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Field hockey rolls on North Shore BY JAKE JARVI
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atie Beach and Windy City Field Hockey were always meant to end up together. They first unknowingly crossed paths at the inaugural National Hockey Festival, the largest field hockey event in the United States, in 1991. For Beach, it was as a high school senior who used the opportunity to get recruited by a Division 1 field hockey college team. For Windy City Field Hockey, it was the first out-of-state trip of what would become a tremendously successful traveling team organization. However, they wouldn’t end up meeting each other for another 18 years. Windy City Field Hockey is an organization that gives kids of all ages and interest levels the ability to learn year-round in facilities all over the North Shore, from Evanston to Northbrook to Highland Park, and learn under the tutelage of instructors that have all competed Continues on page 10
More than 1,000 cases of canine flu have been reported recently, along with the deaths of five dogs.
Widespread dog flu prompts rare precautions BY SELENA FRAGASSI
It’s flu season — for dogs. North Shore veterinarians, boarders and others are warning residents to be on alert. Since February, a rare case of Canine
Infectious Respiratory Disease (CIRD) has hit the Chicago area and is now at epidemic levels, topping more than 1,000 reported cases, according to the Cook County Department of Animal and Rabies Control.
Five dogs have died from the virus (though none on the North Shore), and that has prompted many to take precautions against further spread of the highly contagious bug. Several area PetSmart locations have closed
their popular pet hotels. At Green Bay Animal Hospital in Wilmette, e-mails have been sent to the animal hospital’s families warning of symptoms, which include a dry hacking cough, oral discharge that is white, foamy, green or yellow, lethargy, nasal discharge, possible fever or loss of appetite. Yuppy Puppy in Lake Bluff has been hit by the virus. “Right now, people need to assume that anywhere they board their dogs there will be a very high likelihood that the dog will go home with the flu,” said Betsy Puterbaugh, owner of Yuppy Puppy, a dog daycare and boarding facility that recently had four dogs out of 60 become symptomatic during a busy spring break period last week. Puterbaugh has had a number of cancellations after encouraging clients to keep their dogs at home for a few weeks to eliminate possible exposure. In the interim, she has also offered kennel attendants to go to client homes to provide home boarding and dog walking services. Her son has even personally taken a few sick dogs to his home for owners with longstanding travel plans that have no other option; his roommate is a vet tech so they can keep a close eye on the patients. To get Yuppy Puppy back to good form, Puterbaugh has been steaming and disinfecting every hard surface in the facility each night with a disinfectant and has
UV lights in the air ducts that kill off viruses. She has also been switching out dog water bowls and requiring kennel attendants to wear newly laundered clothes every day. “The biggest problem is that dogs play with their mouths so it’s beyond just the air they breathe. There is absolutely nothing more that we could have done to keep this flu virus out of our facility,” she said, noting that when her team discovered the symptomatic dogs, all four were placed in an isolation room together where they were cared for away from the other dogs. Owners were able to check in on them through Yuppy Puppy’s webcam system. The issue she said is that dogs can be sick but not show symptoms, so “when a contagious dog walks through your door, every dog that comes near it the next 3-10 days is now 100 percent guaranteed to get the flu. It’s a vicious cycle.” Brenda Belmonte, manager of the Animal Hospital of West Lake Forest and professional dog trainer/owner of Two Paws Up, said the last time there was a known outbreak was 2008, and it was much less widespread. Her own facility has seen a number of cases in the last 10 days and, as such, has suspended all classes in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff until at least Monday, April 13. Facilities with high-density Continues on page 11
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IN THIS ISSUE [ NEWS ] 12 f amily ties
A mother and daughter have been involved with the biannual Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens event for decades.
[ SPORTS ] 20 BEDAZZLING OFF THE BOARDS
Divers from the North Shore are talent-soaked and driven to succeed.
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Deerfield native Susan Trieschmann has launched Curt’s Café, a restaurant dedicated to getting at-risk youth off the streets and into jobs.
Check out a delicious recipe from a top chef on the North Shore.
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arely before has hype reached such heights. Some reports had the Chicago Cubs — they of the 107-year championship drought — dropping to 6-1 odds to win the World Series. Wrigley Field was poised to look like a 21stcentury stadium with tens of millions of dollars in upgrades. An Opening Night against archrival and perennial contender St. Louis Cardinals to show off the left arm of new ace Jon Lester, the savvy of new manager Joe Maddon … it seemed to be scripted by Hollywood. But the franchise acted more like the Bad News Bears than anything else. No runs scored that night. No bleachers to sit in. A massive Jumbotron (complete with Kiss Cam) that hovered out of place over the small park. Neighborhood complaints about excessive
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noise from a new loudspeaker system. Toilets that didn’t flush. Yes, same old Cubs. Or maybe even worse, considering the guy who led the team in spring training home runs, Kris Bryant, remains in the minors. Of course, it has to get better. Due to deadlines, by the time you read this, they may even be atop the National League Central Division with only 158 games to go. Few had more to say about the Cubs and their endless foibles than former North Shore resident and Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko, who passed away nearly 20 years ago (and whose memorial was held at Wrigley Field). Based on the column excerpt below, it seems he may have watched the last five seasons from his perch above: “It’s hard to describe how bad those last-place teams were,” he
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wrote. “Sitting in the stands, you always knew the best athletes on the field were the other team. And the next-best athletes were in the ground crew.” One year, Cubs’ outfielder Jose Cardenal couldn’t play in spring training because of a sticky eyelid. Explained Royko, “People were careful not to approach him from his blind side, for fear of being bitten … the fans were delighted with his recovery, and after watching the Cubs for a few games, their eyelids dropped shut.” Treating the Cubs as comic relief is often the only way for a fan to stay sane. Enjoy the weekend.
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The recipients of the 48th annual Glenview Civic Awards have been selected. Among the recipients are Myrna Newman, selected as “Citizen of the Year,” and Jane Brennan, recognized as the “Youth of the Year.” The Glenview Civic Awards will be presented Friday, April 17 at the North Shore Country Club, 1340 Glenview Road. Reservations can be made with Sandie Elliott at the Glenview Police Department at 847-901-6100. Seating is limited to 200 people.
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The Flood Risk Reduction Program — the Village’s stormwater master plan that provides guidance on flood-related issues — received the 2015 Stormwater Master Planning Award. The competition recognized excellence in stormwater management across the state. Glenview’s program was developed in response to severe storms in 2008 that caused widespread flooding and was guided by a resident task force.
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The Village of Glenview is one of more than 80 Illinois employers of National Guard and Reserve employees nominated for the 2015 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The award is the highest recognition given by the Department of Defense to employers for their support of National Guard and Reserve members. Nominations come from a Guard or Reserve member who is employed by the organization they are nominating. The Village employs four such members.
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David Wolf has been appointed director of development at Northbrook-based TotalLink2 Community (TL2C), a nonprofit aiding the developmentally disabled. “We are thrilled to welcome David,” said Janice Weinstein, TL2C’s executive director. “David’s rich background in strategic planning, financial oversight, and staff supervision is the perfect complement to our work and goals.” Wolf will spend much of his time writing grants, reaching out to individual donors, creating and managing the organization’s donor database, and securing gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations.
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ComEd will dedicate $10 million in assistance funds for 2015 to help customers struggling to pay their electric bill. ComEd is urging customers — including Northbrook residents — who have fallen behind on paying their electric bill to contact ComEd to see if they are eligible for payment arrangements or financial assistance. The ComEd CARE programs are focused on helping military families, veterans, senior citizens, and people who may have experienced a job loss, illness or disability and need help with paying their electric bills. For more information, please visit comed.com/care or call 1-888-806-CARE (2273).
Host of homeowners accept flood-related buyouts Torrential rains will no longer be a concern for 17 Glenview homeowners who have opted to participate in a voluntary buyout of their flood-prone residences. Eighteen homes were eligible in the program that was introduced in November and gave owners until March 31 to decide. It is a joint initiative of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) and administered through the village’s office. Its mission is to prevent further damage and financial impact to a vulnerable flood plain that sits on the north branch of the Chicago River. The area includes lower Pine Street and the south circles of the village such as Raleigh and Longvalley roads that have been ravished by flood damage, most recently in 2013. Under the plan guidelines,
federal funding will buy the homes, which will then be demolished and turned into green space where the river can continue to flood without repercussion. With only one holdout, the program was a success and comes a relief to federal and local officials. “There was no other cost-effective solution for this area,” said Joe Kenney, director of community development for Glenview, pointing to a study MWRD started more than five years ago to analyze area waterways and their impact on regional flooding. “There are 20 square miles of Glenview that is all tributary to the river, and it flows through Glenview during these big rains, which puts the roads and homes under water.” After MWRD completed its study, the village of Glenview applied for FEMA funding, which provided $3 million, and
MWRD contributed the rest that ended up totaling $11 million. The village did not provide funding. The amount each house received was different, said Kenney. “Each house went through two different appraisals and received an average of the two figures,” he said. The process works like any other home, closing with walkthroughs and a final vacation date upon which the village will start to demolish the area 90 days after with full completion of the project on track for November. Though the homeowners were not officially surveyed about their plans, Kenney said some are planning to stay in Glenview while others have expressed interest in buying property elsewhere. Kenney said this is considered a one-time program. ~Selena Fragassi
FIELD HOCKEY Continued from page 1 at a collegiate level. For the last four years, it’s all happened under the expert eye of the new owner and director, 1996 Olympian and 2014 USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Katie Beach, who played under her maiden name, Katie Kauffman. “I always come home from practices smiling,” Beach says.” I just love the sport. I think it has so much to offer young ladies who want to play. “I think there’s so much opportunity in being part of a team. You learn so much about yourself, about working with others, and you make great friends. For me, I got to travel the world and have friends all over the world because of this sport.” Beach first picked up the stick in her freshman year of high school. Grounded in raw athleticism she fostered on the track as the daughter of a track and field coach, she saw her older sister play field hockey and decided to give it a shot. Her senior year appearance at the National Hockey Festival lead to offers from several Division I schools, and she went on to play for University of Maryland on a field hockey scholarship. Her sophomore year of college, her team won the national championship and she was invited to try out for the U.S. Women’s National Field Hockey Team. As soon as she graduated college, she spent 11 years playing on the National Team. She traveled all over the world, competed on the 1996 USA Women’s Field Hockey Olympic team, played in multiple World Cups, and was named USA Player of the Year twice. “The thing I remember the most is walking over that bridge into the Olympic stadium,” she says. “I felt like I got permanent chills. All that hard work, all those grueling workouts were worth it.” She retired from the sport in 2004 and took up a position as head coach of the Columbia University field hockey team in New York. To date, she has the highest field hockey win record in Columbia University history. “I really liked coaching collegiately,” Beach says. “I wouldn’t have thought there was anything better. But getting the opportunity to come here to Windy City and work more with youth — kids in high school who have dreams to play in college, kids who just want to pick up the stick for the first time — to me, that was a dream come true.” Windy City Field Hockey has many different levels of participation available to kids who want to Continues on next page
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NEWS Continued from previous page get involved, from kindergarten through to seniors in high school. Sixth through twelfth graders have the opportunity to try out for one of Windy City’s many travel teams, who compete against each other and against other teams in the country. Windy City also organizes international trips so students can experience the grandiose nature of field hockey abroad – the massive stadiums filled to cheer DOGS Continued from page 1 populations of dogs, such as dog parks, day cares, and kennels are already at risk of contracting CIRD because some or not all have been vaccinated properly.There does exist a vaccination specifically for dog flu but it is not considered a core vaccine by the American Animal Hospital Association and must be given in two doses, two to three weeks apart, before the dog is protected. Also vaccinating a dog that is previously exposed, or already showing symptoms, will not prevent the disease nor is it a guarantee that the dog won’t get sick. “Like the flu vaccine in people, it can lessen the severity of symptoms,”said Belmonte who suggests owners should contact their veterinarian to see if the shot is preferable for their pet. Dogs with poor immune systems,
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the teams playing the World Cup. Windy City has also started adding young men who are interested in learning the sport to their training and travel teams. After all, it’s an Olympic sport and we do have a US Men’s National Field Hockey Team as well. For more information on Windy City Field Hockey, visit windycityfieldhockey.com.
puppies and senior dogs are more at risk for developing complications, according to Belmonte. Though deaths from dog flu are rare, the ones that have passed are likely due to the progression of the disease to pneumonia. Belmonte’s tip is to keep dogs at home and hire a pet sitter if necessary, which is line with the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association’s recommendation that any dog with a diagnosis or possible exposure should stay on home quarantine for three weeks and not taken out of the area to avoid the spread of dog flu. Both the Heartland Animal Shelter and Doggie Do-Rite Daycare facilities are open in Northbrook. “There are no known cases here at Heartland Animal Shelter, but because the influenza virus is so contagious, we
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are taking all the precautions we need to protect our animals at Heartland and minimize exposure to them,” said Dr. Kristine Preiser, Heartland Animal Shelter’s medical director. Healthy dogs are available for adoption and regular hours are being honored for interested parties who are encouraged to come into the facility. As a precaution, Heartland has cordoned training classes off to their pet residents for the time being. “We will notify the community when training classes are open to the public,” says Volunteer Coordinator Janice Greenberg. Doggie Do-Rite Daycare has not been directly impacted by CIRD but as a precaution they are not accepting any new dogs at this time. “We’ve also sent messages to our clients to keep them in-
formed that it is going around and asking that they do not bring in their dog if it is sick whatsoever,” said owner Stacey Findley. Some have already been pulling their dogs out of the facility for the time being, and typically busy days have now slowed down, though Findley expects business to get back to normal in the coming weeks as the virus gets under control. Findley and her team have talked to their vet partners and have stayed up to date on researching CIRD and facilities in the area that have closed. They’ve also upkept normal cleaning procedures and have left windows open more often to ward off any airborne transfer.
Glenview native embraces great outdoors He stood on the water’s edge in complete awe. “There’s one beach on the southern part of Iceland, where the energy of the ocean is immense,” said John Vlahakis, whose passion is to photograph the grandeur of our natural world. “You stand on a volcanic beach looking at the power of the waves, and you feel how insignificant you can be in the presence of nature.” That appreciation for the great outdoors started back when John was a kid in Glenview, and the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 made a splash across the nation. “I had a very inspirational seventh-grade teacher who challenged our class to do something about the environment,” Vlahakis said. So he did. Standing on the corner of Waukegan and Glenview roads, John and a group of 12-year-olds passed out paper bags with hand-painted slogans that asked locals to wake up about protecting the environment.
Over the next 15 months, the City of Chicago and Metropolitan Planning Council, in partnership with Friends of the Chicago River, will lead a planning process that will explore all the waterways within the city’s limits and develop a strategic vision of how to improve them. Two forks of the North Branch of the Chicago River flow through Glenview. Residents and business owners are urged to think about what they would like to see their riverfronts become and take part in the process. As part of “Great Rivers Chicago,” a community survey has been developed that anyone can fill out by going to greatriverschicago.com and following the link to the survey.
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The Deerfield Area Historical Society will host its annual spaghetti dinner prepared by the Italian Kitchen on Wednesday, April 15 at 6 p.m. at the Patty Turner Center, 375 Elm Street, Deerfield. Following dinner, NASA ambassador Jim Kovac explores “Mysteries of the Cosmos” — its past, its future, and our place within. With ever more sophisticated instruments, new observations and theories push back the boundaries of the unknown. All proceeds benefit restoration of the Deerfield Historic Village. Tickets are $12. RSVP required by April 10 by calling 847-948-0680.
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Those interested can sign up for the Deerfield Women’s Golf League. Among the perks, members have the chance to play 18 holes every Tuesday morning at the Deerfield Park District Course. A chance for prospective members to get to know the club through a meet-and-greet over coffee will be held at 9:15 a.m. on April 28 at the Deerfield Golf Club, 1201 Sanders Road in Riverwoods. All levels of golfers are welcome to join. Those interested can contact Shelly Siegel at 847-415-2437 or by e-mailing her at seniorbird@comcast.net.
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Northbrook resident and Jeff Award-winning actress Mary Ernster will star as Mrs. Evangeline in the Marriott Theatre’s upcoming production, “Anything Goes.” Ernster will be performing alongside a cast that features Stephanie Binetti, Jameson Cooper, and Jeff Award winners Summer Smart and Ross Lehman starting April 15. “Anything Goes” follows evangelist-turned-nightclub singer Reno Sweeney en route from New York to London and her pal, young Wall Street broker Billy Crocker, who is stowed away to be near his love, American debutante Hope Harcourt. To reserve tickets, please call The Marriott Theatre Box Office at 847-634-0200. Visit marriotttheatre.com for more information.
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“We asked people to pick up their trash and not throw it out of their car windows or in the streets,” he remembered. An advocate was born. “Throughout my life I’ve been proactive,” he said. “My photography has become a way for me to express not only my commit-
ment to the environment, but to share with people the same kind of natural experience that I’m photographing.” He displays his photography now at ZIA Gallery on Chestnut Street in Winnetka. Five years ago, the opportunity to buy the gallery fell in his lap, and he
views his ownership as a social investment in the village. “An art gallery is a pretty good vehicle for providing some diversity in our shopping district,” he said. “I’m not making money on the gallery, but I’m employing people and helping artists present their work.”
Northbrook Public Library will be hosting the 13th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. The deadline submission for Flights of Fancy: Unexpected Works of Whimsy is May 31. Flights of Fancy looks for works that embrace unconventional or re-purposed materials and intends to take the viewer to a place of uninhibited whimsy and wonder. Works should have been completed within the last five years and can be executed in any media. Prizes range from a $2,000 Purchase Prize to $200 Viewer’s Choice Awards. The exhibition will open October 9 at the Northbrook Public Library. To apply, please visit callforentry. org and searching “Flights of Fancy.”
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very other year during the spring, Lake Forest resident Jennifer Mower is thinking about the Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens. A biannual fundraiser for the Lake Forest chapter of the Infant Welfare Society, the Showhouse & Gardens is as much a part of her family’s history as their favorite dessert or vacation spot. “My mom has been on the board since I was a little girl, and I remember riding around town in the back of the station wagon promoting the chapter’s annual antique sale,” said event co-chair Mower, speaking of her mother Lanie Camino. “From January through May, that’s all my mom talked about — every detail of every room. Even when I was in college, she’d call and talk to me about the designers and what they were doing in each area of the home.” Camino, a longtime Lake Forest antiques dealer and a founding co-chair of the Showhouse & Gardens, shared her passion for the event and the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago with her daughter. Both will be on hand for the opening of the 2015 Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens on Saturday, April 25, the day after the preview party. Designer Alessandra Branca will serve as honorary chair and offer a special lecture on The New Living Room on Tuesday, April 28 (Mower worked for Branca for years, procuring her first job with her at the Showhouse & Gardens; now her sister is going to work for Branca). This year’s house is that of the late screenwriter, director and producer John W. Hughes Jr., known for his films that defined the 1980s such as “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ” and “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” Twenty-six interior designers and seven landscape designers have reimagined the home’s seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, library, dining room and living room, garden room, family room, media room and office suite in Lake Forest. Additional features include original millwork, six
fireplaces, a swimming pool, bluestone terraces and professionally landscaped grounds. The house was designed by architect Edwin Hill Clark, whose other works include the Lake Forest Library and the Lincoln Park and Brookfield zoos. Nancy Hughes donated the house to Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital in 2014. It will return to the market after the Showhouse & Gardens ends in May. Designers honored the beauty of the historic home in their work, Mower said, while also updating the kitchen and adding a mudroom to appeal to today’s buyers. Upon entering, guests will receive a catalog with descriptions of each room and garden, and volunteer docents will be on hand to share information about the house’s history. For example, Mower said, the docent in the man cave might have fun facts to share about the Hughes’ crest painted on one wall, as well as meetings and movie scripts developed on site. Expect to see a loop of Hughes’ films running in the teen retreat. “If you see a paint color, light fixture or fabric you love, you can go back in the catalog later and find the source,” Mower said. “Many items in the rooms will be available to purchase, and 10 percent of the sale goes to the clinic. There is something for everyone to fall in love with in this spectacular home.” And these days, the third generation — Mower’s daughters Caroline and Alexandra —tag along with their mom just as she did with hers. Says Mower, “My daughters love going on private tours of the house during the transformation. They always beg me to redo their rooms when they see what the designers have done with the final product.” For information on the Friday, April 24 preview event, the Tuesday, April 28 Branca lecture or to purchase tickets in advance, visit www.lakeforestshowhouse.com.
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Socials 27th Annual Rainbow Banquet Photography by Larry Miller
Deb Weiner, Zoie Weisberg, Abbie Weisberg, Mollie Lesser
A staggering $900,000 was raised during Keshet’s Annual Rainbow Banquet in early March, all to benefit the Northbrook-based organization’s educational scholarships, vocational training, and recreational programs for individuals with developmental disabilities. The evening honored Simon Lesser and Carol Patinkin, Keshet parents, board members, and volunteers. Edward Asner, seven-time Emmy award-winning actor served as the event’s guest speaker. keshet.org
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North Shore Foodie
Shrimp and grits dish enjoys new twist
Chef Brian bishop BY simon murray
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he trophy behind the bar at Bluegrass looks, at first glance, like the ones handed out to Little League players. But instead of the youthful figurine at the top, a pleasantly plump hog sits there — seemingly at home, surrounded by various bottles of liqueur. That’s because the chef of Highland Park’s Southern-influenced bastion of Americana cuisine, Brian Bishop, brought home the proverbial bacon after being voted best overall at last year’s North Shore Baconfest for his pork belly “candy.” Owner Jim Lederer had to
find some way to get it on the menu. Bishop happily obliged, pairing the pork belly with the shrimp and grits that he had been serving for private beer tastings. (In this case, Greenbush Brewing Company’s Black IPA works nicely.) Ideally, every time you add something to the menu — especially one that’s “bigger than it should be for an 85-seat restaurant,” admits Bishop — you like to take something off. “That’s harder to do when you take something off and a dozen people in three days are upset,” notes Bishop with equal parts pride, amusement, and awe at the decade-old restaurant’s unwavering patronage. Last year they added the crab cakes, Rueben sandwich, and the shrimp and grits. Now, he adds: “We just can’t get it off.” This will be Bishop’s third year competing at Baconfest. He hopes to have another piece of hardware to complement his trophy — and quite possibly another dish to complement his menu.
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24 peeled and deveined shrimp (tails on) 4 oz. salted butter 1 Tbsp. chopped garlic 1 Tbsp. chopped parsley 1 Tbsp. BBQ shrimp spice mix 6 oz. dark stout or porter 1 cup smoked cheddar grits 1/4 cup pork belly candy Scallions for garnish Begin by sautéing shrimp on high heat in butter. Add immediately to the pan the chopped garlic and parsley. Once the shrimp begin turning opaque and are cooked through about halfway add the spice mix and deglaze with beer. Reduce beer by about half and arrange shrimp over smoked cheddar grits and drizzle some of the sauce over the top. Add pork belly to the center of the plate. Garnish with scallions and enjoy. BBQ Shrimp Spice Mix 1/3 cup brown sugar 1/8 cup each of kosher salt, ground black pepper, granulated garlic, paprika, dried basil, dried thyme, chili flakes 1 tsp. Cayenne pepper Smoked Cheddar Grits 3 cups of chicken stock
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Love & Marriage
Average wedding cost is an eye-opener I t’s most probably a side effect of my Type A personality shining through, but I love a g o o d ranking. When the Joanna Brown head line teases “Top Ten” of most anything, you can bet I’ll click through and read on. Toward that end, I found recently that TheKnot.com, a popular wedding planning website, had released the average costs of weddings across the country. It’s at a five-year high: $31,213 before you consider any honeymoon expenses. When you look at individual line items within the average wedding budget (I was also a Mathlete in high school, so I do stuff like that), nearly every item reflected an increase in 2014. Couples spent the most on catering, musicians — and cake. The average cost of a wedding cake comes in at $555, while catering averages $68 per person. Reception bands topped out at $3,587, and DJs cost an average of $1,124. Costs are higher despite a drop in the average guest
list, which fell to 136 guests from 149 guests just five years earlier. The average Chicago wedding came in far higher than the national average at $50,000-plus. This put our beautiful city in the top five most expensive areas to wed, behind Manhattan ($76,328 average), Long Island, New Jersey, and the Westchester/Hudson Valley area of New York. (Keep in mind, through, that Manhattan also ranked as the most expensive U.S. city to live in, according to Kiplinger. Chicago did not break the top 10 on that list.) Arkansas and Utah recorded the lowest-cost weddings for 2014, with the average shindig costing $18,031 and $15,257, respectively. I last wrote about the price of weddings last fall,when every magazine at the grocery store had photos of George Clooney’s Venice wedding to Amal Alamuddin.The price for 100 guests was estimated between $1.6 million-$14 million. Celebrity weddings and their associated budgets are fascinating for watchers like me, but a study from Atlanta’s Emory University found that couples who spend less on their weddings tend to have longer-lasting marriages than those who splurge. I was honored to get a response at that time from Winnetka’s Jo-Ann Jahant
with memories of her 1980s wedding in her parents’ Arizona rose garden. “I was a first-time bride, marrying an older man,” Jahant wrote to me. “We had nine guests. I wore a white Haband dress with my mother’s borrowed pearls and an orchid. My father drove me in the golf cart from the front of the house to the back of the house, where the rose garden was. We had the ceremony, and my husband drove me in the golf cart from the back of the house to the front of the house with a ‘just married’ sign on the golf cart.” They followed the ceremony with dinner on the patio and ice cream cake and honeymooned at the Windmill Inn in the next town over. “As the years wore on, my wedding dress (which I wore a lot) got a few stains, so I dyed it purple and wore it for several more years,” Jahant’s email continued. “I didn’t have the burden of storing an expensive, useless wedding dress the rest of my life.” The groom died seven years ago, but Jahant said she’ll “always have beautiful memories of my wedding and all the money we saved.” Love & Marriage columnist Joanna Brown can be reached at Joanna@ northshoreweekend.com.
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Loyola Academy’s Christopher Canning took third at this year’s state meet. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
BY bill mclean, sports@northshoreweekend.com
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aron Ach sits in a classroom at Glenbrook South High School. A teacher speaks, instructs. Ach, a senior and one of the top divers in the state, hears the voice, but he does not listen to it. He visualizes instead. It is the day of a diving meet, maybe the day before a big diving meet. He sees himself hurdling near the end of a diving board. The 5-foot-7, 160-pounder also sees himself bouncing off the board and soaring and flipping and twisting and entering a pool of
water headfirst. The mental splash he envisions is a small one. It is a diver’s favorite kind of ending to a difficult plunge. Ach blinks. He is back, fully focused again in a classroom. “Sometimes my mind does wander in school,” Ach admits. Princeton University accepted that mind. Ach — head to pointed toes — will dive for the Tigers. Visualization for elite divers is critical to their success. It ranks right up there in importance with the physical aspects
of the acrobatic sport. Top-flight divers lift weights. They need to develop strong legs. They need to form snare-drum taut cores, for all that flipping, for all that twisting. Not everything, though, can be created in a weight room. “What divers also need to have is good space awareness, an awareness of where their bodies are, at all times, during a dive,” says Deerfield High School diving coach Doug Foerch, also a gymnastics coach. Fearlessness comes in handy, too. A quivering diving board
sometimes gets in the way of a descending diver. Picture the back of the seat in a plane getting in the way of a plummeting piece of a luggage from an overhead bin. Ach broke two fingers and a bone in his hand during a dive at his final state meet in February. His back banged a board at another meet. “It can be a dangerous sport,” Foerch says. “It takes guts. Boards are metal. You hit one, it’s going to hurt you. There’s a lot of pressure when you’re up there, getting ready to dive. If you bounce off the board, and
you’re off — just a little off, to the left or to the right — you’re in trouble. That dive, the one you had hoped would get you 7s from judges, gets you 4s or 3s instead.” Mentally and physically strong prep divers from North Shore schools displayed their considerable talent in front of state-meet judges on the last day of February this year. Five of the 12 finalists, paced by Deerfield senior Sean Scarry, live a hop, skip and a few board lengths from Lake Michigan. Great divers, Great Lake. Scarry fin-
ished runner-up (476.45 points), ahead of Loyola Academy sophomore Christopher Canning (third place, 476.2) and Lake Forest High School junior Alex Streightiff (fourth, 458.25). Loyola Academy senior Ryan Nash placed eighth (442.45), and LFHS junior John-Michael Diveris took ninth (424.4). Ach, seventh at the 2014 state meet, had qualified for the 2015 state meet with a sectional score of 590.75, second among all qualifiers to eventual state champion Joey Cifelli of Marian Continues on page 25
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D-man earns all A’s K
yle Slovis was in his kitchen at home when he heard the super news. The news is kind of old now, but it still stuns him. The Glenbrook North senior defenseman had been selected as the 2014-15 JJ O’Connor Illinois Boys High School Hockey Player of the Year. A representative from the Amateur Hockey Association Illinois (AHAI) had called to inform Slovis of the news. Slovis, in disbelief, attempted to digest the honor at home, with a phone to his ear, with his mouth wide open. “It was a huge surprise, definitely huge,” he recalls more than a month later. “I wasn’t expecting it. Three or four other guys on my team could’ve won that award. Players from other teams … it was an honor. “I felt truly blessed.” His mother, Kellie, heard the news next. The sister of two former Glenbrook North Spartans hockey players, Bob and John, erupted. Pure joy makes people do that. Kyle texted the news to his father, John. Dad Slovis did not text back. He called his son instead. Probably way too excited to type a reply, probably way too overwhelmed with pride. “It wasn’t my goal, winning that,” the 5-foot-8, 155-pounder adds. “I was thinking only of winning something with my teammates — a state title.” Several weeks later, on March 22, Slovis and his teammates did just that, edging Benet Academy 3-2 in overtime at the United Center. Slovis and his teammates had played in the state championship game the previous two seasons. They lost to New Trier Green both times. Memories of the setbacks fueled the Spartans throughout their 63-12-2 season. “A horrible feeling, each time,” Slovis says of what gripped him as another team celebrated wildly on the home ice of the Chicago Blackhawks after the 2013 and 2014 title games. “But now, looking back at what we did [last month], it’s surreal, an unbelievable feeling. We’d been wanting to do that the whole year … our whole lives. It’s been great, amazing, being able to say, ‘We’re state champs.’ ” The assist Slovis provided in the state title game was his 74th point in his 74th game, a tidy and easy-
Glenbrook North senior defenseman Kyle Slovis will be competing in USA Hockey’s America Showcase in Pittsburgh this weekend. He will be joined by teammates Chris Zhang, Alex Merritt and Chad Yale. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
to-compute 1.0 point-per-game average. The offensive-minded defenseman and third-year varsity member ended up with 23 goals and 51 assists in 2014-15. He never put offense before his primary duties on defense. But that approach never allowed opponents to relax whenever the skillful, dangerous Slovis sniffed an opportunity to generate a point. In an 11-2 defeat of Fenwick on Jan. 11, Slovis scored a goal and assisted on four others. Busy, productive. The captain ranked fourth among teammates in points, behind forwards Chris Zhang (53 goals, 66 assists), Alex Merritt (57, 58) and Logan Nein (40, 43). “[Slovis] has all the tools,” Glenbrook North coach Evan Poulakidas says of the all-state, all-Scholastic Hockey League and Illinois Showcase Team pick. “He sees the
ice like a center sees the ice.” Slovis’ deft, on-the-fly drop pass (on Nein’s close-in goal in the state championship game last month) was center-esque, forward-esque. Slovis sees ice — especially the rink ice at Northbrook Sports Center — as his second home, not too far behind that warmer place where he heard that super news. All three of his brothers know how to skate, know what do with a puck, know what to do without a puck. Former Spartan Ryan Slovis, a two-time state runner-up in hockey, is a freshman at Miami University in Ohio; Andrew Slovis led all JV players in scoring in the SHL in 2014-15; and Charlie Slovis is a seventh-grade puckster. “I think I was three years old when I first skated [at North-
brook Sports Center],” says Kyle Slovis, a honors student who might give club hockey a try at the University of Michigan. “Maybe I was four years old. I pretty much grew up on rinks. My mom comes from a hockey family. My dad played basketball [while growing up in Michigan]. My mom told my dad, ‘We’re having hockey players.’ I’ve been skating for so long; it’s second nature to me. Basketball, it just never worked out. When I’m at a rink, I’m happy. I have always been happy at rinks. I love hockey. “My mom likes to joke that I’d probably eat a hockey puck if she ever put one on a plate for me. I’d put hot sauce on it. I love hot sauce.” He will gobble up, using a stick, lacrosse balls as a Glenbrook North middie this spring. The Spartans reached the Elite
Eight, as the fifth seed, in the state playoffs last spring. Glenbrook North outscored its first two opponents by a combined 29-6 before falling 16-5 to Lake Forest High School. Slovis played Team ONE club lacrosse for three offseasons (eighth grade through his sophomore year). “We’re looking pretty good … we’re looking to go farther than [the Elite Eight] this year.” Slovis says. “Our defense is solid.” One of Slovis’ favorite pastimes, for years, has been playing pickup games with his close friends. Football games, basketball games, soccer games. If Slovis is not active, he actively seeks to do something active. Kyle Slovis sits still. He talks. His mind races. He had just been asked to recollect the moments following Glenbrook North’s
defeat of Benet Academy at the United Center last month. The state championship was Glenbrook North’s fifth in program history and first since 2008. “The locker room afterward … everybody in there was happy,” Slovis says. “Everybody was overjoyed. I remember seeing everybody’s happy face, and I remember realizing all that hard work paid off. That scene was the best. That feeling was the best. “Thirty minutes after the game, we still had our uniforms on.” Notable: Zhang, Merritt and defenseman Chad Yale (24 goals and 39 assists in 2014-15) also made the Illinois Showcase Team this year. The two-time reigning championship team competes this weekend at USA Hockey’s America Showcase in Pittsburgh.
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Inside the Press Box Circling the Bases Baseball Perfect Game USA: Cal Coughlin makes the list. The Lake Forest High School junior third baseman/pitcher has been named a Perfect Game USA 1st Team Preseason High School Underclassmen All-American. Coughlin, who played two seasons at Carmel Catholic, is one of the most heralded players in Illinois. The Texas Christian recruit, who plays his club baseball with Top Tier, is ranked No. 4 in the class of 2016 by The Prep Baseball Report. Meanwhile, junior left-hander Ben Brecht of New Trier, sophomore outfielder Brad Czerniejewski of Lake Forest and junior left-hander Casey Kempner of Glenbrook North made the list as High Honorable Mentions. Brecht will pitch at UC Santa Barbara. Czerniejewski will team up with Coughlin at TCU. And Kempner is a Kentucky commit.
The Honorable Mentions included Glenbrook South junior outfielder Jordan Libman and Glenbrook North junior righthander Michael Oh.
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Pro Baseball Colorado Rockies: Loyola Academy head coach Nick Bridich loves the Colorado Rockies. Why? His brother Jeff, at age 37, is the Rockies' General Manager and the youngest GM in Major League Baseball. “I’ve been a Rockies fan for yours,” said Nick Bridich. He’s also a Milwaukee Brewers fan. Nick and Jeff attended Milwaukee Marquette High School and played baseball for their father, Rick.
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Glenbrook South’s Aaron Ach performs a dive during the 2014-15 season. He will dive at Princeton University next year. PHOTOGRAPHY BY joel lerner
Catholic. Those injuries to his hand kept him from advancing to the finals session. Scarry, Canning and Ryan Church (a 2014 Deerfield High School graduate) went 3-4-5 at state last winter. Diveris finished eighth, three spots in front of Nash, whose brother, Michael Nash (a junior diver at Miami University in Ohio), silvered behind Jordan Sacks (New Trier High School, ’12) at the 2012 state meet. One of the prerequisites for the staging of the state diving finals in recent seasons was not a quorum of qualifiers from North Shore schools. But it sure appeared to be. “Coaching,” Diveris says, referring to one of the reasons for the sustained success of North Shore divers at state meets. “Hardworking athletes, the number of diving clubs … those are other reasons. Another factor is the support we get from divers who dive for other schools. We see each other all the time, during the high school season, during the club season. We cheer for each other behind the boards at meets and say, ‘Nice job,” or, ‘Great entry.’ It’s such an individual sport, and there’s an appreciation we all have for what a diver goes through before competing dives at meets and what a diver goes through during meets.” Coaching. Diveris is spot-on. Superb diving coaches abound along the North Shore. Foerch, like several other prep diving coaches, guides girls in the fall, boys in the winter. One of his first female charges at Deerfield HS, in 2002, was Christina Loukas, a two-time Olympian (2008, 2012) and three-time state champion (2001-03). New Trier HS coach Bruce Kimball earned a silver medal (10meter platform) at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Loyola Academy diving coach Tony D’Amico earned Illinois Swimming and Diving Association Coach of the Year honors after the 2014-15 boys season, an award Glenbrook South diving coach Laura Duffy received after three consecutive seasons (2005-07); three Lake Forest HS divers (Diveris, Streightiff and 2013 graduate Andrew Marsh) combined for five top-10 efforts at the last four state meets under the direction of Scouts coach Pam Uhrik. Among the top-notch club diving coaches with North Shore ties are Windy City Diving’s Susan Bromberg, Loukas’ and Diveris’ club coach; Glenbrook Aquatics’ Tony Santucci, a Deerfield HS graduate; and Evanston-based Chicago Dive Club’s Alik Sarkisian, Northwestern University’s men’s and women’s coach and the national team coach for Armenia at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. “There are some phenomenal coaches in the area,” says Streightiff, whose path to varsity diving at Lake Forest HS started on a trampoline in a backyard; Alicia Streightiff noticed her son, then an eighth-grader, looked comfortable near treetops and suggested the pursuit of the discipline. In only his second year of competitive diving, Streightiff placed 13th at the state meet as a sophomore. It was not easy, Streightiff ’s entry into the world of diving. It never is, for any diver. It is a world filled with daredevils, Evel Knievels without motorcycles. Dare-
devils never bat 1.000. Diving daredevils sustain smacks, countless smacks, mostly at practice sessions. They represent a painful part of the game, like hand rips in gymnastics, like mat burns in wrestling. A smack is the sound of a dive gone awry. It is the sound of an out-of-control body hitting water, and the result is usually a red badge of discouragement. A smack makes some spectators cringe. A smack tattoos bodies, no appointment necessary. “I’ve seen welts after bad dives … red marks, with white lines in the middle of them,” Foerch says. “Faces get injured. I’ve seen bloody noses. I once saw a kid break his nose during a dive. I’ve seen black eyes. When a diver’s face smacks the water at about the same time as the diver’s feet do, it’s tough to watch. “It’s important to coach divers properly to avoid serious injuries,” he adds. A sensational dive is a thing of beauty, high and tight and fast and all straight. Divers seek to make sure their shoulders, hips, knee and ankles do not produce a hint of an angle during a plunge. One of smoothest divers around is Loyola Academy’s Canning, a 5-11, 150-pounder. The Wilmette resident and Chicago Dive Club member is as technically sound as they come, an athlete who makes highly difficult dives look layup-vs.-nobody easy. Canning’s kinesthetic awareness reached a brimming level at an early age, probably a day or two after his first successful step as a toddler. What also separates him from other divers is the rhythm of his hurdle on the boards. Canning’s balanced, measured approach generates the fluidity he needs to execute a clean dive. Canning finished runner-up at his very first meet, held at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He was 11. He traveled to another state for his next meet, a test against a region’s best. He was still 11. Canning competes regularly at USA Diving meets. “I’m not a fast learner,” he says. “I’m not a slow learner. I’m a average learner. Challenges in this sport include changing a dive or learning new dives. It’s nice having great coaches in the area. They show you, teach you. They believe you can do the new dive. They assure you everything will be fine. “One of the most rewarding parts in diving,” he adds, “is doing a new dive at a competition and realizing the hard work paid off.” Divers, to some, are considered the “punters and kickers” of a swimming and diving team, athletes — specialists — who get the “second-class” tag because they typically practice together and away from the significant majority of their teammates, sometimes out of necessity (it’s hard and unwise, after all, to simultaneously dive and dodge swimmers doing laps). It is an unfair label. Some people forget kickers win football games. Some people forget punters aid defenses. “Our swimming coach [Lake Forest High School’s Cindy Dell] makes sure she includes the divers whenever the team is Continues on page 26
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discussed,” Diveris says. “She appreciates the team’s divers. She knows we score points for the team. Our motto [in the 2014-15 season] was, ‘One team, one dream.’ ” Lake Forest High School, the team, scored 40 points (12th place) at the state meet in February. Streightiff and Diveris combined for 15 team points. Divers matter. Nash was named a team captain of Loyola Academy’s swimming and diving team before the start of the 2014-15 season. The leadership role gave him opportunities to spend time with the team’s swim captain and swimmers. The team’s swim captain and swimmers listened to Nash, respected Nash. It would have been impossible not to respect Nash, if a swimmer had watched what
Nash or Canning or any Ramblers diver does during a practice. “We practice hard, really hard, each day,” says the 5-9, 135-pound Nash, a Kenilworth resident. “Each practice involves a lot of repetition. We review tape of dives with our coach, watching it in super-slow motion at times. Everything has to be precise in this sport. It’s a sport for perfectionists.” It is good to have a bad memory in the sport. Divers dive six times at dual meets, 11 times (if they survive cuts) at bigger meets. A diver’s blown dive early in a meet becomes a disastrous dive if the memory of the blown dive lingers during the next dive. And the one after that. And the one after … “Attitude, having a positive attitude, is important in diving,” Glenbrook
South’s Ach says. “Divers who are mentally tough generally have positive attitudes and look ahead. My coach [Duffy] likes to stress that success at meets comes from being strong mentally, from having the right attitude during each dive. How well you dive in the warm-up [session] means little. “You have to be willing to think of a big meet as a series of 11 one-dive meets,” he adds. A big meet for Ach, before he became an eighth-grade student, required the execution of giants and double-leg circles and dismounts. He toiled and competed atop gymnastics mats for seven years. Diveris also chalked up in gyms for years, before a torn right labrum (a shoulder injury he suffered during a still-rings routine) turned his attention to diving
and its tight-knit fraternity. “I enjoy diving,” Diveris says. “I definitely like the feeling of flying, the height, the view of the water when I’m up there.” A focused, unblinking diver stands on a board at a meet, poised and ramrod straight. He is a Buckingham Palace guard, minus the furry, bearskin hat and red-and-black uniform. The natatorium, filled with spectators, is silent. He takes a step, then another, then another. The hurdle to his front-two-and-a-half dive follows. He bounces off the end of the board. He takes off. He flips, spins fast. He enters the pool headfirst, his frame returning to ramrod-straight form. The crowd erupts, releasing a mixture of applause and appreciative roars. The diver’s head resurfaces. The reaction from the spectators sounds different to him
than it did when he was underwater. It is clearer now, louder. He glides toward the edge of the pool, eager to hear how the judges graded his aerial show. His artwork. “People who watch dives at meets and aren’t all that familiar with the sport, see a dive and tend to think, ‘OK, that looked good,’ ” Foerch says. “They might even think, ‘That looked pretty easy.’ What they don’t realize is what that diver went through, at practices, to get a dive to look like that, to look that good. That diver probably had to overcome 20 to 30 smacks to his face, to the back of his legs, to other parts of his body. “There’s a lot going on in diving, mentally and physically,” he adds. “It takes a special type of athlete to be a successful diver.”
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Café serves much more than a meal By Nicole Schnitzler
In 2012, Susan Trieschmann launched Curt’s Café, a restaurant in downtown Evanston dedicated to getting at-risk youth off the streets and into jobs. She has learned much since then. “They’ve taught me how to get up every morning, even when things are really, really tough, and how to move forward,” says Trieschmann, who grew up in Deerfield. “I always thought I was really good at that, but seeing the struggles they go through, I’ve learned that I can work through more than I probably thought I could.” Spurred by her work at Restorative Justice Evanston, she decided to open the restaurant, where a rotating group of students learns the ins and outs of food service while also gaining valuable life skills — from managing anger to opening bank accounts. The program has graduated more than 60 individuals ages 15 to 24, and Trieschmann intends for that number to grow since the March addition of Curt’s Café South (1813 Dempster Street in Evanston), a sister location focused on helping at-risk young women and teen mothers. After years of speaking with previously incarcerated kids about what they needed most to build a future for themselves, she realized the answer was largely unanimous: a job. With a long-running career in the food service industry
already established, from overseeing catering operations at the Pump Room, to co-founding Food for Thought Enterprise, Trieschmann knew she had the expertise required to train others in the restaurant world. “I believe in breaking bread together,” the 57-year-old says. “I think if you sit and dine with someone and listen to their story, you build a bond that people don’t always realize. “Also, with food, you’re always creating. A student feels success every time they make a sandwich. These kids haven’t seen much success in their lives, and they haven’t had much hope for getting better. But if they make 10 sandwiches in a day and don’t mess one of them up, that’s a darn good day.” Open for breakfast and lunch, Curt’s Café offers an array of items. A Mexican Breakfast Wrap and Tuscan Breakfast Sandwich can be ordered from 7:30 a.m.-10 a.m., while a host of salads (such as the Taco Waca) and sandwiches are served at lunch. Kids can even enjoy a homemade animal cracker with and Heaven and Earth Sandwich, which contains the always popular marshmallow fluff. Trieschmann, who holds a bachelor of arts degree in social justice from DePaul University, has experienced many rewarding moments. Recently, she and her students were working at a fundraiser. “I ran in late and expected to throw off my
coat to help and really hustle, and I saw these two kids just going above and beyond what the job even required,” she says. “They were doing things I didn’t even know we had been able to teach them and serving tables in the most respectful way. “I couldn’t have been more proud. I went to the counter and got a glass of iced tea and thought, ‘I’ve got nothing to do here.’ They had it.” Curt’s Café stays in touch with every student after graduation. Many of them land their own apartments, and most of them have jobs and have filled out their first tax return. She says they all come in and have lunch and share what they’re up to. Says Trieschmann, “When you’re at Curt’s, you’re part of our family. If I didn’t keep in touch with them, it’d be as if I didn’t keep in touch with my own son or daughter.” Susan Trieschmann | Illustration by Barry Blitt
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