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10 bEER HERE The first Craft Beer Fest in Highwood is set to debut.

10 aRT foR HEaLTH’S SakE A Polish native afflicted with Parkin-son’s disease has found the benefits of painting.

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Some folks think the job of an editor is filled with soirées, tête á têtes with heads of state — even private view-ings of new films with movie stars. A swashbuckling life, to be sure.

I won’t disabuse readers of any of those notions. But I will add luster to the image: this weekend, I have been invited to be a VIP — at the Craft Beer Fest in Highwood.

Unlimited beer tasting on a Saturday of some of the best microbrews in the land? I’ll just say I’ve postponed my interview of Sharon Stone on her pri-vate jet until further notice. Read Joanna Brown’s story about what’s on tap inside.

If I may butcher a metaphor, beer may not be your cup of tea. In that case, our cover story will help you out. We’ve figured out 10 things you can do on the North Shore before the summer ends. From art festivals to Ravinia to ice cream stores and more, there’s plenty of fun to be had before the first sweater is pulled out. Bill McLean reports on page 8.

Leslie Goddard will be quite busy in November. She won’t be busy being Leslie Goddard — rather, she’ll perform as Jacqueline Kennedy in a series of one-woman shows during the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

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In season 10 things to do before summer slips away

■ by bill mclean

If summer were a round of golf, we would all be heading to the 13th tee box now.

There’s only about a month left in the season (though some consider the day after Labor Day to be the first day of fall, summer officially rests in temporary peace on Sept. 21).

Before then, there are plenty of fun-filled, family-oriented things to do along the North Shore.

Here is a list of 10:

1. “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park. Aug. 16.

Find a spot on the lawn and watch the epic film on a video screen, with the complete score to be performed live by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra beginning at 7:30 p.m. The first 500 guests receive a free CSO T-shirt.

And if you missed this one because you opened the paper after it started, violinist Rachel Barton Pine — once featured on a North Shore Weekend cover — will play at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 18 at Bennett Gordon Hall. Tickets are only $10.

2. Hit the beach. Any beach. Through Sept. 21.New Trier High School senior-to-be Taylor Tashima likes

to frequent Gillson Beach in Wilmette and paddle-board, among other activities.

“I love the atmosphere when I’m there,” she said. “It’s the beach, you’re on the water, boats are around you, and kids are playing while parents are socializing.”

The place to eat near Lake Michigan is at Raging Kitchen at Forest Park Beach in Lake Forest, particularly break-fast on the weekends. The kitchen’s motto is, “Food out of control.” Get filled with a Belgian waffle or an egg wrap (bacon or sausage), served by a friendly staff.

3. “Butterflies & Blooms” exhibit at Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe. Through Labor Day.

Visitors at the second-year exhibit get to immerse them-selves in the habitat of live butterflies, both native and tropical. Most kids — and more than a few adults — become speechless upon entering the environment, as butterflies of all

sizes and colors flutter. Think of a shaken snow globe, with butterfly wings swirling instead of snowflakes.

“One looks like a tissue paper in flight; it’s that big,” visitor Stefanie Lubash said of a clouded mother of pearl butterfly last weekend.

Mary Plunkett, manager of interpretive programs at Chicago Botanic Garden, witnesses dozens of astonished looks each day she works the exhibit.

“People are amazed at the number of species they see here,” she said. “They walk around like they’re in some kind of wonderland or a part of a fairy tale.”

4. Check out an art festival. Aug. 24-25, Sept. 1-2.

The 30th Annual Port Clinton Art Festival in Highland Park runs Aug. 24-25 (10 a.m.-6 p.m. each day; admission is free). Recognized as one of the most successful juried art festivals in the country, it wel-comes 260 of the world’s most celebrated artists and 250,000 art enthusiasts annually. It’ll be tough to find a starving artist, since Taste of Highland Park booths will be deployed nearby on both days.

The Deer Path Art League hosts its 59th Annual Art Fair on the Square Sept. 1-2 (10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day). Nearly 180 artists are expected to attend, displaying digital art, paintings, photog-raphy, printmaking, ceramics and jewelry, among other works. Local junior high and high school stu-dents have been selected to showcase and sell their creations at the fair’s “Young Artists” art court. 5. Cool down with ice cream or yogurt.Through Sept. 21.

Summertime without a trip to an ice cream shop is win-tertime without a mug of hot cocoa. Lake Forest resident Sam Gibson, 9, ordered two scoops of mint chocolate on a cone with orange sprinkles at Sweet’s Chocolate & Ice Cream in Lake Forest last weekend. It was a treat from his aunt, Linda Hayes, visiting from Dallas.

Hayes, who grew up in Lake Bluff, takes her nephew to Sweet’s whenever she’s in town.

“My aunt reminds me of ice cream,” a grinning Gibson said between licks while sitting on a bench outside the quaint shop on Deerpath.

Gibson figured he visits Sweet’s at least 18 times a summer.If you’re interested in way more than 18 flavors of

ice cream, head over to Homer’s Homemade Gourmet Ice Cream in Wilmette. Its burgundy cherry flavor fea-tures dark Bordeaux cherries imported from France. The menu’s description of Homer’s cappuccino chip is Kona Hawaiian coffee with soft mocha flakes. Its fresh peach offering was rated the finest in the country. 6. Last Blast of Summer Block Party at Winnetka Community House. Aug. 24.

It’s a bash for more than a block of families from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. It’s for the whole community, and it’s billed as a cel-ebration of everything that makes the North Shore great.Kids will have a blast, from riding ponies to being entertained by Elliebee the Clown. Adults will have the chance to view arts and crafts and listen to Bopology, a swing, jazz and jump-blues band. Admission is free, but a $20 wristband is required for certain activities, including carnival games. 7. Family Fun Fest in Lake Forest. Aug. 25.

Held at Forest Park from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., rain or shine, the event gives people of all ages the chance to bid the summer farewell while listening to live music and playing lawn games. Among the fest’s other attractions are touch-a-truck and a raffle. Proceeds from the event go to support the Forest Park Project.

8. Get splashed at Hidden Creek AquaPark in Highland Park. Through Labor Day.

Located at 1220 Fredrickson Place, it boasts a pleth-ora of ways to enhance fun with water. Hidden Creek offers water slides, a drop slide, a water playground and a sand area. Don’t feel like swimming? Get away from it all by resting on a lounge chair on either a large deck or the park’s lawn areas. 9. Reap joy at Highwood’s Gourmet Farmers Market at Everts Park, Wednesdays through Sept. 4.

The Bottle Poets, a pop/rock band, is slated to perform at the North Shore’s must-hit-at-least-once-a-summer Farmers Market on Aug. 28 (4-9 p.m. on Wednesdays). Mary Tondi of Highwood has traversed the market’s grounds practi-cally every other week this summer.

It’s convenient for her because the size of the city is only about one square mile, meaning the popular mode of trans-portation is walking.

“There’s so much going on there,” Tondi said, referring to live entertainment, pony rides and people selling food, jewelry, clothing and art. “It’s also a good social time, see-ing people and catching up with them.”

Kevin Clark grew up in Highland Park and, at the age of 14, portrayed the drummer in the movie “The School of Rock” in 2003. His take on Highwood’s Farmers Market: It rocks.

“There’s an overabundance of great food choices,” Clark said. “What I also like about it is the number of people you see there from all over the North Shore. You’re not going to find a better Farmers Market than the one in Highwood.” 10. “The Old Man and the Old Moon,” a play with music at Writers’ Theatre in Glencoe. Begins Sept. 3.

Not all “Things to do before the summer ends” have to be staged outdoors. The collaborative Writers’ Theatre and Pigpen Theatre Co. effort tells the epic tale of an old man who must abandon his duties of filling up the moon with liquid light to cross the seas in search of his missing wife. The combination of spirited indie-folk music and inventive puppetry lifts the production. ■

Sam gibson, 9, relishes a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone.

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Here’s what’s on tap Fest to draw 35 breweries from across country

■ by joanna brown

Much like the teachers who will repopu-late their classrooms later this month, Rod Specketer says there are no dumb questions.

The difference — his classroom is behind the nearest beer tap.

Specketer, co-owner of the Lake Bluff Brewing Co., will school the masses at the inaugural Craft Beer Festival. Hundreds of beer fans will fill Highwood’s Everts Park on Saturday, Aug. 17 to sample beverages from 35 craft breweries.

The Craft Beer Festival is evidence that Chicago and its suburbs are becoming big beer towns, Specketer and event planner Ted Widen agree. The festival will feature microbreweries from across the country alongside local favor-ites like the Lake Bluff Brewing Company, Lake Barrington’s Wild Onion Brewery and Chicago’s Finch’s Beer Company.

“Chicago is becoming a better beer town,” said Specketer, who opened the brewery with business partner David Burns in 2011. Both are Lake Bluff residents, and beer produced at the single location has limited distribution at this time.

“A lot of good, new brewers are cropping up,” Specketer added. “That makes it a lot of fun.”

What’s especially fun about craft beer, Widen explained, is that American brewers are experimenting with flavor — to the extent that not all beers are certified kosher anymore. Consider an oyster stout.

“And at the booths at the festival they’ll be throwing in lemons and limes to add even more flavors to it,” he noted.

Widen, of Winnetka, has been producing parties since 1998. The idea for the Craft Beer Festival struck after a wildly successful pub crawl in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

The Craft Beer Festival is produced in conjunc-tion with the Highwood Chamber of Commerce and Celebrate Highwood.

“Our special events are growing every year,” said Highwood Fourth Ward Alderman Eric Falberg, who started working with the events five years ago. “They’ve taken off because we have an eclectic mix. The feeling you get here is just different, and we try to make it friendly for all.”

At the Craft Beer Festival, attendees will browse the brewers’ booth and enjoy three-ounce samples of beer. Food and non-alcoholic beverages will also be available from local res-taurants, and bands will perform. Attendance is limited to those 21 and older, and designated driver tickets are available for those who will not be sampling beer.

“Try it, and if you don’t like it, spit it out,” Widen said. “Ask the brewer what it was so that you can figure out what you do and don’t like and ask for what you do like at the next booth you visit.

“There’s no shame in asking. At least half the people who come to these things are new to them, but they’re interested because they live in the neighborhood or they want to sup-port their neighborhood.”

The Lake Bluff Brewing Co. will have three beers at its booth as well as a brewer to field questions.

“You don’t have to be educated (in brewing) to enjoy this,” said Specketer. “Have a con-versation with the people at the tables, take your time and stand around for a while. Some people will even be taking notes.”

Find more information and purchase advance tickets at www.HighwoodCraftBeerFest.com. A portion of the proceeds from the Craft Beer Festival will benefit The Puppy Mill Project, a not-for-profit organization that aims to raise awareness of puppy mills. ■

Ted Widen is planning the inaugural Craft beer festival in Highwood.


painting allows artist with parkinson’s to ‘forget about everything and dream’

■ by angelika labno

During World War II, Warsaw was f lattened to the ground. In the ensuing years, a young Wojciech Madeyski watched in awe as tall, mod-ern buildings were erected from the rubble of his city. The fascination of skyscrapers never left him, leading him to study and have a prolific career in architecture. Now, the longtime Highland Park resident will be showcasing his passion through paintings in an exhibit titled “Cityscapes” at Lake Forest’s Re-invent Gallery starting Aug. 17.

“These are realistic subjects looking for an extra dimen-sion,” said Madeyski of his Abstract Expressionist style.

Four words define the exhibit: painting, power, passion — and Parkinson’s. The latter has been a daily struggle for Madeyski, but painting allows him to “forget about every-thing and dream,” he says. The walls of his Highland Park home are covered with his paintings, which range from his homeland’s Tatra Mountains to the idyllic countryside scenes and cathedrals of France. Gorgeous purples and blues evoke a Grand Canyon landscape, which he refers to as “the most beautiful buildings built by nature.”

Born in Warsaw in 1937, “Voy” Madeyski started drawing

as a boy, inspired by his ama-teur artist father. After attain-ing a master’s in architecture in Warsaw, he and his wife Danuta set out for Paris, where he worked with architects Pierre Vago and Guillaume Gillet. Madeyski also drew thousands of sketches from his travels throughout Europe, which are the basis of many of his paintings.

The couple came to Chicago in 1966, where Madeyski worked at Fridstein and Fitch, C.F. Murphy Associates and Perkins+Will before estab-lishing his own practice in Highland Park. His notable projects in Chicago include the Amoco (now Aon) Plaza and the Doyle-Cumberland Rapid Transit Station, as well as several projects in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Painting provided a break from the precision and clean lines of architecture, although he still incorpo-rated straight lines using a knife. In 2003, Madeyski was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and precise drawing was not a possibility anymore. Instead of giv-ing up his passion, he turned the situation into a posi-tive and developed a new technique for painting city scenes, cathedrals, or his favorite -- Chicago alleyways. “This technique expresses things that he couldn’t through other techniques,” said wife Danuta about Madeyski’s per-sonal twist on Jackson Pollock’s “drip” technique.

Madeyski has long been an advocate of environmental awareness, and his paintings put a lighthearted spin on global warming. Among the many scenes are Swimming Skyscrapers and Melting Cathedral. Another painting depicts icebergs amidst the famous New York City skyline.

“Every person with Parkinson’s should take on a hobby that is intense enough to absorb their imagination,” Madeyski said. “It helps to stay away from negative or pessimistic thinking, and that is important to cope with the disease.”

The exhibit will run from Aug. 17 to Sept. 28 at Re-invent Gallery, located at 202 Wisconsin Ave., Lake Forest, with an opening reception on Friday, Aug. 16 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Advance reservations for the opening night can be made by calling 224-544-5961 or visiting www.rein-ventlf.com. ■

“Every person with parkinson’s should take on a hobby that is intense enough to absorb their imagination.” | Wojciech Madeyski

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Fresh out of the University of Dayton with a degree in economics and business, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Louis Caras was commissioned to be a regular Army officer in 1950 as the Korean War began.

“You don’t know what to expect, but you learn quickly,” said the Lake Bluff resident, who was part of the 31st Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division.

The 21-year-old from Dayton, Ohio arrived in California in June 1950 and took a plane to Japan shortly thereafter. Three months later, Caras was part of the Inchon Landing, a pivotal invasion launched by Gen. Douglas MacArthur that essentially took back South Korea. During combat, Caras was a platoon leader, or a frontline commander of troops. He remembers see-ing his first fallen American — as a bullet whizzed past his ear.

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Caras simply characterizes himself as an “understanding leader,” but his quick and often empathetic decisions spared several innocent lives.

One soldier had wanted to throw a gre-nade into a cave where he suspected the enemy was hiding. Caras instead ordered that smoking straw be thrown in first. Women and children crawled out.

Another time, they were getting small arms fire during a patrol in a Korean vil-lage. The artillery officer was ready to call in artillery, an attack that would likely demolish a town like Lake Forest, he said. Caras stopped the order, and again, they saw nothing but women and children in the village, the men hiding in the hills.

A real test to his morals was when the Army took in a Chinese prisoner. While the other soldiers rushed to the thought of torturing the enemy, Caras considered the

prisoner’s tears and pictures of his wife and family.

“When a man surrenders, he’s no longer a soldier; he’s a civilian and you treat him accordingly,” said Caras. “That’s how I was trained.”

After a year in Korea, Caras spent the next 19 years of his service moving around Europe, Asia and the United States. When he got an order to go to Salzburg, he mar-ried Ethyl, a girl he met on a fishing trip in Michigan, and the pair went overseas together. He worked in the supply chain in Austria before moving to Munich to join the general staff for supply and logistics. His daughter, Elaine, was born there.

His eyes light up at the memories of attending symphonies and shows in Mozart’s hometown, and the sight of a woman scrub-bing her sidewalk with soap and water in Holland.

Caras luckily avoided going to war again, as he was scheduled to go to Vietnam three different times yet was pulled out each time. Once he was back in America, he spent three years teaching military logistics at Cornell University, where he shook President Harry Truman’s hand after a speech.

After traveling to a few more states, the road led Caras to Des Plaines. And, eventually, Lake Forest, where his fam-ily grew again with the birth of son Mark. Caras officially retired from the military in June 1970, and he entered the family bowling business. He sold the service after 20 years to become a consultant for bowl-ing companies.

Caras recently got into veteran affairs and is part of Lake Forest American Legion McKinlock Post 264. On this year’s Lake Forest Day, he was a marshal in the parade representing Korean veterans.

“I never took advantage of or was depen-dent on people,” he reflects on his time as a colonel. “We worked as a team.” ■

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David Spadafora is the president of the Newberry Library in Chicago. He lives in Lake Forest.

Reading: I am in the midst of the “Awakening Land” trilogy by Conrad Richter. It’s three volumes published in the 1940s and early 1950s about early settlers in Ohio. The first volume is called “The Trees,” the sec-ond “The Fields,” the third is called “The Town.” The third one won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1951.

I’m from Ohio originally and some of my family were very early settlers, so I found it interesting. It was a recommendation from the very great writer David McCullough. He wrote an essay about this author, which got me interested in reading his books.

Listening: I mostly listen to so-called classical music, and I’ve been listening to Schubert and Mendelssohn — Mendelssohn’s Octet, which I love and play as often as I can.

Watching: I watch parts of losing Cubs games, until it’s too depressing.

Following: The things that I follow most closely are developments in the ongoing digital revolution with research library activities and scholarly developments in my own field. My specialty is the 18th century in European thought, so the Enlightenment period. I think it’s fair to say that the Enlightenment is being re-concep-tualized by scholars during the last 20 years or so and is coming to be seen as a more diverse and less Franco-centric phenomenon than was traditionally the case.

Activity: I think it’s fair to say that the most impor-tant thing we’re working on at the Newberry right now, after the successful completion of a major fundrais-ing campaign, is sorting out the money assigned and committed to specific purposes. Fortunately a lot of our donors made gifts that came without restrictions, so we’re working to find out how to actually apply the money. We exceeded our goal of $25 million, and we did it in the timeframe that we allotted ourselves.

Another area of activity is now that we’ve finished

that campaign, it’s time to begin the next round of strategy. I’m working with staff and board leadership to devise a new strategic planning project for the course of the next year or so.

I still teach at Lake Forest College; I started there in 1990 as dean of the faculty and professor of history, then I became president. Since leaving the presidency, I’ve been involved with teaching at least occasionally.

Eating: My family would be disappointed if I did not begin by saying that I eat oatmeal. I eat oatmeal every day, which I’m sure will be of great interest. I should add that my wife and I have fallen in love with a couple of really fine Greek yogurts. And we just had dinner at Kiki’s, a French bistro on North Franklin. I also eat at Bistrot Zinc.

What is your favorite mistake? My most important mistake, if not worst, was acci-

dentally causing an injury to my left eye in 1964. The long-term consequences of that were to, for very cir-cuitous reasons, send me to a private school, send me to a small liberal arts college — and that was the way I met my wife. In some ways it seems bad, and it was bad, but it had profoundly beneficial consequences. This is all the result of a golf-course accident. ■

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Dressed in an ankle-long Victorian dress, white gloves and a stylish hat — in other words, looking like Bertha Honoré Palmer, 19th-century Chicago socialite — Leslie Goddard strode toward the Palmer House recently.

Before she arrived, a man parking his car demanded her attention.

“He said, ‘I have to take my picture with you. I don’t even know who you are,’ ” recalls Goddard, who was slated to perform a 45-minute one-woman show about the wife of real estate magnate Potter Palmer at his namesake hotel. “I said, ‘As long as I can tell you about Bertha Palmer, you can take the photo.’ ”

Goddard’s portrayals — she has also performed as Clara Barton, Abigail Adams and Margaret Powell, whose mem-oirs inspired “Downton Abbey” — are in demand. Whereas she put together 68 programs all of last year for libraries, museums, businesses and others, by July this year she had already exceeded that number — and her Jacqueline Kennedy show is already heavily scheduled for November, the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

“I always have the character face a central crisis, and she’s trying to decide whether to move from Washington after the assassination,” says Goddard, who spends up to a year researching her characters, finding the right cos-tume and practicing her role. “One of the challenges is she almost never talked about the assassination. And another challenge is I can’t talk about her Onassis years.”

First-person portrayals were far from Goddard’s mind after she earned a bachelor of arts in theater and English

from Stanford University and a master of arts in theater from the University of Illinois. Soon, she was engaged in a years-long process to attain her Ph.D. from Northwestern University — in American history.

“I said, ‘I think my heart is in history. That’s the end of my act ing career,’ ” Goddard recalls.

While working at the Evanston History Center, Goddard was asked if she could por-tray Frances Willard, a leader of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union who had lived in town. She unearthed some of Willard’s speeches, put together an 1880s costume (“which was hard — you had to find a bustle to make your rear end big”) — and had at it.

“I thought it was an interesting way to do history,” Goddard says. “You gain something you can’t get from a book.”

Speaking of books, Goddard has authored two — “Chicago’s Sweet Candy History,” which examines the number of famous candies made or invented in the area, and “Remembering Marshall Field’s,” a look at the store’s history and tradi-tions (Goddard

once worked as a Marshall Field’s sales clerk, while her grandfather served as a longtime

buyer at the State Street location). She offers lectures on both topics, though the

candy one — most often given around Valentine’s Day and Halloween — can

create inconvenient hungers.“I get cravings for whatever I’m

talking about,” says Goddard, who touches upon Brach’s, Mars, Curtis and other well-known Chicago companies.

Goddard is a big fan of Kenilworth resident Barbara Rinella, who also engages North Shore audiences with portrayals of Catherine the Great and other historical figures.

“She has a wonderful sense of humor,” Goddard notes. “As

Catherine the Great, she was picking out guys in the audience

who reminded her of her husband (Peter III).”For Sunday breakfast, Goddard can

think of nothing better than Blind Faith Café in Evanston, where she loves

the chilaquiles. When she was studying for her Ph.D., she’d often walk to

the vegetarian restaurant with her mother, Carol.

What is the future of historical portrayals? Goddard is debuting Jane Austen this month, along with Estée Lauder and Amelia

Earhart in the fall. And she mulls an interesting possibility.

“Would I do some-one who’s alive?” she asks. “That’s a good question. Maybe Jane Goodall.” ■

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For more than 100 years, the Winnetka Community House has been providing event space for North Shore residents. Now, for the first time, it will be home to a summer block party – the Last Blast of Summer.

The free event will include food, a beer garden, a pet parade and performances by local musicians on Saturday, Aug. 24 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Lincoln Avenue – just outside the Winnetka Community House. Wristbands may be purchased for an addi-tional $20 and provide access to carnival games, a rock wall and pony rides.

The event is sponsored by 22 local non-profit organizations, some of who are ten-ants at the Winnetka Community House, such as the North Shore Art League, the Junior League of Evanston and the Winnetka Youth Organization. The non-profits’ executive directors had been meet-ing with the Winnetka Community House to brainstorm a community event.

“It just sort of grew and grew and grew over meetings over the last few months. It was really collaborative,” said Winnetka Community House Development Associate Michelle Hodalj.

According to Hodalj, Winnetka Community House Development Director Alana Flatley had been interested in having another event after the community house celebrated its centennial in 2011. The Last Blast of Summer is a continuation of the “feel” that resulted from the celebration.

“I hope [people] learn about the commu-nity house and reconnect with it if they haven’t been here for a while,” Hodalj said. “ We saw that a lot with the centennial – people who hadn’t been here for a while came back to celebrate the 100th birthday. I hope they learn a little bit about us, what

we’re doing now and what our plans are for the future.”

The Winnetka Community House’s mis-sion is to provide educational, cultural, social and recreational opportunities. In addition to providing a fitness center and full gymnasium to the community, the house also holds theater and dance productions put on by groups such as the Children’s Theatre of Winnetka, Ballet Entre Nouse and Village Follies. The Winnetka Community House is also a popular location for weddings, business meetings and other private events.

“We do programs here for youth through senior citizens. We do all sorts of different programs from dance classes yoga classes,” Hodalj said. “It’s a lot of the same things you would find at a park district, but we are not tax-supported – we are totally supported by private donations from the community.”

Though this is Winnetka Community House’s first summer block party, Hodalj said it hopes to continue having it as a yearly event.

“There are twenty-something non-profits involved, and they’re all local and they all do amazing things – they all have a sepa-rate, very important mission, so we hope that [people] learn more about all of them and learn about Winnetka and the commu-nity in general,” Hodalj said. ■

“I hope [people] learn about the community house and reconnect with it if they haven’t been here for a while.” | Michelle Hodalj

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Recipe: fresh fruit CrostataIn food processor, pulse together 1 stick (8 table-

spoons) very cold unsalted butter chopped into 1/2 inch pieces; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour; 2 tablespoons sugar; and ¼ teaspoon sea salt until fine corn-meal like crumbs form. Slowly add 2 tablespoons cold water and pulse until dough comes together. Dump out onto clean table and form into disk. Chill for 1/2 hour.

Heat oven to 425 degrees. On floured surface, roll into 12 inch disk. Transfer to parchment lined baking pan. Place 3 1/2 cups of sliced fresh

peaches, apples, plums, mixed berries, or any combo of fruit you love in the center of the dough. Mix 2 tablespoons melted butter with 1/2 tea-spoon cinnamon, 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup flour until crumbly with a fork.

Sprinkle crumb mixture onto fruit and fold over the edges of the dough so you have 3 inches of a crust all around top, making a 9 inch pie. Bake for 18-25 minutes until crust is golden brown and fruit is bubbly. Let cool 15 minutes and enjoy with ice cream or fresh whipped cream.

What made you decide to open Bent Fork?In ‘99, my husband was in printing and wanted

me to order gift baskets for all of his clients for the holidays. It would take too much time; I was better off baking for them. So we put together baskets that had about 75 cookies each. We started getting calls asking where people could get the cookies. By mid-night we came up with menus, and we named it [the bakery] after a friend of mine said, “Michael always gets the bent fork, wherever he goes. If you ever have a store you have to call it ‘Bent Fork.’ “

Best recipe tweak?We tweak all our recipes. We’ll make it six or seven

times until it’s where we want it to be. We’re like mad scientists.

Signature baked good?Our double chocolate cake. It was my grandma

Helen’s cake; she started making it in the ‘40s for all the birthdays.

Favorite style?I’m really into cookies and bars. I really like home

style — we don’t have big mixers, we have small ones. Everything is small batch. I like the creativity that allows you; you can just go crazy. And I really love

making pies. We’re an all-butter bakery, except for the vegan baked goods we make for Madame ZuZu’s in Highland Park.

What do you like to eat (aside from treats)?We eat healthy at the store! Every day we make

big salads and egg white frittatas for the staff. That way we can eat baked goods all day long — we had blueberry peach crisp the other morning. You’ve got to indulge a little every day.

Worthwhile gadget?Clean hands are the best tools you have.Favorite cookbook?“The Dessert Bible” by Christopher Kimball. Favorite ingredient?Nielsen-Massey vanilla. Most memorable kitchen incident?We were making chocolate cake, and I was teaching

someone how to add the liquid into the dry ingredi-ents. I didn’t realize the last person to use the mixer had left it on high speed. We spent the next few days cleaning up the kitchen.

Bent Fork Bakery is located at 335 Waukegan Ave. in Highwood. For more information, visit thebentfork-bakery.com or call 847-926-4438. ■


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At this summer’s U18 Girls’ Youth Volleyball World Tournament in Thailand, left-handed Taylor Tashima never unpacked her devastatingly effective jump serve.

The 6-foot setter, who will be a senior at New Trier High School and a member of the Wildcat Juniors club team, used the weapon to put together an astounding streak in the second set of a match against Maine South last fall. Tashima riddled the Hawks from a baseline, striking for the final 16 service points of a 25-9 win.

But her jump serve never saw the light of day — nor the lights in Chatchi Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima — at the world tournament July 25-Aug. 4.

“It’s so different at an international competition,” said Tashima, a Wilmette resident. “The IQs and the abilities of the players are incredible. Teams would have been able to handle [the jump serve], would have been able to pass well after receiving it.

“I went with my float serve instead.”Tashima and Team USA went all the way to the champi-

onship match after winning Pool C and downing Chinese Taipei, Poland and Brazil in bracket play.

China then topped the U.S. squad 25-16, 25-21, 25-23 for the gold medal. No other U.S. volleyball team of either gender had ever collected a world medal at the youth or junior level.

“Crazy, so crazy, and what an incredible experience,” said Tashima, a captain and one of two setters on the 12-member team. “Playing the teams we played in an atmosphere like that, you had to be mentally tough every point. If an opponent detected a weakness in a match, it was like blood in the water.”

The U.S. team’s only other loss in Thailand was to Slovenia in its first Pool C match. It bounced back nicely in its other three pool contests, defeating Brazil (ranked second in the world at the time), the Dominican Republic

and Algeria without dropping a set.The U.S. later edged Brazil 16-25, 25-14, 20-25, 25-17,

15-12 in a semifinal Aug. 3.“That was such a thrill, probably the best and most intense

match I’ve experienced,” said Tashima, a steady force behind the Trevians’ Class 4A state runner-up showing last fall.

China, like Team USA, won six of eight matches at the tournament. But China, unlike Team USA, deployed a 6-8 middle. The small building near the net was too tall, too knowledgeable and too disciplined.

“She did everything right; she was trained well,” Tashima said. “China’s entire team was trained well.”

Candidates for the United States’ U18 team tried out at the U.S. Olympic Center in Colorado Springs in late June, before heading to Anaheim, Calif., to train for two weeks. The members sometimes spent six hours on the court in a day.

They also were surrounded by Very Important Players.“We sometimes got to practice right next to the United

States’ men’s and women’s volleyball teams,” Tashima said. “They also were getting ready for international play. We talked to the players during breaks. It was amazing, getting a glimpse of our country’s top players.”

The other setter on Tashima’s team was Jordyn Poulter of Aurora, Colo., who will be a junior in high school — one of eight from the Class of 2015 to make the team. The Illinois recruit got the starting nod for most of the matches.

“She’s taller, and she jumps higher than I do,” said Northwestern-bound Tashima, named “Best Setter” last year at a regional tournament in Mexico, where the U.S. U18 team, captained by Tashima, qualified for this year’s world tourna-ment. “I learned a lot from her.

“What I’ve been practicing a lot lately is ‘eye checking’ [setting to a favorable one-on-one matchup, rather than one in which a teammate has to attempt a kill against more than one blocker]. I’m still not there, 100 percent, but I’m work-

ing hard on getting there.”Tashima nearly helped

the U.S. escape a significant deficit in the third set of the championship match Aug. 4. China led 23-18 when U.S. coach Jim Stone sent Tashima in to serve.

“I hadn’t touched a ball since the warm-up session,” Tashima said. “I was on the bench for about an hour; I went in cold.”

But she ignited a rally immediately, delivering an ace on a float serve. The U.S., with Tashima guid-ing the red, white and blue, nearly extended the match to four sets, before China survived 25-23 in the deci-sive set.

“Taylor made an impact each time she came in as a sub,” said Penn State-bound Simone Lee, an outside hit-ter from Menomonee Falls, Wis. “And when she was in there, she never let up and she did whatever she could to establish momentum. She was as valuable of a vocal leader as she was a player.

“The way she encouraged us, her court awareness — Taylor was an important presence,” she added. “Off the court she was the ulti-mate social butterfly [in Thailand], always making sure she’d sit at a different table for dinner each night.”

Stone’s U18 girls crew is

a Midwest-heavy bunch, with eight of the 12 players hav-ing committed to Big Ten schools.

Stone served as the women’s volleyball coach at Ohio State for 26 years.

Stone and his staff of assistants insisted that their play-ers take it easy after returning from Thailand, Tashima noted. It would be OK to work out, they said, and it would be better than OK to avoid any activity that involved a vol-leyball for a week or two.

“Our national coaches warned us about the potential hazards of overuse,” Tashima said. “They wanted us to be careful.”

Wildcat Juniors club coach Karen Sonders has watched Tashima develop as a volleyball player since Tashima was in the eighth grade. She could not be more thrilled for one of her dedicated charges.

“To be one of only 12 players to represent the U.S., to be one of only two setters on a national team — now that’s excit-ing and impressive,” Sonders said. “Taylor makes everybody around her better, and she does that because of her hard work and focus. She’s a great team player, super competi-tive, and it’s awesome coaching her.”

Tashima plans to be geared up and fresh for New Trier’s season opener against visiting Libertyville on Aug. 29, which happens to be her 17th birthday.

Kills galore, to be followed by killer cake.NT went 39-2 last fall, bowing to Benet Academy (40-2) 21-25,

25-22, 25-17 in the Class 4A final in Normal. The Trevians’ significant losses to graduation included outside hitters Brittani Steinberg and Maggie Carragher.

Tashima and senior defensive specialist MC Magner will serve as co-captains this fall. The team also will feature two other D-1 players: senior Haley Fauntleroy (Virginia) and junior Sarah Shafiq (Cal-Berkeley).

“Determination — Taylor has always had that,” Trevians coach Hannah Hsieh said. “She’s always pushing herself, always striving to get better and better as a player. And as a leader, she’ll be a strong one for us because of what she experienced [in Thailand].”

Tashima, like all of her returning teammates, has wanted to experience another weekend in Normal since the moment Benet’s Redwings started celebrating their state champi-onship last November.

“We do have a lot of very good players returning, and we are all looking forward to the season,” Tashima said. “Our goal is to get back to state and take it this time.” ■

new Trier High School’s Taylor Tashima, who plays club volley-ball for the Wildcat Juniors, was one of the captains for Team USA at the U18 girls’ youth Volleyball World Tournament.


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The freestyle anchor leg on a record-setting age-group relay team showed up at his first CATS Aquatic Team prac-tice a little more than a year ago as a … breaststroker.

A leopard cannot change his spots.But Bogdan Balteanu proved unequiv-

ocally that a human can change his pri-mary stroke and produce resounding success at a national level. The 2013 Lake Forest High School graduate helped CATS’ 200-meter medley relay set an age-group mark of 1:43.24 in two divisions (Boys 17-18, Boys 15-18) at the National Club Swimming Association (NCSA) Long Course Championships in Indianapolis earlier this month.

Alex Snarski of Libertyville, Kyle Aerne of Lake Villa and Connor Black of Mundelein preceded Balteanu in the electric effort. All but Snarski will be college freshmen this fall.

“We knew we’d be decently fast but not that fast,” said the 6-foot-4, 185-pound Balteanu, who clocked a 23.53 freestyle split in the 200 medley. “We were all ecstatic after that. It set a good tone for our team.”

Indeed. Balteanu was a swift member of three other first-place relays at the meet, anchoring the CATS’ 400 free-style (3:30.22) and 400 medley (3:48.58) units and serving as the second leg of the club’s 200 free quartet.

CATS, based in Libertyville and Vernon Hills, captured the men’s division title with 391 points. Crimson (Mass.) Aquatics (360.5) and NOVA (Va.) Aquatics finished 2-3.

“Bogdan responds incredibly well to coaching,” CATS coach Vlad Pyshnenko said. “He’s like a sponge, the way he listens. But he’s as good as he is because of his love for the sport and his desire to get better. His positive attitude, his love for swimming — you can see it when he trains and competes. It is quite easy to see.”

Balteanu’s freestyle stroke looks nothing like it did after his junior season at LFHS, when he swam on a pair of top-nine relays at the state meet.

“I changed it significantly,” he said. “I wasn’t finishing my stroke properly, and I was encouraged to adjust the

position of my shoulders [relative to the water]. I also had an arm swing that had to be cut down.”

Balteanu’s attention to detail and work ethic turned him into a standout 100-meter competitor, so much so that the George Washington University-bound swimmer will likely flirt with the Olympic Trials cut in the event at this time next year.

“Those coaches [at GWU] thought they were getting a 56-[second], 57-[second] 100-meter long course kid in Bogdan,” Pyshnenko said. “He’s down to a 51-high, a huge drop. Those coaches are going to be thrilled when they find out how fast Bogdan is now.”

Balteanu and his family moved from Toronto to Lake Forest in the summer before his junior year. He got to know many LFHS swimmers well before the first day of school, easing the transition to his first school in the U.S. Following his

solid debut as a varsity swimmer in 2011-12, Bogdan reached another level as a senior this past winter, swimming on the Scouts’ state runner-up 400-yard free relay (3:04.01) and third-place 200 medley relay (1:33.330).

Classmate Colin Rowe also raced for both relays as LFHS, under Scouts coach Cindy Dell, took third for its first state trophy in 10 years.

“We knew Bogdan would be a key com-ponent on our team,” Rowe said. “He did great. He’s a very hard-working kid, always striving for the best, always driven like no other. Bogdan is one of those first-in-the-pool-last-out-of-the-pool guys.”

Stanford-bound Black, for one, saw a sim-ilar work ethic from Balteanu at CATS practices. The national high school record holder in the 100-yard butterfly (46.71, set in February), Black also swam on all four of CATS’ victorious relays at the NCSA Meet in early August.

“What also impressed me about Bogdan was how quickly he meshed with all of us at CATS,” Black said. “He’s got a fun-lov-ing side and a get-down-to-business mode. He was a big relay guy for us, a true team player. Bogdan got so pumped up before the start of relays, always saying to the rest of us, ‘We can do this! We can do this!’

“That heart rate of his before relays — you knew it was going … going fast,” he added. “He was into relays, no doubt.”

Balteanu intends to major in pre-med bio-medical engineering at GWU in D.C., with a goggle-free eye toward becoming an ortho-pedic surgeon. He looked back at his time in

the pool for LFHS and CATS teams earlier his month.“I was fortunate to have fantastic coaches,” Balteanu

said. “The history of those two programs, they’re pretty amazing. I’ll always be grateful for being a part of both, for being able to learn all I did.”

Pyshnenko also expressed gratitude — for Balteanu, the swimmer and the teen.

“Always respectful, always polite,” said the 43-year-old coach, a native of Russia who won a gold medal (800 free relay) and two silver medals (400 free relay, 400 medley relay) for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

“Bogdan always said, ‘Hello,’ always said, ‘Thank you for the practice and the workout,’ ” he added. “It’s unusual these days, hearing words like that from a kid.” ■

wave reviews Balteanu turns in four-midable showing at national championships

Lake forest High School grad bogdan balteanu, seen here during the high school season, was part of four winning relays at the nCSA Long Course Championships.

THe NorTH sHore weekeNd 08/17 – 08/18/1338 | perfect weekend

We have a home in La Quinta, California. We’ve been going out there for 24 years. It’s on the grounds of the La Quinta Resort & Club — it’s the best of both worlds.

What brings us to La Quinta is the weather. November is our favorite month – 85 degrees during the day and 70s at night. Our daughter Erin is getting married there in November. At Christmas all of us (including the other children Austin, Jordan and Logan) try to spend two weeks out there.

Our favorite thing is to hike in the mountains — they have wonderful hiking and walking trails. We’ll wake up and have a seven-mile walk. They have a trail they call the bump-and-grind — we call it the Edens Express-way of trails. It’s a quick hour and 15 minutes there and back. We once hiked 18 miles from the base of an Indian reservation.

My husband is a golfer and an avid biker. He’ll go for a 30-mile ride, and sometimes wild dogs out there chase him. He has to bike so hard to get away.

The Living Desert is a zoo and botanical garden. They have all the wild-life in natural habitats out there. At Christmas, they do a laser-light exhibit at night — it’s beautiful.

An aerial tram takes you to the top of the mountain in Palm Springs. What is so unbelievable is there’s snow up there — it can be 80 degrees down in the city. You can be in the hot weather but see the mountains — it’s aesthetically beautiful. The mountains are often so barren; it’s like someone took a pencil and painted them all.

Everybody eats outside. We have a couple of favorite restaurants. Lavender Bistro in La Quinta has this spectacular courtyard that 150 people eat in. It’s just magical. We eat a lot of fish, and sand dabs is one we only see out there. Pacifica Seafood Restaurant in Palm Desert is another great fish place.

Dana and Scott Turban, as told to David Sweet. ■

“our favorite thing is to hike in the mountains — they have wonderful hiking and walking trails. we’ll wake up and have a seven-mile walk.”

foR DaNa aND ScoTTgoing the extra mile is preferred in La Quinta

Scott and dana Turban live in northfield. dana is the co-chair of this year’s American Craft Exposition.


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