The North Shore Weekend EAST, Issue 74 by JWC Media

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Find out who got together at a February gala. P.23

Chip Beck reflects on his record 59 — and Jim Furyk’s. P.15

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Trevians finish one win shy of state girls basketball tourney. P.30

local news and personalities of Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Glencoe, Highland Park, evanston, Lake Forest, Mettawa & Lake Bluff

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08 The straight dope

With Illinois in the process of introducing medical marijuana, what do the denizens of the North Shore think of the idea?

North Shore Offerings Take a look at two intriguing houses in our towns.

26 Open Houses Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.

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30 Clutch performer New Trier’s Alexa Czyzynski fires up a shot in the sectional championship game. Her three-point shooting in the fourth quarter keyed a 10-point win for the Trevians.

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Start the presses The head of Agate Press — which recently celebrated a decade in business — talks about the world of independent publishing.

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Sunday Breakfast Only six golfers have shot a 59 on the PGA Tour — and one of them, Chip Beck, was at the BMW Championship last year when Jim Furyk fired his record-tying round.

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Social whirl Take a look at some of the top parties attended by North Shore residents recently.

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Book is truly a blast from the past

s North Shore residents flock to Wrigley Field during the ballpark’s 100th anniversary this year, they may want to reflect on perhaps the most famous moment in its history — one memorably recounted in a new book by a local author. Babe Ruth’s last home run in a World Series was his purported called shot at Wrigley Field. The longest swat in the ballpark’s history to that point at around 490 feet, Ruth supposedly struck it after pointing to a far-away spot in center field. Considering it happened in 1932, Ed Sherman of Highland Park amazingly secured interviews with some who attended the game a lifetime ago — such as Ruth’s daughter Julia and Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens — for “Babe Ruth’s Called Shot” (Lyons Press; available at Amazon.com and bookstores). The lead-up to the home run in Game 3 is captivating in itself. As Sherman notes by quoting a Ruth letter, the Bambino was taken aback when he arrived in Chicago with his wife, the Yankees holding a 2-0 lead in games: “When Claire and I reached the Edgewater hotel, we were forced to run a gauntlet of two lines of hysterical, angry women. Most of the wrath was directed at me, and during the rough trip I heard some words that even I had never heard before. But what annoyed me was their spitting and their bad aim. Poor Claire received most of it.” Thanks to extra grandstands, more than 50,000 attended the game at Wrigley Field, a number impossible to match at Clark and Addison today. After hitting

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a three-run home run in the first inning and making an out in the fourth, Ruth stepped up to the plate of a tie game in the fifth against Cubs’ ace Charlie Root. The fans heckled the 37-year-old mercilessly and tossed a lemon or two at the slugger. The Cubs’ dugout was worse, hurling insults with fastball-like speed. The count 2-1, Ruth pointed before hitting a home run two pitches later — but at what? Sherman himself saw a little-viewed 90-second home movie taken from the third-base side that shows Ruth’s gesture, which he says occurred more than once. “Going into the book, I thought it was a myth,” $ $ $ $ $ $ says Sherman about the called shot, which gave the Thru March 15th Yankees a lead they wouldn’t relinquish as they ended up sweeping the North Siders. “Now I would say it’s not lacking weight — but the idea that this is the most extraordinary at bat in baseball history is overlooked. While being taunted, he hit the longest chicago hinsdale lake forest winnetka 773 404 2020 630 655 0497 847 295 8370 847 441 0969 home run in Wrigley Field history, and the Cubs are shopbedside.com dead. He effectively ended the World Series. Offer is valid 2/15/14 – 3/15/14 on regularly priced items and can’t be combined with other promotions. “Of all the homers that Ruth hit (714), only one lives on in sports eternity.” The compelling, dutifully researched book is truly2.16.14 BSM NSW Spring promo.indd 1 2/5/14 a notable look at Ruth, baseball in a bygone era — and why a home run 82 years ago continues to stir debate. It’s well worth reading before Opening Day.

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■ by bill mclean A high school football player suffers a concussion in a game and can’t shake the ensuing headaches. The North Shore resident seeks relief from a doctor, who prescribes medical marijuana after an examination and hands the patient a card to use at a local dispensary. The football player takes a dose of cannabis at home before school one morning and arrives in a classroom. His teacher has cancer and took a similar dose of cannabis before driving to school that morning. It could happen soon in Illinois, because the student in the scenario is 18 years old

and the state passed the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act last summer. “We’re concerned the act is a gateway to legalizing all marijuana use and that marijuana might end up in too many hands of our youth,” said Khris Condon, program director of the SpeakUP! Prevention Coalition serving Lake Forest, Lake Bluff and Knollwood. “The way the law is written now, a prescription for people who have certain conditions will be 2.5 ounces of marijuana every two weeks. “That means 13 joints a day,” she added. Most expect the first such prescription in Illinois won’t be provided until the spring

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of 2015. Regulations are still being written and all kinds of issues have to be addressed, including zoning restrictions for cultivation centers and dispensaries in municipalities across the state. “Illinois has done a pretty decent job of writing the law and recognizing medical marijuana concerns,” said Bill Gentes, who works for the Lake County Health Department and is program director of the Lake County Underage Drinking and Drug Prevention Task Force. “We found areas of the bill that need to be tightened up.” One is the location of cultivation centers and dispensaries. As the law reads now, cultivation centers — medical marijuana dispensed in Illinois must be grown in Illinois — cannot be within 2,500 feet of schools, day care centers and residential districts, while dispensaries cannot be located within 1,000 feet of those three areas. “We want churches and parks to be added,” Gentes said. “We also don’t see any need for medical marijuana to be marketed since only those who have a medical card can obtain it. There should be no need for signage or any Joe Camel-type of advertising on billboards.” Medical marijuana is legal in 19 other states and the District of Columbia. Recreational marijuana is also legal in Colorado and Washington state. But the federal government continues to classify marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance like heroin, cocaine and other narcotics. “[The Drug Enforcement Administration] specifically says marijuana is illegal and dangerous, and [the Food and Drug Administration] hasn’t approved marijuana as a drug,” said Glenview resident Tim Thoelecke, who owns Morton Grovebased InOut Labs, which conducts drug tests for businesses and individuals. “It’s kind of a weird thing, all these states allowing the use of it and all these moving parts

surrounding the issue. “Companies,” he added, “want a clean, drug-free culture and they don’t want the use of marijuana leading to people getting hurt while on the job.” State Representative and Northbrook resident Elaine Nekritz (57th District) supported legalizing medical marijuana last summer, citing the act’s compassionate component. “I believe it is a matter of treating people with debilitating diseases with respect and offering them relief from pain and suffering,” she said by email. But Nekritz also acknowledged the challenges ahead, from financial institutions having concerns about an association with dispensaries to the increased availability of the drug to the state’s youth. “We will now have to be vigilant to ensure the law is being implemented as we envisioned and that any consequences that might arise be studied carefully and addressed appropriately,” she said. For Deputy Chief Kyle Perkins of the Wilmette Police Department, medical marijuana in Illinois is a lot like the concealed carry law in Illinois. “They’re both so new,” Perkins said. “Our police department is not overreacting to medical marijuana and there’s a concerted effort to examine the law and understand it fully. The concerns are the same as they were before the law was passed. Bottom line, you can’t drive if you’re under the influence of a drug.” Pharmacist Stan Kent of NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston has fielded a handful of questions about the law. Pharmacists, though, won’t be players when dispensaries open for business. “The prescriptions we fill are for FDAapproved drugs only,” he said. “I’ve read the medical cannabis site [mcpp.illinois. gov], and there’s no question it will be highly regulated. We’ll see how it pans out.” ■

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Freshman’s app unites school’s key links ■ by angelika labno One Lake Forest High School student has taken the headache out of web browsing by consolidating the most important school links into one easy-to-use iPhone app. Freshman Brady Africk’s creation, called myScout, is now available at the online Apple store for the LFHS community to download free. The app allows users to weave through more than a dozen items, including the LFHS staff directory, school e-mail and homework assignments.

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Africk set a fundraising goal of $1,750 — reflecting the population of the student body — and arranged for Lake Forest-based real estate investment firm Bruin Partners LLC to donate $1 to the LFHS Foundation for every download of the app by a student family. “This is a perfect combination of a student following his passion, support from the community and giving back to the school,” said Africk’s mom, Caryn. “Brady has a natural curiosity and the tendency to dig in, discover and create cool things.” “I’ve gotten some great reviews — a lot of

people really like how fast they can switch from all these excellent resources,” said Africk. Inspiration to build the app came to Africk while he was jumping between the different web resources, leading to the desire of centralizing them. The self-taught developer had coded web pages before, but never an app. He describes the process as “a lot of Googling, trial and error and a lot of frustration,” but the end result, he notes, is rewarding. It took three months of testing it out several beta versions of the app with his friends and soccer teammates, and Africk eventually sought input from teachers and district technology and communications professionals. Principal Barry Rodgers and Superintendent Michael Simeck, enthused at the development, recently invited Africk to present his app to the school board. “The leadership at the high school has been very supportive,” added Caryn. “They like to promote the good work that the students are doing.” Now that he has fine-tuned his technique, Africk is excited to build other apps, although he is staying mum on the details. He has also expressed interest in starting a computer club at the school. In the meantime, he enjoys his engineering class, where he can make inventions using a 3D printer. “It fascinates me to build something,” said Africk. “I am very excited to see how the app evolves and grows within the community.” To download the app, or for more details and screenshots, go to https://itunes.apple.com/US/ app/id733144608). Feedback on the app can be sent to foresterapps@gmail.com. ■

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photography by joel lerner ■ by gregg shapiro Evanston resident Doug Seibold is transforming the city into a hotbed of independent publishing. His 10-year-old press Agate Publishing is home to four physical book imprints, as well as the growing e-book imprint Agate Digital. Titles from the Spring 2014 catalog include Ask Amy: Advice for Better Living by renowned advice columnist Amy Dickinson, The Green City Market Cookbook with a foreword by Rick Bayless, and Bare-Knuckled Lit: The Best of WRITE CLUB, edited and with an introduction by Ian Belknap. I spoke with Seibold about Agate Publishing, the evolving world of books and life in Evanston: Gregg Shapiro: I’d like to begin by congratulating you on the 10th anniversary year of Agate Publishing? Did you do anything special to commemorate the event? Doug Seibold: We had a modest event here this fall; just a little gathering in our

courtyard. We invited a few hundred people. It all got complicated a little bit because we were in the process of trying to close on our space, and we got subsumed in the real-estate drama as we tried to bring that fish to the boat. Our actual anniversary would’ve been in May (2013). We ended up doing this at the end of September and fortunately we had one of the most beautiful evenings of the year. GS: How would you describe the world of publishing in 2014? DS: I think it’s still in a period of intense and rapid change, which I think is a great thing for a company such as Agate. It creates opportunity in a way that, a decade ago when I started the company, and even more, 15 years ago, things were much tougher for a small company to get started, much tougher back then, because you had this incredibly well-established status quo on the part of six giant publishers which had rolled up, as conglomerates, all these smaller presses, and two big retailers. That was it. The status quo was set up to kind of entrench the

interest of the big guys. So, the disruption that’s come in the past five, 10 years, I think, for a company like Agate, is great because it creates opportunity. The uncertainty, the instability that is rocking these bigger organizations creates opportunities for companies such as mine. GS: The current Agate imprints are Bolden (African American titles), Surrey (food, dining, entertaining, health), B2 (business) and Midway (Chicago and the Midwest). Do you have plans for additional physical imprints? DS: We have another imprint called Agate Digital, which focuses solely on standalone e-books. But we treat that like imprint. I don’t, right now, but I think I’m much more of a mind to see if there’s any other companies that I can acquire, and we would expand that way rather than starting another imprint. That’s how we got into food publishing. I acquired a company called Surrey Books back in 2006 and that gave us a footprint in that content area that allowed us to expand and grow beyond that. GS: Agate has a partnership with the Chicago Tribune represented digitally by more than 50 e-books available at Chicagotribuneebooks.com. As a locally based publisher, do you think that writers from the region are undervalued? DS: I think it’s complicated, but overall, no. I think the publishing industry is overwhelmingly centered in New York, and it’s going to stay strong because that’s where the jobs are. A lot of people, a lot of writers, go to New York because they can get jobs working in the publishing industry. They can cultivate relationships with the agents and editors there because their jobs are there. I see that as being largely economiskin tightening cally driven. wrinkle But I don’treduction think it makes a huge difference sun damage reversal if you’re a writer in Chicago or Minnesota skin texture rejuvenation or Wyoming or Oregon as opposed to New York. It’s a little bit harder to have lunch with people, but in the digital era in particular I think that if you’re writing great stuff, that’s what people are looking for. I don’t think it’s so much that the traditional New York publishing industry is overlooking Chicagobased writers; I think they’re overlooking

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Midwestern stories. We published a book about the Rod Blagojevich scandal, called Only in Chicago, and I think it’s a great example of something that’s a really important and compelling story that maybe was being overlooked. I would characterize it less about writers and more about stories. I hope that something that our Midway imprint can do is bring attention to the stories in a way that the coastally biased media are less likely to do. GS: As a publisher, do you have any advice for writers? DS: [Laughs] I guess it depends on what writers want. I think that we represent a different kind of publishing than the big New York publishing conglomerates. The nature of that business is that you and your agent just try to chip as much cash off the iceberg as you can. By its nature it’s almost more of an adversarial relationship, a zero sum game; “Whatever James Patterson and John Grisham and Stephen King get, we don’t get, so we need to go in and gouge the cash out of them and sort of ransom them into giving us more attention and regard.” The way we do it here is more collaborative. We don’t have the same resources those companies do, so there’s less to gouge out of us. We depend on a close and productive working relationship with authors to get the best outcome. We feel like the books we publish are just as good although I don’t think we get access to the ones with the most commercial potential. I think those go to the bigger companies. But when you’re talking about new authors who we are discovering, I think that ours are just as good. But we just don’t have the cash. No one’s going to come here and get a six- or seven-figure advance. GS: Are new writers even thinking in those terms? DS: [Laughs] Oh yes they are. Those kinds of checks get written every week in New York. Not a lot of them, but they do. The other thing, too, is that we represent another model that authors thinking about self-publishing should contemplate. I am not a fan of the self-publishing model. I feel like it should be a last recourse for writers. I think the idea of the economic opportunity agate >> page 32

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Glenbrook South High School alumuna and Glenview native Molly Yeh is a food writer. She lives in North Dakota. Reading: Lots of cookbooks. By reading, I mean that I look at the pictures and get ideas for my own recipes. So it looks like I’m reading. Most recently I got “Jerusalem,” and I love The Rose Bakery cookbook, “Breakfast Lunch and Feast.” Listening: My boyfriend is a songwriter, so I listen to a lot of his stuff — he’ll be in the next room, writing, so I’ll hear the same thing for hours on end. I also have a few bands I’ve been enjoying lately, Luscious and Lost in the Trees. In addition to that, I’m into a lot of contemporary classical music. Music is a very large part of my life, but since moving it’s been a challenge to work that in as much as I did in New York. Watching: I watch an embarrassing amount of TV since I moved here, in the coldest winter I’ve ever experienced. I love “Homeland.” Saul is my favorite TV character in the history of TV. I love “Orange Is the New Black” and “House of Cards,” but I also get into patterns where I’ll YouTube a bunch of synchronized skating videos. And I’ve really been a fan of being able to live stream concerts from New York and other parts of the world — it kind of sucks, not having a music scene here, but it’s nice to be able to watch a Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert from my bathtub. Following: I follow a ton of food blogs. There are so many amazing food blogs that aren’t just about food but are about people’s lives — I can see pictures of Australia in summer right now. I also really try to closely follow the happenings

in Israel. I was in Israel last summer, and it’s something that’s really important to me. So through various news sites and Twitter, I try to keep an eye on that. Activity: I’ve kept diaries since the day I could write. I have this desire to document everything. Blogging is, for me, a natural progression, and I love that I can share it with other people. I love that you can connect with people over it. My blog started out as a general-life blog, life diary, and it turned into a restaurant blog when I got my first apartment in New York and started experimenting with cooking and how much fun it was. The blog is mostly a food blog, but it’s really just a reflection of my life — my life just happens to be about food at the moment. Eating: Most of the time if I’m not developing a recipe, I’ll eat a lot of greens. I do a lot of Chinese and Jewish cooking; it’s influenced by my heritage. I also cook a lot of Israeli food and use a lot of Middle Eastern spices. The other part of that is I’ll be developing a recipe and — I don’t mean to — I’ll taste test it throughout the day and not eat anything else. My boyfriend is gluten free and dairy free, so I do a lot of cooking for him in those parameters, but I would never eliminate cheese from my life. Whenever I go home to Glenview, I make sure to get a nice piece of bleu cheese. What is your favorite mistake? This is an extension of what I’m eating — last week there were a few days where I forgot to eat anything other than a waffle. But they were good waffles. So it was okay. To see more of Molly’s writing, visit mynameisyeh.com ■

Evanston group inches closer to eradicating disease

John Hewko, general secretary of Rotary International, gives oral polio vaccine drops to a child in Mumbai.

photography courtesy of rotary international ■ by les jacobson Last year there were 404 reported cases of polio worldwide, mostly in Africa, as well as in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The dream of eradicating polio is closer than ever to reality. For that potential achievement — only one serious disease, smallpox, has ever been totally wiped out — a great deal of the credit must go to Evanston-based Rotary International. As Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, a major supporter of Rotary’s polio eradication effort, succinctly put it: “Without Rotary, this polio campaign wouldn’t be anywhere.” Rotary has been targeting polio since 1979. At that time there were an estimated

half a million cases a year worldwide in 125 countries, many in places faced with huge challenges such as poverty, poor sanitation, illiteracy and overcrowding. But then-Rotary president Clem Renouf and Rotary district leader Dr. John Severs, a physician with the National Institutes of Health, came to two important realizations. Polio vaccine was relatively inexpensive, and it could be delivered orally, thus enabling volunteers with minimal training to administer it. Rotary was celebrating its 75th anniversary in 1979, and Renouf concluded polio eradication was a cause that could rally Rotarians and make an important, even historic, contribution to public health. After six years of successful regional campaigns, in 1985 Rotary launched its PolioPlus program, which aimed to

immunize every newborn child in the world. “By 1988 we had raised almost $250 million, more than twice our original goal,” said Carol Pandak, PolioPlus director who works in the Evanston office. In partnership with the World Health Organization, Unicef and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and Prevention and working with Dr. Albert Sabin, the developer of the oral polio vaccine, Rotary started to make significant headway in country after country. An important milestone was reached two years ago. At the 2012 annual Rotary Convention in Bangkok, WHO assistant director general Bruce Aylward acknowledged the difficulties of tackling polio in Third World and newly industrialized countries. Nevertheless, he said dramatically, “Ladies and gentlemen, today India is polio-free! A polio-free India is a magnificent achievement — and it is Rotary’s achievement!” “Rotary showed it was feasible to enlist volunteers who could immunize children and support the delivery of vaccine,” explained Pandak. As a highly professional and wellestablished global service organization, she added, “we could utilize our business and organizational skills to manage large-scale global immunization campaigns.” Rotary volunteers also help by fundraising, advocating with local governments and encouraging people to participate in local immunization campaigns, Pandak said. “Rotary’s accomplishment has been huge,” said Northwestern University’s Dr. Rob Murphy, Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering and director of the Center for Global Health. He was contacted several years ago by Rotary to help with challenges in Nigeria, where he has more than a decade of experience.

As an example of the difficulties the campaign faced, Murphy cited the lack of cooperation from some imams in northern Nigeria. “Their distrust of anything Western was contributing to continued outbreaks. The solution was ingenious: a vaccine manufacturer was found in Indonesia, a Muslim country, with whom the imams were comfortable, thus allowing the vaccine product into Nigeria.” Public health breaks down wherever there is strife, he added. “The public health sector in war-torn countries like Syria simply collapses.” Nevertheless, Rotary’s campaign has succeeded for several reasons, said Pandak. “With officials and trained volunteers around the globe, we can connect with the right authorities, and with more than a million members in 170 countries, we have the resources and manpower to get thing done.” Rotary was founded in Chicago in 1905 and grew from a single club to more than 34,000 today, said a Rotary spokesman. The organization moved to Evanston in 1954 — originally to a 50,000-square foot site it purchased at Ridge and Davis. By the 1980s, Rotary had outgrown that space, so it bought the current 18-floor high-rise at Sherman and Grove, formerly the home of American Hospital Supply, and moved there in 1987. With polio nearly vanquished, Rotary is looking to new challenges. Pandak cited six focus areas: peace and conflict prevention/ resolution, disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and child health, basic education and literacy, economic and community development. Asked if that wasn’t a lot to bite off, she responded: “We’ve shown we can do it before. Only the biggest missions really stir the soul.” ■

lifestyle & arts | 15 He numbers among golf’s notables ■ by david sweet

Langer dueled for first at Amen Corner. But by Since the PGA Tour launched the time 15 rolled in 1929, players have carded an around, Langer had untold number of birdies and jumped to a threestroke lead. marked down dozens of hole in With a drive 10 ones during tournaments. But only six pros in 85 years have yards past the turned in a scorecard with G erma n’s ball there, a number lower than 60. Beck faced Jim Furyk accom236 yards to plished the feat last the front of September at Conway Farms Golf Club in Lake the par-5, with Forest. Firing a 59 in the water hugging the second round at the BMW green. Langer laid Championship after making a up — then so did short putt on the ninth green, he Beck. joined perhaps the most exclusive Golf commenclub in golf — one with far fewer tators went nuts. A members than those who own scathing column by green jackets from Augusta the famous Los Angeles National. Times sportswriter Jim The rarity of his accomplishMurray opined, “What we ment at the North Shore should do now is send Beck venue was enhanced by to the blackboard to write in the fact that one other chalk 100 times: ‘You don’t member of the 59 play the Masters for second Club was on hand: place.’ “ Ch ip B e ck. “They were just upset Golf Channel an American was going br oadcast er to get beaten,” Beck Jimmy Roberts says. “To call my a coward, like invited the Lake Forest (CBS announcer) resident to Ken Venturi attend that day, did on the air, Chip Beck and he was on I thought was the premises when illustration by barry blitt d isg racef ul. t he c r owd roared a s I was really Furyk’s three-footer for birdie rolled in. amazed a guy could ridicule me like that. You have to play what you’re capable of.” “I thought he might actually hole his (second) shot on nine. He hit it real close,” says Speaking of length, Beck is unnerved Beck, who plays Conway a handful of times by the game’s obsession with longer and every year. longer courses. “I never dreamed anyone would shoot “They’re building a course in Louisiana a 59 there under tournament conditions. that’s 8,500 yards. What are they thinkThere’s a lot of local knowledge needed — ing about?” says the three-time Ryder Cup there’s a lot of pitch on the greens. They’re player. “The strength of the game is that very challenging.” it’s a social game. It’s about having friends Beck’s 59 came in 1991 at the Sunrise at your country club and helping the young Golf Club in Las Vegas. Unlike Conway, the kids coming up. No one has enough time for golfer says the Vegas tract — less than a five- and six-hour rounds. Make it tougher year old at the time — was ripe for a recordaround the greens instead.” low score during the Las Vegas Invitational. Beck, 57, is amazed how technology has “You could hit the par 5s in 2; some of changed the game (from 1993-2003, the the par 4s were wedges. And everyone was average PGA Tour drive jumped nearly 28 aware of the bonus,” says Beck, referring to yards). He’s no fan of the spring-like effect the $1 million Hilton Hotels prize for any off of modern-day blades. player who broke 60. “When I played Jack Nicklaus, it was maybe After carding a 29 at the turn, somea club or two difference between us. Now you’re one said to Beck to keep it up; he could four clubs behind a guy. There’s no way a shoot a 59. 54-year-old can compete with a 24-year-old.” He wasn’t happy. While he tries to qualify for events on “Whenever you think about it, it ties you the Champions Tour (“it’s hard to make up,” he says. a living qualifying”), Beck also helps his wife Karen with the business she founded After 58 strokes, Beck faced a nerveracking three-foot downhill putt on the called Grip Guides (www.gripguides.com), final hole. an adhesive training aid for beginning golf“It was long enough to miss, I knew that,” ers to hold the club in the best manner. “Even the pros would increase distance he says. “There were spike marks, and it was a dry climate — they were like rocks if they didn’t have a funny index finger that kicked up.” After rolling over a couple placement,” Beck says. “What’s wonderful of spike marks (created when players wore is kids are learning to play the game with metal spikes), the ball dropped in. a lot more knowledge. Grip Guide helps the Two years after his memorable round kids get a good start.” (like Furyk, Beck did not capture the tourWhile Karen’s work keeps her in the nament), the University of Georgia Allforefront with golf’s next generation, Beck American was living every golfer’s dream: — whose Twitter handle is @chipbeck59 — he was in the hunt for The Masters chamknows one shining number helps secure his pionship on the back nine at Augusta. status with them. “The 59,” he says, “has kind of kept me Forced to change his game to adapt to the in the limelight with the young kids.” ■ course (abandoning for the most part his low cut for a draw), Beck and Bernhard

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Disabled sports take off with group’s support ■ by sheryl devore While shopping in Gurnee a few years ago, Bob Swanson was approached by a man who asked him why he was in a wheelchair and whether he had participated in sports. Swanson said he used to play football before a snowmobile accident injured his spinal cord. That encounter with a stranger — a Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association (GLASA) coach — changed Swanson’s life. Since then, Swanson has learned to golf, kayak, ski, play hockey and coach football while in his wheelchair or using other adaptive equipment. He received a scholarship from the group so he could afford to participate, and his sled hockey team won nationals last year. Swanson will serve as keynote speaker in March for the Lake Forest-based association’s annual. The event will be held 7 p.m. on March 15 at Fields BMW in Northfield. “GLASA has enriched my life,” Swanson said. “I have all this stuff I’m able to do now and literally have gotten back to myself. I’ve become an ambassador for GLASA. “They were right when they told me I can reach people in ways I’d never thought of — being a role model to others who a r e l iv i n g w it h disabilities.” That story is among many Cindy Housner, an adaptive sports expert, has heard since she created an agency in the early 1990s that would offer sports and health programs for those with disabilities. “There were not many opportunities for those who had physical or visual disabilities back then,” said Housner, GLASA’s executive director. She procured gym space in Cindy Housner Vernon Hills and at Naval Station Great Lakes, got equipment donated and spread the word. Today, through GLASA, nearly 500 athletes from Lake County, northern Cook County and southern Wisconsin participate in adaptive sports such as judo, swimming, sled hockey, wheelchair basketball, scuba diving, and more as well as in large competitive events such as the annual Great Lakes Regional Games in June.

“They were right when they told me I can reach people in ways I’d never thought of — being a role model to others who are living with disabilities.” | Bob Swanson “We provide a continuum of programming from recreational first-time athletes to individuals who aspire to be a Paralympian, “ Housner said. U.S. Paralympian Alyssa Gialamas, who got her start at GLASA, will also speak at the March fundraiser. Sixty-five percent of the participants receive scholarships,

photography by joel lerner which pay for program fees (money earmarked for team travel, equipment and the like). Fundraisers are an important part of running the organization, Housner said. She attributes GLASA’s growth to the volunteer coaches — “unbelievably phenomenal and dedicated people. The word spreads — one athlete tells another athlete. It’s contagious,” she said. GLASA, with offices at Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest, partners with Lake Forest Country Day School and Lake Forest College, which provide venues for the athletes. The group also receives funding from local and regional sponsors. Housner said GLASA “is so much more than just sports. It’s about increasing self-esteem, overall general health, both physically and socially. A support system and friendships are formed.” After a recent sled hockey competition, a woman wrote to Housner about her grandson’s participation: “I am running out of words to express — for all you do to enhance lives of people — he’s proud and he can’t stop smiling.” For more information, call 847-283-0908 or visit www. glasa.org. ■

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A Matter Of Taste

Entrepreneur finds fresh approach on Web works for artisanal goods

Lior Lavy

photography by joel lerner ■ by katie rose mceneely Lior Lavy is the founder of Artizone, an online marketplace for artisanal goods in Chicago and the surrounding areas. He lives in Highland Park. How did you start Artizone? We were an Israeli branch of a French software company — “we” is five partners. We go back many years. And the French guys decided they wanted to shut down activity in Israel. As they decided to do that, they asked us to maintain their product with half of the employees. We said there is no way we can maintain this. We decided to start an independent company and to invest the profits in something new. We sat down and started sharing passions and ideas. In this meeting, we realized that even though we had been working together for a long time, we didn’t really know we all shared a passion for small businesses and for food and for working directly with consumers. From that discussion came the idea, in 2009, to develop a platform for artisans so they can open their online channel.

“We didn’t really know we all shared a passion for small businesses and for food and for working directly with consumers. From that discussion came the idea.” | Lior Lavy We started a relatively deep and thorough analysis of the market, and we found that if you go to food shops and offer them an online channel, you’re creating something that’s fairly unique. You can create an online market with supplies from small businesses. For the artisans, you providing more than an online channel — it’s a part of a bigger thing that aggregates many small businesses together. Do you cook? I would say that I entered the

kitchen of my mom when I was 11 or even less than that, experimenting a little bit. Just doing my own stuff. When I got a bit older and lived by myself, I was the only cook in the house. I’m not the only cook in the house right now — I live with my wife and kids — but back in Israel I used to cook holiday dinners. How do you select artisan goods? We make sure that those who join the platform have high reviews from their clients — it’s important to maintain a high level of quality. We try — and this is something over the last year we realized — the consumer at the end of the day wants to have an option. We make sure we enable [the consumer] to buy whatever high-quality product she wants, but we don’t limit the products in the collection. At the end of the day you can’t really stop people from buying something from out of town or out of country — what you have to do is provided a good solution for them to purchase as much as possible locally. Signature product? I don’t there that there is one — clearly, you can sort products by what sells the most, but I think the signature approach is that people buy fresh from us more than you would find in other online grocery stores. I believe that they trust Artizone, and know it is [us] behind the order. Favorite cookbook? I’m a sucker for Thomas Keller. He was able to marry the passion for the details and very complicated tastes with a very downto-earth and humble book. Most memorable kitchen incident? That’s a heartbreaking story. The first time I tried to follow Thomas Keller’s veal stock recipe — I started early in the morning. And I got tired. So I decided to sleep for half an hour and then continue the preparation. I woke up more than half an hour later to find a very burned layer of what was left of what I had worked so hard to prepare. A few days later I saw the humor in it — an example from which you can learn not to start anything when you are too tired. For more information, visit artizone.com/Chicago. ■

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sports | 29 Onstott caps eye-popping career Park, McQuet turn in strong showings at state swim meet ■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com As he looked back at the beginning of his final season, retiring New Trier High School swimming coach Mark Onstott did more than describe the size of some of his Trevians’ eyes. He formed each of his hands to resemble an ample circle and put them in front of his face after the state meet at Evanston Township High School on March 1. “Some of our guys’ eyes got big — this big — when told they would swim on a certain relay,” Onstott recalled. “I’d hear, ‘Oh, wait, I’m on the ‘A’ relay?’ “We had a lot of holes to fill this year, a lot of guys to fit in,” added the coach of the previous three state championship teams. “A lot of guys stepped up big-time and a lot of guys got great experience.” Onstott’s 20th and final boys crew placed sixth (80 points) at state behind a combined top-three finishes from senior Jae Park and junior Murphy McQuet and a pair of top-six relay efforts (200-yard medley, 400 freestyle). Onstott guided seven boys teams to state championships, beginning with his 2003-04 squad, and coached the school’s girls team to a runner-up showing at state in ’02. “If coaching were all about state trophies and state championships, I would have done something else,” he admitted. “It’s about so many other significant things — things like helping kids develop a good work ethic, goalsetting and teamwork. “I’ll miss it. I’ll miss being here. I’ll miss coaching in one of the best swimming states

Jae Park of the Trevians races to a secondplace finish in the 200 IM.

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Junior achievement: New Trier High School junior Murphy McQuet shakes hands with a fellow competitor at the awards’ stand.

photography by joel lerner in the country.” McQuet’s father, Rick, played water polo for Team USA at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Murphy McQuet touched third in the 200 free (1:40.54) and eighth in the 100 butterfly (50.76) and helped the 400 free relay take sixth (3:08.89, with Park, senior Connor Fotsch and junior Tomo Sharpee) at state last weekend. “He’s a been a great resource for me,” McQuet said of his father, who played professional polo in Italy for two years. “[Before

state] he told me, ‘Enjoy this experience, have fun.’ I did my best and I’m happy with where I finished [in the 200 free]. It had been a big focus of mine since the beginning of the season.” Columbia University-bound Park capped a stellar two-year stretch with his runner-up showing in the 200 IM (1:50.21) and thirdplace 56.21 in the 100 breaststroke. Park paced last year’ state champion by winning the 200 IM and 100 breast and swimming on two victorious relays (200 medley, 400 free).

“I tried my best; I’m not complaining,” Park said after finishing second to Normal University High’s Jake Miller (1:48.08) in the 200 IM. “I tried to keep up with him. At the end I kind of died — that I died, though, was a good thing because I knew I had given my all.” Last weekend Park also swam the breaststroke leg of the Trevs’ fifth-place 200 medley relay (1:35.05, with Fotsch, senior Matt Weiser and junior Drew Keenan). Notable: New Trier sophomore Charlie Gentzkow motored to four more state gold medals in the segment for athletes with disabilities at Evanston on March 1, matching his haul at last year’s state meet. He clocked a 2:31.97 in the 200 free, a 30.35 in the 50 free, a 1:08.25 in the 100 free and a 1:37.18 in the 100 breast. ■

Lake Forest’s Smith trending up ■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com He placed 30th in the 100-yard backstroke at his first state swim meet two years ago. He took 12th in the event last winter. Lake Forest High School junior Daniel Smith was back for more success in the 100 back at the state meet at Evanston Township High School on March 1. And the Scout continued his upward trend. Smith touched fifth, clocking a 50.66 as the event’s fifth seed. “Gutsy … he’s gutsy,” LF coach Cindy Dell said. “So great, so focused, so disciplined. Daniel is so deserving because he gives such an effort day in and day out. “He never whines,” she added, “and he always accepts challenges in practice.” Smith tried to pull himself faster in the first half of his first race in an individual state championship finals event. “That’s tough to do, but you have to tell yourself to do it and see where it gets you,” Smith said. “It’s been a great time for me getting ready for this meet, this event. The whole season had been building up to this.” Though he goes by “Daniel,” there is an informal side of him, and it shows up each time he sees Dell for the first time on any given day. “Daniel calls me ‘Cin,’ ” Dell said, smiling. “I think that’s great. He’s in a good spot, as a swimmer and as someone who continues to believe in himself. “To me he’s a champion in every sense of the word. I’ve been blessed to be a piece of his puzzle.” Smith swam the first segment of the 200 medley relay on March 1, helping it place 11th (1:36.23, with senior Cole Mitchell and juniors Michael LeMay and Symen Ooms). An integral part of the Scouts’ third-place showing at

Back to back: Lake Forest High School’s Daniel Smith earned a state medal for the second straight year in the 100 backstroke.

photography by joel lerner state last winter, Smith placed 15th in the 100 free (47.51) last weekend, missing a finals berth in that event by 0.27. Lake Forest sophomore John-Michael Diveris, meanwhile, excelled at his first state meet by placing eighth in diving (381.4 points). Classmate and reigning Lake Forest Sectional diving champ Alexander Streightiff (13th, 269.95) was one spot shy of advancing to the championship finals. “Both were outstanding,” Dell said. “John-Michael was so steady, so consistent for all 11 of his dives. And his demeanor … it’s exactly the kind you want to see from a diver.”

Diveris did gymnastics from the ages of 2-14, but injuries accrued and forced him to look for another athletic outlet. He found diving and he felt blessed at state. “To be a part of the state finals was a cool experience, something I didn’t expect,” said Diveris, who ranked 10th among the 12 finalists after the state preliminary session on Feb. 28 and plunged three times in front of 14 supporters (family and friends) in the stands on March 1. “It was nerve-wracking and a lot of fun,” he added. ■

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Trevians’ super season comes to a close ■ by bill mclean

sports@northshoreweekend.com The students showed up in tropical clothing with leis around their necks. Many of New Trier High School’s girls basketball fans didn’t care a lick that it was frigid outside during the Class 4A Hoffman Estate Supersectional on March 3. But Rolling Meadows High School and its faithful got to say “aloha” to another round in the state playoffs when the Mustangs defeated NT’s Trevians 60-43. RM senior Jackie Kemph, a 5-foot-6 guard, put on a dazzling show, pouring in 25 points (11 from the free-throw line) for last year’s 4A state runner-up. She drew a bushel of fouls

while driving fearlessly through the lane. “She’s the best player in the state in my opinion,” Trevians coach Teri Rodgers said. “She’s hard to contain. “We had two great athletes [senior guard Isabella Bosco and junior guard Jackie Welch] on her.” The supersectional was Rodgers’ seventh as NT’s coach and it started promisingly. Trevians senior guard Alexa Czyzynski struck for a basket 10 seconds after the tip and Welch (team-high 13 points, 3 treys) put NT (27-5) up 4-0 at the 6:06 mark. But RM (28-4) produced runs of 9-0 and 14-0 in the first half and scored 10 of the first 13 points of the second half to dash the Trevs’ hopes for a Final Four berth. “[RM] kept coming down and hitting shots, and we didn’t, though we did have some great looks,” Rodgers said. “They

put us in a hole and we started pressing.” NT sophomore Jeanne Boehm finished with 10 points and team highs of nine rebounds and three blocks; Trevians reserve forward Rachel West grabbed six of her eight rebounds in the first half; and sophomore guard/forward Kathryn Pedi netted eight points and came down with five boards. “I’m really proud of this group,” Rodgers said. “As a teacher and coach, all you can ask is for them to play hard, grow, get better. They did that. “Their growth basketball-wise was phenomenal, as was their growth personally,” she added. NT senior guard Julie Ball entered the game late in the fourth quarter and scored six points in the final 55 seconds, including a bucket with one tick left. ■

Czyzynski stands out in sectional title game ■ by kevin reiterman

sports@northshoreweekend.com There are two sides to New Trier High School’s Alexa Czyzynski. In postgame interviews — and in real life — she’s polite, humble and friendly. When she’s on the court, it’s a different story. Be prepared for the reverse pivot. Make way for Czyzynski’s “other” persona. With the game — and season — on the line at the Class 4A Maine East Sectional on Feb. 27, Czyzynski turned into a ruthless, take-no-prisoners, cold-blooded shooter to spark the Trevians to a 53-43 come-from-behind win over archrival Evanston. Her competitive fires took over in the fourth quarter, when she singed Evanston’s defense with a pair of daggers — rainbow three-pointers —from the left corner in the fourth quarter. “She hits the big shots,” said NT teammate Kathryn Pedi. “What more can you say? “I knew when I saw those shots leave her hand that they were going in,” added Pedi (10 points, 7 rebounds). “I didn’t even go in to rebound. I just turned around and headed down court.” “You just knew that she was going to make those shots,” said sophomore center Jeannie Boehm (11 points, 9 rebounds), who was named the 2014 CSL South Player of the Year. “You could see it in her eyes.” The 5-foot-7 Czyzynski, who scored eight of her game-high 16 points in the final frame, didn’t exactly play nice on the defensive end. The two-year starter raised the bar by raising Cain. She collected two steals in the first four minutes of the fourth quarter. “She’s tough,” said NT head coach Teri Rodgers, who watched her squad outscore the Wildkits 19-5 in the decisive fourth period. “Never count her out.” After the game, Czyzynski was excited — and careful. She politely refused to make too much of herself. “I had open looks, and I’m confident in myself to take those shots. I like (big) moments like that,” she said. “But my main motivation is the team. I wanted to make those shots for my team.”

Oh, what a feeling: The Trevians, including Kathryn Pedi (No. 25) and Grace Gahlon (No. 31), react to their win over Evanston at the Maine East Sectional.

photography by joel lerner Notable: NT ended up with a hat trick. The Trevians went 3-0 against a solid Evanston (22-8) squad this winter … The sectional final was a game of runs. The Wildkits (22-8) surged ahead 7-0 after the opening tip. They had subsequent 6-0 and 5-0 runs. Meanwhile, the Trevians had two 9-0 runs to go along with 8-0 and 11-0 runs. “Runs like that are caused by defenses,” said Rodgers. “Both teams are energized by their defenses.” … The NT coach praised Boehm for her unselfishness. The 6-3 center was held to 11 points. “Jeannie is such a good leader. She trusted her teammates tonight. For as good as she is, that’s one of her best qualities.” ■

LA's Canning, Nash are on their games at state ■ by bill mclean

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Can-do: Loyola Academy’s Christopher Canning performs a dive at the IHSA state meet. The freshman placed fourth.

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Since the start of the swimming and diving season, Loyola Academy’s team members often battled and bonded for hours while playing Monopoly, the board game. Two of the Ramblers — freshman Christopher Canning and junior Ryan Nash — threw themselves into an entirely different board game at Evanston Township High School Feb. 28-March 1. They dove off boards at the state meet. No little plastic houses and hotels, no colorful play money, no “GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL” cards. They passed tests, collected medals. Canning finished fourth (430.05 points) as one of only two freshmen in the top 12; Nash placed 11th (370.3) but emerged as LA’s ace Monopoly player in 2013-14. “I’m really proud of [Canning],” said Nash, a Kenilworth resident. A native a Wilmette, Canning was bound and determined to make up for a sectional effort he characterized as “kind of rough” [at Glenbrook North on Feb. 22]. “I wanted to show I could do better [at state],” said Canning, who placed third at the sectional with a 452.45-point total (seventh among state qualifiers). “It was a little overwhelming this weekend, but I like the atmosphere at state and I like to compete.

“It helped having my teammates here to support me, and it was reassuring knowing my neighbors were also here.” Deerfield resident and Loyola sophomore Christopher Kearney sped to eighth place in the 100-yard freestyle (46.57) on March 1, a day after qualifying ninth (46.92) in the state preliminaries and a year after placing 35th (48.23) in the event. He was the lone underclassman among the finalists in the event last weekend. “He took the first 50 [yards] out a little harder, which was part of the plan,” Ramblers coach Mike Hengelmann said of the COHO club swimmer. “His start off the block was terrific; it paid off.” Kearney hosted a team gathering at his house a couple of days before the state meet. But Monopoly was only one of the night’s activities. Ramblers got inspired while watching the movie “Braveheart.” “I’m happy,” Kearney said after bowing for his state medal. “I didn’t think I’d drop any time today. “I’m also extremely proud of our three relays.” Kearney anchored two of the quartets (200 and 400 free) to 16th-place finishes and swam the fourth leg of the 200 medley relay (19th, 1:37.14, with seniors Matthew Kearney, George Finn and Thomas Haracz). The 200 free unit (1:27.14) included Finn and seniors Cameron Shewchuck and Michael Zahorik; Finn, Shewchuck and Haracz swam the first three legs of the 400 free relay (3:13.17). ■

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For David and Brenda, Hawaii visit offers a look at paradise

We went to celebrate a friend’s 50th birthday in Hawaii this year. He wanted to celebrate it Hawaii 5-0 style. We went sightseeing on Kona first. We saw a zebra, Texas longhorn and a water buffalo in an animal rescue area. We went to a black sand beach, which was awesome — it’s made out of the lava from a volcano. Then we went to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. We walked up a volcano a bit — it had last erupted in August.

“They had a fireplace set up on the beach so you could make s’mores. We looked up at the sky — the stars were amazing.”

Brenda and David Kuo are looking forward to the Auxiliary of NorthShore University HealthSystem at Evanston and Glenbrook Hospitals’ kickoff event on March 13 for its June gala — of which Brenda is a co-chair.

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We flew from Kona to Honolulu. We stayed at the Sheraton Waikiki, right on the beach. The oceanfront room we had was absolutely mesmerizing. It was like waking up and looking out at paradise every single day. They also had an infinity pool there. We got the club level, where they serve you breakfast and you get appetizers at night — you can make a meal of that. We traveled to a beach to snorkel in water up to our chest. You could see thousands of fish. For our friend Rick Ueno’s birthday, we said we’d do a catamaran ride — he said he didn’t want that. His wife surprised him at the Moana Surfrider, a Westin resort and spa. There were 20 guests, and they served dinner on the beach. We had poached shellfish, roasted cauliflower, clams, black truffles and more. They had a fireplace set up on the beach so you could make s’mores. We looked up at the sky — the stars were amazing. You couldn’t see that in Chicago. Brenda and David Kuo, as told to David Sweet ■

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