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NEWS
VITAL GATHERING Blood drive to honor late Wilmettian Burke EDITED BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Kevin Joseph Smith Burke’s life ended tragically at the age of 23 in the summer of 2017, but the Wilmette native’s memory lives on through a local blood drive held in his honor. Scheduled for February 23, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at the St. Joseph Catholic Church Community Room—1747 Lake Avenue, in Wilmette—organizers of the event hope to eclipse last year’s collection of 140 units of blood. St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, also in Wilmette, serves as a co-sponsor of the drive. Kevin, born in 1993, was the second of Kevin and Kathryn Burke’s five children. He was in St. Joseph Preschool’s inaugural class, before attending St. Francis Xavier School from kindergarten through eighth grade. He graduated from New Trier High School, where he was on the football, swimming, and rowing teams. A strong athlete who competed in area regattas, half marathons, stair climbing races, and triathlons, Kevin enrolled at the University of Illinois in Champaign and, after traveling in South Africa during a gap year, attended Loyola University. He died suddenly in July 2017. Continued on PG 8
HALLMARK OF HOPE
Boys Hope Girls Hope of Illinois continues to buoy children-in-need BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Boys Hope Girls Hope (BHGH) of Illinois Chairman Jamie Baisley stood in a back yard in Evanston not too long ago, observing sheer joy emanating from teenagers and their proud parents. Along with a happy teardrop or two. The scene unfolded at a BHGH graduation party. “Many of the students—scholars, we call them—start as timid, immature freshmen in our program,” says the 44-year-old Baisley, who grew up in Glencoe and graduated from Loyola Academy (Class of ’92) in Wilmette. “But they’re often completely different people as seniors; they’re confident, outgoing, much more mature, excited about the future. “The parents of the scholars,” he adds, “get emotional at a gathering like that. Their expressions say, ‘Wow, this works.’ ” This — or BHGH — helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential and become men and women for others by providing valuecentered, family-like homes, opportunities, and education through college. Jesuit priest Fr. Paul G. Sheridan founded the organization in 1977 with a noble-spirited goal in mind: to help children break the cycle of poverty. BGBH is a privately funded, multi-denominational nonprofit today, operating in 16 U.S. cities and in Guatemala, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. Children generally enter the program between the ages of 12 and 14, reside in nurturing living quarters, and attend first-rate elementary and Continued on PG 8
THE CHAIRMAN STANDS: Glencoe native Jamie Baisley, on Boys Hope Girls Hope of Illinois: “Our approach is a holistic one.” PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR
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