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he North Shore School District Board of Education on Jan. 12 announced the appointment of two new board members. Joining the board are Lauren Klayman, who will serve the remaining four months of the term vacated by Jacqueline Denham, and Adam Kornblatt, who will serve the remaining two years of the term vacated by former Board President Michael Cohn. After receiving over 25 applications from qualified community members, the current, five-member, BOA reviewed submissions before deliberating and making their selections during a special closed session meeting on January 11. The new members will be officially inducted during the next regular board meeting on January 17, 2017. Klayman is a lifelong Highland Park resident who attended Highland Park High School and has children in D-112’s Dual Language program. She is a practicing Massage Therapist who attended Denison University and the Boulder School
worthwhile project, but it’s even more meaningful that it’s close to home. “Being home is so important to me and I’m 100 percent Greek. I just feel like the older you get the more you want to be associated with your religion.” Victoria grew up in Chicago’s BY JULIE KEMP PICK John Hancock Center with her DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM parents and three siblings. She also lived in Lincolnwood and lison Victoria of the reality Geneva, Illinois, before attending series Kitchen Crashers will the University of Nevada Las star in a new series called Vegas where she studied interior Windy City Rehab, and she has architecture and psychology — returned to her Greek roots by which “came in very handy.” hosting a gala in support of a local Victoria explained that after Greek Orthodox Church. she graduated from college she Victoria is hosting The Ascen- started working for a homesion Legacy Gala, celebrating the builder in Las Vegas, did design upcoming groundbreaking of work in Park City Utah and tried Ascension of Our Lord Greek to move back to Chicago where Orthodox Church in Lincoln- she was working with private shire, on February 4 at the Lin- clients in the city. When “the colnshire Marriott Resort. The economy came crashing down,” event will feature dinner and she moved back to Las Vegas to dancing to the Chris Sarlas Or- design a casino resort, where she chestra. became the creative director, and “The church is doing a full continued designing privately in overhaul and I’m overseeing it Chicago and all over the country and helping with whatever I can,” at Alison Victoria Interiors. said Victoria. The goal of the gala One day, she received a random is to raise awareness about the email from a production company church, the programs, and the that changed her life — an opnew design and to let people be portunity to be a Chicago ghost a part of it by participating and designer for an HGTV show. donating. She explained that in “Most designers would say no, 1998 the church purchased the because a ghost designer doesn’t property at 1207 Riverwoods get any credit, and doesn’t get Road and converted a ranch paid a lot,” said Victoria. “But I house to offices and classrooms said yes, so they put me on the and built an addition for the show and they usually don’t put church. Ascension of Our Lord designers on, but they said we opened in 2001, but the parish really like you and want to see became so large that it couldn’t what you’ve got. Then the crew hold all of the parishioners, she followed me around with cameras added. at the casino doing marketing and Victoria said not only is she Continued on PG 10 honored to be part of such a
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