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INDEX

IN THIS ISSUE [ NEWS ] 12 CURB APPEAL

What you can do to maximize your home’s value.

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EAL ESTATE COLUMN R Does your home fit your lifestyle?

12 INVESTING IN THE FUTURE

HOW LFHS Foundation is making a difference.

12 EASTER EVENTS

What’s happening this Easter weekend!

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12 TUTOR CHARGED

A tutor was charged with sexual abuse.

[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ] 17 STANDOUT STUDENT

Namrita Narula is making a difference.

18 LOVE AND MARRIAGE Are you a lazy couple?

19 north shore foodie Lake Bluff Brewing turns five.

21 NORTH SHORTS

Lessons from a panini!

[ REAL ESTATE ] 23 h ouses of the week

Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

[ SPORTS ] 32 au s-struck

Vienna native — and LFA standout — Schaffer figures to turn more heads at the next level

[ LAST BUT NOT LEAST ] 34 sunday breakfast

We sit down with CBS anchor Rob Johnson.

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NEWS

Does Your Home Fit Your Lifestyle?

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eet Whitney O’Neill. Her son is heading off to college soon and she is preparing for the next chapter of what has been a rich and rewarding life in her Winnetka lakefront home. As she looks forward, she is ready to let another lucky family start building a life in this incredible house. Here are some of the reasons she chose it for her family: “I had been living in Chicago,” she says, “and felt Winnetka was the perfect place to raise my son Liam. We had family here and felt it offered so many wonderful things, starting with the incredible lake and outdoor lifestyle, as well as its amazing schools and sports programs. Winnetka has a great sense of family and community and we’ve truly loved it.”

Another reason Whitney loved the home so much is that it fit her lifestyle.

“We designed the house to be both comfortable and inviting.

It’s elegant without being stuffy; every room truly feels relaxed and encourages gathering and comfort both inside and out. My favorite place is the kitchen and the outdoor balconies leading off it. Friends are over often and we always gather here, making meals and enjoying them overlooking the lake. My son loves the basement and playing pool and pingpong or swimming with friends, so that is his go-to spot. “ When you find a home that might be “the one” (a process not unlike finding the right spouse), don’t let excitement cause you to overlook the important steps you need to take to determine if it is a perfect, long-term fit. Here are some suggestions: Go back out the front door (or through the garage if that is how you would come in) and re-enter, as if it were part of your daily routine.

Hang up your coat, put down your keys and your bag, and walk

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casual?

Is the kitchen spacious enough and properly equipped to allow your inner Iron Chef to work his or her magic?

Are there sufficient bathrooms for your family and your guests?

Does it have space for hobbies and interests?

Is the laundry room situated conveniently?

Is there enough storage and closet space?

Is the garage large enough to around each room. Try to visual- it’s your neighborhood as well. accommodate your vehicles, ize how you would use the space Drive around to the grocery store, bikes, sports equipment and and for what purpose. restaurants, schools and other tools?

Are there parks and/or a bike Imagine yourself in the kitchen public facilities to understand the cooking, with family or friends conveniences, distances and path nearby? How about a place gathered around you. Is the home safety. Once you have a better feel for dogs to play? comfortable both for lounging for the house and neighborhood, Does the landscape and garden with family as well as entertaining use this checklist to further help suit your taste? [Consider mainguide you: tenance and whether you care to friends?

Is there enough natural light? indulge a green thumb or just Wander around the outdoor Does the floor plan “flow” for write a monthly check.] space. Is it good for kids, pets, your family’s needs?

Whitney said she has decided barbecues, and recreation?

Remember, your “home” is not Does the house fit your enter- it’s time to find another home merely limited to your residence: taining style, whether formal or more suitable for her new lifestyle

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“It’s been an incredible and special home to us, so the transition is bittersweet for sure. But change is exciting as well, and we know whomever ends up here next will love it as much as we have.”

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NEWS

Why Curb Appeal Matters

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potential buyer drives by a home on the market. The driver stops. The driver looks at the house and its lawn and its other elements for one, two, three seconds. First impression made. The driver then makes a choice: look a little longer or move on to the next home on the market.

Homes on the market can’t wink, can’t express a come-hither look. But if they are attractive enough, through curb appeal, they can do wonders for sellers.

“Curb appeal is key,” says Jeannie Kurtzhalts, a broker at @ properties in Winnetka and Glenview. “Many are looking for curb appeal during the ‘first showing’ — viewing a picture of the house online before the drive-by. If a property is not maintained on the outside, potential buyers will have doubts about the entire property.

Something as simple as a new welcome mat, under a front door that pops because it had just been painted, is appealing. People talk and wait around near that mat. It’s an important spot.”

A home on the market should look like it just walked out of a barbershop or a salon, all neat and trimmed and clean. Well-coiffed.

Fresh-faced. Branches should not obstruct a house’s facade. Shrubs should be pruned, tidy. Garden bed lines should be precise. The driveway and walkway should be debrisfree. None of the above quests should be daunting to the home

seller. Professional landscapers and real estate folks insist there are simple and inexpensive ways to enhance curb appeal.

“You don’t want anything to detract from the look of the front of the house,” Robert Milani, senior landscape architect of Chalet Nursery in Wilmette, says.

“A leaning mailbox detracts. So do weeds on hardscapes or anything that blocks something like the front door, the focal point of a house. By far, the No. 1 issue to selling a house is curb appeal. I like to promote good curb appeal in the day and at night. Lighting near the driveway and along a pathway to the front door gives a house a sense of depth and a dramatic effect at night, plus security.”

Kim Flashner, owner of an interior design group in Winnetka, stages the interior of homes on the market. An interior sometimes needs a facelift, too. The last thing a home seller wants to do, though, is neglect the exterior of the home while getting too caught up with the look of the living room and the dining room and the bedrooms.

Flashner also has an eye for what looks crisp in fresh air.

“This one historical house [on the North Shore] was a mustardy yellow one, before it got painted grayish-blue,” Flashner says.

“People couldn’t believe the difference the change in color had made.

I heard people say, ‘That makes a huge difference.’ I’m finding curb appeal is huge, especially for younger potential buyers, people

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in their 30s. They’re all about, and very interested in, what the exterior of the house looks like. They like new, clean. People in their 40s and 50s, they’re more concerned about the inside of the house, and vintage homes appeal to them.”

Real estate brokers looking to stage or spruce up the exterior of a house have sought the expertise of the folks at Winnetka-based Red Spade Environments, a landscape design and home remodeling business, and at Mariani Land-

client services at Red Spade Environments, encourages home sellers to be objective when they view the home from the curb.

“Sometimes,” she says, “people who have lived in a house for a long time don’t think it’s a big deal if a stoop slopes or if a walkway has settled. But those are big deals, like chipped paint on the front door is, like overgrown shrubbery blocking the beauty of a home is.

Sometimes, if a house is on the market for a great deal of time, a realtor will look at the exterior of it and say to us, ‘If we could just open it up … ’ ” If a house were getting ready to go to a prom, it would contact Susan Randstrom, a graphic designer/marketing professional at Pasquesi Home & Gardens in Lake Bluff. Prom goers need corsages, boutonnieres. Houses look better behind flowers and plants.

“Placing a pair of containers [filled with plants or flowers], on the front step, freshens up the curb appeal and gives the front door instant balance,” Randstrom says.

“Eyes draw right to the area. It’s important to make a favorable first impression, in only a few seconds, and flowers and plants help homeowners do that. This time of year we like annuals, pansies, violas. scape in Lake Bluff. Mariani added African Daisies are really friendly, landscape architecture to its offer- sweet and welcoming. ings in the 1970s and is an indus“It’s a low-maintenance option, try leader in providing excep- adding plants or flowers,” she adds, tional residential landscape “and homeowners, with so many management and garden care. others things to worry about, apMargaret Lamason, director of preciate that.”

Easter Weekend Events Bunny Brunch at Lambs Farm!

Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26 at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon The Easter Bunny will be visiting Lambs Farm for the annual bunny brunches to celebrate the arrival of spring!

Join us for a delicious buffet at the Magnolia Cafe & Bakery then take a walk over to the Bunny Patch! Kids can enjoy spring crafts, activities and a take a photo with the Easter bunny! Some of our Farmyard friends also will be available for petting and learning.

Seatings are at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon.

Bakery goods and other

sweet treats and items will be available for purchase. Create and build your own gift bag for your sweetie! $16.95, $7.95 for 23 months and younger with activities.

43rd Annual Egg Hunt Saturday, March 26 10 a.m.

Join the fun and excitement of hunting for goody-filled eggs in Winnetka’s annual Egg Hunt. After the eggs are all cracked, stick around and get your picture taken with the hare himself, EB the Bunny.

All parents and children will have the opportunity to get their picture taken, and bounce around on an inflatable! Children under three should hop

on over to the “Bunnies-inTraining” pen where they can safely explore unfilled eggs.

Don’t be late; the eggs will not last long! Please bring your own basket.

Rain out location is Skokie School Gym. Community partners: City Kids Dental North Shore, First Bank and Trust, 4Sure Entertainment, The Grand Food Center, North Shore Artistic Dentistry, North Shore Community Bank and Peet’s Coffee & Tea. Ages: 8 and under Fee: FREE Easter Egg Brunch Sunday, March 27

Celebrate Easter with a day of fun at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Enjoy a buffet meal in Nichols Hall, and then bring a basket and hop over to the Krasberg Rose Garden lawn for an Easter egg hunt. Take a stroll to explore the vibrant colors and spring blooms. Seatings are at 9, 10, 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m.

Tickets are available online or at the Visitor Center. Cost is $38 for adults and $29 for children 3 to 12. Member tickets are discounted $5 each.

Parking, taxes and gratuity are included. For more information, visit chicagobotanic.org/ calendar/event/easter_brunch.

Steve Cochran’s Comedy Eggstravaganza Saturday, March 26 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The Wilmette Theatre is pleased to announce longtime WGN radio personality Steve Cochran is bringing his “Morning Show Comedy Eggstravaganza,” to the Theatre.

The series will kick-off on Saturday, March 26th, at 7pm.

Tickets are on sale now: www. wilmettetheatre.comor the box office at: 1122 Central Ave., Wilmette. For more information call 847-251-7424 Starting in March, WGN radio listeners can experience Cochran’s morning show comedy live on stage at the

‘Mette. “We are thrilled to partner with Steve Cochran and host his comedy series.

Live events, such as these, are part of our ongoing strategy to continue to offer unique and engaging entertainment for the community that can’t be found elsewhere on the North Shore,” said Wendy Sharon, Executive Director, Wilmette Theatre.

Fans of Cochran will experience the entire morning crew – Steve Cochran, John DaCosse, Ross Cochran, Kevin Powell, and Andrea Darlas – performing together on stage for the first time. This is a unique comedy force that has been making fans laugh every morning from 5 a.m.-9 a.m.

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Foundation is Investing in the Future

By Selena Fragassi

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t ’s expensive being a student in the 21st century.

As the new norm shifts away f rom spiral notebooks and recycled textbooks to equipping entire student bodies with personal computers and building audio-visual emporiums, school districts are left to solve a very puzzling equation: How do they keep up with supplying the best learning tools at the same time that education budgets are being tightened?

In 2002, a group of 11 parents founded the Lake Forest High School Foundation as a way to “bridge the gap between tax dollars received by the district and the cost of providing a highquality education,” says Communic ations V ice-Chair Katherine Reay.

Through private funding, sponsorships, and an annual fundraising event, the allvolunteer organization, now with 32 trustees having awarded more than 150 grants, totaling an impressive $1.6 million over the past 13 years, which have funded innovative ideas across all departments that enhance curriculums and provide the best teaching methods that would otherwise not be possible.

The Foundation estimates that all students are touched by a grant at least five times each day.

Over the years, the grants have purchased the Chromebook loaner library, provided for teacher training, purchased flatscreen TVs and hi-definition cameras for the New Media and Art departments, which are also used to stream Tedx presentations,

and renovated the College and Career Resource Center.

A Foundation grant was also used to build out the Innovation Incubator that is used for the Business Incubator class that brings in community members to coach and mentor the students. The Junior Honors class will culminate in the 2nd Annual “Pitch Night ” similar to ABC’s hit Shark Tank, on May 26. The most viable business idea may receive funds to take the project to the next level, says Reay, “which makes it more realistic.”

The most significant grant last year officially opened January with the unveiling of the Makerspace. Used by applied technology, robotics, science, and art students, the creative do-it-yourself hub supports progressive STEM initiatives as a gathering place to collaborativel y create, invent, and learn. The room is equipped with 12 island tables, 25 pedestal chairs, six Makerbot 3D printers, and one Makerbot replicator that allows students to build varying prototypes with the use of the most cutting-edge technology.

“The learning opportunities in the Makerspace are just extraordinary,” says Reay, noting that one of the Lake Forest High School Robotics teams qualified to compete at the Illinois State Competition this year, which is impressive when you consider the team was only established in 2014.

“At Lake Forest High School, we strive to be one of the top schools in the country, and the only way to do that is to offer accelerated

opportunities for our faculty and staff and allow students to grow and challenge themselves,” seconds Lauren Kuetemeyer, another Foundation trustee and one of the cochairs of the Foundation’s 6th annual Spring Luncheon.

Planting a Foundation for Education, it supports the idea of “students blossoming and growing,” says fellow cochair Molly King and raises roughly 50 percent of the foundation’s yearly contributions.

This year, the spring luncheon and auction will be held April 20 in a private club at 300 N. Green Bay Road in Lake Forest and will feature the traditional raffle and silent auction with a twist. This year the entire silent auction will be online.

“The luncheon sold out last year, so by having an online option for the entire silent auction, we can allow additional community members the chance to participate and donate,” says King.

The grants for the year will be announced April 29.

At the end of the day, says Kuetemeyer, “We are all just parents trying to strive to get the best education for all our children in the community.

The Foundation’s objective remains to supplement the funding received by the district and to continuously improve the educational experience for every student, in every grade, at every learning level.”

To learn more about the Lake Forest High School Foundation or to purchase tickets to the April 20 Plant a Foundation for Education luncheon, visit lfhsfoundation.org.

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AKE FOREST — Lake Forest police on March 18 arrested a 32-year-old music tutor from Chicago on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. LFPD Deputy Chief Karl Walldorf described the arrest of Patrick R. Jennings of West Montrose Avenue in Chicago: “On the evening of February

29, 2016, a Lake Forest police officer on patrol located Jennings, a private music tutor, inside a parked car alone with a 15-year-old music student. The officer witnessed Jennings engaged in inappropriate physical conduct with the minor.

“Detectives interviewed Jennings, the student and several witnesses. They obtained and analyzed data from two smart phones and a tablet belonging

to Jennings. On March 16, 2016, detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Jennings on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

“Jennings was arrested by detectives on March 18, 2016.

He was processed and transported to Lake County Jail where he was held on $500,000 bond. His next court date is March 22, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. in Waukegan courtroom C120.”

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Highland Park Sophomore Plants Seeds of Knowledge teach children the importance of healthy eating through garamrita Narula just wants dening while combating food to help. When she was in insecurity. She met with the the eighth grade at Elm curriculum coordinator at the Place Middle School, she helped Highland Park Community plan the school’s annual day of Nursery School and Daycare giving. It’s a day in December Center (Community) and over when families in need could the summer started an outdoor come to collect canned food garden for the nursery school items, books, toys, clothes, and kids. She’d tend the garden with other items that the students the kids and play games with had spent months collecting and them, such as Vegetable Bingo or a game where they separate organizing.

“That was the first time I saw foods into food groups. the poverty in Highland Park Not satisfied with limiting the and food insecurity that existed,” children’s gardening activities to says Narula, now a sophomore the spring and summer, she sold at Highland Park High School greeting cards you can plant (HPHS). “We collected over made from seeds and interactive 5,000 cans of non-perishable seed starter kits for children food. That’s when I wanted to called Growums at the Ravinia do something, because while Farmer’s Market every week. these canned food items were She used the proceeds to buy helping curb the hunger, they five hydroponic, vertical, garden weren’t necessarily improving towers with time-release waterthe individuals’ diets.” ing systems so the students at In the spring of her freshman Community can grow different year at HPHS, she started Seeds vegetables all year round.

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But that’s just one aspect of the education and outreach of Seeds of Knowledge. She also partnered with the Northern Suburban Special Recreation Association to teach children and adults with special needs the therapeutic aspects of gardening. The plot they fostered was in the Moraine Township Food Pantry Garden, where they raised 93 pounds of produce to donate to the Moraine Township Food Pantry.

Having seen the good the food pantry does, she wanted to find more ways to help them.

Enter her parking meters. While on vacation in Florida, she noticed a bright yellow parking meter, the change from which was donated to local homeless

shelters. After a presentation to the Highland Park city council, she was put in touch with public works, and the parking meters were put into motion. The first appears to be a giant carrot standing in Port Clinton Square.

The second has a variety of fruits and vegetables and the words END HUNGER painted on it and it stands in front of Michael’s on 2nd Street. She emptied the meters for the first time in January and had raised over $100, which bought more than 115 pounds of f resh produce for the Moraine Township Food Pantry.

“Currently, I’m trying to make Seeds of Knowledge a non profit,” Narula says. “I’m trying to register it for that whole process. I’d like to keep expanding and install some more meters. I’m trying to partner with more schools to keep that education component and also target more groups of kids. Then, I guess we’ll see if there’s anything more I can do.”

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love & marriage

Are You A Lazy Couple?

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t has been a month since Valentine’s Day – the credit card bill for the evening out has already arrived with great fanfare – and I can still say that I had a spectacular night out.

My family happened to be visiting our extended family in Arizona, and so my husband and I took advantage of this onslaught of free babysitters to spend the evening in a hot air balloon. We sailed over the desert at sunset, and it was spectacular.

It was a threat I’d been making for at least a decade; every time we leave Arizona I swear that I am not going back there without a reservation for a hot air balloon ride. My husband responds with a smart remark about flying Easter baskets, and we return to the desert without a balloon reservation. Ho hum.

But this year he went all out: babysitting, research, reservations for a ride that ended with champagne under the most wonder-

fully pink sky, the sun setting over some desert rock formation, and the promise of dinner without the children. It was, as I said, spectacular.

We’re home now, and real life resumes; laundry, movies on demand and casseroles pepper our weekends again. I wasn’t surprised to find in my routine trolling of the Internet a list of 10 things all lazy couples recognize.

I plead guilty to five of the 10 offenses offered up by British entertainment site Female First.

They include: We text each other from inside the house, rather than expend the energy to walk down the hall and interact personally. Lazy: sure. But options B and C when dinner was ready to was to yell to my husband while he was paying bills in his office, or leave the kitchen unattended with a curious toddler and a hot stove while I ran up the stairs myself. Texting was the clear choice.

We dress down. Lazy: yes. But when the day’s schedule consists of cleaning bathrooms, attacking the laundry and working at my computer, I believe that fresh sweatpants are just fine.

Going to the movie theater is a stretch. Lazy couples stream something at home to avoid bundling up and driving to the theater, buying tickets and snacks, and so on. Lazy: I guess. But streaming at home is just as good.

After family dinner we get to see the movie we want instead of settling for whatever’s playing the night the babysitter is free, and we are engaged in watching it together with the possibility of discussion during or afterward.

It’s a totally acceptable solution for busy people.

The list of lazy couples’ habits continues with items like take-out dinners, bargaining to avoid household chores, and naps. Some were acceptable (lazy weekend mornings with nothing to do),

others were not (disinterest in showering).

But they’re all symptoms, I think, of the ambitious national identity that the politicians crowed about on Super Tuesday.

We want a stronger communities, and so we stack out To Do lists with activities that make them so.

We raise children and care for our aging parents. We work to advance our careers. We volunteer in classrooms, libraries, churches and temples. We better ourselves through fitness routines, book clubs, and other hobbies that feed our souls.

If that means that I’m still wearing my favorite blue sweats when my husband arrives with a bag from Taco Nano, so be it.

We’ll still be able to tell our grandchildren about the hot balloon ride we did that one time in the desert.

Joanna Brown can be reached at Joanna@northshoreweekend.com.

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north shore foodie

Lake Bluff Brewing Turns Five Dorneker makes the beer always striving to add something new. When the brewpub holds its 12-hour celebration March 26, he said he has a special release beer ready to serve to those who arrive.

“It’s a very limited and special version of the beer that won a gold medal in the 2013 U.S. Beer Open,” Dorneker said. “It’s very limited and on draught. It won’t be like any other beer.”

There will not be much of the special blend either, according to Dorneker. He said he only made five gallons, which means 64 10-ounce glasses. He expects to run out before the end of the day.

Rodd Specketer “It’s a huge beer,” Specketer photography by joel lerner said. “It’s 11 percent alcohol.”

By Steve Sadin brewing club in a garage,” Rodd Arriving at the five-year mark AKE BLUFF — A group of Specketer, one of the three as a local brewery is something nine friends began getting founders and the only one still special for the company, accordtogether in a Lake Bluff holding a stake in the business, ing to Specketer. He said it was garage to brew beer just over six said. “Our friends started telling worth a celebration. years ago and three of them us how much they liked the beer “We wanted to do something liked what they made so much and three of us decided to take for our community and our they went into business to- the plunge.” customers,” Specketer said.

All the beer served and that gether.

Not long after Specketer, That company is the Lake David Burns and Michael sold to wholesale customers in Bluff Brewing Co. which cele- Goldsberry started Lake Bluff the area is made on the prembrates its fifth anniversary from Brewing Co. they hired Michael ises, according to Dorneker. He noon to midnight March 26 Dorneker of Lombard as their said it is all poured for the custhanking customers with a beer brew master. Specketer said they tomer or shipped to accounts in crafted for the occasion at its wanted the beer making in the kegs. He said recipes are always 16 East Scranton Ave. location hands of an experienced profes- changing except for the four in downtown Lake Bluff. sional. Dorneker and Specketer flagship brews to offer variety “We established a home are now the owners. each time people come in.

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The four staples are Honey Badger Golden Ale, Inspiration Pale Ale, Skull & Bones and Velvet Hammer, according to Dorneker. He said additional choices vary between two and five depending on the season.

“We try to have two new beers every month,” Dorneker said.

Beer is not the only thing offered at the brewpub, according to Specketer. There is wine—not homemade—and food. He said there is no kitchen. The fare, which includes items as basic as a burger or unusual foods like wild boar jagerwurst and venison knackwurst, comes from the Mavery Public House next door.

“My brother-in-law (Timothy Michael) is the chef,” Specketer said. “It works out real well.”

While none of the beer is bottled for commercial sale— that may happen in the future, according to Specketer—people can get special bottles to go known as growlers. They come in two sizes.

Lake Bluff Brewing Co. beer is also available in other establishments in the area including the Deer Path Inn, Market House, the Lake House, the Marriott Lincolnshire and the Vine in Grayslake, according to Specketer.

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Socials St. Patrick’s Day Dinner at Elawa Farm Photography by Larry Miller

Held last Thursday when all of the North Shore was just a little bit Irish, Elawa Farm hosted a St. Patrick’s Day Dinner in the evening in their Lake Forest barn. The event included a dinner buffet with a special Irish-themed menu, which featured selections like corned beef, braised cabbage, and bangers and rashers.

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“Lesson from a panini”

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unchtime in a North Shore diner. You’re in a discussion with opinionated friends while waiting. The subject is corporate and political dishonesty. One guy says lies are more rampant today.

You’re about to reply, but your mind wanders to the panini you ordered. There’s a distracting photo of this sandwich on the wall. A thought occurs, but you lose it...

Back to the debate. The prevailing view is that politicians and corporations are unconscio-

nable truth-stretchers.

Suddenly, lunch is in front of you. Hot Italian bread with chicken, and spices squeezed together in a press that leaves grill marks. Who cares about conversation. Let’s eat.

But first you look again at the panini in the photo. A movie star of a panini. Then you look at the one in front of you. Saggy, scorched and bent, leaking grease. You think: advertising versus reality, and reality loses.

Then it hits. The elusive thought you had earlier. This observation about overpromising is nothing new. Lies are EXPECTED. You didn’t believe

for a minute that your panini would look like the one in the photo.

We all know ads stretch the truth. Known it since childhood.

Your panini is going to look like it just woke up in the morning.

Not like it had its own make-up department.

Same goes for the promises and polemics served to us by politicians and corporations.

We’re not gullible. We EXPECT them to be exaggerations. That’s a reminder from your humble panini. Enough talk. Time to take a bite. It may not look like the panini in the picture, but it’s the only one you’ve got.

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Raith to the finish All-state junior strikes for four goals in 5-2 win as New Trier Green claims third state title in four years BY kevin reiterman, sports@northshoreweekend.com

J

ust suiting up and playing on the ice at United Center is a surreal experience for most high school hockey players.

But, on this night, Jack Raith didn’t let the surroundings — or the bigness of this game — get to him.

He was Sir Real.

He hit it out of the rink. Jack Raith was Babe Ruth with a hockey stick.

The junior forward turned Surreal into Unreal on March 18, when he scored four goals in New Trier Green’s 5-2 victory over Providence Catholic in the AHAI state championship game.

Grape Gretzky! The kid was amazing.

“He had a game for the ages,” New Trier Green head boys hockey Bob Melton said. “For him to do what he did on a stage like this was … .”

Excessive.

Excessive in a spectacular sort of way.

“I never imagined this,” Raith said. “I never could have dreamed of doing something like this.”

Winning “Player of the Game” honors was one thing. Helping his team win the title — lucky No. 13 for the New Trier Green program and its third in four years — was the better thing for Raith.

“It’s all about the win,” he said.

“And this,” Raith added, “is the best feeling that I’ve ever had in my life. From getting off the bus to right now. Every part of it.”

Raith capped his all-state season with a team-high 38 goals. He also had 34 assists to wind up with 72 points.

“He took his game to another level tonight,” NT Green senior all-state defenseman Stephan Bazianos said. “He won the game for us.”

“I’ve been on his team for the past three years,” added fellow all-state defenseman Dillon Munson, referring to their time spent on junior varsity teams (NT White and NT Blue). “And I’ve never seen him play like that.”

Raith must’ve had a hunch that he would spend most of the night in celebratory — and celebrity — mode, when he shocked the Celtics (56-11-1) with an early icebreaker. Off an assist from teammate Matthew Mulhern, it took him all of 26 seconds to solve all-state goalkeeper Ryan Iaciancio and put his team in front 1-0.

Raith had an immediate response for that early goal. He rushed over to the NT Green student section to celebrate. And separated only by the thick plexiglass, he whooped it up with the school’s wildly enthused fans.

Wash, rinse and rehash. He repeated that same happy refrain several times.

“Just trying to get the crowd into the game,” Raith said.

Goals have a way of electrifying a fan base. The Celtics charged up theirs on a pair of first-period goals by all-stater Jake Vennetti and Gant Orloff.

Panic time? Not really.

“We might’ve taken our foot off the pedal a little,” said Raith. “But we’ve been coming back on teams

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all year. Even when we were down 2-1, I knew we had it.

“We just needed our defense to pick it up,” said Melton. “I knew we had too much offense to score only one goal.

“But I was pretty happy when we got the momentum back,” the NT Green coach added.

No. 89 was at his coach’s service. The United Center’s Zamboni machine was hardly off the ice, when Raith struck for his second goal of the game with 14:38 left in the second period on an assist by Charlie Burton.

That goal swung the game back Green’s way. A few minutes later (7:21 left in the second period), Mulhern (35 goals, 31 assists, 66 points) put his team ahead 3-2.

Then, three minutes and 56 seconds after that, the hats went a-flying. Beanies — and various other pieces of paraphernalia — littered the ice.

It meant hat trick. It meant extra ice time for four members of the Chicago Blackhawks Ice Crew.

Seeing that? Pretty cool.

“And it gave me a little breather,” said Raith, smiling.

They all count the same, but Raith’s third goal was eye dessert for the hardcore hockey fan.

Three New Trier Green players — Raith, Burton and Nico Meyer — played it perfectly.

“Nico dropped the puck to me, while Burton got in front of the net,” said Raith, who blasted in the shot from just outside the blue line. “He [Burton] knew I was feeling it. He knew I would be shooting.”

Burton’s screen was textbook.

“Their goalie is real good, and he’s real big,” said Burton, an all-state forward who finished the season with a team-best 73 points (28 goals, 45 assists).

“Before the game, Jack and I talked about taking his eyes away.

“Jack and I have been playing together since freshman year,” Burton added. “We’ve always had good chemistry.”

Raith completed his night by scoring an empty netter from long range with 1:21 left in regulation.

Senior Brandon Koch got the assist.

“Coming into this year, we knew that Raith was a good player,” said Melton. “But as the season went along, he got better and better. He got hungrier.”

Notable: New Trier Green closed out the season with a 54-10-1 record. Winning state was quite an accomplishment considering none of its players played varsity hockey last year. … Junior goalkeeper William Douthit handled some tough chances

and ended up with 13 goals. … NT Green defenseman Stephan Bazianos was a little disappointed with his team’s defense. “Dillon [Munson] and I didn’t have the games of our lives,” he said. “I wished I would have played better. I was not happy about giving up those two early goals. But, at the end of the day, we did fine.” … Providence Catholic had plenty of firepower. Junior Jake Rott was named the AHAI Player of the Year. He had one assist in the state final. He finished the season with 58 goals and 79 assists. … With the win, veteran coach Bob Melton has guided NT Green to 11 state championships in 19 years. … NT Green’s other top scorers: junior Michael Graham (36 goals, 29 assists), junior John Huber (32 goals, 34 assists), senior Louis Lybrook (17 goals, 29 goals), senior Joe Graves (21 goals, 21 assists), senior Nico Meyer (16 goals, 21 assists), junior Daniel McNerney (18 goals, 12 assists), senior Alex Levine (11 goals, 14 assists), senior Jack Cadden (9 goals, 10 assists) and Daniel Hauser (10 goals, 6 assists). … NT’s defensemen also were productive: Bazianos (8 goals, 22 assists), Munson (5 goals, 16 assists), Brandon Koch (8 goals, 19 assists), Chris Sonnenschein (4 goals, 15 assists), Tristan Jones (2 goals, 17 assists) and Mason Smith (3 goals, 9 assists).

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Golden Girls Ramblers claim first state championship since 2004 BY kevin reiterman, sports@northshoreweekend.com

L

oyola Academy hockey star Valerie Caldwell knows how to validate a big moment.

Shortly after scoring a shorthanded goal in the state title game at United Center on March 18, Caldwell got so excited, so thrilled that she nearly vise-grabbed the life out of teammate Anne Bloomer.

It was arguably the hug of the night.

And at that point — 9:12 left in the second period — Caldwell, future chairwoman for Hugs R Us, Inc., was just getting started.

By the time the Ramblers wrapped up a 5-3 win over Barrington, Caldwell’s hug-o-meter had to be in the hundreds.

“I just get so excited,” said Caldwell.

The girl loves to hug.

The girl loves to win.

“I’m on Cloud 9 right now,” Caldwell said. “This is absolutely unreal.

“We had already experienced the United Center,” she added.

“This time, we wanted to win it.”

The Ramblers (19-3-5), who had not won a girls state title since 2004, earned runner-up honors to New Trier in 2014 and Latin School in ’15. They used those past experiences to their advantage.

“Our girls didn’t get wide-eyed like they did last year or the year before that,” said LA head coach Conor Sedam, who was named the girls AHAI Coach of the Year.

“It almost was like any other game for us. At least, that’s how our girls approached it.”

Barrington, which didn’t even suit up a team last year, came into the contest as a worthy foe. The Fillies (23-4-2), who featured a pair of elite players in Andrea Renner (48 goals, 18 assists) and Nicole Guagliardo (32 goals, 18 assists), had played LA even during the regular season: 1-1-1.

“I think they came into the game a little calmer. They were having a little more fun than we were,” said Barrington head coach Robert Renner. “I thought we looked a little overwhelmed early.

“You can prepare all you want,” he added. “But when you walk in the door here, you find out how big of a deal this game really is.”

LA’s five all-staters — Caldwell, Bloomer, Emma Wright, Maggie Cusick and Tess Dettling — definitely skated their case.

HUGGY RAMBLERS: Loyola Academy’s Valerie Caldwell (center) celebrates her goal with second-quarter goal with Anne Bloomer and Elanor Kroeger. LA defeated Barrington 5-3 in the state final at United Center. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

Dettling has a way of making magic in the big barn on Madison Street. She tallied a goal in each her team’s losses in the ’14 and ’15 games.

And, as it turned out, it didn’t take the junior standout long to come up with her United Center hat trick. With 10:55 left in the first quarter, Dettling found an open door. She rebounded Cusick’s slapshot off the boards and punched it past Barrington goalie Eryn Cooley.

Credit Cusick with an assist on the play. The senior had two for the game.

“You soon learn that the puck goes into the net at United Center the same as it does anywhere else,” said Sedam.

Dettling, who tallied four goals in her team’s 8-2 state semifinal win over New Trier on March 10, drilled shots at Cooley all night.

She added an unassisted goal with 7:08 left in regulation to put her team ahead 5-1.

“Five to one,” said Caldwell. “I don’t think anyone was expecting that.”

Caldwell, who committed to the University of Vermont in the fall, played a huge role in the win.

Set up nicely by Bloomer, her goal in the second period was her 35th of the season.

It also ended a mild drought.

It was Caldwell’s first goal in the state playoffs since coming up with four biscuits in a 9-1 quarterfinal win over Evanston.

“I knew that I just had to stay with it,” said Caldwell, who went scoreless against NT in the state semifinal win. “I had to have patience.

“But it’s not about me,” she added. “I’m just as happy when one of my teammates scores.”

With 2:10 left in the second period, there was a role reversal.

This time, Bloomer slapped a shot past Cooley off a perfect delivery from Caldwell.

Like Dettling, Bloomer has been prolific of late. The sophomore, who also had four goals in the state semifinal win, added an unassisted goal with 10:21 left in regulation.

Those two scores proved to be meaningful, when Barrington

staged a late rally. Renner scored twice in the final 1:12 to make things a little uncomfortable for the Ramblers.

“I wasn’t really worried [at that point],” said Sedam. “But you never know. Anything can happen.”

For the most part, Renner, who will play collegiately at Northeastern University, was held in check by LA goaltender Tianna Lavalle.

“I know she’s an amazing player,” said Lavalle, who was credited with 19 saves. “You try not to think about who is shooting or how good she might be.

“I just focused on the puck,” the sophomore added.

Sedam pointed this out.

“In my mind, the pivotal point in game came in the second quarter, when Tianna stopped a breakaway by No. 78 [Guagliardo],” said the LA coach. “If they score then, it could’ve been a totally different game.

“Tianna bailed us out,” he added.

Notable: For the Wright sisters, a circle has been completed. In 2004, Maggie Wright was a freshman on Loyola Academy’s state championship team.

Twelve years later, Emma Wright capped her high school hockey career with a state title. “Been waiting a long time for this,” said Emma. Caroline Wright, the middle sister, also was a standout player for Ramblers.

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Altounian relishes leadership role for young Lake Forest High School boys lacrosse team

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here it was, staring up at Marc Thiergart, Lake Forest High School’s first-year boys varsity lacrosse coach last spring. It was near the top of the LFHS varsity schedule, Game Two: March 20, Lake Forest High School at Glenbrook North, 5 p.m. He probably smiled. He probably shook his head.

Thiergart is a Glenbrook North graduate.

Glenbrook North was ranked fourth in the state at the time of the game. It was 7-7, Lake Forest possessing the ball, with 10 seconds left in the second half.

Nine seconds …

Eight …

Todd “Mac” Altounian, the ball nestled in the webbing of his stick, took a shot.

Seven seconds …

The ball from Altounian’s stick beat the Spartans’ goalkeeper with six ticks left in regulation. The Scouts’ defense did its part the rest of the way, preserving the 8-7 victory.

A happy bunch of lacrosse players entered the team bus. It probably shook.

A lot. Can you see the bus driver, squeezing the dickens out of the steering wheel to stay seated? Altounian, a junior middie last spring, apologized to former Spartan Thiergart for tallying the clincher against the coach’s alma mater.

“Mac was kidding,” Thiergart recalled last weekend. “He was thrilled with the win. I was thrilled with the win. We were all thrilled.”

Lake Forest would reach a state semifinal in May and lose to New Trier.

Thiergart’s alma mater would finish as the state runner-up to New Trier.

Altounian is a 6-foot-1, 190-pounder today, still a middie, bound to play lacrosse at Manhattan College in the Bronx. He and his Scouts played a trio of scrimmages at New Trier’s Northfield campus on March 19. They played the host school first, followed by good ol’ Glenbrook North, followed by Glenbrook South. A scoreboard operator did not keep track of the score on either field.

Statistics generated by the players would not count. It was spring training … in 30-degree temperatures. But Altounian wasn’t kidding around.

He treated the scrimmages as if each were a midseason test, high state tournament seed at stake. In the first half of the

matchup against Glenbrook South, Altounian snared a crisp outlet pass from junior goalkeeper Davis Khalili, ran hard past midfield, darted here, darted there and rifled a shot from about 30 yards out.

Goal, Lake Forest. Five minutes later he scored again. In the second half he whipped a slick hockey assist on a fastbreak goal, the first tally of the half.

“Always working, always competing, always going,” Scouts senior defenseman William “Harry” Larson, a captain like Altounian, said of the future Manhattan Jasper and former Lake Forest running back. “He’s one of those 100-percent guys, committed to the game, committed to training. He started playing the sport late [in the eighth grade], but he took to it, ran with it. He’s an athlete.”

Altounian — “Mac” is short for McGrath, his middle name and his grandmother’s maiden name — suited up for only half of Lake Forest’s football games last fall, a broken back relegating him to sideline booster as the temperatures dipped in 2015. He suffered three fractures in his back during a weightlifting session. He wears a back brace for his lacrosse games.

“See,” Altounian said, lifting his jersey halfway to reveal a black lower-back support belt that could almost pass for a … weightlifting belt. “The rehab went well. I built my core. I feel great. I feel leaner. I weighed about 200 pounds before the injury.”

Lack of experience did not keep him from making the Scouts’ varsity lacrosse in his freshman year. He ran around fields mainly as a defensive middie in 2013.

Altounian totaled 18 goals, 20 assists and 35 groundballs in his sophomore season and 25 goals, 20 assists and 45 groundballs last spring. He earned all-North Suburban Conference honors (honorable mention) after the ’15 season. He dished a pair of assists in Lake Forest’s 14-4, season-opening defeat of host Mundelein High School on March 17.

“Great athlete … a natural athlete,” Thiergart said. “He’s a better defensive middie than anything else, though he’d never admit that. Tough as nails, real fast, strong. Just a good all-around athlete, with a good attitude. His demeanor, it’s a serious one. Mac understands the game well. Great lacrosse IQ.” Altounian takes his captain responsi-

Mac Altounian of the Scouts prepares to snare a pass during a scrimmage in Northfield last week.. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER

bilities seriously, never hesitant to admonish a teammate if the teammate is not concentrating enough in practice or if a teammate is going only 99 percent in practice. Moments before the start of the second half of the Lake ForestGlenbrook South scrimmage last weekend, Altounian coached up a couple of young players on a young team. He spoke to them on the field; they listened and nodded. They wanted to learn.

“I guess,” Altounian said, “I have that label, The guy who sometimes gets on his teammates, the guy who sometimes raises his voice. I would never want my teammates to take it personally, and I don’t think they do. I try to do whatever I can to make the team better. I just want to make sure the young guys know what it takes to play varsity lacrosse; I see that as one of my roles. This is not JV lacrosse.

This is different.”

Altounian left for Cabo, Mexico, on the day after the Scrimmage Festival in Northfield last weekend. The day, March 20, doubled as Day One of his spring break. He planned to fish, to hit the beaches, to hit golf balls a long, long way.

At this time a year ago, Thiergart and his Scouts were in Florida for spring break, taking on teams that had already played up to 12 games. It was blistering hot down there. Different. Another world compared to Illinois, where March weather is often synonymous with November weather. His boys, understandably, weren’t in the best lacrosse shape in the Sunshine State last March.

“This is a great change for us, playing here this year in these conditions, against strong local teams,” Thiergart said after a pair of scrimmages on March 19. “We

want to build up the young guys’ confidence, get the young guys accustomed to this kind of competition.”

Spoken like a true old guy.

Or Mac Altounian.

Notable: Senior attackmen Matt Clifford (all-NSC, second team) and Mitch Salanty are also serving as LFHS varsity lacrosse captains this spring, along with seniors Mac Altounian and Harry Larson. … Scouts sophomore Jack Mislinski poured in five goals in Lake Forest’s 14-4 defeat of host Mundelein in the Scouts’ season opener on March 17. …

The Scouts’ other returning all-NSC picks: junior long stick middie Jack Adams (second team); sophomore goalie Blake Ulmer (honorable mention) and junior middie Cole Johnston (honorable mention).

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Aus-struck

Vienna native — and LFA standout — Schaffer figures to turn more heads at the next level

BY BILL MCLEAN, sports@northshoreweekend.com

T

he boy in Vienna, Austria, needed a distraction. That was his mother’s and his aunt’s idea. The 11-year-old boy’s father, Andreas, had died in 2009. Too young … the boy and the father.

The father was a 6-foot-8 doctor.

Let the boy, Thomas Schaffer, play football, escape for a couple of hours, run around, tackle Austrian boys carrying a football.

Football, a distraction, would not take away the pain of losing a parent, but it might allow the boy to start the healing process. That was his mother’s thinking, his aunt’s thinking.

“I first learned about football through movies,” Schaffer, now a Lake Forest Academy senior and no longer a boy at 6-foot-7, 270 pounds, recalls. “At first, I thought football was only about hitting other people. The strategies, I would learn and experience those later. I played for a football club in Austria.”

He stood 6-6 in the seventh grade, already a Gulliver with Lilliputions for classmates and football teammates. Schaffer was 15 years old when he made Austria’s U-19 national football team. He was the youngest gridder on the team. He was the tallest gridder on the team. The team traveled to Texas and played all-star teams from other countries. High school football in Texas is akin to alpine skiing in Austria. A big deal. And fiercely popular.

Schaffer was skiing in his home country when he learned Lake Forest Academy football coach Robin Bowkett was interested in him as a football player and as a student. An excited Schaffer wanted to run around the ski resort and share the news with everybody in a parka, or pretty much everybody at the resort. Schaffer’s cousin, Felix Schildorfer, had played football at LFA. He stood 6-4 and weighed 275 pounds, a defensive lineman/offensive lineman. Felix, now a defensive lineman at Penn, told Bowkett one day, “You should see my cousin.”

What Felix also told the coach, “I’m one of the smallest members of my family.”

Bowkett watched game video of Thomas Schaffer on Hudl, an online service for coaches and

Cardinal win: Lake Forest Academy’s Thomas Schaffer (No. 58) will wears Stanford University colors next season. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER

athletes. It did not take long for Bowkett to notice Schaffer. He was the one who stuck out like New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski would on a field in a Pop Warner football game.

“Thomas,” Bowkett says, “was tall and lean then, something like 220 pounds. And he was 16 years old. There are not too many dudes that age walking around the earth with those kind of dimensions. He was raw. His family had good genetics.”

The admissions process began.

Schaffer, a sophomore at the time, applied to LFA. He told his mother, Ingrid Hopfner, the initial plan, if the school were to accept him, would be to try the school for a year and then revisit the commitment. The school accepted him.

He played football. He took classes.

The Lake Forest Academy community appealed to him, chal-

lenged him. He returned to LFA for two more football seasons, recording a combined 12.5 sacks as a massive, disruptive defensive lineman and blowing up defensive linemen as a massive, path-paving offensive lineman in the 2014 and ’15 seasons. Schaffer also hiked long snaps for the Caxys.

“Big guy coming off the line, doing damage,” LFA junior wideout/cornerback Kenan Clarke, a native of Toronto, says of an indelible memory of Schaffer’s impact on a football field. “I also remember hearing him scream, from the other team’s backfield.

He had just made a big play, a sack or a TFL [tackle for loss]. His understanding of the game … it’s clear how much he knows about the game. He knows a lot, and he knew his roles and did them well on the field [last fall]. He’s got intensity, an edge, size, abilities and

knowledge.”

Football coaches at Division I colleges went after Schaffer. Hard.

He got his list down to three: Stanford, Oregon, Wisconsin.

Three completely different environments. He watched Stanford play Oregon last fall. He watched Oregon play Cal last fall. He watched Wisconsin play Northwestern last fall. Former LFA teammate Wesley Annan, a 6-4, 281-pound defensive tackle, is a freshman at Stanford. He recruited Schaffer during Schaffer’s official visit to the campus last fall, talked up life as a student-athlete in Palo Alto, California. Schaffer also thoroughly enjoyed a conversation, in German, with a philosophy professor during the official visit. He met Cardinal sophomore running back Christian McCaffrey, a Heisman Trophy finalist, and other players during the same visit.

McCaffrey is 19 years old, only a year older than Schaffer.

Schaffer chose Stanford.

“I texted Wesley 20 minutes after I committed to Stanford,” Schaffer, also an imposing volleyball player at LFA and a student with a 3.75 grade-point average, says. “One of the first things he told me was, ‘When you get the strength and conditioning program from Stanford in the mail, do it, follow it. College football is hard.’ ” Schaffer got off a plane in Chicago on Jan. 1 and headed, with others, to P.F. Chang’s in Northbrook for a New Year’s Day feast.

The TV near his table in the restaurant was not on the channel airing the 2016 Rose Bowl, Stanford vs. Iowa. Schaffer asked the waiter to change the channel.

Schaffer looked up at the screen and noticed he had missed only

the first 14 seconds of the Rose Bowl. He had also missed the first touchdown of the game, McCaffrey taking the first handoff of the game and rushing for an 80-yard touchdown. Schaffer’s future team (12-2) went on to win in a rout, 45-16. Schaffer ate well (beef and orange chicken). Stanford played well. Happy New Year, indeed.

“Exciting game,” Schaffer recalls. “Stanford dominated the entire game.”

Schaffer expects to line up primarily at defensive end in his college seasons. Stanford coaches might occasionally make him shift to nose tackle on certain downs to preoccupy a center. Imagine you’re a quarterback, in the fourth quarter of a PAC-12 football game on a balmy afternoon, and you have to rely on your beefy, exhausted center to contain Schaffer on a third-andlong. Happy retreating. Happy scrambling.

“His length will help him in college,” Bowkett says. “He’s got long arms, and he knows how to use them. He’s also very physical and relentless, good at changing directions and maintaining his gap.

His football IQ is through the roof.”

His mind and hands like to attack Rubik’s Cubes. Schaffer regularly solves 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 Rubik’s Cubes. It once took him only 26 seconds to crack a 3x3 version. The play clock in a college football game lasts 40 seconds.

Schaffer watches a lot of college football. He watched video of the 2016 Fiesta Bowl game, Ohio State vs. Notre Dame, played on the same day Stanford whipped Iowa in the Rose Bowl. He watched that Rose Bowl game again. He likes to play cards, ride his bike, listen to music. His English is very good, his German accent deep and thick.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, starred in those Terminator movies. Friends of Schaffer sometimes call Schaffer “Terminator.”

“I’ve also heard people call him, ‘Ivan Drago’ [a boxer in Rocky IV ],” even though Drago was a Russian in the movie,” Bowkett says.

Call Schaffer a football player.

The distraction became a passion.

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SUNDAY BREAKFAST

CBS Anchor Tackles Concussions In New Book

By Elizabeth Hoppe

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ockey plays a prominent role in CBS news anchor Rob Johnson’s life. Rob, who has worked at CBS for nine years—most of them behind the desk during weekday evening broadcasts—is a big hockey fan.

He covered the Blackhawks’ three recent championship runs, and he plays hockey two to three times a week. But the majority of his hockey time isn’t as a player or a fan. It’s as a hockey dad.

Rob and wife Stacy join me for lunch on a Wednesday in late January.

It doesn’t take long to realize that for these parents, their son is their top priority. Jaden plays on a competitive traveling hockey team, which means weekend trips to Michigan and Wisconsin, for example. His season lasts close to 10 months a year.

Jaden loves it, and Rob and Stacy will continue to support him as long as he still loves to play the game—or as long as he can. When Jaden was only 6, he suffered a concussion after a defenseless hit that left him motionless on the ice for close to a minute. “I felt so vulnerable as a parent, and it broke our hearts to see him unable to do even basic cognitive functions,” Rob says.

Recovery meant Jaden couldn’t read, take tests at school, or play video games—nothing that would put stress on his brain. “Now the clock is ticking,” Stacy says, referring to the fact that you can only have so many concussions in a lifetime before it’s unsafe to play

the sport anymore.

Rob has now written a book about the dangers of concussions. It’s called Timothy Trainor: Head in the Game, and though it’s not autobiographical, it certainly draws on personal experience. Concussion prevention and treatment has been a hot topic in recent years. The National Football League has been changing the rules of the game in order to make that sport safer for players, and Will Smith starred in a movie released late last year about a doctor who embarks on a mission to raise awareness about the dangers of football-related head trauma.

“This is a hockey story, but this should be the healthcare issue for all parents of active children,” Rob says.

“It’s not just hockey and football.”

The book, which was released late last year, is a short-chapter fiction book that totals about 60 pages. Its target audience is children ages 6 through about 12, but it’s one of those books that’s best read with a parent who can help talk about some of the issues and educational topics the book brings up.

Rob wrote the book in his free time, meaning on plane rides or in the hotel room on hockey travel weekends.

During the week, his work schedule keeps him plenty busy. Rob anchors the 5, 6, and 10 p.m. broadcasts for CBS 2, which means he’s at the studio at 2 p.m. every day and heads home around 11 p.m.

He’s constantly reading and checking news sources like AP and CNN,

so he’s informed of the day’s events before arriving at his office. Weekends often mean charity events and speaking engagements, so the term “free time” is a bit of a misnomer. Still, he wanted to write this book because it’s a topic that’s personal and important to him (he serves on the board of the Concussion Legacy Foundation), and Stacy has been instrumental in helping to market the self-published book and get the word out.

We end our lunch with me asking Rob about what he would say to parents who might be worried about their kids playing high contact sports like hockey, football, soccer, and even cheerleading. He thinks for a second, then gives an answer you can tell guides his own decision-making on t h e subject. “ Fi n d t h e right organization, and make sure

they’re teaching the game the right way, and take child safety seriously,” he says. “We’re not trying to do away with football. We’re just teaching the way it’s supposed to be played.”

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