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Rise Up: Kick off the autumnal equinox in downtown Winnetka for the 4th Annual East Elm Wine Walk BY ELAINE DOREMUS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
The 4th annual Winnetka East Elm Wine Walk on Sunday, September 22 is a win-win for everyone involved. Attendees get the opportunity to stroll from shop to shop in downtown Winnetka, taste wines, sample food from local restaurants, and listen to musicians from the North Shore’s Music Institute of Chicago perform. Meanwhile, all the proceeds benefit a very worthy cause. One hundred percent of ticket sales, and a percentage of wine sales, benefit Boys Hope Girls Hope of Chicago (BHGH). For nearly 40 years, this Illinois affiliate of the international organization (based in Wilmette) has offered scholarships to Chicago-area children who are academically capable—many who come from families impacted by poverty, homelessness, gang or domestic violence, drug use and other life challenges. BHGH is a privately funded, nonprofit, multi-denominational organization that provides at-risk children with a stable home, high quality education and the support they need to reach their full potential. “This is the third year we will direct proceeds to Boys Hope Girls Hope,” says co-chair and founder of the Wine Walk, Debbie McMahon. “We team up with Tom Boyle of the Wilmette Wine Cellar each fall to produce the event. In addition to soliciting the wine merchants, he curates a wine for each stop that pairs with food
Sofia Perez Westmeyer and Astrid Perez Piccolo PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
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An uncle of Lake Forest sisters Sofia Perez Westmeyer and Astrid Perez Piccolo had to
climb onto his roof in Puerto Rico last year — to make a phone call. And deliver good news to the nieces. The uncle, a civil engineer, his wife and other relatives had survived Hurricane Maria, considered the worst storm to hit the sisters’
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NEWS 10 “a night under the big top”
Event celebrates friendship and family legacies.
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Navy SEAL Foundation to honor Lake Forest couple.
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LIFESTYLE & ARTS 12 social scene
Postcards from Father’s Day weekend at the Winnetka Music Festival.
REAL ESTATE 14 houses of the week
We profile intriguing houses for sale on the North Shore.
SPORTS 16 one-derful start
Highland Park High School first-year head football coach David Lindquist wins first game in season opener.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST 18 sunday breakfast
Bent Fork Bakery co-owner Liz Bearwald delivers batch of fun anecdotes.
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NEWS CAN-DO SISTERS Cont. from PG 1 tember. The relived sisters’ collective exhale, unofficially, neared Category 2 intensity in Lake County. “Whenever we offered to help our aunt, uncle and cousins leave Puerto Rico,” Westmeyer recalled, “they said, ‘No, this is where we live, and we need to be part of the reconstruction. We cannot leave.’ ” But the sisters found another way to help — and it had nothing to do with welcoming Puerto Ricans to safer ground. Westmeyer and Piccolo created the Paloma del Carmen Fund to aid Puerto Rican farmers. The fund has raised more than $350,000 for much needed supplies and equipment, with approximately $150,000 in aid earmarked for the rebuilding and sustainability of farms, providing important local food sources to Puerto Ricans. When the sisters visited Puerto Rico in February, they were shocked to find many areas still had no electricity, but that didn’t seem to deter many of the U.S. territory’s farmers. Piccolo explained that one of the farmers who grows coffee, cacao and plantain didn’t have electricity at his house, but he could not have been happier working the land. And he was grateful for his health. “He told us that this experience brought communities back together,” Piccolo said. “No one is on their phones; no one is using any kind of device. The farmers are just helping each other.” Piccolo said she started crying upon hearing how the farmer could turn something so terrible into something so positive. The farmer then gave the sisters a tour of his farm, and his wife made them a delicious homemade meal for lunch. Piccolo, for a moment, couldn’t remember who was helping whom. Another farmer, who had 25 acres of passion fruit, was in tears. He greeted the sisters with a passion fruit tree — the first that had been planted on his farm after the hurricanes. He dubbed it “The Paloma del Carmen tree,” in honor of the fund. The sisters wanted to give the people of Puerto Rico part of their livelihood back, so they decided to help the agricultural center, which had lost 80
Sofia Perez Westmeyer and Astrid Perez Piccolo PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
to 90 percent of its crops. Westmeyer read about the program Seed Relief Puerto Rico, launched by Dr. Viviana Medina, who has a Ph.D. in horticulture. The sisters decided to team up with her. “Dr. Medina helped us identify the publications that were in the industry, and once the news spread that we were helping the farmers, we received more
donations,” Piccolo recounted. “We work on rebuilding the farms to help get them back in business.” The sisters were thrilled to be reunited with their aunt and uncle during their February visit to Puerto Rico. Dr. Medina joined them. Most of the farmers in the area hadn’t received any kind of aid until the sisters’ Paloma del Carmen Fund issued the vital assistance. The farmers are using the funds for trees, greenhouses and irrigation systems. Piccolo shared another story of resiliency involving the mayor of San Sebastian. The mayor said at a gathering of the municipality’s residents, “We’re not going to wait for any government to come put up our electricity; we are going to do it ourselves.” Then he asked for a show of hands from people who work for the electrical company. San Sebastian emerged as the first town to restore its electrical light posts to working order. The sisters are grateful for all the support they’ve received — especially from the Lake Forest community. Recently the Lake Forest International Club chose the Paloma del Carmen Fund as its charity, and the sisters’ mom hosted a successful fund-
RISE-UP Cont. from PG 1 offered and provides a knowledgeable representative to speak about the wine being sampled.” The walk typically features around 16 stops, creating a moveable feast of shopping, wine tasting, food pairings and socializing. McMahon says there will be even more musical acts this year, plus a fun lounging area to savor the evening. “This event is only possible with the support we receive from Tom, the Winnetka-Northfield Chamber of Commerce, the Village of Winnetka, Compass Real Estate and Northview Bank and Trust,” she adds. “It really showcases all the area has to offer by including all different types of businesses. If they are not a stop, they may have something in the swag bag or have provided food.” Even more inspiring, the partnership with BHGH has had some incredible outcomes. Three of its homes are in Evanston—two for boys, and one for girls—housing 24 children ranging from junior high through high school age. The high school boys attend Loyola Academy; high school girls attend Regina Dominican. Junior high students go to St. Athanasius in Evanston. Living in group homes, with full-time adult staff supervision, provides a stable and nurturing environment for BHGH scholars who want to go on to college after high school graduation. The organization boasts an impressive
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Debbie McMahon and Rachael Mann PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
success rate: 100 percent of its scholars who graduate high school go on to college. Within the community of Evanston, residents of the group homes enjoy time at the beach and the YMCA (with passes provided by McGaw) and participate in community events such as the annual
Race Against Hate run and walk. In their group homes, the residents enjoy family-style meals and learn responsibility by helping with household chores. “On behalf of our hard-working, talented scholars, I would like to thank co-chairs Rachael Mann
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raiser at her Lake Forest home. In addition, a close friend from Lake Forest introduced the sisters to a Puerto Rican model with the Ford agency. The woman hosted a beautiful event in Chicago that raised more than $20,000 for the fund. “Having the community support us really meant the world,” Piccolo said. Westmeyer’s husband’s company, MB Healthcare, has matched up to $50,000 of any donation and will stay committed to doing the match. The sisters are also helping Puerto Rican fishermen repair piers. Each of the four fishermen associations in Puerto Rico has between 16 to 40 fishermen. Piccolo explained that in Puerto Rico the fishermen can’t come to the shore to unload, so upon returning from a late-night fishing trip, the fishermen have to swim to shore while dragging their fish-filled coolers along with them. The sisters have a close friend, a fisherman, and he ensures that every dollar given to the associations goes toward the restoration of the piers. Westmeyer and Piccolo enjoyed accompanying their families to their native land on their second visit following Hurricane Maria. During that trip, last spring, the roads were clean, and it was lush and green, unlike the sisters’ previous visit when all of the greenery had been destroyed by the hurricanes. Piccolo said the Puerto Rican farmers text the sisters saying, “Look at my crops now. Look at my growing trees.” She finds it very rewarding to see what they’ve been able to do with the materials the Paloma del Carmen fund had given them. Though the sisters have helped more than 50 farms, they show no evidence of slowing down. “We’re in this for the long term,” Westmeyer said. “We’re finalizing a business plan with the help of Dr. Medina and other professionals to look at the industry as a whole and to work on a farm-to-table movement.” Follow the sisters on Facebook for more information at Paloma del Carmen Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Fund and on Instagram at @palomadelcarmenfund or call (847) 909-1528. and Debbie McMahon for once again, choosing Boys Hope Girls Hope as the benefactor of this event, as well as the Winnetka shop owners who generously give of their time and treasure to make this wonderful event happen,” says Karen Croteau, executive director at Boys Hope Girls Hope of Illinois’s Wilmette location. “We are amazed at the generosity and giving spirit of this community.” In addition to the costs that running three households for teens entails, Croteau says there are two other initiatives that the Winnetka East Elm Wine Walk will support. “We have just completed a full audit of our homes, and have a list of rehab projects we’d like to complete this year—from a new roof for our girls’ home to painting the interior of all three houses and fixing a leaking basement in one boys’ home,” she explains. “Also, we would like to offer more tuition support to our collegians so they can focus on their school work versus their tuition bill. This event will go a long way in supporting this work. Drink wine, shop, and support some very hard-working scholars ... what’s not to love?” This year’s East Elm Wine walk will take place on Sunday, September 22 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets are $50. For more information, visit chamber.winnetkanorthfieldchamber.com/events. For more information about Boys Hope Girls Hope, visit boyshopegirlshope. org/Illinois. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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“A Night Under the Big Top” event celebrates friendship, family legacy and a historic hospital program BY SHERRY THOMAS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
For Elizabeth Borland Blodgett of Lake Forest, being a part of the Woman’s Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is all about continuing a family legacy and honoring cherished childhood memories. Blodgett, who serves as co-chair of the board’s September 7 “A Night Under the Big Top” fundraiser along with Holly Cortes and Abra Wilkin, fondly recalls tagging along with mother Suzy Borland to the Passavant gift shop on East Superior Street in Chicago. “Over the years I watched my mother’s involvement in the hospital and Woman’s Board, from running the cotillion to serving as president,” says Blodgett, also emphasizing her longtime connection to both Cortes and Wilkin. “I have known Abra for nearly my whole life as I grew up around the corner from her in Chicago. Holly is one of my oldest and dearest friends and was my freshman year roommate in high school. What we all have in common is our high school — the Ethel Walker School, an all-girls school in Connecticut which we all hold dear in our hearts.” Another commonality Blodgett and Wilkin share is their family’s involvement with the hospital through the decades, dating back to the 1970s when it was known as Passavant Memorial Hospital. “My parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rockefeller
Elizabeth Borland Blodgett, Holly Cortes and Abra Wilkin
Prentice were both involved when Northwestern Memorial was known as Passavant,” says Wilkin, who also serves on the NMH board of directors. “My mother Abbie was a member and former head of the Passavant Woman’s Board, and my father was on what was then called The Men’s Board. I
joined the Woman’s Board in 1965 after coming out at the Passavant Cotillion in 1961. Over the years I’ve been active in many facets of the hospital including Prentice Women’s Hospital — which was named for my parents.” Cortes says she was welcomed into the Woman’s
Board by Blodgett when she moved to Chicago. Together, the trio promises an affair to remember. Billed as a night to benefit “the greatest hospital on Earth,” funds raised at the event support the Evergreen Invitational Grants Initiative, providing much-needed (and historically underfunded) programs to benefit low-income women, infants and girls. These grants have provided $4.3 million to 82 initiatives that advance the patient-centered mission and improve health outcomes for women of all ages. “We are planning a night of fabulous entertainment for all of our guests. With a circus theme, the sky was the limit and we have truly reached for the sky!” says Cortes. “However, Abra, Elizabeth and I have a group of our Ethel Walker School friends flying in for the event. I’m sure it won’t take long for this group to be taking a swing on the trapeze.” Tickets are $150 per person and include an array of circus performers and aerial acrobats along with circus-inspired cuisine and creative cocktails. Starting at 6:30 p.m., a ringmaster will welcome guests at an entrance to a private club flanked by two bejeweled elephants — a spectacle that continues inside with a trapeze artist, tightrope walker and fortune tellers. “I am looking forward to the energy of the night,” adds Blodgett. “It is going to be a theatrical evening with plenty of surprises all for a great cause.” For more information, including location, call 312926-9138 or visit wbnorthwestern.org.
SEALed, with distinction Navy SEAL Foundation to honor philanthropic-minded Lake Forest couple BY JEN SHEA THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
When Mike and Robin Zafirovski of Lake Forest agreed to meet with their friend Bill Strong recently, they had no idea what he was going to tell them. Strong had some great news to share. It startled the Zafirovskis. It made perfect sense to Strong. The Navy SEAL Foundation had chosen to present the Zafirovski couple — dedicated philanthropists — with its 2018 Patriot Award. Previous award recipients include Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood, Disney Chairman/CEO Bob Iger and Ken Griffin, founder and chief executive of the global investment firm Citadel. “We were both, frankly, very surprised,” Mike Zafirovski admitted. “We are humbled and honored.” The Navy SEAL Foundation is a nonprofit based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, dedicated to helping the Naval Special Warfare community. Navy SEALs are deployed in more than 30 countries around the world, and the foundation takes care of their families if SEALs are harmed in the line of duty. “SEALs have the values that Mike and I have,” Robin said, adding those values mirror the ones they’ve tried to instill in their three sons. “Protecting our rights and our freedoms is fundamental to the work that the Navy SEALs do.” The Zafirovskis will receive the Patriot Award
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this year’s Evening of Tribute. “To come here effectively as an immigrant and achieve such success … I just admire him greatly. I think Mike and Robin personify the [spirit of the] Patriot Award.” Mike is the founder and president of The Zaf Group and executive advisor at the private equity firm The Blackstone Group. Robin is a civic volunteer. They met when they worked at General Electric. Together, they’ve been supporting the Navy SEAL Foundation since 2013. “We now have an appreciation for the Mike and Robin Zafirovski PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER rigor it takes to become at the foundation’s seventh Midwest Evening of a Navy SEAL, along with the training, the patrioTribute benefit in Chicago Sept. 6. The Zafirovskis tism and the teamwork that the SEALs possess,” Mike said. “If you want to be inspired and motiattended the first six benefits. The award is given to civilians who demonstrate vated, it’s probably as good of a return on your the same qualities in private life that the SEALs investment as any.” emphasize in their work. “Navy SEALs,” Robin added, “put themselves in “Mike and Robin, to me, are role models,” said harm’s way all the time — without batting an Strong, chairman and managing director of Long- eyelash.” ford Capital Management and the event chair for Lake Forest resident Reeve Waud said Mike and
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Robin truly exemplify the traits the Patriot Award aims to recognize each year. Waud is the founder of the private equity firm Waud Capital Partners, and he chaired the foundation’s Evening of Tribute twice. “The organization strives to recognize those who have made an extraordinary commitment in time and effort,” Waud said. “Mike is a very talented philanthropist and exceptionally talented at raising money. He’s a really good guy.” The Zafirovskis’ dedication goes beyond benefit dinners. Mike and two of his sons attended a Navy SEALs training camp two years ago. For four days, they tackled obstacle courses and other challenges. “Those four days,” Mike said, “were the most inspiring, exhausting and eye-opening ones we’ve ever experienced,” Mike said. The Navy SEAL Foundation shares many of the traits that Zafirovski has found important in business. He says Navy SEALs’ commitment to people and to meritocracy parallels the values that brought him to America. Zafirovski emigrated from Macedonia, then a Communist country, when he was 16 years old. He worked at General Electric, Motorola and Nortel Networks before founding The Zaf Group. “This is what America’s about — he’s living the American Dream, something he earned, and now he and Robin are giving giving back,” Waud said. For more information about the event, please visit navysealfoundation.org/chicago. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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Attendees from the Chicago-area reveled in amazing music on the North Shore over Father’s Day weekend. Known for its Emerging Artist Showcase, this home-grown festival returned for its second year with renowned indie acts performing across 5 stages throughout Winnetka. The family-friendly festival included a performance by The Children’s Theatre of Winnetka, sets from The Rhythm Revolution, and expanded food truck selection. Like last year’s inaugural festival, the artists in the 2018 line-up were exclusively curated by music industry tastemaker and Winnetka resident Val Haller. winnnetkamusicfestival.com
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Situated on the lot to capture daylight morning through evening, this home is ideal for formal and informal living and entertaining. Incomparable attention to detail throughout, well maintained, the pride of ownership and love are palpable in each and every room! Special features include a screened porch with vaulted ceiling, storage beyond compare on every floor, a daylight basement that is a pleasure to be in! Walk to school, pool, golf and paddle and rec.
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One and oh … yes! Giants football team wins OT thriller in Lindquist’s HPHS coaching debut BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Highland Park High School’s new head football coach, David Lindquist, stands 6-foot-3 and weighs a sturdy 250 pounds, or 43 pounds lighter than his playing weight as a starting defensive lineman during the University of Illinois’ Rose Bowl season in 2007. He was clean-shaven in college. He now sports a spot-on Jimmie Johnson beard and could easily steal scenes in an action movie starring Dwayne
“He’s a force, a beast. Coach Lindquist runs with us, lifts with us. He can keep up with us.”
“The Rock” Johnson. Put a helmet on Lindquist today and then make the 2004 HPHS graduate don pads and a full football uniform, and he’d still frighten — without even moving an inch — a muscular, beefy lineman at a line of scrimmage. Or a fleet quarterback preparing to collect a snap. Right, Michael Rooney? “I’d like to think,” the HP senior quarterback said, “I could outrun him.” Lindquist, also a special education teacher at the school, loves that kind of attitude. It’s one of the controllables he espouses at practices, in games and in classrooms. Three other controllables: effort, focus, resolve. “Our guys … they’re buying in and working hard and listening,” said Lindquist, who succeeded Joe Horeni (now the head football coach at Downers Grove North) after having served in a number of football coaching positions at his high school alma mater from 2010-2017. The David Lindquist Era at HPHS got off to a thrilling start last weekend, his Giants edging host Libertyville High School 28-27 in overtime Aug. 24. HP senior running back/middle linebacker Tom Motzko rushed a busy 38 times for 213 yards and four touchdowns, all but one (a nine-yarder) of the scores covering one yard. The Giants’ offensive linemen — Chris Hernandez (for injured Tate Ellis), Kevin Kaufman, Jonny Lipman, Chris Lee (Charlie Lens filled in briefly for Lee in the first half ) and Sam Fishman — eradicated Wildcats all night. Libertyville’s placekicker clanked an 18-yard field goal attempt off the left upright with 4.4
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D.L. was a DL: Former Highland Park High School defensive lineman David Lindquist coaches a player in his debut as head football coach at his alma mater. HP nipped host Libertyville HS 28-27 in overtime last weekend.. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
seconds left in regulation, freezing the score at 21-21. Kaufman blocked the extra point after the Wildcats’ OT-opening score, and Lindquist’s career winning percentage as a prep head football coach improved to a tidy 1.000 when Max Mauer’s extrapoint try split the uprights following Motzko’s one-yard burst in OT. A proud Lindquist gathered his Giants for a post-game talk and praised them for their resolve — a word his position coach at Illinois, former NFL defensive tackle Tom Sims, liked to bark in position meetings and along the sidelines. After the talk the players presented a game ball to Lindquist near an end zone. “Maybe I’ll build a trophy case in my basement, my man cave, and put this ball in it,” said Lindquist, who tempered his elation on the program’s big night by reminding his gridders that the win wouldn’t mean much if his club were to play with little resolve in its home opener vs. Lakes High
School (Aug. 31, 7 p.m.), which beat Deerfield High School 21-14 last weekend. “We have to keep rolling,” Lindquist, a Park Ridge resident, said. Lindquist, also a former standout hockey and lacrosse player at HPHS, could have rocked as a full-ride scholarship football player at Eastern Illinois University. But his dream was to play football for a Big Ten school, just like his fatherJohn did. John Lindquist played football at Michigan State in the late 1960s, after becoming, as a quarterback, the first Deerfield High School studentathlete — in any sport — to earn all-state status. A determined David Lindquist showed up at Illinois’ campus in Champaign as a preferred walk-on in late summer 2004. He eventually received a football scholarship and made two solo tackles in Illinois’ 49-17 loss to USC in the 2008 Rose Bowl. Nearly 94,000 people attended the New Year’s Day game in Pasadena, Calif.
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“My dad,” David said, “was big and imposing. He knew I wanted to be like him. Big influence. My dad had a big influence on me.” The son’s football staff? Teeming with locals. Seven of his 11 coaches have ties to Highland Park (the school or the city), including receivers coach Jim Berardi, who coached a Little Giants football player named Davey Lindquist in Lindquist’s seventh- and eighth-grade seasons. “He’s a force, a beast,” said Lipman, the Giants’ starting center. “Coach Lindquist runs with us, lifts with us. He can keep up with us. He’s such a good guy and such a competitive guy. Believe me, he knows how to get us ready to play football. And he’s all about the foundation of the program, the history of it, where he wants to take it. “Big community guy,” Giants senior defensive lineman Matthew Cortes said. “He’s got this drive, a drive to make us better football players, better in the classroom, better in life.” Watch Lindquist, 32, around his players. Anywhere. He does not have to yell to get their attention. They see a former Giant, a former Illini, a current mentor. They look right at him; he returns the look, darting his eyes to the right and to the left and to the right again to make sure he gets his point across to more than one Giant. “People respect him because he’s a great coach, a great leader and a great person,” Rooney, the QB, said. “The way he carries himself … people notice that way and respect him, immediately.” Ray Finfer’s son Joe, a junior, is HP’s varsity backup QB this fall. His older brother, Jack (HPHS, ’18), was a lineman on Giants teams. Ray Finfer serves as the school’s football community liaison. “The players admire David, look up to him,” Ray Finfer said. “He doesn’t make his players do anything he couldn’t do, and he holds each player accountable. “He’s excited about his new job,” Finfer added. “The administration is excited he’s in charge. And I certainly know his players are excited to play for him.” Notable: Giants lineman Sam Fishman made the first play of the Coach David Lindquist Era, stopping a Wildcats kick returner at the Libertyville 43-yard line in HP’s season-opening 28-27 OT victory on the road Aug. 24. … HP running back Jared Bloom rushed nine times for 62 yards. … HP defensive end Noa Morgenstern recorded a tackle for loss and a sack on consecutive plays near the end of the second quarter. Libertyville lost a combined eight yards on the plays. … Giants lineman Kevin Kaufman had a first-quarter sack, teammate Max Mauer, a kicker/linebacker, stopped a ball carrier three yards behind the line of scrimmage, and HP linebacker Giovanni Volpentesta broke up a pass in the end zone. … Giants running back/defensive back Zion Griffin returned a punt 31 yards early in the fourth quarter. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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Driven Lake Forest High School’s field hockey team poised for another lengthy postseason trip behind center-back Considine BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Sarah Considine drives her MINI Cooper, with the top down, to a Lake Forest High School field hockey team dinner. The senior center-back exits the vehicle and enters the restaurant. She eats. She laughs. She speaks and listens. She laughs some more. It’s time to return to the parking lot. It had rained, briefly. And heavily. The MINI Cooper’s top is still down. Considine and a few of her teammates near the car. None of the Scouts would have been surprised had a lifeguard been twirling a whistle in an adjacent parking slot. Hello, MINI pool. Considine won’t need waders to drive home, but she might need a pair of flippers. “It … had … poured,” Lake Forest senior forward Madden Plante recalls. “The interior of her car, everything, was soaked. I was shocked it had rained. I didn’t remember hearing it rain; I don’t think any of us did. Sarah, after looking at the inside of her car, laughed. That was her first reaction — laughter. Then she couldn’t stop laughing. “A little ‘Sarah moment,’ ” Plante adds. “That’s what that was. Such a ‘Sarah moment.’ ” Considine managed to drive the car to her home in Lake Bluff. Her parents, Kevin and Jami, did not ground their daughter for five years. Did not ground her at all. “My parents are cool, for sure,” Considine says. “I dried the car out that night. Used fans.” Fans of LFHS field hockey — field hockey in Illinois, really — know all about the 5-foot-6 Considine, a Columbia University recruit and Windy City Field Hockey club player since eighth grade. An all-stater for the state champion Scouts a year ago and one of only two LFHS sophomores (Plante, too) on the state championship squad in 2016, Considine possesses a calm presence in games, even when the action reaches a chaotic level. Her teammates feed off that placidity, welcoming it and counting on it. Her strength and fitness level? Matchless. Considine usually works out three times a week at Performance Factory Training in Highwood under the guidance of her trainer, Zeus Maldonado, who develops physiques as well as he tones work ethics. Another one of Considine’s strengths is her voice. A center-back without vocal assertiveness is a car without a steering wheel. “I had a difficult time using my voice, finding my voice, as a sophomore,” Considine admits. “That was hard for me, telling seniors what to do, where to go, being a leader at that age. That was scary. But I’m comfortable communicating with my teammates now, directing them, encouraging them, and a lot of that has to do with Coach Cat [Catanzaro], one of the best coaches I’ve ever had, truly gifted at what she does. She and [varsity assistant coach Katie Tilton] helped me find my voice as a leader and vastly improved my game. “Coach Cat, without a doubt, is one of the most important people in my life, and I’m incredibly THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Lake Forest High School senior center-back Sarah Considine, seen here in action at last fall’s field hockey state championship game, will continue her athletic career at Columbia University. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
grateful for her.” Another Cat, for whom Considine is grateful? Former teammate Cat Nicholson, a 2018 LFHS graduate and freshman field hockey player at the University of Iowa. “Huge mentor,” Considine, also a varsity lacrosse player (middie/attack), says. “I’ve always looked up to her as a player, as a leader, as a person. She worked incredibly hard in high school. I modeled my work ethic after hers. She’s into nutrition, knowing what fuels the body the best, and she always makes sure she gets enough sleep.” Two of Considine’s cousins, Woodland Academy graduates Colleen and Margaret Andersen, opened her eyes to the sport of field hockey. Considine was a second-grader at the time. After watching her first official field hockey game at WA in Lake Forest, Considine blurted a request to her father. “I went up to him and said, ‘I want to try that, Dad.’ ” Dad Considine knew a thing or two about ice hockey, so exchanging passes with his field-hockey-stick-wielding daughter on the Considine property wasn’t a stretch for him. It didn’t take Sarah long to execute “cool tricks” with a ball and her first stick, borrowed from Margaret.
Experiences in travel field hockey with Windy City, beginning in eighth grade, added dimensions to her game. Windy City Owner and Director Katie Beach was a member of the USA National Field Hockey Team from 1994-2004, representing her country at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. The more Considine played, the more she wanted the opportunity to play college field hockey. That led her to Maldonado at Performance Factory Training. “Zeus helped bring me to the next level athletically,” says Considine, who scored a goal, on a penalty shot, in Lake Forest’s 6-0 defeat of visiting Arrowhead (Wisconsin) High School Aug. 25. “Without a doubt, I would not be where I am today without him.” The Scouts’ win last weekend improved their record to 2-0; LFHS had defeated HomewoodFlossmoor in its season opener Aug. 22, also 6-0. Catanzaro’s crew looks formidable. Again. Considine and her Game Day impact? Constant. “Extremely coachable, extremely hardworking,” Catanzaro says of her captain. “To be an effective center-back, you have to distribute the ball well, be patient. Sarah, a selfless player, does those things
for us. What’s also great about her is her easygoing nature, along with her modesty. “You would never know she’s good at anything if you talked with her.” Last winter Considine and several of her field hockey teammates proved they’re very good at basketball, too. Her intramural squad — Baby Got Backboard — topped a team named Average Joes for the championship. Considine dribbled around as a guard. “Aggressive, fast, a very good shooter,” Plante, who notched a hat trick in each of the Scouts’ first two games, says of Considine’s hoops skills. “She hadn’t played basketball in years, but you never would have known that had you seen her play.” Considine, all dry now (to match her car’s condition), reigns — in two sports. Notable: Junior forward Julia Hender and senior midfielder Johanna Sidles each tallied a goal in Lake Forest High School’s 6-0 defeat of visiting Arrowhead High School Aug. 25. The Scouts struck for four goals in a 4:30 span in the second half. Sidles also had a team-high six takeaways in the victory. Scouts Heidi Richardson and Elsa Goldsberry shared time in goal.
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Straight —and fun — talk with Bent Fork co-owner BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT
Bakers Liz and Michael Bearwald got engaged more than 27 years ago. They needed dough. Not the edible kind; the green kind. Currency. So they made lots and lots of pound cake — 50 flavors of it, no kidding — and sold it out of their home at the time, on Chicago’s North Side. The money helped them pay for their wedding in 1991, as well as for their honeymoon in California. ’ Til death do they … tart. Liz and Michael Bearwald co-own Bent Fork Bakery in Highwood. If you haven’t heard of it, you’ve certainly caught a whiff of the enticing aroma wafting from its location on Waukegan Road (also Sheridan Road). Liz, 53, grew up in Glencoe and attended New Trier High School, where she “majored” in ceramics. Michael played football at Glenbrook North High School, captaining the Spartans as a middle linebacker/offensive lineman in his senior season. They live in Highland Park. “My commute,” Liz says, “takes two minutes.” Liz — hours after waking up at 4:30 a.m. and arriving at work at 5:30 a.m. — meets me at Tala Coffee Roasters in Highwood. She orders a decaf Americano. I discover she loves movies, especially baseball movies. The two pieces of verbal evidence: “If we bake it, they will come,” Liz says of the couple’s first business plan, circa 1999, some five years before the couple’s bakery (originally a gift basket shop) settled at its current location. “There’s no crying in bakeries!” a smiling Liz said one day to a sobbing tot in the store. “A lot of people who love bakeries, we’ve found, are old-school,” she adds. “They walk in, notice the atmosphere, and it evokes memories, fond ones, from their childhood. I’ve seen customers get wistful and tearyeyed. “We’re well aware we work in a small community; Highwood … it’s a hidden gem on the North Shore. We become close with our customers, very close. We’ve attended their funerals. We heard of an item a customer of ours ordered a long time ago in Canton, Ohio. So we tried make something like that.” Bent Fork. There has to be a story behind that name. There is. “My husband,” Liz says, “would almost always get a bent fork when we’d go out to eat. We had a good friend [ Joanne], who told us one day, ‘If you ever open a bakery, you have to call it ‘Bent Fork.’” Day One of the business started rather inauspiciously. An employee had burnt the bakery’s first-ever batch of choc-
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olate chip cookies. A passerby got wind of the smell and entered the bakery. “The customer wanted to buy the cookies, those cookies, the burnt ones,” Liz recalls. “She loved burnt cookies and, I found out later, underdone brownies. She kept putting down $10 on the counter to pay for the cookies. “I refused to take her money.” Bent Fork’s research and development department is far from a conventional one, Liz notes. It consists of the bakery’s staff of 12, including the Bearwalds. “Trial and error and eat,” a chuckling Liz says. Liz’s first experience in baking took place in the kitchen at the home of her best friend. The friends lived on the same block. Liz was 6. Her best f r i e n d ’s m o m , M r s . Beebe, w a s the
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They walk in, notice the atmosphere, and it evokes memories, fond ones, from their childhood. I’ve seen customers get wistful and teary-eyed.
apron-wearing teacher. Li’l Liz made lemon cake, half of it later taste-tested by her parents, Sheffield and Donna. “Mrs. Beebe taught me to stay focused and to listen and to be patient,” Liz says. “If I did all of those things, she assured me, I’d be rewarded. I made that cake, and a light bulb went off in my head.” Sheffield, a sweet, American flag-loving man who delivered Bent Fork’s sweets for years — without ever taking a tip — died in 2017. On June 14. Flag Day. Donna passed away in 2004. Her funeral started at 10 a.m. Liz and Michael returned home on that day, after a fax (remember faxes?) had arrived. It was from a Highwood city official. It was Bent Fork’s certificate of occupation. The time on the fax: 10 a.m. Liz thought of her mom again then. Liz thinks about her mom again at Tala Coffee Roaster. Liz, a cancer survivor, sees to it that her bakery raises funds for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and Northern Food Bank every year. Stop by Bent Fork and buy a chocolate chip cookie or two — or 200 — in September. Your money will be earmarked for the food bank. Bent Fork Bakery, (847) 926-4438, is located at 335 Waukegan Avenue (also Sheridan Road), Highwood. Please visit thebentfork.com for more information.
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