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As we greet a new school year and shift ourselves from the summer-fun mindset, we bring you an issue of Shorewood Today that features stories of vision and achievement.
This issue, we introduce you to some of Shorewood’s business owners 40 and under, who share their perspectives on entrepreneurship and on the aspects of working in Shorewood that they appreciate and embrace. Meanwhile, Shorewood High School is preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs. The District is forging innovative partnerships with area organizations as part of its mission to offer more authentic learning experiences. The skills students learn will better prepare them for a competitive employment environment and perhaps spark their interest in founding a business of their own one day. A vision to support our Village in ways that offer the most benefit to the community and reflect the residents’ desires is driving the Shorewood Foundation’s board to reach out to Shorewoodians and other community groups. This organization, so vital to the Village’s character and success, seeks to collaborate with others as it sets priorities and goes about carrying out its mission. Don’t be surprised if a foundation board member asks you for your thoughts! Something I myself couldn’t have envisioned, but that has come together beautifully through extreme creativity, hard work, dedication and generous donations (including from the Shorewood Foundation and our neighbor profilees, Bill and Marian Nasgovitz), is the Shorewood Ghost Train, the Village’s latest public art project, which you can read about in a number of stories in these pages. What is the Ghost Train? A description may not do it justice … you might just have to come out to the Oak Leaf Trail Bridge on Halloween night and check it out it for yourself. I hope to see you there.
— Chris Swartz, Shorewood Village Manager
EDITOR: Paula Wheeler CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Michelle Boehm, Jenny Steinman Heyden, Linda Presto, Katelin Watson, Paula Wheeler DESIGN: Karen Parr PHOTOGRAPHY: Jonathan Kirn ADVERTISING SALES: Michelle Boehm, Jenny Steinman Heyden The deadline for reserving advertising space for the Winter 2016 issue of Shorewood Today is October 25, on a space-available basis. Please contact info@shorewoodtoday.com for more information.
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Shorewood Village Manager: Chris Swartz Shorewood School District Superintendent: Bryan Davis Shorewood Business Improvement District Board President: Tim Ryan For more information, visit: Village of Shorewood: villageofshorewood.org Shorewood Business Improvement District: shorewoodwi.com Shorewood School District: shorewoodschools.org On the cover: Adlee Alden, center, is all smiles as he heads to 6th grade at Lake Bluff Elementary, flanked by Hazel Clark, left, and Vivian Rich. Photo by Jonathan Kirn.
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