Hinsdale Magazine June 2015

PETER BELL

HINSDALE NATIVE NOW A LEADER IN THE AUTISM COMMUNITY

CLARENDON HILLS Part III: The Future

THE AGE OF ELEGANCE

The Drake Hotel undergoes extensive renovation

MAKING A DIFFERENCE HJWC international affairs committee confronts global women’s issues

PU BLI S HER LETTER

SCOTT JONLICH

A Father’s Day to remember

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committee is tackling global women’s issues through raising n this June issue, we salute all dads, as we celebrate awareness on a local level, as well as an inaugural fundraising Father’s Day with a fitting cover story of Peter Bell initiative later this month: “Bowties, Bangles & Bubbly.” The with his son Tyler. Peter lives on the East Coast with event will be held on June 13 at 720 S. County Line Road in his family, but his roots are still in Hinsdale, where he Hinsdale. Tickets are $100. grew up and began his education at Monroe Elementary School. Tyler was diagnosed with a form of autism, and you Our three-part series on the Clarendon Hills concludes this will read in this feature story how Peter’s month on the quaint town neighboring personal and professional journey led him Hinsdale to the west. Hinsdale Magazine to work in the autism field. Today, he is contributing editor and Clarendon Hills CEO of Eden Autism Services in New resident Mike Ellis takes us through the Jersey, and has become an important voice village. You will read about the village’s bright to understanding autism research and future, as well as some of the challenges this treatments. burgeoning community is facing to make it one of the best places to live in the region.

The Hinsdale community is proud of On behalf of our editorial staff, we thank Peter’s achievements, and you will read our readers for the positive comments on our how he was influential in Congress passing “town spotlights” on Oak Brook, Burr Ridge the Combating Autism Act of 2006, which HINSDALE NATIVE NOW A LEADER and Clarendon Hills. We look forward to helped increase awareness, funding and IN THE AUTISM COMMUNITY featuring Hinsdale with the first installment research in 42 states to require insurance CLARENDON HILLS starting in July. You won’t want to miss this companies to cover behavioral treatments THE AGE OF ELEGANCE issue, as we will take a glimpse of Hinsdale related to autism.

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Grill that opens to an awaiting Hinsdale area crowd. Oak Brook’s Old Town Pour House is also featured, with its casual outdoor Happy Father’s Day. patio, along with more al fresco dining establishments in the area (p. 39).

In this issue, we also introduce you to the Hinsdale Junior Woman’s Club’s new international affairs committee. This

PETER BELL Part III: The Future

The Drake Hotel undergoes extensive renovation HJWC international affairs committee confronts global women’s issues

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Peter Bell, autism advocate

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SPOTLIGHT

Clarendon Hills Series Part III: The Future

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“The saltwater diet” by Dan Meyer

ON THE COVER CEO of Eden Autism Services and former Hinsdale resident Peter Bell Photography by Christopher Bogusz

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AUTISM ADVOCATE

by Mike Ellis | Photography by Christopher Bogusz

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ftentimes, in a person’s life, he or she will be dealt a hand or set of circumstances that may seem disappointing or deflating at the time, but ultimately leads to something better.

Peter Bell grew up in Hinsdale; like many, he attended Monroe Elementary School and Hinsdale Middle School (then known as Hinsdale Junior High) before graduating from Hinsdale Central in 1982. Bell attended Cornell University, and went on to spend four years in San Francisco in real estate consulting after graduating from Cornell in 1986. After getting married in 1989, Bell moved back to Chicago with his wife a year later so he could pursue his MBA at the renowned Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

Matters changed for Bell, however, several years later, about two years after his wife gave birth to their first son, Tyler.

“When Tyler was about two years old, we noticed that he was not talking as much as some of the other kids,” Bell said.

The Bells consulted a doctor, who expressed no concern for his behavior. About one or two months later, Bell said Tyler started to “lose” the language he had learned, and also began to experience serious behavioral issues.

It turned out that Tyler had what is often termed “regressive autism”—that is, a form of autism in which some doctors and scientists believe a specific incident or series of incidents causes a child’s development to plateau and possibly recede. When Hinsdale Magazine interviewed Dr. William Walsh, a Napervillebased scientist who has conducted extensive research on autism and other behavioral disorders, last year, he described these triggers as “environmental insults” that “cause genes to act differently forever.”

In Tyler’s case, Bell said the only event that seemed to coincide with his son’s behavioral decline was contracting the chicken pox.

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PETER BELL AND HIS SON TYLER Ever since he was a young child, Tyler Bell has been visually-oriented.

He experiences life from a unique perspective and exhibits an intense interest in color.

Painting provides Tyler, a young man living with autism, a remarkable level of engagement and peace.

Bells and several other area families worked to “For most, chicken pox is a relatively benign start a chapter, which Bell said raised about $1 infectious disease,” he said, adding that it has million in its first year. never been determined with certainty whether Tyler’s coming down with chicken pox was a Several years later, in 2003, Bell joined the contributing factor. national board of Cure Autism Now, which was in the process of a search for a new director.

Bell said science suggests that between 25 and 40 percent of autism cases are regressive.

“We interviewed about a dozen candidates, When Tyler was diagnosed in 1996, Bell and said we weren’t terribly impressed with them,” he said. said not much was known about autism, describing this era as the “dark ages of autism.”

Bell somewhat jokingly threw his name “The only thing we knew about autism was, into the mix, but after some of his fellow board members urged him on, he discussed accepting ‘That was what the guy in Rain Man had,’ ” he the position with his wife, and decided to take said, referencing a character played by Dustin on the responsibility.

Hoffman.

Bell said Tyler’s

After Bell moved experience with autism “has to Los Angeles to serve in involved a lot of medical the capacity of director, “THE ONLY THING WE issues,” including difficulty Cure Autism Now merged sleeping and gastrointestinal with another non-profit KNEW ABOUT AUTISM problems. As a teenager, organization, Autism WAS, ‘THAT WAS WHAT THE Speaks, three years later, he went through catatonia, (which Bell said affects 15 GUY IN RAIN MAN HAD.’ ” which would become the to 20 percent of individuals world’s largest advocacy –PETER BELL with autism,) and eventually, organization for autism.

Tyler developed seizures or Recognizing an epilepsy. Bell said this is also apparent lack of connection common among autistic individuals, impacting between autism treatments and the medical about one-third. And most recently, Tyler— industry, Bell said when he first started his role who is now 22—has experienced issues with as director, he wanted to improve the quality of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). medical care for individuals with autism.

“We’ve always been pretty significant One challenge he and his colleagues met advocates for some of the medical issues with was that in those days, autism was not associated with autism,” Bell said, adding that defined as a medical issue or disorder, and many of the doctors they saw initially did consequently, medical insurance failed to cover not seem to think autism or its concomitant autism-related treatments. Bell was influential symptoms were treatable. in Congress’s passage of the Combating Autism Act of 2006, which helped increase awareness, funding and research on autism on a federal Shifting gears level, while playing a role in 42 states passing After graduating from the Kellogg school, laws that compelled insurance companies to Bell worked at a division of Johnson & Johnson. cover behavioral treatments related to autism.

Around 1999 or 2000, he had the opportunity Bell said when he departed from Autism Speaks to work to obtain approval for the first drug in 2013, 34 states had passed such laws. to treat some symptoms of autism. While “I do feel like I have been able to produce the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) some really good things that have kind of moved approval would actually occur sometime after the autism community forward,” he said. he left Johnson & Johnson, Bell pointed to this While at Autism Speaks, Bell contributed to project as influential in his decision to change establishing the Autism Treatment Network, a gears professionally. consortium of 14 centers that provide medical Another contributing factor was getting care for children and teenagers with autism and involved with a non-profit organization called related disorders. He said he is pleased that Cure Autism Now at about the same time. A compared to when Tyler was first diagnosed co-founder’s parents resided in Philadelphia, with autism, medical care and funding for where Bell and his family lived at the time. The Continued on the next page

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EDEN AUTISM SERVICES BUILDING IN PRINCETON, N.J. Eden is a non-profit organization with a mission to improve the lives of children and adults with autism. Peter Bell works with a Eden school student (below).

medical research related to autism have both increased considerably, adding that families no longer have to seek services from “alternative” medicine to treat symptoms associated with autism.

“Mainstream medicine today now does a fairly effective job of looking at the medical issues that accompany autism,” Bell said. “Those are things that can oftentimes be treated, improved or corrected. There is absolutely a significant amount of progress that has been made in the pediatric industry.”

Addressing adults

After spending nearly a decade concentrating on autism advocacy, in 2013, Bell decided to transition into the services side, accepting a position as president and CEO of Eden Autism Services, a New Jersey-based organization that has been providing programs and services for children and adults with autism for 40 years.

“I kind of got to the point where I felt that I wanted to make a difference on the

services side of the industry,” Bell said.

Eden’s mission is to improve the overall quality of life for all individuals living on the autism spectrum.

Bell said Eden provides services to about 200 individuals on a daily basis, and that services are offered from the time of diagnosis through adulthood.

“We’re more or less a full-service, comprehensive service provider,” he said. “Our goal is to improve the outcomes for the individuals we serve.”

For Bell, who has both contributed to and witnessed tremendous progress in knowledge concerning autism and how it is treated and viewed by medical Continued on page 14

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professionals, it is important for services and opportunities for individuals with autism to extend beyond their childhood into their adult years—a point that resonates even more with him personally now that Tyler is 22.

“I really want to redefine the way in which services are delivered to the autism community,” Bell said. “There’s a lot that needs to be done, with a lot of emphasis on the adult years. ... So much of the resources have gone towards kids, but there’s been very little attention on adults.”

Bell said a main point of emphasis is employment, which is based on the fact that “people with autism are absolutely employable.”

“If we can improve the level of independence, that’s really a better outcome,” he said, adding that Eden works closely with prospective employers to match the unique skillsets autistic individuals possess with those required

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in certain positions.

Bell recounted recently attending a fashion show with Tyler at Princeton University, near the home of Eden Autism Services. While looking at the kids who were putting on the show, it struck Bell that they were roughly the same age as his son. He said “part of [his] heart was broken,” realizing that Tyler never had the opportunity to participate in the collegiate experience that is available to millions of other American young adults.

At the same time, Bell said he has enjoyed being part of Tyler’s journey, and that although the road has not always been easy, his son has consistently displayed an inspirational attitude.

“He’s resilient, he’s been through a lot in his life, but he still smiles,” he said. “He has a certain innocence, he has a certain quality, and he doesn’t seem to judge.”

Bell said Tyler currently has two jobs: one at a winery where he glues boxes

together, and a second at a restaurant where he works in a dining room. He enjoys painting, and has sold about $30,000 worth of paintings in the past two years. While this may be a possible career opportunity as well, Bell said Tyler currently donates the proceeds from his paintings to charities he and his family decide upon.

Bell said that Tyler’s current jobs are not likely to be lifelong careers, and that he and his wife are still searching for a career path that is sustainable, while allowing him to fit in with his environment and fellow employees.

“Tyler’s path has been a little bit different,” he said. “He’s touched more lives in his 22 years than most people have probably done.

“We look forward to his future, and it will be a different future than we ever thought it would be;—but that’s okay.” n

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ore than 1,200 walkers from throughout the Western Suburbs gathered together to participate in the eighth annual Walk the Walk for Autism at The Community House (TCH) on April 26.

Participants walked roughly three miles, taking a scenic tour of the south-side of Hinsdale on a brisk, sunny morning, while supporting a good cause in the process.

“Thank you for being here as a community to support kids and families with autism, and Charlie’s Gift Autism Center,” TCH executive director Jenifer Fabian said at the podium. “Your support today helps us reach out to families, parents and siblings of children on the autism spectrum—with family support, with horseback therapy, with support groups for siblings and parents, and for scholarship programs.

“So, thank you so much for making a difference for local kids who really need it.”

On the stage, Fabian recognized the top two individual fundraisers for this year’s walk: Noah Tomanovich and Kyle Tausk.

This was Tomanovich’s third consecutive year as the top individual fundraiser, while runner-up finisher Tausk said he was just happy to support his brother, who has autism.

“I was doing this all for my brother, Braden,” Tausk said. “I love him so much. He has autism, and this all was for him.”

For the second straight year, WLS Ch. 7 morning anchor Judy Hsu, a Hinsdale resident, served as emcee for the walk.

“It is awesome to see all of you out here on a Sunday morning,” Hsu said on stage.

After the walk, kids enjoyed crafts underneath the tent in The Community House parking lot, as well as pizza courtesy of Fox’s Pub in Hinsdale.

Walk co-chair Alex Tomanovich, whose son Noah has autism, said the total fundraising goal for this year’s event was $107,000.

“We really appreciate all of your support and all of your kindness and all of your understanding for what we go through with our children with autism,” Tomanovich said, “and how amazing that they actually are.”

For more information about The Community House or the Charlie’s Gift Autism Center, visit www.thecommunityhouse.org.

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HJWC INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEMBERS Stephanie Brzozowski, Kate Marnell and Julie Sutton

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by Mike Ellis | Photography by Jim Prisching

The “Great Recession” of 2007-2008 plunged many Americans across the nation into a downward spiral. But while this financial “crisis” certainly had a profound impact on many people’s standards of living and ways of life, it still failed to reduce the vast majority of Americans to the level of poverty and distress that remains commonplace in other quarters of the globe.

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ver roughly the past year, the Hinsdale Junior Woman’s Club’s (HJWC) international affairs committee has been educating its members and others on the need of billions of people all over the world— especially women, who continue to be treated as contemptible, second-class citizens in many foreign countries.

Members of the committee—just wrapping up its first year—and club at large have been reading Half the Sky, a book authored by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn that tackles global women’s issues while educating readers as to how they can make a difference for women suffering under the manacles of prostitution and poverty.

Kate Marnell of Hinsdale, who cochairs the international affairs committee with fellow Hinsdale residents Stephanie Brzozowski and Julie Sutton, said her aunt introduced her to the book, and it left an impression on her.

“Women just don’t have the rights that we do here, and it’s really upsetting,” Marnell said. “You think as a community, after reading this book, how lucky we are as women to live in this community; and we’ve all been given so much. ... It’s, I think, our job to help, internationally, all of these women and children.”

Marnell said Half the Sky has “definitely inspired” the members who have read it, and it has shed light on the fact that while the stature of women in American society has been steadily increasing, in poorer, less formally educated parts of the world like inland Africa and India, many women are subjected to horrific treatment.

“After reading Half the Sky, I think you realize potentially all of these international women’s issues exist— crazy things like bride burnings, sex Continued on page 22

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trafficking, lack of education, health care “Even if we can help one person, What started as a three-room it’s one person’s life that’s completely schoolhouse has blossomed into a school for women and children,” she said.

One particular issue the book changed,” Marnell said. of 370 students, 18 teachers and several expounds upon is human (or sex) other staff members.

“[O’Brien is] really trafficking, which Kristof meticulous about how the and WuDunn liken to the “There’s a man that goes out on a beach, and he funds are used and where they institution of slavery that existed in America until sees that it’s covered with starfish that have washed go, and vetting everybody that they choose to work with the conclusion of the Civil up in the tide. A little boy is walking along, picking to ensure that all this money War. The authors describe them up and throwing them back in the water. that she spends her days and harrowing cases of girls years raising goes to reliable sold into prostitution as ‘What are you doing, son?’ the man asks. ‘You see people,” Sutton said. teenagers, but also explain how many starfish there are? You’ll never make a

Sutton said the school that even if the girls escape or difference.’ The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked requires $12,000 per month are delivered from bondage, they oftentimes return to up another starfish and threw it in the ocean. It sure to operate, and that its graduates are among the top their holders, having become made a difference to that one.” ten percent in Tanzania. addicted to drugs during

“This is right up our their captivity.

“They prey on young girls alley of what we should below poverty level that are desperate,” Bowties, Bangles & Bubbly be supporting,” Marnell said. “It’s a Later this month, on June 13, the Brzozowski said. local woman who started this amazing Other global issues are more financial HJWC international affairs committee school.” in nature. During our interview, Marnell Brzozowski said 80 to 90 percent will host “Bowties, Bangles & Bubbly” of the money raised will go towards the cited several statistics for Hinsdale with the goal of supporting women and O’Brien School, while the remainder will Magazine, including the facts that more children abroad who are in need.

The event will feature silent auction be directed to Kiva, a micro-lending site than 1.5 billion people do not have access items such as a White Sox batboy that provides needed funds for people to clean water, and that an estimated 2.2 experience, a stay in Michigan and a in underprivileged countries to start billion people live on $2 per day or less. tennis party, as well as a raffle for a onebusinesses. The loans are later paid The starfish week stay in Maui. back, thereby allowing the HJWC to use One of the challenges when assessing Proceeds from the event will be recycled funds in future years. international issues like the abovedivided between two causes: a school in Following the “starfish” mantra, Marnell said even a small contribution mentioned is that it is readily apparent the east African nation of Tanzania and can make a significant impact. that they are of such a magnitude a micro-lending site.

Founded by Hinsdale resident Kelly “Donating $50 or $100 is going to and oftentimes rooted in deep-seated O’Brien in 2006, the O’Brien School make such a huge difference in someone’s cultural traditions and prejudices, that for the Maasai is dedicated to educating life.” n it is impossible for one person or group children academically and morally in of people to swiftly solve even a single “Bowties, Bangles & Bubbly” will be an impoverished, undereducated region issue.

Marnell said that while she and her held at 720 S. County Line Road on to prepare them to lead and succeed in fellow HJWC members understand June 13, starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are their society and abroad.

Sutton said O’Brien and her daughter that they aren’t producing solutions $100 per person and are limited. The took a mission trip to Tanzania through to worldwide poverty or human recommended attire is “preppy.” For Christ Church of Oak Brook, and being trafficking, they have resolved to try to more information about the Hinsdale inspired by what they saw, tried to make whatever difference they can for Junior Woman’s Club, visit www.hjwc.us. figure out a way to help. She said they women internationally—even if that encountered a Maasai tribal leader who means helping just one woman or child. was hoping to develop a school.

Marnell explained that the international “[The tribe was] so excited at the committee has adopted a starfish as its possibility that someone was there to logo, and recited a Hawaiian parable that help them start a school,” Sutton said. explained the significance of the starfish.

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CLARENDON HILLS PART III: THE FUTURE

by Mike Ellis Photography by Kyle Hampson

DOWNTOWN CLARENDON HILLS The Sloan Triangle is one of the signature landmarks in downtown Clarendon Hills, which is noted for its “small-town charm.”

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ike many suburban villages, the Village of Clarendon Hills is currently in a transitional state, both downtown and from a residential development perspective.

Along the Burlington Northern, Clarendon Hills joins Hinsdale and Western Springs as among the most active communities in redeveloping existing lots. According to village staff, 1,234 residential lots were redeveloped in Clarendon Hills between 1990 and 2010.

The village estimates that an additional 25 lots will be redeveloped each year over the next 20 years.

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THE “VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY”

Clarendon Hills is just emerging from its most contentious local elections in recent memory this past spring. Running as a write-in candidate, incoming village president Len Austin aligned himself with a slate of three village caucusbacked trustee candidates, and defeated trustee Eric Stach in the April election.

The caucus-endorsed trustee candidates also defeated a slate of independent candidates running for the same position.

Since 1944, many residents have participated in the Clarendon Hills Community Caucus to select candidates for village offices including president, trustee, and park district and library board positions. Proponents of the caucus system emphasize that the caucus “seeks the candidates.”

In this spring’s elections, while most of the Hinsdale area turned its eyes to the District 86 board race, the caucus ran an active, diligent campaign to promote

Austin and its candidates for trustee.

Outgoing village president Tom Karaba, a 29-year volunteer in the village, said he was very pleased to see the caucus becoming more active again, as he remembers it was three decades ago.

“I’m hoping that we’re kind of seeing a renaissance of volunteerism in town, where people are coming together in a positive way and supporting their community through service,” said Dan Ungerleider, who serves as the village’s community development director. “I’ve seen nothing but great things from the volunteers in town.”

DOWNTOWN CLARENDON HILLS

One example of the spirit of volunteerism that has always guided Clarendon Hills— which provides no compensation to any of its board members or commissioners— is the village’s new Downtown Master Plan (DTMP), which the board passed last November after nearly two years of

input and suggestions from residents.

The DTMP, which forms part of the village’s larger comprehensive plan, involved town meetings, discussions and a series of recommendations generated by three subcommittees comprised of volunteer residents that offered their opinions concerning land use, economic development and design.

“It established that the village knows in concept what it wants for the community or for the downtown,” Ungerleider said. “So, when a developer walks in, they know what they can do; and they’re also encouraged with what they can do in town.”

The most controversial component of the DTMP was the maximum building height that would be permitted in the downtown. After thorough discussions that engaged a variety of voices throughout the community, the village board resolved to leave the maximum height at 40 feet (or roughly three stories) in the downtown.

Ungerleider said in the long term, “there are going to be taller buildings in this downtown.”

“I think as property values increase, it’s hard to justify a one-story building in a town of this type,” he said. “At some point, as the building ages, it starts to lose its value, it becomes more expensive to maintain; and when you want to rebuild, you’re going to want to gain as much value out of it as possible. And the only place you can go is up.”

Ungerleider said one area of focus now that the master plan has been passed will be improving pedestrian safety in downtown Clarendon Hills. He said the village is applying for a grant that would provide major road and pedestrian access improvements in the downtown.

Residents often describe downtown Clarendon Hills as “quaint” and “charming,” but one challenge the downtown faces is attracting people from surrounding communities to shop at local businesses. Because Clarendon Hills does not have any major streets or highways passing through its downtown, Prospect Ave. and Burlington Ave. can hardly be expected to bring hordes of cars through the commercial district like La Grange Road in downtown La Grange, or Main Street in downtown Downers Grove.

“This is always going to be a place that’s a little bit hidden,” Brown said.

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The property at 1 Walker Ave. in downtown Clarendon Hills is the home of Scapa Italian Kitchen, as well as offices on the second and third floors.

the downtown south of the tracks. Coming from Ogden Ave. north of the tracks, Brown said Middaugh Road was designed as the “thru street” to connect traffic from Ogden Ave. to downtown. But after the construction on 83, both Middaugh and Coe Roads were converted into “right turn only” intersections from Ogden, meaning only Ogden’s eastbound traffic could use these roads to access downtown Village hall sits north of the tracks, adjacent to the downtown.

Clarendon Hills.

“I think that it’s a condition that we just have to accept,” “It’s not like we can put up a great, big Ungerleider said. “I think that with the Gap or something like that that people advent of GPS, people can find us if they are going to come to.” want us; so now it’s just a matter of us Brown recalled the downtown once putting something here that they want featuring a grocery store and butcher to go to. I think it’s unrealistic for us shop, but said access to downtown to think that we’re going to open up a Clarendon Hills has actually been new way to get to downtown or to come reduced over the past few decades. through the village.

Before Ill. Rte. 83 was converted into an “And quite frankly, that’s part of the expressway in the Hinsdale area, Sixth charm of the community: that you have Street crossed the highway and became to want to come here to get here.”

Harris Street in Clarendon Hills, thus Ungerleider said because you providing an additional access point to have to come with a purpose to visit

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Clarendon Hills, it’s important to establish “destination” businesses in the downtown. At the moment, he said such businesses include the English Garden Flower Shop and Boulevard Fine Art. There are also several vacant parcels of land in downtown Clarendon Hills. A developer from Clarendon Hills, Mike Van Zandt, is planning to construct a three-story condominium on one of these parcels at the southeast corner of Prospect and Park Ave. The village board approved the plan in October 2013, but two residents filed a lawsuit alleging the board violated the village’s comprehensive plan in granting Van Zandt a special use permit to build his proposed design on the property. This case is still in litigation, and Ungerleider said a trial date is set for November.

Incoming village president Len Austin said he supports developing existing properties in the downtown area.

“I believe in making sure that we are able to develop the properties that we have in the interests of the vast majority of the people that are citizens,” Austin said. “I don’t believe that we’ll ever have anything built that absolutely every resident in the town agrees with. I think that’s just the way it is.”

STORMWATER ISSUES

One of the most significant challenges Clarendon Hills currently faces and will continue to face in the years to come is residential flooding.

Brown said flooding in Clarendon Hills was “way worse before,” remembering people canoeing at the intersection of Woodstock and Traube in the northwest corner of town on one occasion.

But much of the village’s current flooding issues stem from the aforementioned high quantity of redeveloped lots.

“I think what’s happened is, with these big houses taking up so much more of a map on the ground, that’s caused different flooding issues,” Brown said.

In an attempt to keep pace with the lot redevelopment that is anticipated to continue over the next two decades, the village board passed an ordinance requiring homeowners to provide onsite stormwater detention when making substantial property additions last November. This ordinance, which went into effect at the beginning of last

month, lowered the impervious surface threshold from 2,500 square feet down to 300.

“We’re not the only community going through [these issues],” Ungerleider said. “I think there’s a lesson being learned by certain communities like ours, where stormwater management isn’t a public-only responsibility. We don’t have enough public spaces to provide stormwater storage. So, the lesson that’s being learned right now is that the people have to provide some sort of stormwater management on their property.”

Other west suburban villages have looked into similar legislation, including the Village of Elmhurst, which passed a zero-threshold stormwater ordinance last summer.

The objective of the stormwater legislation is not necessarily to solve current flooding issues or to eliminate future problems altogether, but really to prevent the problem from growing as hundreds of lots are redeveloped in Clarendon Hills over the next few decades.

“I don’t think we’re ever going to solve the problem, but it’s one way to address it,” Ungerleider said.

PREPARING FOR GROWTH

As the village contemplates growing its downtown, it will also be exploring expanding to the south. Most of the area south of 55th Street between Ill. Rte. 83 and Western Ave. has long been considered unincorporated Clarendon Hills. Some parcels of land along Western Ave., as well as a smattering of other properties throughout this area have been incorporated, but the majority of properties remain unincorporated.

Later this year, Ungerleider said the village will embark on a program similar to the DTMP in attempt to form a “south-side plan,” through which the village hopes to develop a “vision” for the unincorporated properties.

“It will be a little more complicated [than the DTMP] in that it’s looking at stormwater, regular drinking water services, public safety services such as police and fire, and condition of other infrastructure such as streets,” he said.

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“consultant-driven,” as opposed to the volunteer-based DTMP process. He said it may be “challenging” to work with some area residents at first, because they have never previously dealt with the village.

“I think the greatest shock will be that we want to work with them,” Ungerleider said. “They’re probably going to be hesitant working with the village, because they’re not quite sure

what our agenda is. But I think that that will be part of the disclosure up front is that we don’t have an agenda; we just want to make sure that we’re equipped to serve them at some point.”

When finished, the south-side plan will form part of the village’s comprehensive plan. Ungerleider said he hopes to begin work on the project this fall or early winter.

He said over time, he expects the

village to incorporate the entire area; however, that may not be the outcome of the initial plan.

“I think it’s inevitable over time that those properties will become incorporated into the village, as they start needing services—water, fire, police and so on,” Ungerleider said. “At this time, I don’t see the village forcing it; but we certainly need to plan for it. Those properties aren’t going into another community; we surround that area.”

••• Besides its unique issues and challenges, like every municipality, the Village of Clarendon Hills will be confronting the public pension problem, as well as the possibility that the State of Illinois may begin to cut off some of its shared revenues to local municipalities.

Village president Len Austin said regardless of what the state ultimately decides to do, he does not expect the action to be beneficial to Clarendon Hills.

“It’s not going to be positive,” he said. “In a state that has the financial problems it has, it’s very obvious to me that they’re sending tentacles out to see what would be palatable for the villages to accept in terms of less money.”

At the end of the day, Brown and Austin said they are confident that the future of Clarendon Hills will be bright, provided the quality of schools stay at a high level to continue to attract the types of people that have long made the village the “volunteer community.”

“We can expect to see,” Austin said, “because of the outstanding schools that we have, the outstanding location that we have and the outstanding citizens that we have, we’ll continue to see a demand for new home construction.” n

This concludes Hinsdale Magazine’s three-part series on Clarendon Hills.

Stay tuned next month for the first installment of our final three-part series on Hinsdale.

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and even draft wine from highquality vineyards,” said Bottleneck Management CEO Chris Bisaillon, noting that draft wine has become a huge trend on the West Coast, because it allows wine to stay fresh longer.

That commitment to quality extends to the menu, where everything—right now, down to the salad dressing—is made entirely from scratch. From the bone-in pork chop to the Angus beef meatloaf, and the truffle mac and cheese to the duck confit nachos, the Pour House offers upscale pub food that’s appealing to foodies and sports enthusiasts alike. For the latter, there

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Amber. Wrought iron gates, beautiful greenery and a lighted canopy turn the streetside patio at Amber into a small outdoor oasis.

13 N. Cass Ave., Westmont, 630-515-8080, ambercafe.net Capri. With an adjacent covered patio that can be closed off to the elements, al fresco Italian dining can be enjoyed here, rain or shine.

324 Burr Ridge Pkwy. #1, Burr Ridge, 630-455-4003, capriristorante.com Gibson’s. What could be better than a martini and a steak on a beautiful patio complete with waterfalls and sleek, glass-covered fire pits? As it turns out, almost nothing.

2105 S. Spring Road, Oak Brook, 630954-0000, www.gibsonssteakhouse.com Redstone. The perfect place to meet friends for summer drinks and appetizers, Redstone’s outdoor patio is open to the restaurant and features a huge fireplace, making it possible to extend the outdoor dining season.

3 Lincoln Center, Oakbrook Terrace, 630-268-0313, www.redstonegrill.com Topaz. With its stone floor, canopied outdoor bar, draped-off dining areas and wicker lounge furniture, the exotic patio at the Serbian-owned Topaz is an enticing place to spend a warm summer night.

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WALK FOR WELLNESS

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ore than 2,100 runners and walkers from throughout the Western Suburbs clamored together on a Sunday morning to participate in the 15th annual Walk for Wellness House on May 3.

Altogether, participants and sponsors collaborated to raise more than $560,000 for the Hinsdale-based non-profit.

“This is about a community that somehow comes together spontaneously to support Wellness House each year,” said Bob Baum, executive vice president, general counsel and vice chairman of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, which served as the presenting sponsor for the walk and as a team, set an event fundraising record by raising more than $130,000.

The event consisted of a 5K run and 3K walk, the latter of which featured the vast majority of participants of all ages. Sponsor tents aligned the Wellness House campus at 131 N. County Line Road. Face-painting and crafts were available for children, while a “remembrance wall” was set up on the east end of the parking lot on which guests were encouraged to sign and address messages to their loved ones that have experienced cancer.

“Thank you for helping in the mission of the Wellness House, which is helping so many cope with cancer,” said John Paro, who serves as the chairman of the Wellness House Board of Directors.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Wellness House, a non-profit organization that provides nonmedical programs and services to cancer patients and their families free of charge.

Executive director Jeannie Cella said that without the support of the community, the organization could not serve those affected by cancer as effectively.

“This is a family; this is a community,” Cella said. “We couldn’t do what we do for those 2,600 people a year without all of you that make up the family of Wellness House.”

Cella said in conjunction with the 25th anniversary, the organization is looking to take programs “beyond the walls of Wellness House,” partnering with underserved communities that do not have access to the types of programs and services that Wellness House offers.

To learn more about Wellness House, visit www.wellnesshouse.org.

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An Oak Brook treasure is polished and ready for primetime again. Hinsdale Magazine offers a sneak peek of the incredible makeover.

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or folks of a certain era, it is without a doubt the most beloved institution in all of Oak Brook.

Forget that Prince Charles once stayed there while he was in town for a polo tournament.

Disregard the fact that Rock Hudson once hosted a very swanky ‘60s-era soirée here, that an Italian king was once an honored guest, or that all the golf greats—from Arnold Palmer to Jack Nicklaus—played and stayed here.

These are all points of pride, of course, but for those who have fond memories of The Drake Hotel Oak Brook, it’s all about personal experiences—weddings, brunches, baby showers, anniversary dinners and seminal life events that make this grand dame a place that’s steeped in the history of its residents.

Built as a suburban satellite to The Drake Hotel Chicago in 1962, the European-style Oak Brook hotel fell victim to both the Great Recession and a Ponzi scheme back in 2009. But after years of neglect, The Drake Oak Brook found its saviors in Elmhurst native Jim Nagle and his wife, Tely, who purchased the hotel in 2013. And like a faded film star, the hotel has made its triumphant return under the watchful eyes of a man whose childhood memories are deeply entwined with this warm and welcoming hotel.

It makes sense that Nagle’s first line of business was to preserve as much as he could of the hotel’s original attributes.

“There was beautiful woodwork throughout the hotel, but a lot of it was painted over, so we stripped every piece of wood on the property, from the [approximately 180] doors to the furniture,” Nagle said.

With the Chippendale chairs refinished and reupholstered, Nagle and his wife set their sights on repairing the Old World colonial wallpaper mural located in the Colonial Room, currently the hotel’s only restaurant. The wallpaper is not only a reflection of the aesthetics found at the downtown Drake, it is also the exact wallpaper that hangs in several rooms of the White House, commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy during her own historical restoration project. The couple brought in an artist to bring the mural back to life.

Of course, not everything was worth preserving; many of the hotel’s spaces had to be reworked and re-imagined. An exercise room and pool were removed to make way for the original restaurant that once occupied the space, this time with an adjacent courtyard.

“We have ten acres here,” Nagle said. “We wanted to take advantage of the land.”

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THE COLONIAL ROOM Old World wallpaper mural and original Chippendale chairs

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“The Drake Oak Brook is really the property that started the development of the Western Suburbs.”

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The old Tack Room bar (renamed the Lounge) had undergone several transformations over the years, shrinking with each one. The Nagles decided to expand the room to twice its size, but that meant putting in a new oak ceiling, floors, bar and additional oak columns.

“The challenge was matching the wood to the original,” Nagle said, “but now you really can’t tell what’s brand-new and what’s old.”

While the main building, which officially opened on April 7, has been completely refinished, rewired and replumbed, (including all of the guest rooms, which have been freshly wallpapered and carpeted,) the rear building is still undergoing renovations. When complete, it will house 45 one-bedroom guest suites with kitchens, living rooms and French doors out to the new pool area, along with a brand-new fitness center and spa.

With its spectacular views and easy access to the golf course across the street, Nagle is already booking weddings.

“For someone thinking of a destination wedding, it’s a lot like that here, except you also get the Drake brand,” he said.

And that, Nagle said, is the reason he purchased the once-crumbling hotel.

“When you think about it, we had Marshall Fields, Sears and The Drake Hotel,” he said. “Those are three of the greatest brands that Chicago has ever produced. And The Drake Oak Brook, which was part of the original Drake brand, is really the property that started the development of the Western Suburbs.”

For Nagle and his wife, who literally did all of the work themselves—from the closing to the financing, the contracting to the interior design—, this has been a labor of love.

“I remember my grandfather taking me here,” Nagle said.

“I grew up in a big Irish Catholic family, and we’d all come to a room downstairs to eat.”

Now featuring a beautiful adjoining terrace, the renamed Nagle Room will be on display during The Drake Oak Brook’s official “hard” opening later this month.

Nagle expects it will be an emotional event.

“The crest of our hotel, ‘Ubi Tempus Quietus,’ literally means ‘Where time rests,’ and that’s exactly what it means to a lot of people,” he said. “People come in here and start crying.”

From weddings to anniversaries, The Drake Oak Brook is a place that holds fond memories for many—a tradition Nagle hopes to continue. n 2301 York Road, Oak Brook, 630-571-0000, www.thedrakeresort.com

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H E A LT H & W E L L N E S S

RAISING AWARENESS COMMUNITY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

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preading the word about mental health and increasing awareness is a major goal of the Community Memorial Foundation (CMF), a private health conversion foundation that serves the Western Suburbs.

“With the community, we will transform our community to become the healthiest region in the country,” CMF president and CEO Greg DiDomenico said.

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This may sound like a lofty mission, but the Community Memorial Foundation has outlined three steps towards achieving its endeavor of making our communities the healthiest in the nation. First, the organization is committed to developing coordinated health care with citizens to provide them with access to quality healthcare services. Second, it is leading transformations in human health to promote community change. And finally, to have a healthy community, it is necessary to have healthy organizations; and the Community Memorial Foundation helps these organizations to become stronger and more sustainable. According to DiDomenico, “Leadership is key.”

To advance its goal, the CMF hosted the event “On the Table Discussion” on May 12 to generate conversations about mental health and its stigmas, barriers to treatment and suicide prevention.

Initiated by the Chicago Community Trust, community leaders from BMO Harris Bank, First Congregational Church of Western Springs and the Hinsdale Police Department attended the event. Focusing on good mental health, conversations centered on raising awareness about good mental health and wellness.

“We address it, because by listening to the community, first responders and educators, we hear that there is a growing need to improve mental health in our community,” DiDomenico said.

This focus on mental health was inspired by the 2012 tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. The CMF convened a mental health roundtable to discuss ways to improve mental health. One strategy was implementing a program by the National Council for Behavioral

Health known as Mental Health FirstAid. Like CPR training, this program is a certification training course. Not only business leaders are certified, but also residents in general, with the hope of increasing awareness about mental health in the community.

Currently, the CMF has trained 29 people, and their roles are to teach the community at-large.

“The goal for this program is to demystify the negativity surrounding mental health,” DiDomenico said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that one in four people has a mental illness at some point in their lives, such depression or anxiety. Although a quarter of people experiences illnesses, only one-third of those 25 percent seeks treatment.

To overcome the stigma and perceived discrimination that comes about with seeking mental health treatment, the CMF aims to bring awareness so that these stigmas are no more.

“We have seen our crisis intervention calls go up dramatically over the last ten years, and now average five to seven types [of] calls a week,” Hinsdale police chief Bradley Bloom said, adding that the calls are about well-being checks on neighbors.

“We actually enrolled one of our officers in a program sponsored by the Community Memorial Foundation that allowed him to educate people on mental health issues to raise awareness by identifying signs of mental illness.”

In order to address mental health with community youth, it is important to have resources in schools so that students feel that they have someone to talk to, in adddition to educating teachers and parents.

DiDomenico said the educational aspect of mental health is critical to raising awareness to parents, coaches, educators and neighbors.

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Hosted by the Hinsdale auxiliary of Children’s Home + Aid for the past six decades, the event is always held on the first Saturday in May in conjunction with the Kentucky Derby.

WLS Ch. 7 weekend morning anchor Ben Bradley, a Hinsdale resident, served as guest host for the 60th annual event.

Guests bid on a variety of silent and live auction items, ranging from accessories and necklaces to a signed Denis Savard hockey stick. The live auction consisted of several travel packages, including an Inspirato® choose-your-destination vacation, and a private jet to see the Breeders’ Cup in Louisville, Ky., this October.

Proceeds from the evening will support Children’s Home + Aid, a nonprofit organization that has been serving disadvantaged children and families in Illinois since 1883. Each year, the organization works to improve the lives of nearly 40,000 children and families in Illinois through foster care, adoption, clinical services and other programs.

“At the heart of Children’s Home + Aid is the notion that every child deserves a chance,” Derby Day chair Meg Berger said. ... “We believe that all children should grow up in an environment of love and stability, and should be helped to reach their full potential.”

To learn more about Children’s Home + Aid and the Hinsdale auxiliary, visit www.childrenshomeandaid.org.

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undreds of area residents selected from an assortment of affordable resale items at the Hinsdale Junior Woman’s Club’s (HJWC) second annual “Repeat Boutique” at Zion Lutheran Church in Hinsdale on April 24 and 25.

Club members spent months gathering thousands of clothing items, toys, housewares and more, before sorting them in the week leading up to the resale event.

“A lot of hours, a lot of time and a lot of happiness has gone into this,” event co-chair Jaclyn Cantore said.

Shoppers selected from baby clothes, children’s clothes, men’s and women’s apparel, books, toys, housewares and even carseats, all of which were priced between $1 and $5.

Repeat Boutique co-chairs said receiving items from friends of their fellow HJWC members helped to grow the event in year two.

The HJWC is a non-profit organization comprised of more than 200 members from Hinsdale and surrounding communities.

Every two years, the club selects an area charity as its beneficiary to support and work with closely. The HJWC is currently in the first year of a partnership with Bridge Communities, a Glen Ellyn-based non-profit organization that provides support to homeless families throughout DuPage County.

Proceeds from the Repeat Boutique will go towards the HJWC scholarship, awarded annually to a graduating senior at a local high school, as well as towards local charities the club does not work with as its beneficiary.

Co-chair Megan Mannor said the club is considering HCS Family Services and Easter Seals as two possible beneficiaries.

The HJWC will also donate a portion of its proceeds to Zion Lutheran Church, which provided the space for the boutique.

Cantore said the committee’s goal was to raise $10,000 through the event.

She said she thinks Repeat Boutique has “caught on” in the community, and will be an annual event that area residents look forward to in the years ahead.

For more information about the Hinsdale Junior Woman’s Club, visit www.hjwc.us.

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ather’s Day—a great time to think about the wonderful men who have helped shape our lives and, well, open a great bottle and turn on the barbecue.

This year for Father’s Day, I am sure to catch an early round of golf at Edgewood Valley Country Club, and then proceed home for a great afternoon on the deck with my family and some folks from the neighborhood.

Once the grill is on, I find it fun to start off with some grilled sausage—perhaps some Thuringer, Andouille or Knockwurst. During our city days, we used to run to Paulina Meat Market; these days, we’re lucky to have Casey’s Market in Western Springs, which has a great selection of sausage, meat, poultry and the like—very easy to load up for dad.

I simply grill and slice up the sausages. Since it is Father’s Day, I’m sure my kids will want to dress them up with a fun toothpick. I plan to enjoy a beer or open a great bottle of Syrah, named after a darkskinned grape that is grown all over the world. I tend to like the bright, robust Syrahs from California’s Russian River. Producers such as DuMOL, Nickel & Nickel and David Ramey all have excellent bottlings from the area. These Syrahs tend to show deep, dark fruit such as blackberries and cherries with undertones of coffee, chocolate and earth. They are typically pretty affordable, and deliver huge mouthfuls of flavor that can handle the spices of any sausage you have grilled up.

For the main course, we will grill up two-inchthick bone-in rib-eyes. The marbling on these cuts is fantastic, and the bone gives the steak an additional layer of flavor. We keep it simple: a brush with olive oil, a shake of salt and pepper, and onto a blazinghot grill they go.

Grill up some vegetables on the side—fresh zucchini, squash, asparagus and thinly-sliced carrots are fantastic right off the flame as well. Treat them the same way as the steaks—a little olive oil, salt and pepper—, and you are rolling. Give them that little char, and let the sugars caramelize.

To drink, out come the big Cabernets. Napa Valley is an easy choice, with wines from the Oakville

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appellation (one of 16 Napa Valley American viticultural areas) leading the charge. They are big, bold statement wines that have a refined style, which allows them to stand out from the other growing areas of Napa Valley.

The wineries are many, with players such as Opus One, Far Niente, Groth, Plumpjack, Nickel & Nickel, Ghost Block, Robert Mondavi, Peter Michael, Screaming Eagle, Bond Estates, Rudd and Bill Harlan’s new Promontory. Of course, there are many more physical wineries in the area, and a line of others that produce an Oakville bottling using purchased grapes, but you get the general idea. If you’re looking at wines from Oakville, you cannot help but find a wine you want to drink.

The flavor profiles vary from red fruit to dark, leather to tobacco, pencil lead to eucalyptus, but the full-flash, style and above all, substance of worldclass Napa Valley Cabernet can be found in these wines. These wines jump out of the glass and engage your senses—your nose senses wonderful fruit, your eyes focus on the deep red color, your mouth is coated with deep, rich, complex flavors that linger from sip to sip.

Get out the big stemware and perhaps a decanter, and open one up for dad. Although the current 2012 vintage that is available from most wineries right now is delicious, you might want to look for an older one to add a little something special to the day. Recent great Oakville vintages that should be drinking wonderfully by now might include 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007. Those old Cabernets age gracefully, with the hard tannins softening over time, the color beginning to take on a brick hue, and the fruit turning wonderfully soft and supple. Old vintages from great producers are always worth a look in my book.

The sun is starting to settle behind the houses now; it’s time to throw in dad’s favorite dessert to wrap it all up.

Jim Doehring of Hinsdale is a wine enthusiast with more than a decade of experience working in the wine industry.

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atch out! The latest gadget from Apple, called the Apple Watch, is quickly gaining popularity in the technology world. This edition of techKNOW reports on some of the features of the latest Apple device, along with a quick run-through of what to expect in the future.

Apple is offering the most basic edition of its Watch for about $349 in stores around late June. Pre-orders began last April, when the Watch was introduced to the general public.

It received both positive and negative critical reviews on some of its features. “Find My Watch” is a useful feature that will warn you if you leave your iPhone behind at the store or in your car while you walk away from it. If you end up losing your Watch completely, you will also have the security benefit of formatting the Watch to keep unwanted eyes from seeing your personal data. Another useful feature of this device will allow complete interaction with your Apple TV, similar to what many consumers use with their iPhone. You can control what you are watching—volume, picture libraries and more.

Some critics claim they would like to hold out for the next Watch, because almost all of the features of the new device are already practically being used on their iPhone. Many will wait for rumored new features like the heart-rate monitor. Once some government regulations are passed, the device will be able to warn you if it detects irregularity in your heart rate or body temperature, resulting in an early warning system for a heart attack or other health problems. The company also plans to add blood-pressure monitoring and sleep-tracking in the next update. A future generation of Apple Watches may also include blood sugar and glucose-tracking sensors for better diabetes management. Wouldn’t it be great to track your sleeping habits with the Apple Watch, and then share them with everyone on Facebook?

Like many of Apple’s first-generation devices, the Watch has probably had a rocky start. It could be considered one of Apples most successful failures. Although the device has become a very hot topic in technology, it may not reach the profound worldwide status that the iPod and iPhone have attained in the past.

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very day, you are being challenged. Bosses, teachers, parents, mentors, co-workers, coaches, family and competitors push you to excel. They say verbally, non-verbally and intuitively, “You can do better; you can go higher. You can win the batting title. You can shoot red numbers. You can grab more market share. You can overcome adversity. You can lose weight. You can do this.”

It’s time you challenge you. Take charge of your life. With the amazing power of free-will, there are few limits to your potential.—Are you ready to manage you?

TAKE THE “OPTIMIST” CHALLENGE Can you be positive in all that you do for one entire day?

Zero negatives—not one. Can you stretch this “most positive” day into one week? This will take perseverance. Can you be the “world’s most optimistic person” during this timeframe?

This is a major challenge for the majority of people. And can you be extremely optimistic while thinking about your visions and dreams?

The main issues begin with the commitment to be extremely positive. Do you believe you can do this? Do you expect to be successful?—Commit.

Once committed to extreme positivity, then it becomes about how you react to various circumstances, situations and conditions. Yes, your optimism will be challenged. Have you surrounded yourself with negative people? Do you work in challenging conditions? Commit to the goal that negative people will have zero negative impact on you. Strive to flip undesirable negative people into positive people. If this challenge is too tough (and it might be), avoid these people, if possible. Be unflappable.

MOM WAS RIGHT—SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSITIVE PEOPLE Are you performing in a sea of variables? There are many jobs that have ever-changing conditions and circumstances.

Working outdoors presents this challenge. You must be the constant. Avoid buying into the inevitable negatives. “It is so cold—I hate this weather,” a co-worker laments. “The market is so unpredictable—it’s ridiculous,” screams a team member.

Adjust and adapt.

How’s your inner dialogue? Do you speak to yourself in a positive or negative way? Others cannot hear your inner thoughts; however, these thoughts do have influence.

As your mental vibe transmits negatives, a vicious cycle

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begins. Negatives spread negatives. More importantly, your subconscious mind will be the one taking a beating based on how you talk to you. Your inner dialogue will be challenged with potential victim and judgment thoughts and actions.

How you speak to you is paramount for your success. It is normal to judge others; we have grown up in a judgmental society; however, this mindset will attract more negatives.

Think about what you think about; be aware.

Finally, how you start and eventually end your day will frame an optimistic day or a day that could easily be forgotten.

Waking up in a positive mindset depends on your thoughts just before sleep the night before. The first 90-seconds of the day sets the tone. Frame your day with positives.

Regardless of the challenge, solutions rule the optimist’s day. Gather the facts (avoid assumptions), and be decisive.

See win-win scenarios where possible, while you seek your best interests.

Avoid the past, unless it’s to evaluate, learn or reminisce (in a fun, happy way) with an old friend. Once your visions and goals are in place, staying in the moment is your quest.

Commit to being positive, confident and extremely optimistic, no matter what happens. Only go into the future with a positive mindset for planning, strategy and tactics. Living in the moment is this week’s objective.

Set your cell phone alarm for 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. These are your optimism reminders. Stay positive no matter what happens. The negative ambush occurs without warning. Prepare and beware. How many days in a row can you play this important optimistic role? I’m optimistic that you will prevail!

Bring your vision and dreams to the forefront over these next seven days. Let them tuck you in at night and wake you up in the morning. Now commit to staying positive while thinking about your future quests for the next 24 hours, and then stretch this 24-hour period for one entire week.

Are you ready?—Take the “optimist” challenge!

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 thought-management program, go to 90secondrule.com, or visit jimfannin.com.

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SPIRITUAL INSIGHT

Dan Meyer

The saltwater diet

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

I want to talk about a topic that’s not easy to discuss, and that may make me sound like the “prude police.” I’m going to risk it and hope you’ll come back next month anyway.

NOT NEWS: SEX SELLS

You’d have to have been living in Amish Country to have missed how much more frequently media of every kind is aimed these days at firing up our libidos. It’s not our imagination that we are seeing a lot more flesh, hearing a lot more raunchy music, and encountering a lot more invitations to stray than ever before. It’s not just that you’re getting older.—The world has changed.

Back in the 1970s, for example, Americans spent approximately $10 million annually on pornography. It was regarded as something of a national scandal then.

Today, however, we’re shelling out over $10 billion a year—a thousand-fold increase (1).

Pornographic Web sites now comprise 12 percent of the Internet. Twenty-five percent of all search engine requests on the Internet are for porn; 70 percent of men aged 18 to 34 visit a porn site in a typical month; and 90 percent of children ages eight to 16 have viewed porn (2). The largest consumers of pornography are 12- to 17-year-old boys, and females are catching up; one in six women now consumes porn (3). Yes, “Mr. Gray will see you now.”

WHAT’S WRONG WITH A LITTLE LUST?

So, what’s the big deal about all of us? How bad can it be if you do a little leering and imagineering, so long as you don’t actually stray outside the bounds of your private world or marriage? Can’t there be some compassion here for those whose raging hormones or loneliness or sheer boredom drive them to a porn site?

Fair questions all. So, let me toss out some thoughts, and see where they lead you.

Here’s my take on why getting comfortable with our growing “lust culture” might be tantalizing, but not doing any of us much of a favor.

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First of all, while physical passion can be the wonderful icing on real intimacy, lust is actually the opposite of love. Love is about what I can give to another, while lust is about what I can get from the other. Love sees others as subjects to be cherished; lust sees others as objects to be used. Love seeks commitment and consistency—it wants to continue the connection; lust feeds on novelty and variety—it wants to keep moving on. Love labors to protect the vulnerable; lust tends to exploit the vulnerable. Love moves us toward community; lust drives us into deeper solitude. Love is about communing; lust is about consuming. Which of those two passions produces better people and societies?

Secondly, while many of us wish it weren’t so, lust-focused media clearly is increasing early sexual engagement. To cite just one piece of mounting evidence, a study published in The Journal of Pediatrics followed the lives of 1,461 twelve- to 17year olds, most of whom were not sexually active at the onset of the study. Three years later, many of these kids had found their way into sexual “hook-ups.” The surprise finding of the study was that 51 percent of those teens who regularly listened to music with sexually-explicit lyrics were now having sex, as compared to just 29 percent of those who weren’t consistently exposed to these kinds of musical themes. Natasha Ramsey, editor of a Rutgers University Web site on teenage sexual health, says, “Teens will try to deny it; they’ll say: ‘No, it’s not the music.’ But it is the music! It has one of the biggest impacts on our lives,” (4).

Thirdly, a culture of lust hampers people for real-life relationships. In a recent CNN Special Report, world-renowned psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo expressed his worry that the excessive use of video games and online porn “is creating a generation of risk-averse guys who are unable (and unwilling) to navigate the complexities and risks inherent to real-life

relationships, school and employment.”

Zimbardo fears that young men in particular “are being digitally re-wired in a totally new way that demands constant stimulation,” (5). Lost in their virtual worlds, they are becoming less capable than previous generations of relating confidently or compassionately to flesh-and-blood women.

We know fourthly that this kind of dependence on virtual sexuality has severe implications in the home. Unbridled lust can severely hurt families. According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, some 56 percent of divorce cases today involve “one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic Web sites,” and not being able to break free from it even in cases where both husband and wife agreed that the lust addiction amounted to a form of adultery. Clinical psychologist Patrick Fagan observes, “The fact that marriage rates are dropping steadily is well-known.

But the impact of pornography use and its correlation to fractured families has been little discussed. The data show that as pornography sales increase, the marriage rate drops. ... [Pornography] corrodes the conscience, promotes distrust between husbands and wives, and debases untold thousands of young women. ... [It] is ‘a quiet family killer,’ ” (6).

THIRSTY PEOPLE

Do you know what is particularly ironic about all of this? With all of the money, imagination and energy that is directed at cranking up our libidos, lust does not ultimately satisfy.

In an article in Men’s Health magazine, Greg Gutfeld said, “What makes sex online far more compelling than any shrinkwrapped smut [is] instant gratification in endless variety. ... You never get to the end of the magazine and have to start looking at the same pictures again. With old porn, once you view it, you’ve consumed it. You’ve chewed the flavor out of the gum. This can’t be done on the [Internet]. The gum never runs out of flavor. A new piece of flesh waits behind every old one, and expectation bids you to go further. Much further. Because as long as there’s more to come, you’ll keep coming. No stimulus like this ever existed before,” (7).

No generation before us ever had to battle what the ancients called “the deadly sin of lust” at the level we have to now.

This seductive stuff is dazzling, private and available on-demand and everywhere.

The problem with lust is that it is an insidious substitute for what we really need. As author Frederick Buechner once

noted, “Lust is the craving for salt of a person dying of thirst,” (8). Think about that. What we are all thirsty for is real love and real meaning in life. And that refreshing stuff is available for those who seek. Talk to a pastor, counselor or trusted friend about this; discuss this topic with your teenage kids; check out a slightly deeper dive into this topic and its remedies by going to www.cc-ob.tv/pdf/ EveryMansBattle.pdf.

God wants to see us enjoying the kind of living water that refreshes our soul, but we need to take steps to get off the “saltwater diet.”

Dr. Dan Meyer is the senior pastor at Christ Church of Oak Brook.

Charles Colson, BreakPoint, February 19, 2001.; http://marshill.com/2012/03/05/stats-on-porn; 3E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey [Darker, Freed], New York Times, June 17, 2012; 4Sunil Vyas, “Raunchy Lyrics Trigger Earlier Onset of Sexual Activity Among Teens,” earthtimes.org, August 7, 2006.; 5 Philip Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan “The Demise of Guys,” Special to CNN, May 24, 2012.; 6Nathan Black, “Family Group Releases Study on Effects of Pornography,” www.christianpost.com, December 2, 2009.; 7Greg Gutfield, The Sex Drive, Mens Health (October 1999), pp.119-120.; 8Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC, 1973.

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COMMUNITY SCENE

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IN SUPPORT OF THE NEW ADVENTIST CANCER INSTITUTE AND OUTPATIENT CENTER

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[1] Kim Glowniak, Annemarie Hayes and Melanie Morrissey; [2] Theresa Piszczor and Jaclyn Cantore; [3] Event coordinator Lisa Hutcherson; [4] Nicki Hutter, Liz Tomich, Katie Hwan and Kelly Lim; [5] Roxy Goebel, Annemarie Hayes and Kristina Taheri; [6] Kirsten Douglass and Mistie Lucht

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ore than 200 ladies from throughout the Western Suburbs joined in support of the new Adventist Cancer Institute and Outpatient Center at the third annual “Rev It Up” fashion show at Continental AutoSports in Hinsdale on April 30.

Ladies browsed items on display at booths set up by local vendors such as J. McLaughlin as they enjoyed appetizers and cocktails. They were then treated to a fashion show, which featured a number of models who showed off some of the latest spring fashions and trends from Neiman Marcus at Oakbrook Center and Hollis in downtown Hinsdale, among other stores and designers.

Rev It Up is the brainchild of Hinsdale resident Lisa Hutcherson, vice chair of the Hinsdale Hospital Foundation board and a former model

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herself. The event was previously held in October in conjunction with breast cancer awareness month, but Hutcherson said she decided to move it to April this year and incorporate spring fashions.

All proceeds from the event will go to support the Adventist Cancer Institute currently under construction across the street from the Continental dealership on Ogden Ave. Hutcherson said she and her fellow foundation board members were appreciative of those who turned out for the fashion show.

“We were overwhelmed, grateful, surprised, but just so thankful,” she said. “I think it’s a real testament to the need and the awareness that we need this cancer center, and I think people came out to support it knowing how important it is to Hinsdale and all of our neighbors.”

The cancer institute is slated to be a full-service center for individuals suffering from cancer. At this facility, patients will be able to have all of their needs addressed in one location, as opposed to having various tasks like doctor appointments, lab work and radiation and chemotherapy treatments spread across different facilities.

“It is world-class healthcare right in our own backyard,” Hutcherson said.

“People need to realize how lucky we are in Hinsdale to have this cancer center and our amazingly talented doctors and our new affiliation with some other cancer institutes. The technology alone that is going into this building—there’s nothing better. ... It’s going to save lives.”

Hutcherson said hard-hat tours of the institute are scheduled to begin this month. It is scheduled to open in January 2016.

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