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Story of Survival: How one woman over came a rare condition. P46

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LOCAL D-112 Mulls FLORIST Boundary DECORATES Changes WHITE HOUSE FOR H HOLIDAYS NEWS

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IGHLAND PARK— North Shore School District 112 is considering redrawing neighborhood boundaries under the proposed reconfiguration plan that would close five of its 12 schools and build one campus for fifth through eighth grade students in southwest Highland Park. Two of the remaining middle schools, Edgewood and Northwood Junior High, would be renovated into elementary schools. “The bigger issue is reconfiguration, and boundaries are a subset,” said John Petzke, chief technology officer. Early voting is 15 days prior to the March 15 election, and the designated goal would be to have proposed boundaries in place by January 19. Petzke suggested identifying a boundary system that the community can support by getting feedback from a retreat, or putting an advisory committee together Continued on PG 12

began as an artist. Floral design started as therapy as Buck recovered a brain AKE FOREST — A local aneurism suffered five years ago. woman spent five days re“I was sitting around a lot cently working at the White when I was recovering and I House. needed a creative outlet,” Buck Alison Buck, a Lake Forest said. “Gardening was always native and resident, used her something my mother did. I skills as a florist as part of a team found it very healing.” decorating the White House for Buck recovered and two years Christmas Nov. 27 through Dec. after she was stricken she was in 3 and it came as a surprise cour- business for herself. Learning to tesy of her sister, Erika Kelly. arrange flowers was not only a When Buck started Alison critical part of her recovery, but Buck Floral Design three years a transformative experience. “I’m a different person now,” ago, the idea of plying her skills at the White House was nowhere Buck said. “I feel like I just finally on her radar. An art major with have found myself. I feel fulfilled a number of creative outlets, in a way I never have before. doing flower arrangements for Since her business is not retail, people’s events were not even Buck does not have a shop. She something she anticipated when has a studio in her home to BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

Florist Alison Buck of Lake Forest. PHOTO BY JOEL LERNER.

design her creations and spends time with customers on location before she goes to work on their specialized design. She said she does a lot of parties and special events. “I want to see where the flowers are going,” Buck said. “I

get the design in my head like a drawing or a painting. This is a piece of art for me.” Fast-forward to earlier this year. Kelly, who is a producer for KQED, a National Public Radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area, heard about the holiday

decoration program at the White House. She said she thought about her sister. Keeping it a secret from Buck, Kelly nominated her for the task. “She has a very moving story,” Continued on PG 12

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Daniel Hanson is this week’s Student Standout.

12 l ocal florist decorates

white house How Lake Forest native Alison Buck found her way to the White House.

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12 d -112 changes

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Loyola Academy quarterback Emmett Clifford is The North Shore Weekend Player of the Year.

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hose familiar with Lake Forest High School (LFHS) junior Daniel Hanson, would probably know him best from the soccer field. Last year, he was the only sophomore on the varsity team, and this year he’s one of the team captains. But Scouts varsity soccer isn’t the only organization in town where Hanson takes a leadership role. He also sits on the executive board of CROYA (Committee Representing Our Young Adults), which plans the organization’s youth meetings, activities, events, fundraisers, and service opportunities. “One of the things I love about CROYA is that it’s really about the students and the kids,” Hanson says. “They say the students lead it and we really do. That’s why we have the executive board. It’s also just like a second home I can go to be accepted or just to hang out with my friends. It’s great.” It’s their activities and events

that initially draw kids to their space at the Lake Forest Community Center. Like a Battle of the Bands, an 80’s-themed dance party, Instagram scavenger hunts, or massive games of dodge ball.

This year they had their first bubble ball soccer tournament, where the players are all encased in giant inflatable globes, so that they can charge right into each other like bumper cars while

playing five-on-five games of soccer. But there are also many opportunities for volunteer service hours. Hanson is one of the stalwart volunteers for the CROYA

Peer Mentoring Program. Tuesdays and Wednesdays after school, middle school students are shuttled to the conference room at CROYA where high school students offer tutoring help with difficult assignments. It can be targeted tutoring, if a student is having trouble with a particular subject, like science, they tap the high school science expert. Or more general help, treating the Peer Mentoring space like study hall, a quiet place to work on all homework and ask questions if any arrive. After studying, the kids get to hang out and experience the activities and camaraderie of CROYA. “Todd is a student that we can totally count on,” says Todd Nahigian, CROYA Manager. “He’s got a patience and dedication that’s really uncommon among high school students. He appreciates the value of working with others to make them better, knowing that, in turn, it’s going to make him better.” There are also service opportu-

nities assisting organizations outside of Lake Forest. “My favorite one is Feed My Starving Children,” says Hanson. “You’ll go to their facility and package food, like rice, that gets shipped off to somewhere in the world where kids are hungry. Because you’re actually packing it by hand, you feel like you’re really helping them.” Other service opportunities revolve around worktrips to build or refurbish the homes of the underprivileged; harvest organic food from the gardens at Elawa Farm; assisting at Equestrian Connection, an therapeutic horseback riding organization for people with physical limitations; or visiting and helping at senior living facilities. “The thing about CROYA is that it definitely helps you grow up and mature,” Hanson says. “I’m definitely going to keep doing service hours when I go to college, and after. I think everyone should be involved with service opportunities.”

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FLORIST Continued from PG 1 Kelly said of her sister. “She has been through a lot and had a lot of struggles. I felt her floral design would fit it with the (White House) project.” When Kelly got the word Buck was selected by the company which contracts the holiday decorations for the White House, she let their mother, Barbara Buck, know but said nothing when she arranged a face to face internet conversation with Alison Buck. “I set it up as Face Time so I could see her reaction,” Kelly said. “I started to tell her but it was hard to see her reaction because everything got pretty teary. There was a lot of screaming. She was so excited.”

Before she left for Washington, Alison Buck did not have much of an idea of what she would be doing. She knew she was part of a team of approximately 50 volunteers who would spend their first two days in a warehouse before decorating the White House the next three. She did let them know the skills she can bring. “I may be making garlands or wreaths,” Alison Buck said before she left. “It has to last through Christmas so there can’t be a lot of flowers. It will have to be greens.” There is one thing Alison Buck promised herself she would do during her time working in the White House. “No matter what I’m doing I will take a moment to (pause)

and celebrate where I am,” Alison Buck said. One thing was certain about the trip before Buck left. She knew there would be a White House party Dec. 2 for everyone who worked on the decorating effort. For Alison Buck the decision was easy—Barbara Buck. “She was the one who inspired me,” Alison Buck said. “She encouraged my artistic endeavors and she was always there. It’s my small way of thanking her.” Barbara Buck did get a tour of the West Wing when she was in Washington with a friend more than 20 years ago but she said this time would be special. “I’m excited for myself as well as Alison,” Barbara Buck said. “I like the Obamas and I hope I get to meet Michelle (Obama).”

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program. When a board member at the Dec. 8 meeting. pointed out that Oak Terrace Board member Eric Ephraim School is all dual-language, discussed the placement of Ephraim explained, “There’s dual-language programs. “It more predictability with dual seems more practical to have it language. If you live in this part in two schools rather than of town, you’re more likely to three,” he said. go to this school by having “I feel the exact opposite,” schools that are dedicated for said board member Jane Solmor that,” he said. Mordini. “Dual language is a After more discussion, the gem of a program in our com- board nominated Samantha munity. Students need to be Stolberg, vice president, for the more career ready with some advisory board committee. bilingual ability. The program Mordini and Board President that we have nurtured is the best Michael Cohn volunteered to in terms of educating. It should join her on the committee if no be in three schools.” one else was interested. “I agree with everything “Sometimes trios work better you’ve said, but from an effi- when you can’t get a committee ciency perspective we’ve identi- to come together,” said Petzke, fied two sections as being one “Sometimes having a third of the problems we’ve had in option is better. Two is better if our district, and now we’re we have a dynamic that allows going to create three two-sec- us to come to consensus.” “That’s why you should have tion schools? It just doesn’t make any sense,” said Ephraim. an experienced facilitator, and “If you put it in two buildings, I think time in between (in a take Edgewood and Oak retreat setting) only causes you Terrace, you have plenty of to rehash, and you waste a lot room for growth because they’re of time,” said Solmor Mordini. both four-section dual language Petzke stressed that the probuildings that have room for a posed boundaries are not fifth section if you need it.” “written in stone,” and changes He continued, “We talk can be made if necessary. about schools where we have 10 “It’s important to me as an kids in one section. We go over elected board member reprethe limit that way, and then we senting this community that we end up with three sections of approach the new boundaries 16, instead of being more effi- with the aim of changing as cient in how we populate our little as possible, because we are buildings. We can’t cross that bringing a lot of change to the kid over from dual to mono or community with our reconfiguvice-versa. This is one of the ration plan already, and it’s things we need to talk about in important that we make this as relation to boundaries.” comfortable as possible for evPetzke added that 600 stu- eryone,” said Solmor Mordini. dents are in the dual language She continued, “We can take

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away buildings and our community is getting used to the idea, but you cannot dissect and reconfigure neighborhoods. These neighborhoods have existed here before any of us were born and that has to be respected, and that has to be tread upon very carefully. You have to get it in your head, and not impact on students, because I don’t think you’re hearing me.” “I do hear you,” said Petzke. “I took a lot of time and effort. I’ve driven every single route. I can drill down how many kids are in that section, and actually start to look at building boundaries that way. For instance, we look at our current boundaries. If you consider the Wayne Thomas School section as a neighborhood, it blocks me. There’s not a lot I can do.” Solmor Mordini interjected, “You want to know what our neighborhood is? The Highlands area is a neighborhood, the Warblers area is a neighborhood, and Western is a neighborhood.” “I’d love to see if the neighborhoods you’re talking about are the same neighborhoods I’m talking about,” said Petzke. “Did I accidentally dissect one that’s critical? Then I could put that back together.” “You have to live here for awhile, have gone through the schools, or put your kids through the schools to understand [the neighborhoods],” said Solmor Mordini. “Your “planning areas” don’t reflect them adequately or appropriately. I’m hoping that’s what the boundary committee will bring.”

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Living Female Rock Critic Jessica Hopper BY GREGG SHAPIRO

hey say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes the title is all you need. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic(Featherproof, 2015) by Jessica Hopper tells you everything you need to know about what’s between the covers. Separated into eight sections, the collected writings span an 11 year period, from 2003 to 2014, in Hopper’s rock criticism career. Incorporating work from publications on the national level, including Spin and Village Voice, to regional outlets such as Chicago Reader, Nashville Scene, LA Weekly and Portland Mercury, and online sites such as BuzzFeed. com, Hopper’s voice has rung out loud and clear on the topic of rock music. Her subjects in the book range from internationally known artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and Rickie Lee Jones, to more independently heralded acts including M.I.A., Abe Vigoda and Mecca Normal. I spoke with Wilmette resident Hopper about her book in fall 2015. Gregg Shapiro: Jessica, I first encountered you when you were working as a music publicist. Did it feel like a natural progression to you to become a music journalist after working on the other side of the fence? Jessica Hopper: I was a music writer first. I started writing about music, freelancing, when I was about 16. To me, being a publicist, which I started doing when I was 19 or 20, and I did that for about eight years full time, I was writing at the same time. Not that one financed the other or anything like that, but they were both coming from the same place of fandom and a profound interest in music and my own independence. I didn’t transition into writing full time until I obviously decided to stop being a publicist. I had to work up to that place, get my mettle up [laughs] to write fulltime. I was really glad that I did. I realized after the fact that I could have done it years earlier, that people were waiting for me to not have these various [laugh] conflicts of interest, because I was writing about some of the same music scenes that I had also been participant in because of industry. GS: In addition to writing about music, are you also musical?

JH: I’ve played in bands. But it’s not something I’ve done in the last 10 or so years. All of my energy really needed to be in writing. I had toured with bands and I had an idea of what it took [laughs] to make it by virtue of working in the music industry. I was never interested in that. I played music for about 10, 15 years, but it’s not something I do much of anymore. GS: What musical instruments did you play? JH: Bass, primarily. Guitar, drums poorly. GS: How do you feel about the quote attributed to Martin Mull – “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”? JH: If I believed that I wouldn’t be doing it for a living. GS: What was the first rock concert you ever attended before you became professionally involved in the music industry? JH: Gosh, I don’t even remember. I think I started going to concerts when I was in 8th grade. The first concert that I ever bought tickets to for myself was Sinead O’Connor’s US tour that she canceled when she got pregnant. I think it was 1989. I remember those were the first tickets I bought myself and they were five dollars. That gives you an idea of how long ago it was [laughs]. GS: In addition to the publication of your book The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, 2015 is also a time in which other women in rock, such as Grace Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Kim Gordon, Carrie Brownstein, Patti Smith, Carly Simon and Freda Love Smith, among others, published memoirs. Why do you think that such a confluence is taking place? JH: I think part of it is that the publishing industry sometimes needs to see a precedent. That people are really interested. Carrie and Kim’s books were in the works for quite some time. I don’t know about the other ones. I think between the success of (Patti Smith’s award-winning) Just Kids and also the success of Viv Albertine’s memoir, which became a mass-market success, not just a niche success, that people were definitely interested. Carly Simon had an earlier co-written biography whose author was discredited. I can see why she would want to do

another book. Grace Jones has some box sets coming and it’s timely in terms of her career. I think some of it is that people are looking around going, “What other stories are there to tell?” I think some it is a larger cultural dialogue. You have to wonder, for sure, because all these things are coming fast and furious in the last six months. I hope it’s also a shifting of the cultural tide. But I think it’s also part of an interest in conversation that maybe before the huge success of Just Kids people weren’t necessarily seeing that there was a dearth of books about women’s development as musical artists. GS: The Faith section is the centerpiece of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. Do you consider yourself to be a religious person, and if so, is that why you felt it necessary to include this section? JH: No, to both those things. I am a spiritual person. But I think more so that faith, in another way, is fandom. I think a lot of music has to deal with faith. I was playing both sides of that card. When I was talking about Michael Jackson, I wasn’t talking about church; I was talking about what it is to believe in something. I’m coming at it from all sides. For a lot of people, music, the same way that religion is for other people, is something they orient their lives around. When you believe in music, sometimes you believe in a lot of other things that sustain you in a similar way. GS: What else can you tell me about the process of deciding what would be included in the book? JH: First we culled a long list and cut that down and cut that down. Once we were getting down to pieces where we thought, “All of these have to be in the book,” you start looking at them for themes and organizing principles. That’s how that went. I knew what the overarching themes were in my work, but they become even more evident when you put it all together. GS: You have been a journalist for many years. Do you have any interest in writing fiction; do you think you might have novel in you? JH: No. My brain has never worked like that. I’ve never written fiction in my life. It doesn’t even occur to me. My

Jessica Hopper. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID SAMPSON.

“For a lot of people, music, the same way that religion is for other people, is something they orient their lives around.” brain is critical. That’s how my brain assembles things. When I hear things, I’m listening critically, I’m watching critically always. GS: What can you tell me about your November 2015 departure from the music website Pitchfork? JH: I was doing work that I really liked and enjoyed there. I had an incredible amount of op-

portunities that came because of the work I was doing there, but also a lot of it came from what I was doing outside of Pitchfork, and it was difficult to balance those things. I had to say no to a lot of things. Then some offers came up that I couldn’t say no to that I had to jump at. That’s what hastened me leaving Pitchfork. I knew I was going to have to leave in order to work on the book I wanted to do next. It’s really difficult to try to balance a daily editorial schedule and run a magazine. I was doing two jobs within the magazine and working on the site. It didn’t leave a lot of space in my brain or time in my life for me to do the research I needed to do on the next book. I’m working on that and I’m going to be going to another job soon, but I can’t really talk about it yet. I’m really grateful for what I got to do in the year that I was at Pitchfork. It was an incredible opportunity. GS: You said that you can’t talk about the new job, but can you talk about the next book? JH: Yes, the next book is both a critical and cultural and musical history. [Laughs] that’s pretty vague but I’ll be able to talk

about it once I sell it. GS: You and your family have recently relocated to the North Shore. What do you think about the North Shore’s selection of live music venues? JH: I haven’t really had a chance to get out much since I’ve been here. Tonightis actually the first time I’m going to a concert in probably three or four months. I’m covering the Miley Cyrus concert for Rolling Stone. The tour kicks off tonighthere in Chicago. I haven’t even had a chance fully because we moved up here to the North Shore at the beginning of May and then I left for my book tour five days after we moved in and have barely stopped. Last night was the final night of my 2015 book tour. I’ve been on tour and frequently out of the country for the last couple of months. I haven’t really had a chance to dive in [laughs]. The next few weeks of floating between two jobs and being unemployed will be some of my first chance to go and get lunch in Evanston [laughs] and some of the basic stuff that would have happened in my first two weeks here if I hadn’t had a book coming out.

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f you pay attention to the magazines at the grocery store, the New Year is upon us. And with that is supposed to come a new

me. I don’t know that I’m prepared to do a 180 right now, but a little self-evaluation never hurts. I think I’ve admitted in this

space before that I dislike New Year’s Resolutions. It feels a bit like setting myself up for yet another failure, and my ego can’t take any more of that. But it appears as though I’m in the minority on this one. The Journal of Clinical Psychology reported that 45 percent of Americans usually make New Year’s Resolutions, while another 17 percent infrequently make them. In 2015 the most common resolutions were to lose weight, get organized, spend less and save more, enjoy life more, and stay fit and healthy. I wasn’t surprised by any of them, nor was I surprised to find that only 8 percent of people are successful in achieving these resolutions. What did surprise me was that nine of the top 10 resolutions were about self. Only one – help others in their dreams, in the eighth slot – benefitted someone else. I suggested it last year, I know, but I’ll throw it out there again (since chances are that the few of us who made this resolution failed to keep it): this could be the year

that we all become better partners. Resolve now to be a better husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend in 2016. Popular website Popsugar recently posted a list of 32 traits of a good boyfriend as suggested by men. To me, these are 32 ways I might be a better wife, too. Like the list of the most popular resolutions, this list of traits included several predictable responses: communication, respect, trust and loyalty probably came to your mind first. But there were more answers that I hadn’t predicted, but absolutely love. A good boyfriend lets his partner see his silliest self, pushes her out of her comfort zone, and tells her that she’s beautiful. He helps her grow personally, makes her laugh, and is her friend as much as her boyfriend. The other 22 are worth considering, too, and easily found through your preferred search engine. But before I take the word of these randomly surveyed men, I put the question out to my Facebook friends. The women who answered represent most every

phase of my life – high school on the North Shore, college south of the Mason-Dixon, and my adult life back here. I trust their judgement. In the end, I found they echoed the Popsugar list. My Facebook page was filled with adjectives like supportive, encouraging, patient and kind. They suggested humor and laughter as the best

remedy for stressful times, and that a great husband is one you can leave alone to hold his own at a party full of people he doesn’t know. I’ll consider them all in the coming days, though I can’t promise I’ll make any kind of formal resolution Dec. 31. Best of luck to you, too, in whatever you decide to do.

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210 RESTAURANT EMBRACES SHABBY CHIC an antique dealer for more than 25 years—and the owner of aneople stopping by The Alley tiqueshop.com— oversaw the & Highwood Lanes ex- redecoration: filling the almost pecting to bowl are going 10,000 square feet of space with to be sorely out of luck. But that’s all manner of candlesticks, ornate not such a bad thing, as the space candelabras, bejeweled lamps, on 210 Green Bay Road has been glass lanterns and porcelain rechristened, remodeled, and chandeliers. With the help of some close updated to meet the demands of a changing culinary landscape— friends they set it up, “blending the simplicity of the open space in Highwood and beyond. First there’s the décor. Owner and the stained plywood floors Steve Goldstein, a commercial with the lighting and other elereal estate owner and developer, ments that give it that shabby calls it shabby chic or industrial chic look,” noted Goldstein. They chic. Construction took about picked up a lot of “mix-matched, two months: covering the lanes, vintagey looking tables and redecorating, expanding the chairs” from a restaurant that was kitchen. Goldstein’s wife, Peggy, closing in Chicago. They picked up a couple dining room sets, and picked up more modern looking furniture. “We’re kind of implementing our own style,” added Goldstein. That included a name change, 210 Restaurant, which gave it a modern-sounding name to boot. Goldstein has been investing in Highwood since 2001. For about as long he was owner of The Alley & Highwood Lanes. But his reimagining of the space was given new life when he recently brought on co-owner chef Jeff Tomchek onboard. “It just wasn’t working and we wanted to make a change and we were looking for someone like him to bring the food to the next Jeff Tomcheck, Steve Goldstein level,” said Goldstein. BY SIMON MURRAY

Tomchek has been all over the continental United States and the world, refining his cuisine that is on full display at 210. With a focus on local farmers and ingredients, 210 serves regional American BBQ from smoked chicken, ribs, beef brisket (“done with post oak like they do in Texas,” added Tomcheck), and pulled pork Carolina-style. The official unveiling was the night before Thanksgiving, and 210 had around 500 people come through their doors to enjoy the food and relish the live music onstage. To that end, 210 is looking for local bands that have rehearsed and polished acts. On Fridays and Saturdays, they will be featuring rock or funk— “something that’s danceable.” While Sundays are reserved for blues, the rest of the week is open to a medley of jazz bands, folk, and bluegrass groups. “The easiest way to conceptualize what we’re doing is: supper club from five o’clock to nine o’clock, transitions into more nightlife, late night, live music lounge bar,” said Goldstein. But no matter what time it might be, Tomchek noted that this roast beet salad was a new favorite. 210 Restaurant is located at 210 Green Bay Rd in Highwood. Please call 847-433-0304 for reservations or go online to 210restaurant.com for more information.

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blue cheese, crumbled • 1 tablespoon balsamic condiment with apple • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1. In a mixing bowl toss beets with 1 tablespoon of EVOO. Roast in a convection oven at 350 for approximately 30 minutes. (“When they yield slightly to the touch, they are done.”) As soon as they are cool enough to handle, work the skin off with your fingers. Refrigerate.

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North Shorts Musings by Mike Lubow “A Better Idea”

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2514 Green Bay Rd, Highland Park $330,000 Carol DeGrazia Santi 847-433-5400

1323 Hiawatha Ct, Highland Park $310,000 Alan Berlow 847-945-7100

2525 Wellington Ct 208, Evanston $287,000 Linda Martin 847-446-4000

832 Michigan Ave H1, Evanston $279,900 Kathy Lerner 847-256-7400

314 Hawthorn Ave A, Glencoe $274,900 Nancy Claussen 312-266-7000

828 Michigan Ave C-2, Evanston $264,900 Cathy Kozlarek 847-866-8200

1145 Florence Ave, Evanston Helen Madden

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1006 Florence Ave, Evanston $224,000 Sharron Kelley 847-541-5000

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1601 Oakwood Ave 101, Highland Park $175,000 Debra Hymen 847-433-5400

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127 Callan Ave 3, Evanston Karen Renella

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75 St Johns Ave 2S, Highland Park $149,000 Mary Rosinski 847-835-6000

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LILLY COME LATELY Bianchi sticks with it, turns into a leader for Lake Forest Scouts hockey team BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

illy Bianchi got a late start in hockey, time-melting-inthe-third-period late. She was an eighth-grader when her blades first hit the ice for a team of girls, cleverly dubbed HERricanes, at Glacier Ice Arena in Vernon Hills. Her baptism on the slippery stuff did not go so swimmingly. “I was bad,” Bianchi, smiling, recalls. “So bad that they put me at the other end of the rink to work on my skating and stickhandling.” Bianchi, today, is a 5-foot-3 senior forward for the Lake Forest Scouts girls hockey team. Last year’s tri-captains, all high school graduates today, selected a pair of captains to lead this year’s edition. They chose current senior forward Nina Wilson and … Bianchi. “Lilly and I were bench players as freshmen,” Scouts senior teammate Alyssa Hollander, another forward, says. “For her to go from bench player three years ago to captain this year says a lot about Lilly and her commitment to hockey and how much she loves the sport. “Smart player, very calm,” Hollander adds. “Never jumpy.” Through 12 games, Bianchi had scored two goals and assisted on five others for the 6-3-3 Scouts. Her assist total ranks third among teammates, behind sophomore defenseman Hannah Matthews (eight) and sophomore forward Tori Soukup (10). Junior forward Betsy Sensenbrenner and junior defenseman Kyra Mangasarian had also delivered five assists through Lake Forest’s 2-0 loss to Fenwick at Lake Forest College on Dec. 10. “Lilly knows where to be on the ice and when to be there,” Lake Forest coach Liz Zorn says. “Her junior year, she was the first one on the ice, the last one off the ice. Same thing this year. It’s quite a story, Lilly’s hockey story.” The second chapter of Lilly Bianchi’s hockey story, her freshman season in 2012-13, was an uneven one. She suited up for some of the Scouts’ games, didn’t

Scholarship. Levitan, 18 at the time, was riding a bike in Arkansas when she was killed by a cellphone-wielding, distracted driver in 2013. “I feel so connected to Merritt because she was doing something she loved, and it’s something that I love as well,” Bianchi told The North Shore Weekend a week before heading to Charleston, South Carolina, in 2014. A Lake Forest Scouts practice ends. Or a Lake Forest Scouts game ends. Bianchi, alone, lingers near a rink. She hits the ice again, glides and thinks and listens. It is a highlight of her week. “It’s a special place, an ice arena,” Bianchi says. “If I’m not working on a part of my game after a practice or a game, I’m on the ice, escaping and meditating, leaving everything behind. I love hearing my skates cut ice. It’s peaceful out there, beautiful.” Notable: Lake Forest Scouts goaltender Corynn Salazar, a Stevenson junior, stopped 20 shots in a 2-0 loss to visiting Fenwick on Dec. 10. The game was scoreless until the 1:38 mark of the third period. Salazar is 4-3-3, with a goals-against average of 1.18 and a save percentage of .917. … Lake Forest sophomore forward Tori Soukup leads the team in goals (10) and ‘C’ ME NOW: Lilly Bianchi of the Scouts exits the rink at Lake Forest College following a tough 2-0 loss to Fenwick. PHOTOGRAPHY BY assists (10) through Dec. 10. JOEL LERNER Classmate Delaney Weiss, a defenseman, is next in points (14 The hockey fan in Bianchi is fan from the day she started — 10 goals, four assists). Sophodress for others. That did not Bianchi. If it is not her most deter her. LF needed a goaltender prized possession, it is somewhere still a young one. It will continue playing the sport,” Zorn says. more defenseman Hannah Matat one point in the next season. in her top five, maybe top three. to be a rabid one for decades, just “She’s a huge Blackhawks fan. thews, a Highland Park High Bianchi fulfilled that need for Her cousins play hockey, talk a hunch. There’s plenty of room Huge. She watches hockey School student, and junior denearly half of the season. hockey. Five of her Scouts team- left on her red cap for more sig- videos, asks for feedback about fenseman Kyra Mangasarian “My teammates supported me mates are AAA hockey players: natures. She applied to Bowdoin her game.” (Lake Forest High School) each The co-president of the Envi- had 11 points in 12 games. … The every time I was in goal,” Bianchi, Mangasarian, Soukup, Delaney College this fall. Bowdoin is a former field hockey player, says. Weiss, Katie Wynn and Grace located in Maine, a cold state. ronmental Club at Lake Forest Scouts defeated host Lake Forest “Whenever I made a save, they Scholz. Bianchi creates colorful Perfect. If she gets accepted and High School ditched her skates Academy 4-0 on Dec. 7, getting made me feel like I had scored a messages on posters before at- attends the liberal arts school in and stick and pedaled a bike for goals from Mangasarian, Matgoal.” tending any Triple-A game in- Brunswick as an English or en- six weeks a couple of summers thews, Olivia Remissong and Her favorite player on her volving one or more of her team- vironmental studies major, a ago. The trek started in South Marissa Garapolo and two assists favorite hockey team is Black- mates. Example: “No. [she pickup hockey game, staged Carolina. It ended in California. f rom senior forward Lilly hawks center Jonathan Toews. magic-markers a jersey number outside on some inviting pond, Bianchi and 10 others completed Bianchi. Remissong also slid an She owns a red Blackhawks cap, here], you’re my hero!” She flaps would be an ideal study break for it. The ride doubled as a fund- assist. Other assists came from slightly faded, bill curved. U.S. each poster above her head until her. The puck won’t stop for raiser for Merritt’s Way. The cause Betsy Sensenbrenner, Sheridan women’s national hockey team her arms hurt. Bianchi in Lake Forest, another sponsors TextLess Live More and Weiss and Nina Wilson. Salazar member Kendall Coyne, a “My favorite person,” Mangas- hunch. the Merritt Levitan Trinity Ex- (six saves) and Amanda Peter (21) “She’s been a diehard hockey cellence in Education Program shared time in goal. forward, signed that cap for arian says of Bianchi.

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SPORTS

FINDING HIS (BALL) GAME Tough-minded Winchester provides Trevians with a power source — with a dash of finesse BY KEVIN REITERMAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

ot all was lost the other night. Colin Winchester, at least, found a long, lost friend. Four years ago, his cherished — and brand-new — Baden basketball went MIA. Winchester, playing for the New Trier feeder basketball team at the time, hunted for it. And then, he hunted some more. He put out an all-points bulletin — and came up with zero. Zip. Nada. So much for swish-ful thinking. “I looked for that ball like crazy,” stated the New Trier senior, following his team’s frustrating home loss to Waukegan 52-41 on Dec. 11. “I finally gave up.” So you can imagine Winchester’s amazement the other night, when the ball — like a long lost friend — showed up out of the blue. One of the school’s security guards found it in NT’s ball rack and bounce-passed it to him. Name and phone number faded but readable. “It’s always nice to get a ball back,” said Winchester, gripping his leathered buddy during a postgame interview. “You can never have enough basketballs.” Much has changed since his feeder days. Winchester has added more than six inches to his frame, and he’s now a tenacious 6-foot-6 power forward with inside and outside skills. New Trier head coach Scott Fricke has seen a major uptick in his game. “Last year, he was plagued with injuries,” said Fricke. “But he’s way better than he was last year. “He’s stronger and more confident now,” the coach added. “He’s very assertive on the court. He’s tough. He shoots the ball well. Rebounds well. He does it all. He’s been great for us all year.” Winchester currently is averaging 15.2 points and 4.5 rebounds per game for the 3-4 Trevians. He’s got a body that screams basketball player. And a court demeanor that says Don’t mess me.

coach, Rick Malnati, for that,” said Winchester, who hopes to play at the next level. “I never had a coach stress the left hand as much as he did. If you do anything long enough, there’s a comfort level. I’m getting it down. I’m mastering it. You’ve got to be able to finish with either hand.” As one of the team captains, Winchester also has been asked to take on a leadership role. “There’s a great tradition of basketball here at New Trier, so it’s a big responsibility to be one of the captains,” he said. “It’s taken me out of my comfort zone. Last year to this year, it’s been a big jump.” That sub-.500 record is a little disconcerting. “We’ve got to play with a little more grit. We’re missing that toughness piece,” he added. “I know Coach Fricke is trying to engrave that mentality into our brains. “But we’re a young team,” Winchester said. “We’ll get there.”

WRESTING HIS CASE: Colin Winchester of the Trevians (No. 20) battles for a rebound against Waukegan’s Bryant Brown (No. 25) and Khalen Mays (No. 1). PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER.

Losses don’t sit well with him. They perturb him. “He’s become a warrior on the court,” said his club coach, Fundamental U’s Michael Weinstein. “He’s tough. He battles. He scrapes.” He did what he could against the 5-4 Bulldogs. He bulldogged his way to a double-double (11 points, 10 rebounds) in the 11point loss. And, in the early moments of the second quarter, Winchester found an open lane and slammed down one of those two-handed “rattle clatter thunder shatter boom boom boom” dunks. It got the place rocking. “Dunks are good. But I wasn’t necessarily trying to come up

with a cool play right then,” said Winchester, who now has three slams on the season. “I was just trying to create some energy. “And energy from a dunk can spread across the team. To our bench and to our fans,” he added. “The same thing can happen when you take a charge and make a play diving on the floor.” NT freshman Spencer Boehm took note of Winchester’s power dunk. “That just shows you how athletic he is,” said the first-year center. “That dunk was next level. Pretty astonishing.” Winchester’s defense also shows up pretty definitively, especially when he lines up at one of the wings opposite Tino

Malnati (6-3) on NT’s 1-3-1 zone trap. With 6-6 Teddy McGregor out on top, 6-8 Boehm in the middle and 6-2 Michael Hurley running baseline, opposing teams have trouble seeing the forest from these Trevian trees. New Trier forced Waukegan into 20 turnovers. “Credit Coach Fricke. The 1-3-1 is good fit for us, especially with all of the length we have on the court. It’s tough to play against,” said Winchester. “But it’s still a work in progress. We’ve got to improve our rebounding out of it. Like you saw tonight, we gave up too many second-shot points.” On Nov. 25, in a Thanksgiving Tournament game against Loyola

Academy, the Trevians left an indelible impression on LA head coach Tom Livatino. After that contest, Livatino told reporters: “There’s not a better 1-3-1 zone (defense) out there.” “If Coach Livatino says that, it means something,” said Winchester. Meanwhile, Winchester, who played two seasons with Fundamental U, continues to expand his offensive game. He’s got three-point range, and he’s not afraid to drive hard to the bucket. He especially knows how to maneuver his body in the paint. He’s become quite adept at shooting with the opposite hand. “I credit my sixth-grade feeder

Notable: The Adventures of Colin Winchester? Sounds like the working title for Hollywood’s next Western. … And there is a former Cowboy in the Winchester family. His dad — renowned oncologist David Winchester — was a three-sport athlete for the Cowboys of now defunct New Trier West High School (1965-81). In fact, he was an ex-teammate of NTHS freshman coach David Brenner. … Winchester’s 17U teammates with Fundamental U included Deerfield’s Jordan Baum, Glenbrook South’s Jimmy Martinelli, Niles West’s Evan Hines, Highland Park’s Hallvard Lundevall, Fremd’s Patrick Benka, Stevenson’s Jordan Newman and Hinsdale Central’s Peter Blust. They finished 38-13. … It’s a Boehm thing. Spencer Boehm is the fourth brother in the Boehm family to start as a freshman on varsity at New Trier. He’s following in the footsteps of Jack, Peter and Connor. Sister Jeannie is a fourth-year starter on NT’s girls team.

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t was a ritual for Lake Forest Academy field hockey goalie Caroline Miller and her coach, Diane Cooper, before every game last fall. Cooper whacked a series of shots, hard shots, at Miller. The session warmed Miller up, got her ready for what would be considerably easier shots in the game, changeups instead of fastballs. “Let’s go, let’s go,” was Miller’s order to her coach when the 5-foot-7 teen from Glencoe wanted the former Northwestern University field hockey defender to add some heat to the next shot. A stick did not always survive Cooper’s onslaughts. “Caroline likes to be challenged,” Cooper, also Miller’s history teacher, says. “She’s got a competitive nature. I had to use new sticks to keep up with her. I think I went through three sticks.” A ball did not survive one of Cooper’s strokes before a game against visiting and reigning state champion New Trier on Sept. 29. “She took a shot, and all of a sudden, I see two … things coming at me,” Miller recalls. “My coach had broken the ball in half.” One half of the ball fell harmlessly, off to a side, short of the goal. The other half? “She stopped that,” Cooper says. Of course she did. That’s what Illinois High School Field Hockey Association Goalies of the Year do. Miller earned the honor in 2015, at the end of her third season on varsity and nearly nine months after verbally committing to the women’s field hockey program at American University in Washington, D.C. Cooper chose a fun way to inform Miller of the accolade. Cooper called Miller. Miller answered. Miller heard, “Is this the Illinois goalie of the year?” Cooper called Miller’s mother, Katie, on the same day. Katie answered. Katie heard, “Is this the mother of the Illinois goalie of the year?” More fun. The Goalie of the Year plaque rests on a shelf in the Miller house, near an entrance. Caroline’s father, Chris, a former ice hockey goaltender at Concordia College in Minnesota, placed it there. The proud papa must see it, on

bassadors. Miller conducts campus tours to prospective students and their parents. She sits and answers questions on student panels at open houses. Future LFA students shadow Miller, or at least attempt to do so. A normal school day in the life of Miller must be an exhausting one, the number of items on her To Do list nearly exceeding the number of minutes in a day. The face of Lake Forest Academy is the face behind the mask of the best field hockey goalie in the state. “I love everything about Lake Forest Academy, and I love showing it off,” Miller says. Katy Morrison had not played a minute of organized field hockey before the start of her freshman year in 2014. A nervous JV player for the first three days of the preseason, the Lincolnshire resident and field player got promoted to varsity on the fourth day. She did not know where to turn. The nervous Caxy had morphed into a frozen one. Miller, varsity veteran and warm presence, spoke to Morrison, listened to Morrison. “She was welcoming and sweet, took me under her wing,” Morrison, a forward/midfielder, recalls. “It was nice, connecting with an upperclassman. I felt I had known her forever after only a week. She continued to be encouraging [in the 2015 season). Once, when we were warming up for a game, I’d FACE OF LFA: Caroline Miller capped off a brilliant career with the Caxys by earning Illinois Goalie of the Year accolades. The threemissed two or three shots. I was sport athlete also is heavily involved in extracurricular activities at the academy. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER. frustrated. Caroline could tell I Sundays, before heading out to hockey stick for the first time in be for shots, when to attack. Australia. The girl from the land was frustrated. As I went to get play in another pickup hockey Australia, as a field player. Field When a goalie goes down [to Down Under put her head down the ball, she told me, ‘Don’t worry. game. hockey is a big deal in Australia. make a save], that’s a last-ditch in chlorinated water and kicked I know you have it in you.’ “My dad,” Caroline says, “was The men’s national team ranks move; goalies don’t like doing that. and stroked in the Land of Hearing her words, how supporta phenomenal player in college. first in the current world rankings, When Caroline does that, she is Lincoln. ive she was, that helped. I didn’t He still loves hockey. He also loves the women’s national team second quick to get back up, so quick.” LFA’s field hockey team fin- dwell; I didn’t stay discouraged.” Miller is a three-sport athlete. ished in a program-best third field hockey. He enjoys following in its division. One of Miller’s Miller is taking a History of it, especially college field hockey. teams at Pymble Ladies’ College She skates for LFA’s hockey team place at the 2013 state tourna- Chicago class, taught by Cooper. If there’s a football game and a — a boarding school for girls, this winter, as a defenseman. She ment, Miller’s rookie season in The students sit in a “U” in the field hockey airing on TV at the K-12, in New South Wales — will play lacrosse in the spring, as goal. The Caxys matched that state classroom, an ideal formation for same time, he’s watching the field needed a goalie one day. Miller a midfielder. Miller somehow showing in 2014. This past fall, teacher-student and studenthockey game.” volunteered to put on the gear, squeezes, shoehorns, Windy City LFA, nearly a month after edging student interaction, all eyes able Caroline Miller was born in figuring she’d give her father’s Field Hockey (U19 Fire) commit- New Trier in overtime, fell to to see the eyes of everybody else. Colorado, moved to Minnesota, goalie gene a try. ments into her schedule this eventual state runner-up Lake “Caroline,” Cooper says, “sits lived in Japan for about three She has been making saves ever winter. Her very first competition Forest High School in a state in the dead center of the ‘U.’ ” years, spent three-plus years since. at LFA, in the middle of her quarterfinal. Of course she does. It is the (sixth-grade through half of her “Her basics … Caroline has freshman year, took place in a … Off the fields, off the ice, Miller spot where Miller is most comninth-grade year) living in Aus- always been strong, fundamen- pool, as a member of the … boys’ hits the books like Cooper hits fortable in a goalmouth during tralia and enrolled at LFA in the tally,” Cooper says. “She’s also swimming team; the girls’ swim- field hockey shots, and she serves field hockey games, a cage resting winter of her freshman year (early agile, moves well. She knows ming season had ended a few as co-master (with Lilian Chung) behind her, the action occurring 2013). Miller gripped a field angles, how to shuffle, where to weeks before her arrival from of Caxy Keys, LFA’s band of am- in front of her.

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ric Eshoo was stoked, tingling from head to toe in a locker room on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb last month. The Loyola Academy senior tight end-wideout, a Northwestern University recruit, wanted to move, run, shout, do something, anything, before the Class 8A football title game against Marist. Niagara Falls. Eshoo’s adrenaline on Nov. 28, an hour before kickoff. Forces of nature, all of the above, from the border between Canada and the United States to the adrenal glands of a 6-foot-5, 225-pound Rambler. “I was jacked up, anxious,” Eshoo recalls. “A lot of us were. I remember looking at our quarterback [senior Emmett Clifford], right there in the locker room, and noticing his composure, his calm demeanor, his … confidence. His confidence was quiet, but it also was obvious. A lot of us noticed it. It settled me down, and I’m sure it settled down many of my teammates.” Clifford — calm, cool and expected to direct Loyola Academy to a 14th straight victory in LA’s 14th game of the season — did just that, passing for 195 yards and a touchdown and rushing for 23 yards and a TD in a 41-0 rout. Another Saturday, another victory. The state championship was LA’s second in program history, the first occurring in 1993. Clifford finished the season with 33 TDs, six interceptions and 2,552 passing yards. He completed 191 of 271 passes, a dependable 70 percent. “We completed 70 percent of the passes,” Clifford, a Glenview resident and we-before-me athlete, says. “All I had to do was get the ball to one of our playmakers. We had playmakers, a lot of them.” Loyola Academy’s football team had only one Emmett Clifford, The North Shore Weekend Player of the Year in 2015. The Our Lady of Perpetual Help

24-22 decision — would limit LA to fewer than 25 points in the next 13 weeks. Clifford earned the Lawless Award for Most Outstanding Player in the Chicago Catholic League’s Blue Division. The 6-foot, 188-pounder is looking at Ivy League schools, at Patriot League schools. High on his list is College of the Holy Cross, in Worchester, Massachusetts, current football home of LA graduates and HC juniors Peter Pujals (quarterback), Luke Ford (defensive back) and James Murray (offensive lineman). The thought of possibly being a Pujals understudy for a college season thrills Clifford. Pujals quarterbacked the Ramblers to a Class 8A state semifinal game in 2012. Pujals was a senior at Loyola Academy when Clifford was a freshman. “Peter was a gifted quarterback at Loyola,” Clifford recalls. “He ran the offense well.” Clifford, state champion quarterback, watched a tape of the 2015 Class 8A state title game at a teammate’s house hours after the state title game. Twice. He relished the viewing session, NO. 2 IN NO. 1: Loyola Academy quarterback Emmett Clifford runs the ball during his team’s win over Palatine in the Class 8A state especially when Marist had the semifinals. He finished with 32 touchdown passes for the state champion Ramblers. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JON DURR. ball. Clifford and his starting brethren on offense never got to graduate has the disposition any way. Emmett was very good at the seventh game of the season. me sit up there. He was great. see their defense perform live in coach would want behind a fine managing our ‘company’, our LA would play seven more He’d give me a play script before DeKalb. Too busy and too line of scrimmage and in front team, doing his job, doing what games, ending its season with a games and ask me to check the focused on a Huskie Field sideof clock-eating and talented we needed him to do. He got the 20-17 defeat of Curie in the Prep plays I liked and cross off the line, reviewing footage of series running backs. On the Christmas ball to our talented players. We Bowl at Soldier Field. plays I didn’t like. If I didn’t like on iPads, prepping for the next wish list of wideouts and tight had so many talented players this In each of the final seven a play, I’d explain why I didn’t series. Loyola held Marist to 174 ends everywhere: an Emmett year, Emmett being one of them, games, LA offensive coordinator/ like it. There was one play I total yards, minus-two rushing, Clifford-type signal caller, ac- that I never sensed, nobody ever QB coach Tyler Vradenburg and thought tended to get a little in its sixth shutout of the season. curate, with a resting heart rate, sensed, one had to be a star in running backs coach Ryan Gal- messy, so I told him. He had the “Our defense,” Clifford says, seemingly, in the single digits. order for us to win. And all of lagher made room for another final say on the plays we’d run, “played really well. I enjoyed that, “His unflappable demeanor, our talented players are good set of eyes in the coaches’ box but it was nice getting the op- seeing our guys shut them down. the way he was under control characters, humble and nice and during games. Emmett Clifford’s portunity to express my views.” Our mindset [with a 27-0 lead throughout the season and respectful.” eyes. He watched. He got a Clifford entered his senior at the half ] was to score two The development of Clifford, coach’s perspective. Coaches got year armed and steady, a former more times, let our defense do carried himself, was remarkable,” “assistant coach” (salary: $0) all what it does and get a running Loyola Academy football coach the calm, smart, productive quar- a Clifford perspective. “I paid attention, and I real- geared up to use his right wing, clock. Watching the tape of the John Holecek says of Clifford, terback, started after a painful one of four team captains in ’15. moment in the middle of his ized what coaches like to see both legs and both sides of his game, watching our defense “You want your quarterback to junior season. A backup at the from an offense, what coaches brain. LA opened the season with dominate, I got excited. I was own those traits. Emmett start of the 2014 season, the expect. I got such a better under- a 35-0 defeat of visiting Mar- shaking. I wasn’t able to get to managed games so well. You hear right-hander had won the start- standing of the offense, of our quette University High School sleep until 3 a.m.” that word, ‘manage’, and too ing job when he suffered a broken game plans. I got to see how of Milwaukee on Aug. 29. Only The cucumber in pads, the many think, That’s average or not left collarbone in a game at cornerbacks reacted to our plays. Palatine — in a snowy Class 8A unflappable one on football very good. I don’t look at it that DePaul Prep in Chicago. It was It was [Vradenburg’s] idea to let state semifinal, on Nov. 21, a fields, has a flappable side.

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The North Shore Weekend selects 2015 All-Area Gridiron Team Offensive Player of the Year Emmett Clifford (Loyola, Quarterback)

OL: Dimitrije Milutinovic (Glenbrook North, Sr.) OL: Thomas Schaffer (Lake Forest Academy, Sr.)

Defensive Player of the Year Ben LeRoy (Loyola, Defensive Lineman)

First Team Defense DB: Matthew Clifford (Lake Forest, Sr.) DB: Bobby Desherow (Loyola, Sr.) DB: Mitch Schermerhorn (Glenbrook North, Sr.) DB: Cristian Volpentesta (Highland Park, Sr.) LB: Colin Casas (New Trier, Sr.) LB: Cross Daffada (Loyola, Sr.) LB: Daniel Joseph (Lake Forest Academy, Sr.) LB: Anthony Romano (Loyola, Jr.) DL: Jake Cirame (Lake Forest Academy, Jr.) DL: Jack Hough (Loyola, Sr.) DL: Ben LeRoy (Loyola, Sr.)

Special Teams Player of the Year Nick Endre (New Trier, K-P) Newcomer of the Year Max Rosenthal (New Trier, RB/LB) Rookie of the Year John Deering (Lake Forest, Linebacker)

The Gold List First Team Offense QB: Emmett Clifford (Loyola, Sr.) RB: John Clark (Glenbrook North, Sr.) RB: Dara Laja (Loyola, Sr.) WR: Eric Eshoo (Loyola, Sr.) WR: Quinn Julian (Lake Forest, Sr.) WR: Thomas Smart (Loyola, Sr.) OL: Sam Badovinac (Loyola, Sr.) OL: Gabe Guzman (Highland Park, Sr.) OL: Joe Lewis (New Trier, Sr.)

Second Team Offense QB: Danny Carollo (Lake Forest, Sr.) RB: Ryan Janczak (Glenbrook South, Sr.) RB: D.J. Penick Jr. (Highland Park, Jr.) WR: Jack Healy (Glenbrook South, Sr.) WR: Jonah Isaac (Loyola, Sr.) WR: Jake Marwede (Loyola, Jr.) OL: Yanni Ballis (Lake Forest, Sr.) OL: Daniel Kurkowski (Loyola, Sr.) OL: Joe Levy (Glenbrook North, Sr.) OL: Mario Ramirez (Glenbrook South, Sr.) OL: Jacob Zatz (Glenbrook North, Sr.)

Second Team Defense DB: Lucas Bartzis (New Trier, Sr.) DB: Tyler Canning (Glenbrook South, Sr.) DB: Francis Fay (New Trier, Jr.) DB: Joey Zitella (Loyola, Sr.) LB: John Deering (Lake Forest, So.) LB: Max Rosenthal (New Trier, Jr.) LB: Graham Repp (Loyola, Jr.) LB: Charlie Stimson (New Trier, Sr.) DL: David Barrette (Highland Park, Jr.) DL: Devin Murphy (New Trier, Sr.) DL: Matt Pawlowski (Glenbrook North, Jr.) Honorable Mention Glenbrook North: Kevin Burnside ( Jr., QB), Alex Bubaris ( Jr., DB), Nick Karis (Sr., WR), Gerry Luc ( Jr., LB) Glenbrook South: Dan Jenkins (Sr., QB), Amara Kabba (Sr., DL),Trevor Lohre (Sr., DL), Ryan McFaul (Sr., LB), Daniel Moses (Sr., OL), Calvin Sailer (Sr., RB) Highland Park: Jeremy Allen (Jr., DB), Adam Danzig (Sr., OL), Lucas Marks (Sr., LB), Jordan Mendiola (Sr., DE), Tucker Thompson (Sr., OL) Lake Forest: Brian Doherty (Sr., WR), Chris Meng (Sr., RB), Jaxon Mills (Sr., DL), Francis Nicholson (Sr., LB), Jack Skinner (Sr., WR), Cal Wonham ( Jr., LB) Loyola: Jack Badovinac ( Jr., OL), Frank Doherty

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Highland Park: Senior Blake Schwartz gave the host Giants a lift by tallying a team-high 11 points in their 35-32 victory over Dundee-Crown on Dec. 12. Schwartz also accounted for three steals, three rebounds and two assists. Teammate Ziv Tal tallied seven points as HP improved its record to 2-4 overall. On Dec. 11, HP fell to visiting GBN 48-46. The Giants received strong showings from Tal (17 points, 4 rebounds) and Zach Fleisher (11 points, 9 rebounds). Lake Forest: The host Scouts handed Deerfield its first loss of the season on Dec. 12. Highlighted by senior Lorenzo Edwards (16 points, 10 rebounds), LF topped the Warriors 44-38 to go a game over .500 (4-3, 1-1). Junior guard Justin McMahon also reached double figures with 11 points. Reed Thomas had five rebounds, while Ryan Kitchel pulled down four boards. On Dec. 9, Edwards came up with 20 points and 20 rebounds to lead LF to a 63-51 victory over visiting Zion-Benton. The 6-foot-7 senior power forward also had five blocks and two assists. McMahon (11 points, 3 rebounds) and Thomas (9 points, 2 blocks) also helped the LF cause. Teammate Brian Stickler pulled down five rebounds to go along with four points. Loyola: LA came up short against St. Viator 45-35 on Dec. 12 in a CCL-ESCC Challenge game

at Notre Dame. Freshman Andre White Jr. led the Ramblers (5-4, 2-1) with 13 points. Ramar Evans finished with 10 points, four rebounds and three steals. On Dec. 11, the host Ramblers claimed their fifth win over the season by edging visiting DePaul 57-53. Evans had a big night for LA: 22 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Senior guard Brandon Danowski tossed in 15 points, while White added nine points. And, on Dec. 9, the visiting Ramblers were unable to pull out a win against a tough St. Joseph squad. The Chargers, ranked No. 7 in the state, wound up beating LA 40-33 in overtime. Evans led the Ramblers with 10 points. Will Plodzeen finished the contest with nine points and six rebounds, while White scored eight points.

AT COURTSIDE | GIRLS BASKETBALL Lake Forest: Maeve Summerville came up with 11 points, eight rebounds, five blocks and four steals in LF’s 42-28 setback to host Stevenson on Dec. 12. Delaney Williams finished with seven points and four rebounds for the Scouts (2-7, 0-4). On Dec. 8, Tori Salanty paced the LF offense in its 61-35 loss to visiting Libertyville. Salanty, a junior guard, tallied 14 points to go along with three rebounds. Williams came up with nine points, five assists, four steals and four rebounds, while Summerville had six points and five rebounds. Loyola: Liz Satter poured in 25 points to spark

LA to a 46-39 victory over visiting St. Joseph on Dec. 12. The senior also had a team-high 10 rebounds for the Ramblers (6-2). On Dec. 8, the host Ramblers dropped a 56-44 decision to highly touted Trinity. Satter turned in another strong performance, finishing with 20 points, nine rebounds and two blocks. Mary Cormier finished with eight points, six assists and four rebounds, while Maeve Stanton had six points. Freshman guard Julia Martinez had seven assists. New Trier: She was … on fire. Senior guard Kathryn Pedi scored a game-high 27 points by connecting on 7 of 8 shots from three-point land in New Trier’s 69-23 victory over host Waukegan on Dec. 11. On Dec. 8, in a battle of unbeatens, NT jumped out to a 18-10 first-quarter lead and went on to defeat highly touted Glenbrook South 55-34 in a Central Suburban League South Division showdown. Highlighted by senior point guard Haley Greer, the Trevians (7-0, 2-0) used the three-ball to score all 18 of those first-quarter points. The Titans, and in particular senior Sarah McDonagh, did a good job of containing Boehm, who tallied only two points through three quarters. But, to her credit, the 6-foot-3 Boehm stayed with it. The Harvard University recruit ended up with 10 points to go along with 20 rebounds, four assists and three blocks. Greer, meanwhile, shot lights out, especially from beyond the arc where she went 5 for 6. She

nailed three in the opening quarter and added two more in the second half. Autumn Kalis knocked down three three-pointers for the Trevians, while Pedi and Maggie Murdock had two treys each. Allison Borsotti also got one to go down. The Trevians (8-0, 2-0) will compete in the prestigious Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix, Ariz., this weekend.

FLIPSIDE | GIRLS GYMNASTICS New Trier: Led by Emma Jane Rohrer, New Trier scored a 136.525 to win the 11-team Spartan Classic at Glenbrook North on Dec. 11. Host GBN took second place (135.35), while Glenbrook South came in fifth (127.425) ahead of Lake Forest (119.75). Rohrer earned runner-up honors in the allaround (36.10). She placed second on floor exercise (9.25), third on uneven bars (8.80), fifth on balance beam (8.85) and sixth on vault (9.20). Taylor Kwok of the Trevians came in fifth on two events: vault (9.225) and bars (8.45). Loyola’s Claire Sullivan finished fifth in the allaround (35.30). She was the runner-up on bars (8.90), while she had a pair of sixth-place finishes (beam and floor). Sara Rossman was the top performer for Lake Forest: 8.850 on vault and 7.60 on bars. Jessica Pasquesi scored a 30.80 in the all-around.

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A STORY OF SURVIVAL spun, and spun, and spun. Her was icki Milin thinks Popeye h e a r t had a brain injury. The pounding. All telltale signs are all there. she could feel The cartoon sailor’s iconic squint was her head, and fixed scowl. The way he which ached. talked. (“I yam what I yam.”) The When the room way he ate his leafy greens with eventually stopped only one side of his mouth. spinning, she noticed Could the lumbering Bluto she had double have knocked him one too many vision. She times in the head? Or was it in- thought to ternal—say, a brain bleed—out herself, I’m on the high seas without the care dying. Her of a certified specialist at hand? s e c o n d If so it could not have been any t h o u g h t worse than Milin’s own experi- followed: I ence. Milin, who is no stranger can’t die, to brain bleeds, never thought she she told would ever need brain surgery h e r s e l f , until she suddenly could not stop because I told the world from crashing down my dad I’d take around her. Or what she refers to care of him. And then it as her “tsunami moment.” Milin is seated across the table went right back to from me at Country Kitchen in spinning. Highland Park. The former real Afterwards, she estate agent is enjoying an iced realized she could tea and egg white veggie omelet. only see out of one Milin is an avid Uber rider. (She eye. She had never has trouble driving.) Today she been to a neurolois wearing a piece of soft tape over gist before. But when her left eye—or her “bad eye,” as she eventually went, she she refers to it. She has gotten was misdiagnosed. “They facial reconstruction surgery to should’ve known right away what be able to use more of the left it was,” she tells me. When she side, but its unclear if she will ever went to another doctor for a be able to use most of it again. second opinion, he told her: “You And yet she didn’t have a need to see a neural ophthalstroke. It was something much mologist, stat.” more malicious. Milin was 51 When she was given a magwhen she woke up to find her netic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, the nurses had to drug her whole bedroom spinning. She reached for something to because she could no longer lay hold on to, grabbing the bottom flat, due to the intensity of the of her bed to steady herself in this vertigo. Since she was a young whirlwind. But still the room girl she had always had some BY SIMON MURRAY

“Because I was given the gift of life, I decided that my mission now is to help educate people.” –Nicki Milin

alization that even small hemorrhagic events can cause significant neurological deficits. Nicki Milin | Illustration by Barry Blitt Estimated to occur in approximately one out of every 500-600 degree of vertigo, dizzy spells. She brainstem. “The motherboard,” people, or 0.2% of the general steered clear of carousels. But it explains Milin. population, the root cause is still wasn’t until this moment, practiRaspberry-shaped abnormal not yet understood. cally her entire adult life, when blood vessels in the brain or spine, That was the information she found out what, exactly, it was brainstem cavernous angiomas Milin was given. It was imperathat she suffered from. There it have only recently received a great tive that she received brain was, right there, clear as day: she deal of attention due to enhanced surgery, though she had to wait had a cavernous angioma on her imaging techniques and the re- five years (!) for surgeons at Stan-

ford University’s School of Medicine Brain Tumor Center to operate. She had seen the MRI results herself. Her doctor “showed me (but I couldn’t see) that it had bled many times over the years and it was a miracle I had survived,” said Milin. “Most people when they have one they drop dead and they die.” It is believed that Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner died from a similar cause. The same for composer George Gershwin. Both were not yet 40 years old. Milin, miraculously, had survived. She attended the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, one of the best in the world, where she had to learn to walk again. They tested her brain. She relearned the basic skills necessary to function. “Because I was given the gift of life, I decided that my mission now is to help educate people,” explained Milin. To that end she has started a blog, “Got Brain Bleed?” Where she uses her sense of humor and amazing will to instill positivity in others. “Now I know I’m a fighter and I’m strong, and sometimes when you’re at the end of your rope,” writes Milin in one of her blog posts, “you just have to tie a knot and hold on.” She has taken extensive notes about her experience, which she hopes to one day turn into a book. When she goes to the doctor’s office, she signs in as Mrs. Magoo. Because she has an indomitable will, she won’t let this beat her down—too much. But she credits her family and her good nature for seeing it through. Says Milin, “If I didn’t have a sense of humor, I couldn’t survive.”

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