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State budget woes may weigh on village By EMILY SPECTRE
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hile Wilmette’s financial picture appears to be bright, with projected revenues up and expenditures under budget, members of the Village Board and Village Staff expressed uncertainty about the potential impact of the state’s budget woes at their Committee of the Whole meeting on July 28. “All municipalities are waiting with bated breath over what will happen in Springfield,” said Village Manager Timothy Frenzer. Already, the Village has lost $36,000 in state shared revenues, and Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) distributions are being withheld. At the meeting, Frenzer explained that Governor Bruce Rauner has Continued on PG 12
‘It is our duty to remember’ A Belgium man continues to care for grave of Lake Forester killed during World War II Lt. Marshall Hughes of Lake Forest, a 22-year-old paratrooper ach year on Memorial Day of “D” Company of the 505th and on Veterans Day, many Airborne Infantry Battalion, 82nd North Shore residents re- Airborne Division, who was killed member those who served in on Jan. 3, 1945 — just 11 days World War II. after joining his unit. Hughes lies in Plot D, Row 8, Belgian Eddy Lamberty does the same — only much more Grave 50. He was awarded the often. Purple Heart posthumously. Thousands of American troops Nearby Henri-Chappelle never made it home from the war Cemetery is the Salem Valley that began in 1939 and ended in town of Grand-Halleux. In the 1945; they lay eternally in 13 well- late 1990s Belgium asked its citikept cemeteries in Western zens to adopt graves of their Europe. The cemeteries are ad- World War II liberators in the two ministered by the American American cemeteries in that Battlefield Monuments Commis- country. Many, like Lamberty, sion and in several places local have done so. He started caring neighbors — like Lamberty — for graves at Henri-Chappelle also care for the graves. Cemetery when he was 17. Today Nearly 8,000 fallen Americans he is a 43-year-old father. are buried in the 57-acre HenriLamberty’s grandfather served Chapelle Cemetery in Belgium. in the Belgian Army and spent 16 Among these honored dead is 2nd months in a German prison camp, By A.J. GOLDSMITH
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The Hughes boys with their mother. From left, Milton, Mansfield, Hazel Wing Hughes, John and Marshall. Photo courtesy of Mary Frances Hughes, widow of Captain John Wing Hughes.
a stay that shortened his life considerably. Another grandfather served in the Belgian Underground. Lamberty’s grandmother worked for the British Army in 1944. He said that his grandparents left him with the words: “It is our duty to remember.” He quotes one grandfather as follows: “The main difference was that these young boys crossed the
Female rabbi takes over at congregation By Emily Spectre
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endi Geffen has just assumed leadership of North Shore Congregation Israel, a reform synagogue in Glencoe
that has over 1,300 members. While it has been 43 years since Sally Jane Priesand became the first woman in the U.S. to become ordained as a rabbi, according to the Jewish Women’s Archive, Geffen is
ocean to fight and to give us back our freedom.” Lamberty regularly visits nine graves of America’s fallen, including that of 2nd Lt. Hughes. He has also initiated contact with some of the survivors who fought to liberate his town (Trois Ponts) during the famed Battle of the Bulge in December 1944-January 1945. “I could speak for hours of my
one of only five young female rabbis to lead a synagogue with more than 1,000 members. “I was always very lucky to have amazing role models and a strong Jewish experience,” explained Geffen. The new rabbi grew up in Dallas, in what she describes jokingly as an “interfaith” family: her father grew up orthodox and her mother classic reform. Geffen was raised in both traditions, attending both a reform
pride to have known dozens of World War II veterans. They are the finest men I’ve ever met in my life,” said Lamberty. Recently, he contacted DailyNorthShore.com, the Web arm of The North Shore Weekend, seeking information about 2nd Lt. Hughes. DNS ran a story about him, and several people respondContinued on PG 12
and a more traditional conservative temple. “I always felt at home in both communities,” she said. She began to contemplate a career as a rabbi after her bat mitzvah in seventh grade. She became a bat mitzvah tutor and continued to tutor other kids through rabbinical school, realizing how much she enjoyed Continued on PG 12
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