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LAKE BLUFF — Changes may not be noticeable to players at the Lake Bluff

Golf Club when the season opens in the spring but the Board of Commissioners of the Lake Bluff Park District hopes an outside management company will improve the course’s financial condition.

The board on Dec. 14 unani-mously approved a contract with Billy Casper Golf to manage club operations and the driving range along with food and beverage services.

While Casper will apply its marketing and management efforts to club operations, the park district will continue to maintain the course, according to board President Rob Douglass. Doug-lass said he hopes Casper will help

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LAKE FOREST — Christ-mas starts quietly at The Church of the Holy Spirit.

Beginning the church’s five Christmas services at 11 a.m. Dec. 24 was the “Quiet Christ-mas: Holy Eucharist with laying on of hands” for healing geared to people who want to attend church on Christmas but who may not be feeling joyful.

The Rev. Judith Doran, senior associate rector, officiated the Quiet Christmas service. She joined the church’s staff in May, and has led Quiet Christmas services at other churches since

she was ordained as an Episcopal priest a decade ago.

Quiet Christmas is designed for people who want to be in church but may not want to be around others who are celebrat-ing. “Perhaps they have experi-enced a loss of some kind and are grieving, or perhaps the Christmases of their childhood were not happy and they find themselves feeling empty while those around them are filled with exuberant joy. Perhaps they were one of the many who suffer de-pression or seasonal affective disorder or are spiritually bereft,” said Doran.

A QUIET CHRISTMAS FOR THOSE FACING DIFFICULT TIMES

Lake Bluff Golf Club Hires Outside Manager

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Pastor Judith Doran holds some healing oils at The Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest. PHOTO BY JOEL LERNER.

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[ NEWS ]

10 quiet christmas One local church offers a service for those who are facing tough times this Christmas season.

10 outside mananger Lake Bluff Golf brings in an outside management company.

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12 camp kesem Camp provides a cathartic experience for children who have had a parent with cancer.

12 north shorts Defiance.

14 north shore foodie The creative cuisine of Mizuki Grill.

[ REAL ESTATE ]

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

[ SPORTS ]18 on the rise

Lake Forest High School’s Kevin Donahue is emerging as a primetime swimmer.

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22 sunday breakfast An interview with radio funny man Bill Leff.

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They are such a big deal that people put their names on an inquiry list as early as August not knowing whether the inn would be open for business by Christ-mas.

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“We quietly opened at 11 a.m. Dec. 5 and within a few hours people were coming in to check on their Christmas reservations,” Barba said. “I told them we would check the list.”

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“There is such a tradition here and people expressed a hope we would be open,” Barba said. “We said we would be open by the end of the year but we had to be vague. The closer we got people became more hopeful.

More and more people started making holiday reservations as word leaked out, according to Barba. He said capacity was reached before the Dec. 5 opening of the hotel’s public spaces.

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the club attain a stable financial condition.

“The golf course industry is in a contracting condition and we felt we needed to change the club’s trajectory,” Douglass said. “We want to tap into (Casper’s) network and analytics that we could never dream up.”

Douglass said the hope is Casper will help the club boost revenue by drawing more cus-tomers to the course as well as contain costs to make it a reve-nue-producing asset rather than a drain on the park district budget.

The primary reason for the recent financial setbacks has been a drop in play, according to Douglass. He said the course averaged between 24,000 and 25,000 rounds for the season in 2013 and 2014.

“It used to be over 30,000 rounds, so we have that capacity,” Douglass said. Our goal is to be in the range of 28,000 to 30,000 rounds.”

Park District Executive Di-rector Ron Salski said hitting the increased goals can produce

between $100,000 and $150,000 in additional revenue. With an estimated loss of $65,000 in 2015 from operating the golf course, he said he hopes Casper helps generate $150,000 over operating expenses.

Though golfers may notice some slight differences when they play a round, Salski and Douglass said they would see nothing significant. Douglass said the quality of the course is sacrosanct.

“Our greens and fairways are two things which distinguish us from other golf courses and we intend to maintain that,” Dou-glass said.

Salski said one way to help lower costs will be less use of maintenance machines but the greens and fairways will not be altered. He said there may be a few less flowers and an addi-tional weed or two. Douglass said it should not affect quality of play.

“Where you used to see just rough you may see tall grass,” Douglass said. “Hitting the ball in the rough should be a half stroke penalty and we’ll try to keep it that way.”

The board action Dec. 14 au-thorized Douglass, Salski and the board’s vice president to negotiate final details of the Casper contract. They expect that to be done within 30 days. Once a contract is in place, the park district and Casper will deter-mine a fee structure which must be approved by the board.

Deer Path Plans Move AlongLake Bluff is not the only

local community looking at change to its municipal golf course. Lake Forest is looking at options for Deer Path Golf Course.

The City of Lake Forest signed a consulting contract with Lohmann Golf Designs re-cently and has already received a preliminary report on possible improvements to its practice putting green, club house, cart barn and some of the holes in that area, according to Alderman Tim Newman who chairs the city’s Golf Advisory Committee.

Newman said the committee has reviewed the ideas, offered input and he hopes there will be final suggestions from Lohmann by March.

The service was marked by a candle lighting ceremony with private devotion and a laying of the hands for people in need of healing.

“People are invited to light a candle from the Christ candle in the center of the Advent wreath, and allow it to symbol-ize whatever it is they can offer to the Christ child,” Doran said.

She said she sees the true meaning of the Christmas story in the quiet service because of Christ’s humble beginnings and all the things He experienced in his life.

“For me this is really the true meaning of Christmas because Jesus was born in such desperate circumstances in a public place,” Doran said. “The shepherds who were at his feet when he was born were on the fringe of society. It is not a happy story. Only in retrospect is it a happy story.”

Doran said over the years she has seen some of the same people at Quiet Christmas ser-vices while others move on.

In the past, the church has held a blue Christmas or longest night service, but Doran said that is not what she wants to do for people who are not at a happy time in their life.

“I don’t want to do something

the week before,” Doran said. “I don’t want them to feel set apart from everyone else.” That is why she decided to make it the first service of Christmas.”

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Winnetka resident Lisa Bandolik remembers driving her daughter

to overnight camp like it was yesterday. “She was apprehen-sive and didn’t want to take the bus so we drove up together,” she explained. “But as I watched bus after bus pull in full of kids who got in a circle, held hands and started singing, I think we both knew she was going to be fine.”

Beyond the commonalities shared by all campers, Camp Kesem campers – which Lisa’s daughter Tara had become – share the experience of having a parent with cancer.

Camp Kesem is a national organization with 73 chapters across the country, all providing summer camp experience for 5,000 children whose parents have cancer. Camp is free to children ages 6-16, and offered locally by chapters based at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, Augus-tana College and the Univer-sity of Wisconsin at Madison.

“Our daughter had a great time, and made a lot of new friends who all had the oppor-tunity to talk about what they were going through in a group setting with people who had similar situations at home,” said Lisa’s husband, Keith Bandolik, who received a cancer diagnosis a year before his daughter at-tended Camp Kesem.

“When I picked her up, she

was full of life and happiness, and excited to show off the coun-selors she had and the crafts she had made and explain the nick-names they all had,” Lisa added.

Camp Kesem combines tra-ditional camp activities like talent shows, bonfires and water sports with opportunities for campers to talk about their ex-periences at home with their peers who can relate. While the

camp does not provide therapy, counselors are trained to create a safe environment for such conversations and to provide emotional support.

“This is a place for our kids to forget about the heaviness that weighs on them every day and be kids,” Lisa said.

“It’s a life-changing experi-ence,” echoed Jim Higley, Camp Kesem’s chief development and

marketing officer. “Many of our campers tell us that they never knew there are other kids out there like them until they get to camp’s fun, energetic environ-ment filled with kids just like them.

“It’s cathartic for all of them, and it becomes a moment in life when they can first shed the burden of life with a parent who has cancer.”

Higley, formerly of Ke-nilworth, will celebrate Camp Kesem’s impact with Lisa and Keith Bandolik and hundreds more at the Magic Ball benefit at the Redmoon Theater Satur-day, March 5. Guests will enjoy dinner and dancing, as well as a live auction to benefit Kesem’s campers.

“Cancer touches everyone in one way or another,” said Lisa,

now a Camp Kesem Board member. “It hits home for us, and we see how it affects our kids. We understand the impor-tance of giving every kid that camp experience to get back the self-esteem and confidence that has been broken down by the weight of things at home.”

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Camp Kesem: A Cathartic Experience

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“Defiance”

You’re in one of those nat-ural-food supermarkets that dot the North Shore.

As you push through aisles of organic pet food, fun-with-flax cereal and head toward the giant wall of yogurt, you think: man,

there are a lot of slender, youth-ful people here, shopping for longevity.

Then, something you saw in a book pops to the surface and makes you shrug at the capricious nature of nature...

There was a guy known to drink a bottle of brandy every

day, plus champagne and whiskey. Hard to believe he could see straight. Especially through the cloud of cigar smoke in which he lived and breathed. Yeah, he was rarely ever seen without a reeking black cigar in his face.

Not a poster boy for a health-ful lifestyle, this guy.

He was about five-six, and rotund. He waddled when he walked, and rasped when he talked. It’s said he breakfasted on eggs with meat, toast with butter and he’d wash it all down with whiskey.

He had a high-stress job, too. Worked insane hours in airless

rooms, puffing the cigar, his face pale in weak indoor light. Some-times he’d work ‘round the clock, sleeping at the office.

Today, as you wheel through a long aisle of anti-oxidant pills, capsules, liquids and power-bars, you’re thinking: nobody would guess this guy could’ve lasted very

long. A smoking time bomb, right?

Well, bombs were part of his life. But he defied them. Just like he defied the odds. Yeah, Winston Churchill did what most of the slender, healthy people around you would like to do: he made it all the way to the age of ninety.

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Sometimes when I walk into a restaurant and greet the owners, pulling up a chair

across from them at a table and tasting their cuisine, their world—I can’t help but walk away feeling like I’ve been inside some-one’s home. It’s the intimacy in-herent in food: its preparation and serving, nourishment and iden-tity. It’s the camaraderie, too. It’s what Michael Pollan describes so well in “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” when he writes (or, really, implores): “shake the hand that feeds you.”

I got that feeling again the other day sitting at Mizuki Grill. We had just shaken hands with the owners, Joe and Nami Choi. On the always-busy Central Ave in Highland Park, the Japanese restaurant is, unfortunately, not prominently displayed, being inside the brick Highland Park Mall. Which is a shame, because diners can certainly miss it—and they would be missing out on

some of the best Japanese food on the North Shore.

In what was once Las Palmas Restaurant & Bar, the couple told their story to a group of friends seated at a table. As Nami talked with animated gusto, Joe was behind the sushi bar preparing our meal: tuna and salmon tartar. Every so often a series of thump, thump, thump, thump would penetrate the conversation; the sound of a sushi chef hard at work.

“We’re very creative, very proud of our food,” said Nami as we enjoyed the first course, a spicy tuna roll that was stacked two rolls high, one roll on top of the other. “I think he has something talented in his hands,” she added, comparing her husband’s fluid hand motions slicing with a knife to that of a dancer.

The couple has been working together for over 30 years. They first met in Seoul (Nami is Korean). Joe, who was born in Osaka, Japan, is of mixed descent: his mother was Japanese, his

father Korean. His earliest years were split between kitchens: his mother had seven sisters, and all of whom were in some way con-nected to the restaurant business. One owned a French restaurant, another a sushi restaurant, and so on.

He first came to the US in 1981; the very next day he was working in a kitchen. Settling in Minneapolis where his sister was already living, he worked as a hibachi chef for Samurai of Japan, a chain of restaurants similar to Benihana. “Of course, I had to get used to it, because Japan not like that,” said Joe. He had just prepared his last dish—wiped off his knife and took a seat at the table. In just six months, he was traveling around the US, training other hibachi chefs at different locations.

Arranged around Mizuki Grill are pictures of lavish looking dishes, and these are the creations of Joe, who, along with Nami (who followed her husband to the US four years later) have

opened a total of seven restau-rants around Chicago. Three of which (Fuji Ya, Kegon North-brook, Bistro Nami) are still open today.

I bit into the tuna and salmon tartar put before us and experi-enced an explosion of texture and taste. The fish was impossibly fresh (the Chois do not use any frozen fish). They also prepare all of their sauces in-house, and Nami said it takes two or three days alone to make their unagi sauce—typically a combination of sweet rice wine and soy sauce that’s paired with teriyaki dishes and sushi.

“Everybody nowadays buy it,” explained Nami speaking of other Japanese and sushi restaurants, “but I cannot eat that.”

Which is why the prices are a littler higher here, because the quality is what consumers expect when going to eat sushi nowa-days: possibly even higher than what their expectations should be. Echoed Joe: “You can’t cheat tongue.”

Mizuki Grill ’s Tuna and Salmon Tartar•4 ounces chopped tuna

(sashimi grade)•4 ounces chopped salmon

(sashimi grade)•1 teaspoon chives, finely

chopped•1 teaspoon shallot, finely

chopped•2 teaspoon red bell pepper,

finely chopped•2 tablespoons green bell

pepper, finely chopped•2 tablespoons chopped red

onion (or regular onion), finely chopped

•2 tablespoons masago (orange-colored fish eggs)

•½ teaspoon honey•½ teaspoon lemon juice•1 teaspoon extra virgin olive

oil•Dash of Tabasco sauce

(optional)•Dash of chili oil (optional)•6 wanton skins (rectangular or

round)•Salt & pepper to taste

Wasabi and Yuzu pon Dressing•1 teaspoon wasabi paste

(optional)•2 tablespoons yuzu pon (citrus

flavored Japanese soy sauce, can be substituted with 1 ½ tablespoons of regular soy

sauce and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice)

•4 ounces vegetable oil•Salt & pepper to taste

1. Wisk Wasabi and yuzu pon dressing ingredients together, set aside. Mix honey, lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, Tabasco sauce and chili oil in a separate bowl and add chopped tuna, salmon and masago. Prepare wonton chips as per package directions.

2. On two plates, place one wonton chip in the middle of each plate and put a small scoop of the tuna and salmon tartar on top. Place another chip on top followed by another scoop of the tuna and Salmon tartar and repeat creating a tower.

3. Drizzle the wasabi and yuzu pon dressing on top. Garnish with 1 teaspoon chopped chives, 1 teaspoon shallot and 2 tablespoons finely chopped red and green peppers. sprinkle of Himalayan pink salt and a grind of fresh black pepper. Sprinkle blue cheese crumbles on each plate. Dress each with a drizzle of the balsamic condiment and a drizzle of EVOO. Serve.

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Mizuki Grill’s Tuna and Salmon Tartar Recipe

Owner/chef Joe Choy prepares the Tuna Tartare at Mizuki Grill in Highland Park. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

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Kathryn Pedi’s travel coffee mug was gone forever, death by blunt force trauma. A

friend of the New Trier senior guard-forward had accidentally knocked it to the ground before a basketball game. May it rest in pieces.

Pedi drinks coffee before every game. Has to drink coffee before every game. No cream, no sugar. She enjoyed her very first taste of coffee before an AAU basketball game. Most of the players in that game, including Pedi, were … fifth-graders. More than a basket-ball bounced all over a court during that game.

“I am very superstitious,” Pedi, 5-foot-9 and a Wilmette resident, says.

New Trier faced visiting Glen-brook South on Dec. 8. Pedi poured coffee into an replacement mug (one of her many conven-tional mugs at home), transported it carefully to the school and sipped it near the Trevians’ home court an hour or so before tipoff. She then spilled it, another accident. Pedi and some of her teammates cleaned it up.

“I thought she was going to cry,” New Trier senior forward Jeannie Boehm, a good friend, says. “Kathryn loves her coffee.”

Pedi, later in the week, opened up her Secret Santa gift. It was a travel mug, mostly silver, with a handle. A Secret Santa had nailed the festive assignment. New Trier traveled to Waukegan on Dec. 11. The star of the game scored a ca-reer-high 27 points in a 69-23 New Trier victory. The star of the game took eight shots from three-point territory, nailing seven of them. The star of the game: a wide-awake Pedi. The fan of ground coffee was all about instant stuff on that night — instant offense.

“She’s an amazing shooter, an amazing player, the hardest worker on our team,” Boehm, a Harvard University recruit, says. “Kathryn does a lot of the little things really well, like playing tough defense, rebounding, passing. She kind of rocks in those aspects, making her an underrated player. What I also like about her game is how unfazed

she is if she happens to be having a tough game [shooting].”

Pedi and Boehm, a Winnetkan, first met as sixth-graders, hoop-sters in a feeder team practice. They paired up for a zig-zag drill, one girl dribbling with her right hand and then her left hand for the length of the court, the other girl guarding the dribbler. Then they switched roles.

“I thought she was really, really good on the first day we met,” Boehm recalls. “I went up to her and said, ‘Hey, you and me, we need to be friends.’ She’s still a good friend of mine, hilarious, so funny, goofy. A lot of people wouldn’t know that if they just watched her play basketball.”

Pedi’s Game Day face is a super-serious one. She says it frightened current sophomore Nicole Kaspi last year, because Kaspi knew the Trev vet only from a distance. Kaspi, now a first-year varsity member, got to know Pedi in an entirely different light this year, noticing Pedi likes to lose the Game Face during down times in

practices and on bus rides to games. Kaspi discovered Pedi’s approachability and sense of humor. The two laugh together these days, good friends. To Kaspi, the only part of Pedi that is still terrifying is her scary-good three-point shot.

Pedi’s harshest critic is the one she sees in the mirror. All kinds of people, parents (Rick and Linda) included, have told Pedi, after games, “Great game, Kathryn, great game.” Her usual response, sometimes out loud, sometimes to herself, has been, “No, no.” People tend to remember Pedi’s timely three-pointers or Pedi’s spot-up jumpers. Pedi tends to remember other moments.

“After one game my parents thought I had a good game, and they were nice, said some nice things,” Pedi recalls. “I didn’t agree with them. I reminded them about the turnover I had committed in the second quarter.”

Pedi made the New Trier varsity team as a freshman. She averaged about three points per game.

Sophomore year, she averaged eight points per game, when the Trevians reached a Class 4A su-persectional and played Rolling Meadows High School for a Final Four berth. Late in the fourth quarter of a 60-43 loss to RM’s Mustangs, Pedi played when NT had the ball and often got pulled for a substitute when RM had the ball. Court time, bench time, court time, bench … . Shuttle in, shuttle out. Trevians coach Teri Rodgers wanted Pedi, three-point threat, at one end of the floor. Rodgers wanted Pedi close to her when NT was on defense.

“I did not like that,” Pedi admits.What Rodgers liked: Pedi’s

commitment to improving her defense in between her sophomore and junior seasons. Pedi’s defense reached another level, a stingier one, a more tenacious one, before the start of her senior season.

“She realized she had to get better defensively, so she did just that,” Rodgers says of the Midwest Elite AAU player. “Kids are really, really good at getting better at

what they do well. They’re usually not so good about doing what it takes to improve another aspect and become a better all-around player. Kathryn’s defense, it’s been outstanding this season, truly out-standing, and she’s maintaining her confidence [on offense].

“Great kid,” the coach adds. “She works hard, and she’s consci-entious.”

Pedi made all-league honors and averaged nearly 11 points per game for Rodgers’ 31-2 squad last winter, the third-place team in the Class 4A state tournament. She ranked second among teammates in three-pointers made (35) and third in rebounding (4.3 boards per game). She came down with a team-high 12 rebounds in an early game against Bogan. She shot 83 percent from the free-throw line. Her scoring (13 points per game) is up, again, this winter for a 10-1 team (4-0 in the Central Suburban League South). In ad-dition to that caffeinated 27-point effort in Waukegan, she poured in 18 points against Maine West,

17 against Phillips, 17 in the Tre-vians’ second game at the Nike National Tournament of Cham-pions last weekend in Arizona.

Months ago, in an AAU game in Chicago, Pedi netted six treys. One of the spectators in the gym was Bill Gibbons, women’s bas-ketball coach at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mas-sachusetts. Pedi committed to the Patriot League school and to the program in the middle of Novem-ber. Her AAU coach, Randy Weibel, is “a guy of few words,” Pedi says. Weibel contacted his sharpshooter upon hearing the news about Pedi’s college decision. He was thrilled for her. And he told her so, using more than a few words. Pedi will be a guard only for the Crusaders, dropping the “forward” in her current job de-scription

“The head coach has been there forever (30 years, with a 568-344 record), and all of the coaches are from there,” Pedi says. “The team’s style of play is similar to New Trier’s. Good fit …. I think it will be a good fit for me. To get there I’ll fly to Boston, not too far from Harvard. There will be times, I’m sure, when I’ll swing by Harvard to see Jeannie before heading to Holy Cross.”

Pedi is already thinking about her items to pack for college. At the top of the list?

“A coffee maker,” she says.

Notable: A stat line does not get more monstrous than the one NT senior Jeannie Boehm produced in Phoenix last weekend at the Nike National Tournament of Champions. In a 71-44 defeat of Springfield (Massachusetts) Central High School, the 6-foot-3 forward finished with 35 points, 21 rebounds and 10 blocks on Dec. 19. Boehm had scored 19 points and classmate Kathryn Pedi 16 in NT’s tourney opener, an 86-56 loss to St. Mary’s of Stock-ton, California — ranked No. 1 in the nation by MaxPreps.com — on Dec. 18. … A day before departing for its trip to Arizona, NT downed host Evanston 61-47 behind Boehm’s 25 points.

BY BILL MCLEAN, [email protected]

PEDI’S GAME CONTINUES TO PERCOLATE

Senior jolts New Trier’s offense with a big-time offensive skills

PEDI-PURE: Kathryn Pedi of the Trevians (right) puts up a shot during state tournament action at Illinois State’s Redbird Arena last season. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

SPORTS


Kevin Donahue is working on his Eagle Scout project. It is only on paper now,

due to be completed in the spring. The Lake Forest High School junior swimmer plans to create a garden and build a bench on the grounds of Fort Sheridan.

Donahue, a busy boy, has been working on another project since the day after his sopho-more swim season ended last winter. The unofficial name of the project: Kevin Donahue, faster swimmer.

Another Scout project, minus the “Eagle.”

“I worked really hard in the offseason,” Donahue said at the Lake County Invitational at Stevenson on Dec. 19. “I didn’t take a day off. Right now, I’m pretty tired; we all are. We prac-ticed in our pool, for about an hour and a half, before the meet today, sprint work mostly. Our coach [Cindy Dell] likes to say, at this point in the season, ‘Swim tired, swim well.’ ”

A drained Donahue swam quite well at the 10-team County meet in Lincolnshire. The irrefutable evidence — the finishes and the times, next to his name — was there for all to

see, on the results sheets, on … paper. He touched sixth in the 200-yard IM (2:05.94) and sixth in the 100 butterfly (55.39) and helped the 400 free relay (with senior Michael Hamble-ton and juniors Wyatt Foss and Dylan Boyd) place third (3:21.16). What made each of his sixth-place efforts more significant was the heat in which Donahue had been as-signed. He raced in the fourth heat — the penultimate heat — in both events and dropped nearly a combined four seconds off his seed times.

Tired swimmers are supposed to swim slower, right?

“Everybody stepped up,” Dell said. “I love this team. It’s a fun team, a hard-working team. It’s a bunch of eager beavers, fight-ing through each meet, all the yardage [in practices]. They’re not afraid to compete, and they’re not afraid to learn. I couldn’t be happier. We had a great meet [third place, 162 points].”

The Scouts garnered the most possible points in the first event (diving), getting a first-place — and pool-record 509.05 points — performance from senior Alexander Streightiff and

a runner-up showing (476.15) f rom senior John-Michael Diveris in the meet’s morning session. Streightiff finished in fourth place at the 2014-15 state meet. Boyd, seventh at state in the 200 free and 11th in the 100 fly last winter, sped to first place in the 200 free (1:42.15) and topped the field in the 100 fly (51.32). He later combined with Foss, Hamble-ton and junior Elliot Hangos to clock a fifth-place 1:33.64 in the 200 free relay. Foss contrib-uted sixth-place points in the 100 free (51.03), and Hamble-ton medaled in the 500 free (sixth place, 5:02.74).

Back to Donahue, who fin-ished “16th, maybe 15th” in his individual events at last year’s County meet. A diver in the Donahue household, older sister Mary Rose, encouraged a young Kevin Donahue, back in his grade-school days, to stick with swimming, a demanding sport, a sport without a ball. The sib-lings trained as Scout Aquatics club swim members. Mary Rose then focused only on diving in high school, qualifying for the state meet in her junior (2012) and senior (2013) seasons.

Among the spectators sitting

up in the stands at last week-end’s County meet was a Colo-rado College sophomore, an all-Southern Collegiate Ath-letic Conference diver in 2014-15. She watched a boy she had known her entire life climb a podium twice to receive a sixth-place medal. The boy was wearing a bathing suit and a tired smile.

The proudest onlooker in the natatorium had to be Mary Rose Donahue.

Notable: Host Stevenson (301 points) and Barrington (271) finished 1-2 at the Lake County Invite on Dec. 19. … Three Scouts (seniors Kuba Puchalski and Justin Jacobson and sophomore Collin Robinson) raced against three entrants from three other schools in the third heat of the 50 free at the County meet. The three LFHS entrants climbed blocks 4, 5 and 6 for the start of the event. Rob-inson, lane 5, placed 12th overall, with a time of 24.44. His seed time: 24.44. Match game. … The Scouts’ 200 medley relay of juniors Kevin Donahue and Elliot Hangos and sophomores Alex Ortiz and Will Paschke finished seventh in 1:45.93, missing a medal by one spot.


STARTING TO SOAR Eagle Scout Donahue turns in admirable effort for LF Scouts at Lake County Invite

SPREADING HIS WINGS: Lake Forest High School junior Kevin Donahue (left) competes in the 200 medley relay at the Lake County Invite. He finished sixth in two individual events and helped LF place third in the 400 free relay. Alexander Streightiff (below) of the Scouts performs a dive on his way to a pool record at the Lake County Invite. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JON DURR.


SPORTS

Daniel Bronska just missed sending this game into overtime, when his deep

three-point shot attempt from the left corner went in and out.

As a result, host Deerfield High School wound up beating Highland Park 41-38 in Central Suburban League North Division action on Dec. 18.

“Sometimes, it’s not meant to be,” said Highland Park head coach Paul Harris. “They had a couple of shots which bounced around and fell in. … (Bronska’s) shot bounced around and fell out.”

Harris was disappointed with the outcome but not discouraged. Deerfield came into this contest as one of the hottest teams in the area. The Warriors are now 8-1 overall and 3-0 in the CSL North.

“This was a big stage tonight,” said Harris. “And our guys were not fazed by the bright lights.”

The Giants found themselves in a good position, when they opened the fourth quarter on a 6-0 run. A hard-fought rebound bucket by Blake Schwartz and a pair of give-and-go baskets down the lane by Zach Fleisher put HP ahead 34-26 with 3:50 left in regulation.

“We’re growing as a team,” Harris said. “We showed tonight how much better we are. The first half and the fourth quarter was the best we’ve played all year. We were poised and strong with the ball. And give Deerfield credit. They dug deep when they needed to.”

The dazzling three-point shooting of Deerfield sophomore Alex Casieri proved to be the difference. He nailed six threes and ended up with a game-high 20 points.

Casieri’s biggest bucket of the night was a game-tying three-ball out on top with 1:07 remaining. It was set up by long tip rebound by Jordan Sherman off a miss by Jeremy Sernick.

“Casieri stepped up for them,” said Harris. “He’s an excellent

offensive player.”Highland Park (2-5) was led

by Schwartz and Fleisher. Schwartz had 13 points to go along with four rebounds and one block. Fleisher came up with 10 points, seven rebounds, three assists and one block.

Deerfield’s star point guard, Jordan Baum, finished the game with only four points — all free throws in the final 54 seconds of the game. The University of

Chicago recruit missed chucks of time with foul trouble.

“If you hold him to four points, you should win,” said Harris.

A Bronska bucket at the end of regulation would have been fitting. The game featured three buzzer beaters. HP’s Toby Tigges closed out the first quarter with a driving layup. Sherman scored on a backdoor play just before halftime. And Casieri nailed his only two-pointer of the night just

before the third-quarter horn blew.

The Giants will compete in the York Tournament, which begins on Dec. 26 and concludes on Dec. 31.

Lake ForestThe Scouts are at the .500 mark

heading to the York Tournament.On Dec. 16, Lake Forest

dropped a 54-31 decision to visit-ing Libertyville. Junior Danny

Hart came up with a team-high seven points. Justin McMahon and Clint Warkow finished with six points apiece. McMahon (7) and Ryan Kitchel (6) led the team in rebounds.

Senior standout Lorenzo Edwards didn’t play for the Scouts (4-4, 1-2).

The Scouts open play in the York Tournament on Dec. 26 (4:30 p.m.) against Thornton Fractional South.

LoyolaThe Ramblers improved to

6-4 overall with a road win at Montini 69-48 on Dec. 19. Brandon Danowski knocked down five three-pointers to lead the team with 15 points. Ramar Evans finished with 12 points and six rebounds, while Will Plodzeen had 11 points. Andrew White Jr. had nine dimes.

The Ramblers will compete in a tournament in Meza, Arizona on Dec. 28-31.

New TrierThe Trevians won two of three

games to take runner-up honors in a tournament at Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Arizona.

In its tourney opener on Dec. 17, a 66-50 victory over Tempe (Arizona), New Trier was led by Michael Hurley. The senior guard had his best game of the season (19 points). Colin Win-chester (15 points) and Tino Malnati (12 points) also finished in double digits.

Balanced scoring also keyed New Trier to a 53-46 victory over host Scottsdale Christian on Dec. 18. Winchester led the way with 16 points. Three other Trevians finished in double digits: Martinez (14), Hurley (13) and Spencer Boehm (11).

In the title game on Dec. 19, the Trevians (5-6, 1-2) dropped a 72-70 decision to host Horizon.

In other recent action, New Trier managed to limit Evan-ston’s Nojel Eastern to 11 points but still fell to the host Wildkits 58-45 on Dec. 16.

Evanston, one of the top teams in the state, improved to 7-1 overall and 3-0 in the CSL South.

Winchester, who averages 15.2 points per game, shared high-point honors (15) with Evanston’s Malik Jenkins.

The Trevians will compete in the Proviso West Tournament. They will open with Cathedral Catholic on Dec. 26 at 8:30 p.m.

BY KEVIN REITERMAN, [email protected]

Rivalry game turns into a riveting affair

GAME OF HIGHS AND LOWS: Members of the Highland Park High School boys basketball team react to the action during second half play in a tough loss at Deerfield. The Giants fell 41-38. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JON DURR.

BOYS BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

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Athrong of Highland Park Aquatics Club age group swimmers, ages nine and

10, listened to Andrew Vorobev speak last week. The throng had requested him. Vorobev is not a professional speaker, is not ex-pected to swim for the United States’ Olympic Team in Brazil next year, is not one of Michael Phelps’ training partners.

Andrew Vorobev is a High-land Park High School fresh-man swimmer — and a two-time reigning age group (ages 13-14) state champion (400-yard IM, 100 backstroke), a near peer of his audience of star-struck listeners on Dec. 15.

“Everything, everything,” Giants swim coach Tim Sirois said when asked what he likes about his rookie standout. “Nice kid, a hard worker, and he has a great mindset for the sport. He looks at getting beat in a race as

a challenge to swim better in his next race.”

Vorobev raced in four events at the Lake County Invita-tional at Stevenson on Dec. 19. He finished third in the 200 IM (2:03.89), fifth in the 100 back (55.88) and helped a pair of relays (200 medley, 400 free-style) collect top-six medals.

“It helps, having a young guy like Andrew push the older guys,” HP junior and “old guy” Levy Nathan said. “I see him and I see ambition.”

What Nathan saw, next to his name, on the Stevenson score-board after completing the 200 free at the 10-team County meet: 1:43.86. It was swift enough for runner-up honors. It also was faster than the Giants’ school record (1:44.21), owned by Reeven Nathan (Class of 2011, super triathlete, older brother of the current record-

holder in the event).“I’d been going for my big

brother’s record for nearly three years,” Levy Nathan, poolside, said after finishing first in the 500 free (4:43.39) at the same meet. “I texted him the news; haven’t heard back from him yet.”

Nathan and Vorobev joined senior Allen Tran and freshman Richard Heller in the 200 medley relay (1:42.12, fourth place) at the County meet. Nathan, Vorobev, Tran and junior Adam Grobelny served as the legs for the Giants’ 400 free relay unit (3:30.81, sixth place).

Coming off a strong showing in a 110-76 loss to host Glen-brook South in a Central Sub-urban League crossover the night before, HP placed sixth (126 points) at the first big invite of the season. The Giants

had to compete without regulars Alex Grigorovich (illness), a senior, and Hugh Laedlein (injury), a junior. Laedlein was seeded first in the 100 free (50.27) and fourth in the 50 free (22.93) at the County meet. Laedlein had injured his back in an auto shop class last. The injury, though, did not stop him from swimming in four events in the dual meet at Glenbrook South. He touched first in the 100 back (56.67), swam on the victorious 200 medley relay (1:40.08, with Vorobev, Tran and Nathan), placed third in the 50 free (23.24) and swam on the runner-up 200 free relay crew (1:33.15, with Tran, Heller and Nathan) in Glenview.

“Hugh’s back loosened up when the team warmed up before the meet,” Sirois said. “Great kid, tough kid. We chose not to let him swim [at the

County meet], thought it would be best to let him rest. With him out and Alex ill [sinus issue], our team had a next-guy-up mentality.”

Tran added third-place points in the 100 breaststroke (1:01.75). Grobelny, junior Jack Burson, Heller and f reshman Will Singer finished seventh in the 200 free relay (1:39.55), missing a medal by one spot.

Host Stevenson (301) won the meet, followed by Bar-rington (271) and Lake Forest High School (162).

“Every part of our season we focus on a different part of strokes,” Sirois said. “Our focus today was on the end of strokes. We also wanted them to think about race strategies and work on little things, like approaches to the walls, turns, breathing where they’re supposed to breathe in the 50 [free] and not

over-swimming the first 50 [yards] in the 200 free.”

Notable: Sophomore Steven Sirois and freshman T.J. Sirois are swimmers in the Highland Park High School swimming and diving program. Their father, Tim, helms the Giants’ varsity team. “They both listen really well,” Tim said. Steven swam in the 200 free and 500 free events at the Lake County Invite at Stevenson last weekend. … Other Giants first-place efforts in the 110-76 loss to host Glen-brook South on Dec. 18: soph-omore diver Patrick Cullather (diving, 279.2 points); senior Allen Tran (100 breaststroke, 1:03.54). HP’s other runner-up showings at the same meet: freshman Andrew Vorobev (200 IM, 2:05.4; 100 fly, 56.02); junior Levy Nathan (50 free, 23.06; 100 free, 50.34).


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Highland Park freshman Vorobev already gaining success at the varsity level

VROOM VROOM: Andrew Vorobev races in the 100 butterfly during a dual meet against Glenbrook South on Dec. 18. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JON DURR.

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Lake Forest: Gage Griffin and John Frauenheim claimed titles at the 49th Annual Sciacca-Holtfreter Invite at Harvard High School on Dec. 19.

Griffin defeated Grayslake Central’s Joe Tarnowski by a major decision (15-4) in the title match of the 132-pound weight class. He is now 8-3 on the season.

Frauenheim improved to 9-1 after capturing top honors at 170. He took care of Woodstock North’s Randy Kline 9-4 in the final. Kline entered the match with a 15-3 record.

Two Scouts finished in third place: Caleb Durbin and Cory Barth. Durbin (9-3) downed Grayslake Central’s Collin Pogue 3-1 in the 138-pound third-place bout. Barth (8-4) edged Woodstock’s Martin Halilaj 3-2 in the match for third place at 195.

LF’s other placers were Quinn Dailey (6th at 113 and Marty Kalebic (6th at 160).

Meanwhile, Dailey, Griffin, Frauenheim, Barth and Devin Reich earned victories in LF’s 49-24 dual-meet loss to Grant on Dec. 17.

Griffin and Reich won with falls. Griffin pinned his 132-pound foe in 1:52. At 182, Reich overpowered his opponent in 3:17.

Dailey was a 5-0 victor at 113. Barth beat his 195 chal-lenger 11-4. Frauenheim picked up a win at 170.

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Lake Forest: The host Scouts came up with their best score of the season on Dec. 17 at the Lake Forest Holiday Quad.

Led by Jessica Pasquesi on balance beam (5th, 8.75) and Sara Rossman on the uneven bars (9th, 8.15), LF took third (128.40) behind Carmel Catholic (143.2) and Geneva (141.3). Deerfield was fourth with a 126.0. Pasquesi finished eighth in the all-around (33.05), while Rossman was ninth (33.00). Emma Hoshino finished with a 31.80.

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Lake Forest: The Scouts opened play in the Warren Tour-nament by downing Grayslake Central 41-39 on Dec. 18. Sophomore Maeve Summerville led the Scouts with a double double: 19 points, 13 rebounds. She also had three blocks, two steals and two assists. Teammate Elle Pearson tallied eight points, while Delaney Williams had six points, four rebounds and four assists.

On Dec. 17, in LF’s 43-34 loss to host Mundelein, Sum-merville came up with 15 points and eight rebounds. Fresh-man Grace Tirzmalis ended up with seven points and six rebounds. Other stat leaders for the Scouts (2-9, 0-6) in-cluded Pearson (6 rebounds) and Williams (6 rebounds, 3 steals).

And on Dec. 15, Summerville tallied 11 points to go along with seven rebounds and three blocks in LF’s 55-28 loss to visiting Warren. Pearson scored six points, while Olivia Douglass finished with five rebounds, four assists and four steals for the Scouts.

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“If you didn’t love fall in Evan-ston before, what about this?” asks WGN Radio’s mid-day host Bill Leff of this unseasonably warm day. An Evanstonian for nearly 25 years, Leff knows of what he speaks.

“I grew up in Oak Forest. Even though it only takes 45 minutes to get there, it feels like it’s a million miles away,” he says. “I used to be mad at my parents that they knew about Evanston and kept it from us.”

Making sure his children—twins Kiley and Reese—don’t accuse him of the same thing some day, he and his wife Teri have built a life in Evanston. “On any given night, there are about 15 restaurants where we might choose to have dinner,” says Leff enjoying a club soda, straight up. “My wife is a terrible cook. If she sees this in print, she’ll initial that. So we eat out a lot. At a place like Bluestone, we almost always run into a few friends.”

One of the job hazards of working on one of Chicago’s most popular radio programs with long-time colleague and radio veteran Wendy Snyder is that everyone feels as if they are one of Leff ’s friends. “It’s really funny.

When we’re on the air, we’re just talking and people who listen to us regularly hang on to the smallest details. Sometimes it shocks me.”

Leff began his career in entertainment as a standup comic and did this successfully for more than 10 years. It wasn’t until he and his wife decided to have a family that he began to look for a something that would keep him home. “I got to be friends with Danny Bonaduce who at the time had a show on The Loop. I was on with him almost every Friday. One day he asked me how things were going. I told him great, but that my wife and I were hoping to have kids and I didn’t think doing standup would let me be involved with my kids the way I wanted to be. So he said, ‘Why don’t you get a radio show?’ You don’t just go and get a radio show. So, he said he’d set it up for me. I really thought that was the end of it. But three weeks later, the guys who ran The Loop called and said ‘you want to do this?’ They were looking for a partner for Wendy and I thought, what do I have to lose?”

The rest is history—or a rather a storied career in one of the top radio markets in the country where this dynamic duo has been reunited for a four-hour show every weekday, by the

same team that originally paired them at The Loop 20 years ago.

“Wendy and I couldn’t be more different. We have the same sense of humor, but almost everything else is different. She has said this—so it must be true—that she’s the more hard-edged, mas-culine of the two of us. I’m the softer, gentler one,” he says.

Leff and Snyder tend to plan six to seven hours of material for each of their four-hour shows, often having to play the “hot hand” dealt to them from the headlines of that particular day. “Sometimes you hit radio gold—like today I found this list of ‘Hollywood abnormalities’—actors and actresses who have something funny wrong with them. Those kind of lists never fail. It’s hard to believe that this is a legitimate job.”

Leff ’s good fortune isn’t lost on him at all—quick to offer a compliment or to make time for a charity tennis match (the only thing that Leff might leave radio for would be a chance to be a professional tennis player—he loves tennis that much!). One of his favorite radio memories was having the chance to interview someone he had idolized since his childhood, Dick van Dyke. “It was the coolest thing in the world to talk with Dick,” says Leff of the star who just turned 90 years old. “I even made him laugh a couple of times. I made Dick van Dyke laugh. It really doesn’t get any better than that.”

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