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Ugandan dance troupe exposes students to new sound

By JESSE CARPENDER jcarpender@shawmedia.com GURNEE – Singing in full, confident voices and smiling widely, Children of Uganda dance troupe members gave Gurnee School District 56 middle schoolers a momentary break from the cold of Illinois on Monday and injected the warmth of Uganda into their school gymnasium.

“We are marching in the light of God,” the dancers sang in English before returning to verses in Ugandan.

Wearing yellow clothes with colorful stripes and tassels while dancing in bare feet, the performers’ energy filled the gym at Viking Middle School.

Children of Uganda, a dance troupe made up of 23 children and teens aged 7 to 21, is touring the United States for more than two months during its 2014 “Tour of Light” production. They performed in Washington D.C., New York City and Ohio before coming to the Chicago area. On Monday, they also performed an evening concert at Warren-Township High School.

The dancers are ambassadors for Uganda’s estimated 8 million orphaned and vulnerable children. Their mission is to educate American audiences on the culture of Uganda, promote global awareness of the HIV/AIDS crisis and help raise funds for children in their homeland.

Sarah Farster, sixth grade music teacher and band director for Viking Middle School, invited Children of Uganda to perform at the school. Farster has a close connection with

8ON THE COVER Jackie Nambejjo, 7, dances Monday with the Children of Uganda’s 2014 Tour of Light troupe at Viking Middle School in Gurnee.

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The Children of Uganda 2014 Tour of Light perform Monday at Viking Middle School in Gurnee.

Henry Male Kayiwa, 19, plays the ngoma (drum). the group from her time in the Peace Corps. She spent 2006 to 2009 placed with the organization in Uganda, and now serves as a board member.

“When I lived there, I’d imagine telling my students about Uganda,” Farster said.

“Music is central to their culture. The first time I heard them sing, I was blown away.

They come from an innate culture of music. They grow up drumming and they’re not afraid to burst into song in front of each other.”

Robert Kiwanuka, artistic director for the dance troupe, introduced songs and explained the instruments used in the performance. Before a song called Bakisimba, or The Banana Dance, in which the dancers balanced up to

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five clay pots on their heads, Kiwanuka told students they should carry their books on their heads instead of with their arms for better posture.

Kiwanuka, 25, said he joined Children of Uganda as a child and that the group is like a family that comes from all over Uganda to join together.

“Music is part of our lives,” he said. “This makes you happy despite your family’s backstory, though we never forget the sad things that happened to us.”

Kiwanuka was 8 when he lost his parents, he said.

The youngest dancer, Jackie Nambejjo, is 7 years old. She said the group practices during school breaks, which is about three months a year.

After the performance, the Children of Uganda did a workshop with Viking band and choir students to teach them Ugandan style music and dance. Farster said she teaches Viking sixth graders a unit on world music.

“It was exciting,” said Kimberly Cozart, seventh-grader at River Trail School. “I learned that their music is very different from ours, with much more activity, and that they use different instruments.”

Farster said, “It was exciting to see them at my school.

They were in the band room trying out the tuba and the flute, which they’d never seen before. They told me, ‘We like the snow but not the cold.

How can you live here?’ ” For information about Children of Uganda, visit www.childrenofuganda.org.

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Avalon Restaurant is ‘Cheers’ of Gurnee

By JESSE CARPENDER jcarpender@shawmedia.com GURNEE – All the world’s problems are solved at the coffee bar in Avalon Family Restaurant, said server Jill Stadelmeyer.

“It’s like ‘Cheers’ [the television show],” said Stadelmeyer, who has worked at Avalon for 24 years. “We talk and solve things. We have every sport and political issue figured out.”

Snowy roads didn’t stop regular customer Patricia Bellefeuille of Gurnee from coming in for coffee and a crossword puzzle Saturday.

Bellefeuille visits Avalon, 4821 Grand Ave. in Gurnee, for weekly meetings with old friends and coworkers and takes her granddaughter and friends in for breakfast after they have sleepovers.

“I favor the liver and onion and chopped steak,” Bellefeuille said as Stadelmeyer refilled her coffee.

Pete Souferis, who’s coowned Avalon with partner Peter Evagelou for 11 years, said the restaurant has been owned by his family almost 40 years.

When the Petes took over, “We pretty much tried to maintain the same stan dards,” Souferis said. “We made changes to the menu and cosmetic jobs. I think we have good food, good service, a clean place and try to be good to our customers.”

Open 24 hours, Avalon attracts longtime Gurnee residents, Warren Township high schoolers, Exchange Club members, judges, retired teachers and others in the community.

“We always get people who know what’s going on in town,” Souferis said.

Gurnee Mayor Kristina Kovarik enjoyed the local eatery Saturday, saying, “Isn’t it great to get out in the community?”

Many of the staff members have been at Avalon for more than 10 years, which is rare in the restaurant industry, Stadelmeyer of Zion said.

She’s known some regulars as long as she’s worked there, and they’re like a second family.

“I’ve waited on people since

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Patricia Bellefeuille works on a crossword in her usual spot Saturday at Avalon Family Restaurant’s coffee counter.

If you go What: Avalon Family Restaurant, 4821 Grand Ave., Gurnee When: Open 24 hours, seven days a week Information: 847-244-0777 “We get a ton of high-schoolers in here and they’re so well-behaved,” she said. “They play cards, they pay, they tip. It says a lot about the high school that you don’t dread the tables of teenagers.”

The staff and regulars are so close that they attend each other’s baby showers and even share a holiday drink when Avalon closes at 3 p.m. ChristPete Souferis, co-owner of Avalon Family Restaurant, said he treats his mas Eve each year, she said. employees and regulars like family.

Server Antonio April said Peter Evagelou is like a father to him.

“He’s like the dad I never they were in high school, that what they want. I get their got married, went to college, soups, I get it all. It makes ev- had,” April said. “He looks out for me, gives me advice, helps had babies,” she said. “It can erything run so smoothly.”

Stadelmeyer said having me whenever I need it. [Avabe packed in here, but for my regulars I don’t even have to students stop by from Warren lon] is my comfort zone.”

April of Waukegan has go to the tables. I already know High School is always a treat.

worked at Avalon for 15 years alongside many family members. “At one time, there were seven of us [from my family] working here,” he said.

Jeff Kephart and his wife, Phyllis, of Grayslake shared a weekend breakfast.

“We come here once a week.

The service is outstanding,” he said.

Phyllis said the staff doesn’t bring them menus anymore because staff members know what the Kepharts want.

Before they married, they’d come to Avalon with work outings, Jeff said. They look forward to coming each week, seeing the servers and other regulars and knowing they’ll enjoy the food.

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Nathan Cibula, eighth grader at Woodland Middle School, said he fired 16 marshmallows before he got one in the target.

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“We try to come up with programs that will appeal to boys and girls,” Braun said.

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Elena Rangai, freshman at Warren-Township High School, said, “The story was that an alien crashed through the roof, and it was cool because there was construction on the roof so it looked real.”

Rangai said she’s been on TAG since sixth grade.

“We plan the programs and decorate The Vault [the library’s teen area],” she said.

Cailin Holt, 10, was disappointed she couldn’t shoot marshmallows at her sister, Maddie Holt.

Maddie Holt said the sisters sometimes take ideas from library events home, like making roller coasters out of paper.

Paul Blanchard, 13, built a catapult out of clothespins and a spoon. “I like to figure out how things work,” he said.

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GURNEE – Local kids became confectionery warriors Jan. 30 during Warren-Newport Public Library’s Marshmallow Fight.

With stations to build marshmallow catapults out of clothespins, make shooters out of cups or fire upon targets like little green army men or zombie posters with a NERF-like marshmallow bow, there were many opportunities for a sweet victory.

As Alice Dwyer, 16, aimed her marshmallow bow at a target, a friend said, “Come on, Katniss,” referencing the heroine of “The Hunger Games,” who uses a bow and arrow. Dwyer might have made the shot if her marshmallow ammo hadn’t been stuck.

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stuff? But marshmallows aren’t cold white stuff.”

There were rules to this fluffy fight club.

The first rule was no friendly fire – marshmallows could only be aimed at inanimate objects. The second rule was that the ammo could not be eaten.

“They’re stale anyway,” said Rick Song, a member of the Teen Advisory Group. “I felt like coming today because it’s one time in the library when you get to shoot things.”

Song, 11, said the teen group gets to design programs for the library and give input on what types of events interest their age group.

Dwyer, TAG president, said “It’s a lot of work, but it’s fun to have a say in what goes on in the teen community of the library.”

Dwyer said one of TAG’s biggest events last year was an alien lock-in, which was set up as a mystery with teens

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IN THEIR LIFE

People you should know

Retiree spent 35 years at helm of Gurnee Fire Department SAM DADA | GURNEE FIRE CHIEF OF 35 YEARS

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road in Gurnee, Dada Drive, is named after Sam Dada’s family – and despite other pronunciations heard around town, the correct one is “Day-duh,” he said. Dada Drive is located by Gurnee Fire Station No. 2, which is appropriate considering the legacy of the Dada family at Gurnee Fire Department.

Sam Dada, 84, started at Gurnee Fire Department in 1948 as an 18-year-old volunteer. He became volunteer fire chief in 1954 and Gurnee’s first full-time paid fire chief in 1973. Dada received a 60-year member pin from the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association in 2013.

Sam Dada has retired to Berryville, Ark., but he’ll never forget his days as a “farm boy firefighter” in good old Gurnee. He shared his memories with Gurnee Suburban Life reporter Jesse Carpender.

Carpender: You’re the son of Joseph Dada, Gurnee’s first fire chief. What was he like?

Dada: My father (Joseph Dada) was fire chief from 1931 until about 1941 when he went to work for the federal government as a fire prevention engineer. My folks had their own home right across from the high school (on O’Plaine Road).

My dad was an orphan, run away from the orphanage in Chicago. He hung around the stockyards downtown.

Mr. (John) Eichinger told me he had a farm in Gurnee, a home on Hutchins Road just off Stearns (School Road) and he’d go to the stockyards to buy cattle. (Eichinger) had no son, just a daughter, and he told his wife “I’m going to offer that boy a home.” And that’s where my dad grew up.

(Joseph Dada) went to the old schoolhouse on Stearns School Road. He served in the Navy by the Mediterranean Sea during World War I. He met my mother in Gurnee. My mother

belonged to the Garden Club, she liked to be around flowers.

He and my mother planted a vegetable garden. They were members of the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary. In those days, most everyone got involved in a small town.

My mother passed away in 1984, and my dad passed away in 1963. We loved him dearly.

He was a hard-working man.

Carpender: And you followed in his footsteps?

Dada: I wanted to be a firefighter when I was a little kid. I’d get spankings because I’d follow my dad to fires – I’d follow him anyway. He didn’t want little kids around getting hurt.

Carpender: What was the fire station like when you were growing up?

Dada: Back then (circa 19301940, the volunteer fire station) was in McClure’s Garage, and almost everyone who worked for McClure’s was a fireman.

If you were getting your tire fixed and the siren on the big

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Sam Dada, left, with current Gurnee Fire Chief Fred Friedl at an Illinois Fire Chiefs Association ceremony.

steel tower on the McClure’s roof went off, you might as well sit down because you had to wait a while. Mrs. Ray was the switchboard operator and she’d slide open a window and holler down about what the problem was. My dad worked at McClure’s when Rowley McClure was there.

Carpender: Do you remember building the first fire station?

Dada: I helped out building it as a young man. The property was owned by Modern Woodman Lodge, and when it dissolved they gave it to the village to be used for a fire station.

Most of the guys at the lodge were volunteer firemen, so that was good for them. Most of the construction was done by volunteer firemen, and materials were donated. The station on Old Grand Avenue now is the second station on that property.

I remember working on the station with Frank Bellek – Rowley McClure’s son-in-law – and the siren went off. We ran to get the fire truck instead of taking our cars which were

parked nearby. In those days, Gurnee was surrounded by farms and we’d get a lot of calls out in the country. We’d get grass fires, a lot were from heating equipment or carelessness. I think (the causes of fires) changed as we got older.

A lot of the calls were about outdated equipment.

Carpender: What were the biggest fires in your career?

Dada: There was a big fire at (Warren Township High School) started by one of the students in the early 1980s. I remember it was on a Thursday before Christmas break. It was a pretty major fire, the school was badly damaged. If my memory serves me right, they were able to rent a building from Lake Forest High School system until repairs were done.

The kid who did it was caught.

The Rustic Manor (restaurant) fire was hell. It was early in the morning, in January. I had a fire phone at the head of my bed and it went off. We got the guys pushed out and over there, and there was heavy

smoke showing. It was very cold. We had half the departments in Lake County out there. The owners, Viktor Trybom and Marion Trybom were there. It was a sad day because many people outside Gurnee knew about Gurnee because of Rustic Manor.

Carpender: How would you approach people facing a tragedy like that?

Dada: You’d try to tell them what was going on, console them, ask them if there was anything they wanted you to try to save. It’s not easy to see people lose their business, home or loved one, but it happens. It wasn’t always the easiest job, but it was a great job and I loved it. I’m very grateful for my time at Gurnee Fire Department and the men and women who served with us.

Carpender: What was Gurnee Fire Department like when you were fire chief 1954-1989?

Dada: We had eight to 12 men. A lot worked out of town.

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“Rockabilly is pre-British Invasion. It’s all types together. That’s what Americana is. It’s inclusive, like America itself.”

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Tony Volini, Tom Swenson and Steve Justman are The Limitations. them for bringing us in.”

“As Tony said, we go geographically,” Swenson of Buffalo Grove said. “Starting west with that California Bakersfield sound, then we move East and do Under The Boardwalk.

Rockin’ Robin, which Tony always mistakes as a Jackson 5 song, but it’s more of a doo-wop song. Rockabilly did more with less – it was acoustic instruments and rhythm.”

Because they play music that draws memories, the band often sees audience members with a twinkle in their eye or lost in thoughts, Justman, bassist and vocalist, said.

“Rockabilly is pre-British Invasion. It’s all types together.

That’s what Americana is,” said Justman, of Wilmette. “It’s inclusive, like America itself.

Pop music resonates with people no matter what era they’re from. People relate to the music that was the soundtrack of their teen years or young adult years.”

“It touches people’s hearts, takes them back in time.

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“Johnny Cash has inspired just about every age group.

We’ll see folks from 12 to 90 enjoying his songs. My favorite • Warren-Newport Public Library, Johnny Cash song is ‘Big Riv10:30 a.m. Feb. 26, Lunch & Learn er’ about the Mississippi River. program, 224 N. O’Plaine Road, I was in Muskateen Iowa at a Gurnee, 847-244-5150 hydroplane boat race, sitting on the bank [of the Mississippi] • Ice Meltin’ Blues Fest, 3 p.m. learning that song. That comes March 1, Beans & Leaves Cafe, to mind when I hear it.”

Long Grove Swenson said rockabilly music lends itself to quieter venues, like libraries or coffee They’ll tell us, ‘You took me shops. back to some really good mem“With our trio, we strive to ories,’ ” Volini said. be low-volume, minimal gear The artist that brought the and small footprint,” he said. band together is Johnny Cash. “It fills a void to have more “He covered so much ground, going on musically than a solo played old time country, guitarist, but not overwhelmgospel. He was known as a ing.” rockabilly artist,” Volini said.

Volini said the band plays “Later in his career he covered big songs that are attention-getsongs by alternative bands like ting, but not imposing.

Nine Inch Nails. We wanted to “When you sound good and be something more than a Cash pleasant, people want to come tribute band, so we started a little closer. Performing looking at close relatives from without a drummer is what Sun Records – Carl Perkins, makes us unique. The Elvis Elvis and the early hits that ’68 comeback tour just had a started it all. guy banging on a guitar case

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n audience member became quite angry when he learned that the trio of rockabilly musicians he enjoyed watching was called The Limitations.

“Who would call themselves The Limitations? You should aspire to great things,” the audience member told the band. Tom Swenson, lead guitarist and singer, said of the tale, “We’re not perfect.

We embrace our limitations. A couple of us are older guys, and we don’t have that rock star look.”

Despite those limitations, the band has seen success. The Limitations – Tom Swenson, Tony Volini and Steve Justman – have toured 18 libraries in the last year, playing rockabilly hits and discussing the history of American music between songs.

The Limitations will play Feb. 26 at Warren-Newport Public Library.

“When I think of the word rockabilly, I think rock n’ roll and hillbilly,” said Volini, guitarist and vocalist. “It’s so uniquely American. It combines country, rock n’ roll, blues.”

Swenson and Volini, who met in 2009, have been in different incarnations of the band for four years. Justman has been spending his retirement working as a solo folk-Americana artist, as well as playing with The Limitations. The trio were brought together by a love of simple hand-clapping American music and Johnny Cash.

The Limitations focus on the late ’50s through early ’60s, and artists made famous by Sun Studios in Memphis, Tenn.

“We travel along Route 66, hit the early Memphis sound of Elvis and Johnny Cash and then Steve [Justman] takes over the vocals after that and shows the Southern sound of Buddy Holly,” said Volini, of Chicago. “The best reward is when we see library patrons hug the librarians to thank

softly,” he said.

Not only does the band educate the audience about the history of rockabilly, but sometimes the audience educates them.

“We were at a library this fall and a woman came up to us who used to book USO tours during World War II,” Swenson said. “She talked about working with musicians. That was a time where a lot more people made money in the music industry. It’s a bygone era because to make a living as a musician is hard to do now.

You used to be able to be in an orchestra or pit band, but those days are gone. We do aspire to those days.”

Volini shared the nostalgia.

“I think our society lost something when music became computerized,” he said. “People used to rely on live bands and now it’s usually an iPod. There are less opportunities to see good bands.”

Though they all share similar opinions on what makes good music, the guys come from different backgrounds.

Swenson, 63, is a mental health counselor, Volini, 37, teaches law school and Justman, 64, has his solo music gigs.

“The Limitations are one of the most rewarding of my projects,” Justman said. “There’s chemistry when the three of us play, and Tom Swensen is one of the most serious musicians you’ll meet. As for Tony, here’s a guy young enough to be my kid and he’s a great singer with a great feel for putting across a song.”

Volini added, “Tom and Steve are older but that shows the appeal of the music to people young and old. This is real human-made music from the heart.”

“Music fuels me,” Swenson said. “It makes me happy, wakes me up and it’s always been a big part of my life.”

For information on The Limitations and to hear music, visit www.thelimitationsband. com.

For information on Steve Justman’s music, visit www. stevejustman.com.

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Gift-giving turns into cat-atstrophe One of my closest friends recently acquired a cat. My friend is in no way a cat lady – one of those people who wears a robe adorned with cats all day. Nor does she display signs throughout her house that read, for example, “If you want the best seat in the house, you’ll have to move the cat(s).”

Lastly, she is not a person who collects cats or catthemed items of every type and color. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

However, as a loving and supportive friend, I wanted to buy her some type of cat-related birthday gift.

Being the big spender that I am, I Googled the following: “Under $25 gifts for cat lovers.” Up came sites such as The Purr-fect Gift, The Meow Store and The Oatmeal, the last of which offered a book titled, “How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You.” However, she has a nice cat that doesn’t seem to have

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I tried several other sites, and, on many, found an inflatable unicorn horn for cats. It comes in black or white to match your pet, although if your cat is orange you might have a problem. The item features an elastic strap for under the cat’s chin, something any animal would love. The unicorn-horn-wearing feline on the box looks as if it’s thinking, “WTF?” I also found a Sound of Mewsic pajama shirt at Sqidoo, and at the Characters Have More Fun site, The Cat Butt Pencil Sharpener, which is described as follows: “It’s the cat’s meow ... literally. Insert your pencil and twist. ... The cat meows, and its litter tray fills with

pencil shaving cat-litter.”

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None of these items seemed even close to appropriate.

I decided to consult a grandchild, one who has a cat. I forgot she also has an acute interest in zombies at the moment.

“Does your friend have an iPad?” she asked.

“She does.”

“Why don’t you get her an iPad case with a picture of an undead cat?”

I typed “undead cat” into Google because I was now curious. Up came the site Zazzle with the message, “Never mind the walking dead, here come the meowing dead.”

And there it was: the undead cat iPad cover.

“Thank you, sweetie” I said to my granddaughter, “but at $45 it’s over my budget.” I checked out iPad covers for normal people with normal cats, but, those, too, exceeded the amount I could spend.

“Whatever,” my granddaughter said. She then suggested zombie cat jewelry.

I instead checked out “standard cat jewelry.” I found earrings within my price range, but my friend is not a woman who would walk around with animals dangling off her ears.

I fell in love with a cat pin, one with the mama cat nursing her five kittens at Cat Fancy Gifts, but for someone with such sophisticated taste, it would probably end up in a drawer, someday to be found by her daughter who would wonder what nut gave her mother this.

Frustrated, I turned to my husband. “I can’t find anything suitable that I can afford!”

“Get her another cat,” he said. “They’re usually free.”

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were three or four cars with people in them. Chicago Fire Department had a special truck they brought out. We brought people down the ladder in harnesses, the safe way.

I remember me, a little farm boy fire department chief, with the guys from the big city. The Chicago fire chief addressed me as “chief” and he told me they’d help with whatever we needed. That’s the kind of cooperation you get there.

Carpender: How’s it feel to have a road named after your family?

Dada: They named Dada Drive because my father was the first fire chief, my brother was township assessor and I was a fire chief. When that area joined Gurnee, the village decided to name a road after our family. It was an honor to me, but also to the memory of my family’s service. The fire station on the corner of Dada Drive is dedicated to me and my dad.

Carpender: What do you tell people about Gurnee?

Dada: Gurnee is home. It always will be home to me and my wife. It’s always in my heart. It’s a great town, governed by great people. It’s grown tremendously, but it’s grown with pride and purpose.

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Keeping the brain active key to health In the mirror was my 80-year-old, right-handed mother, brushing her teeth with her left hand. Recently she had been taking up new games on her laptop and taking different routes to the grocery store. I remember thinking to myself at the time perhaps she was going a little stir crazy or trying her hand at ambidexterity.

Actually, she was trying new ways of doing things like using the opposite hand to perform tasks and taking new routes to familiar places to keep her mind in shape – calisthenics for the brain. She may have been on to something.

This was many years ago.

Mom is gone now, but research shows that maybe some of her ponderings were correct.

Avoiding, preventing and coping with age-related diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s is a hot topic, and no wonder. AARP estimates that approximately 8,000 boomers per day are turning 65.

The Alzheimer’s Association suggests that the best ways to combat dementia are to eat right, exercise, take care of our cardiovascular health, stay connected with others and engage in mind-stimulating activities.

There are many benefits to keeping an active mind. Creating new brain connections is one. But according to Kathy Laurenhue of Wiser Now, Inc., an interactive website with games and mind-sharpening ideas, human connection is a key ingredient in activities with seniors. “The human brain is more plastic than we once believed,” said Laurenhue. Language, memory and mobility may be affected by dementia, but emotions and the ability to imagine remain intact in ways we once discounted.”

Her approach to maintaining vibrant connections with loved ones at any stage of dementia is using creative arts, music, motion, rhythm and tactile activities. And the best part? We don’t need to be expert musicians or artists to participate in these activities.

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There are all sorts of ways to keep the mind and body active and the human spirit alive. My mom was on the right track with trying new things that kept her engaged.

Get moving this week and learn something new. Try a new game or activity. Better yet, try it with friends or family to enrich relationships and keep involved in the lives of those who are most important.

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Showing off Rides on display for snowmobile club event

Riders check out a Ski-Doo owned by John Lindberg of Wauconda, along with his wife, Robin.

Brett Kaminski of Grayslake goes for a ride on his 1970 Ski-Doo Olympic snowmobile.

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Tim Siedlecki of Lake Villa gets a sled ride from his son, Kazsik, 5, past vintage snowmobiles Sunday during the sixth annual Vintage Snowmobile Ride & Show at Cook Park in Wauconda. The event was sponsored by the Wauconda Snowmobile Club.

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Health department to offer free AIDS screenings

By SUBURBAN LIFE MEDIA The Lake County Health Department/Community Health Center will observe the 14th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on Friday.

A free event will take place in the lobby of the Health Department’s Belvidere Medical Building, 2400 Belvidere Road in Waukegan, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Staff will provide information, screenings and education about transmission, care and treatment of HIV. Information about hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections also will be available.

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a national HIV/AIDS testing and treatment community mobilization effort designed to encourage the African-American community to get educated, tested, treated and involved with HIV/AIDS, as it continues to impact communities.

It is an opportunity for the health department to increase

HIV prevention activities, such as HIV testing and to link people living with HIV to effective medical care.

Compared to other races and ethnicities, African-Americans account for a higher proportion of HIV infections at all stages of disease.

In 2010, African Americans made up 14 percent of the United States population but accounted for 44 percent of new HIV infections. Young African-American gay and bisexual men are especially at risk of HIV infection. More new HIV infections occurred among young black men who have sex with men (aged 13-29) than any other age and racial group.

Most African American women with HIV acquired HIV through heterosexual sex.

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is organized by Healthy Black Communities, Inc. For information on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, visit www.blackaidsday. org.

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GURNEE – According to Warren Township High School senior cheerleader Jena Rosenbaum, boys have not shied away since the cheerleading team recently became co-ed.

In fact, the school actually advertised joining the team as a way to meet girls, Rosenbaum said.

Senior Brian Cross said he joined the team because his girlfriend was on the squad.

“Never in my life did I think I would go out for Photo provided cheerleading,’’ Cross said.

“I saw it as an opportunity, The Warren Township High School cheerleading team recently became co-ed. so I went for it.”

The squad placed seventh “I really enjoy it,’’ Rosenat a sectional event at Grays- growth will benefit the school Mohr said. “Now this isn’t in the future. just throwing girls around. baum said. “They bring fun lake North on Saturday. And It’s been quite a ride since It’s a time commitment. All to practice. I think it’s fun while the team will not have Mohr decided to call for trythe boys have to cheer at for them. I think we get more the opportunity to cheer at outs in April. home basketball games.” respect now that we are a cothe state meet in Blooming“We had an open gym, Rosenbaum is glad boys ed team.” ton this year, head coach and I told a bunch of my girls have come around to help Cross takes his role on the Katie Mohr said she looks to bring their boyfriends,” out. team seriously. He’s a back forward to how the team’s

spot; he’s there to make sure no one gets hurt.

“I help lift the girls,’’ Cross said. “I support the ankle and make sure they don’t fall.”

Also on the cheerleading squad is Max Sorby. Those who follow football may recognize this star running back.

Mohr said the young men are doing well in their new roles on the team.

“I think the guys were a little scared to cheer at basketball games,” Mohr said. “At the start, they were kind of confused because they were new to it. But they are all athletes. And they have been extremely respectful to me.”

The sport of cheerleading is not for the faint of heart.

“Girls get injured all the time,’’ Mohr said. “We’ve had two girls with concussions.

Girls fall on a daily basis.”

Rosenbaum hopes to continue cheering in college and plans to try out for the team at Indiana University.

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Arkush says defense still wins titles The NFL season is indeed a marathon rather than a sprint, but with the Seahawks’ 43-8 rout of the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII now in the books, another grueling season and race are over.

What did we learn, and where do we go from here? It seems to me the most emphatic lesson to take from 2013 is that, as entertaining and exciting as wide open offenses and NFL passing attacks can be, defense and ground games still win championships.

Can there be any doubt after Denver’s pathetic performance on the game’s biggest stage, and how thoroughly they dominated the Patriots in the AFC title game, that the three best teams in the NFL this year were Seattle, San Francisco and Carolina?

Could it be mere coincidence that those three clubs all finished in the bottom tier of NFL passing offenses, but were the three best defenses in the league and owned among the league’s best running games?

contend in the NFL with a big-time offense and an “adequate” defense.

I believe the Seahawks and Broncos Hub Arkush just proved that is not the case.

Another hot-button topic to come out of this Super Bowl is the question of whether or not the “cold weather” Is it also just a fluke that each of those Super Bowl worked and can work clubs possess one of the NFL’s brightest again in the future.

As lucky as the NFL owners got young quarterbacks, but that none of with the weather last week in New Russell Wilson, Colin Kaepernick or York and New Jersey, and as incrediCam Newton has done anything to sugbly lucky as they were on gameday, my gest they will be among the league’s top sense from Roger Goodell and the othpassers but all three can beat you with er powers that be is they know exactly their legs at almost any time? how lucky they got and they will be in To be clear, I suspect teams quarterbacked by Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, no great hurry to try it again.

Interestingly enough, the two Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees will cold-weather cities with open air stadiwin another Super Bowl or two before ums rumored to be preparing bids for they are all done. But not without a top defense and a stud running back or two. February 2018 are Denver and Seattle.

We’ll know more about this at the Bringing this closer to home, there is a theory that’s been espoused main- NFL owners meetings in the spring, but I’d put my money on New Orleans, ly by ill-informed media and fans, which also will be preparing a bid for but also by the occasional NFL coach 2018, while the “cold weather” quesor general manager, that teams can

tion gets kicked down the road a bit.

What will the next big topic be for the NFL’s owners and fans? Keep your eyes on St. Louis and Los Angeles.

While it absolutely escapes me why the NFL owners are so determined to put a team back in L.A. when two have already failed and left, and the TV ratings in the market improve markedly when there is no club there, they are.

It was reported Jan. 29, the St. Louis Rams owner and billionaire real estate developer Stan Kroenke recently purchased 60 acres of land in the L.A. market, and it is no secret he continues to be frustrated by the refusal of the folks in St. Louis to update the stadium there or build a new one.

It could just be that Kroenke found a deal on land he couldn’t pass up.

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were on stage with Goodell to present the award.

Tillman’s signature accomplishment off the field is the founding – along with his wife, Jacqueline – of the Cornerstone Foundation. Their goal is to support the families of children suffering from serious and sometimes fatal illnesses, as their daughter Tiana did, requiring a heart transplant at the age of 3 ½ months. The Tillmans raised more than $1 million and supported more than 300 families in the Chicago area.

The NFL presented Tillman’s other accomplishments in the following statement: “Tillman and his wife, Jackie, also contribute their time and resources to local, national and international organizations outside of the Cornerstone Foundation. The Tillmans have helped build a school in Cambodia, sponsored children through the Urban Promise program in Camden, New Jersey, and have purchased and donated over 700 tickets to Bears home games since

2008 through the Bears Home Team Hand-Off program. Tillman is also an avid supporter of our military, and has participated in a USO tour to Iraq, volunteered with the USO of Illinois on Thanksgiving to serve meals to local troops and provided soldiers with tickets to games at Soldier Field during the 2013 season.”

While the award was certainly the high point of Tillman’s career, it is unclear what the Bears interest is in resigning Tillman to continue to play cornerback in Chicago.

Tillman recently offered a promise to Bears fans that he will eventually retire as a Chicago Bear but also made it clear he is not ready to retire yet.

He indicated he is on very good terms with Phil Emery and Marc Trestman, but he really has no idea yet what their level of interest is in his returning.

Wherever “Peanut” lands in 2014, this honor and evening were a tremendous moment for Tillman and Chicago Bears fans.

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NEW YORK – While it remains unclear whether or not Charles “Peanut” Tillman, who is an unrestricted free agent, will return to the Chicago Bears in 2014, there is no question he will be forever linked with Bears all-time great Walter Payton.

Tillman was named the 2013 winner of the Walter Payton NFL Man Of The Year Award Saturday night on the eve of Super Bowl XLVIII at a special awards ceremony in New York.

The award has been given annually to an NFL player who excels both on the field and off the field with his volunteerism and philanthropy.

Payton won the award in 1977 when it was the NFL Man Of The Year Award. It was then renamed in his honor after his passing in 1999.

Tillman was selected over fellow finalists Thomas Davis of the Carolina Panthers and Arizona’s Jay Feely.

Each season the 32 NFL teams

choose one nominee to represent their club and the three finalists and eventual winner from the 32 nominees are selected by a panel of judges, which includes NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Payton’s widow Connie Payton, the previous year’s winner who this year was Matt Birk and a number of other retired players.

Each of the 32 nominees receives a donation of $1,000 in their names to the charity of their choice, and the winner gets an additional donation of $25,000.

In accepting the award, Tillman said “I’m grateful to be the recipient of such a prestigious award. Walter Payton’s legacy continues to be a beacon of service and giving, and I’m just trying to do my small part. I don’t think any of the finalists do what they do to get recognition, but we do it because we are passionate about helping others.”

The award has been given since 1970. Tillman joins Payton, Dave Duerson, Mike Singletary and Jim Flanigan as the only Bears to win it.

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History of first African-American settler in Lake County recalled Amos Bennett was the county’s first African-American settler, arriving in Gurnee by the fall of 1835.

Despite this remarkable distinction, Bennett’s story was sparsely documented in early histories and went unresearched by historians until the 1990s.

The discovery that sparked the Lake County Forest Preserves’ Lake County Discovery Museum’s groundbreaking primary research on Bennett occurred in 1993 while museum volunteer Al Westerman was researching land records at the Lake County Recorder of Deeds and came across records of Bennett’s land purchases. The find was curious, since local legend and one published history had claimed that Bennett was merely a squatter and not a land owner.

If the squatting story wasn’t correct, what else might we find about this pioneering settler? The research eventually took us to Delhi, N.Y., where I met historian Shirley Houck, who was also interested in the Bennett Family story.

Amos Bennett was born in Fairfield, Conn., to freed slaves Timothy and Lillie Bennett in 1797. Around 1799, the family moved to Delhi, taking with them a paper verifying their freedom and safe passage. The Bennetts became the first free African-Americans to settle in Delhi and leased property in an area known as the Hardenburgh Patent on Federal Hill.

They worked as sheep shearers, laborers and farmers.

Elijah Haines wrote in his “Past & Present of Lake County, Illinois” that Amos Bennett arrived in 1834, and “was a colored man, and the first of the African race who came to what is now Lake County; he is said to have once remarked, with much self-satisfaction, speaking apparently with reference to the Indians, that he was the first white man that ever planted corn in Lake County.

He was a very intelligent man and much respected.”

I believe that Amos Bennett and his first wife, Clara, and

their children (Henry and Emily) left for Lake County in the fall of 1835; leaving behind his parents and siblings, including a twin brother Almon. This timeline follows the last record of Amos Bennett in Delhi, dated Aug. 28, 1835, when he paid a portion of his father’s lease.

Bennett built a log cabin near Washington Street and Milwaukee Avenue in Gurnee and later had a house and property on Dilley’s Road north of Grand Avenue near today’s Gurnee Mills. His brother, Alfred, lived with him for a time in Gurnee, and purchased property in what is now Greenbelt Forest Preserve. Alfred later moved to Michigan.

Amos Bennett owned more than 140 acres in Lake County.

He sent his children to the local one-room school. Bennett was known as Dr. Bennett for his healing skill with herbs. He is reported to have saved the life of Hannah Blanchard (wife of Philip) after she was struck by lightning.

According to primary research by Debra Mieszala, in the spring of 1840, Bennett made an appearance at the first session of the circuit court in Libertyville. He wanted a divorce from his wife, Clara.

Mieszala’s article on the proceedings “Clara, Clary, Clarice!

Amos Bennett’s First Wife Identified Through the Use of Court Records,” appeared in the Lake County Illinois Genealogical Society newsletter, (Volume 21, No. 4, April-June 2001) excerpted as follows: “Amos told the court that he had married his present wife, Clara, in the State of New York in July 1820. He stated that in July 1836, Clara had committed adultery with Thomas Wilkinson, a Mr. Wood, and other persons unknown to Amos. ... He ‘remonstrated’ against the ‘wicked practices of said Clary,’ and as a result she left him. Clara removed to Cook County, where Amos claimed she was living with other men. ... The case was found in Amos’s favor in April 1841.”

In 1843, Bennett ran for public office for Lake County

Commissioner against William Shephard, Seth Washburn and Stephen Bennett.

He received only one vote (probably his own) and lost the election, but this makes him the first African-American to run for public office in Lake County.

He and his children were welcomed at community gatherings, including a Fourth of July celebration at Third Lake in 1844. Nearly 100 people gathered from neighboring communities, including the Bennetts. When dinner was ready, Reverend Dodge (Millburn Congregational Church) blessed the food. After the meal, Reverend Dodge gave a prayer for the freedom of the slaves in the South.

In 1846, Bennett and 30 other families pooled their money to purchase three acres of land,

creating the Warren Township Cemetery. Also about this time, Bennett married Ann Frances (born in 1817) of Virginia. Amos and Ann had four children, Josephine, Lilly Ann and twin boys (names unknown).

Bennett bought and sold many acres of land and borrowed money using his land, horses and a wagon as collateral. The last record found documenting Bennett in Lake County is dated May 13, 1852. That is the day he sold his remaining 40 acres to Philip Blanchard for $200 and paid off his mortgage.

In spite of much effort, the story of Amos Bennett ends in 1852. We have been unable to discover what became of him and his family. Although at least one source claimed he moved to Wisconsin, the Bennetts do not appear in census

records there or elsewhere in the United States.

In 1997, the Lake County Forest Preserves placed a memorial plaque on a boulder commemorating Bennett along the Des Plaines River trail near Washington Street in Gurnee.

Diana Dretske is the Lake County historian and collections coordinator for the Lake County Forest Preserves’ Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda. Dretske is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society for making outstanding contributions in promoting, preserving and commemorating Illinois history. Detske provided this essay from her blog at www. lakecountyhistory.blogspot. com. For information, email ddretske@lcfpd.org.

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