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THURSDAY<br />
Holiday Sip & Shop<br />
5-8 p.m. Dec. 5, Downtown<br />
Wilmette and Plaza<br />
del Lago. Adults are invited<br />
out for an evening of<br />
Holiday “sipping & shopping”<br />
hosted by local merchants,<br />
who will provide<br />
wine, snacks and special<br />
merchandise/sales.<br />
FRIDAY<br />
Dance with ‘The<br />
Nutcracker’<br />
6:30 p.m . Dec. 6 and 3<br />
p.m. Dec. 8, Regina Dominican<br />
High School, 701<br />
Locust Road, Wilmette.<br />
Studio North Academy of<br />
the Performing Arts presents<br />
their annual winter<br />
performance.<br />
SATURDAY<br />
Breakfast with Santa<br />
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.<br />
Dec. 7, Wilmette Golf<br />
Club, 3900 Fairway Drive.<br />
Enjoy a pancake breakfast,<br />
visit with Santa, have your<br />
picture taken and receive<br />
a goodie bag. Registration<br />
required. Register at www.<br />
register.wilmettepark.org.<br />
Holiday book sale<br />
9 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 7,<br />
Wilmette Public Library,<br />
1242 Wilmette Ave. Books<br />
Down Under at The Wilmette<br />
Public Library will<br />
be hosting a holiday sale<br />
in the Lower Level Small<br />
Meeting Room. Light Refreshments<br />
will be served.<br />
See the great selection!<br />
Books are the best holiday<br />
gift.<br />
FamilySearch Family Tree<br />
10:30 a.m. Dec. 7, Wilmette<br />
Public Library, 1242<br />
Wilmette Ave. Family Tree<br />
is a free, world-wide family<br />
tree that can be used by<br />
anyone with internet access<br />
to preserve family information.<br />
This live internet<br />
presentation will cover<br />
how to add your own information<br />
to the tree, correct<br />
errors, and add sources<br />
and pictures. There will<br />
be time for questions; you<br />
may bring information<br />
about a personal problem<br />
with Family Tree. Presented<br />
by Julie Busse, genealogist<br />
with 30+ years of<br />
experience, and the Director<br />
of the Wilmette Family<br />
History Center.<br />
TedXWilmette Women<br />
1 p.m. Dec. 7, Regina<br />
Dominican High School,<br />
701 Locust Road, Wilmette.<br />
Wilmette’s very<br />
own inaugural TEDxWilmette<br />
event featuring eight<br />
dynamic speakers. For<br />
more information about<br />
TEDxWilmetteWomen,<br />
contact Heather Hehman,<br />
(847) 691-8399, Heather-<br />
Hehman@gmail.com or<br />
visit https://heatherhehman.wixsite.com/tedxwilmettewomen<br />
Meet Santa<br />
4 p.m. Dec. 7, Kenilworth<br />
Assembly Hall,<br />
410 Kenilworth Ave., Kenilworth.<br />
Meet and get<br />
photos with Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Claus. The little ones can<br />
also enjoy making some<br />
holiday crafts and singing<br />
along with festive caroloers<br />
too.<br />
Wilmette Tree Lighting<br />
5-6 p.m. Dec. 7, Wilmette<br />
Village Hall, 1200<br />
Wilmette Ave., Wilmette.<br />
Welcome Santa as he<br />
makes a grand entrance<br />
to Downtown Wilmette to<br />
help Village President Bob<br />
Bielinski light up the big<br />
tree in front of Village Hall<br />
at the Annual Tree Lighting<br />
Ceremony. After the<br />
lighting ceremony, Santa<br />
will hear holiday wishes<br />
and take photos with kids.<br />
Kenilworth Tree Lighting<br />
6:15 p.m. Dec. 7, Kenilworth<br />
Assembly Hall,<br />
410 Kenilworth Ave.,<br />
Kenilworth. Join the Kenilworth<br />
community for<br />
the tree lighting and caroling<br />
around the Kenilworth<br />
Fountain.<br />
Gingerbread House<br />
Workshops<br />
Dec. 7-11, Community<br />
Recreation Center, 3000<br />
Glenview Road, Wilmette.<br />
A holiday tradition! Cover<br />
a house with frosting and<br />
embellish with a giant selection<br />
of goodies. Eleven<br />
workshop dates to fit your<br />
schedule. Ages 3 and up.<br />
Learn more at wilmettepark.org.<br />
MONDAY<br />
Kids’ Library Council<br />
7-8 p.m. Dec. 9, Wilmette<br />
Public Library, 1242<br />
Wilmette Ave. Upcycled<br />
holiday crafts. Grades<br />
5-8. Get ready for the<br />
holidays the environmentally<br />
friendly way by making<br />
gifts and decorations<br />
with upcycled materials.<br />
Snacks will be served.<br />
TUESDAY<br />
Behind the Scenes at<br />
Marshall Field’s Holiday<br />
Traditions<br />
2:30-3:30 p.m. Dec. 10,<br />
Wilmette Public Library,<br />
1242 Wilmette Ave. Amy<br />
Meadows, former director<br />
of windows and marketing<br />
events for Marshall<br />
Field’s, will provide a<br />
sneak peek into the design<br />
& execution of the famed<br />
animated windows, Main<br />
Aisle decor & Great Tree.<br />
UPCOMING<br />
Private Movie Screening<br />
6-10 p.m. Dec. 12,<br />
Wilmette Theatre, 1122<br />
Central Ave., Wilmette.<br />
The public is invited to<br />
a movie screening of the<br />
film, “Foster Boy,” partially<br />
filmed in Chicago.<br />
The film was written by<br />
Chicago attorney, Jay Paul<br />
Deratany, and is based on<br />
events from his foster care<br />
cases and sheds light on<br />
the horrible mistreatment<br />
of children in the for-profit<br />
foster care system. $20<br />
per peson includes an appetizer<br />
buffet prior to film<br />
and Q&A after. For more<br />
information and to reserve<br />
a seat for the screening,<br />
www.fhfchicagoland.org.<br />
‘The Nutcracker’<br />
Dec. 13-15, Community<br />
Recreation Center, 3000<br />
Glenview Road, Wilmette.<br />
The annual Center for the<br />
Arts production is a popular<br />
holiday tradition. Tickets<br />
will be available online<br />
and in person.<br />
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users by submitting your event at<br />
WilmetteBeacon.com/calendar<br />
For just print*, email all information to<br />
eric@wilmettebeacon.com<br />
*Deadline for print is 5 p.m. the Thursday prior to publication.<br />
Correction<br />
In the Nov. 25 edition<br />
of The Wilmette<br />
Beacon, in an article<br />
about Cardinal Blasé<br />
Cupich’s recent visit<br />
to Loyoal Academy, it<br />
incorrectly stated the<br />
number of people that<br />
died at the Auschwitz<br />
concentration camp<br />
during World War II. It<br />
should have stated “an<br />
estimated 1.1 million<br />
died.”<br />
The Beacon recognizes<br />
and regrets this error.<br />
Skate with Santa<br />
1-2:45 p.m. Dec. 15,<br />
Centennial Ice Rinks,<br />
2300 Old Glenview Road.<br />
Can Santa really skate?<br />
Join Santa on the ice and<br />
find out. Activities will<br />
include candy cane giveaways,<br />
snowman building,<br />
relay races and a<br />
shoot-the-puck contest.<br />
Nonperishable or canned<br />
food items will be donated<br />
to the New Trier Township<br />
Food Pantry.<br />
Hanukkah celebration<br />
6 p.m. Dec. 15, Beth<br />
Hillel Bnai Emunah, 3220<br />
Big Tree Lane, Wilmette.<br />
“The Light of Song.”<br />
Holiday dinner with latke<br />
bar and gelt fish. Songs<br />
and candles. Micro play:<br />
“A Charlie Brown Hanukkah.”<br />
Also, a multigenerational<br />
musical happening<br />
with Rebecca Toon of the<br />
Old Town School.<br />
ONGOING<br />
Holiday Learn-to-Skate<br />
Dec. 5-Jan. 4, Centennial<br />
Ice Rink, 2300 Old<br />
Glenview Road. This miniseries<br />
of lessons is for children<br />
who have never been<br />
on skates, or who have not<br />
had formal lessons.
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the wilmette beacon | December 5, 2019 | 3<br />
Wilmette Village Board<br />
Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 8 days ago<br />
Approved 2020 budget includes ‘significant’ road resurfacing, stormwater utility fee<br />
Todd Marver<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
With the end of the<br />
calendar year rapidly approaching,<br />
the Wilmette<br />
Village Board approved<br />
the fiscal year 2020 budget<br />
at $99.681 million at<br />
its Tuesday, Nov. 26 meeting.<br />
The budget has more<br />
dollars dedicated to road<br />
resurfacing ($5.3 million)<br />
than anytime in at least<br />
the last 20 years. This includes<br />
$2.75 million for<br />
the annual road program<br />
(approximately 28 blocks<br />
resurfaced), $1.2 million<br />
for reconstruction of Central<br />
Avenue and $1.3 million<br />
for road resurfacing<br />
associated with Phase 1A<br />
of the stormwater project.<br />
“This is a very responsible<br />
budget,” Village<br />
President Bob Bielinski<br />
said. “It maintains service<br />
levels and it also includes<br />
significant investments in<br />
our municipal infrastructure,<br />
notably more than $5<br />
million for roads. That’s<br />
the highest amount the<br />
Village has budgeted in<br />
any single year for roads<br />
for at least the past 20<br />
years.”<br />
There is no increase<br />
in the water rate and the<br />
water rate has not increased<br />
for six of the last<br />
eight years. The water<br />
fund budget includes $5<br />
million for the completion<br />
of the water plant<br />
electrical improvements.<br />
Other improvements include<br />
$2.92 million for<br />
water main replacements<br />
on Central and Lake avenues,<br />
$88,000 for valve<br />
installations, $40,000 for<br />
the rebuild of the water<br />
plant high-lift pump,<br />
$21,000 for transmission<br />
main repairs and $12,000<br />
for water main surge suppressors.<br />
The sewer fee<br />
has a 4 percent increase,<br />
which is the first increase<br />
since 2015. There is an estimated<br />
annual impact of<br />
$13 for the average ratepayer.<br />
A new stormwater<br />
utility fee is effective Jan.<br />
1 and the average annual<br />
residential fee is $144.<br />
The sewer fund budget<br />
includes $23.21 million<br />
for Phases 1A and 1 of the<br />
stormwater project.<br />
“We have the first phase<br />
of the Neighborhood<br />
Stormwater Improvement<br />
Project coming, which is<br />
a significant amount of<br />
money,” Bielinski said.<br />
The sewer fund budget<br />
also includes $820,000<br />
for sewer lining, $400,000<br />
for storm water pumping<br />
station electrical improvements,<br />
$337,000<br />
for sewer main repairs,<br />
$322,000 for sewer maintenance,<br />
$70,000 for the<br />
Rain Ready program and<br />
$60,000 for smoke testing.<br />
Building permits,<br />
vehicle licenses and ambulance<br />
fees have held flat<br />
for six years. The 2019 tax<br />
levy ordinance was introduced<br />
at the meeting and<br />
will be adopted on Dec.<br />
10. The levy increase is<br />
4.99 percent.<br />
“While 4.99 percent is<br />
the biggest of the three<br />
years that I’ve been serving<br />
on the board, I do feel<br />
like it reflects priorities<br />
ROUND IT UP<br />
A brief recap of Village Board action from Nov. 26<br />
· The board tabled adoption of an ordinance<br />
establishing a stormwater utility and related fees<br />
to the Dec. 10 meeting.<br />
· The board approved waiving competitive bids for<br />
the purpose of negotiating terms with StormTrap<br />
for the pre-purchase of pre-cast concrete units for<br />
Phase 1 of the stormwater project at Community<br />
Playfield.<br />
and it also reflects discretion<br />
about how far we<br />
could take those priorities,”<br />
Trustee Joel Kurzman<br />
said.<br />
The 4.99 percent levy<br />
increase includes 1.43<br />
percent for operations,<br />
0.75 percent for pensions,<br />
0.12 percent for debt services<br />
and 2.69 percent for<br />
the road program.<br />
“The property tax increase<br />
for general operations<br />
was only 1.43<br />
percent,” Bielinski said.<br />
“That’s really a reflection<br />
of how well the staff continues<br />
to manage the Village.”<br />
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WCNS packs toiletry items for<br />
New Trier Township pantry<br />
Alexa Burnell<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
A sunny Saturday<br />
morning was made even<br />
brighter thanks to the Wilmette<br />
Community Nursery<br />
School’s commitment to<br />
helping those in need.<br />
On Nov. 16, the young<br />
students and their parents,<br />
along with teachers and<br />
staff gathered to pack over<br />
300 toiletry items for the<br />
New Trier Township pantry.<br />
WCNS Director Ellen<br />
Knight explained that<br />
the day of good deed was<br />
preceded by weeks of collecting<br />
donations, while<br />
educating tiny tots on the<br />
school’s overarching mission.<br />
Bridget Venatta, a Wilmette Community Nursery School<br />
mom, guides the children, including Evan Geiger,<br />
of Wilmette, during a toiletry drive for the New Trier<br />
Township last month in Wilmette. Alexa Burnell/22nd<br />
Century Media<br />
“This project is about<br />
our WCNS big picture. We<br />
want our students to eventually<br />
become ethical and<br />
global citizens and that<br />
starts by teaching them at<br />
a young age how they can<br />
be a good friend and good<br />
Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 7 days ago<br />
Speakers at State of the Village share<br />
strategic goals, challenges with residents<br />
Submitted by League<br />
of Women Voters of<br />
Wilmette<br />
The League of Women<br />
Voters of Wilmette held<br />
their biennial State of the<br />
Village Dinner Nov. 6 at<br />
the Wilmette Community<br />
Golf Course.<br />
The event featured the<br />
seven leaders of Wilmette’s<br />
elected boards to share<br />
their strategic goals and<br />
challenges and take questions<br />
from residents.<br />
“It’s my favorite League<br />
event because it encourages<br />
community engagement<br />
and fosters intergovernmental<br />
communication<br />
in one productive night,”<br />
LWV Co-President Nancy<br />
Hoying said. Board Presidents<br />
from all three school<br />
districts started off the<br />
program. The first school<br />
leader to speak was Cathy<br />
Albrecht, New Trier Township<br />
High School District<br />
203 Board of Education<br />
president, who highlighted<br />
the Districts 2030 Strategic<br />
Plan, improved safety<br />
and security measures at<br />
both campuses, and the increased<br />
focus on equity and<br />
inclusion.<br />
Lisa Schneider-Fabes,<br />
president of D39 School<br />
Board, spoke next.<br />
Please see WCNS, 6<br />
“As a school district, our<br />
mission is to nurture, guide<br />
and challenge our students<br />
to not only become creative<br />
thinkers and collaborators,<br />
but to become socially responsible,<br />
compassionate<br />
and productive citizens of a<br />
global society,” Schneider-<br />
Fabes said.<br />
She also emphasized the<br />
need to effectively incorporate<br />
electronic learning<br />
with class curriculum, the<br />
piloting of full-day kindergarten<br />
at two elementary<br />
schools, and facility improvements<br />
throughout the<br />
District.<br />
Please see dinner, 6
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From Nov. 25<br />
Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 9 days ago<br />
Update: Medical Examiner’s Office<br />
rules death in Wilmette a suicide<br />
Eric DeGrechie, Editor<br />
dinner<br />
From Page 4<br />
From D37 Avoca School<br />
District, Board President<br />
Rick Zelinsky spoke and<br />
celebrated the diversity<br />
of students in the district<br />
while also recognizing the<br />
challenging financial situation<br />
the district currently<br />
faces. He also described the<br />
imminent demolition of the<br />
Avoca Center to construct<br />
playing fields in a partnership<br />
with North Shore<br />
Country Day School.<br />
“Those we serve who<br />
critically need our services<br />
such as the New Trier<br />
Township Food Pantry are<br />
our neighbors,” said Alan<br />
Goldberg, Supervisor of<br />
New Trier Township.<br />
Other services Goldberg<br />
touched upon were financial<br />
and mental health supports<br />
available to Township residents<br />
and the availability of<br />
tax assessment assistance.<br />
He also invited all residents<br />
to the 2020 annual Township<br />
meeting which must by<br />
law happen on a Tuesday in<br />
April after 6 p.m.<br />
Lisa McDonald, president<br />
of Wilmette Library<br />
Update<br />
The Cook County Medical<br />
Examiner’s Office has<br />
ruled the death of a Wilmette<br />
resident as a suicide.<br />
The resident was taken to<br />
North Shore University<br />
Evanston Hospital and was<br />
pronounced dead there as<br />
the result of a self-inflicted<br />
gunshot wound, according<br />
to the Cook County Medical<br />
Examiner’s Office and<br />
the Wilmette Police Department.<br />
Reported earlier<br />
A person was shot at<br />
5:27 p.m. Monday, Nov.<br />
25, in the 1300 block of<br />
Chestnut Avenue, according<br />
to the Wilmette Police<br />
Department.<br />
Deputy Police Chief<br />
Patrick Collins initially<br />
told The Beacon that the<br />
person was transported to<br />
the hospital and “there is<br />
no danger to the public.”<br />
Amid reports from residents<br />
of police activity in<br />
the area, including a helicopter<br />
near the scene, Collins<br />
said “no further information<br />
is being released at<br />
this time.”<br />
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Board of Trustees, addressed<br />
her organization’s<br />
priorities and challenges.<br />
She highlighted the importance<br />
of the WPL as a community<br />
resources with its<br />
wide variety of programs<br />
and the only bookstore in<br />
Wilmette. McDonald listed<br />
parking and improving<br />
online access as top current<br />
challenges.<br />
Amy Wolfe, president<br />
of the Board of Park Commissioners,<br />
spoke about<br />
the thousands of children<br />
in the community that the<br />
park programs serve and<br />
improved revenues from<br />
the redesigned Golf Course.<br />
She also touted the completion<br />
of the new Gilson<br />
Beach house, on time and<br />
under budget. Challenges<br />
for the Park Board primarily<br />
centered on the Village’s<br />
stormwater plan and its impact<br />
on parks in the coming<br />
years.<br />
Bob Bielinski, president<br />
of the Village Board, spoke<br />
last. He discussed the role<br />
of the Village as a “service<br />
provider,” and focused on<br />
infrastructure including<br />
village roads and sewer<br />
systems, economic development<br />
including the early<br />
stages of proposed development<br />
on Central Ave/<br />
Green Bay Road and the<br />
exploration of opportunities<br />
for Edens Plaza, and<br />
the state of the Village’s<br />
finances. He also listed the<br />
stormwater project as a major<br />
challenge for the coming<br />
few years.<br />
After the speakers concluded<br />
their remarks, they<br />
took questions from the<br />
audience moderated by<br />
League members. These<br />
questions ranged from<br />
green initiatives to addressing<br />
how new cannabis<br />
laws will affect Wilmette to<br />
requests for additional information<br />
about the stormwater<br />
plan and its impact<br />
on parks. A younger audience<br />
member asked if the<br />
students from the schools<br />
who use the parks can have<br />
input on how they would<br />
like the parks to look after<br />
the completion of the installation<br />
of the stormwater<br />
tanks.<br />
The State of the Village<br />
dinner was videotaped by<br />
the Village and will be rebroadcast<br />
on the local station<br />
in the next few weeks.<br />
Police Reports<br />
Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 2 days ago<br />
Man steals sandals, leaves behind<br />
old shoes at Wilmette Birkenstock<br />
Complete Birkenstock,<br />
Edens Plaza 3232 Lake<br />
Ave., Wilmette, reported<br />
that a white male in his<br />
50s entered the store at<br />
12:15 p.m. Nov. 26 and<br />
asked to try on a pair of<br />
sandals. As other customers<br />
entered, they lost track<br />
of the offender and later<br />
realized he had left his old<br />
shoes behind and allegedly<br />
departed with the sandals.<br />
WILMETTE<br />
Dec. 1<br />
• A customer told police<br />
that while having lunch<br />
between 11 a.m. and 12:30<br />
p.m. Nov. 22 at Panera<br />
Bread, 1199 Wilmette<br />
Ave., an unknown person<br />
stole her wallet from her<br />
unattended purse.<br />
Nov. 29<br />
• A person reported that<br />
an unknown offender(s)<br />
opened a checking account<br />
with CitiBank at 5:26 p.m.<br />
Nov. 26 using their personal<br />
information.<br />
WCNS<br />
From Page 4<br />
neighbor to those in need,”<br />
Knight said. “We are a<br />
school committed to teaching<br />
our kids more than literacy<br />
and numerical readiness.<br />
We want them to<br />
become kind citizens. In<br />
the weeks prior to the actual<br />
drive, we talked to the<br />
kids about that warm fuzzy<br />
feeling that comes with<br />
giving to others and how<br />
being kind is contagious,<br />
so let’s spread it around.”<br />
After spending several<br />
weeks learning about how<br />
neighbors in New Trier<br />
Township may sometimes<br />
Nov. 28<br />
• Molly E. Smith, 36,<br />
homeless, was arrested for<br />
retail theft following an incident<br />
at 2:21 p.m. Nov. 26<br />
at Walgreens, 3232 Lake<br />
Ave. The store reported a<br />
white male and white female<br />
stole items from the<br />
store and left the lot in a<br />
white 2-door sedan. Northfield<br />
officers spotted the vehicle<br />
on Willow at Harms<br />
and effected a stop. After<br />
an investigation, Wilmette<br />
officers arrested Smith<br />
and released the male. All<br />
items were recovered and<br />
returned to Walgreens.<br />
• Walgreens, 811 Green<br />
Bay Road, reported that<br />
at 10:27 a.m. Nov. 27, an<br />
unknown black male entered<br />
the store and loaded<br />
a backpack with $360.86<br />
worth of Head and Shoulders.<br />
The offender left the<br />
store and entered Chevy<br />
sedan prior to the officers<br />
arrival.<br />
• Juviel St. Clair, 39, of<br />
need a little extra compassion,<br />
families happily<br />
donated toothpaste, shampoo,<br />
conditioner, deodorant<br />
and more. Then, on the<br />
morning of the Nov. 16,<br />
little ones set up assemblyline<br />
style, eager to fill bags<br />
with the donated items.<br />
The act of kindness<br />
was not the first time the<br />
WCNS community has<br />
committed themselves<br />
to helping others. Last<br />
spring, they hosted a book<br />
drive for Bookwallah —<br />
giving children who have<br />
faced trauma the chance<br />
to escape through magical<br />
and uplifting books and<br />
fairytales. They regularly<br />
donate to Bernie’s Book<br />
Chicago, was arrested after<br />
a traffic stop at 3:49 p.m.<br />
Nov. 27 in the 300 block<br />
of Ridge Road. An officer<br />
stopped a white 2017<br />
Dodge Caravan for traffic<br />
violation(s) and discovered<br />
the driver, St. Clair,<br />
had a suspended driver’s<br />
license. St. Clair was taken<br />
into custody, issued citations<br />
and released.<br />
KENILWORTH<br />
• There was nothing to report<br />
for the week of Nov.<br />
22-29.<br />
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Wilmette<br />
Beacon Police Reports<br />
are compiled from official<br />
reports found on file at the<br />
Wilmette and Kenilworth police<br />
headquarters. They are<br />
ordered by the date the incident<br />
was reported. Individuals<br />
named in these reports<br />
are considered innocent of all<br />
charges until proven guilty in<br />
a court of law.<br />
Bank, host food drives,<br />
gather goods for Cradles<br />
to Crayons and more. Staff<br />
and teachers participate in<br />
an annual days of service<br />
too. Most recently, Knight<br />
took the staff to Aspire<br />
Coffee Works in Chicago,<br />
where they packed bags of<br />
coffee, working alongside<br />
adults with developmental<br />
disabilities.<br />
WCNS parent Karin<br />
Ghai is actively involved<br />
in organizing many of<br />
these social service efforts.<br />
For her, the school’s decision<br />
to involve themselves<br />
in activities that better the<br />
world around them makes<br />
her proud to be part of the<br />
WCNS community.
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Toys for joys<br />
Glencoe’s The Wild<br />
Child Toys opens<br />
Wilmette location<br />
Staff Report<br />
Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 5 days ago<br />
Looking for toys this<br />
holiday season, the owners<br />
of Glencoe’s The Wild<br />
Child Toys have got you<br />
covered with a second<br />
location, The Wild Child,<br />
opening recently in Wilmette.<br />
The store, located at<br />
1114 Central Ave., held<br />
a grand-opening celebration<br />
Nov. 23 that included<br />
treats, entertainment,<br />
prize giveaways and a<br />
raffle. The Wild Child is<br />
owned by Gretchen Miller,<br />
of Glencoe.<br />
Learn more about The<br />
Wild Child at wildchildglencoe.com.<br />
Village<br />
From Page 3<br />
Trustee Senta Plunkett<br />
concurred with Bielinski’s<br />
thoughts on the operations<br />
portion of the levy and<br />
was also pleased with the<br />
pensions portion of the<br />
levy.<br />
“The fact that our pension<br />
increase is only threequarters<br />
of a percent, that<br />
was because of staff and<br />
the finance committee<br />
looking at pensions trying<br />
to find creative ways to<br />
pay that,” she said. “Staff<br />
and this board have really<br />
tried to decrease the<br />
property tax levy increase<br />
as much as possible. The<br />
1.43% in operations is really<br />
extraordinary.”<br />
The estimated average<br />
fee and tax increase for<br />
2020 is $247, including<br />
$90 for the tax levy, $13<br />
for the sewer rate and $144<br />
for the stormwater fee.<br />
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Bailey<br />
The Heger Family,<br />
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He is a Cavachon<br />
(Cavalier King<br />
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who turned 2 in<br />
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all of the passing<br />
neighbors and<br />
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Wilmette’s Lad & Lassie promotes<br />
philanthropy with holiday collections<br />
Alexa Burnell<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Local retailer Lad &<br />
Lassie have maintained an<br />
impeccable reputation for<br />
the past 66 years, providing<br />
quality children and<br />
women’s clothing and the<br />
type of personalized service<br />
that goes unmatched.<br />
Now, with the holiday<br />
season in full swing, they<br />
are adding an extra layer<br />
of warmth to the Village of<br />
Wilmette by spearheading<br />
two philanthropic initiatives<br />
— a non-perishable<br />
food drive for the New<br />
Trier Township Food pantry<br />
and a “Buy One, Get<br />
One” glove deal for Connections<br />
for the Homeless<br />
— an Evanston-based<br />
organization that oversees<br />
two local shelters.<br />
From now until Saturday,<br />
Dec. 14, shoppers<br />
who bring-in non-perishable<br />
items for the Township<br />
pantry, will be entered<br />
into a raffle to win a brand<br />
new Patagonia sweater.<br />
These layering jackets provide<br />
all the warmth needed<br />
on a cold day with none of<br />
the bulk. Raffle tickets will<br />
be distributed per item.<br />
Zee Barry, and Mimi<br />
and Patty Evans, co-owners<br />
and sisters, reported<br />
that the most needed pantry<br />
items of the moment<br />
are cookies, granola bars,<br />
pasta sauce, canned soups,<br />
salad dressings, condiments,<br />
cleaning supplies<br />
and laundry detergent.<br />
The sisters agreed that<br />
their desire to give-back is<br />
a reflection of their gratitude<br />
they feel for remaining<br />
so welcomed in the<br />
community for over six<br />
decades.<br />
Sisters (left to right) Mimi Evans, Patty Evans and Zee Barry collect items at their<br />
store, Lad & Lassie, in Wilmette. Alexa Burnell/22nd Century Media<br />
“We feel so fortunate for<br />
all the years we have had<br />
here in Wilmette,” Barry<br />
said. “We want to spread<br />
that good feeling and good<br />
cheer to others, while inspiring<br />
all our friends and<br />
neighbors to give to those<br />
less fortunate, particularly<br />
during the holiday season.”<br />
When Jack Macholll,<br />
New Trier Township communications<br />
director,<br />
caught wind of the goodwill,<br />
he was thrilled to hear<br />
how this local and revered<br />
business decided to step up<br />
for the sake of others.<br />
“A collection like the<br />
one that Lad & Lassie is<br />
running sends a signal to<br />
members of the community<br />
that we’re all in this<br />
together,” Macholl said.<br />
“When business owners<br />
share some of their profit<br />
it not only helps neighbors<br />
make ends meet, but really<br />
strengthens our communities.”<br />
In addition to the food<br />
drive, Lad & Lassie’s<br />
BOGO glove deal, running<br />
through Dec. 22,<br />
means that when a shopper<br />
purchases a pair of gloves,<br />
one pair will be donated to<br />
Connections<br />
Nia Tavoularis, Connection’s<br />
director of development,<br />
explained how<br />
Lad & Lassie’s goodwill<br />
warms hands and hearts<br />
this holiday season.<br />
“Through collection<br />
drives, donations, volunteering,<br />
and advocacy<br />
the entire community can<br />
play a role in the work we<br />
do at Connections for the<br />
Homeless. At Connections<br />
our mission is to catalyze<br />
the community to end<br />
homelessness, one person<br />
at a time and our partnership<br />
with Lad & Lassie<br />
puts that mission into action,”<br />
Tavoularis said.<br />
She added that in the<br />
month of October, Connections<br />
had more than<br />
400 neighbors visit one<br />
of the organization’s two<br />
drop-in centers.<br />
“Donations like gloves<br />
and other warm clothing<br />
not only help keep our<br />
neighbors experiencing<br />
homelessness safer in the<br />
cold, they also allows our<br />
staff to fill basic needs,”<br />
Tavoularis said.<br />
Lad and Lassie is located<br />
at 1115 Central Ave.<br />
in Wilmette. Stop in and<br />
bring your donations for<br />
the NTT Pantry during<br />
regular business hours<br />
listed on their website until<br />
Dec. 14. At the same<br />
time, purchase a pair of<br />
gloves, and know a second<br />
pair will go to someone in<br />
need through Dec. 22. Lad<br />
& Lassie has a full supply<br />
of kids waterproof snow<br />
gloves and competitively<br />
priced gloves and mittens<br />
for tiny tots, teens and everyone<br />
in-between. Learn<br />
more at ladandlassie.com.
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Wilmette student remodels community<br />
basement for Eagle Scout project<br />
Hilary Anderson<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Alex Bailey searched<br />
for a project that would<br />
benefit both the community<br />
and help him earn his<br />
Eagle Scout Award.<br />
He looked at several<br />
possible projects.<br />
The Wilmette Boy<br />
Scout, member of Troop<br />
2 and New Trier High<br />
School sophomore,<br />
learned through his mother’s<br />
friend the space in<br />
the Winnetka Community<br />
House’s basement where<br />
the Winnetka Youth Organization,<br />
held its drop-in<br />
center and other events for<br />
teens, badly needed a new<br />
floor.<br />
“The flooring was old,”<br />
said Lynne Levernier,<br />
chairman-WYO. “An area<br />
there had just been flooded<br />
so some of the tiles needed<br />
to be replaced as well.”<br />
Bailey talked with his<br />
scout leader, Steve Galindo,<br />
members of his scout<br />
troop and other friends, secured<br />
their help and decided<br />
replacing the tile floor<br />
would be his Eagle Scout<br />
project.<br />
It proved to be no small<br />
undertaking, not an easy<br />
one especially since the<br />
area was not open floor<br />
space. There were many<br />
things to consider.<br />
Measurements had to be<br />
taken — figuring out how<br />
to factor in the posts in the<br />
basements and openings<br />
such as doors and windows.<br />
Bailey brought his family<br />
along and sought the<br />
help of the Northbrook<br />
Lowe’s store staff person,<br />
Mike Stoeckle. He proved<br />
to be instrumental in helping<br />
Bailey decide on the<br />
best product and how to<br />
correctly install the flooring.<br />
“It was hard figuring out<br />
what was the best option<br />
in flooring for the WYO’s<br />
space,” Bailey said.<br />
“There were so many possibilities.<br />
Then we had to<br />
learn what supplies were<br />
needed, make a list along<br />
with the required tools.<br />
We discovered it would be<br />
necessary to do an overlay<br />
on the tile.”<br />
Fortunately, the WYO<br />
had just held a fundraiser<br />
so there was money in<br />
the budget for the necessary<br />
supplies according to<br />
Levernier. The job seemed<br />
enormous but Bailey was<br />
relentless.<br />
Even those who were<br />
not experienced in laying<br />
a new floor offered assistance<br />
in some way.<br />
“Alex spent many of<br />
his free hours at Lowe’s,”<br />
looking at samples, reading<br />
about each product’s<br />
benefit, talking to its staff<br />
and sought the advice and<br />
help of yet other adults<br />
who had experience doing<br />
similar jobs,” said Grainne<br />
Bailey, Alex’s mother.<br />
“We viewed several You-<br />
Tube videos that showed<br />
what to do. Alex finally<br />
wrote up a proposal.”<br />
The choice made for<br />
flooring was luxury vinyl<br />
tile.<br />
The weekend to install<br />
the flooring arrived.<br />
Bailey and a crew of<br />
about 20 scouts and other<br />
volunteers spent Friday<br />
night before the actual<br />
installation moving furniture<br />
and scrubbing the old<br />
floor.<br />
Alex Bailey, a sophomore<br />
at New Trier High School,<br />
begins his work for an<br />
Eagle Scout badge at<br />
Winettka Community<br />
House. Photo submitted<br />
“Many adults who arrived<br />
Saturday morning<br />
to drop-off their kids who<br />
volunteered, stayed to help<br />
as well,” Grainne Bailey<br />
said. “There were sign-in<br />
sheets. We counted more<br />
than 100 man-hours of<br />
work that weekend putting<br />
in the flooring. Ten people<br />
actually spent two tenhour<br />
days working on the<br />
project.”<br />
Pizzas fed the hungry<br />
throughout the process.<br />
“Putting in the flooring<br />
was not all the group<br />
did,” Grainne Bailey said.<br />
“They had to install the<br />
finishing touches like<br />
baseboards. It was learning<br />
on the job. There were<br />
things to consider we never<br />
anticipated—like how<br />
to cut properly.”<br />
Bailey now will write<br />
about his completed efforts<br />
to install a new floor<br />
for the WYO’s teen dropin<br />
center at the Winnetka<br />
Community House for his<br />
Eagle Scout badge.<br />
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Funds raised at<br />
2019 Greek Fest<br />
in Glenview<br />
Submitted Content<br />
Rev. Richard Demetrius Andrews (left) and Rev.<br />
Panagiotis Boznos (right), pastor of Sts. Peter and<br />
Paul Greek Orthodox Church, present a check to Dr.<br />
Renee Dominguez, executive director of Family Service<br />
Center, a mental health agency serving Glenview,<br />
Wilmette, Northbrook and Kenilworth. Photo submitted<br />
The Family Service Center,<br />
a mental health agency<br />
serving Northbrook, Wilmette,<br />
Kenilworth and<br />
Glenview, was one of two<br />
nonprofit organizations<br />
to benefit from this year’s<br />
Greek Fest celebration in<br />
Glenview.<br />
Sts. Peter and Paul<br />
Greek Orthodox Church<br />
recently presented donations<br />
of $8,400 each, rasied<br />
through proceeds from the<br />
Glenview church’s annual<br />
event.<br />
Along with Family Service<br />
Center, Orthodox<br />
Christian Fellowship, a<br />
collegiate campus ministry<br />
with 200 university<br />
chapters in the U.S. and<br />
Canada, was a beneficiary<br />
of Greek Fest.<br />
“Our annual Greek Fest<br />
gives the parish an opportunity<br />
to reach out to our<br />
neighbors in Glenview<br />
and surrounding communities<br />
to share our Greek<br />
cuisine, our culture and<br />
our faith,” said Rev. Richard<br />
Demetrius Andrews,<br />
pastor of Saints Peter and<br />
Paul Church. “In addition,<br />
we want to give some of<br />
the event proceeds back<br />
to the community by selecting<br />
one local and one<br />
national or international<br />
organization each year as<br />
recipients. We are pleased<br />
to be supporting these<br />
two worthwhile organizations.”<br />
Family Service Center<br />
Executive Director Dr. Renee<br />
Dominguez said the<br />
Wilmette-based organization<br />
is “honored” to be a<br />
beneficiary of Greek Fest<br />
2019.<br />
“We appreciate that the<br />
Saints Peter and Paul parish<br />
recognizes the value<br />
of our work in the community,”<br />
Dominguez said.<br />
“The donation will make a<br />
significant impact and allow<br />
us to deliver critical<br />
services to FSC’s clients<br />
most in need.”<br />
Family Service Center,<br />
with offices in Wilmette,<br />
provides clinical insight,<br />
individual counseling for<br />
children and adults, family<br />
counseling, student<br />
health and safety assessments,<br />
community crisis<br />
response, outreach, education<br />
and consultation.<br />
Deacon Marek Simon,<br />
executive director of Orthodox<br />
Christian Fellowship,<br />
said the donation<br />
from Saints Peter and Paul<br />
Church will aallow dozens<br />
of student to participate in<br />
a regional retreat.<br />
“OCF is grateful to<br />
Saints Peter and Paul<br />
Church for the donation,<br />
as well as the commitment<br />
from this community to<br />
supporting college students,”<br />
Simon said. “Over<br />
60 students will attend a<br />
regional retreat this fall,<br />
which would not be possible<br />
without this gracious<br />
gift.”<br />
OCF provides students<br />
with a home away from<br />
home, opportunities to<br />
learn about their Orthodox<br />
faith and skills to be effective<br />
Orthodox leaders.<br />
Student life on campus<br />
focuses on four key areas:<br />
fellowship, education,<br />
worship and service.<br />
Sts. Peter and Paul<br />
Church will host the 2020<br />
Glenview Greek Fest on<br />
Saturday, July 25, and<br />
Sunday, July 26, on its<br />
church grounds at 1401<br />
Wagner Road.<br />
Barbara Schilling Stanton rings the bell at North Shore Country Day School in 1963.<br />
Photo submitted<br />
NSCDS offers reward<br />
for bell stolen in 1978<br />
Submitted by North Shore<br />
Country Day School<br />
North Shore Country<br />
Day is once again initiating<br />
a $500 reward for information<br />
that would lead to the<br />
recovery of the 168-pound<br />
bronze bell given to the<br />
school in 1962 and stolen<br />
in 1978. The bell was a gift<br />
from the Otto and Dorothy<br />
Schilling family.<br />
In the summer of 1962,<br />
the Schilling family — including<br />
Barbara (NSCD<br />
Class of 1963) — took a<br />
trip to Europe. While in<br />
Germany, they stopped at<br />
her uncle’s bell foundry<br />
in Heidelberg. She was<br />
so taken with the beautiful<br />
bells that she thought<br />
North Shore Country Day<br />
should have one of its own.<br />
Her father Otto Schilling,<br />
inspired by his family’s<br />
history as bell makers,<br />
designed and selected<br />
the specific ringtones for<br />
the school bell he commissioned<br />
to be cast by his<br />
younger brother Friedrich<br />
Schilling.<br />
The bell was delivered<br />
on Dec. 31, 1962.<br />
“We all have been waiting<br />
anxiously for the arrival<br />
of our new bell and it was<br />
a moment of joy for those<br />
who were here when it arrived<br />
on the day before New<br />
Years,” wrote Headmaster<br />
Nathaniel French to Friedrich<br />
in early January 1963.<br />
“Happily, Barbara was here<br />
at school and so was able to<br />
enjoy its unpacking with the<br />
rest of us.“<br />
arbara Schilling Stanton<br />
of Golden, Colorado, remembers<br />
ringing it for the<br />
first time after it had been<br />
hung outside the school’s<br />
auditorium in the spring of<br />
her senior year.<br />
“The bell was beautiful,”<br />
she said. “The name<br />
of the school encircled the<br />
top with the school crest<br />
below.”<br />
Beginning the following<br />
school year, the bell was<br />
used to signal the beginning<br />
of classes each day,<br />
to call students to the daily<br />
assembly and for special<br />
events.<br />
The bell rang for the last<br />
time during the early hours<br />
of Nov. 28, 1978. Headmaster<br />
Douglas McDonald,<br />
who lived in Wavering<br />
House at the northwest<br />
corner of campus, heard<br />
it ring once and fell back<br />
asleep. In the morning, the<br />
bell was gone.<br />
Despite reporting the<br />
theft to the Winnetka Police<br />
and offering a reward<br />
of $500 for its return, the<br />
bell was never recovered.<br />
If you have information<br />
about its whereabouts,<br />
contact communications@<br />
nscds.org, or call (847)<br />
441-3337.
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31 countries represented at Avoca’s Intercultural Dinner, Talent Show<br />
Hilary Anderson<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Avoca School District<br />
37’s sixth annual Intercultural<br />
Dinner and Talent<br />
Show was a celebration of<br />
the foods and talents of the<br />
many cultures of the district’s<br />
students and their<br />
families.<br />
The increasingly popular<br />
event held Friday, Nov. 15,<br />
at Marie Murphy School<br />
welcomed more than 500<br />
students, school staff, parents<br />
and neighbors who<br />
packed the school’s gym to<br />
enjoy home-cooked food,<br />
featuring cuisines from 31<br />
countries.<br />
For the first time in the<br />
event’s six-year history,<br />
the all-purpose room on<br />
the other side of the<br />
gym had to be opened<br />
up to accommodate the<br />
crowd.<br />
Dishes featured at the<br />
dinner included included<br />
favorites from Armenia,<br />
Bangladesh, Colombia,<br />
Cuba, Haiti, Italy, India,<br />
Macedonia, Romanial,<br />
South Africa, Turkey and<br />
many other countries.<br />
Many of the families<br />
bought and cooked the<br />
food themselves, while<br />
some food was donated by<br />
local businesses frequented<br />
by District 37 families.<br />
Children had a game of<br />
their own to play throughout<br />
the night. Each one<br />
received a “My Passport”<br />
book at the beginning<br />
of the evening with the<br />
names of the 31 countries<br />
represented that evening.<br />
The goal of their game was<br />
to visit each food stand<br />
and have a person there<br />
stamp their passport with<br />
the name of the country<br />
represented.<br />
After collecting five<br />
stamps in their “passports,”<br />
children received<br />
Anisha Vasudevan, of Wilmette, performs.<br />
a coin used in one of the<br />
countries represented.<br />
Some were valuable in that<br />
they had historic value —<br />
like the German mark, the<br />
French franc and the Turkish<br />
lira — many of which<br />
had been used before<br />
countries in the European<br />
Union transitioned to using<br />
the Euro.<br />
The coins came from<br />
District 37 parent Miyaho<br />
Hasegawa’s personal collection.<br />
Hasegawa is one<br />
of the co-founders of the<br />
event, along with Colleen<br />
Rosenthal. They worked<br />
with a team of volunteers<br />
in various capacities during<br />
the event’s six-year run, including<br />
Robin Smith, Sarika<br />
Jathar, Sheila Billmoria,<br />
Erlyn Cord-Cruz, Ami Das,<br />
Francine Karamalegos-<br />
Conway, Annie Shen and<br />
Maya Vasudevan.<br />
“We pitched in wherever<br />
needed,” Jathar said.<br />
“Titles do not matter.”<br />
A talent show followed<br />
featuring 29 performances,<br />
including traditional cultural<br />
group dances, piano<br />
and violin pieces, vocal<br />
solos and those accompanied<br />
by ukuleles and guitars.<br />
Two volunteers from Go<br />
Green Wilmette attended<br />
the event and helped everyone<br />
put leftover food<br />
items, used plastic dinnerware,<br />
plates and garbage<br />
into the correct containers.<br />
Leftover food was composted<br />
instead of being<br />
thrown away.<br />
“The Avoca School Dist.<br />
37 has been so successful<br />
at getting many of our<br />
parents from different cultures<br />
to know other parents<br />
better and learn about each<br />
other that we are looking<br />
into doing more intercultural<br />
events but on a smaller<br />
scale,” Hasegawa said.<br />
The Paul family (left to right), Asha, Shanta and Deepa, all of Wilmette, dance during<br />
the Avoca School District 37’s sixth annual Intercultural Dinner and Talent Show Nov.<br />
15 at Marie Murphy in Wilmette. Photos by Jim Townsley, of Wilmette<br />
Students (left to right) Isabella Clemente, of Wilmette, Shaili Das, of Glenview, and<br />
Suvali Dhar, of Wilmette.<br />
“This Intercultural Dinner<br />
has been a great way to<br />
emphasize how proud we<br />
are of our diversity and<br />
inclusion here in (Avoca<br />
District 37) communities.”<br />
Kim Orthe, of Northfield,<br />
said came to the dinner<br />
with her husband, Charlie,<br />
because their children went<br />
to District 37 schools and<br />
“we are proud to continue<br />
supporting” other families<br />
in the district.<br />
“There is so much diversity<br />
in this community,”<br />
Orthe said. “This is what<br />
it should be like everywhere.”<br />
Vahid Kacila said it was<br />
his third or fourth time<br />
coming to the event.<br />
“The food is great because<br />
we can try a little bit<br />
of everything and it is right<br />
here in our neighborhood,”<br />
Kacila said.<br />
Robin Smith, of Highland<br />
Park, called the event<br />
“awesome.”<br />
“The Intercultural Dinner<br />
and Talent Show here<br />
are awesome because you<br />
always learn a few fun<br />
facts about different countries,”<br />
Smith said. “There<br />
are so many first-generation<br />
parents here and<br />
everyone is talking with<br />
each other and having fun.<br />
I like to see all the talent<br />
on stage — kids, parents,<br />
even some families performing<br />
together. This is a<br />
great place to be.”
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New Trier’s LitFest serves as inspiration for students<br />
Hilary Anderson<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Sharing ideas and hearing<br />
about someone’s experiences<br />
are great ways to<br />
learn.<br />
New Trier High School<br />
students with an interest in<br />
writing would agree.<br />
About 300 members of<br />
the senior class attended<br />
New Trier’s annual LitFest<br />
held Nov. 8 at its Winnetka<br />
campus to learn about the<br />
journeys that 20 journalists,<br />
book authors, filmmakers,<br />
scriptwriters and<br />
poets took to becoming<br />
successful in their craft.<br />
Students gave the day<br />
an overall two-thumbs up<br />
for what they learned at<br />
the various workshops, including<br />
things that cannot<br />
be obtained in a regular<br />
school classroom. Some<br />
referred to it as a type of<br />
“real world” mentoring.<br />
More importantly, the<br />
sessions helped students<br />
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TAX INCREASE FOR AVOCA SCHOOL<br />
DISTRICT NO. 37<br />
I. A public hearing to approve a proposed property tax<br />
increase for Avoca School District No. 37 for 2019 will be held<br />
on December 19, 2019, at 6:15 p.m. at the Joseph M. Porto<br />
Community Center, 2921 Illinois Road, Wilmette, Illinois.<br />
Any person desiring to appear at the public hearing and present<br />
testi.mony to the taxing district may contact Kaine Osburn,<br />
Superinten.dent (telephone 847-251-3587).<br />
II. The corporate and special purpose property taxes extended<br />
or abated for the year 2018 were $13,295,926.<br />
The proposed corporate and special purpose property taxes to<br />
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III. The property taxes extended for debt service and public<br />
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The estimated property taxes to be levied for debt service and<br />
public building commission leases for 2019 are $728,363.<br />
This represents a 4.5% decrease over the previous year.<br />
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The estimated total property taxes to be levied for 2019 are<br />
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if they set their minds to<br />
doing so.<br />
“The workshops were<br />
a great opportunity for us<br />
English writing students to<br />
experience something outside<br />
the normal classroom<br />
and see how others [writers]<br />
got to where they are<br />
and hear what they have to<br />
say about their successes<br />
and even struggles,” said<br />
Winnetka’s Mitch Shelmam,<br />
who was interested<br />
in film. “The sessions were<br />
good.”<br />
Winnetka’s Ben Portland<br />
agreed. He especially<br />
liked Roy Guzman’s workshop,<br />
“Reimaging through<br />
Metaphor” and Allison Joseph’s<br />
session about poets.<br />
“It is awesome to have<br />
the opportunity to listen<br />
to professionals involved<br />
in different areas of writing,”<br />
Portland said. “I<br />
liked learning more about<br />
using metaphors. It will<br />
help me develop ideas in<br />
my writing and might even<br />
assist me with my college<br />
essays.”<br />
Wilmette’s Katie Mark<br />
attended Rachel De-<br />
Woskin’s “Bad Heroes and<br />
Good Villans” workshop.<br />
“I liked the way she<br />
talked about stories that<br />
had characters who were<br />
not totally perfect,” Mark<br />
said. “These sessions are<br />
a good way to hear from<br />
professional writers and<br />
how they achieved success.”<br />
Wilmette’s Greer<br />
MacKenzie also attended<br />
the session.<br />
“It is cool to hear how<br />
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Kenilworth’s Emily<br />
Wang found Erisa Apantaku’s<br />
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podcasting interesting.<br />
“We learned things we<br />
never knew about podcasting,”<br />
Wang said. “Apantaku<br />
called the levels of<br />
creating a podcast ingredients<br />
and encouraged us to<br />
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“We always do a lot<br />
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school so one of the sessions<br />
I attended was especially<br />
interesting,” Wilmette’s<br />
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said.<br />
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Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 2 days ago<br />
Back to the drawing board at Canal Shores<br />
John Jacoby<br />
Contributing Columnist<br />
What’s going on<br />
at Canal Shores<br />
Golf Course?<br />
One year has passed since<br />
the Metropolitan Water<br />
Reclamation District<br />
(MWRD) granted Cook<br />
County an easement to<br />
build a “public road”<br />
along the tenth fairway<br />
that would ruin the tenth<br />
hole. The road would<br />
provide access to a landlocked<br />
parcel controlled<br />
by the Keefe Family<br />
Trust so that single family<br />
homes can be developed<br />
there.<br />
As best I can determine,<br />
there’s nothing going on<br />
before any of the public<br />
agencies involved —<br />
MWRD, the County, the<br />
Village of Wilmette, the<br />
Wilmette Park District,<br />
and the City of Evanston.<br />
This isn’t surprising,<br />
because in my opinion,<br />
the plan proposed last year<br />
will never receive all the<br />
necessary governmental<br />
approvals, and the Keefe<br />
Trust probably realizes<br />
this.<br />
Before explaining,<br />
I’m suggesting here that<br />
the public agencies and<br />
the public itself should<br />
acknowledge an important<br />
point: The Keefe Trust<br />
may be entitled to an<br />
easement as a matter of<br />
law. Depending on how<br />
the landlocked condition<br />
was created, Illinois law<br />
may require an adjoining<br />
property owner (MWRD<br />
in this situation) to allow<br />
an easement across the<br />
adjoining property so that<br />
the landlocked property<br />
can be accessed and<br />
developed. It’s noteworthy<br />
that the Keefe Trust<br />
is paying property taxes<br />
without the right to access<br />
and develop the property.<br />
This strikes me (and<br />
probably would strike an<br />
Illinois court) as unfair.<br />
However, assuming that<br />
the Keefe Trust is entitled<br />
to an easement, that assumption<br />
says nothing<br />
about the location of the<br />
easement. The easement<br />
granted by MWRD runs a<br />
distance of 426 feet from<br />
Maple Avenue, south to<br />
the Keefe property, all in<br />
Wilmette. It runs behind<br />
seven homes fronting on<br />
Golf Terrace, and it diminishes<br />
these homeowners’<br />
ability to enjoy their back<br />
yards. It destroys the<br />
Course’s tenth hole, and<br />
it diminishes the overall<br />
golfing experience.<br />
By contrast, MWRD<br />
could satisfy any legal<br />
obligation it owes the<br />
Keefe Trust by granting<br />
an easement running a<br />
distance of only 279 feet<br />
from Isabella Street north<br />
through Evanston to the<br />
Keefe property. (In this<br />
area, there’s a strip of<br />
land between Isabella and<br />
the Keefe property that’s<br />
part of Evanston.) A road<br />
built on this easement<br />
would not adjoin or affect<br />
any existing home sites.<br />
It would not touch the<br />
Course. It would require<br />
less paving of pervious<br />
surface. It would cost less<br />
to build and, if taxpayers<br />
are footing the bill,<br />
it would save taxpayers’<br />
money.<br />
As shown on the nearby<br />
drawing, the advantages<br />
of an easement from<br />
Isabella are obvious. So<br />
why did MWRD grant<br />
an easement from Maple<br />
instead? I can think of<br />
only one reason: A highly<br />
politicized process undermined<br />
common sense and<br />
subordinated the public<br />
interest. One of the owners<br />
of the Keefe Trust is<br />
a powerful State Senator<br />
who’s highly influential in<br />
deciding whether legislation<br />
affecting MWRD and<br />
Cook County gets passed,<br />
and which Democratic<br />
candidates get slated.<br />
His advocacy, along with<br />
Evanston’s mystifying<br />
opposition to the Isabella<br />
easement, undoubtedly<br />
made it difficult for some<br />
MWRD and County officials<br />
to oppose the Maple<br />
easement.<br />
Although I’ve spoken<br />
to no one on Wilmette’s<br />
Board of Trustees about<br />
Sketch shows the approximate location of the approved<br />
Maple easement and of the potential Isabella easement<br />
in relation to the Keefe property. PHOTO Submitted<br />
this subject, I can’t imagine<br />
that the Board would<br />
ever approve a subdivision<br />
of the Keefe property<br />
when, among other<br />
reasons, it would be accessed<br />
by a non-dedicated<br />
roadway running over a<br />
“temporary” easement<br />
that expires in 75 years. I<br />
submit that it would be a<br />
waste of everyone’s time<br />
for the County and the<br />
Keefe Trust to continue<br />
pursuing this plan. They’d<br />
be better off going back<br />
to MWRD and requesting<br />
a dedicated and permanent<br />
Isabella access. The<br />
recently-announced retirement<br />
of the powerful State<br />
Senator, combined with<br />
last year’s changes in the<br />
MWRD Board’s membership,<br />
might lead to a new<br />
plan that actually gives<br />
top priority to the public<br />
interest.<br />
THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK<br />
Public expresses<br />
frustration regarding<br />
barge funding in HP<br />
Eleven Highland Park<br />
locals gave public comment<br />
at a regular City<br />
Council meeting on Monday,<br />
Nov. 25, calling for<br />
the city to team up with<br />
the park district to find<br />
funding for a deteriorating<br />
barge on Park Avenue<br />
beach.<br />
“Once it’s gone, it’s<br />
gone forever,” said Peter<br />
Mordini, a Highland Park<br />
resident. “That barge there<br />
is the lifeline and heartbeat<br />
of this town.”<br />
Residents’ frustration<br />
comes after the park district<br />
announced they will<br />
not be allocating any taxpayer<br />
money to repair<br />
the barge. To do so, they<br />
would need to find between<br />
$850,000 and $1<br />
million, as previously reported<br />
by the Highland<br />
Park Landmark. They are<br />
encouraging locals to find<br />
creative funding sources to<br />
replace the barge.<br />
Reporting by Ella Lee, Freelance<br />
Reporter. Full story at<br />
HPLandmarkDaily.com.<br />
THE LAKE FOREST LEADER<br />
Grenier to step down as<br />
Lake Bluff Village trustee<br />
Lake Bluff Village<br />
Trustee Eric Grenier will<br />
step down from his position<br />
due to his upcoming<br />
move out of the village.<br />
Announcement was made<br />
by Village President Kathleen<br />
O’Hara at the board’s<br />
regular meeting Monday,<br />
Nov. 25. She announced<br />
Grenier will step down<br />
from the board following<br />
its Dec. 10 meeting due to<br />
his upcoming move to another<br />
state. Board will say<br />
its goodbyes at meeting.<br />
Reporting by Todd Marver,<br />
Freelance Reporter. Full<br />
story at LakeForestLeader-<br />
Daily.com.<br />
THE GLENCOE ANCHOR<br />
Cub Scouts, Hometown<br />
Heroes program thank<br />
local first responders<br />
Glencoe Cub Scout<br />
Troop 28 donated more<br />
than $500 worth of popcorn<br />
to Glencoe Public<br />
Safety the afternoon of<br />
Nov. 23 as a gesture to<br />
thank the officers for their<br />
service and commitment to<br />
the village.<br />
The donation was part of<br />
the Hometown Heroes program,<br />
which allows community<br />
members to buy<br />
popcorn from the Scouts<br />
that is then delivered to local<br />
first responders.<br />
“It was a way that the<br />
community could doubly<br />
support Glencoe,” said<br />
Lisa Bell, this year’s “Popcorn<br />
Kernel” — the leader<br />
of the annual fundraiser<br />
— and mom to one of the<br />
scouts. Funds raised went<br />
to the troop, and the goods<br />
benefited the public safety<br />
officers.<br />
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North Shore galas raise funds,<br />
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INSETLeft: Saper was 18 at the<br />
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crisis in 1979.<br />
INSET RIGHT: Saper, forced to<br />
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Wilmette resident discusses native Iran,<br />
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Jacqueline Saper, of Wilmette,<br />
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29. Bottled water<br />
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30. Stove chamber<br />
31. “Dust in the Wind”<br />
group<br />
35. One of 3.5 billion<br />
36. Stand around for<br />
late date<br />
39. Martha Stewart<br />
meas.<br />
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briefly<br />
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(Motown group)<br />
42. Sitcom, ___ and<br />
Greg<br />
44. “Miracle” team of<br />
1969<br />
45. Undergo diffusion<br />
49. Was in an agitated<br />
emotional state<br />
53. Chose to participate<br />
54. Compass doodle<br />
55. Compacted<br />
56. Spanish sherry<br />
61. The Buckeyes:<br />
Abbr.<br />
62. 3.26 light-years<br />
63. Parallel<br />
64. Colorado Native<br />
American tribe<br />
65. Spanish inn<br />
66. Yin’s opposite<br />
67. Plaintive<br />
1. ‘’Lord Jim’’ novelist<br />
2. Puget Sound city<br />
3. Walks heavily<br />
4. Take turns<br />
5. Persian Gulf island<br />
6. Salad ingredient<br />
7. Swedish statesman<br />
Hammarskjold<br />
8. “Time in a Bottle”<br />
singer<br />
9. Car<br />
10. Bray ending<br />
11. “Love Story”<br />
star first name: ___<br />
Mcgraw<br />
12. Decision maker<br />
on the sports field, for<br />
short<br />
13. Before<br />
19. Christmas tree<br />
decor<br />
21. Most sickly<br />
25. Sheer gauzy fabric<br />
26. Tel ___<br />
27. Ballet move<br />
28. Hotels<br />
32. Regular: Abbr.<br />
33. Blonde type<br />
34. Retreat<br />
35. Bulls point<br />
guard who had a<br />
home in Highland<br />
Park<br />
36. PIN takers<br />
37. “Whoopee!”<br />
38. Comic Johnson<br />
43. Enticed by deception<br />
46. Rotten to the core<br />
47. Sonora snooze<br />
48. Blessed with a<br />
quality<br />
50. More than unpopular<br />
51. Writer Jong<br />
52. 650, to Caesar<br />
53. Honshu port<br />
56. Google Play<br />
purchase<br />
57. “From ___ to Mozart”<br />
(1980 film)<br />
58. Surgery sites, for<br />
short<br />
59. Government security<br />
agency, abbr.<br />
60. Ballad<br />
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Schedule for Wilmette Community Television – Channel 6<br />
Thursday, Dec. 5<br />
1 p.m. Zoning Board of<br />
Appeals<br />
4 p.m. BSK - Holiday<br />
Sauces<br />
5 p.m. Coach’s Corner<br />
6 p.m. State of the<br />
Village 2019<br />
7:30 p.m. Zoning Board<br />
of Appeals<br />
9:30 p.m. Illinois<br />
Channel Programming<br />
Friday, Dec. 6- Sunday,<br />
Dec. 8<br />
5 p.m. Coach’s Corner<br />
6 p.m. BSK - Holiday<br />
Sauces<br />
7 p.m. Zoning Board of<br />
Appeals<br />
9 p.m. State of the<br />
Village 2019<br />
Monday, Dec. 9<br />
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Local author relives escape from Iran during tense times<br />
Eric DeGrechie, Editor<br />
For many<br />
Americans<br />
who were<br />
alive in<br />
1979, the<br />
events that<br />
occurred at<br />
the U.S. Embassy<br />
in Iran<br />
Saper<br />
that began in November of<br />
that year conjure up a mix<br />
of emotions. For Wilmette<br />
resident Jacqueline Saper,<br />
the memories of 40 years<br />
ago are much more personal<br />
as she found herself<br />
right in the middle of it all<br />
in her native country.<br />
Saper recently wrote a<br />
memoir about her experience,<br />
“From Miniskirt to<br />
Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary<br />
Iran.”<br />
The Iran hostage crisis<br />
was a diplomatic standoff<br />
between the United States<br />
and Iran. It all started<br />
on Nov. 4, 1979, when a<br />
group of Iranian college<br />
students belonging to the<br />
Muslim Student Followers<br />
of the Imam’s Line,<br />
who supported the Iranian<br />
Revolution, took over the<br />
U.S. Embassy in Tehran.<br />
The group held 52 American<br />
diplomats and citizens<br />
hostage during the takeover.<br />
Saper recalls that the<br />
embassy was located in<br />
an upscale neighborhood<br />
near a long street filled<br />
with many boutiques. The<br />
18-year-old newlywed<br />
was shopping for cologne<br />
for her husband when the<br />
shouting began on that<br />
fateful day.<br />
“I wasn’t paying much<br />
attention [at first]. I heard<br />
a crowd and a mob. They<br />
were raising their fists and<br />
yelling, ‘Death to America.’<br />
They kept repeating<br />
this,” Saper said. “I sensed<br />
something was unusual.”<br />
Nine months prior, the<br />
Iranian Revolution had<br />
succeeded when the United<br />
States-backed monarchy<br />
and government of<br />
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi<br />
was overthrown and replaced<br />
with an Islamic<br />
republic under the Grand<br />
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.<br />
Saper realized fairly<br />
quickly she only had a few<br />
options to escape from the<br />
growing dangerous scene<br />
at and near the embassy.<br />
One option was going to<br />
the back of the store and<br />
hiding. Another option was<br />
going toward the crowd to<br />
see what was going on.<br />
“I was afraid because<br />
I knew the Marines that<br />
guarded the embassy were<br />
armed,” Saper said. “I was<br />
afraid of tear gas and stampedes.”<br />
Luckily, there was a<br />
third option for Saper. She<br />
hailed the first taxi she<br />
saw and because her home<br />
wasn’t too far away, she<br />
got there safely.<br />
Saper, named after Jackie<br />
Kennedy, was born in<br />
Tehran in 1961 to an Iranian<br />
father and a British<br />
mother. She grew up in a<br />
Middle Eastern country<br />
where its people are predominantly<br />
Shia Muslim,<br />
while her family belonged<br />
to a Jewish community<br />
that made up only about<br />
one-third of one percent of<br />
the population of 35 million<br />
at that time.<br />
“My family was also a<br />
rarity within this minority<br />
community because, in my<br />
father’s generation, marrying<br />
across continents was a<br />
practice that was unheard<br />
of and not done,” she said.<br />
Soon after Saper returned<br />
home on Nov. 4,<br />
1979, she turned on the<br />
Saper is the author of “From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in<br />
Revolutionary Iran.”<br />
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television, which was<br />
only available at night<br />
time. Like others, she was<br />
shocked by what she was<br />
seeing transpire that day<br />
and for the many months<br />
ahead.<br />
“I saw the Americans<br />
blindfolded and handcuffed<br />
as people in this<br />
country saw it here [in<br />
the United States],” Saper<br />
said. “Obviously, I saw it<br />
from the other perspective.<br />
The hostage-takers,<br />
the government and everybody<br />
said it was only going<br />
to be two days or so.”<br />
As Khomeini supported<br />
the radical students, the<br />
American diplomats and<br />
citizens were held hostage<br />
for 444 days from Nov.<br />
4, 1979 to Jan. 20, 1981.<br />
It ended 20 minutes after<br />
new U.S. President Ronald<br />
Reagan concluded his inaugural<br />
address.<br />
“It was a very tumultuous<br />
time in Iran. Many<br />
Iranians that belong to the<br />
previous regime were executed,”<br />
Saper said. “I knew<br />
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Faith Briefs<br />
Beth Hillel Bnai Emunah Congregation<br />
(3220 Big Tree Lane, Wilmette)<br />
Families with Littles<br />
Havdalah and Hanukkah<br />
Beth Hillel will host<br />
a “Families with Littles<br />
Havdalah and Hanukkah”<br />
event at 5:30 p.m. Saturday,<br />
Dec. 14. Dinner,<br />
crafts, celebration and a<br />
magic show will all be<br />
part of this free event that<br />
is open to the community.<br />
RSVP at BHBE.ORG/<br />
LITTLES<br />
Trinity United Methodist Church (1024<br />
Lake Ave., Wilmette)<br />
Rutter’s Gloria<br />
John Rutter’s “Gloria”<br />
is one of the most exciting<br />
musical settings of<br />
the ”Glory to God in the<br />
Highest” text by one of<br />
the world’s most popular<br />
living composers. The<br />
“Gloria” will feature Trinity’s<br />
incredible Reuter<br />
organ, played by Andrea<br />
Handley, (past Dean of<br />
the North Shore Chapter<br />
of the American Guild of<br />
Organists). In addition, the<br />
Trinity Chancel Choir and<br />
friends will be joined by<br />
CSO trombonist, Charlie<br />
Vernon, and 6 other brass<br />
Saper<br />
From Page 27<br />
they wouldn’t dare to hurt<br />
the Americans because the<br />
repercussions were much<br />
more severe and the world<br />
was watching.”<br />
She estimates 70 percent<br />
of her community left in<br />
those first few years while<br />
Saper stayed behind and<br />
lived under sharia law as a<br />
Jewish woman.<br />
Eventually, Saper and<br />
her family left Iran in 1987<br />
when a war with Iraq began.<br />
For a time, the borders<br />
were closed but when they<br />
reopened, it became increasingly<br />
difficult for Jewish<br />
minorities to leave Iran.<br />
players and two percussionists.<br />
Dr. Julia Davids,<br />
Director of Music Ministries,<br />
will conduct. This<br />
event will be at 10:30 a.m.<br />
Dec. 8.<br />
The Callipygian Players<br />
Led by violinist Martin<br />
Davids, The Callipygian<br />
Players will perform<br />
a concert of Baroque and<br />
Renaissance holiday music.<br />
The ensemble will be<br />
joined by a quartet of singers.<br />
This one hour candlelit<br />
concert will feature carols<br />
and instrumental pieces<br />
to get you in the spirit of<br />
the season. Tickets for this<br />
7:30 Dec. 13 event are $25<br />
at the door or at www.calplayers.org<br />
Kenilworth Union Church (211<br />
Kenilworth Ave., Kenilworth)<br />
Adopt-a-Family<br />
On Saturday, Dec. 7,<br />
over 100 local families will<br />
be coming together to ensure<br />
hundreds of Chicago<br />
families have the Christmas<br />
they deserve this year.<br />
On this day from 9-11 a.m.,<br />
participants in Kenilworth<br />
Union Church’s Adopt-a-<br />
Family program will fill a<br />
Saper reveals many of<br />
the details of her family’s<br />
escape, including an<br />
“Argo”-like flight to freedom,<br />
in “From Miniskirt<br />
to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary<br />
Iran.”<br />
“I always wanted to write<br />
this memoir. What I experienced<br />
was very unusual,”<br />
Saper said. “I came of age<br />
during the pre-revolution<br />
and grew up as a teenager<br />
very much like a western<br />
girl. Iran was extremely<br />
pro-American and then it<br />
went the other way.”<br />
After living in Houston,<br />
Texas, for a short time and<br />
Skokie for five years, Saper<br />
and her family moved to<br />
Wilmette in 1992. Her two<br />
children went through the<br />
truck with both needed and<br />
wished-for items to benefit<br />
the families of Christopher<br />
House, a nonprofit serving<br />
Chicago’s low-income<br />
families. The truck will<br />
be driven to Christopher<br />
House later that same day.<br />
This is Kenilworth<br />
Union’s 26th year participating<br />
in the program,<br />
which Christopher House<br />
calls Family-to-Family. A<br />
record-breaking 113 local<br />
families volunteered to<br />
buy presents, some choosing<br />
to help two or even<br />
three families.<br />
The church’s early investment<br />
in the program<br />
also helped it to grow into<br />
the robust program it currently<br />
is.<br />
Kenilworth Union’s<br />
Adopt-a-Family program<br />
is headed up by Liz Dischner,<br />
of Wilmette, and<br />
Jessica LeFebvre, of Winnetka.<br />
For more information,<br />
please contact<br />
Liz Dischner at Liz_dischner@yahoo.com<br />
or 312-<br />
590-0073.<br />
Baha’i House of Worship (100 Linden<br />
Ave., Wilmette)<br />
Children’s Classes<br />
Children ages 7 to 10<br />
are invited learn about<br />
Manifestations of God<br />
including, Krishna, Abraham,<br />
Buddha, Christ,<br />
Bahá’u’lláh (Founder of<br />
the Bahá’í Faith), and other<br />
Divine Teachers. Sunday<br />
mornings from 10-11<br />
a.m. Contact Ellen Price at<br />
(847) 812-1084 for more<br />
information.<br />
Come and Sing<br />
All singers welcome to<br />
audition for the House of<br />
Worship A Capella Choir.<br />
Weekly rehearsals are on<br />
Thursday evenings and<br />
singing from 11 a.m.-1<br />
p.m. on Sundays, plus<br />
special events. Call Music<br />
Director, Van Gilmer for<br />
more info (847) 853-2330.<br />
St. Joseph Catholic Church (1747 Lake<br />
Ave., Wilmette)<br />
Sunday Mass<br />
Sunday Masses are held<br />
at 7:30, 9, 10:15 and 11:30<br />
a.m.<br />
Submit information for<br />
The Beacon’s Faith page<br />
to Michael Wojtychiw at<br />
m.wojtychiw@22ndcentury<br />
media.com<br />
local school system and<br />
graduated from New Trier.<br />
“I love Wilmette. It’s<br />
my home. I love going to<br />
the library, the beautiful<br />
Gillson Park,” Saper said.<br />
“I’m very proud to be in<br />
Wilmette. It’s accessible to<br />
downtown by train. I think<br />
it has the best of all.”<br />
Once Saper got serious<br />
about the book, she began<br />
putting in long days and<br />
nights as it took about four<br />
years of concentrated effort<br />
to complete. It was officially<br />
released in October<br />
and two months prior on<br />
Amazon. She’s been making<br />
the rounds promoting<br />
the book with speaking<br />
engagement at bookstores,<br />
schools and other locations.<br />
“The response has been<br />
very good. I’m finally at<br />
a place in my life where<br />
I feel mature enough to<br />
write it,” Saper said. “It<br />
was a process to write this<br />
story and I was very careful<br />
to be respectful to any<br />
ideology mentioned in the<br />
book. Everything had to<br />
be 100 percent true. I’ve<br />
had Muslim friends tell<br />
me they love the book.<br />
I’ve concentrated on being<br />
factual and not taking any<br />
sides.”<br />
To learn more about<br />
Saper and her memoir,<br />
“From Miniskirt to Hijab:<br />
A Girl in Revolutionary<br />
Iran,” visit jacquelinesaper.com.<br />
WILMETTE<br />
Wilmette Bowling Center<br />
(1901 Schiller Ave.,(847)<br />
251-0705)<br />
■11 ■ a.m.-9 p.m. (10<br />
p.m. on Friday, Saturday):<br />
Glow bowling and<br />
pizza all week long<br />
Community Recreation<br />
Center<br />
(3000 Glenview Road)<br />
■9 ■ a.m. Saturday, Dec.<br />
7: Gingerbread workshops<br />
■Dec. ■ 13-15: “The Nutcracker”<br />
Downtown Wilmette<br />
■5-8 ■ p.m. Thursday,<br />
Dec. 5: Holiday Sip and<br />
Shop<br />
Village Hall<br />
(1200 Wilmette Ave.)<br />
■5 ■ p.m. Saturday, Dec.<br />
7: Tree lighting<br />
NORTHBROOK<br />
Pinstripes<br />
(1150 Willow Road,<br />
(847) 480-2323)<br />
■From ■ open-close all<br />
week: bowling/bocce<br />
North Suburban YMCA<br />
(2705 Techny Road)<br />
■1-3 ■ p.m. Saturday, Dec.<br />
7: Holiday Giveback<br />
Our Lady of the Brook<br />
(3700 Dundee Road)<br />
■7 ■ p.m. Saturday, Dec.<br />
7: Northbrook Symphony<br />
GLENVIEW<br />
Johnny’s Kitchen<br />
(1740 Milwaukee Ave.<br />
(847) 699-9999)<br />
■7:30 ■ p.m. every Friday<br />
and Saturday: Live<br />
Music<br />
The Book Market<br />
(The Glen Town Center)<br />
■Running ■ until Dec.<br />
14: Performances of<br />
“Every Christmas Story<br />
Ever Told”<br />
Ten Ninety Brewing Co.<br />
(1025 N. Waukegan<br />
Road, (224) 432-5472)<br />
■7-9 ■ p.m. every Thursday:<br />
Trivia Night<br />
Oil Lamp Theater<br />
(1723 Glenview Road)<br />
■Nov. ■ 29-Dec. 29:<br />
Performances of “It’s a<br />
Wonderful Life<br />
Potato Creek Johnny’s<br />
(1850 Waukegan Road)<br />
■8:30 ■ p.m. Friday, Nov.<br />
29: Rick Lindy<br />
Saints Peter & Paul Greek<br />
Orthodox Church<br />
(1401 Wagner Road)<br />
■10 ■ a.m.-4:30 p.m.<br />
Saturday, Dec. 7: Holly<br />
Jolly Holiday Faire<br />
North Glenview Metra<br />
Train Station<br />
(3000 Old Willow Road)<br />
■1:14 ■ p.m. Saturday,<br />
Dec. 7: Winter Wonderland<br />
Train Ride<br />
LAKE FOREST<br />
History Center of Lake<br />
Forest-Lake Bluff<br />
(509 E. Deerpath)<br />
■Friday, ■ Dec. 6: Portraits<br />
of Nature by James<br />
Lockhart: Art Show and<br />
Sale<br />
To place an event in The<br />
Scene, email martin@northbrooktower.com.<br />
Full listings<br />
can be found at WilmetteBeacon.com.
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Northbrook’s Eataco quickly becoming new downtown favorite<br />
Jason Addy<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
After years of turnover at<br />
one of its prime locations,<br />
downtown Northbrook<br />
seems to have found the<br />
missing piece of the puzzle.<br />
Glenbrook North alumna<br />
Serah Cicek and her<br />
husband, Kadir, officially<br />
launched Eataco Nov. 2 at<br />
1350 Shermer Road, a location<br />
that has seen a number<br />
of different businesses come<br />
and go.<br />
The Ciceks, along with<br />
business partners Javier<br />
Alvarez and Manny Gill,<br />
opened Eataco’s doors in<br />
July, but spent some time<br />
figuring out exactly what<br />
the Northbrook community<br />
wanted ahead of the restaurant’s<br />
November grand<br />
opening.<br />
Those first few months<br />
showed Eataco’s ownership<br />
group that the fusion Mexican<br />
restaurant might be the<br />
perfect fit for downtown<br />
Northbrook for many years<br />
to come.<br />
“The community has<br />
been nothing but great to<br />
us. We couldn’t have asked<br />
for a more welcoming opening,”<br />
Serah Cicek said, adding<br />
residents have been telling<br />
her “this is what’s been<br />
missing” in the area. “That’s<br />
very, very flattering for us to<br />
hear.”<br />
Cicek credited the local<br />
community’s support for<br />
small businesses as a big<br />
reason for Eataco’s early<br />
success and said she hopes<br />
to “stay here forever.”<br />
“It just shows that as long<br />
as we’re here to serve them,<br />
they’re here to support us,”<br />
Cicek said. “That really, really<br />
means a lot to me as a<br />
small business owner.”<br />
Cicek said she and Kadir<br />
had been eyeing the location<br />
at the heart of downtown<br />
Northbrook for the past few<br />
years, and finally “the timing<br />
was right” for them to<br />
take over the space.<br />
“I’ve always loved Northbrook.<br />
This downtown area<br />
has always been one of my<br />
favorites,” Cicek said.<br />
The Ciceks bring with<br />
them a lifetime of experience<br />
in the restaurant industry, as<br />
both grew up in families that<br />
operated restaurants. After<br />
they graduated from Rutgers<br />
University in New Jersey,<br />
the Ciceks launched a pizza<br />
restaurant in New Jersey before<br />
working their way back<br />
to the Chicago area.<br />
Cicek said Eataco has always<br />
been a dream for her<br />
and her husband, but they<br />
were “waiting to partner up<br />
with the right people to help<br />
us put the vision into reality.”<br />
Enter Javier Alvarez and<br />
Jonathan Vega, the chefs behind<br />
the innovative, fusionforward<br />
menu.<br />
As “food junkies,” the<br />
Ciceks and the chefs “wanted<br />
to provide people with<br />
unique flavors and kind of<br />
think outside the box” while<br />
featuring seasonal ingredients,<br />
Cicek said.<br />
A group of 22nd Century<br />
Media editors recently<br />
visited Eataco to try some<br />
of the restaurant’s fusion<br />
dishes.<br />
Our first taste of Eataco’s<br />
unique take on Mexican<br />
food was the coconut<br />
shrimp taco ($4), which<br />
features shrimp fried in<br />
housemade panko batter<br />
and topped with roasted<br />
pineapple, sweet chili<br />
sauce, cilantro and coconut<br />
flakes.<br />
Next, we sampled the<br />
elote ($4), with fire-roasted<br />
corn topped with Mexican<br />
crema, queso fresco and<br />
house seasonings. Unlike<br />
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many restaurants, Eataco<br />
leaves the corn on the cob<br />
for its elotes, creating an<br />
eye-catching presentation<br />
for the side dish.<br />
We then tried Eataco’s<br />
tostada ($4), a grilled corn<br />
tortilla piled high with refried<br />
beans, mixed greens,<br />
fire-roasted corn, pico de<br />
gallo and queso fresco.<br />
Customers can also add a<br />
number of meats (including<br />
lamb carnitas, beef barbacoa,<br />
ground beef and Thai<br />
pork), as well as teriyaki<br />
tofu or guacamole for a few<br />
extra dollars.<br />
The ground beef nachos<br />
($7.50) soon followed.<br />
Eataco serves its nachos<br />
with black beans, corn,<br />
pico de gallo, sour cream<br />
and queso fresco, along<br />
with any choice of additional<br />
toppings.<br />
The restaurant’s creativity<br />
was clear to see with<br />
the next dish we sampled,<br />
a crispy fish potato bowl<br />
($8.50). The dish featured<br />
deep-fried fish served over<br />
a baked potato and topped<br />
with black beans, corn,<br />
sour cream, queso fresco<br />
and pico de gallo. Any<br />
of Eataco’s dishes can be<br />
ordered on corn or flour<br />
tortillas, or as a bowl with<br />
a base of salad, rice or a<br />
baked potato.<br />
Last but certainly not<br />
least, we tried the churros<br />
($2 each). The footlong<br />
churros are drizzled with<br />
chocolate sauce and sprinkled<br />
with coconut flakes,<br />
making it a great dessert<br />
options.<br />
Eataco’s tostada ($4) is a grilled corn tortilla piled high with refried beans, mixed<br />
greens, fire-roasted corn, pico de gallo and queso fresco. Photos by Martin<br />
Carlino/22nd Century Media
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Northwestern Settlement raises $450K<br />
for children to experience camp life<br />
Craft exposition night benefits<br />
NorthShore University HealthSystem<br />
Northwestern Settlement<br />
presented Paula<br />
Danoff, of Winnetka, the<br />
House In the Wood Hall<br />
of Fame Award on Oct.<br />
26, recognizing her impact<br />
in elevating their mission<br />
to nurture, educate and<br />
inspire children and families<br />
to disrupt generational<br />
poverty.<br />
“Thanks to the inspiring<br />
leadership of women<br />
like Paula Danoff and our<br />
North Shore Board, House<br />
In The Wood has continued<br />
to evolve and will<br />
continue to provide transformative<br />
life experiences<br />
to multiple geneartions<br />
of Settlement families,”<br />
Northwestern Settlement<br />
President Ron Manderschied<br />
said in presenting<br />
the award to Danoff,<br />
Now in its fourth year,<br />
the House In the Wood<br />
Hall of Fame Award recognizes<br />
a North Shore<br />
Board of Northwestern<br />
Settlement member or<br />
alumna who elevates the<br />
Settlement mission to disrupt<br />
poverty by nurturing,<br />
educating and inspiring<br />
economically disadvantaged<br />
children and families<br />
to achieve self sufficiency.<br />
Past honorees are Valerie<br />
Hall, Patricia M. Johnson<br />
and Kathy Elliott.<br />
Founded in 1936 to<br />
support the House In The<br />
Wood camp program, the<br />
North Shore Board is an<br />
all-volunteer Northwestern<br />
Settlement auxiliary<br />
board. North Shore Board<br />
members reside in Wilmette,<br />
Kenilworth, Glencoe,<br />
Northbrook, Northfield<br />
and Winnetka.<br />
Learn more at northshoreboard.org.<br />
North Shore Board President Melissa Corley (left), of<br />
Winnetka, with Northwestern Settlement Board Director<br />
Alice Schaff, of Wilmette, enjoy the night at the House<br />
In The Wood Hall of Fame Award gala Oct. 26 at Theater<br />
on the Lake in Chicago. Photos submitted<br />
Attendees (left to right) Anne Mueller, of Wilmette,<br />
Northwestern Settlement Women’s Board member;<br />
Paula Danoff of Winnetka; Kurt Mueller, of Wilmette;<br />
and Valerie Wright, House In The Wood executive<br />
director.<br />
The Auxiliary of North-<br />
Shore University Health-<br />
System celebrated the<br />
35th anniversary of its<br />
signature fundraiser — the<br />
American Craft Exposition<br />
— by raising more<br />
than $570,000 during this<br />
year’s event in September<br />
at Chicago Botanic Garden<br />
in Glencoe.<br />
This amount will be<br />
combined with last year’s<br />
total, providing a cumulative<br />
$1.13 million benefiting<br />
increased access to<br />
mental health services at<br />
NorthShore through the<br />
new Psychiatric Urgent<br />
Care Program and Collaborative<br />
Care Model.<br />
These programs aim to<br />
reduce wait times for those<br />
Attendees (left to right) Nancy Semerdjian, of Wilmette,<br />
ACE 2019 co-chair and 2019-2020 auxiliary president;<br />
Dr. Frederick Miller, of Glencoe, chairman department<br />
of psychiatry; Dr. Mark Drexler, of Northbrook, Family<br />
Medicine; Buggie O’Grady, of Northbrook, ACE 2019<br />
co-chair; and Ashley Blankstein-Delaney, of Glenview,<br />
2018-2019 auxiliary president; enjoy the American Craft<br />
Exposition at Chicago Botanic Garden. Photo submitted<br />
in need of urgent psychiatric<br />
care and to increase<br />
access to these services by<br />
making them more readily<br />
available through primary<br />
care physicians.
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Athlete of the Week<br />
10 Questions<br />
with Will Pujals<br />
The Loyola senior is a<br />
member of the boys basketball<br />
team<br />
When did you start<br />
playing basketball?<br />
I started playing basketball<br />
around 4 years old<br />
after seeing all my older<br />
brothers’ games and seeing<br />
the excitement the game<br />
brings.<br />
What’s one thing<br />
people don’t know<br />
about you?<br />
Something that no one<br />
knows about me is that I<br />
am 50 percent Cuban.<br />
If you could travel<br />
anywhere in the<br />
world, where would<br />
it be?<br />
I would travel to Cuba<br />
because that’s where my<br />
dad grew up and I’d like<br />
to see his old home and<br />
where he grew up.<br />
What’s the best<br />
part about playing<br />
basketball?<br />
Hitting a shot in a close<br />
game and then getting<br />
back on defense and getting<br />
a big stop that leads to<br />
another score.<br />
What’s the hardest<br />
part about playing<br />
basketball?<br />
The mental aspect to not<br />
fatigue and tell yourself to<br />
push yourself through that<br />
next possession.<br />
If you had a<br />
superpower, what<br />
would it be?<br />
I would be a shapeshifter<br />
because then I can be<br />
anything in the world.<br />
What’s one thing on<br />
your bucket list?<br />
To win a state championship<br />
this year with my<br />
team this year.<br />
Tracy Allen/22nd Century Media<br />
What was your<br />
favorite moment at<br />
Loyola? This could<br />
be athletics or not<br />
athletics.<br />
My favorite moment at<br />
Loyola had to be when we<br />
won the regional championship<br />
last year against<br />
main south.<br />
If you could play<br />
another sport, other<br />
than basketball, what<br />
would it be?<br />
I would play football because<br />
of the team camaraderie<br />
and the ability to hit<br />
your opponent.<br />
What’s your favorite<br />
restaurant and what<br />
do you get when you<br />
go there?<br />
My favorite restaurant is<br />
Five Guys and I get a double<br />
bacon cheeseburger<br />
with tomatoes, lettuce, and<br />
ketchup with Cajun fries<br />
and a chocolate shake.<br />
Interview by Sports Editor<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
The Varsity: North Shore Podcast<br />
Guys talk hoops, wrestling,<br />
hockey to start winter season<br />
Staff Report<br />
In this week’s episode of<br />
The Varsity: North Shore,<br />
the only podcast focused<br />
on North Shore sports,<br />
hosts Michal Dwojak, Nick<br />
Frazier and Michael Wojtychiw<br />
recap the latest in<br />
North Shore sports. The<br />
guys start off by recapping<br />
holiday boys and girls basketball,<br />
hear from Loyola<br />
boys basketball player Jordan<br />
Kwiecinski, play Way/<br />
No Way with wrestling and<br />
get all caught up with boys<br />
hockey<br />
From Page 39<br />
Northfield resident Edgar<br />
Cepuritis is on the board<br />
of directors of the Finks<br />
foundation, along with<br />
Jim Sofranko (Winnetka),<br />
Mike Straub (Winnetka),<br />
Doug Shehan (Northfield),<br />
and Dale Atkinson (Northbrook).<br />
They’re all driven to help<br />
expose inner-city kids to<br />
what’s possible.<br />
“These kids don’t leave<br />
the city, so just to get them<br />
out where there are trees<br />
and grass, and a place for<br />
them to run around, those<br />
are the opportunities we<br />
want to try to create,” Cepuritis<br />
said.<br />
“We all love Chicago.<br />
It’s a great city. But to<br />
watch the news you’d think<br />
it was the worst place in<br />
the world and that’s unfortunate.<br />
We need to address<br />
gang violence and we need<br />
to help these kids.”<br />
In 2002, Tom Finks<br />
founded Pro Sports Experience,<br />
an organization that<br />
Find the varsity<br />
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and girls hockey.<br />
First Quarter<br />
The three recap all the<br />
boys and girls basketball<br />
action over the holiday<br />
weekend.<br />
Second Quarter<br />
Kwiecinski joins the show<br />
to talk about a big rivalry<br />
runs youth football camps<br />
in conjunction with the<br />
Bears, Tennessee Titans,<br />
Green Bay Packers, and the<br />
NFL Alumni Association.<br />
The Jim Finks Foundation<br />
was established 18<br />
months ago and was born<br />
out of Pro Sports Experience’s<br />
involvement with<br />
Parents for Peace and Justice,<br />
an organization that<br />
supports families that have<br />
lost children to gun violence<br />
in Chicago.<br />
The Finks foundation<br />
had its first fundraising<br />
event in the summer of<br />
2019 and was able to run an<br />
all-sports camp for a hundred<br />
kids in the Belmont-<br />
Cragin neighborhood of<br />
Chicago.<br />
A hundred percent of the<br />
proceeds from Wednesday’s<br />
event will go towards<br />
the foundation’s next effort.<br />
The Winnetka Ice Arena<br />
donated the ice time for<br />
the event, players donated<br />
to the cause as they walked<br />
in the doors, and donations<br />
are being accepted at the<br />
foundation’s website, at<br />
jimfinks.org.<br />
game.<br />
Third Quarter<br />
Way/No way comes<br />
back as the guys make predictions<br />
on wrestling.<br />
Fourth Quarter<br />
To finish things off, the<br />
guys talk about boys and<br />
girls hockey.<br />
Cepuritis played in the<br />
first of two games played<br />
on Wednesday and he’s<br />
grateful for the support.<br />
“Hockey players will do<br />
anything for each other,<br />
whether they’ve known<br />
each other for ten days or<br />
ten years,” he said. “It’s<br />
such a great community of<br />
people.”<br />
Whether through summer<br />
camps, after-school<br />
programs, or specialty programs<br />
and clinics, the Finks<br />
foundation will continue to<br />
strive to provide alternatives<br />
for Chicago youth.<br />
Tom Finks is honored to<br />
see his father’s name connected<br />
to the endeavor.<br />
“It’s awesome and I love<br />
every part of it,” Finks<br />
said. “I know my dad<br />
cared about the players on<br />
his teams and looked after<br />
them in their post-careers.<br />
“I often get former players<br />
who approach me to tell<br />
me they’re grateful for the<br />
support they got from him<br />
in terms of finding a place<br />
to land after football. So<br />
that spirit is being carried<br />
forward by this mission.”
36 | December 5, 2019 | The wilmette beacon SPORTS<br />
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Athlete of the Month<br />
Crowder makes it two in a row for New Trier<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Sports Editor<br />
It’s been quite the year for New Trier<br />
boys soccer player Aidan Crowder.<br />
Earlier this fall, Crowder, a Trevians<br />
forward, was named 22nd Century<br />
Media’s Boys Soccer Player of the<br />
Year. Last week, he added another<br />
honor as well: November’s Athlete of<br />
the Month.<br />
The senior took a lead early in the<br />
latest Athlete of the Month competition<br />
and never gave it up, giving the<br />
school its second consecutive, and<br />
third overall, monthly honor in 2019.<br />
Crowder finished in first place with<br />
134 votes, knocking off Lake Forest<br />
November Athlete of the Month<br />
Candidates<br />
New Trier<br />
Joelle Ohr, girls swimming and<br />
diving<br />
Tinah Hong, girls basketball<br />
Mac Zelazny, boys hockey<br />
Loyola<br />
Marty Auer, football<br />
field hockey player Sophie Gambit,<br />
who finished with 90 votes. Three<br />
Highland Park athletes, football players<br />
Chris Lee and Chris Hernandez<br />
and soccer player Matt Holleman<br />
22nd CENTURY MEDIA FILE PHOTO<br />
rounded out the top five.<br />
After playing a minimal role his<br />
junior year, Crowder broke out this<br />
year, leading the team in goals and being<br />
named an All-Sectional honoree.<br />
Voting lasted from Nov. 10-25.<br />
The Athlete of the Month contest<br />
for athletes selected in the month of<br />
November gets underway on Dec. 10<br />
and will end on Dec. 25. Vote at WilmetteBeaconDaily.com.<br />
high school highlights<br />
The rest of the week in high school sports<br />
Boys basketball<br />
Loyola 58, St. Ignatius 47<br />
Bennett Kwiecinski led<br />
the way with 17 points and<br />
five rebounds in the Ramblers’<br />
championship game<br />
win Saturday, Nov. 30, in<br />
Wilmette.<br />
Loyola 61, Senn 13<br />
Will Loverdi led the<br />
Ramblers with nine points,<br />
while Jordan Kwiecinski<br />
had six points, five<br />
rebounds and three assists<br />
Nov. 26 in Wilmette.<br />
Loyola 63, Butler Prep 25<br />
Bennett Kwiecinski had<br />
10 points and six rebounds<br />
in a season-opening win<br />
Nov. 25 in Wilmette.<br />
New Trier 80, Butler Prep<br />
30<br />
Jacob Toth led the Trevians<br />
with 19 points Nov.<br />
26 in Winnetka.<br />
Girls basketball<br />
New Trier 79, Taft 60<br />
Tinah Hong scored 18<br />
points to lead the Trevians<br />
to a win Friday, Nov. 29, in<br />
Winnetka.<br />
Regina 51, Bremen 23<br />
Laura Strenk had 15<br />
points and 15 rebounds in<br />
a win Nov. 27 in Elmhurst.<br />
This Week In...<br />
Trevian varsity<br />
athletics<br />
Boys basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 5 - host Glenbrook<br />
South, 6:30 p.m.<br />
NORTH SHORE<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 - vs. Lane (at<br />
Wintrust Arena), 6 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - host Maine East,<br />
6:30 p.m.<br />
Girls basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 - host Glenbrook<br />
South, 7 p.m.<br />
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■Dec. ■ 7 - vs. Mother<br />
McAuley (at Fremd), 6 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Maine South,<br />
7:30 p.m.<br />
Boys bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 5 - host Niles West<br />
(at Classic Bowl), 4:30 p.m.<br />
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■Dec. ■ 7 - at Vernon Hills<br />
Invite (at Brunswick Zone -<br />
Hawthorn), 9 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 9 - host Deerfield (at<br />
Classic Bowl), 4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 - at Stevenson (at<br />
Fairhaven Bowling Lanes),<br />
4:45 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 12 - at Vernon<br />
Hills ((at Brunswick Zone -<br />
Hawthorn), 4:30 p.m.<br />
Girls bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 9 - host Hinsdale<br />
Central (at Classic Bowl),<br />
4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 - host Evanston<br />
(at Classic Bowl), 4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 12 - at Resurrection<br />
(at Habetler Bowl), 4 p.m.<br />
Fencing<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 - host Invite, 7<br />
a.m.<br />
Gymnastics<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 - at Glenbard West<br />
Invite, 11 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Evanston,<br />
5:30 p.m.<br />
Boys swimming and<br />
diving<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 - at Deerfield<br />
Invite, 4:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 - host Guilford, 11<br />
a.m.<br />
Wrestling<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 - at Evanston,<br />
5:45 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 - at Leyden Invite,<br />
9 a.m.<br />
Rambler varsity<br />
athletics<br />
Boys basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 - host Montini, 7<br />
p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Marmion, 7<br />
p.m.<br />
Girls basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 5 - at St. Laurence,<br />
7 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 - vs. TBA (at<br />
Kalamazoo Central High<br />
School), TBA<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 - vs. Marist (at<br />
Nazareth), 12:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 12 - host Providence,<br />
7 p.m.<br />
Boys bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - vs. St. Patrick (at<br />
Habetler Bowl), 4:30 p.m.<br />
Girls bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 - vs. Resurrection<br />
(at Arena Bowl - Oak Lawn),<br />
4:15 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 - at Invite (at<br />
Arlington Lanes), 9 a.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 9 - vs. St. Laurence<br />
(at Arena Bowl - Oak Lawn),<br />
4:15 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 11 - vs. St. Ignatius<br />
(at Habetler Bowl), 4:15<br />
p.m.<br />
Boys swimming and<br />
diving<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 - at Evanston,<br />
5:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 9 - host St. Patrick,<br />
5 p.m.<br />
Wrestling<br />
■Dec. ■ 5 - at St. Viator (with<br />
Hersey), 5 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Brother Rice<br />
(with Leo), 5 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 12 - at Lane (with<br />
Taft), 5:30 p.m.<br />
Panther varsity<br />
athletics<br />
Girls basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 5 - at Hope<br />
Academy, 7 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 8 - vs. Marian<br />
Central Catholic (at<br />
Nazareth), 12:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - host St.<br />
Laurence, 7 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 12 - at St. Ignatius,<br />
7 p.m.<br />
Girls bowling<br />
■Dec. ■ 9 - vs. DePaul Prep<br />
(at Arena Bowl - Oak Lawn),<br />
4:15 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 12 - vs. Mother<br />
McAuley (at Habetler Bowl),<br />
4:15 p.m.<br />
Raider varsity<br />
athletics<br />
Boys basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 5 - at Rochelle Zell,<br />
6:30 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 6 - at Elgin Academy,<br />
6 p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at U-High, 6 p.m.<br />
Girls basketball<br />
■Dec. ■ 5 - host Muchin, 6<br />
p.m.<br />
■Dec. ■ 7 - vs. TBA, TBA<br />
■Dec. ■ 10 - at Willows, 6 p.m.
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Loyola takes down New Trier for pre-Thanksgiving win<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Neither Loyola nor<br />
New Trier would really be<br />
known as a run-and-gun<br />
type of basketball team.<br />
The teams will take every<br />
opportunity to run if<br />
it presents itself, but the<br />
typical offense for the two<br />
programs is more of a halfcourt<br />
style.<br />
You wouldn’t have<br />
thought that during their<br />
game in the New Trier/<br />
Loyola Thanksgiving<br />
Tournament Nov. 27, however.<br />
Both teams got out to<br />
fast starts and were able to<br />
get into offensive rhythms<br />
relatively easily.<br />
It was the Ramblers who<br />
were able to maintain the<br />
pace and took down the<br />
Trevians for the second<br />
consecutive season, winning<br />
60-53 on the road.<br />
“This was really big,”<br />
Loyola’s Addison Ebeling<br />
said. “Some of the girls,<br />
it’s their first year on the<br />
team so they don’t know<br />
how it feels to play in these<br />
types of games. But we<br />
Loyola’s Summer Parker-Hall and New Trier’s Aiden Casey battle for a loose ball Nov.<br />
27, in Winnetka. Tracy Allen/22nd Century Media<br />
were really hyped up, we<br />
did want to win this one to<br />
keep us undefeated.”<br />
The Ramblers bring<br />
back a deep, experienced<br />
squad and it showed, as<br />
four different players<br />
scored in their 17-point<br />
first-quarter outburst. Not<br />
to be outdone, the Trevians<br />
also had four different<br />
scorers in the period.<br />
“We know our guards<br />
can play and someone like<br />
Silvana Scarsella hasn’t<br />
broken out yet,” Loyola<br />
coach Jeremy Schoenecker<br />
said. “Ariel had a<br />
nice game, when Addison<br />
shoots the ball like that,<br />
she’s a tough cover and<br />
Summer does a lot of nice<br />
things for us.<br />
“I think Summer’s really<br />
been carrying the load the<br />
first four games, so it was<br />
nice to see Addison Ebeling<br />
have the game that she<br />
had.”<br />
The pace of play continued<br />
throughout the first<br />
half, but it started to get to<br />
both squads as the teams<br />
combined to turn it over on<br />
five of the last six possessions<br />
of the first half, one<br />
where the Ramblers took a<br />
27-26 lead into the break.<br />
Two quick 3-pointers by<br />
Arielle Dabu and Summer<br />
Park-Hall, as well as another<br />
bucket by Dabu extended<br />
the Loyola lead to<br />
35-27, giving the visitors<br />
the cushion they’d need.<br />
“Our defense was off a<br />
little bit in the first half,”<br />
Ebeling said. “We were<br />
expecting more of a press<br />
break and they didn’t come<br />
out in a press. So, we were<br />
playing too fast. We were<br />
playing their speed and not<br />
being calm, not talking.”<br />
The Trevians wouldn’t<br />
go away, however, never<br />
letting the Ramblers get<br />
too much of a lead. Threepointers<br />
helped New Trier<br />
stay in the game especially<br />
in the second half, where<br />
it hit five, but couldn’t get<br />
much going in the final<br />
minute thanks to a suffocating<br />
Loyola defense.<br />
If it wasn’t Dabu or<br />
Parker-Hall who were doing<br />
damage offensively,<br />
it was Ebeling, especially<br />
from long distance. The<br />
senior, who made it downstate<br />
last year and participated<br />
in the Three-Point<br />
Shooting Contest at the<br />
state finals, hit five threes,<br />
en route to 22 points, one<br />
off of her jersey number.<br />
“Past games, when<br />
watching film on myself<br />
I noticed if I’m up on a<br />
three, I tend to not make<br />
it or it doesn’t go in or it’s<br />
kind of far off,” Ebeling<br />
said. “But then if I took a<br />
step back, they were money<br />
shots.”<br />
Parker-Hall, who has<br />
had a monster start to the<br />
season, finished with 12<br />
points and nine rebounds,<br />
while Dabu added 13<br />
points. Aiden Casey had<br />
13 points for the Trevians<br />
and Olivia Becker had 12.<br />
Basketball Power Rankings<br />
The 22nd Century Media Sports Editors ranked the North Shore area boys and girls basketball teams in our coverage area<br />
throughout the season.<br />
BOYS BASKETBALL<br />
1. Loyola Academy<br />
(Previous week: 1)<br />
Loyola started the season<br />
hot, going 4-0 and<br />
winning the Loyola/New<br />
Trier Thanksgiving Tournament.<br />
2. Glenbrook South (2)<br />
Dom Martinelli has already<br />
put on a show, scoring<br />
51 points to help the<br />
Titans win their second<br />
Buffalo Grove Thanksgiving<br />
Tournament.<br />
3. New Trier (3)<br />
The Trevians started the<br />
season with two strong<br />
games before dropping<br />
a rivalry game against<br />
Loyola.<br />
4. Glenbrook North (4)<br />
Glenbrook North won<br />
its first two games in its<br />
Thanksgiving Tournament<br />
before dropping its last<br />
two, finishing in fourth<br />
place.<br />
5. Highland Park (5)<br />
The Giant finished 2-2<br />
after finishing in fourth<br />
place at the Ridgewood<br />
Thanksgiving Tournament.<br />
6. Lake Forest (6)<br />
Lake Forest started the<br />
season 2-2 in its showing<br />
at the Loyola/New Trier<br />
tournament.<br />
GIRLS BASKETBALL [hed]<br />
1. Lake Forest (1)<br />
The Scouts haven’t<br />
had many adjustments<br />
to make, starting 5-0 and<br />
winning the Vernon Hills<br />
Tournament.<br />
2. Loyola Academy (2)<br />
Loyola’s strong win over<br />
New Trier was followed<br />
by a loss to Fenwick in the<br />
Loyola/New Trier Thanksgiving<br />
Tournament.<br />
3. New Trier (3)<br />
The Trevians lost to both<br />
of the teams who squared<br />
off at the Loyola/New<br />
Trier Thanksgiving title<br />
game.<br />
4. Highland Park (5)<br />
Highland Park has<br />
shown the growth many<br />
expected early on this season.<br />
5. Glenbrook North (6)<br />
The Spartans have impressed,<br />
starting 3-1 and<br />
falling at the Vernon Hills<br />
Tournament title game.<br />
6. Glenbrook South (4)<br />
South has seen some ups<br />
and downs this season as it<br />
tries to figure out roles.
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Loyola holds off late New Trier rally<br />
Michael Wojtychiw<br />
Sports Editor<br />
It’s been four years since<br />
Loyola defeated New<br />
Trier in the two schools’<br />
Thanksgiving tournament.<br />
The previous three losses<br />
had been by three, five and<br />
two points, respectively.<br />
Loyola turned the tables<br />
on the Trevians, however,<br />
taking down the hosts 46-<br />
41 Nov. 27 in Winnetka.<br />
Coincidentally that was<br />
the score in which the Trevians<br />
defeated the Ramblers<br />
in 2017 as well.<br />
“This meant the world<br />
to us,” Jordan Kwiecinski<br />
said. “We’ve all been<br />
talking about this game<br />
since the end of last year<br />
and this was a game we<br />
knew we had to win because<br />
it’s probably the last<br />
time we’ll get to play New<br />
Trier this year and for the<br />
seniors the last time we’ll<br />
get to play New Trier ever.<br />
“I’ve lost to them the<br />
last two years in this game,<br />
so winning this one meant<br />
a lot to us.”<br />
The traditional Black<br />
Wednesday game isn’t<br />
one that ever seems to be<br />
like a third-game-of-theseason<br />
type of game, with<br />
the intensity of a game far<br />
deeper into the playoffs.<br />
And for both teams, it’s<br />
exactly what they need this<br />
early on.<br />
“That’s a sectional<br />
(type of game),” New<br />
Trier coach Scott Fricke<br />
said. “It’s exactly what<br />
our team needed. We<br />
have never been in a spot<br />
like that before. Last year<br />
when we played in those<br />
games, these guys weren’t<br />
playing, they were on the<br />
bench watching.<br />
“The more we can put<br />
this team into situations<br />
like that, we can get better.”<br />
The game started out<br />
really slow, with neither<br />
team really getting into an<br />
offensive flow for the first<br />
quarter.<br />
However, the missed<br />
shots and turnovers came<br />
less and less in the second<br />
quarter as both teams got<br />
more comfortable in their<br />
offenses and were able to<br />
string plays together.<br />
Kwiecinski really stood<br />
out in the second period,<br />
scoring 11 of his teamhigh<br />
13 points in the second<br />
quarter, including a<br />
couple of deep 3-pointers,<br />
helping the Ramblers build<br />
a 10-point halftime lead,<br />
22-12.<br />
Last year, Kwiecinski<br />
became the Ramblers’ defensive<br />
stopper but really<br />
worked on his offensive<br />
game during the offseason.<br />
“I’m more confident<br />
shooting the ball and<br />
worked on setting my feet<br />
quicker and getting my<br />
release faster was a big<br />
part of becoming a better<br />
shooter,” he said. “Also<br />
changing my mindset to<br />
‘dominate everybody, every<br />
play.’<br />
“I was doing my best to<br />
pick my guys up because I<br />
knew we were struggling<br />
offensively, so I was just<br />
trying to find a spot where<br />
I could fill it up and carry<br />
us if I had to.”<br />
The Ramblers defense<br />
did a good job limiting<br />
much of what the Trevians<br />
could do, even into the<br />
third quarter, holding the<br />
hosts scoreless for the first<br />
2 minutes, 10 seconds of<br />
the period, all while building<br />
the lead to 27-12 after<br />
a three-point play by Bennett<br />
Kwiecinski.<br />
Every time the Ramblers<br />
would try to make a<br />
run to put the game out of<br />
reach, the Trevians would<br />
respond, getting the game<br />
down to 38-35 with 3:37<br />
remaining, but the Trevians<br />
could get no closer.<br />
One thing that kept the<br />
Trevians in the game was<br />
their ability to convert on<br />
plays right out of a timeout,<br />
especially the backdoor<br />
cut. It was a play that<br />
worked at least four times,<br />
giving the Ramblers fits all<br />
night long.<br />
“We were running a lot<br />
of different things because<br />
they were pressuring us,”<br />
Fricke said. “We were trying<br />
to loosen them up and<br />
it seemed like it was really<br />
worked. We’ve got guys<br />
who can really shoot so<br />
teams have to guard us and<br />
the back cut it open.<br />
“But that’s what got us<br />
back into the game, no<br />
question. And that’s what<br />
we do. We try to spread<br />
teams out and back cut<br />
them.”<br />
Both Loyola and New<br />
Trier said they’ll use this<br />
game in a way of being<br />
able to help figure out<br />
where they’re at through<br />
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Loyola’s Matt Enghauser drives to the basket while<br />
being defended by New Trier’s Grant Feldman Nov. 27<br />
in Winnetka. Tracy Allen/22nd Century Media<br />
games.<br />
“This is really a measuring<br />
stick for the beginning<br />
of the season,” Jordan<br />
Kwiecinski said. “It helps<br />
us know where we’re at<br />
in this game. In the past<br />
couple years, we’ve had a<br />
chance to win the game at<br />
the end but didn’t. If we’re<br />
in a place like that, it means<br />
we’re in a good place.”<br />
“We start off the first<br />
week of practice and had a<br />
really good week,” Fricke<br />
said. “Then we didn’t have<br />
a good second week. It<br />
was mainly because we<br />
needed to start playing<br />
against other teams instead<br />
of beating each other up in<br />
practice.<br />
“These kids work hard<br />
and they’re physical.<br />
This game showed us we<br />
can play against highlevel<br />
teams, play in these<br />
games.”<br />
Bennett Kwiecinski had<br />
10 points and Will Pujals<br />
added eight points, while<br />
John Carragher scored 19<br />
for the Trevians.<br />
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New Trier alumni help raise money for Jim Finks Community Sports Foundation<br />
22nd Century Media FILE PHOTO<br />
1st-and-3<br />
THREE PLAYERS OF<br />
THE WEEK<br />
1. Jordan Kwiecinski<br />
(above). The<br />
Loyola boys<br />
basketball player<br />
was named MVP<br />
of the Loyola/New<br />
Trier Thanksgiving<br />
Tournament after<br />
helping lead<br />
Loyola to the title.<br />
2. Laura Strenk. The<br />
Regina junior girls<br />
basketball player<br />
scored 15 points<br />
and grabbed 15<br />
rebounds in the<br />
Panthers’ win<br />
over Bremen.<br />
3. Max Lee. The<br />
New Trier Green<br />
goalie shut out<br />
Barrington to<br />
help the Trevians<br />
win the Loyola<br />
Thanksgiving<br />
Tournament.<br />
Gary Larsen<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Every Saturday morning<br />
for nearly the last four<br />
decades, a large group of<br />
former high school and college<br />
hockey players from<br />
the Winnetka area have<br />
met at 6:45 a.m. to spend<br />
an hour playing pick-up<br />
hockey.<br />
On Nov. 27, roughly 60<br />
of them gathered at the<br />
Winnetka Ice Arena to help<br />
raise money for the Jim<br />
Finks Community Sports<br />
Foundation, towards the<br />
creation of after-school<br />
programs for at-risk Chicago<br />
youth.<br />
Winnetka resident Doug<br />
Sharfstein, a former New<br />
Trier hockey player who<br />
graduated in 1987, was<br />
happy to be a part of the<br />
day’s event.<br />
“It’s a good cause and<br />
2019 PressBox Picks<br />
in the inner-city, there’s<br />
just never enough support,”<br />
Sharfstein said. “It’s<br />
so tough there for so many<br />
families and kids who just<br />
don’t have enough opportunities.”<br />
Jim Finks was a former<br />
general manager for the<br />
Chicago Bears and an NFL<br />
Hall-of-Famer who passed<br />
away in 1994. His son<br />
Tom also played hockey<br />
for New Trier in the early<br />
1980s, and was later a team<br />
captain at Dartmouth College.<br />
Finks grew up playing<br />
organized sports, and bemoans<br />
that fact that innercity<br />
kids in Chicago are<br />
missing out on the impact<br />
that sports can have on<br />
young lives.<br />
“We all grew up as competitive<br />
athletes, with the<br />
benefit of having coaches<br />
in our lives in addition<br />
Two players vie for the puck during the Jim Finks Community Sports Foundation<br />
fundraiser Nov. 27 in Winnetka. Gary Larsen/22nd Century Media<br />
to parents and teachers,”<br />
Finks said. “We all believe<br />
that coaches are an important<br />
part of your childhood<br />
and development, and that<br />
kids can benefit from programs<br />
that provide those<br />
opportunities. There’s just<br />
a huge vacuum and the<br />
foundation is trying to fill<br />
those voids.”<br />
Chicago school students<br />
face a multitude of challenges.<br />
There’s a high level<br />
of gun violence in Chicago,<br />
gang problems, and school<br />
budgets that can’t provide<br />
for after-school programming.<br />
Add the fact that many<br />
children live in singleparent<br />
homes where that<br />
parent can be working two<br />
jobs, and adult supervision<br />
can be completely lacking.<br />
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8-0 championship weekend gives Coughlin bragging rights<br />
Joe Coughlin<br />
Publisher<br />
Experience always<br />
wins out — well,<br />
behind talent.<br />
And wealth.<br />
And fame.<br />
But after those things,<br />
experience is No. 1. And<br />
that’s the short story of<br />
how I conquered four<br />
young-ins to become<br />
champion of this year’s<br />
PressBox Picks.<br />
Using keen insight<br />
gained over hours and<br />
hours (and hours) of walking<br />
the sidelines at high<br />
school football games, I<br />
upended my compatriots<br />
down the stretch to take<br />
the crown.<br />
It started midseason<br />
with upset picks — that<br />
were unreasonably chastised<br />
in the office — like<br />
Glenbrook South over<br />
Glenbrook North and New<br />
Trier over Evanston.<br />
That gave me the lead,<br />
but with talented youngsters<br />
breathing down<br />
my neck, I saved my<br />
best for last: A perfect<br />
championship weekend<br />
(8-0 in state-title games),<br />
powered by the pièce de<br />
résistance, my alma mater<br />
Lincoln-Way East winning<br />
Class 8A.<br />
There are a lot of people<br />
to thank so I’ll try but I<br />
think these editors are getting<br />
sick of my gloating<br />
and may just cut me off<br />
befo......<br />
Listen Up<br />
“This is really a measuring stick for the<br />
beginning of the season.”<br />
Jordan Kwiecinski — Loyola boys basketball player after<br />
his team’s win against New Trier Nov. 27.<br />
tunE in<br />
What to watch this week<br />
BOYS SWIMMING AND DIVING: The Ramblers boys team<br />
hosts its first meet at the new pool.<br />
• Loyola hosts St. Patrick at 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, in<br />
Wilmette.<br />
Index<br />
36 - This Week In<br />
35 - Athlete of the Week<br />
Fastbreak is compiled by Sports Editor Michael<br />
Wojtychiw, m.wojtychiw@22ndcenturymedia.com.
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Hitting the ice New Trier alumni<br />
help raise money for charity, Page 39<br />
Staying perfect<br />
Loyola girls basketball wins fifth<br />
straight to start season, Page 37<br />
Loyola ends New Trier regularseason<br />
hex in road win, Page 38<br />
Loyola’s Billy Palmer (25) and his teammates celebrate after beating New Trier Nov. 27 in Winnetka. Tracy Allen/22nd Century Media<br />
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