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January 6, 2021
Newman sworn in area’s newest congresswoman PAGE 2
Riverside Township slate drops its ‘GOP’ affiliation PAGE 6
Cantata administers first vaccines to residents, employees Nursing home officials hope it’s a first step in return to normality By BOB UPHUES Editor
It’s been months since Diane Finch, a resident at Cantata Adult Life Services in Brookfield for the past four years, has been able to see her children in person. So, it perhaps was no surprise that Finch was one of the first Cantata residents waiting in line Saturday morning to receive her vaccination against COVID-19. “I definitely don’t want to get the COVID,” she said See VACCINES on page 9
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Amur leopards Sasha (left) and his mom Lisa were among several animals at Brookfield Zoo IT’LL BE OKAY season who appeared to enjoy playing in their outdoor habitats after the first significant snowfall of the on Dec. 30.
Educators to challenge for RBHS school board Four candidates will vie for three seats in April election
By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
The campaign for the Riverside-Brookfield High School District 208 school board
will resemble a game of musical chairs. With four candidates vying for three seats, after the votes are counted, one person will be left standing on the outside. Running for the three seats are two in-
cumbents who live in Brookfield, board President Wes Smithing and Vice President Ramona Towner, and two newcomers, Ryan VenHorst of Riverside and Lorena Gasca of North Riverside.
VenHorst, 41, teaches technology and engineering classes at Oak Park and River Forest High School. A member of the faculty See RBHS on page 7
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Newman sworn in to represent 3rd Congressional District First time in nearly 4 decades a Lipinski won’t serve in D.C.
By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
Marie Newman was sworn in Sunday as a member of the 117th Congress representing the 3rd Congressional District, a changing of the guard, as she replaces eight-term incumbent Dan Lipinski whom she defeated in the March 2020 primary. “It is an absolute honor and a thrill to be working for and partnering with Illinois 3 and being here and working with all the great folks here,” Newman said Monday in brief telephone interview with the Landmark. “Couldn’t be more excited to get to work.” After being sworn in on Jan. 3, the first act of business was to elect a Speaker of the House. Newman joined with all but five Democrats in re-electing California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi as speaker. On Jan. 4, Newman was busy with procedural votes and getting acclimated to life in Washington. But things get serious on Jan. 6, when the House will have to deal with challenges to the Electoral College vote in the presidential election. Some Republicans
are challenging the results and calling for a commission to be appointed to examine the results. Republicans loyal to President Donald Trump have repeatedly pursued conspiracy theories about the outcome of the election and continue to push discredited claims of fraud despite more than 60 unsuccessful legal challenges at the state and federal court levels. “We are very confident that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be inaugurated on January 20, and we’re looking forward to bigger and brighter things,” Newman said. Newman said that her biggest initial priority will be working to get more federal aid to individuals and others affected by the pandemic. “We have to crush the virus, and that means in the next relief package we have to have larger direct payments to small businesses and to states,” Newman said. In his final week in office, Lipinski voted against increasing direct federal stimulus payments of $2,000 to individuals, saying he didn’t want to increase the federal deficit. The proposed increase from $600 to $2,000 passed the House but
died in the Senate, when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stalled a vote on the measure. Like Lipinski, Newman will be a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. She has also taken over Lipinski’s district office at 6245 S. Archer Ave. in Chicago. The defeat of Lipinski means this is the first time in 38 years there will not be someone named Lipinski in Congress. Dan Lipinski’s father, William O. Lipinski, was first elected to Congress in 1982. William Lipinski served in Congress until 2004 when he resigned after the primary and engineered the selection of his son, then a political science professor at the University of Tennessee, to replace him. Dan Lipinski served for 16 years, beating back occasional primary challenges, including one from Newman in 2018. But Lipinski was often seen as out of step with most of his party, and Newman narrowly defeated him last year. There is now just one pro-life Democrat serving in the House of Representatives after Colin Peterson, of Minnesota, was defeated by a Republican in November.
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TAKE YOUR SEAT: Marie Newman (in white suit) takes the oath of office on Jan. 3 in Washington, D.C., as she begins her first term as congresswoman of Illinois’ 3rd District.
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After industry protest over fee, Riverside distillery sighs relief
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In March, as state shutdown orders closed local retail businesses and a panic-buying public emptied shelves of disinfecting products, some resourceful business owners, like liquor distillers, retooled production to make hand sanitizer. Places like Quincy Street Distillery in Riverside made the decision not only as a way to keep afloat at a time when bars and restaurants were prohibited from operating but to provide local healthcare facilities, first responders and residents with what had become a scarce commodity. And for a few days last week, many of the smaller operations, like Quincy Street Distillery, had regretted that decision after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent them notice on Dec. 29 that they owed the federal government a fee of $14,060, due by Feb. 11. “We’ve suffered a lot of things, because of this pandemic,” said Derrick Mancini, the distillery’s owner. on Dec. 31, when he still believed he’d have to pay it. “We were already most likely looking at shutting down production temporarily in January, but this could be the thing that puts us out of business.” But after the outcry from craft distillers and industry lobbyists, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services relented later on Dec. 31, stating the feds wouldn’t be collecting the fee after all and blaming the fee notices on internal miscommunication. According to the Dec. 31 statement from Health and Human Services, which was shared with the Landmark, “This action was not cleared by HHS leadership, who only learned of it through media reports late [on Dec. 30]. HHS leadership convened an emergency meeting late last night to discuss the matter and requested an immediate legal review. … “Because HHS Office of General Counsel has determined the notice is really a legislative rule and that no one at FDA has been delegated authority to issue such a rule, the notice is void. HHS leadership, based on this legal opinion, has ordered the Federal Register Notice to be withdrawn from the Federal Register, meaning these surprise user fees will not need to be paid.” Mancini said he believes the huge fee resulted from the federal agency rushing to
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CLOSE CALL: Quincy Street Distillery owner Derrick Mancini (right) pivoted in April to making hand sanitizer when that product was hard to find early in the pandemic. A $14,060 fee initially imposed by the FDA and quickly rescinded could have put the business under enormous financial pressure. find a solution to a problem they failed to address earlier. With the end of the year approaching, their backs were against the wall, and they made the simplest calculation possible. “My suspicion is that we were hitting the end of the year and they didn’t have anything ready to go, so at the last minute they dropped this on us without an industry input or public discussion,” Mancini said. The fee was imposed equally on any business that applied to become “overthe-counter drug monograph facilities” capable of producing hand sanitizer for wholesale and retail distribution. The fee, which was always part of the equation but never described in any detail and for which guidance was never issued, would be collected to offset the cost of the FDA’s regulatory role in approving the licenses. Mancini said he believes a decision on the fee was put off because federal officials didn’t know at the outset what the cost was going to be to administer the program. The whole registration process was in flux for months as federal officials scrambled to write the rules to allow distillers to produce what was considered an over-thecounter medical product. When the FDA finally determined the cost to register businesses for the program, they simply added up the number of businesses participating and divided
the cost equally. And with the renewal period to register for the program next year coming just two days from that Dec. 29 notice, small distillers like Quincy Street had scrambled to de-list from the program for fear of getting hit again next year. With the future of the fee unclear, Mancini said Quincy Street Distillery has shut down its manufacture of hand sanitizer. “We still don’t know about next year,” said Mancini in a follow-up email. “HHS will have to decide going forward, so all of us have had to deregister and stop manufacture. … The negative for us is that we are still sitting on supplies (chemicals and bottles) purchased specifically to produce the hand sanitizer.” Mancini said Quincy Street Distillery never intended hand sanitizer sales to be a profit center, just a way to keep staff employed and provide a service to the community. They didn’t make anywhere close to $14,000 in profit from those sales, Mancini said. The proposed fee for the privilege of making hand sanitizer far outstripped the amount Quincy Street Distillery pays annually to produce hard liquor, Mancini added, and ironically came at a time when the federal government finally made permanent a reduction in liquor excise taxes for craft distilleries. “This [fee] is far larger than what we pay for the alcohol we produce,” Mancini said.
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BIG WEEK
January 6-13
COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Town Hall The clinical team at Loretto Hospital in Chicago will host a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Town Hall on Facebook Live from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 6 Meet with the clinical team who will answer questions and empower individuals with the facts to make a personal, informed decisions. Panelists include Lois Clarke M.D., Loretto’s medical director of research; Shilpa Pulluru M.D., clinical research liaison; and Ali Ahmed Ph.D., president of Affinity Health, Loretto’s clinical research partner. Vaccine trial participants will receive free healthcare for up to two years. View the town hall at facebook.com/Lorettohospitalchicago.
Webinar on police practices and policies The League of Women Voters of the LaGrange Area and the CommUNITY Diversity Group of LaGrange will co-sponsor a webinar with local police departments and community groups in a discussion of police policies and practices via Zoom on Thursday, Jan. 14 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The conversation will also include representatives of local mental health and community services. The public is encouraged to suggest questions prior to the event by emailing to LaGrangeLWV@gmail.com. The webinar is free of charge and open to the public, but registration is required at tinyurl.com/y98zcra4.
“Storyboards for Installations and Assemblages” by Camille Silverman
RAC preview exhibit at town hall
Riverside Arts Center may be in between shows right now, but you can get a taste of what’s in store if you visit the Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road, for an exhibition called “Storyboards for Installations and Assemblages” by Camille Silverman, the RAC executive director. The exhibition features studies for “Softening Space,” Silverman’s exhibition in the Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery, which opens to the public on Jan. 14. The show in gallery will run simultaneously with the show at the township hall, a first for RAC. This body of photographic drawings and collages was inspired by a series of prints by Helen Frankenthaler at the Art Institute of Chicago, which Frankenthaler continually reworked and added notes to -- a tool for variations in the reproduction of an image. Silverman uses this technique to “build a continuous diary of visual language by using repetition to free my mind to unexpected improvisation and experimentation.”
Around Riverside in 80 Days There are 80 days between Thanksgiving Day and Valentine’s Day, so with that in mind the Riverside Department of Parks and Recreation invites you to register for Around Riverside in 80 Days, which challenges you to get out there every day through Feb. 14 and walk, run or bike any distance to stay healthy this winter. Track your trips on the downloadable tracker sheet and see just how far you can go in 80 days. Send your pictures and keep Parks and Rec posted on your achievements by emailing to riversidepr@riverside.il.us. Register to participate in the fun run campaign at riverside.il.us/513/Around-Riverside-In-80-Days and receive a sweatshirt of your choice.
Riverside Township Hall is open to walk-in visitors during normal business hours. Silverman’s exhibition there will be shown through Feb. 25.
And more
‘Wonderful Life’ goes digital
North Riverside Public Library, 2400 Desplaines Ave., is offering the following virtual programs through Facebook Live, conference calls and the teleconferencing app Zoom. Programs include Game Night Wednesdays on Jan. 6 and 13 at 7 p.m. via Facebook Live on North Riverside Public Library’s Facebook page. ■
Theatre of Western Springs presents “It’s a Wonderful Western Springs Life,” a digital play for the holidays by the Actives of the TWS and the young actors of the Children’s Theatre of Western Springs. Tickets are on sale at theatreofwesternsprings. com and the performance can be seen through noon Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Subscribers will
receive the code; a $10 donation is suggested for non-subscribers. The digital Vimeo link will be emailed to patrons. “It’s A Wonderful Western Springs Life” features a cast of more than 100 adults and children and was filmed on the streets and in the parks and businesses of Western Springs.
There’s also Crafternoons: Candy Cane Wreaths via Zoom on Jan. 9 at 1:30 p.m. and Book Club Telephone Talk on Jan. 12 at 6:45 p.m. via conference call (800-747-5150, code 1453322). The book this month is
“Educated: A Memoir” by Tara Westover. Call 708-4470869 to pick up a copy curbside. RSVP to bodenl@northriversidelibrary.org or visit northriversidelibrary.org/events for adult Zoom meeting access info. Brookfield Public Library offers virtual classes and programs for patrons of all ages throughout the week. Most youth activities will be presented live on the library’s Facebook page at facebook.com/BrookfieldPublicLibrary. There’s also Chair Yoga via Zoom on Jan. 7 at 11 a.m. Visit brookfield.evanced.info/signup to register. ■
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Vehicle break-ins usher in New Year in Riverside
Riverside experienced a rash of vehicles break-ins in the past week, with police reporting at least 15 incidents where someone either entered vehicles or tried to. All occurred during the overnight hours of either Dec. 30-31 or Jan. 2-3 in the southeast area of the village. In one of the Riverside incidents, the attempt to gain entry wasn’t successful, but footprints left in the snow outside the vehicle indicated someone had tried. Incidents were reported in the first block of South Delaplaine Road, the 200 block of East Quincy Street, the 200 block of East Burlington Street, the 200 block of Gage Road and the 200 block of Lawton Road. In many of the cases, footprints in the snow showed that someone walked down the blocks trying door handles to find unlocked vehicles. While some vehicles were rummaged through but nothing was taken, items were stolen from others, including a cellphone, jackets, tools, headphones, N95-type face masks, loose change, a sweater, a bicycle light and a spare vehicle key. Police were able to recover some surveillance video showing the alleged offender walking through front and rear yards. They intend to release images from that footage soon in hopes of identifying a suspect. ■ Two vehicle burglaries were also reported as happening during the overnight hours of Dec. 28-29 on the south end of Brookfield. A resident of the 4100 block of Madison Avenue reported that someone had entered his unlocked vehicle, which was parked next to the alley, and removed a pair of iPods, an iPad, three portable radios, jumper cables and small tools. A resident of the 4300 block of DuBois Boulevard reported that someone had taken a pair of 12-inch Rockford Fosgate subwoofer speakers from the trunk of his unlocked vehicle.
DUI to start the year A 61-year-old Riverside man faces drunken driving charges and other traffic citations after he was arrested at 3:50 a.m. on Jan. 1 for allegedly driving in the wrong lane of traffic while northbound on South Delaplaine Road and then blowing through a stop sign at Lawton Road. Police reported that the vehicle continued driving in the wrong lane of traffic while westbound on East Burlington Street and pulled to wrong curb when stopped by police at Herbert Road. According to police, the driver’s blood-alcohol content was .143, which is nearly twice the legal limit of .08.
Vehicle stolen from mall
North Riverside police responded to North Riverside Park Mall, 7501 Cermak Road, on Dec. 30 at about 4:15 p.m. after a 39-year-old Cicero woman working as a Door Dash delivery driver called to report that her gray Honda Accord had been stolen from in front of the food court entrance. The victim told police she parked her car to make a delivery to someone at the mall entrance. She was out of the vehicle, which she left running with the keys inside, for just moments to make the delivery. When she turned around, the car was gone.
Driver hits 117 mph to elude cops Someone at the wheel of a Dodge Challenger displaying the license plates of a 2016 Jeep that police reported stolen out of Olympia Fields in November hit the gas and led police on a brief chase from the North Riverside Mall parking lot eastbound on Cermak Road before an officer broke it off. The office responded to the mall at about 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 27 after getting a report of vehicles driving recklessly. The officer observed the Dodge, with heavily damaged passenger side doors driving in the parking lot and learned its license plates were from the stolen Jeep. Police tried to stop the car, but the driver sped away, reaching 117 mph as it crossed Harlem Avenue into Berwyn.
Not very neighborly A Brookfield woman went to police on Jan. 2 after returning home to find a hand-written letter addressed to the “occupant” and having no return address in her mailbox. According to the woman, who is married to another woman, the letter stated “Jesus is returning soon, be patient. Fear and obey.” The letter also referenced a scripture passage, stated as a type of warning and suggesting one of the two women “shall be taken and the other left.” Concerned because she is married to another woman and not knowing whether to treat the letter as a threat, the woman went to police to document the incident. These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments, Dec. 28, 2020 to Jan. 3, 2021, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.
— Compiled by Bob Uphues
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Riverside Township incumbents dropping GOP label By BOB UPHUES
New ‘Unity Party’ will supplant partisan political slates of the past
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For as long as anyone can remember the Riverside Township Regular Republican Organization has slated the candidates who have served every four years on the township’s board of trustees. The elections unfailingly have been uncontested, even though a Riverside Township Democratic political organization has nominally existed throughout the decades. For at least the last two decades, the local Democratic Party has chosen to cede township government to the township GOP. But, political labels being what they are – and with Riverside Township leaning decidedly Democratic in the past 15 years – the days of
the Riverside Township GOP running a slate appear to be over. “This is the way it’s going to go in the future,” said Tim Heilenbach, an incumbent township trustee who is running for re-election with a slate of candidates running under the banner Riverside Township Unity Party. Heilenbach, a resident of Brookfield, is the new party’s chairman. Riverside Township includes nearly all of Riverside, the Hollywood section of Brookfield and North Riverside east of 9th Avenue. “I think this is going to give us a better quality of candidate going forward, because it takes the R and D out of it,” Heilenbach said. “We’re there to do our best for all of our township constituents.” The change has not, for now, made the race
for a seat on the township board more competitive. The coming April race for township supervisor, assessor, clerk and four trustee seats is uncontested. All but one of those running on the Riverside Township Unity Party slate is now a member of the township board, though the deck is being shuffled slightly. Trustee Michael Dropka is running for township clerk while Clerk Liane Blauw is running for trustee. Both are North Riverside residents. Assessor Frank Sitkiewicz, of Riverside, is running for re-election to that post, while Riverside resident Mary Rob Clarke joins Heilenbach in seeking re-election as a trustee. Running for re-election as township supervisor is North Riverside resident Vera Wilt,
who like the rest of the incumbents seeking re-election in 2021 ran as part of a Riverside Township GOP slate in 2017. “Let’s face it, being a Republican locally and nationally doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing,” said Wilt. That change is important, because also running for a seat as trustee is Riverside resident Thomas Morrissey, an attorney who in 2019 created a political committee to back his candidacy for Cook County Circuit Court judge, as a Democrat. “Tom is joining our group, but I think we’re all of similar mind,” Wilt said. The only incumbent not running for spot on the township board is Trustee Tom Lupfer, a Riverside resident who won election to his only term on the board in 2017.
Man injured in First Ave. crash involving wrong-way driver A 25-year-old Chicago man has been released from the hospital after suffering what police called “serious” injuries when a pickup truck northbound on First Avenue at Waubansee Road in Riverside crossed the center line and struck his southbound ve-
hicle head-on during a snowstorm at about 9:05 p.m. on Dec. 29. Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel said his officers were en route to First Avenue when the crash happened after dispatchers received calls of an alleged reck-
less driver whose 2003 Dodge pickup truck had crossed the center line on First Avenue “numerous” times while northbound from 63rd Street in Summit. According to police, witnesses stated they had been following the pickup truck from
Summit and had called 911 to report erratic driving along the roughly five-mile route. The truck slammed head-on into a 2017 Chevy Cruze, which was traveling south in See CRASH on page 13
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School board shakeup on the way in District 94
With three incumbents stepping aside, new generation stepping up By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
A new generation is about to make their voices heard on the Komarek Elementary School District 94 Board of Education. Four newcomers energized by recent referendum campaigns and one incumbent are vying for the four seats up on the Komarek school board in April. The four newcomers are Raul Jasso, Willie Merrill, Holly Neumann and Melissa Obrock. The only incumbent running for another term is Frank Savaglio, who was appointed in 2018 when Jonathan Hoadley resigned. Incumbents Al Sarro, Rashida McKelvin and Carolyn Lach have all decided not to run for another term. Obrock was a leader in the successful 2020 campaign to pass a $20.8 million bond referendum to overhaul and expand Komarek School. In 2019, a slightly more expensive referendum was defeated. Obrock served as co-chair of the
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Competitive race from page 1 for 18 years, he is also an assistant wrestling coach. VenHorst has lived in Riverside for nearly eight years and is the father of two daughters, a sixth-grader and a fourth-grader. “I’m interested in the strength of schools and, in general, it’s important to have people involved,” VenHorst said when asked why he was running for the school board. VenHorst grew up just outside Bettendorf, Iowa, and his father served on the local school board, so he has always thought that he might like to follow in his father’s footsteps. “It’s often more challenging than rewarding, but it’s important,” VenHorst said. VenHorst graduated from the University of Northern Iowa and earned a master’s degree from Concordia University-Portland. He says he wants to be a voice of reason on the school board and said he understands the limitations of a school board’s member role. “You set policy and hire the superintendent, negotiate contracts with the superintendent; that’s what you’re limited to,” VenHorst said. VenHorst said that he would like to see RBHS strengthen career and technical education. Gasca, 47, has lived in North Riverside for eight years and is the mother of a seventhgrade who attends Komarek School. She was born in Monterey, Mexico, and moved to Chicago when she was 6 years old. Gasca grew up in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. She graduated from Whitney Young High
Vote Yes campaign for both attempts. A resident of North Riverside for 12 years, Obrock, 41, works as director of major gifts for the Brookfield Zoo and is the mother of two Komarek students, a seventh-grader and a fifth-grader. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State, where she majored in psychology and women’s studies. She has a master’s degree in higher education from Loyola University. “I think I understand both the strengths and weaknesses of the school and have really enjoyed my time working toward the passage of the referendum,” said Obrock. “I feel like running for a spot on the school board is a natural progression of the work that I’ve been doing for the past few years.” Obrock, Merrill, Neumann and to a lesser extent Jasso, got to know each other during the referendum campaigns. While they are not running as a slate, they do talk and help each other out. “I would describe it as a supportive collaboration,” Neumann said. “I think we’re supporters of each other.” Jasso, Merrill, Neumann and Obrock all say that they want to increase transparency and communicate better with the community. “For me, the big thing is community engagement and making sure that the com-
munity understands how to be involved with the school, to maintain the positive energy we’ve created,” Obrock said. While working on the referendum campaigns, they discovered that many residents didn’t know much about the school and felt left in the dark about school affairs. “I just heard from people over and over again that they wanted more transparency,” Neumann said. Neumann, 39, works as a public health analyst for RTI. She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Illinois State University and a master’s degree in public policy and administration from Northwestern University. She is the mother of a Komarek thirdgrader and another child who is in pre-kindergarten. She has lived in North Riverside for six years. Jasso and Merrill are both Komarek graduates, Jasso in 1995 and Merrill in 1998 and have moved back to the community. Merrill, 36, grew up in Broadview and now lives across the street from Komarek. Merrill works as a transitions care coordinator for Encompass Health, a home health care company. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in kinesiology and community health.
“Giving a voice to the younger generation,” Merrill said about his reason for running. “A lot of my friends have moved back to the neighborhood as well.” Merrill is the father of Komarek firstgrader and a pre-kindergarten student. Jasso, 39, is a sales consultant for Burke Beverage, a beer distributer based in McCook. He graduated from Illinois State University majoring in international business and marketing. Jasso is the father of two future Komarek students, a 2 year old and a 9 month old. “I want to start focusing on the school system,” said Jasso, whose wife teaches at a school in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. Jasso and his wife have been active in Chill, an organization that introduces underprivileged children to snowboarding. Savaglio, 40, is the father of three children, two of whom graduated from Komarek and a son who is a Komarek fifth-grader. “I like to have a holistic approach to education, things like shop class, fishing club, home economics,” Savaglio said. “I know that every year my kids would bring home some type of sculpture or a little wooden thing.”
School, University of Illinois at Chicago and recently earned a master’s degree in human resources management from Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU). Gasca has worked at NEIU for 14 years and is a senior project manager for GEARUP, a federally funded program that works in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools to encourage disadvantaged urban youth to go to college. Coming from Chicago, which has an appointed school board, Gasca said she has been interested in serving on a school board since moving to North Riverside. With her master’s degree completed and North Riverside resident Gina Sierra choosing not to run for a second term on the District 208 school board, Gasca decided that now is the time to take the plunge. “I thought now would be a good time for me to give back to my community,” Gasca said. If elected, Gasca would be the first Hispanic member of the school in recent memory. But that was not something that she had thought about when deciding whether to run. “My interest was in representing North Riverside, period,” Gasca said. However, 36.7 percent of RBHS students are Hispanic and Gasca believes that having representation on the school board would be good. “I definitely think RB should continue to work towards making sure that all their stakeholders are represented in all aspects, whether it’s the school board, administration -- where I think they’re doing a good job -- also teachers,” Gasca said. “Diversity, I think, is a strength.” Gasca and VenHorst face off against Smithing and Towner, who, along with board member Laura Hruska, have been vocal in sup-
porting a return to in-person learning and have occasionally aggressively criticized the teachers’ union at RBHS, with Towner at one board meeting describing the leadership of the union, known as the RBEA, as toxic. Smithing noted that both Gasca and VenHorst work in education. “Competition is always good,” Smithing said of having a contested race. “It will be interesting to see what the educators think we need to do better than we’re doing. It will be interesting to see their take on how they hold educators accountable and educators trying to hold educators accountable.” Towner works as instructional coach in South Berwyn School District 100, where she’s been employed as an educator for 31 years, while Smithing is a manager for facilities design and construction for United Ground Express. Towner said she welcomed competition and is glad, as a voter, that other people have decided to run. But, she argued that the school board will need experienced leadership and said there’s work she still wants to complete. “I am running because I don’t think I accomplished my goals that I set for myself, for instance making sure that we remain financially stable,” Towner said. “And giving kids more choice in classes, especially non-college bound kids.” Smithing noted that VenHorst works at OPRF, a much larger school than RBHS. “It will be interesting, because I don’t think there is any interest in running our school any way that Oak Park-River Forest runs their high school,” Smithing said. “We’re different schools, different agendas.” Smithing said that he understands that he is not very popular with the teachers’ union right now.
“I’m just holding them accountable and people don’t tend to like to be held accountable that often,” Smithing said. “That’s probably about the reason there.” There has been speculation that the RBHS teachers’ union played a role in recruiting candidates to challenge Smithing and Towner. VenHorst denied that he was recruited by the union, but acknowledged that he knows some RBHS teachers. “My desire to be a part of the school board has actually gone back far beyond anything that is happening on the current board,” VenHorst said. VenHorst and Gasca have spoken but have not decided whether they will team up in the campaign. “We’ve talked on the phone,” VenHorst said. VenHorst said that being a teacher has advantages and disadvantages when it comes to being a member of a school board. “The advantage is understanding what teachers do, what our jobs really are, what we’re asked to do, and from there see what our limitations are in our outreach,” said VenHorst, adding that the disadvantage is that teachers are often viewed as part of the education establishment. VenHorst said he could balance competing interests of teachers and taxpayers should he be elected to the school board in April. “I think it starts with attempting to find fairness,” VenHorst said. Gasca said she didn’t have an informed opinion yet on the issues between the school board and union but noted that it is not easy to run a school during a pandemic. “Regardless of what side you’re on it’s a difficult time, so I can see why tensions would be high,” Gasca said.
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Villages see new COVID case numbers on the rise
Still no clear info on how, when vaccines available to general public By BOB UPHUES Editor
After seeing numbers ease in the weeks around the Christmas holidays, the number of people in Brookfield, Riverside and North Riverside with new confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 rose again in the most recent week-long period, ending on the morning of Jan. 5. The rise comes just as vaccines against the disease are slowly being rolled out in Cook County, with first doses administered in the past couple of weeks to front-line health care workers, long-term care home residents and employees and local first responders. However, there’s been no information on how or when the vaccine will be rolled out to the general public, and President Donald Trump washed the federal government’s hands of administering vaccines, tweeting on Dec. 30 that “The Federal Government has distributed the vaccines to the states. Now it is up to the states to administer. Get moving!” At the local level, the Cook County Department of Public Health has outlined its phased
approach for prioritizing vaccine distribution, but has not detailed any plan to make the vaccine available to the general public. In Brookfield, where the number of new COVID cases on Dec. 29 during a one-week period fell to levels not seen since October, the pace has picked up again. For the week ending on the morning of Jan. 5, there were 74 new confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 reported by the Cook County Department of Public Health. That brought the total number of people contracting the disease since last March to 1,355. The number of new cases during the past week also inched upward in Riverside and North Riverside. In North Riverside, where new cases fell to one digit for the week ending Jan. 29, last week’s number of new confirmed or probable cases rose by 23, similar to what the village was experiencing right before Christmas but still below its all-time weekly high of 36 cases in late November. Total cases in North Riverside since the pandemic began surpassed 400 in the past week, with 411 reported as of the morning of Jan. 5. New confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 for the week ending on the morning of Jan. 5 also ticked up in Riverside by 31 after seeing two consecutive weeks of decreases. Since the pandemic swept through the area in March 2020, a total of 673 Riverside resi-
dents had contracted the disease. For the first time since Thanksgiving, no new fatalities due to COVID-19 were reported in any of the villages. In all, the disease has claimed 11 lives in Brookfield and three each in North Riverside and Riverside.
State leaders urge caution The state’s COVID-19 hospitalizations and average case positivity rate remain below second-wave highs while public health officials in Illinois continue to caution residents that a post-holiday surge could materialize. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 5,059 new and probable cases of COVID-19 on Monday, with an average of 5,900 of new cases daily from Dec. 31 to Sunday. Those case figures are significantly lower than the second wave peak of 15,415 cases on Nov. 13 — which was the highest number of daily new cases reported since the pandemic began. The latest numbers bring the statewide totals since the pandemic began to 984,880 confirmed and probable cases and 16,834 fatalities. Those fatalities included 477 individuals who died since Thursday afternoon. Hospitalization rates continued to fall for the sixth straight week. From Dec. 28 through Jan. 3, the daily average hospitalization count from COVID-19 stood at 4,099, down 7 percent from
the week before, and down 33 percent, or 2,029, from the period ending Nov. 23. At the end of Sunday, there were 3,948 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Illinois, an increase of 131 from the day prior. The statewide seven-day rolling average positivity rate has ticked upward slightly, increasing for the eighth straight day. The average positivity rate increased above 8 percent on Jan. 1 after falling below that figure for 11 straight days. In Region 10, which encompasses all of suburban Cook County the seven-day rolling positivity rate also has been on the rise. On Dec. 26, the rate was 8.9 percent, but during the following week had ticked up to 9.8 percent as of Jan. 1, the most recent data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health. Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said in an interview with Good Morning America last week that state officials will be monitoring the data closely to see if there is a spike after Christmas and New Year celebrations. “Thanksgiving was a much shorter holiday. We had the most tiny blip, almost insignificant. But with the Christmas and the New Year’s, with that break being days, weeks actually, there’s a lot of concern, especially as the fatigue is real,” Ezike said during the Dec. 29 interview. Sarah Mansur of Capitol News Illinois contributed to this report.
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VACCINES
About 240 inoculated from page 1
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The second wave of cases this fall led to Cantata beginning twice-weekly testing, including an increase in the number of rapid tests, which initially were not given routinely due to short supplies. “We just got a new shipment of rapid tests recently, so now we’re starting rapid tests for everyone,” Heraty said, adding that staff will take one rapid and one PCR test (which take longer to get results, but which are more accurate) weekly, for now.
shortly after getting her shot on Jan. 2. The occasion so was momentous that staff applauded as the first handful of residents, pushed in wheelchairs by caregivers or aided by walkers, lined up outside a room in The Woodlands assisted-living facility at Cantata where the vaccines were administered. “I’ve never been so excited to get a shot Meanwhile, any resident who may become in my life,” said Kevin Heraty, director infected with COVID-19 and who exhibits of development at Cantata, who would be mild to moderate symptoms now has access one of about 240 people, both residents to the monoclonal antibody treatment that and staff, being vaccinated by health care has been cleared for emergency use by the workers from CVS on Jan. 2. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “What we’re looking at is hopefully the The emergency use order was issued Nov. first step in regaining normality in our 9 and while it initially was offered to hosliving standards for residents and employ- pitals, the treatment began being offered ees,” Heraty added. “It’s going to take some more widely in December. It was then that months, but this is the first step.” Dr. Dheeraj Mahajan, Cantata’s medical diHeraty wasn’t the only one at Cantata rector, reached out to the U.S. Department anxious to receive the first dose of the Pfizof Health and Human Services er vaccine on Jan. 2 – the second to inquire about the Brookfield doses will be administered Jan. facility joining that program. 23 – only two Cantata residents “We were one of the first facilrefused the vaccine, he said. ities to receive the medication,” “We’ll still be doing infectionsaid Mahajan. control procedures for a long While staff at Cantata have time, but we’ll have a protected not had cause to use the therapy campus in house,” said Heraty, yet, Mahajan said that he has who hoped that residents might seen “extensive success” using also be able to resume more the treatment at another facility group activities, including dinin Cook County that uses his ing together to provide a better company CIMPAR as its mediquality of life and making sure cal partner. residents feel less isolated. “For me it’s day and night,” “I’m hoping that by springsaid Mahajan. “In every one of time residents might be able to those cases, lives were saved.” have visitors – not just outside, The therapy can be particubut inside, too,” Heraty said. larly effective in a nursing Cantata, which offers indehome setting, said Mahajan, pendent and assisted living because cases can be caught for seniors as well as skilled quickly, which is essential for nursing care, has been under use of monoclonal antibody some form of lockdown since treatment. the COVID-19 pandemic swept The drug Bamlanivimab is through the area in March DR. DHEERAJ MAHAJAN administered intravenously, 2020. Cantata medical director and patients must be moniThe early strict lockdown tored throughout the hour-plus was successful and coupled period. Afterwards, patients with a weekly testing program must be monitored for another rolled out in early summer, hour or so in case of adverse Cantata was able to loosen its reactions. restrictions throughout the summer and Due to that kind of one-to-one attention, into early autumn. many hospitals shied away from accept“We didn’t have any residents or employ- ing the drug, since they couldn’t spare the ees test positive all summer,” said Heraty. staff, making hundreds of thousands of “Only in late October did we see some em- doses available to other facilities, like nursployees test positive, and then it became ing homes. quite dramatic, quite quickly.” Although the treatment is considered Just six residents tested positive dur- experimental, since it hasn’t been fully aping the second surge, seen throughout the proved by the FDA, Mahajan said the data nation, in October and November, and all he’s seen supports the conclusion that the have recovered, according to Heraty. Mean- monoclonal antibody treatment is effective. while, according to Cantata’s online CO“For a lot of clinicians, we look at the VID status dashboard, 34 staff members data that’s out there, and in my experience have tested positive, although just one re- that data is good enough to use,” Mahajan mained positive as of Dec. 29. said.
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Riverside native looks to connect cancer survivors New digital platform employs holistic approach to provide support
By JACKIE PISANO
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egardless of age, facing a cancer diagnosis is a scary thing for anyone. At first, the grim news is met with disbelief and sadness, followed by wonder of how the illness came about, questions about the prognosis, anxiety about treatments and fear of the future. Early on, cancer patients often receive a flood of support from family and friends in the form of get-well cards, flowers and food baskets. But over time, many face a growing sense of depression, anger and isolation. Those fortunate to survive cancer undoubtedly feel relieved to have a second chance at life. But regardless of how long remission lasts, cancer survivors carry on with more than surgical scars. While the body may be on the mend, survivors face a new challenge -- battling mental and emotional struggles. For Riverside native Kathleen Brown, the above is all too familiar and the inspiration for Buddhi -- a free, digital platform for adults living with and recovering from cancer. Buddhi (pronounced “buddy”) features curated content, discussions and virtual events, all with the goal of KATHLEEN BROWN inviting friends and family to invest in holistic healing through a socially-responsible e-commerce marketplace. In the years she’s survived cancer, Brown says nearly all other cancer patients she talks with share the same problem -- fear of opening up about mental struggles and finding a true sense of both emotional support and outlets for holistic wellbeing. “You live with the fear of recurrence, and if you don’t have the tools to cope with that or figure out when you start freaking out every time you’re waiting for results, it’ll eat you alive,” she said. Twenty-five years ago at age 13, Brown was like any other junior high student. An active student at Hauser Junior High School with a slew of friends, the energetic teen could never have expected how her life would change following a routine school physical. When Brown’s doctor noticed a small bump on her back -- thinking at first it may have developed from frequent hits against the high-jump bar during track and field practices -- Brown and her family sought out second opinions just to be sure. She eventually underwent surgery, where it was discovered the bump was actually a
PHOTO COURTESY OF KATHLEEN BROWN
SOLIDARITY: Kathleen Brown (right) shares a laugh with her sister, Meagan Brown, who serves as Buddhi’s community director, and Brown’s dog, Penelope, known as Buddhi’s “chief comfort officer.” massive cancer tumor. The diagnosis? Ewing sarcoma, a rare type of cancer which occurs in the bones or soft tissue around bones. While it can occur at any age, Ewing sarcoma is most common in children and teens. At first, Brown was treated in Chicago. But after developing a staph infection, her prognosis was bleak and her medical team and family determined it would be best to transfer her to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the renowned pediatric cancer and disease hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. There, Brown underwent further treatment and was even administered last rites from the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the archbishop of Chicago who himself was battling cancer. The same year, Valerie Kunz, the late longtime local newspaper columnist from Riverside, wrote a feature story on Brown, resulting in an abundance of moral support from both Riversiders and others. One year and three months after rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatments, Brown was successfully treated and de-
clared cancer-free. According to Brown, her tumor was never staged, so she doesn’t know how advanced her Ewing sarcoma was. She says there truly is no medical explanation other than a miracle for why she stabilized. “It was really sunshine and rainbows after St. Jude, for all intents and purposes,” Brown said. “They covered the cost of treatment, we had the best possible medical care and treated us like we were family, and it was really great.” Though in remission, returning to normal life for Brown was no walk in the park. While in her freshman year at Fenwick High School, Brown was finishing her two final cancer treatments. While she says she had nice classmates, Brown was unsure of how others would receive her if she told them about her cancer. “What I realized post-treatment, that I never really felt comfortable talking about, was all the mental health effects,” she said. “I was somehow a very high-functioning, very depressed person.” It wasn’t until her wig fell off while mak-
ing a play during a softball game that she began opening up a bit and telling peers the truth about what she was going through. “Certainly I talked about the fact that I was finishing treatment, but I wasn’t talking about the dark stuff at all,” she said. “I was surrounded by more love and support than you can imagine. Everyone in Riverside and surrounding communities were showering me with cards and teddy bears and gift baskets and all these things that were very heartwarming.” But every time Brown was asked by someone how she was doing, she hated how it made her feel pitied. “I hear that it’s very common people don’t want to complain; they don’t want to express that kind of dark stuff because they already feel different,” she explained. “For me, I felt like if I expressed that stuff, it would feel like a slap in the face to all these people that were caring about me.” With no in-person or virtual support networks for cancer patients in the late 1990s, See BUDDHI on page 13
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P R O P E R T Y
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T R A N S F E R S
New build in Brookfield sells for $585,000
The following property transfers were reported by the Cook County Recorder of Deeds from September 2020. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the recorder of deeds.
Brookfield ADDRESS
PRICE
SALE DATE
3622 Raymond Ave. 8915 Burlington Ave., 201 3505 Vernon Ave. 4213 Raymond Ave. 4164 Elm Ave. 4146 Park Ave. 3712 Forest Ave. 8817 44th Pl. 2945 Prairie Ave. 4146 Oak Ave. 4500 Prairie Ave. 3741 Raymond Ave. 4312 Arthur Ave. 3310 Vernon Ave. 3228 Arthur Ave. 9428 Ogden Ave. 9147 Sherman Ave. 3247 Prairie Ave. 3146 Maple Ave. 4331 DuBois Blvd. 3526 Madison Ave. 8815 Congress Park Ave. 3427 Sunnyside Ave. 3925 Oak Ave. 9403 Monroe Ave. 3837 Blanchan Ave. 3712 Woodside Ave.
$250,000 $157,500 $410,000 $365,000 $305,000 $290,000 $255,000 $212,000 $180,000 $247,500 $480,000 $162,500 $585,000 $250,000 $380,000 $300,000 $170,000 $402,500 $338,000 $280,000 $280,000 $425,000 $230,000 $224,000 $350,000 $252,000 $372,000
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North Riverside ADDRESS
PRICE
SALE DATE
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$245,000 $290,000 $270,000 $194,000 $225,500 $232,000 $365,000 $295,000
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THE LANDMARK VIEW
We need to get the ball rolling
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n recent weeks, it’s been comforting to see tangible examples of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout locally, with first doses administered in late December to first responders and over the past weekend to residents and staff at Cantata Adult Life Services in Brookfield. Those folks will be getting their second doses within weeks, while more first-dose vaccines will be administered to employees and residents at Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care in North Riverside next week. That is truly excellent news. However, there are entire populations of elderly citizens who are not living in long-term care facilities, employees of retail businesses that put them into contact with those who are knowingly and unknowingly positive for COVID-19, as well as the rest of the population – millions upon millions of us – all wondering, “When is our turn in line?” Right now, the answer to that question is, “Who knows?” And that is exceedingly frustrating, given the fact that the country is still suffering the effects of a second serious surge of the virus and more than 350,000 people have died from COVID-19. According to the CDC’s website on Jan. 5, about 15.4 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed nationwide, but just 4.5 million doses have been administered. Why are those vaccines gathering dust when people are waiting to be inoculated? The CDC states that in Illinois, about 427,000 people have received vaccinations as of Jan. 5. That sounds like a lot until you realize Illinois has a population of about 12.7 million people. So, about 3 percent of the state’s population has received a first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. At that rate, we are all going to waiting a very long time – and risking our health – before enough people are vaccinated to reach herd immunity. For a nation that tells itself so often how exceptional it is, that’s just not acceptable. If the federal government will not bring its massive resources to bear – and right now that’s the message being broadcast via Twitter by the White House -- then it will be up to states and counties to step up, and fast, to fill that void. There need to be more creative solutions than just meting out vaccine distribution to pharmacy chains which are not staffed sufficiently to handle such a demand and provide the routine care they do now. If the governor can deploy Illinois National Guard medical units to help with COVID testing, he can do the same with vaccine administration. County health officials can ramp up their efforts and enlist local first responders and private paramedic and EMS companies to assist. It is absolutely urgent that state and county leaders find a solution to this problem of getting the vaccines rolled out. And, after Jan. 20, they should again demand that the federal government take responsibility for what ought to be a coherent, coordinated response to a national crisis.
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Wildlife part of the scenery in Riverside
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h, deer! After reading a story in last week’s Landmark about two deer being hit by cars within seconds of each other on First Avenue, I was reminded that there are number animals in the area. Poor things! Now, I admit I am an animal sympathizer. I saw the movie “Bambi” as a child and never watched it again. It was too sad for me. I think it was the only Disney movie not in our home collection. So when I read stories such as last week’s, I feel badly for them again. I know they are around and they have been visitors to our backyard to eat the birdseed with the squirrels and birds -- they all get along. One day “the boss” even showed up, a beautiful big stag and with him was a smaller deer. For a while last year we had visits from an injured deer who was able to move around on three legs. We would see him for weeks and then he was gone. When I was teaching at Mater Christi School in North Riverside, going west down 26th Street, past First Avenue, I always went slow, not just because it was a speed trap but because the deer congregated in the clearing around 5th and 6th avenues. They would
wait before crossing the street to feast on someone’s bushes. When I was a child, before Morton West High School in Berwyn was built, the area was a large fenced-in area with lots of trees and deer. I have no idea how they got there and I didn’t care, because my parents told me that was where Santa kept his reindeer and as far as I was concerned, it was true. We would visit them every week, spend time looking at them and bring them stale bread, Italian bread, nice and crusty. When the land was developed the deer vanished. I didn’t know where, but I was concerned. My parents told me that Santa had moved them to another location and I was satisfied. I believed they would be taken care of at their next location to be ready for Christmas. It’s funny how I’m reminded of different times when the deer come to our backyard. They seem very content and look at us with those big brown eyes as if it’s OK to be there and are they safe. Yes they are, because who knows? They may wind up being one of Santa’s reindeer in training. Look both ways before you cross the street, you and the deer.
JOANNE KOSEY
LETTERS
St. Mary K of C thanks donors to fundraising drive The Knights of Columbus Bishop Ketteler Council at St. Mary Parish in Riverside would like to say thank you to everyone who made a donation to the 2020 Intellectual Disability Drive. Despite not being able to collect after Mass or on street corners like we normally do, because of your kindness we collected $7,050, which was the third highest total for our council. One hundred percent of the money collected will be given to charities that help the intellectually disabled
such as Misericordia Home, Seguin, St. Mary’s/St. Hugh’s SPRED (Special Religious Education) and West Suburban Special Recreation Association (WSSRA). In the eight years since our council was started, we have collected over $52,000 for these charities. Thanks again and God bless. Have a blessed holiday season.
St. Mary’s Bishop Ketteler Council #1628 Knights of Columbus Riverside
OBITUARIES
William J. Martin, 66 Worked for Union Pacific Railroad
WILLIAM J. MARTIN
William J. “Bill” Martin, 66, of Brookfield, died at his home on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2020. Mr. Martin was born July 16, 1954 in Berwyn to the late Edward and late Shirley (nee Mueller) Martin. He worked as a safety co-
ordinator for the Union Pacific Railroad. He was the husband of Lynette (nee Kraft); the father of Ryan (Katie) Martin, Erin Martin Hogan and Neil Martin; the grandfather of Lilly Martin, Bella Gourley, Sophie Gourley, Max Gourley, Addy Martin, Vivia Martin, Brynn Hogan, Lyle Hogan and Blake Cole; the brother of Mary Martin Gross, Edward (Kathy) Martin Jr., James (Lisa) Martin, Ricky Martin,
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OBITUARIES Michael Martin, Sheila Martin and Patti (Tim) Cerven; and an uncle to many nieces and nephews. A memorial Mass will be celebrated Friday, Jan. 8 at 10 a.m. at St. Barbara Church, 4008 Prairie Ave. in Brookfield. Johnson-Nosek Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements. Online condolences may be offered at JohnsonNosek.com.
Stefan E. Pambuccian, M.D., 63 Mentor to pathologists worldwide Stefan Eduard Pambuccian, M.D., passed away suddenly and completely unexpectedly on Dec. 23, 2020, at his home in Riverside, Illinois. He was born STEFAN E. in Romania on PAMBUCCIAN Sept. 30, 1957 to Armenian parents, Krikor and Sona Pambuccian and grew up in a loving family, very close to his sister, Alice-Marie and his brother Victor-Vasken. He was admired and loved by family, friends and colleagues. He followed in his father’s footsteps and attended the University of Bucharest Medical School (Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie „Carol Davila”) between 1977 and 1983 and graduated at the very top of his class. He married his wife Corina a fellow medical student in 1985, and in 1989 they immigrated to U.S.A. and had a son, Felix, in 1990. Stefan completed his residency in pathology at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and after training, he started his first academic position at the University of Minnesota in 1996, where he directed the cytopathology section and the cytopathology fellowship program. He was dearly loved at the University of Minnesota, and in fact, as a parting gift, the residents and fellows gave him a plaque “Top 10 reasons why Dr. Pambuccian rocks!” He joined Loyola University Medical Center in 2012, and in a very short time he became the go-to person for difficult cases, quality assurance issues, and research projects. He held various leadership roles in the department, including the director of surgical pathology and of anatomic pathology, vice-chair of scholarly activities and faculty advancement and vice-chair for research. He was revered and loved by all in the department. Truly dedicated to education, he received the Educator of the Year award four times -- twice at the University of Minnesota and twice at
Loyola University. An avid reader, he also explored nonmedical topics and had a particular interest in history. His uncanny humor, knowledge about everything under the sun, his ability to truly listen to others, and warm personality made him uniquely charismatic, interesting, and lovable. Stefan was incredibly kind, gentle, and selfless. He did not want to take credit, even though it was well deserved. Despite having a pile of work, he would stop to help others and even take on extra tasks just to make everyone else’s life easier. He had hundreds of scientific publications, and was a mentor to generations of young pathologists spread all over the world. Upon his passing, the Department of Pathology at Loyola University posted: “A beloved teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, he was the heart of Anatomic Pathology in our department and will be forever missed.” Since moving to U.S.A. in 1989, the center of his life was his small family. He was the heart and soul of it, full of life, a gentle soul with a booming voice, an enchanting smile, and the kindest heart imaginable. Once he entered the door, you heard the childlike joy and excitement with which he called his wife or his son’s name. His friends would linger forever on their visits, enchanted by his exuberance, his vast music collection and his original jokes. Stefan brought spice, imagination and originality to everything. He was in love with his wife until the end and anybody could see it; he loved to be pampered and spoiled by her. On Dec. 25, 2020, Christmas Day, they would have been married for 35 happy years. His loss is so more devastating because his presence was so bright. Stefan is survived by his beloved wife, Corina Alice Pambuccian, his cherished son Felix Stepan Pambuccian, his sister Alice-Marie Grigorian and brother Victor Vasken Pambuccian, his cousins Varujan Pambuccian and Carolyn Atamian Papanicolaou, his aunt Felicia Atamian, his brothers in-law Aram Grigorian and Calin Pavel, sisters-in-law Christine Sturm and Antoaneta Pavel, his nieces Carine Grigorian and Maria Sturm, his nephew Mihai Pavel, his grandnieces Nanee and Ani Grigorian, his grandnephew Jonathan Sturm, his mother-inlaw Georgeta Pavel and father-in-law Stefan Pavel. He leaves behind his Loyola family and many friends and colleagues. Stefan loved animals so in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a wildlife charity or sanctuary of your choice. We will remember and miss him for as long as we live. Rest in peace Stefan, despite the pain of losing you, we are thankful that you touched our lives! Multumesc, dragul nostru! Ivins/Moravecek Funeral Home, Riverside, handled arrangements.
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Holistic platform from page 10 Brown says she felt completely isolated. Though she became a part of other cancer wellness support groups years later as an adult, Brown’s biggest wakeup call came in 2019 while speaking with others about the lasting effects of her cancer treatments — and awaiting the results from a secondary cancer scare. “A lot of cancer survivors or anyone post-diagnosis have long-term issues,” she said. “The chemo and radiation wreaks havoc on your body. You’re kind of given discharge instructions to check back in with your doctor every so often, but you don’t really know what’s normal and what’s not normal as you start to heal.” Even despite working in partnership and development roles with St. Jude, she discovered a greater need to bridge the divide between social support and mental healing. “What if there were some way, instead of friction and disconnection between the supporter and the patient, we could reduce that and create a tool that actually helps patients and supporters understand what the other is going through?” Brown asked herself. Buddhi -- a Sanskrit word which means to be awake, understand, and to know -- was named for its purpose of serving as a platform for all-around healing of the mind, body and soul of those afflicted by cancer. “I really wanted the name to be emblematic of what [the platform] is, and we’re taking a sort of
CRASH from page 6 the southbound lanes of traffic. The Chevy’s driver was taken by paramedics to the hospital with non-life threatening but traumatic injuries, according to Weitzel. The 26-year-old Burbank man who was driving the pickup truck was not seriously injured in the crash and refused transport to a hospital. Police issued the pickup truck driver several traffic citations, including driving in the wrong lane. It is not certain at this time whether the driver of the pickup was under the influence of any intoxicants. According to a press release issued by police,
D94 from page 7 Savaglio is a sergeant with the Cicero Police Department. In 2019, a former Cicero auxiliary police officer sued the Town of Cicero, Savaglio and two other Cicero police officers in federal court, charging that she had been sexually harassed and assaulted by the officers. The case was settled out of court in October. The Town of Cicero has yet to release the amount of the settlement. Savaglio said that he did not pay any portion of the settlement.
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Eastern-healing approach to connect friends and family and work through the healing process,” Brown said. A peer-to-peer cancer support group, Brown’s goal is for Buddhi to serve as a way for patients and caregivers to authentically express what they’re feeling and going through in a conversational, non-clinical fashion. Users on the platform are able to talk in forum spaces about everything from how their most recent appointments went, to sharing thoughts on their current feelings and even where the best places for massages and healthy foods are. With a small team for software development and web design, Buddhi officially launched in February 2020, right before the coronavirus pandemic swept through the U.S. While there is currently a waitlist for more users, Brown anticipates inviting everyone to join within the next few weeks, especially as Buddhi is looking to launch its app by next spring. “The community and power of social support is so vital,” Brown said. “People showing up and bringing meals and sending love -- I can’t imagine how much harder my journey would have been without that support.” Though Brown now lives in Chicago’s West Loop, her strong network of area residents and Fenwick alumni has led to seven of Buddhi’s nine investors being Fenwick graduates. “It’s just become such a labor of love,” she said. “The more you open up and talk about your struggles, there’s so many people that are like, ‘me too.’ It’s been a very fulfilling journey and we’re just getting started. Hopefully we can make a much bigger impact.” For more information about buddhi, visit hibuddhi.com. “Riverside officers detected impairment and noticed certain markings on his body consistent with drug use.” However, police also confirmed that the pickup truck driver was diabetic, and a breath test revealed the man’s blood-alcohol content to be .00. The driver did submit to a urine test, which has been sent to the Illinois State Police Crime Lab for analysis. Police may charge the Burbank man with driving under the influence of drugs, depending on the results of the lab results, Weitzel said. First Avenue between Ogden Avenue and Ridgewood Road was shut down to traffic for about an hour while police investigated the crash. — Bob Uphues In her lawsuit the plaintiff, Nadia Bull, charged that Savaglio pestered her with requests to allow him to get to know her and once went over to her apartment under the guise of discussing career advancement with her and then sexually assaulted her. The lawsuit also alleged that Savaglio told Bull that she could lose her job if she complained about the incident. In a written court filing, Savaglio denied the allegations and the case never went to trial. “All I can say is those allegations were false,” Savaglio told the Landmark. “It’s all a civil matter and if any of it were true, I think I’d be looking at criminal charges, which I never did.”
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PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y20005443 on December 14, 2020 Under the Assumed Business Name of ARISE LIFESTYLE & FITNESS with the business located at: 1135 HANNAH AVE 2, FOREST PARK, IL 60130. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: IYIOLA ADEBAJO 1135 HANNAH AVE 2 FOREST PARK, IL 60130, USA Published Forest Park Review 12/23, 12/30/2020, 1/6/2021
LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals from qualified consultants at the Public Works Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time until 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 for the following: Village of Oak Park Drinking Water Reservoir Cleaning and Inspections Bid Number: 21-105 Proposal documents may be obtained from the Village’s website at http://www.oak-park.us/bid. For questions, please call Public Works at (708) 358-5700 during the above hours. Published in Wednesday Journal January 6, 2021
PUBLIC NOTICES LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC The Board of Education of Oak Park Elementary School District #97 will receive sealed audio visual equipment and the installation of said equipment bids at the Administrative Office located at 260 Madison Street – Oak Park, IL, 60302, until 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 20, 2021. At this time sealed responses will be publicly opened and read via a virtual Zoom meeting. Copies of specifications may be secured at the Oak Park Elementary School District #97 District Office, 260 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302 but only able to be picked up by emailing Michael Arensdorff ( marensdorff@op97.org) to schedule a time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cut-off date for picking up scope of services is 4:00 pm, Friday, January 15, 2021. Responses mailed or delivered shall be marked to the attention of:
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-3, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-3 Plaintiff, -v.CHARLES T. GRANT, JUANITA J. GRANT, THE PRAIRIE PLACE AT 6436 ROOSEVELT CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION Defendants 2019CH14912 6436 ROOSEVELT RD, 413 OAK PARK, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 5, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 9, 2021, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 6436 ROOSEVELT RD, 413, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-18-428-0431030, Property Index No. 16-18-428043-1054 The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real
estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-19-11626 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019CH14912 TJSC#: 40-2378 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 2019CH14912 I3162077
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112.5 Lincoln Ave, 2H, Riverside $109,900
444 Washington Blvd, #204, Oak Park $195,000
2024 S Wabash #305, Chicago $209,000
3608 Wenonah Ave, Berwyn $289,900
2034 73rd Ct, Elmwood Park $374,900
873 N Larabee St, #701, Chicago $415,000
8110 Edgewater, North Riverside $535,000
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815 N May St, #3, Chicago $599,000
178 Maplewood Rd, Riverside $645,000
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144 Scottswood Rd, Riverside $799,000
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