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SATURDAY AUGUST 31 | SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1 2019
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
SPORTS
Ed Asner brings his one-man show to Piven Theatre. P22
LFA hoops product Ryan Clamage shoots high, lands pro gig in Israel. P20
SOCIAL SCENE
Junior League of Evanston-North Shore hosts anniversary celebration. P15 FOLLOW US:
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NEWS
ICONS CHATTER A TRIO OF SEASONED BASEBALL MEN—FROM A TRIO OF THE SPORT’S SECTORS—SET TO ENLIGHTEN FANS AT GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER EVENT. BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Remember “The Ryne Sandberg Game” at Wrigley Field in 1984? A 59-year-old Lake Bluff resident certainly does, and there’s a good chance he’ll revisit it September 12 for an audience at the Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest. The North Shore dweller? Ryne Sandberg himself. “Ryno” was the Chicago Cubs’ second baseman— and future Hall of Famer—on that June 23 (Sandberg’s jersey number) when he struck a pair of late home runs against St. Louis closer Bruce Sutter in the Cubs’ stunning, thrilling 12-11 victory. Sandberg, the 1984 National League Most Valuable Player and a Lake Bluffian since 2016, will be joined in Gorton’s intimate Stuart Room by sports agent Alan Nero, who has represented five Hall of Famers, including Wade Boggs. Sandberg and Boggs were inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 2005. The third major baseball figure Continued on PG 10
BRIGHT FUTURES
WOMAN’S BOARD OF RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HOSTS SEPTEMBER 6 GALA AT THEATER ON THE LAKE. BY MONICA KASS ROGERS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
The strides that Rush University System for Health (RUSH) has made over the last seven decades to improve health care throughout Chicago are beyond impressive. Since 1948, the academic health system has been integrating top quality patient care, education, research, and community service through its university colleges, hospitals, and community partnerships (garnering national recognition for leadership in all three areas). But the real “wow” factor is RUSH’s enduring leadership in health equity—one that has effectively dismantled longstanding barriers to the economic and physical health of underprivileged residents from its home on the west side of Chicago, blazing trails for the nation to follow. Cindy Nicolaides, president of the Woman’s Board of Rush University Medical Center, says that those trailblazing achievements are part of what inspires she and a loyal team of volunteers to help RUSH expand its mission. “Working together with the accomplished women that are board members to raise funds to assist RUSH in providing comprehensive outreach programs that work to close the health equity gap has been so rewarding,” adds Nicolaides, who will lead a team of co-chairs to host the woman’s board’s fall benefit on Friday, September 6. Titled “Bright Futures,” the event will be held from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Theater on the Lake. Proceeds benefit volunteer programs that come under the banner of the Rush Community Service Initiative Program (RCSIP), to which the woman’s board has already pledged $500,000 in support. Together with Nicolaides, fall benefit cochairs Colby Gaines of Chicago, Buffy (Elizabeth) Maier of Winnetka, and Susie Healey of Wilmette worked to shape a gala with a relaxed and festive feel. Moving away from the traditional seated dinner, the team has orchestrated an evening with cocktails, a dinner buffet and live band—The Bob Hardwick Sound of
Woman’s Board of Rush University Medical Center members Colby Gaines, Susie Healey, and Buffy (Elizabeth) Maier are co-chairing a September 7 “Bright Futures” fundraiser. PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARY RAFFERTY
NYC. “By changing the format up just a bit, we are giving guests the option to come for cocktails and support the cause, or, to make an entire evening of it,” says Gaines.
“It was really fun trying to choose a location for our event,” adds Healey. “Ultimately we decided on Theater on the Lake because it sits Continued on PG 10
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