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Shah Leads GOP Money Race for U.S. House
Local Moguls NEW OWNERS GIVE LIFT TO TROLLS SKI CLUB BY LIBBY ELLIOTT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
Sapan Shah of Libertyville, one of three Republicans seeking their party’s nomination to represent the 10th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, ended 2017 with substantially more cash on hand than his primary opponents. Shah has nearly twice the war chest as Jeremy Wynes of Highland Park and almost six times as much as Doug Bennett of Deerfield. Bennett, Wynes and Shah are competing in the March 20 primary for the right to challenge Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Deerfield) in the November 6 general election. Shah ended the year with $602,016.95 cash on hand, according to his report filed with the Federal Election Commission. He raised $337,545 for the quarter ending December 31 for a total of $647,234 since he started his campaign. Wynes ended 2017 with $216,631 in the bank after raising $67,357 in the fourth quarter, according to his FEC report. For the year, he has collected $327,262. Bennett had $101,632.80 to spend on his campaign as of the end of last year. He took in $20,411 for the fourth quarter and $29,821 for the year. His campaign is primarily self funded so far. He loaned his effort $115,000 and made a donation of $12,000, according to the FEC report. Continued on PG 6
Ask skiers who grew up in suburban Chicago during the 1960s and ’70s and they’ll likely remember a childhood filled with cold, snowy winters and weekend bus trips to local Wisconsin ski resorts like Wilmot, Little Switzerland and Cascade. Many will tell you they earned their skiing chops on the glorified hills and minimountains of the Midwest. Back then, an abundance of ski clubs operated out of the North Shore, shuttling hundreds of kids each Saturday morning to the Wisconsin slopes for ski lessons and a day of fun, and returning them home at night - tired but happy. Fast-forward 50 years and this North Shore tradition is still going strong with two thriving weekend ski programs: the Avalanche/Trolls Club, whose home base is the Scandinavian Ski Shop in Glenview, and the Snowflake Club, which operates out of Williams Ski & Patio in Highland Park. Nearly 1,300 children signed up for membership in this year’s Snowflake Club, the North Shore’s oldest and biggest youth ski program. On the Martin Luther King Jr. school holiday, Snowflake transported more than 500 skiers aged 8-18 on six buses to Alpine Valley Resort in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. An average Saturday ski trip will draw around 250-300 participants. “Snowflake Club has successfully run the same program for 50 years with very few changes,” said the club’s director, Kathy Borkowski, who skied with the group as a child growing up in Lake Forest. “Probably our biggest changes have been adding snowboarding lessons 25 years ago, and creating an online booking system.” Last year, fellow Snowflake Club alums Jordan Holtzman and his sister Shayna Holtzman-Schneider bought the longstanding Trolls Club in Glenview with an
A bus full of kids awaits departure of the Avalanche/Trolls Ski Club at Lyons School in Glenview on February 3. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
eye toward growing and modernizing the business. Originally f rom Highland Park, the pair grew up skiing regularly at local resorts. “The Trolls Club had been around for a long time, but its numbers were dwindling because of lack of marketing and innovation,” said Jordan. These days, the newly branded Avalanche/Trolls Club uses the same pricing and online booking system as the Snowflake Club, in addition to the same staffing ratio, regulation uniforms, club patches, and safety precautions. However, with a
significantly smaller roster of 200 members, the club’s owners say they have an advantage of knowing every single skier they host on day trips. “Our youngest skier this year is 7 years old,” said Jordan. “He wants to go to the Olympics. Everything about him reminds me of myself.” The brother and sister said they’re concentrating their efforts on building their own membership base in parts of the North Shore that fall outside Snowflake’s catchContinued on PG 6
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