Country Magazine, August 2021 by JWC Media

BARRINGTON GIVING DAY’S BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT

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BARRINGTON STYLE & SUBSTANCE

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CONTENTS AUGUST 2021

FEATURES

The Stripes That 34 Teach Us In her debut children’s book, Zippy’s Special Gift, Lake Barrington’s Therese Van Ryne conveys the important lessons of inclusion and embracing diversity through the eyes of a lovable zebra.

Ace of Art 38 Barrington painter Matt Gabler continues to deal as an abstract expressionist.

DEPARTMENTS EDITOR’S NOTE 18 UP FRONT THE BUZZ TRENDING LIVING & GIVING COUNTRY VS TOWN BEAUTY FASHION

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FOOD & TRAVEL 45 RECIPE 46 FIRST CLASS 48 HOUSE & HOME 53 LUXURY OFFERINGS 54 HOME STYLE 62 ONE LAST THING 66

ON THE COVER Country vs. Town’s Sarah Kutka wearing a Ted Baker yellow gold silk dress, bloomingdales.com ON THIS PAGE Photo Caption: Colorful creations by Rianna + Nina, riannaandnina.com.

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he languid summer days and nights are slowly coming to a close, however, I for one plan to soak up every last drop of the season’s warmth and laid-back vibe. As the weeks of August slowly tick by, I’ll be doing my best to embrace the mantra of Country vs. Town’s Sarah Kutka: “Live life in the moment because everything else is uncertain.” The meaningful work of Barrington Giving Day’s Back to School event is a story sure to inspire you as they tirelessly work to ensure all children in our community are ready to return to school this year. And take a look at the launch party of Lyon’s Way, a new initiative from the Lyon Family Foundation in our Living & Giving section. Moving to our feature stories, in Ace of Art, Barrington’s Matt Gabler dives into the abstract art he creates and his deployment of unique mediums—including fire—to convey emotions through his works. The art

is stunning in its beauty and serves as an escape for people of all ages. Lake Barrington’s Therese Van Ryne used the extra time during the COVID-19 lockdown to pen her first book. The head of global public relations, thought leadership, and advocacy for Zebra Technologies wrote children’s story, Zippy’s Special Gift—read all about it in her story. In these pages find the fashion-forward must-have items for rounding out summer looks and savoring every last moment of warmth, including the perfect picnic recipe to take with you on the boat, to the sand, or right outside your door. Begin to plan a trip to the storied shores of Nantucket Island, off Massachusett’s coast, with our travel feature by Lilly Wehman. And I hope you enjoy this month’s Luxury Offerings with beautiful properties in Miami, Palm Beach, and right here in Barrington.

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A true Southern belle, Sarah Kutka grew up in Murray, Kentucky before finding her way to Barrington. After graduating from Murray State University, Kutka moved to Chicago and is now a working mother living with her husband and three children (Bella, Jack, and Hollis), along with the family’s Maltese, Sugar. Kutka’s children are very involved in dance, tumbling, baseball, football, and soccer—which keeps her on the move. An active member of the Barrington Junior Women’s Club, Kutka enjoys running outside to stay fit during the warmer months of the year. EDITED BY MEGAN WEISBERG PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID ANTHONY STYLED BY THERESA DEMARIA/HAIR AND MAKEUP BY LEANNA ERNEST OF DISTINCT ARTISTS

Mantra? Live life in the moment because everything else is uncertain B e s t g room in g tip? Always moisturize and take care of your skin. My grandmother had a skin care routine every morning and night and she always looked beautiful Guilty pleasure? Haagen-Dazs coffee ice cream Favorite foods? There are so many different foods that I love. Being from the South I enjoy a lot of Southern comfort food such as Southern style green beans or collard green dishes. Every time I go back to my home state of Kentucky or somewhere in the South, I am blown away by how fantastic the food is Music you love? I honestly have a variety of music I like; I grew up with music always being around me. My dad loved to play guitar and sing. My mom always had a radio, MTV, VH1, or CMT on when I was growing up. I love everything from classic

rock, alternative, 80s and 90s country, gospel to classical piano. My husband thinks it’s funny how I will immediately know a song, artist, and year of release Best advice ever given to you? Always stay motivated and focus on the goals you set Best advice you’ve given? Make sure to be yourself and don’t always try to please others Earliest memory? My grandparents taking me fishing on Kentucky Lake when I was 3 years old. I remember my grandmother packing a lunch for us and riding in my grandfather’s little boat. They let me bait the hook and help me catch a baby fish. When you wake up, you? Look at my calendar to see what the agenda is for the day Before bed, you? Do my nightly skin care routine and maybe watch some mindless TV to wind down What’s on your bookshelf? Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd, Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon. I love reading autobiographies You can’t live without? My family of course, and mascara Love to escape to? Charleston, South Carolina. I fell in love with the atmosphere of this charming city Advice you would give to your younger self? Don’t worry so much about the future. God will lead you to exactly to where you need to be

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and team-based culture. But in f you ask Therese Van her first book, Zippy’s Special Gift, Ryne, the head of Zippy is the protagonist in a tale global public relations, in which the young zebra realizes thought leadership, everyone has something unique and advocacy for to offer. Zebra Technologies, to “Zippy the Zebra doesn’t like describe her last year her stripes. She doesn’t want to in one word—“gratestand out,” says Van Ryne. “In ful” comes to mind. this rhyme-based book, readers Van Ryne, a newly elected follow Zippy as she embarks trustee for her current home Lake upon a thrilling adventure with Barrington, had always thought her animal friends that helps her she might one day write a book, realize everyone is perfect just but the demands of being a the way they are. My hope is that married mother of three with a this story will inspire people of all storied career kept that dream at ages to see the good in others and bay. Until one rainy afternoon in instill a sense of belonging.” April 2020, she found herself with Zippy’s Special Gift by Therese Van Ryne Van Ryne notes that even when a wide-open afternoon. she reads her book today, she’s “This kind of free time was rare reminded of how important it is to prior to the pandemic,” says Van teach our children well, so that when the time comes for them to fly, Ryne. “But here I was, with an idea for a children’s story, featuring they can—and will. Zebra’s company mascot ‘Zippy’ as my main character. I wrote the As if these important messages weren’t enough, Zebra Technolwhole book that afternoon.” ogies is donating all proceeds from the sale of Zippy’s Special Gift In her role with Zebra Technologies—a global technology comto Bernie’s Book Bank, an organization dedicated to getting more pany that brings a performance edge to the front line of business— books into the hands of local under-served children. Van Ryne has shared many stories of the company’s innovations

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“Bernie’s Book Bank has been a strategic charitable partner of Zebra Technologies long before this book came to life,” she says. “Through the advocacy side of my role at Zebra, I lead our global philanthropy and volunteer program through which we contribute time, treasure, and talent in our local communities. I had the great fortune of participating in a book distribution at a local elementary school with Bernie’s Book Bank prior to the pandemic, and I can honestly say it was one of the best days of my life. To see the excitement in the children’s faces when they opened their bright green bags and looked at their new books is something I’ll never forget.” A leading provider of quality books to under-served children in the Chicago area, Bernie’s Book Bank sources, processes, and distributes quality new and gently used children’s books to significantly increase book ownership. “Before the pandemic, we had meetings on site in the organization’s Lake Bluff facility,” Van Ryne explains. “We even hosted a global town hall that many of our employees based in our Lincolnshire headquarters attended in person while our other 8,000 employees located around the world enjoyed it virtually.” As part of Zebra’s support of Bernie’s Book Bank, the company has donated its latest scanning technology to help increase the efficiency of its book sorting and distribution. This operational improvement is the same impact Zebra is making with its customers globally. “Watching how we work with Bernie’s Book Bank made me really think about the word ‘partner,’ and the relationships we build through our outreach,” she says. “What can happen as a result is so powerful.” And so is selling more than 2,000 books, which at press time is exactly what Van Ryne has done. Zebra agreed to match this number as a donation to Bernie’s Book Bank, in addition to the proceeds raised. Van Ryne was also a guest author at the Storybook Festival Bernie’s hosted in May where she read her book aloud. “This whole process has been so amazing—from working with the editors and illustrator and Mascot Publishing to doing a 28-stop virtual book tour,” she adds. “And I’m so grateful to the leadership of Zebra Technologies for encouraging me to express my creativity and showcase our company’s culture in this way. It’s not unique for us to be this creative. The values that Zippy espouses in this book are the very same values we live every day when we engage with our customers and partners and serve our communities.” With the success of Zippy’s Special Gift, there is an audible clamor for a sequel. “There has been so much support for this project—both from Zebra and my family,” Van Ryne says. “Zippy has so many great stories to share. It’s a definite possibility.” Zippy’s Special Gift can be purchased on Amazon and through other online retailers.

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ll it took for Barrington artist Matt Gabler to return to painting was the itch one day to alter one of his old pieces, the one he created at age 17. The best way to describe the hand painting? “A green blob,” Gabler, now 23, says. Gabler had taken a break from art, in part because he was too hard on himself and thought his work was south of substandard. The green blob stared at him. Gabler colored in spots using blue and yellow hues and surrounded the painting with red paint. He then stepped back and assessed the multicolored creation. “It looked like a woman consoling a man,” recalls Gabler, who attended Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox and Lockport Township High School before taking business and accounting classes at Harper College in Palatine. “It made me cry. That’s when I realized, ‘Okay, I can do this.’ So I kept painting.” Gabler’s decision to hibernate his easel and art tools for more than a winter puzzled his mother, Sheila, other loved ones, and friends. “We all wondered why,” says Sheila, whose late father, funeral home owner Matt Lamb (of Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn), also owned eight art studios worldwide and was a gifted painter himself. “I love my son’s work. It resembles, in many ways,

my father’s paintings. Many of my son’s paintings feature hidden faces—faces you notice only after turning the painting upside down. My favorite painting is the one that started as a boat; Matt turned that into a group of people at a table.” “Whatever he puts on canvas,” she adds, “is meaningful. It still surprises me what goes from his head to what appears on canvas. I’m thrilled that he’s doing what he loves, and that he came back in full force as an artist.” Gabler’s art genre is abstract expressionism. Sadness, happiness, grief, hope … pick an emotion, any emotion. Gabler has likely depicted it on a canvas. And he doesn’t limit forming each emotion to a paintbrush. Gabler has used a knife to splatter paint. He has set more than one piece of artwork on fire. Yes, fire. But the flames didn’t destroy the pieces. They enlivened them. “I attack my paintings, and, like my grandfather, I want people to touch them and feel their layers,” says Gabler, who was inspired by one of Grandpa’s floral abstracts, in which the flower in the painting appears to be melting. “Sometimes stabbing a canvas is better than painting one. I’ve used water as well, to create puddles, to show a dreamlike quality.” JWC | COUNTRY 39

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Sheila fully understands her son’s unique style. Think of a runaway train. Matt Gabler, the artist, has a similar unstoppable energy. “Matt beats up his paintings, because life sometimes beats all of us up, right?” Sheila says. “People gravitate to parts of Matt’s paintings and pull out what they need. Matt has a gift for reaching people through ways other than words. His art is healing.” His art also doubles as an escape for people of all ages in a pandemic-weary world. Notes a private collector on Gabler’s website, (gabler.work), “The paintings add a sort of youthful feel to our collection in a world that is so rigid and uptight.” In late spring Gabler planned to submit his artwork for consideration at summer and fall exhibitions and in competitions. But not before relying on his trusty panel of local “judges,” namely family

members, friends, and his girlfriend of nearly two years, Olivia. “They’re all great because they’re completely honest with me whenever I ask them what they think of my paintings,” says Gabler, whose stepfather, Michael, owns Michael Miller & Co., a jeweler in Barrington. “I’m close with my stepdad. He’s always backed me, and he continues to tell me, ‘Never sell

yourself short. Keep pushing.’” “My paintings astonish him. There used to be paintings of landscapes all around the house. Now there are about 25-30 of mine, abstracts, with colors exploding in most of them.” The artist is a philanthropist, too, having donated art proceeds to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Gateway for Cancer Research Foundation. Matt’s father, Joe, died of brain cancer five years ago. “My son is a self-starter,” Sheila says. “You never have to tell him to do anything. He sets high standards for himself and meets them. He’s made mission statements for himself. Matt knows where he wants to be five years from now and 10 years from now.” For more information, visit galber.work.

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Think about the ways we select a dentist. Some will ask a friend or neighbor. Others will go online and check reviews. Some will even respond to advertising that comes in the mail. But even with all of these methods, we cannot be sure how good their work is. This is where accreditation comes in. Imagine that your dentist’s work could be evaluated by the top dentists in the world. They would have to submit their work for evaluation and it would have to pass the highest of quality standards. The American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) has a program that performs this exact type of screening. For 35 years, the AACD has offered this credentialing program.

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ALECIA FIGHTS TWO BATTLES Changing the Illinois Health Code

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fter completing her youngest daughter’s junior year college move-in last summer, 53-year old Hawthorn Woods resident Alecia Mandal was hit with a wave of fatigue that felt nearly impossible to rebound from. Mandal, a wife to oncologist Rob Mandal and mother of three (Sophie, 25, Nick, 24 and Lauren, 21) decided to go in for some blood work just to be safe. On August 27, 2020 Alecia was diagnosed with colon cancer. “I was in complete shock because I had zero symptoms,” says Mandal, an oncology nurse 25 years ago. She places a huge emphasis on being a self-advocate, acting with perseverance and listening to one’s body when it came to her diagnosis. Soon after, Mandal connected with her doctor Sheetal M. Kircher from Northwestern Medicine to create a treatment plan. “I must first attribute my faith. I got the right doctor and incredible people working in my corner,” said Mandal. Mandal also attributes immunotherapy to saving her life. Due to the aggressive degree of her cancer and her PPO Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance, she qualified for biomarker testing. This type of genetic testing is crucial when creating a personalized treatment plan and unfortunately is only offered to certain people who qualify with insurance. The biomarker testing opened the door to immunotherapy, which has allowed for Mandal to live a higher quality of life. Immunotherapy is different from chemotherapy as it works within your immune system to fight off the cancer, is less time consuming

and has fewer debilitating side effects. “Looking at me, you would never know I have cancer,” says Mandal, who can be found playing tennis, riding the Peloton, and going for walks. Mandal believes it is her God-given vocation to have a voice for those who do not. While she was fortunate enough to qualify for biomarker testing, she realized how many people in her shoes may not be afforded the same type of care because of their insurance plans. In the spring of 2021, Mandal and her doctor were approached by government affiliate Shana Crews, asking if they would like to testify on the basis of the Illinois insurance code. On March 25, Mandal told her story via Zoom and the Illinois House Bill 1779 unanimously passed the house and later the Senate. The law, which is still waiting to be passed by Governor Pritzker, essentially says that health insurance amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022 should include coverage for biomarker testing. “That’s one fantastic thing that has come out of me getting diagnosed with cancer,” Mandal said, “That I’m hopefully helping out somebody.” Biomarker testing should be used as a first line in treatment for cancers, and in order for that to successfully happen, everyone needs to be offered equal opportunity. No matter one’s insurance status, if there is a better fitting treatment plan out there it should be available. “I think it is my passion to have a voice for those who don’t.”

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