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At all costs
Wilmette
Swimming: Langdon Beach, 1398 Sheridan Road; Gillson Beach, 101 Lake Street Sailing: Gillson Beach, 101 Lake Street Food: Gillson Beach house offers concession stand food; visitors can bring food and eat only at the designated picnic areas Facilities: Gillson Beach North Shore beaches offers a beach house with restrooms; Langdon Beach has a vary widely in fees portable bathroom they charge Parking: Gillson season parking pass $17 residents, $103 By EMILY SPECTRE non-residents; Daily weekday By Emily Spectre fee $10 residents, $12 non-reshe North Shore’s location idents 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Daily weekends $12 residents, $15 he Winnetka Village along Lake Michigan non-residents; Langdon offCouncil approved a contract makes its beaches a destinafor $85,683 to renovate and tion for anyone seeking a break street parking only restore the doors on its landmark from summer heat. Daily Fees: $4.50 residents, Village Hall building at a recent But just how much does it cost $9 non-residents 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; meeting. to spend the day at the beach? $2 residents, $4 non-residents The Village Hall renovation We researched each suburb’s 6-8 p.m. was finished in 2012, but work on beach fees and amenities from Ethan Steiner enjoys the water at Forest Park Beach in Lake Forest. Photography by Joel Lerner Season Passes: Individual the 17 interior and exterior doors Wilmette to Lake Forest, taking $41 resident, $103 non-resident, was not completed at that time. into account costs for residents non-residents. Highland Park $910 for an annual seasonal bring their stuff down the bluff. Family of four $101 resident, The Village hired architect versus non-residents and daily offers free beach admission to parking pass. For residents, WilSeasonal passes are the optimal $206 non-resident Flotation: No Mary Brush of Brush Architects, fees versus seasonal. Parking was non-residents but charges them mette’s Gillson Beach is the most choice for residents who like to who worked on the Village Hall a complicating factor. Some $20 a day to park. Lake Forest expensive with a daily fee of soak in the sun frequently. WinRentals: Sailboats, kayaks and during the renovation and special- beaches offer free admittance to presents a unique challenge for $4.50, with parking as high as netka’s season pass is a deal for a paddle boards, picnic shelters, izes in historic preservation, to non-residents but charge for non-residents; while admission $12 over the weekend. family of four at $70, while seniors grilling permits oversee the project. The nature of parking or don’t offer it at all. is $10 on weekends and holidays, Lake Bluff and Highland Park enjoy free admission. Glencoe’s Other amenities: Spray playthe project required hiring three Some charge beach fees but street beach parking is for Lake Forest tie for the best deal for local season pass is the most expensive, ground, volleyball, special events separate contractors: one to restore parking is free. residents only. Daily parking residents with free admission and at $129 for a family of four. The most costly beach on the passes are not available – out-of- parking. But it’s worth noting and fabricate new hardware, Here are the fees and amenities Kenilworth another to restore the wood and North Shore for non-resident town visitors either hoof it from Glencoe’s resident daily fee of $4, of North Shore beaches, starting Swimming: Kenilworth visitors is Kenilworth, which downtown where free parking is which includes free parking and from the south and heading Continues on page 12 charges $15 a day per person for available for a limited time or pay a courtesy cart to help patrons north: Continues on page 12
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Winnetka woman gets to heart of the matter By Holly Marihugh
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udy Meikle likes to take someone else’s hand, often a person she barely knows, and place it on her heart.
The 63-year-old Winnetkan has the heart of a 21-year-old hero beating inside her chest. That hero was Corporal Benjamin S. Kopp, a decorated Army Ranger wounded in
Afghanistan in 2009, who gave life at the moment of his death. July 20 marks the sixth anniversary of Ben’s heart beating for Judy. “It’s a miracle,” Judy says about her transplant. “By living with someone else’s organ, you are allowing part of that person to live on. So I don’t know of a better tribute to someone than to have his heart beating inside you. Or for the donor’s family to know that part of their son,
father, mother, brother, cousin, friend, or whoever, lives on in another person. “That’s a miracle. There’s no doubt about it.” The intersection and then crossroads of Judy and Ben’s lives took this direction: Judy was diagnosed seven years ago with a heart condition, non-compaction syndrome, Continues on page 12
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