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12 LEADING OFF 2016 Polo Commander’s Cup 22 GIVING BACK Out of Oak Brook and into Africa 28 LANDMARKS SERIES DuPage Children’s Museum 39 FASHION & STYLE Polo Panache 44 FEATURE STORY Like mother, like daughter 48 HEALTH & WELLNESS The power of blue

16 PUBLISHER’S PROFILE FULLER HOUSE

Fuller House talks with Hinsdale Magazine publisher Scott Jonlich

34 ON THE COVER POLO 2016

Samantha Falbe and Tote Obregon Photography by Karl Knapp

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Back to school eye and dental health A beautiful hospital

60 SPORTS Hunger to win 64 COMMUNITY SCENE Robert Crown Center Golf Outing

Hinsdale Fourth of July parade Circle of Hope Friends of Conservation

76 TECH KNOW Luxury gadgets 80 PEAK PERFORMANCE 10 golf in the zone tips 82 SPIRITUAL INSIGHT The nation God blesses, Part 2

22 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER

Scott Jonlich | sjonlich@hinsdale60521.com CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Mike Ellis | mike@hinsdale60521.com CREATIVE DEPARTMENT

Cheryl Chrzanowski | graphics@hinsdale60521.com Julia Sinogeikina CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Alison Bonaguro Kerrie Kennedy Julie Jonlich COLUMNISTS

Jim Fannin Errol Janusz Dan Meyer FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS

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HMpublishersprofile FULLER HOUSE

FAMILY OWNED by sibling restaurateurs Sam Vlahos and Patricia VlahosSegretto

Hinsdale’s first pub-style, full service, family owned restaurant is open seven days a week, featuring wood-fired pizza, hamburgers, sandwiches, soups and salads. Fuller House serves classic cocktails, craft beer and an extensive bourbon program in a familyfriendly American pub theme.

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IN THE FULLER HOUSE OWNERS DISCUSS FIRST YEAR OF BUSINESS IN DOWNTOWN HINSDALE Interview by Scott Jonlich Photography by Jim Prisching

SCOTT JONLICH FOUNDER & PUBLISHER

sjonlich@hinsdale60521.com

A little over a year ago, Hinsdale residents eagerly waited for the opening of Fuller House. From a friendly hardware store arose a family restaurant and neighborhood bar with a familiar and trusted name we have come to know for quality. Fuller House has seen thousands of locals come through the doors from their front doorsteps and from neighboring suburbs. The sister and brother team of Patricia Vlahos-Segretto and Sam Vlahos are area residents that jumped at the chance of building a restaurant and bar that would meet the expectations of locals. What they did was build more than just a brick-and-mortar establishment. They built a neighborhood gathering place on the foundation of good food and friendship.

SCOTT: Congratulations Patricia and Sam on your one-year anniversary. Is Fuller House everything you expected it to be today, and what made you open here in Hinsdale?

PATRICIA: We were looking to open a restaurant together, just the two of us as partners. And

we were looking for a suburb that is family-oriented, and had room to grow in town as a family restaurant, and that was not oversaturated with restaurants. Hinsdale was always our No. 1 choice we looked at, because we grew up in Oak Brook. We knew the type of people in the surrounding areas, and we felt we could bring to this town something that was missing and it was Fuller House.

SAM: I think at first when we started, it was everything we expected it to be. More of a bar for

adults, but after we opened it became family-central. I mean, we call Sundays here “family Sundays” because everyone from newborns to 90 years old come here on a regular basis. We had to get more high chairs, because the kids were everywhere. The kids want to be here with their parents.

SCOTT: How nice is it that you have Dips and Dogs right next door for the kids, while we can sit here and enjoy a drink together?

SAM: The best part about that is the kids can go next door, have their ice cream, and the parents

can have a beer and wait for them to finish. The parents can have dinner here, and if the kids want to bring over a hot dog from next door, they can do that.

SCOTT: What’s new and popular on the menu?

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ladies love their salads, and we have delicious pizzas for the kids and adults, which are ready in minutes. We have customers coming off the train and taking carry-out. They like that convenience. Our hand-packed hamburgers are fresh, and are always a favorite. People like to have them with the buffalo fries, and it’s great with a draft beer.

SCOTT: You recently celebrated your one-

year anniversary, so how has it been working together as a sister-brother team?

SAM: It’s been great. We of course worked

together in our other family restaurants (Brick Wood Fired Pizza in Lombard, Naperville and Wheaton, and Jonathan’s Steakhouse in Lombard), but this place is our baby, and we have a great team that works together on a daily basis. We are going in the right direction.

We hired an additional 20 people within the first few months, and we are always looking to improve.

SCOTT: What are the favorite beers that you serve, and how are the locals responding to the beverage choices?

SAM: Allagash White, Half Acre Daisy and

Lagunitas IPA are some of the favorites. On Tuesdays, we have a $4 draft night, and it’s a good time to taste some of them. We will also have whiskey dinner pairings and of course, wine pairings, if you are not a beer drinker.

We want to have something for everyone.

We want Fuller House to be comfortable for everyone and we are hearing that. Top local brews we serve are Half Acre Daisy, Cutters, Lagunitas IPA, Two Brothers Brewing and Solemn Oath in Naperville.

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SAM: Our buffalo shrimp is our most popular item on the

menu; it was the last item we put on the menu, and it is the favorite. Our sauce is very popular but not too hot, just right, and made by our sauce master Kory Kovel. We will be bottling the sauce also to make it available for our customers to take home. Another favorite is the salmon Caesar salad, which is our No. 1 salad. We try to test out new specials weekly, and if they are a hit, we had then to the menu.

PATRICIA: One of my favorites is the harvest chicken salad with goat cheese, dried cherries, walnuts and apples. The

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atmosphere. Truly a neighborhood pub. What was your vision for Fuller House before you opened?

PATRICIA: We have always enjoyed operating restaurants in the Western Suburbs. We love the people, and we love when customers walk in and enjoy themselves, [and] are relaxed in a warm and inviting atmosphere. It’s all about good food and company, and that is what we wanted for Fuller House. We didn’t take any shortcuts in building out the restaurant from the ceiling to the floor and with the furnishings. The area residents and our neighbors can truly call this their bar. n

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OUT OF OAK BROOK

and into

AFRICA Reute Butler carries on a family tradition that extends to Kenya

By Kerrie Kennedy

With her major Friends of Conservation (FOC) fundraiser, The Conservation Ball, on the horizon, Reute Butler, whose family founded Oak Brook, spoke about her family legacy of philanthropy, and her commitment to FOC, which works directly with Kenya’s Maasai community and other stakeholders in the renowned Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, promoting sustainable ways of living in harmony with wildlife and ecosystems. From helping to create direct sources of income from tourism, beadwork and beekeeping, to preserving existing forests with alternative sources of energy and “reforesting,” to conservation education efforts for adults and children, FOC— and Reute’s mother Jorie Butler Kent—was a pioneer in the development of Community Conservation work in the 1980s and continues that work today. Hinsdale Magazine recently caught up with Reute Butler, a successful art photographer as well as conservationist, to find out more.

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How did Friends of Conservation come to be?

My mother, Jorie, founded FOC in 1982, carrying on the philanthropic tradition of our family and our commitment to conservation. She had a house in Kenya for 40 years, and felt strongly that she should give back to that home and to the birthplace of Abercrombie & Kent, which was originally begun by her business partner Geoffrey Kent’s parents in Kenya in 1962. She and Geoffrey developed Abercrombie & Kent into the luxury travel company that it is today, and they are co-owners of the company. My mother and I run Friends of Conservation together; Geoffrey is very supportive, and it gives us great pleasure to work together on something so

Why is education so crucial?

It is important for the Maasai to learn how to preserve their beautiful wild-land, because the income it brings them from tourism sustains their culture. If they sell or destroy the land, their major source of income will disappear, as will their culture.

This would also negatively impact the economy of Kenya— tourism is the largest income-producing sector in Kenya, and the Mara is the most visited destination in East Africa. Our challenge is to teach the Maasai why it’s valuable to preserve their beautiful habitat, and to look at the wildlife as a resource, rather than [as] competition for resources. It’s hard for them to see the bigger picture when their livestock [have] just been

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Tell me about the work Friends of Conservation does.

Friends of Conservation is a small, grassroots organization. Our work focuses on protecting the Maasai Mara Region, Kenya’s portion of the famous Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which spans the Kenya-Tanzania border, and is home to many hundreds of species. Each year, during the wildebeest migration of more than two million animals, herds in the hundreds of thousands migrate from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania in search of the green pastures of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, and then back south to the Serengeti. It is the largest remaining mammal migration in the world, and this area is really crucial to the survival of the entire ecosystem. It is also home to the Maasai people, who have lived here for longer than anyone can remember.

PARTNERS FOC president Reute Butler and Enkereri village chief Ben Ramet, Western Maasai Mara.

Photo by Manuela Hung

killed by a leopard, or their maize field [has been] trampled by an elephant, but this is exactly where we come in, with meetings and our human wildlife conflict workshops, explaining the value of their wildlife to them, and providing common-sense solutions to livestock predation. We concentrate our efforts in the Eastern Maasai Mara, in six communities and in our FOC conservation clubs in 12 schools. Our 13 FOC community scouts are volunteers; they are spokespeople for wildlife and their communities, and help identify poachers for the Kenya Wildlife Service. In 2014 and 2015, there were 75 arrests and 31 successful prosecutions thanks to their work.

Why is educating Maasai about preserving their wildlife and open lands important to us in the West?

That is a good question—one I’m asked often. The answer is unfortunate: it’s because of terrorism. The rampant poaching of elephant and rhino in East Africa has been funding terrorist groups and destabilizing all of East Africa. They are responsible for the dreadful bombings in Kenya, and this is bad for the West, as these groups hate us. Every day in Africa, 100

elephant are slaughtered for their tusks to feed the voracious Asian appetite for ivory. If this keeps up, the prediction is that Kenya’s elephant will be gone in fewer than ten years, and the African elephant will become extinct in the wild. Thank heaven the U.S. and now China both recently banned trade in ivory and other products. We have a prayer now of saving the elephant in the wild. We will soon know if these bans are working.

What are some of the important projects you’ve worked on?

Since our inception, we’ve planted close to half a million trees in the Mara, and estimate a good 350,000 of those trees have survived. Deforestation is huge problem; wood is often used for fuel and building materials, and forests are decimated. One of our wildly-popular projects is our Rhino Watch trip. We take about 28 students and a couple of teachers in our bus into the reserve to have them see first-hand what the tourists see, and to teach them about wildlife and their heritage. The Mara is unusual—it’s a reserve, and is actually owned by the local Continued on the next page Hinsdale60521.com | HINSDALEMAGAZINE

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Continued from the previous page FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION Above: Reute Butler works with FOC conservation club junior members at Siana Primary School, Eastern Maasai Mara; Top Right: President Reute Butler arrives at a Maasai Mara school, wearing all of the jewelry given to her that day by the Maasai; Bottom Right: The Prince of Wales, Royal Patron FOC, FOC Founder and International Chairman Jorie Butler Kent and FOC president Reute Butler at St. Jameses Palace after a cocktail reception the prince hosted for FOC in 2002.

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people, not the government; so all of the income from tourism goes directly to them to build schools and clinics and other things they need. It is especially important that they understand the value to them of keeping their land undeveloped and their wildlife thriving. Many young people who have passed through our conservation clubs have gone on to find jobs in the tourist industry, and one enterprising group of young men [has] gone on to form the Maasai Mara Guides Association with our support.

What can people expect at The Conservation Ball in October?

It will be held Oct. 21 at the Four Seasons in Chicago. My co-chairs are Vonita Reescer, Kristina McGrath, Kyle de Santis and Mitchell Hatcher— it’s a great group. [Our] sponsors are James Drury Partners and American Airlines. Our guest speaker is my great friend, conservationist John Rendall, of “Christian the lion” fame. Christian was a lion cub which John and his friend Ace bought in 1968 at London’s Harrods in the pet store. He was horrified to see a lion cub for sale. Born Free had just come out that year, and by coincidence, John met the stars. Through them, John was able to make sure that Christian was rehabilitated into the wild very successfully by the legendary

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George Adamson. John will be helping me with the wildlife presentation that I always do for our guests. It gives people a very visceral connection to and understanding of the work we do—it is for these beautiful beings’ cousins in the wild and for the Maasai, who own their habitat, that we do this work. At past events, we’ve had a cheetah, a lion, a snow leopard, and a zebra—if you want to know what we will have this year, come to The Conservation Ball.

How often do you visit Kenya?

Mother goes out a couple of times a year—I go out every other year. I often take groups of friends to Kenya to see our work. Anyone who wants to go can get in touch with me, and I will see that they are able to see our work. A visit to beautiful Africa will change your life! n For tickets to the Friends of Conservation ball or for more information about the organization, visit friendsofconservation.org.

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EXPLORER-FUN AT THE MUSEUM A GREAT WAY TO SPEND FUN FAMILY TIME RIGHT HERE IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS

By Mike Ellis

The winter of 2014 was among the most severe in Chicago history, introducing us all to the term “polar vortex;” but it was during the following winter that disaster struck the DuPage Children’s Museum.

The museum, situated on the Photography courtesy of Hemingway Museum northern end of downtown Naperville on Washington Street, is dedicated to educating children from birth to 12 years of age through exploration of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) concepts and ideas.

In January 2015, a pipe on the museum’s upper level burst open, flooding the entire facility.

Dee Dee McDevitt, director of sales and marketing for the DuPage Children’s Museum (DCM), said the next morning, a man that comes to the museum to turn on the water tables was greeted with a veritable deluge that McDevitt described as “catastrophic.”

“There were thousands and thousands of gallons of water gushing through here all night long,” she said.

Consequently, the museum was closed from January through September of the same year, as staff worked to effect a complete overhaul of its exhibits.

“We had to re-imagine the entire museum,” McDevitt said, “and it’s been a huge success so far.”

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AWESOME AIR Children gain hands-on knowledge of the cause and effect of air through this exhibit.

Photography provided by DuPage Children’s Museum

McDevitt described the process as “sort of safe space that’s tucked away, “turning lemons into lemonade,” and so you can put your infant on the floor, thus, an event that could have spelled and not worry about [him or her] getting doom for the attraction has resulted in trampled.”

“But also, it’s going to have a renovated museum that has actually experiences for them that are designed seen membership grow from about 5,000 to mimic the experiences the older kids prior to the flood to roughly 9,000 after are having,” she said. it.

The DCM is divided into three levels Also on the first floor is “make it across about 17,000 square feet, with move,” a mechanics-oriented exhibit most of the exhibits on the first and that creatively introduces children to the second floors. six simple machines: lever, pulley, screw, Its layout is quite inclined plane, wedge efficient, allowing and wheel and axle.

This area children to explore features a number a variety of different of moving pieces, areas and subjectenabling kids to matters, while not both explore through feeling overawed by observing and sights and sounds.

“We were very manipulating objects. intentional in

“We really value giving kids wanting it to feel opportunities to not overcrowded and problem-solve, not overwhelming, and test things but still with out, and come up really interesting with hypotheses,” opportunities for Tonsgard said. kids to explore,” said “ M a k e Alix Tonsgard, early it move” also learning specialist at allows children to the museum.

CREATIVE EXPLORATION The museum experiment with Exhibits based on light, shadow and is broken up into actual tools such as texture provide opportunities for growth of sensory integration. At the “make it “neighborhoods,” saws and hammers move” exhibit, children are introduced the largest of which in an enclosed to basic physics concepts. is called “creativity area under adult connections,” located supervision.

Tonsgard said museum staff near the front entrance.

Tonsgard said this area is focused on encourage parents and guardians to let the integration of art and math through kids try out the tools on their own after exploring shadows, color and light. receiving instructions.

“The entire museum is based on “We really believe that if you show STEM concepts, but also with the a child steps, and you trust them to do integration of art,” she said. something, that they are going to rise to Popular attractions in the “creativity that occasion, and that they’re going to connections” neighborhood include the handle that safely,” she said. ... “We see pyramid bench, which Tonsgard said it every day, that if you treat a child like was designed as a “social experience” they’re capable, then they are.”

On the west end of the main level, that affords kids the option of working children are exposed to manifold independently or collaboratively.

For parents of smaller children, opportunities to experiment with air, Tonsgard said each neighborhood has an water and electricity.

Tonsgard said the air portion area specifically geared towards children was funded through a grant from the 2 and under, which she described as a Continued on the next page Hinsdale60521.com | HINSDALEMAGAZINE

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“PLAY IS THE WORK OF CHILDHOOD.” — Jean Piaget Blowing bubbles takes on a whole new dimension in the “bubbles” exhibit. The “awesome electricity” exhibit is inviting and approachable, and the “studio” exhibit can bring a child’s curiosity and creativity together to create a masterpiece.

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National Science Foundation.

“There was an extensive research project that was done here to discover what children know and don’t know about air, and how air works,” she said.

“They found out through their anecdotal work that children don’t know much about air. ... Everything in this exhibit was designed very intentionally to teach kids in a way that it would make sense to them to really understand what air can do.”

Among the highlights of the air section are an exhibit introducing children to the concept of lift, which sustains planes in the air, and a giant wind tunnel, which keeps kids thoroughly entertained while introducing the power of wind.

Many of the DCM’s exhibits and activities do not require a great amount of skill, allowing children to easily become acquainted with new subjects and ideas.

At the same time, Tonsgard said museum staff does not want them to be too easy and effortless, desiring to challenge kids without causing frustration.

“We don’t want the child to become frustrated so that they give up,” she said, “but we do want them to not have success every time, so that they learn persistence.”

Upstairs, the museum features a pair of math-related exhibits: “math connections” and “math in motion,” a temporary exhibit that will remain until September 2017.

Tonsgard said math connections was designed with consultation from experts in the field of early mathematics.

She said the exhibit—which employs modern art examples to introduce basic arithmetical and geometrical concepts— is designed to give children “positive first experiences with math so that they can learn that math is everywhere, it’s in everything that we do—it’s not just sitting at a desk and doing equations.”

“You could have an 18-month-old child up here interacting with the pattern blocks or the beads, and what they’re going to get out of it educationally is obviously going to be very different than what an eight-year-old is going to get out of it,” Tonsgard said. “But that 18-month-old is still learning and having valuable foundational math experiences.”

Ironically, despite the fact that art and science are often conceived as standing opposed, many of the museum’s exhibits like math connections use art to illustrate and elucidate science and mathematics for kids.

At the DCM, even freewill donations are explored in a creative and entertaining manner consistent with its oxymoronic slogan: “serious fun.” Kids can marvel at currency soaring through a complicated sequence of tubes, or view coins spiral around a vortex.

“What we really want is for kids to have fun learning,” Tonsgard said. “A lot of times, I think that people associate learning as being something rote—to being something that is not as playful.

We really value the power of learning through play here, and that is really what we’re trying to get at.”

On the lower level, guests can eat at the S.M.A.R.T. (Science, Math, Art, Reading and Technology) Cafe, where a combination of organic and non-organic meals are served. Visitors are invited to bring their own food, and eat it in the cafe area.

Tonsgard said the lower level also houses a program room that is often rented out for birthday parties.

Many of the museum’s exhibits are actually constructed in a staff-only shop area on the lower level as well. In

addition to the full-time staff devoted to this role, the DCM is also aided by local volunteers, which Tonsgard said are indispensable to its efforts.

“I don’t know what we would do without them,” she said. “They’re retired, and they come and they dedicate so much time to helping improve the museum. ... This organization is really dependent on our volunteers.”

On weekdays—when Hinsdale Magazine visited the museum—, the space predominated with small children, but Tonsgard said visitors range from infants to 12 years of age.

“During the week, we definitely see a younger age-group,” she said, “but we really have things here [designed for kids] from birth to age 12. All of the experiences here are intended to be designed for a wide range of children.”

McDevitt said weekends tend to be more popular, with visitation increasing from November through April, the museum’s peak month.

She said the DCM averages more than 300,000 annual visitors, including some from other states and countries.

McDevitt said the primary draw, however, is from the Western Suburbs, including Hinsdale, Naperville, Aurora, Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Lisle, Downers Grove and Western Springs.

“I think this is a really unique family experience here,” Tonsgard said.

“Everybody comes here, and they have fun, and they interact and play together.

It’s a different kind of offering.

“We’re not saying that Naper Settlement or some of the other [nearby attractions] aren’t valuable experiences, because those are; but we just have something different to offer.” n

DuPage Children’s Museum is located at 301 N. Washington Street in Naperville. In addition to regular visitation, various camps are offered for children throughout the year.

Membership for a single child and parent is $90; membership for two children and two parents is $110. For more information about the museum, visit www.dupagechildrens.org.

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POLO PONIES Photography by Karl Knapp

Attendees flaunted their Ferrari and Maserati pride as Oak Brook Polo Club kicked off its third match of the 2016 season, “Horses & Horsepower,” on July 17. It was an afternoon of fast-paced polo action, alongside the very best in Italian auto engineering. About 20 prizewinning Ferraris were present for the day, which began with an on-field parade of new and classic Ferraris, followed by a six-chukker polo match featuring the Continental AutoSports Ferrari and Continental AutoSports Maserati teams. Maserati was also on-hand to feature the Maserati Quattroporte.

Special partner Ferrari Club of America will also be hosting a member event this Sunday in keeping with its longstanding history with polo and specifically, the Oak Brook Polo Club. “We are thrilled to be hosting our members at the Oak Brook Polo Club for ‘Horses & Horsepower,’ ” regional director Greg McKibben said. “Polo has become a tradition for us; there is hardly a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon.”

HORSES & HORSEPOWER Start your engines. The afternoon started with an on-field parade of new and classic Ferraris.

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SUNDAY TRADITION Photography by Karl Knapp

Oak Brook Polo tipped its hat to the military with the Commander’s Cup on July 10. “We want to celebrate polo and its history with Chicago and the military,” said Jim Drury, managing director of the Oak Brook Polo Club. The Commander’s Cup honored the United States Armed Forces and its veterans in a remake of the Oak Brook Polo vs.

Black Horse Troop match, which was captained by Village of Oak Brook and Oak Brook Polo Club founder Paul Butler. Teams competed for the famous Butler family trophy, the Butler Challenge Cup, which were loaned for the match by Paul Butler’s daughter, Jorie Butler Kent.

The Black Horse Troop was formerly headquartered in Chicago, and its traditions are maintained by Culver Academies. The military has a unique and long-standing history with polo, having trained its cavalry officers in horsemanship skills by teaching them the sport of polo for many years.

COMMANDER’S CUP EVENT Laura Quandel, Kathleen Belden and Laura Lewandowski

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Oak Brook Polo Team captain Jim Drury

Oak Brook Polo vs. Black Horse Troop match at the Commanders Cup

Isabel, Dr. Peter Harnois and Bea Harnois

Andriana and Charlie Russ, Tina Weller, Marcus Weller and Dr. Jeffrey Weller Molly Andjeweski, Lauren Jonlich and Cecelia Buffardi

Spectators at the Commanders Cup

Guests at the premium field-side shaded, private tent area

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POLO, CIRCA 1986 Jorie Butler Kent (front, center), Reute Butler (holding her Jack Russell, Tatu), Butler family members and polo professionals at the Butler Family Field in Oak Brook.

POLO PANACHE Tournament season is in full-swing at the Oak Brook Polo Club, one of the oldest polo clubs in the U.S., and home to the Prince of Wales Field.

This timeless, elegant sport—synonymous with luxury—means even spectators must exhibit a bit of stylish flair. Taking our cues from our British brethren, we offer pointers for perfectly-polished polo-watching.

by Kerrie Kennedy

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Kate Middleton chose a silk Jenny Packham sundress with cap sleeves for a polo tournament in Santa Barbara, Calif.

FASHION HORSE Save your hat for the Kentucky Derby—polo attire is all about casual garden chic, albeit with an equestrian touch.

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Charlotte Casiraghi, granddaughter of Princess Grace of Monaco, is an avid equestrienne and the face of Italian fashion house Gucci.

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1. Kate Middleton wore them to Wimbledon—you can wear them to the Oak Brook Polo Club: Givenchy Obsedia sunglasses; nordstrom.com. 2. Add a pop of orange with an Hermes Brides de Gala Cavalcadour polka-dot silk scarf, $500; hermes.com. 3. White jeans are always appropriate at a polo match. Toothpick jean in white, $115; jcrew.com. 4. A black-leather skinny belt with horsebit buckle makes a chic statement. $295 at gucci.com. 5. Heels at polo matches are for amateurs—go flat in style with the classic Tory Burch Miller sandal, sizzling in silver snake-print leather, $225 at Tory Burch in Oakbrook Center. 6. Speak softly, but carry a big bag—like the Burberry Banner bag, with its equestrian-inspired buckle fastenings. $1,595 at Burberry in Oakbrook Center.

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Often called the “sport of kings,” polo has long been a favorite of royalty.

Its spectators, dressed to the nines, garner almost as much attention as the steeds.

Ralph Lauren launched his career with his iconic, dashing costumes for The Great Gatsby, 1974.

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1. Prince Charles’ Persol 3019S sunglasses are a classic choice for the discriminating gentleman, $230 at nordstrom.com. 2. Keep your feet happy in a pair of gray canvas Jack Purcell slip-ons, $64.95 at nordstrom.com. 3. Embrace your inner prep with a slim-fit heathered pique polo, $79.50 at Vineyard Vines in Oakbrook Center. 4. An Italian cashmere and silk classic crew-neck sweater from Ralph Lauren adds a luxe touch, $598 at ralphlauren.com. 5. Channel your inner Jay Gatsby in an iconic ivory linen jacket, $209 at Brooks Brothers in Oakbrook Center. 6. Champagne is the drink of choice at a polo match. Pick up a bottle of bubbly to sip at the Village Cellar in Hinsdale, villagecellarhinsdale.com.

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LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER Mira Dedhia and Lekshmi Nair of Western Springs competed in the National Spelling Bee 16 years apart

by Alison Bonaguro | Photography by Jim Prisching

NATURAL ABILITY Mira Dedhia and her mother, Dr. Lekshmi Nair, use many study resources in preparing for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

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T

o say that Mira Dedhia takes after her mother would be an understatement.

Dedhia and her mother, Dr. Lekshmi Nair, look alike, sound alike, laugh alike—and spell alike.

And it’s that spelling intellect they share that took them both to the highest level at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. When Nair made it to her first national bee in 1988, the director at the time told all of the competitors, “For many of you, you will miss a word that you’ll remember for the rest of your life.”

She was right.

Nair will never forget the three words she missed when she competed three consecutive years.

In 1988, it was Mackinac.—In 1989, it was totipotency.—In 1990, I was scazon.

But when her daughter Mira went to Washington, D.C. to compete in May, she didn’t spell any words incorrectly. She didn’t win, but she didn’t get eliminated either.

By the end of the competition, Dedhia was tied for 46th place. The last two words she was given were solmizate (to sing using the sol-fa syllables) and historiette (a short story).

Dedhia sat down with Hinsdale Magazine, and explained how she has learned to spell words like those, which she had never even heard or seen before.

“It’s knowing how to break down a word,” Dedhia said.

“With the word pterodactyl, for example, the first part is P-TE-R, meaning wing. You obviously can’t just sound that one out, because of the silent ‘P.’ ” But knowing a word’s meaning—or part of its meaning, in some cases—can help you make sense of the rest.

Knowing that P-T-E-R means wing would allow Dedhia to then assess the remaining part of the word.

“I’d ask, ‘Does it come from dactyl, meaning digit?’ ” she said. “They’d say, ‘Yes.’ Then, you can piece that word together. You can ask questions for about the first minute and 15 seconds.”

Dedhia knows that some of her fellow competitive spellers study all year-round, but she waited until she heard that she’d qualified for the national bee before she took her preparation to the next level.

“I began studying more after I found out I was going to nationals—maybe an hour on weekdays, two hours on weekends, and gradually more leading up to the bee,” she said of the annual event she’d been watching live on ESPN for years.

The McClure Junior High School student will have one more chance to compete in the bee when she’s in eighth grade this coming school-year.

And just as Nair’s mom coached her more than 25 Mira and years ago, she coached her her mother prepare for own daughter for this round the Scripps of spelling.

National “Mira’s very smart; she Spelling Bee. works really hard,” Nair said; “but I don’t think either one of us were ever child prodigies.

Getting to this level happened pretty out of the blue, actually.

It’s not something that I was thinking, like, ‘Oh, I really want her to do this, because I did it.’ ” Since Nair’s own bee days, the competition has become more and more fierce.

First, the people at Scripps have recognized the more advanced skill of the competitors, and so they changed the rules to raise the bar even higher. Second, televising the competition has made it more popular. And Nair said she thinks that if more people are interested in spelling, that’s a good thing.

“You can memorize a lot of words, and that will get you so far—and I think you can get to a certain level by just inherently being a good speller,” Nair said. “But what will get you to the next level is if you can try to understand some of the word roots, and where words come from.”

Knowing the Greek and Latin roots that are so common in English, she thinks, can help in decoding even the most unfamiliar words. n

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Hinsdale resident Greg Donnelly’s good-luck charm has morphed into a company-wide statement of solidarity in the fight against cancer

by Kerrie Kennedy | Photography by Jim Prisching For some people, it’s a four-leaf clover; for others, it’s a penny. For Hinsdale resident Greg Donnelly, it’s always been a blue shirt on Thursdays. A wealth advisor at Morgan Stanley in Oak Brook, Donnelly’s good-luck quirk was wellknown in his office.

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every Thursday. I’ve been doing it for the last 30 years, and it’s always been a goodluck charm to me.”

Three years ago, however, it seemed like Donnelly’s good luck had run out. A member of the Hinsdale Rotary Club, he confessed to a fellow member one night— who just so happened to be an internist— that he wasn’t feeling well.

With his 50th birthday right around the corner, his friend advised him to get a colonoscopy right away. The news

was grim: stage four colon cancer. That was on a Friday. The next day, Donnelly underwent surgery at Hinsdale Hospital, even though the hospital traditionally doesn’t perform surgeries on Saturdays.

But thanks to his good friends at the rotary club, one of whom was the CEO of Hinsdale Hospital, arrangements were quickly made, and Donnelly began the frightening process of facing what he called “some really long odds.”

Now under the care of Dr. Al

Tim Byrnes and Greg Donnelly

Benson at Northwestern, a renowned oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancer, Donnelly started chemotherapy treatments, which he says were both horrible and effective.

“I had very positive results with the medications right out of the gate,” Donnelly says. “They consider me an outlier.”

But the greatest challenge for Donnelly was still to come: surgery to remove cancer from his liver.

“It is as big a hit as the body can handle,” he says.

With the surgery scheduled for a Friday, Donnelly decided to go into his office on Thursday.

“I didn’t know what else to do,” he says.

Nervous and as frightened as he’s ever been, at first, Donnelly didn’t notice that his entire of office of more than 100 people were all wearing blue shirts that

day.

“At the end of the day, one of the guys grabbed me and said, ‘You need to take a walk with me,’ ” Donnelly said. “That’s when it hit me: everyone was hugging me and wishing me well—it was one of the most meaningful days of my life.”

The good-luck charm must have worked, because Donnelly’s surgery went extremely well—so much so that the entire office decided to start wearing blue shirts every Thursday, just like Donnelly.

Three years later, “Blue Shirt Thursday” at Morgan Stanley has gone beyond Donnelly’s illness, and has become a potent symbol of solidarity and positive-thinking amongst Morgan Stanley’s Oak Brook employees.

Shortly after Donnelly’s second surgery, his colleague Tim Byrnes came up with the idea of what he called “the responsibility of sharing.” In part to honor his own father who died of cancer,

Byrnes had lapel pins made up depicting blue shirts with pink neckties. He took the pins to Morgan Stanley offices around the country, telling Donnelly’s story. The idea exploded, and today, blue shirts—worn with blue-shirt lapel pins— is the preferred dress code on Thursdays at more than 50 Morgan Stanley offices around the U.S. “People wear them for their family members, their friends, their co-workers— so many people have been touched by cancer,” Donnelly says.

While Donnelly’s chemotherapy regimen continues, his last few scans have been clear, which he credits to good medicine, great support (his wife, two children and friends), and some serious good luck.

A framed picture of Morgan Stanley employees dressed in blue shirts hangs on the wall at Morgan Stanley in Oak Brook.

For Donnelly, it is a constant source of pride.

“It has really become part of our culture here, and that translates to our clients,” he says. “I like to think that on that Thursday, my office family realized we care about each other and matter to each other. We all work hard and do our ‘thing,’ but on Thursdays, we remember what really matters.” n

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DENTAL HEALTH Children are encouraged to visit the dentist before turning one. (source: American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry)

Roughly 20 percent of children between 5 and 11 years of age have at least one untreated decayed tooth, and approximately one out of seven children between 12 and 19 years of age have at least one untreated decayed tooth.

EYEHEALTH Eye health should form a part of your regular checkups. Scheduling a comprehensive dilated eye exam is recommended, as it is the only test that detects common eye diseases like glaucoma and diabetic eye disease.

(source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Approximately 78 percent of Americans have experienced at least one cavity by the age of 17. (source: American Dental Hygienists’ Association)

(SOURCE: NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE)

Consuming fruits and vegetables regularly is beneficial for your eyes.

(SOURCE: NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE)

Women are more likely to contract glaucoma or cataracts.

(SOURCE: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY)

Home improvement projects account for approximately 44 percent of all eye injuries. Safety glasses or goggles are recommended to avoid such injuries.

(SOURCE: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY)

Roughly 3.4 million Americans ages 40 and above are legally blind or visually impaired.

(SOURCE: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION)

About 6.8 percent of children under 18 have diagnosed eye conditions.

(SOURCE: CDC)

Sam Foster, founder of the Foster Grant company, was the first to mass-produce sunglasses in 1929. Sunglasses provide protection against the sun’s ultraviolet rays.

(SOURCE: BAUSCH + LOMB)

Egg yolks contain a pair of nutrients called lutein and zeaxanthin, which are beneficial to eye health.

(SOURCE: BAUSCH + LOMB)

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Hold your toothbrush at a slight angle, positioning the bristles of the brush towards the region in which tooth and gum meet. Brush the outside, inside and chewing surfaces of your teeth, as well as your tongue. (source: Mayo Clinic)

Purchase a new toothbrush every three to four months. If you have an electric toothbrush, purchase a replacement head during the same time-period. If the bristles become frayed or disjointed in less than three months, address this earlier. (source: Mayo Clinic) Acid production from plaque occurs most within 20 minutes of eating, contributing to tooth decay. Hence, mouth-rinsing with water after eating is a recommended habit. (source: Ontario Dental Hygienists’ Association)

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Beautiful HOSPITAL Elmhurst finishes second in nation’s “Most Beautiful Hospital” contest

HEALTHY DRIVEN Founded in 1926, Elmhurst Memorial Hospital is now Elmhurst Hospital, part of Edward-Elmhurst Health.

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oliant Health, a leading specialty healthcare staffing provider and part of Adecco Group, has named Elmhurst Hospital as Soliant’s second Most Beautiful Hospital in the U.S. for 2016.

More than 70 hospitals were nominated for “most beautiful” consideration.

Nearly 200,000 votes were registered in the subsequent month-long online voting period, which resulted in Soliant’s list of the Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S. Elmhurst Hospital received 21,219 votes. The winning hospital, Doctors Memorial Hospital in Bonifay, Fla., had nearly 39,000.

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Elmhurst Hospital also finished second in 2013, as well as No. 5 in 2012, No. 16 in 2014 and No. 8 in 2015.

Soliant described Elmhurst Hospital as follows: “This building’s stylish, unintimidating looks have more in common with a contemporary hotel than most medical facilities. Built from the ground up to incorporate the latest trends in healthcare design, our 2016 runner-up is enjoying its fifth year on our list.” n

For more information about Elmhurst Hospital, visit www.eehealth.org/locations/elmhurst/elmhursthospital-main-campus. To read more about Soliant Health’s Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S., visit http://blog.soliant.com/most-beautifulhospitals/2016.

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RED DEVILS Practicing on the artificial turf of Dickinson Field

Hinsdale Central football is gearing up for its 2016 season, practicing on the artificial turf of Dickinson Field this summer.

The Red Devils have lost a number of key starters from last year’s squad, which demolished a series of opponents en route to a 7-1 start, before succumbing to injuries and being upset by Neuqua Valley, 29-26, in the first round of the IHSA 8A playoffs.

“Last year, we were a little bit older team,” head coach Dan Hartman said.

“We had a lot of seniors last year—not quite as many this year. With some time, we should be in good shape.”

During Hinsdale Magazine’s visit to Central practice last month, Hartman said the team was beginning to round into form, but still has a long way to go before the season opener at the end of this month.

“We’re starting to get better,” he said.

“The young guys are starting to figure out where they’re supposed to be and what they’re supposed to do, which is huge.

We’re waiting on them to come around a

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little bit.”

Despite losing a number of starters on offense, one key component that brings experience to the table is senior quarterback Josh Bean.

Last season, Bean rotated at quarterback with Michael Sessa, functioning as a more mobile counterpart to one of the most prolific passers in school history.

This year, Hartman said he expects the quarterbacking duties to fall squarely on the shoulders of Bean, whom he believes will show further development and refinement as he enters his senior campaign.

“He’s definitely the guy in the driver’s seat,” he said. “He’s running the whole show, and we’ve got a couple of young guys backing him up. With that year of experience last year, he split time, and he started a few games, and he started a couple of games as a sophomore; so, he’s definitely experienced.”

Bean will be protected by an offensive line returning seniors Niko Ivanisevic and Brian Foley. The Red Devils will

miss outgoing linemen Doug Kramer and Matt Allen, who will continue the Allen brothers’ legacy at Michigan State University this fall.

Central will also be reloading at the offensive skill positions, losing running back Christian Bobak and receivers Brad Huth, Michael Claussen and Kareem Muhammad to graduation. Juniors Matt Bjorson and Garret Oakey, who earned some reps at receiver and in the backfield last season, will be expected to continue their progression this fall.

“No one’s really emerged yet,” Hartman said. “They’re still all competing.”

On the defensive side of the ball, Hartman said the Red Devils will be returning more impact players from the 2015 squad, led by senior linebacker Dorion Pollard, who emerged late in the season.

The Kwasigroch twins, John and Joe, will be back in the secondary, joined by senior defensive back Tommy Lyne.

“In that back seven, [there are] probably four or five guys that have some

HM sports pretty significant experience back there,” Hartman said, adding that the Red Devils also expect to play three defensive linemen that saw considerable snaps in 2015.

Senior Mark Zelisko and junior Quentin Wallace will handle the kicking and punting duties, as Central lost placekicker Blake Hately to graduation.

The schedule features the same assortment of West Suburban Silver foes and traditional rivals, but commences with an opponent Hinsdale has never previously faced: American Fork High School out of American Fork, Utah, a town located just south of Salt Lake City.

“They contacted us a couple of years ago,” Hartman said. “They do a trip every four years, and they said they wanted to come to Chicago, and wanted to know if we would be willing to play. That year, they were in the state finals in Utah, so we looked at that as, coming off the Bolingbrook and O’Fallon series, that we wanted to schedule strong in the beginning.”

The Red Devils will host American Fork H.S. on Friday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m.

Their next two contests will be in Downers Grove, as Central will visit Downers Grove South and Downers Grove North on successive Friday evenings.

“Both [teams] should be significantly better this year,” Hartman said. “Those are going to be some tough games on the road early in the season, especially with a bunch of young guys. It’s going to be a battle.”

After hosting York for senior night on Sept. 16 and visiting Proviso West the next week, Hinsdale will welcome powerhouse Glenbard West for Homecoming on Saturday, Oct. 1 at noon.

“Unfortunately, we’ve got them coming in on Homecoming,” Hartman said. ... “It’s always a big game; we got a little closer last year—still not there.

They’re obviously the top dog in the conference. ... They’re the team to beat.”

The Red Devils held a lead in the fourth quarter at Glenbard West last year, but the Hilltoppers stormed back to deny Central’s upset bid, imposing their will physically in the final period.

“Coach [Chad] Hetlet does a great job with those kids over there,” Hartman

said. “They play in the system all the way coming up from middle school on up, and they get to the high school, and they play ‘Hitters football,’ and they get after it. It’s a program, for sure.”

As the regular season winds down, Hinsdale will gear up for consecutive rivalry matchups at Lyons Township and against Hinsdale South.

“You’ve got to play every week,” Hartman said, “and that’s the toughest part is keeping our play at a high level when finishing that season, when LT is the big rivalry, and then you’ve got the cross-district rivalry with Hinsdale South.”

Rounding out the season, the Red Devils will host Oak Park-River Forest.

Last year, Central headed to Oak Park with a 7-1 record, but departed shellacked on the scoreboard, and depleted both physically and mentally heading into the playoffs.

“Against Oak Park, we went over there, and they beat us up physically, definitely,” Hartman said. “We had some guys get injured, and I think kind of took a hit to our confidence a little bit in that last game of the season.

“And we had some injuries going into the playoffs, which didn’t help. I think it did kind of knock us down a notch.”

Hartman said if the Red Devils are in a position to make the playoffs this season, they must approach the Oak Park contest as a playoff game if they want to play into November.

“I think competing in that last game against a playoff-caliber team, we almost have to treat it like it’s the first week of the playoffs with Oak Park, where they’re trying to peak at that time, and you’ve got to carry it through,” he said. “If you get knocked off, you’ve got to be mentally strong enough to come back the next week, because you’ve got another shot.”

At the end of the day, Hartman said he feels his team’s performance will hinge on the development of the younger players.

“I think it’s going to be a young team, but they’re hungry, and they want to compete, which is always good,” he said.

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Why I chose to go into Dentistry The ability to interact with patients and improve their quality of life through treatment and education is an aspect that has always attracted me to the healthcare profession. During high school, I searched deeper into different careers, but I always found myself coming back to the idea of being a dentist. The opportunity in dentistry to discuss diagnoses with patients, work together towards the prevention of future disease and develop meaningful relationships was one that I felt I could not pass up.

To me, dentistry yields itself a unique advantage over other healthcare fields in that patients can leave the office with a bigger, more confident smile. It is hard to match that rewarding feeling after seeing patients smile knowing that I had a positive impact in their life. It’s been a long journey to get here, but I’ve never once looked back on my decision to pursue this extraordinary career.

Why I chose Hinsdale Dentistry I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Dr. Harnois for over 9 years and I’ll never forget when I first stepped foot in his office. At the time I was a student in high school, and while observing Dr. Harnois I saw something special in the way he communicated with his patients. My belief in dentistry is that patients should always be our primary concern and deserve the best care possible without any compromise. It was obvious that Dr. Harnois shared this same belief, which is how I knew that Hinsdale Dentistry was a perfect fit.

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Nearly 80 golfers participated in the Robert Crown Center’s (RCC) revamped golf outing at Willowcrest Golf Club on the property of the Hilton-Oak Brook Hills Resort in Oak Brook on June 23.

The public golf course served as the setting for the resumption of a community event that was last held in 2013 after three decades at Hinsdale Golf Club in Clarendon Hills.

On the course, players vied for prizes on a trio of par threes. Hole-inone awards ranged from a $10,000 cash prize, to a four-day, three-night stay at a golf resort in French Lick, Ind., to a set of golf clubs.

Elizabeth Kos, special events coordinator for the center, said all proceeds from the outing will support the Hinsdale-based Robert Crown Center for Health Education, which provides services throughout the Chicagoland area, from northwest Indiana to southern Wisconsin.

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Concussion: When a player suffers a blow to the head, it is important to check for signs of a concussion—confusion, difficulty thinking clearly, memory loss, feeling sluggish, headache or blurry vision and nausea or vomiting. Players with symptoms should NOT return to play the day the injury occurred, and seek medical attention immediately.

Muscle Strain: A strain is caused by a quick pull, twist or micro-tear of the muscle or tendon, especially when muscles

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are not stretched or warmed-up properly. To help with symptoms, treat the injury for 48 hours with R.I.C.E. — Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.

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Thousands of area residents lined Garfield, Grant and First Streets for the annual Hinsdale Fourth of July parade.

The fire trucks—more muted than usual— got the parade rolling several minutes early, proceeding northward on Garfield towards larger gatherings of people in the downtown.

Area veterans followed the fire engines, prompting paradegoers along the corner of Garfield and First to rise and applaud.

As is customary, a number of local politicians and dignitaries participated in the parade, led by U.S. Rep. Patti Bellock, R-Westmont, and Hinsdale village president Tom Cauley.

Oak Brook village president Gopal Lalmalani walked in the parade, ahead of a wing-door Tesla courtesy of Tesla Motors at Oakbrook Center.

Burr Ridge mayor Mickey Straub patriotically strolled through the parade, followed by his predecessor Gary Grasso, now a DuPage County board member.

The Hinsdale Central Marching Band made its customary parade appearance, and was joined by the Leyden High School Marching Band, which marched in full uniform.

The Central cheerleaders also participated in the parade, followed by members of the football program, which were accepting donations for HCS Family Services.

Champions of the various Hinsdale Little League divisions marked the conclusion of the parade, as did a patriotically-costumed entrant from ThoseFunnyLittlePeople.com, a relatively new child favorite.

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Kids Golf Classic at Hinsdale Golf Club in Clarendon Hills on June 27.

The event included silent and live auctions, buffet lunch and a dinner reception.

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Friends of Conservation (FOC) President Reute Butler and Vonita Reescer co-chaired a fundraising luncheon for FOC at the Oak Brook Polo Club on Sunday, July 10th, preceding the Commander’s Cup, a remake of the renowned match featuring the Oak Brook Polo Club vs The Black Horse Troop which was led in the 1930’s and 40’s by Reute’s grandfather, its Commander Paul Butler, who later founded the storied Oak Brook Polo Club and the Village of Oak Brook.

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FOC works with the traditionally pastoralist Maasai people, whose lands border the renowned Maasai Mara Ecosystem in Kenya, to empower them to embrace their role in protecting nature to improve the health, prosperity and stability of their communities, and the rich biodiversity that surrounds them.

Join Jorie, Reute and Vonita and famous lion conservationist John Rendall at The Conservation Ball October 21 at the Four Seasons, Chicago.

For additional information on Friends of Conservation visit friendsofconservation.org or email info@friendsofconservation.org.

[1] Oak Brook Polo Team captain Jim Drury, event cochair Reute Butler and FOC founder and international chairman Jorie Butler Kent; [2] Reute Butler and Jorie Butler Kent hold the family’s Butler Challenge Cup, for which the teams played; [3] Melissa & Brian Babcock; [4] Vonita Reescer Event Co-Chair & Richard Miller; [5] Hat contest judges flank the winners, Cheryl Pierson McNeill, men’s winner Jim Kinney, winner ladies Belvon Walker, Mitchell Hatcher

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by Errol Janusz

LUXURY GADGETS In conjunction with the rest of this issue of Hinsdale Magazine, we present you three luxurious technology-related gadgets that will certainly put a hole in anyone’s pocket. From exercise to kitchens, let’s get started.

MICROSOFT SURFACE

If you are in search of a very fast and high-end tablet, the Microsoft Surface Pro may have the specifications you are looking for. Both Micro Center and The Microsoft Store have this tablet available for purchase at a whopping $3,200. The Surface Pro is more than double the cost of the entry-level Surface, and much faster. This Windows device boasts an i7 processor, 16 gigabytes of memory, and a 512-gigabyte solid state drive.

If your business requires both absolute power and mobility, this high-end Surface is definitely worth checking out.

PELOTON CYCLE®

iCHEF OVEN

The world of technology is quickly entering your kitchen and appliances. The iChef oven is a smart oven with many different features. The touchscreen on its front panel will allow you to perform the standard oven tasks with an additional “smart” design. You can download and update different recipes, and have the oven act as a cookbook by programming different stages of cooking. This smart oven has been very popular in European countries, and if you have to ask how much it costs, you probably won’t have enough left over to afford a robotic butler to serve your meals for you.

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The motto for this technobike is “fitness evolved.”

The Peloton Cycle is a smart indoor piece of exercise equipment. It has a WiFi connection and an HD touchscreen display.

Cyclists can live-stream spin classes on the HD screen, and access those classes on-demand after each class has passed. At any time you choose, you may hop on your bike and begin a live-streaming class that is broadcasted from Peloton in New York. Once your workout has finished, you can track your calories and distances. Even at a $2,000 price-point, thousands of these bikes have already been shipped across the U.S.

Errol Janusz is president and lead technician at Edward Technology in Hinsdale. For more information, contact Errol at 630-333-9323, ext. 303, or e-mail ejanusz@hinsdale60521.com. You can also visit edwardtechnology.com.

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by Jim Fannin

TEN GOLF ‘IN THE ZONE’ TIPS Are you ready for your club championship? Do you want to finish the summer with your best golf ever? Follow “zone coach” Jim Fannin’s ten tips for playing golf “in-the-zone.”

All of the following ten tips have been tried and proven by players on the PGA and LPGA Tours.

1. Night Before Greatness: The night before your competitive event and within 30 minutes before sleep, envision yourself playing your best golf. Only think about what you want. This will be replayed while you sleep 15 to 20 times during the night.

See what you want.

2. Look Afar: Do not watch your opponent hit their shots—look away. Take your mind to a tree, bird or inanimate structure.

Keep your mind clear. You are playing the course; focus on what you want only.

3. The Re-Boot: If you are thinking about what just happened, what will happen or any other negative thought, then turn your brain off. Close your eyes; unhinge your jaw. See a blank or dark screen in your mind—no thoughts. After 15 to 30 seconds, open your eyes, and focus on your next target.

4. The Most Powerful Word in Golf: Use this word after every shot—use it when things go wrong—use it when your matchplay opponent is playing out of his or her mind. This word’s powerful nature will keep you focused on the next task at hand, and keep your energy flowing down the fairway. The most powerful word in golf is next.

5. Breathe Like A Baby: If you are feeling nervous, edgy, concerned or worried, try this. Place either hand on your belly button; unhinge your jaw. Now breathe deeply. Allow your stomach to move your hand with each inhale and exhale.

Immediately, you’ll find your shoulders relaxing, and a calm will come over you much like a baby does just before falling asleep.

6. The Light Switch: Like a light-switch, your chin can move up and down. With your chin in an above parallel position, you will only think positively. Drop or lower your head, and the negatives will rush in. Try it. Your mom was right: keep your chin up. Use the light-switch.

7. Hula-Hoops & Toothpicks: Select well-defined, small targets.

Choose a hula-hoop sized target when aiming in the fairway or green. Use toothpick-sized targets when putting. “You never see the bunkers until you take you mind off the flag.”

8. Power Words: “I drain” is thought when putts need to fall.

“I’m accurate” is thought when short irons are needed to find the flagstick. “I have rhythm” is thought and felt when your swing is out of sync. Arm yourself with “power words” or positive “I statements” that are to be directed to the challenge at hand.

9. Starve the Judge in You: Avoid judging your swing and your results—no judging the competition. Judges are not allowed between the ropes of tournament play. You are a player and not a coach or commentator.

10. No Victim Talk: You will have bad lies and unlucky bounces.

Put on your thickest skin, and avoid thinking and acting as a victim of the circumstance, situation or condition. n Jim Fannin has coached ten golfers before they won their first professional tournaments. He also guided Luke Donald’s ascent to No. 1 in the world. In addition, Fannin has been behind the scenes in assisting University of Illinois head coach Mike Small lead his men’s team to seven Big 10 championships.

JIM FANNIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Burr Ridge resident Jim Fannin is a world-class thought leader and coach with 42 years of experience in life, business and sports. To learn about his latest thoughtmanagement program, go to 90secondrule.com, or visit jimfannin.com.

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by Dan Meyer

THE NATION GOD BLESSES (PART 2) THE PRAYER OF REPUBLICANS & DEMOCRATS ALIKE Did you catch any of the recent political conventions? Did you notice that there were a few things about repairing America on which Republicans and Democrats disagreed? There was one aspiration voiced repeatedly by speakers from both parties, however, on which lots of people agreed. You’ve heard it so many times, it is almost a cliché.

“May God bless America!”

As I said last month, the wish that God would specially bless one’s country is a prayer that transcends partisanship, or a single people, or one religion alone. The yearning for a flow of grace to help us overcome what limits us is a global passion, even if it is not a universal experience. The good news is that the desire of God to extend his blessing is never confined to one circle alone.

So here’s a question worth pondering: Are there any particular characteristics that increase the likelihood of God blessing a nation?

For example, is there something that God might be looking for in the American people before he pours out further blessing upon us?

The holy Book respected by Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike teaches us that the answer is, yes.

THE HUMBLE NATION The Bible teaches that God blesses the humble nation. Listen to what the prophet Moses says: “Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God. You may say to yourself, ‘My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.’ ”1 Of all the destructive temptations any people faces, none is so insidious as the temptation to pride. Ironically, the more a people are blessed, the greater is the risk that they will develop the spiritual disease of pride that results in their blessings being withdrawn.

Dozens and dozens of times in history, God has raised up great nations. Some of them enjoyed hundreds of years of influence. But there came a day when their people became convinced that they had an economic or educational system that no one could beat.

They had a military and technology that no one could overcome.

They had a culture that would certainly go on forever. In many cases, it wasn’t these things that were the principal problem; it was the conceit that resulted from a misconception about these blessings. The people of these nations stopped viewing what they had as a sacred gift or as a trust to be used for blessing others.

They became proud toward God and other people. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Mayans, England, the Soviets— empire after empire, all became proud and fell.

Where do you see humility being exercised in America, in Israel, among Muslim people today? As our own Abraham Lincoln so often reminded us, it is at that place of humble dependence upon almighty God, that place of humble “malice toward none and charity toward all,” that God blesses a nation.

THE FAITHFUL NATION Those who respect the Holy Book also know that God blesses the faithful nation. The richest blessings of God are always predicated upon the willingness of a people to respond faithfully to the good guidance he gives for their welfare: “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you if you obey the Lord your God.”2 Jews, Christians and Muslims alike recognize the Ten Commandments3 as one of the clearest expressions of divine guidance. Every person from these religious traditions—whatever their political persuasion—acknowledges the value of these commandments. We acknowledge them in word, but how do we handle them in deed?

Do we hold no gods before the Lord our God? Do we forsake all graven images or idols? Do we reverence the name of God? Do we observe a Sabbath rest each week, so we bring clarity and strength to all we do? Do we honor our parents and those elders that built the nation we’ve inherited? Do we forsake murder of any kind, protecting life however we can? Do we run from adultery, keeping our promises and our purity? Do we turn from stealing anything, seeking instead to practice generosity? Do we refuse to indulge in any gossip or false witness about one another, aiming always to build each other up? Have we banished coveting and envy, so that we’ve learned to be content ourselves and to celebrate the good that others enjoy?

Can you imagine a nation where this was true? We have never been a perfect people, but there was a time in America’s life when these truths were more self-evident. There was a time when humility before God and others was a higher value. There was a time when faithfulness to the Ten Commandments was seen not as a threat to liberty, but as the path to the blessed life itself. This is not nostalgia; it’s the American story.

As Christians, Jews and Muslims—or as Republicans and Democrats—, we face numerous complex problems today. We can descend further into that pit of superiority and selfishness that sows the seeds of suspicion and destruction in every generation and country. Alternatively, we can be the vanguard of a spiritual revolution. We can help our country become in a deeper way a people of humility and faithfulness—the kind of nation that God blesses and which, by the quality of its life and witness, becomes an agent of blessing for all people. n

Deuteronomy 8:11-20 2 Deuteronomy 28 3 Exodus 20

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DAN MEYER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Dr. Dan Meyer is the senior pastor at Christ Church of Oak Brook.

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