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News

08 SandS of time It’s that time of year when beaches are flourishing on the North Shore. Which ones have unique aspects? What is the food like at various beaches?

10 Breaking away The Lake Bluff Criterium will feature a slew of bike riders racing at speeds as fast as 40 miles per hour.

14 Social media Rita Hoke and her partners have start-ed a compounding pharmacy focusing on chronic pain management.

Lifestyle & Arts

16 Sunday BreakfaSt Doug Durbin of nuHaus has spent his career focusing on design — and many North Shore homes are better off because of it.

20 goingS on aBout townS Find out about the best events coming up this week in the North Shore.

20 Social whirl Take a look at some of the top parties attended by North Shore residents recently.

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26 north Shore offeringS Take a look at two intriguing houses in our towns.

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

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30 Bring it on Patrick Flavin, who will be a senior at Highland Park High School, has qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur tournament in golf.

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Covering almost 58,000 square miles, Illinois is a massive state. Yet only 4 percent of the Land of Lincoln boasts water. Of its more than 12 million residents, perhaps only 1

percent live within a short car ride of a string of comfortable beaches perched on an inviting lake — North Shore denizens are among the lucky few.

Look, I’m not here to try to persuade you that our water color beats the Bahamas, or that our waves rival Hawaii for surfing. Lake Michigan’s hue hasn’t exactly inspired generations of poets, and our high and low tides aren’t wildly different.

But there’s still a calm beauty to our beaches. Residents can expect a peaceful afternoon rest-ing on a towel without the shattering sounds of boom boxes. Beyond swimming, beaches offer a spot to rent a kayak, play volleyball, let the kids build sandcastles — and more. Even driving down-hill for hundreds of feet until finally reaching the shoreline in places such as Winnetka offers a tiny thrill in our level towns.

The basic beach foods of hamburgers and hot dogs have been upgraded in certain spots. At Forest Park Beach in Lake Forest, a short-rib sandwich, brick-oven pizza, Caesar salad, and more fill up the menu.

North Shore beaches were not always serene havens of clean fun and fine food. In the late 1960s

and early 1970s, dead alewives washed up on the sand by the thousands, emitting a horrid stench, prompting bulldozers to facilitate their removal and causing beach closings. Bill McLean explains in these pages how beach life is so much better today.

Though beachgoers frolic in the sand, our superb teen golfers work to stay out of it. One North Shore star is Patrick Flavin, who will play in the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship this week (thrice won by someone named Tiger Woods). The 5-foot-7, 125-pounder consistently shoots in the low 70s. “From the neck up,” says Highland Park High School golf coach Paul Harris, “he’s as good as we’ve ever had here.” Read about the dynamo in Sports.

Last week I provided a few corrections in my col-umn. Little did I know that same issue would pro-vide a whopper of a misspelling. On the cover about outdoor living, the ovens mentioned should have been called wood-fired, not wood-fried. Perhaps the only thing fried was my brain (and though the wood ovens may be fired, I hope I won’t be for that oversight).

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at one beach, Belgian waffles and short-rib sandwiches are new wave of food

■ by bill mcleanHelen Humphreys works only a few feet from Forest

Park Beach in Lake Forest this summer.But her feet have yet to touch the sand.And her “tan” is as golden as it was in mid-February.“One of these days I will walk that beach,” a smil-

ing Humphreys said early in the morning of July 13, when the sun was clearly the star of the day and the mid-80 temperatures felt delightfully humid-free.

Humphreys spoke at the seat of a table, which she had adorned with a black tablecloth an hour earlier; seven other tables were wearing the same garb. It’s one of several daily duties that Humphreys completes in the shade as the concessions manager of Raging Kitchen at the Beach.

A day at the beach in Lake Forest no longer begins with a hamburger or a hot dog.

Or with a soda or a snow cone.Matt Scholz of Lake Forest sipped his morn-

ing coffee on July 13, after arriving at Forest Park Beach with his wife, Mia, and their chil-dren, 8-year-old Henry and 5-year-old Beatrice. Later, at a nearby table, a young girl would devour a Belgian waffle with whipped cream and fresh berries. Among Raging Kitchen’s other popu-lar breakfast items are egg wraps [bacon or sau-sage], cinnamon rolls and pancakes on a stick. “I use a Panini press to make the wraps, and I use it for burgers in the afternoon,” said Humphreys, who has a catering background. “The Panini press around here … it gets quite a workout.”

Raging Kitchen at the Beach is a first-year venture at Forest Park Beach by Mundelein-based Ruprecht Company, a meat processor and food manufacturer. The concession stand opens at 7 a.m. and closes at sundown on Saturdays and Sundays; hours Monday-Friday are 10 a.m-6 p.m.

“My boss,” Humphreys said, “wanted to bring some-thing really nice to the beach, and for me it’s exciting to be able to do that. My boss cares about two things: that the food here is fresh and of high quality each day.”

Among Raging Kitchen’s unique lunch fare is a Caesar Salad chicken wrap. The short-rib sandwich is a to-die-for choice, a wide-eyed Humphreys noted while nodding, and a 12-inch brick-oven pizza ($11) could turn three cranky, hungry kids into three happy, full kids in minutes.

If that won’t do the trick, the concession stand’s Sundae Bar certainly would. Located just outside the stand’s order window, it features scoops and contain-ers filled with Swedish Fish, M & M’s, Fruity Pebbles and Cap’n Crunch cereal, granola chunks and sweet sprinkles, among other goodies that four out of five dentists would not recommend.

Most of the other beaches along the North Shore offer traditional lunch fare, such as burgers, hot dogs, pizza. Red Hen provides food for Glencoe Beach goers, and the Winnetka Park District schedules special grill days for the village’s beaches throughout the summer.

“We’re getting wonderful feedback from our beach-goers,” said Humphreys.

Her contract with Ruprecht runs through 2015.That should give her plenty of opportunities to finally

hit the beach — and get some well-deserved sun. ■

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with summer in full swing, beaches put visitors ‘in an ideal state of mind’

■ by bill mclean

No more than five minutes after arriving at Glencoe Beach on a recent Saturday morning, Jacob Wolfe of Glencoe was flat on his sand-caked back and getting doused with water from one of the sprayground’s fixtures.

He was giggling hard, with his eyes closed, and having the time of his life — which spans 20 months.

“My little beach bum,” said the little beach bum’s mother, Tracy, on a perfect summer day. “Look at him. How happy is he to be here?

“Glencoe doesn’t have a public pool,” the mother of two added. “But we have this beach, plus this area for kids. It’s cool.”

Earlier on July 13, Matt Scholz of Lake Forest watched his children (Henry, 8, and Beatrice, 5) run together along a stretch of Forest Park Beach in Lake Forest. Scholz grew up in Highland Park and liked to hit that city’s Rosewood Beach on sun-splashed summer days.

“Who doesn’t want to play in the sand at a young age?” Matt Scholz said. “[Forest Park Beach] is a nice place for our kids to burn off energy, and I like to come here on Saturdays and relax with my wife [Mia]. It’s got a nice boardwalk, connecting the north and south ends. And it’s attractive and well-landscaped.”

It’s right around “halftime” of sum-mertime, a time when the tempera-tures tend to hover in the mid-80s and beaches along the North Shore are teeming with teens and tots and adults. Some familiar, summer-is-def-initely-here sounds at beaches: a life-guard’s polite whistle; the steady vroom of a motorboat pulling a rooster-tail-ing skier in the distance; the euphonic ebb and flow of Lake Michigan’s waves; a plastic shovel twirling around the inside of an empty plastic pail as the 3-foot-something owner of the toy equipment totters toward a shoreline; a volleyball getting spiked.

“My favorite beach is Maple Street Beach [in Winnetka],” said Wilmette resident Carlos Zambrano, a standout volleyball player and 2013 New Trier High School graduate, who won’t be too far from another beach while attending the University of Southern California.

“It’s the place to be, a place where I like to hang with friends, throw a Frisbee around and swim.

“Whenever I have free time in the summer, I’m usually there.”

What’s not always free is a visit to a North Shore beach. Entrance fees for residents and non-residents at each beach vary. A sampling: Gillson Beach in Wilmette — daily, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. ($4.25 for residents; $8.50 for non-resi-dents); Tower Road Beach in Winnetka — daily, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. (resident fees of $4 for adults and $3 for children; non-resident fees of $10 for adults and $8 for children); Forest Park Beach in Lake Forest — no fee for residents of Lake Forest as long as they have a city sticker in their car; $10 for non-residents on weekends and holidays; Glencoe Beach — resident fees of $6 for people 18 and older and $4 for youngsters 2-17; non-resident fees of $10 for people 18 and older and $7 for youngsters 2-17.

“Our Glencoe Beach staff has set a goal of making this summer the best ever for visitors,” said Erin Maassen, Glencoe Park District’s manager of marketing and communications. “We want visitors to consider their trip to the beach to be the highlight of their summer.”

One of the memorable moments for Holly Specht on July 11 was the view she had while talking on a phone in her office.

“I’m looking at the [Gillson] beach right now,” said Specht, Lakefront man-ager of Wilmette’s beaches (Gillson and Langdon). “Gillson [the beach and the park] is the biggest beach-park combi-nation between Chicago and Zion. We clean the sand every day, with a tractor pulling a machine. People think we’re flattening out the sand; we’re actually aerating the sand and killing bacteria.

“We take pride in the cleanliness of our beaches and parks.”

Winnetka boasts five beaches, three of which are open for swimming (Maple Street, Tower Road and Elder Lane); Tower Road typically attracts the most visitors each weekend. Centennial Park features a dog beach, and Lloyd Beach is restricted to sailing and boating.

“It’s a variety for the community,” said John Shea, recreation supervisor at Winnetka Park District. “It gives

people plenty of options. I love the sum-mers here, watching people in sailboats and powerboats and others either train-ing for triathlons or swimming for fun in Lake Michigan.

“Lake Michigan,” he added, “is a big part of this area’s natural beauty. People want to be near it, especially when the weather is great.”

Not far from where Jacob Wolfe took full advantage of his time at Glencoe Beach’s sprayground is a steep bluff. That bluff is in a scene in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” a 1986 film directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick.

Some other tidbits about N o r t h S h o r e b e a c h e s : The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

plans to start its Rosewood Beach res-toration project — breakwater design, dune structures, native plantings, sand replacement and bluff restoration — at the close of this summer’s swim season. Glencoe Beach’s annual fam-

ily sand sculpting contest is set for July 28, with winners to be cho-sen for best castle, best animal, best sculpture and most creative effort. A focus of a variety of junior camps

(lifeguarding, aquatics and group sailing, to name a few) at Wilmette’s beaches is to familiarize kids with Lake Michigan. “Because it’s so different compared to inland lakes,” Specht said. Specht is in charge of organizing

the inaugural Gillson Beach fam-ily campout/overnight sleepover on Aug. 3-4 ($65 for a party of two fam-ily members who live in Wilmette; $82 for the same number of non-res-idents). There will be a marshmallow roast around a campfire, followed by family-friendly entertainment. The event ends at daybreak with break-fast, after each camper sleeps for two — maybe three — hours in a tent. Glencoe Beach was named North

Shore Chicago’s top beach by NorthShoreInsider.com.

“Going to the beach puts you in an ideal state of mind,” said Glencoe Park District’s Maassen, who visited a North Shore beach a few times per summer while growing up in Park Ridge. “It relaxes you, calms you down, and it’s certainly better than spending time on a pool deck.” ■

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The streets of Lake Bluff – those tree-lined paths that make for a scenic weekend drive — will be transformed into a highly technical race course, complete with tight

turns and pitched straightaways, when the Northwestern Medicine Lake Bluff Criterium returns July 20.

Professional and amateur cyclists from across the country will convene to compete in seven races that day.

Bike races to bring speed, intensity to neighborhood streets

the organizers and sponsors of the lake bluff criterium get together on their bikes. from left to right, Justin Harris, general manager of knauz Mini, Deb Dintruff, block party chair, Marc colbert, bike race director, Joy Markee, block party chair, peter arnstein, president, friends of lake bluff parks, and ellen Humphrey, physical therapist, are looking forward to the event.


A criterium is a bike race on a short course — .7 miles in Lake Bluff — of city streets. Races are determined by the dura-tion of time, and roadside spectators will see cyclists pass them every two to three minutes in a 30-90-minute race.

“It’s a bit like a NASCAR event, but instead of four wheels, you’ll see two,” explained event planner Marco Colbert of Lincolnshire. “It’s action-packed, fast, the riders have colorful uniforms with lots of logos on them, and there will be thrills and spills just like in NASCAR.”

Beginning at 11 a.m., cyclists will travel west on East Scranton Avenue at Oak Street, and then follow Center Avenue, Evanston Avenue, East Prospect Avenue and Glen Avenue, before returning to Scranton Avenue.

“It’s very spectator-friendly because you’ll get to see the riders frequently,” Colbert said.

The first five races are amateur events, while the final features professional cyclists who will top out near 40 miles per hour in the final stretch.

In between events, there will be short-distance races for children and other enter-tainment. A nearby block party, produced by the Friends of the Lake Bluff Parks, will have food, beverages, live music and activi-ties for families during throughout the day.

Since the Lake Bluff Criterium has been sanctioned by USA Cycling — a national organization recognized by the International Olympic Committee — it will attract elite cycling teams from across the country. Racing officials on motorcycles will be positioned at the front and back of the pack, in addition to the pace car.

Knauz Automotive Group President and CEO William Madden said it made sense to provide the new Mini Paceman as the pace

car in Knauz’s hometown race. Though he is not a cyclist himself, Madden attended the 2012 Lake Bluff Criterium and noticed how much fun spectators were having.

“It’s a different, fun event that is great for the village,” Madden said. “The Mini Paceman will lead the first lap of each race and show off what we’ve got that’s new this year. The course runs through a residential area, which itself is pretty unique.”

The cyclists have lauded the setting for this two-year-old race. Nick Christofalos, cyclist and owner of Lake Bluff’s Activator Cycles, was among the volunteers who worked to bring the criterium to town in 2012 and design the course through resi-dential Lake Bluff.

Christofalos recommended that specta-tors spend time watching the races in dif-ferent sections of the course, rather than camping out in one area all afternoon. Being near the announcer, he said, makes it more exciting.

“The more room they have the faster they’ll go. The pros are tapped out on this course because they can really hammer those straightaways,” he explained. “One of the pro teams came by the shop after the race last year and they loved how tight it was. They said it was a good experience.”

Customers, too, had good things to say about the event. Some were blown away by the atmosphere of a road race, while others were inspired to start biking after their day as a spectator. Activator Cycles’s cycling club will help to manage the kids’ races during breaks in the Criterium.

The Lake Bluff Criterium is one of eight races in the series, taking place in cities between St. Charles and Kenosha. Find more information about the Lake Bluff Criterium at prairiestatecyclingseries.com. ■

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world war ii medic recalls soldiers surrendering, treating concentration-camp survivors■ by angelika labno

Stan Spillar of Skokie is 89 years old and doesn’t take a single pill, except for a daily dose of vitamins. He’s quick to dole out health advice, but he makes it clear that he’s not a doctor -- he’s an army medic from World War II.

“We have to keep moving,” said Spillar, who exercises frequently. “It’s the opposite of what we want to do, which is to relax and take it easy.”

Spillar certainly couldn’t take it easy on the front lines of D-Day Plus 2 or the Battle of the Bulge as part of the 90th Infantry Division of the 357th Regiment. He had to do everything that the infantry did on top of being a trained combat medic and run-ner — the latter arguably being the most dangerous job, as it required him to leave the safety of his post.

“No one can even light a cigarette at night because you don’t know if the enemy is going to shoot at you,” he said.

It was during a Saar River operation in Pachten, Germany, that Spillar earned a Bronze Star. As he was taking a message back to the aid station — alone — out of the woods came four or five German soldiers. The outcome easily could have been Spillar being taken as prisoner.

When they saw him, however, they threw their arms up in the air, surrendering. He used the situation to his advantage, and after making improvised “litters,” or stretch-ers, they all walked back to the station car-rying wounded soldiers. Furthermore, the award outlines that Spillar voluntarily lit-tered squads from the front lines under heavy fire from Dec. 6-10, 1944.

The medic also recalls liberating

and treating a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, which was full of illnesses. He vaccinated the victims against the flu and carefully nourished them to normal levels. During the Battle of the Bulge, he saw men lose their toes in the winter and live outdoors in 20-below-zero temperatures.

Despite such horrors, the saddest thing for Spillar was leaving a wounded person behind. He remembers treating an infan-tryman, and as he was walking away, the soldier called out, “Please don’t leave me; I don’t want to be left here all alone.” Unfortunately, it was likely that it would be a long time before somebody picked him up.

Since returning to Fort Sheridan in 1945, Spillar has attended the 50th anni-versary of D-Day in Normandy and shared his stories with grammar school children in Wilmette. He recently took the Honor Flight from Midway Airport on June 14, which jetted him off to the memorials in Washington, D.C.

“It was a different kind of a life,” he reflects on his wartime experiences. “We are very fortunate here in this country. A lot of people feel that the whole world is living like we are ... but the world is lacking half of the things we have here.” ■

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Rita Hoke worked in the medical industry for many years. Recently, she and her part-ners have started a compounding pharmacy focusing on chronic pain management. You can learn more about this project and the people involved with it at integratedcarerx.com

Reading: “Custom Nation” by Anthony Flynn and Emily Flynn Vencat and “The Creative Destruction of Medicine” by Eric Topol. I’m going back and forth between them.

Listening: I just got a car that has a radio system called Slacker, so it’s sort of like Pandora or Spotify; you can pick your music, and it’ll select a playlist.

Watching: “The Colbert Report” is one thing I try never to miss. He has such a funny per-spective. He has good people on, and his per-spective sometimes illuminates how crazy our opinions can be.

Following: Chicago Ideas Week. It’s sort of like a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks series for Chicago; they have a week in October with a variety of different speakers and presentations with a wide vari-ety of topics (chicagoideas.com).

Activity: Integrated Care Pharmacy, a com-pounding pharmacy focusing on chronic pain management. It’s a big problem for our whole country, it impacts about 30 percent of the population, and it has significant impacts on productivity and quality of life. There’s also major issues of drug dependence.

Our focus is to look at transdermal therapies, which have less abuse potential and have less opportunity for drug interaction or gastrointes-tinal issues, and fewer cognitive changes (unlike opiates). These topical compounds act locally as well as in nerve centers. They’ve been success-ful and are growing because of these issues. We

have a facility in Mundelein (originally built by Baxter), which we’ve renovated.

We’re really focusing on a couple of unique aspects of targeting pain. We’re looking at genomic profiles and seeing how different profiles response to different drugs —personalized medical profiles — and we also look and the pharmacist-patient relationship. Oftentimes, the pharmacist doesn’t get involved until the prescription’s already been written. What we’re trying to do is move up to when the item is written, so we can help a phar-macist determine the right medical combinations because it acts peripherally — a lot of side effects are caused by liver metabolism or the gastrointes-tinal or brain metabolism — many of these have mechanisms where they work at the site of pain and avoid [altering mental states].

Sometimes people have been dealing [with chronic pain] for months and years and it can be a very difficult problem to resolve. I feel the impact is that we can offer solutions that haven’t been offered before.

Eating: My daughter is in urban agriculture in the Peace Corps, and she’s been trying to get us to eat local. We try to frequent restaurants that have that mentality, and we visited our son in Nashville and got to sample their restau-rants, which we were pretty impressed with.

What is your favorite mistake? I picked pharmacy as a course of study without ever hav-ing been involved in the field. It was really hard, and I wasn’t sure I knew what I was doing. So I quit school and ended up working at Lutheran General in their pharmacy, and it continues to be one of my favorite jobs; I ended up working in the critical care unit there, and it was so rewarding. I ended up going back to pharmacy school, work-ing at Lutheran General all the way through. It was influential; some of what I learned there I still use today, and have for the last 30 years. It was a really good experience for me. ■

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For the past quarter century, Doug Durbin has worked at nuHaus, a company he co-founded with his brother John whose name is derived from Bauhaus, a design school in Germany. The firm — which specializes in kitchen architecture — primarily designs and installs cabinetry.

A fixture in Highland Park since 1988, nuHaus recently moved its showroom to Chicago’s River North. But Durbin points out the North Shore is still crucial to the company’s success.

“nuHaus grew up on Chicago’s North Shore and has become one of the nation’s top kitchen design firms. The North Shore is at the root of who we are,” he says. “Additionally, the North Shore is a treasure of architectur-ally significant homes, both past and present, and it con-tinues to represent a significant portion of nuHaus’ work.

“Irrespective of location, our clients come to us for fresh ideas, beautiful products and a level of service that is second to none. We are delighted to bring our employees to downtown Chicago to better serve our clients by providing easy access to a mul-titude of products and resources for their proj-ects, including the many professionals in the architectural and design communities whom we work alongside.

“Our new showroom in River North is immersed in the creative energy surrounding the Merchandise Mart, and this allows us to recruit top talent as well.”

Durbin’s philosophy of design was appar-ent when one walked into his Highland Park office. A statement on his desk read, “Innovative design driven by passion, vision, and contempt for the ordinary.”

With that in mind, it is perhaps no surprise that his favorite designer is Giorgio Armani.

“His depth of creativity is amazing,” Durbin says. “From fashion to interiors, he and his orga-nization understand that the tiniest details have a tremendous affect on the overall design.”

The Waukegan native (who won design awards as a Cub Scout for his Pinewood Derby cars) started as master cabinetmaker’s apprentice back during the Carter Administration. The world of cabinetry and furniture (along with the world in general) has changed a great deal since he started.

“Technology has had a tremendous influence on what we are designing and building,” Durbin explains. “The boundaries we are pushing in our shop are unbelievable.

Many of those are directly attributable to the equipment and programs we have invested in.

“I have to say, however, with all of these advantages, nothing can replace the craftsmen and artists in our companies.”

Like any business, nuHaus has faced challenges. One of the key ones is persuading potential clients at the start “just how different we are versus other firms they might think are similar to us,” Durbin says. “Also, the impor-tance of looking at the quality and value we offer through every part of the process: from great design ideas, to

exacting and detailing drawings, to the expe-rienced and expert installation crews that we have.”

When Durbin is able to get out of the office, it may be to help a charity. On Tuesday, he served as the chairman of the golf outing to support Lambs Farm, the Libertyville orga-

nization that helps developmentally disabled adults lead productive lives. His younger brother,

Tom, is mentally handicapped and has been involved with Lambs Farm for 19 years.

“This organization has made an enormous difference in our Tom’s life, and we would like to ensure that others have the same opportunity,” he says.

Durbin — who prefers ordering a ham-and-cheese omelet for Sunday breakfast at any of the Walker Bros. on the North Shore — is motivated each day by going to a job he truly loves. And his passion for design never fades. Says Durbin, “It’s great to pull up next to creative people with a blank sheet of paper every day and work together to design and build something.” ■

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“it’s great to pull up next to cre-ative people with a blank sheet of pa-per every day and work together to design and build something.”

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“the north Shore is a treasure of architecturally significant homes, both past and present, and it continues to represent a significant portion of nuhaus’ work.” | Doug Durbin


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You can add Highland Park resident Jennifer Dotson’s name to the list of poets with a North Shore connection – including Carol Gloor and David Trinidad – who have published marvelous poetry collections in 2013.

Dotson’s “Clever Gretel” (Chicago Poetry Press, 2013), recipient of the first Journal of Modern Poetry Book Award, features a number of her award-win-ning poems, including “Sensitive or How to Be a Fragrance Model.” Dotson successfully employs form throughout, such as sonnets, a villanelle and a pantoum, as well as several poems written in free verse. Striking a balance between humorous (“Wonder Woman is in My Yoga Class”) and serious (“She Saved Everything”) subjects, Dotson makes the personal universal, something readers of poetry and newcomers alike will appreciate. I spoke with Jennifer in early summer 2013.

Gregg Shapiro: Jennifer, you are originally from Brooklyn. How long have you been living in Highland Park?

Jennifer Dotson: I initially moved to Chicago from the East Coast because I was an actress drawn by Chicago’s reputation for a vibrant, storefront theater scene. My career gradually morphed from theatre to poetry when I got married and started a family, though I like to say that I’ve maintained my com-mitment to earning as little money possible with my creative endeavors [laughs]. My family moved to Highland Park 10 years ago.

GS: What brought you to Highland Park?JD: The marvelous schools, the downtown and

the proximity to the lake.GS: You work for the City of Highland Park.JD: My title is executive assistant to the deputy

city manager, but I get to do so much more, lots of interesting projects. For instance, I’m responsible for special event permits, 4th of July parade appli-cations, and co-editing The Highlander, the city’s monthly newsletter.

GS: I first met you at a HighlandParkPoetry.org event at The Art Center in Highland Park. What is the genesis of Highland Park Poetry?

JD: I was interested in creating a local celebration for poetry month in 2007. I started with a website and scheduling a variety of readings throughout April as well as a poetry display at the Ruth Fell Wander Community Art Wall in the First Bank of Highland Park. The whole thing has just grown from there.

GS: HighlandParkPoetry.org sponsors a variety of events and competitions. What is involved in the process of the creation of these?

JD: Highland Park Poetry offers a monthly poetry open-mic at The Art Center of Highland Park that is very friendly, warm and inviting. We get a broad range of poets – some have been writing and per-forming for years, others have just begun to explore reading in front of an audience. My primary aim is to give poets an opportunity to have their work appear in the community.

Our annual Poetry That Moves Contest is a col-laboration with PACE and the Highland Park High School Graphic Arts department. The contest selects 12 poems, one for each month, to appear inside North Suburban PACE buses operating between Evanston, Highland Park and Waukegan, including the Ravinia Music Festival shuttles. Each year we also do a Poetry Challenge asking writers of all ages to send poems with particular themes or structures. For example, this year we wanted haiku or poems about sports, games and pets. These poems become the focus of our April Poetry Month Celebration.

My role as the program coordinator is to promote the contests and receive the submissions. I always find a judge or selection committee to do the hard job of choosing the poems. Contest submissions are blind, which means the judges don’t know the iden-tities of the poets, though I will identify if a poet is an elementary student rather than an adult.

GS: How long have you been writing poetry?JD: A visual artist friend of mine was looking

for poets to collaborate with. She knew I wrote plays, and she encouraged me to participate. When I told her that I’d never written a poem before, she replied, “It’s just word art, Jen.” I wrote my first poem, “Poem for a Corn-Fed Girl,” in response to a sculpture of hers. This was around 2000, I think. Anyway, I quickly got hooked [laughs].

GS: When was the first time that you had a poem

published and what was the publication?JD: The first poem I ever had published was

“Wonder Woman Is in My Yoga Class.” It appeared in Woman Made Gallery’s Her Mark 2005, an arts and poetry engagement calendar.

GS: What poets do you like to read?JD: I’m a huge fan of Denise Duhamel, Wendy

Cope, Kevin Stein, and Kay Ryan. Highland Park Poetry often features guest poets reading and I always purchase a copy of their publications. I think it’s important to support other writers, especially poets. The market for poetry is pretty small. My poetry library has grown quite a bit.

GS: Are there any new books of poetry that you would like to recommend?

JD: Well, of course, I recommend my own book, “Clever Gretel” [laughs]. Currently on my bedside table are Debra Bruce’s “Survivor’s Picnic” and Kevin Stein’s “Wrestling Li Po for the Remote.”

GS: I’m glad that you mentioned “Clever Gretel,” which was published in the spring. What can you tell me about it?

JD: I am really grateful for the support and enthu-siasm from fellow poets and friends. James Reiss suggested the title, which comes from a line in my poem, “Day Job.” Tania Runyan suggested divid-ing it into different thematic sections – poems about legends, love, family, nature, and musings. Martha Abelson of Martha Abelson Photography took my por-trait and made me look stunning [laughs]. The cover illustration was created by Sue Cargill, a talented cartoonist and writer, who read the manuscript in its entirety and pulled characters and images from several of her favorite poems.

Bad dreams and bad job experiences are great sources for poetic inspiration [laughs]. Fears, too. My daughter read the manuscript and said, “Mom, you’ve really got issues with elevators” [laughs]. “Clever Gretel” is available directly from the pub-lisher at www.clevergretel.net or from www.Amazon.com. Or folks may purchase a copy from The Art Center of Highland Park gift shop.

GS: Have you done many local readings from the book, and do you enjoy doing poetry readings?

JD: My theatre training and experience give me confidence about reading in front of an audience – though that doesn’t mean I don’t get nervous. I am accustomed to participating in open-mics where I read maybe three poems and I choose them because they’re new work that I’m looking to get some audi-ence reaction or maybe they echo themes that other poets have shared that evening. I’ve done three readings promoting “Clever Gretel” so far.

GS: Do you find the North Shore to be a welcom-ing place for poetry and poetry readings?

JD: Very much so. When Highland Park Poetry first started, we held our open-mics at Borders Books & Music on Central Avenue. I was so anxious when they closed. Happily, The Art Center generously offered to be our home and they’ve hosted our monthly open-mic, typically the second Friday of each month, ever since. Highland Park Poetry is also looking to expand with other venues, like Madame ZuZu’s.

GS: In addition to being a poet, you are also a teacher. What do you like best about teaching?

JD: When I lead poetry workshops, I participate myself. I do the exercises and share them with the other poets. It’s the best way for me to generate new material.

GS: What can writers who study with you expect to get out of the experience?

JD: I think of myself more as a facilitator than as a teacher. My students are all adults who are interested in writing – short stories, poems, mem-oirs. All of them already know how to write. I’m really just the cheerleader getting them to play and try new things with their writing.

Probably the best thing I provide my students is a deadline. If you’re in a group of 10 students and everyone is expecting you to bring the next chapter in your novel on Thursday night, it’s the kind of pressure most writers need to force them to sit at their computers and start putting those words down. Speaking from my own experience as a practiced procrastinator – it’s easier to sort laundry and do dishes than it is to sit down and write a poem [laughs].

GS: Do you have any readings/book signings in the coming months?

JD: My next reading is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. at the Glenview Public Library. ■

Jennifer Dotson




goIngs on aBout townS friDay, July 19

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No tight pants, no kissing and no loud music: those are the rules in one small Midwestern 1950s town. But when a rebellious, hip-swiveling musician rides in, the ache of budding love is set into motion, bringing to life a broken-down jukebox and the residents’ dreams of bigger things. Inspired by elvis Pres-ley’s music and the mistaken identities of shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” “All shook Up” is one of Broadway’s newest jukebox musicals. directed and choreo-graphed by Matt raftery, the show runs through Aug. 4.

oliver!| centerstage at gorton coM-Munity center | 400 e. illinois roaD, lake forest | 7:30 p.M. | tickets $20 | centerstagelake-forest.coM |

Based on the novel “oliver Twist” by Charles dickens, this family-friendly musical follows the adventures of young oliver as he is recruited into gang of pickpockets. directed by Jo Ann Avel-lone, performances occur July 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, and 27.

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sailfest meets at Perlman Boating Beach in Glencoe. All regatta participants receive a T-shirt. daily admission fee in-cludes: youth (ages 10 and up) and adult regattas at 11 a.m. and noon, respec-tively, and kayak excursions at 3 p.m. No admission fees for season token holders. rain date is Aug. 17.

MonDay, July 22

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Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen elizabeth II in the west end production of “The Audience,” broadcast live from London’s Gielgud Theatre as part of National The-atre Live. For 60 years, elizabeth II has met each of her 12 prime ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace. Both parties have an unspoken agree-ment never to repeat what is said. “The Audience” breaks this contract of silence and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the downing street incum-bents and their Queen. written by Peter Morgan, “The Audience” is directed by stephen daldry.

tHursDay, July 25

Sidewalk Sales| Downtown lake forest anD HigHlanD park | 10 a.M.-5 p.M. |

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Short Story theatre| cellar gate wine bar | 524 sHeri-Dan roaD, HigHwooD | tickets $10, plus 2 Drink or 1 Drink/1 appetizer MiniMuM. | rsVp to 847-748-8086 |

A troupe of local writers/performers present an evening of storytelling. stories are creative non-fiction and are ap-proximately 10 minutes long, with breaks between stories to eat and drink. Per-forming with the group for the first time is former wGN radio host and sun-Times columnist Judy Markey of Highland Park and her story “24-hour widow.” ron Lev-itsky, Mary Lou Gilliam and donna Lubow will also perform. For more information visit shortstorytheatre.com.

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Celebrating America’s Farmers

The 67th Annual Winnetka Children’s Fair was hosted by the board of directors of the Winnetka Community Nursery School as a kick-off for summer.

The Winnetka Community Nursery School is a not-for-profit preschool offering half-day and full-day programs for children ages 2-6. It has served families on the North Shore since 1944. All funds raised at the fair will support programming, professional development and capital improvements at the school.

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67th annual winnetka children’s fair

nuHaus, nationally known for its cus-tom kitchen design, cabinetry, millwork and kitchen architecture, announced the opening of its Chicago studio last month.

The River North location hosted numerous residents from the North Shore. The 5,000-square foot show-room and design studio is poised to be Chicago’s preeminent kitchen and fine cabinetry resource to the design industry and end-user alike.

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nuhaus opens river north Showroom

EMMA RILEY, PAIGE O’DONOGHUE, MEGHAN RILEY PAIGE & MAGGIE KRUSE CAMEL RIDES

YVONNE, ASHLYN & KATELYN PILCHER

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Larry Kedzie recently stepped down from his position as mixologist at Abigail’s American Bistro in Ravinia. He was instrumental in establishing its cocktail program.

How did you start mixing drinks? Going out to eat and

seeing the different kinds of food in Chicago; the Violet Hour and places like that are where I was introduced to the cocktail scene. Before I worked at Abigail’s I worked at the Palm Restaurant, and I’d make funky, fun stuff. I enjoy putting flavors together. The best part is someone saying, “Oh my God, it’s good.”

Years behind the bar? Ten years, the last five years very intently trying to come up with new, bizarre, fun, whatever I can come up with.

Best cocktail tweak? Barrel-aging the cocktail. It started in about 2008 in London, England. Jeffrey Morgenthaler from Portland, Ore. decided to get some small whiskey kegs; I started doing it a little after that, in 2009. It really just changes and mellows the drink out. I tell everybody this: it’s the best Manhattan you’ve ever had.

From there I’ve moved into bottling cocktails. We have bottled cocktails that are wine-based — they’re mixed together, carbonated, bottled, and capped. We also have regular bottled cocktails — mixed, labeled, they look like old-time Prohibition kind of things. The two drinks I have right now are homemade concoctions named after custom-ers. Those are fun.

Best part of working at Abigail’s? I pretty much got to do whatever I wanted with the cocktail program. I traveled a lot around different venues to see what’s hot in the cocktail world. I started putting drinks together, and Chef Michael gave me carte blanche. I have a landscape business, too, so I can’t do both; before I left, I consulted, kept up with the program, and came up with new drinks.

Signature drink? Barrel-aged Manhattan. Favorite drink to make? To have a customer in front of

me, ask them what they like to drink, and then make some-thing completely custom — and have them be delighted.

Worthwhile gadget? I use a whipped-cream canister with a nitrous oxide infuser to force alcohol through herbs or fruit; it picks up all the flavor, and it infuses in about two minutes.

Favorite reference? “What to Drink With What You Eat: The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer,

Spirits, Coffee, Tea - Even Water - Based on Expert Advice from America’s Best Sommeliers,” by Andrew Dornenburg, Karen Page and Michael Sofronski.

Best bar story? Several years ago, at a different restau-

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Abigail’s American Bistro is located at 493 Roger Williams in Ravinia. For more information, visit abigails493.com or call 847-780-4862. ■

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unflappable flavinStandout golfer displays his cool, earns berth to prestigious U.S. Junior Amateur Championship■ by bill mclean [email protected]

Pretend, for a moment, pressure is an ornery grizzly bear.

Patrick Flavin awakes from a nap in the woods and sees the bear. The 5-foot-7, 125-pound Flavin then runs super fast — right toward the bear, hop-ing to embrace the orneriness out of the animal.

“I love it,” said the rising Highland Park High School senior golfer, referring to pressure, not Smokey. “Every golfer faces pressure and has to deal with it. It’s on you, totally on you. But I don’t mind the pressure at all.

“A number,” he added, “is all that matters in golf at the end of a round, and it’s that number that defines you.”

Flavin’s number after two rounds last month at a U.S. Junior Amateur qualifying tournament in Battle Creek, Mich., was an impressive 1-under 143 (73-70). But it wasn’t low enough to secure one of only two berths for the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship in Lake Tahoe, Nev., July 22-27.

The third-year Giants varsity player would need to sink a 15-foot, slightly left-to-right putt on the first playoff hole at Battle Creek CC to advance on June 24.

He did just that.

Pressure tried to trip Flavin on the green.An unflinching Flavin jumped, stared it down.Hello, Lake Tahoe.“Patrick doesn’t back down from challenges,” said

Louis Sauer, who serves as Director of Instruction at Northmoor CC in Highland Park and has worked with Flavin for about 18 months.

“You give him something to work on,” he added, “and he goes after it, does whatever he can do to improve his game. He’s like a bulldog.”

A Tiger [full name Tiger Woods; you might have heard of him] won the U.S. Junior Amateur three times before starting a cozy career as a PGA Tour member.

“I’m excited about the opportunity to play in a tour-nament like that,” said Flavin, the Giants’ MVP and the top performer for 12th-place HPHS at the Class 3A state golf meet in Bloomington last fall. “Working on my game [with Sauer] has been great, incredibly help-ful. He has also helped me develop consistency — that’s the biggest thing — and my mental game is stronger.

“I’ve been shoring up all aspects of my game with him, really.”

At his first Illinois Junior Golf Association tournament this past spring, Flavin finished 12th [73-74] in a field of 121 at the DuPage County Junior Classic at Maple Meadows GC May 18-19. Two weeks later, at a Quad Cities event in Moline, he gained fully exempt American Junior Golf Association status after a third-place show-ing (73-73-72) in a field of 96 at Short Hills CC.

“Two things stand out to me when I think of Patrick: his work ethic and his competitiveness,” Highland Park

HS golf coach Paul Harris said. “He is constantly pushing himself to improve. He has a really good overall game.

“And from the neck up,” Harris added, “he’s as good as we’ve ever had here.”

Only four golfers shot better than Flavin did at the 156-player IJGA Junior Amateur at Markray Memorial GC in Barrington on June 25-27. His fifth-place, 54-hole total of 223 featured a 71 in the middle round. Flavin returned to Michigan in early July for another AJGA tournament and placed 18th [73-79-73] out of 106 at the Boyne Highlands Heather GC in Harbor Springs.

“I missed a couple of easy putts [at the start of the second round],” he recalled. “But overall it went pretty well up there. The competitive level of an AJGA tournament is awesome.”

So is the one at NCAA Division I events. Flavin can’t wait to tee it up for Miami (Ohio) University’s golf next fall. He recently committed to the Red Hawks’ program and intends to ace courses outside [as a golfer] and inside [as a business major]. His brother, Conor, will be a sopho-more bio-medical engineering major at Miami this fall.

“The facilities there … awesome,” said Flavin, who plays most of his golf at Merit Club in Libertyville. “It’s the per-fect place for me. The business program there is top-notch.”

Flavin hopes the bottom line of his prep career won’t be written until after the 2013 state meet. Five of Highland Park’s six state-team qualifiers in 2012 — Flavin, Brandon Nasatir, Sam Meitus, Noah Apter and Noah Fishbein — have at least one year of eligibility remaining.

“We’ll do whatever we can to get back down to state as a team,” said Flavin, who got off to a hot start for the Giants last August by carding a medalist round of 70 at the Blue Devil Invite at Bittersweet GC in Gurnee.

Flavin lives in Fort Sheridan in Highwood. He loves practically everything about it.

“It’s a great place to live,” he said. “It’s nice, enclosed, peaceful. ■

patrick flavin, who will be a senior at highland park high school, will continue his golf career at miami (ohio) university.


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Carlos Zambrano, the former New Trier High School volleyball player, never rolls his eyes when people bring up Carlos Zambrano, the former Chicago Cubs pitcher.

He hears it often.He rolls with it often.“It’s fun; I don’t mind it,” said the 6-foot-2,

175-pound outside hitter and recent NTHS graduate. “I don’t have a temper like his.”

Meaning his thigh has never busted a baseball bat in half and Gatorade coolers never quiver in his presence.

But the two “Z”s do have something in common other than their first and last names.

“They have the same caliber of inten-sity when they compete,” said Zambrano’s Adversity 18s Purple club volleyball coach, Jeremy Desiron. “Carlos is a really emotional guy on the court, an emotional leader. When he gets fired up, it’s contagious.

“He was huge for us offensively [this sum-mer]. He hits rockets … crushes the ball.”

Only eight boys were named to the all-tournament team at this summer’s USA Volleyball Nationals in Reno, Nev.

Zambrano, the teen, was one of them, after Adversity’s 18s Purple — seeded 12th — finished fifth for the second year in a row June 27-30. “Little Z” came up big against many big Division-I bound spikers and dig-gers, pacing the Vernon Hills-based club in kills and aces.

Among his Adversity teammates were 2013 NTHS graduates Mike Gajos and Matt Wascher and recent Highland Park High School graduate Dustin Borenstein, a 6-4

outside hitter.“Carlos,” Borenstein said, “hits hard every

time, and he shows so much energy on the court, goes crazy in a good way after points. What also impresses me is how he finds ways to score, even when he’s not in an ideal posi-tion to go for a kill. Think of a basketball player making a fade-away; Carlos can pull off something like that while attacking in volleyball.”

Zambrano hopes to stem attacks, likely as a libero, at the next level — for USC. He has been invited to vie for a Trojans spot as a walk-on candidate.

“I’m hoping I have an edge, because of how our team did at nationals,” said Zambrano, son of another Carlos Zambrano. “But if it doesn’t work out, I want to be involved in the sport in any way possible — as a club player in college, definitely, or maybe as a volunteer stats taker for the team.”

Zambrano first got involved in volleyball as a junior high school student at Marie Murphy School [grades 6-8] in Wilmette. The school’s boys sports were soccer, bas-ketball and volleyball

He knew how to play soccer and basket-ball in his pre-Marie Murphy School days.

“I wanted to be a three-sport athlete all three years, so I went out for volleyball,” recalled Zambrano, a member of Adversity’s 16s club two years ago, when it finished ninth at USA Volleyball Nationals. “Volleyball … it’s such a great sport. What excites me most about it is the momentum factor; it’s so big in the sport.

“Every point,” he added, “is a new point, a new chance, a clean slate.”

Every point, in other words, gives a team

now hitting … carloS ZamBranoNew Trier grad stars for Adversity, earns all-tournament honors at nationals

new trier High school graduate carlos zambrano, who plays his club ball with adversity, made the all-tournament team at the usa Volleyball nationals.

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and his club team, Team NLP (Next Level Performance), compete in the AAU tournament later this month.

The 6-foot-7, 215-pound power forward, who will be a junior at Lake Forest High School, has firm offers from Boston College, DePaul, Iowa, Iowa State, Northwestern and St. Louis.

The other schools showing interest include Butler, Creighton, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Oregon State, Purdue, Stanford, UCLA, Virginia and Wisconsin.

In early June, Boudreaux participated in the Nike Elite 100 Camp (nation’s top rising sophomores and juniors) in St. Louis. And in the NY2LA tournament in Minneapolis in April, he was named co-MVP with NLP teammate Kurt Hall.

Boudreaux also had a standout performance in the NY2LA Sports Next Level Invitational in Mequon, Wis., last week.

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Baseball: Cohen started and hurled six good innings as the Waves defeated the Downers Grove Longshots 9-2 in the Connie Mack State Tournament title game on July 12 in Ottawa.

Cohen, who worked around now nine hits, got tremendous defensive support. The Waves turned three double plays.

LaMotte doubled, tripled and drove in three runs. The

offense also featured Scott Hammes (single, double), Grant Klenovich (single, double, 2 RBI), Matt Boscow (double, two RBI) and Matt McCaffrey (two-run triple).

The Waves also defeated Yorkville 10-8 in eight innings and host Ottawa 17-3 to finish the state tournament with a 3-0 record.

The Mike Napolean-coached squad banged out 19 hits in the Yorkville game. Hammes led the way with three hits, while five players — Frank Nicholas, Sammy Visconti, Logan Wible, LaMotte and Klenovich — had two hits apiece.

Wilmette broke a 10-10 tie with two runs in the top of the eighth. Josh Katz singled and scored on LaMotte’s short flyball. And then David Eagen came home on a groundball.

David Richman worked the final 3 1/3 innings to earn the victory.

In the opener against Ottawa, Hammes beat out four infield hits.

“Teams outside of our area don’t realize how fast our kids are,” said Napolean.

The Waves (27-8), who went 11-3 to win the Suburban Chicago League, will play in the regional tournament this weekend in Battle Creek, Mich.

NEIl UDElHOFEN/MIKE MCCORMACKloyola

Baseball: The two lefthanders, who will be sophomores at Loyola Academy, picked up wins in the Suburban Chicago Connie Mack Baseball League’s year-end tournament.

Loyola went 3-2 in the tourney, falling to Palatine 4-1 in the championship on July 13.

Udelhofen threw six strong innings in a 5-2 win over Nazareth on July 11.

“He did a phenomenal job,” said Loyola Connie Mack coach Nick Bridich. “He’s going to be very good.”

McCormack worked four innings of relief and was cred-ited with the win, when LA topped Morton Grove 7-6 on

July 12.Bridich also likes what he sees in Sam Badovenac. This

sophomore lefthander pitched five solid innings in the title game against Palatine.

“Palatine has a veteran team,” said Bridich. “They play a lot of seniors who graduated.”

Loyola’s other win came against Northbrook 4-3 in the opening round on July 11. Junior Peter Paggioli was the winning pitcher.

The 6-foot-6 Paggioli also was one of the team’s top hit-ters in the tournament along with seniors Fran O’Malley and Travis Weber.

“We put some things together late in the season,” the LA coach said. “And it’s been a great opportunity for our coaching staff to see where our players are at. It’s not about wins and losses. It’s been about player development.”

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Golf (Boys): The 2013 Loyola Academy graduate shot a 222 and finished in a three-way tie for 15th in the McArthur Towel & Sports Future Legends tournament in Wales, Wis., on July 9-12.

Hultquist had rounds of 71, 75 and 76 in the AJGA event at The Legend of Brandybrook. Western Springs’ Charlie Netzel earned medalist honors with a 207, one stroke bet-ter than A.J. Varekois of Rockford, Mich.

Ian Mankoff of Lake Forest finished strong (71 in round three) to place in a four-way tie for 19th place. His three-round total was 223.

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PlAY AT DENISONBaseball: Two Loyola Academy gradu-

ates — John Funkhouser and JT Trimble — will play college baseball at Division III Denison University in Ohio.

Both plan to be pitchers for the Big Red.All told, four players from the LA’s Class

of 2013 baseball team will be playing at the next level. Outfielder Danny Woodrow will play at Creighton University. Pitcher/first baseman Daniel Rafferty is a Bucknell recruit.

Meanwhile, Tommy Bordignon and Andrew Owen, who will be seniors at LA, continue to draw a lot of college interests. They will play for Team Illinois White in the Midwest Classic Baseball Tournament at Plainfield South High School on July 23-28.

PIlAND WIll BE lF’S NEW COACH

Gymnastics (Girls): Jesse Piland will take over the reins at Lake Forest High School, replacing a highly successful coach in Robin Straus.

Straus, who was the Scouts’ head coach for 34 seasons, guided her team to state runner-up honors during the 2011 sea-son. In 1985, the Scouts took home the third-place trophy. LF was fifth in 2012 and sixth in 2013.

Straus was named Illinois coach of the year twice.

Piland, who was the assistant girls coach at Vernon Hills, will continue as the head boys gymnastics coach at Mundelein High School.

Meanwhile, Z White, who was an assis-tant for Straus, has been named the new head girls coach at Schaumburg High School.

HP’S POllACK COMMITS

TO ARIzONAFootball: Josh Pollack, who will be a

senior at Highland Park High School, has his future planned.

The Giants kicker/punter has made a ver-bal commitment to the University of Arizona.

“He has improved fabulously over the win-ter,” said HPHS head football coach Hal Chioda. “He went to every punting/kick-ing camp possible.

“The coaching staff at Arizona loved what they saw in him,” the coach added. “It’s unusual for a kicker to get a full offer. But he’s a kid who can do both: punt and kick.”

Last fall, Pollack (5-foot-11, 175 pounds) connected on 26 of 28 extra-point attempts. He made 3 of 6 field goals with the long being 34 yards. Eight of 32 kickoffs went for touchbacks.

“I’m real comfortable with our kicking game,” said Chioda. “We not only have Pollack but we also have a great snap-per in Doug Kirsch and a great holder in Grant Paley.”

Pollack, who gave up soccer to concen-trate on football, also is starting to come

into his own as a punter. He averaged just under 30 yards per punt during the 2012 season. He had a long of 57 yards, while he placed two kicks inside the 20.

“He’s a one-step punter. He gets the ball off quickly,” said Chioda. “His punting is improving. He’s learned to punt by going to all of those kicking camps.”

STATE SElECT TEAMS WIN

ODP REGIONAlSSoccer (girls): Lake Forest’s Paige

Bourne, Natalie Joyce and Adrian Walker, along with Loyola Academy’s Devin Burns, helped the 1998 Girls State Select team to a Region II ODP title. The Illinois squad topped Minnesota 2-1 in the championship.

The other 1998 roster members include Emily Blackwell, Emily Bollman, Alyssa Frazier, Erin Johnston, Lauren Lockwood, Lauren Long, Ashley Nensel, Samantha Tyler and Madelyn West.

The 1997 team, which includes Lake Forest’s Carly Hoke, also claimed a regional crown. The roster also includes Madeleine Chalifoux, Hanna Durocher, Karla Hernandez, Emily Hess, Amanda Hoglund, Madeline Howard, Sarah Kozlowski, Kelsey Kraft, Megan McEachern, Drew Moulton, Claire Neibergall, Elizabeth Parrilli, Hannah Parrish, Emily Scott, Sophia Snyder, Jenna Szczesny and Emily Valentine.

Both squads, along with the 1998 boys, will play in the ODP National Championships in 2014.

lFSA U11 SqUAD TURNS IN

STEllAR SEASONSoccer (girls): This team was hard to

beat.The Lake Forest Soccer Association’s

U11 squad completed its season with a 15-1-1 overall record. In league play — the IWSL A Division — LFSA outscored its opponents 38-2 and finished a perfect 8-0.

The team’s lone setback came in State Cup pool play to eventual state runner-up Magic South U12.

The other season highlight was win-ning the Libertyville Memorial Day U12 Premier Girls Division.

The squad was coach by Otkay Akgun. The roster included Julia Loeger, Ingrid Falls, Bridget Mitchell, Gracie McGowan, Anya Kavanagh, Kelly Kunz, Alyssa Marquis, Nicole Doucette, Sophia Divagno, Sarah Bires, Quinn Sokol and Emma Manolovic.

lF’S lIPP MAKES USTA NATIONAl TEAM

Tennis (Girls): Maddie Lipp, a 2013 graduate of Lake Forest High School, has been named to the USTA National Team for the third consecutive year and will represent the Midwest.

The top five players in each region throughout the U.S. will com-pete against each other during the National Team Competition in Claremont, Calif. (July 29-Aug. 1).

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A water polo ball hisses by a goalkeeper and makes a thunderous thud as it strikes the goal’s canvas back.

An echo then resonates around a nata-torium for a few seconds, in concert with applause and cheers.

It’s all sweet music to Alexana Astor’s ears.“I love that sound,” the 2013 New Trier

High School graduate said of a polo fastball-canvas clash. “Goalkeepers … they don’t like it so much.”

Goalkeepers also didn’t like facing Astor in the spring. The 5-foot-9, driver/hole set racked up a team-best 96 goals for New Trier (26-6), a sectional finalist after placing fourth at the IHSA state tournament in 2012.

“Alexana has tremendous acceleration as a swimmer,” Trevians coach Matt Wendt said of his second-team all-stater. “Nobody could keep up with her, especially during her second and third efforts [on drives to the goal]. And nobody wanted to guard her in practices when she was in the red zone … in scoring mode.

“Her elbows flew all around then,” he added, “and if she did hit a teammate, it was inadvertent contact.”

Astor motored for New Trier’s swim-ming and diving program as a freshman but ceased racing for the next three years in order to focus on water polo. She earned first-team all-sectional status and whipped in 88 goals her junior season — second behind senior teammate Isabelle Baneaux — when the Trevians went 27-7-1.

“I love water polo, just love it, and I’ve pushed myself for years to improve as a player,” said Astor, a North Beach club polo player who plans to play polo and swim at Division III Chapman (Calif.) University, while majoring in business administration with an entrepreneurial emphasis. “It’s highly competitive. It’s my passion.

“I’m one who has always looked forward to water polo practices.”

Another one of her passions is Latin ball-room dancing, an outlet she discovered when she lived in Massachusetts and cut a mean rug at Dance Fever studio. Astor had tried her feet in ballet and jazz dance.

“Those disciplines,” she said, “are too structured and not as fun as Latin ballroom is. I love the movement in Latin ballroom, love the music. The music is always upbeat and happy. I definitely want to continue doing it at Chapman, if I’m able to work it into my schedule.”

When Astor researched schools with Division-I water polo programs, it became clear to her that she would have had to devote oodles of time to polo had she cho-sen that level. Too much time.

“Committing six to eight hours to the sport on some days seemed a bit much,” she said. “I like Chapman’s reasonable water polo prac-tice schedule and its outstanding facilities.

“But to find a place where I’d get a good education,” she added, “was my primary concern when I looked at colleges.”

Astor is looking forward to her return to swimming in the fall. She swam freestyle and butterfly as an NT freshman, back in 2009.

“I think I’ll be OK in the freestyle,” she said. “But in the butterfly, well, I might be rusty.”

Wendt, for one, is eager to see what kind of impact Astor will have as a swim team member after a three-year break from the sport. Sustained success wouldn’t surprise him in the least.

“Alexana is an outstanding athlete, an amazingly fast swimmer,” said Wendt, who completed his fourth season at the school and guided two other collegiate poloists at NTHS (Baneaux, Connecticut College, and ’13 graduate Julia Ulrich, bound for Bucknell University).

“I’ll be curious, very curious, to find out her results in swimming. I never once had to worry about her work ethic, and I’ve never had

to motivate her. She’s mature and approaches all things in a businesslike manner.”

Perhaps some of the maturity comes from the moves she’s had to make (not on the dance floor; the ones involving U-Hauls). Astor and her family (dad Michael, mom Elena) have moved four times since she was born in New Jersey. The Astors also lived in Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts before settling in Northfield.

“My parents like to move, but the moves weren’t always job-related,” she said. “They also like to look for other kinds of opportunities.”

Many await Alexana Astor in the next four years.

Go west, young woman.Way west.And continue to make significant noise,

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Adversity’s 18s Purple squad established Big Mo at nationals when it knocked off a club team [the No. 7 seed] from Hawaii in its third pool-play match.

“Our team did not have one magnificent player, but that was one of our strengths,” said Zambrano, who thwacks a magnificent jump serve. “We were a true team, with very good chemistry. We had more heart than talent, and our thinking going in was, ‘Any place worse than fifth would not be an accomplishment.’ ”

New Trier’s Trevians appeared poised to finish fifth or better at this spring’s IHSA state tournament. They put together a lengthy winning streak near the end of the season but got upset by Maine South in a regional title match. An ankle injury kept Zambrano out of action for nearly two weeks in the regular season. Still, the all-CSL selection — first among teammates in aces and second in kills and digs — helped NT amass 30 wins. NT downed Glenbrook North twice, once when the Spartans were the state’s top-ranked team.

“As a whole, a very good year,” Zambrano said. “It was nice to cap a high school career with great players and friends like Mike [Gajos] and Matt [Wascher].”

A relative like Dr. Julio Mora has been serving as one of Zambrano’s inspiration for years. His grandfather, 73, practices inter-nal medicine [geriatrics] in Lincolnwood.

“He came from nothing, and look at what he has become,” Zambrano said. “He’s always reminded me to be grateful for what I have and to be appreciative of the opportunities I have. ■”

MUlDOON TO COACH

HIGHlAND PARK BOYS

V o l l e y b a l l ( B o y s ) : Ex-Deerfield High School standout Kyle Muldoon is set to be the next head boys volleyball coach at Highland Park.

Pending Board approval, Muldoon, who has been coach-ing club volleyball at Adversity for the past five years, will replace Earl Alexander.

“He develops talent and

motivates kids,” said Mike Hulett, who is president and head coach for the Adversity VBC. “He’ll push his players. But he’s very positive with them. And he knows all of the positions.”

Muldoon was an outside hit-ter for Deerfield. He went on to play college volleyball at Carthage.

SIx AND COUNTING

Volleyball (Girls): So far, six players on the Wildcat Juniors 17 Black squad have made verbal commitments.

The list includes two Loyola Academy players. Victoria Lord, an outside hitter, will play at Emory University, while Kelsey O’Neill, a middle hitter, will take her game to the University of Pittsburgh.

Emily Friedler, who helped New Trier High School earn runner-up honors at the IHSA state tournament last fall, has been recruited by the University of Pennsylvania.

The other recruited play-ers include Lauren Emmert (Michigan Tech), Taylor Louis (Marquette) and Maddy Wilcox (Florida Gulf Coast).

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Black team also has six players set to play at the next level, including New Trier’s Haley Fauntleroy (Virginia), Brittani Steinberg (Yale) and Taylor Tashima (Northwestern) along with Evanston’s Angelika Pointer (Oak land Community College), Olivia Rusek (Miami of Ohio) and Arianna Salas (Buffalo). Fauntleroy, Tashima and Rusek will be seniors this fall.

Meanwhile, former Lake Forest High School star Mary Striedl, an all-state selection in 2011, has transferred from Pitt to Butler. ■

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in the second round to finish with a 155.Jason Paek of Glenview and Brian

Dolehide of Hinsdale came in tied for first with 154s. Paek won the playoff.

Winnetka’s Brett Golden shot a 159 to take eighth place.

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Golf (Girls): She celebrated a first-place finish at the Patriot Cup Classic. Her 164 was just enough to edge Clarendon Hills’ Maddy Swank (165) in this MAJGT event which was played in Grand Haven, Mich.

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(153) with Oak Brook’s Selina Zeng at the IJGA-CDGA Junior Amateur at Mill Creek Golf Club on July 10-12.

Carol Stream’s Hanna Netisingha took top honors with a 151. Liza Kraff of Highland Park was 19th (165).

In the boys division, Winnetka’s Matthew Murlick and Noah Apter fin-ished in four-way tie for seventh (220). Glencoe’s David Perl was tied 18th (225).

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Golf: This duo shot 79s to share run-ner-up honors take in the Junior Boys Division in the IJGA Open #10 North Shore Junior on July 12 at Sportsman’s. Lake Forest’s Max Rappeport and Sam

Brush and Glencoe’s Brandon Koch shot 80s to share fifth place.

In Senior Boys, Lake Bluff’s carded a 73 to take third place. Highland Park’s Samuel Reategui and Kenilworth’s Nicholas Rossini shared fourth place with 74s. Wilmette’s Tyler Aldrich was sev-enth (75) while 10th place was shared by Winnetka’s Nick Newell and Wilmette’s John Wegener.

In Senior Girls, Tina Berardi of Highland Park finished in a tie for eighth place (88).

And in Junior Girls, Glencoe’s Margaret Hickey shot a 79 to share runner-up hon-ors with Glenview’s Nicole Wetoska. ■

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We have traveled the world, but we took a trip a few years ago in the western United States that was fantastic. There’s so much to see in this country.

We bought a BMW convertible and shipped it to Arizona. We flew out there and, after staying with a family, drove to Santa Bar-bara. We stayed at a bed and breakfast there and spent a few days checking the boutiques and the quaint shopping district.

We then drove to Yosemite and stayed at Tenaya Lodge. It’s a classic place. We had a view of Half Dome from the room. Ansel Adams got his famous shot of Half Dome — I (Jimmy) tried to get the same shot. We then drove to see the redwoods. It was amazing.

We found half a dozen wineries outside of

Eugene, Ore. just by chance and then drove to Seattle to celebrate our fifth anniversary. We rented a 28-foot boat and cruised the Puget Sound. We slept on the boat. There was a great fisherman’s wharf market and crafts market.

After driving to Twin Falls, Idaho, we went back to Arizona to Lake Powell — there’s a place you can get lost. There are thousands of miles of beaches.

It was just a fantastic journey. We went 4,000 miles — and weren’t bored for a sec-ond. We love road trips, being alone together, laughing. If you’re with someone you love, it doesn’t matter where you are. We get to see the crazy oddities in our country. Getting on a plane and going somewhere doesn’t do it.

Kim and Jimmy Schiffman, as told to David Sweet ■

“we went 4,000 miles — and weren’t bored for a second. we love road trips, being alone together, laughing.”

for kim and Jimmy (and kerouac)life is best experienced on the road

Jimmy schiffman and kimberly fritkin-schiffman, owners of the shed in Highland park, will be attending shedfest — which will celebrate the blues — this weekend.



the north shore weekend | saturday july 20 | sunday july 21 2013

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