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Taco Time A FESTIVAL AND 5K RUN PAYS HOMAGE TO A POPULAR LOCAL TREAT. BY ELIZABETH PORTER THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Calling all taco lovers. If you can’t resist the right combo of heat and garnish, have specific preferences about flour vs. corn tortilla, and/or otherwise consider yourself a taco connoisseur, Highwood has a festival with your name on it. The 4th annual North Shore Taco Fest on Saturday, July 20, and Sunday, July 21—held around the Highwood Metra Station in downtown Highwood—will feature more than 20 vendors serving creative variations of tacos, including local favorites like La Casa de Isaac, The Otherdoor, La Plancha Loca, the Mean Wiener, and Taco Vida. Adults can also enjoy beer, margaritas, and sangria from the bar. (Yes, we know. It doesn’t get better than this.) And yet ... it does. On top of the taco festival, there will also be a 5K and pet-friendly walk on Saturday morning ( June 20) to benefit the North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic, which provides immigration, domestic violence, and legal services to those in need. Since opening four years ago, the clinic has helped 1,500 people become U.S. citizens, stay in their homes, and escape abusive relationships. “We are thrilled and thankful to partner with Celebrate Highwood and be the beneficiary of the Annual Taco Run. The funds from the 5K Continued on PG 10
DREAM FACTORY FIRST ANNUAL WINNETKA IDEA TANK INVITES YOUTHFUL ENTREPRENEURS TO SHARE THEIR VISIONS ON JULY 17. BY MONICA KASS ROGERS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
It’s time! All those brilliant ideas for new products, services, and creations that the young people in your lives have cooked up now have a place to shine. The first annual Winnetka IDEA Tank for Kids is happening at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17 at the Winnetka Chapel. Entry and registration is open for kids aged 8 to 14 living anywhere in the Chicago area. The free event—created by Lowey Bundy Sichol of Winnetka, author of four books for children on entrepreneurship—gives kids the chance to pitch their bright ideas to an impressive “Shark Tank” panel of business leaders, including executives from the Chicago Blackhawks, Peapod, Merrill Lynch, Valslist.com, and Spynergy Chicago. Participants will have the opportunity to present their ideas to the panel, with cash prizes awarded for the top five ideas, T-shirts for all participants, and a $1,000 grand prize for the brightest idea in the bunch. The event is open to the public and the community is encouraged to attend to cheer everyone on. “Kids can change the world through their ideas,” says Sichol, “and entrepreneurship is the path to do it. I meet so many children who are full of great ideas, but are afraid to put them out there. I tell them, ‘It doesn’t matter what your background is, what language you speak, or the color of your skin. You don’t have to be the smartest kid in the class to have a good idea, but you do have to believe in it and have the courage to give it a try’.” Before writing her books, Sichol, who has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, had a career in brand management and marketing. She spent years writing case studies for leading business schools on the people and companies that transformed great ideas into successful endeavors. “Every single one of these entrepreneurs had three things in common,” she says. “They had an idea that solved a problem. They were not afraid to fail. And they worked their tails off to take their ideas and make them realities.”
Lowey Bundy Sichol.
To participate in the Winnetka IDEA Tank, kids need to fill out an online application form at winnetkaideatank.com summarizing their idea, and including some key information. “Be sure to include information on which problem your idea solves and if it’s a product, try to figure out how much would it cost to manufacture. How much would you sell it for? Where would you sell it? And who would your customers be?” says Sichol.
For kids who’d like to work on prototypes of their products, The Winnetka Library has a Maker Space area in the basement, complete with 3D printers, and other tools to help them with their presentation. If all goes well with the first event, Sichol hopes to expand IDEA Tank for Kids to other cities, bringing it back to Chicago every summer. Continued on PG 10
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