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It was the talk of the restaurant, Lovells of Lake Forest, for 16 years. An immense, magnificent

20-by-8-foot mural rested above and behind the main bar, greeting each patron, starting an instant conversation. It is dubbed, “The Steeds of Apollo.”

The 1970 Apollo 13 mission crew patch was patterned after the mural, created by artist Lumen Martin Winter in 1969. The mural depicts several horses in flight, their legs in various stages of gallop high above Earth.

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The North Shore’s most aris-tocratic town was primarily made for privacy—as an

escape from Chicago in a land-scaped, sheltered enclave. What the band of productive Presbyte-rians who founded Lake Forest, Illinois, created was an elegant, open spaced village.

It would become home to wealthy, powerful men and free-thinking, liberated women.

Lake Forest’s history is rooted in religion and riddled with tragedy, indulgence and despair. No Illinois town on the lake north of Chicago shuttles between he-donism and Puritanism more famously than Lake Forest. It is the setting for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s oppressive The Great Gatsby and Judith Guest’s repressive Ordi-nary People.

Though the Irish Catholic working class who came to work on the Illinois and Michigan

canal in the 1840s settled the area, farming what’s now western Lake Forest—they created the town’s first religious institution, St. Mary ’s Roman Catholic Church—the town founders were wealthy Presbyterians, according to Michael H. Ebner, a Lake Forester who is professor emeri-tus at Lake Forest College and author of Creating Chicago’s North Shore, A Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 1988).

“The railroad opened in 1855 and they flocked to Lake Forest, hiring landscape designer Almerin Hotchkiss, who laid out a very imaginative design with curvilinear streets which broke with convention, green, open space and a college,” Ebner said, noting that other Midwestern towns, such as Oberlin, Ohio and Appleton, Wisconsin, had also established colleges. When asked to name who fundamentally created Lake Forest, Ebner pegs

the family Farwell.He writes in his book that they

came to Illinois in a covered wagon in 1838. They farmed land and made money, with son Charles bringing the farm’s wheat to Chicago markets. His younger brother John soon went to work in the dry goods business, earning $250 a year. But he married the boss’s daughter a year later, did well and, at one point, employed a young clerk named Marshall Field—they briefly traded as Farwell, Field and Company—before earning an estimated $7 million value as J.V. Farwell and Company by the mid-1860s.

Charles went on to serve as a U.S. senator from Illinois. John served as Lake Forest mayor. “The descendants served the town, too,” Ebner said. “In the 1980s, John’s great grandson, Frank Farwell, served as mayor. So this family really watched over the commu-nity.”

“The Farwells took bold steps

to advance the community—one of the boldest steps was the cre-ation of Market Square between 1912 and 1917,” he said. “Lake Forest had a rather shabby busi-ness district just across from the Chicago and North Western train tracks and [passengers on the train] could see this shabby scene.

So, they created this Tudor-style square. It’s a precursor to the shopping center—an architec-tural gem that is really a distinc-tive aspect of Lake Forest.”

The Farwells carved a new town out of nature’s density with

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12 presbyterians, partying and poison Lake Forest’s eclectic history.

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48 victory lane Claire Voss and the Loyola Academy girls swim team put together a winning performance at the Glenbrook North Sectional. The Ramblers will try to successfully defend their state crown this weekend at New Trier.

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L AKE FOREST — Residents who worried Deerpath Golf Course could close got reas-

surance from members of the Lake Forest City Council who suggested a public private partner-ship akin to those that restored Forest Park and saved Gorton Community Center as a potential solution.

The council directed City Manager Robert Kiely Jr. to au-thorize a study through an outside consultant to develop a five-year plan on Deerpath’s future, which could lead to raising private money.

“We can do something like we did at Gorton,” Alderman George Pandaleon said during a Finance Committee meeting Nov. 9 at the Municipal Services Building. “The community came together

for Gorton. Gorton raised $7 million. There was a $3 million endowment to provide for future needs.”

Rumors of the course’s closure began last month and were em-phatically denied by Alderman Tim Newman, the chairman of the city’s Golf Advisory Commit-tee, both in a Daily North Shore story Oct. 27 and at a public forum Nov. 4 at Dickinson Hall.

“Let me open by saying we are not closing the course,” Newman said at the Nov. 4 meeting. “We want a future for Deerpath Golf Course which is sustainable. We need a baseline to take to the City Council.”

Kiely gave the aldermen and the crowd of more than 25 people who came to the meeting spe-cifically to hear about the future of the course a financial history that showed a negative cash flow for the past four years. He pre-

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The spreadsheet showed actual performance for the past four years and a projection through 2020 showing a profitable opera-tion before capital improvements are made and required bond pay-ments funded. After those expen-ditures, the cash flow is negative.

By the end of the city’s 2011 fiscal year, the course’s fund balance was depleted and the Parks and Recreation Department started making contributions, ac-cording to the spreadsheet. The $26,022 deficit in 2012 grew to over $200,000 in the last fiscal year.

“Do we want a golf course as part of the city just like Gorton, the beach and all the other ameni-ties we have?” Newman said after Kiely’s presentation. “I say yes.”

Kathy McCombs, a regular at

Deerpath who said she was there representing 140 members of the course’s ladies’ leagues, reinforced Newman’s statement about the course being a necessary amenity for the community. She wanted to know the temperature of the council.

“I was disappointed more alder-men weren’t there,” McCombs said of the Nov. 4 meeting. “We had a good course and we have to get it

back,” she added referring to the declining condition of Deerpath.

Though some of the aldermen acknowledged the financial chal-lenges, they were also distressed by the some of the conditions of the golf facility. Alderman Prue Beidler said she was not a golfer but took a look at the course and said she felt it was lacking if non residents — who make up ap-proximately half the customers — will return to play again.

Alderman Michael Adelman gave a graphic example of the kind of situation that would drive away many a golfer. He said he observed occasions when the course ran out of electric carts three to four days in a two-week period.

“They were telling people to start walking down the fairway and they would run a cart out to them as soon as one was available,” Adelman said.

Beidler reminded her colleagues

of the success the community had with a public-private partnership to restore Forest Park.

“Forest Park is a gem and it was restored with private money,” Beidler said. “It was in need and the money was raised (mostly) with private funds.”

“Gorton was worse,” Pandaleon added.

Beidler offered a formula for raising the money from Lake Forest citizens.

“It’s not ‘do you love your golf course,’ ” Beidler said. “It’s ‘do you love your community.’ We’re going to need endowment money. En-dowment money is tricky. It’s the hardest money to raise. I think we can to it.”

Kiely said he would pursue the consultant contract to develop a five-year plan for Deerpath. He said it would be ready in time for discussions about the budget for the next fiscal year.

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other Presbyterians. “There were lots of ravines and heavy woods,” explained Laurie Stein, curator of the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society.

Stein said that an association purchased land and divided lots. One site became Lake Forest Academy. Another became Lake Forest College, which was origi-nally supposed to be called Lind University after lumber baron Sylvester Lind. But he suffered a financial setback in the panic of 1857. Stein said Lind is said to have first noticed Lake Forest during one of his rides from Chicago to Green Bay.

“They wanted a town that would be at one with nature and be somewhat private and se-cluded,” Stein said. “In the original town plan, there was only one or two entrances. They wanted to live and be educated in private, so privacy was always a value.”

Lake Forest incorporated in 1861 with the motto, love of science and nature, which remains Lake Forest’s creed.

Today, the population hovers at 20,000 and, even in the early years, it was an affluent commu-nity, though not in the western part known as Everett where immigrants lived. Stein said that many Lake Forest residents were educated migrants, such as rev-erends, who had been educated in the east. Early wealth was modest. The predominantly Pres-byterian townspeople were tra-

ditional. They attended church often and disdained displays of wealth.

Puritanism applied to social behavior, too. “Dancing in that era was looked upon as the last form of wickedness,” wrote one Farwell family member about Lake Forest in the 1870s and 1880s, “Mr. [Devillo] Holt [a lumber merchant and town founder] said he would rather see all his children in their coffins than to see them dancing.”

That fundamentalism would wither, at least in private, with the onset of hedonism embodied in three people, whom some of the era might describe as fallen women, who are famously as-sociated with Lake Forest: Marion Lambert, a teen whom some believed was murdered, dancer Irene Castle, immortal-ized in the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers picture, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) and Ginevra King, best known as the inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character Daisy Bu-chanan in The Great Gatsby. Ebner said that Lake Forest became a recurring place in Fitzgerald’s fiction, such as The Beautiful and the Damned, This Side of Paradise and his Jose-phine stories.

Stein said it’s King who sym-bolizes the lifestyle associated with Lake Forest. “Fitzgerald came to visit her here in 1916,” Stein said. “After that, he re-corded in his journal that poor boys shouldn’t marry rich girls. That’s why his relationship with King through letters is seen as foundational by literary scholars.”

Ginevra King married twice to Lake Foresters, once to William Mitchell and the second time to John T. Pirie, heir to the Carson Pirie Scott fortune. Ebner said that King once hosted a dinner party at her home on Rosemary Road, which was robbed, during the depression. Apparently, one of the guests was able to slip out to call the police, who foiled the robbery.

“From what I understand, Ginevra King was a happy person,” Stein said. “She was a typical Lake Forest woman, in-volved in philanthropy and she liked sports, such as horseback riding and golf. She put in count-less hours volunteering for St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago and the American Cancer Society. She was also active in working to repeal Prohibition.” King died in 1980. Stein said that she’s buried in Lake Forest Cemetery.

Another storied Lake Forest woman associated with an affair has a more tragic ending.

Eighteen-year-old Marion Lambert, the only child of a gardener, was romantically in-volved with William Orpet, son of the caretaker for Cyrus Mc-Cormack, Jr., heir to Interna-tional Harvester.

One morning before school started, Lambert, who attended Deerfield-Shields High School (now Highland Park High School) met Orpet, a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. They had been inti-mate. She apparently thought she might be pregnant.

Marion Lambert never came back.

Her father organized a search and found his daughter’s body in the snowy Helms Woods, south of where Barat College once was (now, it’s a subdivision). There was evidence of cyanide poison-ing. Orpet was tracked down as the main suspect for murder and put on trial—the case was covered in newspapers across the

country—and Orpet was eventu-ally acquitted because the jury concluded that Marion Lambert took the cyanide on purpose. The Orpet family left Lake Forest. They moved to Santa Barbara, California, where the father, Edward Orpet, became superin-tendent of parks.

Another famous Lake For-ester, dancer and flapper Irene Castle, lived in town when she was married to her third husband, Frederick McLaughlin, a famous polo player who served as an Army major with the Blackhawk division in World War I. McLaughlin was the first owner of the Chicago Blackhawks and Irene designed the hockey team’s first sweater. Castle lived in Lake Forest and founded the dog rescue group Orphans of the Storm with her friend Helen Swift. Stein said that the woman who popularized the Fox Trot and the Tango also main-streamed wearing a headband around her head after she bobbed her hair following surgery.

The accessory became known as the Castle band.

Lake Forest hosted a prince and a president, too. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) visited his former Ohio friend, Associated Press president and then-Lake Forest Mayor William Henry Smith in 1878. The Prince of Wales visited Lake Forest in 1924—before he was crowned king only to abdicate the title—as a guest of meat packing titan Louis Swift.

Lake Forest attracted top businessmen such as Swift, fellow meat-packing industrial-ist Philip Armour and other titans. Ebner said that citizens’ devotion to the town’s founding feature—distinctive landscape design—endures.

“Lake Forest took Forest Park , which was laid out by Almerin Hotchkiss and is adjacent to Lake Michigan, overlooking the lake, and refurbished it with public and private money,” Ebner said. “They cleared a lot of brush from the bluff. Now, you can see Lake Michigan for the first time in 100 years.”

As a result, Lake Forest’s squares, parks and green spaces are uniquely instilled with the aims and legacies of those who underwrite and use them.

Some of the first golf links were laid out by Charles Blair MacDonald in Lake Forest at a private property and the Far-wells’ son-in-law, Hobart Chat-field-Taylor brought golf to Lake Forest using seven tomato cans as holes on the Farwell property in 1892.

Or, consider the property owned by Albert Blake Dick, the late entrepreneur who invented the mimeograph and ran his AB Dick Company in town long after his innovation had revolu-tionized business procedures and logistics.

After Mr. Dick died, his son and widow donated the prop-erty to Lake Forest Hospital. The inventor’s house inspired the hospital’s architecture.

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original town

plan, there was

only one or

two entrances.

They wanted

to live and

be educated

in private,

so privacy

was always a

value.”

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BY JAKE JARVI

When you find yourself saying, “There should be a (blank),” and no

amount of Googling turns up that (blank), it’s a sign that you’ve discovered a gap in the market-place. When Rachel Cantor, a senior at North Shore Country Day in Winnetka, found herself having one such conversation with her friend Sophia Dawn, they started to lay out a way to turn that “should be” into a reality. That’s how The Dawtor was born.

“It’s important to be informed about the world around you,” Cantor says. “Most teenage girls don’t tend to read the newspaper. We talked about why that is. Why don’t these girls read the news? We came to this conclusion that

the language is not geared toward a teenage audience—it’s compli-cated. So we decided to create an online blog that posts current event summaries for teenage girls in a way that appeals to them through pop culture references, jokes, and easy to understand language.”

With headlines like “@thedeependofthepool…” for a story about the Puerto Rican government defaulting on a loan, or a story on Obama’s clean energy initiatives containing a sentence like “…announced a long range plan to kick carbon emis-sions a$$,” this is global news interpreted by teens and restruc-tured for a teenage audience. Some stories are broken up into a single paragraph, very geared toward the sound bite culture of

the internet. At the end of each story they link to the more tradi-tionally formatted news source from which they culled the story,

in case their teenage readers want to click through and try the other version. But most of their audi-ence will probably want to stick

with the site that calls a police shooting crazier than Lolla or Osheaga (two large-scale music festivals).

Cantor and Dawn originally met at a social entrepreneurship summer camp called Summer-fuel, a three-week program at Yale devoted to helping the develop the next generation of business innovators. In their desire to start a project together it was their mutual love of reading, writing, and staying informed that drove the development of The Dawtor. Cantor has spent most of her time of late rebranding The Dawtor from locating a site designer to finding the perfect fonts for the new version of the site they launched on November 1. Dawn, who lives in Manhattan, has taken on the task of managing their

growing base of teenage writers.“We knew that there are a lot

of talented teens and we want all of our writers to be teens,” Cantor says. “I’ve been emailing so many teachers and newspaper editors from different schools saying—This is what we’re all about and we would love to have some of your students write for us, let me know if anyone is interested. Or even summer programs like Cherubs (a summer journalism program) at Northwestern. What’s really cool about it is that we have a writing staff from Man-hattan, Atlanta, England, India, people who come from different backgrounds and places so we come to a greater understanding of topics.”

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WILMETTE – The proposed affordable housing development

that drew criticism from Wil-mette residents has been taken off the table. Housing Oppor-

tunity Development Corpora-tion (HODC) withdrew its planned unit development ap-plication for the development of 1925 Wilmette Avenue, on the site of the former American Legion Post.

“We have heard the concerns of the community and based on

issues raised we would like to take time to respond thought-fully and consider modifications to better meet the needs of Wil-mette families,” Richard Koenig, executive director of HODC, wrote in a letter to the village dated November 16. A copy of the letter is posted on the village website.

Koenig told Daily North Shore that he decided to start the process over to get more input from the community. After hearing residents concerns at the November 3 Plan Commission meeting, Koenig felt it would be more productive to have a dia-

logue with the community. HODC plans to hold a series of community outreach meetings to get a better sense for the type of development residents would like for that site.

“The goal is to go out and listen and get productive input and answer the questions that have been raised by residents,” Koenig said.

HODC’s first community outreach meeting is tentatively scheduled for December 1, with the location to be announced. “Let’s get started now while people are thinking about it,” Koenig said.

“It’s beautiful, striking … huge, big, prominent,” he adds. “The mural was the focal point of the restaurant. It was all you saw as soon as you entered the restaurant. My wait staff was well-versed in the history of the mural, always ready to talk about it, always pre-pared to answer questions about it. Horse people appreciated it. People posed for pictures in front of it.”

Jay Lovell was an artist in his pre-chef and pre-restaurateur years, a handler of palettes before heeding the call to sate palates. The Lake Forest resident produced paintings, some oil, some water-color. He dabbled in graphics. He sculpted. The chef formerly known as the artist recognized the pull of “The Steeds of Apollo” from the moment he welcomed his first diner at Lovells of Lake Forest.

Appreciated it, too.The restaurant closed in April.

The mural needed a new home.“I couldn’t take it home,” Jim

Lovell, 87, says, laughing.It now rests in the lobby of the

James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago. Jim Lovell donated it to the center. It was mounted in the time for the fifth anniversary of the facility, on Oct. 1. The mural continues to start instant conversations.

“It’s in a really good place,” says Jay Lovell, co-owner (with his wife, Darice), of Jay Lovell’s Fresh Homemade Seasonal restaurant in Highwood. “It will be there for many, many years. Forever, I hope.”

The mural’s backstory is a cap-tivating one, part serendipitous, part Hollywood. Jim Lovell and his Apollo 13 crew mates, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, were staying at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, in 1969, when they first got an eyeful of the mural. They asked Winter to create an insignia from the theme of “The Steeds of Apollo” artwork for their mission.

Embroidered along the top of the patch is “Apollo XIII”; “Ex Luna, Scientia” (Latin for, “From the

Moon, Knowledge”) is featured near the bottom of it.

The St. Regis Hotel was refur-

bished. The mural was removed. Decades later, in the 1990s, Jim Lovell happened to be looking at

an auction catalog. Up for sale, at an auction in Santa Monica, California: that St. Regis Hotel mural.

Lovell informed actor Tom Hanks, who knew all about the mural. Hanks had portrayed Lovell in Apollo 13, the movie, directed by Ron Howard, about the perilous journey around the moon. Hanks then had his wife, Rita Wilson, and her mother attend the auction. The women bought the mural.

Hanks, aware Lovell and his family were about to open a res-taurant in Lake Forest, had the mural shipped to an art warehouse in Chicago. Hanks contacted Lovell, unaware of what the actor had purchased and arranged. Lovell entered the art warehouse. There it was, a 20-by-8-foot gift, a familiar, spectacular sight for eyes belonging to the man who was the first person to fly in space four times.

The former astronaut was over the moon. On Earth.

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“The Force”

There’s a woman around here who has an unearthly talent for making good things

happen for her family, friends, and for you when you’re part of her plans.

You think of her as “The Girl With The Force.”

She makes you recall the Star Wars films, with their plot device known as “The Force,” a mystical power some people could tap into. The Jedi Master, Obi Wan, used it in his “mind trick.” He’d flip his hand in front of a hostile

guard and say “Let us pass.” The guard who wasn’t supposed to do this would say, “Pass!”

Okay, back to our planet, our North Shore. You and your wife want to go to a hot restaurant where it’s impossible to get a table. Girl-with-the Force and her husband are joining you, and she scores a reservation. It’s for the time you want, the day you want, even a table you like. How?

Or, you’re planning a trip and your hotel is booked solid. You mention this to Girl-with-the Force. Soon, not only do you have a room there, but it’s got a view.

And a discount! How? Girl-with-the Force is the

North Shore incarnation of a Jedi knight right out of Star Wars. But, again: how?

She smiles coyly, and explains she discovered long, long ago that seven magical words can wield special power. You figure there’s no way she’s going to reveal them. But Girl-with-the Force sur-prises you. And they’re so simple you wonder if there’s a really a force in play at all, or just common sense:

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LIGHT, HEALTHY, AND TASTYBY SIMON MURRAY

Two weeks ago, attendees in their evening best descended on the Four Seasons Hotel

Chicago for a $500-a-plate benefit dinner. Instead of veal shanks or prime rib however (aka the usual black-tie gala fare), benefit-goers were treated to a colorful plateful of vegetables, forbidden black rice, and to top it off, a miso-marinated black cod with Umami sauce.

Light fare. Clean food. A plate chock full of phytonutrients and Omega-3 fatty acids, or the equiv-alent of the necessary fuel the body needs. In other words, the benefit dinner for Northwestern Medi-cine’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine practiced (and served) what it preaches: a mixed diet that can lead to a long, heart-happy life.

“We recommend a colorful plate, a plate of many colors; color-ful fruits and vegetables,” said

Karen Malkin, an integrative health and lifestyle practitioner from Glencoe and one of two benefit co-chairs of the evening. “Because each color has a different health benefit for you.”

Malkin (along with co-chair Dr. Tara Demarco) designed the ben-efit’s health-conscious menu from Dr. Andrew Weil’s cookbook: True Food. Weil, the night’s keynote speaker, is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and a holistic health advocate, and is also the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine where Malkin studied.

Weil oversees a website (Dr.Weil.com) and the non-profit organization the Weil Foundation, with the goal of transforming healthcare. His newest foray is into the restaurant business, where the good doctor has opened a chain of restaurants under the name True Food Kitchen. (One will be coming to Chicago in 2016.) Its food is described as being “great-tasting, globally inspired cuisine that nour-ishes body, mind and spirit.”

But you don’t have to be a die-hard Yogi to dine at True Food Kitchen, just as the night’s attend-ees didn’t have to be die-hard ho-listic gurus to enjoy the fare and hor d’oeuvres.

“Every piece of food and also the drinks were thoughtfully created to really help promote health and reduce inflammation, so this is an anti-inflammatory

menu,” said Malkin. But it’s also about good tasting food as well. Purple eggplants; red, yellow and green peppers; sautéed mushrooms; and mixed berries for dessert. That’s not even mentioning the cocktails. “I call [them] ‘mocktails,’” laughed Malkin. Cardio-blast “pomatini” and Virgin Mary’s loaded with lycopene and vitamin C.

Of the 500 guests, each left with a copy of Weil’s new cookbook Fast Food, Good Food. But more than that, they left with something even more valuable. They left with the confidence that they were going to add more leafy greens to their diets, or maybe that they were going to add more turmeric—the ballpark yellow spice typically found in curry (and a powerful anti-inflam-matory agent)—to their food.

But above all, added Malkin, if they weren’t before, certainly they were “energized and empowered to make some changes in their own health and own life.”

“This signature True Food Kitchen preparation showcases one of my favorite fish: black cod. A sustainable deep-water species from Alaska, black cod is mild and buttery, with a higher omega-3 content than salmon. The dish … is a best seller at all of our locations, an attractive presentation that is rich and satisfying, yet clean and light at the same time.”

For more health-conscious recipes, visit karenmalkin.com/recipes or drweil.com/drw/ecs/common/recipe.

SERVES: 4

True Food Kitchen’s Miso Marinade (makes 1½ cups)• ½ cup mirin• ½ cup white (shiro) miso• ½ cup evaporated cane sugar

1. Whisk together all of the miso marinade ingredients and refrigerate until ready to use.

Miso-Marinated Black Cod and Vegetables • 4 (5- to 6-ounce) black cod

fillets• 1 cup Dashi

• 8 heads baby bok choy, halved• 1 cup roasted mushrooms

1. Arrange the fish in a single layer in a shallow baking pan. Using your hands, rub the miso marinade all over each piece of fish. Wash your hands. Let the fish marinate for at least 30 minutes and up to 12 hours in the refrigerator

2. Preheat the oven to broil.

3. Remove the fish the from the refrigerator and pour ½ cup of the Dashi into the baking pan.

Broil the fish for 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the desired doneness. The fish will continue to cook once removed from the boiler.

4. While the fish is cooking, place the bok choy halves in a skillet, and add the remaining ½ cup Dashi. Cover and steam over medium-high heat until cooked but still crunchy, about 3 minutes. Add the roasted mushrooms and heat them through. Place the vegetables and broth in heated bowls. Add the cod and serve.

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It seemed that before the Super-man cape had dried out from a rainy afternoon of Halloween

trick-or-treating, my family was watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

The story, produced for televi-

sion in 1973, is a predictable tale of how the Peanuts gang ends up spending the holiday to-gether in Charlie Brown’s back-yard. Comic relief comes from Snoopy’s preparation of the meal: buttered toast, popcorn

and jellybeans. After more than a few com-

plaints about the meal and a short retelling of the Pilgrim’s voyage on the Mayflower, it’s Peppermint Patty’s sidekick Marcie who reminds the gang of why they have gathered:

“Thanksgiving is more than eating, Chuck. You heard what Linus was saying out there. Those early Pilgrims were thank-ful for what had happened to them, and we should be thankful, too. We should just be thankful for being together.”

It’s a good reminder for us all, while we hustle to prepare the requested vegetable side dish and Christmas list of the children’s most wanted toys before our trek to celebrate Thanksgiving with our aunts, uncles and cousins. But science suggests I should squirrel Marcie’s advice away for the other 364 days of the year.

Scientists at the University of Georgia found that gratitude consistently predicts how happy we will be in our marriages. This conclusion was drawn from re-searchers’ questioning of 468 married people about their fi-nances, communication style and how grateful they felt toward their partner. It seems that saying “thank you” frequently demonstrates gratitude and ap-preciation that can protect couples from the damage caused in an argument.

“Even if a couple is experienc-ing distress and difficulty in other areas, gratitude in the re-lationship can help promote

positive marital outcomes,” said lead author Allen Barton, a post-doctoral research associate at the university’s Center for Family Research.

Added associate professor Ted Futris, “All couples have dis-agreements and argue. What distinguishes the marriages that last from those that don’t is not how often they argue, but how they argue and how they treat each other on a daily basis.”

And so I was ecstatic to learn that the kindergartners at one local elementary school are getting the same lesson that

these college professors are sharing with married adults: gratitude should be a daily prac-tice.

Assistant superintendent for Sunset Ride School District 29 Mary Frances Greene told me about the kindergartners’ Grat-itude Journals. Once or twice a week as part of their literacy education the children are en-couraged to write down what they are thankful for. They begin this exercise in the fall, when they learn about the Native Americans’ gratitude for our Earth.

The kindergartners’ journaling “usually starts with things like their toys, but gradually we talk

about and get them thinking about things they are thankful for which we can not buy and replace,” Greene explained. “It’s an opportunity for the children to develop the ability to think outside of themselves and their own needs, and slowly we see them all start sentences like ‘I am thankful for so-and-so because he is my friend.”

It’s a good lesson for the kin-dergartners, and for thirty-somethings like me, during this season of Thanksgiving.ntimate with their partner.

Tell me what about your mar-riage and spouse are you most thankful for, via email to [email protected].

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NORTHBROOK 847.272.9880

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WINNETKA 847.446.4000

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1171 Linden Ave, Highland Park $1,499,000Lori Dub 847-835-6000

940 Ash St, Winnetka $1,699,000Vicki Nelson 847-446-4000

505 Mawman Ave, Lake Bluff $829,000Kim Campbell 847-234-8000

470 Saddle Run, Lake Forest $2,599,000Jean Royster 847-234-8000

2090 Windy Hill Ln, Highland Park $899,900Maxine Goldberg 847-433-5400

806 Happ Rd, Northfield $1,650,000Marsha Balsamo 847-446-4000

456 Elder Ln, Winnetka $2,499,900Marina Britva 847-446-4000

547 N Mayflower Rd, Lake Forest $4,395,000Mary Pat Lundgren 847-234-8000

849 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka $995,000Jody Brott 847-835-6000

609 E Scranton Ave, Lake Bluff $1,025,000Michele Wilson 847-234-8000

2600 Kenilworth Ave, Wilmette $1,695,000The Skirving Team 847-446-4000

2541 Hybernia Dr, Highland Park $999,999Lida Zrecny 847-835-6000

503 Willow Rd, Winnetka $2,299,000Marina Britva 847-446-4000

65 Prospect Ave, Highland Park $3,775,000Julie Deutsch 847-835-6000

1168 Cherry St, Winnetka $949,000Tina Barr 847-446-4000

601 Mulberry Pl 1B, Highland Park $689,000Annette Blumberg 847-433-5400

1929 Clifton Ave, Highland Park $550,000Sonia Munwes Cohen 847-835-6000

1124 Foster St, Evanston $639,000Sharron Kelley 847-541-5000

391 Madison Ave, Glencoe $1,349,900Jody Dickstein 847-835-6000

314 Weatherford Ct, Lake Bluff $710,000Linda Rosenberg 847-234-8000

2175 Churchill Ln, Highland Park $1,795,000Linda Rosenberg 847-234-8000

781 Highland Pl, Highland Park $689,000Merle Kirsner-Styer 847-433-5400

777 Sheridan Rd, Highland Park $949,000Noah Levy 847-433-5400

2113 Glen Oak Dr, Northfield $580,000Cheryl O’Rourke 847-724-5800

968 Spruce St, Winnetka $635,000Beth Groebe 847-446-4000

150 Red Oak Ln, Highland Park $789,000Mara Hitchmough 847-835-6000

1140 Mount Vernon Ave, Lake Forest $729,000Mary Kay Brunner-Dasse 847-234-8000

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440 Frost Pl, Lake Forest $335,000Tom Glusic 847-234-8000

534 Michigan Ave, Highland Park $349,000Mara Hitchmough 847-835-6000

835 Judson Ave 210, Evanston $200,000Alan May 847-866-8200

439 Orchard Ln, Highland Park $1,100,000Debra Hymen 847-433-5400

1112 Elmwood Ave, Wilmette $1,070,000Bettye Raglin 847-446-4000

1055 Ringwood Rd, Lake Forest $1,130,000Linda Rosenberg 847-234-8000

1296 Golf Ave, Highland Park $449,000Michael Hope 847-433-5400

1323 Hiawatha Ct, Highland Park $325,000Alan Berlow 847-945-7100

183 Dickens Rd, Northfield $1,625,000Pamela McClamroch 847-446-4000

24 Scott Loop, Highland Park $1,499,000Marnie Beilin 847-272-9880

854 Bluff St, Glencoe $1,499,000Jody Dickstein 847-835-6000

450 Sunset Dr, Wilmette $495,000SFC Team 847-446-4000

807 Davis St 810, Evanston $300,000Pat Cogley-Anhalt 847-866-8200

609 Custer Ave B, Evanston $377,500Patricia DeNoyer 847-866-8200

52 Elm Ave, Highwood $369,000Carol DeGrazia Santi 847-433-5400

97 Linden Ave, Glencoe $449,000Janie Bress 847-835-6000

430 Ellridge Cir, Highland Park $519,900Allison Silver 847-433-5400

321 Graemere St, Northfield $524,900Linda Martin 847-446-4000

1823 Greenwood St, Evanston $300,000Raul Lopez 847-866-8200

324 Adams Ave, Glencoe $449,000Joan Field 847-433-5400

604 5th St, Wilmette $249,500Kathleen Tyrrell 847-256-7400

125 Highwood Ave, Highwood $330,000Carol DeGrazia Santi 847-433-5400

700 Laramie Ave, Wilmette $399,000Timothy Shaker 847-724-5800

1110 Monroe St, Evanston $395,000Barbara Kramer 847-866-8200

1826 Knollwood Rd, Lake Forest $421,500Patricia Furman 847-724-5800

131 Whistler Rd, Highland Park $449,500Oleg Trifonov 847-433-5400

308 Happ Rd 109, Northfield $295,000Nancy Savard 847-446-4000

523 Green Bay Rd, Highland Park $399,000Marcia Lyman 847-433-5400

1236 Chicago Ave 303, Evanston $240,000Patricia DeNoyer 847-866-8200

645 Lavergne Ave, Wilmette $379,000Joel Raynes 847-256-7400

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2090 Windy Hill Lane, Highland Park 1875 Edgewood Road, Highland Park

1287 Glencoe Avenue, Highland Park


“With sincere gratitude, Thank You ... to my loyal clients.”

One owner custom home on a cul-de-sac One owner custom home on a cul-de-sac

Under contract in 4 days

847.922.4815maxine.goldberg@cbexchange.comwww.maxinegoldberg.cbintouch.com

WHY PURCHASE A HOME IN LAKE FOREST/LAKE BLUFF?


NO COOK COUNTY TAXESOver 800 acres of open land under management with 6 nature preserves, and a vibrant environmental education programNew state-of-the-art hospital on a 160 acre campus integrating medical care with health and fitnessA 29 acre park along Lake Michigan with beach, boat launch, an award winning sailing facility and fishing pier and a dog beach in Lake BluffGorton Community Center and the brand new John and Nancy Hughes TheaterLake Forest College offers numerous community opportunitiesTwo commuter lines into Chicago30 minutes to O’Hare or 60 minutes to Mitchell Field/MilwaukeeLoads of shopping and dining optionsTwo public golf courses and 7 private clubsDickinson Hall - dedicated senior center with transportation and interesting programs Two top-notch recreation centers

Elawa Farms - a 16 acre restored gentlemen’s farm and garden providing unique hands-on experience, fresh produce and exciting classesRagsdale - a rare and ideal working environment for gifted artists from around the worldPublic high school enrollment is only 1690 studentsTwo private high school options/numerous primary choicesFull range of housing available - from studios to 21 acre estates, new construction and turn-of-the-century homes, great lot sizes or in-town (city-like) livingCommunity and social organizations galoreLAKE COUNTY TAXES - NOT COOK COUNTY

Marcia Rowley847-682-9100

[email protected]

Over $20,000,000 Under Contract in 2015

MAGNIFICENTLY RENOVATED IN PREMIER LOCATION

SALE PRICE: $1,299,000RENTAL PRICE: $6,900/MONTH


Extraordinary renovation of this magnificent sun-filled contemporary home incorporates the highest of finishes, flawless design, and requisite amenities in an open concept floor plan perfect for today’s lifestyle. Romantic and airy 1st Floor Master Suite includes marble surround fireplace, amazing walk-in closet, lux master bath with heated floors, and access to wraparound deck. Kitchen is beyond gourmet and incorporates commercial grade stainless appliances with cabinets lined in zebra wood, glass mosaic backsplash, abundant lighting, and stunning stainless countered island. 1st floor office Set on a very private 1+ acre lot in premier location this home is truly out of Architectural Digest. You will not be disappointed! 5 bedrooms, 4.1 baths.

JAMIE ROTH847.681.4170jamie.roth@cbexchange.comwww.jamieroth.cbintouch.com

1672 Ryders Lane, Highland Park

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estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage

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11 Pembroke Drive | Lake Forest, iL6 bedrooms, 5.2 baths | $2,950,000

A chip shot away to The Rec, Schools, and town from this fantastic 6 bedroom, 5 full and 2 half bath home on a private cul-de-sac. Recently renovated, this home features: a fabulous new kitchen adjacent to the family room with fireplace overlooking blue stone terraces and pool, a first floor master suite with new marble bath, nanny suite off the 3 car garage, and finished recreation room with putting green and outdoor access. Practice your golf swing all year round from the indoor driving range.

578 rosemary roaD | Lake Forest, iL46 bedrooms, 3.1 baths | $1,624,000

Dramatic one story contemporary on nature filled wooded acre located midway between downtown Lake Forest and the Lake. This exquisitely renovated home features; 2009 museum quality bird’s eye maple cabinetry and high end appliances, Brazilian teak decks, custom German steel stair railings and light fixtures, new interior doors and hardware, radiant heated tumbled marble floors, new epoxy garage floor, recently renovated lower level with above ground windows, new bath and kitchenette.

Brenner Hara

EXPERIENCE | HONESTY | COMMITMENT

SPECTACULAR ENGLISH COUNTRY HOME865 Kimball Road, Highland Park


Located in a prime East location on the original Kimball estate, this beautifully updated home features today’s amenities including; 5 bedrooms, 6.1 baths, an attached 3 car garage, and over 6,100 sqft. Offered at $2,200,000.

JAMI BRENNER & LAURA HARA847.338.7555 | 847.338.2661

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!


Beautifully Renovated Homeon gorgeous property near town, schools, train and more.

It’s Your Move!

560 Greenwood Avenue | Glencoe

Bedrooms 7 | Bathrooms 4.3$2,099,000 | 560Greenwood.info

6,000+ Square Feet of Stunning!

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2015 Results!

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accomplished with expertise, professionalism and

kindness. laurie is a hard worker--she goes the extra

mile to market one’s home. she is responsive and she

advocates for her clients. I highly recommend laurie as a

woman of intelligence and integrity.” -DHl 5/2015

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1008 W. Woodland Road

1808 Richfield Avenue

100 Green Bay Road

2901 Farner Court

931 Forestway Drive

860 Oak Drive

1808 Richfield Avenue

1169 Carol lane

534 Jackson Avenue

940 Valley Road

1251 Glencoe Avenue

833 Greenwood Avenue

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1031 Greenwood Avenue, Wilmette*

114 Garrison Avenue, Wilmette

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4232 Linden Tree Lane | Glenview

Bedrooms 4 | Bathrooms 3.1$529,900 | 4232LindenTree.info

Lushly Landscaped CommunityBarb [email protected]

NORTH SHORE LIVING AT ITS BEST!

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$1,895,000 6 Bedrooms | 5.1 Baths

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921 Oakwood Ave., Wilmette

1200 Sunset Road, Winnetka

$1,695,000 6 Bedrooms | 5.3 Baths

Open Sunday, Nov. 22nd from 2:30-4:30!

$1,349,000 5+ Bedrooms | 6.1 Baths

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1. 681 Edgecote LaneLAKE FORESTSunday 12-2PM$749,900Lisa Trace, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234 0485

2. 577 Greenway DriveLAKE FORESTSunday 2:15-4PM$1,149,000Lisa Trace, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485

3. 292 Sussex LaneLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3PM$989,000Cathy McKechney, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0816

4. 1311 Burr Oak RoadLAKE FORESTSunday, 2-4PM$637,000Linda Smith, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485

5. 1085 Windhaven CtLAKE FOREST Sunday 2-4$1,143,000Andra O’Neill, @properties847.295.0700

6. 1079 Jensen Dr.LAKE FORESTSunday, 12-2$1,475,000Elizabeth Rasmussen, Baird & Warner847.721.3481

7. 1451 Harlan Ln.LAKE FORESTSunday, 1-3$995,000Sally Goodman, Baird & Warner

847.219.0786

8. 575 Glenwood Rd.LAKE FORESTSunday, 1-3pm$550,000Paula Moss, Baird & Warner847.308.4085

9. 1230 North Western Ave. Unit 209LAKE FORESTSunday 11am-1pm$389,900Christopher Yore, Baird Warner847.804.2879

10. 495 S McCormickLAKE FORESTSunday 11-1$1,150,000Laura Henderson, Baird Warner708.997.7778

11. 327 S BasswoodLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3$1,099,000Laura Henderson, Baird & Warner708.997.7778

12. 568 GreenwayLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3$1,199,000Vera Purcell, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000 13. 555 BeverlyLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3$689,000Patricia Carter, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000 14. 130 WinstonLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3$449,000Patricia Carter, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000 15. 1490 S. West Fork DriveLAKE FORESTSunday 2-4$599,000Suzie Hempstead, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.910.8465 16. 834 Waveland RoadLAKE FORESTSunday 11-1$749,000Tracy Wurster Team, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.997.0730 17. 33 S. Sheridan RoadLAKE FORESTSunday 2-4$1,100,000Tracy Wurster Team, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff312.972.2515

18. 153 Ridge Lane

LAKE FORESTSunday 1-4$1,499,000

Kelly McInerney & Kiki Clark, Berkshire Hathaway

HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.804.0969

19. 991 AshleyLAKE FOREST

Sunday, 1 – 3pm$1,675,000

Eileen Campbell, Berkshire

Hathaway HomeServices

KoenigRubloff847.757.5181

20. 190 Leonard Wood SouthHIGHLAND PARKSunday 1-3PM$439,000Marie Colette, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0816

21. 432 Carol Court HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3 $447,500 Albiani/Ackerman, @properties 847.432.0700

22. 1327 Nyoda Place HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3 $268,888 Susan Ringel Segal, @properties 847.881.0200

23. 880 Apple Tree LaneHIGHLAND PARKSunday 1:30-3:30$485,000Janet Borden, Coldwell Banker 847.833.3171

24. 1929 Clifton Ave.HIGHLAND PARKSunday 12-2$550,000Sonia Cohen, Coldwell Banker847.337.6005 25. 150 Red Oak Ln.HIGHLAND PARKSunday 2-4$789,000Mada Hitchmough, Coldwell Banker847.732.2970

26. 424 Castlewood LaneDEERFIELDSunday 12-2$639,000Karen Skurie, Baird and Warner847.361.4687

27. 1973 KoehlingNORTHBROOKSunday 1-3$330,000Jeanne Keiler, Baird & Warner847.446.1855

28. 1181 Hillside Drive NORTHBROOK Sunday 1-3 $499,000 Susan Ringel and Gary Segal, @properties 847.881.0200

29. 560 Drexel Ave.GLENCOESunday, 12-2$525,000Hilde Wheeler Carter, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000

30. 338 Lincoln AvenueGLENCOESunday, 2 – 4pm$699,000Eileen Campbell, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.757.5181 31. 391 Madison Ave.GLENCOESunday 12-2$1,349,900Jody Dickstein, Coldwell Banker847.651.7100

32. 2021 Old WillowNORTHFIELDSunday 2-4$435,000Peg O'Halloran, Baird & Warner847.446.1855

33. 17 BristolNORTHFIELD

Sunday, 1 – 3pm$1,895,000

Betsy Burke, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff

847.565.4264

34. 433 LocustWINNETKASunday 12-2:30$1,550,000Peg O'Halloran, Baird & Warner847.446.1855

35. 680 LocustWINNETKA$1,795,000Sunday 2-4Kelly Lundin, The Hudson Company847.542.5648 36. 1437 AsburyWINNETKA$1,095,000Sunday 12-2Laura McCain, The Hudson Company847.347.4630 37. 120 BertlingWINNETKA$1,000,000Sunday 2-4Howard Meyers, The Hudson Company847.778.1394

38. 341 Woodland AveWINNETKASunday2-4$1,199,000The Skirving Team,Coldwell BankerPatti 847-924-4119/Greg 847-863-3614

39. 1310 Forest Glen Drive WINNETKA Sunday 1-3 $1,499,000 Mary Grant, @properties 847.881.0200

40. 1067 Cherry Street WINNETKA Sunday 11-1 $965,000 Kate Huff, @properties 847.881.0200 42. 1200 Sunset Rd.WINNETKA Sunday, 2:30-4:30$1,695,000SFC Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 43. 940 Ash St. WINNETKASunday, 2:30-4:30$1,699,000Vicki Nelson, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 44. 808 Lincoln Ave.WINNETKASunday, 12-2$1,324,000Claudia Gaynor, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 45. 1168 Cherry St.WINNETKASunday, 1-3$949,000Tina Barr, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 46. 1099 Merrill St. #2WINNETKASunday, 2:30-4$115,000Hilde Wheeler Carter, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000

47. 876 Foxdale Ave.WINNETKASunday 1-3$892,500Andrea Krinsky, Coldwell Banker847.651.6550

48. 443 ChestnutWINNETKASunday 12-2$1,795,000Sarah Dwyer, Jean Wright Real Estate847.727.4619

49. 360 Green Bay Road, Unit 2BWINNETKASunday 12-2$719,000Dinny Dwyer, Jean Wright Real Estate847.217.5146

50. 631 Park Drive KENILWORTH Sunday 12-2 $799,000 Barbara Mawicke, @properties 847.881.0200

51. 704 Roger Avenue KENILWORTH Sunday 12-2 $799,000 Barbara Mawicke, @properties 847.881.0200

52. 555 Earlston Road KENILWORTH Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,295,000 Barbara Mawicke, @properties 847.881.0200

53. 650 ParkKENILWORTHSunday, 12 – 1:30pm$930,000Sherry Molitor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.204.6282

54. 700 Laramie Avenue GLENVIEWSunday 1-3 $750,000 Lyn Flannery, @properties 847.881.0200

55. 2822 BirchwoodWILMETTESunday 12-2$1,299,900Alicja Skibicki, Baird & Warner847.446.1855

56. 342 Greenleaf Avenue WILMETTE Sunday 12-1:30 $1,349,000 Ginger Cavalier, @properties 847.763.0200

57. 617 Hunter Road WILMETTE Sunday 1-3 $1,250,000 Susan Ringel Segal, @properties 847.881.0200

58. 1518 Forest Avenue WILMETTE Sunday 2-4 $1,579,000 Kate Huff, @properties 847.881.0200

59. 921 Oakwood Ave.WILMETTESunday, 12-2$1,895,000SFC Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 60. 1112 Elmwood Ave.WILMETTESunday, 1-3$1,070,000Bettye Raglin, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000

61. 1947 GreenwoodWILMETTESunday, 2 – 4pm$1,225,000Sherry Molitor and Sandy Clifton, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.204.6282 and 847.212.3981

62. 2936 Central AvenueWILMETTESunday 2-3:30$399,000Eugene Shin, Coldwell Banker 312.848.6543


REAL ESTATE

HOUSES OF THE WEEK

$1,143,0001085 Windhaven Court Lake Forest4 Bedrooms, 3.1 BathroomsExclusively Presented By: Andra O’Neill@properties(847) [email protected]

Newly renovated, this light-filled Arbor Ridge home has it all! New white kitchen, custom cabi-netry, two dishwashers, quartzite counters and generous eating area. Additional highlights include an open floor plan, wainscoting, arched dining room opening, bay window and hardwood floors throughout. Finished basement with recreation room and lots of storage. Close to town, train, school and park.

$849,00053 Holabird Circle Highwood4 Bedrooms / 4 1/2 BathsExclusively Presented By: Anne Siegel & Rebecca Gilberg, Baird & WarnerAnne: 312.259.0925, Rebecca: [email protected], [email protected]

Great home, open floor layout, spacious bedrooms and a 3.5 car attached garage. Large kitchen & family room. Kitchen has lots of storage including two pantry closets. Each bedroom has walk-in closets and easy access to an updated bath (Bedroom #2 has an en suite bathroom). Huge master suite, his/her walk in closets and luxurious bath. Upstairs loft space. First floor laundry has NEW washer/dryer plus convenient mudroom leading to garage. A backyard deck that houses a hot tub!

$2,095,00053 N. Green Bay RoadLake Forest5 Beds/ 5.1 BathsExclusively Presented by: Diane McGuire/ Elizabeth Wieneke, Griffith, Grant & Lackie847. 234.0485 [email protected]

Sophisticated & comfortable home close to town and train. Lovely gardens. Lovely entrance with circular staircase in the foyer. First floor Master Suite. Wood paneled library/office. Beautiful Burmeister kitchen with crystal chandeliers and heated stone floors. French doors in the living room, family room and kitchen leading to large wooden deck and blue-stone patio. 10' ceilings. Second floor au pair suite. All baths with heated stone floors. Fully finished basement with wine cellar and full bath.

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1916 Washington AvenueWilmette

5 Bedrooms / 6 Bathrooms

$1,495,000

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Luxury in McKenzie with a walk out basement. Award-

winning builder brings another gem with fantastic

layout. New construction with an option for first floor

guest suite. Wet bar in walk out basement. Master

suite has private balcony full width of house. Walk to

train, town, McKenzie School and Highcrest Jr. High.

Eye bag removal with no visible incision is just one of the cosmetic procedures performed at the skillful hand of Dr. Anthony Geroulis. Dr. Geroulis is an artistic/sculptor and thus considers each patient’s face an art form.

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For Loyola Academy’s Thomas Smart, this was like stretching a routine single into a double.

Without the head-first slide.His snazzy double move caught

everybody in the stadium off guard — especially the Homewood-Flossmoor defensive backfield.

Smart, who doubles as a highly touted baseball player, wound up being totally uncovered in the left corner of the end zone for an 18-yard score with 33 seconds left in the first half.

After the game, the LA senior wideout, who has developed into quite the home-run hitter on the gridiron (11 TD catches), came clean. He touched them all.

Including this:He said the play was an ad lib. Drawn up on the fly.And what did LA offensive

coordinator Tyler Vradenburg say about it? Don’t look at me.

“You’ll have to talk to No. 2 [LA quarterback Emmett Clifford] about that,” said the LA assistant, following the Ramblers thrilling 34-28 come-from-behind victory over visiting Homewood-Floss-moor in a Class 8A state quarter-final matchup on Nov. 14.

The senior QB, winner of the 2015 Chicago Catholic League Blue Division Lawless Award (Player of the Year), drew it up. He went rogue, if you will. He went outside the playbook.

“He called it the whole way,” Vradenburg added. ““I trust Emmett explicitly. He’s as much of a film rat as I am. He’s as a smart as they come.”

Smart, who plays third for the LA baseball team, was very com-plicit in this impromptu play. He made that double move like he was turning two from the hot corner.

It was slick — with a trace of tomfoolery.

H-F’s defensive backs should sue for mal-football-practice.

Smart was not the only one to sell the play. The play’s inventor, Clifford, was Second City acting class brilliant, when he dipped his right shoulder and faked a short pass to Smart.

“Emmett thought they might try and jump the route,” Vraden-burg said.

They jumped the route.Moments later, Clifford floated

a perfect touch pass to his ex-tremely wide-open wideout.

“They were playing very aggres-sively,” said Clifford, who now has completed 156 of 222 passes (70 percent) for 2,161 yards and 31 touchdowns. “It worked out.”

Scoring just before halftime and cutting the lead to 14-12 proved to be critical for LA. More magic from Clifford, Smart and a ton of their teammates proved necessary to keep the Ramblers’ unbeaten record (12-0) intact and advance them to a state semifinal game against host Palatine (10-2) on Nov. 21 (5 p.m.).

LA came up with its most prized possession of the season in the fourth quarter. Trailing 21-19 with after three periods, the Ram-blers put together a 19-play,

97-yard scoring drive. Clifford capped the series by rolling out to his right and flipping a short pass to running back Jack Loper for a 10-yard touchdown with 4:57 left to play.

“We just kept pounding and pounding,” said Vradenburg. “And the kids kept making plays.”

“It was a character-building drive. Unbelievable,” said LA head coach John Holecek. “When we got the ball, I told Tyler (Vraden-burg), ‘How about a 12-minute drive?’ ’’

Close enough. The series lasted seven minutes and one second. The key plays included a couple of QB scrambles by Clifford and a couple of first-down receptions (13 and 27 yards) by Smart.

“That was the most adversity that we’ve had to face this year,” said Smart, who now has a team-

high 47 catches for 639 yards. “We trust one another. We believe in one another.”

Smart, who was named to the all-conference team a few weeks ago, finished the game with six catches for 81 yards. He had missed the two previous state playoff games with a concussion.

“In Thursday’s practice, he had two or three drops in our two-minute drill,” said Holecek. “But today, he returned to his old form.”

With his wide and high catch radius and sure hands, Holecek thought that Smart — 3 catches, 32 yards during the 2014 season — would have a breakout senior season.

“He’s so gifted,” the coach said. “So physically talented.”

Smart has earned the trust of his quarterback.

“He runs crisp routes, and he

can go up and get it,” said Clifford. “He’s a special receiver.”

Vradenburg is sold on No. 86.“I know he’s a baseball guy,” said

the LA assistant. “Baseball is his first love. That’s his passion.”

But Smart has managed to transfer at least part of that passion to football.

“He’s so unassuming and quiet. I can’t get anything [words, sen-tences, or paragraphs] out of him,” Vradenburg added. “But I also know that he likes to shine in the moment. He’s a big-play guy.”

Notable: In its first 11 games this season, Loyola had done something truly remarkable. The Ramblers never trailed. But that streak ended when the Vikings (10-2) went up 7-6 with 5:52 left in the second quarter. In fact, H-F held a 21-12 advantage early in the third quarter.

… “That team has so many home-run hitters. There’s so much talent over there. I knew it was going to take a lot to win this game. I thought it would be a nail-biter,” said LA head coach John Holecek. … LA’s defensive secondary — Bobby Desherow, Sam Taylor, Joey Zitella and Ian Swenson — may have a lost a few battles but it ulti-mately got the job done against 6-foot-2 Kendrick Pryor (9 catches, 169 yards), who has been recruited by the University of Wisconsin. … One of the plays of the day for H-F came later in the third quarter, when Prior caught a 51-yard pass on 2nd-and-41 at the H-F 30-yard line. … LA cornerback Sam Taylor made a play which shouldn’t be forgotten. On the first snap of the fourth quarter, H-F had fourth-and-two at the LA two-yard line. Pryor was targeted by Gray, and he just missed hauling in a leaping pass deep in the end zone. Taylor pushed him out of bounds, and the pass was ruled incomplete. ... LA also ben-efitted from a sack attack. After taking a 27-21 lead with 4:52 left to play, LA’s defensive unit turned up the heat. On consecutive plays, Frank Doherty and Jack Hough shot through and recorded 12-yard sacks. Then, on a fourth-and-32 at the H-F 18, Desherow broke up a long pass intended for Pryor. … LA senior running back Dara Laja was his productive self. He carried the ball 30 times for 144 yards. His six-yard TD run with 1:22 left to play sealed the win. He now has 1,465 rushing yards on the season… This was a comeback game for senior running back Jack Loper (8 carries, 29 yards). He had been sidelined with a left forearm injury, which he sustained in the second game of the season. … Clifford threw for 159 yards (16-23-1) and added 53 rushing yards, including an eight-yard TD run in the second quarter. … LA’s tackle leaders were Graham Repp (9), Anthony Romano (8), Hough (6) and Doherty (5). Doherty had two sacks and one tackle for loss. Desherow also had a sack, while John Shannon had a fumble recovery. … Palatine advanced to the state semifinal after rallying late to beat visiting Marist 28-24 on Nov. 14.

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PLAYING IT SMART Innovative Ramblers take down highly skilled H-F in state quarterfinal

NO DOUBT ABOUT IT: Thomas Smart of the Ramblers hauls in an 18-yard touchdown pass just before halftime. He had six catches for 81 yards in the LA’s state quarterfinal win over Homewood-Flossmoor. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.

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Julia Green swims yards, serious yards, for the New Trier swimming and diving

team. Lots and lots of yards. The 5-foot-8 senior, at last weekend’s Glenbrook North Sectional, qualified to compete in the 200-yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle relay and 400-yard free style relay events at this weekend’s state meet in the home water.

Goldfish live in bowls. Green lives in pools, her address 25 N. Any Lane half the time, 25 S. Any Lane the other half.

“Distance swimmers, we joke, don’t choose to be distance swim-mers,” Green says. “Coaches chose us to be distance swimmers.”

Green, though, does not mind the challenges of her watery work-load. She actually relishes them, dives right in, with vigor, with desire. Distance swimming runs in the family. Her mother, Marcia Cleveland, swam the English Channel in 1990. The English Channel is 19 nautical miles, or 38,000 yards, super serious yards. Her father, Mark Green, prefers to do the distance thing on land, having completed the Chicago Marathon in October.

“My dad’s job, when it comes to my swimming,” Julia, starting to laugh, says, “is to hold the towel for me. He came up with that job; I didn’t.”

Julia Green did yeoman’s service in lanes for her crew of Trevians at the Glenbrook North Sectional in Northbrook last weekend, touching second in the 200 free (1:52.2) and second in the 500 free (5:05.97) and helping a pair of relays (200 free, 400 free) set pool records on Nov. 14. Four swims, four state-qualifying efforts. Her time in the 200 free ranks eighth among all state qualifiers in the event.

“When I was young [in the fifth and sixth grades] I wasn’t afraid to go out, swim hard and hold on. That’s why my club coach [Rick Peterson, then with New Trier Swim Club] placed me in

an endurance lane. I have the will, the fight in me, to swim dis-tances. I find myself thinking, often, I can do this, during a race. I find that extra gear.”

All kinds of folks, distance people and spring specialists and everybody in between, envy Green’s grit. They also appreciate it, admire it.

“She’s a great competitor,” New Trier swim coach Mac Guy says of Green, the reigning Central Suburban League South Meet champion in the 200 free and 500 free. “She competes all the time, loves to compete, puts the yards in year-round. It comes naturally

to her, being competitive; it gives her excitement. And Julia has always been a really tough kid, with a strong moral compass.”

New Trier won a fourth straight state championship in 2013, Green’s sophomore season. Green placed 11th in the 200 free back then, going 1:52.97. She had also qualified in the 100 backstroke. She anchored last year’s seventh-place 400 free relay (3:29.7) and competed in the 200 free and 500 free events at state.

“She’s always pushing herself at every practice, at every meet,” Trevians senior Emily George, a breaststroker and reliable relay

member, says. “Julia is easy-going out of the pool, always positive, and she can be a little sarcastic, a good thing. Her work ethic … that’s up there. Every time she swims the 500, I’m impressed. She’s always strong in the 500, smoking in a lane, flying.”

Green intends to swim and rack up countless more yards at the next level, either at Williams College in Massachusetts or at Kenyon College in Ohio. Kenyon won 17 straight NCAA Division III championships from 1984-2000 and six more between 2002-09. Kenyon is located in cozy Gambier, the town’s population

slightly higher than the number of NCAA swimming and diving trophies in the college’s posses-sion. Biology, education and psy-chology interest Green. Liberal arts institutions attract teens like Green, the consummate student-athlete. Green loves working with kids and reading books, A Man Called Ove (by Fredrik Backman) high on her current Recom-mended Reading list. Her role models for life are her parents. Her friends mean the world to her.

“I see her in two lights, one in the pool, the other out of the pool,” Sarah Axon, a New Trier

JV swim coach, says. “She’s kind, determined, a little spicy, and she’s curious, with a strong personality. Julia is a good leader, a good team-mate, and she’s been really good with our JV swimmers, helpful and supportive.”

Notable: New Trier advanced 13 entrants to this weekend’s state meet in the home natatorium, including the two individual berths (200 free, 500 free) earned by Green at last weekend’s Glen-brook North Sectional, won by Loyola Academy (268 points); NT (261.5 points) finished run-ner-up on Nov. 14. Green, Sophia Girgenti, Olivia Lantry and Lydia O’Connell combined for a pool-record time of 1:36.13 in the 200 free relay; Green anchored the victorious 400 free relay (pool-record 3:29.35, with Girgenti, O’Connell and Vivian Wu); the 200 medley unit of Girgenti, O’Connell, Kathryn Tao and Emily George finished runner-up in a state-qualifying 1:45.16. NT freshman Jessie Creed was dom-inant again off the boards, over-whelming the diving field with a state-best point total of 548.7. NT senior diver Sophie Conley (third place, 485.9 points) also advanced to state. NT’s other state-qualify-ing swims: George (second-place tie, 100 breaststroke, 1:04.63); Sara Nicholas (second-place tie, 100 breaststroke, 1:04.63); Wu (second place, 200 IM, 2:09.58); O’Connell (second place, 50 free, 23.88); Girgenti (second place, 100 free, 52.07); and Kami Gro-chowski (second place, 200 free, 1:55.14). … NT’s Bruce Kimball was named Glenbrook North Sectional Diving Coach of the Year. … NT’s sectional time in the 400 free relay (3.29.35) ranks third among all state qualifiers in the event. … Trevians coach Mac Guy, on his young group of Trev-ians before the start of the Glen-brook North Sectional : “It’s a great group, a lot of fun. They all like to soak up the moments at big meets.”

BY BILL MCLEAN, [email protected]

GREEN MEANS GO — THE DISTANCE New Trier’s Green embraces the challenges of lengthy races

WAVE LENGTHS: Julia Green of the Trevians races to a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle at the Glenbrook North Sectional. She also took runner-up honors in the 500 free. PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HANDWERKER.

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Sam Lask got out of a pool last weekend, having raced in the 100-yard breaststroke

at the Glenbrook North sec-tional swim meet, her final race at her final prep swim meet. The Highland Park High School senior had roiled water in Lane 2, an outside assignment.

Lask’s ninth-place time of 1:08.24 in the event wasn’t just significantly faster than her seed time of 1:11.48 on Nov. 14. It was also a school-record time. The swimmer, dripping and elated, had become a walker on a pool deck in Northbrook, as thrilled team-mates and coaches approached her and surrounded her and con-gratulated her in the noisy nata-torium. Lask then walked out of the pool area and entered a hallway, noise abating with each step. She spotted her parents, Andy and Amy. The smiling parents and the smiling swimmer/walker hugged in the hallway.

“Not a word had to be said during that hug,” Lask, back on deck, recalled a few minutes later.

A toe dip did not lead to Lask’s maiden voyage as a competitive swimmer. A doctor, several years ago, urged Lask to give the sport a try. Lask was about to become a freshman at the time. Lask had also just been diagnosed with scoliosis (curvature of the spine). She went out for swimming her freshman year. Enjoyed it, loved it. She underwent back surgery after her first swimming season and swam for three more HP teams from 2013-15, the last

squad winning the Central Sub-urban League North Meet for the first time in program history. Doctor knew best.

“It really shaped my work ethic,” a genuinely grateful Lask, looking to focus on a pre-med track at a big college, said of swim-ming, the sport. “It taught me all about teamwork, about leadership, about dedication. I’m a better student, a better friend, because of swimming. I’m going to miss this sport. I’m going to miss these girls, my teammates.”

Lask and three of her team-mates — junior Julia Solem, sophomore Ari Cole and fresh-man Sydney Tran — combined for a school-record time of 1:52.98 (seventh place) in the 200 medley relay at last weekend’s sectional. Highland Park’s other two relays also set school marks on Nov. 14, the 200 freestyle unit clocking a 1:42.20 (ninth place), the 400 free crew members collaborating for a 3:42.68 (eighth place).

Tran, Ari Cole, senior Sophie Livney and freshman Abby Smith

swam 200-free legs; Tran, Smith, Ari Cole and sophomore Noa Cole swam 400-free legs.

“Proud, so proud,” Giants coach AJ Block said of her entire con-tingent near the end of the sec-tional. “Everybody is going faster. Kids are seeing their dream times. Amazing; they’re amazing me. We did visualization exercises all season … mental race rehearsals. They imagined their starts, their strokes, their turns, the time they wanted to see on the scoreboard after a race. I told them, ‘Tell your

brain to tell your body to do some-thing special.’ Pain is inevitable in this sport. You have to embrace the pain. If you do well, perform well in a race, guess what? You’ll never remember the pain.”

The 500 free is a painful event. It was one of Highland Park senior Natalie Gelberg’s events this fall. She had entered the sec-tional with a seed time of 5:34.67 and a personal-best time of 5:28 in the event. She left the sec-tional with a better personal-best time, with a dream time: 5:25.64

(13th place).“It helps, visualization,”

Gelberg, interested in continuing to swim at one of three colleges (Carthage, UW-La Crosse or Ithaca), said. “We usually did it before practices. Coach [Block, a highly successful masters swimmer] liked telling us what she learned from her [masters] coach. She knows so much about the sport, and she loves passing along that knowledge to her swimmers. She’s a great coach, a great motivator.”

Jonathan Roby, a 2010 Glen-brook North graduate, coaches the Giants’ divers. He watched HP senior Avery Spitz qualify for state for a second straight year on Nov. 14. Spitz placed sixth (406.45 points) to earn the program’s lone state berth last weekend. The highlight of her final sectional meet was her fifth dive, a reverse-1 ½ (degree of difficulty: 2.1).

“We’d been working hard on that one all year,” Roby said. “She got super high on that dive, smoked it … got a lot of 7.5s. Outstanding. She was ecstatic [after resurfacing], crazy happy.”

Senior Emma Gelberg, Nata-lie’s twin, placed 13th in the 100 backstroke (1:02.55), nearly four seconds faster than her seed time, and Giants freshman Holland Morris finished 16th in the 500 free (5:30.02), bettering her seed time by more than 11 seconds in the watery marathon.

HP tied Hersey for eighth place (57 points) at the 13-team sec-tional.

HAVING A LASK-ING EFFECT Highland Park swimmer caps career in record-setting fashion


Sam Lask of the Giants drives to the finish line in the 100 breaststroke at the Glenbrook North Sectional. The senior set a school record in the event. She also was a member of the 200 medley relay which set a school record. PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HANDWERKER.

Each climbed a starter block after the diving segment and after races, a necessary

act, in order to receive a medal for diving or swimming well and qualifying for this weekend’s state meet at New Trier. Lake Forest High School Scouts as-cended, ascended and ascended some more at the Vernon Hills Sectional last weekend.

LFHS entrants mountain-topped the field, winning eight of 12 events and totaling 380

points to easily win the sec-tional title on Nov. 14. Runner-up Libertyville finished with 253 points.

Scouts senior Reilly Lanigan and junior Daria Pyshnenko each won two events and swam on a pair of victorious relays (200- and 400-yard freestyle). Lanigan, a University of Notre Dame recruit, touched first in the 200 free (1:49.17) and in the 500 free (4:50.84), each time ranking first among state qualifiers — from

all 16 sectional meets — in each event. Pyshnenko won the 50 free (22.69) and 100 free (50.91) races; nobody in Illinois swam a faster 50 free than she did last weekend.

Lake Forest senior Carmen White earned a meet-best 481 points in the diving segment, and junior teammate Josephine Annin sped to first place in the 100 butterfly (57.07).

The Scouts’ other state-quali-fying efforts: junior Madeline

Smith (50 free, 100 free, 200 free relay, 400 free relay); senior Haley Nelson (100 backstroke, 200 medley relay); junior Olivia Lomax (all three relays); senior Anika Boyd (diving); junior Ella Needler (200 IM, 100 back); Annin (200 medley relay); and junior Kayla Smith (200 medley relay).

The 400 free relay of Pysh-nenko, Madeline Smith, Lomax and Lanigan clocked a 3:29.26, second only to the time (3:26.68)

a Fenwick unit recorded at another sectional on Nov. 14. Madeline Smith ranks fifth among all state qualifiers in the 100 free (51.24) and sixth in the 50 free (23.6).

Scouts junior Ana Kahout qualified for state in all four Athletes with Disabilities events: 200 free, 50 free, 100 free and 100 breast.

LFHS, the reigning NSC Meet champion, placed fourth at state last year.

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Hamilton qualified for state in the 100 fly and in the 50 free for the second year in a row at the Vernon Hills Sec-tional last weekend. She fin-ished third in 100 fly (58.38) and sixth in the 50 free (24.39).

The state meet at New Trier starts on Nov. 20. Diving pre-liminaries begin at 9 a.m., swim prelims at 3:30 p.m.


Scouts finish in high standing at Vernon Hills Sectional

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It is the day after the 2014 girls state swimming and diving meet, at Loyola Academy diver

Katie Rourke’s house in Glen-view. Rourke and many of her LA teammates are gathered at a table in the morning, some having slept for hours at the sleep-over, some having napped for minutes. They are at the table to eat breakfast, laugh, relive what happened the day before in a natatorium in Evanston and gladly deal with goose bumps all over again.

In the middle of the table sits a trophy, their trophy, the table’s temporary centerpiece. Eggs, toast, juice, muffins, fruit, first-place prize. Yummy. Claire Voss, then a Loyola Academy junior and partly responsible for the presence of the hardware signify-ing the program’s first state cham-pionship, is there, utensils in hands, eyes on the prize. She had swum the breaststroke leg of the Ramblers’ fifth-place 200-yard medley relay team.

It is Nov. 12, a couple of days before a 2015 sectional swimming and diving meet, nearly a year later. Voss, now a 5-foot-10 senior, stands on her school’s pool deck, minutes removed from the end of a practice. She relives the final race of the 2014 state meet, the 400 freestyle relay, when four of her teammates only had to complete the event without getting disqualified. Do that and the Ramblers would get to exit as state champions.

Maria Kyle (Class of ’16), Ella Tierney (Class of ’17), Olivia Andrew (Class of ’17) and Grace Tierney (Class of ’15) won it instead, in an aggressive, scintil-lating time of 3:27.05.

Voss smiles.Voss shivers.Dang those goose bumps.“I’m getting them again,” Voss,

a captain, admits.Voss is the breaststroke leg on

the Ramblers’ 200 medley relay. Again. For the third year in row. Voss is the Ramblers’ top 100-yard breaststroker. Again. She finished 26th in the event at state a year ago, with a time of 1:07.08. At the Glenbrook North Sec-tional last weekend, she went 1:04.31, a personal-best time, a first-place time. Her time ranks eighth among all state qualifiers

in the event.“Great leader, great teammate,

talented athlete,” Ramblers swim coach Mike Hengelmann says of Voss, also a top-notch water polo player, set to earn her fourth varsity letter in the sport next spring. “And she’s a gamer. Her breakout season was her sopho-more season, and now she’s having her best season. She’s stronger this year.

“Claire,” the coach adds, “is a fun kid, with a great sense of humor. She’s also genuine, very genuine, the kind of kid you’d want to coach forever.”

Voss lives in Wrigleyville, her home neighborhood since birth. Hengelmann, no kidding, used to live three blocks from the Voss

house. One of Voss’ favorite ac-tivities is to bike, either before church or after church on Sundays, to Shedd Aquarium on Lake Shore Drive with one of her younger sisters, Lauren. They pedal atop the Lakefront Trail.

“It’s beautiful,” Voss says of the trail’s eye candy, or Chicago’s magnificent skyline.

She will be surrounded by more beauty, several states away, beginning in the fall of 2016. Voss committed to swim for the women’s program at San Diego State University. Oddly, and im-pressively, Voss, the reigning Metro Catholic Athletic Confer-ence champion in the 100 breast-stroke, has never trained with a swim club in an offseason. She

swims for her school in the fall. She plays water polo for her school in the spring.

“That shows you, that’s proof, how naturally talented Claire is as a swimmer,” Ramblers sopho-more Cassidy Coughlin, primar-ily a sprint freestyler, says. “She’s also one of the hardest workers I know. Her times [in the 100 breaststroke] … insane.”

Her barks at practices … timely. Voss likes to lighten things up in the home natatorium on occasion, busting the silence and monotony of a hard set with a piercing “Arf!” It startles some, the sound of a lone dog in a kennel suddenly reverbing from the deep end of the pool to the shallow end. It cracks up others.

It’s Voss’ rallying yip, always Voss’. She unleashed her very first “Arf!” during a water polo practice last spring.

“It makes a lot of us smile and laugh,” Coughlin says. “Claire is always smiling, always happy, always positive, no matter what is going on. She connects well with the younger swimmers. When I was a freshman, she was the first person to talk to me. She made me feel comfortable, right away. She was welcoming, involv-ing, inviting.”

Voss’ mom, Sue, grew up in Ohio and swam from the ages of four to 18. She gave diving a try. Claire Voss gave diving a try in the sixth grade. Her father, Peter, struck winners on tennis courts

for York High School in Elm-hurst.

“My mom,” Claire says, “thinks I’m going to swim and play water polo in college. I’ll swim, for sure, and maybe major in biology or psychology.”

Voss, not too long ago, was sitting in a math class at Loyola Academy when it hit her, “it” being the last handful of laps in her prep swim career. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick …

“Two more meets left [now one more, the state meet],” she says. “Only two. My heart … it was beating so fast.”

LA’s swims, at the Glenbrook North Sectional, on Nov. 14: fast. Andrew was brilliant, setting a pool record with her 1:54.11 in the 200 free and topping the field in the 100 free (52.0). She also swam on a pair of runner-up relays (200 and 400 free). Ella Tierney demolished the pool mark in the 500 free, touching in 5:01.56, more than eight seconds faster than the old mark. Ram-blers sophomore Shannon Kearney established another pool record in the 100 back (57.21).

“What a day,” Hengelmann, named a sectional Coach of the Year for a second time, said after his Ramblers edged New Trier’s Trevians 268-261.5 for their second straight sectional title — and second in program history — and advanced a robust 17 entrants to this weekend’s state meet at New Trier. “I’m really proud. The girls scrapped, swam way under state cuts.”

Notable: Loyola Academy’s other state-qualifying efforts: Maria Kyle (100 fly, 57.68); Margaret Guanci (100 back, 58.13; 100 fly, 52.44); Ella Tierney (200 free, 1:52.29); Cassidy Coughlin (50 free, 24.09); Sofia Vargas (500 free, 5:09.48; 100 fly, 58.11); Emily Rourke (diving, 394.3 points); Elinor Arndt (diving, 383.35 points); 200 medley relay (1:46.5; Shannon Kearney, Claire Voss, Kyle, Coughlin); 200 free relay (1:36.22; Olivia Andrew, Coughlin, Kyle, Tierney); and 400 free relay (3:31.56; Kyle, Andrew, Guanci, Tierney). … Andrew ranks fourth among all state qualifiers in the 200 free (1:51.65).


CAPTAIN COOL Voss commands attention as Loyola claims second straight sectional crown

Claire Voss of the Ramblers heads to victory in the 100 breaststroke at the Glenbrook North Sectional. The senior trimmed nearly three seconds off her seed time. PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HANDWERKER.

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Two minutes, exactly two minutes, remained in a Class 3A regional soccer semifinal

match in Highland Park last month. Barrington High School’s Broncos, seeded second, hadn’t scored. Highland Park High School’s Giants, seeded 15th, hadn’t scored.

Ethan Ochoa launched himself, his head nearing a descending ball in front of the Broncos’ goal-keeper at Wolters Field. Head met ball. Ball entered goal. Ochoa, a Highland Park junior midfielder, had just become the first Giant to score via a header in 2015.

Ochoa sprinted toward the Giants’ ecstatic, pulsating fans and slid on his knees, his arms raised above his goal-mouth-wide smile.

Nobody else scored on that day, Oct. 20. HP eliminated 10th-seeded Stevenson 2-1 in a re-gional championship match four days later. The Giants’ memorable postseason run of tripping higher seeds finally ended on a pitch at Stevenson. Eventual state cham-pion Libertyville High School, seeded third, beat Highland Park 3-1 on Oct. 28 and improved its record to 15-3-1. The best seven-win soccer team (7-11-5, to be exact) in the state had to be High-land Park’s, hands down, feet down.

“I knew we had amazing po-tential,” Ochoa, a second-year varsity member, says. “We just didn’t start playing to our potential until the end of the season. Nobody knew about us. People looked at our playoff seed and probably thought, Piece of cake. A lot of high school teams, they kick the ball around, kick the ball up and hope to win playing that way. We didn’t play that way at the end. We passed the ball, passed well, kept the ball on the ground.”

Ochoa scored nine goals and delivered two assists this fall, three of his tallies coming in a 4-2 defeat of visiting New Trier on Sept. 10. The final goal of Ochoa’s hat trick wasn’t a normal one. His final goal came off a corner kick — Ochoa’s corner kick, the set piece curling and beating the Trevians’ keeper without the aid of another body part from either team. Soccer folks call such a goal an “Olympic goal.” Citius (Faster), Altius (Higher),

(Fortius) Stronger, … Ochoa (pick a superlative, any superlative).

“Hard-nosed, hard worker, quick, tenacious, creative,” Giants junior forward Tommy Quirk says of Ochoa, also a Fire Academy U16 Raider. “Nothing but good things. One of the most creative moves he made this season was a back heel; the ball [nut]megged a guy [traveled between an oppo-nent’s legs]. He’s a great scorer and a great passer. Ethan finds me, excels on the outside.”

At the start of the Giants’ season this fall, Ochoa was a scorer, the dangerous Giant, a legitimate threat to befuddle de-fenders and burn keepers. Quirk essentially took over that role late in the season. An amendable Ochoa became a playmaker, his pretty passes replacing his gor-geous goals. You don’t have to score to make a difference in a soccer match. Nobody needs to tell that to Ochoa, who watches every televised professional Euro-pean soccer match he can on the weekends. His parents are Spanish. Spain’s national sport? What Ethan Ochoa plays, what Ochoa loves to play. His blood contains plasma, cells, platelets and soccer, mostly soccer.

If he ever gets the chance to eat dinner with his favorite player in the world, Lionel Messi, he’d say nothing in the first five minutes. Awe, Ochoa claims, would reduce him to a slack-jawed dinner mate. Messi, a 5-foot-7 Argentinian, would have to order for the 5-foot-6 Giant.

“Ethan’s passion for the game is awesome,” Giants soccer coach Blake Novotny says. “He brings excitement and flair to the field. He’s a fun kid to have on the team … I often say, ‘Rules are meant to be bent,’ in an attempt to get my kids to try new things on the field, speak up, become more dynamic people. Ethan pushes this every day. He is emotional on the field and is not afraid to joke around off the field.

“He wears two different colored cleats, always has a story, and he never quite has his uniform all put together and clean at the same time,” the coach adds. “He is quite possibly the best train wreck I have ever coached.”

Ochoa opted not to play high school soccer during his freshman year, in 2013. Club soccer beck-oned; Ochoa followed. He played for colors other than his school’s. He chose to give prep soccer a try before the start of his sophomore

year. It turned out to be a good decision, a chance to play along-side his friends and make new friends, an opportunity to expand his game. “Versatile” would become associated with Ochoa’s game. He would become more

than a talented and highly com-petitive player.

“I’ve become more of a defen-sive player,” Ochoa says. “I’d never drop back before high school. Now I do. It’s been a great experi-ence, playing for my school. I

learned so much from the seniors last year and from the seniors this year.”

His father, Francisco, played competitive soccer in Spain until his late teens, mostly at the center-back position. Father and son, born in Atlanta and an Evanston resident until the age of seven, still battle one another on occasion, in 1-v-1 drills and shooting drills in their back yard. Sometimes a drill helps Ethan halt a scoring drought. A drill, always, allows Francisco the chance to feed a few valuable reminders to Ethan.

“My dad gives me good advice,” Ethan says. “He tells me how important it is to keep moving [in matches], to keep working hard, because you never know what could happen if you continue to do those things. You could be hustling, working really hard, and there’s the ball, there’s the oppor-tunity to make a play or score.”

Notable: Highland Park senior midfielder Ethan Feinburg, on an assist from junior midfielder Justin Nedoss, scored the Giants’ goal in the 3-1 loss to Libertyville in a Class 3A Stevenson Sectional semifinal on Oct. 28. It came at the 5:54 mark of the second half. Libertyville led 1-0 at the half. … Libertyville edged Deerfield 1-0 for the Stevenson Sectional title on Oct. 31, defeated Evanston Township High School 1-0 in a supersectional on Nov. 3 and beat Quincy Senior High School 2-1 for the Class 3A state title on Nov. 7. … HP won back-to-back re-gional championships for the first time under Giants coach Blake Novotny when the Giants topped Stevenson’s Patriots 2-1 at Wolters Field on Oct. 24. A year earlier, HP and Stevenson met for another regional championship, HP winning 2-0 in two overtimes at Barrington High School. … Three Giants were named to the all-CSL North team: Feinberg, Eamonn Moore and Juan Chavez. … Tommy Quirk (6 goals, 2 assists) was second on the team in points (14), while Feinberg and Aiden Subra tallied 12 points each. Caleb Cunningham had a team-best six assists. Chavez fin-ished the season with a 1.91 goals-against average.


CREATIVE DYNAMO Crafty Ochoa was a fun watch for Highland Park soccer team

GETTING A LEG UP: Ethan Ochoa of the Giants does a little footwork during regional final action against Stevenson last month. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.

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SUNDAY BREAKFAST


FROM BOOMING OPERA TENOR TO RESTAURANTEUR

BY SIMON MURRAY

On an unseasonably warm November evening in Evanston, Jason Balla

ruminated over the first cocktail he had created as new owner of The Stained Glass Bistro. The cocktail, a take on the tradi-tional Pimm’s cup, was inspired, said its creator, from his days at the University of Oxford; spe-cifically during the balmy summer months, when he and friends would lay on the cool grass and enjoy a cool drink, as they watched the rowing team beat back their oars across the languid Thames river.

“I practically called home,” ribbed Balla on coming up with it.

He took a sip from the martini glass; the thinly sliced cucumber inside sliding back and forth like a hockey puck. This did not look like a man who had gone from patron to sole owner of the white-tableclothed, fine-dining staple in little under a year. Where was the stress? The strain of long hours taking a toll? He still had hair.

That’s because Balla is not your average watering hole habitué turned restaurateur. The dap-perly dressed, soft-spoken Welsh-man—who could be found in the restaurant’s sister lounge, The Cellar, most nights enjoying a pint of a beer and a lamb burger—has been a presence on stage for over 20 years with The Lyric Opera of Chicago as a booming tenor.

Said Balla, “When people asked me when I took over last year, What experience have you

had [working in] restaurants?’ I ended up saying, I’ve eaten and drunk at a lot of them.”

Suddenly we were back in Oxford again. An under-graduate organ scholar, it was not unusual for Balla to get “locked in” until four in the morning following a game of squash with friends and the owner of a pub close to campus. “Typical Welshmen, we always kind of like it when we get locked in.”

Sandwiched between a Papa John’s Pizza and a physical therapist office, The Stained Glass seems to buck the casualness and in-formality that has become pervasive in the restau-rant industry—while also conforming to it. On this night, the white tablecloths combined with a light tinkling of piano keys, soft jazz and bouquets of daylil-ies, roses and chrysanthemums on the large, oversized bar, in turn, gave off their own magic.

Shadows danced. The stage was set.

This is all thanks to Balla’s eye for detail. (“In some ways it was also good coming without the baggage of a restaurant back-ground because I had a fresh eye on a lot of things.”) On top of being a full-time contract signer, he also found time (“Egad!” screams literally everyone) to start his own eponymous interior design company. His LinkedIn page reads either like a modern-day renaissance man or an un-hinged workaholic, or both.

“I just get bored too quickly,” admitted Balla. “I can’t see me not doing seven things.”

Three of those things are worth mentioning. Balla was interested at one point in getting his com-mercial pilot’s license and taking a year off to go to flight school. He also passed the Series 7 Fi-nancial Services exam so he could write algorithmic trading strate-gies for a firm in Chicago and Dallas because, he explained,

“That side of my brain needed exercising.”

And just last year he had to walk away from the Chicago Sinai Congregation after 15 years as a singer, accompanist, and Music Director to take the reigns of running a restaurant. His friends aren’t surprised about his new venture—how could they be?—what with dabbling in enough careers to satisfy three lifetimes.

Still, getting into the restau-rant industry may be the hardest thing he’s ever done. Balla de-scribes it as “a million moving parts and dealing with an entire range of people, from the most basic delivery service up to a very high end clientele that have very high expectations—and everyone in between.”

Technically, Balla is still with The Lyric Opera, as he’s on sab-

batical this year. He will have to decide in a few months whether he wants to go back next season. Last year he was

doing both, holding meetings then racing off to performances four or five times a week, making it back at night to make sure everything was running smooth-ly. (It was.) Worlds might collide, however, if Balla brings in opera singers, jazz singers, chamber musicians or Chicago Symphony players to entertain his patrons.

“If you’ve ever been within spitting distance of a fully fledged opera singer that’s [he laughed] going all out—it can be pretty loud,” he said.

But even if he chooses the restaurant life over, say, perform-ing onstage, his interests have already aligned. A self-educated oenophile, The Stained Glass has over 130 wines and the only premier temperature-controlled wine-dispensing system in the city. Many of the wait staff are musicians, artists, and actors. And there is talk—just talk, for now—of placing a performing arts center on this site in the near future.

As we ate, Balla told me had taken a horse-jumping lesson earlier that morning. (Oh yeah, he does that, too.) He came into work around two o’clock with piles of wine boxes in the hall that needed stacking. He was “on the phone with this and trying to fix that” making sure deliveries were going smoothly, talking to the bank and to payroll, the staff came in at four o’clock and by five “it’s lights down and it’s theater.”

Before he would drive to the theater: nowadays, the theater comes to Balla. And that lamb burger and pint of beer now? Said Balla with a wink, “It’s called quality control.”

Jason Balla | Illustration by Barry Blitt

“I just get bored too quickly. I

can’t see me not doing seven

things.”—Jason Balla

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