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‘Heart of a Ranger’ ties story of soldier’s sacrifice to Winnetka woman BY DONALD LIEBENSON DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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stounding” is how Bill Lunn, an award-winning hat better way to celnews anchor in St. Paul, ebrate a birthday than Minnesota, describes the serento spend it with your dipity that found him signing friends and relatives doing copies of his first book at the book something you love? That was store he used to frequent as a child. how Sarah Baine of Winnetka Lunn recently appeared at The marked her birthday at the Ann Book Stall in Winnetka to discuss & Robert H. Lurie Move for Heart of a Ranger, the powerful the Kids walkathon on June 10. and inspiring true story of Cpl. Baine’s friend and fellow Benjamin Kopp, a soldier whose Winnetka resident Pam Phillips ultimate sacrifice for his country Weston knew Baine had a birthextended beyond the battlefields day coming up and decided to of Afghanistan to Lunn’s home- transform what was going to be town, where a Winnetka woman a low-key celebration into received his transplanted heart. something a little bigger. Lunn has been a news anchor Baine, a former president at TV station KTSP for close to of the Lurie Founders Board a decade following stints in who has served on the board for Chicago, Duluth, and Memphis. more than 25 years, was planIn an online news story, he came ning to celebrate her birthday with her family at the walkContinued on PG 12 athon to support Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. “If you know Sarah, she is very low-key and loves her work with Lurie, her family, friends and athletic exercise,” Phillips told DailyNorthShore. Weston decided to surprise Baine at the walkathon, organizing a group of 25 friends to join Baine and her family to celebrate her birthday and support a cause so important to her. Baine was shocked when
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Lurie Founders Board volunteer Sarah Baine of Winnetka received a huge birthday surprise when friends and family greeted her in pink T-shirts at the Lurie Walkathon on June 10.
the group showed up in bright pink T-shirts at Soldier Field, where the walkathon was taking place. “She was over the moon,” said Abby Dunn, one of Baine’s daughters. “It was really exciting. The kids were excited too and it was a perfect day.”
Spending her birthday with her friends and family while supporting her favorite cause really captured the essence of Baine, according to Weston. “She loved it because it really defines who she is,” Weston said. A lifelong passion and dedication to supporting those in need
has shaped Baine’s life. “Lurie has always been a cause she is deeply devoted to. She treats it as a full-time job and is extremely committed,” Dunn said. “It’s not an obligation. It is a passion and a love,” Weston said, echoing Dunn’s sentiments. While Baine, who grew up in
Winnetka, now spends six months of the year in Florida, she drops everything to fly back to Chicago for Lurie events. Move for the Kids drew more than 2,000 participants — both runners and walkers — who raised $325,000 for Lurie Children’s Hospital.
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