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WILMETTE – Wilmette residents turned out in large numbers to a Plan

Commission meeting concerning a proposed 20-unit affordable housing development on the site of the former American Legion Post at 1925 Wilmette Avenue.

The standing-room only crowd listened to Richard Koenig, execu-tive director of the nonprofit Housing Opportunity Development Corporation (HODC) present his case to the Plan Commission. The proposed development would be constructed and managed by HODC and includes a three-story building containing 20 affordable studio and one-bedroom rental units and 20 parking spaces. The apart-ments would be on the second and third stories of the building, with a common area on the first floor. Rents range from $335 to $615/month, targeting households in the low-income range of $30,000-$35,000/annually.

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The folks who live on the same street in Evanston as Freda Love Smith don’t realize it

but they have a modern rock legend living in their midst. Smith, whose tasty memoir Red Velvet Underground (Agate Books, 2015) has just been published, made her name as the drummer in the in-fluential Boston rock band Blake Babies alongside Juliana Hatfield (of Lemonheads fame). She also went on to perform in bands such as The Mysteries of Life and Some Girls. Smith writes about her music career, as well as mother-hood, marriage and life, in the memoir. I spoke with Smith shortly before the publication of the book.

Gregg Shapiro: Freda, Red Velvet Underground, the title of your “rock memoir with recipes,” is truly inspired. Was the title your invention or was it a group effort?

Freda Love Smith: The title actually came from a conversation

I had with an editor a couple of years ago. At the time, I’d started drafting the book and it was really built around the frame of doing cooking lessons with my son Jonah. There wasn’t a lot of music in it; there wasn’t a lot about me and my background. It was about this year (of lessons), it was much simpler. An editor was interested in it, but she said, “I really want to hear more about you. I really think you need to break this frame open a little bit and allow for your past to come in.” I got really excited about that. I thought it sounded fun. I started experimenting with it and it unfolded really naturally. When I started playing music, when I moved to Boston and started the Blake Babies, I was really close in age to the age of my son when I was doing these cooking lessons with him. It was really easy to connect those dots and to start to find the patterns of connection. It made it so much more fun to allow my whole self

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INDEX

[ NEWS ]

12 red velvet underground Freda Love Smith’s Delicious Memoir.

13 wilmette housing project Residents voice concern at packed Plan Commission meeting.

[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ]

16 a compelling piece of theatre Review of ‘Marjorie Prime’

17 north shorts Irrational Numbers

18 north shore foodie A trip to deli heaven

[ REAL ESTATE ]

22 ��open houses Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.

23 �houses of the week Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

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48 big game on the line Loyola Academy’s offensive line has been impressive all season. The talented blockers will be challenged in Class 8A state quarterfinal showdown against Homewood-Flossmoor.

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L AKE FOREST—Most of Lake Forest’s annual tree lighting festivities will be

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After running the event for the past 31 years, the city is handing the reins to the Friends of Lake Forest Parks and Recreation Foundation, who will organize this years’ ceremony and support-ing events from 2:30 to 5:15 p.m. Nov. 27 in Market Square.

During the City Council meeting Nov. 2, City Manager Robert Kiely Jr. said the founda-tion, which is already organizing the city’s annual Fourth of July celebration, will take over Lake Forest’s major holiday event as well.

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Beside the usual live ice sculpt-ing, arrival of Santa Claus, carol-ing, dancing and tree lighting, there will be an added effort to make the downtown merchants a bigger part of the festivities, according to Douglass.

“We want to encourage people to go into the shops,” Douglass said. “In the past people would only go inside to ask to use the

bathroom. I’m hoping (the mer-chants) will serve refreshments and stay open later.”

The foundation is adding in-centive to send people into the stores on a shopping mission. Douglass said those attending can get a passport for entry in a drawing to win a Family Pack for Lake Forest’s 2016 Fourth of July celebration and fireworks.

“The participants get their passport signed by all the par-ticipating merchants and they can win a (drawing for a) backstage pass for the Fourth of July.” Dou-glass said. “They get to visit with the musicians backstage. People pay a lot of money to do that. It’s worth hundreds of dollars.”

Douglass said the foundation will also provide a comfort station outside for people rather asking the merchants for assistance. He said it will be heated and akin to a mobile home on the inside.

Browsing the stores and com-piling holiday wish lists is another way to get the holiday shopping

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“It’s a wonderful opportunity to go window shopping, make wish lists (to leave at the stores) and come back on Dec. 1 for Shop and Stroll,” Rolek said, referring to a Chamber-spon-sored event when some mer-chants offering special values.

Gorton Community Center will also be getting into the act this year with a holiday movie starting the day’s official festivi-ties at 2:30 p.m. in the John & Nancy Hughes Theater. Brenda Dick, the center’s executive direc-tor, said they are still in the process of selecting the film but are happy to help kick off the day’s events.

“Our mission is bringing the community together and being

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After the movie, Douglass said live ice sculpting will go on outside courtesy of Art Below Zero at 3 p.m. followed by Santa’s arrival at 4 p.m., caroling by the Lake Forest High School Cho-risters at 4:30 p.m. and a perfor-mance by the Lake Forest Dance Academy at 5 p.m. The lights will go on at 5:15 p.m.

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GS: You write in the book about the scarcity of influential female drummers. The first one that comes to my mind is Karen Carpenter.

FLS: Oh, yes, she was a won-derful drummer.

GS: Then, of course, Maureen Tucker of The Velvet Under-ground. Were either or both Tucker and Carpenter influen-tial for you?

FLS: Maureen Tucker was

hugely influential. The Velvet Underground, in general, was the band that made me the most excited about the idea of playing music. I wouldn’t say that I emulate her style and I can’t really approach her level of ability, the fact that she was a woman was initially inspiring to me. Maybe because of that, I never ques-tioned becoming a drummer. There were definitely few ex-amples of women drummers, but the ones that were there were extraordinary. She was definitely the foremost one for sure.

GS: What do you think of Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney’s drumming?

FLS: She’s an outstanding drummer. I feel like she’s the heart and soul of that band. I love her drumming. I haven’t had a chance to see her play live, but I think she’s exceptionally good.

GS: 2015 has been a big year for women writing about rock. In addition to your book, there is also Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon, Jessica Hopper’s The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, as well as forthcoming books such as Patti Smith’s M Train, Carrie Brownstein’s Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl and Chrissie Hynde’s Reckless: My Life as a Pretender. Why do you think this is happening at this time?

FLS: I noticed it, but I have no idea. I think it’s really exciting that all of these voices are emerg-ing. It seems like sometimes that happens on the cultural landscape where a certain kind of book or media will just spring into being all at once. I certainly am aware of it since I have a memoir coming out. I’m kind of scratch-ing my head wondering where I fit into all of this. I’m not as famous as any of these women. I’m not as cool as Kim Gordon. [Laughs] I’m just hoping that I have a really good macaroni and cheese recipe. There’s something to distinguish it in that it’s not just a rock memoir, it’s also about food. I’ve been super aware (of the other memoirs) and wonder-ing, “Why now?” [Laughs] I wish I had an answer.

GS: There’s a wonderful passage in chapter five where you say, “I hadn’t talked with my kids about my rock life...” Were you surprised to realize that you hadn’t shared such a major part of your life with your sons?

FLS: I’ve definitely had moments where I kicked myself (about it). I think maybe because there’s a lot that’s been uncon-ventional about our family, about their upbringing, that maybe I thought I had to make an effort to make a “normal” family and not dwell too much on these other aspects of my life, my musical career. I definitely think they are interested in that. Giving them a fuller picture of my life, my background, has been good for them. Sometimes you can over-think it with young children. Think you are protecting them and trying to make things stable and normal. But I don’t want to overstate that. There was nothing terrible that I needed to protect them from. In seeking normalcy, I neglected to let them see a fuller picture. I think kids can handle it [laughs]. It makes them look at me a little bit differently and maybe changes the way they ap-proach their own lives. I think it’s been good to open that up and let that be something that the family’s aware of. I’m playing music again. I have my drum set up in my bedroom. My son Henry, who’s 16 now, when he has friends over, they walk by and see his mom in her room practic-ing her drums. It feels good to be completely open about that. This is just a part of our family.

GS: Food and cooking were important you when you were growing up and as a mother you found it to be a bonding and educational experience with your sons Jonah and Henry. Would you say that in a way, Red Velvet Underground is a kind of how-to book?

FLS: I think that’s one way to look at it. If I could do this with my sons, anyone can. I certainly don’t have any kind of perfect domestic life. Everybody’s really busy and we don’t have a lot of money. Even still, I found a way to conduct this experiment and have this experience with my sons. I think it could be read as an approachable how-to. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be a valuable experience of teaching your kids how to cook.

GS: I also love the story about how your first band Blake Babies’ name came to be.

FLS: It was something we agreed upon before we went to a poetry reading by (Allen) Ginsberg. We couldn’t think of a band name, so we all agreed that we would ask him what we should name our band after his reading. Whatever words came out of his mouth – that would be the name of our band. It was a little bit scary because we had made a pact. Even if he said, “I don’t know,” that would have been our band name [laughs]. Fortunately, he was Allen Gins-berg and he didn’t say, “I don’t know.” He looked at us and he said “Blake Babies.” It was a direct reference to (poet) William Blake who really influ-enced and intrigued Ginsberg. In fact, at that poetry reading, which was at Harvard Univer-sity, he’d lead the audience in a Blake sing-along. A piece of Blake’s poetry had been set to music and we all sang. I think he was thinking about poetry and music, and we must have appeared very young to him, so I’m not surprised he put the

“babies” on the end. He laughed when he said it. It was really a sweet moment. We got really lucky [laughs]. We asked the right person and he said the right thing.

GS: You live in Evanston, which is also home to singer/songwriter Nora O’Connor, whom you mention in the book, as well as Jason Narducy, who plays in Bob Mould’s band and has his own place in punk and modern rock history. Would it be fair to say you have found a music community for yourself in Evanston?

FLS: I’m really happy to say that yes I do feel that way. I’m actually working with Jason in a couple of ways. Evanston has ended up being a really good place to be for an aging indie rock musician. Jason has a band called Split Single, and my husband Jake plays bass in the band. Also, as Jake and I have slowly, casually restarted our band The Mysteries of Life, Jason plays bass with us. We recently played a gig with him. Jason’s a friend and someone that we work with. Nora, too. I’ve done a gig with her. We both helped out Walter (Salas-Hu-mara) of The Silos when he was in town playing at Schuba’s. Nora sang with him and I played drums. I’ve met these amazing people. They inspire me and they’re my friends now. They’re people that I work and play with. We’ve been in Evanston for five years and it feels like home now. A lot of that has to do with the like-minded musicians that we’ve been lucky enough to meet and work with.

FREDA Cont. from PG 1

Freda Love Smith at her home in Evanston. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

“I’m not as

famous as

any of these

women. I’m

not as cool as

Kim Gordon.

[Laughs] I’m

just hoping

that I have a

really good

macaroni and

cheese recipe.”

–Freda Love Smith

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WILMETTE Cont. from PG 1

“We are not just doing this for ourselves and the company. We are doing this for the larger com-munity,” Koenig said. The building would be named Cleland Place, after Wilmette resident Jean Cleland, who was the first chair of the Wilmette Housing Com-mission and served on HODC’s board for many years.

Koenig emphasized HODC’s ties to Wilmette, noting that the non-profit housing developer was founded in the village in 1983 and grew out of the fair housing move-ment of the 1960s. “We continue to feel proud of those roots [in Wilmette],” he said.

HODC is seeking a special use permit and zoning relief that in-cludes a three-story building on a site that only permits two-and-a-half stories and no buffer in the south of the lot where 10 feet is normally required. The non-profit is also seeking a number of variances on parking. While typically 30 parking spaces are required for a 20-unit building, the proposed development will offer 20 spaces. HODC also plans to include parking that is at grade and not enclosed, both of which

are required by zoning ordinanc-es.

The development falls within the planned unit development process (PUD), which is a con-solidated review process intended to allow flexibility in the develop-ment of a commercial property, according to Jonathan Adler, di-rector of community development. Among other standards, HODC must show a public benefit to the community in exchange for zoning relief, Adler wrote in a report to the Plan Commission.

Koenig pointed to the project’s affordable housing with set-asides of four units for residents with disabilities and four units for vet-erans as meeting the objectives of the village’s Comprehensive Plan and providing public benefit. He also pointed to HODC’s plans to improve drainage on the property as benefit to the larger commu-nity.

But after nearly two hours, residents attending the meeting became impatient to share their views during the public comment period. Residents continued to line up at the podium, patiently waiting their turn to speak during a public comment period that lasted until nearly 10:30 p.m.

Many residents expressed concern over a project in an area that already suffers from conges-tion. “It is a traffic nightmare at that intersection,” Wilmette resi-dent Karen Hogan said, referring to the intersection of Ridge Road and Wilmette Avenue. Throughout the evening residents spoke about the traffic, objecting to HODC’s two traffic studies as a misrepre-sentation of the reality.

“I know what I see and I know how I feel. I know what is there,” Paul Kesselman said, who lives in the house directly west of the prop-erty. Kesselman questioned where visitors to the building would park, since there is no parking on Wil-mette Avenue.

Residents also expressed concern that HODC is seeking too many zoning exceptions, that the build-ing is too large for the lot and that property values will be affected. Wilmette resident Joe Cohen who lives on Hollywood Court near the property noted that his home was recently appraised at $50,000 lower because it is situated near town-homes. “This will have an absolute impact on every person in this room’s home values,” he said.

Many residents expressed support for affordable housing, but

felt the project was not a good fit for the community. “I am a big fan of low-income housing,” Wilmette resident Kathy Myalls said. “Why isn’t this targeted at families who will set down roots? Why is it targeting a group who aren’t from here and won’t stay here?” she asked. Myalls further lamented that this could be a missed opportunity to provide children from low-income families an opportunity to attend excellent schools.

Residents raised safety concerns, describing HODC’s apartment

building at 319 Dempster Avenue in Evanston as crime-ridden. Wil-mette resident Colleen Reese read from an Evanston police activity report for 319 Dempster listing 294 police activities. “It is in the best interest of our children not to have the [project] at 1925 Wil-mette Avenue as proposed,” she said.

But many spoke out in favor of the development too. “I rise in favor of this project,” said Kristen Uffel-man, rector of St. Augustine’s Church in Wilmette. “I hope we

can be the kind of community that values difference.”

Various members of the housing advocacy group Wilmette Cares spoke in support of the project. Wilmette Cares member Ellen McManus has a child with dis-abilities and spoke in favor of the project that has units set aside for residents with disabilities. Wil-mette Cares President Lorelei McClure urged residents to keep an open mind. “There is nobody here that doesn’t support affordable housing,” she said.

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‘MARJORIE PRIME’ A COMPELLING PIECEBY JILL SODERBERG

In a sterile assisted-living facility, there’s little new memory-making in the life of 86-year-old Marjo-

rie, but are her memories of days gone by life-sustaining? Enriching? Could revisiting them be thera-peutic? Indeed, yes, according to Senior Serenity, which has ar-ranged for the congenial visitor who is chatting with Marjorie. Turns out the mysterious gentle-man is a holographic double, or “prime,” of Walter, Marjorie’s de-ceased husband, as a young man. “I feel like I have to perform for you,” she tells him, unsure of the arrangement. But he, programmed to supply her with stories of their life together, recalls the day when they saw My Best Friend’s Wedding and he proposed to her. She settles into the conversation, and so too does the initially per-plexed audience once it is revealed that it’s the mid-21st century in Jordan Harrison’s “Marjorie Prime” and that the concept of the pro-grammed prime, at first elusive, is at the center of this compelling

play, exquisitely rendered by Writers Theatre.

In the wake of the Spike Jonze film Her, artificial intelligence is commanding attention, especially on Chicago stages this fall. “Mar-jorie Prime” is joined by Theater Wit’s “The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence,” which also explores the idea of programmed machine as companion. While “Marjorie Prime” playwright Har-rison places his characters (and their primes) in the future, his 2011 “Maple and Vine” sent a couple who sought simplicity time-trav-eling back into the idealized 1950s. Both plays feature audacious con-cepts, but they are populated by fallible creatures whose humanity enriches the narrative. In the case of “Marjorie Prime,” that the char-acters experience regret and the consequences of repression gives emotional ballast to a play based on an artificial conceit.

Marjorie’s daughter, Tess, at once icy and anxious, is suspicious of the prime therapy for her mother while the amiable Jon, her husband, eagerly embraces the endeavor,

supplying Walter Prime with data to enhance his conversation (which is how the primes are pro-grammed). As the family history emerges, the audience learns about Tess’s brother Damian’s suicide, which plunged his mother into grief. “I hated him, Damian, for changing her,” admits Tess. It’s unclear whether Marjorie was self-absorbed or merely distant from her daughter. That she enjoyed a rich love life provides some of the play’s humor—and there is humor, even in this 80-minute exploration of loss (and not only loss of memory).

Director Kimberly Senior’s exemplary cast is led by the formi-dable Mary Ann Thebus, veteran of Chicago stages, as Marjorie. Her wistful reminiscence of a long-ago visit to Central Park with its saffron flags (no one is familiar with the 2005 installation and is thus unable to supply her the name of Christo’s “The Gates”) is as poignant as her frustrated plea, “I’d like to feel in control.” Kate Fry is superb as the tightly wound Tess who seethes and suffers. Nathan Hosner as Jon,

the affable peacemaker for most of the play, is especially moving when he desperately implores Tess in the play’s final moments, “You can’t keep mourning forever.” Erik Hell-man’s performance as Walter Prime is nuanced, with a delivery that appropriately hovers between sympathetic and synthetic in his conversations with Marjorie.

With Writers Theatre poised to inaugurate its new theatre in 2016, “Marjorie Prime” marks the final production on its Books on Vernon stage, which scenic and lighting designer Brian Sidney Bembridge has transformed into a timeless space. It’s serene but not comfort-ing, thus ideal for this thought-provoking technology- infused inquiry into memory, aging, and grief.

“Marjorie Prime” runs through Feb-ruary 28, 2016, with performances presented Tuesday through Sunday at the Writers Theatre stage at Books on Vernon, 664 Vernon Avenue, Glencoe. Matinees are on Saturdays, Sundays, and select Wednesdays. For tickets and information, visit www.writerstheatre.org or call 847-242-6000.

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“Irrational Numbers”

It’s not that you care about age. There might be a few gray hairs in that mop on your head, but

so what? Almost everyone you see is older. This is a curious assump-tion. Curious, because it’s pretty much wrong...

In a Northbrook Court sports store, the guy who sold you running shoes is clearly older than you. Except, of course, he’s not. The bartender who poured a great drink last night in Highland Park seems your senior. Probably not.

When you watch the Bears, you feel with lazy conviction that that

every guy on the field, players, refs, coaches, even the commentators are mature men from an older generation.

The obvious fact that this must be untrue feels, in itself, untrue.

An arcane mathematics term, “irrational numbers,” pops into your mind from college days. You

never really grasped its meaning; math wasn’t a strong suit.

And you still have no real handle on this academic concept. Even when Google defines it for you: “Irrational numbers cannot be expressed as a ratio of inte-gers.”

Huh? Glad math homework

is in the past. In any case, today you’ve got your own definition of “irrational numbers.” They’re simply your personal take on people’s ages, yours and everyone else’s.

The cop who gave you a ticket last week? Clearly older than you. The guy who runs your favorite

Asian restaurant? Your dad’s age. These observations made when

mentally relaxed are comically delusional, and disappear in the light of honest scrutiny. But at least you now have one definition you can understand for the irri-tating term, “irrational numbers,” you rebellious kid.

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A VISIT TO DELI HEAVEN

BY SIMON MURRAY

The mood was light at the North Shore’s New York delicatessen, Max’s Deli, at

lunchtime on a weekday. Outside, rain fell in sheets as people either ran from their cars without an umbrella or nimbly stepped over puddles holding tight to one to keep it from blowing away.

Through the door, and a ringing bell alerts you to the obvious: you’ve entered deli heaven. A regular sight is seeing the place packed from wall to wall with ladles of matzo ball soup, towering pastrami sandwiches, briny pickles, chatty diners. And on this day it was no different. One of the regulars even started doing an impromptu standup (“Do you know why you can’t keep Jewish people in jail? They eat the lox”—part of his shtick, the owners told me) for a confined table.

Amidst this hubbub, the broth-ers Morelli found time out of their busy schedules to sit in the back of their establishment. Taking seats next to one another at an oversized round table, Joey leaned over, and with a broad smile and a nod said: “He’s the chef; I’m the knucklehead,” intimating first to his brother, Greg.

Third generation pastrami butchers, “The Food Fight Broth-ers,” as they fondly refer to them-selves, have been co-owners of the

Deli since they took it over in 2011. With a rich history having been in business over 25 years, Max’s Deli has once again part-nered with the non-profit volun-teer organization, Stand Up For Kids, to host the 3rd Annual Cheesy Noodles Mac N’ Cheese Contest on November 23rd, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at this very es-tablishment.

When asking Greg why they settled on “Mac N’ Cheese” three years ago, he stated, with his tongue firmly in his cheek, the obvious: “It’s yummy.” But it’s also more than that; he relented, “We brainstormed a way to raise money for homeless teens in downtown Chicago.” Macaroni and cheese being a fun, easy dish for competing restaurants to prepare.

This year, esteemed chefs come together from all over the North Shore to showcase their very own specialty macaroni and cheese dishes, which will be tasted and judged by “the People” and a panel of local celebrity guest judges. (Full disclosure: I’ll be one of the judges.) Those competing will be Highwood’s new Barrel Crossing Tap & Grill; Nick’s Neighbor-hood Bar & Grill of Wilmette; Pinstripes in Northbrook; Rem-ington’s Chicago; and Valley Lodge Tavern of Glenview: all hoping to beat out defending champion, Chicago’s Smoke

Daddy, who won both People’s Choice and Judges Choice last year.

Over 300 people attended last year’s event, which raised over $3,000 for Stand Up for Kids Chicago, which provides crisis intervention and basic survival necessities for at-risk and home-less youth through national and local outreach.

“I plan on making this year’s Mac N’ Cheese event the best yet,” said Abbey Cross, Executive Di-rector of Stand Up For Kids Chicago. “If we can meet our goal of $5,000 we can help 50 of Chi-cago’s homeless youth stay in school for a month, or five stay in school for the entire year! How amazing would that be?”

Unlike past years, Max’s Deli won’t be competing. Choosing instead to play host: preparing appetizers, a make-your-own S’Mores Bar, and serving beer, wine and soft drinks. But they’ve included their recipe below for those to make at home.

Said Joey, “My brother’s the master at adding a real simple twist to something, and not over-complicating it—it’s just great, man.”

Tickets to the Cheesy Noodles Mac N’ Cheese Contest are available by visiting StandUpForKids.org.

Max’s Deli is located at Cross-roads Shopping Center, on 191 Skokie Valley Rd in Highland Park.

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Joey Morelli of Max’s Deli in Highland Park makes their signature Mac and Cheese, with bacon, soy beans and 4 kinds of cheese. PHOTO-GRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER


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20TH ANNIVERSARYPhotography by Larry Miller

Held the evening before their 20th Anniversary celebration weekend, New Balance North Shore in Highland Park threw open their doors to family, friends, business partners, and their top 200 customers during a VIP Champagne reception in late October. Owner Allen Adelman welcomed guests with food from local establishments and allowed guests to shop new footwear and acces-sories at 1999 prices. The event kicked off the shopping weekend, which also included a Family Fun Fair, which helped raise funds for Tail of Hope.

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Katie Randolph, flat on her stomach, had just hit the floor in a valiant attempt to

bump a dig at the end of a vol-leyball match last weekend. The Loyola Academy senior setter stayed there, briefly, her prep career suddenly a thing of the past.

She then popped up, oozing positivity again. The 5-foot-9 Lincoln Park resident marched toward the net at York High School, site of a Class 4A super-sectional between her Ramblers and Glenbard West’s Hilltoppers, and prepared to slap-shake hands with the victors on Nov. 7.

“Kind of sad, my last time in a Loyola uniform,” Randolph, a two-time all-Girls Catholic Athletic Conference player, said of what she felt after hitting hardwood for the final time in the 25-16, 25-17 loss.

Some 15 minutes after the su-persectional in Elmhurst, Ran-dolph, standing in a corner of the gym, cracked a half-smile while raising her right arm and turning it slightly to reveal red marks, reddish splotches, too many to count, on and near her elbow. You play volleyball like Randolph, you get nicked up, you hurt almost everywhere, you shrug.

“Her willingness to hustle, to sacrifice her body for the good of the team, that’s Katie, that’s what Katie is all about as a volleyball player,” Ramblers coach Mark Chang said of his tri-captain for a 27-9 squad this fall. “When I think of her years in our program, I think of growth, growth, growth. She refuses to stop growing as a player. She understands volleyball. She understands her teammates. She understands the values you can attain and develop from the sport.

“Katie is an extraordinary vol-leyball player,” the coach added. “On top of that, she’s an extraor-dinary human being.”

Volleyball, for Randolph, started atop sand in Chicago years ago. Rob and Laurie Randolph enjoyed playing beach volleyball at Mon-trose Beach, located some 15 minutes from home. Their daugh-ter, little Katie, often tagged along, taking in the sights and sounds of

the sport and probably thinking, more than once, Plastic shovel and plastic pail? Not interested. Let me play beach volleyball. She later biked to the beach to get her volleyball fix in the spring and summer months, weather permitting, but only if she did not have a commit-ment to her volleyball club, Chicago Elite.

Katie Randolph, excited to play college volleyball at a school to be determined, is not your typical setter. She sets, yes, and does that quite well, having quarterbacked LA to a 25-17, 25-14 defeat of Hersey in a Maine South Sec-tional semifinal and a 25-18, 15-25, 25-21 defeat of New Trier in the sectional final last week. The right-hander also digs defense, big-time, and confounds de-fenses with her lefty dump kill, a

maneuver that looks like a mini-hook shot in basketball. It’s a clever, sneaky shot, a crowd-pleaser, even for the fans rooting for the other team. Front-row players on the other side of the net usually freeze, as the dump, untouched, finds a hole in the middle of a defense.

“I got that from playing beach volleyball,” Randolph, the starting setter for the best team in program history (last year’s team, fourth at state), said. “You have to have shots like that in beach volleyball.”

Randolph was a sophomore, a second-year varsity setter, when LA trailed St. Ignatius College Prep 24-16 in a set early in the 2013 season. Current senior outside hitter Christina Reed was a first-year varsity Rambler at the time, wide-eyed and impression-

able. LA chipped away at the significant deficit, resolutely and relentlessly, Randolph serving as the Ramblers’ Chief Chipper. Twenty-four-17, 24-18, 24-19, 24-20, … . St. Ignatius had eight set points. LA had Randolph on its side. LA refused to wilt against the Wolfpack.

LA won the set, 26-24.“Katie went absolutely crazy at

the end [of the set], going for every ball, doing whatever it took to make sure we kept winning points, kept our focus,” Reed, Brown University-bound and another tri-captain, recalled. “I learned a lot from her that day. I learned how intense varsity vol-leyball can be that day.

“Katie,” Reed added, “is physi-cally talented, mentally strong. She was good at giving us, all of

us, psychological support. If anybody made a mistake in a match, Katie was the first to go right up to that teammate, look at that teammate and say, ‘I need you!’ ”

Notable: LA senior outside hitters Christina Reed and Olivia Van Zelst struck five kills apiece in the Class 4A York Supersectional loss to Glenbard West (35-5) on Nov. 7. Senior right-side hitter Melanie Fyda added four. Reed also fin-ished with a team-high nine digs. Junior middle Natasha Borkows-ki had a team-best four blocks.

New Trier: Many of the points in last week’s Class 4A Maine South volleyball sectional final were lengthy, competitive, enter-taining.

Loyola Academy won some.New Trier won some.Players skidded for digs in Park

Ridge. Players blocked aggressive kill attempts and then backtracked quickly, scrambling to prepare to soar again.

“Some of the most fun points of the season,” NT coach Hannah Hsieh said.

LA, though, won one more point (65-64), overall, than NT did, advancing in the state series with a 25-18, 15-25, 25-21 victory on Nov. 5. NT (32-6) had de-feated LA (27-8) twice in the regular season.

“We showed our mental strength [in the second set],” Hsieh said. “It was a very good battle. We’re proud of the season we had.”

Hsieh must know how a coach of a successful hockey team feels. She had waves of talented “lines” had her disposal this fall, highly capable subs coming in for start-ers and playing like starters.

“Our bench players were amazing,” Trevians junior starter Callie Fauntleroy, a 6-foot-3 middle, said. “And our team, our whole team, all of us had crazy energy.”

Fauntleroy finished with team highs of 10 kills and four blocks in the sectional final. Senior middle Nicole Beto struck eight kills and had three blocks. Starting setter Alex Cook (five assists), a senior, had to sit out the third set because of concussion symptoms; classmate Meghan Riordan (18 assists) filled in nicely. Senior libero Isabelle Tashima played Isabelle Tashima volleyball: sound, all-out.

Trevians senior outside hitter Allyson Vaughn, third among teammates in kills (135) in 2015, played closer to the rafters of gyms than she did to the net. Last week, her feet on hardwood, her prep volleyball career complete, the 5-11 Vaughn stood tall after the tough loss, grateful to have been one of 16 members on a Sweet 16 squad.

“It was an honor to play for this team,” she said. “It was a privilege to wear this uniform, to represent the school.”

BY BILL MCLEAN, [email protected]

READY, SET, GO ALL OUT! Randolph hustles her way into the hearts of her Loyola teammates

Katie Randolph (No. 1) and Natasha Borkowski (No. 13) celebrate with teammates following Loyola’s sectional final win over New Trier. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER.

SPORTS


An alarm clock goes off in Maddie Smith’s room, which doubles as her twin

Kayla’s room. It is 5:04 a.m. It must be Monday morning or Wednes-day morning or Friday morning. Time to get up and get ready for a swimming practice at Lake Forest High School.

“My sister sets [the alarm],” Maddie, a junior, said after the North Suburban Conference swimming and diving meet at Stevenson on Nov. 7.

It’s always about time in swim-ming, isn’t it? Earlier in the day, on a scoreboard in Stevenson’s nata-torium, Maddie Smith, far from sleepy, looked up at a time of 23.88. It was her time in the 50-yard freestyle, a personal-best time, a runner-up time. More significant: she had clocked it without a speed suit, and she wasn’t fully tapered.

“I’d been stuck on 24 [seconds] for two years,” Smith, a state qualifier in four events last fall, said. “It was exciting, seeing that time, after a hard week of practice.”

It took a pool-record time of 23:06 to beat Smith’s time. Daria Pyshnenko, another Scouts junior, notched it, supplanting the previ-ous mark of 23.55 (set in 2003). Pyshnenko and Smith later fin-ished 1-3 in the 100 free, Pysh-nenko going 51.9 to Smith’s 52.55. The pair also swam half of the legs on the victorious 200 (1:37.13) and 400 (3:31.57) free relays.

“Today wasn’t about winning,” Lake Forest coach Carolyn Grevers said, minutes after her Scouts had clinched the team title with a 330-point total, eight better than Stevenson’s tally. “We focused on the little things … turns, reac-tions. This is great, yes, but the state meet is the game, the game that counts.”

Her club turned it on in the second half of the NSC Meet last weekend in Lincolnshire, winning five of the final six races. Senior captain Reilly Lanigan, a Notre Dame recruit, touched first in the 500 free (5:06.11) and swam the anchor leg of the 200 free relay and the leadoff leg of the 400 free relay. That’s not an easy double, grinding in the 500 free and mo-toring in the very next event (200 free relay). Classmate Haley Nelson topped the 100 backstroke field in 58.35 and followed legs

Lanigan and Maddie Smith in the 400 free relay.

“Trying to be positive for my teammates,” Lanigan, third at state in the 200 IM (2:03.57) last year, said of what she does when she’s not doing her swift thing in lanes. Two of her distance freestyle mates, juniors Elyse Jacobs (fifth place) and Anna Manning (sixth), dropped a combined 22 seconds in the 500 free. Manning medaled, with a time of 5:21.99 — 13 seconds faster than her seed time.

LFHS senior Carmen White bested the diving field with a 428.9-point effort, seven-plus points ahead of runner-up Morgan Paul of Libertyville. Scouts senior Anika Boyd placed fourth (333.35).

Junior Olivia Lomax swam the second leg of the winning 200 free relay. The quartet of Nelson, Kayla Smith, junior Jo Annin and Lomax took third in the 200 medley relay (1:52.04).

Highland Park: The Giants’

motto this year is, “One, two, three, it’s not about me.” Highland Park swim coach and budding poet AJ Block came up with the team-centric rallying cry in August.

On Nov. 7, in Maine West’s natatorium, Block’s crew did not win one event at the Central Sub-urban League North Meet.

It won the six-team meet instead, edging runner-up Deer-field 350-348. Team depth, not me-first individuals, mattered. It was the program’s first division title in … well, a while. Block, the Giants’ sixth-year coach, intends to do some research, some digging, to find out if the program had ever previously entered a sectional meet as a CSL North champion.

“Insane,” an ecstatic Block said of the weekend, in which another squad of swimming and diving Giants won the CSL North JV Meet, on Nov. 6. “We’re deep, a blue-collar type of team, without superstars.

“I sat and cried [happy tears] after the meet, because that’s what

I do.”HP, which lost 117-69 to Deer-

field in a dual meet on Oct. 30, started strongly and finished with a flourish at the division meet in Des Plaines. The Giants’ quartet of junior Julia Solem, sophomore Rachel Wander, freshman Sydney Tran and sophomore Ari Cole combined for a third-place and school-record time of 1:53.35 in the 200 medley relay. In the final event of the day, the 400 free relay, HP foursomes went 4-5, sepa-rated by about four seconds.

“Our ‘B’ relay members swam out of their minds,” Block said of juniors Molly Solem and Caroline Kane, senior Natalie Gelberg and sophomore Noa Cole. Seeded seventh, they clocked a 3:49.1, behind the 3:45.34 of HP’s fourth-seeded ‘A’ relay (freshman Holland Morris, Cole, Tran and freshman Abby Smith).

Smith also silvered in the 200 IM (2:16.81), a couple of hours after Giants senior Avery Spitz finished second in diving (368.15

points). Julia Solem (1:03:29, 100 backstroke) also climbed a start block to receive a second-place medal. Block received third-place swims from Tran (1:03.78, 100 back) and Wander (1:09.58, 100 breaststroke).

Emma Gelberg, Aliana Velick, Sophia Livney, Sam Lask and Sarah Fishbein also medaled for the champions.

HP sophomore Hannah Wander set a pair of meet marks in the JV Meet, clocking a 2:25.2 in the 200 IM and a 1:10.52 in the 100 breast. She collaborated with classmate Breanna Haak, fresh-man Elizabeth Goldin and senior Hannah Chonkan-Urow to achieve a meet-record 1:59.16 in the 200 medley relay.

New Trier: Creed, a boxing movie, is to set to hit theaters later this month.

Jessie Creed, a New Trier fresh-man diver, hit the boards at the Central Suburban League South Meet at Evanston last weekend.

Call it a knockout performance.Creed tallied an impressive

500.05 points to win the first of the Trevians’ six events on Nov. 7. Evanston won the other six events but emerged as team champion — for only the second time in program history. Evanston totaled 468 points to runner-up New Trier’s 452.

The Wildkits won their first division championship in 1989, 13 years after Rocky hit movie the-aters.

NT senior Julia Green and junior Lydia O’Connell each won a pair of individual races. Green took first in the 200 free (1:55.96) and in the 500 free (5:17.63); O’Connell emerged victorious in the 50 free (24) and in the 100 free (53.84). Green, junior Kami Gro-chowski and sophomores Sophia Girgenti and Vivian Wu won the 400 free relay (3:37.92), preventing a Wildkits relay sweep.

Loyola Academy: Two first-place finishes by junior Ella Tierney and another by senior Claire Voss highlighted the Ram-blers’ runner-up showing (373 points) to Rosary’s Beads (405) at the Metro Catholic Athletic Con-ference Meet at Fenwick and Matea Valley high schools on Oct. 31.

Tierney touched first in the 200 free (1:53.12) and in the 500 free (5:05.26), and Voss, who will swim at San Diego State University, sped to a meet-best 1:07.23 in the 100 breaststroke.

LA silvered in six events, in-cluding all three relays: 200 medley (1:47.5); 200 free (1:38.03); and 400 free (3:34.01). Junior Olivia Andrew swam on the 200 and 400 free units and took second in the 100 free (53.25) and 200 free (1:55.7) in-dividual events. Senior Maria Kyle completed a leg for each relay; Tierney anchored the freestyle quartets; Voss and sophomores Shannon Kearney and Cassidy Coughlin served as medley relay legs; Coughlin swam on the 200 free relay, and sophomore Marga-ret Guanci preceded Tierney in the 400 free relay.

Ramblers junior Elinor Arndt bounced and plunged her way to runner-up honors in diving (364.5 points).

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Just before entering the back loop at Peoria’s Detweiller Park — a little more than a

mile into this three-mile race — and right smack in the heat of battle, Highland Park High School’s Brett Davidson received a friendly gesture.

It came from a friendly foe: New Trier’s Josh Derrick.

“He ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘Let’s do this,’ ” Davidson said. “It was pretty cool.”

The two Central Suburban League runners wound up pushing each other and tapping into their wealth of talent at the Class 3A state meet on Nov. 7. Both ended up as all-staters.

Davidson cruised the three-mile layout in 14:40 (14th place). Derrick was clocked in 14:42 (15th place).

“Brett has beaten me in every

single race this year,” said Derrick. “So I thought, Why not run with him?

“Besides, I like running with people I know,” Derrick added. “I like talking to other runners during a race. It reminds me that others are suffering (through the pain) the same as I am.”

The two CSL buds definitely brought the best out of each other.

“With 200 meters left, I kicked past him,” said Derrick. “And then he surged and passed me in the last 100 meters.”

Davidson didn’t quite reach his goal — “I wanted to finish in the top 10,” he said — but he did run his way into the HP record book. His 14:40 is a school record on the famed Detweiller Park course. In 2013, Angel Estrada of the Giants took 10th overall in 14:43, while Ari Rothschild ran a 14:41 in 2010

(22nd).Davidson made more news on

Nov. 9. At 8:31 p.m., he tweeted out this: “Extremely excited to say that I’ve committed to run cross country and track at Boston Univer-sity!”

Massachusetts, here they come.Derrick also has announced that

he will run collegiately either at Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology (MIT) in Cambridge or Tufts University near Boston.

Lake Forest Boys: The other North Shore runner to earn all-state honors was Lake Forest High School senior Mark Myers. He placed 22nd in 14:44.

It’s a repeat performance for Myers. Last year, he was an all-state performer (24th, 15:23) in the Class 2A state race.

“I did exactly what I wanted to

do,” said Myers. “Everything came together for me.”

Myers knew that he needed to bring his “A” race to Detweiller to earn all-state status (top 25).

“Running in the 3A race was a big step up,” Myers said. “There’s more speed. It’s a lot deeper.”

Lake Forest Girls: Emma was Emma — again.

Lake Forest sophomore Emma Milburn, who ran No. 1 most of the season for the Scouts, was the team’s frontrunner at the Class 3A state meet at Peoria’s Detweiller Park on Nov. 7. She finished the race in 16:53 to earn all-state ac-colades (11th place).

“To come back and have the great race she had says a lot about Emma,” said LF head coach Steve Clegg. “She carried us in this race. Her teammates carried her in the regional [she was 3rd on the team, 7th overall] and sectional [4th on the team, 21st overall], when she was a little under the weather.”

Milburn, a USATF All-Amer-ican and returning Class 2A all-stater, beat her PR on the Detwei-ller course by 45 seconds.

As a team, the Scouts, who earned runner-up honors at the Class 2A state meet in 2014, fin-

ished eighth with 271 points. They had four competitors run under 18 minutes: sophomore Brett Chody (31st, 17:27), freshman Lauren Garriques (49th, 17:39) and senior Katie Condon (67th, 17:51).

“I’m not disappointed at all,” said Clegg, noting that a higher school enrollment (12 students, to be exact) shifted the Scouts from Class 2A to Class 3A. “This race doesn’t define the season we had.

“With the depth of good teams in Class 3A, there’s not a lot margin for error,” the coach added. “We needed a great day from everyone. And that’s hard to do.”

New Trier Girls: The Trevians definitely were in the running for a trophy at the Class 3A state race in Peoria on Nov. 7. They scored 192 points, 17 points in back of third-place Batavia. Minooka took first (132 points), while Naperville North was third (148).

Bringing back hardware would have been nice. But NT coach John Burnside had a different take on his “group” of runners.

“We were not a team with a No. 1 kid and a supporting cast,” said NT coach John Burnside. “Cross country is the ultimate team sport. And these girls proved that. They

ran as a group. They put the work in, and they just kept improving and improving.”

The Trevians had no all-staters, but they did have six runners timed under 18 minutes: Caroline Fix (27th, 17:23), Caroline Trukenbrod (39th, 17:36), Kelli Schmidt (56th, 17:44), Molly Schmidt 962nd, 17:49), Oona Jung-Beeman (63rd, 17:49) and Grace Fagan (71st, 17:55).

Loyola Girls: Talk about a week to remember.

First, Kathryn House shared some exciting recruiting news. The talented senior made a verbal com-mitted to the University of Mich-igan.

And then, House ran one of her best races ever, when she claimed all-state honors at the Class 3A state cross country meet in Peoria on Nov. 7. She placed 25th in 17:16.

“She’s a such a competitor,” LA coach ChrisJon Simon said. “And she’s mentally strong.”

Nothing came easy for House this fall. She had to overcome in-juries and illness (tonsillitis).

“It’s been a grind,” said Simon. “This was only her fourth race of the year.”

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That offensive linemen have a special fellowship is a football cliché.

At Loyola Academy, the brotherhood of linemen is literal. The sibling duo of center Sam

Badovinac and left guard Jack Badovinac anchor an offensive line that totally dominated visit-ing Stevenson High School in a Class 8A state second round game on Nov. 7. The host Ram-

blers routed the reigning state champs 49-0 to run their record to 11-0.

Sam, a senior, is a captain who has an offer to play football at Valparaiso University. At 6-foot-

2, 250 pounds, he can barely claim the title of big brother to Jack, a junior who stands at 6-1 and also weighs in at 250 pounds. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Peter Badovinac — Sam

and Jack’s cousin — was Loyola’s all-time leading passer before going on to play college football at Drake and Michigan State.

“The Badovinac brothers are two of our toughest kids. They

have that offensive line mental-ity,” Loyola coach John Holecek said. “They are nasty players, and I say that in a good way.”

BY T.J. BROWN, [email protected]

Continuted on PG50

PAVING THE WAY Badovinac brothers — and their fellow line mates — are very good (again) in LA’s statement win over Patriots

LA quarterback Emmett Clifford handles a snap from center Sam Badovinac. The other linemen in the picture include Daniel Kurkowski (No. 67), Thomas Nute (No. 71) and Jack Badovinac (No. 77). Left tackle John Brekke (No. 75) is not pictured. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.

Max Rosenthal of the Trevians (No. 44) gives quarterback Clay Czyzynski a hug after the team’s state playoff loss to Homewood-Flossmoor. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.

Junior Max Rosenthal, best known for wearing a mask, had become a marked man …

in the hallways at New Trier High School.

In his mind, strapping on the tools of ignorance — chest protec-tor, knee guards and catcher’s mask — was the smart choice.

“I stopped playing football in the seventh grade,” Rosenthal said. “My focus was on baseball. And baseball only.”

But at 6-foot-3, 220 pounds, the athletic Rosenthal couldn’t dodge NT head football coach Brian Doll forever. The persistent second-year coach started doggin’ him — in a good way.

“Sophomore year, Coach Doll would see me in the hallway, and he would keep asking me to come out for football,” said Rosenthal. “He kept pushing.”

Push never came to shove. Rosenthal eventually relented. In time, he was sold on the idea.

Despite not coming out for football until his junior year, Rosenthal shot straight up the depth chart. He immediately became a two-way starter for the Trevians: fullback and middle line-backer.

“And it’s been an experience of a lifetime,” said Rosenthal, a few minutes after New Trier fell to host Homewood-Flossmoor on Nov. 7 in the second round of Class 8A state playoffs by the uncomfortable score of 55-7. “Hands-down, it’s the best (sports) decision that I’ve ever made. I love being a part of this team, playing under the lights and playing for Coach Doll.”

The Trevians, who finished the season 9-2, didn’t have a lot of shining moments in their one-

sided setback to H-F (10-1). Except for this sequence:With 4:22 left in the second

quarter, and his team trailing 28-0, Rosenthal wound up being a battery mate to … Vikings quar-terback Bryce Gray. The NT line-backer dropped back in coverage and intercepted a pass at the H-F 27-yard line.

With 1:27 left in the second quarter, Rosenthal (12 carries, 62 yards) rammed into a hefty group of H-F defenders for a hard-earned two-yard TD run.

It was, in baseball terms, a double play.

“We needed something before halftime,” said Rosenthal.

“Outstanding job by him,” said Doll.

And the coach went further.“A lot of college coaches are

starting to look at him,” Doll said.

“He’s on their radar.”Come spring, baseball no doubt

will take precedence with Rosen-thal. As a sophomore up on varsity last year, he hit well for a backstop: .292 batting average and .830 OPS (on-base, plus slugging).

Rosenthal is ranked 33rd — 5th best catcher — in the Illinois Class of 2017 by The Prep Baseball Report.

“I’ll have a choice to make,” Rosenthal said. “I’m just going to try to enjoy the process.”

Notable: Homewood-Flossmoor’s offense has been ridiculously im-pressive this fall. The Vikings, who rolled up 597 yards against NT, have scored 55 points or more in five of their 11 games. … Talk about a twin killing. Two of H-F’s main offensive threats should be part of a Harley-Davidson PR

campaign. On the third play of the game, senior running back Davonte Harley-Hampton (9 carries, 154 yards) motored 72 yards for the game’s first score. He finished with three TDs. Twin brother Deante Harley-Hampton (10-89) reeled off TD runs of 37 and nine yards. … “It’s hard to replicate their kind of speed in practice,” said NT coach

Brian Doll. “It looked like we were in position to make tackles. But then, we’d miss.” … Colin Casas led the Trevians with nine tackles, including a six-yard quarterback sack. Safety Daniel Anderson made five stops, including a tackle for loss. … NT quarterback Clay Czyzynski finished the game with 100 yards (58 passing, 42 rushing).

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“It’s a special opportunity,” Sam said, looking forward to the state quarterfinal match against visiting Homewood-Flossmoor (10-1) on Nov. 14 at 1 p.m. “Most guys don’t get to play with their brother ever, and espe-cially in varsity football. And it’s been such a great year.”

Thanks to a splendid outing by senior Dara Laja, who re-cently received a scholarship offer from Valparaiso, LA’s running game was in high gear against the Patriors (7-4). The senior star rolled up 224 yards on 18 carries. His eye-popping run came on LA’s third series, when he broke free and did some high-stepping on his way to a 62-yard TD run. He consistently got a nice push from the Badovinacs and fellow linemen Thomas Nute, Daniel Kurkowski and John Brekke.

“He’s a big-time back,” said

Holecek, who watched Laja break the career rushing record at the school in a Week 9 win over Mount Carmel. “He’s special. He finds a hole and explodes through it.”

Receiver Eric Eshoo opened the scoring for the Ramblers. The Northwestern recruit burned the Stevenson secondary, when he went on top and hauled in a 20-yard TD pass from Emmett Clifford. Eshoo ended the game with four catches for 61 yards.

Fellow wideout Jonah Isaac, meanwhile, had a dazzling play on the opening drive of the second half, when he ran under a Clifford pass down the middle of the field, made a cut after the catch and sprinted into the end zone on a 62-yard gain.

Clifford’s outing basically was flawless. Winner of the Chicago Catholic League Blue Division Lawless Award, the senior com-pleted 8 of 8 passes for 153 yards with no interceptions. He also carried the ball seven times for 50 yards with TD runs of 13 and five yards.

LA’s other scores came on runs: a 5-yard gain by Kyle Rock and a 1-yard run by Jake Marwede. Patrick Tata was 7 for 7 on PAT kicks.

“It helped that Stevenson played a 3-5 defense,” Holecek said. “If you get a push on the first three guys, then you catch the linebackers in their stunts. There are going to be some holes.”

All those offensive weapons are not lost on Jack Badovinac.

“They make us look good,” the junior said.

But, it’s a two-way street.“This has been the best offen-

sive line we have had in a long time, and I think it showed today,” Holecek said.

The LA coach entered the game with some concerns. Ste-venson quarterback Jack Soren-son, a terrific athlete who also lines up at safety, can be tough to stop.

“They’ve got a talented offense. They’ve scored a lot of points against a lot of good teams,” Holecek said. “I thought it was pretty remarkable that we were able to contain their quarter-back.”

The Patriots were limited to 113 total yards (90 in the air, 43 on the ground). They had only nine first downs and never entered LA’s Red Zone.

LA had plenty of defensive standouts. Graham Repp and Jack Hough forced fumbles. John Shannon had an interception. Anthony Romano had two quar-terback sacks, while Ben LeRoy had one. Four players — Tata, Jack Bourke, Joey Zitella and Patrick Schafer — recorded tackles for loss.

Notable: The revenge factor definitely was in effect in this game. In last year’s Class 8A second round game, the Ramblers lost a 24-21 decision to Steven-son, and Patriots went on to win the state crown. In 2013, LA edged Stevenson 15-14 in the state semifinals.

“There’s not a lot of love between us,” said LA coach John Holecek. “We expect to see them (in the state playoffs) every year.” … The running clock went into effect early in the third quarter. “We were worried about them all week,” LA head coach John Holecek said. “We had no ideal that the game would go this way.”

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SUNDAY BREAKFAST


LEGACY CONNECTIONS FILMS LET’S FAMILIES TELL

THEIR STORIES

BY SIMON MURRAY

“It’s very strange to be inter-viewed because I always ask questions,” said Arielle

Nobile, taking a sip of tea. On a recent morning with the sun shining brightly, we were seated at a table next to a large bay window in the farm to table res-taurant, Fuel, in Wilmette. Every so often a loud choo erupted from the adjacent tracks, signaling the arrival of another Northward or southbound train.

The roles had been reversed for Nobile: A loquacious but not unduly talker; an inquisitive but not overly prying interlocutor, she frequently finds herself interview-ing entire families for Legacy Connections Films. What was once an off-the-cuff suggestion by her therapist turned a pet project of sorts turned full blown business model, Nobile was in town to celebrate a crucial milestone—a 10-year anniversary—because, as she begrudgingly admitted: “Mile-stones should be celebrated.”

Arranged around a single plate

of hers were fried eggs cooked over-medi-um, multi-grain toast, and a colorful side of fruit. As we settled in, I sat and listened to an interesting story told by an even more interesting person: what amounted to the legacy of Legacy Connections Films, as told by its idio-syncratic founder.

Nobile had just graduated from New York University with a degree in theater when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11th. A world away, Nobile was home in Wilmette. But that didn’t stop her from getting deeply rattled. When she moved back to New York three weeks later, it was with a handheld, $200 Canon video camera, and she stated filming everything. (Said Nobile of that time: “I mean, I have crazy amounts of footage.”)

Filming became, for her, a kind of solace; her own personal way of dealing with what had hap-pened: the unnecessary and wanton destruction, the loss of life on such a large scale.

At NYU, Nobile had studied experimental theater. “What does that mean exactly?” she posited with rhetorical emphasis. “It means they were teaching us to create our own work, whatever form that took.”

I pressed her if being behind the camera was always what she had envisioned for herself. “I wanted to be an actress; I wanted to be a movie star,” she admitted, quickly adding: “But I didn’t want

to be a movie star because I had a big ego, I wanted to be [one] because I felt the movies that I watched had such an impact on me my whole life, and you can change people’s lives through movies—emotionally, spiritually.” At this point she smiled: “I re-member watching—oh, gosh, what was it called—it was a movie about the destruction of the rain-

forest when I was in Jr. High.”While the name of the movie

currently escapes her, (FernGully: The Last Rainforest is a good bet) watching it at a young age had a profound effect on her: sending her home in an impassioned resolve to write a 12-page, caps-locked screed on an early Macin-tosh computer, imploring all who would listen to save the rainforest.

Or in other words, Nobile had a knack for the dramatic.

Nobile is Jewish and a life-long vegetarian. She can speak Spanish fluently (the usual way she asks for her eggs is huevo fritos). At nine years old, she went to learn the performing

arts from Byrne and Joyce Piven of the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston (and the parents of actor Jeremy Piven).

There, she learned how to play Theatre Games—the basis of

improvisational theatre—invented by theatre aca-demic Viola Spolin. As a teen, she met Joan and John Cusack and Lili Taylor, and performed for them. “It’s a very special place,” added

Nobile. Though her daughter is a toddler and

currently lives with her and her husband in Colorado, she

is already telling everyone who will listen that she wants to act.

“We’ll see—I’m not pushing that on her but she’s very dramatic,” said

Nobile. “I plan on sending her [to Piven Theatre]

when she’s old enough to do the

training,”Eventually, Nobile found

her way to Second City. There, she took part in the first class of the yearlong Second City Direct-ing Program. It was experimental, which Nobile clearly excelled at. And the first-class received a pre-cious commodity: access. Access to current directors, access to all the old archives—or what wasn’t destroyed in a recent extra-alarm fire at the Second City offices three months ago.

The lesson? “Save things!” said Nobile, or

a siren call that, she hopes,

doesn’t fall on deaf ears. That’s what Legacy Connections Films aims to do. It’s a personal docu-mentary, a treasure trove of memories, for families; a story told by you and your family for you and your family. Nobile founded her company in 2005. She was a disillusioned twenty-something (“I was supposed to be a movie star by now!”) chasing after a suggestion by her therapist to sit and listen to the stories of older generations. She started close to home, with her own family, who is “as every family is, crazy in its own way.”

Since then she has interviewed over 330 people and made count-less, high-quality documentaries for her clients. She’s heard people tell elaborate yarns about their lives: one older gentleman string-ing together a story for 3 hours straight, without stopping, or the equivalent of a marathon for an interviewer.

She’s met 90-year-olds who are not wise, and much younger people that seem to have lived a lifetime—or more. She even met her husband after interviewing him (long before her business, however).

She’s made an anthology of movies for a Polish family of 13 siblings that immigrated to the U.S. and came to live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: “Literally that story of walking over two countries in the snow with one of the kids having polio.”

And she has her ambitious sights set on telling a story of a woman from Iowa whose father was gay, HIV positive, and hid it from the world. “What does it feel like to live a whole life in the closet, and how does that damage a family?” explained Nobile. Her goal is to go—where else?—to the Sundance Film Festival. You get the feeling she’s already bought the ticket.

Arielle Nobile | Illustration by Barry Blitt

Filming became, for her, a kind of solace; her own personal way of

dealing with what had happened: the unnecessary

and wanton destruction, the

loss of life on such a large scale.

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