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fter a national search for a new superintendent, New Trier Township High School looked to its internal talent, unanimously approving Dr. Paul Sally to lead District 203 at its Board of Education meeting on November 21. Dr. Sally currently serves as associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction. “I am truly honored to be the next superintendent of New Trier,” Dr. Sally told the board. “It really is the people that make it a special place.” The board undertook an extensive search process that spanned five months and included hiring the search firm search School Exec Connect, which conducted 19 focus groups and an online survey over the summer. The board utilized feedback from this research to create a profile it used to recruit over 30 candidates who applied for the job. Dr. Sally received a standing ovation by the board and audience when President Gregory Robitaille Continued on PG 12
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longhaired domestic black cat named Jackie O went missing for two months, but thanks to a caring community, a team of dedicated veterinarians and a Good Samaritan, this story has a happy ending. It also features a Chicago Bear. “I have practiced emergency (veterinarian) medicine for 12 years, and Jackie O is the first pet I have seen that has survived for two months on its own, lived through sepsis, liver failure, severe malnutrition and still made it home,” said veterinarian Meredith Maczuzak of BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Northfield. “I loved the moment when she (left) our hospital to continue her life with the love of an entire family that waited patiently to make sure she was on the road to recovery.” Amy Davis lives with her daughter, Brelana, son-in-law Ted Larsen and 14-month-old granddaughter Charlotte. After the cat went missing on September 1, Davis said, “We never expected to see Jackie O again, with the coyotes out there, the rain and the cold weather. Jackie O is very tiny, so Ted and I thought she was gone after a couple of weeks, but Brelana never gave up hope.” The family recently moved to Lake Forest when Larsen became an offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears. Davis explained that Jackie O must have slipped out when people were making deliveries to the house. “Ted was very involved in her search,” Davis said of the
Amy Davis with recovering feline Jackie O, who was found in Lake Bluff two months after she went missing from her Lake Forest home. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.
Chicago Bears’ 6-foot-2, 315pound guard. “Several times a day, he would put Charlotte in a backpack and hike along the perimeter of the neighborhood and golf course, searching for Jackie O.” Davis said as the family combed the neighborhood and put up posters of Jackie O, the neighbors were extremely supportive, and someone suggested posting on the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Lost Pets
Facebook page, which has a dedicated following and has helped reunite many human families with their furry and feathered companions. “Everyone who sees these posts is so inclined to share with their friends, so you can imagine how wide that net gets thrown across Lake Forest and Lake Bluff,” Davis noted. On the morning of October 28 — nearly two months since the Davis family last saw Jackie
O — Lake Bluff resident Mindy Walker, her dog, Jackson, and her sister-in-law saw something in Walker’s front yard that, at first glance, looked like a black garbage bag. But then they took a closer look and realized it was a black cat that wasn’t wearing a collar and had been declawed. When Walker’s dog started barking, the feline didn’t move. Walker tried feeding her, but the cat wouldn’t eat. “We called the Lake Bluff
Police Department, who gave us a police escort to the Knollwood Animal Hospital, and they scanned her to find she had a chip, which revealed a Lake Forest address,” said Walker. The officer, five minutes later, spoke to Brelana, who was overcome with relief. “It was so nice to reunite them, and I’m so glad Jackie O was OK,” Walker added. “I’d like Continued on PG 12
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to close Lincoln and Ravinia Elementary Schools, Elm Place he Board of Education and Middle School and the Green the Reconfiguration 2.0 Bay Early Childhood Center to Committee were in agree- save an estimated $5 million a ment about the goals of the year. Education Committee and focus Board member Jane Solmor groups, but things heated up Mordini explained that the when the conversation turned to change was partly due to the fiBDR3 at the November 21 nancial models that the ReconNSSD112 Board Workshop. figuration 2.0 Finance Commit“We were told BDR3 was a tee introduced. “The community cost-cutting measure and that $5 was told that there’s a little more million had to be removed from flexibility in the doomsday finanthe budget to achieve certain cial scenario,” she added. things,” said Ann Rosenblum, In addition to the FTEs, Roni member of the Reconfiguration Ben-Yoseph, co-chairman of the 2.0 Finance Committee. “This Reconfiguration 2.0 Education increase in (Full Time Equiva- Committee, expressed concern lents) is not a cost cutting about the average class sizes for measure. It changes that $5 middle schools versus elemenmillion and the group of 30 [Re- tary schools wherein seventh configuration 2.0 Community graders are going to have smaller Team] was taken aback by this classes than first graders. She also and BDR3 became more fluid fears that if the referendum than it was before.” A Full Time doesn’t pass, then four years later Equivalent (FTE) is the number the district will implement of hours worked by one em- BDR4, and more problems will arise. ployee on a full-time basis. The plan outlined in BDR3 is Board President Michael
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Cohn said the majority of the board decided to move in the direction of BDR3. Then he tried to end the conversation. “What’s disturbing is the comment that BDR3 and 2.0 are on parallel tracks,” said Michael Tobin, co-chairman of Reconfiguration 2.0 Building Committee. “By definition parallel tracks never meet. They should be on intertwined, coordinated tracks. BDR3 is setting up something that we have to follow. What is done with BDR3 may not allow the following to go as clearly as we want it to.” Superintendent Dr. Michael Bregy said the district’s job is to be consistent with anything that is brought to them, whether it’s from the board or the Reconfiguration 2.0 Team. Dan Jenks, Reconfiguration 2.0 Finance Committee, explained that the board told the team that it’s necessary to save $5 million a year plus an additional $400,000 by closing Ravinia School. Then the board
decided that it was more worthwhile to spend $700,000 on middle school programming, he added. Raphael L a b r a d o r, Reconfiguration 2.0 Steering Committee, said, “The sense of surprise undermines trust.” On the subject of surprises, board Vice President Samantha Stolberg said, “There might be a new board up here in April that could tell 2.0 we’re keeping all of the schools open and thank you for your service. Unraveling BDR3 would be so catastrophic for this community, speaking as someone who is not necessarily in favor of implementing all parts of BDR3 in the fall.” When Stolberg asked when the board was going to see the reconfiguration models, Tobin explained that the models haven’t changed in a while, because the Building Committee has been waiting for feedback from the Education Committee and the board’s consensus. “We’ve looked at about 20
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NEWS PURR-FECT Cont. from PG 1 to think that there was a reason why she was sitting in our front yard. I’m so happy that this story has a great ending and she’s made a recovery.” Davis said she and her family are grateful that Walker and Jackson found Jackie O and went to great lengths to help her. It’s a mystery how the indoor cat survived the trek to Lake Bluff without having claws to hunt for food. According to Dr. Maczuzak, the BluePearl veterinarian, when Jackie O was admitted to the Critical Care unit at Blue Pearl, she was anemic, functionally blind and unable to stand; had lost several pounds; and was suffering from liver failure and sepsis. Dr. Shaunita Sharpe, veterinary technician Erin Bjorvik, and the rest of the technical staff in the ICU worked all night to stabilize her, including administering a blood transfusion and treating her dehydration. “Without these initial efforts Jackie O would not have survived; they are the unsung heroes in Jackie O’s initial recovery,” said Maczuzak, who met Jackie O the following morning. “She was blind and so weak that she could only stand for several seconds at a time. However, from the moment I met her, I knew she had the will to live.” Dr. Maczuzak explained that
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Amy Davis with her cat, Jackie O, and granddaughter Charlotte in Lake Forest. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.
Jackie O’s food intake had to be carefully monitored, because overeating could be injurious to her health. “With the help of antibiotics, fluids and nutr itional supplementation, we slowly reversed her liver disease, and she beat that infection,” she said. Jackie O soon began eating well on her own. “She was a cat that knew she wanted to get home, Maczuzak
said. “Her family never gave up hope, and Jackie O never stopped fighting.” Within four days she regained her sight. “She went from a cat not strong enough to stand or lift her head up, to a cat tentatively able to walk, albeit with collapsed joints,” the veterinarian said. Davis said that when Jackie O first came home from the hospital, she walked sideways and couldn’t
superintendents in other school districts. announced his appointment, Vice President Lori Goldstein while the i n c o m i n g noted that during Dr. Sally’s superintendent’s wife and mother 22-year tenure at New Trier he proudly watched from the has developed strong relationships audience. with the community, staff and Dr. Sally expressed his excite- students. “I think the key here is ment and plans to engage the you are a long-term New Trier community going forward. “I will guy,” Goldstein said. Dr. Sally joined New Trier in work hard and I won’t let you down,” he said. 1994 as a math teacher and spent While the board ultimately 15 years in the department, chose an internal candidate, board including four years as the Northmembers expressed their support field Campus Coordinator for the of the decision to conduct a Mathematics Department. He rigorous national search. Board was promoted to Assistant Sumember Alan Dolinko noted that perintendent in 2009 and Asthe search provided the board an sociate Superintendent in 2014, opportunity to see how Dr. Sally where he is responsible for overmeasured up to outside seeing faculty supervision and candidates, and also provided Dr. evaluation, professional developSally the opportunity to “earn the ment, testing and all major curricular initiatives. position.” The board praised Dr. Sally on Dr. Sally has spent most of his his performance throughout the career in education. He earned a process. bachelor’s degree in applied “The whole time your light was mathematics from Yale Univershining bright,” board member sity, a master’s degree in comCathleen Albrecht said. In the puter science from Northwestern final round, Dr. Sally University and a doctoral degree competed for the position against in educational leadership from two other candidates who are National Louis University. Dr.
Sally worked in software development for seven years before changing careers to education in 1992. The board approved a threeyear contract that will start July 1, 2017 and run through June 30, 2020. Dr. Sally will be paid $230,000 per year with a $500 per month car allowance. Dr. Linda Yonke will continue to serve as superintendent until June 2017 and will work with Dr. Sally throughout the transition. “It’s wonderful that Linda is going to be here during the transition,” Dr. Sally said. He said he is looking forward to engaging the community and enhancing New Trier’s focus on the social-emotional health of the whole child. That was the focus of his presentation to the board during the interview process. Dr. Yonke spoke warmly of Dr. Sally’s appointment. He will be the sixth Ne w Tr ier superintendent in the past 85 years. “I know that you have a unique set of skills and characteristics that will make you a success at New Trier,” she said. “You will shine.”
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lost and confused, on the Old Elm Golf Club golf course in Highland Park. “She didn’t have any tags with her name or the owner’s phone number, just her rabies tag, so I took her picture, logged it on the Facebook page and called the police,” said Mutter. After taking her to business meetings that afternoon – he’s a broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group, also in Lake Forest — he brought the dog home. He noticed she was muddy, so he gave her a bath and later fed her. When his veterinarian at the Fort Sheridan Animal Hospital asked for her rabies tag number, they immediately discovered the dog’s name and owner through the Lake County registry. “To my horror, I discovered Forest-Lake Bluff Lost Pets Riley actually belongs to the golf Facebook page. course, where she works chasing “The one thing that the geese,” Mutter said. “It turns out community has stressed is the that I had abducted the dog … importance of micro-chipping stolen it for the afternoon.” your pet, because if a pet is microMutter quickly returned the chipped, there’s an extraordinary freshly bathed “goose chaser” to chance of getting it returned,” she her employer and bought her a said. “Had Jackie O not been pink dog tag with her name and chipped and returned to us she phone number. “I did that,” Mutter muttered, would not have gone to BluePearl.” “to avoid any repeat abduction The account of a more recent and eliminate the risk of reunion — with quite a twist — conviction for dog-knapping. The appeared on the LF-LB Lost Pets story unfolded on the LF-LB page. Lake Forest resident Luke Facebook page, much to my Mutter posted, on November 15, humiliation — and much to the that he saw a dog loose, looking joy of its loyal fan base.”
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go up the stairs. She walks much better now and can get up the stairs, and her personality is back to normal. “We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the staff members at BluePearl Animal Hospital, who provided extraordinary care to Jackie O and, in our opinion, are responsible for her miraculous recovery,” Davis added. Davis continues to stay involved with the Lake
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plan to add six daily roundtrip Amtrak runs between Chicago and Milwaukee bringing a nearly two-mile long freight train holding track to Lake Forest and another spanning Glenview and Northbrook has slowed down. Federal and state officials extended the period for public comment on their environmental assessment 60 days to January 15, giving municipal governments time to learn more and make additional suggestions. Scott Speegle, the passenger rail communications manager for the Illinois Department of Transportation, said IDOT, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation jointly reacted to the initial public response. The decision was reached November 17. “The volume of responses and comments we got from individuals showed a lot of people were interested and it was a good idea to extend the period,” said Speegle told DailyNorthShore.com. Along with scores of individuals providing written comments during an open house November 2 in Glenview where FRA, IDOT and WisDOT sought to explain its plans to the public, formal objections were made by the City of Lake Forest along with the villages of Glenview, Northbrook, Deerfield and Bannockburn. They
also requested the extension. Lake Forest City Manager Robert R. Kiely Jr. said he was pleased with additional time the extension gives impacted communities to investigate and request additional studies if appropriate.
Schneider, Schakowsky Weigh In The communities have allies at the federal level in Rep. Elect Brad Schneider (D-Deerfield) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston). The rail lines run through the 10th Congressional District, which Schneider will represent effective January 3. Schakowsky represents parts of Northbrook and Glenview. “While I strongly support investing in our country’s mass transit system, this investment cannot come at the expense of existing communities,” said Schneider in an email to DNS. “I’m pleased to see the public comment period extended and I encourage residents to get the facts and make their voices heard on this issue before the new January 15 deadline.” The tracks run through Lake Forest, Bannockburn, Deerfield, Northbrook and Glenview and are used not only by Amtrak but also Metra for passenger service and the Canadian Pacific for freights, according to the assessment. The tracks are owned by Metra. The Union Pacific freight line is also part of the proposal, according to the assessment. Those tracks lie further east along Skokie
Highway but cross over the Metra tracks near Techny and Shermer roads in Northbrook on their way to the Bensenville freight yards. The Canadian Pacific trains go to the yards at same point. The assessment suggests holding tracks roughly following Shermer from West Lake Avenue in Glenview to Techny in Northbrook. The tracks would be between 10,000 and 11,000 feet in length and a “parking lot for trains,” according to Glenview Deputy Village Manager Don Owen. A second, similarly sized freight holding track is proposed between Highway 60 in Lake Forest and Roundout, just north of Highway 176, according to the assessment. A 1,500 holding track for Metra trains is suggested north of Greenwood Avenue in Deerfield. The purpose of the holding track is to let slower trains park while faster ones pass. Full Environmental Impact Study Requested Along with the extension, the towns requested a more complete environmental impact study going into greater depth than the environmental assessment issued October 12 by FRA, IDOT and WisDOT. Schneider said he will ask FRA to do the full impact study. “A project of this magnitude should be fully reviewed in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) rather than the more cursory Environmental Assessment (EA) that was recently released,” said
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n additional fee of $10 per quarter for residential water use and $35 for other users to help fund police and fire pensions took a step closer to reality in Lake Forest. The Lake Forest City Council gave preliminary approval to the fee and a 1.45 percent increase in the city’s real estate tax levy November 21 at City Hall as part of its short-term strategy to deal
Lake Forest City Manager Robert Kiely Jr. at the West Lake Forest Metra station in November 2016. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.
Schneider. “It should take into account the possible effect on neighboring properties.” One of those concerns is how the parked trains will affect residents of Academy Woods in Lake Forest and nearby Lake Forest Academy. Kiely said he wants that information in whatever form is necessary. “I want more information on noise vibration on the neighboring properties,” said Kiely in a DNS interview. “I don’t know if that will come in an environmental impact study or (state and federal officials) already know about it.” Owen said the assessment does not discuss impact on the residents who live or work near the proposed holding tracks. Schakowsky echoed Schneider’s promise to lobby the FRA on behalf of constituents. “I am committed to working with local, state, and federal officials as well as community
and a cost of $2,875,271, Holleb said the forecasted composite increase is $8.9 percent. Holleb said the annual police and fire pension obligations climbed from $1.2 million in 2005 to $3.1 million next year. with the compounding reality of bringing the additional output to The projected requirement in meeting public safety pension $70 annually, according to Holleb. 2027 is $ $6.7 million. The city obligations. The council will cast its final has been wrestling publicly with With a proposed 2016 levy for vote on the levy and water fee potential long and short-term property taxes due in 2017 of surcharge at 7:30 p.m. December pension solutions since approximately $29.9 million, 5 at City Hall. Though law does September when the idea of a fee Finance Director Elizabeth not require a public hearing, tacked onto the water bill was Holleb said it represents a 1.45 Holleb said members of the first posited. Approximately $293,000 will percent hike from the 2015 public will have an opportunity amount of just over $29.5 million. to add their comments at that be generated from the water The tax increase will cost the meeting. No one from the public surcharge, which will slightly owner of an $800,000 home in spoke November 21. more than cover the anticipated Lake Forest approximately $30 With a projected police and pension contribution increase of more per year along with $40 fire pension obligation of $255,000, according to Holleb. tacked onto to their water bill $3,130,247 for the next fiscal year Alderman George Pandaleon
members to ensure that those concerns are heard and taken into consideration,” Schakowsky said in an email to DNS. “With the residents of Glenview and Northbrook in mind, I will be requesting a full Environmental Impact Study be performed before the project is finalized.”
get to full speed?” Owen questions the need for additional Amtrak trains rather than adding capacity to the trains, which are currently standing room only. “Amtrak has new locomotives that are high performance and new cars with twice the capacity,” Owen said in a DNS interview. How Long Will Car Traffic “They can use their new Delays Be? technology or add an extra car to With freight trains coming to their extra capacity trains.” a stop and then starting again Future meetings between between West Lake and Techny, representatives of the Lake Forest, Northbrook Village President Bannockburn, Deerfield, Sandy Frum wants to know how Northbrook and Glenview are much longer the delays at those planned as well as those people grade crossings will be. getting together with state and “We know how long traffic federal officials, according to stops for a 10,000 foot freight Deerfield Village Manager Kent train going 50 miles per hour,” said Street. Frum. “These trains will be coming “This gives us an opportunity to a full stop while they idle. How to do more and face the larger long will it take them to slow issues,” said Street in a DNS down and how long will it take interview. “I am pleased they them from the time they start to granted the extension.” calls the fee a “matter of transparency.” “We don’t want it to get mixed into the tax levy,” said Pandaleon. Though the levy received unanimous support on its first reading, the initial consideration of the fee was 6-1 with Alderman Jack Reisenberg voting no. He said he wants to put a strategy in place for a long-term solution before agreeing to a one-year fix. “If we pass this and we don’t have a long-term strategy in place we’re not doing our job,” said Reisenberg. “I want a strategy before you go,” he added referring to three aldermen and Mayor Donald Schoenheider whose terms expire in May. Schoenheider along with Aldermen Catherine Waldeck,
Michael Adelman and Pandaleon cannot run for reelection because of term limits. Schoenheider said a long-term effort will take more than a few months but help is needed now. “We have to put our finger in the dike,” said Schoenheider. “We are putting this out front but everything is on the table. This is scary. This is not going to get fixed tomorrow.” A variety of plans for a comprehensive solution are already underway. Schoenheider and City Manager Robert Kiely Jr. have reached out to neighboring communities to explore working with area fire departments to share services and reduce the overall cost while continuing to provide equally good service.
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Fine dining at the butcher shop
Hofherr Meat Company in Northfield is launching an in-store dining concept. PHOTO BY JOEL LERNER.
Hofherr Meat adds ‘Pound & Ounce’ as a pop-up dinner series BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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t’s nearly impossible to miss the farm-to-table trend sweeping the restaurant industry, but Hofherr Meat Company in Northfield is putting its own spin on this concept with the launch of Pound & Ounce, a butcherto-table dinner series. Sean Hofherr, owner of
Hofherr Meat, is teaming up with Chef Jamie Bisioulis in this new venture, which will include weekly Saturday night pop-up meals in the cozy Northfield storefront. “It can go very quickly from a busy day at the shop to this chill vibe, cozy restaurant,” Hofherr told DailyNorthShore.com. Both Hofherr and Bisioulis are veterans in the food industry, having worked in restaurants since they were teenagers. Before opening Hofherr Meats in 2014, Hofherr worked at Keefer’s Restaurant in Chicago and was kitchen director at Stormy’s Tavern in Northfield. Bisioulis is a veteran of the television cooking show Hell ’s Kitchen, hosted by celebrity chef Gordan Ramsay.
Additionally, she has worked as a corporate executive chef for the past nine years and currently consults for various North Shore restaurants, as well as Hofherr Meats. While the pop-up is their first time working together, Hofherr and Bisioulis grew up together in Northfield and have known one another since they were five years old. The new dinner series includes a six-course meal that will change seasonally and rely on locally sourced ingredients. All of the meat will come from the butcher shop, which prides itself in sourcing meats traceable to family farms. Most of the produce is grown in Hofherr’s own garden, located in his backyard across the
on the winter menu include lamb shank, pork cheek ragu and rose poached pear. Hofherr said their goal is to create a convivial atmosphere where all 24 guests feel relaxed and interested in an open discourse about the meal. “The floor is open if people want to raise their hands and ask questions. We really want that discourse,” he said. Hofherr and Bisioulis plan to come out after each course and talk about the dish, explaining why they chose it, how it was prepared and where the ingredients are sourced. street from his butcher shop. But most importantly the duo Bisioulis described the dinners hopes people will have fun with as “elevated comfort food” that the new series. Bisioulis encourare made completely from scratch. ages guests to bring friends or For example, some of the dishes have a nice date night. “We are
having a party,” Hofherr added. While they’ve launched Pound & Ounce as a pop-up dinner series, Hofherr and Bisioulis have their sights on opening a separate restaurant on the North Shore eventually. “This is the first step. We are going to go brick and mortar with this concept,” Hofherr said. The debut pop-up dinner will take place on Saturday, December 10 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $75 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Alcohol is BYOB. Hofherr Meat Company is located at 300 South Happ Road in Northfield. Phone number is 847-441-6328. For more information or to purchase tickets go to www.poundandounce.com.
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It’s baffling at times, our English language … You walk off the 18th green after the round of your life, a oneunder-par score. One. Under. Par. You want to dance, pump a gloved fist, hug the nearest greenskeeper. You refrain, remembering golf demands decorum. You arrive at work the next day. A colleague asks you how you feel. You cough and sneeze and say, “Not up to par.” You attend a Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony in a big city. An elderly man flips a switch. Brightness suddenly replaces darkness. You are full of awe.
• You learn the switch flipper had suffered a heart attack shortly after the ceremony. You think, Awful, awful news. • Your niece wants your help on the eve of a spelling bee. Niece: “Go ahead, give me a word, any word, to spell.” You: “Phonetic.” Niece: “Um, ah, um … please help me out a little.” You: “It ’s not spelled phonetically.” • Your best friend suffers a burn in a kitchen accident. You ask, “How bad?” He says, “Not bad. It’s only a first-degree burn.” You turn on the TV at home, just in time to watch the lead news story. It’s serious news. Bad
news. A local man has been charged with first-degree murder. • The struggling Chicago Bears have a slim chance of making the NFL playoffs. The struggling Cleveland Browns have a fat chance of making the NFL playoffs. • You board a plane. The plane takes off. You look at the information on your boarding pass, the appearance of “non-stop” prompting a cause for concern. You turn to your neighbor in the cabin and say, “Guess we’re going to grow old together up here.” • You wait and you wait and you wait some more to order a meal in a restaurant. An employee, finally, arrives at your table. It’s your … waiter.
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’Tis the season for quick fixes — and friendly warnings
Joanna Brown
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e have come to that time of year again when everyone is searching for an
extra hour in the day. Too much holiday fun means not enough time to balance it with our endof-the-year responsibilities and
the ever-elusive good night’s sleep. But quick fixes abound. Television pitchmen offer products to wrap any gift perfectly in under 20 seconds. Superfoods promise to get you back to your fighting weight before the big holiday party. The list of miracle cures is endless. Several new studies suggest the same quick-fix attitude can keep your marriage humming like a well-oiled machine — as if it were that simple. Consider your wedding day for the first clue as to how the next 30 years will go. University of Melbourne economists found that weddings celebrated on “special days” like Valentine’s Day or 07/07/07 (which have up to five times more weddings than an ordinary day) are 18 to 36 percent more likely to end in divorce than weddings on ordinary dates. Examining more than 1 million Dutch marriages between
Several new studies suggest the same quick-fix attitude can keep your marriage humming like a well-oiled machine — as if it were that simple.
1999 and 2013, researchers found that 11 percent of Valentine’s Day marriages, 10 percent of samenumber-date marriages and eight percent of ordinary-date marriages were estimated to fail five years in. By their ninth anniversaries, 21 percent of Valentine’s Day marriages, 19 percent of same-number-date marriages and 16 percent of ordinary-date marriages were estimated to fail. Next, look around the room: Men who aren’t employed have a much higher risk of failed marriages than those who have jobs, according to a study published in July in the American Sociological Review. (This does not include stay-at-home-dads with working wives.) Men who have lost their jobs have a 32 percent higher risk of divorce compared to those who were employed full-time, said the study’s author, a Harvard University professor who studied data from 6,300 married couples
interviewed between 1968 and 2013. Lastly, think about last night. A study published this summer in The Journals of Gerontology found that couples who drink together — even as little as one drink in the last 12 months — were less irritated with each other. The data comes from 2,767 married couples of people age 50 and older. Those who enjoyed a drink together were more likely to say their partner doesn’t let them down, get on their nerves or criticize them; researchers at the University of Michigan stopped just short of saying these folks were happier in their marriages. These studies certainly aren’t the fortune-telling crystal ball I was hoping for, just as a shot of kale juice alone won’t override my family history of heart disease. But choosing a superfood smoothie over a milkshake from time to time won’t hurt me, either. Forewarned is forearmed.
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2. 310 Belle Forest Dr. LAKE BLUFF Sunday, 1:30-3 $849,000 Joan Culkin Conlisk, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847-446-4000 3. 1310 Gavin Court LAKE FOREST Open Sunday 1-3PM $1,698,000 Elizabeth Wieneke, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
7. 1475 Ridge LAKE FOREST Sunday 2-4 $1,237,000 Vera Purcell, Coldwell Banker 847-234-8000 8. 1052 Inverlieth Road LAKE FOREST Sunday 2-4 $779,900 Maureen O’Grady Tuohy, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.845.6444
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9. 656 S Buckingham Ct LAKE FOREST SUNDAY 1-3 $700,000 Jeff Matheson, @properties 847.367.0500
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26. 1275 Asbury WINNETKA Sunday 1-3 $1,139,000 Mary Anne Perrine, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 27. 985 Oak WINNETKA Sunday 1-3 $749,000 Kevin Rutherford, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 28. 720 Green Bay Rd. #3C WINNETKA Sunday, 1-3 $695,000 The Skirving Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847-446-4000 29. 240 Green Bay Rd. WINNETKA Sunday, 1-3 $687,500 The Skirving Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847-446-4000 30. 1152 Scott WINNETKA Sunday 1-3 $849,000 Sheila Bower, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855 31. 240 Green Bay Road WINNETKA Sunday, 1:00-3:00 PM $687,500 The Skirving Team Patti 847-924-4119 Greg 847-863-3614 32. 720 Green Bay Road #3C WINNETKA Sunday 1:00-3:00PM $695,000 The Skirving Team Patti 847-924-4119 Greg 847-863-3614 33. 2916 Fairway Court GLENVIEW SAT 1-3, SUN 1-3 $509,000 Enis/Chapman, @properties 847.998.0200
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Rock’s big day not enough as Ramblers come up short against Hawks in state title game BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM
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yle Rock sat behind a microphone at a table last weekend, looking like he wanted to be anywhere but the press-box lounge area above Memorial Stadium on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign. But the good soldier in him had obeyed the order to be present and react to something from the past. The recent past. The Loyola Academy senior running back and his teammates had just lost 27-17 to Maine South in the Class 8A state championship football game on Nov. 26. A teammate sat to Rock’s right, several others to his left. Ramblers coach John Holecek had nestled himself on a chair near the middle of the table. “Chicago,” a straight-faced, dead-serious Rock uttered for all to hear, his dejection palpable and understandable. (Each of the five Ramblers had been asked to announce his hometown for the journalists in attendance.) LA, reigning state champion, was the top seed of the 8A bracket, the clear favorite, the victor in the teams’ regular-season meeting (44-43, on Sept. 3), winners of 30 straight games. Maine South was the No. 26 seed, a three-loss squad, the underdog, Rocky Balboa to Apollo Creed in the first Rocky movie. As the press conference continued, Rock changed his expression, slightly. Straight-faced and dead-serious turned into ohso-steely and oh-so-determined, what Maine South linemen and linebackers and defensive backs must have noticed whenever Rock cradled the football and churned, churned, churned atop a Big Ten field last weekend. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound Rock rushed for 154 yards on 21 carries, his third tote resulting in an explosive 56-yard touchdown at 8:17 of the first quarter. Rock also caught four Tommy Herion passes for 40 yards. His combined number of receptions, in LA’s previous 13 games: 10. “A very hard runner, a tough player,” said Maine South senior safety Jack Hoffman, who
Senior inside linebackers Anthony Romano (two sacks) and Graham Repp paced LA in tackles (nine each). Romano recorded two other tackles for loss, and junior lineman Marty Geary dropped South senior quarterback Nick Leongas for another sack. Ramblers senior cornerback Ian Swenson finished with six tackles, half of them as a special teamer. “We didn’t feel any pressure to win,” Swenson said, adding last year’s edition had also entered the Class 8A state title game with an undefeated record, before thumping Marist 41-0. “Maine South played a good game. [Leongas and junior running back Fotis Kokosioulis, 106 rushing yards] played well. Their kicker … he was everywhere. “This was tough,” he added. “Our seniors hadn’t lost a game since freshman year.” LA’s seniors went 6-3 as freshmen, 9-0 as sophomores and 14-0 as juniors. They’ll graduate with a four-year mark of 42-4, a winning percentage of .913. Grade-A stuff. Rock, still in his uniform and still sporting a no-nonsense look, stood up after the press conference, walked resolutely toward an elevator and stopped when a ONE-DERFUL EFFORT: Loyola Academy wideout David Terrell hauls in a 17-yard pass at the Maine South one-yard line just before couple of journalists wanted to ask halftime. One play later, Jake Marwede scored a TD to give the Ramblers a 14-10 lead. PHOTO BY GEORGE PFOERTNER. a few more questions. He fielded intercepted a pass and recovered a “Not the biggest back, as you the first half. Holecek said. “What a weapon, each like an accommodating pro would. fumble in the title game. “[Rock] can see,” Holecek said of Rock. “Maine South,” Marwede said, wow. “I thought we played well, just “We got beat. It was new to us. is versatile, too, capable of bouncing “But he had the ability to cut well, “made plays when it needed to to the inside or the outside behind and he gave us everything he had make them. Maine South played Painful. We just didn’t do enough not 100 percent of the time,” he a great bunch of linemen. on every play. Pound for pound, well.” to win.” said. “We usually click on all “That name of his, Rock … one of the toughest guys we had Sean McNulty played superb Loyola Academy outgained cylinders all of the time. kind of catchy,” the Hawk added. this year.” football. His job titles as a gridder? Maine South 374-306 in total “Our work ethic — that’s what Rock and junior running back Loyola Academy senior and If there were such a thing as a yards but tallied only a field goal I’m going to remember about this Hamid Bullie had shared the bulk Duke University recruit Jake Maine South football business (a 34-yarder, from Kramer) in the team. Everybody on this team of the Ramblers’ rushing duties Marwede stands 6-5, weighs 240 card, McNulty’s would have to be second half. Maine South knows how to win. Everybody is before Bullie (610 yards, 6.9 yards pounds. The tight end/wide continued on the back. McNulty, produced a TD pass, a TD run passionate about the game.” Rock also plays hockey for the per carry) suffered a season- receiver/occasional quarterback is a 6-1, 211-pound senior, punted, and a field goal in the second half ending knee injury in Week Nine, tough and talented, a game- kicked, blocked (as a right tackle) to secure its sixth state school. The offensive standout on against Brother Rice. Rock changing threat each time his and tackled (as an outside championship in program history the gridiron plays defense on ice. welcomed the added responsibility massive mitts handled pigskin this linebacker) in his final prep game. and fourth in nine years; LA was He had to miss Loyola Gold’s first thereafter, savored it, scooting for fall. Maine South (11-3) limited He kicked two field goals (25 and going for its third. 17 games, a commitment to seven touchdowns in five playoff Mr. Marwede — an Illinois 18 yards) and four touchbacks, Herion was 11-of-19 passing football his perfect excuse. The games, including three in a first- Football Coaches Association kaboomed a Class 8A state for 159 yards, five of his hockey team is 15-2. “I’ll rest for a few days, maybe round 42-14 defeat of O’Fallon first-team all-state pick — to one championship record 66-yard completions (totaling 76 yards) on Oct. 29. He finished with 1,282 catch (25 yards) and 16 yards on punt, helped Hawks ball carriers landing in the hands of Ramblers a week, and then start playing rushing yards and 19 rushing TDs eight carries. His one-yard TD average 4.8 yards per carry and senior wideout David Terrell. His hockey,” Rock said. in 2016, averaging nearly 169 run and senior Patrick Kramer’s finished with three tackles, one for 17-yard reception at the Maine What opposing hockey yards in the Ramblers’ last three extra point gave LA (13-1) a a one-yard loss. South one-yard line set up forwards must be thinking: Take postseason games. your time, Kyle. Please. 14-10 lead with 13 seconds left in “Their kicker was phenomenal,” Marwede’s TD run.
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aeve Summerville made an errant pass the other night. Nothing egregious. Nothing costly. But she paid — at least, in her mind — a price for it. Coach sat her down. Not for long, but nonetheless, she got benched. The highly competitive Summerville didn’t like it much. The bench is not exactly a seat in Pleasantville for this 6-foot-2 Lake Forest High School junior standout. The three-year starter is not fine with riding the pine. She’s your prototypical yearround basketball player. The game has a hold on her. She plays it fall, winter, spring and Summer-ville. She goes non-stop with only one exception — and it’s a valid one. “Every spring break, my family goes to the Caribbean,” said Summerville, who currently plays club hoops with ALL IN Athletics after playing for Full Package Athletics for three seasons. “It’s my getaway.” Her unrelenting dedication to the game will — eventually — take her places. Being “all in” has its rewards. Summerville already has received a scholarship offer from Western Michigan. She also has made visits to the University of Denver, Miami of Ohio, Lehigh and Lafayette. “I like ’em all,” said Summerville, smiling. And, what’s not to like with Summerville? You don’t need a doctorate in advanced Dr. James Naismith Studies to know she has game. It’s Hoops 101. “She’s got what colleges want,” said Lake Forest head coach Kyle Wilhelm. “She’s an inside/outside player. That’s the ticket to playing at the next level. “[College] coaches like it, when you can create match-up problems,” Wilhelm added. “And she does that.” Her mental make-up also will impress you. When she takes the court, Summerville doesn’t get cheated. You don’t see that postgame smile. She gets after it. Summerville has a proclivity
host Vernon Hills on Nov. 17. Summerville ended up with 16 points, 15 rebounds, three steals and three blocks in less than 22 minutes of action. Numbers like that put a smile on Wilhelm’s. “She’s such a tremendous asset for us,” the coach said. “She’s dominant on the boards. Not many people can guard her. And because of her ball-handling skills, she can play any position except maybe point guard. “We just want her on the court,” added Wilhelm. “That’s the bottom line.” Being a three-year varsity starter only helps her cause. “There is no learning curve with her,” said Wilhelm. “She knows what to do, and opposing teams also know what she’s capable of doing.” But Wilhelm also knows this: Summerville still has work to do. She still needs hours in the gym. “She’s not a finished product. She still needs to clean up some things,” said Wilhelm (see first paragraph). “She still needs to concentrate on some of the little things. “We want her to keep that aggressiveness,” he added. “But sometimes, she just needs to channel it appropriately.” Her other big moment in the five-game set at Vernon Hills happened on opening night, when she took a feed from freshman Halle Douglass to score what proved to be the gamewinning shot in a 35-32 victory over Lake Forest Academy on Nov. 14. “I’m just happy she’s on my team,” said LF junior guard Delaney Williams. “I wouldn’t want to play against her. “She’s a scorer. She’s a rebounder. She’s a leader,” Williams added. “And she’s very MAEVE-ELOUS: Lake Forest High School’s Maeve Summerville fires up a long one during tourney action passionate about the game.” And then, there are those at Vernon Hills. The junior scored a team-high 59 points in the five-game set. PHOTO BY JOEL LERNER. triples. Summerville, who shares for playing hard. She came up “I like being physical out a home with triplets (eighthHer block in the third quarter with her standard stat line — 12 should be in italics. On that one, there,” she added. “You have to graders Finola, Rosy and Mac), points, eight rebounds, four steals finesse took a backseat to force. be a physical player to succeed. has an affinity for the three-point and two blocks —in Lake Forest’s It was a smack down. You have to use your strength. It field goal. 48-33 win over Elk Grove in the “I’m all in when it comes to wouldn’t make sense not to.” “People don’t expect it from Vernon Hills Tournament on blocking shots,” said Summerville. So far, her most productive me,” she said. It’s become a key part of her Nov. 22. “And that one felt good. outing came in 54-50 win over
game. “I don’t recall the three-pointer being a known aspect of her game, when she came to us as a freshman,” said Wilhelm. “But it is now.” Summerville made six threes in the five games at Vernon Hills. But her long shots weren’t falling against Elk Grove. She went 0-for-8. “She didn’t have her three going tonight,” said LF junior Audrey Kaus. “But it doesn’t matter, if her shot is off — because she does so many other things.” Notable: The Scouts went into the season with high expectations. And now, after winning the Vernon Hills Tournament with a 4-1 record, those expectations have become even higher. “This is our first hardware,” said LF head coach Kyle Wilhelm. “It’s a small step.” … In Halle Douglass, Wilhelm knew he had a special freshman coming into the season. Despite her age, the 6-foot point guard, who plays her club basketball with ALL IN Athletics, already has logged a lot of basketball minutes. And she has some pretty good bloodlines: her dad, Billy, played Big Ten basketball at Wisconsin, and her grandfather, Bobby, played quarterback for the Chicago Bears. “She does a lot of things for us,” said Wilhelm. “She brings an added dimension.” Her stat line against Elk Grove was not very freshman-like: 10 points, 11 rebounds, three assists and three steals. … In LF’s 51-29 victory over Sycamore in round four of the tourney on Nov. 21, Douglass recorded nine assists to go along with six points. The other stat leaders in that game were Grace Tirzmalis (13 points, 5 rebounds) and Maeve Summerville (10 points). … The team’s lone loss in the five-game set was against Antioch 47-43. LF put three players in double digits: Summerville (13), Delaney Williams (13) and Ellie Pearson (10). … Williams also had 13 points in LF’s win over Vernon Hills, while Tirzmalis had a team-high nine points in the win over Lake Forest Academy.
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ndrew Kirkpatrick was exceedingly polite in a post-game interview. But polite is not how you describe his play on a basketball court. When he’s between the lines, the fiery New Trier High School junior point guard plays with an edge. Which can, if he’s not careful, become a double-edged sword. That scenario played out in the third round of the New Trier/ Loyola Academy Thanksgiving Tournament on Nov. 23. Seconds after making a silky smooth 15-foot jump shot from the right corner midway through the third quarter, Kirkpatrick got slapped with an inexplicable technical foul. Inexplicable, at least, to Kirkpatrick. He found the ‘T’ confounding. “No words were exchanged, I swear,” said the 6-foot-2 Kirkpatrick, following his team’s 56-54 overtime win over host Loyola. “I got it for staring down [a Loyola player]. I was kind of surprised that they called it.” Technical fouls aren’t SOP — standard operating procedure — with Kirkpatrick, especially when he plays in front of an SRO — standing room only — crowd. “It was my first technical foul ever,” he said. “And I’m never going to get another one.” Playing the game with passion didn’t prove to be a disqualifier. Based on his high skill level, Kirkpatrick was named to the alltournament team along with sophomore teammates Ciaran Brayboy and Spencer Boehm. “I just like being physical out there,” said Kirkpatrick, who played his club ball with Hoops Avenue last offseason. “And I don’t like to lose. So I’ll do whatever I can to win a game.” New Trier head coach Scott Fricke is just fine with Kirkpatrick’s intense nature. ‘Cause he knows the kid can play. “What I like about Andrew is that he brings stuff,” said Fricke. “He is so talented. “He’s quick. He can shoot. And he’s real competitive,” the coach added. “He’s a basketball player.”
But, looking back, I should’ve passed it to Aaron,” Kirkpatrick confessed. “Aaron’s a great shooter. He would’ve made it.” In the end, it all worked for the New Trier. The Trevians put the game into the win column by making seven free throws in the extra session. The biggest tosses belonged to Teddy McGregor. The senior popped in two with 42 seconds left to put the Trevians ahead 56-51. Kirkpatrick (11 points) and Spencer Boehm (8 points) also made two free throws each in the OT period. NT’s unsung hero was James Connors. The senior came off the bench and nailed three threepointers. “He’s a deadeye shooter,” said Fricke. The stage wasn’t too big for the 6-foot-5 senior. Two of Connor’s threes came in the second quarter in the right corner — with the LA fan section (mostly football players) hovering over and around him. “It was loud. It was chaotic,” said Connors. After his second make, Connors turned to the crowd — just a little — before heading down court. “I had some fun with it,” he said. It was subtle. “I wasn’t going to start anything with them,” he added. Connors’ third three-pointer came with 3:31 left in the fourth quarter and gave the Trevians a one-point advantage, 47-46. That one especially felt good to Connors. A few minutes earlier, Connors had fired up an air ball. “They were getting on me pretty good after the air ball,” said Connors.
third-place game on Nov. 26, the Trevians fell 47-41 to U High. The scoring leaders were Kirkpatrick (10), Boehm (8) and Jack French (7).
Loyola Academy In their game against New Trier, the Ramblers were in a position to win. But in the closing seconds of the overtime period, star senior guard Ramar Evans missed a three-point attempt from the left corner. “I probably should’ve called a timeout — just to settle us down,” said Loyola coach Tom Livatino. “But Ramar got a good look, He likes to take the last shot. And he’s made plenty of them for us.” Evans, who will play his college basketball at Division II Maryville University in St. Louis, finished as the game’s leading scorer (20 points). With 30 seconds left in overtime, the three-year starter hit a step-back three-pointer to cut NT’s lead to 56-54. Evans had four threes in the game, including an NBA-range missile at the end of the third quarter. He also had six rebounds and five assists. Junior guard Ke vin Cunningham also hit four threes in the game and finished with 14 points to go along with five rebounds. Matt Lynch (8 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists) and Julian DeGuzman (8 points, 5 rebounds) also helped LA’s cause. The Ramblers wound up with runner-up honors in the tournament. They fell to Benet Academy 55-44 in the title game on Nov. 26. Evans finished the game with 10 points and five rebounds. Cunningham and DeGuzman had seven points each. In the opening game on Nov. Notable: New Trier ended up 21, LA took down Lincoln Park going 2-2 in the tourney. … In the 62-36. The scoring leaders were opener on Nov. 21, the Trevians DeGuzman (16 points), Evans EXPRESS LANE: New Trier High School point guard Andrew Kirkpatrick drives to the hoop during fell to Lincoln Park 78-62. The (16), Matt Sechman (9), last week’s tournament action at Loyola Academy. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER. leading scorers were Spencer Cunningham (8) and Matt Lynch “The plan was for him to go by Boehm (13 points), Ciaran (7). Kirkpatrick was moved up to for New Trier, certainly isn’t afraid And, in the second round, the the varsity as a sophomore but to fail. At the end of regulation his man and make a pass. [Aaron] Brayboy (12) and Andrew played only sparingly. — and with the score knotted up Peltz was wide open,” said Fricke. Kirkpatrick (12). … In game two Ramblers beat Mather 63-42 with “The difference between last 49-49 — he held the ball out on “As a coaching staff, that’s what on Nov. 22, NT topped Mather Lynch (16 points), Evans (15) and year and this year is that he’s more top for close to 30 seconds before we preach: make the extra pass. 69-30. Boehm (7 points), Cunningham (8) leading the way. engaged, more focused,” said driving the lane and putting up a But Andrew saw the rim and put Kirkpatrick (7 points), Griff Ryan Evans and Cunningham were Fricke. just-off-the-mark 14-footer, it up.” (6 points) and Aaron Peltz (6 named to the all-tournament Kirkpatrick, who also plays golf sending the game to overtime. “I took a shot that I like to take. points) led the way. … And in the team.
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Martinez a driving force in LA’s quick start BY KEVIN REITERMAN , SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM
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ulia Martinez puts her hair in a bun instead of a ponytail. That right there sets her apart from most players on a basketball court. But what really distinguishes Martinez from the rest is her allaround stellar play. The sophomore point guard, a returning starter for the Loyola Academy girls basketball team, is an emerging star. Martinez arguably was the MVP in LA’s 47-38 victory over host New Trier in the fourth round of the NT Thanksgiving Tournament on Nov. 25. Playing the entire 32 minutes, she finished the game with 14 points, five rebounds, five assists and four steals. The 5-foot-10 Martinez is blessed with an unusually quick first step. In fact, one of the main features of her game is her drive down the lane. It doesn’t matter if she goes left or right. She can finish. Against the Trevians, she scored four times on isolation plays — one per quarter. “I can drive,” said Martinez. “What I have to work on is my outside shooting. That’s one of my weaknesses. But I’ve been working on it.” Her other signature play — at least, against New Trier — was turning a steal near midcourt into a fast break layup. She did it twice: once in the second quarter and once in the fourth quarter. Such as a play is equivalent to the Pick Six — scoring a touchdown off an interception — in football. “Yeah, I get that [analogy],” said Martinez, smiling. “Scoring off a steal is just the best,” she added. You have to be lightning quick to pull it off. And Martinez, who plays her club basketball with Illinois Lady Lightning, has that game-speed thing going for her. Her defense has been outstanding. She had eight steals in LA’s 47-31 victory over Phillips in round two of the NT Tourney on Nov. 17. Martinez’s other unique skill is her rebounding. It’s a rare find with most point guards. She had 13 boards against Phillips, while she came up with 11 caroms in LA’s 56-43 victory over Harlan in the tourney opener on Nov. 15.
finished with a team-best 15 points in a 52-25 win over Marian Catholic in the tourney finale on Nov. 19. New Trier The Trevians finished 3-2 in the own Thanksgiving Tournament. They concluded the five-game set by defeating Harlan 55-41 on Nov. 19. NT’s other wins came against Marian Catholic 61-51 on Nov. 21 and Phillips 70-25 on Nov. 15. The stat leaders against MC were Kristie Kalis (18 points, 3 steals), Cate Murdock (13 points), Jacqueline Vinson (11 points) and Katherine Gjertsen (5 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals). In the victory over Phillips, Cate Murdock (18 points, 3 assists, 3 steals), Maggie Murdock (15 points) and Gjertsen (4 points, 4 assists, 3 steals) led the way. In addition to falling to Loyola, the Trevians dropped a 54-50 decision to Bogan on Nov. 18. In the Bogan game, NT was paced by Kalis (12 points, 7 rebounds), Vinson (11 points), Gjertsen (6 rebounds, 5 assists) and Maggie Murdock (11 points). And, in the loss to LA, the stat leaders were Kallis (13 points, 4 rebounds), Cate Murdock (8 points, 6 rebounds) and Taite Ryan (6 points, 6 rebounds). “It’s early,” said NT head coach Teri Rodgers, following the loss to LA. “We’re using these tournament games to see what we’ve got and to find out who we JULIA OF THE GUILE: Loyola Academy’s Julia Martinez (left) applies pressure on New Trier’s Cate Murdock during tourney action last are. We’ve got some kids playing week. PHOTOGRAPHY BY LYNN TRAUTMANN. varsity basketball for the first time. So, it’s exciting for them. And to her credit, Martinez breakout game against New Trier, “I was nervous about coming the varsity as a freshman, played Sometimes, I liked what we were plays the point-guard position ending up with a game-high 17 back,” Nelson said, “especially even less than Nelson last year. able to do. Sometimes, we the way a point guard should play points to go along with four with how horrible last winter was The junior sustained an ACL in struggled. There’s a learning it. She’s got a pass-first mentality. rebounds. for me. the fall and had to sit out the curve.” She scored a team-high 62 points “Clare struggled in the first few “I was nervous that I might entire 2015-16 season. Wehman, who had six points in five tourney games, while games. She will tell you that,” said play timidly [this season],” she Highland Park putting up just over eight shots LA head coach Jeremy added. “But I’m not.” and two blocks against New Trier, Keep an eye on Highland per game (20-for-41). After scoring only four points opened the campaign with a Park’s young players. At the Schoenecker. “We knew that she Dishin’ the ball is what she had it in her. It was nice to see in the first three games, Nelson strong effort against Harlan: recent Mundelein Thanksgiving does. And it helps to have a her step up in game four of the dropped in six points in the eight points, eight blocks and 11 Tournament, sophomore guard couple of post players who can season. second quarter against New Trier. rebounds. Sydney Ignoffo and freshman “I thought she did a great job She added five more points in the finish underneath in 6-0 senior She was even better in the win forward Addie Budnik were Clare Nelson and 6-2 Lily of finishing around the basket,” third quarter. over Phillips: 15 points, 11 named to the all-tourney team. the coach added. Wehman. Three of her inside baskets rebounds and three blocks. And The Giants finished 1-4 in the in LA’s 54-48 loss to Bogan on five-game set. They beat Grant “We’ve got some good players Nelson just might be the were set up by Martinez. inside,” said Martinez. “I’m X-factor on this Ramblers’ squad. “I don’t know where we would Nov. 23, Wehman led the team 48-46, while they lost close games always looking to get the ball to Her junior year was interrupted, be without Julia,” said Nelson. with 13 points. to Mundelein 37-35 and The other LA player to watch Grayslake North 49-46. Their one of them.” when she sustained a concussion “She’s such a good player. She’s The Ramblers (4-1) may have in early January. She wound up always looking inside and her is Madison Kane. The veteran other losses were sustained found some “Lightning” in a missing the second half of the passes are amazing.” senior guard, a three-year varsity against Glenbrook South 62-31 Wehman, who was moved to player, didn’t miss a shot and and Carmel Catholic 39-28. bottle with Nelson. She had a season.
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children interested in singing is, ‘Don’t buy a dishwasher,’ ” says an osefien Stoppelenburg animated Josefien, witty and washed the dishes. Her older smiling from her seat in St. sister, Charlotte, dried them. Roger Abbey Organic They were between the ages of French Pattisserie in seven and 10, growing up and W ilmette, her new cheerfully doing chores at home hometown, after having in Meppel, a city in the northeast ordered coffee and a mixedof the Netherlands. fruit tartlet. “I remember Something beautiful always when I knew, for certain, that drowned out the clatter of the singing is what I wanted to plates and the squeaks of a sponge do. I was maybe 15, a soloist or a dishcloth cleansing glasses in a choir, surrounded by wonderful, immensely and cups and utensils. Their singing voices, always talented musicians. I their singing voices, triumphed thought, ‘This is home, and over the familiar kitchen noises. this is comfortable. These Careers were born right there, are my people.’ ” Some six months ago, near a sink and under a set of cupboards. Passersby — namely Josefien Stoppelenburg the siblings’ parents, Willem (a and three other soloists composer) and Paula (a pianist) — Meg Bragle (mezzo— enjoyed an entirely different soprano), Mark Van kind of Dutch treat after meals Arsdale (tenor) and in Holland. Levi Hernandez Brava! (baritone) — were Brava! tapped to invigorate Josefien, a soprano, and The Apollo Chorus’ Charlotte, an alt-mezzo soprano, rendition of Handel’s would earn first-place honors at “Messiah” on Dec. 10 (7 their native country’s prestigious p.m.) and Dec. 11 (2 p.m.) at the Princes Christina competition as Harris Theater for Music and teenagers, in 1997. How many Dance in Chicago. The music concert halls exist in the director and conductor of The Netherlands? Ask either Apollo Chorus is Stephen Alltop, Stoppelenburg sister, since also the director of music for they’ve performed in nearly every Northwestern University’s Alice Millar Chapel and the husband one. Josefien Stoppelenburg, now of a former kitchen warbler. “We kept bumping into each 35, won the 2013 Chicago Oratorio Award and placed other, through music,” second nationally in the American Stoppelenburg recalls. “I sang for Prize Opera Competition, also him at [Alice Millar Chapel], in in ’13. Chicago, in other places. We both “My advice to parents of have a love for music, a deep love. BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT
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Greek columns. Very ‘Star Trek’.” She laughs. Her infectious laugh — no surprise — is concert-hall melodious, a snappy, impromptu aria for an audience of a dozen in the quaint patisserie on Central Avenue. There’s more to Stoppelenburg than her singing voice. Volumes more. The former Dutch youth chess champion is a painter and a past artist-in-residence at the Evanston Art Center. (She called Evanston home for several years before moving to Wilmette four months ago). She admires artwork by Marc Chagall and Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon. Stoppelenburg’s imaginative and vivid work has appeared on opera sets, on postcards, on the cover of a rock album, in magazines. Many of her commissioned paintings hang on walls in private homes. “It’s my second life, painting,” says the stepmother of two (ages 21 and 18). “I’m addicted to color. I’m a different person when I paint; I’m less talkative. When I sing, I’m outgoing, having so Josefien Stoppelenburg much fun.” And Stephen is incredibly funny, parents and the bride’s parents Stoppelenburg, her colorful with the energy of 17 people. We could not attend … in person. tartlet half-eaten, pauses to reach laugh and we laugh and we laugh. Skype allowed Stephen’s parents for a book inside her purse, We laugh together all of the (from Arizona) and Josefien’s resting on the floor. It’s a German parents (from their home novel, “Berge Meere und time.” They got married a little more country) to view the nuptials via Giganten” (“Mountains Seas and than four years ago, the ceremony technology. Giants”), written by Alfred staged at the Margarita European “You should have seen the set- Döblin. It was published in 1924, Inn in Evanston. Around 30 up,” Stoppelenburg says. “We had a work of science fiction. It people witnessed it. The groom’s placed laptops on these beautiful imagines the development of
society into the 27th century. Stoppelenburg is in the early stages of translating the book into English. She sings. She paints. She translates. “I also played squash,” she says. “I played it for one day, with my husband. I couldn’t walk for the next three days.” Her attention returns to Handel’s “Messiah”, a baroque oratorio presented in three parts, Part I being “the most Christmassy,” she says. Stoppelenburg has moved “Messiah” audiences at least 30 times in the Netherlands. She has performed “Messiah” solos in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in Cincinnati, in Germany. Her next stop: Chicago. Next weekend, Dec. 10-11. Be sure to do the dishes and then head to the Harris Theater, 205 E. Randolph Drive. “This chorus, this Apollo Chorus, it presents such a beautiful style, and it knows Handel’s ‘Messiah’ so well,” she says of the volunteer chorus’ 130 auditioned members. “It is an honor, for me, to be a part of it, and it will be special, getting to perform it with my husband. “My favorite [solo] is ‘Rejoice Greatly’. It’s cheery and bubbly, like champagne for the ears.” Tickets to Handel’s “Messiah” at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago range from $20$70. To purchase individual tickets or to book a group, call the theater box office at (312) 334-7777 or visit www.harristheaterchicago.org/ tickets.
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