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Sunday breakfast

Chicago Zoological Society CEO keeps Brookfield Zoo ahead of the pack. P30

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Glenbrook South High School pitcher Fitz Stadler proving to be quite a drawing card.

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The coffee shop and music school combination that originated in Wilmette finds its encore at the space formerly occupied by Georgia Nut Company on Glenview Road. It will be Rock House’s second full location (a third kiosk is located in the Wilmette train station).

“We didn’t look at many other suburbs. Glenview felt like a natural fit and the people in town felt like those that would dig what we are doing,” said coowner Chris Karabas about the expansion that has been in the works for about a year.

The close proximity to Wilmette is one of the reasons for choosing the spot since it allows current baristas and music teachers to work at both locations.

“We want the Glenview shop to have the same soul as Wilmette and a lot of that comes Continues on page 10

Heather McKinley, a NorthShore University Health System orthopaedic physician assistant, spends time with a grateful patient in Vietnam who was once suspicious of Americans.

ongenital arthritis had left the 28-year-old Vietnamese man bedridden for seven years.

It withered his hips. It immobilized his knees. He lived on the third floor of an apartment building in Hanoi during those 84 months.

“He couldn’t stand. He couldn’t walk,” says Dr. Victoria Brander, physical and rehabilitation physician at NorthShore Orthopaedic Institute. “He was trapped up there.”

A local priest donated a computer to the man, who taught himself how to use it. He met a woman via a Christian dating site. They fell in love. She inspired him to do something, anything, to escape his pillowand-linen prison. He designed custom crutches. He got out of his bed, used his crutches, descended stairs and reacquainted himself with civilization and fresh air.

“Then he got a job,” Dr. Brander says. “Later, he found out we were coming.”

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INDEX

IN THIS ISSUE [ NEWS ] 10 h elping hands

North Shore doctors traveled to Vietnam to conduct dozens of surgeries.

[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ] 13 s hining light

Erika’s Lighthouse is girding for its big benefit.

14 s ocial whirl

Take a look at some of the top parties attended by North Shore residents recently.

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Discover the answers our roving photographer received to our weekly question to North Shore residents.

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Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.

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Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

[ SPORTS ] 24 ringing success

Glenbrook North High School senior Corey Snyder moves through his still rings routine at a recent invite. He’s the team’s top all-arounder.

[ LAST BUT NOT LEAST ] 30 sunday breakfast

Stuart Strahl, chief executive officer of the Chicago Zoological Society, has helped lift Brookfield Zoo — the most popular paid attraction in the Midwest — to new heights.

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The man portrayed? Evanston’s Robert Falls, the artistic director of Goodman Theatre.

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tion just for Evanston? Of all the cities on the North Shore, it stands apart as more urban than suburban, perhaps due to its neighbor Chicago. The buildings are tall; the restaurant scene pulsates. It’s even home to a Big Ten university (Northwestern) and the former home of a U.S. vice president (Charles Dawes).

With a well-educated population of 75,000, it is by far the biggest city along the North Shore.

Says Managing Editor Ann Marie Scheidler, “There’s a sophistication and a grit to Evanston that makes it one of the most exciting cities we cover.

We’ll be spotlighting the vibrant arts scene in a way that will keep Evanston Magazine fresh and unexpected.”

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the death of the printed word is premature. Welcome, Evanston Magazine.

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A team of Operation Walk Chicago volunteers arrived in Hanoi in late February. Brander and Dr. David Stulberg cofounded the private, nonprofit medical organization 11 years ago. In a 10-day stretch in the capital of Vietnam — beginning at 6:30 a.m. on most days and ending at 10:30 p.m.

— Operation Walk Chicago surgeons and support staff performed 70 state-of-the-art hip and knee replacement surgeries on 56 patients. Many of them used their vacation time to alleviate others’ pain. Fourteen of the 55 volunteers are affiliated with NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore Evanston, Glenbrook, Highland Park and Skokie hospitals).

Some patients underwent two procedures at once.

The 28-year-old Vietnamese was one of them. He had both of his hips replaced.

“His story … it’s an amazing one, one of my favorite stories to tell,” Dr. Brander says. “Our missions overseas have opened our eyes to the needs of many, many people … poor people, catastrophically disabled people. Our skills and technology are needed in other countries; we started this to serve underserved populations. We screen hundreds and hundreds of people before picking those who need the surgeries in a host country. We make sure the candidates are unable to pay for the surgery, and we make sure they are healthy enough to undergo the surgery.

“When they find out they had been chosen,” she adds, “they feel like they had just won a lottery. These surgeries are life-changers.”

Another moving story at Hanoi Military Hospital 108 last month centered around a patient with ties to the Viet Cong. The political or-

Our missions overseas have opened our eyes to the needs of many, many people … poor people, catastrophically disabled people.”

—Dr. Victoria Brander ganization and army fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments in the Vietnam War. The patient needed a right knee replacement. The patient was suspicious of Americans.

“He had this long beard,” Dr. Brander recalls. “And he was grouchy.”

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cago team went to work. Following the surgery, Heather McKinley — a physician assistant and former center-midfielder on Glenbrook South High School soccer teams — gave the patient a thumbs-up.

A grouch no more, the patient insisted on having his picture taken with McKinley. They smiled together. Click. They hugged.

“He told me, ‘What your group did for me has changed my mind [about Americans] forever,’ ” McKinley says.

The group’s missions do not start and end on operating tables. They introduce rehabilitative programs for the patients.

They educate local orthopaedic surgeons. They assist in a country’s development of programs designed to reduce arthritisrelated disabilities. They partner with in-country clinicians to establish arthritis care that is practical and sustainable.

“It has been a privilege to be a part of something like this,” says Dr. Lalit Puri, division head of adult reconstruction for North Shore Orthopaedic Institute and a part of nine Operation Walk Chicago missions.

“Patients show a great amount of gratitude. Great warmth is generated. The interaction between patients and volunteers is rich, always rich.

“It takes a tremendous amount of teamwork each time we enter a country, and we’ve gotten better at it,” the Glenview resident adds. “The number of things we do, the number of people doing what they need to do … it’s like an orchestra.”

Among the indelible memories Dr. Puri absorbs on each mission are patients’ looks moments before surgery. He detects relief from them. He sees

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from the people who work here,” Karabas said.

Rock House has been around for five years and originally set up shop in a one-room storefront on Green Bay Road before moving to its current space at 1150 Central Avenue.

“It was tiny, we naturally grew into the apartment upstairs and then we grew out of the building altogether,” said Karabas. Part of that is because the shop has grown in popularity over the years as something unique to the area.

“Our intention was to have a place that parents can slow down and enjoy a cup of coffee or wine or beer while their kids are having music lessons,”

said Karabas, aware of his own experience as a busy dad.

Lessons are available for guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, voice, fiddle, mandolin and banjo for children starting at age 5 through high school.

The younger kids take general introduction to music classes while more advanced students get placed in bands and get to write and record. All are taught by working musicians with degrees in music.

“We have a strict policy on that,” Karabas said.

Though the Rock House music school is 90 percent kids, new programs like “Soccer Moms Are Rocker Moms” are taking off with adults.

The combination of music and coffee are “the symbols of the best part of everyone’s day,” said Karabas, who distinctly recalls the intersection of the two when he was living in Nashville trying to make a living as an up-and-coming country musician. He had recording and publishing deals and was consistently writing material to debut in places like the city’s coffee shops.

“Songwriting was always done with other writers and we’d be sitting in chairs with pot of a coffee between us, so the connection was very real and important to me,” he said.

“It was ritual.” ~ Selena Fragassi

Dr. David Stulberg and Dr. Victoria Brander are North Shore physicians and co-founders of Operation Walk Chicago.

hope — a feeling many of the impoverished hadn’t experienced in years, perhaps decades.

“There’s a tremendous amount of calm in their eyes,” he says. “It’s a remarkable peace. My sense is, they’d been through so much discomfort that they’re willing to take on something as major and as challenging as joint replacement surgery. They show a great deal of courage.”

A significant amount of the money donated annually to Operation Walk Chicago comes from joint-replacement patients who live on the North Shore and other parts of Chicagoland. Most feel completely different after surgery. They are optimistic again, mobile again, on the road to a pain-free state. They find themselves in a giving mood. Their generosity makes similar surgery possible

for people near and far, from an uninsured Chicagoan to a disabled electrician in Kathmandu.

“They went through the experience of a hip or a knee replacement surgery, and they want somebody else to be able to experience it and benefit from it,” says Dr. Stulberg, the Operation Walk Chicago cofounder. “Patients and donors from here wrote letters to the patients in Vietnam. In the letters they described a procedure and their experiences as patients. They let the patients in Hanoi know what to expect.

We read those letters to the Vietnamese patients when we were there.”

Operation Walk Chicago plans to upgrade a hospital in Nepal later this year. Time also will be devoted in 2015 to prepare for a clinical mission

in Brazil next year. It typically takes at least nine months to fully corral all the moving pieces of a major mission, to sort its critical details, to streamline its logistics. It takes time to hone an orchestra.

Another band of Operation Walk Chicago volunteers will return to Hanoi in 2016.

More hips will be replaced.

More knees will be replaced.

A certain 28-year-old man — who has functioning hips now, who is bedridden only when he is tired now — is expected to undergo two knee replacement surgeries.

One of Dr. Brander’s favorite stories just got better.

For more information on Operation Walk Chicago or to donate to the organization, please visit www.operationwalkchicago.com.

Housing development faces ire

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he proposed 137-home Red Seals development on the Mission Hills Golf Course was a contentious topic at the Northbrook Board of Trustees meeting on April 14.

During the open call for the audience, Karen Jump, a representative with the Mission Hills Openlands protection group, came forward to present a packet of information to the seven members of the board and asked for a full review of the project. Her stated goal is to overturn the final February approval made by the Cook County Board that dictates the future fate of the protected wetlands.

At issue is whether the County Board, led by Toni Preckwinkle, acted according to ethical standards during the proceedings, which the group alleged seemed to benefit several high-ranking officials. That includes Storm Water Chairman Tom Burke “who was hired

by Red Seal to do peer reviews and testified for the company at the reviews, which to me is a big conflict of interest,” Jump said, making further comments about the “political” nature of the Cook County Board.

The community protest over Mission Hills largely relates to concerns over ongoing flooding

issues and is being spearheaded

by Susan Nelson, who previously made headlines for rallying residents to oppose a planned Walmart in the town in 2013.

Though Nelson did not appear at the board meeting, Jump noted that together they would be presenting a formal petition in a matter of weeks.

“We have more than 1,000 signatures that request a full review of the proposal to develop on the wetlands, and perform an unbiased review of all impacts before issuing a permit to Red Seal,” said Jump. “We ask that you examine to your ability what you can do to protect the

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The winning students of the 2015 Character Counts! essay contest have been recognized by the Glenview Village Board.

The winning students included Madison Konopka (fifth grade, Wescott School); Drew Ornduff (sixth grade, Springman Middle School); Maddie Licata, (seventh grade, Maple School); and Shea Graf (eighth grade, Our Lady of Perpetual Help School).

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The Rock House Coffee Bar & Roastin Company, a music school paired with a coffee bar, recently had its grand opening ceremony at 1742 Glenview Road.

The Rock House offers music classes for all ages ranging from “Rockin’ Tots,” that integrates dance and movement to accommodate active attention spans, to “Soccer Mom to Rocker Mom” and “Rock & Roll Daddy-O” both of which include coffee, wine and beer tastings, respectively. In addition, The Rock House offers private and group lessons for skill development.

Questions can be directed to owners Chris Karabas and Robert Mueller at 224-616-3062 or glenview@therockhouseinc. com.

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The Glenview Park District hired Lynne Brenner as assistant manager of programming and operations at Park Center Health & Fitness.

Brenner is responsible for overseeing the personal training programming including staff management, program development, patron inquiries, and administrative duties.

From 2001-2004, Brenner was a personal training coordinator at Park Center Health & Fitness. Most recently, she was employed as the outreach manager at Parkinson Wellness Recovery Gym in Tucson, Ariz.

“We are so excited to welcome Lynne Brenner back,” says Kathleen McInnis, manager of Park Center Health & Fitness.

“She already knows the members, staff and community and brings a wealth of knowledge.”

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The Northfield Township Food Pantry, a nonprofit organization serving families in Glenview, Northbrook, and Northfield, hosted “Pantry Palooza” to support the food pantry, which

provides assistance to more than 1,600 residents unable to provide enough food for themselves and their families.

No tax dollars are used to supply the pantry. The pantry is sustained entirely by residents, civic organizations, schools, businesses, and the faith community who donate food items, grocery store cards, and money.

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This month, 30 inspectors and plan reviewers working for the villages of Northbrook, Glenview and six other suburbs attended a full-day of training led by the International Code Counsel that focused on changes and updates in the new codes.

The review of the code updates helps Northbrook and the other communities provide consistent regulation of construction projects. The codes exist to make sure safe, sustainable structures are constructed.

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Tickets have gone on sale for the 42nd Annual Ice Show, The Happiest Place on Ice! at the Glenview Ice Center.

Ice skaters from the Ccnter’s figure skating and hockey programs will be showing off their skills on May 13, 15, 16, and 17.

The annual ice show features performances from a range of age groups, from children to the competitive level.

Open to the public, general admission tickets are $8. For more information please contact the Glenview Ice Center by calling 847-724-2800.

GLENVIEW

Every year 20,000 moms, dads, kids and food aficionados converge on Lehigh Road in Glenview for Summer Fest.

Scheduled this year for Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Summer Fest — which is coordinated by the Glenview Chamber of Commerce — will feature live music, craft beer, street performers, family activities, and more.

To sign up as a vendor or organization, register online at glenviewchamber.com or by calling 847-724-0900 or via email: info@glenviewchamber. com.

GLENVIEW

Jordan’s Corner is hosting its second annual Charity Boxing Fundraiser at Falcon Boxing Gym (3090 N. Lake Terrace) on Saturday, May 9.

The event is to raise aware-

ness for Jordan’s Corner, a fitness and boxing organization that works with children and teenagers with special needs.

The mission is to influence children through boxing and fitness classes that promote health and wellness.

“It is a great and safe place for the kids to release stress and improve their focus,” explains Jennifer Zanotti Ori, Jordan’s Corner board member.

For details and information, please contact jordanscornerboxing@gmail.com (#FightingForOpportunity) or Falcon Boxing Gym at 847-998-1760.

NORTHBROOK

The first Friday of every month, the Northbrook Chamber of Commerce hosts its First Friday Networking Breakfast at the Chamber Office on 2002 Walters Ave. On May 1, from 7 a.m.-9 a.m., Chamber members and guests will meet for a structured breakfast that includes time for informal networking, brief introductions, and round table discussions that may lead to business leads. Charge is $10 payable at the door.

In addition to catering by Leonard’s Bakery, First Friday now features Starbucks coffee.

To ensure your name is on the registration list for First Friday networking, please register 24 hours in advance. Guests must register 24 hours in advance by calling 847-498-5555.

NORTHBROOK

Teams of volunteers are needed to help clean up areas throughout Northbrook, picking up debris and windblown trash during Earth & Arbor Day on Saturday, April 25. Volunteers should meet at the Village Green Park at 8:30 a.m. to sign up and receive supplies.

Between 9 a.m. and noon, more than 50 exhibitors will be on hand to present information on environmentally friendly products and ideas. In addition to the expo, there will be food, live entertainment, pony rides, and children’s activities including Go Green Northbrook’s Earth & Arbor Day Children’s Fair.

In honor of Earth & Arbor Day, there will be a ceremonial tree planting in the Village Green Park at 11 a.m. The tree will be planted south of the playground along Meadow Road, just west of the Vendor Exposition.summer for a complete schedule and registration information.

Americans for Prosperity helped topple referendum

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ilmette’s $14.2 million lakefront referendum was the topic of conversation locally for months — and turns out it also was on the radar of the state branch of a national conservative organization, Americans for Prosperity.

On April 2, AFP Illinois posted on its website that it was “standing with Illinois taxpayers by fighting local tax or debt increases in 31 communities.” Wilmette’s Park District referendum was listed as target referenda in the April 7 election on the group’s site, along with two other Cook County suburbs, Crestwood and La Grange, both western suburbs facing sales tax referendums.

The Wilmette lakefront referendum — which encompassed improvements at Gillson Park and Langdon park in Wilmette — was defeated.

AFP Illinois is the Illinois chapter of a conservative grassroots organization that opposes big government and advocates for lower taxes. According to its website, AFP comprises more than 2.3 million activists nationwide, while AFP Illinois has over 63,000 members.

AFP was founded by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, and according to a Washington Post article, the organization is expanding its grass roots effort aimed at local elections at the state level.

According to Andrew Nelms, Deputy State Director for AFP Illinois, the organization is funded by donors and members, but Nelms was unable to say how much was spent opposing the Wilmette referendum. And while the Wilmette referendum was identified by the group as one of 113 tax referendums on Il-

Blair House receives landmark status

people downstream from Mission Hills.”

Northbrook Village Attorney Steve Elrod took pause to clarify some of Jump’s comments.

“This is a complicated issue of intergovernmental relations and two separate units of government of overlapping jurisdiction,” he said, “and I want to make sure we all understand that this plan is not coming back before Northbrook’s Zoning Board.

Cook County’s review is the final action of Cook County, and we will not be reopening or reviewing their decision. … What we do have is the ability for a limited review of the subdivision itself to ensure compliance with our subdivision codes, which includes storm management.”

It appears that the Red Seals development will be going ahead (the company is pre-selling

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he Lake Bluff Board of Trustees approved an ordinance designating the Keck and Keck-designed Blair House at 925 N. Sheridan Road a Lake Bluff Historic Landmark.

The move on April 13 follows the Lake Bluff Historic Preservation Commission’s nomination of the mid-century modern home for landmark status, which came five weeks after the property’s owner applied for a demolition permit on Dec. 12, 2014.

Historic Landmark designation doesn’t mean a building can’t be torn down; it just delays the process for 120 days.

The house is owned by the estate of Edward McCormick Blair, which is managed by Edward McCormick Blair Jr. Demolition/construction activity is picking up steam in Lake Bluff. So far in 2015, the village has received six demolition applications; in all of 2014, the village received five. ~Adrienne Fawcett

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linois’ ballots this April, Nelms said AFP targeted Wilmette because the group identified it as the 8th largest tax referendum in the state. “[AFP Illinois] is trying to educate people as to the true cost of these questions,” Nelms said.

The initiative in Wilmette was part of the group’s larger “Local Anti-Tax Initiative,” an effort to fight local tax or debt increases that was first started in 2012. AFP Illinois mailed brochures to Wilmette residents urging them to vote no on the referendum. The brochure stated: “Illinois has the second highest property taxes in the nation. Wilmette already has some of the highest property taxes in Illinois. These referendums will cost the average home owners $1,610 over the 14 year life of the bond.” ~ Emily Spectre

homes), but not without a fight.

Another group, the Mission Hills M&T Coalition, vows to take legal action by early May. Also discussed during the board meeting were several town proclamations, including a day to recognize the plight of the monarch butterfly that migrates from Mexico to Canada every year, passing through Northbrook, and has seen its population dwindle due to the destruction of the milkweed plants where they lay eggs. A representative with the Northbrook Garden Club came forward to give a presentation and said that free milkweed plants would be provided at club headquarters and farmers’ markets this summer to help encourage the regrowth of the butterfly family, which was fully supported by all members. ~ Selena Fragassi

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LIFESTYLE & ARTS

Love & Marriage

Small gestures by couples can make big impact

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learned recently that April is National Couple Appreciation Month, established by a travel service to encourage couples to do something special to celebrate their relationship. It sounds simple enough, and the Internet is full of inexpensive, schmaltzy ways to celebrate.

“Isn’t every month couple’s month?” asked one quickthinking married man I ran

into at a recent birthday party.

And yes, that sounds good, but it’s far from the truth. This April has included spring break travel plans, religious holidays, the start of spring youth sports, and the other busyness that comes with the onset of warmer weather.

Toward that end, Proust advised us, “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls

Appreciation is not easy to express at home. It’s much easier to address in an office environment when, say, a bookkeeper collects a long-overdue debt from a delinquent client.” blossom.” Voltaire said that “appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” And Mark Twain taught, “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

Still, appreciation is not easy to express at home. It’s much easier to address in an office environment when, say, a book-

gratitude, in contrast, strengthens your relationship.

• Appreciate time and thoughtfulness given to a task, not just the results. It takes as much time and energy to burn dinner as it does to serve it gracefully.

• Mail a love note to your spouse, to be received when you’re not around. Or, slip a note under their windshield wiper to be discovered on their way out in the morning.

• Bring home flowers just because it is Wednesday, not because it’s Valentine’s Day or a special anniversary. Skip the

keeper collects a long-overdue debt from a delinquent client.

A pat on the back, thanks for her diligence, and compliments on her professionalism come to mind quickly.

Consultant Nate Booth offers such advice on his website of the same name. Be specific when giving praise, and switch up the praise you give so that your actions don’t be stagnant or sound insincere. Make your gesture match the recipient; keep notes in your personnel files to help you remember each staff members’ special interests and hobbies. And remember that your professional reward program is part of building your dream business. Reward the behaviors that you want to see more frequently and those that move you toward your business’s long-term goals.

But treating your spouse like your office team is unwise, and so the appreciation you express this month must not mirror the gesture you offered the bookkeeper last month. But neither the reward you give at work nor the appreciation you express at home need to break the bank.

Consider these suggestions from across the Web: • Offer praise in private as in public. Cocktail parties are not a time to mock the spouse you praise at home, and praise given only in public can have the appearance of just being well-mannered.

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roses near the flower shop’s door in favor of a favorite bloom that the florist has to hunt down.

• Ask for your spouse’s input before you plan an especially good meal at home.

• Take over one household chose after a long day. Take out the garbage so that your spouse can savor an extra glass of wine, or get up the first time the alarm goes off and brew a fresh pot of coffee in the morning.

And let me know what you’ve done this month that I can add to the list for April 2016. Send an email to joanna@northshoreweekend.com.

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Erika’s helps shine light on teen depression

BY NICOLE SCHNITZLER

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tarted in 2004 as a way of building awareness in schools about depression, Erika’s Lighthouse was formed in memory of Erika Neuckranz, an eighth-grader at Carleton Washburne Middle School in Winnetka who had struggled with depression for a year and a half before committing suicide.

“There wasn’t any kind of formalized depression education and awareness being taught in schools,” explains Erika’s Lighthouse director of operations Heather Freed.

“Erika’s parents felt that there was a real big piece missing to the puzzle.”

The Neuckranz family worked on a pilot program with Ohio-based Red Flags, a curriculum educating students, parents and teachers on the signs and symptoms of depression. They implemented the program at all of New Trier High School’s feeder schools to promote early intervention.

Still, Erika’s friends wanted to do more. Once at New Trier they created the first Teen Panel program, which trains teens on how to talk with their peers about what depression is and how to find help. They also launched Teen Club, a way for students to help advocate mental health awareness throughout the year through activities and fundraising events.

Freed confirms the importance of continuing the conversation of depression and its signs well into high school — and beyond.

“It’s not one of those things you can just check a box off if you talked about it in seventh grade,” she says. “Your mental health needs to be integrated into your learning, always.”

As such, the organization created its own high school curriculum in 2011 along with its own middle school curriculum in October, which is already being taught across 28 schools. While the teacherstudent education is a core dimension of their program-

ming, Freed also credits the insight of the teens who are at work within the 22 Teen Panels and 12 Teen Clubs.

“They’re our future — they have an important stake in what we’re doing,” says Freed.

“And they have really amazing ideas.”

Those ideas can be experienced on Saturday, May 16 at the Monte Carlo Night Fundraiser, the organization’s third annual spring event and the first time the planning committee — and its attendees — will be a mix of adults and young adults. The evening will take place at the Willis Tower Skydeck, where guests can take in 360-degree city views in between bites from Berghoff Catering and bets on any of the 16 game tables — from poker and roulette, to craps and blackjack. While ticket proceeds will benefit the organization, attendees can opt to further support the cause by choosing a specific program at the event to sponsor, such as the Teen Panels or Teen Clubs.

Erika’s Lighthouse fundraiser co-chairs Karen Peters, Meara Fallon and Alexandra Perraud gather on the 99th floor of the Willis Tower, the location of the May 16 event. Photography by Joel Lerner

It’s these programs that have helped to educate 43,000 individuals in 37 communities in 2014 alone — impressive results that Freed has witnessed on a personal scale.

“You talk to seventh-graders

now, and they know the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist and can tell you the symptoms of anxiety and depression,” she says. “We really believe that this works in making a difference — we

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Socials Spring Trend Report Photography by Robin Subar

The atrium of Neiman Marcus Northbrook was set abuzz with talk of spring fashion as the luxury retailer presented a trend report this April. NM Northbrook hosted CUSP fashion director Caroline Maguire and CUSP buyer Cheryl Onodera, who explained how guests could bring their wardrobes from cold weather cute to spring time chic, as models took to the runway. neimanmarcus.com

Kelly Studdert, Sandra Williams

Cheryl Onodera and Caroline Maguire talk trends

Hilary Scott, Paula Smith

Karen Segal, Cindy Trestman

Carrie Scharbo, Liz Hayward

Heather Upchurch, Ann Forowycz, Pamela Werner

Maddie Cargas, Alison Randall

out & about Photography by Robin Subar

Will the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup this year?

Dan Friis, Lake Forest

Definitely.

Erik Gimbel, Highland Park

Bobby Lively, Evanston

Nadine Heroux and Blu, Highland Park

Robyn and Addison Shapiro, Highland Park

Yes — because they had challenges last year, and they should have won.

As good a chance as any!

Gosh I hope they do!

Robyn: Sure!

Addison: No!

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North Shore Foodie

Where scones enjoy an English touch

Chef Debbie Evans

By Simon Murray

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efore becoming a chef — immigrating to the U.S., settling in Evanston and bringing a knowledgeable culinary perspective to Tommy Nevins and the Celtic Knot — Debbie Evans was a professional dancer.

Trained in theater and dance, she performed for audiences across Europe. Her travels eventually deposited her in Evanston, where she would Chef open a brewpub with a noticeMOTTO ableANDY English accent.

The same can be said of Evans, who says the Peckish Pig — which opened a little over a year ago — has received peckish customers “right across the realm,” from Winnetka to Glencoe to Rogers Park. As owner of the tavern and onsite brewery, Evans performs a different routine. One where every member of her family plays a role, and no less graceful than

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the routines she performed in the past. Her audience is still sitting, in rapt attention. And when people call her over and say the food is great, she gets a similar feeling.

Says Evans, “You get a rush.”

In the Peckish Pig’s kitchen, Evans moves with poise showing how to prepare a treat from her childhood: English scones.

The recipe comes all the way across the pond from her nan (grandmother) and is a distant cousin of American scones, which tend to be flakier and drier, with more sugar. Among the many differences, Evans’ scones were doughy, with cream that gives it “a richer, deeper flavor,” and infused with Kerrygold, an Irish butter.

“Make sure you freeze your butter,” warns Evans, adding it’s easier to grate and is less likely to melt and then separate when added to the flour. She’s quick to boast: “If you try it, you’ll never eat American butter again.”

Extra points: If you serve your English scones with tea and slice them along the center, piling on both halves as you would an open-faced melt: butter, strawberry preserve jam, cream, and a layer of strawberries.

“Really messy to eat,” says Evans, who will be serving her signature, homemade scones this Mother’s Day. “But an experience to try and eat it.”

Peckish Pig’s English Scones TOTAL TIME: 40 minutes SERVES: 10

4 cups flour ¾ sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 ½ teaspoons salt 12 ounces butter 4 eggs 2 cups heavy whipping cream

English scones are a favorite at Peckish Pig. Photography by Joel Lerner

1. P reheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. In a large mixing bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and butter.

3. Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and fold, careful not to over mix.

4. S hape into two ounce scones and bake for 20 minutes or until slightly brown.

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Glenbrook South ace Stadler attracting mounds of attention BY kevin reiterman sports@northshoreweekend.com

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hough they are trying to blend in and be discreet, they don’t really go unnoticed.

They’re like secret service agents. Most of them were dressed in black and wearing shades on April 16. They were the fidgety ones, buzzing around and hovering behind the homeplate fence at Maine West High School trying to get a read on an 18-year-old phenom wearing a baseball cap and throwing BBs. And they came armed … with radar guns.

Every time Glenbrook South’s Fitz Stadler headed to the pitching mound, they went on alert — like they were protecting the daughters of the President.

Stadler, as loose as they come when he’s playing the game he excels at, tried his best to take it all in stride — albeit a 6-foot-9 hurler’s stride.

He didn’t shiver or quiver.

Shoot, he hardly threw a pitch wide.

Pro baseball scouts have become part of the landscape this spring — whenever the towering Stadler takes the hill, tugs the cap and toes the rubber.

“I try not to look at them, but it’s hard not to,” admits the slender 215-pound right-hander, who is flattered — and humbled — by all of the attention. “You have to go beyond it.

“But this is awesome,” he adds. “I’m definitely proud of where I am right now. I owe a lot to my coaches. And it’s good having good teammates to back me up. I’m just trying to pitch to the best of my ability.”

Stadler, who already has committed to one of the country’s best collegiate baseball programs (Arizona State), has become a known quality. He’s no longer, if you will, flying under the radar gun.

“There’s a lot to like, a lot to project with him,” says GBS pitching coach Travis Myers, a former standout hurler at Lake

Forest High School and Illinois Wesleyan. “I’ve been contacted by half the league (MLB).

“So far,” Myers adds. “He hasn’t shown any signs that the pressure is getting to him. He goes out there and has fun.”

GBS head coach Steve Stanicek, who played in the majors for parts of two seasons (1987 with the Milwaukee Brewers and ’89 with the Philadelphia Phillies), knows what his prized pitcher is going through.

“This is different for him,” says Stanicek, who also has a brother (Pete) who played Major League baseball. “He’s excited and nervous at the same time.

“When he goes to the mound now, he looks up and sees 8 to 10 radar guns pointed at him.

Every pitch,” the coach adds.

“He’s got to stay focused.”

Unofficially, there were eight Major League scouts, including the national cross-checker for the Pittsburgh Pirates, at the Maine West ball diamond.

And Stadler — much to the delight of the scouts — had one of those shiny afternoons. He had the Masterpiece Theatre thing going … for five innings.

The Warriors didn’t get their first hit until the bottom of the sixth, when leadoff batter Jake Riportella bounced a grounder into left field.

Stadler, who features a fastball that touches 94 but sits in between 88 and 91 miles per hour, is good at missing bats. This can’t-miss prospect struck out 10 Maine West hitters in 5-plus innings in the 12-4 win. He mixed up his heaters — twoseam and four-seam fastballs — with a tight-breaking curve ball and an ever-improving change-up.

Stadler, who flashes his smile on the mound about as much he flashes his fastball, is not afraid to display his competitive fire.

He pounded his right fist into his glove after the Riportella base knock.

“I was pretty disappointed,” he says. “I wanted to get out of there with a nice, clean victory.

But, we got the win and that’s all that really matters.”

Stadler, a two-year starting — and throwing — quarterback for the GBS football team, pretty much has been unhittable in his last two outings. On April 7, in a 15-1 victory over host Carmel Catholic, Stadler tossed a fiveinning no-hitter. He was overpowering, tossing 16 first-pitch strikes and winding up with 11 punch-outs.

“Fitz doesn’t give you a lot to hit,” says Myers, who calls all of Stadler’s pitches from the GBS dugout. “And he’s going to keep coming at you.”

No doubt, his repertoire can be challenging for hitters. He’s got a toolbox of pitches.

“That’s one of the things that I love about him,” says Stanicek.

“He makes Travis’ job easier. He’s effective when he’s got two of those pitches going. And if he’s got three (or more) working, it’s like playing a video game.”

And, his delivery? It’s unusually smooth — and easy.

“It looks like he’s not hardly working out there,” Stanicek says. “He could air it out and throw a lot harder.”

He also could be doing the 100 butterfly or the 100 backstroke.

Huh? Stadler’s bloodlines are eerily good. His dad, Matt, was a Big Ten champion and All-American swimmer at Indiana University.

“For me,” says Stadler, “going to the pool or the beach is a hobby. I never got into the swimming world.”

Instead, he’s followed the huge footsteps of his two 6-4 older brothers: Walker and Sully.

Walker is a former pitcher at IU. Sully is a current pitcher with the Hoosiers.

“I know he’s got a lot of support at home,” says Stanicek.

Glenbrook South’s Fitz Stadler delivers a pitch in last week’s action at Maine West. A number of pro scouts were in attendance. Photography by Jon Durr

“Fitz is the baby of the family, and so every one is paying a lot of attention to him.”

He’s getting plenty of mentoring.

“His older brothers are his two biggest critics. Walker especially likes to tell it like it is,” Stanicek says. “Which is okay with me.”

It’s also okay with Fitzgerald Miller Stadler.

“I look at all that as a positive,” he says. “My brothers have taught me a lot. I owe a lot them.

They’ve carved a path for me.

“But I’m trying to be my own guy,” Stadler adds.

Last summer, Stadler did a little of his own trailblazing. He hooked up with the Downers Grove Longshots for weekend tournaments and showcases.

“It was the first time that I went out of Glenview to play for

a (club) team,” says Stadler. “I continued to play for my high school team, but Coach wanted us to play more baseball.”

It worked to perfection. He competed in the Perfect Game Super 25 showcase in Phoenix.

In fact, he pitched — and pitched well — on one of the backfields of Camelback Ranch Stadium, spring training site of the Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Then, during the first week in August, Stadler suited up for a White Sox team at the Area Code Games in Long Beach, California.

“I really think he already has a professional arm,” says Stanicek. “He’s got that exciting potential where you wonder what’s going to happen next with him.”

Notable: The Titans (9-5) gave Stadler plenty of support in the win over Maine West.

Justin Machado hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run fourth inning. George Karavidas went 3-for-3 with two doubles and four RBIs. Jordan Libman had a two-run double in a four-run first inning, and Ben Samborn and Billy Loggarakis had two hits each … The bats stay hot on April 18, when the Titans defeated visiting Buffalo Grove 13-1. Machado and Libman had two hits apiece. Machado, Samborn and Connor Pauly had doubles. Rob Nelson was the winning pitcher. … And, in a 7-0 win over Maine East on April 14, GBS was led by Karavidas (double, triple), Connor Pauly (2 hits) and Cameron Pauly (2 hits). Karavidas earned the win on a two-hitter.

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Game, set … mats Snyder continues to serve Spartans well as their ace gymnast

Glenbrook North’s Corey Snyder works through his still rings routine at the recent Mundelein Invite. Photography by Joel Lerner

BY BILL MCLEAN sports@northshoreweekend.com

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t did not take long for Julie Snyder to realize her son, Corey, was not interested in tennis.

Julie was on a court more than 10 years ago, feeding tennis balls to Corey, attempting to teach the sport to Corey.

Little Corey shunned the lesson. He was interested in making something other than a ball spin. He chose to make himself spin. Several times.

“I put the racket down and then did somersaults, right there on the court,” recalls Corey Snyder, now a senior and fourthyear varsity gymnast at Glenbrook North High School.

The same Corey Snyder liked to roam around department stores as a child, searching for objects to climb and conquer.

Mattresses thrilled him the most.

They served as his local Alps.

“I was kind of a daredevil,” Snyder says. “When I was in the first grade, a friend of mine, Harrison Solano, asked me to come to a gymnastics class with him.

I did, and I enjoyed it. I’m still a gymnast. Harrison plays baseball [at Glenbrook North], but he still does the occasional back flip.”

The 5-foot-8, 160-pound Snyder is a virtual lock to perform flips and many other different gymnastics moves at another state meet next month.

He finished runner-up in the all-around (50.83) at the Bohl Invitational at Mundelein High School on April 10. The aggregate score — a scant .07 shy of his personal best, achieved at the 2013 state meet — featured third-place efforts on floor exercise (9.0) and the still rings (8.75). In a double dual split with Deerfield and Highland Park high schools on April 16, Snyder again surpassed 50 (50.7) in the all-around.

“He’s been a rock for us,” Spartans gymnastics coach Ryan Dul says. “A 50-point allarounder … huge, that’s huge.

His routines are definitely cleaner

this year. He’s strong when he needs to be, and he’s smooth when he needs to be. One of his other strengths this year is his ability to move forward after a rough routine. He used to be hard on himself, too hard on himself. He still is hard on himself, but he looks ahead now, forgets about what happened if what happened didn’t go his way.”

Snyder recognizes his new approach to the sport, in his 11th year atop the mats, is a healthy one. This spring is his final one as a competitive gymnast. He will hit books (as a student interested in finance), not routines, beginning in the fall at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.

“My last season. Might has well try to go out with a bang,” Snyder says. “I feel if I don’t do well in a routine, fine. It’s not a ‘Who cares?’ attitude; it’s more of a relaxed attitude. And it’s working for me.”

Snyder had to stop working hard in the gym after his very

first meet as a freshman. Something near his abdomen felt awful that night. Pain kept him from getting sleep.

Snyder had his appendix removed. The surgery wiped out nearly four weeks of his season.

He returned in time for the Central Suburban League Meet, where he shook off the rust and performed admirably. Snyder then helped the Spartans qualify for the state meet. Glenbrook North placed sixth (147.75) behind Snyder’s 13th-place showing (50.65) in the allaround. Only one other freshman, Glenbard West’s Alex Diab, finished higher than Snyder did.

Nobody topped Diab’s allaround score of 56.7.

Snyder placed 16th (with that personal-best 50.9) in the allaround at state in his sophomore season. A torn toe ligament, suffered at the league meet, and a searing hand rip hampered his quest for medals at last year’s state meet.

A concussion, incurred at the end of his sophomore football season, kept him off gridirons as a junior. Snyder, a running back/ linebacker, made the varsity football squad last fall.

“I went out for football again because I didn’t want to have any regrets,” Snyder says. “I had fun.

The season went well.”

Off the athletic surfaces, Snyder is a movie and comic book buff. Comedies and actionadventure flicks draw him to theaters. His favorite superhero is Superman, “because he’s relatable yet powerful,” Snyder says.

He is considering a career as a talent agent. Talent abounds in California, his home for at least the next four years.

“My sisters are theater people, and I think I would like to have a career behind the scenes,” Snyder says. “It would be a cool job, working with celebrities.”

The star in Dul’s stable of gymnasts is Snyder, a young man who likes to keep things light in

a sport that demands focus and precision and fearlessness. It is another healthy approach, mentally. The not-so-avid tennis player, for only a few minutes years ago, is up 30-love in gymnastics’ cerebral game.

“Corey is a good all-around guy,” Dul says. “He thinks he’s funny, and I’m only saying that because he’s next to me right now.

He’s got those abilities to get people to talk. He likes to interact with others, have fun with others.”

Notable: Glenbrook North finished seventh (130.675) at the 14-team Wheaton Warrenville South Invitational on April 18.

Snyder placed fourth in the allaround (48.65) and fourth on floor (9.05) and vault (8.9). He swung to a fifth-place 7.4 on the high bar.

Spartans senior Noah Berkowitz took sixth on floor (8.975). …

Berkowitz tied for ninth place on vault (9.0) and finished 10th on floor (8.65) at the Bohl Invite in Mundelein on April 10.

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Stretch run

Bruch savoring her final weeks as a star player for the Glenbrook South soccer team

BY BILL MCLEAN sports@northshoreweekend.com

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very morning at 5 a.m., Keith Bruch starts to run.

The father of Glenbrook South High School all-state center-midfielder Kaily Bruch had some company on his morning runs during his daughter’s spring break.

His jogging buddy for the week?

Kaily Bruch.

“We talked when we ran,” the daughter, bound for Carnegie Mellon University as a soccer recruit, recalls. “We talked about a lot of things. We talked about life, about college.

“My dad always motivates me, encourages me. He works hard.

My mom [ Julie] works hard.

Both have inspired me.”

Keith and Julie Bruch get to watch their daughter run around soccer pitches. Such an activity must leave them … breathless.

The 5-foot-6 Kaily Bruch, a senior, is a highly effective, tireless force at both ends of the playing surface, weaving around defenders one minute and stymieing an elite forward the next.

She had scored five goals and assisted on seven others through April 18 for a 6-2 Titans team.

“Sometimes she does too much for us defensively because she’s so conscientious and wants to build from the back,” Titans soccer coach Seong Ha says of his tri-captain and fourth-year varsity player. “She wants to do everything for the team, be everywhere for the team. You can’t fault her for that.

“Kaily,” he adds, “is giving us all-state quality numbers again.

Teammates feed off her energy and production. She makes her teammates better players.”

Bruch netted a pair of goals and provided the assist on an Olivia Peters goal in Glenbrook

South’s 4-1 defeat of the host school in an Antioch Tournament opener on April 17. Peters, a standout junior forward, received another helper from Bruch in an 8-0 rout of Westosha (Wis.) Central High School in a tournament match the next day.

“Kaily is really physical, plays with a lot of speed,” says Titans senior defender Madison Kane, another tri-captain. “She also has a lot of moves. The way she cuts when she plays … she makes people fall. One of her greatest traits is how humble she is. She’s one of our hardest workers and strongest players, and she doesn’t want credit, doesn’t want attention.

“I remember meeting her [as an FC United U12 player], an ‘A’ team player from the beginning. I could tell, right away, she was a special player, a special person. I remember how quickly she made me feel comfortable when I was around her. Really sweet, always laughing. Her laugh is infectious.”

Her soccer game? Also irresistible. No wonder Carnegie Mellon women’s soccer coaches include a variety of emoticons when they text Bruch. Bruch typically replies right back, making sure emoticons adorn each message before thumbing “send.”

“The coaches there are great, funny,” Bruch says. “When I visited the campus in September, I thought I’d be able to fit in really well as a student and as an athlete.”

One of Bruch’s favorite pastimes is traveling. She and her parents visited Italy last summer.

The pasta was tasty over there, she says, but Italy does not do deep dish pizza like Chicago

does.

“I love deep dish pizza. I love food,” she says. “I play soccer to burn calories.”

She plays soccer because she’s very good at it and she truly enjoys the team aspects of the sport. Bruch preferred to let soccer skills communicate for her last spring. Those still blare this spring. She is accentuating that form of communication with words this spring. Encouraging, sincere, respectful words.

“I try to give direction to my teammates,” Bruch says. “I try to help organize my team when I’m playing.”

As Bruch’s run as a varsity Titan nears its “80th minute”, Ha is trying to figure out how four seasons with a Kaily Bruch in his program feels like two weeks. Time flies when you’re having a blast — and watching Bruch blast shots. Ha knows his varsity will miss more than a talent-laden Titan when it competes in its season opener next spring.

“Kaily does not like to draw attention to herself,” Ha says.

“She minds her own business, puts others before herself. She is a wonderful kid, a sweetheart of a person. I coach her brother [Grady, a sophomore], and I’ve gotten to know their parents.

Keith and Julie are doing a wonderful job raising Kaily and Grady. Both of their kids … they’re grounded, so grounded.”

Notable: Bruch’s parents, Keith and Julie, met as students at Northwestern University. …

Bruch wanted to serve as the Titans’ goalkeeper on senior night last spring. Ha turned her down. “Kaily can play any position on the field and be great at it,” Kane says. “That also makes

All-stater Kaily Bruch of the Titans will play her college soccer at Carnegie Mellon University.

Photography by Joel Lerner

her so valuable.” … Peters netted a combined five goals in three matches at last weekend’s Antioch Tournament, played at Lakes High School in Lake Villa. Tourney champion Glenbrook South defeated Lake Forest Academy 8-0 in its final match on April 18. Titans goalkeeper Maude Tarbox made four saves in South’s 4-1 defeat of

Antioch in a tournament opener on April 17. Other significant tournament efforts from GBS players: Tami Erlich (2 goals, 4 assists); Lily Sands (3 goals, 2 assists); Addie Lyon (4 assists); Rosemary Maher (2 goals). …

Senior defender Lauren Brennan is the Titans’ third tri-captain. … Glenbrook South senior forward Yasmin Chavez returned

to soccer action earlier this month for the first time since she was diagnosed with lymphoma late last year. Chavez played in South’s match with Glenbrook North on April 11.

Money (more than $1,000) earmarked for medical costs was raised during the contest for the Chavez family.

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Matt in the middle Cleanup hitter Tedeschi commands respect BY kevin reiterman sports@northshoreweekend.com

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atting cleanup usually gives a hitter license.

Go ahead, swing for the fences.

But that’s really not the approach Glenbrook North senior Matt Tedeschi is taking this spring.

His aim is to be selective and pound the ball back up the middle.

On April 18, in a game against undefeated Lake Forest, Tedeschi hit a ball so hard that the knees of the Scouts’ shortstop buckled as the ball zipped into center field.

“I’m just trying to make hard contact,” said Tedeschi, a returning all-conference player who hit .407 last spring with three home runs, 13 doubles and a team-high 34 RBIs. “That’s all you can ask of yourself.

“A lot of my hits have been to straightaway center,” he added.

“And that’s where I should be hitting the ball.”

Tedeschi also isn’t afraid to work a count and draw a walk.

Last year, as the team’s No. 3 hitter, he drew 22 walks while only striking out 13 times.

“What I like about him is that he doesn’t get himself out,” said GBN head coach Dom Savino.

At 6-foot-1, 220 pounds, Tedeschi has the frame — and the menacing look — to hit the ball a long way.

Make no mistake, he’s a feared hitter in this GBN lineup.

“You have to pay attention to how you pitch to him,” said Lake Forest catcher George Karkazis.

“It might be okay to hang a curve to some high school hitters. But you don’t want to do that with him. You don’t want to make a mistake against him.

“I saw him hit a couple of bombs in the summer,” added Karkazis. “He’s a big guy. And he’s got a quick bat.”

There was a lot of roster familiarity in the GBN-Lake Forest game. Last summer, the Diamond Dawg U17 travel baseball team featured four GBN players (Tedeschi, Brice Call, David Burnside and Peter Witty) and four LF players (Karkazis, Cole Digman, Charlie Sullivan and Charlie Asma).

Glenbrook North's Matt Tedeschi (right) is greeted by teammate David Burnside after scoring a run in his team’s 10-run second inning at Lake Forest. Photography by Joel Lerner

Thus, it would have been easy for Tedeschi to crow about his team’s 11-0 victory over the Scouts.

“I thought about chirping a little,” he said. “I could have sent some texts. But I decided against it.

“We try not to focus so much on our opponents,” added Tedeschi. “We’re trying to treat every game the same.”

And so far, it’s working. The Spartans improved to 13-3 overall with that road win at Lake Forest (13-1).

GBN came up with some spectacular plays in the win.

After sending 15 batters to the plate and scoring 10 runs in the top of the second inning, the Spartans came up with a defensive gem in the bottom of the frame: a triple play.

“It looked like we might be getting something going, especially with Mateo (Hargitt), a hot hitter up there,” said Karkazis.

But, in a flash, GBN first

baseman Brandon LaBunski turned into the Big Lebowski.

The senior became an instant cult figure to his GBN teammates, when he snagged Mateo Hargitt’s line drive, placed a tag on Karkazis and fired a bullet to shortstop Kyle Mitter to triple off LF’s Charlie Sullivan.

“I’ve never been a part of a game when one (triple play) has occurred, I don’t believe,” said Savino.

The afternoon didn’t get any better — for LF. The Spartans turned double plays in the third and fourth innings thanks to the middle infield work of Mitter and second baseman Sage Bruhl.

“We’ve been turning double plays at critical times all year,” said Savino.

The GBN coach also likes the defense he sees at third base with Tedeschi. After playing mostly first base last year, Tedeschi has proven to be a true corner infielder.

“He’s done a nice job at first and third,” said Savino. “Playing

third base requires great instincts, and he’s got them.”

“I’m getting more comfortable over there,” said Tedeschi. “I’ve had to learn a ton. There are a lot more responsibilities at third, and you always have to be on your toes. You’re never out of the game.”

Working hard is nothing new for Tedeschi. He spent this past winter rehabbing a football injury.

In Week Four, he sustained a dislocated kneecap and torn some ligaments in his knee. A linebacker, he was leading the team in tackles at the time.

“It’s been good to get my legs back,” said Tedeschi. “It was tough. I had to work extra hard.

I knew we were going to have a good baseball team. So I pushed myself to get back. It’s nice to see it all pay off.”

His loyalty to the team has not gone unnoticed.

“He’s been unbelievably committed to our baseball program,” said Savino. “Other players look up to him. They know how devoted he is.

“He’s just a mentally and physically tough kid,” the coach added. “It gives him an edge. It’s why he’s so successful.”

Notable: Lake Forest can’t seem to solve GBN right-hander Brice Call. Last year, he beat the Scouts 1-0. On Saturday, he allowed only two hits over five innings. David Burnside had two hits for the Spartans. Bruhl had a key two-run single in the opening frame. … GBN has won five straight. The team topped Evanston 8-3 on April 15 behind the pitching of Burnside (win) and Michael Oh (save). Mitch Schermerhorn had two hits …

On April 15, the Spartans took care of Ridgewood 8-4. Burnside went 2-for-2, while Dan Ahern was the winning pitcher. … And on April 14, GBN defeated Maine South 13-4. The offense was led by Burnside (2 doubles, 5 RBIs), Ahern (single, double, 2 RBIs), Bruhl (2 hits, 2 RBIs), Call (single, double, 3 runs) and Mitter (2 hits, 3 runs). Peter Koulogeorge was the winning pitcher.

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SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Keeping a zoo ahead of the pack

BY DAVID A.F. SWEET

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s a boy, Stuart Strahl visited the Bronx Zoo in New York with his neighbor, Dr. William Conway, who happened to be the institution’s director.

In an aviary, Dr. Conway put peanuts in Strahl’s hands and, all of a sudden, Lady Ross’s Turacos flew over to eat them.

“It was the most startling, marvelous experience,” says Strahl. Inspired by the memory, he stands up to grab the hefty “Handbook of the Birds of the World” out of his office and flips to a picture of the two-pound iridescent blue bird with a red crest and yellow beak.

“Imagine that eating out of your hand and looking at you,” says the president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Zoological Society, which operates the Brookfield Zoo. Back in his seat for lunch, the 59-year-old’s passion for wildlife and conversation becomes even more apparent.

“Building interest in wildlife and nature is there in our brainstems,” says Strahl. “People need to be connected to wildlife. Our mission is to inspire people and engage them in caring about wildlife.”

Though the Lincoln Park Zoo, The Art Institute and The Shedd Aquarium often receive more press, the Brookfield Zoo attracts more paying customers — about 2.3 million annually — than any other cultural institution in not

only Chicago but the Midwest as well. More than 4,000 animals (including royal antelopes and two-toed sloths) can be seen across the nonprofit’s 216 acres.

Its history boasts many innovations, from the inaugural animal hospital at a zoo to the first genetics laboratory. Original governing members of the Chicago Zoological Society include some of the city’s most prominent names, from William Wrigley Jr. to A.B. Dick to Solomon A. Smith.

Thanks to 83 acres of land donated to the Forest Preserves of Cook County by Edith Rockefeller McCormick of Lake Forest, who dreamed of having a barless zoo so animals and people could connect, Brookfield opened in 1934. That connection she desired exists today and will be strengthened this summer with the opening of Hamill Family Wild Encounters, where visitors will be able to touch and feed parakeets and goats while also enjoying close encounters with red pandas and llamas.

Though a number of new exhibits have opened under his watch (including the Great Bear Wilderness) since he was hired in 2003, Strahl has also faced the challenge of reinvigorating the 81-year-old facility’s aging infrastructure. In the past decade, every boiler and many roofs have been replaced.

“Imagine running a small village,” says Strahl, who oversees a $60 million operating budget.

“In addition to animal staff and exhibits, we have our own emer-

gency-medical-techniciantrained police force, our own food people, maintenance and design shops, and three or four weddings each weekend. It’s a pretty complex organization.”

Strahl and his management team have boosted attendance at the zoo by more than 15 percent and expanded membership to 110,000 families. He has hired a staff to develop outreach programs on Chicago’s West Side and South Side to persuade more

“When I give people an experience with an animal they’ve never had before and to have their face light up — I see that spark that ignited my own passion for wildlife and conservation.”

—Stuart Strahl

inner-city residents to visit.

He worked with the Forest Preserves to notch an agreement with the Pace bus service to drop people right at the doors of the zoo from places as far way as 95th Street. He hopes new offerings (in 2014, Brookfield launched extended hours on summer nights with music and light shows) will bring even more people in.

His enthusiasm for nature (he worked as a field biologist in the South American jungles for 10 years after earning a bachelor of arts in biology at Bates College and a Ph.D. at SUNY Albany) was stimulated during childhood.

Strahl grew up in Pelham Manor, N.Y., a few blocks from Long Island Sound and from the forests of Pelham Bay Park.

“I’d go exploring with my brother. We’d have canteens and go bird-watching,” he recalls.

“We’d go down to the rocks and get mussels and flounder and make a campfire. It was like going on safari.”

His grandfather owned a 410acre farm on a deep-water creek on Maryland’s eastern shore, a picture of which hangs on the wall above him. Strahl visited often and would explore surrounding forests, wetlands and the Chesapeake Bay. When his grandfather passed away, the family donated the farm to the Chesapeake Audubon Society.

Stuart Strahl | Illustration by Barry Blitt

Strahl created a performance-based science curriculum there for neighboring schoolchildren to take advantage of.

“My grandfather, who was a businessman, probably would have said, ‘Oh my God, you gave it away?’ “ Strahl says. “But our family felt other people should have the same experience we did.”

Before coming to the zoo, Strahl worked as vice president of the National Audubon Society (he first donated to the organization as a teenager, using money earned from mowing lawns).

Moving to Miami in 1996, he helped the society restore the Everglades, a massive area of tropical wetlands in Florida.

Though the space generated $20 billion in tourism from sportsmen and others at the time, that number was dwindling because of dirty water and other ills. Recruiting supporters from the

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chambers of commerce, engaging with the agricultural community and more, Strahl helped Audubon create a broad-based movement that culminated in the largest ecological restoration initiative in history, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.

As lunch finishes, it’s time for Strahl to return to his adjoining office, whose door is emblazoned with a bison, the Chicago Zoological Society’s logo. No doubt he’d prefer to be roaming the grounds with the speed of that hoofed animal to connect many visitors with Brookfield’s variety of creatures. Says Strahl, “When I give people an experience with an animal they’ve never had before and to have their face light up — I see that spark that ignited my own passion for wildlife and conservation. All of us can make a difference, and that is what Brookfield Zoo is all about.”

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