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Spreading Hope
End game nears for Highland Park Lake Forest’s golf course BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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ighland Park Country Club will cease golf operations at the end of the year if the Highland Park City Council gives the Park District of Highland Park the green light on its plan to turn the golf course into open parkland. The park district currently operates 18-hole courses at both the country club and Sunset Valley Golf Course. Both courses are losing money, and the park district made one golf course part of its master plan in 2017, according to board President Brian Kaplan. The Board of Commissioners of the Park District of Highland Park unanimously voted July 25 at West Ridge Center to ask the city council to let the park district terminate golf operations at the end of the year. The council will consider the request at 7:30 p.m. August 28
Karam Foundation aids Syrian refugees BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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ina Attar devotes her life to planting hope in a part of the world where dreams of success are a scarce commodity. Attar co-founded the Karam Foundation in 2007 to help people in need anywhere in the world, but she shifted the focus in 2011 to building hope among Syrian refugees when civil war there became what she describes as the “worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.” A Lake Forest resident since 2008, Attar was born in Brooklyn. She spent her middle, high school and undergraduate college years in Aleppo, Syria, between
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From left, Communications Director Roya Naderi, CEO Lina Attar and intern Maliha Yousuf at the Karam Foundation’s office in the Gorton Community Center of Lake Forest, with photos of some of the people they are working to help. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
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