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A QUIET CHRISTMAS FOR THOSE FACING DIFFICULT TIMES
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Lake Bluff Golf Club Hires Outside Manager BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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AKE BLUFF — Changes may not be noticeable to players at the Lake Bluff Golf Club when the season opens in the spring but the Board of Commissioners of the Lake Bluff Park District hopes an outside management company will improve the course’s financial condition. The board on Dec. 14 unanimously approved a contract with Billy Casper Golf to manage club operations and the driving range along with food and beverage services. While Casper will apply its marketing and management efforts to club operations, the park district will continue to maintain the course, according to board President Rob Douglass. Douglass said he hopes Casper will help Continued on PG 10
she was ordained as an Episcopal priest a decade ago. Quiet Christmas is designed AKE FOREST — Christ- for people who want to be in mas starts quietly at The church but may not want to be Church of the Holy Spirit. around others who are celebratBeginning the church’s five ing. “Perhaps they have experiChristmas services at 11 a.m. enced a loss of some kind and Dec. 24 was the “Quiet Christ- are grieving, or perhaps the mas: Holy Eucharist with laying Christmases of their childhood on of hands” for healing geared were not happy and they find to people who want to attend themselves feeling empty while church on Christmas but who those around them are filled with may not be feeling joyful. exuberant joy. Perhaps they were The Rev. Judith Doran, senior one of the many who suffer deassociate rector, officiated the pression or seasonal affective Quiet Christmas service. She disorder or are spiritually bereft,” joined the church’s staff in May, said Doran. and has led Quiet Christmas services at other churches since Continued on PG 10 BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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Pastor Judith Doran holds some healing oils at The Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest. PHOTO BY JOEL LERNER.
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