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It is a late afternoon, in a confer-ence room at a real estate office in Winnetka. Karen Arenson,

a Coldwell Banker managing broker, is in there. So is Mary Kay Burke, a Coldwell Banker broker. The third person in the room is a listener, wielding a pen and a pad of paper.

The prevailing topic is the prevailing condition of the real estate market on the North Shore versus the condition of the real estate market in the United States.

Arenson has read the front-page headlines and the articles of the national reports. They made the front pages of local outlets. She uses the weather, colorfully, to make a cogent point.

“What is going on nationally, what people are hearing, what they’re reading in Associated Press stories is the real estate market’s lack of inventory,” Arenson says. “There’s a barrier to entering the market because of inflated prices. But that’s like reading about the national weather and discovering it’s 72 degrees and sunny in the United States. The real estate market is locally driven, and what is going on here, in Illinois and the North Shore, is the opposite of what the national news is saying. Our inventory is up and climbing,

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WILMETTE — Canal Shores is developing a master plan that pro-

poses significant changes to the 18-hole course that spans both Evanston and Wilmette. The Evanston Wilmette Golf As-sociation — a nonprofit orga-nization that oversees the golf course — held a public meeting on April 22 to share the pro-posed plan.

“The goal of the meeting was to get our preliminary idea in front of the community and get feedback on it,” Tom Tully, Canal Shores general manager, said.

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Canal Shores Golf Course Plans Revamp

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5 art of caring Catholic Charities event is May 21.

6 state of the north shore housing market How real estate values in the North Shore are comparing nationally.

6 golf course revamp Canal Shores Golf Course is planning some changes.

[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ]

8 north shore foodie Ten Ninety Brewing Co. in Glenview opens.

8 north shorts Musings by Mike Lubow.

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

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

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15 cut out to be a catcher Glenbrook South’s Billy Loggarakis has a striking presence around the plate — without the strikeouts.

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Chicago painter Michael van Zeyl has devoted his life to creating images that

connect with his patrons. There have been still lifes, portraits and a new series that combines people with flowers to build his audience of fans.

But it was a photograph of van Zeyl painting in his studio, which he casually posted to social media that draw in Lake Forester Peg Ciccarelli most immediately.

“I was working on a picture of five bottles of wine, one of which is in a gold bag that obscures the label. It was inspired by a party my uncle has every year where we all get together to taste different wines, and at the end of the night he unwraps the bottles and we all get to know which was the most popular wine – whether it was an expensive one or one of the more reasonably priced wines,” van Zeyl said. “So I posted this picture of me working on the painting to my Facebook page, and Peg messaged me right away.”

Working with the Women’s Board of Catholic Charities, Lake County Services, Ciccarelli an-nually curates the artwork for the Board’s Art of Caring event. This year – the Women’s Board’s 27th – the event brings together the work of 16 artists to benefit Catholic Charities’ Lake County programs, including those that benefit senior citizens and the homebound, families in crisis, and veterans.

“We take a holistic view of life and our goal is for all of our clients to get back on their feet and be self-sufficient,” explained Catholic Charities’ Director of Communication Kristine Kappel. “This is always a beautiful evening with a group of people who have come together because they are committed to supporting the needy in Lake County.”

The Art of Caring begins at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at High-land Park’s Exmoor Country Club. In addition to the live music, auction and dinner, guests will find along the perimeter of the room a selection of work for

sale by artists at all stages of the careers, working in a variety of media; this includes pen and ink drawings, photography, oil paint-ings and water colors.

Among the artists are Mary Gaspar, Caitlin Saville Collins and Margaret Wenzel, who Cic-carelli described as emerging artists in their 30s. Their work will be alongside that of Peggy Macnamara, who has been the Artist-In-Residence at the Field Museum for more than 30 years, and Mark McMahon, who has participated in all of these Cath-olic Charities events.

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“Everything we’ll be showing that night can be framed to hang on the wall – that’s the only thing they all have in common,” Cic-carelli said. “They fit in any space in your home, and we are also pleased to have some corporate buyers coming out to support us that night.”

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of the plan, which includes transforming the course into four courses with a total of 41 holes. The plan envisions a six-hole short course south of Lincoln, a dedicated youth area with five short holes, a practice green and a range, an 18-hole putting course, and a 12-hole executive course north of Central.

Tully said this new format will provide flexibility, allowing golfers to play six, 12 or 18 holes on any given day. “Just the flexibility will be huge for us and the golfers as well,” he said.

In December 2015, the Golf Association received two grants: one from the U.S. Golf Association and the American

Society of Golf Course Architects for a pro bono evaluation of the golf course, and a second from the Illinois Department of Natural Re-sources to address the land’s ecology.

Preliminary plans have been developed for the golf course but the ecology plan is still in the works. At the meeting, the ecology team Planning Re-sources Inc. was introduced. Tully said they hope to restore the wooded areas along the canal banks by removing invasive trees and planting native trees. “When we do that it will be a better habitat,” Tully said.

The Golf Association decided to revamp the golf course to make it more inclusive and sustainable. The new plans

create paths on the side of the course, so that the community can continue to enjoy walking, biking or running on the golf course without interfering with people playing golf.

“We want to make it a fun, safer course for everybody,” Tully said.

The estimated cost for imple-menting the master plan is $6 million, and the Golf Associa-tion will need to raise the funds. While the golf course sits on public land that is owned by the Metropolitan Water Reclama-tion District, the Golf Asso-ciation is a private nonprofit that does not receive tax dollars from Wilmette or Evanston.

Tully said the Golf Associa-tion’s board passed a resolution that requires $3 million com-

mitted — the cost of the golf course portion of the plan — before breaking ground. The Golf Association aims to com-plete these plans by 2019, just in time to celebrate the golf course’s 100-year anniversary.

Tully said the April 22 meeting was very productive. “We know that we are a part of the community and stewards of this land. Having the commu-nity involved was great,” he said. He said residents who attended asked a lot of questions. “I thought it was great. They were passionate, inquisitive and in-volved,” Tully said.

The association’s board will make a final decision on the master plan, but at this point the plans are still in the pre-liminary stages.

which forces softening prices.“It’s a buyer’s market, 100

percent, for homes priced at more than $1 million,” she adds, “but under $500,000, it is a seller’s market.”

Burke speaks next. She also uses a weather term, this time to de-scribe a vital part of her job: edu-cating sellers in a challenging market. If anybody deserves an apple, it’s Burke.

“Education is key,” she says. “You have to sit down with your client and explain the climate of the local real estate market. You have to talk about inventory, about interest rates, about being realistic. Each client wants to know what is going on around here. It’s our job to inform them. North Shore inventory is super high, lower in the city. Buyers are picky. What’s important to understand is that what’s going on in San Francisco or in Manhattan or in Naples is not going on around here.”

A microburst is a small down-draft that moves in a way opposite of a tornado. Another weather term, yes. There’s activity going on in some markets today, sometimes hard to detect, and Arenson in-troduces a portion of the term in another revealing discussion.

“There are micro markets within markets, and micro markets don’t always reflect what’s going on in the overall market,” she says. “For example, parts of the New Trier market are on fire … houses are moving, sellers are getting multiple offers, and the number of written contracts is up, but there are villages or price points that are very slow.”

Jena Radnay, a broker at @properties in Winnetka for the past 10 years, had worked in the

advertising industry for eight years. Real estate called. She an-swered the call. From BAR (Broadcast Advertisers Report) to MLS (Multiple Listing Service). She sold a penthouse on Wells Street in Chicago to a friend from high school in her first deal.

“I’ve never looked back since then,” Radnay says. “I got bored with advertising. I love real estate; it’s my passion. People, today, come up to me and say, ‘Business must be bad.’ It’s not. I’ve never been busier. We’re doing fine; nothing is falling apart. Younger people are scooping houses up. I just sold three houses on Woodley Road [in Winnetka] to young buyers.”

The Chicagoland area has the seventh-best Millennial housing market in the country, according

to a recent Lending Tree report. It is a tidbit Roberta Miller — a sales professional and marketing specialist with Berkshire Hatha-way HomeServices KoenigRubl-off in Lake Forest — included in her most recent online newsletter to clients. She admits the market has been quieter in Lake Forest/Lake Bluff this spring than it was in 2015. Her specialty, robust marketing, helps set her clients’ properties apart from other simi-larly priced properties. Miller, too, goes out of her way to educate buyers and sellers.

“People ask me, ‘How’s the market?’ Miller says. “I tell them it’s a good time for both buyers and sellers. It’s a unique time, because when it’s a good time to buy, it’s usually not a good time to sell, and vice versa. But, right now,

interest rates are still low [3 percent], which means buyers would do well to not wait too long to make a commitment to what they are seeking.

“It’s expected that interest rates will rise,” she adds. “And, right now, in most price ranges, there are fewer houses coming on the market this spring than there were at this time last year. So if you are thinking of selling, you would have the attention of buyers who may not have found what they want.”

Marla Schneider, like Miller, has been in the real estate indus-try for 30 years. Her Coldwell Banker Schneider Group (her son, Matthew, is a partner) is based in Glenview. Her lifetime closed sales hit the $900 million mark.

Her take on the local real estate market today?

“Tough,” she says. “It’s an elec-tion year; with that comes some uncertainty. Educating a seller is something we do after, say, 30 days of advertising and marketing, doing everything we can, and the house hasn’t sold. We tell the seller, ‘Here’s what we’re seeing. Maybe your price is too aggressive. Let’s think about adjusting.’”

Schneider projects a calm pres-ence. She is the consummate real estate pro, realistic and hopeful, resilient and informed. She loves what she does, clearly. Just like Arenson and Burke and Radnay and Miller. The state of the local real estate market today, along the North Shore? It’s not 2008-dire. It’s not crazy-busy like it was from 1999-2005.

It is stable … partly cloudy one day, partly sunny the next.

Housing Continued from PG 1

304 304Fernwood in Glenview, IL. VHT Studios, The Schneider Group-Coldwell Banker.

I love real-

estate; it’s my

passion. People

today, come up

to me and say,

‘Business must

be bad.’ It’s not.

I’ve never been

busier.—Jean Radnay,

@properties

People ask

me, “How’s the

market?’ I tell

them it’s a good

time for both

buyers and

sellers.—Roberta Miller,

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Koeing Rubloff

hIGHLAND PARK – The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has

issued a lane closure permit for southbound U.S. Highway 41, in front of 2300 Skokie Valley Road, (between Park Avenue and Half

Day Road) for completion of work within the right-of-way. The lane closure permit runs to May 24. Per IDOT lane closure requirements, the hours for the lane closure are between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. Intermittent lane closures will occur during this three-week period, so please be aware of this as you make your travel plans.

Additional updates will be pro-vided as they are received.

Also according to a newsletter from the City of Highland Park, the city’s 2016 Capital Improve-ment Plan (CIP) is underway with the majority of street, sidewalk, bridge, sewer, forestry and other infrastructure projects planned during the spring and summer months.

Submitted by the City of High-land Park.

Woe is 41: Lane Closure Planned for May

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Always saving the day.HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

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north shore foodie

Musings by Mike Lubow

North Shorts

“Two Plays”

sometimes, you get to see two plays for the price of one at the same time. The

theater might be on the North Shore, or maybe on the lake downtown. Its design features a stage surrounded by seats on

three sides.Viewers sit close to the action,

and share in its reflected light. As you look on from your side of the intimate room you find yourself choosing which performance to watch: the one on stage or the one just beyond, in the opposite seats. You may switch focus as

you please, so there’s never a lull. The performance on stage is

sharply directed with top actors performing solid literary mate-rial. But, the performance ACROSS the stage has its own drama, too. And a captivating cast of characters...

There’s the sleeping man. Will

his head touch his wife’s shoulder as he slowly droops? There’s the lady with a constant smile, seem-ingly happy even in sad parts. There’s the squirmy guy with unbuckled pants who overate before the show. There’s the guy with no socks in winter, the lady with long legs in a short skirt.

There’s the other sleeping man (an all-too common role). A loving couple holding hands. An angry couple leaning apart. Somebody is secretly texting—a doctor dealing with an emer-gency? Drama.

Oh, and yeah. There’s also the play in the foreground. And it’s

delivering the goods as advertised, entirely worth watching between scenes from the other play behind it. Well, Shakespeare said some-where that “...All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.”

You think, yeah, he got that right.

By steve sadin

GLENVIEW — A passion for brewing beer and a graduate school dream

combined to create Ten Ninety Brewing Co.

Beer aficionados can choose from any of the 20 draught brews offered at the tap room which opened April 23 adjacent to the brewery at 1025 Waukegan Road in downtown Glenview.

Customers can consume Ten Ninety’s standards or try out the new brews under development offering the company instant input on the latest creation.

“We’re ecstatic about the op-portunity to get real feedback,” Brian Schafer of Glenview, the founder and majority owner of the company, said. “People will tell us by the beer sales. There’s a major investment to putting a six-pack together.”

Schafer was drawn into home brewing by a friend—Andy Smith who is now a minority owner—in 2005; about the same time he earned his MBA from Northwestern University ’s Kellogg School of Management.

“When I started graduate school I wanted to be a CFO,” Schafer said. “When I finished graduate school I wanted to own my own business.”

After graduation, Schafer worked his way into a pair of CFO jobs in the corporate world

while spending his spare time with a new hobby—brewing beer. In 2006, he came up with an idea for Imperial Wit, a beer that would eventually become Ten Ninety’s first.

Belgian beers included some of Schafer’s favorites. He said

most were between 4.2 and 4.5 percent alcohol. He decided to make one with coriander and honey more potent, like 10.1 percent.

“When you brew it’s not that hard to bring it from a five percent beer to a 10 percent beer,”

Schafer said. “Once it was done I shared it with my friends and everyone liked it. I knew it was a keeper.”

A year later Schafer entered Imperial Wit in a competition with other local brewers and won. He said there were some profes-

sionals competing as well. The following year he entered it in another contest, again with pro-fessionals in the mix, which also included food pairings.

Again there was victory. Schafer had a conversation with Smith and Jamie Hoban, another

friend who would become the third partner in Ten Ninety. With two wins under his belt, Schafer realized there could be a future.

“Once could be luck but (winning) twice I think we’ve got something going,” Schafer said to Smith and Hoban at the time. “We ought to open a brewery.”

Fast Forward to 2013. Schafer left his job of nearly four years as CFO at United Scrap Metal and Ten Ninety Brewing Co. was born, according to Schafer. He started the company in Zion and began marketing his brews. He said they are currently found in the Chicago area, Wisconsin and Peoria.

Ten Ninety beer is sold in six packs of bottles at places like Heinen’s, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, Binny’s Beverage Depot and Mariano’s, according to Schafer.

As of April 23, people can drink Ten Ninety’s beer in the 91-seat tap room adjacent to the brewery in Glenview, according to Schafer. He said it is strictly a taproom. He distinguished it from a brewpub because there is no food. He said he is also proud to bring the business to his home-town.

“Glenview is a sure demo-graphic for craft beer,” Schafer said. “There are no other (craft) breweries around. It feels good to bring it to Glenview where I have lived the last six and a half years.”

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Over the course of three days in April, the Hanuman Mandir of Greater Chicago welcomed 5,000 devotee visitors to its new west Glen-view location. The Hanuman Mandir, open to all faiths, is open daily, with services in the morning and evening. In addition to services, the spiritual center will offer continuing education like Sunday School, Holy Geeta study, yoga and meditation, and music classes. Dr. Chandra Khurana sits as CEO and Chief Devotee.

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Billy Loggarakis displayed remarkable self-control and patience the other day.

His post-game meal was staring him right in the face fol-lowing the first game of Glen-brook South’s doubleheader at Highland Park on April 30 (the second game was called because of bad weather).

But instead of delving into his lunch, Loggarakis agreed to a post-game interview. No doubt famished, the GBS catcher took the speak-now, eat-later ap-proach.

The talented senior practices that same self-restraint in the batter’s box. He doesn’t get in a hurry at the plate. In 18 games this season, Loggarakis has yet to strike out. Not bad for a player hitting third in the order and leading his team in batting (.361) and RBIs (11).

Putting the ball in play has always been one of his trade-marks. As the Titans’ starting catcher last spring, he ended up hitting .290 with 20 runs batted in.

Loggarakis, a fun guy who plays the game with fire and passion, may not make a lot of routine outs. But he’s not without his routine.

After every pitch he takes — ball or strike — Loggarakis, a la former St. Louis Cardinals out-fielder Skip Schumaker and other big leaguers, steps out of the box and tightens the Velcro strips on his batting gloves.

“I’ve been doing that for a couple of years,” says Loggarakis. “Honestly, I don’t recall when I started it.”

There’s a method to his “batness.”

“I’m very superstitious,” Log-garakis says. “It helps me to stay within myself.”

So there’s that.And there’s this.“I don’t really like having my

batting gloves loose,” he adds. “I like them to be nice and tight.”

Teammate Jack Szafranski gets it.

“I’ve noticed what he does,”

says Szafranski. “I think it helps to keep him locked in. What-ever he has to do.

“Everyone’s got something,” he adds. “Whether it’s tapping the plate [three or four times] or stepping in and out of the batter’s box. Guys are just trying to get comfortable.”

Along with senior outfielder Andrew Kaczmarek (.353 batting average) and sophomore out-fielder Jack Anderson (.322), Loggarakis has been the glow stick for a 5-13 team.

“He’s been really consistent,” says GBS head coach Steve Stan-icek. “He’s had more good at-bats than anyone on our team.

“He takes a good approach to the plate,” the coach adds. “He’s not afraid to go the other way.”

In the 6-2 loss to Highland Park, the right-handed hitting Loggarakis drove home the game’s first run in the opening frame. In the sixth inning, with two runners on, he lined out hard to the Highland Park right fielder.

“Coach has been preaching, ‘Take it the other way,’ ” says Log-garakis.

And being a catcher, he’s got “inside information” on high-school level pitchers.

“I know pitchers, and I know that they like to work away,” Log-

garakis says. “And when you hit No. 3 in the order, you really don’t get a lot of fastballs.

“There have been games this season where I’ve only seen one fastball the whole game,” he adds. “I’m seeing a lot of curves. So I just try to stay back and go the other way.”

Catching is the perfect fit for Loggarakis.

“Billy is one of the best catch-ers that I’ve coached here, espe-cially with the way he blocks pitches,” says Stanicek. “He’s been a staple behind the plate for us.

“He just looks like a catcher,” Stanicek adds. “I don’t know if that’s a compliment or not.”

It is — to Loggarakis.A former pitcher/outfielder,

Loggarakis became a catcher when he was 12 years old.

And it was not under perfect conditions.

“I got cut from the Glenview Blaze [A team] and put on the B team,” Loggarakis says. “They had no one to catch.”

Thus, the short end of the stick went to him.

His gear included a catcher’s facemask, chest protector, knee guards and a chip — on his shoulder.

“Getting cut was incredibly upsetting and frustrating,” says Loggarakis, who has played club

baseball with the Homestead Ranchers for the past three summers. “But, looking back, it’s been a blessing in disguise. Getting cut from that team helped to make me the player that I am today.”

Besides, he adds: “I’ve got the right body type [5-foot-10, 185 pounds]. I get that all the time. I’ve got a catcher’s body.”

Loggarakis also has that toughess that you need from a catcher.

“He’s not intimidated by much,” says Szafranski.

With his batting eye and catching ability, Loggarakis would fit at a top Division III or NAIA program … like a “nice and tight” batting glove.

Instead he’s all set to go to Indiana University next fall. He already has been accepted in the Kelley School of Business. His twin sister, Alexia, will attend Lake Forest College.

In the meantime, he’d like to help the Titans — winners of 22 games in 2015 and 29 in ’14, right themselves down the stretch.

“We’ve been up and down this year,” says Loggarakis, noting that GBS topped a good Evanston team 2-1 on April 29. “We’re just not able to stop the bleeding. A lot of things are contributing to that. It’s upsetting.”

Notable: In GBS’s 2-1 win over Evanston on April 29, KK Kopley turned in masterful work on the mound. He went the distance and allowed only six hits to the hard-hitting Wildkits. Jack Szafranski and Jack Anderson had two hits apiece. … In a 6-5 loss to Evan-ston on April 26, Anderson (3 hits), Justin Machado (2 hits) and Andrew Kaczmarek (2 RBIs) led the attack. … According to GBS coach Steve Stanicek, Machado injured his elbow and could miss some time. “We’re waiting on the MRI,” the coach said. … In the 6-2 loss to host Highland Park on April 30, the Titans left 13 men on base. “This loss pretty much is a nutshell of our season,” said Stanicek.

BY KEVIN REITERMAN, [email protected]

Cut out to be a CatCher Glenbrook south’s Loggarakis has a striking presence around the plate — without the strikeouts

No k-iddiNG: Billy Loggarakis of the Titans heads the dugout at the end of the inning during last week’s win over Evanston. Through the first 18 games of the season, the senior has yet to strike out. phoToGRAphY BY JoEL LERNER

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meet Tilly.

Meet Lauren.Tilly is the right

black brace Lindsey Karsh wears in Glen-

brook South girls lacrosse games. Lauren is the left black brace. Yes, Karsh, a fun-loving, highly resilient junior attack for the Titans, has named her braces, the ones she has to don because of two ACL tears.

She suffered the first injury in July 2014. That was the right liga-ment. She was cleared to return to action in February 2015. Two to three weeks later, Karsh went down again, wiping out her entire soph-omore lacrosse season. A harsh rerun for Miss

Karsh.Tilly and Lauren have emerged

as sturdy companions, loyal. And completely supportive. They have not missed a game all spring. One-on-ones turn instantly into three-on-ones when Karsh has the ball against one defender. Karsh scored three goals in the Glenbrook South’s 15-7 defeat of visiting Lake Forest High School on April 28.

Tilly and Lauren, unofficially, recorded three assists apiece in the same game.

“People asked me, after the second injury and during my second rehab, ‘Why don’t you just quit?’ ” Karsh says. “Quit? Why would I even think about quitting a sport I love? I learned a lot about myself during my recoveries. To never give up, for one. To stay positive, too. My second rehab [at Athletico in Glenview, under the persistence and care of a man named Jay], went faster than my first one did.”

She smiles. She nods. The picture of a proud athlete. You don’t always have to score a goal to win a contest.

Karsh ranks second behind Titans senior and San Diego State University-bound attack Sarah McDonagh in goals this spring. Karsh, then a freshman, got pro-moted to varsity for the state play-offs in 2014, McDonagh’s sopho-more season. Karsh’s all-out play, in practices, caught McDonagh’s attention. That’s saying something. Loudly. Is there a more intense athlete at Glenbrook South than Sarah McDonagh? Likely not.

“Her freshman year, Lindsey brought it,” McDonagh says. “She winds up and fires. Unbelievable. A firecracker. We kind of clicked,

pretty quickly. We had a connection right off the bat. It was very sad, hearing she had torn that second ACL. I then got mad. I can’t imagine what she had to go through to get healthy. To go through all she had to go through … that had to be tough. But she never complained, never had issues.

“I remember thinking, before the start of this season, wondering what kind of season we’d have. Then it hit me. I said, ‘Wait! We’ll have Lindsey back!’ I rely on Lindsey in tough situations in

games. I lean on Lindsey’s catching, on her cutting.”

The same Lindsey Karsh wanted to quit lacrosse after the first day of her first lacrosse mini summer camp. It was the summer before her seventh grade. Catching the lacrosse ball was hard. The sport had a fun factor of 10 — on a scale of 10 to 100. Karsh returned home on that day, ready to call it a lacrosse career after a few hours.

“Hated it at first. I told my parents [Murrel and Kimberly], ‘I don’t want to play lacrosse anymore,’

” she recalls. “They told me, ‘You’re going to go back for the second day of camp or we’ll take your phone away.’ ”

A phone to a seventh-grader is about as valuable as a seventh-grader’s right lung.

Karsh attended the second day of camp, phone in tow. She felt frustrated but not as much as she had felt during the first day. By the end of the weeklong camp, she was thinking, This isn’t so bad. Mother and father knew best. Daughter now knows how to catch and pass

and score and dodge and pick up ground balls in a sport she would love to play in college. Daughter plays for the fifth-ranked team in the state and 13th-ranked team in the Midwest, according to lax-power.com. Glenbrook South beat visiting Barrington 17-3 on May 2 to improve to 11-6. It was South’s fourth straight win, sixth in its last seven games.

“Lindsey,” Titans coach Annie Lesch says, “lives for the lacrosse season.”

Karsh, also a field hockey player,

tallied four goals in a 15-14 lacrosse loss to host New Trier on April 6. NT beat Glenbrook South 8-6 in the game for third place at the state tournament last spring. McDonagh still doesn’t know how Karsh scored one of the goals in Northfield last month.

“She was leaning back while firing this shot, from maybe eight meters out,” McDonagh recalls. “I saw her leaning, but I didn’t see the ball. Then I looked at the net and saw the back of it fly up, sprout up. I started screaming and celebrating. What a goal that was. I’m never going to forget that goal.”

Karsh is in a hospital bed, fol-lowing ACL surgery No. 2. One teammate walks in, followed by another, followed by a bunch of others. They are they to deliver candy, mostly Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Karsh’s favorite treat on Halloween and, okay, maybe on the other 364 days in a year. She also received milkshakes and magazines and flowers. Showers of gifts. Later, she handles a card and opens it. Penmanship, in various slants and loops and colors, greets her. The words touch her.

“This card they got me … it was ginormous,” Karsh says. “You should have seen the size of it. It was wonderful and thoughtful, with all these messages on it from my teammates.”

You watch the two-time ACL-tear survivor recount the moment. A day that had started glumly in a hospital room turned sunny, in seconds.

Karsh wants to thank her team-mates all over again.

You get the feeling she will do just that.

Notable: Glenview South senior attack Sarah McDonagh poured in six goals, including three in a row in a span of three minutes in the first half, in a 15-7 defeat of visiting Lake Forest High School on April 28. Titans junior attack Lindsey Karsh scored three goals, and fresh-man Delaney Gallagher and senior Michaela Skweres shared time in goal. … Eleven Titans scored in South’s 20-0 rout of visiting High-land Park on April 27. Senior attack Maddie Murphy and junior middie Annie Morahan each scored three goals. The Titans received two tallies apiece from McDonagh, Perri Stewart, Meghan Zeivel, Eleanor Walsh and Macy McPhilliamy.

BY BILL McLEAN, [email protected]

braCed for suCCess Karsh overcomes harsh setbacks, emerges as a scoring threat for titans

aLL cLear: Lindsey Karsh of the Titans looks to pass during Monday’s win over Barrington. phoToGRAphY BY GEoRGE pFoERTNER..


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one can debate the merits of high schoolers focusing on a single sport or activity versus par-

ticipating in several.In fact, Glenbrook North’s

senior volleyball player and former debate team champion Jeremy Doman probably could offer cogent points on either side of the specialization argument.

But if Doman were simply speaking from personal experi-ence, he would say his decision to end his successful debate career in order to give volleyball his full attention has been a key in his emergence as a top per-former and team leader for the Spartans this spring.

Through Monday, the outside hitter had a team-high 163 kills for Glenbrook North (14-6, 6-1), a team looking to bounce back from Monday’s 20-25, 25-23, 25-23 setback against Deerfield. Doman had a season-high 17 kills in that loss.

Doman’s decision to focus exclusively on volleyball came in November 2014, just after he and debate partner Emily Chen qualified for the Tournament of Champions, the national tourna-ment for policy debate.

Reaching the pinnacle of policy debate was gratifying, Doman said, but doing so re-quired hours of research and preparation, specialized summer camp and weekend travel to events.

“I always thought I could balance debate and volleyball. Qualifying for the Tournament of Champions had been the goal. After I accomplished that, I decided to give everything to volleyball,” he said. “Choosing one activity to really pursue was a good decision and better for me as an athlete. Instead of having to sacrifice my time, I could go all out for the sport I loved.”

Doman’s first move was to join Skokie-based Division I Volleyball Club, where several of his Glenbrook North teammates already were part of the program.

Initially, Doman only made the second team in his age group. This past fall, he made the jump to the first team. Doman said the time with Division I has im-proved him technically and athletically.

“I think I’ve become a better hitter and better passer. My passing was really bad last year, but I worked on it through the club season,” he said. “Overall, as an athlete, I’ve grown a little and gotten stronger.”

This season at Glenbrook North, Doman is being counted on to help replace the production of graduated star middle hitter Rob Chatterton and lead the Spartans back to the top of the CSL North and on a postseason run.

The program’s streak of 12 straight outright or shared con-ference titles came to an end in 2015, and Glenbrook North fell to Loyola Academy in three sets in the 2015 Glenbrook South Sectional semifinal.

Glenbrook North head coach Chris Cooper said Doman has delivered so far this spring, calling the outside hitter the closest thing the balanced Spar-tans have to a go-to guy.

“Like all good athletes [Doman] has gotten to the point where the game is slowing down,” Cooper said. “He’s hitting against the block and seeing the block better. He knows when to hit tips and roll shots and has become a better back-row at-tacker. He’s more savvy.

“He’s a jump server and hits those with good topspin, and he’s hitting serves harder and with more accuracy,” the coach added.

Cooper said Doman, a sec-ond-year varsity captain, has become a more vocal leader this season. Though Doman believes his decision to concentrate on volleyball may have been his most inspirational act of leader-ship.

“I’ve been the captain of this group since freshman year, but when you’re not playing at the best level [of club] and balanc-ing volleyball with debate, you’re

not giving everything,” Doman said. “[Focusing on volleyball] might have demonstrated my commitment to the team.”

Glenbrook North senior libero Danny Martens agreed that Doman’s decision to join Division I was an important moment for his fellow tri-cap-tain and club teammate, and that it sent a message to the rest of the squad.

“He stopped going seriously to debate and joined our club team and started taking it full-out seriously,” he said. “He’s been a huge asset to the club team and improved his game significantly. Being a [high school] captain, the other players respect him and look up to him and they have seen his dedication to the sport, which helps him lead and be a huge force.”

As of last fall, 11 Glenbrook North varsity players were part of Division I Volleyball Club. Though they were divided between the 18-year-old and 17-year-old levels, the players practiced together, traveled to the same tournaments and mo-tivated one another.

Doman said this continuity and togetherness are crucial elements for the Spartans, a team that must rely more on collective performance than individual brilliance as it at-tempts to bounce back from what was considered a sub-par 2015 season.

“We were a young team last year, we were small [in height] and not where we needed to be,” said Doman, who plans to major in management information systems at University of Min-nesota, where he hopes to play club volleyball. “Coming into this year, we had a chip on our shoulder. We put in a lot of work during the offseason, played together [in club] and everyone has come together for a common goal, which is [reaching the Elite Eight]. We’ve held each other accountable, and everyone has worked hard to have a suc-cessful season.”

BY dAN shALIN, [email protected]

No debate Glenbrook North’s Doman makes a sound case to devote full attention to volleyball

domaN NumeraL 14: Glenbrook North’s Jeremy Doman follows through on a spike during earlier action this season. phoToGRAphY BY GEoRGE pFoERTNER.

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By BILL MCLEAN

she grew up in Rockford, a farm girl with a passion for fashion. Playing on and

around bales of hay excited her. Thinking about haute couture excited her. Nancy Pienkosz, a Lake Forest resident today, is still a farm girl at heart, still looks forward to visiting her family’s farm and watching her two daughters jump from bale to bale and catch fireflies and sway from the seat of a tree swing.

Some folks rely on photo albums or home videos to travel back in time. Pienkosz gets to do that by sitting on a porch in Rockford and observing the gleeful looks of eight-year-old Caroline and seven-year-old Kaia.

“I spent a lot of time on our family farm,” Pienkosz, a part-time employee (sales and mer-chandising) at Lillie Alexander Boutique in Lake Forest, says. “It instilled in me, at a young age, an appreciation for land conserva-tion. My dad, Bill, runs the busi-ness side of the farm, and he has a background in financial advis-ing. My dad fought off develop-ers for years.”

Pienkosz and her husband, Greg, moved their family from Chicago to Lake Forest five years ago. She has been an Associate Board member of Lake Forest Open Lands Association since 2014. Lake Forest Open Lands is an independently funded con-servation and educational orga-nization devoted to the acquisi-tion and stewardship of natural landscapes. It maintains six

preserves, spanning more than 800 acres, of open space. Its walking trails cover 12 miles.

“The Open Lands orga-nization upholds our history,” says Pienkosz, her order of a Mini Shawna Sun-up (a blend of yogurt and gourmet granola and mixed fruit) having arrived minutes ago at our booth at Egg Harbor Café in Lake Forest. “I’m a big history buff. My dad is a huge history buff. He’d take his kids all over, making sure we saw Civil War sites, other kinds of sites, places with historical landmarks. The more I learned about Lake Forest Open Lands and its beliefs, the more I realized it aligned with my beliefs.”

Pienkosz is serving as co-chair (with Elsbeth Redfield) of the third annual Cattails & Cocktails fundraiser — An Evening under the Stars — on May 13 (6:30-9:30 p.m.) at Mellody Farm Nature Preserve in Lake Forest. It is the Associate Board’s premier spring fund-raiser, with proceeds going to Lake Forest Open Lands’ con-servation efforts and environ-mental education programming. The one-of-a-kind multigenera-tional event is a packed one: premium bourbon tasting by Beam Suntory; BBQ dinner; signature Prairie Punch cocktails; live entertainment; a preview of

the Native Tree and Plant Sale offerings; several silent auction items; and one live auction item.

“The weather was yuck two years ago and gorgeous last year,” Pienkosz recalls. “People had a great time at both. It’s a fun event,

casually elegant. Last year it was 70 degrees, a magical sunset de-lighting everybody. Nobody wanted to leave. It’s important that we hold an event like this on a preserve. It’s a beautiful setting, a stunning setting. It never needs

any decorations.“My kids have a ball when-

ever they’re at Mellody Farm Preserve. It’s like a field trip for them. There’s pond netting. They get to scoop up muck and ask, ‘What is this? What is that?’ Our goal, Open Lands’ goal, is to provide opportunities for kids to

develop a lifelong connection to nature.”

Pienkosz had never co-chaired a major fundraiser before she was approached to spearhead Cattails & Cocktails with Redfield. But the selection made sense. Her friends call her “a doer.” Doers get things

done, enthusiastically and efficiently.

Pienkosz was game. She and Redfield held their first orga-n i z a t i o n a l meeting in the P i e n k o s z

kitchen, way back on Oct.

1. They mapped things out on a table. They es-tablished a

timeline of deadlines.

“It was like planning a wedding,” Pienkosz says. “We had to get big things booked first.”

Nancy, a 1996 graduate of the Illinois Institute of Art in Scha-umburg, and Greg Pienkosz got married 17 years ago this August. They attended Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford, the future bride a class year older than the future groom, a member the

Boylan basketball team that placed fourth at the Class AA state tour-nament in 1992 and finished with a 30-3 record. One of their first dates was a Fourth of July gather-ing in their hometown. Love was in the air on that night, right up there with the fireworks. They had the same religion teacher at Boylan Catholic, Fr. Etheredge. The religion teacher married his former students in Rockford. The questions were easy ones in the church setting, open-book easy, all beginning with, “Do you … ”

The doer is nearly finished with her breakfast at Egg Harbor Café. She gushes about her neighbor-hood, calling it “fantastic.” The city of Lake Forest is a community of doers, she adds. Look around, she implores. Her fellow Lake Forest Open Lands Associate Board members, 30-plus men and women? They inspire the doer. Constantly.

“All of them are eager and en-ergetic, willing to help, willing to do anything for a good cause,” Pienkosz says. “And they’re fun. They’re all fun. It’s a great group of people, and I am thrilled to be a part of it.”

For questions about Cattails & Cocktails or to inquire about tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected] or call Leslie Davidson at (847) 234-3880, extension 17. Tickets purchased through May 11 are $75 per person for members and $85 per person for non-members; tickets purchased after May 11 or on the day (May 13) of the event are $100 per person. Mellody Farm Nature Preserve is located at 350 N. Waukegan Road in Lake Forest.

standing Up For North shore Conservation

Nancy Pienkosz | Illustration by Barry Blitt


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