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Lake County Community Foundation thriving under Armour, the resource’s executive director. P46
‘Nat’ at Nite: Highland Park HS senior guard Andrew Natinsky nets 18 points in home win. P42
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’Tis the season to be ... Holly. Our Lady of Perpetual Help hosts 37th annual Holly Fair. P26 FOLLOW US:
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NEWS
‘Joseph’ and the added shows Popularity prompts Citadel Theatre to extend run of musical BY JEN SHEA THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
It’s going to need another coat. Or five. Not a painted wall; the run of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Citadel Theatre in Lake Forest this month. Five performances have been added. The production, originally scheduled to end on December 23 (after opening on November 16), will run through December 30 instead. “I knew that there was a possibility that we would be selling out performances,” Citadel Theatre Artistic Director Scott Phelps says. “It ’s very popular.” The additional shows: December 27 at 7:30 p.m.; December 28 at 7:00 p.m.; December 29 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.; and December 30 at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are Continued on PG 18
Oh my, Clemantine NTHS Alumnus Award winner retells harrowing, inspiring story of survival BY MARK LAWTON THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Ask Clemantine Wamariya where she’s from, and you’d get an equivocal answer. “I was born in Rwanda. I am from Chicago,” Wamariya, 30, says. “Sometimes I feel like I am from nowhere.” Wamariya (New Trier High School, Class of 2008), who will receive the 2019 Young Alumnus Award from NTHS in March, has a background that’s unequivocally disparate compared to most of her former North Shore classmates’ upbringings. She escaped genocide, experienced separation from most of her family and had to resort to (along with her older sister) borrowing kitchenware — all at the age of … 6. Wamariya’s early years were spent in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. As a little girl she recalls helping her mother in the garden, climbing a mango tree with her brother, visiting her grandparents’ farm and never hesitating to ask a question when one popped up in her mind. “I’d ask, ‘How are things growing out of the ground?’” Wamariya says. “I was curious about the moon and the stars and how a car is driven.” She particularly liked kindergarten. “I had all the attention I could possibly get from everybody,” Wamariya says. “I liked talking to everyone.” In her sixth year, things changed. Drastically. Her parents informed Clemantine of their intent to send her to her grandparents’ farm. At first she was excited. “I loved being there,” Wamariya says. “I didn’t have to wear shoes; that was a rule. I loved not wearing shoes.” Wamariya and her older sister, Claire, skipped the usual stop to pick up soap and sugar for their grandparents one day and arrived to find other people at the farm. Continued on PG 18
Clemantine Wamariya (New Trier High School, Class of 2008).
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