The North Shore Weekend East, Issue 258

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16 | SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17 2017

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SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Tony Award winner and Evanston native Jessie Mueller sings the praises of YAMO. P38

SPORTS

SOCIAL SCENE

New Trier soccer player Ryan Krueger has all the right stuff. P34

North Shore European car club members showcased their pristine classic cars in downtown Winnetka. P16 FOLLOW US:

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NEWS

Finding closure at the Lake Forest McDonald’s closing BY MARIA MALIN

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n nearly 15 years, I had not walked through those doors. Those doors. On the last day before the Lake Forest McDonald’s would close, I entered the very doors my 11-year-old son Steven exited after enjoying a quick Chicken McNugget Happy Meal with his buddy, turning to cut through the west Lake Forest train station, where he was struck and killed by a freight train crossing a commuter train. That sunny, windy Saturday afternoon in April of 2003, Steven never returned home, and my family fell off the cliff of our lives. Revisiting any place that represents the last moments before a loved one’s death can not only be a trigger to nightmarish visuals, but sort of like opening a time capsule that Continued on PG 10

REMEMBERING Glencoe’s Am Shalom honors police, firefighters in somber 9/11 ceremony BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

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abbi Steven Stark Lowenstein of Glencoe’s Congregation Am Shalom made a promise to a congregant 16 years ago on September 11 to always remember that person’s brother and thousands of others who died in the terrorist attacks that day. Lowenstein renewed that promise in front of a crowd of more than 100 people including police representatives, who gathered for a memorial observance at 7:46 a.m. September 11 at the synagogue’s flagpole in Glencoe. The first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Glencoe Firefighter/Paramedic Dylan Mahoney-Muno and Public Service officer Jon Boersema fold the lowered American Flag at Am Continued on PG 10 Shalom’s remembrance service for the September 11, 2001 attacks. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

LOCAL POSTAL CUSTOMER

2017 Annual Special Speaker Series

ECRWSS

DR. MARC BRACKETT

For a lecture on “Educating the Whole Child: A Community Conversation on Emotional Intelligence” TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 10:00 a.m.

Free and Open to the Public

DR. LISA DAMOUR

For a lecture on “Untangled: Guiding Young People Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 | 10:00 a.m.

A co-educational independent school for students age 2 through Grade 8. Graduating students of strong character with a passion for learning since 1888.

Please RSVP to (847) 234-2350 or www.lfcds.org/speakerseries | 145 S. Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045 | www.lfcds.org

PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 91 HIGHLAND PK, IL


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