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NEWS
Early vote yields strong turnout BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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orth Shore voters began taking advantage of early voting when it started on October 24 at multiple sites in Lake County and Cook County, and they can continue to cast ballots until the day before the November 8 general election. Crowds have varied by early voting location. The Highland Park police station, serving voters primarily in Highland Park and Deerfield, leads the pack with 6,189 ballots cast through the end of voting on October 30, according to Lake County Clerk Carla Wyckoff of Lake Forest. Wyckoff said 39,815 people voted throughout Lake County since early balloting began, with nearly a quarter of them going to either the police station or Lake Forest City Hall. She said 2,899 went to Lake Forest through October 30. In Cook County, 21,307 voters Continued on PG 7
SPORTS
Glenbrook North quarterback Kevin Burnside named Athlete of the Month. P14
SOCIAL SCENE
Hundreds crowded the Playdium at Our Lady of Perpetual Help for the Women’s Club’s Sip and Shop. P11 FOLLOW US:
PIONEERING STUDY Westwood first graders use modern technology to study Glenview’s frontier days BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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lenview’s first settlers may have arrived in the middle of the 19th century but students at Westbrook Elementary School are applying 21st century methodology to learning about them. Westbrook first graders made candles, toys and butter, and they washed clothes on a washboard during Pioneer Days, their final project in a month-long study of early pioneers on October 31 in their Glenview classroom. Though they learned about the first settlers who arrived in Glenview in covered wagons in the 1850s, they used STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) education in their social studies project, according
First graders Ayaan Vasaiwala, Ali Bodjasek and Nyla Vernon play with toys they made at Pioneer Days at Westbrook School in Glenview. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
to first grade teacher Deb Meredith. “To do everything and get it all in I decided to make it interactive,” said Meredith. “The pioneers had to do engineering for
their equipment and to build their houses. There was a lot the pioneers had to calculate.” One of the projects Meredith gave her students was making chains out of paper and then
measuring their length. Recog- said Meredith. “That’s a lot of nizing there were no yardsticks math for first graders.” 160 years ago, she had the chilIn the classroom next to Merdren use a more practical method. edith’s, Mandy Freer, another first “They stretch it out and measured it by the size of their feet,” Continued on PG 7
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