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City Introduces New Interactive Dining Guide More than150 Des Plaines dining options are now at your fingertips with the launch of the Des Plaines Dining Guide. This new interactive map makes it easy for you to decide on your next meal out. Just click on a location and the restaurant’s name, address, phone number, website, details on delivery, outside eating and party room availability will appear. With so many choices and types of cuisine, we hope that you explore our diverse dining scene and find a few new favorite restaurants.

Busse Highway Lane Reduction Study The City of Park Ridge is proposing to install bicycle lanes on

Busse Highway between the city limits and Morris Street. The proposed project would be installed as part of a future resurfacing project by the Illinois Department of Transportation. Resurfacing is expected to occur sometime between 2020 and 2024. Public Works Department staff will present the project during the November 18 City Council meeting- City Hall Council Chambers, 505 Butler Pl., Park Ridge, IL 60068 at 7:00 PM. Staff will be present to answer questions on the project. Any interested person who would like additional information or is unable to attend should contact the Public Works Department at 847318-5228, or by mail (Attn: Public Works Department, 505 Butler Pl., Park Ridge, IL 60068) using the subject header “Busse Highway Public Notice”.

Santa Comes to Town 2019 Santa comes to Morton Grove December 7, 2019. Santa will begin his arrival in town at 12 noon starting at Waukegan & Greenwood and finishing at Main & Austin between 1:15 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. At 3:00 p.m., all children are invited to visit Santa at the American Legion Civic Center in order

to deliver their letters or let him know what their special hopes and dreams are for the holiday season. Children who received a specially marked candy will also receive a gift from Santa at this time. Santa Comes to Town is sponsored by the Morton Grove Days Commission.

Winter Adopt A Planter Program The Community Relations Commission invites all Village residents and businesses to participate in the Village’s 2019 Winter Adopt A Planter Program. Individuals, families, organizations, businesses and other groups may sign up to “adopt” one of the large Village planters located at the train station and, Civic Center, and along Dempster Street from Central to Lehigh Avenue, and along Waukegan Road. Participants in the Summer Program will be given priority to adopt their same planter and businesses will be given priority to adopt the planter closest to their store or office. The Village will provide each participant with a starter kit of assorted evergreen boughs, which they will use to decorate their planter along with decorations and other greenery they provide.

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Post 134 to celebrate 13th annual Adopt a Sailor Navy Day on Thanksgiving day, nov. 28, the morton grove american legion post 134 will be celebrating its 13th annual adopt a sailor navy day The Legion will host 50 recruits from Great Lakes Naval Base. The sailors will arrive by bus around 8:30 a.m. and will be greeted by Legion members, village officials, friends, and whomever else wishes to greet them and thank them for their service.

There will be refreshments donated by legion members, friends and local merchants. The sailors will be served a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings. Entertainment will be available along with nationwide long distance and international phone service all day long compliments of AT&T. Computers will also be available.

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more info anyone wishing to make a donation please make checks payable to: sailor fund american legion post 134 6144 dempster st. morton grove, il. 60053 The sailors will have the opportunity to talk and email their loved ones throughout the day. After graduation many of these young men and women will be sent into harms way. The day’s events will be filmed and a DVD will be sent to their families as a thank you for their service.

The Morton Grove American Legion Post 134 also contributes to and supports other veteran and active military activities with our donations and takes pride in entertaining our troops each year and wants to continue to support them if they should fall victim in harms way.

Elizabeth Ann Cie�zkowski, age 82, of Niles, Illinois, passed away on the morning of October 24, 2019 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital.

She was born February 8, 1937, in the city of Białystok, Poland, to Kazimierz and Janina Szternal. The daughter of a school teacher and a soldier, Elizabeth was a product of World War II. On September 28th, 1939, just three weeks after the invasion of Poland, Elizabeth’s younger sister Martha was born, and their father had already left the family to serve on the Eastern front. Elizabeth would only see her father once over the next eight years of her life. The Szternal family survived occupation in the town of Stary Sacz under both German and Russian rule due to the strength and courage of Elizabeth’s mother, Janina. They lived there until 1947, until they finally escaped Poland on foot. The journey had been arranged by her father, by then a decorated veteran who had been living in England for two years after being freed from the German prison camp at Murnau by British forces.

After a harrowing journey of sleeping in barns by day, and walking shoeless on gravel roads at night to avoid detection from soldiers, Elizabeth and her family crossed into Czechoslovakia and then reunited with Kazimierz in Germany. From there, Elizabeth and her family moved on to England, where her sister Eva was born in June of 1948. The family of five would live in a one-room apartment over the Polish Records office for the next four years, until they finally immigrated to the United States in 1951. Fittingly, they arrived on the Queen Elizabeth at the docks of New York harbor on July 4th, Independence Day. The trip was funded by the British government in thanks for Kazimierz Szternal’s heroic service under British high command during the war.

After a very brief stay in New York, the Szternal family moved on to Chicago, where they would make their permanent home. For Elizabeth, the land of opportunity lived up to its reputation. She attended Notre Dame Catholic High School in Chicago and graduated at the age of 16. She then attended Mundelein College and received an Associate Degree in Commercial Art. In 1955, she married Napoleon Zbyszewski, whom she met at a Polish World War II veterans’ event.

She became a naturalized American citizen of the United States on November 20th, 1956, and from her

marriage to Napoleon, her daughters Margaret and Renee were born, in 1959 and 1962 respectively, as was her son Paul in 1970. Elizabeth would later divorce in 1977, and was remarried in 1982, to Jacek Cie�kowski.

While taking care of her children, “Ela” (as she was known to her friends and family) worked several part time jobs until finally landing at a travel agency named Falcon Travel on Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square in 1967. Little did Ela know then, that she would buy out that very agency in 1970, run it for 41 successful years, and become a paragon of the Polish community in Chicago.

As Falcon Travel grew, so did Ela’s scope of community involvement.

Clients looked to her for more than just travel needs, and cultural organizations recruited her for leadership.

Ela became President of the Society of Polish American Travel Agents, SPATA, the first female owner/member and President of that organization, breaking the glass ceiling at a time when women had difficulty getting bank loans without a man’s signature. As a travel agency owner, she traveled the globe, from the North Pole, to the Amazon, to the Pyramids of Egypt, and grew SPATA’s membership on an international level. Ela organized tours all across Europe, taking groups to historical places such as Monte Cassino, Italy, the site of a famous battle for the Polish Armed Forces in World War II. She would become head of the Polish Scouts in Chicago, keeping Polish traditions alive, organizing camping trips, national jamborees and charitable events for Polish causes. She would serve on countless boards and was a member of many Polish American organizations including the Polish Museum of America, the Polish National Alliance, the Legion of Young Polish Women, and the Polish Resistance AK Foundation, in honor of her father’s service with the AK (Armia Krajowa) during World War II. In the course of her extensive career in travel, two of her greatest highlights included meeting then President of

Poland Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II, now a canonized saint.

At the offices of Falcon Travel, Ela relied on her youngest sister Eva Filipowicz and for a time, her daughter Renee, to help clients with a number of tasks that involved more than just booking airline tickets and hotels. Ela opened her doors to Polish immigrants, providing document translations and facilitating packages to Poland in the difficult years before Solidarity. She became a frequent visitor at the Polish Consulate in downtown Chicago, helping clients with the visa process to sponsor relatives from Poland. Ela would also travel to Stary Sacz, Warsaw, and Lodz to visit family, packing her suitcase with goods like aspirin, soap, American jeans, even Nestle’s Quick, “luxuries” that were difficult to find or afford in Poland.

At times, Elizabeth opened her own home in Chicago to Polish visitors, whether they were related or not. No matter if it was family, friend, business associate, or stranger, Elizabeth turned her back on no one.

All the while, she always carved out time to take care of her parents, especially when their health was failing; she took family summer road trips to Wisconsin and Florida; played bridge with her sisters and cousins; visited her globe-trotting sister Martha in Munich, Tehran, and Seattle; and hosted Christmas Eve dinner for the extended family for decades.

As an accomplished businesswoman, mother of three, grandmother of eight, Ela finally closed the offices of Falcon Travel in 2011. She found new inspiration in babysitting her grandniece Izzy and grandnephew Alejandro, and focused her remaining years on family, friends, church, and bingo. As she often told her children, “I’m so lucky to have lived such a blessed life.”

Elizabeth “Ela” A. Cie�kowski “Zbyszewski” nee Szternal is survived by her daughters Margaret (Joseph) Stojak and Renee (David) Rogers; her son Paul (Bryn) Zbyszewski; stepdaughter Joanna (Jorge) Gaytan; and her grandchildren, Tina, Janina, Richie, Haley, Maggie, Ellen, Michael, and Wrigley; her sisters Martha (Ron) Golubiec, and Eva (the late Les) Filipowicz. She was the fond aunt, cousin, and lifelong friend of many. Services were held on Saturday, November 2, 2019 at St. John Brebeuf Church, 8301 N. Harlem Ave., Niles at 12:30 PM. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the Polish Scouting Organization: Dom Harcerski, 6434 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago IL 60634 will be appreciated.

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NOVEMBER 9 DOWNERS GROVE

Tour of The oak hill & oak cresT cemeTeries. 1-2:30 p.m. Honor Veterans Day with a special tour of the Oak Hill and Oak Crest Cemeteries, two of Downers Grove’s oldest graveyards. Learn about the history of the sites and the lives of significant Downers Grove residents who are buried there, including war veterans from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. All ages are welcome. . This program meets at the Oak Hill Cemetery main gate. Parking available along Glenview Ave. and Howard Ave. Please dress for the weather.

NOVEMBER 9 LISLE

foXy ladies rug hooking guild. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Rug hooking guild meeting in Meeting Room A at the Lisle Library. For information call Linda Stypka-Songco (630) 717-7353.

NOVEMBER 16 NILES

communiTy crafT & vendor fair. Niles Senior Center is looking for vendors to host a craft & vendor fair. If you are interested in reserving a table as a vendor, please call Chrisann at 847-588-8436 as soon as possible. A $5.00 donation per table is required at the time of reservation. All donations will go to a family in need during the Holiday Season. Table reservations are on a first come, first serve basis. More information to follow.

Fair will run from 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

NOVEMBER 30 CREST HILL

4Th annual cresT hill winTer fesTival. 4 p.m.-7 p.m. at 1610 Plainfield Road Crest Hill, IL 60403. Crest Hill’s 4th Annual Winter Festival will be held at the City Hall parking lot. This year’s live entertainment will be local Crest Hill band, The Jib Brothers Band. As always, there will be horse and hayrack rides, live reindeer, pony rides, and local businesses on hand to ring in the holiday season. Santa Claus has confirmed he will make an appearance as well! The mayor will be doing an annual lighting ceremony with very special guests, so you won’t want to miss this year’s event. NOTE: Parking will be available at El Guero, Chase Bank, and the South Weber Plaza. Knapp Road will be closed from 3:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

DECEMBER 5 BOLINGBROOK

bacc holiday parTy feaTuring The chariTy challenge. 4 p.m. at Ashbury’s at Boughton Ridge 335 East Boughton Road, Bolingbrook, IL. The Bolingbrook Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to once again pleased host our Holiday Party. This annual event has a giving component with the Charity Challenge. Four guest bartenders from Bolingbrook bars, serving specialty cocktails, are each vying for tips to benefit their chosen local nonprofit.

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dave says: an allowance is ok for kids dear dave: Is it OK to give very young children an allowance?

chrisTie A: Teaching kids there’s an emotional connection between work and

money is one of the best things you can do as a parent. Once your kids are old enough to do a few simple chores around the house, they’re old enough to earn a little money doing them.

In my mind, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with putting kids who are 3 or 4 on a basic commission system. If they do the jobs you assign them, they get paid. If they don’t do the jobs, they don’t get paid. We put a little dry-erase board on the refrigerator and listed the jobs they had to do

during the week with a dollar amount next to each one.

Keep in mind, kids shouldn’t get paid for every little thing they do around the house. Some jobs are just a necessary component of being part of a family. And there are some things kids should do simply because mom or dad asked them to. Some jobs should have a higher purpose in mind, too, because as a parent you should want to find as many teachable moments for your kids as possi-

ble. Once they’ve earned their money, sit down with them and divide it into three separate envelopes — saving, spending, and giving.

That way, they get to learn about the uses for money while they’re learning how to work.

Dave Ramsey is CEO of Ramsey Solutions. He has authored seven best-selling books, including The Total Money Makeover. The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 16 million listeners each week on 600 radio stations and multiple digital platforms. Follow Dave on the web at daveramsey. com and on Twitter at @DaveRamsey.

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notre dame defeats barrington to advance to the second round againt state powerhouse by bob narang for the bugle

@BugleNewspapers sweditor@buglenewspapers.com Notre Dame’s Matt Murphy had one thought on his mind late in Saturday’s game against Barrington.

After missing a field goal and a point-after-attempt, Murphy steadied himself and took a short pause before drilling a 32-yard field goal that would be the difference in a 23-21 win over the Broncos in a Class 8A first-round playoff game in Niles.

Murphy’s field goal with three minutes left in regulation padded the Dons’ lead to 23-14. The Broncos (6-4) scored a late touchdown, but Notre Dame (8-2) recovered the onside kick.

The Dons move ahead to play at highly ranked Lincoln-Way East on Nov. 9 “When that one went through, it felt great and I was so happy,” Murphy said. “I had to capitalize because I missed the last two. I knew I had to make it for my team.”

The Dons were a much different offensive team against the Broncos.

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With Julian Schurr back from a two-game absence because of an injury, Notre Dame’s offense was able to move the ball to tally nearly 280 yards of total offense.

The Dons had their seven-game winning streak snapped due to consecutive shutout losses to end the regular season. Schurr ran for 48 yards and caught three passes for 57 yards, including a 48-yarder late in the fourth quarter. “(Julian) gives our offense a different dimension,” Notre Dame coach Mike Hennessey. “We should have had some points in those games. But having him back there gives us a whole different aspect.

You have to watch three different guys who have exceptional speed with Anthony Sayles, Nick Giamarusti and Julian.”

Schurr admitted it was tough watching his team lose to Nazareth and St. Rita.

“Sitting out the past two weeks has been horrible, so coming back and getting to play again was amazing,” Schurr said. “I worked very hard to get back to make sure

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anthony sayles and notre dame will face lincoln-way east saturday at 1 p.m. in new lenox.

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maine south falls to loyola in low scoring game by mark gregory editorial director

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Maine South coach Dave Inserra has been around a long time — 19 years to be exact.

He has led the Hawks to four state championships and three second-place finishes.

Along the way, Inserra has coached a lot of talented football players.

Friday night, he said good-bye to Peter Skoronski — the one he calls the best he ever coached.

“He is a true All-American and the greatest player I have ever coached,” Inserra said of the twoway lineman.

Skoronski’s career and the career of the other Maine South seniors came to an end on the first round of the Class 8A IHSA playoffs with a 14-6 loss to Loyola Academy.

“It is devastating not to be able to play on the field anymore,” said Skoronski, a Northwestern recruit, after the game. “We play with our brothers and our family and that is what I am going to miss. I am one of the last guys out here because I don’t want to leave.

“I feel like I’ve let coach Inserra down a little bit. He’s never lost in the first round of the playoffs before and this shouldn’t have happened. This is my senior year and I consider myself one of the leaders of this team and I am disappointed.”

All of the scoring took place in the fourth quarter with Maine South getting on the board first on a fumble recovery and 23-yard return for a touchdown from linebacker Liam Barry.

Two minutes later, however, Loyola quarterback JT Thomas hit Matthew Mangan for a 28-yard touchdown pass with 9:58 left in

one from page 5 I was there to help my teammates get this huge win.”

Notre Dame quarterback Anthony Sayles certainly liked having Schurr in the backfield.

Sayles rushed for 91 yards and scored three touchdowns — 11, 24 and 4 yards.

“Julian opens up a lot of opportunities for our offense,” Sayles said. “He does so much for our offense and spreads out the defense

the game.

On the play, a flag was thrown by the side judge on the Maine South sideline, but he was ultimately overruled and the score stood.

“They made the wrong call because (Loyola) had five in the backfield, but you can’t worry about the refs,” Inserra said. “We had chances early on. We moved the ball.”

Loyola added to the score with 1:03 left to play when Thomas found James Kyle from 32-yards out for the touchdown.

“I am really proud of our offenses effort. We protected our quarterback. We just had to take advantage of few more opportunities when we got close,” Inserra said. “Defense played stellar, we just didn’t get the job done at the end. These are two great programs.

Two great coaching staffs, big time players and it was a battle of the titans in the first round.”

The Hawk offense was paced by Luke Leongas, who finished the night going 19-for-36 for 267 yards.

He made a late push to get Maine South down the field, but the Hawks fell just shy.

Leongas, a junior, played with a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament he suffered in the first week of the season, but expects to be back to lead Maine South again.

“Luke playing with a torn ACL the whole year. He is the grittiest kid I’ve ever seen and he will have it corrected after the season, but what an effort he gave us,” Inserra said.

While Leongas will be back, he felt for the seniors that played their final game as a Hawk.

“This is one of the worst feelings,” he said. “I love these seniors to death and knowing this was their last game is the worst and I wish I could do something about it.

I will love this team the rest of my

life. We had so much talent and so much potential, we just didn’t get it done.”

For the senior group, Skoronski said they had to grow into a Maine South team.

“This senior group was doubted since the day we came in. People said we were a smaller class and not as good and we battled so hard to be a Maine South team because

we weren’t coming in. This year, we had an 0-2 hole and we battled back to be 7-2. Hopefully, I can represent this program well, because it has given me so much.

“Wins and losses mean a lot, but the people are what you remember.”

While Inserra said Skoronski is the greatest player he has coached, the 6-foot-4, 285-pounder gives

credit for the player he is back to Inserra.

“I haven’t played football very long, but he is the greatest coach I have ever had,” Skoronski said.

“I respect him more than anyone in this school and in this community. He has given me so much and everything I have done in this program is because he believed in me.”

out.”

On third down and 12, Sayles and Schurr hooked up for the play of the game to extend a Notre Dame drive that led to the winning field goal.

Sayles scrambled out of the pocket to his left, saw Schurr roaming free near the sidelines.

The senior running back hauled in the pass before getting tackled at Barrington’s 19-yard line for a 48yard gain.

Schurr credited his key catch to

his work with Sayles in practices.

“That play was improvised,” Schurr said. “I was going to do an out route and I turned my head and saw Anthony scrambling, so when my guy stepped up, I went past him and Anthony saw me and dumped it over the defender. Me and Anthony have a great connection, so on a play like that, I know he sees me and I’m expecting the ball.”

Aside from allowing two big plays, the Notre Dame defense controlled the line of scrimmage

and limited Barrington’s highoctane offense. Barrington senior running back Quinn Ketel scored on a 78-yard run in the first quarter and wide receiver Aaron Sarkar hauled in a 31-yard touchdown with 52.5 seconds remaining in the game.

“We saw the matchup and we figured this was going to be a heavyweight fight,” Notre Dame coach Mike Hennessey said. “They are an excellent team, are well-coached and played a tough schedule. Our

defense plays with great speed and intensity and is relentless. They did a tremendous job tonight.”

Up next for the Dons is attempting to stop another big-play offense. Lincoln-Way East, led by Michigan recruit A.J. Henning, is undefeated and averaging 34.9 points per game while allowing just six points.

“The challenge will be great because they are undefeated and play tremendous competition,” Hennessey said.

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maine south senior peter skoronski (76) is the player coach dave inserra calls the greatest i ever coached.

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