration,” he 

said. 

Following public comment, 

the board took a 

short recess before each 

member gave public statements 

addressing their decision 

as to whether they 

planned to approve Cardamone’s 

resignation. 

Speaking over boos 

from the audience, board 

member Suzanne Sands 

expressed her disappointment 

with how the entire 

situation played out 

across the community. 

“I understand that it 

is frustrating not to be 

able to have access to all 

the details and facts at 

play,” she said. “I also 

understand that it is very 

difficult to accept that 

someone you know who 

has been a positive force 

in your community and 

your life may have done 

something disappointing 

or something that can’t be 

undone. I would simply 

ask you to consider why 

anyone involved with 

choose this situation for 

our community. … The 

reactions, responses and 

actions taken by some in 

our community without 

access to all the facts have 

turned it into a spectacle. 

It did not have to play out 

this way.” 

Board member Justin 

Engelland also said that 

the board’s intent was to 

share as much information 

as possible with the 

community but noted 

that privacy restrictions 

prevented that. Even so, 

he said, administration 

should have communicated 

more effectively 

to staff members and the 

community. 

“There are many critical 

stakeholders that have 

been left out of the communications 

or [only received 

communications 

that were] reactive,” he 

said. “This is an area that 

requires significant improvement 

and is one that 

I will certainly prioritize.” 

Ultimately, the board 

voted unanimously to 

accept the resignation, 

though board member Jeff 

Folker hesitated when it 

was his time to vote. 

“I’m struggling with 

what my heart wants to 

vote and what my head 

wants to vote,” he said. 

Despite encouragement 

from the crowd to reject 

the resignation, Folker ultimately 

voted to accept it. 

“I think at this stage of 

the game, based on Tom’s 

decision and the district’s 

need to move forward, I 

vote aye,” he said.




Beach improvements the focus of community forum 

Sam Rakestraw 


While it’s still in its 

purely conceptual phase, 

the design of modified 

entryways and stairway 

to the Sunrise Park and 

Beach presented at an Oct. 

29 public forum showed 

promise and potential with 

residents. 

The presentation was 

given by Lake Bluff Park 

District Executive Director 

Ron Salski and landscape 

architect Cliff Miller. 

According to Salski and 

Miller, thoughts on updating 

beach access have 

been in the works since 

2013 and only recently 

have rendered in concept 

art. 

“We’ve spent spring and 

summer looking at options,” 

said Salski. “Our 

process is that this is our 

second meeting with the 

public.” 

Feedback will be presented 

to the Parks and 

Beach Committee, which 

may alter the plans, suggest 

new options, or maybe 

keep them as-is. 

Eventually, Salski said 

the plans will be presented 

to the Lake Bluff Village 

Board. 

Salski also reported that 

the Park District received 

a grant from the state for 

$350,000 for beach access. 

They have two years to 

spend it, and he said work 

will likely begin in 2021. 

The concept art presented 

shows gravel, timber 

and brick modifications to 

certain pathways. 

The only brick and timber 

staircase would be 

the upper pathway by the 

south entrance on East 

Center Avenue. 

Miller said they would 

make all entry ways compliant 

with the Americans 

with Disabilities Act, and 

pathways with inclines, 

such as the upper one, 

would include better drainage 

to avoid swamping 

during rainfall. 

“Our approach isn’t 

to develop new access 

but enhance the ones we 

have,” says Miller. 

He motioned to the upper 

pathway and said that 

along with the new materials, 

a new iron handrail 

will be added. Miller noted 

it’s difficult for some residents 

to grip the current 

rail due to it being thin. 

The pathway by the 

north entrance on Scranton 

Avenue will be made with 

gravel. Some residents 

asked questions about the 

traction different path terrains 

like gravel and brick 

offer, especially when it 

starts to get slippery out. 

“It depends on brick 

texture. Some are smooth 

and some are rough,” said 

Miller, “Gravel itself, as a 

roadway or pathway, has 

the same pervious as pavement. 

There’s a very minor 

difference.” 

He added that the area’s 

unique geology of 

descending through ascending 

land makes the 

rails and drainage pivotal. 

Handrails will be added to 

the gravel path, which runs 

on a small slope. 

Salski said some families 

are interested in the 

idea of memorial and 

place marker bricks. The 

areas around the entrances, 

while housing bike 

racks and benches, will 

be bricked areas. Miller 

added that any and all donations 

towards the project 

down the road would be 

welcome and put to good 

use. 

Plans also call for 10-15 

bike racks to be installed 

by the fences near the entry 

points. Miller and Salski 

said that oftentimes, 

bikes will end up on the 

ground or nearby due to 

overflow. 

“At least the kids are 

here,” said Miller. 

During brainstorming, 

Miller had tested the idea 

whether or not they could 

isolate bikes a little further 

from the entrance, but the 

dilemma was building a 

bike park. 

“It’s the same thing we 

have down at the college,” 

he said. “We can do whatever 

we want architecturally, 

but pedestrian use 

ultimately rules. If we put 

that there, we’ll end up 

with bikes on the bricks. 

The other side of it is that 

they’re running back and 

forth to the bike racks 

and we don’t have enough 

room to potentially add a 

gravel path.” 

The art and the concept 

itself still could evolve 

after this second public 

meeting before it goes to 

committee. The date has 

yet to be announced, but 

Salski and Miller will continue 

to give and receive 

updates or any changes. 

Bhatia recognized as 

Top Wealth Advisor 

Submitted Content 

Raj Bhatia, of Lake 

Forest, has been recognized 

by Forbes as one 

of America’s Top Wealth 

Advisers. 

Bhatia, a private wealth 

advisor for Merrill Lynch 

in Chicago, has been in 

wealth and investment 

management since 1981. 

His practice helps a select 

group of high net worth 

clients acquire, grow and 

preserve assets, helping 

them pass their wealth to 

successive generations 

and create lasting legacies. 

Bhatia advises corporate 

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CLIMATE 

From Page 4 

choices: mitigation, adaptation, 

suffering. 

“We’re choosing all 

three.” 

Darling added geoengineering 

to the mix of options. 

Geoengineering is 

the deliberate large-scale 

intervention in the Earth’s 

natural systems to counteract 

climate change. 

“Speak up” was among 

the actions all suggested to 

tackle climate change. Others: 

write to your representatives, 

vote with care, be 

energy efficient. 

“I’ve been watching the 

atmosphere for years,” said 

Skilling, who has worked 

for WGN-TV since 1978, 

and enlivens his weather 

broadcasts with cuttingedge 

technology and arresting 

animation techniques. 

“In the last five years its doing 

things I’d never seen.” 

On Nov. 12, the Gorton 

Center will host “Youth 

Unstoppable: The Rise of 

the Global Youth Climate 

Movement.” It’s part of the 

Community Film Forum. 

“Youth Unstoppable” is a 

documentary that shows a 

powerful vision for the future 

of our planet and the 

young people who will lead 

us there. 

“I love our partnership 

with Lake Forest Open 

Lands,” Gorton Community 

Center Director of 

Film Jamie Hall said after 

the conclusion of the “Our 

Changing Climate” event. 

“Our missions overlap. 

What I heard today was 

fantastic, and it brought our 

community together.” 

Grayslake resident Lou 

Harnisch, a former high 

school and community college 

teacher and Argonne 

professional development 

leader, had heard the panelists 

speak at other venues. 

“Today,” he said, “I 

heard a lot of new stuff. 

What all of them had to 

say dovetailed well; they 

built off each other. They 

presented dynamic material. 

Each got to the core of 

the topic, with a very strong 

focus, instead of trying to 

hit on everything under the 

sun.” 

Akemann accompanied 

her second-grade daughter 

to a Global Climate Strike 

in Chicago last month. 

Some 5,000 youngsters 

missed school that day but 

probably learned a months’ 

worth of knowledge during 

the speeches and the 

march. 

Akemann’s daughter created 

a colorful poster and 

addressed her classmates 

at Sheridan Elementary 

School after the strike. 

“What a great introduction 

to the issue for my 

daughter,” Akemann said. 

“I’m so glad I came here 

to hear the panelists today. 

I’m absolutely leaving with 

hope.” 

Attendees got the chance 

to write a question on an 

index card for the panelists 

to answer. One queried, 

“Where do you suggest living?” 

Sisterson replied, “I’m a 

big fan of fresh water. Living 

around the Great Lakes 

is where I should hang my 

hat.” 

Skilling, like he’s done 

with so many of his weather 

forecasts, nailed it. 

“Driving through Lake 

Forest today and noticing 

the beauty of the fall season, 

it would be hard for 

me to live anywhere that 

doesn’t have wonderful 

seasonal changes like we 

have,” said Skilling, owner 

of an electric car.



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A Look Into History 


Businessmen bought land for Lake Bluff Naval Station 

David Forlow 

Contributing Columnist 

In 1902 Congress approved 

The Naval Appropriation 

Act which 

suggested finding a suitable 

site for a Naval Training 

site capable of housing 

at least 1,500 sailors. At 

the time, about one half of 

the sailors in the US Navy 

were from the Midwest 

and several locations were 

considered on the shores of 

Lake Michigan. A group of 

Chicago businessmen led 

by Graeme Stewart raised 

money and bought nearly 

200 acres of land in Lake 

Bluff along the lake which 

they sold to the Navy for 

$1. On November 24, 

1904, President Theodore 

Roosevelt authorized the 

establishment of a Naval 

Station at Great Lakes. 

The first Commandant 

of the Naval Station was 

Navy Captain Albert Ross. 

Captain George McKay 

was named as Engineer. 

Work began in 1905 which 

took more than six years at 

a cost of $3.5 million. Chicago 

architect, Jarvis Hunt, 

was hired to help with 

building design. Much like 

the plans for Lake Forest 

and Lake Bluff, the natural 

land contours at Great 

Lakes were incorporated 

into the layout. The ravines 

divided the property into 

four areas which accommodated 

a hospital, a 

receiving center for new 

recruits, barracks and the 

main training ground. 

A group of 

Chicago businessmen 

led 

by Graeme 

Stewart raised 

money and 

bought nearly 

200 acres of 

land in Lake 

Bluff along 

the lake which 

they sold to the 

Navy for $1. 

On July 3, 1911 the first 

recruit to step through the 

main gate at Great Lakes 

was Joseph Gregg. Joseph 

arrived to find 39 buildings 

spread over about 

200 acres. Today, Great 

Lakes is the United States 

Navy’s only boot camp. 

It has been expanded to 

more than 1,000 buildings 

covering more than 1,600 

acres. Up to 35,000 Navy 

recruits begin their training 

each year at Great Lakes. 

After Joseph Gregg died 

in 1966 he was buried in 

the US Naval Cemetery at 

Great Lakes. 

Today many of the original 

buildings are still in use 

and 39 are on the National 

Register of Historic Places. 

Original architect Jarvis 

Hunt had a sense of humor 

which is evidenced in several 

of his design elements. 

The term galley can mean a 

low ship with banks or oars. 

A galley is also the kitchen 

on a boat. Visitors to Great 

Lakes today looking above 

the entrance of the original 

mess hall will see a large 

stone carving of a galley 

ship with oars. 

The Great Lakes Mess Hall galley. Photos Submitted 

The Great Lakes clock tower and Ross Field.

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from the editor 

Everybody has a story to share 

Peter Kaspari 


It probably won’t come 

as a surprise to anyone 

that I love telling 

stories. After all, why 

would I go into a profession 

where I tell stories if 

I didn’t like to tell them? 

But something I’ve 

never done is stood up in 

front of an audience of 

complete strangers and 

told a story about my 

personal life. 

Yet that’s exactly what I 

got to see firsthand on Saturday, 

Nov. 2, as I sat in 

the audience at the Gorton 

Community Center’s John 

& Nancy Hughes Theater 

and watched “Truth Be 

Told: A Night of Personal 

Storytelling.” 

Seven people took the 

stage that night, and each 

one of them shared a 

personal story from their 

life. Some of them were 

sad, like the speaker who 

talked about her father 

dying of Alzheimer’s 

Disease. Some of them 

were inspiring, like the 

speaker who talked about 

his life’s goal and how, 

while that didn’t work out, 

he eventually found his 

true calling. Some of them 

were absolutely hilarious, 

like the speaker who 

wanted to prove himself 

as a man at his family’s 

Christmas Eve dinner to 

disastrous results. And 

more than one story made 

me feel some combination 

of all those emotions. 

It takes courage to stand 

up in front of an audience 

of complete strangers and 

to share a story from your 

life. All of these stories 

were personal and had 

deep significance in every 

single one of their lives. 

And every single speaker 

took the stage, and without 

missing a beat, told 

their story in their own 

unique way. 

In the back of my mind, 

I’ve always wanted to 

try something like this. 

The only problem is, I’m 

not very good at public 

speaking. It’s not that I’m 

afraid of public speaking 

– I’ve done it plenty of 

times without a problem 

– it’s that I’m not very 

good at it. I stumble over 

words, I forget my train of 

thought, my voice cracks 

sometimes. The advantage 

of writing is that there’s 

a “delete” button, so if I 

don’t like something, I 

just press that and it all 

goes away forever. 

Not so much with public 

speaking. 

Even so, after watching 

“Truth Be Told” this past 

Saturday night, I’ve been 

inspired. I really want 

to try telling my story in 

front of an audience. As 

co-producer and speaker 

Scott Whitehair said during 

the show, everybody 

has a story to tell. And 

trust me; I’ve got plenty 

of them! 

So, I think I might just 

end up taking the plunge 

and test out one of those 

stories in front of an 

audience of strangers. 

I’m sure it won’t be easy, 

and I’m sure it’ll take me 

some time before I gain 

complete confidence, 

but who knows? Maybe 

someday you’ll see me on 

stage telling one of those 

stories. 

NFYN 

From Page 10 

Rudman came in, he was 

kind of telling the players, 

‘This was the worst team 

I ever coached, the only 

reason you guys won sectionals 

is because it was 

the easiest sectional we’ve 

ever faced.’” 

Reporting by Erin Yarnall, 

Contributing Editor, and 

Nick Frazier, Sports Editor. 

Full story at HPLandmark- 

Daily.com. 

THE NORTHBROOK TOWER 

North Shore Place worker 

sued for alleged sexual 

abuse, physical assault of 

former resident 

A worker at a Northbrook 

senior living facility 

is being sued for allegedly 

sexually abusing and physically 

assaulting a former 

resident, according to a 

civil lawsuit filed in Cook 

County circuit court and 

obtained by The Tower. 

The estate of a 61-yearold 

man, who lived at North 

Shore Place from June 

2017 to June 2018, is suing 

Snezana “Sue” Djuricic, 

go figure 

7 

An intriguing number from this week’s edition 

The number of speakers who told 

their stories at Truth Be Told. Full 

story on Page 19. 

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a worker at the retirement 

senior living residence, according 

to the lawsuit. The 

Oct. 11 lawsuit also names 

North Shore Place as a defendant 

for “failure to protect 

the resident.” 

The lawsuit states North 

Shore Place staff notified 

their employer on approximately 

April 23, 2018, that 

Djuricic was “strangely 

over protective” and “overly 

friendly” with the resident. 

A client services coordinator 

visited the facility 

days later to investigate and 

found Djuricic showering 

in the resident’s bathroom, 

according to the lawsuit. 

Djuricic admitted that 

she had a sexual relationship 

with the resident, the 

lawsuit states. 

The resident, who according 

to the lawsuit was 

suffering from dementia, 

cognitive decline, behavioral 

disturbances and other 

disabilities at the time, 

“could not competently 

consent to sexual activity 

as a result of his overall 

condition.” 

Reporting by The Northbrook 

Tower Staff. Full story at 

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Savory barbecue 

Papa Willie’s BBQ is popular on day one, Page 21 

Gorton Center 

welcomes 

storytellers for ‘Truth 

Be Told,’ Page 19 

Megon 

McDonough 

sings a song 

during “Truth 

Be Told: A Night 

of Personal 

Storytelling” 

Saturday, Nov. 

2, at the Gorton 

Community 

Center. Alex 

Newman/22nd 

Century Media

18 | November 7, 2019 | The lake forest leader PUZZLES 


north shore puzzler CROSSWORD & Sudoku 

Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Northbrook, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Lake Forest and Lake Bluff 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur 

Across 

1. Wetland 

4. Northwood junior 

high teacher, Jon 

8. Fasteners 

14. Russell Crowe’s 

middle name 

15. Clef or sax preceder 

16. Where skeletons 

might be 

found,metaphorically 

17. Important 

18. Italian bread 

19. Like some discussions 

20. “Aha!” 

22. Claim as a right 

24. Eye mouth 

divider 

25. Determined to 

accomplish 

26. Be a bother 

29. Dog-like carnivore 

34. Egg producers 

35. Certain fisherman 

36. Animals of a 

region 

40. Magic, maybe 

41. Devour hungrily 

42. Healed wound 

44. Stimulates 

45. Northwood 

School principal, 

Joanne 

50. Furnished with 

boat movers 

52. Units for exercise 

machines 

53. Silo contents 

55. Decision maker at 

home 

57. Oppressively hot 

59. “Interview with a 

Vampire” writer (last 

name) 

61. Finished 

62. Breathing noise 

63. Cobblers’ tools 

64. Doctrine adherent 

65. Stableman 

66. In order (to) 

67. Comedian Margaret 

Down 

1. Beachware 

2. Salem’s home 

3. Most festive 

4. French Sudan, once 

5. Deplaned 

6. Paper size 

7. Construction site 

machines 

8. Below-average Joe 

9. Phrase symbolizimg 

honesty 

10. Chestnut colored 

horse 

11. Founded: Abbr. 

12. Very small 

13. Avg. 

21. Golf drive location 

23. Parisian summer 

25. Rep’s counterpart 

27. Talk a lot of enthusiasm 

about 

28. Retainer 

30. “___ out!” (ump’s 

call) 

31. Large deer 

32. Born 

33. Airport sched. 

abbr. 

36. Not a whole bunch 

37. “Ni-i-ice!” 

38. Western Native 

American 

39. Almond 

40. Printemps month 

42. Jagged mountain 

ranges 

43. Mil. authority 

45. Rap doctor 

46. Capitol V.I.P. 

(abbr.) 

47. Of part of the eye 

48. Monstrous 

49. Acclimatized for 

51. Snake or mathematician, 

at times 

53. Guitar part 

54. L.A. Dodgers 

great Hershiser 

55. Where the Wizard 

of Westwood coached 

56. Confusion 

57. Couple 

58. Sighs of distress 

60. W.W. II battle site, 

for short 

LAKE FOREST 

Little Tails Bar and Grill 

(840 S. Waukegan 

Road) 

■■Live music every 

Friday night 

The Gorton Center 

(400 E. Illinois Road) 

■■7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8: 

“A Night With Janis 

Joplin” 

Lake Forest Recreation 

Center 

(400 Hastings Road) 

■■Friday, Nov. 8 and 

Saturday, Nov. 9: 

Holiday French Market 

Boutique 

HIGHWOOD 

The Humble Pub 

(336 Green Bay Road, 

(847) 433-6360) 

■■9 p.m. every Wednesday 

night: Open Jam 

■■9 p.m. every Friday: 

Kara-Moe-ke 

Buffo’s 

(431 Sheridan Road, 

(847) 432-0301) 

■■7 p.m. every Monday: 

Trivia 

NORTHBROOK 

Pinstripes 

(1150 Willow Road, 

(847) 480-2323) 

■■From open until close 

all week: bowling and 

bocce 

Northbrook Sports 

Center 

(1730 Pfingsten Road) 

■■7-9 p.m. Nov. 9: Cosmic 

Skating 

GLENVIEW 

Johnny’s Kitchen 

(1740 Milwaukee Ave. 

(847) 699-9999) 

■■7:30 p.m. every 

Friday and Saturday: 

Live Music 

Ten Ninety Brewing Co. 

(1025 N. Waukegan 

Road, (224) 432-5472) 

■■7-9 p.m. every Thursday: 

Trivia Night 

Oil Lamp Theater 

(1723 Glenview Road) 

■■Ongoing performances 

of “Murder on the 

Nile” 

Please see the scene, 20 

answers 

How to play Sudoku 

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that 

has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 

3x3 squares. To solve the puzzle each row, column 

and box must contain each of the numbers 

1 to 9. 

LEVEL: Medium 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan

LakeForestLeaderDaily.com LIFE & ARTS 



Speakers share their stories at ‘Truth Be Told’ 

Libby Elliott 


Virtually any night of the 

week in Chicago, fans of 

the popular live-lit storytelling 

medium can catch 

a performance at one of 

many bars, art galleries and 

bookstores that regularly 

host these intimate, niche 

events. 

But increasingly, storytelling 

events are popping 

up in theater-style suburban 

venues like community 

centers and high school auditoriums, 

drawing large, 

fee-paying audiences. 

Roughly 300 people 

filled the newly-renovated 

John & Nancy Hughes 

Theater at the Gorton Community 

Center on Saturday, 

Nov. 2, to hear seven storytellers 

perform in the livelit 

series “Truth Be Told,” 

an event that also featured 

pre-theater music by the 

singing-guitar duo Badass 

Librarians and a “Toast the 

Tellers” after party. 

Co-produced by Lake 

Forest resident Anne Purky 

and the Chicago-based storyteller 

Scott Whitehair, 

who doubled on the night 

as a performer, “Truth Be 

Told” showcased funny, 

raw and sometimes heartbreaking 

stories. 

Live stories, insists 

Whitehair, are unique because 

they enable audience 

members to “connect with 

each other face-to-face 

through the universality of 

human experience.” 

“Everyone in this room 

is a storyteller,” Whitehair 

told the crowd at Gorton 

Community Center. “We’re 

just the ones telling our stories 

on stage.” 

City planner and Wilmette 

resident Marya Morris 

opened the night with 

a poignant story about her 

Kristina Schramm shrugs during a story about her 

yearslong struggle with her husband’s obsession with 

an old bean bag chair. 

late father’s battle with Alzheimer’s 

and his penchant 

for wandering the streets of 

Chicago in search of his pet 

cat, Rusty. 

“My dad was worried 

about Rusty and were worried 

about my dad,” said 

Morris. 

Actor and motivational 

speaker Kevin D’Ambrosio 

recounted the emotional 

experience of surviving 

an emergency landing en 

route home from a silent 

meditation retreat outside 

San Francisco. 

“I have no will,” 

D’Ambrosio said he texted 

his parents from the airplane. 

“I leave everything 

to you. XOXO.” 

Many of the night’s storytellers 

are seasoned veterans, 

performing regularly 

on local stages with NPR’s 

The Moth, Chicago’s Story 

Lab and The Ragdale 

Foundation. 

Others, like Glenview 

resident Monica Castle - a 

product buyer for an eCommerce 

website - are relative 

newcomers to the medium. 

Castle told the emotional 

story of a fourth-place 

YMCA swim team ribbon 

she won as a child in hopes 

of earning her absentee father’s 

pride and affection, 

a ribbon that hung on her 

mother’s refrigerator for 30 

years. 

“Sometimes, we have 

to believe in something to 

keep going,” Castle told the 

audience. 

Twelve of Castle’s Glenview 

friends and neighbors 

came out to hear her story, 

taking over a section of the 

theater to show their support. 

“She was amazing,” said 

Mary Beth Darr, after hearing 

her friend perform for 

the first time. 

Audience member Melissa 

Mills traveled out 

from Chicago for “Truth 

Be Told,” joining a friend 

in Lake Forest for the personal 

storytelling event. 

“These performers are 

courageous,” said Mills. “I 

find myself naturally connecting 

with people who 

are willing to make themselves 

vulnerable…I appreciate 

it and learn from it.” 

Kevin D’Ambrosio tells a story about the time a plane he was on had to make an 

emergency landing during “Truth Be Told: A Night of Personal Storytelling” at the 

Gorton Community Center. PHOTOS BY Alex Newman/22nd Century Media 

The storytellers who presented during “Truth Be Told: A Night of Personal Storytelling,” 

take a bow after the show. Presenters (from left) were Megon McDonough, Scott 

Whitehair, Kristina Schramm, Monica Castle, Ray Christian, Marya Morris and Kevin 

D’Ambrosio.

20 | November 7, 2019 | The lake forest leader FAITH 


Faith Briefs 

Faith Lutheran Church 

(680 West Deerpath, Lake Forest) 

Mid-week Bible Study 

Join us for mid-week 

Bible Study each Wednesday 

from 10-11 a.m. in the 

Adult Forum Room. The 

Parables of Jesus are being 

studied. The Lord’s Supper 

is offered after each class. 

Celebration Worship with 

Communion 

Weekly on Saturdays, 5 

to 6 p.m. 

Hogar de Fe, Our Hispanic 

Worship Service 

Hogar de Fe is Faith’s 

Spanish-language church 

service. Saturdays, 6:30 to 

8 p.m. 

Women’s Small Group 

Bible Study 

Monthly on the first and 

third Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. 

Tuesday Tie’ers 

9:30-11:30 a.m., second 

and fourth Tuesday of the 

month. Put together quilts 

for Lutheran World Relief. 

No sewing experience required! 

All are welcome. 

Steeple Quilters 

Weekly on Thursdays, 

7:30 to 9 p.m. 

First Presbyterian Church 

(700 Sheridan Road, Lake Forest) 

Wednesday Women’s Bible 

Study 

9:45-11 a.m., Wednesdays 

in the South Parlor. 

Brown Bag Bible Study 

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Tuesdays 

Grace United Methodist Church 

(244 East Center Ave., Lake Bluff) 

Boy Scouts 

7-9 p.m. Mondays. Boy 

Scout Troop 42 will meet 

in Fellowship Hall. 

Gentle Chair Yoga 

3-3:30 p.m. Fridays, 

Fellowship Hall. All are 

welcome. 

Adult Formation 

6:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays at 

Lake Bluff Brewery. 

Bible Study 

Saturdays, 8-9 a.m. We 

are studying The Last 

Week by Marcus Borg and 

John Crossan. Join us. 

Prayer Shawl Group 

Meeting 

The Grace Prayer Shawl 

Group meets the third 

Monday of every month at 

1:00 p.m. at Panera Bread 

in Lake Bluff, corner of 

Rockland Road (176) and 

Waukegan Road. Anyone 

who knows of a person 

in need of a Prayer Shawl 

may take one. Please contact 

Susan Kenyon for 

more information. 

Women’s Support Group 

The Women’s Support 

Group will be meeting on 

the second Thursday of 

each month at 7 p.m. in 

the Fireplace room. Our 

support group is a group 

of women that face challenging, 

and, at times difficult 

circumstances in our 

daily lives. If you, a family 

member, or friends (female 

only please) that you 

feel would benefit from 

our group, please join us. 

Church of St. Mary 

(175 E. Illinois Road, Lake Forest) 

Eucharistic Adoration 

Each Wednesday, the 

Church of St. Mary offers 

Eucharistic Adoration following 

the 8 a.m. Mass. A 

rosary will be prayed each 

week at 6:40 p.m. with 

Benediction following at 

7 p.m. 

Handbell Choir Practice 

6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesdays 

Adult Choir 

7:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays 

Christ Church of Lake Forest 

(100 N. Waukegan Road) 

Senior High Youth Group 

7-9 p.m. Sundays. All 

are welcome for a time 

of worship, teaching and 

fellowship. Friends are 

encouraged to attend. For 

more information, call 

(847) 234-1001. 

The Bridge Young Adults 

Group 

7-9 p.m., every Wednesday. 

All young adults are 

welcome to join. For more 

information, contact The- 

BridgeCCLF@gmail.com. 

Financial Peace University 

6:30-8:30 p.m., Wednesdays. 

Financial Peace University 

is designed to help 

you achieve your financial 

goals by showing you how 

to eliminate debt and save 

for the future. You will 

be challenged and motivated 

to make a plan for 

your money and decrease 

your stress over finances. 

No matter how much you 

make or how much debt 

you may or may not have, 

this class is for you! 

The Fraternity 

6-7:30 a.m. Fridays. 

The Fraternity is a weekly 

gathering of men’s small 

groups to explore what the 

Bible says about life, faith 

and ideas that matter to 

men. It’s an effort to combine 

relevant topics with 

Bible-based content that’s 

accessible yet challenging 

for any man. Learn more: 

http://christchurchil.org/ 

the-fraternity/ 

Women on Wednesdays 

9-11 a.m. Join with 

other women on Wednesday 

mornings. Visit the 

Women’s page for current 

topic and to register: http:// 

christchurchil.org/women/ 

MOPS 

9:15-11:15 a.m., 

Wednesdays. Join us the 

first three Wednesdays 

of the month for MOPS 

(Mothers of Preschoolers). 

GIFT 

10:30-11:30 a.m., Sundays. 

GIFT (Growing in 

Faith Together) offers a 

potpourri of teachings 

from students and teachers, 

lay people and ministry 

leaders. We look 

forward to thoughtful presentations 

with time for Q 

and A in an informal, intergenerational 

gathering. 

Drop-ins welcome. 

Christian Science Society 

(Gorton Center, 400 E. Illinois Road, 

Lake Forest) 

Testimony Meeting 

7:30 p.m. first Wednesday 

of each month. Come 

to Gorton Center for 

prayer, hymns, and readings 

from the Bible, with 

related passages from the 

“Christian Science” textbook, 

“Science and Health 

with Key to the Scriptures” 

by Mary Baker Eddy. Then 

participants share their 

own healings and inspiration. 

For more information, 

call (847) 234-0820 

or email cssocietylakeforest@gmail.com. 

Bible Blast 

5-6 p.m. Sunday evenings. 

Bible Blast is a family 

program for children 

4 years old through fifth 

grade. Guide your child’s 

spiritual growth and biblical 

literacy to a new level 

through Bible Blast. There 

is a one-time registration 

fee of $45. Free childcare 

is provided for 3 years old 

and younger. 

Union Church of Lake Bluff 

(525 E. Prospect Ave., Lake Bluff) 

Live Wires 

4-5 p.m. Wednesdays, 

Fellowship Hall. Live 

Wires is the Union Church 

youth group for fourththrough 

sixth-graders. The 

group meets for lively discussion 

and fun activities. 

Submit information for 

The Leader’s Faith page 

to peter@lakeforestleader. 

com. The deadline is noon on 

Thursday. Questions? Call 

(847) 272-4565 ext. 21. 

THE SCENE 

From Page 18 

Potato Creek Johnny’s 

(1850 Waukegan Road) 

■■8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8: Victor 

Brown Band 

The Curragh Glenview 

(1800 Tower Drive) 

■■9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9: 

Second Hand Soul Band 

WINNETKA 

Fred’s Garage 

(574 Green Bay Road) 

■■Every Friday: Fred’s Garage 

Fish Fry Fridays 

Winnetka Community House 

(620 Lincoln Ave.) 

■■Saturday, Nov. 9 and Sunday, 

Nov. 10: Winnetka Antiques 

+ Modernism Show 

The Book Stall 

(811 Elm St.) 


Visit from Author Tim Johnston 

NORTHFIELD 

Tapas Gitana 

(310 N. Happ Road) 

■■6 p.m. every other Sunday: 

Live music 

GLENCOE 

Writers Theatre 

(325 Tudor Court) 

■■Ongoing: Performances of 

“The Niceties” 

Takiff Center 

(999 Green Bay Road) 

■■6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8: 

Paint and Sip 


Nerf battle 

WILMETTE 

Wilmette Bowling Center 

(1901 Schiller Ave.,(847) 251- 

0705) 

■■11 a.m.-9 p.m. (10 p.m. 

on Friday, Saturday): Glow 

bowling and pizza all week 

long 

Music Theater Works 

(516 4th St.) 

■■5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9: “So 

Long, Farewell” 

Michigan Shores Club 

(911 Michigan Ave.) 

■■6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8: 

Mother-Son Dance 

Wilmette Community Recreation 

Center 

(3000 Glenview Road) 

■■Starting Nov. 8: Ongoing 

performances of “Elf Jr.” 

To place an event in The Scene, 

email martin@northbrooktower.com

LakeForestLeaderDaily.com DINING OUT 



Papa Willie’s BBQ sells out on first day in business 

Peter Kaspari, Editor 

When Brian Merel 

opened up Papa Willie’s 

BBQ in Highwood last 

month, he had no idea how 

popular it would end up 

being. 

On his first day in business, 

Oct. 20, he had to 

close the restaurant after 

just 90 minutes. 

Why? 

Because he ran out of 

food. 

“I was way under (the 

demand),” he said. 

Despite running out 

of food, Merel said he’s 

happy he opened the business 

that day, because it 

gave him a glimpse of 

what people in Highwood 

and the surrounding areas 

want. 

“I think people are 

ready,” he said. “There’s 

a pretty deep desire to fill 

bellies with what I’ve got 

here.” 

The opening also allowed 

him to make a few 

adjustments to his system. 

After his opening, Merel 

said he added a new iPad 

to his counter, giving a 

second place to take orders. 

He also rearranged 

the kitchen a bit so that 

orders don’t get mixed up. 

For Merel, opening Papa 

Willie’s BBQ, located at 

148 Green Bay Road in 

Highwood, was all about 

family. 

Previously a private 

chef for 10 years, Merel 

realized he needed to do 

something to support his 

growing family. 

“When gigs were busy 

and times were busy, it 

was great,” he said. “But 

when you add a wife and 

two kids, there needs to be 

a bit more consistency.” 

Merel considered other 

careers, and even looked at 

opportunities in the corporate 

world, but quickly realized 

the idea of working 

a 9-to-5 job wasn’t going 

to be satisfying to him. 

In the end, he decided to 

stick with what he knew 

and open up a restaurant. 

“This was an idea that 

was on the backburner and 

the frontburner for the last 

few years,” Merel said. 

For Papa Willie’s BBQ, 

everything seemed to 

come together all at once. 

He was originally going 

to open up in downtown 

Chicago, but eventually 

decided to look on the 

North Shore for a place. 

Merel looked at property 

in Highland Park, but 

chose the Highwood location 

after his stepmother 

was driving past it one day 

and suggested he look into 

it. 

Merel, who lives two 

blocks away from the restaurant, 

checked it out and 

realized that it was the perfect 

location for him; he’s 

been told the intersection 

outside the restaurant is 

the second-busiest intersection 

in the area, plus the 

fact that there’s a threeway 

stop means everybody 

who drives there sees the 

restaurant. 

“All stars needed to 

align,” he said. 

Family plays into more 

than just the reason he 

started the restaurant. It’s 

actually named after his 

grandfather, and his uncle 

created the barbecue sauce 

that Merel uses on all of 

his food. 

“It’s got some heat to 

it, it’s got some smoke, 

sweet,” Merel said. “I 

happen to think it’s my 

favorite barbecue sauce 

I’ve ever had, so I think 

that automatically sets me 

apart from other barbecue 

Papa Willie’s BBQ 

148 Green Bay Road, 

Highwood 

(847) 748-8599 

papawilliesbbq.com 

4 p.m.-9 p.m. 

Thursday-Monday 

Closed Tuesdays and 

Wednesdays 

places.” 

Merel said his uncle 

taught him all about barbecue. 

“He taught me the style 

of putting it up after it’s 

nearly done and taking it 

off the grill and chopping 

it up and tossing it in the 

sauce and throwing it back 

on,” Merel said. “It’s such 

an erratic style of cooking 

because it’s pure chaos on 

the grill.” 

Merel’s uncle also 

taught him to be careful 

when grilling with the 

sauce. 

“There’s sugar in the 

sauce, so if you leave it too 

long, there’s a fine line between 

burnt and carmel,” 

he said. 

Papa Willie’s BBQ is 

take-out only, and Merel 

said there’s a reason for 

that. 

He believes that what 

leads many restaurants to 

fail are labor, food, waste 

and overhead, so he decided 

to minimize that as 

much as he could. 

“I can do a whole restaurant 

and staff, food if 

I wanted to,” he said. “I 

don’t want to do that.” 

He’s also only open for 

dinner. 

All of it goes back to 

family. 

“I want a life,” he said. 

“I want to see my wife, I 

want to see my kids. My 

endgame isn’t the almighty 

dollar.” 

Merel added, “I want to 

Papa Willie’s BBQ’s signature dish is its Bag O’ Ribs 

($14 for a half slab, $24 for a full slab), covered in the 

barbecue sauce that owner Brian Merel’s uncle makes. 

Photos by Erin Yarnall/22nd Century Media 

The restaurant offers a seasonal salad ($9) filled with 

baby field greens, charred corn, candied pecans, dried 

cranberries, queso fresco and topped with a roasted 

shallot cranberry white balsamic vinaigrette. 

provide for them, but I’m 

not going to be away from 

them 15 hours a day, seven 

days a week. That’s not 

going to happen.” 

Merel said he loves 

cooking. 

“I get goosebumps a lot 

when I talk about food,” he 

said, adding that he can’t 

wait to see how people react 

to eating his food. 

“That might render me 

speechless,” he said, then 

added what he believes 

about food. 

“Cooking is cooking, 

but cooking is nothing until 

you share it with someone,” 

he said. “So as soon 

as people start eating my 

food and I can see it, then 

I’ll know.” 

A group of 22nd Century 

Media editors recently 

visited Papa Willie’s BBQ 

to taste the food and the famous 

barbecue sauce. 

We started with the Bag 

O’ Ribs ($14 half-slab, $24 

full-slab), which is literally 

a bag filled with ribs. 

Papa Willie’s barbecue 

sauce added a smoky, delicious 

flavor to the ribs, and 

editors enjoyed the food so 

much, the ribs were gone 

within just a few minutes. 

We also got to try the 

seasonal salad, which currently 

contains baby field 

greens, charred corn, candied 

pecans, dried cranberries, 

queso fresco and 

roasted shallot cranberry 

with white balsamic vinaigrette 

($9). Editors enjoyed 

the dressing as well 

as the variety of flavors 

that came with the salad. 

The price of the salad varies 

depending on the season. 

Editors also got to try the 

mac ‘n cheese ($3), which 

is served as a side option 

for the ribs. It’s made with 

a “rich homemade five 

cheese blend.” 

Finally, we ended our 

visit to Papa Willie’s BBQ 

by trying both dessert options; 

Uncle JJ’s Blueberry 

Crumb Pie ($6) and Possum 

Pie ($6). Both are 

served layered and in Mason 

jars. 

Uncle JJ’s Blueberry 

Crumb pie includes a buttery 

graham cracker crust, 

wild blueberry filling and a 

sweet cream cheese lemon 

zest layer. It’s topped with 

graham cracker clusters. 

Possum Pie has a thick 

Oreo crust, chocolate 

hazelnut cream, chocolate 

cream pudding and 

whipped cream, topped 

with hazelnut Pirouline 

cookies. 

Merel said the trick to 

both desserts is to stick the 

spoon down to the bottom 

of the Mason jar, that way 

all layers end up on the 

spoon and you can taste all 

of them at once. 

Additionally, Merel also 

sells jars of the Papa Willie’s 

BBQ sauce for $7, 

and Willie pig hats for $20.

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Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Pat Moorhead 

Moorhead is the senior 

captain on the Lake Forest 

boys golf team. 

How did you get 

started playing golf? 

My grandpa got me into 

it when I was younger. He 

was a big-time golfer. 

What is your favorite 

part of playing golf? 

The state tournament. 

It’s fun spending three 

nights with the whole team 

in a hotel. 

What is the most 

challenging part of 

playing golf? 

The mental aspect. If I 

start off poorly, that can 

sometimes affect my entire 

round, or it can kind of 

make my entire round. 

What’s the best 

coaching advice you’ve 

ever gotten? 

Play the first three holes 

and get warmed up, don’t 

go out there trying to hit a 

low score in the first three 

holes. Once you know 

where you’re at, then you 

can start playing for birdies 

and being a little more 

aggressive. 

Do you have any 

pre-game rituals or 

superstitions? 

I need to do putting and 

chipping before I do full 

swings, I always do that. 

If you could play 

another sport besides 

golf, what would it 

be? 

Hockey. I’ve played 

hockey all my life until 

high school, it’s probably 

the most fun sport. I like 

it a lot, it’s way different 

than golf. 

Who is your favorite 

athlete? 

Tiger Woods for sure. 

The best golfer over the 

years, made the best comeback 

in the history of 

sports, I think he’s just a 

fun guy to watch play golf. 

The atmosphere that he 

brings, you can’t beat it 

22nd Century Media File Photo 

What’s your favorite 

place to eat? 

I like Meatheads a lot. 

If you won the lottery, 

what’s the first thing 

you would buy? 

Probably a clean car, 

something fun to drive. 

If you could travel 

anywhere in the 

world, where would 

you go? 

I would probably want 

to go to Ireland because 

I’ve never been, either 

Ireland or Scotland for the 

golf. 

Interview by Sports Editor 

Nick Frazier 

The Varsity: North Shore Podcast 

Guys recap postseason football, 

announce boys soccer honors 

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 start 

of playoff football. The 

guys recap Loyola Academy 

and Lake Forest 

playoff football games, announce 

boys soccer Team 

22 all-area teams and the 

Boys Soccer Coach and 

Player of the Year, preview 

another week of postseason 

football and talk 

This Week In ... 

SCOUTS VARSITY 

ATHLETICS 

FOOTBALL 

■Nov. ■ 8 - hosts Kaneland, 

7:30 p.m. 

■■ 

GIRLS SWIMMING & DIVING 

■Nov. ■ 8 - NSC diving 

championship, 6 p.m. 

■Nov. ■ 9 - NSC 

championship, 11 a.m. 

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL 

■Nov. ■ 8 - Super-sectionals, 

VOLLEYBALL 

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on defense, and then turning 

that around and getting 

points for us on offense. She 

did a great job tonight.” 

Lake Forest led 14-10 in 

the second set but McHenry 

battled back and took a 

20-18 lead. A Thrash kill 

tied it again at 21-21 and 

the Scouts’ Alma Mackic 

had a kill to give her side a 

one-point lead. 

Down 24-23, Lake Forest 

Find the varsity 

Twitter: 

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Website: 

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Stitcher, TuneIn, 

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about some other postseason 

headlines in the North 

Shore. 

First Period 

TBD 

GIRLS CROSS-COUNTRY 

■Nov. ■ 9 - State 

championship in Peoria, 

time TBD 

BOYS CROSS-COUNTRY 

■Nov. ■ 9 - State 

championship in Peoria, 

time TBD 

BOYS ICE HOCKEY 

■Nov. ■ 9 - hosts New Trier 

Blue, 8 p.m. 

faced set point. But McHenry 

served long to make it 24- 

24 and the teams played to 

a 26-26 tie before kills from 

McCaskey and Wiesner 

gave the Scouts the win. 

“They earned it and 

they deserve it. They’ve 

been working really hard,” 

Rupnik said. “We trusted 

each other the whole time 

and before this match I said 

to the girls that this was 

about us, trusting each other, 

leaning on each other, 

and trusting in what we’ve 

The three recap both 

Loyola and Lake Forest 

football games. 

Second Period 

With soccer ending for 

the area teams, the guys 

announce the all-area 

teams and best player and 

coach. 

Third Period 

With the playoffs continuing, 

the three hosts 

preview the next games. 

Overtime 

The guys recap the other 

postseason headlines. 

■Nov. ■ 10 - hosts Latin, 5:45 

p.m. 

■Nov. ■ 13 - at Evanston, 8 

p.m. 

GIRLS ICE HOCKEY 

■Nov. ■ 13 - at Lake Forest 

Academy, 6 p.m. 

CAXYS VARSITY 

ATHLETICS 

GIRLS ICE HOCKEY 

■Nov. ■ 11 - hosts TBD, 6 

p.m. 

■Nov. ■ 13 - hosts Lake 

Forest, 6 p.m. 

done to get us here. They 

did exactly that and I’m so 

proud of them.” 

McCaskey finished with 

five kills and Caroline Graham 

finished with four kills 

and two assists for Lake 

Forest. 

The win sent Lake Forest 

— the no. 4 seed of the 

Warren sectional — to a 

sectional semifinal against 

North Suburban Conference 

rival and No. 1 seed 

Libertyville on Oct. 28 at 

Warren High School.

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BoYS Soccer 

FirST Team 

Forward 

Joey Martens, GBN senior 

• 19 goals, 7 assists; Martens 

returns to 22nd Century Media’s 

First Team after an impressive 

senior season. He increased both 

his goals and assists statistics. 

MidFielder 

Nico Adducci, GBN senior 

• 6 goals, 6 assists; North’s 

two-year varsity starter ended 

his career on a strong note, 

helping the Spartans win an IHSA 

regional. 

deFender 

Mario Hrvojevic, LA junior 

• 4 goals, 12 assists; Loyola’s 

junior helped move the ball 

around the pitch, creating 

different scoring chances. He 

earned CCL All-Conference 

honors. 

Welcome to the 22nd Century Media All-Area team: Team 22. Thanks to the help of area 

coaches, and the eyes of 22nd Century Media staff, the best players were selected from 

eight high schools — Glenbrook North (GBN), Glenbrook South (GBS), Highland Park (HP), 

Lake Forest Academy (LFA), Lake Forest (LF), Loyola Academy (LA), New Trier (NT) and 

North Shore Country Day (NSCD) — in our coverage area. 

Second Team 

Forward 

Aidan Crowder, NT senior 

• 16 goals, 7 assists; New Trier’s 

senior earned Central Suburban 

League All-Conference and 

All-Sectional honors. He finished 

with five game-winning goals. 

MidFielder 

Oliver Akintade, LF senior 

• 7 goals, 4 assists; Lake 

Forest’s senior was a strong 

leader for the Scouts on the 

pitch, controlling the middle 

portion of the field. 

deFender 

Konrad Ziaja, LF senior 

• 1 goal, 3 assists; Lake Forest’s 

defensive leader helped anchor 

a strong wall against opponents’ 

forwards. 

Forward 

Giuseppe Maida, LFA sophomore 

• 37 goals, 6 assists; The 

sophomore burst out onto the 

scene with a big season. Lake 

Forest Academy’s second-year 

varsity player led the Caxys in a 

big way after a nice freshman 

year. 

MidFielder 

Tommy Zipprich, LA junior 

• 10 goals, 6 assists; Zipprich 

returns to the First Team after 

strong play in his junior season. 

The Rambler earned Chicago 

Catholic League All-Conference 

and All-Sectional honors. 

goalkeeper 

Christian Noordover, GBS senior 

• 0.85 GAA, 4.5 shutouts; The 

Titans’ goalkeeper limited what 

opponents could do on the 

offensive side of the ball. The CSL 

All-Conference honoree allowed 

13 goals in 1,230 minutes. 

MidFielder 

Will Franzen, NT junior 

• 7 goals, 10 assists; The Trevian 

impressed in his first season 

playing high school soccer. 

Franzen earned All-Conference 

and All-Sectional honors. 

deFender 

David Schueler, GBN senior 

• 4 goals; The three-year varsity 

player and senior captain was a 

major leader for the Spartans, 

especially during a run to a 

regional championship. 

Honorable mentions: 

Honorable mention: Danny Sergiev, 

GBS senior F; Zach Ochab, GBS 

senior F; Justin Leszynski, GBS 

junior F; Luke Zucker, HP senior 

F; Danny Barragan, HP senior 

MF; Scott Skinner, LFA senior MF; 

Antonio Ferraiolo, LFA junior MF; 

Nico Defilippis, LF senior F; John 

Walsh, LF senior GK; Nick Roscoe; 

LA senior MF; Michael Sullivan, LA 

junior MF; Ryan Ball, NT senior MF; 

James Paden, NT sophomore D; 

Cole Sabia NSCD freshman 

F; Adam Terhaerdt NSCD 

senior MF 

Forwards 

Alex Powell, NT senior 

• 10 goals, 11 assists; Powell returns to 

the Second Team after a strong senior 

campaign. The Trevian earned All-State 

and CSL All-Conference honors. 

Ronin Moore, HP senior 

• 13 goals, 7 assists; The Giants captain 

led his team with 33 points. 

Vincent Luglio, NSCD junior 

• 17 goals; The Raider helped lead his 

team to a historic season, advancing to 

their first-ever state semifinal. He earned 

All-Sectional honors. 

MidFielders 

Jake Krueger, NT junior 

• 4 goals, 9 assists; The Trevian scored 

one game-winning goal and earned CSL 

All-Conference honors. 

Julian Issar, GBS senior 

• 1 goals, 3 assists; South’s three-year 

varsity player earned All-Sectional and 

CSL All-Conference honors. 

Jhovany Guadarrama, GBS senior 

• 4 assists; Head coach Reggie Lara 

called the senior “the heart and soul” 

of the team. Guadarrama earned All- 

Sectional honors. 

Stefan Momcilovic, LFA sophomore 

• 10 goals, 13 assists; Momcilovic was 

another sophomore who came out and 

helped the Caxys in a big way. 

deFenders 

Jose Santos-DeSoto, GBS senior 

• 1 goal, 3 assists; South’s CSL All- 

Conference player helped the Titans 

defense earn six shutouts. 

Drew Maytum, GBS junior 

• 3 goals, 2 assists; Maytum was the 

vocal leader for the Titans backline and 

thrived on set pieces. 

Matt Holleman, HP senior 

• HP’s senior played in every match this 

season and helped his defense earn a 

1.51 goals per game average. 

goalkeeper 

Ethan Fineman, HP junior 

• 1.52 GAA, 7 shutouts; Fineman 

returned to the Second Team after 

another solid year in net.

LakeForestLeaderDaily.com SPORTS 


Boys soccer Player of the Year 

Crowder’s emergence leads to honor 

Michael Wojtychiw 

Contributing Sports Editor 

A season after only 

scoring three goals, New 

Trier senior forward Aidan 

Crowder set a goal for 

himself for his last season 

as a Trevian: score 20 

goals. 

Unfortunately for 

Crowder, he fell short of 

the goal, finishing with 17 

goals, but his presence up 

front is what made the Trevians 

a scary team to face 

offensively. 

For that, Crowder was 

named this year’s 22nd 

Century Media Boys Soccer 

Player of the Year. 

After scoring only 40 

goals as a team during the 

2018 season, New Trier 

looked to gain more offensive 

firepower and Crwoder 

was going to be a big 

part of that. 

“I knew that I needed to 

step up because I knew I 

was capable of doing it,” 

Crowder said. 

Scoring goals had always 

been in his blood, ever 

since he was a kid playing 

club soccer and early on in 

his New Trier career. 

“Early on in New Trier, 

when I wasn’t on varsity, 

I would score a lot and I 

was usually looked at as 

the main guy to score goals 

because of my speed and 

just being athletic,” he said. 

“Yeah, so it was kind of 

weird, my junior year, not 

having that much of an impact 

on the team, but it kind 

of felt like there wasn’t 

much else I could do. “ 

New Trier Matt Ravenscraft 

realized Crowder’s 

potential early on at New 

Trier, pulling him up to the 

varsity level toward the end 

of his sophomore season. 

Even though he didn’t 

get a lot of playing time or 

get on the score sheet, there 

were some key things that 

the coaching staff really 

liked, namely his speed, 

tactical IQ and realizing 

how to make runs during 

games. 

Ravenscraft saw a different 

Crowder between his 

junior and seasons, however. 

“I think the primary 

thing is Aidan himself,” the 

coach said about the differences 

between the two 

years. “We see this every 

year and there’s always a 

couple of guys who put in 

the work and Aidan put in 

the time there. That can be 

difficult in January or February 

when your season 

feels like it’s a long ways 

away, but he did that. 

“He was fast last year and 

that was a weapon that he 

had last year, but his speed 

improved, his strength improved. 

A lot of that just 

goes down to Aidan and his 

work and then some of the 

just physical growth. But 

he really took the time, particularly 

in the summer, to 

understand his role in our 

playing style.” 

Crowder combined with 

fellow senior Alex Powell 

to form a formidable duo 

up top for the Trevians, who 

saw their season end in the 

sectional semifinals with a 

1-0 loss to rival Evanston. 

However, the Central Suburban 

League and soccer 

coaches from across the 

state recognized Crowder’s 

achievements, naming him 

to the conference-s allconference 

team, as well 

as an All-Sectional player 

through the Illinois High 

School Soccer Coaches Association. 

Included in his 17 goals, 

were six game-winning 

goals, an impressive number 

for any team, especially 

considering he scored the 

New Trier’s Aidan Crowder 

is this year’s 22nd Century 

Media Boys Soccer Player 

of the Year. 22nd Century 

Media File Photo 

game-winner in 38 percent 

of the team’s wins. 

“I love having clutch 

plays,” Crowder said. “To 

me that’s one of the most 

important things a player 

can do, because when it 

seems like the game might 

be over or we’re not going 

to have a chance, I always 

just give it a little extra to 

make sure that we can get 

the goal or just win the 

game.” 

Crowder plans to play 

in college but hasn’t made 

a decision on where yet. 

The 2019 high school season 

has given him plenty 

of confidence going into 

his club season, where he 

hopes to catch the eyes of 

more colleges and find the 

best fit for him. 

“Now I know I can score 

when I want to against really 

good opponents, and this 

club season’s going to help 

a lot because it’s kind of 

like an all-star team, when 

you think about it with the 

best players from all the 

schools around here,” he 

said. 

“We can really play 

our style to the maximum 

level, it’s just going to improve 

me a lot, and I’m really 

excited to score a lot of 

goals.” 

boys soccer Coach of the Year 

Historic season propels 

Jones to annual honor 



North Shore Country 

Day has been on quite the 

run athletically over the 

past couple years. Multiple 

trips to the state’s final 

four spread out among 

multiple sports, including 

a couple state titles and 

runner-up finishes. 

One of those teams that 

has had success has been 

the boys soccer team, 

winning back-to-back regionals 

last year and this 

season. 

This season, however, 

was different. 

The Raiders were able 

to accomplish something 

that no team had done in 

program history: win sectional 

and supersectional 

titles and qualify for the 

state’s final four. 

While the team ended 

up taking fourth place, it 

was still a historic accomplishment 

for the Winnetka 

school. 

For that, the Raiders’ 

coach Kyle Jones has 

been named 22nd Century 

Media’ Boys Soccer 

Coach of the Year. 

“We’ve got a good 

foundation in terms of 

how to be a great teammate 

during preseason, 

having deeper squads than 

we’ve had in the past, and 

being able to rest people 

throughout the season,” 

Jones said. “I think we 

play off the mindset of 

just taking one day, one 

play at a time rather than 

looking forward and overthinking 

things. We’ve 

just been focused on each 

game and each day and 

each practice and each 

play in practice.” 

Most teams that get 

over the proverbial hump 

are made up of mostly upperclassmen 

contributors, 

but that hasn’t really been 

the case this season for the 

Raiders. 

North Shore has gotten 

contributions from freshman 

Cole Sabia and sophomores 

Mason Roberts- 

Jones and Nick Potter, as 

well as juniors Vincent 

Luglio, Jacob Sherman 

and Axel Garcia, to name 

a few. Those, combined 

with the senior leadership 

of the likes of Adam Terhaerdt 

really put the Raiders 

in a good spot. 

“I always say that players 

in the middle school, 

at our school, if you’re 

good enough, you’re old 

enough, you can play at 

any level,” Jones said. 

“We’ve got freshmen 

making a contribution and 

sophomores and juniors. 

For me, I put the best 

11 or 12 or 18, however 

many people are playing, 

in the game. To play, you 

have to fall at the highest 

level on a daily basis. 

Sometimes that’s seniors 

and sometimes that’s 

freshmen and sophomores 

and juniors.” 

Jones is in his 13th 

year at North Shore, but 

that’s been spread over 

15 years. He spent five 

years at North Shore before 

heading over to England 

to be the coach and 

head of coach education 

at Manchester College for 

two years, before coming 

back to Winnetka and becoming 

the Raiders’ head 

coach for the past eight 

seasons. 

While at Manchester 

College he helped train 

future coaches, as well as 

picking up some pointers 

himself that he was able 

to bring back with him to 

Winnetka. 

“I bring everything 

back. Wherever you go, 

you’re constantly learning 

and growing,” he said. 

“It’s something that I’ve 

got to if I want my players 

to pursue excellence and 

improve on a daily basis, 

I’ve got to be doing the 

same. 

“That was part of the 

journey, part of the coach 

education. I was fortunate 

enough to work with 

some really good coaches 

and take some courses and 

see some of the academy 

programs over there. I’ve 

got a couple core friends 

at Man United, and Man 

City and I was fortunate 

enough to see them in action 

and see how they’re 

programs work.” 

The former Cornell 

University soccer player 

has loved every moment 

of this historic ride, one 

he’ll always remember. 

“It’s been great. We’re 

just enjoying it along the 

way,” he said. “We’re remaining 

focused. We’ve 

just been so proud of the 

boys. They’ve done really 

well. The boys are loving 

it. They’ve really bought 

in and enjoying the ride.”

28 | November 7, 2019 | The lake forest leader sports 


Cross-Country 

LF’s Kreunen advances to state 


Gary Larsen 


Lake Forest junior Skyler 

Kreunen placed 11th at 

this year’s Class 3A crosscountry 

sectional meet, 

right on the cusp of potential 

state qualification. So 

she left the finish line and 

headed to the team bus, 

unsure if that finishing 

place was good enough to 

get her downstate. 

The top-six teams plus 

the top-seven individual 

finishers unattached to 

those teams advance to the 

state finals each year, and 

sometimes it takes race 

officials a few minutes to 

sort things out. 

“I was on the bus taking 

my spikes off, and when I 

walked off of the bus everybody 

was screaming,” 

Kreunen said. “I was like 

‘What happened?’ and 

they said ‘You made it!’ 

Then we had a big dance 

party afterwards. It was 

very celebratory.” 

Kreunen ran an exceptional 

race at Busse Woods 

in Elk Grove as one of the 

140 runners competing at 

the Hoffman Estates sectional 

on Saturday, Nov. 

2. Kreunen finished the 

muddy, slow course on a 

frigid Saturday in 18:44.0. 

She was the seventh and 

Lake Forest junior Skyler Kreunen pushes hard to the finish line at the Class 3A 

cross-country sectional meet on Saturday, Nov. 2. Kreunen qualified for the state 

finals. Photos by Gary Larsen/22nd Century Media 

final individual to advance 

downstate. 

“She was in it from the 

very start and she was always 

in that first group 

of fifteen or so,” Scouts 

coach Steve Clegg said. 

“She was very much in it 

and we thought all along 

she could be anywhere 

from ninth to 15th.” 

Kreunen was kept acutely 

aware of what she needed 

to do. 

“People were shouting 

at me throughout the race 

so I knew what place I 

was running in, and what 

I needed to do,” she said. 

“I started to close in on the 

10th or 11th girl on top of a 

hill because I felt like they 

were slowing down.” 

Kreunen gutted out the 

final 100 meters to finish 

four-tenths of a second 

ahead of the 12th-place 

finisher. She’ll make her 

first trip to the 3A state finals 

at Detweiller Park in 

Peoria on Friday, Nov. 9. 

“Last year was her first 

year in cross-country,” 

Clegg said. “She ran track 

her freshman year and we 

got her to join as a sophomore. 

That first year is sort 

of a figure-it-out process, 

and then this summer she 

was super dedicated, lots 

of miles, working really 

hard.” 

Lake Forest was moved 

up from 2A to 3A this year, 

so Kreunen didn’t know 

what to expect running 

against big-school competition. 

“It feels really good because 

I wasn’t completely 

sure that I could do it,” 

Kreunen said. “At regionals 

I started to think it was 

possible. (Clegg) told me 

I’d need to break 18 minutes 

here to get to state, 

and I broke 18 minutes at 

Lake Forest senior Nathan Schmitt (left) sprints to the 

finish line during the Class 3A cross-country sectional 

meet. 

the regional, so that gave 

me a lot of hope. I thought 

‘if I can do it at regionals, I 

can do it again.’ 

“I’m really excited for 

the state meet. I’m just 

going to try to get a good 

time because I really don’t 

have anything to lose.” 

Also competing at the 

sectional for Lake Forest 

were Gaby Brown, Sydney 

Leonardi, Lauren Zarek, 

Alexandra Fontana, 

Clare Lawler, and Carrie 

Saginur. The Scouts placed 

third at this year’s regional 

to advance as a team. 

Lake Forest’s Nathan 

Schmitt barely missed out 

on state advancement on 

the boys’ side at Busse 

Woods. The senior finished 

12th in the formidable 

field, just three-tenths of 

a second behind the 11thplace 

and final individual 

state qualifier. 

“Usually I love to run in 

these conditions, but today 

I had a bad day,” Schmitt 

said. “I got caught behind a 

bunch of people and it was 

like a slugfest, the whole 

way through. I was happy 

with how much I was able 

to move back up but obviously 

I wish I’d had a better 

race. 

“Last year we were in 

2A and I got second in 

state and we were 13th as 

a team, so coming up to 

3A was a whole different 

story. I was running faster 

than I ran last year but in 

3A there’s just so much 

more competition. There 

are such powerhouse teams 

out there.” 

Lake Forest’s boys 

placed sixth as a team at 

regionals, and also competing 

at the sectional were 

Ben Rosa, Kaleb Whiteside, 

Casey Hippel, Peter 

Elliot, Daniel McKiernan 

and Nicholas Tegel. 

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early hole as Belvidere’s 

triple option offense was 

effective on the opening 

drive. The Blue Thunder 

went 83 yards on 14 plays 

eating up over seven minutes, 

capped off on a oneyard 

touchdown run by 

Stanley Reyes. 

Later, a muffed punt return 

set up the Thunder as 

quarterback Holden Paddock 

ran in a score from 10 

yards out making it 14-0 

less than a minute into the 

second quarter. 

Although Lake Forest 

hadn’t faced a triple option 

all season, the defense 

recovered in a big way 

preventing Belvidere from 

picking up a first down in 

the second half. 

“When you’re facing a 

different offense, it’s hard 

to recreate in practice what 

you’re going to face live on 

the field,” Spagnoli said. 

“But we settled down and 

handled ourselves much 

better on the defensive end 

after the opening drive. 

The defense deserves a lot 

of credit.” 

Milliman also acknowledged 

the defense’s play. 

“Without the defense, 

we wouldn’t have won 

the game,” Milliman said. 

“They held their offense in 

check the rest of the way 

and adjusted to an offense 

they hadn’t seen yet.” 

A botched snap on a 

Belvidere punt gave the 

Scouts very good field 

position and they took advantage 

as Mac Uihlein’s 

two-yard touchdown run 

cut the deficit to 14-7 with 

2:11 left in the third. 

Then the Scouts tied 

it on Jahari Scott’s fiveyard 

touchdown run with 

under seven minutes left 

in the game. A 29-yard 

pass from Hoskins to Kai 

Kroeger set them up as 

Kroeger won a jump ball 

that he wrestled away 

from his defender. 

Lake Forest will keep its 

season going, and the win 

was the 100 th career victory 

for Spagnoli. 

“I’ve never been a part 

of a program like Coach 

Spagnoli’s,” Milliman 

said. “He makes everyone 

on the team so close with 

each other. And his goal 

is for us to become better 

as men, even more than 

becoming better football 

players.”

LakeForestLeaderDaily.com sports 


athlete of the month 

girls volleyball 


Scouts clinch regional volleyball title 

New Trier’s Katie Lipsey was named 22nd Century 

Media’s September Athlete of the Month. 22nd Century 

Media File Photo 

Lipsey hands Trevians second 

monthly honor of year 

MichaEL WOJTYCHIW 


Katie Lipsey has had a 

lot of success in the pool 

as one of New Trier’s top 

divers. She’s finished in 

the top three at the state 

meet the past two seasons 

and now has another honor 

as well: November’s Athlete 

of the Month. 

The Trevian senior took 

a lead early in 22nd Century 

Media’s latest Athlete of 

the Month competition and 

never gave it up, giving the 

school its second monthly 

honor in 2019. 

Lipsey finished in first 

place with 730 votes, 

knocking off Highland 

Park field hockey player 

Maddie Gordon, who finished 

with 425 votes, and 

fellow Giants field hockey 

player Sabrina Stefani, 

who finished with 238 

votes. New Trier football 

player Sean McNeely finished 

fourth and Highland 

Park girls volleyball player 

Georgia Sullivan finished 

fifth. 

The senior has been a 

big part of New Trier’s 

success in the pool, finishing 

second and third, at 

the past two state tournaments. 

She also medaled 

her freshman year as well. 

Voting lasted from Oct. 

10-25. The Athlete of the 

Month contest for athletes 

selected in the month of 

October gets underway on 

Nov. 10 and will end on 

Nov. 25. Vote at LakeForestLeaderDaily.com. 

October Athlete of the Month Candidates 

Lake Forest 

Julia Hender, field 

hockey 

Jahari Scott, football 

Kai Kroeger, football 

Sophie Gambit, field 

hockey 

Woodlands Academy 

Genevieve Hessy, girls 

tennis 

Loyola Academy 

Grace Kryscio, girls golf 

Jackie Yau, girls 

volleyball 

New Trier 

Aidan Crowder, boys 

soccer 

Kate McLaughlin, field 

hockey 

Gary Larsen 


The answers that a player 

typically gives when asked 

how it feels to win a regional 

title can range from 

“awesome” to “amazing” 

and everything in between. 

Lake Forest senior 

Alyssa Thrash had a bona 

fide original answer to that 

question. 

“You can’t dream about 

how good this feels,” 

Thrash said, after the 

Scouts’ volleyball team 

won its first regional title in 

three years and the 10th in 

program history. 

That program history 

came in a 25-22, 28-26 win 

over host McHenry in a 

Class 4A regional final on 

Thursday, Oct. 31. 

The box score showed 

that outside hitter Thrash 

led the way with 12 kills 

and 11 digs, while fellow 

senior setter Sheridan 

Young guided the offense 

with 15 assists. 

But it was team-wide 

mental toughness that carried 

the Scouts (28-8) 

through a second-set nailbiter 

in the hostile environment 

of McHenry’s home 

court. 

McHenry’s student fan 

section was loud and the 

Warriors were feeding off 

of that support down the 

stretch of a pivotal second 

set. But Lake Forest kept its 

poise and focus during the 

pressure of the moment. 

“We’ve struggled with 

that this year against 

teams like Libertyville and 

Loyola, especially in the 

second sets,” junior Kelly 

McCaskey said. “So it was 

good to see that we could 

come together tonight and 

work that out.” 

Scouts coach Tia Rupnik 

agreed. 

NORTH SHORE 

The Lake Forest High School girls’ volleyball team 

poses with their regional championship plaque following 

their championship game on Thursday, Oct. 31, at 

McHenry High School. Gary Larsen/22nd Century Media 

“Even when things 

weren’t going our way, we 

stayed mentally strong,” 

Rupnik said. “I told the girls 

after the game that it wasn’t 

necessarily about our skills, 

it was being strong in our 

mental game.” 

The lead see-sawed 

throughout the contest. 

McHenry led 19-18 in the 

first set before a Thrash 

kill and an ace served by 

Ainsley Wiesner gave the 

Scouts a 20-19 lead. 

Thrash had three kills 

down the stretch in helping 

the Scouts to its first-set 

win. 

“Our offense has improved 

a lot and our setter 

connections have for sure 

improved a ton,” Thrash 

said. “But the key tonight 

was keeping the ball off 

the floor, honestly. Our defense 

was phenomenal allaround.” 

McCaskey was a big part 

of that defensive effort at 

the net. 

“Kelly McCaskey did an 

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awesome job,” Rupnik said. 

“She did a great job being 

all over their hitters at the 

net and was instrumental 

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30 | November 7, 2019 | The lake forest leader sports 



Scouts drop overtime thriller to New Trier 



Lake Forest and New 

Trier have been the state’s 

two premier field hockey 

programs for what seems 

like years. The Trevians’ 

lone in-state loss this season? 

A one-goal setback to 

Lake Forest. The Scouts’ 

three in-state losses? All to 

New Trier. 

So it was only fitting that 

the two faced off in the Illinois 

High School Field 

Hockey Association’s title 

game Saturday, Nov. 2, 

at Oak Park-River Forest 

High School in Oak Park. 

The fifth matchup ended 

up being an epic battle as 

well, as the Trevians repeated 

as state champions 

after holding off the Scouts 

4-2 in overtime. 

“I really don’t know 

what to say, this is the best 

feeling ever,” New Trier’s 

Kate McLaughlin said. “I 

love my team and I’m sad 

it’s over now but it’s been 

a great couple years playing 

for New Trier field 

hockey and I’m so glad we 

finished out the best way 

possible.” 

Like she has numerous 

times this season, 

McLaughlin led the way 

for the Trevians, racking 

up two goals three minutes 

apart toward the end 

of the first half. Her first 

goal with four minutes left 

in the half got the Trevians 

on the board, and her second 

with 1:34 before the 

break gave the top-seeded 

Trevians a 2-0 lead. 

“Overall, our team 

worked really hard together 

and we knew that 

any goal we were going 

to get was going to be really 

scrappy,” McLaughlin 

said. “They have a great 

Julia Leclercq boxes out a New Trier defender. 

goalie so we knew we 

were going to have to keep 

shooting and do everything 

to put the ball past 

her. “ 

The game looked to go 

into the halftime break 

with the 2-0 score, but the 

Scouts were able to score a 

goal after time had run out. 

According to one of the 

referees, per field hockey 

rules, if a team earns a 

penalty corner, the teams 

have to complete the corner 

or play until the ball 

goes over the end line or 

past the five-meter line. So 

the Scouts earned multiple 

corners and continued to 

play even after the clock 

read 0:00. They took advantage 

when sophomore 

Mimi Gordon scored to cut 

the Trevians lead in half. 

For the second day in a 

row, the Scouts went into 

the half trailing their opponent. 

Lake Forest trailed 

North Shore Country Day 

1-0 at the half in the Friday, 

Nov. 1 semifinal, but 

rebounded for the 3-1 win. 

The Scouts were hoping 

something similar would 

happen against the defending 

state champions. 

“I feel like in the past, 

we’ve had slow starts 

and have always been a 

second-half team, something 

we knew from the 

beginning,” Lake Forest’s 

Gracie McGowan said. “It 

shouldn’t really happen 

but when it does it gives 

us more internal drive and 

more intensity in the second 

half to turn things to 

go our way.” 

Lake Forest came out of 

the break hungry to even 

the score, putting shots on 

goal and keeping the ball 

in its opponent’s zone. The 

Scouts’ efforts were rewarded 

when Gordon put 

in another goal with 9:55 

remaining. 

“The goal gave us confidence, 

but we had a game 

plan and we just got away 

from it in the first half,” 

Lake Forest coach Catherine 

Catanzaro said. “We 

had to stick to the game 

plan, keep surging, not 

be afraid to lose because 

if you’re afraid to lose, 

you’re not going to win.” 

Neither team scored for 

the rest of the game, sending 

the game into overtime. 

The teams played a 

full 10-minute, 7v7 period 

to hopefully determine the 

state champion. 

“Overtime, you just have 

to really go at it as hard as 

possible because there are 

Maggie Volpe clears the ball downfield in the Scouts’ 4-2 overtime loss to New 

Trier in the state final game on Saturday, Nov. 2, at Oak Park. photos by michael 

wojtchiw/22nd century media 

Mimi Gordon passes the ball upfield. 

only seven people on the 

field and the goalie, so you 

have to work really hard 

at all times,” McLaughlin 

said. “There’s a lot of 

field and not a lot of players, 

so it’s a lot of running 

and definitely hard. But we 

made it work.” 

“We haven’t played a 

lot of overtime games, but 

going in I was pretty confident, 

not that we would 

win, but that we would 

dominate with our lineup,” 

New Trier coach Stephanie 

Nykaza said. “I had a lot of 

confidence in them going 

in, we’ve been practicing 

7-on-7 a lot, so I knew we 

were ready. 

McLaughlin completed 

the hat trick when she put 

in a goal with 7:45 remaining 

and Grace Harris 

sealed the contest with 

1:06 remaining to send the 

Trevians home happy. 

Unlike the Trevians, 

who graduate 12 

seniors,Lake Forest had 

a younger team this year 

hoping to make a statement. 

Piling up over 20 wins 

and making another appearance 

in the state finals 

assures as if the Scouts 

managed to do just that. 

“This team has a ton 

of heart, we grew so 

much over the past three 

months,” Catanzaro said. 

“We only returned three 

starters from last year’s 

team so to get back here 

and be as successful as we 

were is a testament to the 

senior class and the leadership 

they provided.”

LakeForestLeaderDaily.com sports 


football 


Lake Forest comes alive in second half, upsets Belvidere North in playoffs 

22nd century media file 

photo 

1st-and-3 

Stars of the Week 

1. Skyler Kreunen. 

(ABOVE) The 

junior finished the 

Hoffman Estates 

sectional race in 

18:44 to place 

11th and qualify 

for the state meet. 

2. Alyssa Thrash. The 

senior had 12 kills 

and was clutch in 

the final moments 

to help guide the 

LFHS volleyball 

team to a regional 

title. 

3. Connor Milliman. 

Milliman’s 57- 

yard touchdown 

catch in the fourth 

quarter proved the 

difference in Lake 

Forest’s 21-14 

win over Belvidere 

North on Friday, 

Nov. 1. 

David Jaffe 


It is always a good sign 

when football players 

come together and show 

their ability to come back 

from adversity. 

But there is no better 

time for it to do so than at 

the end of the regular season 

and the beginning of 

the postseason, especially 

when they are facing mustwin 

situations. 

Lake Forest’s last couple 

of games haven’t been 

easy. First, it had a dramatic 

comeback win against 

Stevenson on Oct. 25 to 

make the playoffs. 

And in the opening 

round of the IHSA Class 

6A playoffs on Friday, 

Nov. 1, once again the 

Scouts (6-4) overcame a 

double-digit deficit to earn 

a victory. 

Game of the Week: 

• Glenbard West (10-0) at Loyola (7-3) 

Other matchups: 

• Kaneland (8-2) at Lake Forest (6-4) 

• South Elgin (9-1) at Brother Rice (6-4) 

• Huntley (9-1) at Marist (6-4) 

• Glenbard North (7-3) at Mount Carmel (10-0) 

• Fremd (8-2) at Warren (10-0) 

• Hersey (9-1) at Lake Zurich (7-3) 

Lake Forest versus Belvidere North 

1 2 3 4 F 

LF 0 0 7 14 21 

BN 7 7 0 0 14 

Players of the game 

1. Connor Milliman, WR — game-winning 57-yard TD 

2. Rylie Mills, DE — 4 tackles 

3. Jahari Scott, RB — 75 rushing yards, 5-yard TD 

Trailing by 14 points at 

halftime, No. 14 seed Lake 

Forest came back on the 

road, scoring 14 points in 

the fourth quarter to defeat 

No. 3 Belvidere North 21- 

14 and keep its season going. 

They will host Kaneland 

(8-2) in the second 

round. 

“We’ve come together 

in the last couple of weeks 

and played with a ton of 

effort,” Lake Forest’s Connor 

Milliman said. “Our 

effort wasn’t always where 

it needed to be at times this 

56-14 

JOE COUGHLIN | 

Publisher 

• Loyola 24, Glenbard West 14: 

‘Toppers haven’t faced adversity 

like the Ramblers, who grind out 

another W. 

• Lake Forest 

• Brother Rice 

• Marist 

• Mount Carmel 

• Warren 

• Hersey 

42-28 

season. But we’ve worked 

our hardest to get ourselves 

to where we want to 

be and are starting to play 

winning football.” 

Lake Forest coach 

Chuck Spagnoli praised 

his team for again responding 

to adversity. 

“We definitely didn’t 

make things easy on ourselves,” 

Spagnoli said. 

“But I’m proud of our 

fight. It may not have been 

the most ideal path to a win 

but I will definitely take it. 

These guys did a great job 

NICK FRAZIER | 


• Loyola 21, Glenbard West 20: T he 

Ramblers pull off another win over 

a higher seed to advance to the 

quarterfinals. 

• Kaneland 

• South Elgin 

• Marist 


• Warren 

• Hersey 

53-17 

Rylie Mills (99) stops a rushing play at the line of scrimmage 

in the Scouts’ 21-14 victory over Belvidere North 

on Friday, Nov. 1. Photo courtesy of Corinne Boatman 

continuing to play.” 

Quarterback Richie 

Hoskins found a wide 

open Milliman, who then 

went 57 yards to pay dirt, 

putting the Scouts in front 

21-14 with 3:13 left in the 

game. Lake Forest had recovered 

a Blue Thunder 

fumble to take over. 

MICHAL DWOJAK | 


• Loyola 21, Glenbard West 20: Don’t 

bet against the Ramblers on a 

home, Saturday afternoon game. 



• Marist 


• Warren 

• Hersey 

47-23 55-15 

MICHAEL WOJTYCHIW | 

Sports Editor 

• Loyola 17, Glenbard West 10: The 

Ramblers are locked in and ready 

to take down their west suburban 

counterpart. 



• Marist 


• Warren 

• Hersey 

“I ran a slant and go and 

the guy completely bit on 

it,” Milliman said. “It was 

a great throw and once 

I caught it and saw how 

open I was, I ran as fast as 

I could.” 

Lake Forest got in an 

Please see FOOTBALL, 28 

MARTIN CARLINO | 

Contributing Editor 

• Loyola 20, Glenbard West 17: T he 

Ramblers haven’t loss a playoff 

game in Wilmette since 2012. 

The streak continues against the 

undefeated Hilltoppers. 



• Huntley 


• Warren 

• Hersey 

Listen Up 

“You can’t dream about how good this feels.” 

Alyssa Thrash - Lake Forest volleyball player after the Scouts won a 

regional title against McHenry on Thursday, Oct. 31. 

tune in 

What to Watch this Week 

FOOTBALL: The Comeback Kids host Kaneland 

(8-2) in the second round of the playoffs. 

Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. at Lake Forest’s Varsity Field. 

Index 

29 - Girls Volleyball 

25 - Athlete of The Week 

Fastbreak is compiled by Sports Editor Nick 

Frazier. Send any questions or comments to 

n.frazier@22ndcenturymedia.com.

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Just in time Kruenen qualifies for state 

meet by slim margin, Page 28 

Best of the Best 

Scouts make 22CM’s Team 22, Page 28 

Lake Forest’s Mimi 

Gordon looks to 

shoot the ball on goal 

against New Trier 

during the state final 

hockey title game 

Saturday, Nov. 2, in 

Oak Park. Michael 

Wojtychiw/22nd 

Century Media 

Gave It Their All 

Scouts lose overtime battle in state final versus New Trier, Page 30

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