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New name for One Winnetka BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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he project known as One Winnetka will be known as The WINN at Lincoln and Elm going forward. “As the project is coming to life, we thought it would be interesting to bring forth a new identity that is respectful of Winnetka and reflect those who will live there,” David Trandel, developer and chief executive of Stonestreet Partners LLC, told DailyNorthShore. Acknowledging a double entendre, Trandel said: “I think the project will be a win for the village itself. There is a lot of meaning to the name.” Stonestreet turned to Mike Pagliuco of the branding agency Pagliuco Design Company based in Glen Ellyn to come up with a new name. The project was ready for a different moniker after changes were made through the village approval process, according to Trandel. “Our end result is better than what we started with,” he said. Continued on PG 12
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Couple shares the secrets to 75 years of wedded bliss BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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fter undergoing a complicated hernia operation when he was 95, Mort Schloss started to receive hospice care. He wasn’t expected to survive, but he kept fighting and recovered within just a few months. Caregiver Gayle Lunardi said Mort was down to 95 pounds, and that to help him regain strength she encouraged him to eat and get out of bed. “The nurse told us he was one out of only two people to ever come out” of her hospice care, she said. Mort’s wife, Myra Schloss, added, “The doctor didn’t want to do the surgery and I said what if it was your relative, so they did the surgery and he got through it.” And that’s a good thing, right? Myra replied, “On some days.” That was two years ago, and soon Mort and Myra will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary by … “Doing nothing,” said Myra. Myra is not the only one with a great sense of humor. When asked the secret of a successful marriage, Mort answered in two words, “Yes, dear.” The longtime Highland Park residents built their family home in 1954 on the corner of Sheridan Road and Forest Avenue “near the horse trough,” and cur-
Mort and Myra Schloss will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary and just as many Valentine Days in 2017. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
rently reside in Northbrook. Daughter Debbie Schwartz said everyone at the Highland Park Sunset Foods knows her parents, as do the staff members at CVS on Clavey Road and the North Shore Shell on Skokie Valley Road. “When my parents go to the gas station they just pull up and don’t have to get out of the car,” she said. Wait, who’s driving?
Gayle said Myra still has her license but is not an active driver, though she did drive about a month ago, while Gayle was in the back seat. Myra is 94. Another joint activity involves going to Blue Orchid Salon and Spa on 2nd Street in Highland Park, where Myra has a regularly scheduled hair appointment. Mort said the stylists bring him cookies while he waits.
Mort knows a thing or two about waiting. When he first met Myra, “I thought she looked good and it was love at first sight,” he said. Then Myra broke up with him. Mort met Myra when her cousin fixed them up on a blind date. “Then we broke up, because I had a boyfriend who had just gone to Africa during World War II,” said Myra.
Mort said he never served in World War II as he had a dislocated shoulder. “My doctor said do you want me to fix your shoulder and then you could go into the war? So I waited until after the war.” Shortly after the break-up Myra contracted pneumonia and her cousin told Mort to give Myra a call. After she recovered, he took Continued on PG 12
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