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Lake Forest and Lake Bluff’s hometown newspaper LakeForestLeaderdaily.com • December 12, 2019 • Vol. 5 No. 44 • $1 

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Gorton Center 

allows children to 

shop for holiday 

gifts on their 

own, Page 4 

Owen Jackson, 

8, looks over a 

toy that he was 

thinking of buying 

for a family 

member at the 

Gorton Community 

Center’s Kids Only 

Holiday Shop on 

Wednesday, Dec. 4. 

Peter Kaspari/22nd 

Century Media 

Levy approved 

City Council OK’s 

4.64% increase, Page 3 

K9 

Protection 

Lake Forest 

police dog to 

get body armor, 

Page 6 

It’s a Wonderful Life 

Lake Bluff begins the holiday season, Page 10

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Police Reports6 

Pet of the Week8 

Editorial15 

Puzzles18 

Faith Briefs20 

Dining Out23 

Home of the Week24 

Athlete of the Week27 

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Thursday 

It’s a Wonderful Life: A 

Live Radio Play 

7:30 p.m., Dec. 12, Gorton 

Community Center, 

400 E. Illinois Road, Lake 

Forest. CenterStage begins 

its 49th season with “It’s 

a Wonderful Life: A Live 

Radio Play” directed by 

the longtime CenterStage 

in Lake Forest actor/director 

Tom Beck. Visit centerstage.org 

or call (847) 

234-6062 for tickets. $25 

for adults and $15 for students 

under the age of 18. 

An Old-Fashioned 

Christmas 

Noon, Dec. 12, Dickinson 

Hall, 100 E. Old Mill 

Road, Lake Forest. There 

will be lots of surprising 

seasonal facts and toy 

trivia to be unwrapped 

during this presentation. 

$20 members, $25 nonmembers. 

Charlie Brown Christmas 

Jazz with the Chris White 

Trio 

7:30-9 p.m., Dec. 12, 

Gorton Community Center, 

400 E. Illinois Road, 

Lake Forest. Join Chris 

White and his trio for 

a Charlie Brown Jazz 

Christmas Concert! Tickets 

are $20 online, $25 at 

the door, $10 with student 

ID. Visit gortoncenter.org 

for tickets and more information. 

Your Leadership Vision 

10:15 a.m., Dec. 12, Career 

Resource Center, 40 

E. Old Mill Road, Suite 

105, Lake Forest. This 

presentation will explore 

the self-leadership challenge 

and guide you to create 

a compelling vision of 

leadership for your business, 

your career and your 

life. No matter what point 

you are in your professional 

journey, you need 

to know and understand 

how to develop your leadership 

possibilities. Free 

for members, $20 for nonmembers. 

Woodlands Christmas 

Concert 

6:30 p.m., Dec. 12, 

Woodlands Academy of 

the Sacred Heart, 760 E. 

Westleigh Road, Lake 

Forest. The Woodlands 

Academy of the Sacred 

Heart Music Department 

presents its annual Christmas 

Concert. The concert, 

which is open to the public 

free of charge, will take 

place in the Chapel of the 

Sacred Heart. For more 

information, visit www. 

woodlandsacademy.org. 

Saturday 

Ballet Makkai Presents 

The Nutcracker 

4 p.m., Dec. 14, Gorton 

Community Center, 400 E. 

Illinois Road, Lake Forest. 

The Ballet Makkai Youth 

Company and students 

from the Irina Makkai 

Classical Ballet School 

perform The Nutcracker. 

Join Clara at her party 

where she receives the gift 

of a lifetime, battles giant 

mice, and travels through 

a Winter Wonderland to 

visit the Land of Sweets. 

See your favorites candies 

come to life and dance. 

Tickets are $20. Visit gortoncenter.org 

for tickets 

and more information. 

Jingle Bell Run/Walk 

8 a.m., Dec. 14, Lake 

Forest Metra Train Station, 

691 N. Western 

Ave., Lake Forest. Come 

run the Jingle Bell Run, a 

5k/10k fun run/walk along 

the Lake Forest beach, 

forested streets and bike 

paths. Kids can run a special 

one mile run along the 

bike path accompanied by 

some helper elves! Join us 

to greet Santa after with 

some caroling at the train 

station! Yummy after-run 

treats will be provided 

while supplies last. Free, 

compliments of Lake Forest/Lake 

Bluff Running 

Club. 

Tuesday 

Around the World in 

Holidays 

6:30-7:15 p.m., Dec. 17, 

Lake Forest Library, 360 E. 

Deerpath Road, Lake Forest. 

Sing and dance your 

way across the globe during 

a multicultural holiday 

celebration. Ages 3-12. 

Registration required. Call 

(847) 234-0648 or email 

youth@lakeforestlibrary. 

org for more information. 

Holiday Hot Cocoa 

Networking 

5:30-7 p.m., Dec. 17, 

Career Resource Center, 

40 E. Old Mill Road, 

Suite 105, Lake Forest. 

Join fellow members, visitors, 

volunteers and staff 

for good cheer and a hot 

chocolate toast to the coming 

New Year! Make your 

own custom warm drink at 

CRC’s hot chocolate bar! 

Have your business cards 

available to distribute and 

to use for the prize drawing! 

This year we will do 

a festive cookie exchange 

– not required to attend 

but if you bring you get to 

take! Free for all attendees. 

Wednesday 

Dickinson Hall Holiday 

Party 

Noon, Dec. 18, Dickinson 

Hall, 100 E. Old Mill 

Road, Lake Forest. It’s 

time to share some holiday 

joy with your friends 

at Dickinson Hall. Have a 

glass of wine and appetizers, 

followed by a delicious 

luncheon and dessert. Sing 

along to traditional carols 

sung by singer-songwriter 

Rick Pickren. We will finish 

with the traditional carol 

of the Twelve Days of 

Christmas. $20 members, 

$25 non-members. Registration 

required and due by 

Dec. 13. 

GO Lake Forest Holiday 

Light Stroll 

5-6 p.m., Dec. 18, Forest 

Park Beach, Lake Road 

and Deerpath Road, Lake 

Forest. Get in the holiday 

spirit and join us as we 

stroll along the most decorated 

streets in Lake Forest! 

Meet in Market Square 

at the Christmas Tree at 

5 p.m. We will walk for 

30-45 minutes admiring 

all the lights and beautiful 

holiday decorations. 

Upcoming 

LinkedIn - It’s Only as 

Good as You Make It 

2 p.m., Dec. 19, Career 

Resource Center, 40 E. 

Old Mill Road, Suite 105, 

Lake Forest. You have a 

LinkedIn profile, hundreds 

of connections, belong to 

groups but you feel you 

are not using LinkedIn to 

its fullest potential. Find 

out what you should be 

doing on a regular basis to 

LIST IT YOURSELF 

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your profile. This session 

is NOT for beginning users. 

Registration required; 

free for members, $20 for 

non-members. Call (847) 

295-5626 to register. 

Lake Forest Symphony 

Holiday Brass 

8-9:15 p.m., Dec. 20, 

Gorton Community Center, 

400 E. Illinois Road, 

Lake Forest. Featuring 

members of the Lake Forest 

Symphony brass section. 

Sip hot cocoa by the 

fire while members of the 

Lake Forest Symphony 

Brass play arrangements 

of your favorite carols and 

other holiday classics. $35 

for admission. For more 

information, visit http:// 

lakeforestsymphony.org/ 

salon-series-1 

Ongoing 

Toastmasters Club 

6:15 p.m. First and third 

Tuesday of the month, 

Lake Forest Toastmasters 

Club meets at the Gorton 

Community Center, 400 E. 

Illinois Road, Lake Forest. 

Toastmasters is an international 

organization that 

aims to help develop communication 

and leadership 

skills for professional and 

personal growth. This club 

is open to all. For more information 

visit www.lakeforest.toastmastersclubs. 

org.

LakeForestLeaderDaily.com NEWS 

the lake forest leader | December 12, 2019 | 3 

Lake Forest City Council 

2019 tax levy approved at $33.7 million 

Todd Marver 

Freelance Reporter 

Posted to LakeForestLeaderDaily.com 9 days ago 

The Lake Forest City 

Council approved the 

2019 tax levy at $33.797 

million at its regular meeting 

Monday, Dec. 2. 

The levy includes: 

$14.343 million in the 

city general fund; $6.307 

million in the pension 

funds; $103,759 in the 

fire pension PA 93-0689 

fund; $1.46 million in the 

recreation fund; $3.25 

million in the parks fund; 

$125,000 in the recreation 

and parks/specific 

purpose fund; $483,856 

in the special recreation 

fund; $1.538 million in 

the capital improvements 

fund; $3.863 million in 

the library fund; $419,329 

in the library sites fund; 

and $1.901 million in the 

bond funds. 

The 2019 levy reflects a 

4.64 percent increase over 

the 2018 extension. The 

average increase to existing 

residents ($800,000 

home) is projected to be 

$130, or 3.82 percent. 

“The average $800,000 

home in Lake Forest 

would see an increase of 

$130 on the city and library 

combined portion 

of the tax levy, which is 

about 24 percent of the total,” 

city finance director 

Elizabeth Holleb said. 

The 2018 equalized 

assessed valuation was 

$2.531 million. The projected 

1.9 percent EAV 

decrease would result in 

a $2.483 million EAV for 

2019 for existing property. 

“Based on current estimates, 

the total assessed 

valuation citywide is projected 

to decrease 1.9 percent,” 

Holleb said. “That 

is largely related to it being 

a general assessment 

year where they look at 

every parcel.” 

The city also provided 

an estimate of the Lake 

Forest School District 67 

levy at $34.471 million, 

which represents a 2.95 

percent increase over last 

year’s extension. 

“Included in this version 

of the ordinance are 

the numbers from School 

District 67,” Holleb said. 

“Those were provided by 

the school district and just 

incorporated into the tax 

levy ordinance.” 

The board also authorized 

the city manager Jason 

Wicha to enter into a 

one-year pilot agreement 

with the Illinois Department 

of Transportation 

for the plowing and salting 

of Route 43 (Waukegan 

Road) and Route 60 

(Kennedy Road/Townline 

Road) for this winter season. 

Further, the board approved 

the purchase of an 

additional 1,000 tons of 

road salt from Lake County’s 

Morton Road Salt Bid 

for $66,281. 

IDOT is responsible for 

plowing and salting all 

state routes, but under this 

one-year pilot agreement, 

the city would take over 

the responsibility of plowing 

and salting Routes 43 

and 60 within city limits 

this winter season. The 

desire for the city to take 

over plowing and salting 

responsibilities of these 

two state routes came as 

a result of IDOT’s lack 

of plowing and salting response 

to the snow event 

on Veterans Day. 

“That experience on 60 

and 43 this year seems to 

be a trend and something 

that’s carried over from 

prior years,” Alderman 

ROUND IT UP 

A brief recap of City 

Council action from 

Dec. 2 

- The board approved 

an ordinance providing 

for the issuance of 

not to exceed $19.5 

million general 

obligation refunding 

bonds, series 2019. 

- The board approved 

an ordinance 

amending Chapter 

135 of the City Code to 

bring it into alignment 

with legislation 

contained in the Illinois 

Cannabis Regulation 

and Tax Act. 

Ray Buschmann said. 

“We cannot rely upon the 

state. We’d be fools to say, 

‘Let’s just suffer through 

another challenging, unsafe 

situation on 60 and 

43.’” 

Staff’s estimate of personnel, 

fuel and salt costs 

for the city to maintain 

these two routes for 18 

snow events this winter 

season is $88,617. This 

18 snow events figure is 

based upon city records 

indicating that staff has 

plowed and/or salted an 

average of 18 times each 

winter the past four years. 

Actual costs could be 

more or less than the estimate 

based on the number 

and timing of snow events 

this winter. 

“We have the reserves 

to do it and it’s a nonissue 

financially for us,” 

Mayor George Pandaleon 

said. “We should be 

thankful for what’s going 

on around here financially 

and look at what this 

council has done over the 

last four or five years to 

put us in this position.” 

Join us Monday 


Two LB businesses in 

statewide competition 

Staff Report 

Two Lake Bluff businesses, 

Lake Bluff Brewing 

Company and Prairie 

Espresso, are featured in 

a statewide competition 

called The Third Place 

Champion. 

According to its website, 

the “Third Place” refers 

to a place that hosts 

an informal gathering of 

individuals beyond home 

and work. 

“It is a place that offers 

more than consumption-- 

it offers social connection 

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through Friday 

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Voting for the competition 

ended on Wednesday, 

Dec. 11. 

Winners will be announced 

on Wednesday, 

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Have you made your reservation for Christmas Eve 

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Kids pick the gifts at annual holiday shop 

Peter Kaspari, Editor 

Andy Jackson, 7, reaches for some money to pay for a 

gift he bought at the Kids Only Holiday Shop for a loved 

one. 

For any child, giving 

them responsibility makes 

them feel important. 

And when you give 

them the chance to choose 

what gifts they want to buy 

their families and friends 

on their own, without any 

adult influence, they will 

likely take that responsibility 

very seriously. 

That’s what happened 

at the Gorton Community 

Center on Wednesday, 

Dec. 4, as hundreds of 

kids took part in the annual 

Kids Only Holiday 

Shop. 

Ann Wildman, Gorton’s 

director of events, said the 

Kids Only Holiday Shop 

has been a staple of Gorton 

for about 30 years. 

“It really is a chance 

for the kids to surprise 

their parents on Christmas 

morning,” she said. “They 

come knowing that it’s 

really going to be a surprise 

because Mom and 

Dad aren’t shopping with 

them.” 

Accompanied by an 

“elf” (actually a Gorton 

staff member, volunteer or 

local high school student) 

the kids, shopping lists 

in hand, go from table to 

table to see what is being 

offered and what their 

family and friends would 

like for the holiday. 

Wildman said everything 

offered at the holiday 

shop is less than $10. 

Vendors include local 

businesses, private independent 

business owners, 

and other shops selling 

a variety of items from 

books to toys to custommade 

ornaments to soaps. 

One vendor even sold pet 

products. 

After their shopping excursion, 

the kids go downstairs 

where volunteers 

wrap the packages for 

them. Once that’s done, 

they’re reunited with their 

parents. 

Gorton also offers an 

hour set aside for children 

with special needs to do 

their shopping. It provides 

a more quiet environment 

before the shop is open to 

all children. 

Wildman said last year, 

almost 500 kids between 

the ages of 4-10 participated. 

“It gives them a sense 

of independence,” Wildman 

said of the kids. 

“They’re excited about it. 

At this age, in order for 

them to buy a gift, they 

would have to be driven to 

a store by their parent or 

caretaker. This way, they 

can go in safely on their 

own and they can truly get 

surprises for everyone.” 

Throughout the day, 

kids could be heard talking 

about what they were 

going to buy and who they 

were going to buy them 

for. 

“Oh, I need something 

for my grandpa!” one 

little boy shouted as he 

shopped. 

“Mommy, I kind of 

don’t know what to get for 

everybody,” one little girl 

told her mother before she 

started shopping. “What 

should I get for you?” 

“What does Dad like 

to do?” an elf chaperone 

asked a girl she was shopping 

with. 

“Shave his beard!” the 

girl replied, causing the 

elf and a vendor to laugh. 

Carrie Spezzano, a parent 

from Lake Bluff, said 

her daughter was excited 

to go shopping. 

“She said it made her 

feel independent,” she 

said. “And she said, ‘Now 

I don’t have to get you 

something from the dollar 

section at Target and ask 

you to stand over there 

while I pay.’” 

Cynthia McClamroch, 

another parent from Lake 

Bluff, said her kids look 

forward to it all year. 

“Just the fact they’re 

on their own, able to decide 

for themselves what 

grandma and grandpa and 

what their parents want, 

what each other wants,” 

she said. “It’s just so 

Finn Eggers, 8 (left) listens as Kendall Davis, with Brooklyn Elves, makes suggestions 

on what to buy for his family members during the Gorton Community Center’s 

Kids Only Holiday Shop on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Photos by Peter Kaspari/22nd Century 

Media 

Peyton Thadani, 6, browses what’s available for sale at the Gorton Community Center’s 

Kids Only Holiday Shop. 

much fun.” 

Chris Cooper, of Lake 

Forest, said his kids prepare 

beforehand. 

“We make a list,” he 

said. “They get presents 

for five different people. 

It makes them think about 

what they like and what 

they want to buy.” 

Nine-year-old Dea 

Yanev loved her shopping 

experience and being independent. 

It helps preserve the 

surprise of what she’s 

buying for her family. 

“It’s really fun shopping 

by ourselves because usually, 

in stores, you have to 

go with your parents,” she 

said. “And then they find 

out what you get them for 

Christmas.” 

And while she couldn’t 

say in front of her mother 

what she bought 

her, Yanev did say she 

thinks her mom will like 

her gift.

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Police Reports 


Man accused of selling drugs to ‘young’ people in Lake Forest 

Staff Report 

Bradley J. Tieman, 20, 

of Round Lake Beach, 

was arrested on Dec. 3 and 

charged with possession 

and delivery of a controlled 

substance. 

The Lake Forest Police 

Department reported that 

they had received information 

that Tieman was selling 

drugs to “young individuals” 

in Lake Forest. 

Police began a drug investigation 

into Tieman, 

who was arrested after he 

was found to be in possession 

of ecstasy that was 

packaged for delivery. 

Tieman was charged with 

possession and delivery of 

a controlled substance after 

consulting with the Lake 

County States Attorney. 

He was held overnight 

and transported to the Lake 

County Jail for a bond 

hearing. 

In other police news: 

Nov. 27 

• Frances Swerdlow, 79, 

of Deerfield, was charged 

with driving under the influence 

and failure to reduce 

speed to avoid an accident. 

Police responded to 

a two-vehicle crash at the 

intersection of Route 41 

and Route 60 at 9:16 p.m. 

Police determined that the 

vehicle driven by Swerdlow 

struck a stopped vehicle 

that was waiting at a red 

light. When police questioned 

Swerdlow about the 

crash, they noted she was 

displaying signs of alcohol 

impairment and they could 

smell the odor of alcohol 

on her breath. Swerdlow 

was requested to complete 

some standard field sobriety 

tests to determine her 

ability to drive. Based on 

the officers observations, 

Swerdlow’ s condition, and 

the vehicle crash, Swerdlow 

was placed under arrest. 

She was transported to 

the Public Safety Building 

where she was processed, 

released on bond, and given 

a January court date. 

Nov. 28 

• Coral Ocampo, 18, of 

Chicago, is charged with 

no valid driver’s license 

and speeding. Police conducted 

a traffic stop at 

12:33 a.m. on a red Chrysler 

PT Cruiser for speeding 

77 mph in a posted 55 

mph zone on Route 41. 

When officers approached 

and spoke to the driver, 

identified as Ocampo, they 

determined she did not 

possess a valid driver’s license. 

Ocampo was placed 

under arrest, processed, released 

on bond, and given 


• Mark H. Skinner, 30, of 

1160 Estes Ave., has been 

charged with driving under 

the influence of alcohol. 

At 11:23 p.m., police 

responded to the area of 

Sheridan Road and Highview 

Terrace after receiving 

a 911 call concerning 

a Jeep Compass that had 

crashed into a tree. Officers 

located the crashed vehicle 

and spoke to the driver, 

identified as Skinner. During 

the crash investigation 

officers on scene noted that 

Skinner had an odor of alcohol 

on his breath and he 

was demonstrating signs of 

impairment while interacting 

with officers. Based on 

the officer’s observations, 

and Skinner’s actions and 

physical condition, Skinner 

was placed under arrest. 

Skinner was combative 

and verbally abusive 

to officers during the arrest 

and was transported to the 

Lake Forest Hospital emergency 

room where he was 

evaluated by hospital staff 

and released back to police 

custody. Skinner was processed 

at the Public Safety 

Building, refused all testing, 

and was subsequently 

released on bond with a 

January court date. 

Dec. 1 

• Cheryl Bouloukos, 73, of 

Lake Forest, was charged 

with disorderly conduct. 

Police arrested Bouloukos 

after responding to repeated 

calls to 911 that were 

deemed to be an abuse of 

the 911 system. Since Oct. 

1, police and fire have responded 

to 911 calls from 

Bouloukos a total of 39 

times. On Dec. 1, Bouloukos 

was intoxicated and 

would not cooperate with 

police and fire units. She 

was ultimately taken into 

custody and charged with 

disorderly conduct after 

consultation with the Lake 

County States Attorney. 

Bouloukos was processed 

and held overnight pending 

transport to the Lake 

County jail for a bond 

hearing. 

• Yvette Torres, 29, of 

Lake Bluff, was charged 

with no valid driver’s license 

and speeding. Police 

conducted a traffic stop on 

a 2015 Chevrolet Traverse 

after observing the vehicle 

speeding on Waukegan 

Road. When officers approached 

the vehicle and 

spoke to the driver, identified 

as Torres, they determined 

that she did not 

possess a valid driver’s license. 

Torres was arrested 

on the two charges. She 

was processed, released on 

bond and given a December 

court date. 

Lake Bluff 

Dec. 3 

• Abelardo P. Trujillo, 35, 

of Waukegan, was charged 

with operating a vehicle 

with expired registration, 

operating an uninsured 

motor vehicle and driving 

on a suspended license. 

The charges follow a traffic 

stop in the 700 block of 

Rockland Road. Trujillo 

posted a personal recognizance 

bond and was given 


EDITOR’S NOTE: The 

Lake Forest Leader’s Police 

Reports are compiled from 

official reports found on file 

at the Lake Forest and Lake 

Bluff Police Departments. Individuals 

named in these reports 

are considered innocent 

of all charges until proven 

guilty in a court of law. 

LFPD K9 Chase gets body armor donation 


Submitted Content 

Chase, K9 officer with 

the Lake Forest Police Department, 

will be receiving 

a bullet- and stab-proof 

vest thanks to a charitable 

donation from Vested Interest 

in K9s, Inc. 

The vest is expected to 

arrive within the next eight 

to 10 weeks. 

Chase’s vest is sponsored 

by Leah A. Beale, of Oklahoma 

City, Okla. Thanks 

to her sponsorship, the vest 

will be embroidered with 

“This gift of protection provided 

by Leah A. Beale.” 

Based in East Taunton, 

Mass., Vested Interest in 

K9s is a 501c (3) nonprofit 

dedicated to providing bullet- 

and stab-proof vests 

and other assistance to K9 

officers and other dogs that 

work in related agencies 

across the United States. 

The nonprofit was established 

in 2009 to assist law 

enforcement agencies with 

this potentially lifesaving 

body armor for their fourlegged 

K9 officers. 

Since its inception, Vested 

Interest in K9s, Inc. has 

provided more than 3,500 

U.S. made, custom-fitted, 

NIJ certified protective 

vests, in 50 states, through 

private and corporate donations, 

at a value of $6.9 million 

dollars. 

The program is open to 

dogs actively employed in 

the U.S. with law enforcement 

or related agencies 

who are certified and at 

least 20 months of age. 

New K9 graduates, as well 

as K9s with expired vests, 

are eligible to participate. 

The donation to provide 

one protective vest for a 

law enforcement K9 is 

$950.00. 

Each vest has a value between 

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LF saves $1.3 million with refinancing 

Submitted by the City of 

Lake Forest 

On Dec. 4, the City of 

Lake Forest approved issuance 

of $17.665 million 

in general obligation 

bonds to refinance existing 

obligations and achieve a 

lower interest rate. 

The refinancing will 

result in a savings of 

$1,299,861 over the bond 

maturities through 2032, a 

savings of $1,187,869 on a 

net present value basis or 

6.29 percent of refunded 

principal. 

The City Council approved 

a bond ordinance 

at its meeting on Dec. 2 

authorizing the auction on 

Dec. 4 and setting forth a 

savings target of 5 percent, 

or $964,000 on a net present 

value basis, which was 

exceeded. 

As part of the bond refinancing, 

Moody’s Investors 

Service assigned a 

AAA rating – Stable Outlook 

to the proposed issue 

and affirmed the AAA rating 

on all existing bond 

obligations of the City. 

The AAA rating is the 

highest rating possible, 

signaling confidence in the 

City’s financial management 

and increasing the 

attractiveness of the City’s 

bonds to investors. A total 

of 12 bidders submitted 42 

bids during the 15-minute 

online auction confirming 

the level of interest and 

ensuring the City received 

a very competitive interest 

rate on the new obligations. 

Mayor George Pandaleon 

noted that Moody’s 

credit opinion and results 

of the bond sale “emphasize 

the high degree of 

confidence with which 

external objective parties 

view the City’s management 

of its finances. Lake 

Forest taxpayers can be 

assured that the City’s 

approach to funding its 

public safety pension obligations 

and its proactive 

measures to increase fund 

balance reserves in an effort 

to insulate the community 

from potential impact 

of actions by the State of 

Illinois are highly regarded 

in the municipal finance 

industry.” 

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‘Treasurer’s Toy Drive’ begins 


Lake County Treasurer 

Holly Kim has announced 

the start of the inaugural 

“Treasurer’s Toy Drive.” 

The plan is to collect 

toys in convenient locations 

all over Lake County 

through partnerships with 

State representative offices. 

All toys will be donated 

to the Lake County 

Sheriff’s Office for distribution 

to agencies across 

the County. 

This includes a drop-off 

at the office of state Rep. 

Bob Morgan (D-Highwood), 

whose district includes 

Lake Forest and 

Lake Bluff. The office is 

located at 425 Sheridan 

Road in Highwood. 

“It’s the season of gathering 

with family, dusting 

off old traditions, cooking 

with grandparents, and 

giving gifts to those you 

love,” Kim said. “If you 

feel you’ve been blessed 

with love and warmth this 

year, consider donating a 

gift and sharing that joy. 

Let’s come together as a 

county to bring a smile to 

children during the holiday 

season.” 

“I am proud to collaborate 

with dedicated public 

servants who are committed 

to ensuring children 

enjoy the holidays across 

Lake County this season,” 

Sheriff John Idleburg 

said. “I thank Treasurer 

Kim for her initiative and 

all of our State partners.” 

Toys will be collected 

until Sunday, Dec. 15. 

Lake County Treasurer 

Holly Kim has kicked 

off the inaugural “Treasurer’s 

Toy Drive,” which 

includes a dropoff at 

state Rep. Bob Morgan’s 

office in Highwood. Photo 

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Kids and families enjoy Dinner with Santa 

Oscar 

The Howard Family, 

Lake Forest 

Santa Claus came to Lake Forest for dinner and holiday fun on Dec. 6 and 7. The 

fundraiser supports Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Recreation Foundation. 

Oscar Howard is 

13 years old. He 

was adopted from 

Heartland Animal 

Shelter in April of 

2008 at a year 

and a half. Oscar 

is the sweetest 

dog in the world. 

He loves his family 

and his triplet human brothers Sam, Will and 

Ben who are 27. He also lives with his German 

Shepherd mix brother, Bosley, 12, who is also a 

rescue. 

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

and information to peter@lakeforestleader.com or 60 

Revere Drive, Suite 888, Northbrook, IL 60062. 

Santa Claus greets all the good little boys and girls during Dinner with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 7. Photos by Alex 

Newman/22nd Century Media 

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tree at Dinner with Santa. 

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Lake Bluff event brings ‘Wonderful’ time to community 

Bill McLean 


Fredo the horse — 

steered by a carriage 

helmsman named Alfredo 

— clop-clopped at a casual 

clip in downtown Lake 

Bluff, toting a cargo of festive 

villagers. 

Wide-eyed tots, perched 

on laps of parents in the 

holiday wagon, sported 

cold-weather-induced red 

noses near the end of the 

It’s a Wonderful Life in 

Lake Bluff event on Saturday, 

Dec. 7. 

Antique Coach & Carriage 

Manager Danny Sugrue, 

in charge of organizing 

the passengers at the 

start-finish location near 

the Village Green, wore a 

gray sweatshirt featuring 

MAYBERRY in big green 

letters. 

Mayberry, North Carolina: 

Sheriff Andy Taylor’s 

quaint town on the television 

show “The Andy 

Griffith Show.” 

Lake Bluff, Illinois. 

Two towns in a pod. 

“This is small-town 

America at its best,” Lake 

Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber 

of Commerce Executive 

Director Joanna Rolek 

gushed 30 minutes before 

the six-hour event concluded 

with caroling with 

The Buckthorns and the 

highly anticipated Village 

Green lighting ceremony 

at 5 p.m. “It’s neighbors 

greeting neighbors, local 

residents enjoying the holiday 

season. 

“Norman Rockwell 

paintings,” she added, 

“come to life at this event 

every year.” 

Another popular stop 

during the brisk day was 

in front of Be Market on 

Scranton Avenue. A table 

supported large containers 

The Buckhorns perform at the Lake Bluff Village Green during the tree-lighting ceremony, part of It’s a Wonderful 

Life in Lake Bluff, on Saturday, Dec. 7. Alex Newman/22nd Century Media 

of vegan hot chocolate and 

mulling-spice-laced cider 

and wine. Lake Forest 

resident and Zen of Slow 

Cooking Regional Events 

Manager Melinda Hill 

splashed ladles and poured 

free beverages for a steady 

stream of passersby all 

day. 

“An event like this is 

what makes living in this 

area so special,” said Hill, 

a mother of four (ages 15- 

21) who moved to Lake 

Forest with her family 15 

years ago. “This brings 

families in our communities 

together. We’re not 

just celebrating the holiday 

season today; we’re also 

recognizing the value of 

community. Lake Forest, 

Lake Bluff — I love both 

towns, everything about 

them. My son Matthew [a 

student at Cornell University] 

said to me recently, 

‘Mom, thank you for raising 

me in Lake Forest.’ 

“Years ago, when I was 

pregnant with our fourth 

child and signing up to be 

a kindergarten room mom 

for my daughter [Kelsey], 

several moms came up to 

me and said, ‘How can we 

help you?’” 

Eliza Jarvi has been a 

mom for 18 months. The 

head of youth services at 

the Lake Bluff Public Library 

and her husband, 

Jake, are the parents of Elinor. 

Eliza oversaw kids activities 

at the library from 

11 a.m.-1 p.m. during It’s 

a Wonderful Life in Lake 

Bluff. Children created 

crafts, including floppylimbed 

snowmen, and listened 

to holiday-themed 

stories told by Miss Carrie 

and Miss Regina. 

Dressed up as elves, the 

Misses were hits. 

“It’s nice, having something 

for the kids to do 

inside when it’s cold outside,” 

Eliza said. “What 

went on in here, what’s going 

on outside, it’s such a 

charming event.” 

Next door to the library, 

in a Lake Bluff History 

Museum room, children 

visited Santa and Mrs. 

Claus and received candy 

canes. Taking it all in 

was Village of Lake Bluff 

President Kathy O’Hara, 

a co-founder (with Janet 

Nelson) of the 37-year-old 

museum and former Lake 

Bluff Middle School social 

studies teachers and principal. 

The fun-loving civic 

leader was adorned in a 

navy-blue Santa sweater 

and politely declined to 

reveal exactly how many 

times she had viewed the 

movie “It’s a Wonderful 

Life.” 

“Just put I’ve seen it 

double-digit times, OK?” 

a smiling O’Hara said. 

“Wonderful movie. Our 

village’s event today is 

all community-run, put 

together by volunteers. It 

inaugurates the holiday 

season. 

“A little snowfall today 

would’ve been nice,” she 

added. 

Thoughts of baseball — 

specifically a Lake Bluff 

Youth Baseball Association 

(LBYBA) summer 

trip to a tournament in 

Cooperstown, New York, 

home of Major League 

Baseball’s Hall of Fame 

— warmed the hearts of 

several LBYBA 12U players 

in front of the restaurant 

Inovasi on Dec. 7. The 

ballplayers, with help from 

their parents, had set up a 

table in the central location 

to sell Julie Dockery 

homemade pies as part of 

the association’s fundraising 

efforts. 

LBYBA aims to generate 

$40,000 for the oncein-a-wonderful-lifetime 

excursion, with 10 percent 

of the final dollar figure 

going to The Sports Shed, 

a Libertyville-based nonprofit 

that provides quality 

gear and resources to 

school and organizations 

that lack the funding to 

provide safe and successful 

sports programs. 

The baseball players — 

Dylan Cran, Jack Douglass 

and George Thomas, 

among others — enthusiastically 

greeted the locals 

in football-ish temperatures. 

Cran, a 12U catcher, 

can’t wait to visit the Hall 

of Fame in June. There’s 

no doubt he’ll want to 

check out the plaque of a 

Chicago Cubs great, a certain 

former second baseman 

— and a current Lake 

Bluff resident. 

Cran, after all, owns a 

bat, hat, baseball and glove 

signed by Ryne Sandberg. 

Among the other offerings 

that made It’s a Wonderful 

Life in Lake Bluff 

a home run: hot cider at 

Bluffington’s Café; holiday 

specials and a raffle 

at Flotstone Flotation 

Therapy; holiday cheer 

and rum cake at Whitehead 

Studios; a raffle at 

Lake Bluff Hub and Cycle; 

a personal-training 

raffle, holiday specials and 

healthy snacks at Focused 

Results; and carols performed 

by the Lake Forest 

High School Brass Band. 

Lake Forest Bank & 

Trust in Lake Bluff sponsored 

the horse-drawn carriage 

rides. 

“I’ve been coming here 

for four, five years,” a 

cheerful Sugrue, the Antique 

Coach & Carriage 

manager, said as a group 

of six awaited the next carriage 

tour around the picturesque 

village. “This is 

great; I love this day. Look 

around. Look at these 

people on a cold day, all of 

them happy while waiting 

in line for a ride. 

“It’s a big thing for families, 

especially the kids,” 

he added.

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LF woman creates pop-up business in Market Square 

Peter Kaspari, Editor 

A Lake Forest woman 

has created a pop-up store 

in Market Square, with the 

ultimate goal of helping 

female fashion designers 

go global with their products. 

Karen Anderson recently 

launched the U.S. arm 

of the global jewelry brand 

Caprice Decadent, which 

she is calling Caprice Decadent 

U.S. 

Through Dec. 14, Anderson 

has a pop-up store 

in Market Square. 

She said her business is 

focused on helping women 

fashion designers penetrate 

the U.S. market so 

they can help build their 

brands. 

Right now she’s working 

with a Norwegian 

jewelry designer who uses 

a family of artisans in 

Greece to hand-make all 

of the designs. 

“The designer has been 

a student of art history, art 

colors, for decades,” Anderson 

said. “It’s been a 

big passion of hers.” 

The jewelry features “a 

lot of art deco influence. 

You see a lot of Greek 

history, the Ottoman era, 

strong female characters in 

history. All of these things 

contribute to the look of 

her jewelry.” 

Anderson has a background 

in corporate strategy, 

with a recent focus on 

national strategy. 

She took a few years off 

to raise her children, and 

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now that they’re older, 

she wanted to get back to 

work. Initially she wasn’t 

sure what she wanted to 

do, but she was interested 

in strategy. 

It was a meeting at Authentico 

in Lake Forest 

with a neighbor that made 

Anderson realize what she 

wanted to do. 

Her neighbor was from 

Oslo, Norway, and knew 

that the designer was interested 

in bringing their 

products to the states. 

After doing research 

into Caprice Decadent, 

Anderson said she felt 

this was the perfect opportunity 

for her. She also 

spoke with the designer in 

Greece, who was also excited 

about the opportunity 

to expand to the U.S. 

“I love it. Absolutely 

love it,” Anderson said. 

“It’s been about nine 

months since I’ve done it.” 

The first six months were 

mainly focused on getting 

THE GLENVIEW LANTERN 

Glenview man dies from 

self-inflicted gunshot 

during standoff with police 

A Glenview resident 

shot and killed himself 

during a five-hour standoff 

with local and regional 

police, according to the 

Glenview Police Department. 

Glenview police responded 

to an apartment 

building in the 4100 block 

of Cove Lane around 8:30 

p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, after 

a resident in the building 

said a neighbor pointed a 

handgun at them in a stairwell, 

according to the department. 

the brand to wholesalers. 

According to Anderson, 

Caprice Decadent U.S. 

is now available in select 

boutiques in Florida, New 

York and Massachusetts. 

She even has a showroom 

in her Lake Forest 

home for private shoppers. 

“But having this popup 

in Market Square was 

the initiative to start in the 

local community and Chicago 

as a whole,” she said. 

“Letting people know that 

Caprice Decadent U.S., 

the jewelry, is here. This is 

what it looks like.” 

The pop-up has given 

her the chance to talk to 

people about Caprice Decadent 

U.S. and the story 

behind it. 

And she’s already got 

plans for expansion, both 

within the U.S. and internationally. 

Anderson 

hopes to expand out west, 

and has been exploring 

possibly starting up in the 

South. 

Karen Anderson, who recently launched Caprice Decadent 

U.S., poses in her pop-up store, located in Market 

Square. Anderson’s pop-up will only be open through 

Dec. 14. Peter Kaspari/22nd Century Media 

A friend of hers who 

lives in London has also 

expressed interest in 

bringing the jewelry to 

the United Kingdom, and 

a former Lake Forest resident 

Anderson knows who 

now lives in Switzerland 

plans on bringing Caprice 

Decadent to that country 

as well. 

Anderson said she wanted 

to focus on promoting 

women largely due to her 

Police evacuated and 

secured the building while 

trying to contact Stephano 

Woo, 40, in his apartment, 

said Glenview police Sgt. 

Jim Foley. After receiving 

no answer, police requested 

support from the Northern 

Illinois Police Alarm 

System, a multijurisdictional 

task force trained 

with special weapons and 

tactics, Foley said. 

More than five hours 

after the initial report, NI- 

PAS officers entered the 

building and found Woo 

dead in his apartment, according 

to police. He was 

pronounced dead at 2:30 

a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, 

by the Cook County Medical 

Examiner’s Office, 

which ruled his death a 

suicide from a self-inflicted 

gunshot wound to the 

head. 

The task force also discovered 

three handguns, 

two rifles and 2,100 rounds 

of ammunition in Woo’s 

apartment, where he lived 

alone. All of the weapons 

were legally owned, and 

Woo had no prior criminal 

record, according to 

police. 

No other residents or officers 

were injured, Foley 

said. 

Reporting by Jason Addy, 

Contributing Editor. Full 

past experience working 

in a male-dominated environment. 

“I like the idea of shifting 

gears to work with 

some business-minded 

women to kind of propel 

their careers forward,” 

she said, “and provide a 

resource that’s trusted, 

knowledgeable and seasoned 

that will help them 

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business forward.” 

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School News 

Bradley University 

Roti works with Irish 

student on project 

Dominic Roti, of Lake 

Forest, an interactive media 

student, took part in a 

partnership with a school 

in Ireland. 

Bradley University’s 

interactive media students 

worked with their pen pals 

from the LIT Limerick 

Posted to LakeForestLeaderDaily.com 1 day ago 

School of Art and Design 

in Clonmel on an “art exchange” 

project called Out 

My Window. 

A student from each 

school was paired up, and 

each was asked to look out 

a window, then write a description 

of what they saw 

and how they felt. That description 

was sent to their 

partner across the Atlantic, 

and the recipient made a 

piece of art based upon the 

written description. A total 

of 35 pairs (70 students) 

participated. 

Miami University 

O’Connor earns degree 

Brogan O’Connor, of 

Lake Forest, has received 

a bachelor of arts degree in 

strategic communication/ 

psychology from Miami 

University. 

Located in Oxford, 

Ohio, Miami University 

is consistently ranked by 

U.S. News and World Report 

for its commitment 

to undergraduate teaching 

and is the number one 

college town according to 

Forbes. 

Ripon College 

Goeks performs with 

Symphonic Wind Ensemble 

Julia Goeks, of Lake 

Forest, performed in the 

Symphonic Wind Ensemble 

at Ripon College at 

3:15 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 

17. 

Goeks plays the flute. 

She is in the class of 

2021 at Ripon, majoring 

in chemistry and physics 

with a minor in mathematics. 

Located in Ripon, Wisconsin, 

the college is Wisconsin’s 

best-value private 

college and a national 

leader in liberal arts education, 

devoted to ensuring 

every student realizes their 

unique potential. 

School News is compiled by 

Editor Peter Kaspari. Send 

submissions to peter@lakeforestleader.com. 


Quarter of Woodlands Academy seniors named Ill. State Scholars 


Twenty-five percent of 

Woodlands Academy of 

the Sacred Heart’s graduating 

class of 2020 are 

among high school seniors 

being honored as Illinois 

Student Assistance 

Commission (ISAC) 

State Scholars in recognition 

of superior academic 

achievement. 

Illinois State Scholars 

represent approximately 

the top 10 percent 

of seniors from 726 high 

schools across the state. 

They possess strong academic 

potential and are 

chosen based on a combination 

of exemplary ACT 

or SAT test scores and 

sixth semester class rank. 

Woodlands Academy’s 

2020-21 Illinois State 

Scholars are: Elizabeth 

Coughlin, of Northbrook; 

Áine Heaney, of Chicago; 

Mariana Noble, of Chicago; 

Constance Parker, of 

Chicago; Julia Podstolowicz, 

of Gurnee; Daphne 

Ricketts, of Wilmette; 

Anna Serkland, of Lake 

Forest; Annika Swanson, 

of Chicago; and Jianna 

Torcende, of Hainseville. 

“I am so very proud 

of our State Scholars for 

achieving this recognition 

of all their hard work 

and outstanding academic 

performance during their 

years at Woodlands Academy,” 

said Head of School 

Meg Steele. “I’d also like 

to thank the members of 

our faculty for creating 

an environment here that 

prepares girls for college 

and beyond by empowering 

them to lead, compete, 

engage and explore.” 

While State Scholar recognition 

does not include a 

monetary prize, honorees 

will receive a congratulatory 

letter from ISAC and 

a personalized Certificate 

of Achievement. Honorees 

can also download 

a digital Illinois State 

Scholar badge that can be 

displayed on their online 

profiles and social media 

platforms, and shared with 

prospective colleges, employers 

and others. The 

program announces honorees 

based on the year they 

would begin any post-secondary 

education, not the 

year they graduate from 

high school. 

“On behalf of ISAC, we 

congratulate this year’s 

Illinois States Scholars,” 

said Eric Zarnikow, executive 

director of ISAC. “It is 

a credit to these students- 

-as well as to their support 

systems and to their 

Woodlands Academy’s ISAC Illinois State Scholars for 

2020-21 are among the top 10 percent of seniors from 

high schools across the state being honored for superior 

academic achievement based on such things as 

their ACT or SAT test scores. Photo Submitted 

schools--that so many of 

them are not only driven 

to achieve but also reflect 

a true love of learning and 

a desire to use their education 

to make the world a 

better place.” 

Located in Lake Forest, 

Woodlands Academy is an 

independent, Catholic day 

and boarding, college preparatory 

school for young 

women of all faiths grades 

nine through 12. It’s part 

of a network of more than 

150 schools in 41 countries 

on six continents (24 

schools in the U.S and 

Canada). For more information, 

visit www.woodlandsacademy.org. 

The Illinois Student Assistance 

Commission helps 

make college accessible 

and affordable for students 

throughout Illinois. ISAC 

provides comprehensive, 

objective and timely information 

on education and 

financial aid for students 

and their families – giving 

them access to the tools 

they need to make the educational 

choices that are 

right for them. To learn 

more, visit www.isac.org. 


Spirit of 67 Foundation 

highlights grants in action 


The Spirit of 67 Foundation 

recently highlighted 

just some events and 

activities grants it has 

provided have funded in 

the Lake Forest public 

elementary and middle 

schools. 

The foundation raises 

funds and acquires resources 

that are meant 

to enrich and enhance 

educational and cultural 

experiences of the Lake 

Forest School District 67 

community. The grants 

provided pay for experiences 

that might not otherwise 

see support. 

Recent highlights include: 

• Author Carolyn Crimi 

visited Cherokee, Everett 

and Sheridan Elementary 

Schools. She entertained 

students with her captivating 

presentations. 

• Author Jordan Sonnenblick 

spent time with 

Deer Path Middle School 

students. 

• Barrel of Monkeys 

once again brought fourth 

grade stories to life. 

Members from this group 

worked with Cherokee, 

Everett and Sheridan 

fourth-graders to write 

stories and bring the 

words from the page alive 

on stage. 

• Thanks to a Spirit 

of 67 Grant, Deer Path 

Middle School East’s library 

is filled with Caudill 

Books. 

The Spirit of 67 is a 

unique organization that 

truly touches every child, 

every day. The Kreischer 

Kids Fund is one to be 

noted. This fund was created 

in 2003, by the DPM 

principal at the time, who 

saw a need to provide resources 

for parents with financial 

constraints. Originally 

called the Family 

Assistance Fund, it was 

renamed in memory of 

beloved DPM teacher and 

coach, Gary Kreischer. 

The Kreischer Kids Fund 

has paid for many different 

things through out the 

years from eye glasses, 

musical instrument rentals 

and yearbooks, to tutoring 

and winter coats. 

For more information, 

visit https://spiritof- 

67foundation.org.

14 | December 12, 2019 | The lake forest leader SOUND OFF 


From the Lake Bluff History Museum 


Here Comes Santa Claus … on a fire engine! 

Adrienne Fawcett 

Lake Bluff History Museum 

two Sundays 

before 

‘Twas 

Christmas when 

all through Lake Bluff 

Not a creature was stirring, 

not even a coyote; 

The stockings were 

hung by the fireplace 

inserts with care, 

Knowing that St. Nicholas 

soon would there; 

The children were 

nestled in North Face 

fleece by the door; 

With visions of candy 

canes and hopes for much 

more; 

And mamma in her 

yoga pants and I in my 

LB-125 cap, 

Had just silenced our 

phones for a short morning 

nap, 

When out on the street 

there arose such a clatter, 

I sprang from my 

memory foam mattress to 

see what was the matter. 

Away to the window I 

flew like a flash, 

Tore open the Hunter 

Douglas blinds and threw 

up the sash. 

The sun on the sheen of 

the frozen snow, 

Gave a polar vortex 

lustre to objects below, 

When what to my wondering 

eyes did appear, 

But a Lake Bluff fire 

truck and firemen in the 

rear, 

With a big jolly Santa 

so lively and quick, 

I knew in a moment it 

must be St. Nick. …. 

But WAIT! 

What was Santa doing 

in Lake Bluff BEFORE 

Christmas Eve? Why was 

he driving around on a fire 

truck? 

Listen up! Santa is a 

busy elf, even with Amazon 

same-day delivery! 

He has helpers! Every 

year the Lake Bluff Fire 

Department drives Santa – 

and sometimes two Santas 

– around the village on a 

fire truck. This has been 

going on for so long that 

no one knows how or 

when the tradition got 

started! 

LBFD Chief David 

Graf joined the department 

in 1974, and “It 

was a tradition then, 45 

years ago, with no talk of 

when it started. At that 

time the village was a bit 

smaller, so one truck went 

out with Santa. Now we 

send out two trucks and it 

takes two to three hours! 

Weather of all extremes 

has occurred.” 

So have all sorts of 

situations. Graf recalled 

one year when the LBFD 

was called to a kitchen 

fire during Santa’s ride 

through town. 

“Both trucks with their 

Santas responded,” he 

said. “One Santa was at 

the hydrant while the other 

was pulling hose to the 

front door – and soon we 

noticed many neighbors 

had come to watch with 

No one knows for sure when the tradition of Santa riding through Lake Bluff on a 

Lake Bluff Fire Department fire engine got started. This photo is from the mid-1950s. 

Photo Courtesy Lake Bluff Fire Department 

lots of kids who looked 

confused. One Santa was 

quickly put in the truck to 

hide out.” 

I asked Lake Bluffers 

on Facebook if anyone 

remembered how Santa’s 

ride got started. 

Shari Evert Driscoll 

said that when her father, 

Tom Evert, was fire chief, 

Santa greeted children at 

the field house and fire 

station, and that he rode 

on a fire truck to visit 

house-bound children who 

were ill. She remembered 

that Gib Sackerson and 

Elmer Anderson were 

Santas, while others 

thought perhaps her father 

was Santa in the beginning 

(which of course 

no one would have told 

young Shari at the time!). 

This year – 2019 – 

Santa’s fire truck ride will 

take place on Sunday, 

Dec. 15 from 10 am to 

noon. 

He’s checking his list! 

Adrienne Fawcett is marketing 

manager of the Lake 

Bluff History Museum. With 

her husband, Don, she raised 

three children (now in their 

teens and 20s), who love 

coming home to Lake Bluff. 

NFYN 

From Page 12 

In total, she won 

$35,937, fashioning comefrom-behind 

victories 

against a physician, attorney, 

economics professor, 

and librarian among 

others. She demonstrated 

an expansive breadth of 

knowledge. 

If you are not convinced, 

here’s one example: “The 

x factor of this South African 

language is 18 different 

clicks,” was the clue. 

“Xhosa” was her correct 

answer. 

The Glenbrook North 

graduate, daughter of former 

Northbrook village 

president Mark Damisch, 

is a data scientist at UL. 

There, among other accomplishments, 

she has 

tuned parameters on preexisting 

XGBoost, neural 

network, and ensemble 

classifiers, created multivariate 

models to describe 

product risk, and wrote a 

Python script to scrape tables 

from HTML websites. 

She graduated from the 

DePaul University College 

of Computing and Digital 

Media with a master’s degree 

in predictive analytics 

in 2018. At Lawrence University, 

she was a highly 

awarded student who received 

a bachelor of arts 

degree in mathematics and 

in music/clarinet performance. 

At GBN, she was 

one of 15 students named 

National Merit semi-finalists 

in the 2012 National 

Merit Scholarship Competition. 

Reporting by Alan P. Henry, 

Freelance Reporter. Full 

story at NorthbrookTower- 

Daily.com. 

THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK 

HP residents take part in 

National Novel Writing 

Month 

Instead of checking out 

books, people at the Highland 

Park Public Library 

are writing their own. 

For the first time, the 

library is participating in 


Month this November. After 

an introductory event, 

the library hosted two 

write-ins for participating 

area writers. 


Month, or NaNoWriMo, 

began 20 years ago as a 

“daunting but straightforward 

challenge: to write 

50,000 words of a novel in 

thirty days,” according to 

their website. 

The program has over 

400,00 participants over 

six continents. Many 

NaNoWriMo novels have 

been published, with perhaps 

the most famous example 

being Sara Gruen’s 

bestselling “Water For Elephants,” 

which was made 

into a movie starring Robert 

Pattinson. 

HPPL joins over 1,000 

libraries and bookstores 

who open their doors to 

aspiring novelists looking 

to bang out a draft over the 

course of November. 

“We’re just trying to 

support the writing community 

in Highland Park,” 

said Laurie Skinner, information 

and reader services 

manager, “and give them a 

space to talk if they want, 

plug in their computers 

and write for a few hours 

without the distractions 

you might have at home.” 

The library also has a 

special display of how-to 

writing books and a separate 

room with a fireplace 

where writers can drop in 

anytime to write, said Beth 

Keller, marketing specialist. 

Reporting by Doug Rapp, 

Freelance Reporter. Full 

story at HPLandmarkDaily. 

com.

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From the Editor 

Remember to send in your holiday cards 

Peter Kaspari 


The holiday season 

is my favorite time 

of year. Everybody 

seems to be happier and 

more kind to each other, 

there are plenty of fun 

activities for the whole 

Letter to the Editor 

Shields Township’s Latest 

Money Plundering Efforts 

Supervisor Terry Darraugh 

has for several 

months allowed a few officials 

and staff members 

to engage in untethered 

bullying during Shields 

Township meetings. The 

attempts to beat board 

members into submission 

has been captured in all 

its ugliness on video. Evidently, 

Ms. Darraugh was 

not pleased with the public 

exposure. She has decreed, 

“Beginning with the October 

meeting, township 

meetings will no longer 

be available on the LF-TV. 

Meetings can be viewed on 

the township website.” 

At the Nov. 21 Budget 

Meeting, Ms. Darraugh’s 

motives became clear. 

Since taking office (May 

2017), she has limped 

along in the performance 

of duties and refused to 

produce metrics on spending 

practices. During the 

same time period, she has 

bewailed lack of taxpayer 

revenue for herself and 

family, and the holiday 

music always puts me 

in a good mood, even if 

sometimes it can be a little 

overplayed. 

But my favorite part 

of the holiday season is 

receiving holiday cards 

from my friends and family. 

When I was growing 

up, my family would send 

a Christmas card every 

year. But as my sister and 

I got older, it seemed my 

family sent cards less and 

less often. But when I was 

in college, I started sending 

cards to my friends, a 

her special interests. One 

of the major bullies, Chief 

Deputy Assessor Kelly 

Ugaste-Cooprider, has 

convinced Assessor Scott 

Helton and Terry Darraugh 

that they need to raise the 

levy to provide the same 

level of social services, but 

in fact the money is needed 

to continue the present level 

of easy living. 

Shields Township is a 

small township. Sixty percent 

of all Town Fund revenue 

has gone to pay salaries 

and overhead for the 

Assessor’s office. In any 

given year, two deputy assessors 

with help from the 

Assessor could easily evaluate 

the township’s land 

parcels. During Quadrennial 

(every fourth) assessment 

years when, for a few 

months, the workload is 

heavier, other small townships 

outsource the extra 

work. Not Shields Township. 

This 2019 Quadrennial 

year, the Chief Deputy 

Assessor felt the need to 

have three other deputy assessors 

to help her and the 

tradition I have continued 

in the eight years since I 

graduated. 

This year, The Leader 

is once again holding its 

annual Holiday Greeting 

Card Contest, and entries 

are still being accepted 

from both Lake Forest and 

Lake Bluff. 

There are only a few 

rules: 

1. One entry per family 

2. Card must be from 

this holiday season 

3. E-cards are accepted 

Please send your entries 

to Attn: Holiday Card 

Contest, 60 Revere Drive 

Assessor handle the load. 

She now wants more money 

to keep the staff of four 

in the coming year. It is a 

shameful money grabbing 

situation. 

Ms. Darraugh has hinted 

that if the raise is rejected 

there will be less money 

for social services. Last 

year the township office 

portion of the Town Fund 

distributed less than 1 percent 

of tax dollars received 

to General Assistance clients. 

Only 18 percent went 

for social services. Eightytwo 

percent went to pay 

salaries and overhead for 

staff and officials. Small 

wonder township meetings 

no longer are on public access 

LF-TV. Ms. Darraugh 

wants to hide the fact that 

her self-interests (and 

those of the Chief Deputy 

Assessor) are more important 

than sworn duty 

Join us at the Dec. 12, 

2019 Shields Township 

meeting. Voice your outrage. 

Janice Schnobrich, Lake 

Bluff 

ST 888, Northbrook, IL, 

60062, or email editor 

Peter Kaspari at peter@ 

lakeforestleader.com. 

Entries are due Dec. 

18 and winners will be 

printed in a future issue. 

Good luck and Happy 

Holidays! 

go figure 

An intriguing number from this week’s edition 

500 

The number of kids who 

participated in the Kids Only 

Holiday Shop last year. Full 

story on Page 4. 

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Art festivities 

Artwork for sale at Stirling Hall, Page 22 

A second chance 

Curt’s Cafe helps at-risk teens, adults, Page 23 

Christmas Home Tour provides festive fun, Page 19 

The home at 40 Oak Terrace in Lake Bluff stands decorated for the Christmas season during the Christmas Home Tour on Sunday, Dec. 8. Alex Newman/22nd Century Media

18 | December 12, 2019 | The lake forest leader puzzles 


north shore puzzler CROSSWORD & Sudoku 

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

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur 

Across 

1. Protein source 

5. Towel embroidery 

9. C sharp 

14. Gr. 1-6 

15. Plow puller 

16. Let go 

17. Macedonian’s 

neighbor 

18. Actor, Gooding 

19. Moved in a curve 

20. Bygone title 

21. Political change 

maker 

23. Elementary 

school in Lake Forest 

26. Snaky fish 

27. Woes in Yiddish 

talk 

32. Trickster 

35. Cut of beef 

39. Aquarium residents 

40. Assistant 

42. Website ranking 

technology, abbr. 

43. Three-piece band, 

e.g. 

44. Jeans specification 

45. Silent film star 

47. Respiratory specialist, 

abbr. 

48. Battle plan 

51. Vitamin brand 

53. Capable of getting 

wet to the max 

58. Lake Forest 

middle school 

61. Eyeball 

64. Gozo Island is part 

of it 

65. “Put ___ writing” 

67. Cheat 

68. Infuse with color 

69. State bird of 

Hawaii 

70. Vegas game 

71. Type of mail 

72. Squirrel’s home 

73. Ollie’s partner 

Down 

1. Audition 

2. Encouraging words 

3. Wild 

4. Shadows 

5. Ad ___ 

6. Elites’ hood 

7. Resist authority 

8. In a mess 

9. “Lord of the 

Rings” warriors 

10. Growing field 

11. Human parasite 

12. Justify 

13. Innovative Talks 

22. Frequently, old 

way 

24. Michael Jordan 

teammate Steve 

25. “Xanadu” rock 

group, for short 

28. Sight reported 

29. Coating of ice 

30. Library ID 

31. Try 

32. Bridge position 

33. Snoopy’s first 

owner 

34. Money guarantor, 

for short 

36. Olive-tree cousin 

37. Vacation locale, 

with “the” 

38. Rocky peak 

41. CPR specialist 

43. Honey holder 

46. Golf tour 

49. Jerusalem nation 

50. Pay limit 

52. Time tellers 

54. Corrupt 

55. Complete 

56. River that starts in 

the Swiss Alps 

57. Aigrette 

58. Rhett’s last word 

59. Scene of Napoleon’s 

first exile 

60. Pocket purse 

62. Director Wertmuller 

63. Black 

64. Wrongly prefix 

66. Original name 

before marriage 

LAKE FOREST 

Market Square 

(264 Market Square) 

■10 ■ a.m. Dec. 12-14: 

Holiday Shopping 

Pop-Up Boutique 

History Center of Lake 

Forest-Lake Bluff 

(509 E. Deerpath) 

■Friday, ■ Dec. 13: 

Portraits of Nature by 

James Lockhart: Art 

Show and Sale 

The Gorton Center 

(400 East Illinois Road) 

■7:30 ■ p.m. Thursday, 

Dec. 12: Gorton’s 

Gingerbread House 

decorating party 

Lake Forest Chamber of 

Commerce 

(26239 Enterprise 

Court) 

■9 ■ a.m.-noon Saturday, 

Dec. 14: Elf Yourself 

3rd Annual Charity 

5K 

Lake Forest Dance 

Academy 

(400 Hastings Road) 

■4 ■ p.m. Saturday, Dec. 

14: Winter Dance 

Spectacular 

HIGHWOOD 

The Humble Pub 

(336 Green Bay Road, 

(847) 433-6360) 

■9 ■ p.m. every Wednesday 

night: Open Jam 

■9 ■ p.m. every Friday: 

Kara-Moe-ke 

Buffo’s 

(431 Sheridan Road, 

(847) 432-0301) 

■7 ■ p.m. every Monday: 

Trivia 

HIGHLAND PARK 

Bennett Gordon Hall 

(201 St. Johns Ave.) 

■5 ■ p.m. Saturday, Dec. 

14: Chicago Chorale 

NORTHBROOK 

Glenbrook North High 

School 

(2300 Shermer Road) 

■7 ■ p.m. Dec. 12-14: 

Glenbrook North Orchesis 

Dance Show 

■5:30-7:30 ■ p.m. Tuesday, 

Dec. 17: Senior 

Holiday Party 

To place an event 

in The Scene, 

email martin@ 

northbrooktower.com 

answers 

How to play Sudoku 

Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that 

has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 

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

and box must contain each of the numbers 

1 to 9. 

LEVEL: Medium 

Crossword by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan

LakeForestLeaderDaily.com LIFE & ARTS 



Christmas Home Tour showcases modern, classic LB homes 

Stephanie Carlson 


Known for its rich history 

and charming appeal, 

the village of Lake Bluff 

hosted its ninth annual 

Christmas Home Tour this 

holiday season. 

The event, hosted by the 

Lake Bluff History Museum, 

took place on Sunday, 

Dec. 8, paired with other 

events as part of Lake 

Bluff’s It’s a Wonderful 

Life weekend. 

The tour gave visitors 

from all around the area 

the opportunity to view 

the insides of some of the 

beautiful homes of Lake 

Bluff. Each home displayed 

the homeowner’s 

own unique style and gave 

viewers an insight into the 

rich architectural history 

that the village has to offer. 

This year’s tour saw four 

beautiful homes available 

for viewing. During the 

event, visitors were also 

able to stop by two separate 

historic homes that 

hosted holiday boutiques 

offering a wide variety of 

assorted purchasable gifts. 

The event not only offered 

an enjoyable opportunity 

for locals but also helped 

to raise funds for the museum’s 

archives and exhibits. 

“We think this is a wonderful 

addition to Lake 

Bluff,” said Kathy O’Hara, 

village president and director 

and founder of the 

Lake Bluff History Museum. 

“It’s just a whole part 

of who we are.” 

The first stop of the tour 

took place at the museum 

itself where visitors could 

pick up their tour booklets. 

The booklets not only 

mapped out the tour but 

gave an insight into the 

houses and boutiques on 

the route. There, visitors 

The Christmas Home Tour included 550 E. Center Ave. 

The Honey Bird Cottage, at 425 E. Scranton Ave., was 

built and designed in 2014 by Vicki Lidstrom, of Leggy 

Bird Designs, in Lake Bluff. 

could check-in, purchase 

tickets, and even speak 

with O’Hara herself. 

“The houses we have 

are uniquely Lake Bluff,” 

she said. “They are different 

styled beautifully 

done family homes. I think 

it reflects who we are as 

a community; how we’ve 

grown from a camp meeting 

down to a modern, attractive, 

desired suburb.” 

The John J. Murdock 

home, built by Murdock - 

the so-called “Vaudeville 

King” - showed off its historical 

roots and centurylong 

unchanged design. 

The entire house has been 

mostly untouched since 

1905, making itself a historical 

Lake Bluff beauty. 

“I had a woman come 

through that grew up 

here as well from roughly 

mid-1950 to mid-1960,” 

said homeowner Kathy 

McKechney, who has participated 

in the Christmas 

Home Tour for nine years. 

“Meeting people that grew 

up here has been a fantastic 

experience.” 

Not only did the tour include 

unchanged historical 

houses, but also featured 

beautiful modern homes 

designed and decorated 

by local Lake Bluff businesses. 

The “Honey Bird Cottage” 

was built and de- 

Please see HOME TOUR, 20 

Guests admire the boutique inside 616 E. Center Ave. in Lake Bluff, one of the 

houses on the Christmas Home Tour Sunday, Dec. 8. The boutique was selling items 

during the tour. Photos by Alex Newman/22nd Century Media 

One of the homes on the Christmas Home Tour in Lake Bluff was 803 Armour Drive, 

which was built in 1925.

20 | December 12, 2019 | The lake forest leader FAITH 


Faith Briefs 

Faith Lutheran Church 

(680 West Deerpath, Lake Forest) 

Women’s Christmas 

Luncheon 

Dec. 14, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 

Mid-week Bible Study 

Join us for mid-week 

Bible Study each Wednesday 

from 10-11 a.m. in the 

Adult Forum Room. The 

Lord’s Supper is offered 

after each class. 

Celebration Worship with 

Communion 

Weekly on Saturdays, 5 

to 6 p.m. 

Hogar de Fe, Our Hispanic 

Worship Service 

Hogar de Fe is Faith’s 

Spanish-language church 

service. Saturdays, 6:30 to 

8 p.m. 

Women’s Small Group 

Bible Study 

Monthly on the first and 

third Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. 

Tuesday Tie’ers 

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

and fourth Tuesday of the 

month. Put together quilts 

for Lutheran World Relief. 

No sewing experience required! 

All are welcome. 

Steeple Quilters 

Weekly on Thursdays, 

7:30 to 9 p.m. 

First Presbyterian Church 

(700 Sheridan Road, Lake Forest) 

Third Thursday Taizé 

Service: Longest Night 

6:30 p.m., Dec. 19. We 

will gather to pray, share 

communion and light 

candles to remind us that 

though it may seem dark, 

Christ came into the world 

to be our light. 

Annual Christmas Pageant 

(single service) 

10 a.m., Dec. 22. Children 

and youth lead the 

congregation in telling the 

Christmas story. 

Christmas Eve Services 

Dec. 24. Candlelight 

Service with Brass at 3 

p.m.; Candlelight Service 

with Children’s Choirs and 

Brass at 5 p.m.; Candlelight 

Service with Sanctuary 

Choir and String Quartet 

at 9 p.m. 

Wednesday Women’s Bible 

Study 

9:45-11 a.m., Wednesdays 

in the South Parlor. 

Brown Bag Bible Study 

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

Grace United Methodist Church 

(244 East Center Ave., Lake Bluff) 

Boy Scouts 

7-9 p.m. Mondays. Boy 

Scout Troop 42 will meet 

in Fellowship Hall. 

Adult Formation 

6:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays at 

Inovasi, 28 E. Center Ave., 

Lake Bluff. 

Bible Study 

Saturdays, 8-9 a.m. We 

are studying The Last 

Week by Marcus Borg and 

John Crossan. Join us. 

Prayer Shawl Group 

Meeting 

The Grace Prayer Shawl 

Group meets the third 

Monday of every month at 

1:00 p.m. at Panera Bread 

in Lake Bluff, corner of 

Rockland Road (176) and 

Waukegan Road. Anyone 

who knows of a person 

in need of a Prayer Shawl 

may take one. Please contact 

Susan Kenyon for 

more information. 

Women’s Support Group 

The Women’s Support 

Group will be meeting on 

the second Thursday of 

each month at 6:30 p.m. 

in the Fireplace room. Our 

support group is a group 

of women that face challenging, 

and, at times difficult 

circumstances in our 

daily lives. If you, a family 

member, or friends (female 

only please) that you 

feel would benefit from 

our group, please join us. 

Church of St. Mary 

(175 E. Illinois Road, Lake Forest) 

Eucharistic Adoration 

Each Wednesday, the 

Church of St. Mary offers 

Eucharistic Adoration following 

the 8 a.m. Mass. A 

rosary will be prayed each 

week at 6:40 p.m. with 

Benediction following at 

7 p.m. 

Handbell Choir Practice 

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

Adult Choir 

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

Christ Church of Lake Forest 

(100 N. Waukegan Road) 

Senior High Youth Group 

7-9 p.m. Sundays. All 

are welcome for a time 

of worship, teaching and 

fellowship. Friends are 

encouraged to attend. For 

more information, call 

(847) 234-1001. 

The Bridge Young Adults 

Group 

7-9 p.m., every Wednesday. 

All young adults are 

welcome to join. For more 

information, contact The- 

BridgeCCLF@gmail.com. 

Financial Peace University 

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

Financial Peace University 

is designed to help 

you achieve your financial 

goals by showing you how 

to eliminate debt and save 

for the future. You will 

be challenged and motivated 

to make a plan for 

your money and decrease 

your stress over finances. 

No matter how much you 

make or how much debt 

you may or may not have, 

this class is for you! 

The Fraternity 

6-7:30 a.m. Fridays. 

The Fraternity is a weekly 

gathering of men’s small 

groups to explore what the 

Bible says about life, faith 

and ideas that matter to 

men. It’s an effort to combine 

relevant topics with 

Bible-based content that’s 

accessible yet challenging 

for any man. Learn more: 

http://christchurchil.org/ 

the-fraternity/ 

Women on Wednesdays 

9-11 a.m. Join with 

other women on Wednesday 

mornings. Visit the 

Women’s page for current 

topic and to register: http:// 

christchurchil.org/women/ 

MOPS 

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

Wednesdays. Join us the 

first three Wednesdays 

of the month for MOPS 

(Mothers of Preschoolers). 

GIFT 

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

GIFT (Growing in 

Faith Together) offers a 

potpourri of teachings 

from students and teachers, 

lay people and ministry 

leaders. We look 

forward to thoughtful presentations 

with time for Q 

and A in an informal, intergenerational 

gathering. 

Drop-ins welcome. 

Christian Science Society 

(Gorton Center, 400 E. Illinois Road, 

Lake Forest) 

Testimony Meeting 

7:30 p.m. first Wednesday 

of each month. Come 

to Gorton Center for 

prayer, hymns, and readings 

from the Bible, with 

related passages from the 

“Christian Science” textbook, 

“Science and Health 

with Key to the Scriptures” 

by Mary Baker Eddy. Then 

participants share their 

own healings and inspiration. 

For more information, 

call (847) 234-0820 

or email cssocietylakeforest@gmail.com. 

Bible Blast 

5-6 p.m. Sunday evenings. 

Bible Blast is a family 

program for children 

4 years old through fifth 

grade. Guide your child’s 

spiritual growth and biblical 

literacy to a new level 

through Bible Blast. There 

is a one-time registration 

fee of $45. Free childcare 

is provided for 3 years old 

and younger. 

Union Church of Lake Bluff 

(525 E. Prospect Ave., Lake Bluff) 

Live Wires 

4-5 p.m. Wednesdays, 

Fellowship Hall. Live 

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youth group for fourththrough 

sixth-graders. The 

group meets for lively discussion 

and fun activities. 

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to peter@lakeforestleader. 

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School of St. Mary Gala returns 



The School of St. Mary 

is proud to be bringing 

back the beloved and historic 

Spring Gala. 

This fundraising event, 

Roaring into the ‘20s, will 

be held at the Cuneo Mansion 

and Gardens on Feb. 

29. 

Guests will enjoy a 

seated dinner, silent and 

live auction items and live 

entertainment from Maggie 

Speaks. The community 

and SOSM alumni are 

welcome and encouraged 

to attend this fantastic evening 

as we celebrate the 

School of St. Mary. 

For more information 

and to purchase your ticket, 

please visit schoolofstmary.org. 

HOME TOUR 

From Page 19 

signed in 2014 by Vicki 

Lidstrom, of Leggy Bird 

Designs, a local Lake Bluff 

interior design company. 

The home was featured on 

the tour several years ago 

and came back this year to 

showcase a new upstairs 

interior décor, a lower-level 

speakeasy, and its very 

own indoor sports court 

for hockey practice. 

Another home on the 

tour, displaying a farmhouse 

exterior, took people 

by surprise with its 

stunningly modern interior 

designed by Soledad 

Zitzewitz. The house was 

originally built in 1955 

but has been completely 

restored since 2018. The 

three-story home showcased 

a circular atrium 

spanning two stories, the 

walls covered in captivating 

photography and artwork. 

A huge success year after 

year, the Lake Bluff 

History Museum’s Christmas 

Home Tour is certainly 

an experience for all 

who attend. 

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the event, the museum, or 

the houses featured, visit 

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Katie Copenhaver 


The artists of Stirling 

Hall presented their 15th 

Annual Holiday Art Show 

on Friday, Dec. 6 and Saturday, 

Dec. 7 at their Lake 

Forest facility. 

Unlike many holiday art 

and craft shows that include 

both regional and out-ofstate 

artists, this show exclusively 

features the work 

of artists who teach or take 

classes at the art center. 

“There’s a real community 

here,” said teacher 

Patty Kochaver. “It stays 

small, and it attracts a serious-minded 

student.” 

The art center specializes 

in ceramics, and there was 

a wide array of both functional 

and decorative works 

for sale. 

Mark and Carolyn Mc- 

Mahon, of Lake Forest, 

had perhaps the largest variety 

of art on display. Mark 

was selling his trademark 

drawings of familiar local 

and regional landmarks in 

several formats, including 

mugs, sketchbooks 

and matted pieces. One of 

the sketchbooks about the 

whooping crane migration 

from Wisconsin to Florida 

shows his interest in nature 

and conservation. 

Mark was also selling 

some of his new ceramics, 

a medium he has recently 

returned to for the first time 

since he was in college. 

Among them were lanterns 

and a dip tower for serving 

chips and dip. He noted that 

he is in his third ceramics 

class at Stirling Hall and 

had a few works in progress 

in one of the onsite 

studios; his first bird feeder 

and his first fountain for a 

bird bath. 

Carolyn had several animal 

sculptures featuring 

A guest at the Stirling Hall Annual Holiday Art Show 

admires pottery for sale on Saturday, Dec. 7. Alex 

Newman/22nd Century Media 

fish, cats and deer. She also 

was selling ceramic funnels 

that can be used in brewing 

coffee and other food 

preparation tasks. She refers 

to those as part of the 

“domestic appliances” she 

creates. In addition, she 

had one of her handmade 

ceramic chess sets that she 

fabricates without the use 

of molds. 

Kochaver was selling 

saggar fired ceramic bowls, 

created with a Chinese 

art form that incorporates 

sawdust, salts and metals 

to produce special effects. 

She also had some highfired 

ceramics that are safe 

for serving food and beverages. 

Skokie resident Kochaver 

started teaching at 

Stirling Hall three years 

ago after many years as an 

instructor at the Evanston 

Art Center. She and Mark 

McMahon both explained 

that artists come to Stirling 

Hall, which is operated by 

the Lake Forest Parks and 

Recreation Division, from 

all over the suburbs and 

city to take classes because 

the center offers several 

forms of ceramics creation 

with high fire reduction, 

raku, pit firing and soda firing. 

“To have all of those in 

one facility is unique,” she 

said. “It broadens the opportunity 

[for artists] to 

grow.” 

Debra Lerman, supervisor 

of Stirling Hall, is in her 

19th year of teaching at the 

art center and has been involved 

with the holiday art 

show since its beginning. 

“The reason I’ve never 

left is the facility is top 

notch,” she said, noting that 

the setting on the wooded 

Grove Campus in Lake 

Forest is also lovely. 

Lerman and Stirling 

Hall Director Karen Avery 

handle most of the 

administrative tasks at the 

art center, which include 

managing the holiday art 

show, developing the curriculum 

and operating the 

kilns. Both of them also 

teach classes at the facility 

to kids and adults. Lerman 

noted they teach people 

ages 5 to 95. 

Lerman also pointed out 

that while the artists make 

most of the money from 

the holiday art show sales, 

a small percentage goes to 

support Stirling Hall’s programming 

and operations. 

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Curt’s Cafe provides opportunities for at-risk young adults 

Michael Wojtychiw 

Contributing Sports Editor 

When Open Communities, 

an organization that 

promotes housing, economic 

and social justice 

in north suburban Chicago, 

approached Susan 

Trieschmann, executive 

director of Curt’s Cafe, 

about opening up a Highland 

Park location, she 

knew this was an opportunity 

she couldn’t pass up. 

Curt’s Cafe’s original 

location is in Evanston, 

where Trieschmann lives, 

but she had always wanted 

to open up a Lake County 

location. 

“We’re a mission-based 

organization serving highly 

at-risk young adults,” 

she said. “We work with 

15- to 24-year olds that 

are underserved in our 

communities. That’s kind 

of our niche. 

“We don’t want to run 

restaurants. We want to 

really teach young people 

how to get jobs and stay in 

those jobs.” 

After starting in Evanston, 

where a reported 95 

percent of students graduate 

from high school, 

Treischmann wanted to 

go into an area where that 

number was much lower 

and where Curt’s Cafe 

could make a bigger impact. 

Highland Park is close 

to Waukegan, where she 

says the graduation rate is 

around 64 percent. 

“That means that there’s 

too many young people 

walking around without 

high school degrees, but 

also without that structure 

and without the benefits 

and opportunity a 

high school can bring,” 

she said. “I know that if 

we don’t help them find 

the right path, then they 

The Highland Park cafe offers avocado toast ($8) on toasted sourdough bread with 

a fried egg topped with salt, pepper, micro greens and olive oil. Photos by Nick 

Frazier/22nd Century Media 

will find the wrong path, 

because we have a lot of 

gangs, or people that are 

very schooled in bringing 

people along a different 

way. I wanted to get in 

here to kind of start to turn 

the corner a little bit.” 

Students at Curt’s Cafe 

are chosen through a rigorous 

application process. 

“They’re chosen or 

they’re welcomed into the 

program if we identify that 

their needs are the highest 

possible,” Treischmann 

said. “If a youth is homeless, 

they may not get into 

our program. They’ve 

dropped out of high 

school, they may not get 

out of our program. If they 

have had high judicial contact, 

they may not get into 

our program. If they have 

all three, they’re likely to 

get into the program.” 

She said there are other 

organizations that deal 

with homeless youth, the 

judicial system and workforce 

training individually, 

but not one that deals 

with all at once. 

“We deal with all of 

that.” 

After not having any 

students for the cafe’s first 

three weeks, Curt’s Cafe 

will have at least three 

students. Ten is the highest 

number they’ll have, 

with five or six students in 

the cafe at once. 

When the students 

graduate from the threeto-four 

month program, 

are all welcome to come 

back to the cafe, especially 

since it has social 

services providers on site. 

Trieschmann said students 

can come back and have 

three or more meals a day. 

A primary reason Treischmann 

started Curt’s 

Cafe was the amount of 

things that were unavailable 

to teenagers who 

needed a second chance. 

“I couldn’t think about 

having one more child in 

jail. I just... I couldn’t do 

it,” she said. “I started it 

because I wanted to stop 

that injustice and I wanted 

to show people that if you 

give these young people 

what they’re looking 

for, which is a job, then 

CURT’S CAFE 

1766 2nd Street, 

Highland Park 

(847) 748-8086 

Curtscafe.org 

8 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

Monday-Friday 

8 a.m. - 3 p.m. 

Saturday 

Closed Sundays 

they’re not going to find 

themselves back in the 

prison system. 

“We’re one of the industries 

that take in a lot of 

different kinds of people, 

entry level. We’re an industry 

that has growth potential 

and it’s an industry 

I know and I love, but also, 

I tell the students, even if 

they go into something 

else, get a CDL license or 

whatever, they can always 

do a side hustle of a restaurant 

so they can always 

eat. It’s a good thing to 

have in your background.” 

Three of 22nd Century 

Media’s editors stopped 

by to try some of Curt’s 

popular dishes made by 

Curt’s Cafe has chicken salad stuffed tomatoes ($10) on 

a bed of greens and vegetables. 

The triple-decker cookie has Oreo crumbs sandwiched 

between a brownie bottom layer and a cookie on top. 

chef Byron Gonzalez. 

The first dish was one 

of the cafe’s most popular 

dishes, the avocado toast 

($8), which is toasted 

sliced sourdough bread 

with mashed avocado and 

fried egg topped with salt, 

pepper, micro greens and 

drizzled with olive oil. 

The dish, like all of the 

breakfast dishes, is served 

all day with a side of fruit. 

You can also add bacon 

for an additional $2. 

Next, we tried a tomato 

stuffed with either chicken 

or tuna salad ($10). The 

tuna salad (tuna, onions, 

celery, capres and mayo) 

or chicken salad (chicken, 

onions, celery, grapes and 

mayo) is stuffed in a tomato 

on a bed of greens. 

The tuna melt ($10) is on 

the menu as one of the chef 

signature sandwiches and 

wraps and is served with 

a pickle and your choice 

of chips, fruit, small salad 

or soup. The tuna melt 

is served on a wheat roll 

topped with avocado and 

cheddar cheese. Gonzalez 

says it gives a little bit of 

everything to customers. 

We also had a bevy of 

delicious desserts, including 

the cinnamon chocolate 

chip scone, triple 

decker cookie, which has 

a bottom layer brownie, 

oreo crumbs in middle 

and topped with a cookie), 

chocolate chip cookie and 

brownie.

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Athlete of the Week 

10 Questions 

with Truman Thuente 

Thuente is a junior on 

the Lake Forest wrestling 

team. 

How did you get 

started wrestling? 

My dad wrestled in high 

school for Highland Park. 

I figured I may as well try 

it out, I started wrestling at 

Deer Path Middle School 

when I was in fifth grade. 

What’s your favorite 

part of wrestling? 

It’s the intensity, it’s an 

individual sport and it’s 

a team sport at the same 

time. I like that we can go 

in there and just beat each 

other up for three hours 

every day and still come 

out as friends. 

What’s the most 

challenging part of 

wrestling? 

It’s the same stuff, you 

get beat up by your teammates 

for three hours everyday. 

Making weight 

too, making weight is always 

an issue. We work 

really hard, it’s not for everybody. 

What’s the best 

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ever gotten? 

I use to wrestle for Mike 

Poeta at Poeta Training 

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to him because I felt like 

I wasn’t seeing any progress. 

He told me that when 

you boil pasta, you don’t 

really notice it’s boiling 

until the water is going 

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got to wait and keep doing 

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then it will all overflow. 

Do you have any 

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superstitions? 

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out on the mat, I stomp my 

left foot twice, my right 

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wrestling, what would 

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Jujutsu has always been 

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sports, it appeals to me. 

What’s your favorite 

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Poeta’s Food Market in 

22nd Century Media file photo 

Highwood. I’ve worked 

there for a long time, I love 

the food there. 

Who is your favorite 

athlete? 

I’m going to have to go 

with [former NFL linebacker] 

Ray Lewis. The 

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he works hard all day and 

it worked out for him. 

Who is the class clown 

of the wrestling team? 

Jade Khater 100 percent. 

The first person to pop into 

my head, he’s a funny kid. 

If you won the lottery, 

what’s the first thing 

you would buy? 

It’d be a 1972 Chevrolet 

K20. It’s an old pickup 

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Interview by Sports Editor 

Nick Frazier 

The Varsity: North Shore Podcast 

Guys recap basketball, talk boys 

swimming, girls gymnastics 

Staff Report 

In this week’s episode of 

The Varsity: North Shore, 

the only podcast focused 

on North Shore sports, 

hosts Michal Dwojak, 

Nick Frazier and Michael 

Wojtychiw recap the latest 

in North Shore sports. The 

guys start off by recapping 

boys and girls basketball, 

hear from Glenbrook 

South boys basketball 

player Dom Martinelli, 

play Way/No Way with 

boys swimming and diving 

and talk about girls 

gymnastics. 

This Week In... 

SCOUTS VARSITY 

ATHLETICS 

BOYS SWIMMING & DIVING 

■ ■Dec. 12 - at Mundelein, 

5 p.m. 

■ ■Dec. 14 - at Barrington, 

9:30 a.m. 

WRESTLING 

■ ■Dec. 12 - hosts Lake 

BASKETBALL 

From Page 31 

til Libertyville applied 

full-court pressure that 

the Wildcats began to chip 

away. 

Libertyville closed the 

third period on a 12-0 run, 

eventually completing the 

comeback with a layup off 

a turnover. Once Wilhelm 

and the Scouts went over 

how to break the press in a 

timeout, Lake Forest was 

able to find its footing. 

“Once we talked about 

it, we got a 4-on-3 or 3-on- 

2 almost every time,” Wilhelm 

said. “Just attacking, 

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Zurich, 5:30 p.m. 

■ ■Dec. 13 - at Warren, 5:30 

p.m. 

BOYS BASKETBALL 

■ ■Dec. 13 - at Lake Zurich, 

5:30 p.m. 

GIRLS BASKETBALL 

■ ■Dec. 13 - at Lake Zurich, 

7 p.m. 

GIRLS GYMNASTICS 

taking advantage of our 

numbers in transition. 

Obviously we’re trying 

to get the ball into Halle’s 

hands, when you have 33, 

they’re going to try and 

stop her.” 

After Libertyville tied 

the game, Summerville 

converted a traditional 

3-point play, then Trkla 

made a tough basket from 

the post. A free throw 

from Molly Fisher and 

two more from Trkla extended 

the Scouts lead to 

60-56 with 1:18 left. 

The Wildcats were 

forced to then play the 

foul game, and free 

throws from Douglass and 

First Quarter 

The three recap all 

the boys and girls basketball 

action over the 

week. 

Second Quarter 

Martinelli joins the 

show to talk about a big 

rivalry game. 

Third Quarter 

Way/No way comes 

back as the guys make 

predictions on boys swimming 

and diving. 

Fourth Quarter 

To finish things off, the 

guys talk about girls gymnastics. 

■ ■Dec. 13 - invitational at 

Glenbrook North, 6:30 p.m. 

GIRLS ICE HOCKEY 

■ ■Dec. 13 - at Evanston, 

9:20 p.m. 

CAXYS VARSITY 

ATHLETICS 


■ ■Dec. 16 - at North 

Chicago, 5:30 p.m. 

Summerville sealed the 

victory. 

It was the first true test 

for the Scouts, who have 

state title aspirations after 

reaching the Class 4A super-sectional 

last season. 

Coming away victorious 

in this conference battle 

should bring a big boost 

to the team’s confidence 

and morale. 

“We hadn’t really faced 

any adversity this far in a 

tight environment,” Wilhelm 

said. “To get exposure 

to that is good, hopefully 

this propels us going 

forward.”

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Girls Swimming 

Scouts senior Julia Tanna competes in the GLASA Great Lakes Games in June. 22nd 

Century Media file photo 

Tanna wins second state title 

Staff Report 

NORTH SHORE 


With Lake Forest already 

having two teams 

win state titles this school 

year, an LFHS individual 

made sure to add another 

trophy to the collection. 

Senior Julia Tanna won 

the Athletes with Disabilities 

Class A 100-yard 

breaststroke at the IHSA 

state meet on Nov. 23 at 

New Trier. Tanna completed 

the race in 2 minutes, 

09.03 seconds, besting the 

second-place swimmer by 

over a minute. 

Tanna also performed 

well in other races. She 

placed fifth in the 200- 

yard, 50-yard and 100- 

yard freestyles. 

It’s not the first state title 

for Tanna, who won the 

Class A AWD 100-yard 

breaststroke as a junior in 

2018. 

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ANALYSIS 

AND INTERVIEWS 

about your favorite high 

school teams. Sports 

editors Michal Dwojak, 

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Nick Frazier host the only 

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GIRLS HOCKEY 

Lake Forest 10, Warren 0 

Tess Clark tallied the hat 

trick, and Kennedy Stein 

notched two goals in the 

co-op team’s blowout win 

on Dec. 2. 

GIRLS GYMNASTICS 

Lake Zurich 138.65, Lake 

Forest 137.3, Warren 

124.4 

Lindsay Fontana and 

Reagan Fisch won the 

vault and balance beam, 

respectively, in the seasonopening 

tri-meet on Dec. 

4. 


Lake Forest 45, Grayslake 

Central 42 

Stephen Young scored 

12 points, and Andy Brown 

added 10 on Dec. 4. 

Prospect 56, Lake Forest 

36 

The Scouts came up 

short on Saturday, Dec. 7. 


Lake Forest 50, Stevenson 

42 

Finola Summerville and 

Halle Douglass each had 

14 points in the win on 

Thursday, Dec. 5. 

Marist 57, Lake Forest 53 

Halle Douglass’ 23 

points, seven rebounds and 

six assists aren’t enough 

high school highlights 

The rest of the week in high school sports 

on Saturday, Dec. 7. LFA 3, St. Francis 1 

Mathieu Bourgault 

WRESTLING 

scored twice in the win on 

Lake Forest 42, Mundelein Saturday, Dec. 7. 

26 

The Scouts earned a Shady Side 6, LFA 5 

North Suburban Conference 

victory on Thursday, 

Matheiu Bourgault 

Dec. 5. 

Tom Dubois Tournament 

The Scouts won the 

tournament on Saturday, 

Dec. 7. Jackson Meadow, 

Jack Owen, Bennett Duggan 

and Chase Waggoner 

all won their respective 

weight classes. 

BOYS HOCKEY 

Lake Forest 6, Libertyville 

3 

Nate Dee found the back 

of the net twice, and the 

Scouts took care of business 

versus the Wildcats 

on Dec. 4. 

Lake Forest 4, Warren 0 

Nate Dee tallied another 

pair of goals on Friday, 

Dec. 6. 

Lake Forest 6, Highland 

Park 2 

Six different Scouts 

scored goals in the win, 

and Shane Rodriguez 

stopped 17 shots on Sunday, 

Dec. 8. 

CAXYS VARSITY 

ATHLETICS 

BOYS ICE HOCKEY 

scored two goals again, 

and Max Scott tallied a 

pair of assists in the loss 

on Saturday, Dec. 7. 

Gilmour 4, LFA 2 

Matheiu Bourgault once 

again scored twice in the 

loss on Sunday, Dec. 8. 


LFA 71, St. Joseph’s 38 

The Caxys earned a 

dominant home win on 

Thursday, Dec. 5. 


Zion-Benton 36, LFA 31 

The Caxys just narrowly 

missed their first win of 

the season on Dec. 4. 

WILDCATS VARSITY 

ATHLETICS 


Woodlands 44, Elgin 25 

The Wildcats won their 

season-opener on Thursday, 

Dec. 5. 

Woodlands 33, Francis W. 

Parker 21 

The Wildcats came 

away victorious on Saturday, 

Dec. 7. 

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Wrestling 


Scouts still hunting for more after historic season 

Nick Frazier, Sports Editor 

Some losses prove to be 

beneficial for a team in the 

long run. 

That could be the case for 

Lake Forest’s 36-35 loss to 

Rockford East on Nov. 26. 

Scouts head coach Matt 

Fiordirosa doesn’t mince 

his words, as he believes 

his team should have won 

that match. 

The Illinois Wrestling 

Coaches and Officials Association 

ranked Lake Forest 

fifth in the preseason, 

and that honor may have 

negatively impacted the 

Scouts in their season 

opener. 

“I think that got to 

our heads a little bit, we 

thought we were better 

than some of the things we 

were doing,” Fiordirosa 

said. “It was a good little 

learning point. You hate 

to have it as a coach, but 

at the same time it was a 

nice little reality check. If 

anything we got a target 

on our back now because 

we’re not going to surprise 

people anymore.” 

The Scouts are now one 

of the top Class 2A programs 

in the state after a 

historic 2018-19 season. 

Lake Forest compiled a 

28-2 record, the most in 

program history, and sent 

two wrestlers to the state 

meet. The IWCOA ranked 

the Scouts 10th at the end 

of the year. 

The program has seen 

continued improvement 

the last four years, winning 

16 matches three 

years in a row before the 

jump to 28, and Fiordirosa 

is a big reason why. Lake 

Forest rebounded from the 

Rockford East loss with 

four wins, giving its head 

coach the most victories in 

program history. 

“It’s been really cool 

to see how it’s all working 

out,” Fiordirosa said. 

“These kind of milestones, 

I don’t check them everyday, 

it just kind of happens 

after eight years. You look 

back and go ‘Oh man, I’m 

pretty close to that record.’” 

Despite last season’s 

success, the Scouts were 

still hoping to do more, as 

Remaining Scouts schedule 

• Dec. 12 - hosts Lake Zurich, 5:30 p.m. 

• Dec. 13 - at Warren, 5:30 p.m. 

• Dec. 20-21 - tournament at Glenbrook South 

• Jan. 3 - hosts quad, 10 a.m. 

• Jan. 10 - at Zion-Benton, 5:30 p.m. 

• Jan. 11 - quad at Round Lake, 5:30 p.m. 

• Jan. 15 - at Vernon Hills, 5:30 p.m. 

• Jan. 16 - hosts Waukegan, 5:30 p.m. 

• Jan. 17-18 - invitational at Reed-Custer 

• Jan. 24-25 - Lake County Invitational at Antioch 

• Jan. 30 - hosts Libertyville, 5:30 p.m. 

• Jan. 31 - hosts Stevenson, 5:30 p.m. 

• Feb. 8 - IHSA Regional 

• Feb. 14 - IHSA Sectional 

• Feb. 20-22 - IHSA State 

the team battled injuries 

and sickness near the end 

of the season. With only 

one starter from last year 

having graduated, Lake 

Forest is reloaded and 

ready to make a deeper 

run. 

That starts with senior 

Chase Waggoner and junior 

Truman Thuente, the two 

wrestlers who were state 

qualifers a year ago. Waggoner 

recently committed 

to the University of Illinois 

and Thuente has two years 

left to get back to state. 

Other top athletes for 

the Scouts will be Bennett 

Duggan, Jackson Meadow, 

Jack Heydorn and Jack 

Owen. Duggan in particular 

should be an entertaining 

wrestler this season. 

“He’s awesome, he’s the 

technician guy, he knows 

his stuff,” Fiordirosa said. 

“He’s entertaining to 

watch.” 

All of those wrestlers 

are upperclassmen who 

are used to a successful 

Chase Waggoner sizes up an opponent in a meet last 

season. 22nd Century Media File Photo 

team. Fiordirosa believes 

that will keep the Scouts 

hungry this winter. 

“They’ve been on three 

record-breaking teams in 

a row, the expectations 

are high,” Fiordirosa said. 

“That’s all they know how 

to do, is just win. They’re 

leading by example, we’re 

expecting some big things 

from them. There’s not one 

kid that I listed that doesn’t 

think they should be downstate 

come February.” 

Lake Forest is now a 

threat to every top contender 

in Class 2A, and 

that target is squarely on 

the team’s back. Other 

than that, nothing changes, 

and the Scouts are still putting 

the work in and are eager 

to excel. 

The team’s motto this 

season is “Still Hunting,” 

as the Scouts aren’t content 

yet. 

“We did some good 

things, but we didn’t get to 

where we want to,” Fiordirosa 

said. “It’s a chip on 

our shoulder right now 

that we’re still hunting. 

We want to keep making 

names, we want to bring 

home some team hardware, 

we want to bring 

some individual hardware 

as well. We’re happy with 

what we did, but we’re not 

satisfied.” 

Basketball Power Rankings 

The 22nd Century Media Sports Editors ranked the North Shore area boys and girls basketball teams in our coverage area 

throughout the season. 


1. Loyola Academy (Previous 

week: 1) 

Ramblers head coach Tom 

Livatino is the programs winningest 

coach after his team’s 

win over Leo . 

2. Glenbrook South (2) 

The Titans survived a scare 

against New Trier, winning in 

Winnetka for the first time since 

2008. 

3. New Trier (3) 

New Trier got a taste of some 

of the better teams in the area, 

falling to Glenbrook South and 

Lane Tech. 

4. Highland Park (5) 

The Giants started conference 

play strong with an impressive 

performance from Nate Fleisher. 

5. Lake Forest (6) 

The Scouts split their games 

this week, defeating Grayslake 

Central and losing to Prospect. 

6. Glenbrook North (4) 

A young Spartans team fell on 

the road in Evanston in a game 

that could help speed up the 

learning curve. 


1. Lake Forest (1) 

The Scouts took down Libertyville 

and Stevenson as they 

seem to be cruising at the beginning 

of the season. 

2. Loyola Academy (2) 

Loyola had a mixed week with 

a win over St. Laurence and a 

loss at the Kalamazoo Central 

Shootout. 

3. New Trier (3) 

The Trevians took care of both 

Glenbrook schools before falling 

to Mother McAuley at the Chicagoland 

Invitational Showcase. 

4. Highland Park (4) 

Highland Park split its week, 

losing to Vernon Hills and winning 

against Round Lake. 

5. Glenbrook North (5) 

The Spartans continue to learn 

after falling to New Trier and 

Evanston before taking down 

Waukegan. 

6. Glenbrook South (6) 

South is still figuring things 

out, falling to Maine South, New 

Trier and Taft.

30 | December 12, 2019 | The lake forest leader SPORTS 



Matthews shines for Scouts despite loss to Fenwick 

Bill McLean 


Don Matthews tried. He 

really did. 

The father of Scouts 

goaltender Sarah Matthews 

— a Highland Park 

sophomore — did he all 

he could, years ago, to 

convince his daughter to 

stick with a skater’s role 

in the sport she loved. 

“When she was 10, she 

played for a team that relied 

on volunteers to play 

goalie,” Don recalled during 

the first period of the 

Scouts’ 3-0 loss to reigning 

Amateur Hockey Association-Illinois 

(AHAI) 

state champion Fenwick 

on Sunday, Dec. 8, at Lake 

Forest College. “Sarah 

volunteered before one 

game. Then she played 

goalie in another game. 

“I did my best to dissuade 

her from playing 

that position,” the former 

Deerfield youth hockey 

player added with a grin. 

Sarah Matthews dug in, 

grew to thrive in goal, and 

now a couple of teams — 

the co-op Scouts and the 

AA Chicago Jets of the 

Northern Illinois Hockey 

League (NIHL) — are 

grateful for her resolve. 

Sarah’s father, today? 

Proud. 

“What I did notice, from 

the beginning, was how 

comfortable she appeared 

in games as a goalie,” Don 

said. “She played fearlessly.” 

Fearless Sarah showed 

up again against Fenwick, 

stopping 40 shots in a loss 

that would have been a 

12-0 setback, at least, versus 

an above-average netminder. 

Matthews parried 

shots with her stick, with 

her pads, with her glove 

and with her helmet. 

She didn’t just stand on 

her head against the Friars. 

The 5-foot-7 Scout 

stood out. Period. 

Fenwick (9-1-1) settled 

for one goal in the first 

period. Most of the action 

in the 13-minute session 

took place right in front 

of Matthews, who wears 

jersey No. 50 because 

her favorite professional 

goalie, Corey Crawford of 

the Chicago Blackhawks, 

does. 

The action was frenzied 

at times, but Matthews 

stymied Fenwick’s feisty, 

fast forwards again and 

again. 

“Sarah plays with a 

great mindset against 

great players,” said Scouts 

forward Abby Benjamin, a 

blur on blades. 

“What I like about her,” 

Scouts forward and Lake 

Forest senior Kennedy 

Stein said, “is her positivity. 

Sarah’s always positive.” 

The loss left the Scouts 

with a 5-8 record. Yet firstyear 

coach Katy Shadek, a 

former St. Olaf College 

forward and current LFC 

student, sounded like a 

winner afterward. 

“I thought our girls 

played very well,” she 

said. “They were impressive. 

They held their own. 

The goals Sarah allowed 

tonight … the first two 

slipped in, and the third 

deflected off a stick. She 

played great. Sarah’s play 

this season is one of our 

team’s strengths. 

“Many of our girls are 

coming out of their shells 

and playing more comfortably 

with the puck. 

And they’re playing as a 

team.” 

Stein will suit up and 

lace ’em up for a team in 

hockey-mad Minnesota 

Hannah Ziperstein makes a play on the puck in the Scouts’ 3-0 loss to Fenwick on Sunday, Dec. 8, at Lake Forest 

College. Photos by Phil Bach/22nd Century Media 

next year. The Scouts’ 

leading scorer (13 goals) 

and breathless talent committed 

to Division III 

Augsburg University in 

Minneapolis last month. 

“I visited the school 

twice,” said Stein, competing 

once again at an 

all-state level. “I like the 

coaches and their coaching 

philosophy, and I’m 

looking forward to the experience.” 

Back to the Fenwick- 

Scouts contest. Benjamin 

nearly scored on a rapid 

rush in the second period. 

Twenty-three seconds 

later, forward Lucy Heller 

(HPHS junior) delivered a 

pretty pass to forward Alicia 

Sharun, but Fenwick’s 

defense disrupted the 

promising scoring chance. 

Fenwick struck for a 

pair of goals in the third 

period, the last tally coming 

at the 1:47 mark. 

Kennedy Stein looks ahead with the puck. 

Fenwick had survived a 

Scouts 5-on-3 advantage. 

“We showed our strong 

work ethic tonight,” said 

Matthews, who at the age 

of 11 met the two-time 

Stanley Cup champion 

Crawford and received an 

autographed picture and 

puck from him at an event 

in Lincolnshire. 

The Scouts next play 

Evanston on Friday, Dec. 

13, before taking their 

holiday break.

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Girls Basketball 


Scouts overcome Libertyville comeback in early-season thriller 

22nd century media file 

photo 

1st-and-3 

Stars of the week 

1. Nate Dee (above, 

left). The senior 

scored two goals 

in back-to-back 

games to help the 

Scouts continue 

to cruise through 

the regular 

season. 

2. Halle Douglass. 

The do-it-all 

senior has led 

Lake Forest girls 

basketball to a 

7-1 record. 

3. Mathieu 

Bourgault. A 

star on the Lake 

Forest Academy 

hockey team, 

Bourgault scored 

six goals in 

three games this 

weekend. 

Nick Frazier, Sports Editor 

Lake Forest had been 

through this before with 

Libertyville. 

The Wildcats stormed 

back from a big deficit 

in a game last year, and 

Lake Forest knew its 

North Suburban Conference 

foes are never out 

of it. So when the Scouts 

led by 14 at halftime over 

Libertyville on Dec. 3 at 

Lake Forest High School, 

the team prepared for the 

inevitable. 

“The first half went 

pretty well, but we knew 

that in the locker room 

that they were going to 

come back and start hitting 

shots because they 

weren’t as much in the 

first half,” Scouts junior 

Finola Summerville said. 

“They just shot the lights 

out and it got really close, 

but I’m glad we pulled it 

out.” 

In a rematch of last 

season’s Libertyville sectional 

semifinal, Lake 

Forest got 33 points from 

senior Halle Douglass 

and survived a comeback 

bid from the Wildcats to 

win 64-60. Summerville 

added 11 points and nine 

rebounds, and junior Lilly 

Trkla scored clutch baskets 

down the stretch. 

The Scouts (6-0, 1-0 

NSC) led by 19 at one 

point against the defending 

conference champions, 

but Libertyville 

tied it up at 52 with four 

minutes to play thanks to 

its full-court press. Lake 

Forest then hit eight free 

throws and grabbed some 

big rebounds to pull away. 

“Hopefully we get to 

learn from this win,” 

Scouts coach Kyle Wilhelm 

said. “The way they 

battled through, to give up 

a 19-point lead and have 

Libertyville tie it and still 

come out ahead is a testament 

to how hard they 

kept fighting.” 

The scoring started 

off back-and-forth until 

Lake Forest scored nine 

of the first quarter’s last 

13 points to take a sevenpoint 

lead after one period. 

The Scouts came out 

hot to start the second, as 

a pair of Douglass buckets 

and a basket from Trkla 

forced a Libertyville timeout 

just over a minute into 

the quarter. 

The Wildcats were able 

to recover by cutting the 

Lake Forest lead to 11, 

but Douglass’ traditional 

three-point play with 

two minutes left gave the 

Scouts a 31-17 advantage 

at halftime. 

Thanks to hot shooting 

from Douglass, who 

scored six points in the 

opening two minutes of 

the third quarter, Lake 

Forest eventually built 

up a 19-point lead in the 

second half. It wasn’t un- 

Please see BASKETBALL, 27 

Senior Halle Douglass (33 points) puts up a shot in the Scouts’ 64-60 win over Libertyville 

on Dec. 3 at Lake Forest High School. Photos by Nick Frazier/22nd Century 

Media 

Freshman Bella Ranallo drives to the basket. 

Listen Up 

“They’ve been on three record-breaking teams in a 

row, the expectations are high.” 

Matt Fiordirosa - Lake Forest wrestling coach on his senior class. 

tune in 

What to watch this week 

WRESTLING: The Scouts host their first match under the new 

floodlights at LFHS. 

Lake Forest hosts Lake Zurich at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12. 

Index 

28 - High School Highlights 

27 - Athlete of The Week 

Fastbreak is compiled by Sports Editor 

Nick Frazier. Send any questions or comments 

to n.frazier@22ndcenturymedia.com.

Lake Forest Leader | December 12, 2019 | LakeForestLeaderdaily.com 

An Early Test LFHS girls 

basketball fends off Wildcats, Page 31 

Still Hunting 

Scouts eyeing state meet, Page 29 

Lake Forest 

senior Kennedy 

Stein puts a shot 

on goal in the 

Scouts’ 3-0 loss 

to Fenwick on 

Sunday, Dec. 8, 

at Lake Forest 

College. Phil 

Bach/22nd Century 

Media 

Scouts stay positive after loss to Fenwick, Page 30

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