DOUBLE SHOOTING ON CLINTON Cops say victims not likely targeted
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W E D N E S D A Y
May 13, 2020 Vol. 40, No. 42 ONE DOLLAR @oakpark @wednesdayjournal
JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest
Principal Ellwanger’s fully connected, socially-distant goodbye
J of 2019, just 17 dog and 18 cat applications were turned in during that month’s span. “At first, we didn’t know how we were going to do this and it was kind of a whirlwind of policy, protocol and adjusting day to day,” said Kira Robson, execu-
onathan Ellwanger was 21 years old, had just graduated from Northwestern, when Susan Gibson, the principal of Beye School on Cuyler Avenue, offered him a job as a music teacher. When this school year comes to its unnatural end, Ellwanger will retire from Beye having served there for 34 years, the final 18 as its principal. He agrees it is an unusual and rare accomplishment to work in one school for an entire career and to advance from teaching music to becoming principal of that school. Might be more unusual because he expected to be at Beye for just a year — “one and done,” he said — before finding a job in a high school as a choral director. High school jobs were hard to come by and he wound
See ADOPTIONS on page 13
See ELLWANGER on page 6
ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer
GETTING ACQUAINTED: Richard Chambers, a resident of Naperville, meets Pickles at the Animal Care League in Oak Park, where adoptions are on the rise.
PANDEMIC PUPPIES (AND CATS)
Adoptions soar at Animal Care League By JAMES KAY Staff Reporter
After initial worries about how it was
going to be impacted by the global outbreak of COVID-19, Animal Care League in Oak Park has seen a dramatic increase in pet adoption applications since the shelter-in-place protocols were announced in mid-March. This past April, ACL reported 158 dog and 79 cat adoption applications were submitted. To put that in perspective, in April
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