Issue 4 -- January 25, 2019

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Volume 109, Issue 4

Hinsdale high schools face possibility of major cuts $166 million referendum fails to win support from Hinsdale, surrounding communities

Page 2: Learn all about the health problems firefighters are faced with on Page 2.

Page 12 has the full story on the possible budget cuts that District 86 may face in the next fiscal year—starting July 1, 2019. Right: Hinsdale Central student Donovan Lahmann ‘19, speaks at School Board on Dec. 3 as LTHS athletes show support in background (Valdes/LION).

Bookstore hero retires after 15 years

completely by surprise,” Yena said. Eventually deciding the right thing to do was sell their house, Yena’s family moved to the other side of Western Springs; several by Harper Hill years later, Yena became a proud @harpss42 member of the LT class of 1972. Two years ago, former NC “I love LT,” Yena said. “LT has bookstore manager Mary Yena been a part of my heart since I was received news her husband was a little kid. I met my husband in ill. Since last March, his conhigh school. We went to homedition progressively worsened. coming junior year and the rest is Failing to see any improvement, history. We’ve been married for Yena announced her intent to almost 42 years.” retire last September. Yena offiYena and her husband raised cially retired from LT on Dec. 28, a family in the community, and but she left a large mark on the her three sons—Michael, Matt high school and community. and Mark—grew up admiring “We are fortunate at LT to LT sports. The boys attended LT have so many amazing people, themselves, adding to the Yena and Mary is great example of family legacy. Yena began working that,” Principal Brian Waterat the NC bookstore 15 years ago, man said. taking on many overlooked roles. LT employees gather with bookstore manager Mary Yena (second from the left) on In 1962, Yena moved into a Dec. 20 to say goodbye and wish her happiness (photo provided by Waterman). At the end of each school year, it 92-year-old house on the Perot is the bookstore’s job to hand count Farm in Western Springs with her brothers and parents. Just four years all books and school supplies—down to every last eraser—and take invenlater, former LT Superintendent Donald Reber showed up at their door tory, Yena said. New books and supplies are then ordered and the school unannounced, stating their house was preventing LT from constructing processing operation begins. Bennett Field; LT wanted to buy the property. Taken aback, Yena’s parents “A good portion of the employees get to have the summers off, but there were conflicted. are several departments that work all summer,” Yena said. “It’s not easy. “It’s not that they didn’t want to [sell the house], it’s that it took them Continued on page 4

LT alum, bookstore manager leaves lasting impact on school

Pregnancy center opens in LaGrange by Lars Lonnroth and Pilar Valdes @larslonnroth and @pilarvaldes55

Driving down LaGrange Road, one’s interest may be piqued by the bright pink sign outside of a house converted into an office building. The building is home to the newly opened branch of the Women’s Care Center (136 N. LaGrange Rd.), an Indiana-based pro-life organization offering ultrasounds and counseling to women with unplanned pregnancies. Across the country, a host of pregnancy resource centers like the Women’s Care Center have sprouted up in communities large and small. Some medical professionals and reproductive rights advocates, however, have said these organizations often use deceptive practices to get people into the door and provide misleading information to their patients. LaGrange Park resident Maura Quinlan, assistant professor at Northwestern University and an obstetrician-gynecologist (OB/GYN)—a doctor that specializes in women’s health and pregnancies—argues that the Women’s Care Center is a Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC), or an organization that attempts to convince women with unexpected pregnancies to not get abortions. “The concern is that people with unplanned pregnancies need to be given all the legal options

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available to them, with appropriate counseling to find what is really right for them and their circumstance,” Dr. Quinlan said. “These institutions don’t do that.” The Women’s Care Center did not agree to an in-person interview, but in emails to The LION, officials repeatedly claimed that they provide their clients the whole slew of options when it comes to pregnancies and abortions. Organizations with similar goals as the Women’s Care Center, however, have long been a source of concern for many advocates of women’s health, and are a hot topic in the debate over abortion. According to Slate Magazine, in 2015 CPCs outnumbered clinics that offer abortions three-to-one. Evita Almassi, the Digital Marketing and Communications Manager with the National Women’s Health Network—which advocates for women’s reproductive rights, including a “women’s right to choose”—alleges that these clinics often warp the truth and use scare tactics to deter women from getting abortions, she said. “Women who walk into one of these fake [medical] clinics seeking contraception or abortions find themselves being bullied, shamed and lied to,” she wrote in an email. Quinlan and the National Women’s Health Network laid out examples of misinformation that some CPCs have utilized in the past, such as overstating the risk of death from abortion or falsely stating that abortion is linked to an increased chance of breast cancer or infertility.

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Women’s Care Center opens its doors, met with skepticism from pro-choice critics

Friday, January 25, 2019

But Dawn Fitzpatrick, member of the board of directors at the pro-life Chicago March for Life and the Senior Coordinator for the Human Dignity and Solidarity Ministry for the Archdiocese of Chicago, claims that all of the information these clinics offer women in crisis is accurate. “The critics are wrong. Of course [critics] are discouraging people from going to the centers because they would prefer to advance the centers that offer abortions,” she said. “The fact of the matter is, there is nothing false that is coming out of those pregnancy centers or we as the church would not support them.” The church is strongly against abortion and argues that life begins at conception and ends at natural death, Fitzpatrick said. “The church has always understood that abortion takes a human life,” she said. “The reason we don’t support [abortion] is because it takes a human life and hurts the people involved.” As a doctor, Quinlan, the assistant professor Northwestern, said that medical professionals— especially when it comes to abortions—have a right to not provide care that they disagree with. But she argues that they should not allow that to influence the advice that they provide their patients. “We are told in medical school that the patient comes first. You don’t have to do what you’re not comfortable with, but they come first,” Quinlan said. “You need to tell them that we don’t offer this here, but here is where you can go.”

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Page 3: Dr. Waterman’s hometown faced destruction from recent tornados. Read all about what Student Council has been doing to help the cause on Page 3. Page 4: Remember when the All-school Assembly was cancelled? Well, it’s back. Check out Page 4. Page 5: LT is filled with sounds of music. Look to Page 5. Page 7: Of course the grid is fire. Flip to Page 7 to check it out for yourself. Page 8: How do you feel about Ancestry testing? See what two LION staff members have to say about this topic on Page 8. Page 9: Do you have an opinion on the Speak-UpLine? Learn what our staff thinks about it on Page 9. Page 10: Read all about LT’s Hockey team successes on Page 10. Page 11: Check out Page 11 for full coverage of the Special Olympics Pack the Place game. Page 12: Two athletes are featured for AOTM this issue. Turn to Page 12 to see what they’ve accomplished. Page 13:

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