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Santa makes his way to the greeting area after the Wilmette Holiday Parade. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.
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the parade marches on Wilmette’s 30th Annual Holiday fest gets the season off to a spirited start.
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green is good LFCDS greenhouse generating envy of North Shore schools.
[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ] 14 north shore foodie
Authentico blends traditional dishes with cosmopolitan flair.
Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.
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carrying out a plan Jack Badovinac, fellow line mates pave way as Loyala Academy returns to state title game.
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NEWS PARADE Continuted from PG 1 Department and businesses work to put on a fun event. “It is very much a Wilmette community undertaking,” Julie Yusim, director of the WilmetteKenilworth Chamber of Commerce told DailyNorthShore.com. “Everybody gets together to make this happen.” In honor of the 30th anniversary, Frank Mathie, a well-known ABC-7 News reporter and longtime Wilmette resident, led the parade as grand marshal in a convertible. The parade started at 10:30 a.m. at the Metra station on Linden Avenue. The parade included a range of participants, from Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts handing out leftover Halloween candy to spectators and local dance troops showing off their talent. Santa and fan-favorite aids wave to the crowd during the 2016 Wilmette Holiday Parade. The parade route made its way PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER. Lake Forest and Lake Bluff: Voila!, Forest Bootery, Lake & DailyNorthShore.com on a tour Co., Forest & Found, The Initial Black Friday, Small Business Choice, Kiddles Sports, Kelsey Saturday and weekend-long sales: Resale, Lake Forest Book Store, Pulse Fitness is offering Lake Forest Flowers and many a Black Friday special of 25 other local businesses will celepercent off one package of per- brate the season with postsonal training. Thanksgiving sales, specials and CryoPure Spa is offering a promotions. For a full list special on Whole Body Cryo- visit the Lake Forest/Lake therapy and Infrared Therapy for Bluff Chamber’s website at up to 52 percent off on Black www.ShopLFLB.com. Friday. Prices are two sessions for Kiddles Sports will have its $65, four sessions for $129 or six holiday sale on Sunday rather sessions for $189. than Black Friday or Small BusiUncle Dan’s is having a “Mad ness Saturday by offering 15 for Plaid” weekend sale. With any percent off everything in the store $50 purchase you can get a free including bicycles. “This is a rare plaid scarf while supplies last, and opportunity to save 15 percent enter a drawing to win a Woolrich on a bicycle,” said Lee Shlifka, vintage buffalo check wool blanket. one of the owners. Alixandra Collections is Forest Bootery and Lake & turning Black Friday and Small Co. are on Market Square. At Business Saturday into a week- both stores, buy the first item full long celebration by having seven price and you’ll get 30 percent off days of sales in-store and online. the second. The special starts on JAYNE is offering select Sorel Black Friday and lasts through boots for $79, and a group of Ugg Cyber Monday. Boots for 40 percent off. Other than a few exceptions, the whole Wilmette: There are 22 busistore is discounted from head to nesses from the village and Plaza toe including hats, scarves, gloves, del Lago participating in Small and sweaters. Fleece leggings are Business Saturday. Merchants will distribute “passports” for on sale for $12. Modern Opulence is offering people to visit different stores 25 percent off your entire pur- while getting their passports chase of full-priced items for stamped along the way. It’s not Black Friday weekend. All fall/ necessary to purchase anything winter sale items are 60 percent to get a stamp, but the idea is to off. All reduced merchandise is generate foot traffic. Each merchant is raffling off a prize that final sale. Shopping is thirsty work, and is $50 or more. For example, The Michael’s Chicago-Style Red Hots Runner’s Edge is raffling a comis hoping to take the edge off with plete running outfit from head to “Adult Slushies,” said Shotts, who toe (including shoes) by Saucony encourages everyone to check out valued at $350. The prizes will be the newly remodeled restaurant. drawn the week after the event. SHOPPING Cont. from PG 1
Hubbard Woods: Many stores are in post-Thanksgiving holiday sales spirit. Here are a few highlights; stroll the neighborhood to find even more! Bedside Manor is offering special savings from one of its vendor of luxury linens, Yves Delorme, with all categories of bed, bath, and table linens are included. Purchase one item and receive 10% off. Two items receives a 20% discount. Three items or more receives a 30% savings. The promotion runs November 25 through December 10. Phototronics in Hubbard Woods is offering 15 percent off camera accessories and supplies. Some manufacturers of cameras, lenses and GoPro are offering instant savings as well. Material Possessions is running a 20% to 75% off sale on all chandeliers for the Black Friday weekend. Bella Bleu Bridal is offering 10% off all gown orders and a complimentary veil for gown orders over $3,000. Winnetka: The WinnetkaNorthfield Chamber of Commerce is planning the Annual RED INVITATION SUNDAY SALE in Winnetka and Northfield on Sunday, December 4 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You will save on holiday shopping when more than 35 shops and restaurants offer great deals, free refreshments and often times free gift wrapping. Northfield: Northfield Now!, Village of Northfield, Northfield Park District, Winnetka-Northfield Library District and Winnetka-Northfield Chamber of Commerce are planning the first
annual Northfield Holiday Lights and Family Fun on December 4. Centered in Northfield Village Hall at the corner of Happ and Willow Roads, the program features activities including horsedrawn sleigh rides, live music
down Central Street toward the village business district, which was the center of activity. Santa visited with children in front of Village Hall and the Wilmette Community Band entertained the crowd with music. Scandia Catering handed out free hot chocolate to spectators in celebration of the 30th anniversary, and Lambrecht’s Jewelers continued its tradition of offering warm apple cider. “I think it is really amazing for a small town to put on this event and it is due to the business community,” Yusim said. The parade is organized by local businesses leaders and the Chamber of Commerce. The parade was started 30 years ago by a group of business owners who were involved with the Optimist Club. Marking the 30th anniversary, the parade included a special float featuring some of those founders and their families.
“We paid homage to the founders,” Yusim said. The Optimist Club continues to help with the parade. The parade has come a long way, according to chairman Matt Lambrecht of Lambrecht’s Jewelers. In the early days, the parade lasted about five to 10 minutes and was called the Santa Parade. “It was very small,” Lambrecht said. But the community was enthusiastic about a parade that was organized by businesses to give back to the community, and it grew over time. When the Chamber took over the parade it was re-named the Holiday Parade to be more inclusive, Lambrecht said. He has been chairing the parade for over 25 years and does the voiceover for the cable television show of the parade on channel 6. “It is really a fun way to kick of the holiday season,” Lambrecht said.
performances, plus dance, crafts and refreshments, including a grilling station run by Hofherr Meat Co. The Holiday Festival begins at 3 p.m. and ends with a tree and menorah lighting at 5 p.m. Parking is available at the
large municipal lot off Orchard Lane across from the Northfield Library. DailyNorthShore.com reporters Steve Sadin and Emily Spectre contributed to this story.
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Hone stopped by, and GHP’s aquaponic garden beds fascinated him immediately. An aquaponic system harnesses fish waste to fertilize and grow edible plants. Fish in each fish tank dart to and fro underneath a bed of nutrientrich pebbles. Hone started to think during his tour of the GHP facility, his Eagle Scout project becoming clearer and more ambitious. Maybe the greenhouse at LFCDS could house a GHP aquaponic system. Or two. Or three. The project had the potential to accentuate the learning environment at his alma mater and assist veterans at the same time. Two visions, one stone. The teenager contacted adults at LFCDS and pitched his project. The adults welcomed it. Hone planned and built and installed three aquaponic planters, all while supervising about 10 volunteers. He had raised money for the parts. Besenjak and her GHP cohort, Kevin Westing, offered plenty of support during the 116-hour endeavor, completed right before the start of the 2016-17 academic year. LFCDS and GHP are partners. GHP’s new home base: the greenhouse at LFCDS. “He’s such a fine young man, serious and committed, interested in serving and providing,” Besenjak says of Hone, whose Eagle Scout advisor was Steve Doherty. “Justin wanted to do something different, something substantial. “Our country,” she adds, “is going to need a million new farmers during the next 10 years.
Veterans have the skills, the determination, to become many of our nation’s next food providers.” You’ve heard of the farm-totable movement, restaurants forming relationships with farms rather than purchasing food from a distributor or a food service or some other middle agent. Greenhouse-farm-to-cafeteria can’t be too far away at LFCDS. “I see the use of our space at the school to grow vegetables [for LFCDS lunch fare], maybe by the end of this school year or as a part of an initiative for next year,” Nicholson says. “Our students, already, are taking microgreens, grown here at the school, home and talking about them with their parents, eating them with their parents. They’re understanding how food is produced and where food is produced. They’re talking about healthy eating, and they’re becoming more and more mindful of topics such as sustainable agriculture and our global footprint.” Hone hopes to someday hoof around a campus in the Washington, D.C. area, as a double major in International Studies and a foreign language. Years ago he turned in his first-ever research paper to Mr. Crofts, a social studies teacher at LFCDS and, no doubt, one of many on the growing list of Proud Mentors of Justin Hone. “After college I’d like to work in the State Department,” Hone says. “Or maybe for the CIA.” Plan C? Serve as United States Secretary of Agriculture. Just a hunch.
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reservation or a long wait on the weekend is the reality. Starting off with several partners, Gutierrez said there are now three including him. Some customers call it upscale. Gutierrez prefers to talk about the quality of the food. “Everything is fresh,” said Gutierrez. “We make everything ourselves.” Cooking since he was 16, Gutierrez had been working at Chipotle since 2010 when he got a call from his wife, who was working at different Lake Forest restaurant. She and some colleagues told him a Mexican restaurant was needed in Lake Forest and it was time to start one. “It would be easy to look at street foods but we wanted to look for new trends,” said Gutierrez. “We wanted to do more than tacos, burritos and quesadillas.” There are still tacos but they Chef/Partner Antonio Gutierrez holds his Filet de Res y Papas Fritas are all dressed up like the Taco at Authentico in Lake Forest. PHOTO BY JOEL LERNER.
de Pescado. The fish is marinated mahi-mahi and the ingredients evoke a variety of tastes. “It’s grilled to make it healthy,” said Gutierrez. “Then we use red and white cabbage, peppers and lime.” Another dish with a flare is the enchiladas de Authentico featuring shrimp and crabmeat stuffed inside the shell. Gutierrez said he adds some cheese, sour cream and roasted poblano sauce. Gutierrez scoffs at the idea food in his restaurant might be called a fusion of different cuisines. He prefers to call it blended cuisine where he adds Italian, French or American flavors learned at some of his previous stops along his professional career path. One is Pescado Paraiso. The fish is tilapia. “We add things like avocado salsa, anchovy honey glaze and some fresh grilled vegetables,” said Gutierrez. With the addition of specials, Gutierrez said he keeps the menu
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Badovinac, fellow line mates pave way as LA returns to state title game BY KEVIN REITERMAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM
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few moments after the postgame handshakes, a spirited and playful David Terrell raced over to Jack Badovinac and jumped on his back. The unsuspecting Badovinac didn’t flinch. Didn’t cringe. The 6-foot-2, 270-pound offensive lineman gladly gave the star wideout a lift: an old-fashioned piggyback ride. The scene was, uh, Uber-ific. Spontaneous celebrations are allowed on a football field — especially during the state playoffs. Besides, doing the heavy lifting is nothing new for Badovinac. You could make a very good argument that Badovinac and his line mates — fellow starters John Brekke, Callum Brien, Charlie Gross, Paddy Kotowski and top reserve Brian McTague — carried the day. They were the limousine drivers. Loyola Academy John Holecek said as much. The veteran head coach — a former NFL linebacker — isn’t one to gush. But Holecek couldn’t help but gush over his ‘O’ line following his team’s 42-13 victory over host Glenbard West in a Class 8A state semifinal game on Nov. 19. The line play got first mention in Holecek’s post-game huddle with his players. And the LA head coach continued to give his blockers high praise in post-game interviews with reporters. “What did we give them in the second half ? Eight plays (actually, 13)? Wow!” said Holecek. “[Not giving up the ball] is a credit to our O-line.” The reigning champion Ramblers (13-0), who will face Maine South in the title game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Nov. 26 (7 p.m.), rolled up 438 yards. They ended up running 71 plays, 30 more than the 10-3 Hilltoppers, who ended the game with 237 yards. “Our offensive line has been ridiculously good all year,” said LA senior quarterback Tommy Herion, who has now thrown for 2,115 yards on the season. “How
Kotowski, who has had the privilege of coaching his son, starting center Paddy Kotowski. “It’s very comparable to last year’s line. ” Brekke and Badovinac, who line up on the left side, know all about championship football. Along with 2016 graduates Sam Badovinac (now playing at Butler), Daniel Kurkowski (now at Holy Cross) and Thomas Nute, they were starters on last year’s state title team. “Their leadership is fantastic,” said Kotowski. “They’re great to coach. “And Jack is always focused,” the assistant added. “He’s always in tune.” He’ll be missed next year — and for years to come. “My only regret is that the Badovinacs didn’t have more kids,” said Holecek. Notable: Defensively, the Ramblers were led by sophomore safety Jake Gonzalez (6 tackles, 9-yard QB sack, 1 tackle-for-loss, interception), junior safety Charlie Largay (6 tackles, forced fumble), junior defensive end Geary (5 tackles, 1 QB hurry), JACK & JAKE: Loyola Academy offensive lineman Jack Badovinac (No. 77) celebrates with Jake Marwede after Marwede caught a senior inside linebacker Anthony touchdown pass in the second quarter. PHOTO BY GEORGE PFOERTNER. Romano (4 tackles, fumble recovthey go is how we go.” “You can’t go away from your turned into a runaway locomotive. Herion to put the Ramblers in ery), senior corner back Ian Herion, who missed three best player,” said Holecek. The powerful, hard-to-take-down front 35-7 with 1:52 left in the Swenson (4 tackles, 1 pass The Hilltoppers, who won the Duke University recruit took the third quarter. quarters of the state quarterfinal breakup), senior inside linebackgame at Huntley with a conces- Class 7A championship last fall, snap, high-hurdled over the line The 5-11 speedster, son of ex- er Graham Repp (3 tackles, sion, didn’t miss a beat. He com- knew Marwede would strike. They and advanced the ball 20 yards. Chicago Bears receiver David 8-yard QB sack), senior outside pleted 15 of 20 passes for 180 just didn’t know when. “That,” said Badovinac, “was Terrell, couldn’t help but have fun linebacker Mickey Kane (2 yards. He also had a one-yard TD Marwede’s first catch of the awesome to see. on a football field, doing the tackles, 1 TFL), senior nose tackle “He didn’t even have that big popular arms-out, airplane- Omar Mendez (3 tackles) and run. game — a high leaping 39-yarder In fact, Herion did very little — came with just over one minute of a hole to run through,” the soaring thing after the catch. junior outside linebacker Anthony misfiring. He mystified the Hill- left in the first half. Marwede (5 catches, 58 yards; Rodriguez (3 tackles). … LA’s lineman added. toppers by completing his last 12 Six plays later, the Ramblers One play later, Marwede broke 6 rushes, 46 yards) was the first state title game against Maine passes. broke a 7-7 tie, when the 6-5 free and went for broke. He went to greet Terrell in the end zone South (10-3) will be a rematch. “We had everything clicking,” Marwede scored on one of his into the end zone standing up on airstrip, and he promptly airlifted The Ramblers edged the Central said Badovinac, a Colgate recruit patented plays. He caught a five- a 15-yard QB keeper to put the him to the sky. Suburban League powerhouse A play like that takes a lot of 44-43 in Week Two of the regular and honorable mention all-stater. yard corner fade in the far left Ramblers ahead 21-7. “It’s hard for teams to scheme precision — and protection. And season. The Hawks advanced with LA went 89 yards on 14 plays section of the end zone. on its first series of the game. Fade to black didn’t come until against him,” said Herion. “Teams thanks to Badovinac and Co., a 28-14 victory over Palatine Senior running back Kyle Rock, a little later. will stack the box, and Jake still Herion had plenty of time to get High School on Nov. 19. With who ended up with 168 yards on But go ahead and cue it up. The will run right over them. He’s such the pass off. John Holecek at the helm, LA 28 carries to put him over 1,000 end of the road for Glenbard West a great weapon to have.” It was that way all day. Herion will be making its fourth trip to And what about that guy who was sacked only once (LA’s the state finals. The Ramblers took yards (1,135) for the season, arguably came on the seventh play capped the opening drive with a of the second half. That’s when likes piggyback rides? He’s a opening drive). runner-up honors in 2011 and three-yard run. Marwede went all Marwede on pretty good weapon, as well. “They [the linemen] were phe- 2013. LA’s state title last fall was The clicking got even better the Hilltoppers. Terrell (7 catches, 96 yards) came nomenal today,” said LA offensive the program’s second, 22 years — and louder — when first-team On 4th-and-1 at the Glenbard up with one of the plays of the line coach Mike Kotowski, who after its first. The late John Hoall-stater Jake Marwede got in- West 35-yard line, the senior lined game, when he ran under a per- is in his 25th year at the school. erster coached the ’93 state chamvolved. up in the Wildcat formation and fectly thrown 31-yard toss from “It’s a great group,” added pionship squad.
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CREED HITS ALL OF THE RIGHT NOTES New Trier sophomore dives — and dances — her way to a state championship BY BILLMCLEAN , SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM
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efore each of her dives at the state meet last weekend, New Trier sophomore Jessie Creed, listening to music only she could hear, danced vigorously on deck, her arms and legs flailing, her head bobbing, her lips silently mouthing lyrics. “It helps me keep my energy up,” Creed said. “Dancing at meets, it keeps me distracted … distracted but focused.” Her diving coach, Bruce Kimball, a smart man, stays away from his star diver during the solo dance sessions. Way away. “When possible, when she’s not moving so much,” he said, “I give her a couple of my thoughts.” Creed, headphone-less, climbed the middle board at Evanston Township High School and stood still on Nov. 20. Silence before her final dive in the finals, but not for long. Her teammates, sitting to her left in a bank of poolside bleachers, shouted, “Hey, Jessie!” Creed turned her head to her left, smiled and nodded to acknowledge her supporters. Then she lost the smile and went to work, executing another picturesque dive. It clinched a state championship, the first by a Trevians female diver since Paige Grant topped the field at the 2008 meet. Creed, third at state as a freshman last fall, finished with a total of 462.55 points, bettering runner-up Lucy Hogan of Evanston by more than 13 points. “She rips every dive,” said New Trier freshman Katie Lipsey, 12th (392 points) at state last weekend and, like Creed, a Chicago Dive Club member. “Jessie teaches me everything I need to know about diving. She told me what to expect at this meet. She’s nice, a leader. I learned, no matter what, you have to keep persevering at a meet like this. “The big crowd here, the loud crowd, I liked it.” Diving judges loved Creed’s 10th dive (her second dive on Nov. 20, Day Two of the meet). The inward double boasted a degree CREED IS GOOD: Jessie Creed of the Trevians acknowledges her fans prior to dive No. 11 at the state of difficulty of 2.8. Creed made it meet. She took the first-place medal with 462.55 points. PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HANDWERKER.
look easy, earning 7s and 6.5s. “That was the key dive,” Kimball said. “She did well, scored well. Exciting.” Creed gained strength in the offseason and joined her swimming mates for weightlifting sessions during the season. Squats built up her lower body, medicine ball tosses her arms. Talent? No shortage of that. “I worked as hard as I could [since the end of her freshman season], trying to get sharper in the air, trying to get everything perfect,” Creed says. “I listened to my coaches, and I had faith in God.” One of the first to hug the champ was Kimball, who also presented the medals to each of the 12 diving finalists. “Such an awesome guy,” Creed said. “Bruce is a huge role model, always there, always kind.” Creed’s feat off the boards highlighted NT’s fifth-place showing (87 points) at state. A pair of Trevians relays (200-yard medley, 200 freestyle) silvered, senior Lydia O’Connell anchoring each. The 200 free quartet of freshman Joelle Ohr, senior Madeleine Hines, junior Sophia Girgenti and O’Connell combined for a school-record time of 1:34.74; junior Vivian Wu, senior Sara Nicholas, sophomore Kasey Venn and O’Connell clocked a 1:44.25 in the 200 medley relay. O’Connell contributed sixthplace points in the 50 free (23.69), and Nicholas (1:04.29) and Venn (1:04.53) finished eighth-ninth in the 100 breaststroke. NT freshman Sela Cornell raced in four events for athletes with disabilities last weekend. She touched first in the 100 breaststroke (1:28.39), second in the 50 free (31.04) and fourth in both the 200 free (2:53.41) and 100 free (1:14.31). For the first time, officials recognized a combined (disabled and able-bodied athletes) state team champion in girls swimming and diving — and New Trier was that team. “So cool,” Trevians coach Mac Guy said. “To be a part of something historic like that … so cool.
Our goal, all along, was to be a trophy team. “We competed really well today. We had such a great group this season, and I’m so proud of our seniors.” Notable: Trevians junior Sophia Girgenti finished in 13th place in the 100 free (52.45) on Nov. 19, one place shy of a spot in the event’s consolation finals. Lake Forest High School Tough Friday. Superb Saturday. Maddie Smith’s weekend, in a nutshell, at the state swimming and diving meet in Evanston Nov. 19-20. Seeded first in each of the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events, Smith — a Scouts senior and a University of North Caroline recruit — recovered nicely after surviving the cut in only the 50 free in the prelims session on Nov. 19. Smith sped to a seventh-place 23.18 on Nov. 19. The time deserves an asterisk, since it was the fastest among the swimmers in her heat (consolation) and among the swimmers in the championship heat. Oak Park-River Forest sophomore Natalie Ungaretti touched first in 23.31. “Everybody has a bad day; mine was Friday,” an upbeat Smith said. “Today [Saturday] I had nothing to lose. I was more relaxed, not as nervous.” Smith helped the Scouts’ 400 free relay set a state record (3:24.5) last fall. The mark still stands. LFHS senior Jo Annin medaled in the 100 butterfly for the second year in a row last weekend, clocking a 56.93. Scouts senior Ana Kohout and freshman Julia Tanna competed in a combined seven races for athletes with disabilities. Kohout collected three gold medals (200 free, 50 free, 100 free), and Tanna placed sixth in a pair of events (200 free, 50 free). Lake Forest’s Scouts finished runner-up to New Trier in the combined (disabled and ablebodied competitors) team standings.
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TIERNEY-ING IT UP A NOTCH Senior comes up with top-tier efforts as Loyola takes runner-up honors at state swim meet BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM
E.T. HEADS HOME: Ella Tierney of the Ramblers drives to a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle at the IHSA state meet. The senior also took first in the 500 free, and she was a member of two medalwinning relays. PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HANDWERKER.
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lla Tierney climbed out of a pool last weekend, placed her hands on her hips and exhaled. The Loyola Academy senior then unleashed an emphatic “Whooooooooo!” The moment took place on Nov. 20, after the conclusion of the 200-yard freestyle relay at the state swimming and diving meet at Evanston Township High School. Tierney, a University of Texas recruit, had just popped a 23.15 anchor split after relay legs from senior Olivia Andrew and juniors Cassidy Coughlin and Margaret Guanci. The crew’s third-place time of 1:34.87 was only part of a burgeoning story. Tierney had won the previous event, the 500 free (in 4:48.45), and had to dash to pose for a picture with the other 11 500-free finalists and then dash back to the pool area to get ready for the 200
free relay. “I’m not a sprinter,” Tierney said. “The 500 free, I guess, warmed me up for 50 (relay leg).” About her 23.15 split in the 200 free… Oak Park-River Forest sophomore Natalie Ungaretti had won the 50 free at state last weekend, in 23.31. Not a sprinter, Ella? “Huge,” Ramblers coach Mike Hengelmann said, sweat streaming down his face after celebrating Tierney’s magnificent back-toback swims in the heat of a suddenly compelling team race. “What Ella did there, winning the 500 and then, only five minutes later, going 23.1 in the relay … huge. She changed the momentum of the meet for us. I couldn’t be happier for a swimmer than I am now. Wow, hard to describe what I’m feeling now.” Loyola had jumped to fourth
place (82 points) in the team standings after the 200 free relay. Tierney’s gold in the 500 was worth 16 points, and the 200 free crew’s effort supplied 24 team points. Next up: the 100 backstroke. Hengelmann got to watch Guanci and junior Shannon Kearney race for more points as championship-heat finalists. Kearney took third (55.42), Guanci fourth (56.59). Twenty-three more team points. LA was now in second place, 34 points behind leader Rosary and nine points ahead of third-place Oswego East, with two events remaining. “Top three is crazy,” Kearney said of her swim in the 100 back. “I was hoping for top six [before the start of the season]. Two years ago, my freshman year, I tapered for the conference meet and sat in the stands when our varsity won
state. “Watching that state meet,” she added, “drove me to get to where I am today.” Entering the final race at state last weekend, LA was still in second place, only two points ahead of third-place OP-RF. But OP-RF’s 400 free relay had not qualified to swim at state. LA’s quartet — Coughlin, Andrew, Guanci and Tierney — had earned the fourth seed in the championship heat. Each swam faster than 53second splits, Tierney’s 50.65 pacing the group, and they collaborated for a runner-up time of 3:26.34. The final team standings: Rosary, 185.5 points. Loyola Academy, 131. Oswego East, 120. “Not a dry eye in our [poolside bleacher] section after the 400 free relay,” Hengelmann said following
the trophy ceremony. “There wasn’t a dry eye after Ella’s 500. We got spectacular efforts from so many today. Every girl was focused, determined to do anything to help the team get a trophy.” LA hauled a state trophy home for the second time in three years. The program finished in the top five at state for the seventh year in a row. “We all got together, before the start of the season, at a lake house in northwestern Illinois,” recalled Tierney, who established a pair of personal-best times (that 4:48.45 in the 500 free, plus her runner-up 1:47.24 in the 200 free) — not an easy double, especially for an athlete who churned for 1,700 hard yards during the two-day meet. “Team bonding,” she added. "We talked. We wanted a team trophy. We weren’t interested in another fourth-place (the team’s
finish at state in ’15). “If you believe, you can achieve, right?” Notable: LA senior Olivia Andrew was seeded 20th (1:53.74) in the 200 free after sectional weekend on Nov. 12. She finished sixth (1:52.02) in the event at state on Nov. 20, to go with her silver in the 100 butterfly (55.51). … Ramblers sophomore Sofia Vargas, seeded 15th in the 500 free, finished 12th (5:03.14) at state. The Ramblers’ 200 medley relay of Shannon Kearney, Sarah Pinkerton, Margaret Guanci and Cassidy Coughlin — juniors, all of them — also bettered its seed (18th) when it went 1:47.38, swift enough for 10th place. “One after another after another,” Ramblers coach Mike Hengelmann said of big swims, point-generating swims, from his girls throughout the meet.
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McCabe finds his mission in life
BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT
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t was a young Tim McCabe’s favorite Saturday, the third of each month, the day he’d get to hang out with his father, Jim, at work. Jim, an Evanstonian, was a Ford parts department manager on the North Shore. Timmy was a grade-schooler. “We’d go to a diner, the same diner, and drink coffee together on those Saturday mornings,” the son recalls. “The taste of the coffee … horrible. There wasn’t enough cream and sugar available to make me like it, but I still drank it, and I felt like a grownup when I drank it. “My dad worked hard, did the right things. He was friendly, respectful.” Surrounded by mufflers and tires and batteries as a child, Tim, now 59 and a resident of Palatine, steers a mission as the executive director of the Winnetka Commu n i t y House (WCH), a privately supported facility founded in 1911. “The place is amazing and busy,” McCabe, executive director since 2009, says. “Busy all of the time. It truly is a part of the fabric of Winnetka, touching the lives of everybody in the village. I was at our biggest fundraiser, Antiques + Modernism Show, and I heard a woman say, ‘There’s the room where I learned ballet, and I took music lessons in another room.’ When I first entered the place [as a candidate for the
WCH Assistant Director post, nearly 20 years ago], it brought back so many memories of my childhood, of days spent at the YMCA in Evanston. It felt comfortable, immediately. “I felt like a kid again.” Men, today, play pickup basketball games at WCH. Some of those men had learned to play basketball as firstgraders — in a WCH gymnasium. WCH houses the Winnetka Youth Organization and the North Shore Art League and the Junior
L eague of Evanston-North Shore, among other tenant organizations. WCH served as an incubator for the Hadley School for the Blind and for the North Shore Senior Center. Business meetings and birthday parties are held at WCH. Children’s Theatre of Winnetka presented “Annie Jr.”, a family-friendly musical at WCH’s Matz Hall (365 seats) earlier this month. Voters voted
wouldn’t be able to exist without the support of this community, this generous community.” McCabe’s mother, Jane, worked for Evanston/Skokie School District 65 during McCabe’s high school and college years. She got wind of a District 65 summer job opening and mentioned it to her son. Tim performed warehouse duties for the district and cut ever y
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there on Nov. 8. Brides and grooms say “I do” there. A “best man” for a Fantasy Football enthusiast — yes, Fantasy Football Drafts have been held at WCH — is a Tom Brady or an Antonio Brown, minus the tuxedoes. “We are always taking the temperature of the community,
always asking residents, ‘What do you want Winnetka Community House to be?’ ” McCabe says. “Or, ‘What other offerings would you like us to provide?’ My full-time staff [of 16] is wonderful, and our volunteers, our hundreds of volunteers … we wouldn’t be able to exist without their support and hard work. We
blade of grass at every district school during the summers. The work paid for his tuition and books at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he majored in accounting. McCabe garnered more than paychecks as a public accountant in Chicago. His office manager had a niece named Terry. Tim met Terry. They would become Mr. and Mrs. McCabe and raise three children (Erin, 29, Casey, 27, and Carly, 20). Terry works in the insurance industry. Tim McCabe completed
comptroller stints for a home builder and for a furniture store before deciding it was time to exit the for-profit world. Winnetka Community House needed an assistant executive director; it said so in a newspaper’s want ad. McCabe interviewed for the position in 1997. Former WCH Executive Director Don Van Arsdale conducted the interview. McCabe got hired and served as assistant director for 12 years, handling much of the financial and operational workings of the village’s educational, cultural, social and recreational hub. “I wanted something more meaningful,” McCabe says of his career change in his late 30s. “We’re doing meaningful things here. We’re doing our best to reflect what our community needs. You know what’s really rewarding about what I do? Hearing the sounds of kids in the building, going to classes, running to the gym, laughing. That sound, for me, is like a spring renewal. My kids attended camps and classes when they were young, when they got to come to work with their dad.” McCabe, sitting at a table in Café Aroma in Winnetka, grins. He had ordered The Day Breaker — two eggs, ham, hash browns and an English muffin. Decaf coffee, too. He takes a sip of coffee. He does not wince, does not look for a gallon of cream, does not look for a wheelbarrow of sugar. Timmy McCabe is Tim McCabe, all grown up.
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