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HIGHLAND PARK / DEERFIELD – In Febru-ary crews will begin recon-

structing Deerfield Road just east of Route 41 in Highland Park to just west of Waukegan Road in Deerfield. The project will cause delays and detours — and head-aches — and is expected to con-tinue to December.

What does this rehab job cost Deerfield and Highland Park?

“There’s no cost to Highland Park,” said Andrew Lichterman, Deerfield assistant village manager. “The $18 million im-provement will only cost $2 million for Deerfield by having all agencies coordinating and working together, so it’s a single season of work.”

Funding is coming from the Federal Highway Administration; CMAP, (a consolidation of two

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HIGHWOOD - Sean West is taking the smoke out of smoking.

West opened North Shore Vapes last year in Highwood at 828 Sheridan Road. It’s a small, sports-style bar and store situ-ated near a fine dining establish-ment and a currency exchange across the street from Fort Sheridan.

Vaping is the act of inhaling water vapor containing varying levels of nicotine or other sub-stances through a personal va-porizer such as e-cigarettes, pipes, small tanks, and e-pens.

West, a smoker since he was 14, switched to vaping about six years ago: “I breathe better, smell better and my blood pressure is better.”

West’s shop is one of several

along the North Shore. Others include Island Smoke Vape Shop at 192 Skokie Valley Road, High-land Park, and Vapor4Life at 4100 Commercial Avenue, Northbrook.

Nationally, vapor retail sales were expected to reach $3.5 billion in 2015, according to Wells Fargo, with e-cigarette sales comprising $1.5 billion and va-porizing devices accounting for $2 billion in sales. The market is expected to reach $10 billion by the end of 2018.

As vape shops proliferate, how to regulate them is something local, state and federal agencies are grappling with. The Food & Drug Administration has pro-posed a rule that would extend the agency’s tobacco authority to cover additional products that meet the legal definition of

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WILMETTE — Resi-dents who live near Northwestern Univer-

sity’s Rocky Miller Park are up in arms about a new scoreboard proposed for the baseball field. Northwestern is seeking ap-proval from the City of Evanston for a LED-lighted video score-board that is 24 feet tall by 36 feet wide and mounted 10 feet above the ground.

Neighbors are objecting to the scoreboard, which will face the Wilmette neighborhood that sits just north of the park. While Northwestern officials claim that views of the scoreboard will be buffered by landscaping, neigh-bors argue that given the height and size that is impossible.

“There is no way Northwestern will be able to screen the score-board from our view,” Laurel Sheffer told Daily North Shore.

Sheffer has lived at 110 4th Street for 25 years. “It is 34 feet high. It will take 30 years to shelter this,” she said.

Sheffer said that the previous scoreboard was about half the size of the new one proposed by Northwestern and not LED lighted with a video. “It was just a plain old-fashioned score board,” she said.

The new scoreboard will be used four to five hours during the baseball season, which includes 18 games held on Friday, Satur-day and Sunday.

According to Paul Kennedy, director of communication for Northwestern Athletics, the new scoreboard is part of a larger renovation of the park that also includes new seating, a clubhouse and new ticket booths and rest-rooms. Kennedy estimated that the old scoreboard was up for about 25 years and that the club-house and stadium structure, as well as landscaping, would buffer

views of the new scoreboard.But neighbors have been vocal

at City of Evanston meetings, raising their concerns about the scoreboard. The City of Evan-ston’s Zoning Board of Appeals approved the scoreboard, as well

as the Planning and Develop-ment Committee at a meeting on Jan. 25. The issue is now headed to the Evanston City Council, which will review the proposal at a meeting on Feb. 8. The Planning and Development

Committee requested that Northwestern provide revised landscaping plans at the Feb. 8 meeting.

In a letter to the Planning Development Committee and City Council dated Jan. 20, a

group of Wilmette residents listed their concerns about the scoreboard. Among various com-plaints, the residents noted that Northwestern’s landscape archi-tect Teska Associates did not accurately depict the scoreboard in the renderings prepared for the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting and that the video screen would be a traffic hazard on 4th Street and Isabella Street.

Sheffer told Daily North Shore that she would like to see the scoreboard located in another part of the park, so that it is not facing the neighborhood. However, Northwestern officials claim that infrastructure issues make it impossible to relocate the scoreboard. Sheffer said that Northwestern has not shown at any of the meetings, what those infrastructure problems include.

“It is really something that is so out of bounds for a small neighborhood like ours,” Sheffer said.

Wilmette Residents Protest Plan for Northwestern Scoreboard

Rendering of the proposed scoreboard at Rocky Miller Park.

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agencies, the Northeastern Il-linois Planning Commission and the Chicago Area Transpor-tation Study); the Village of Deerfield; and Lake County. Deerfield is only responsible for “non-participating costs,” such as the water main, he said.

“Highland Park is not doing a water main, which means the city has no ‘non-participating’ costs,” said Lichterman.

Lichterman explained there would be construction activity on both ends of Deerfield Road beginning on the east side in Highland Park. Drivers should expect there will be one lane of traffic in each direction at all times when construction starts by the second week of February.

“The whole roadway will be reconstructed mainly in Deer-field,” said Bob Phillips, Deer-field deputy director of public works and engineering. This will include water main replacement; sanitary sewer repair and re-placement; storm sewer replace-ment; sidewalk replacement; bridgework, and the creation of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant pedestrian crossings.

Throughout construction, nine traffic signals will extend to Highland Park through U.S.

41. The Berkeley Bridge deck off of Deerfield Road in High-land Park will also be replaced, said Phillips.

He added that off ramps would be shut down at different times throughout the project. Closures for all 10 ramps will take four days each and ramps will not be closed for long periods of time.

Village of Deerfield construc-tion hours will be from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., though certain periods of construction will run 24 hours a day. This will include Saturdays with possible Sunday hours, said Phillips. “Most of the February work will be in Deerfield, but it will still affect east and west bound traffic in Highland Park.

For the most accurate infor-mation view Deerfieldroad.com. “It’s the best thing to do,” said Phillips. “As detours are implemented we’ll be sending out notifications to anyone who’s a subscriber.”

The contract is expected to be completed by December.

“The contractor needs to complete the contract by that time, or liquidated damages result in an $8,700 a day fine,” Phillips said.

The Village of Deerfield in conjunction with the City of Highland Park created a de-tailed brochure complete with detour routes for the construc-tion project, which appears above.

tobacco products such as e-ciga-rettes. Also, a new state law pro-hibits minors from possessing e-cigarettes and other tobacco-free nicotine products.

Meanwhile, organizations such as the American Heart Associa-tion and the American Lung Association are concerned that the public underestimates the health effects of vaping.

“Switching from a traditional cigarette to an e-cigarette should not be a long-term solution,” ac-cording to the AHA, because “e-cigarettes are unregulated, may contain toxic chemicals and have not been FDA-approved as ces-sation devices.”

The American Lung Associa-tion’s Myths & Facts About E-Cigarettes states: “E-cigarette use among middle and high school students tripled from 2011 to 2013, and despite myths e-ciga-rettes do expose others to sec-ondhand smoke. The aerosol (vapor) emitted by e-cigarettes and exhaled by users contains carcinogens, such as formalde-hyde, according to early studies. Little is known about these emis-sions or the potential harm they can cause.”

West responded that people have to vape responsibly. “The devices are more harmful if you

push it beyond the recommend-ed use. You need to make sure that you use the products the way they’re intended to be used.”

Before he opened North Shore Vapes in Highwood last year, West looked at storefronts in Chicago and Highland Park. He nixed Chicago because the city and Cook County had recently implemented “e-juice” taxes on liquid containing nicotine, more than doubling the price of a $10 e-juice bottle. And Highland Park didn’t work out, he said, because its City Council passed a Smoking Regulations Ordi-nance on the day he applied for a business license in February 2015. Island Smoke Vape Shop in Highland Park existed before the ordinance and was grandfa-thered in.

Highwood, however, has no such ordinance, and Lake County doesn’t impose an “e-juice” tax.

West’s shop has a bar where customers can sit, talk and order vaping juices that are lined up on shelves along the wall. There’s also a seating area with a couch, and lounge chairs facing a large screen TV over the bar.

“It’s all about customizing the vapor experience for each person,” West said. He said the devices “allow you to significantly lower your nicotine consumption and enjoy vaping just for the flavor. Fruity, custardy, creamy and breakfast- flavored juices are the most popular.”

The change in Illinois law means that it is illegal to sell e-cigarettes or smoke-free nicotine products to minors and it also is illegal for a minor to possess them.

Locally, some communities – Highland Park, Deerfield, Lin-colnwood, and Lake Bluff to name a few – already have amended their local smoking regulations to include vaping and e-cigarettes.

“[Highland Park] has devel-oped a restrictive ordinance to protect others from secondhand smoke or steam,” Highland Park Police Commander Jon Lowman said. “The range of fines goes from $100 to $750 with additional fines for repeated offenses.”

SMOKE Continued from PG 1 CONSTRUCTION Cont. from PG 1

“It’s all about customizing

the vapor experience for each person.”—Sean West

BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

LAKE BLUFF — The Lake County Liquor Commission revoked the liquor license of

Nardo’s BBQ, but its owner, Rita Usher, said she will appeal.

Aaron Lawlor, the Lake County Board chairman and its liquor control commissioner, pulled the license after a hearing on Tuesday before the commis-sion in Waukegan regarding a shooting in the restaurant’s parking lot Dec. 25, where three people were wounded.

“This is very serious to have a shooting at one of our county’s bars,” Lawler said. “While it is rare to revoke a license for a first offense the severity of the situa-tion warranted revocation of the license.

Usher, who has operated the

bar and grill near the intersection of Highway 41 and Route 176 in unincorporated Lake Bluff since August 2014, said she plans to appeal Lawlor’s decision to the Illinois Liquor Control Commission. She said the res-taurant portion of Nardo’s would remain open.

“Yes, absolutely,” Usher said when asked if she planned to appeal. “They sent a letter saying there would be a meeting but I think their minds were made up before we got to the meeting,” she added referring to the Jan. 25 liquor license hearing. “We were not treated fairly.”

After Usher admitted Nardo’s was open after hours Dec. 25, Lawlor said the hearing contin-ued on five other charges—per-mitting battery in an establish-ment, permitting disorderly conduct on the premises, posses-

sion and discharge of firearms on the premises, serving alcohol to intoxicated people and serving a minor.

Lawlor said inconsistencies existed between police reports of the shooting, witness statements and comments by Usher and others associated with Nardo’s, requiring him to use the testi-mony and police reports to make his decision.

Witnesses who testified at the hearing painted a picture of gunplay and a barroom brawl, according to Rick Lesser, a Lake Bluff resident who attended the hearing. He said one of the wit-nesses said members of a North Chicago street gang were in-volved.

“A police officer said 28 shell casings were found in the parking lot,” Lesser said. “Another witness said a silver car pulled out of the southeast corner of the parking lot while a passenger in the car was shooting at the bar and people in the parking lot.”

Lesser said other witnesses testified there was an altercation on the dance floor, an individu-al left and returned 10 minutes later and there was more com-motion.

“Chairs and bottles were thrown,” Lesser said, retelling a witness’s account. “One witness said a person had a gun inside.”

After years working in restau-rants in North Chicago and Waukegan, Usher said she opened Nardo’s and selected a location that she thought would be safe.

“Nothing like this has hap-pened in the one year and seven months we’ve been here,” Usher said. “This is the place we never thought it would happen.”

Approximately 1:30 a.m. Dec. 25, shots hit and wounded three people in the parking lot, accord-ing to previous Daily North Shore reports. Two were hit in

the back and one in the thigh. All were treated at local hospitals and released.

On Jan. 4, Saladine A. McK-inney was arrested for aggra-vated battery with a firearm, unlawful discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, Daily North Shore reported.

Nardo’s Liquor License Pulled in Wake of Shooting

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One of the wealthiest towns in Illinois, Winnetka, is shaped by three Chris-

tians who sympathized with socialism, including one who defended an anarchist act of ter-rorism.

Woodsy Winnetka—the name meant “beautiful place” to Po-tawatomi Indians—belies its tranquil setting and was incor-porated in 1869 with a ban on alcohol and an ecological law not to do “injury” to trees.

Within its first 30 years, besides those strict controls, Winnetka’s philosophy congealed around one driving ideal: col-lectivism. Winnetka’s Commu-nity House was erected to promote “Christian citizenship”. Its crowning achievement—New Trier High School at 385 Win-netka Avenue—is named for Trier, Germany, the town where the region’s immigrants came from and birthplace of Com-munism’s philosopher-father, Karl Marx. Winnetka’s most radical resident, Henry Demarest Lloyd, who conceived the Win-netka Town Meeting, asserted that every Winnetkan has a “duty to the village”, according to Michael H. Ebner, author of Creating Chicago’s North Shore, A Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 1988).

Lloyd, who came to Win-netka from Massachusetts when he was 29, is what might be called one of Winnetka’s three godfa-thers.

“The most commonly associ-ated name with Winnetka is Charles Peck,” Ebner explained in an interview. “He wanted Winnetka to have a public school.”

Ebner said Peck bought Win-netka’s land with railroad busi-nessman and one-time Chicago Mayor Walter Gurnee. Nature preservationist Peck later deeded the Village Green to the public—on the condition that nothing would be built there—and gave Winnetka nature-based street names, such as Cherry, Elm and Oak. Peck had come to the North Shore from Vermont with his wife, Sarah. They had two daugh-ters and sought to create a school-centered community.

Eventually, Winnetka ap-proved a bond issue by referen-dum to construct a township high school. Upon passing the town-ship referendum on the third try—there was resistance—New

Trier Township founded a board of education.

The result, New Trier Town-ship High School, opened in 1901 with what Ebner called a sumptuous campus for its time which included an indoor swim-ming pool because swimming and proper hygiene were thought by the board to be part of a proper education. In alignment with Peck’s views on nature, Win-netka built its schools with an exterior door for every classroom so that the teacher could take students into nature.

The heir to Peck’s legacy of nature worship and centralized public works for the “common good” is Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903), whom Ebner

credits with establishing Win-netka’s public library and its raucous, socially democratic gov-ernment.

“Lloyd was a foe of monopoly who wrote Wealth Against Com-monwealth and he took off after the fact that Winnetka bought its water from a private company,” Ebner said.

Lloyd was not such an oppo-nent of monopoly, however, that he did not seek to give Win-netka its own government-run monopoly—a municipally-con-trolled water utility—and he was extremely active in politics, running and losing for a seat in Congress (twice), traveling to New Zealand (twice) and to Europe (six times). Lloyd pleaded for clemency to the Illinois gov-ernor in defense of anarchists arrested in Chicago’s Haymarket riots, in which someone threw a bomb during the labor riot, mur-dering seven policemen and four civilians. Lloyd’s biographer called him an ‘intellectual activist”.

Ebner writes in his North Shore history book that Lloyd had married the daughter of Chicago Tribune publisher William Bross, an abolitionist and founder of the Republican Party and, later, lieutenant gov-ernor of Illinois. Their relation-ship, Ebner said, was conten-tious at times.

Lloyd brought other intellec-tuals to Winnetka, hosting social activist Jane Addams, five-time Socialist candidate for president Eugene V. Debs and Booker T. Washington. Having introduced the town’s first Independence Day celebration on the Village Green in 1887 and the first Winnetka Town Meeting in 1890, Ebner writes that Winnetka’s meetings included readings on socialism and a lecture by Clarence Darrow.

After Lloyd died, Winnetka’s consensus-style government was embroiled in a raging contro-versy over whether to contract for gas to individual homes or simply create another government mo-nopoly to operate the gas utility. After Kenilworth and Glencoe chose contractors for at-home gas, Winnetka finally gained gas in 1908 after a group of women—claiming the burden of domestic inconvenience—insisted on a resolution. Winnetka, too, con-tracted for its gas.

Peck had initiated community nature worship. Lloyd had intro-duced collective government. But a man named J.W.F. Davies from

South Dakota, who arrived in May 1909 as an associate pastor of the Winnetka Congrega-tional Church, infused Winnetka with Judeo-Christian collectiv-ism.

Davies, who inexplicably ac-quired the term ‘chief ’ during his time in Winnetka, befriended a group of loitering boys who he said told him that the town was dull. Davies, whom Ebner said lived in Winnetka until 1931, claimed that this was the impetus for creating the Winnetka Com-munity House with church dona-tions.

Originally projected to cost $10,000, the structure eventually cost $49,500 and upset Win-netka’s fundamentalists by showing movies on Sundays. But the town’s Puritanical types pre-vailed as the meeting hall, in-spired by Davies’ church, ex-cluded for-profit individuals from using the house. Winnetka Com-munity House, ostensibly open to all, opened on November 17, 1911 with one rule: no one seeking to make money was per-mitted to use it to achieve that end.

Ebner described Winnetka’s top figures as Unitarians and freethinkers and he attributes credit to Davies and Lloyd for a visit from Martin Luther King,

Jr. in the summer of 1965.“On July 25, Dr. King was

invited to Winnetka to speak on the Village Green,” Ebner re-called. “The New York Times estimated that between 8,000 and 10,000 people attended with more than 100 reporters, so this was very much in the tradition of Winnetka’s civic activism.”

The event was part of King’s Operation Freedom Movement in Chicago—a campaign for government-subsidized hous-ing—and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley had publicly challenged Dr. King to go into the suburbs.

King did. He visited Naper-ville, Evanston, Highland Park and Winnetka. Ebner said that by the mid-1960s Winnetkans had become concerned that their children were living in a clois-tered environment.

“Upper middle class Win-netka moms were involved in something called the North Shore Summer Project, which was inspired by clergy, and they took the spontaneous initiative to invite King, who had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964—the youngest person ever to have that bestowed upon him—to come to Winnetka,” he said.

For all efforts and edicts pro-claiming Winnetka’s egalitarian-

ism by town intellectuals, Ebner said that Winnetka’s population remains predominantly wealthy and white. “Winnetka is a ho-mogeneous community,” he said. “It’s 97 percent white, near the very top of the socioeconomic scale among the 262 communi-ties in metropolitan Chicago and it’s very buttoned down.”

Among Winnetka’s wealthy residents throughout the years are Rock Hudson, Ann-Margret, Charlton Heston, Phil Donahue and Harold Ickes, FDR’s secre-tary of the Interior for 13 years, whose favoritism gave Win-netka special interest from the Roosevelt administration. Ebner said that Ickes had the govern-ment subsidize an operation to depress Winnetka’s railroad tracks to run at grade level, which improved safety. It’s why Win-netka has no grade level cross-ings.

Other renowned residents include A.C. Nielsen Co. founder Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., whom Ebner said endowed a recreation center along Hubbard Road for tennis and skating as an alterna-tive to country clubs. Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, a busi-nessman like many other resi-dents, also lives in Winnetka.

Ebner cites the May 20, 1988 assault by New Trier graduate and former Northwestern student Laurie Dann as Win-netka’s darkest day—she poi-soned, fire-bombed, tried to incinerate and fired upon her victims, one of whom died, before shooting herself—though the double murder by New Trier honors student David Biro, 17, of Richard and his pregnant wife Nancy Langert two years later was also a heinous Win-netka crime.

“Winnetka’s people take immense pride in Winnetka,” Ebner said. “Winnetkans take their history and the caucus system with the utmost serious-ness. They are passionate about it.”

“They study thorny questions and particular conclusions and they have a high level of civic investment,” he explained. “Win-netka is at times contentious and I know that people are earnest and passionate about what they believe is good and bad about Winnetka.” Ebner added: “On any given public issue, no stone is left unturned and I think that does go back to Winnetka’s founding. That is the legacy of Peck, Lloyd and Davies.”

WINNETKA’S THREE GODFATHERS

Henry Demarest Lloyd

Among Winnetka’s

wealthy residents

throughout the years are

Rock Hudson, Ann-Margret,

Charlton Heston, Phil

Donahue and Harold Ickes, FDR’s

secretary of the Interior for 13 years, whose favoritism

gave Winnetka special interest

from the Roosevelt

administration.

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Musings by Mike Lubow

North Shorts

“A Good Investment”

There are many roads leading to the scenic North Shore. The most interesting have

twists and turns. You muse about this over dinner in an area restau-rant. A man in your group is telling a story with a martini in his hand and a glint in his eye...

He’s talking about his grand-father, a boy who left a dismal town in old Europe to make his way alone through Ellis Island into the opportunities and obstacles of America.

After days of searching for a

job in vain, he returned to his tiny room discovering that all his clothes had been stolen. Disillu-sioned, he headed to the docks intending to work his way back to the old country.

An unknown New Yorker stopped him on a whim, saying, “Don’t leave, kid. Here’s five dollars. Buy new clothes. Keep trying.”

That kind of twist in the road can change the course of a life, and other lives, too. The young man bought new clothes, got a job, worked hard. Over time he became a successful patriarch with

five grandchildren. He told each, male and female: “You could be a doctor.”

As their winding roads made their way through the years, all did, coincidentally, choose to become doctors. All are living in or near the North Shore today. They deserve the life they enjoy. But not all the credit goes to them. Even their pioneering grandfather doesn’t get all the credit.

Some goes to an unknown New Yorker who saw a discouraged kid on the docks long ago. If that man could only know: his five bucks made five doctors.

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A PARTNER WITH THE JEWISH UNITED FUND IN SERVING OUR COMMUNITY

Yearning for a retreat all your own? Look no further than Southeastern Wisconsin.

Within a one to two hour drive of any North Shore neighborhood is a vast offering of Wisconsin lakes, quaint towns and bucolic country-side areas where Illinoisans can find quick and easy refuge from the hustle and bustle of the Chicago metropolis. Those who explore the region will discover a wide range of realty options available to them, and they may be genuinely surprised at just how far their home-buying dollars can stretch north of the border.

“Helping Illinois residents find their ideal Wisconsin retreat has always been a focus of our brokerage, going back to my grandfather’s vision for the company when he founded it in 1943,” said Tom Keefe. Keefe is President of Keefe Real Estate, which is headquartered in Lake Geneva and has seven re-gional offices with over 80 agents covering all of Southeastern Wis-consin. (See keeferealestate.com.)

Keefe continued, “Back in the 40s, a newspaper writer who knew my grandfather dubbed our area “Chicago’s Playground”, and in many ways I think that’s still ap-plicable today. We still market lifestyles as much as property.”

Deciding what lifestyle you want is the first step in finding your perfect Wisconsin get-away, as the options are many. For starters, there are more than forty public and private lakes within a two hour drive of the North Shore, dozens of Norman Rockwellesque towns, and innumerable countryside havens and farms. Keefe noted that his company lists many hundreds of second-home properties in all price ranges – from grand estates and lakeside cottages, to golf course condos and townhomes, to hobby farms and country homes - and also primary homes and investment properties.

“I think the range of options we have throughout Southeastern Wis-consin surprises Illinois clients all the time, and it’s a happy surprise,” says Keefe.

Likely the best-known of the area’s get-away destinations is Lake Geneva -a historic and charming town on the banks of one of the largest and deepest lakes in Wiscon-sin. Originally settled by wealthy turn-of-the-century families, like the Wrigleys and Maytags, today’s Lake Geneva community offers new gen-erations of home-owners the year-round recreational pleasures of lake and land in various price ranges, as well as a thriving business and cul-

tural center for the area as a whole. Lakeside estates with historic roots remain a coveted commodity here, but smaller homes, townhomes and condos on and off the lake are in high demand as well. The popular Delavan Lake area is just a few klicks to the west, and the rest of the tri-county “Lakes Country” area - from Lau-derdale Lakes to Whitewater to the Brown’s Lake region - is to the north and northeast. Homes of all sizes and prices range are available on literally dozens of lakes and water-ways along the way, or set amidst beautiful nature areas, like the Kettle Moraine and Alpine Valley regions.

Private country retreats are popular options, too. Former North Shore Realtor Julie Morse and her husband bought a historic farm with pond and wooded acreage just north of Lake Geneva three years ago. She said it’s been “a dream come true” for their family in terms of physical appeal, lifestyle, and value combined.

“When we first started looking for a Wisconsin get-away, even as a seasoned Realtor I admit to being astounded at all the opportunity that existed so close to home that I’d never known was there,” said Morse, who ultimately joined Keefe’s manage-ment last fall. “What started as a personal journey has now become a professional passion.”

Close-By Wisconsin Get-Aways Are Keefe Real Estate Specialty


LIFESTYLE & ARTS

Irina Kuznetsova was having horrible postpartum depression after giving birth to her first

child.“I went completely nuts,” she

said on a recent afternoon. “I thought I was dying—I devel-oped all kinds of phobias.” With that added anxiety and stress came a lot of physical ailments. She was clearly suffering, but all of the doctors her and her husband, Karim Raimbekov, went to all said the same thing: they could find anything that was life threatening. But nothing was changing for the better, either.

That is, until she started to eat her way out of the situation. Around five years ago, Kuznetso-va was introduced to a plant-based diet. She took cooking classes, because she had no idea what to do without the presence

of meat, diary, eggs, and sugar in her life. Originally from Kazakh-stan, Kuznetsova and Raimbekov had grown up with a significant amount of dairy products and meat in the kitchen.

“A meal without meat was not a meal to me—that was like a snack,” said Kuznetsova.

At her initial class, when she was first introduced to the mac-robiotic diet—or the original counterculture diet of the 60s that has seen a widespread revival—people looked at her like she was crazy, she tells me. On the most basic level, the diet is founded on the premise of balancing whole grains and fresh vegetables. But how was she going to survive on such limited food groups!

It turns out, not only could she do it, but she wanted to inspire others with the healthy dishes she was creating. That grew into a

full-blown business, The Purple Sprout Cafe, at the Riverside Plaza in Wheeling.

The Purple Sprout Cafe is the family’s answer to clean eating, offering vegan and gluten-free choices that includes raw and cooked food, smoothies, juices, and sugar-free desserts. Food items such as raw cheesecake, lentil dumplings, yucca balls and lentil nori power wraps can all be found on the menu. A differ-ent soup is offered every day.

The café offers organic meals made with ingredients from local farmers, but no sugar or preservatives. It also features a smoothie and juice bar includ-ing; the Powerhouse, made with carrot, apple and sweet potato and a wheat grass shot, and the Fountain of Youth, with apples, kale, celery, lemon, ginger and parsley. As well as wholesome

desserts from cookies to cheese-cakes and even ice cream, all hand-made with no refined sugar added.

In the beginning, when Kuznetsova originally started down the road on her vegan diet, the family initially resisted. “There was a lot of tension in the family,” she says, laughing. But eventually, her children and Raimbekov came around. Now the family eats what they prepare—for customers and themselves—every day. The diet is their life. And Kuznetsova hasn’t looked back, and hasn’t suffered since.

Said Raimbekov, “Food is fundamental.”

The Purple Sprout Café is located at 341 E. Dundee Road in Wheeling. For more information call 224-223-7133 or go to their Facebook page.

THE PURPLE SPROUT CAFÉ PROVIDES FANTASTIC VEGAN FARE

NORTH SHORE FOODIE

Irina Kuznetsova, Karim Raimbekov. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

Batter:• 2 cups brown rice• 2 cups red rice poha

(flattened rice)• 1 cup red lentils• 1 tablespoon fenugreek seeds• Pinch of sea salt

Filling:• Garbanzo Bean Flour• Onions, diced• Carrots, diced• Celery, diced• Sea salt• Black Pepper• Water• Vegetable or seed oil of

choice

1. Soak brown rice and red rice poha together, and lentils and fenugreek together in twice as much water for at least 5 hours. Strain the water, blend all the ingredients together.

2. To make the chickpea veggie scramble filling, play with the quantities until you get as much filling as you like. Mix chickpea flour with water (start with a little and keep adding until the mixture is thick but still very liquid), add salt and black pepper. Oil-sauté the vegetables for 2-3 minutes then pour the desired amount of chickpea mixture over and cook for another 3-4 minutes. 3. In the meantime, using a bit of oil pour the desired amount of crepe batter in a skillet and swirl around to coat the surface of the skillet. Let it cook for as long as the sides are starting to curl up or separate from the skillet (about 2 minutes), flip to the other side and cook for another minute or so. 4. Fill the crepe with the filling by either rolling it up or making a triangle (folding in half first).

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There is a sign above the door to Mia Solberg’s room at her home in Winnetka.

It announces: “Attitude is ev-erything. Pick a good one.”

It is one of the last things the New Trier senior hockey captain sees before stepping outside and living her life each day. She picked a good one on this day. She must have. Her quick smile, in the presence of friends, of teammates, of coaches, of humans in general, is all the evidence you need.

“I love meeting people, getting to know them, learning new per-spectives,” Solberg, a 5-foot-3 forward with a magnetic, fun-loving personality. “I’m big on keeping an open mind. It’s im-portant. Having an open mind could change your life for the better.”

Solberg’s head won’t be buried in books at a college library in 2016-17. She will spend the first semester, mostly outdoors, in the Patagonia region at the south-ernmost tip of South America (shared by Argentina and Chile). The second semester in her gap year? To be determined.

“I was a junior, and I was freak-ing out,” Solberg, a two-time state champion field hockey player and a one-time state champion ice hockey player, recalls. “I didn’t know where I wanted to go to college, what I wanted my major to be. That led me to consider taking a gap year, to figure some things out. I’m looking forward to learning outdoor skills and hands-on skills in other coun-tries.”

Her stickhandling skills have come in quite handy for New Trier’s varsity hockey club (8-4-2 through Jan. 28) this winter, along with her pregame speeches to teammates and ability to make each player on a young crew — six freshmen made NT’s varsity — feel indispensible. The captain likes to collect all those pucks resting in or near goal after pregame warm-up sessions. See the ‘C’ pick up the pucks. See an example of leadership. Solberg, a

fourth-year varsity player, was nervous, at first, about delivering speeches before each puck drop. Not anymore.

“I feel sick,” was the start of one of her speeches. It got her teammates’ attention right away. Solberg was healthy that day.

“I was sick of losing, and I thought it would be a good idea to let my teammates know how I felt on that day,” Solberg says. “We had had a bad stretch, lost some tough games.”

Wondering how Solberg felt when she scored the first goal of NT’s double-overtime defeat of Loyola Academy in the state championship game at the United Center in 2014? Wonder no more.

“I was in shock,” Solberg says. “Right after I scored [on a

rebound of her shot on goal], I couldn’t move parts of my arms. It was like my arms were stuck to my sides. I wish I had danced, or celebrated in some way, but I couldn’t do much of anything. I guess I was too shocked to get excited.

“Best moment of my life. Best day of my life.”

A funny moment: freshman year, at an ice rink. A New Trier coach had described Solberg as a tenacious player. Solberg had no idea what “tenacious” meant. She hoped it was a compliment or at least a good thing. Solberg looked for help. She asked a teammate, “What does ‘tena-cious’ mean?”

“That teammate,” Solberg, smiling, says, “didn’t know what it meant, either.”

NT girls hockey coach Nelson Forsberg welcomed Solberg to the varsity program way back in 2012. No other freshman made the varsity in ’12. Solberg, the athlete, was unassuming then. Self-deprecating, too, another good thing, with a knack for ef-fortlessly moving a puck and making defensemen feel dizzy, occasionally turning them into spinners on blades.

“She is a solid, all-around player,” Forsberg says of Solberg, a spin instructor, no kidding, away from the rinks. “You don’t always notice her on the ice, but more often than not, Mia is there, where she has to be, when it matters. Great hands, great skills. She has this one move, this one-on-one move … it’s a series of moves, actually, a lot of dekes,

preceded by a quick release.“And as a captain,” he adds,

“she’s good at bringing everybody together.”

Meghan Talbot, a New Trier junior forward, has been on the receiving end of Solberg’s speeches. The speeches work. New Trier hockey players listen to their captain’s words. New Trier hockey players get inspired, all fired up in chilly arenas.

“Her energy … it motivates us, and it keeps us motivated,” Talbot says. “Mia is outgoing, bubbly and fun, a fun kind of gal. You want those qualities from a captain. On the ice she dangles around everyone. Her knowledge of the game, it’s definitely one of her strengths.

“Mia,” Talbot adds, “is a good role model.”

Solberg’s sister, Tommy, is a junior forward on New Trier’s varsity hockey team. Their sister, 24-year-old Liza, lives in Denver. Brother Gunnar, 22, played hockey, as did another brother, Matt (New Trier, Class of 2014). Matt Solberg, the most deco-rated athlete of Tor and Jen’s five children, also played lacrosse at New Trier. The Matt Solberg Shrine (trophies, press clipping, etc.) is located in the Solberg kitchen, Mia notes.

Tor played hockey, lacrosse and football before his college days. He extended his hockey career at Colgate University.

“My dad was a stud athlete,” Mia says. “He reminds me to be an aggressive hockey player. And Matt, what an all-star he was, what a competitive athlete. He motivated me when he played sports at New Trier. He was a huge role model for me.”

Among Mia Solberg’s other serious likes in life are steak-and-rice dinners, old movies and soundtracks in old movies. Bring up The Graduate or Rear Window or Cape Fear around Solberg and prepare to watch an animated Solberg grow more animated. The flicks fascinated her. The soundtracks moved her.

“Music determines the mood of a movie, the entire mood.” Solberg says. “It’s such an impor-tant element in a movie. I’m thinking of the music from Cape Fear right now, and I’m feeling goose bumps.”

Mia Solberg appears to shiver a little. Another smile appears.

Mia Solberg, clearly, had picked a good attitude on this day.

Notable: New Trier and host Loyola Academy skated to a 3-3 tie at American Heartland Ice Arena in Lincolnwood on Jan. 28. NT f reshman Emma Katzman scored twice, and class-mate Addie Budington netted the other goal in between Katzman’s tallies. Hayden Snow, another freshman, was in goal for New Trier.

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HEART AND SOLBERG Vibrant senior brings skill, big personality to young New Trier girls hockey team

HEY, 19: New Trier’s Mia Solberg takes control of the puck during last week’s game against Loyola Academy. The two teams skated to a 3-3 tie. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.

SPORTS


Ben Sacks found out he had been accepted by Tulane University in the middle of a

class at Highland Park High School not too long ago. Can you see him? Can you see Sacks, a senior reserve point guard for the school’s varsity basketball team, looking down at his cell phone and smiling while reading the good news?

His teacher certainly could on that day.

His teacher also wasn’t smiling.“She took my phone, with about

20 minutes left in the class,” Sacks recalled after a game last weekend. “Bittersweet day. She did, though, congratulate me when she handed my phone back to me.”

Giants boys basketball coach Paul Harris likes knowing he can call upon the 5-foot-10, 145-pound Sacks whenever his club needs a spark or a different look or an infu-sion of something, anything, to alter a bumpy stretch in a game. Harris, his team trailing 4-0, put Sacks in at 4:27 of the first quarter in a game at Glenbrook North on Jan. 29. It took Sacks only 10 seconds to make an impact on defense, contesting a shot down low. In the second quarter he nailed a three-pointer at 3:48, collected a steal at 3:11, which led to a rebound bucket by junior guard Thano Fourlas, and used a quick first step before slithering through a phalanx of Spartans on a driving layup.

The layup gave HP a 16-15 lead.Sacks, backup to senior point

guard Danny Bronska, finished with eight points, one rebound, one assist and two steals in a 46-37 loss. He made both of his three-point attempts, the second securing a 27-25 advantage late in the third quarter.

“Definitely gives us energy as soon as he comes in,” the 6-foot, 140-pound Bronska said of one of Sacks’ strengths. “He’s really good at attacking the basket, at finishing, at finding the open man. He’s also good at getting the offense orga-nized.”

The chief organizer of the Giants’ offense in the last two seasons was David Sachs, a two-time all-state honorable mention pick and current freshman reserve guard at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. Sachs vs. Sacks was a regular battle in HP practices last winter, the former appreciative of the latter’s intensity, the latter ap-

preciative of the opportunities to improve his game, to pick up nuances, against a high-scoring, savvy point guard. The two typi-cally text each other after a High-land Park game. Sacks received a pep text from the former Giant after the tough loss at Glenbrook North last weekend. The loss was HP’s 12th in 18 games and sixth in seven Central Suburban League North games.

“David told me to keep my head up, to go get [the next opponent],” Sacks said. “We talk every week.”

Sacks played basketball every day he could as a grade-schooler. His

older brother, Matt (HPHS, ’09), a University of Pennsylvania gradu-ate and Washington, D.C.-based venture capitalist, played basketball. His cousin, Josh Bartelstein (HPHS, ’08), played basketball, captaining the University of Mich-igan NCAA runner-up team in the 2012-13 season. His uncles, HPHS graduates David and Mark Bartel-stein, played basketball. Ben Sacks probably wanted to pick up a bas-ketball and start dribbling it every time he saw an orange at home or at school.

“My brother,” Ben Sacks said, “has a higher basketball IQ than I

have. I’m more athletic than he is. We still have our one-on-one battles. I’m not at his level yet, but I’m getting there. I loved the sport of basketball at a young age, loved it right away. Basketball … it was a family thing when I was growing up. It was nice being surrounded by basketball players and former bas-ketball players, fans of basketball. It was nice being able to talk about the game of basketball before and after games.”

Sacks is comfortable sharing the bulk of the Giants’ ball-handling duties with Bronska. Bronska is comfortable with the setup, too.

Nobody has told either, “You need to be another David Sachs.” When one struggles in a game, the other tends to impress in the same game, Coach Harris noted.

“Neither one of them should feel the pressure of replacing David Sachs alone,” Harris added. “They have done a great job working to-gether to fill the high demands of being a point guard in our program. … Ben was really sharp [against Glenbrook North], hitting some shots, creating shots for his team-mates, playing energetic basketball. Good minutes. Ben gave us good minutes. Ben is very coachable,

wants to please, and when he makes a mistake he owns it. Wanting to please is making him a better bas-ketball player.”

The game against Glenbrook North last weekend was clearly one of Sacks’ better games. He played like a confident quarterback, round ball in his hands, in charge of running a floor show. The spring in his high-tops step appeared to be contagious. Teammates followed Sacks’ lead, mirroring his bounce and his sense of urgency and his positivity. He ended up with a plus-minus rating of plus-four, in 19 minutes, 47 seconds of playing time. The sub stood out. The sub steered well.

“I embrace it,” Sacks said of the pressure associated with the point guard position. “I look forward to the challenges of being a point guard every time I have the ball.”

Notable: Highland Park sopho-more guard Ziv Tal had quite a weekend, pacing all scorers in a pair of games Jan. 29-30. The 6-footer popped for 19 points in a 46-37 loss to host Glenbrook North (12-7, 4-2 in the Central Suburban League North) and then hit for 27 more in a 67-59 loss to Crete-Monee in the Lincoln-Way West Shootout. Tal tallied 21 of his points from three-point territory (in 10 attempts) in the second game and grabbed six rebounds in each game. He went a combined 14-for-24 from the field (9-for-15 beyond the arc) in the back-to-back games. Giants senior forward Zach Fleish-er poured in 18 points (7-for-12 from the field) in the loss to Crete-Monee. Joey Saslow, a senior guard, dished a team-high five assists for HP (6-13) in the same game. … A five-year streak nearly ended on Jan. 29. Before the Highland Park-Glenbrook North boys basketball game in Northbrook, Eli Harris, Giants coach Paul Harris’ son, had served as the varsity’s game manager in every game since January 2010. Eli played in a feeder basketball game, tip at 6:30 p.m., in Elmwood Park, nearly 20 miles from North-brook. The high school game was scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. It started later than that. With 2:59 left in the second quarter, Eli Harris, still wearing his red feeder uniform, entered the Glenbrook North gym-nasium, set to work his 170th consecutive game.


ALWAYS ON CALL Sacks capitalizes on playing time, gives Highland Park a jolt off the bench

SACKS ALIVE: Ben Sacks of the Giants drives against Glenbrook North’s Zach Hoffman during CSL North action last weekend. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER


SPORTS

In the fall of 2012, football season, Lake Forest High School wres-tling coach Matt Fiordirosa ap-

peared at a freshman football practice at the school. Nothing unusual about that. Football players are tough, strong, tenacious. Wrestling coaches like coaching and developing tough, strong, te-nacious athletes.

Fiordirosa showed up to educate football players about the joys of wrestling. Maybe a few would then come out for the sport in the winter.

Devin Reich, a freshman quar-terback on the freshman ‘B’ team at the time, listened to what Fiord-irosa had to say. A good friend of his was all ears, too.

“I turned to my friend,” Reich, now a senior 182-pounder on varsity, recalls, “and said, ‘Let’s give it a try.’ ”

They did just that. Reich, a former Gurnee resident, got off to an 0-1 start. He then lost his second, third and four matches. Joy was hard to find. On the day of his fifth wrestling bout, “some-thing changed,” Reich says. The young Scout recorded a takedown. The young Scout’s confidence took an abrupt route, due north. Reich won that bout. Reich won his next 11 bouts after that breakthrough victory. From 0-4 to 12-4, from a winning percentage of .000 to a winning percentage of .750.

Joy, pure joy, was everywhere.“Devin liked the competitive

nature of the sport when he started,” Fiordirosa says. “He still does. He has come a long way from the time he wanted to try wrestling because some of his football buddies wanted to try it. He bought in, especially the lifting part of it. He’s my weightlifting partner, a really strong kid, jacked.”

None of Fiordirosa’s Scouts — who won a program-record 16 duals in 2015-16, supplanting a mark that had stood since 1996 — claimed a championship in a weight class at the highly com-petitive North Suburban Confer-ence wrestling meet at Wauconda High School on Jan. 30. Only one Scout finished runner-up in a

weight class.The one: Reich, Devin Reich,

the kid with an 0-0 career record in wrestling from date of birth to the date of his first freshman class at LFHS.

Reich defeated Lake Zurich High School junior Kyle Fleming 6-1 in an NSC Meet semifinal at 182 pounds, avenging a 5-0 loss in the regular season. Reich (21-5) had earned a bye before advancing to a semifinal round with a 3-1 defeat of Libertyville High School senior Kyle Smith. Stevenson senior Michael Kordek solved Reich 10-1 in the bracket’s title match. How good is Kordek (31-4)? How polished was his performance against Reich? It looked like Kordek started wres-tling on the first day of his first bib year.

“Devin,” Fiordirosa says, “is calm and cool. Nothing bothers him. Nothing scares him. Going up against a kid like that Stevenson kid in a final? Devin would never be afraid of such a challenge. He welcomes a challenge like that. Wrestling is a hostile sport staged often in a hostile environment. I’d consider the NSC Meet a pretty hostile setting, loud and intense. Devin likes everything about a meet like the NSC Meet.”

Reich became a two-time all-NSC mat man last weekend. He had earned all-NSC honors last winter, with a fifth-place showing at 182 pounds. He was an outside linebacker/safety in his final football season last fall. The former quarterback ran around and tackled hard as an inside line-backer in his sophomore season.

He was a running back/lineback-er in his junior season. People stopped asking him, “How many positions have you played?” They started asking, “Where haven’t you played on a football field?”

“Passionate about wrestling, passionate about football,” Scouts senior Gage Griffin, third at 126 pounds last weekend, says of Reich. “There’s nothing flashy about him, and that’s what [Fiordirosa] likes to see from his wrestlers. Devin got good, very good, at one or two things in this sport, and he stays in a good position when he wres-tles.

“Very funny, too, a great kid, gets along with everybody,” Griffin (30-5) adds. “I’d also call him a jokester. He poked fun at me before the conference meet, re-minding me I had missed all-

conference [top five in each weight class] by one spot last year.”

Whenever Reich lifted weights last summer, Fiordirosa was nearby, lifting or spotting, talking with Reich, laughing and bonding. Reich considers Fiordirosa a good friend. The respect Reich has for the head coach is incalculable.

“Coach Fiordirosa brings out the animal in me when I wrestle,” Reich says. “Great coach, great motivator, great guy. I learned a lot of the technical aspects in the sport from [freshman] Coach [Tony] Filippo.”

Reich, future entrepreneur, plans to attend either Auburn University or the University of Alabama in the fall. His vision, post college: to own a medical facility. Reich wouldn’t mind finding himself on the University

of Illinois campus in Champaign later this month, specifically inside the State Farm Center. State wres-tling bouts will be held there. But first things first (regional tests), followed by second things second (sectional tests).

“He has a shot,” Fiordirosa says.

Notable: Lake Forest High School finished eighth (78 points) at the North Suburban Conference Wrestling Meet at Wauconda High School on Jan. 30. The Scouts received all-NSC efforts (top five) from senior Devin Reich (runner-up, 182 pounds, 21-5 record), senior Gage Griffin (third, 126, 30-5), senior John Frauen-heim (third, 170, 32-3), sophomore Caleb Durbin (fourth, 132, 25-12) and junior Cory Barth (fifth, 195, 29-8). … NSC Wrestling Meet officials recognized a Sportsman-ship Award winner from each school on Jan. 30. Griffin was the Scouts’ pick. “This is a very physi-cal sport,” Griffin said after his 7-6 defeat of Zion-Benton’s Justin Williams in the bout for third place at 126 pounds. “It requires aggressiveness. If you’re going to step on a mat, I’m going to respect. I respect anybody who wrestles. Respect and sportsmanship go together.” Griffin rallied from a 6-1 deficit in his match against Williams. “I started kind of slowly,” he admitted. “What helped was what I learned at a [28-day] summer camp at the University of Minnesota. You have to have a certain kind of mentality and maintain that mentality in a match, no matter how you’re doing, no matter how far behind you are. My mentality in matches is, ‘Keep working, keep thinking positively.’ ” … There might not be a more focused wrestler before a bout than Griffin. Watch him walk — no, pace — before bouts. Forget about looking for a smile from Griffin, or a blink. “Wrestling isn’t a three-month sport to me,” a straight-faced Griffin, a medal in his pos-session, insisted. “It’s a lifestyle, and I embrace it.” … The Scouts vie for Class 3A sectional berths at the Deerfield Regional on Feb. 6.


MAKING THE REICH DECISION

Wrestling proves to be an ideal fit for Lake Forest senior

‘DEV’ IS IN THE DETAIL: Lake Forest High School’s Devin Reich (right) takes on Stevenson’s Michael Kordek during the 182-pound final at NSC Meet. Reich became a two-time all-NSC performer last weekend. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

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It took her seven days to climb the mountain in Africa last summer. Her name is Nina

Wilson. The Lake Forest High School senior is a 5-foot-9 hockey player. The mountain’s name is Kilimanjaro, a bit taller at 19,000 feet. Before scaling it with other teens on a Moondance Adventure, Wilson, a Chicago Blackhawks fan, packed a Black-hawks-themed sign she had de-signed.

Wilson followed through on her plan to unpack the sign at the summit and pose for a picture with it. She then tweeted the image to her followers in North America. The Blackhawks, reign-ing Stanley Cup champions, fa-vorited the tweet.

“Super rewarding, one of the pivotal moments in my life,” Wilson, also a conqueror of Mount Shasta in California, says. “It also was super hard, mentally and physically.”

Wilson, along with her Scouts teammates, found herself atop the girls hockey world in Illinois in 2013. Lake Forest reached that height when it defeated Fenwick 2-0 for the state championship at the United Center, home of Wilson’s favorite National Hockey League team. She was a freshman then. She is well into the “third period” of her varsity hockey career this month, a co-captain, a staple on Lake Forest’s special teams, a cutup around her teammates. It is 30 minutes before a game at Lake Forest College, the Scouts’ home rink. The team’s other co-captain, senior forward Lilly Bianchi, is in the middle of an interview, answering questions about Wilson. Wilson strolls by Bianchi, playfully flicks some cold water at Bianchi’s face, keeps strolling.

“Exhibit A,” a smiling Bianchi, beads of water migrating down the left side of her face, says of Wilson’s fun-loving side. “She makes me laugh multiple times each day. She makes all of us laugh. On the ice she’s an energy player, excited to be there. Her energy energizes her teammates. There’s nothing subtle about her.”

In 18 games for an 8-6-6 squad, through Feb. 1, Wilson had scored five goals and pro-vided four assists, her most recent tally coming in a 1-1 tie versus reigning state champion Latin School. She also had an impact at the other end of the rink

against Latin’s Romans, blocking dangerous shots and clearing others. A late Wilson block pre-served the stalemate.

“She is not a huge goal scorer, but she does other things for us, reliable things,” Lake Forest hockey coach Liz Zorn says.

“Nina doesn’t have a specialty. I consider her a utility player, valu-able on offense and defense, on our power play and penalty kill. She sets up her teammates well, always looking to do that, and she works hard to create turn-overs. Her personality … it’s

unique, and it’s the best, the kind you want from one of your leaders in the locker room. She has a knack for hockey and a knack for making everybody laugh, coaches included.”

Wilson was five years old, maybe six, when she showed up

late for her very first Falcons Hockey Association practice at a rink in Highland Park. Her team-mates were all the way at the other end of the rink. Shortly after her blades hit the ice near a rink door, Wilson fell, no laughing matter — except for some of the wit-nesses. Wilson picked herself up, red face included, and skated toward the group.

“I was mortified,” Wilson recalls. “It got better from there.”

Wilson played for Falcons teams until she was eight and skated for Winter Club boys teams in Lake Forest until she was 12. She dabbled in field hockey, in tennis, in other sports. None generated the kind of thrills like ice hockey had. Ice hockey was fast and tough and mountain-climbing exciting. Wilson stuck with ice hockey. It developed her communication and leadership skills. It gave her opportunities to enjoy team dynamics, the serious kind and the not-so-serious kind. See Nina Wilson control the puck and pass the puck. See and hear Nina Wilson crack up an entire bench of Scouts.

“Nina is spunky, quirky, fun,” Scouts forward Marissa Ga-rapolo, a Libertyville High School senior, says. “She lets players know what she’s thinking. She can get under your skin, but she does it in a loving way, the way a big brother gets under the skin of his little sister. In games you don’t just see her drive, her hustle, her de-termination to dig, to keep digging for a loose puck; you also see how happy she is to be on the ice and playing a sport she loves.”

Back in 2013, Lake Forest’s state championship season, Wilson and her teammates toured the Chicago Blackhawks’ locker room at the United Center and watched the Blackhawks practice. Wilson got to see her favorite Blackhawk, Jonathan Toews, also a captain, also an effective two-way player. Her heart must have raced. Her goose bumps must have swelled into Volkswa-gen Beetle dimensions.

Her excitement level must have reached a personal-best height, climbing gear unnecessary.


RISE & GLIDE Lake Forest hockey club relies on top-shelf efforts

from indispensible — and mountain conqueror — Wilson

WIL-POWER: Lake Forest Scouts captain Nina Wilson tracks the action during a recent game at Lake Forest College. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER.


SPORTS

Erin Dowdle sat on basketball benches last winter. And sat. And sat some more. She was

a Loyola Academy junior guard at the time, athletic and eager and positive. She was a reserve player.

She backed up reserve players.The Northbrook resident played

in 13 of the Ramblers’ 29 varsity games in 2014-15. She scored 21 points.

“It was different,” Dowdle recalls. “I was learning while sitting. I had never had to do that in a basketball season. My role was to push the starters in practice and make sure they were ready for games. I did that. I accepted that. The sitting … that pushed me, drove me.

“I did not want to sit that much this year, my senior year.”

The 5-foot-7 Dowdle sits at the start of basketball games this winter. She also pops off Loyola Academy’s bench, one of the first to do so, in the first quarter of games. The quintessential substitute sparks the team (offensively and/or defen-sively), upsets the opposing team and gives a starter time to breathe normally again. Dowdle provides all of that for Ramblers coach Jeremy Schoenecker’s club, 18-6 through Feb. 1 and winners of 11 of its last 13 games. She loves to shoot three-pointers. If a teammate is dribbling the ball and Dowdle is open in three-point terrain, she leans toward the dribbler and clap-claps for the ball. Every team needs a fearless, confident shooter. Erin Dowdle is Loyola Academy’s fear-less, confident shooter.

“Erin can shoot well from any-where,” Ramblers senior Ryan Flanagan, another reserve guard, says. “She has a good shot. She likes to shoot, wants to shoot. She’s also really aggressive, all over the court. Erin really cares; that shows when she’s on the court. Erin gives it her all.”

Some of Dowdle’s numbers, after 24 games: 6.1 points per game, 30 percent shooting from three-point range. The LA team leader in charges taken is the 412th Dowdle to have enrolled at LA. That’s only a slight exaggeration. Dowdle says one of her second cousins, Ryan, became the 54th Dowdle from the continent-vast Dowdle family tree (parents, sib-lings, aunts, uncles, first cousins,

second cousins) to take a class at the school in Wilmette. Erin was Dowdle No. 55. “Dowdle” is Loyola Academy-speak for “Smith.”

Dowdle absorbed two charges in a game against. St. Ignatius this winter. Spark, spark. She netted seven of her 10 points in the fourth quarter of a 50-45 defeat of visiting Mother McAuley on Jan. 19. Flares. She nailed a trio of treys and tied Ramblers senior forward Liz Satter for team-high scoring honors (11 points) in a 54-11 rout of host Carmel Catholic on Jan. 21. Boost, boost, boost. Dowdle’s hands au-thored eight points and grabbed seven rebounds in LA’s 46-13 win two days later at Regina Domini-can. Oomph. Only one other Rambler played more minutes than Dowdle did (19 minutes, 12 seconds) against Regina’s Panthers.

Stand up and give a round of applause for the former sitter.

“Some of the games she’s having, scoring 10, 11 points, those are great numbers for a sub,” Schoenecker says. “She’s our deep threat. She hits shot for us, big shots. Her overall play gives us energy. Erin does a good job of finding ways to get open and finding the good angles, the best angles, to take [against defenses].”

A fun moment, involving Dowdle and her love for the three ball: Loyola Academy was in Mesa, Arizona, playing in a holiday tour-nament in late December. Dowdle had the ball, hustling during a fast break. Flanagan was there. Flana-gan should finish describing the fun moment.

“Nobody was around her during the fast break,” Flanagan recounts. “Wide open. All she had to do was take it in for an easy layup. But she stopped instead, looked for the three-point line, dribbled behind it and started to shoot. We’re all on the bench, going, ‘No, no, no, no! Don’t shoot it!’ Well, she shot it. It went in. Erin was kind of laughing after it went in.”

One of Dowdle’s brothers, Mark (LA, Class of 2015), was a serious athlete in his four years of prep seasons, a football/basketball/lacrosse player. He now plays football and lacrosse at the Uni-versity of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mark Dowdle paced last winter’s LA hoopsters —

maybe the world — in charges taken, dives for loose balls, floor burns. His floor burns suffered floor burns. His little sister paid attention, close attention, when-ever he played in a basketball game. Erin’s other siblings are Cara, 24, and Brendan, 21. Erin is well aware of the longstanding Dowdle Reputation, capital ‘R’, in sports circles.

“Athletic, hard-working, deter-mined,” Dowdle, also a varsity lacrosse defender at LA, says. “Whenever I play in a game for Loyola, basketball or lacrosse, I want to represent my family well. My siblings, they always played hard and worked hard when they competed for Loyola teams. I loved watching Mark play basket-ball, the way he’d go for every loose ball. I like it when there’s a 50/50 ball and I’m near it. I’ll do any-thing to win it. And taking a charge … it’s one of the my favor-ite things to do on a basketball court. It gives my team energy.”

Notable: Loyola Academy’s girls basketball team fell to host Maine South 31-26 on Jan. 27 and beat visiting De La Salle 66-43 in a Girls Catholic Athletic Confer-ence Tournament opener on Jan. 30. Ramblers senior forward Liz Satter scored 14 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the loss and hit for 22 points in the victory. Junior guard Madison Kane scored seven points in the loss and tossed in 17 in the tournament game. … In its two wins in a three-day stretch last month, LA allowed an average of 12 points. LA beat host Carmel Catholic 54-11 on Jan. 21 and host Regina Dominican 46-13 on Jan. 23. Satter poured in 23 points in the game at Regina, hitting nine of 11 shots from the field and four of five from the free-throw line. Freshman guard Julia Martinez dished a team-high nine assists, and junior forward Kasidy Caldwell grabbed seven boards. Ramblers senior guard Mary Cormier had six steals. Kane fin-ished with seven points, three steals, two assists and three forced turnovers. … Ramblers reserve guard Erin Dowdle took eight two-point shots as a junior last winter. She made seven of them.


INSTANT IMPACT Dowdle comes off the bench to give Ramblers shot(s) in the arm

Erin Dowdle of the Ramblers drives to the basket against Mother McAuley. The senior has been a significant contributor in reserve role. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER

SPORTS


FLIPSIDE | GIRLS GYMNASTICS

CSL North Meet: Avery Spitz led Highland Park at the Central Suburban Conference North Division meet at Niles North High School on Jan. 29. The senior placed seventh in the all-around (32.925) as the Giants placed fourth (123.10) in the team standings behind Glenbrook North (133.775), Deerfield (132.225) and the host Vikings (127.95).

Spitz finished in a tie for fifth on beam (8.475), while she was sixth in two events (8.60 on vault, 8.50 on floor).

HP’s Emily Aronin ended up 12th in the all-around (31.05). Her best score came on floor (12th, 8.0). Teammate Ayla Ochoa finished 13th on bars (7.325) and beam (7.765), while Aliana Velick was 14th on beam (7.65).

CSL South: New Trier’s Emma Jane Rohrer was the star of this show.

The sophomore was the all-around champ (36.90) at the Central Suburban League South Division meet at New Trier High School on Jan. 29. Her highlights included first-place finishes on vault (9.325), uneven bars (9.05) and floor exercise (9.50). She took fifth on balance beam (9.025).

Rohrer’s efforts helped New Trier to a second-place finish (140.525) behind Maine South (140.725) in the team standings. Glenbrook South came in third with a 139.775.

NT’s Taylor Kwok had a solid meet. She shared runner-up honors on vault (9.30) with GBS’s Katie Wahl. She took eighth-place on bars (8.35), while she tied Wahl for eighth on floor (8.85). She ended up sixth in the all-around (34.775).

The Trevians had the meet’s top team scores on two events: vault (36.575) and floor (36.75). Ana Dabrowski shined on floor (2nd, 9.25). Abby Smith helped the NT cause by taking third on floor (9.150), fourth on beam (9.050) and ninth on vault (8.875). Team-mate Lauren Chung was seventh on vault (9.075) and 11th on bars (8.025). The Trevians also received help from Ilana Spitz on floor (8th-tie, 8.85) and Caroline Hartman on bars (13th-tie, 7.70).

North Suburban Conference: Lake Forest’s Jessica Pasquesi ended up as a top-10 finisher in the all-around (32.35) at the North Suburban Conference meet at Stevenson High School on Jan. 28. The Scouts scored a 124.075 to place fifth in the six-team field. Mundelein won it all with a 143.10.

Pasquesi’s best finish came on the balance beam (11th, 8.15).Anika Boyd and Emma Hoshino shared 14th place on vault (8.60).

HOOPLA | BOYS BASKETBALL

Loyola: Sparked by Ramar Evans (19 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists), the host Ramblers (10-11, 4-3) came out on top in their War on the Shore game against Notre Dame 54-45 on Jan. 30.

LA’s other stat leaders included Will Plodzeen (12 points), Brandon Danowski (6 points), Eddie Trapp (6 points), Andre White Jr. (6 points) and Matt Lynch (7 rebounds, 2 steals, 2 blocks). The tourney raised $2,090.00 for the Danny Did Foundation.

On Jan. 29, LA lost a tough one to visiting St. Ignatius 44-41. The Ramblers were led in scoring by Evans (12 points), Trapp (9 points) and White (9 points) and Julian DeGuzman (9 points). Evans added six rebounds and four assists, while White had three assists and two blocks. Will Plodzeen led the team in rebounds (9) and assists (5).

New Trier: The Trevians took down a formidable foe in their War

on the Shore matchup at Loyola Academy on Jan. 30. They beat Jacobs 47-31 to claim their eighth straight win. The Trevians improved to 13-8. Jacobs fell to 16-4.

Dylan Horvitz led NT with 10 points. Colin Winchester tallied nine points and seven rebounds, while Jack French and Aaron Pelz had six points each.

On Jan. 29, senior guard Tino Malnati tallied 18 points to lead New Trier to a 58-45 win over host Waukegan in the Dog Pound. The Trevians improved to 5-2 in the CSL South.

Lake Forest: This one will go down as an instant classic. The Scouts topped host Libertyville 78-73 in double overtime on Jan. 29 in a key North Suburban Conference Lake Division game.

Lorenzo Edwards, Justin McMahon and Brian Stickler stood out for LF. Edwards wound up with 27 points and 16 rebounds. His clutch three-pointer from the left corner at the end of regulation sent the game into overtime. McMahon (18 points, 4 assists, 4 steals) nailed a huge three-pointer to put the Scouts (12-7, 5-3) ahead for good in the second OT. Stickler had one of his best outings of the year: 15 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists. Connor Hanekamp also gave the team a lift, tallying 10 points off the bench.

Amazingly, the Scouts came back after trailing by 24 points early in the third quarter.

Lake Forest also took down NSC foe Lake Zurich on Jan. 26.Earlier that day, Edwards received a scholarship offer from Furman

University.Hours later, the 6-foot-7 senior showed why he’s in such high

demand. Edwards, who also has been offered by Loyola University and Tennessee State, came up with a huge second half to lift Lake Forest to a 44-38 victory over the visiting Bears.

Edwards poured in 16 second-half points to finish with game honors (20 points). He added seven rebounds and three blocks.

His statement play was a dunk with 46 seconds left.Edwards was hardly a one-man show. McMahon tallied eight

points in the first quarter and added a pair of clutch free throws down the stretch to finish with 10 points. Hanekamp also knocked down two key free throws in the closing minute, while Stickler pulled down nine rebounds, including four in the fourth quarter.

Lake Zurich came into the contest leading the Lake Division and riding a six-game winning streak.

DANCE

Lake Forest: LF’s varsity blue dance team earned runner-up honors in the large varsity poms division at the United Dance As-sociation (UDA) National Dance Team Championships in Orlando, Florida on Jan. 31.

Competing at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, LF finished second to Floyd Central High School of Indiana.

“This year was one of the most intense competitions we’ve seen with incredibly talented teams in every division,” said LF coach Nikki Lazzaretto, who is assisted by Jennifer Van Skyock. “I’m so proud of what we accomplished. A second-place finish at nationals is a tremendous result, representing enormous dedication and effort by our talented team.”

In addition to taking second in poms, Lake Forest finished 7th overall in the jazz competition.

Lake Forest has put together quite a run. The team won na-tional titles in poms in 2013 and 2014, while it placed second in 2015.

Meanwhile, three members of the Lake Forest squad have earned all-North Suburban Conference honors: Elly Larson, Meredeth Delaney and Tegan Morcott.

Scoreboard Watching

Highland Park High School’s Avery Spitz, seen here in earlier action, placed seventh in the all-around at the CSL North meet. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER


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Tom Tropp waits for his oatmeal and English muffin to arrive at Egg Harbor

Café in Lake Forest. His audience of one waits for the same fare. Tropp has a story to tell. It is a how-I-met-my-future-wife story. His eyes dance a little faster. He inches closer to the table.

I am tempted to say, “On your mark, get set, go.”

Tropp is ready, more than ready, to narrate.

“It was 1966,” the Lake Forest resident begins. “I’m attending Loras College, an all-male school at the time. I was a freshman. This woman, Maripat, is attending Clarke College, an all-female school. She was a freshman. Both colleges are in Dubuque, Iowa, about a mile apart. Clarke offers a program in computer science. That was new back then. A com-puter science major? Few had ever heard of such a major. So Clarke College organized this dance for Loras and Clarke students, but before the dance, men from Loras and women from Clarke an-swered all kinds of questions … questions about hobbies and heroes, things like that.

“Somebody entered the answers in a computer, and I ended up being matched with Maripat. We danced together in a gym that night.”

Tom and Maripat, a match made in The Hawkeye State, have been married for 45 years. Tom grew up in Evergreen Park, Maripat in Beverly, a little more than a mile apart. Tom, 68, is Vice President of corporate ethics and sustainability for Arthur J. Gal-lagher & Co., a global brokerage for commercial insurance, em-ployment benefits and risk man-agement solutions. The company is headquartered in Itasca. Gal-lagher bought Tropp’s insurance agency in 2007 and named Tropp its ethics officer two years later. Tropp visits thousands of Gal-lagher employees, in the U.S. and

abroad, each year. The company does not fly him to tell stories.

“I call the visits my ‘listening sessions,’ ” Tropp says.

The company has a set of 25 principles known as “The Gal-lagher Way,” established in 1984. One of the 25 is, “We push for excellence.” No. 7 on the list is, “Empathy for the other person is not a weakness.” The thrust of Tropp’s job is to help Gallagher employees adhere to the spirit of each principle.

“What I often do is present the Beatitudes in a secular way during my visits,” Tropp says. “I like to incorporate a Beatitude — ‘Blessed are the meek,” for example — while posing a question to managers. I’ll ask, ‘Who would benefit the least in your office if your office were to experience pros-perity?’ Maybe it ’s Martha, the reception-ist. Maybe it’s Martha, non-salar ied, without bene-f i t s . Bu t Martha is the first face of the company that a p o t en t i a l client sees. That ’s a pretty important face, right? I then ask the manag-ers, ‘What are you doing to acknowledge Martha’s contri-butions and celebrate her worth to the company?’ ”

Tropp, a former teacher (1969-72) at Mother McAuley High School in Chicago, manages to find time to address other audi-ences, to listen to other audi-ences. MBA students from the University of Notre Dame and Loyola University took a break from managerial economics lec-tures to hear Tropp discuss the commitment to values in the workplace, among other topics, last month. Two hours before a certain breakfast at Egg Harbor Café in his hometown last month,

Tropp delivered a presentation focusing on the challenges of upholding a Christian life in an aggressive work environment to parishioners at Kenilworth Union Church.

“Empathy, humility … these aren’t weaknesses, wimpy traits, in the workplace,” Tropp says. “They are strengths. I believe businesses are moving away from arrogance and back to integrity. More and more people are turned

off by arrogance. And corporate social responsibility — I see more of that. That’s a huge thing.”

No small thing: Tropp re-turned to school at the age of 55. He had applied to the Univer-sity of Chicago Divinity School, interested in getting a master’s degree in religious ethics. One of his sons, Danny, was more than capable to run his father’s company, Tropp & Company, Inc., when his father had to

attend classes (three days a week) and cram for exams. “I ran the company when Danny was in school,” the father says. “Why shouldn’t he run it when I was in school?” The university’s dean of admissions asked for permission to chose the first class for Tropp. Tropp granted it. The dean chose “Religion in Colonial America,” taught by Professor Catherine Brekus.

The storyteller in Tropp returns.

“I woke up on my first day of school, not sure

what I should wear,” Tropp

begins. “It was September, a

hot day. I asked my w i f e , ‘ W h a t should I w e a r ? ’ Mar ipa t told me,

‘Wear what you would wear to an

i n f o r m a l meeting.’ I put on

khakis and a golf shirt. The shirt was blue, navy blue, I think. I get to class and sit in the second row, off to the side. Students walk in, thinking I’m the professor. I couldn’t blame them for thinking that; I was older than most of the professors.

“Catherine,” he adds, “was great, just great. She mothered me through that class, helped me in so many ways. I’d turn in a paper and she’d make notes on it. I’d read the notes. The next day, we’d discuss the notes. Good arguments. We had some good arguments.”

Several years later, Tropp, a senior citizen to some, an ageless commuter student to many others, was a fourth-year gradu-ate student at the University of Chicago. Graduation Day arrived. It was June 2007. He did not have to ask his wife for wardrobe advice on that day. Maripat’s husband wore a cap and a gown.

“Graduation Day was a hoot,” Tropp recalls. “It was a beautiful day, 75 degrees and sunny. We had a reception at our house after the graduation ceremony. All of our children [five] were there, along with six grandkids.”

It might have been the most eventful week in Tom Tropp’s life. He had celebrated a birthday, his 59th, before Graduation Day. He had sold his company to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., also before Graduation Day. A hat trick of milestones.

Tropp loves to ride his bicycle, sometimes for 50 miles, a trail in Delavan, Wisconsin, among his favorite tracks. He started playing a classical guitar five years, acting on his longtime belief that every child should learn to read music and produce music. One of his favorite all-time fly fishing part-ners is former Chicago Bears offensive lineman and former Lake Forest resident Jimbo Covert. From 1985 to 2005, Tom and Maripat provided temporary foster care for more than 75 at-risk children waiting for adop-tive parents. People who live a full life are happy people. Tom Tropp is a blissful man, full of spirit, brimming with stories to share.

A final story. The setting: Iowa, late 1960s.

“I saw Maripat’s car one day,” Tropp says. “It was March. I was a senior at Loras. We hadn’t dated since that dance in the gym; we were friends. I thought about asking her out when I saw her car on that day. We ended up having a burger and going to a movie, typical college date. That was when the courtship started.”

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