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lthough state statistics report a significant drop in drivers arrested under the influence of alcohol or drugs, the crime is as prevalent as ever on the North Shore -- and is generating significant attention.

The death on Labor Day of a five-yearold Highland Park girl -- and the charge of aggravated driving under the influence of an intoxicating compound against the 18-yearold Highland Park driver who hit her in daylight – is the most eye-opening. A few days later, Winnetka Village Trustee Jennifer Spinney was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. The evening news this summer featured several reports of wrong-way drivers on local roads.

Despite the rise of designated drivers and decades of publicity lambasting drunk driving in particular, thousands of North Shore residents still hit the roads every night matching or exceeding the legal limit of .08 blood-alcohol concentration – or they are impaired in other ways. In Winnetka, 25 people were arrested for DUI in 2011; that number had already been exceeded by Oct. 1 this year. While Highland Park Police tallied 128 DUI arrests in 2011, they nearly matched that number in the first eight months of 2012. Glencoe is easily on pace to exceed the number of 2011 arrests, while Lake Forest’s rate this year is about the same as 2011.

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7 Surviving and thriving

Women on the North Shore who have been diagnosed with breast cancer stay optimistic.

10 Text mess

Conversation is fighting a losing battle in the texting world of teens.

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10 Book it

As the Highland Park Library launches its 125th anniversary celebration, we chat with marketing specialist Beth Keller.

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LIFESTYLE & ARTS 15 Play review

26 North Shore Offerings

Take a look at a number of intriguing houses in our towns.

30 Open House

A large list complete with a map of where to find your next home this weekend.

Praise for “Hamlet,” which is being performed at Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe.

OPINION

18 Love & Marriage

After nine years of marriage, should we still give anniversary gifts?

32 Facing off

Two columnists on either side of the political spectrum offer their opinions

19 Sunday Breakfast

Lake Bluff’s John Bryan, former Sara Lee CEO who raised $250 million for Millennium Park, enjoys the quiet yet busy life at Crab Tree Farm.

20 The joys of bridge

Our writer hopes she can play bridge as long as her grandmother, who enjoyed the game until age 102.

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BUSINESS 33 Thriving boutiques

Saks in Highland Park is poised to close its doors, but boutiques on the North Shore are doing well.

34 Main Street

A look at a tough yet caring Lake Forest Graduate School of Management teacher.

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espite my admiration for the democratic process and the right to vote, I think elections are strange spectacles. Consider: Every few years, people who are proud of their manicured lawns fill them with signs, whose promotion of certain politicians can anger neighbors. Whole swaths of public land on the North Shore are filled with dozens of competing placards, many of which stay up well after all the races have been settled.

Men and women running for office representing both parties, from Congressman Bob Dold to Congresswoman Jan Schakowksy, are no doubt committed to their beliefs and eager to serve, which is admirable. But to watch politicians go door-to-door pandering for votes is a little disconcerting. Homeowners would turn away a lawn-care solicitor without regret, but they’re supposed to welcome a county board clerk candidate into their living room for a chat on paperwork reduction?

Of course, on the national level, the heated race for President of the United States has already engendered some humorous, if odd, moments, such as a discussion with an empty chair and the first use of “malarkey” in public discourse probably since the Grover Cleveland administration.

It all sends me back to my first foray into politics, when I served as an intern in the U.S. Congress for a well-known representative who had run for President. Only 18, I had high expectations. I’m not saying I expected to sit in on meetings and offer my impressions on trade policy, but I did hope to have a personal chat with the Congressman on why he entered politics, what he enjoyed about it and the like.

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During the month-long internship, I met him once during lunch in his office with the staff. He told jokes that were far beyond inappropriate, and his staffers howled at each one and went so far to write them down and make copies of them for myself and the other interns. A case of beer was brought in, and the Congressman drank three before heading out to, I assume, cast a few early-afternoon votes. My incipient political career ended shortly thereafter.

Despite all this, we all agree democracy is the best form of government invented. And a newspaper should do its part to foster discourse. This week we debut an Opinion page, where we hope to run interesting columns on both sides of the political spectrum in a feature called Facing Off. Most likely you will nod your head in agreement with one column, and the other will make your blood boil.

Also this week, a new column called Love & Marriage begins in the Lifestyle & Arts section. It should offer great insight into relationship questions of the day. No need to tackle politics there: As we all know, if a married couple holds opposite political beliefs, they are better off talking about anything else – even if it’s malarkey.

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7 north shore women embrace optimism, thrive after chilling breast cancer diagnosis ■ by

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Cara Novy-Bennewitz picked the perfect time to face one of her fears three years ago.

It was Snowflake Week at Old Orchard Junior High School in Skokie. Snowflake is an annual program designed to keep healthy kids healthy. The program’s theme in 2009: “Face Your Fears.”

Novy-Bennewitz, a Wilmette resident who’s a physical education teacher at the school, faced more than 200 seventh- and eighth-grade students at Snowflake’s wrapup session in Old Orchard’s gym.

The floor was hers.

“All of the kids were sitting in the bleachers, and as I looked around I told them I was just like them in a way, that I too was afraid of not fitting in,” recalls Novy-Bennewitz, now 49.

She spoke some more, before bowing in front of all those eyes and reaching for the back of her neck with her right hand.

Off came her wig.

Only a handful of people in the gym had known she’d been wearing a wig. Novy-Bennewitz returned to an upright position, smiling and revealing a short-cropped hairstyle that would have looked perfectly normal in a boot camp.

The students in the bleachers, meanwhile, were no longer sitting. They all were standing, cheering and stomping for a woman who had stared at a diagnosis of breast cancer a year earlier and conquered it.

Jolan Silcroft, also a PE teacher at the school, witnessed the moment.

“Cara had told me, earlier that day, what she was planning to do,” Silcroft says. “She had also removed the wig for me in a locker room. When she took it off, in front of all those kids, the gym turned loud, crazy-loud.

“While they were showing her so much support and so much love, I was bawling.”

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. There are 15 types of breast cancer, and nearly 250,000 women (and 2,200 men) in the United States were diagnosed with forms of invasive breast cancer last year.

But so many of the survivors, like Novy-Bennewitz, are thriving daily, inspiring family and friends and speaking candidly and enthusiastically about their lives since hearing three sobering words: “You have cancer.”

Novy-Bennewitz, also a personal trainer, was home alone when she received her diagnosis during a phone call.

“After I hung up I was too shocked to cry,” she says.

But the eternal optimist in Novy-Bennewitz allowed her to look forward to her tomorrows.

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overall and Cook County District 2 overall (which includes Glencoe, Wilmette and Winnetka along with many other Cook County towns such as Glenview) saw significant drops in DUI arrests from 2008-2010 of between 5 percent and 10 percent, the latest numbers available. During this same period, DUI arrests in Illinois overall fell from 48, 113 to 41,900. This year, Wilmette is the only North Shore town showing a percentage drop in DUI arrests from 2011 based on the first nine months of records.

What few North Shore drivers realize is the enormous cost in time, money and reputation they will suffer if pulled over by the police and arrested.

In Illinois, the average cost of a DUI – including fines, court charges, legal fees and insurance hikes – is more than $16,000. But lawyers say costs are but a small part of what adults face when charged.

“The other part is the inconvenience factor,” said Chicago attorney Charlie Beach, who’s been defending North Shore clients since 1996 and is a spokesman for the Chicago Bar Association. “Yes, it’s a lot of money, but there’s also time you spend dealing with it and the mark on your record for the rest of your life.”

Inconvenience may be an understatement. Imagine the call Beach received from a client traveling to Canada with a team of executives. When the flight landed in Canada, Beach’s client was stopped by border patrolmen because Canada does not permit visitors

with records of DUI. “It inhibits your work (the reason for travel), and now everyone you work with knows you got held up at the border and wonders why,” Beach said. “If you travel for business and rent cars, (a DUI charge) can be devastating.”

Along the North Shore, DUI enforcement is largely handed by traffic patrolmen.

Winnetka Deputy Chief of Police Joseph Pellus said the majority of his department’s DUI arrests are made overnight. Violations fluctuate with the weather, the holiday seasons, and the school calendar.

“Any time we see violations, we’re going to investigate,” Pellus said.

In Glencoe, public safety officer Greg Whalen said that regardless of what unusual behavior makes them suspect a driver may be intoxicated, patrolmen take their time to assess a situation.

“Everyone works with what’s presented to them, but for me, it’s about continuing to talk to the driver after they stop the car and observing what they’re doing. Are they pulling out credit cards while they’re looking for their license?” Whalen said. “It’s a stressful situation to get pulled over, and it gets even worse when the officer says that they think you’ve been drinking and that you need a ride home.”

Both the arresting officer and the driver know there’s a lot on the line.

“It is life-changing,” Whalen said.

According to Beach, the driver can expect

anywhere from four to 15 court dates, many meetings with a lawyer, and alcohol education classes, which range from 10 hours over a few sessions to 28 days at an in-patient program.

There is also mandatory community service if your blood alcohol level is at least twice the legal limit, the impounding of your car at the time of your arrest, and the suspension of one’s drivers license. Those who receive court supervision will meet with a social worker monthly for the duration of the supervision, always during business hours and with a $50 fee per visit.

The length of time for which a license will be suspended varies depending on circumstances, but all offenders receive a minimum of 30 days. A judge could let one arrested reclaim his or her license after 30 days on the condition a breathalyzer is installed in the car; one has to blow into it when the engine starts and every 15-40 minutes while the car is running. Fees will be paid to the Secretary of State monthly for that privilege, plus fees for installation and rental while the device is in the vehicle.

“That’s got a huge stigma,” Beach said.

“It’s hard enough to explain to your own kids why it’s there, let alone the other parents and kids that you might be carpooling.”

But, Beach said, meeting all the terms of an arrest and working with an attorney to expunge a DUI record may not solve all your problems. That only clears one’s government records — not private databases like Equifax

or LexisNexis.

“If you get into a job application and they ask if you have a criminal record, you have a tough decision to make,” Beach said.

“You can say no, but if they see it on a private database you look like liar. Or if you say yes, you have to explain to the interviewer why.

“The reality is, there is no good answer in that situation.”

Who’s most likely to get a DUI? In Illinois, 77 percent of those arrested are men.

The average age is 34. And the average blood-alcohol concentration is .16, twice the minimum to be arrested.

Beach, who works with Alcohol in Moderation and is an instructor at the Chicago Police Academy, said substance abuse treatment is the only way he sees to create real changes for those charged with alcohol DUIs. “I have lots of clients who are social drinkers. They get one DUI and get scared to death, and I know when they sit down in my office that I will never see them again” he said. “And I have lots of clients that I see multiple times. For those alcoholics, the only thing that’s going to work is treatment.

“They can borrow a car, their spouse can buy the car, but somehow that alcoholic is going to drink and get in a car again. You can send them to prison, but you need to get them into treatment to change their behavior.” ■

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Tethered to technology Art of conversation fading fast among teens because of rampant texting ■ by

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ake Forest High School girls golf coach Marlene Miller stood before her players on the team bus after a match this fall, hoping to deliver a few messages.

What she observed, before uttering a word, didn’t surprise her -- though it kind of annoyed her.

Players were either typing or reading text messages on their cell phones. The need to deliver nonverbal messages had knocked the daylights out of the spoken word. Again.

“I wanted their attention. But you know what? I wasn’t upset. I understand what’s going on with teens and their attachment to technology these days,” she said.

Highland Park resident Debra Baum interacts often, via texting, with her daughter Brittany Curtis, a senior at the University of Illinois. But she insists they have at least one phone conversation a week.

“You need to hear a voice to truly know how someone is feeling,” Baum said. “Think about it: Say you text, ‘How are you,’ and you get, ‘Fine,’ as a reply. Is that a genuine ‘Fine’ or a (quivering) ‘F-f-f-fine’?

“A text message,” she added, “often hides tones.”

The art of conversation among teens isn’t dead yet -- but it’s on life support because of an addiction to gadgets and to brief, grammarless messages.

That’s not something to LOL about.

It’s a common sight, outside high schools and in malls everywhere: groups of friends walking together but texting to other friends. Or updating their Facebook status.

Or tweeting about Derrick Rose’s new 3.0 shoes.

Or accidentally bumping into another teen, also tethered to a soulless device.

A recent New York Times piece written by Sherry Turkle, “The Flight From Conversation,” dubbed such a scene “alone together.”

Families, she added, “sit together at home, texting and reading email … We are able to be with one another, and also elsewhere, connected to wherever we want to be.”

Disney Mobile and Harris Interactive tracked recent cell-phone habits of children and teens (ages 10-17), and 44 percent of them said text messaging is their main form of communicating. The form even beat talking.

Highland Park High School girls tennis coach Steve Rudman forbids his netters to use cell phones on the team bus. But he lets them communicate as much as they want to each other -- as long as they use their vocal

A recent study noted text messaging is the main form of communication among 10-year-olds through 17-year-olds – even more popular than talking.

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“It’s rampant, kids using cell phones constantly,” Rudman said. “I tell my kids, ‘Turn them off,’ when we’re on a bus. Time on a bus is an ideal time to bond as a team. I want my players doing that, not texting or calling up a friend.”

Lauren Wyatt likes to talk. The Lake Forest senior was one of the Scouts on that team bus, the one filled with golfers. Maybe she

was texting when Miller was about to address the team. Maybe she was putting her cell phone away.

“Yes, there’s too much texting going on,” she admitted. “All you have to do is look around. I appreciate a good phone conversation. I appreciate a good conversation.

“Having a conversation is more meaningful to me than sending a quick text message.” ■

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When Highland Park Library opened its doors in 1888, the library consisted of only 400 books, including “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Little Women”.

Fast-forward more than a century. Today, the library – which is celebrating its 125th anniversary -- houses more than 213,000 printed books (along with many books on tape and ebooks which were but a dream in the 19th century).

Beth Keller, marketing specialist for the library, was asked what was her favorite book among the hundreds of thousands. Her reply? “Unaccustomed Earth” by Jhumpa Lahiri.

“It is beautifully written,” she said. “It is a book of short stories, and I don’t usually read short stories. I prefer novels, but these are all engrossing stories.”

A Northwestern University graduate, Keller hasn’t had much time to read lately. She’s been helping to plan the 125th anniversary activities at 494 Laurel Ave., which will include a gala in the spring. Next, the library will welcome children’s authors Dan Gutman, Jon Scieszka, and Jeramey Kraatzl for an event Oct. 30.

Keller said planning events affords her the chance to meet newsmakers, humanitarians and authors, and to inform the community. She speaks with pride of fun events that took place last month — a gathering of Chicago-area celebrities such as Bill Kurtis who shared excerpts from

their favorite books, a visit from Garrison Keillor, and a film recording the library’s vibrant history being produced for the occasion by Bitter Jester Creative.

When Michael Belsky served as mayor of Highland Park, he and the City Council gave Keller a proclamation to honor her work.

“She’s a pivotal player in everything at the library,” Belsky said. “She’s talented and organized. She makes it more than just a place to get books and movies.”

Keller listed a sampling of the numerous services the library is providing — career counseling, storytime for kids, “tech- savvy” instruction, and the Sunday film series.

Library supporters will soon celebrate the upcoming new digital media center.

The library is completing its current strategic plan, which includes remodeling the adult services department. The administrators won’t rest on their laurels.

“We will begin work on the next strategic plan in 2013,” she said.

Before then, as a partner with the schools to promote literacy, “we have school open house days with tours to make sure everyone knows what’s at the library,” Keller said.

And true to her nature, she has an idea of what every student needs most.

“The library card,” she said, “is the most important school supply of all.” ■

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land says. “When she talks in class, she lights up, shows her genuine passion for the topic we’re discussing. She’s an old soul in a lot of ways. She’s a mature kid who gets it, who understands people and situations.”

Each fall (either in late September or early October), Adamson gets to put on old jeans and a sweatshirt and join her family for a weekend in Twin Lakes, Wis. It’s the home of Oriole Springs Orchard. Apples get picked

by Adamson and her relatives north of the Wisconsin-Illinois border. The same apples get baked south of it.

“I look forward to it every year,” Adamson says. “One year I think I counted 10 buses, all filled with my relatives. There’s nothing like being outdoors with your family and doing things together.” ■

North Shore Country Day’s Adamson continues to shine as a cook, musician, writer and runner school occurs early.

■ by bill mclean “As soon you walk into the school, there’s a It was a simple assignment, given by North Shore Country Day School English teacher Cassandra Hiland to one of her classes two years ago: Write a mini memoir.

Caitlin Adamson, then a sophomore, crafted one and handed it in.

Her essay centered on spending time in a kitchen with her grandfather, aka Boppy. They often make breakfast together on Sundays.

They break eggs.

They crack smiles at each other.

They bond.

Hiland, since reading Adamson’s work back in 2010, probably has a craving for an omelet every time she sees Adamson.

The student’s memoir was that vivid.

“It was so eloquent and descriptive,” Hiland recalls. “She has such a great eye for detail, a real good sense of how to paint a picture with words. She didn’t simply tell what makes her relationship with her grandfather so special; she showed it, clearly and smoothly, by describing a scene in a kitchen.”

A pen in Adamson’s hand is a mighty weapon. But in her arsenal of talents it’s a distant second to a viola tucked under her chin.

“Music is my passion,” says Adamson, an Evanston resident. “I could play all day, every day. I love connecting with people through music, and I love the adrenaline rush I sometimes get while performing.

“When I’m playing in a quartet, it can get magical. It’s also like I’m with another family.”

Adamson, 17, was a violist in the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra for a year and recently performed in a trial lesson at Indiana University. She is also considering the opportunity to hit the strings – and books – at four other schools: Northwestern, University of Southern California, Oberlin College and Carnegie Mellon University.

She also somehow finds the time to hustle for the Raiders’ cross country team and perform for the school’s chorus.

“Caitlin is terrific, an extraordinarily talented musician and such an active member of our community,” NSCDS Principal David Potter says. “The demands on her time are many, but you’d never know it because of the way she goes about fulfilling all of her commitments so well.”

In Adamson’s active world there’s little difference between a runner’s high and a musician’s high.

She recalled a memorable music competition in early 2011.

“I remember I was coming off a shaky performance at a similar competition,” she says.

“It was like I had lost my edge. I was nervous.

But all of that disappeared in the competition that followed.

“I walked in and immediately felt confidence – complete confidence – while performing with a pianist.

It was just me and the music.”

Another sound partnership, now in its fourth year: Adamson and NSCDS. Adamson’s favorite part of each day at the Winnetka

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vibe … an incredible vibe,” she says. “A lot of that feeling comes from the renovation of the school (completed in ’11). As you enter this futuristic setting, you’re greeted immediately by all these friendly, caring people. I love everything about it.”

Hiland teaches AP English this fall. One of her highly motivated students in the class is Boppy’s kitchen mate.

Adamson’s hunger for knowledge is never satisfied.

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■ District 112 teachers announced a strike on Tuesday, Oct. 16. All classes in the district – which encompasses eight elementary schools, three middle schools and the Green Bay Early Childhood Program -- were canceled that day.

According to the North Shore Education Association (NSEA), the District 112 board’s offer would cause the teachers’ highest salary to fall behind 18 other Lake County districts. The NSEA has also filed unfair labor practice charges with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.

Teachers will not receive insurance during the duration of the strike, which affects students in Highland Park, Highwood and Fort Sheridan.

■ Early voting will begin across the North Shore Monday, Oct. 22. It will run until Saturday, Nov. 3. Please check the Lake County Web site at https://countyclerk. lakecountyil.gov to find out what you need to do to vote early and where to vote in your community.

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■ Republican Congressman Bob Dold and Democratic challenger Brad Schneider faced off during a 10th District debate at Lake Forest High School on Sunday afternoon.

Dold, from Kenilworth, and Schneider, from Deerfield, traded jabs for about an hour over a host of issues, such as the Affordable Care Act. They both touted their bipartisan credentials.

The candidates are slated to appear on Fox News at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 21 and on WTTW Channel 11 on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m. in their final debate.

Wilmette

■ The village placed its 2013 proposed budget online this month for residents to view.

Among the suggested changes from 2012: 3 % increases on more than a dozen permits and fees, from roof permits to water meter fees. No increases were proposed for purchasing licenses, from vehicle to business.

Lake Forest

■ The Historic Preservation Commission – which reviews projects that are inside the boundaries of the city’s Historic Districts and projects that affect individual landmark properties – will meet on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 220 E. Deerpath. The meeting will be broadcast live and rebroadcast Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and Sundays at 8 a.m. on Channel 17 in Lake Forest.

A DVD copy of the meeting will be available at the Lake Forest Library.

Wilmette

■ The Wilmette Village Board will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Village Hall Council Room, second floor, at 1200 Wilmette Ave. Meetings are broadcast live on cable Channel 6 and replayed the following day at 1 p.m. For more information, please check www.wilmette.com.

Winnetka

■ The Cherry Street Bridge in Winnetka will be closed for at least 10 days, starting Monday, Oct. 22. Traffic will be detoured to Oak Street. Alliance Contractors will perform the work. Please call the Public Works Department at (847) 716-3568 with questions.

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These North Shore women are still standing and thriving after their breast cancer diagnosis.

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“With breast cancer, there has always been a lot of emphasis on early detection, on prevention, on awareness,” she says. “And I’m all for that, totally for that. But more focus, I believe, should be on what survivors have been doing since their diagnosis, how they’re coping and how they’re living.”

A year after her final treatment, NovyBennewitz started writing a book – the kind of book she would have grabbed the day after her diagnosis.

Had one existed.

“Diagnosis: Breast Cancer – The Best Plan for Navigating Your Journey” was published in April.

“My dream now is to partner with somebody who can make my book available, free of charge, to newly diagnosed patients,” she said.

Maureen Quaid of Lake Forest was diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2007. Her husband, Mike, was out of town when Maureen absorbed the news at a hospital. Mike returned home to Maureen shortly thereafter.

“Right after he opened the door and I saw him, I shook my head,” recalls Quaid, 50. “He knew. We hugged and cried. But it wasn’t long before I started thinking, ‘OK, we’ll get through this. We’ll plan an attack.’ ” On July 21, 2006, Rhoda Markovitz awoke and started to celebrate her ninth “cancer-versary” of receiving her diagnosis of colon cancer. But tough news later that day would shorten the celebration. Markovitz, a lawyer, found out she had breast cancer.

“I count my blessings every day, not just on my ‘cancer-versary,’ ” says the 60-year-old Markovitz, a Northbrook resident and New Trier West High School graduate. “I’m grateful for everything, and I no longer sweat the small stuff. I also learned something about myself since I was diagnosed 15 years ago. I learned I’m stronger than I thought I was.”

Dickelle Fonda, 63, is a psychotherapist and a 20-year breast cancer survivor. A gray area, not a lump, was detected at one of her examinations. She was told, “Don’t worry.

Come back in sixth months.”

Her intuition told her something else.

“I got a second opinion,” says the Evanston resident and member of the Heartwood Foundation Women & Cancer board of directors. “The second opinion led to a biopsy.

Yes, it was cancer. There’s value in my story, and not just because being a 20-year survivor gives patients hope. My cancer was found early because I was persistent.”

Katie Clarke, a Wilmette resident, received her diagnosis on May 25, 2011, the weekend before Memorial Day. Her best friend had lost a battle with breast cancer in 2006.

“That was the person I wanted to talk to more than anybody else right after my diagnosis,” says the 46-year-old Clarke, who in ’07 had participated in a Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Walk in San Diego in honor of her friend. “I was told by a doctor, on a Friday, ‘I do think it’s cancer.’ ” But her breast cancer wasn’t diagnosed definitively until after Memorial Day. “That weekend was a special one, because my husband (Patrick) and I were extremely focused on each other,” recalls Katie, now cancer-free.

Her focus now is on a joint quest, “The Licorice Project,” with her sister, Kendra Olvany. It’s a nascent social network (www. thelicoriceproject.com) for newly diagnosed cancer patients, survivors and the friends and family members who support them. Why licorice? Pieces of it (unexpected treats) were handed out to walkers at that Susan G. Komen event in San Diego.

One of Mimi Moses’ friends, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, needed a connection to answer some serious questions, ease some fears. Moses, of Wilmette, was that connection. The 72-year-old underwent her final treatment for breast cancer in 2000..

“I can’t believe 12 years have gone by since I was diagnosed,” Moses says. “You have to take it in stride, I’ve always believed. When I found out about my cancer my reaction was, ‘Whatever it is, it has to be taken out.’ Then I moved on.”

Clarke, mother of three, looked back recently. Her life changed after her diagnosis.

In many ways, for the better.

“No one would ever wish this disease on anybody,” she says. “But you know what?

So many wonderful things have happened to me since I was diagnosed. The love I’ve received … the support. And the friends I’ve made. So many good, new friends.”

One of them is Novy-Bennewitz, the one who single-handedly turned a school assembly into a raucous pep rally – at the drop of a wig. ■

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The incidents below were compiled from the official reports of various North Shore police departments. A person is presumed innocent unless a court eventually determines guilt.

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BATTERY, POSSESSION OF CANNABIS, AND MORE

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ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION BY A MINOR

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THEFT OF MISLAID PROPERTY

WILMETTE POSSESSION OF CANNABIS, DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

Brendan J. Hubly, 23, of 729 Lavergne in Wilmette was allegedly found in possession of a glass smoking pipe filled with a green leafy substance between 1 and 1:15 p.m. on Oct. 6.

He was taken into custody and charged with possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia.

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Quincy A. McIlvaine, 19, 29566 N. Birch in Lake Bluff, was issued an administrative hearing citation for theft of mislaid property on Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. Officers responded to Lake Forest High School for an alleged theft. Employees said McIlvaine, a former student, was seen on video entering and exiting a locker room from which a girl’s sweater was reported stolen.

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William F. Adams, 20, of 555 N. Sheridan Road in Lake Forest was charged with alcohol consumption by a minor at 4:50 p.m. on Oct. 6. Officers responded to Lake Forest College for a report of an unwanted subject. After speaking with Adams and school employees, officers said Adams had snuck into an area reserved for adults age 21 and older. Adams admitted to drinking alcohol and was arrested.

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Aiden P. Hanley, 18, of 555 N. Sheridan Road in Lake Forest was charged with battery, possession of cannabis, possession of drug paraphernalia, and consumption of alcohol by a minor at 8:35 p.m. on Oct. 6. Officers responded to Lake Forest College for a report of battery to a school employee, which allegedly occurred during the search of the dorm room of a student discovered with marijuana. Officers spoke with the suspect and several witnesses.

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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE

David Anstett, 26, of the 1100 block of Estate Lane in Lake Forest was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, open transportation of alcohol, speeding and failing to yield to an emergency vehicle after being stopped by police in the 1300 block of Half Day Road, Highland Park on Oct. 13 at 3:03 a.m.

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Rachel Oosterbaan, 46, of the 100 block of E. Louis Ave. in Lake Forest was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, uninsured motor vehicle, improper lane usage and speeding after being stopped by police in the 2000 block of Skokie Valley Road, Highland Park on Oct. 13 at 12:58 a.m.

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Brett R. Moran, 21, of 554 Lawnwood Ave. in Glencoe was arrested at the corner of Sheridan Road and Hazel Avenue on Sept. 28 at 12:11 a.m. and charged with failure to signal, possession of cannabis under 2.5 grams, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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DRIVING ON A SUSPENDED LICENSE

Bernadette K. McCahill, 35, of 2435 Birchwood in Wilmette was stopped for a traffic violation and found to be driving on a suspended driver’s license at 9:38 a.m., on Oct. 9. She was arrested.

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TO GO or not to go?

most definitely go is the answer The gravedigger (Larry Yando) has much work to do as he speaks with Hamlet (Scott Parkinson) during the play at Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe.

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PLAY REVIEW ■ by

s.h. sweet

In William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” as envisioned by the Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe (through Nov. 11), our wellknown lead is smart, sensitive, and sweet. This tiny theater has mounted a production to rival those from downtown Chicago -- or almost anywhere.

Even before the play begins, the audience contemplates an intricately patterned “stone” floor suggesting a level of wealth and elegance rare for the time (“Hamlet” was probably written in 1604 but takes place earlier). Then our gaze falls on castle walls so high that we cannot see the top. And finally, we notice a large, dark spot on the wall.

This blot, never mentioned or discussed, may be left over from a previous battle, perhaps left unrepaired to remind castle dwellers of a victory or more likely, a defeat. But it more closely resembles a wound or sore, festering on the wall, possibly even decaying or infected. And so, before a word has been uttered, we begin to realize something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

The director and artistic director opens the production at the wedding festivities of Claudius to his dead brother’s queen (Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude), thus delaying the notion of the ghost of Hamlet’s father. But Michael Halberstam explains in his article in the program that “there should be a real sense of power on the line, a sense of royalty and grandeur, and a sense of tremendous national and international stakes. Hamlet should seem to have lost something in being passed over for the throne. Claudius should have gained something worth killing for.”

We find Hamlet grieving the loss of his father while being appalled by his mother’s haste in remarrying. He is young and feels unprotected at this moment. Before long, Hamlet’s

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friends tell him of an apparition that appears high on the castle walls late at night that resembles nothing so much as his dead father. And with so many things left unsaid before his father’s early demise, Hamlet searches out this spirit.

Hamlet’s father’s ghost describes his death by poison in a voice that reverberates loudly enough for the audience to fear the castle walls will tumble. However, even though others sensed this presence, no one but Hamlet (and the audience) is able to hear the ghost. Hamlet hatches his plan to appear mad until he can devise a way to avenge his father’s murder. That opportunity comes in the form of a theater troupe brought to the castle by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Even before the play begins, the audience contemplates an intricately patterned “stone” floor suggesting a level of wealth and elegance rare for the time.

Hamlet not only revises a well-known tale to suit his needs, but also he acts the part of a woman. One cannot help but wonder if Halberstam meant this as an homage to actors in Shakespeare’s time when men played the female roles or to underscore Hamlet’s love for the theater by allowing him to participate in the play-within-a-play. Perhaps it harkens back to the possibility that Shakespeare was actually a nobleman writing plays. In any event, this tactic allows Hamlet to watch his uncle/stepfather’s reaction to the newly added poisoning scene and thereby knows the man is guilty.

Although many of the lines in this play have become part

of our everyday vernacular, we are literally stopped in our tracks with Hamlet’s soliloquy. Halberstam freezes the actors on the stage and shines all the lights on Hamlet as he wonders “to be or not to be – that is the question.” The laser-like focus on Hamlet exaggerates his interior monologue, putting the audience inside his mind and thoughts, so we cannot help but sympathize with Hamlet’s loss. And although “conscience does make cowards of us all”, we are invested that Hamlet not suffer that fate.

Because the stage is small, Writers’ Theatre often has actors play more than one part and uses its props sparingly. Here, for example, instead of having Ophelia in her madness scatter flowers all over that would only have to be picked up every night, she cuts her hair drastically and then passes it out in bundles, believing them to be flowers. The actors onstage receiving the pieces of hair leave them neatly off-stage for the next night’s performance.

The actor playing Hamlet, Scott Parkinson, has been in several previous Writers’ Theatre productions and appeared in quite a few Shakespeare and non-Shakespeare plays throughout the area. He is a four-time nominee for the Joseph Jefferson award and won in 2004 in a supporting role.

Parkinson brought a sweetness and intelligence to the role that made the audience root for Hamlet from his first appearance onstage.

A final note for anyone afraid Shakespeare plays may be difficult to understand – this production is remarkable for how comfortable the actors are with their characters and the play. They don’t just know their lines; they are living them.

In a post-play discussion, Liesel Matthews (Ophelia) mentioned that a prose coach helped the actors for just this reason. And it showed. The audience never stumbled over bodkins because the actors never did. ■

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Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago raised more than $160,000 for its Emergency Assistance programs at the 11th annual Gala of the Arts at Navy Pier last month.

Benefactors and guests viewed and purchased artwork donated by 33 Chicago area artists and enjoyed a performance by “American English: The Complete Beatles Tribute” in the Pier’s grand ballroom.

The gala also was an occasion to recognize Christine and Richard Guzior, of Lemont, as recipients of the Catholic Charities’ annual Mandatum Award for their devotion to justice and charity for all people. ■

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RICHARD & CHRISTINE GUZIOR, MSGR. MICHAEL M. BOLAND

TOM & JUDY DEMINT

MARY ANNE & BURR MARTIN

ROSEMARY FANTI

BILL & JEANNE HARDY, ALLISON ROSATI, MARY ALICE & BILL JOVAN

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KRISTINA & DENNIS KELLEHER, JULIA & JOHN LYNCH, LUCIA & LOUIS GLUNZ

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photography by larry miller Designer wear by Fabiola Arias was featured at last month’s Gold Coast Fashion Show at Hilton Chicago. The fundraising event benefited The Children’s Service Board, an affiliated organization of Children’s Memorial Hospital, and celebrated 57 years of philanthropy. Audience members took in a live runway show that doubled as a staged battle among designers and local shops. ■

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BETH PARSONS, MARY HESS, FABIOLA ARIAS, JENIECE HIGGINS

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Love & Marriage ■ by

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Is it ever time to stop giving anniversary gifts?

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bout the time the first leaves fall from the trees each year, I sneak over to the bookshelf. The book I sought was dusty this year, which meant I’d beaten my husband to it. But I knew he’d get there eventually.

Page 27 of “The Meaning of Wedding Anniversaries” by Gretchen Scoble and Ann Field declares the ninth wedding anniversary — the one my husband and I just celebrated this month — the pottery anniversary. Clay and pottery are significant in several religious stories of creation, the book explains, and also wedding ceremonies in various cultures.

Shapeless at first, clay is to be moistened and molded to most any form for carrying water and storing food. A vase, a bowl, or a set of mugs is the recommended anniversary gift to

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leather desk accessories for year three, and olive wood kitchen goods in year five.

But there’s annually that moment when I think to myself, “Maybe this is the year to cut it off. I’m sure he hasn’t bought anything yet.”

My friends don’t do the gift thing for their anniversaries – I asked. They go out; sometimes their husbands even call the babysitter. They make memories, rather than collecting stuff.

“Gifts don’t matter because material things will never make you happy in the end — only temporary happiness,” one 2006 bride told me.

“I think time may be the best gift,” echoed a husband married since 2008.

“If it matters to you it matters,” countered one friend who recently celebrated 25 years

“With only a few weeks to spare before my anniversary, I hit the Internet in search of pottery. Manly pottery”

make the home a warm and nurturing place.

With only a few weeks to spare before my anniversary, I hit the Internet in search of pottery. Manly pottery.

(Of note, my husband and I were married Oct. 4, as in “10-4, good buddy,” so in theory neither of us has any excuse for forgetting it. In reality, we pay an exorbitant amount in expedited shipping fees to get our gifts on the table on time.)

I’ve backed myself into this corner every year for nearly a decade, scouring my brain and local shops for ways to honor these marriage traditions through my gifts to my husband. It was fun when we were first married.

For paper, the first anniversary, I framed a poster for his home office. Wood (year 5) was a tiny clock for his dresser.

Over the years, our gifts have become more practical. For our bronze anniversary in 2011, he received a new address placard to hang outside the house. Also, a masonry drill bit from my dad, who then lent us a drill to make holes in the brick exterior of our home.

And my husband has done the same with his gifts to me: cotton socks for year two,

of marriage.

In the end, I think my dusty book said it best: “The order of gifts reflects the investment that the couple gives of themselves to each other… From the first year, with its ephemeral paper gifts, to the tenth year, with its practical tins, changes occur as the partners grow to learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses. The twentieth year, with its refined china, and the thirtieth year, with its glowing pearls, reflect a time of hard work and successes.

“Ultimately, each symbol is a gift in itself, an image from deep within our hearts that ties ancient stories to modern experiences.

The meanings of wedding anniversaries are not only inspirations for gifts, but a means of bringing couples closer together and helping them understand the many ways in which they can love.”

And I do love that flower-filled ceramic vase he gave me.

Love & Marriage columnist Joanna Brown, a North Shore native, can be reached at Joanna@tjbrown.com ■

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SUNDAY BREAKFAST A DIFFERENT KIND OF BUSY ■

by david sweet

“It was all about a vision to define Chicago to the rest of the world,” Lake Bluff’s John Bryan says about the creation of Millennium Park.

photography by jim prisching

After decades raising hundreds of millions of dollars for philanthropy and running Sara Lee, John Bryan revels in quiet, productive life at Crab Tree Farm tractor rests beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows in the contemporary home at Crab Tree Farm. Inside, dressed in a dark blue sweater and tan pants, sits John H. Bryan Jr., denizen of the Lake Bluff property, where woodworkers create crafts and livestock graze.

Crab Tree Farm is a quiet place, yet it’s a productive one. And Bryan, a septuagenarian whose resume includes chairmanships of both Sara Lee and Millennium Park, exemplifies that ethos.

“I work a lot in the gardens here with the children and grandchildren, but I don’t have any big projects hanging over my head like I have in the past,” said Bryan. “I’m writing, especially in the winter time. I’m working on a book of history on the log cabin here. I don’t lack for something to do.”

In a few days, in fact, Bryan will head about a mile south to be interviewed by Bill Kurtis on a range of topics during the Lake ForestLake Bluff Historical Society’s Local Legends event at Lake Forest High School Oct. 27 (tickets available at www.lflbhistory.org).

Despite his comfort living on the North Shore today, Bryan moved to the Chicago area from Mississippi after some prodding (“I resisted. No one in my family had moved out of Mississippi”). He took charge of Consolidated Foods Corporation in 1975 and eventually turned it into Sara Lee, which enjoyed relentless growth in earnings and

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shareholder value until he left the company in 2000.

Bryan is quick to praise another quality of Sara Lee. “I was pleased that Sara Lee was a corporate citizen of note,” he said. “We gave 5 percent of our income to non-profits and engaged in the community.”

Giving back has been a theme embraced

by Bryan, who lived in Kenilworth for a decade before buying Crab Tree Farm. He helped raise $100 million from 33 corporations to refurbish both the Lyric Opera building and Orchestra Hall in Chicago.

He chaired the centennial anniversary of the United Way in 1984, bringing in another $100 million.

But those challenges were almost pedestrian compared to Millennium Park.

In 1998, Mayor Richard Daley called Bryan and asked him to lead fundraising efforts.

“I asked, ‘How much? He said $30 million. I said that sounds fine,” recalled Bryan.

The Bean ended up costing $23 million on its own. In response to rising costs, Bryan raised $250 million from more than 100 individuals for a project that, unlike the Lyric Opera, Orchestra Hall or United Way, had no base constituency.

How did he do it?

“When you have nothing but an idea, you have to have a vision that sells. It was all about a vision to define Chicago to the rest

of the world,” Bryan said. “You don’t want to just build a park downtown.

“Figuring out a strategy is what I like.

Many people see it is as an agonizing ask and the painful rejection. But if you’ve figured out the strategy, there will be enough people to buy the product.

“You have to respond to the motivations of people. That’s why we have recognition.

You say, ‘We’re inviting you to be a founder and it will cost $1 million. And John, Joe and Jim have joined. You’ll have your name carved in stone four inches high for the next millennium.’ ” Growing up as a sixth-generation Southerner – his great-grandfather was killed in the siege of Vicksburg – Bryan lived next to Bryan Brothers Packing Company in West Point, Miss., which featured a slaughterhouse. After graduating from Rhodes College in Memphis, he returned to help run the business, which was becoming a major force in the South during the 1960s.

At that time, segregation still ruled.

Bryan integrated his company – rest rooms, water fountains, and more. While blacks could wander freely about Bryan Brothers, the local school board shut down the black school rather than integrate it, and West Point shuttered the black pool. Bryan raised funds to build a new black pool and fought the school board. Once the black school reopened, Bryan stunned the town by sending his own children there.

“I had to make choices and become a civil rights advocate,” Bryan said. “I was reasonably protected from retaliation because of our position in town, but I also had some deep convictions. Integration is particularly severe in a small town – it’s only one square mile.”

Though no art museums of consequence existed within 100 miles of where Bryan grew up, he became a passionate collector of American, French and British art.

“I was born with an interest in the visual,” he explained. “I have no art history training.”

Marrying his love of art with philanthropy, Bryan helped give away the Sara Lee art collection before he retired. More than 50 works, from Monet to Pissarro, were given to museums around the world – the largest corporate donation of the arts in U.S. history.

Crab Tree Farm, in fact, has its own museum filled with arts and crafts by American, English and European designers. Bryan joins a handful of the 30-40 tours a year that wind through the property’s 150 acres, which run from Sheridan Road to the lake. With his Chicago office of 38 years now closed and his corporate board commitments to Goldman Sachs and others in the past, Bryan seems quite content to spend plenty of time on the farm.

“People can come up here if they want to visit bad enough, I suppose,” he says with a smile. ■

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Hoping to play bridge until 102 ■ by

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he most successful agers on earth, who represent just one-half of 1% of the population, are only just beginning to teach us what’s important, a neurologist told the New York Times. Their secret? Bridge.”

Bridge is a game of chance, luck, skill, diligence, memory, and focus -- but most of all, it is fun. I am the fourth generation (that I know of) to enjoy bridge, so maybe it’s even genetic.

My introduction to the game began as a small girl fascinated by all the preparations my grandmother made for her

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Alpha bridge. You would have thought she was hosting the Queen of England instead of 12 women in a small Illinois town for the monthly bridge club meeting and lunch. She cut the crusts off the bread for sandwiches, cleaned the house top to bottom, set her giant dining room table with exquisite care, and placed impeccably ironed covers on the bridge tables. Later in life, I wondered if she went to all this effort so the ladies would have a nice time despite the fact that my grandmother almost always won!

On the North Shore, bridge is played by men and women, both socially and competitively, in pairs or in teams, in churches, temples, schools, senior centers, and homes, for pleasure, money, or points, and best of all, for a lifetime.

Bridge is not something you outgrow or find you can no longer play. My grandmother played up until age 102, and the youngest person to become a life master is just over 9 years old.

And anyone can begin to play bridge. Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest offers a class for beginners. New Easy Bridge in Northfield at Temple Jeremiah attracts beginner duplicate players with fewer than 500 master points. There are plenty of books, tools, and teachers to help you learn the language of bridge – 52 cards in the deck, 40 high card points in the deck, 13 cards in each hand, and then it’s off to the races.

A desire to learn a new game is the first step and math skills help (just addition and subtraction so nothing too tricky). But bridge is most fun learned with your (competitive) friends so all of you are struggling together to grasp new concepts.

Beginning with the Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC) system, we learned to count the points in our hands and bid in a way that told our partners (and opponents!) what cards we held. We learned to use trump (something familiar to children who play Spades or Hearts) and play in no trump contracts. As we progressed, we always wanted to bid game but were afraid at of bidding slams. Slowly, we added conventions and new bidding systems.

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photography by jim prisching Getting more competitive, many play in duplicate games and tournaments. If you choose, you could play duplicate somewhere in the area every day of the week. You can play throughout the United States and the world. There are bridge cruises. You can also play online 24/7 and do so without a partner! The American Contract Bridge League boasts more than 160,000 members and is always vinterested in more players.

Bridge has challenged my brain and my patience for 40 years.

I still consider myself a student of the game but know that this life-long learning and interaction with others strengthens my brain. Lately, bridge has proven the ultimate distraction as I play with three different partners at three different games. But I trust that should I reach 102, I will still be cringing when I bid too much or not enough and then laughing about it with my bridge friends. ■ Bridge aficionado S.H. Sweet attended North Shore Country Day School and graduated from Lake Forest Country Day School.

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Your weekend agenda The top events going on this weekend in the North Shore

saturday, october 20th

friday, october 19th

The Lake Forest Club’s Oktoberfest

“At Home Getaway”

5 p.m.

Concept Home

Adults and kids will enjoy this tour of Orren Pickell Building Group’s latest concept house on two acres of wooded land. Unique offerings include a sleeping porch for at-home camping outings, a cigar patio, an outdoor kitchen and an adventure zone for the youngsters. ■

Escape the “haus” and enjoy family fun at this event, featuring a German Bavarian band, “The Alpiners,” a variety of beers and Chef Luke’s German specials. For dinner reservations, call (847) 234-5316. ■

Diane Morgan

11 a.m.

Tarns of the Moor, 27 Aberdeen Ct., Bannockburn

554 N. Westmoreland Road, Lake Forest

at Lake Forest Book Store

sunday, october 21st

7 p.m.

“The Verona Project”

7 p.m.

Mainstage Production, Northwestern University Josephine Louis Theater, 20 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston

Lake Forest Book Store 680 N. Western Ave., Lake Forest The author of more than 10 cookbooks, including “Roots: The Definitive Compendium with More Than 225 Recipes,” will be on hand to share the history and lore of 29 major roots, their nutritional content, how to buy and store them, and much more.

There will be a book signing after the program. ■

A modern fable inspired by Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” this theatre/live concert hybrid is helmed by award-winning writer and director Amanda Dehnert. The production revolves around a group of young musicians.

For ticket information, contact the Theatre and Interpretation box office at (847) 491-7282. ■

NORTHSHORE DERMATOLOGY CENTER, S.C. Allumera Photofacial Ultherapy - Lunchtime Face Lift Coolsculpting by Zeltiq Cutera Pearl Laser Resurfacing and Rejuvenation Laser Hair Removal Botox® & Dysport Fillers

2nd Annual Embrace the Race 5K Run or Walk

7:30 p.m.

Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Rd., Highland Park Tie those sneakers and fight breast and ovarian cancer in an event benefitting North Shore University HealthSystem Kellogg Cancer Center. Post finish-line options include massages and Hot Cocoa Truck treats.

For more information, visit embracetherace5k.com. ■ Highland Park Strings Presents The Fabulous Fiddlers

3 p.m.

Highland Park High School, 433 Vine Ave. Expect a heady show from a HED (Hans Erik Deckert), a Danish-German conductor-cellist, will conduct the NU Cello Ensemble in a program featuring his works as well as music by Bach, Per Norgard, Piazzolla, Ravel and more! In several works the ensemble will be joined by young Chicagoarea cellists to form a 60-cello orchestra. Admission is $6 for the general public, $4 for full-time students with IDs. ■

TINA C. VENETOS, M.D. BOARD CERTIFIED DERMATOLOGIST On Staff at Evanston, Glenbrook, and Lake Forest Hospitals

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Recipes and Food Styling by Melissa Roberts Photographs by Romulo Yanes

Celery—often dismissed as one of the produce world’s poorest relations—contributes an intriguing earthiness to moist chicken infused with the flavors of white wine & garlic.

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SERVES 4 TO 6 ACTIVE TIME: 25 MIN START TO FINISH: 50 MIN 6 chicken thighs with skin and bone (2 lb) 2 Tbsp olive oil 10 garlic cloves, halved 3 celery ribs, cut crosswise into 1-inch pieces 1 cup dry white wine 1 cup water ¼ cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley Pat chicken dry and season with 1 tsp salt and ½ tsp pepper. Heat oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium-high heat until it shimmers. Sear chicken, skin side down, in 2 batches until golden brown (do not turn), 3 to 5 minutes, then transfer to a plate.

Pour off all but 2 Tbsp fat from skillet. Cook garlic and celery in skillet over medium heat, stirring frequently, until golden and just beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add wine and boil, uncovered, until reduced by about half, 3 to 5 minutes. Add water and bring to a simmer. Return chicken, skin side up, to skillet and simmer, partially covered, until cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley.

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This table on the porch is set for a kid-friendly Halloween party, using a black and white quilt for a tablecloth.

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hen I think Halloween, I think of my friend Twila.

She teams up with Chery, and the two of them have a ball as they make over Twila’s house. Every year, they come up with completely new creations, giggling and cheering as they go through Twila’s treasure trove of Halloween decorations, which she has collected through the years. Once her home is decorated to perfection, Twila hosts parties and gatherings, inviting her friends to share in the fun.

Twila likes to weave Halloween decorations into her existing fall decor. For example, Twila tricked up a bouquet on her entry table by plopping a ghoul in the center.

What tools to you have that could take on a sinister cast if placed in the right setting?

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How about some tarnished silver candlesticks, lanterns or iron urns?

Hunt through your house for additional props. A fedora jauntily perched on a skeleton’s head was a perfect last-minute addition, pulled out of one of Twila’s closets on a whim.

I’ve found that when you set your creativity free and play around with your displays a bit, you come up with masterpieces.

When you decorate for Halloween, don’t do over the whole house. Instead, add some powerful punches in a few key places. In my home, that includes my dining room. In years past, for my fall open houses, we’ve gone to town in my dining room. Pumpkin vines twist through the chandelier and along the buffet. Gothic-looking risers hold containers of mini-pumpkins. And a pumpkin-headed

figurine looks down upon the dinner guests.

Try this trick if you want a huge Halloween impact with little effort: Shroud each of your dining-room chairs in a yard or so of scrim fabric, then tie them up in back with Halloween ribbon.

Scrim, an inexpensive, gauzy cotton fabric, is one of my favorite tricks for Halloween decorating. I’ve also used it to drape creepy heads and plastic skeletons to make them look like specters. And I’ve shredded it and hung it from twisting sticks mounted around my dining-room windows.

My dining-room buffet is always an important stage for seasonal displays, so on Halloween it echoes the look I’ve created on my dining table. Twists of honeysuckle vine give the tableau the feeling of fall, as do gourds,

dusted with glitter. I topped the candelabra with black pillar candles, reserving one of the arms as a resting place for a blackbird figurine.

Another key spot to dress up for Halloween is a chandelier. I was going for a more whimsical Halloween look in my kitchen one year, so I secured some twigs to the chandelier in our breakfast nook. Add some blackbird figurines and a black-and-white check ribbon and you have a simple treatment in minutes.

In addition to decorating my front door, my exterior Halloween display usually includes decorations on my screened porch. We set the table on my patio for a kid-friendly Halloween party, using a black-and-white quilt for a tablecloth. ■ ~ Scripps Howard News Service

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HOUSES OF THE WEEK

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It doesn’t get any better than this! Located in East Lake Forest and minutes from all of East Lake Forest’s coveted amenities. This custom built, one-owner home just completed a major renovation and addition by renowned builder Eric Goebeler in 2009. This home showcases superior construction and attention to detail throughout. The result is an outstanding residence striking and simply “spectacular”! The interior features more than 5872 square feet of fabulous finished living spaces and includes an additional 2400 square feet in the lower level. Fourteen rooms, 6 bedrooms and 6 full baths, 3 fireplaces are among some of the interior features.

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536 SOUTH AVENUE, GLENCOE

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Looking for new construction in Lake Forest?

Look no further than 1665 Broadland Lane!

Recently completed extensive renovations have reset the clock for this stunning Conway Farms stone and stucco home. The elegant high end finishes now include a custom chef’s kitchen, 4.1 completely renewed baths, fabulous lower level, new crown moldings, baseboards, flooring, fixtures, hardware, new cherry wood front door and so much more. You will fall in love with your new home and its magnificent 3/4 acre lot.

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LAKE BLUFF

1 $1,079,000.00 217 E WASHINGTON AVE Sunday 12-2 Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors 847.234.0485 2 $749,000.00 211 SYLVAN RD Sunday 1-3 Koenig & Strey 8 47.234.8400 3 $498,900.00 320 WIMBLEDON CT Sunday 2-4 Vicki Wheary/Prudential Rubloff 847.275.5440

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15 $1,225,000.00 315 OLD FARM RD Sunday 2:30-4:30 Bonnie Larson/Coldwell Banker Residential 847.446.4000 16 $ 1,195,000.00 2321 CLOVER LANE Sunday 1:30-3:30 Pamela Bogan Boemi/Coldwell Banker Residential 847.446.4000 17 $1,049,999.00

615 THORNWOOD LANE Sunday 1-3 Pamela McClamroch/Coldwell Banker Residential 847.446.4000 18 $425,000.00 536 HAPP Sunday 1-3 Jean Wright Real Estate 847.466.9166

GLENCOE

19 $1,945,000.00 1140 SHERIDAN RD Sunday 2 p.m.-4p.m. Rinaldi/Veech/@Properties,847.881.0200 20 $999,000.00 507 OAKDALE Sunday 12 p.m.-2 p.m. Jean Wright Real Estate 847.466.9166 21 $819,000.00 656 COUNTRY LANE Sunday 12 p.m. -2p.m Maureen Mohling/Coldwell Banker Residential 847.446.4000

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22 $1,675,000.00 96 CHURCH Sunday 1-3 Jean Wright Real Estate 847.466.9166 23 $1,595,000.00231 LINDEN Sunday 1-3 Koenig & Strey Real Living 847.732.3045 24 $1,445,000.00 1370 TRAPP Sunday 1-3 Christina Fawcett/@ Properties 847.881.0200 25 $1,399,000.00 429 CHESTNUT Sunday 1-3 Cheryl Chambers/@ Properties 847.881.0200 26 $999,000.00 258 RIDGE AVE Sunday 1-3 Candy Pyle/Coldwell Banker Residential 847.446.4000 27 $339,000.00 742 OAK Sunday 1-3 Jean Wright Real Estate 847.466.9166

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30 $1,599,000.00 1323 CENTRAL Sunday 2:30-4:30 Lori Neuschel/@ Properties, 847.881.0200 31 $1,250,000.00 431 WASHINGTON Sunday 12-2 Lori Neuschel/@ Properties, 847.881.0200 32 $995,000.00 622 LAKE Sunday 12-2 Lori Neuschel/@ Properties, 847.881.0200 33 $859,000.00 1335 RIDGE RD Sunday 1-3 Jiji Capone/Coldwell Banker Residential, 847.446.4000 34 $699,000.00 819 LEYDEN Sunday 1-3 Branning/Schreiber/@ Properties, 847.881.0200 35 $629,000.00 1938 GREENWOOD AVE Sunday 1-3 Kethleen Almond/Coldwell Banker Residential, 847.446.4000 36 $579,000.00 2330 GREENWOOD Sunday 1-3 Koenig & Strey, 847.732.3055 37 $350,000.00 1410 SHERIDAN #3B Sunday 1-3 Jean Wright Real Estate, 847.466.9166 38 $335,000.00 1630 SHERIDAN RD, #4J Sunday 1-3 Mary Ellen Stalzer/Coldwell Banker Residential, 847.446.4000 39 $190,000.00 235 RIDGE Sunday 12-2 Laura Fitzpatrick/@ Properties, 847.881.0200

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deroy murdock

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oncerning the fun parts of his job, Barack Obama resembles the Energizer Bunny. If there are crowds to wow, entertainers to schmooze or donors to pitch, Obama is Johnny on the spot. Too bad Obama’s sparks stop flying when it comes time for the serious, heavy lifting of the presidency.

This phenomenon’s most chilling example involves Obama’s national security-related presidential daily brief (PDB). As the conservative Government Accountability Institute calculated, and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen first reported, Obama attended only 43.8 percent of his daily briefings between Jan. 23, 2009 (three days after his inauguration) and May 31, 2012. Available nearly every day, the briefing allows the commander-in-chief to hear directly from top intelligence professionals about the latest threats to U.S. safety. These experts are on hand to answer questions, hear suggestions and otherwise help Obama foil America’s enemies.

But Obama has had higher priorities.

According to the institute’s data culled from the official White House calendar and Politico.com’s news coverage of that schedule, Obama chose to skip his daily briefings and, instead, simply read his briefing book.

This is a bit like studying one’s chest X-rays at home while spurning a radiologist’s offer to interpret them and answer pertinent questions. In this sense, Obama quietly reviewed his national security X-rays alone during 56.2 percent of the time the institute analyzed. Obama missed 61.6 percent of these briefings in 2011.

Obama skipped his briefings between last Sept. 4 and 11, the entire week before the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya suffered an Islamic terror attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, technical officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

Who knows if a briefer’s classified utterance, or a particularly astute question from Obama, might have triggered tighter security in Benghazi and, perhaps prevented the murders of four Americans?

Even worse, as Thiessen reports, Obama postponed and eventually skipped his briefing on the day after these planned and deliberate assassinations. This liberated Obama for a truly indispensable responsibility that day. As American embassies burned brightly throughout the Islamic world, Obama jetted off on Air Force One for a campaign fundraiser in America’s least solemn city -Las Vegas.

At last, three days after the Benghazi

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Commander?

Obama more a slacker-in-chief

Redistribution is not a dirty word

bloodshed, and nine days after his previous ■ by john crisp briefing, Obama sat still for a proper briefing Sept. 14, the White House schedule shows. ne good gaffe (47 perPerhaps the scrutiny of Thiessen and other cent “who are depencritics finally has inspired Obama to attend dent upon government”) his briefings with the regularity of his precalls for another, so Mitt decessors.

Romney staffers recently Obama met with exactly zero world leadreached back to 1998, ers at the United Nations General Assembly catching Barack Obama telling students at last month, not least of them Israeli Prime Loyola University that he actually believes Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who wants in “redistribution, at least at a certain level.” to stop Iran from redecorating Jerusalem and In 1998, Obama probably didn’t imagine Tel Aviv with mushroom clouds. Obama that 14 years later he would be president of found time, however, to serve as “eye candy” the United States. If he had, he might have for Whoopi Goldberg and the cast of “The chosen his words more carefully.

View.”

On the other hand, he also probably Obama has shirked his domestic obliga- couldn’t have imagined how casually in tions, too. He reportedly has held just two 2012 he would be called a “socialist,” even Cabinet meetings this year -- on Jan. 31 and when he hasn’t come close to behaving like July 26. While claiming to be totally focused one. Or how toxic a word like “redistribuon reducing naggingly high unemployment, tion” could become. After all, “redistribuObama has not met with his Jobs Council tion” is only a word, and even when it’s atsince January. Obama’s dereliction of duty tached to the phrase “of wealth” its meaning would be bad enough if he were a latter-day needn’t be as malignant as the anti-Obama Eisenhower: a well-respected, perhaps feared, forces imagine. world leader enjoying prosperity at home and The term may have acquired a bad reputapeace (or at least a manageable Cold War) tion, but “redistribution” can be used just as overseas. Instead, Obama grows increasingly easily to describe what happens when people comical, the domestic economy languishes, pool their resources to create the infrastrucand the American flag has become an alter- ture of a civilized, secure society. Almost no native fuel source across the Middle East. Americans, including the Democrats, want Nonetheless, Ike Jr. parties like it’s 1959. to bring everyone’s income down or up to Perhaps Obama the same level. has devolved from But nearly all of president to slackus believe in pooler-in-chief in an ing our money elaborate display of --”redistributing” empathy for Amerit -- for common ica’s more than purposes. Further12 million unemmore, most of us ployed. With so believe in some many citizens not level of progressive working, Obama taxation to make may reckon, why the process work. should he? ■ This is how we ~ Scripps Howcreate fire departbarbara smaller /the new yorker collection/www.cartoonbank.com ments, interstate ard News Service

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highways and a huge army and navy. It’s how we build dams and safe public water supplies. It’s how we manage to go to the moon.

And, as it turns out, most of us -- about 96 percent -- also believe in deriving personal, direct benefits from the redistributed money. This is borne out by the findings of a 2008 national survey by the Cornell Survey Research Institute, as reported in The New York Times on Sept. 24 by Professor Suzanne Mettler of Cornell and Associate Professor John Sides of George Washington University.

Ignoring the many government initiatives, like highways and safe food, that benefit everyone, Mettler and Sides explored the extent to which individual Americans use any of 21 social policies -- student loans, Medicare, housing -- that the federal government provides, including social policies embedded in the tax code.

The average American uses five of these policies at some point in her lifetime. Mettler and Sides tweezed out differences in the way various groups of Americans use government benefits, but the overwhelming finding was that virtually all Americans -- Democrats, Republicans, rich, poor --benefit at roughly the same level from federal government policies that are so thoroughly woven into our society’s fabric that an aged pensioner could, without irony, bluster at a campaign rally last year: “Keep your government hands off of my Medicare!”

Mettler and Sides put it nicely: “Instead of dividing us, our experiences as both makers and takers ought to bind us in a community of shared sacrifice and mutual support.”

So, our rants about smaller government and lower taxes need to be tempered by three facts: First, nearly all of us, even the wealthy, benefit significantly from the redistribution of wealth that creates and supports our society and improves our private lives. Second, there’s nothing disgraceful about this.

And third -- I hate to say this -- we are going to need more government, not less. The fact is, our economy is increasingly national and global and so are our biggest problems and challenges, like the rise of China, Muslim unrest and climate change.

The idea that the United States can cope with these threats and challenges with a drastically diminished federal government is as naive and unrealistic as Gov. Rick Perry’s threat that Texas might be tempted to secede from the union.

The attempt to hang a term like “redistribution” around Obama’s neck for political advantage is fraud of the first order. In fact, “redistribution” is just another way of saying “civilization.” ■ ~ Scripps Howard News Service

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Dressed for Success NORTH SHORE BOUTIQUES THRIVE WHILE SAKS PREPARES TO CLOSE

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Kelly Golden, owner of neopolitan in Winnetka, saw her nine-year-old store post its best sales month ever recently.

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he news that Saks Fifth Avenue in Highland Park would close its doors for good this New Year’s Eve rattled Theresa DeMaria earlier this fall.

“I was shocked and not happy,” said DeMaria, a fashion editor/freelance fashion stylist. “I also was disappointed. Saks is iconic, a flagship, a goto store.

“It’s the new normal, I guess: big businesses suffering.”

What’s not suffering – in fact, what’s thriving in a listless economy – are specialty boutiques along the North Shore.

Co-owners Carrie Kane and Sharon Watrous opened Chalk in Evanston nearly four years ago. It’s a women’s clothing and accessories fashion boutique, featuring ready-to-wear collections from European and American designers.

“We’ve been fortunate,” Watrous said. “We’re still going, and we started our business when the economy was at its most dire. We’ve recognized, ever since we

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started, the importance of presenting smart, well-made items by wonderful designers to our clients.”

Saks’ decision to close its Highland Park store opened Kane’s eyes.

“It was a wake-up call,” she said. “It also motivated us to keep doing what we’re doing … superior customer service. We feel fortunate and grateful that these economic times have meant a shift toward supporting local shops.”

Winnetka-based neapolitan, which houses exclusive women’s ready-to-wear, shoes, accessories and jewelry, has been around since 2003. Last month, it enjoyed its best month ever in sales.

Kelly Golden, a former standout member of state championship golf teams at Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette, isn’t just the boutique’s owner.

She’s also a buyer, a salesperson, a merchandiser.

A Jill of all trades.

“I enjoy seeing all angles, all sides of the business,” said Golden, who also views runway shows in New York, Italy and France each year and returns to the

North Shore with unique lines. “It’s fun and a lot of hard work. We buy with customers in mind, and we work hard at making shopping a personal experience.”

Cindy Rourke is neapolitan’s store manager and Golden’s sister-in-law. Some of neapolitan’s customers have become her good friends.

“We’ve dropped things off at clients’ homes,” Rourke said.

Saks Fifth Avenue stores, unlike most local boutiques, houses and sells cosmetics. And its clothing lines are more contemporary compared to those offered at Chalk and neapolitan.

But the little shops have to constantly come up big in the one department that’s priceless: familiar, friendly service.

“Making clients feel welcome as soon as they walk in is vital,” Chalk’s Watrous said. “So much of what we do is about making the shopping experience an enjoyable one for everybody.” ■

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Burger dedicated to teaching tough course at Lake Forest graduate school ■

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Sometimes it’s just fine to be a know-it-all.

If it were not such a mouthful, people might call Rich Burger of Lake Forest the chief financial officer’s chief financial officer.

Since 1996, Burger has been the CFO for Coleman Cable, a manufacturer of wire and cable that is one of the more successful publicly traded companies in northern Illinois. After the chief executive officer, the CFO of a publicly traded company may be the most important person in making sure that the shareholders’ investment is secure and growing.

In addition to his responsibilities at Coleman Cable, Burger teaches financial accounting and management at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He has been on the faculty of the school since 2005. Teaching at LFGSM is not an economic decision. He is dedicated to the idea that he has a responsibility to share his business acumen with young

executives.

One of the reasons for the recognized effectiveness of the LFGSM MBA programs is that they use accomplished realworld executives as teachers. This makes class discussions demanding and contemporary. The MBA programs at LFGSM are a quiet gem on the North Shore, where the University of Chicago and Northwestern University MBA programs sometimes take the limelight.

Burger commented about the demands of teaching at the graduate level.

“We always have to remember that our students are seeking more than a credential,” he said. “They deserve to learn how companies create value for their shareholders. My course is tough and pragmatic, because that is the way global business is today.”

Over the last four years, recession has impacted executive

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education. As companies have cut back on expenses, fewer are providing tuition subsidies to their employees. An MBA at LFGSM costs about $52,000 for two years of study. Northwestern’s Kellogg School charges almost $170,000 for its twoyear executive MBA program. This is a financial burden that is hard on students and even harder on MBA programs. As schools compete for fewer students, they must still be selective. It is a delicate balance.

It does not stop with admissions. A recent study indicated that 73% of students who drop out of executive graduate programs do so because they lack the financial resources to continue. These students either changed companies or saw their own employers reduce tuition assistance.

This may seem like another small casualty of the recession.

It will become more important, though, as these young executives grow in their responsibilities and reluctance to fund their advanced education becomes more apparent. We are fortunate that experienced executives like Rich Burger step forward to teach these young leaders.

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ed Nations headquarters in New York City.

“We look at the unique makeup of our team as a positive, having players from so many areas and backgrounds,” Bowkett said. “The diversity, I truly believe, brought us together so well during our summer preseason camp.

“I’m having fun at practices. Sometimes I speak Spanish because Joel (Doiny) is around,” Bowkett said. “I’m not fluent in Spanish, though. I also like to occasionally coach with a European accent.”

Caxys senior two-way lineman Felix Schildorfer, a 6-4, 250-pounder from Austria, must appreciate that. So must Swede Mark-Eric Rosenquist, a 6-3, 300-pound senior center/defensive lineman.

Rosenquist discovered he’d have to either adjust his way of playing in the U.S., or watch a steady downpour of penalty flags land near his feet each weekend.

“European football, it’s rougher,” said Rosenquist, who admitted he misses devouring Swedish meatballs in Stockholm.

“Over there you’re allowed to grab a player’s helmet, as long as you don’t grab the facemask. Here you have to do all you can to avoid making direct contact with another’s helmet.”

Annan, another two-way lineman, was recruited to LFA from Toronto by former Caxys football coach Ted Stewart.

Annan impressed Stewart shortly after finishing his second 40-yard dash at a Canadian combine last year.

“I was running right toward the (radar) sensor,” Annan recalled while sitting in a tub of cold water in LFA’s training room after last month’s De La Salle game. “I had to use a swim (lineman) move to avoid it, and (Stewart) must have liked my move.”

Annan, a sophomore and first-year LFA student, spoke with Faith Ekakitie before migrating from the Land of 10,000 Hockey Rinks to LFA. Ekakitie (LFA, ’12), one of the academy’s most successful international athletes in school history, is a freshman (redshirt) defensive lineman at Iowa.

And a Canadian.

“He told me, ‘Show them what you have, show them what you’re about, try your best,’ ” the 6-5, 275-pound Annan said. “It’s been so interesting at this school, learning from teammates and my teachers. The teachers here, they spend

lfa’s football roster seasoned with international flavor

Lake Forest Academy’s football roster is loaded with foreign players, including Wesley Nii Aryee Annan (left), Mathieu Albert Gagnon (center) and Mark-Erik Rosenquist.

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ake Forest Academy senior wide receiver Mathieu Gagnon, a native of Canada, speaks English, is taking a Spanish class this fall and has French-speaking parents.

If he ever gets stumped while doing his Spanish homework, he has an LFA roommate/football teammate, wide receiver Joel Doiny, who was nacio (born) in Panama.

Some of Gagnon’s other teammates hail from Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. Parents of another teammate, Canadian Wesley Annan, are from Ghana.

In other words, a Caxys football practice at LFA doubles as a World Cultures classes – sans walls and desks and textbooks.

“It’s very cool, being on such a diverse team,” the 5-foot9, 150-pound Gagnon said after scoring the game-winning touchdown – with 12 ticks left – in a 28-26 defeat of visiting De La Salle on Sept. 29.

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“I’ve learned a lot from so many guys … learned a lot of words in different languages.”

Twenty-eight percent of LFA’s student body of 430 this year is international, first-year LFA football coach Robin Bowkett noted after his squad improved to 3-3 last month.

But the percentage of internationals on his squad dwarfs that figure.

Twenty-nine student-athletes at the academy came out for LFA’s football team this fall. Every starter except for junior quarterback Christopher Karamanos plays offense and defense in each game. Only two Caxys on each side of the ball would be able to run for the U.S. Presidency some day because of that natural-born-citizen requirement.

If there’s a more multi-cultured grid squad than LFA’s in the U.S., it’s passing and running the football near the Unit-

“It’s such a different experience here, being around so many kids from so many different walks of life.”

— LFA athletic director Darren Madeley so much time with us, making sure our brains are ready for what’s next.”

Annan’s dream job is to suit up professionally on Sundays.

He also has a sound fallback plan.

“To become a pediatrician,” he said, his head still above water in the tub. “I like sciences, and I’m good at math.”

First-year LFA athletic director Darrin Madeley doubles as the academy’s director of hockey. The former NHL goalie likes to tout all things LFA. His daughter, Lake Forest College sophomore Jenna, is an LFA graduate (’11), and his son, Tyler, is a junior and Caxys hockey and lacrosse player.

“It’s such a different experience here, being around so many kids from so many different walks of life,” said Madeley, who has coached skaters from Estonia, Finland and Canada at LFA. “Kids here don’t have to be here; they want to be here, and a lot of them aren’t going through their high school years with kids they knew in middle school. A lot of colleges don’t have the kind of atmosphere we have here.” ■

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Highland Park midfielder Noah Bloch advances the ball against Zion-Benton on Oct. 11. Below, Nkita Katsman races for the ball.

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Highland Park’s Katsman and Bloch are opposites – except when it comes to succeeding on the soccer field “I’m that kid who watches a (YouTube) video and then goes out and practices it,” Katsman said.

He’s also that kid on the scoring end of Highland Park’s formidable 1-2 punch.

Katsman, who plays forward, and fellow senior Noah Bloch, who lines up at center midfield, have been the dyphotography by J.geil namic duo this fall for the CSL North champions, who beat Zion-Benton 2-1 on Oct. 11 to finish the regular season 12-4-4.

Bloch and Katsman have developed a great i rapport despite being exact opposites.

“Their personalities could not be more kita Katsman is fun to watch on different,” said Novotny. “They are Yin and the soccer field.

Yang. Nikita is flamboyant, boisterous and “He can do things with the soccer ball fiery. Noah is calm and tranquillo (Spanish that you only see on YouTube,” said High- for ‘tranquil’).” land Park High School head coach Blake Bloch’s mother is Argentine. Katsman is of Novotny.

Russian descent.

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But, when it comes to teaming up on a soccer field, nothing is lost in translation.

“We trust each other,” said Katsman.

Katsman has developed into a prolific scorer. He entered the postseason with 18 goals, which puts him third all-time at HP for goals scored in a single season.

“Nikita definitely is the one that I’m looking to get the ball to,” said Bloch, a threeyear starter who missed most of his junior campaign with a broken collarbone. “He does a good job of calling for the ball.

“And right now, he’s got the hot foot.

Teams know that he’s our guy.”

Bloch is the team’s prolific passer. He finished the regular season with eight assists, and he has 17 for his career, which ranks him eighth all-time at HP. “Noah puts me in a good position to score,” said Katsman. “Our whole game goes through him. He makes smart decisions. He doesn’t make mistakes.”

Roaming the midfield is Bloch’s comfort zone.

“It’s always been my position,” said Bloch, who would like to take his game to the Division III level next year. “The longer you play

the more you sense which position you’re good at. After a while you develop into the position. It becomes natural to you.

“I might be a little lost at a different position.”

Bloch has impressed people this season.

He was named all-tournament at the North Shore Shootout.

“He’s very consistent,” said Novotny.

And the coach loves that he’s an all-out guy.

“He’s willing to sacrifice himself,” said Novotny. “That’s why he’s constantly battling ankle injuries.”

Katsman’s breakout season comes as no surprise to his coach.

“With the talent we had at forward last year, he was a little buried,” Novotny said.

“But we knew coming into this season that he would be one of our main guys.

“He’s really fit. He’s very fast.”

And then, there’s that flamboyance.

“Scoring and doing fancy things with the ball is the best part of the game,” said Katsman. “That’s the reason I fell in love with this sport.” ■

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Highland Park’s Sarah Raab rips a shot during doubles play at last Saturday’s sectional.

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t happened again last Saturday, to the surprise of absolutely nobody in Illinois’ prep tennis world.

A Highland Park High School tennis team, coached by Steve Rudman, battled in a sectional last weekend and an intrasquad contest broke out in the doubles final.

HP seniors Jacqueline Baum and Sarah Raab defeated HP senior Rachel Goldberg and junior Nicole Berkman 7-6, 6-3 for the Highland Park sectional doubles title.

Vowels and consonants.

Plumbers and wrenches.

Costumes and Halloween bashes.

Rudman and successful doubles teams.

Some things go together. Always.

Rudman, also the boys tennis coach at the school, downplayed his guidance – and praised his state-bound quartet.

“What I like about all four of them is

how well they understand their roles on the court,” said Rudman, who returned to coach HP’s girls this fall after a three-year hiatus.

“Each pair knows which one has to do the setting up (of points) and which one has to do the finishing.

“And they’re good kids, hard-working kids,” he added.

Baum is a USTA-tournament-tested kid, capable of playing No. 1 singles one day and No. 1 doubles the next. She reached the state meet in singles last fall.

She likes to rip shots from the baseline this fall. If her doubles opponents are ever able to answer such a shot, Raab is near the net, ever-ready to pounce and R.I.P. the point.

Baum/Raab’s best win to date was a 6-2, 6-3 defeat of Deerfield’s Jenna Borzak/Jorie Fox earlier this month. That it also avenged a

loss made it sweeter.

“We were used to each other (the second time) … and very motivated to win,” Baum said after she and Raab topped Carmel Catholic’s Emily Rhine/Maclain Edwards 5-2 (injury default) in a sectional semifinal Saturday.

Goldberg is a lefty, a highly effective weapon to have on doubles courts – especially when there’s talent to go with it. Goldberg/ Berkman improved to 17-4 as a tandem last weekend. “(Berkman’s) game complements Goldberg’s game really well,” said Rudman.

“That’s what I like about putting those two together. It’s a good fit, and so is Baum/Raab (13-6).”

When it comes to pairing doubles partners, Rudman – an all-state doubles player at HP, in 1980 – has been an ace matchmak-

er. Some of his all-state boys doubles players: Sam Barnett, Zacko Brint, Jeff Chudacoff, Brandon Fisher, Justin Lewis, Tyler Manci, David Zak and Ben Woldenberg.

Rudman is an intense, passionate coach.

Ask any of his players.

But he also has a light, fun-loving side.

“He’s hilarious … can be fun 24/7,” Raab said. “Our team has had a lot of fun moments this season.”

Rain forced some sectional matches to be played indoors at Midtown-Bannockburn Saturday afternoon. Carmel edged HP 2726 for the team title.

Woodlands Academy senior Kaitlyn McCarthy advanced to state with a fourth-place effort in singles.

The three-day state meet started Oct. 18 at Buffalo Grove HS and several other sites. ■

courtside Girls tennis teams from Lake Forest and New Trier high schools, along with Loyola Academy, qualified their full squads (2 singles players, 2 doubles teams) to the state meet at sectionals last weekend.

LF, the 2010 state champion, received championship efforts from freshman singles

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player Elizabeth Zordani and the doubles team of Maddie Lipp/Christina Zordani at Grayslake North.

Elizabeth Zordani defeated junior teammate Catherine Orfanos 6-3, 6-1 in the singles final, while Lipp/Christina Zordani topped Taya Zoubareva/Victoria Falk in an-

other all-Lake Forest final.

LF captured the team title with 36 points, well ahead of runner-up Warren (22).

Reigning state runner-up New Trier, meanwhile, netted a sectional-best 27 points on its home courts behind first-place performances from junior Carol Finke and Kirstie Wood-

bury/Cammie Frei. Finke solved sophomore teammate Taylor Tamblyn 6-0, 6-2 in the singles final; Woodbury/Frei bested Loyola Academy’s Jennie Gault/Nora Hughes 6-2, 6-2 in the doubles final. ■

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T Loyola junior Peter Leinenweber, seen here during earlier action this fall, placed 14th at the state meet to earn Class 3A all-state honors.

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ew Trier coach Scott Fricke called it the “ultimate team victory.”

The Trevians capped off an impressive postseason by capturing top honors in the rain-shortened IHSA Class 2A state girls tournament at Hickory Point Golf Course in Forsyth last weekend.

“We talked about how this might be a one-day event with the weather forecast,” said Fricke. “We were up by four strokes after Friday and by eight when the rains came (on Saturday).

Sparked by senior Nerissa Denenberg (77), senior Callie Nelson (78), sophomore Lois Suh (79) and junior Lexi Salberg (79), New Trier wound up beating Prospect 313317.

The Trevians have set the standard during the 2000s. This was their sixth state title in 13 years. During that same span, they have two runner-up finishes.

This squad, which took second to Prospect in the Carmel Sectional, also was led by senior Ellie McGuire and junior Julia Schuham.

NEW TRIER BOYS It’s hard to predict these things.

But it really comes as no surprise — to New Trier coach Peter Drevline — that his young star came up with a Class 3A state championship.

“The North Shore knows all about Jack Junge,” said Drevline. “Now, the whole state knows about him.”

The sophomore shot a 71 on Day 1 of the state tourney at The Den in Bloomington.

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He ended up sharing medalist honors with fellow Central Suburban Conference golfer Ian Kelsey of Deerfield.

The two-day championship was sliced in half, when heavy rains washed away second round on Oct. 13.

“Mother Nature won a Saturday,” Drevline said. “The exciting part was the win by Jack.”

He became the first New Trier medalist since Mike Slaven won it all in 1999.

Junge went Downstate as a red-hot golfer.

He was a sectional medalist on Oct. 8.

“This win gives him a nice foundation for the future,” said Drevline. “We’re expecting big things from him.”

Junge, who is 5-foot-10, 150 pounds, has more than just a great skill set.

“It’s his demeanor,” Drevline. “He’s got one of the best demeanors that I’ve ever seen for a kid his age.”

The Trevians, who finished in a tie for sixth in the team standings (317) with Barrington, also received a solid effort from fellow sophomore Will Seaman (79).

Seaman, who claimed a conference title earlier this season, overcame a tough start (44 on the front nine) by carding a 35 on the back nine.

“He turned things around and was able to post a good score,” said Drevline.

The NT other scorers were seniors Ian Wright (83) and Graham Kenter (84).

AT LOYOLA She has been a model of consistency all season.

And junior Isabelle Kane kept that trait at the IHSA Class 2A state championship.

Kane shot a 75 at Hickory Point to finish in a tie for fourth place.

It was a nice improvement for Kane. Last year, she finished in a tie for 15th place.

On the boys side, junior Peter Leinenweber and Chris Nolan were bright spots for the Ramblers at state.

Leinenweber earned all-state honors (14th place) with a 76. Nolan shot a 78 for 25th place.

The Ramblers finished with a team total of 321 for 11th place.

AT LAKE FOREST Jackson Bedford, a junior, was the Scouts’ top golfer at the state meet. He scored a 78 for 25th place.

The Scouts, who had won back-to-back state titles, wound up ninth with a 319. The team received a 79 from Jake Kunz, 80 from Ian Mankoff and 82s from Jake Garrity and Drew Takacs.

Meanwhile, in girls Class 2A state tournament action, Emily Young capped off a brilliant freshman season by shooting an 86 (tie for 56th).

AT HIGHLAND PARK The Giants, who finished 12th with a 323, were paced by Patrick Flavin (79), Brandon Nasatir (80), Sam Meitus (81) and Ben Mirman (83).

On the girls side, sophomore Kelli Ono put up an 82 to finish in a six-way tie for 34th place. ■

here were plenty of clouds — mostly dark ones — at last weekend’s IHSA Class 1A state boys golf tournament in downstate Bloomington.

Cloud nine?

That one belonged to North Shore Country Day coach Joe Bosco.

“I can’t imagine anything more fun (than last weekend),” the Raiders coach said. “We just had a ball.”

Other than the foul weather — day two of the tournament was cancelled due to heavy rains — it was a picture perfect weekend for NSCD. The Raiders lived up to expectations by defending their state title. They beat El Paso Gridley by six strokes, 322-328.

And they had the medalist. Senior Nick McCall shot a 70 to win the title by one stroke over Landon Vaughan of Hamilton County.

“He caught fire,” said Bosco. “He had been building for this as the season wore on.”

Coming into the 14th hole, McCall, who finished fifth in last year’s state meet, was four shots under.

“He spent the last week working hard on his putting,” said Bosco. “That’s the area he needed to rise up in.”

The state champs also received strong showings from senior Andrew Bedford (78), junior Andrew Blechman (80), junior Will Skinner (85), senior David Blechman (85) and sophomore Sam Reategui (87).

Bedford finished in a six-way tie for 17th place.

“He really developed in a short period of time,” said Bosco, noting that Bedford placed 45th in last year’s state meet. “He gave Nick a run for his money. He should feel very proud of his season.”

Bosco also likes what he sees in Blechman. “He’s got a great temperament for the game.”

The Raiders didn’t take anything for granted.

“In my 24 years of coaching and teaching golf, what I do know is that you never know (how things will turn out),” Bosco said. “We felt like if we played well, then we’d be in contention for the title.” ■

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Loyola Academy’s Anna Pontarelli (left) and Maddie Hartmann (center) celebrate a winning point with teammates during a game at Glenbrook South.

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addie Hartmann and Anna Pontarelli give the Loyola Academy volleyball team a potent 1-2 punch.

“They bring power and poise,” Ramblers coach Mark Chang said. “They are explosive in their approach, and they are very well-rounded players.”

Joined by fellow seniors Anne Ruddy, Lindsay McKerr, Grace Kane and Sara Udelhofen, Hartmann and Pontarelli are co-captains on a squad otherwise populated by first-year varsity players.

Through last week, Pontarelli had 2.2 kills per set and a 27.2 kill percentage. Hartmann had 1.3 kills per set and a 36.0 kill percentage. Hartmann is also third on the team with 16 blocks, behind juniors Kelsey O’Neill (22) and Danielle Van Zelst (17).

“Anna has an intensity in her leadership, and Maddie holds a lot of wisdom,” Chang said. “They both offer real, natural athleticism.”

Pontarelli likes what she sees this year. The Ramblers had a 16-7 record heading into the Autumnfest Tournament at

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Glenbard East, where they finished 17th out of 24 in one of the state’s most rigorous tests. Three weeks ago, they finished second at Stevenson where Pontarelli was named to the alltournament team.

“Everyone here is dedicated to volleyball,” Pontarelli said.

“We’ve worked it out with all the new people, and we have a good chance of going far (in the postseason).”

Hartmann and Pontarelli have been teammates seemingly forever. Besides teaming up on the volleyball court, they star on the soccer field.

“We’ve always been on the same team for everything,” Hartmann said.

The two have been acquainted with each other since kindergarten at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Glenview, and they became soccer teammates by third grade. They first took the volleyball court together in the fifth grade, and with the exception of freshman year when Hartmann made the varsity team, they have been teammates ever since.

Hartmann and Pontarelli will lead the Ramblers at this weekend’s Girls Catholic Athletic Conference tournament.

And then, it’s on to the postseason.

With a No. 4 seed in the Niles North Sectional, Loyola is once again on a collision course with archrival New Trier.

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Last year, the Ramblers pulled off the upset over NT. Facts are, Loyola could make a lot of noise in the IHSA tournament, but every match after this weekend is a potential season-ender.

“I feel like we’ve touched on that as a team, but it’s not reality to me yet,” Hartmann said. “It hasn’t hit me. I don’t want to believe it.”

And once it ends, there will be tears. But they will have

“We’ve always been on the same team for everything,” —Anna Pontarelli Co-captain of Loyala Volleyball Team soccer season to look forward to.

Pontarelli and Hartmann have been as dedicated to soccer as to volleyball that they have eschewed club volleyball to be able to play the different sports.

“It’s a tough decision, but I like volleyball better because it’s more of a team sport,” Pontarelli said. “Everyone has to be together. Every point counts and it depends on everyone being on their game.”

“I know what Anna would answer, but I can’t choose,” Hartmann said, correctly saying Pontarelli favors volleyball.

“When I’m in volleyball season, I can’t imagine playing anything but volleyball. When I’m in soccer season, I love playing soccer. I can never choose.” ■

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gametime HIGHLAND PARK Friday: HP (3-5, 3-1) at Deerfield (4-4, 3-1), 7:30 p.m.

What’s in play? The Giants were eliminated from the state playoffs following their Week 8 loss to Glenbrook North. But they will be ready on Friday — because it’s Deerfield.

TNSW prediction: HP 14, Deerfield 13 LAKE FOREST Friday: LF (5-3, 2-3) at Mundelein (0-8, 0-5), 7:30 p.m.

What’s in play? The LF quarterback is averaging 226 passing yards per game. His QB rating is 133.9.

His main targets include David Glynn (45-422), Hub Cirame (43325), Scott Powell (32-306) and Nick Giordano (28-269).

TNSW prediction: LF 35, Mundelein 7

FORD FOCUSED ■ by

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Loyola Academy’s Luke Ford breaks free after a second half pass reception against Fenwick on Oct. 6.

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Where there’s the football, there’s Loyola’s omnipresent wideout/defensive back

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omebody finally made Luke Ford feel uncomfortable on a football field.

Ford is Loyola Academy’s superb senior wideout/defensive back, a 6-foot-3, 200-pounder who has the build of a fit tight end and the tackling abilities of an all-state linebacker.

But he looked uneasy near his home field’s end zone on Oct. 13th, not long after he and the Ramblers fried Brother Rice 45-0 to secure a share of the Catholic League Blue title in soggy Wilmette.

Teammate and fellow DB Daniel Rafferty, standing a few feet to Ford’s left, had said things that turned the red-headed Ford’s face into a shade of embarrassed pink.

The things Rafferty said: “Luke? Luke means everything to our team, and he’s king of our school. Humble and personable, too. Everybody looks up to him. My younger brother (Charlie) is a freshman at the school. One day he said to me, ‘Hey, I saw Luke Ford at school today.’ ” See the football in a game involving Loyola.

See Luke Ford.

Guaranteed.

“Luke is always around the ball, a playmaker, a guy who holds our team together,” Rafferty said. “You take him away from our team and we’d be nowhere close to the team (7-1, 3-0) we are now.”

Ford, a Glenview resident, is one of four captains, along with senior quarterback Peter Pujals, senior middle linebacker Cody Sullivan and senior defensive lineman Darby Goodwin. The latter three are the vocal leaders, the sirens.

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Ford is Marcel Marceau in pads.

“I’m not much of a talker,” Ford admitted. “I like to lead in other ways.”

His favorite way is to let his play do all the yapping for him. It can be deafening. He picked off a pass Saturday – his second of the season – and generally made life miserable for any ball carrier and any Crusader who dared to run a route anywhere near Ford.

He averages 7.3 tackles per game.

On the other side of the ball Ford has caught 22 passes (three TDs) for 420 yards (19.1 per catch).

“One of the best all-around football players I’ve ever coached,” Ramblers coach John Holecek said of Ford, blessed with 4.6 speed in the 40. “As smart as anyone on the field. Can do anything you ask him to do. Luke is an exceptional, exceptional player.”

Ford’s game, in a word, in last year’s Class 8A title game against Bolingbrook: exceptional. He amassed a game-high 12 tackles (eight solos) and came down with an interception in the 2117 loss.

It’s hard to believe, but Ford had little desire to play college football shortly after his junior season. That changed.

Division-I college coaches expressed serious interest in Ford, and the football bug in Ford pitched a tent and refused to stop buzzing.

“It got to the point, months after the end of last season, where I thought, ‘Wow, I really miss football, miss everything about it,’ ” Ford recalled. “Football has played such a pivotal part

of my life. It can give you so much.”

It gave him plenty, in the form of a scholarship offer from Holy Cross. Ford verbally committed to the school, as did Pujals.

The decision to become a tackling machine at the next level means he’ll follow in the enormous footsteps of his late father, Jim Ford. Dad Ford was an offensive lineman at Northwestern.

He died when Luke was 13.

“I saw pictures of him as a football player,” Ford said. “He was 290 pounds, a formidable guy. He did a great job raising me, and my mom (Geri) … She has been a rock.

“My dad still has an impact on me. I think of him before and after games. After games my thought usually is, “I hope I made him proud.”

Notable: Loyola’s Sullivan and senior Richie Wehman III also intercepted a pass in Saturday’s win against visiting Brother Rice. Sullivan returned his pick 47 yards to set up Pujals’ nineyard touchdown run in the first half. Pujals (12of-17 passing, 107 yards) also ran for a 43-yard TD. Junior running back Julius Holley added rushing TDs of 17 and two yards, and sophomore Mike Kurzydlowski booted a 27-yard field goal.

Wehman caught six passes for 67 yard in the first two quarters.

Loyola led 31-0 at the half.

LA senior running back Colin Skinner ran for a seven-yard TD run in the third quarter, and senior linebacker Devin Murphy picked up a Rice fumble and returned it three yards for a TD to cap the rout’s scoring. ■

LAKE FOREST ACADEMY Saturday: McNamara (5-3, 2-1) at LFA (3-5), 1 p.m.

What’s in play? The Caxys will wrap up the 2012 season with another Chicago Catholic League perennial power.

TNSW prediction: McNamara 28, LFA 10 LOYOLA Friday: Loyola (7-1, 3-0) at St. Rita (4-4, 0-3), 7:30 p.m.

What’s in play? Peter Pujals of the Ramblers is a complete quarterback. In this Week 9 battle, he’ll be looking to surpass 2,000 total yards. He already has 1,446 yards in the air and 415 on the ground.

TNSW prediction: Loyola 45, St. Rita 21 NEW TRIER Friday: NT (5-3, 3-1) at Waukegan (2-6, 0-4), 7:30 p.m.

What’s in play? The Trevians are coming off an emotional 15-9 win over Evanston on Oct. 12.

They will have to guard against a letdown against an improved Waukegan squad. Senior wide-out Devin Boehm enters the contest with 35 catches for 370 yards.

TNSW prediction: NT 20, Waukegan 14 NSCD Friday: NSCD (6-1, 6-1) at Longwood (0-7, 0-7), 7 p.m.

What’s in play? The Raiders put away Hope Academy 33-8 and are poised to pick up win No. 7 against a winless opponent.

NTSW prediction: NSCD 42, Longwood 7

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CROWD PLEASER BOEHM’S LATE RECEPTION CAPS OFF TREVIANS’ COMEBACK WIN

New Trier players climb the stands to celebrate the team’s 15-9 win over visiting Evanston on Oct. 12.

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H

e drifted into the end zone like an outfielder going back on a fly

ball.

For New Trier wide receiver Devin Boehm, this was — in baseball vernacular — a can of corn.

With the pass spiraling his way, he had just one thought.

“Just catch it,” said Boehm.

It might have been routine — if anything can be routine when a football team is fighting for a state playoff spot — but his wideopen, 30-yard touchdown reception with 1:39 left in the fourth quarter was the play of the game.

“They left me all alone,” said Boehm, pleased to have such good fortune.

“He was almost too open,” noted New Trier head coach Dan Starkey, following his team’s 15-9 come-from-behind victory over visiting Evanston on Oct. 12.

For Boehm — who happens to play outfield for the Trevians’ baseball team — there was no concentration breakdown. It was his

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10th catch of the night (115 yards).

“I had a couple of teammates tell me that the crowd went completely quiet when the ball went up in the air,” said Boehm.

And when the ball fell into his hands, the place erupted.

“I had a couple of teammates tell me that the crowd went completely quiet when the ball went up in the air,” — Devin Boehm

NOTABLE: Senior quarterback Nick Hendricks, who was making only his third start of the season, looked like a seasoned veteran against the Wildkits (4-4).

The 5-foot-11, 175-pounder, who com-

pleted 19 of 25 passes for 201 yards, did his best Tom Brady impression on the decisive drive.

“I didn’t feel a lot of pressure there,” said Hendricks, who calmly moved his team downfield (69 yards on six plays). “I didn’t want to let the team down.”

Besides, he added: “I’ve been dreaming about this since I was a little kid.”

“It was gratifying to see him play so well,” said Starkey, who had kept starter Frank Nicholas on the sidelines (concussion).

“Nick played with a lot of composure. He’s such a great kid. One of the hardest-working kids on the team.”

Besides connecting with Boehm on the game-winner, Hendricks also engineered an eight-play, 72-yard scoring drive just before halftime. He hit six different receivers and capped it off with a seven-yard jump-ball pass to junior Spencer Cotten (4-43) in the left corner of the end zone.

The offense also received solid running by junior Jordan Garrett, who followed the

blocks of Chris Valvassori, Perry Nitiss, Jeff Bell, Mike Frett and Tom Maentz to gain 58 yards on 17 carries.

With Michael Thomas out for the season, Garrett will be key down the stretch.

“He’s a great second-effort guy,” said Starkey.

Meanwhile, New Trier (5-3) had plenty of players step up on the defensive end.

“Our defense played lights out,” said Hendricks.

Hard-hitting defensive back Conor Kolstad led the team in tackles (9). He had a twoyard tackle for loss and broke up a couple of passes.

Kolstad praised his fellow defenders.

“I’ve never been on a team with guys who are so ready to go back on the field,” said Kolstad. “These guys are extremely resilient.”

The other playmakers were Michael Henderson (7 tackles), J. Harry McCaffrey (6 tackles, QB sack), Anthony Sernus (5 tackles) and Michael Welch (QB sack). ■

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FAST ACTION

Lake Forest forward Peter Passalino (bottom) collides with Lake Forest Academy goalie Teddy Baldwin during Oct. 9 action. The two teams battled to a 2-2 tie.

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on the gridiron

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Paley steps up in HP’s tough loss

rant Paley was extremely productive.

His stat line included line a fumble recovery and a forced fumble on defense as well as six catches for 113 yards and a touchdown.

But Paley could only focus on the score, a 48-28 loss to Glenbrook North, on Oct. 12.

It was a loss which eliminated the Giants (3-5 overall, 3-1 Central Suburban North) from playoff contention.

“I like winning,” Paley said. “I’m a competitive guy, and I don’t like feeling like this.”

Competitive? Look only at his one rushing play of the night, a busted option-pass play.

On 3rd and 19 from the GBN 40, Paley took a pitch and looked downfield to pass.

When no receivers were open, he tucked the ball under and ran down the right sideline, stretching as he was knocked out of bounds to net a 15-yard gain.

“Grant’s a great player,” coach Hal Chio-

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do said. “He does this kind of thing every game.”

Friday’s loss was a microcosm of the Giants’ season. Powerhouse Glenbrook North burst out to a 41-7 third-quarter lead behind big plays from Grant Rushing (187 yards and four touchdowns on 16 carries and 1-for1 passing for 38 yards and a touchdown) and A.J. Spitz (12 carries for 116 yards as well as 7-for-11 passing for 104 yards and two touchdowns), but the Giants came back with 21 unanswered points and were driving into GBN territory when they called the option play featuring Paley. A touchdown would have narrowed the difference to just one score.

“If we had gotten that first down, it would have been huge,” Paley said.

Highland Park couldn’t complete the comeback, but they had to have earned the respect of GBN. “We put up a fight,” Paley said. “Being down by that much at halftime, we were

playing just for pride at that point. There are a lot of life lessons in that.”

NOTABLE: Senior Andrew Sledd once again anchored the Giants’ offense with 94 rushing yards on 19 carries and two touchdowns. He also caught three passes.

Junior quarterback Tommy Sutker finished with 155 yards (12-23) and two touchdowns.

Junior Noah Pickus caught three passes, including a two-yard TD. He also had two fumble recoveries on defense.

HP’s other defensive leaders were junior Jason Goldsmith (forced fumble), senior Stan Echt (quarterback sack) and junior Jacob Wiczer (sack).

AT LAKE FOREST The Scouts (5-3) will be looking to put things back together on Friday night, when they travel to winless Mundelein (0-8). Getting that sixth win will be key with the state playoffs a week away.

LF dropped a toss-up game to host War-

ren 21-18 on Oct. 13.

Once again, senior quarterback Andrew Clifford put up good numbers. He completed 28 of 44 passes for 270 yards, including a 14-yard touchdown pass to Brian Murphy with 4:20 left in the second period.

Scott Powell finished the game with nine catches for 117 yards. David Glynn had six catches for 77 yards. Murphy caught five passes for 45 yards, while Hub Cirame ended up with five catches (28 yards) to go along with 42 rushing yards, including a 4-yard TD run in the fourth quarter.

Baylor Broughton helped the LF cause with a pair of field goals in the first half: 24 yards and 27 yards.

On defense, the Scouts were led by Regis Durbin (7.5 tackles, including a tackle for loss), Jack Traynor (5.5 tackles), Chris Wilson (sack, TFL), Tom Kutschke (sack, TFL), Matt Harmon (sack, TFL), Trent Williams (TFL), Austin Mcllvaine (TFL) and Richard Daniels (TFL). ■

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T

he sky seems to be the limit for Deer Path’s Lauren Garriques.

Just a sixth-grader, she worked her way to a sixth-place finish in the IESA Class 3A state girls cross country meet.

Her super showing (11:56) helped the Lake Forest school to a trophy-winning third-place finish on Saturday at Maxwell

the rundown BATTLE-TOUGH CHODY CLAIMS NSC TITLE ■ by

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lle Chody is a rookie when it comes to cross country.

But don’t be fooled.

Despite being a first-year runner, Chody, a former swimmer at Lake Forest High School and a nationally ranked triathlete, knows how to compete.

“She’s been in battles before,” said LF girls Steve Clegg.

Thus, it comes as no surprise that Chody claimed top honors in the North Suburban Conference championship meet on the Wilmot (Wis.) course on Oct. 13. The senior cruised the challenging course in 19:13, which was three seconds faster than Warren’s Meg Tully.

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Park in Normal. Deer Path scored a 147 to finish behind Chatham Glenwood (83) and Mt. Prospect Lincoln (142).

Garriques, a high-level triathlete, has been down this path before. As a fifth-grader last fall, she took 25th in the Class 2A race.

“It’s her toughness,” said Deer Path coach Martha Sostre, a former runner at the University of Iowa. “She knows how to power her way to the front.”

Speaking of skies, Deer Path and rest of the field had to battle tumultuous weather on Saturday.

There was thunder and lightning. And then more thunder and lightning.

The race was delayed almost three hours.

“Our girls were so good throughout the

whole thing,” said Sostre.

Mary Gregg was the team’s second finisher (16th, 12:09). The other scorers were Alex Manley (45th), Courtney Schmidt (55th) and Emma Millburn (57th).

“I’m very excited for the girls. Very proud,” said Sostre, noting that her team was bumped to Class 3A this year.

Deer Path has developed into a stellar program. They were second in Class 2A last year and fourth two years ago.

On the boys side, Deer Path had two runners — eighth-graders Etienne Najman and Andrew Singh — finish in the top 15 on Saturday. Najman completed the course in 11:05 to place 11th overall. Singh took 15th in 11:08.

At Wilmette Junior High Katie Grew, a seventh-grader, was the standout for this team on Saturday. She finished 10th in the Class 3A race in Normal in a time of 12:02.

Teammate Rachel Weix also was recognized at the awards ceremony. She finished 17th in 12:10.

Wilmette, which is coached by Aaron Dubnow and Danielle Kiefner, placed sixth in the team standings — a history best — with 204 points.

This was the fourth state meet appearance in a row for Wilmette.

The other scorers were Caroline Fix (67th), Kristie Kalis (70th) and Grace Fagan (83rd). ■

“It’s a huge accomplishment,” said Clegg, “especially for a kid coming out for the team for the first time.”

Chody sparked the Scouts to a first-place team finish (49 points). She was followed in by teammates Helen Schlachtenhaufen (5th, 19:28), Gabrielle Simeck (7th, 19:35), Callie Schmidt (15th, 19:48) and Claire Yandell (21st, 20:10).

Warren was the runner-up (57 points).

Meanwhile, on the boys side, Billy Bund of the Scouts captured top honors. He recorded a 15:31 to win comfortably over Warren’s Martin Martinez (15:36).

AT NEW TRIER As expected, Courtney Ackerman was the star performer in the CSL South championship race, which was held at the Waukegan Sports Complex on Oct. 13. The senior stormed to the finish line, winning by nearly 24 seconds (17:35).

The Trevians, who scored 28 points to beat Maine South by four points for the team title, also received solid work from Mimi Smith (3rd, 18:01), Jessica Ackerman (4th, 18:22), Kaitlin Frei (9th, 19:31), Kathleen

Keene (11th, 19:35), Oona Jung-Beeman (13th) and Kelli Schmidt (16th).

Meanwhile, Ethan Kaplan led the NT boys to a runner-up finish (36 points) behind Maine South (24).

Kaplan was clocked in 15:49.61, which placed him second behind Maine South’s Jon Vaccaro (15:45.75).

The Trevians put all seven runners in the top 20, including Chase Silverman (5th, 16:05), Ben Rosenkranz (8th, 16:11), Conor Trapp (9th, 16:19), Bennett Levis (12th, 16:29), Om Kanwar (15th, 16:35) and Jake Greenberg (19th, 16:46).

AT LOYOLA ACADEMY Sarah Kelley came up the Ramblers’ highlight performance in the GCAC championships. She raced to a runner-up finish on the Turtlehead Lake course in Chicago in a time of 18:43.86.

Loyola, which scored 39 points to finish second to St. Ignatius (22), had seven runners in the top 13. Kathyrn House was seventh (18:58). She was followed in by Cecily Martinez (9th), Caroline Zaworski (10th), Claire Monticello (11th), Amanda Bombard

(12th) and Jackie McDonnell (13th).

On the boys side, the Ramblers, who took second as a team (53 point) to St. Ignatius (35), had six runners earn all-conference honors at the Chicago Catholic League championship. The list includes Jaquan Grier (8th, 15:50), Teddy Brombach (9th), Matt Randolph (10th), Chris Kelly (11th), Spencer Kelly (15th) and Christian Swenson (16th).

AT HIGHLAND PARK Maddie Dolins starred for the Giants in the CSL North championship. Her runnerup finish (19:01.68) led HP to a secondplace finish behind Glenbrook North 25-53.

The team also received solid efforts from Charlotte Nawor (7th), Marni Pine (11th), Mallory Sonenthal (13th) and Lindsay Friedman (20th).

The HP boys also came away with a second-place showing. The Giants were edged

by Niles North 39-46.

Jonah Hanig (3rd, 15:55.98), Angel Estrada (4th, 15:59) and Emmett Smith (5th, 16:03) led the way. Ben Casey helped out with an 11th place finish. Lucas Nudelman was 23rd. ■

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For Susan and Scott, THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME

“It was fun staying at the Deerpath Inn, since our house was rented out,” say Susan and Scott Garrett about their perfect weekend.

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cott worked for Baxter and was asked to run one of their companies in Switzerland. We lived there for two years. It was beautiful, but it was challenging too – the different language, the schools and it wasn’t home.

The first year we didn’t come to Lake Forest at all. Then, in 1988, we had a plan to come back. We wondered, “Have people forgotten about us?”

We landed on a Friday night in August. We went to the Lake Forest Club for dinner. It was a heartwarming event.

We realized how much we missed Lake Forest. Even if we weren’t best friends with people, it was great to see them. It was like a homecoming.

The next day, the kids (Brett, then 8, and Lizzie, then 6) visited with their friends. They could speak a language again where they could communicate. I remember driving down Deerpath that day. It was so beautiful and easy to navigate.

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As beautiful as Switzerland was, Lake Forest was more beautiful. We didn’t appreciate how lush the Midwest is. Everything was very green. All of a sudden, we felt back home again. We didn’t want it to go away.

Everything was so easy. Here, when we wanted to go out to eat, we knew where we wanted to go. Lunch on Saturday was at Pasquesi’s for a plain hot dog with mustard and a bag of chips. We loved to bring our children to Pasquesi’s so they could go to the back of the restaurant where Mr. Pasquesi has all of his Lake Forest memorabilia, photos and mementos. Went to a friend’s house for dinner that night. It was fun staying at the Deerpath Inn, since our house was rented out.

We had breakfast there in the mornings. There was nothing like a hamburger in the pub there.

Our trip back brought back how important Lake Forest is to us. ■ ~ Susan and Scott Garrett, as told to David Sweet

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