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GL EN V IE W — A 39,000-square-foot marble Hindu temple

is nearing completion in Glenview.

The Hanuman Mandir Spiritual and Community Center will hold its grand opening events on April 15, 16, and 17, and will open to the public at noon April 17. It is located at 3623 West Lake Avenue in Glenview, offering the Hindu commu-nity a place of worship and everyone exposure to Indian traditions, according to devotee Savi Ram.

“It will be an unbelievable day for which many devotees have been waiting,” Ram said. “The temple is a place to learn more about life and religion and humanity. It will promote service, spiritual devotion and appreciation for Indian culture.”

Ram said the marble exte-rior and interior have a special meaning.

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The Hanuman Mandir Spiritual and Community Center

Glenview Hindu Temple nearinG CompleTion

BY Steve SadindailYnorthShore.com

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It happened June 3, 1966 — the day the Spartan baseball team won the school’s first state championship in any sport.

The core of that team won a dozen baseball championships between 1965 and 1967 and members of all of them will be honored as marshals of North-brook’s Fourth of July Parade this summer with a theme of the 50th anniversary of Northbrook champions.

Two members of all 12 title teams—Ken Kozil, who now lives in Rolling Meadows, and Chuck Leve currently living in Evanston—remember the

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IN THIS ISSUE


24[ NEWS ]

7 EvEnt BEnEfits GLAsA Lake Forest-based organization provides recreational and competitive sports for people of all ages with physical and visual impairments.

8 Hindu tEmpLE CominG A stunning, 39,000 square foot Hindu temple is nearing completion in Glenview.

8 LEGEndAry tEAm A legendary Glenbrook North High School baseball team will be honored.

9 mrW CEntEr LunCHEon Bob Sirott and Marianne Murciano to speak out on wellness.

[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ]

11 LovE & mArriAGE Marriage Test? That seems redundant.

13 nortH sHorts That’s cool.

15 nortH sHorE foodiE We check out Highland Park’s The BBQ Pit.

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

17 �HousEs of tHE WEEk Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

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24 LiLy BriGHt Sands shining in Glenbrook South’s potent offense.

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Jennifer Burkhart is an oc-cupational therapist and exercise physiologist by trade, and thus uniquely

aware of how physical activity benefits the body and soul. So when her son was born 14 years ago with spina bifida (a malfor-mation of the spinal cord), she didn’t want to hear about all the things her beautiful baby boy would not do.

Now an 8th grader in Liber-tyville, Ethan Burkhart is an enthusiastic athlete and a fierce sled hockey player. He plays

alongside Lake Forest’s Ana Kohout in the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association.

The Lake Forest-based orga-nization provides recreational and competitive sports for people of all ages with physical and visual impairments. This includes the sled hockey and swim teams that Ethan Burkhart and Kohout, a Lake Forest High School junior, enjoy, as well as other team sports and outreach programs in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. More than 3,000 athletes are served by these programs, including veter-ans, stroke survivors, and ampu-

tees.“The directors and coaches at

GLASA do not believe in dis-abilities,” Jennifer Burkhart said. “They believe that these kids can do anything, and the kids develop the mindset that they can, too. They have high expecta-tions for these kids, which we all should.”

The Burkhart family will be among those celebrating GLASA at the Women’s Aux-iliary Spring Gala Saturday, April 23, at Lake Shore Harley-Davidson in Libertyville. The evening will include a poker run, whiskey tasting, live music, and

food from more than a dozen local restaurants.

“The theme for the event is On the Road, and then you look at the motorcycles you certainly get the sense of going places,” said Jennifer Sawant, a GLASA Auxiliary Board member from Lake Forest. “And that is the essence of our GLASA com-munity; the directors and coaches and especially the ath-letes – they just keep going.”

Sawant learned about GLASA serendipitously two years ago. She was at her own yoga class as an adaptive yoga class for people in wheelchairs

was ending, and she was re-minded of how much a beloved cousin had enjoyed yoga before a stroke impaired her mobility at age 42. Sawant acted quickly to get more involved with GLASA.

“It is amazing to see people in our community impacted so directly and so positively,” she explained. “All the support gen-erated at the Gala helps out our neighbors who will be playing wheelchair basketball at Lake Forest College’s Rec Center and sled hockey at Hot Shot in Lake Bluff.”

Ana Kohout’s mom, Areta

Kohout will also attend the gala, proud of the work she does as a GLASA yoga instructor and Auxiliary Board member, and of her daughter’s state titles in swimming and wheelchair racing.

“GLASA is not just a not-for-profit for disabled people to grow,” Areta Kohout said. “It’s a community with a feeling of belonging in an environment that empowers all ages. It’s all very positive and that makes a difference.”

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“The marble is significant to the people entering the building,” Ram said. “It gives it authenticity and richness.”

People can enter the main sanctuary by ascending to an altar with marble steps climbing to the base of a marble statue of the Hindu deity Hanumanji. The statue is more than 22 feet high and weighs over 46,000 pounds.

“The statue of Hanuman-ji is sacred to worshipers of the god (and) is an impor-tant element of the new center,” said Ram.

Ram said she expects more than 5,000 people f rom the Chicago area and beyond to attend the temple’s three-day grand opening festivities.

During the grand opening weekend, “many priests will be setting deities, saying prayers and performing rituals,” Ram said referring to statues of other Hindu gods that will be placed in altars along the perimeter of the sanctuary. “On each day of the grand opening weekend, morning prayers will be conducted to place statues of gods in the temple as well as rituals in honor of Hindu deities.”

Building the temple has taken more than two years f rom inception, according to a news release f rom the or-

ganization. In D e c e m b e r 2013, 170 dev-otees of Hanu-manji gathered to sanctify the land and 650 people took par t in the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2014.

Since then builders have been working to finish the t w o - s t o r y structure with the main sanc-tuary on the top f loor and a c o m m u n i t y gathering place beneath. Ram said celebra-tions like wed-d i n g s a r e already booked.

Once the temple is open, events will be held every day of the week, ac-cording to the grand opening brochure. These inc lude rel i-gious services and other ac-tivities.

moment like it was yesterday. The Spartans were already in Peoria playing their semifinal game while the student body was listening.

“The game was on the PA at school and everybody was lis-tening,” Kozil said referring to a local radio broadcast at the time. “The principal said ‘we have buses lined up. Whoever wants to go to Peoria can go.’”

With that seven busloads of Glenbrook students headed to the state tournament and arrived while the Spartans were playing.

“We got goose bumps,” Kozil said. “We stopped what we were doing and just watched them come in. They had signs. The stadium filled up.”

A few hours after dispatch-ing Galesburg, 7-1, in an 11-inning semifinal, Glenbrook North was playing against Maine South for the state title. The stands were full of students from Northbrook. Leve said the team scored eight runs in the top of the first on its way to a 15-2 victory.

Celebration Comes Home to Northbrook

The electricity continued when the team returned to Northbrook. The students re-boarded the buses and headed north quickly while the players stopped for dinner, according to Kozil. Late that night they headed home.

“We got off the tollway at Willow Road and we see fire engines and police cars,” Kozil. “We thought there was an ac-cident. They took us off the busses and put us in convert-ibles. We drove all over North-brook.”

The impromptu parade ended at the high school at 10:30 p.m. but the celebration

continued.“Our feet never touched the

ground,” Leve said. “They lifted us all up. The guy who picked me up was (Glenbrook) South’s number one pitcher. He said, ‘hey man, this is for everyone.’”

Northbrook was a different place then. The population was 12,000, according to Cheryl Fayne-DePersio, the village’s communications manager. As of the 2010 U.S. Census the population was 33,170.

That championship moment was the sixth of 12 for Kozil, Leve and at least 38 others who were also part of the 1965 Northbrook Colt League squad as well as the 1966 and 1967 Northbrook American Legion teams. Leve said many of them began playing together when they were eight.

“Everybody played baseball then,” Leve said. “There was no soccer and basketball was a winter, indoor sport. We played baseball. If there was no (orga-nized) game we went to a vacant lot and played baseball.”

The Colt Leaguers won di-visional, state and regional crowns in 1965 before finishing fourth in the national tourna-ment. That team as well as the Legion squad had additional Northbrook residents who went to other schools like Loyola Academy.

The Spartans won regional and sectional tournaments before taking state. Less than a week after winning the state high school title, the players reassembled with more athletes as the Legion squad winning the Cook County, state and regional championships and finishing fifth in the American Legion World Series.

Northbrook Takes One More Shot at a National

ChampionshipLeve, Kozil and others like

Paul Brubaker, Bobby Bre-itzman and Ray Larson were college players in 1967 but still eligible to play American Legion baseball. The group with nine championships under its belt made one more try for a national crown.

Again Northbrook won the Cook County, state regional championships before reaching the title game in the American Legion World Series. It was a double elimination event.

“We lost our first game to Tuscaloosa, Alabama,” Leve said. “We had to come back through the loser’s bracket. We won our next four games and were looking at Tuscaloosa again. We beat them once.”

The two teams played a third time for the title. Northbrook ended up second best in the country that year.

“Choke,” Leve and Kozil said simultaneously when reminded of the second-place finish and the 1-0 defeat by Tuscaloosa. “I pitched a two hitter and lost,” Kozil added.

Some of those players earned a living playing baseball. Kozil was drafted by the Chicago White Sox but decided on a business career instead. Bre-itzman was selected by the Chicago Cubs and played eight years of minor league ball in their organization.

Henry Hyde, Jr., who gradu-ated from Loyola Academy and pitched for the 1967 legion team, played minor league base-ball for five years in the Pitts-burgh Pirates’ and Atlanta Braves’ organizations. He died from cancer in 2005. He was the son of the late Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Wood Dale), who died in 2007.


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HIGHLAND PARK–Known for their witty repartee on and off the air, TV and radio super couple Bob

Sirott and Marianne Murciano will be the keynote speakers at the 20th Annual Myra Rubinstein Weis Health Resource Center Benefit Luncheon in May.

Sirott said different organizations have reached out to him and his wife, Murciano, for non-profit ap-pearances over the years, but the MRW Center really struck a chord because as his father died from lung cancer. “My dad always ate healthy, but he smoked from the time he was a young kid,” he said.

One of Murciano’s close friends had cancer and attended several survival groups. “It’s such a vulner-able time of life,” she said. “I’m also very big on the fact that health education is being addressed at the center.”

The MRW Health Resource

Center committee has raised more than $1 million for NorthShore University HealthSystem since its inception two decades ago. The May 4 fundraiser will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Highland Park Country Club in support of the healthcare provider’s wellness and cancer survivorship programs. The event will include free educational lectures, which are open to the public and include the importance of nutri-tion, exercise and genetics for cancer survivors.

“Marianne’s passions include healthy eating, healthy living and exercise,” said Sirott. He added that no matter how busy they are, his wife always makes a point of sitting down to home cooked meals with the family. This tradition was main-tained when their two older children were involved in theater and con-tinues now that their 15-year-old daughter is into sports -- meaning the family often waits until after 9 p.m. to have dinner together.

“Being happy is part of being healthy, and (eating healthy dinners

together) makes my kids happy,” said Murciano. “That’s one of the things that made me connect with the MRW Center.”

It also gave Murciano food for thought in creating susosfork.com, a website featuring Cuban recipes from her life. Suso is named after her childhood pet capuchin monkey.

“When I was a little girl (in Miami), my brothers and I would

feed Suso all of our fruits and veg-etables so we wouldn’t have to eat them,” she said. “Bob and I created the website as a reminder to eat healthy recipes with the Latin flavors I grew up with.”

The Wilmette couple launched the website in February after working on it for over a year. Sirott said many of the recipes are quick and easy to prepare, as well as tasty

and nutritious. “It’s all about educa-tion, fresh ingredients and not eating processed food,” he added.

“My goal is to get the word out that what you put in your body is what gives you a long happy life,” said Murciano.

Murciano acknowledged that her emphasis on healthy cooking has been passed down to her children. Recently while Facetiming with her 26-year-old daughter, who works as a reporter and news anchor in Flint, Michigan, “I saw in the back-ground that she was cooking a healthy dinner in a crock-pot,” she said.

Murciano and Sirott met in 1993 when they co-anchored Fox Thing In the Morning on WFLD-TV. “It was not an instant attraction, because Bob told me to save my stories to tell on the air,” said Mur-ciano. “It took a couple of years before we got personal.”

The duo recently hosted the March 15 election primary coverage on WLS radio.

They look forward to speaking

at the May 4 luncheon MRW benefit honoring Carol A. Rosen-berg, MD, FACP, founder and di-rector of LIFE (Living in the Future) preventative health initia-tives. The following information was cited in foundation.northshore.org/mrw:

In addition to the LIFE Program, funds raised from the Luncheon will support an innovative, pilot project that will educate the next generation about how personalized medicine and genomics is trans-forming healthcare.

Funds also support the Myra Rubenstein Weis Health Resource Center. An active member of the Highland Park community, she lost her life in 1990, 10 years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her sister, Eileen Rubenstein Gold-stein, and her brother-in-law, Paul D. Goldstein, MD, continue to honor Myra’s life and her upbeat spirit by hosting an annual spring benefit luncheon with a group of dedicated volunteers and friends who plan the event.

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The concept of a marriage test strikes me as redun-dant. And yet, someone

out there is making a million dollars off the idea.

I’ll explain.The Marriage Test is a new

book by Jill Andres and Brook Silva-Braga, who were dating when they came up with this cockamamie scheme to spend a year simulating marriage before they tied the knot. They broke it down into 40 “dates,” during which they recreated what they decided were the biggest challenges of marriage.

They swapped credit cards for a month, and borrowed someone’s kids for a weekend. They used each other’s phones for a weekend, spent a week without electronics outside of business hours, and lived for a month on half of their usual budget to simulate financial stress. Scariest of all, they re-corded themselves during an argument and listened to it

together a week later to cri-tique their fighting styles.

The authors agreed before they began that if the experi-ment went well they would spend their lives together. If the dates went poorly, they would part ways. I don’t think I’m spoiling anything to say that they are both wearing wedding bands on their media tour.

I’m wondering, though, if they’ll be wearing those same bands on the 10th anniver-sary of the book’s publication. My money is on no. I think that their project was a fun activity to do together, and marriage is generally easy when you have a shared activ-ity to focus on, like wedding planning and house hunting. Marriage is hard when you have nothing but each other to pass the days.

In other words, it ’s a fun project to simulate parenting and spend 48 hours setting up

the portable crib, laughing at the baby’s funny faces while he tears the pages out of your favorite books when you know that the end is in sight; you started the weekend well-rested and you will get a good night’s sleep after the baby goes home. But it’s a lot more stressful when you haven’t slept through the night in six months, your trusted babysit-ter is on vacation and you can not possibly stomach another night of take-out.

The same goes for the simulated financial stress of living on half their budget for a month. It sounds good, but in reality they likely delayed a lot for 30 days; the trendy shoes and dinners out resumed at the end of the month. That’s not how it works for most newlyweds, nor for folks whose financial stress is rooted in unemployment or the healthcare expenses of a sick family member. This date was

dumb, dumb, dumb.But before I solidified my

opinion I posted a video from the authors’ media tour on my Facebook page, and invited comments and suggestions for new tests that would be more realistic.

I received not a single re-sponse. Radio silence. Not a sarcastic remark about hanging the Christmas lights together, nor a sympathy “Like” from my mother-in-law.

I like to think it’s because everyone agrees with my opinion that this Marriage Test is a ridiculous waste of time. Marriage is a feeling that comes from your gut and an activity that will challenge you every day of your life in far more than 40 areas.

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THE SPRINGS OF VERNON HILLS

RIBBON CUTTINGPhotography by Larry Miller

The Springs of Vernon Hills opened their doors during a ribbon cutting celebration in early March to com-memorate their grand opening. A Great Gatsby theme was carried out during the celebration, with guests complete in costume and a menu

that reflected the era. Any interested parties, from doctors to those who

work in the senior care industry, were invited to attend. The Springs of

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I t started with running shoes. A f riend casually comments that the brand

you’re wearing isn’t cool because kids wear another kind. You think: Kids? Who cares?

Then, i ronica l l y, you happen to see kids in the mall wearing your brand of shoes. Still, no matter. But it gets you thinking...

Everything’s cool today. The death of cool used to be anything old-fashioned or out of style. Now cool guys are wearing fedoras like your dad wore. And they ’re listen-

ing to vinyl LPs, the kind you have in the attic.

Shaving your head is cool, and wearing hair to your shoulders is also cool. Not shaving your face is cool. But there’s nothing uncool about shaving it, either.

A graphic designer f riend threw out a cool definition of cool: “if we do it, it ’s cool.” She was talking about fash-ionable fonts, open layouts, design studio stuff. Everyone in that business used to fear doing work that looked “dated.” Now, forget fear.

And forget being fashion-able. Everything’s fashion-able. You and your wife had

dinner the other night with a couple known to dress for success. He’s in a hooded sweatshirt and her jeans have holes in the knees. White t ab l e - c lo th re s t au r an t s welcome such attire in the age of everything’s cool.

Maybe there was a time when neighborhood newspa-pers and their sister-websites were considered less cool than, say, The New York Times. No more. It ’s ex-tremely cool to know what ’s happening close to home.

So: you’re cool for reading these words. And even if you also read The New York Times, well, that ’s cool.

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2516 Jasper Ct, Northbrook $845,000Marla Schneider 847-724-5800

23 Sherwood Dr, Lincolnshire $689,900Steve Grunyk 847-945-7100

1331 Somerset Dr, Glenview $950,000Cheryl O’Rourke 847-724-5800

1321 Somerset Ave, Deerfield $699,999Elizabeth Seno 847-835-6000

255 Bristol Ct, Deerfield $735,000Alan Berlow 847-945-7100

412 Farrington Dr, Lincolnshire $1,599,000Judy Greenberg 847-541-5000

3280 Sunset Trl, Northbrook $2,495,000Nancy Gibson 847-272-9880

2272 Bellevue Pl, Northbrook $439,900Mark Schrimmer 847-272-9880

604 Long Rd, Glenview $375,000Beth Groebe 847-446-4000

3089 Lexington Ln 3089, Glenview $373,500Marsha Schwartz 847-272-9880

1153 Kenton Rd, Deerfield $400,000Tami Leviton 847-945-7100

432 Kelburn Rd 323, Deerfield $369,000Gloria Matlin 847-835-6000

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HIGHLAND PARK —Nearly everything Gus Karigan is grateful for can be traced

back to his restaurant, The BBQ Pit.

“This business brought me my wife, my gorgeous children, and I get to work with my mother,” he said. “I’ve met so many people and it’s helped me cultivate a new business as well.”

Years ago, Karigan’s neighbor in Prospect Heights wanted to fix him up with “the perfect girl.” The timing was right and he agreed to go on a blind date with her.

On the day before their date he noticed a “gorgeous girl” in the window at Love’s Yogurt while he was pulling into the parking

lot in front of the restaurant. As fate would have it, she turned out to be the mysterious girl next door, who literally worked in the beauty salon next to the BBQ Pit at the Shops of Elm Place. The couple will be celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary in September.

In addition to serving a menu specializing in barbecue ribs, chicken, brisket, meat loaf, and Greek salad, Karigan works as a realtor for @properties on Central Avenue, which is a short walk from The BBQ Pit.

How does Karigan manage to juggle two jobs, and still find time for his family?

“In owning your own business you have to be able to do 20 things at one time, so it’s worked out,” he said. “I’ve been good at

jumping into the kitchen when an employee doesn’t show up for work, washing dishes, or doing whatever it takes.”

Karigan learned from watch-ing his dad Frank who came from a long line of restaurateurs. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, the family moved to Chicago in 1968 when his dad opened a couple of Little Red Hen fried chicken fast food restaurants. The last one he owned was in Glencoe until 1978.

“We enjoyed the North Shore and wanted to stay in the vicin-ity, because he developed a good customer base,” said Karigan. “In 1978 Dad found a restaurant that had closed down in Highland Park. We took that business over and it became The BBQ Pit.” It was on First Street between Mc-Donald’s and an old Porsche/Audi dealership, and his dad ran it for 10 years. Sadly, he passed away in 1988.

“I was just graduating college during all of this turmoil in our family,” said Karigan. “It wasn’t a matter of choice; I had to take over the family business for per-sonal reasons. My two older brothers had families and were entrenched in their jobs. I was single and basically it had just fallen into my lap.”

Karigan’s mom has been with him from the very beginning. “My mother who’s 82 still comes in here everyday and drives back and forth like the post office. For

the most part it’s like we’ve become friends,” he said.

His brothers are also very in-volved in her life as well, but she lives by herself, and Karigan said if she needs something, like the driveway shoveled or the grass cut he’s only a mile away.

After staying at the First Street location for 10 years, in 1998 The BBQ Pit moved around the corner to 589 Elm Place at The Shops of Elm Place to provide greater visibility.

“The other unique thing is, if we’re not the oldest restaurant in Highland Park, we’re definitely in the conversation, said Karigan who noted that Country Kitchen on Central Avenue opened the same year.

He continued, “In 1978, I was 12-years-old, and now I’m 50. To me it speaks volumes that families have been coming here with their kids, and now those parents are grandparents. We’ve lasted through a couple different down-turns in the economy, and the changing of generations.”

In 2008, Karigan decided to take out four booths to add a bar with a big screen TV in the front of the restaurant, and another television on the back wall. “The BBQ Pit has become a neighbor-hood hangout like Cheers,” he said. “You can have a cocktail and watch a game.” He also prides himself on knowing most every-one’s name. “I can recognize most

people. I’m very strange that way.”There are 40 items on the

menu. Karigan said they can create so many different entrees from the same base items; chicken, ribs or steak “which are probably our big three.” They also offer different types of fish.

“You have to take into account

allergies, diets, and people aren’t eating as many carbs,” he said. “People used to order exactly what was on the menu, but nowadays you have to readjust your plating on the fly. Another change is that we used to have big breadbaskets on the table, and now we go through half as much bread. Pop sales have gone down dramatically. That’s a big profit item for us. It’s like any other business, it’s challenging when you own your own place.”

The homemade barbecue sauce and his late paternal grandfather’s Greek Salad dressing are both

gluten free. The latter is also avail-able at Sunset Foods in Highland Park.

The BBQ Pit was one of the first restaurants in Highland Park to serve sweet potato fries. Karigan discovered them when he was at the Masters Tourna-ment in Augusta, Georgia about 17 years ago.

“We went to a little shack between Atlanta and Augusta, and we got these unbelievable southern smoked ribs, chicken and sweet potato French fries. I said when I go back to Chicago I’m going to search for them,” he said. They continue to be a fan favorite.

Karigan’s employee turnover is very low. “I’ve had four of the same help here for 20 years. To me it says something that people are happy here. I think that they look forward to coming to work. I’m a very low key boss,” he added.

Karigan’s brothers, nieces and his 14-year-old son are always willing to help out in the family restaurant, and he hopes his 11-year-old daughter will also be involved one day.

For now, Karigan is enjoying running back and forth between The BBQ Pit and @properties. “My awesome managing broker is so sensitive to my schedule. It’s been such a great relationship. They order food from us, and we send customers there. I’ve been very happy,” he said.

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4. 28613 isleworth Courtlake BluffSunday 1:30-3:30$559,900Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.828.9991

5. 404 Glen Ave.lake BluffSunday, 1pm-3pm$1,379,000Cornelia Sawle, Baird & Warner847-507-8212

6. 160 Heathrow Ct. Lake Bluff

Sunday 1-4 $759,000Susan Updike, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.533.9636 7. 1763 Hackberrylake Forest $699,000Sunday 1-3Debbie Hepburn, The Hudson Company 847.867.5825

8. 175 suffolklake ForestSunday 1-3 PM$1,749,000Elizabeth Wieneke, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485

9. 333 e. westminsterlake ForestSunday 11-1 PM$1,325,000Jack Comerford, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485

10. 443 w. deerpathlake ForestSunday 1-3 PM$1,599,000Jack Comerford, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485

11. 1763 Hackberry lanelake ForestSunday 1-3 PM$699,000Kathi Hudson, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485

12. 455 Butler drivelake ForestSunday 1-3 PM$1,399,000Kathi Hudson, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485

13. 440 saddle Runlake Forest

Sunday 1-3 PM$1,399,000

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847.234.0485

14. 650 lake Roadlake ForestSunday 1-3PM$2,800,000Brad Andersen, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0816

15. 292 sussex lanelake ForestSunday 1-3 PM$889,000Cathy McKechney, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0816

16. lot 15 & 17 sussex lanelake ForestSunday 1-3 PM$489,000 EACHCathy McKechney, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0816

17. 177 washington Roadlake ForestSunday 1-3 pm$775,000Lori Baker, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000 18. 550 King Muir Rd.lake ForestSunday 1-3$995,000Jean Royster, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000 19. 1839 wedgewoodlake ForestSunday 1-3$974,000Patricia Carter, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000

20. 431 spruce Avenuelake ForestSunday 1-4$1,075,000Jean Anderson, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.460.5412 21. 1730 wimbledon Courtlake ForestSunday 1-4 $1,197,263Jeff Folker, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.504.6182 22. 1770 Parliament Courtlake Forest Sunday 1-4$939,000

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847.504.6182

23. 620 leland Court

lake Forest

Sunday 1-3$1,394,000Rima Chopra, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.903.8229 24. 1490 s. west Fork drivelake ForestSunday1-3$575,000Suzie Hempstead, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.910.8465 25. 670 Rockefeller Roadlake ForestSunday 1-3$899,000Mona Hellinga, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.814.1855 26. 727 Grandview lanelake ForestSunday 1-3$819,000Jill Okun, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.902.2296 27. 845 walden lanelake ForestSunday 1:30-3:30$1,995,000Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.828.9991 28. 44 Farnham lanelake ForestSunday 1:30-3:30$939,000Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.828.9991 29. 495 Ryan Placelake ForestSunday 1:30-3:30$579,000Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.828.9991 30. 1079 Jensen dr.lake ForestSunday, 1pm-3pm$1,395,000Elizabeth Rasmussen, Baird & Warner847-721-3481

31. 1516 n. western Ave.lake ForestSaturday, 11:30am-1:30pm$890,000Jan Mason, Baird & Warner312-560-3081

32. 327 s. Basswood Rd.lake ForestSunday, 11:30am-1:30pm$1,145,000Jan Mason, Baird & Warner312-560-3081

33. 1516 n. western Ave.

lake ForestSunday, 2pm-

4pm$890,000Jan Mason, Baird & Warner312-560-3081

34. 300 Bluff edge drlake Forest Sunday 1-4 $1,495,000Rina Du Toit , Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.814.8648 35. 10 w. Honeysuckle Rdlake ForestSunday 1-3 $1,395,000Darcy, Traynor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.809.1894

36. 830 Moseley Road Highland Park SUNDAY 2:30-4:30 $585,000Debbie Scully, @properties 847.432.0700 37. 2157 st Johns AVe Highland Park SUNDAY 1-3 $792,157Cory Albiani, @properties 847.432.0700 38. 348 Park AveHighland ParkSunday 1-3$360,000Karen Skurie, Baird and Warner847.361.4687

39. 1111 oxford Road deerfield SUNDAY 1-3 $539,000Susan Ringel Segal, @properties 847.881.0200 40. 1027 Kenton Road deerfield SUNDAY 12-2 $339,900Koerner/Kim, @properties 847.509.0200

41. 1480 northwoods Circle deerfield SUNDAY 1-3 $699,000Goodman/Burklin, @properties 847.367.0500 42. 1321 somerset AvedeerfieldSunday 11-2:30$699,999Betsy Seno, Coldwell Banker847-444-9594

43. 1007 whitfieldnorthbrookSunday 1-3 $759,000 Michelle Ahn, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855

44. 3 Court of Harborside drive, #108 northbrook SUNDAY 2-4 $279,000Barbra Jacobs, @properties

847.509.0200

45. 2615 Canterbury drive northbrook SUNDAY 12-2 $1,499,000Connie Nadia Dornan, @properties 847.998.0200

46. 1127 Briarwood ln.northbrookSunday, 11-1$565,000Debra Guillod, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000

47. 7 Fox Tail northbrook Sunday 2-4 $699,000 Ellen Atlas, Berkshire Hathaway KoenigRubloff847.272.0330

48. 563 oakdale Avenue Glencoe SUNDAY 12:30-2:30 $949,000Brandie Malay, @properties 847.881.0200 49. 314 shoreline Ct.GlencoeSunday, 2-4$2,349,000Mark Sirota, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 50. 715 BrookvaleGlencoeSunday 1-3$959,000Gloria Matlin, Coldwell Banker847-951-4040 51. 355 BluffGlencoeSunday 2-4$1,439,000Jody Dickstein, Coldwell Banker847-651-7100 52. 244 MaryGlencoeSunday 1-3$1,350,000Jody Dickstein, Coldwell Banker847-651-7100 53. 1056 edgebrookGlencoeSunday 1-3$509,900Jody Dickstein, Coldwell Banker847-651-7100 54. 334 HawthornGlencoeSunday 12-2$599,000Sonia Cohen, Coldwell Banker847-337-6005 55. 751 woodridgeGlencoeSunday 1-3$929,000Julie Deutsch, Coldwell Banker847-217-1277

56. Coventry Roadnorthfield

Sunday 2-4:00PM$1,650,000The Skirving Team, Coldwell Banker Patti: 847-924-4119 Greg: 847-863-3614

57. 1060 Arbor ln.northfieldSunday, 1-3$479,000Colleen Remsberg, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 58. 6040 Arbor lane unit 100northfieldSunday 1-3$224,900Dene Hillinger, Jean Wright Real Estate847-275-9143

59. 1473 edgewoodwinnetkaSunday 1-3 $714,900 Stacy Deemar, Baird & Warner 847.446.185560. 975 VernonwinnetkaSunday 1-3 $975,000 Gabrielle Root, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855

61. 433 locustwinnetka Sunday 1-3 $1,475,000 Peg O’Halloran, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855

62. 1165 Ash streetwinnetka Sunday 1-3$830,000Carol Hunt, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855

63. 799 Foxdalewinnetka Sunday 2-4 $850,000 Dayle Lively, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855

64. 107 BertlingwinnetkaSunday 12-2 $725,000 Dayle Lively, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855

65. 4 Golf lanewinnetkaSunday 2-4:00 PM$3,350,000The Skirving Team, Coldwell Banker Patti: 847-924-4119 Greg: 847-863-3614

66. 1169 scottwinnetka $1,479,000Sunday 1-3Laura McCain, The Hudson Company 847.347.4630

67. 630 Rosewoodwinnetka $1,899,000Sunday 2-4Paige Dooley,


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OPEN HOUSESThe Hudson Company 847.609.0963

68. 1121 Ashwinnetka 929,000Sunday 1-3Rene Nelson, The Hudson Company 847.338.4001

69. 15 longmeadowwinnetka $999,000Sunday 12-2Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024

70. 955 Tower Manorwinnetka $1,199,000Sunday 2:15 - 4:15 Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024

71. 1495 scottwinnetka $1,295,000Sunday 12-2Laura McCain, The Hudson Company 847.347.4630

72. 160 woodley Road winnetka SUNDAY 1-3 $2,250,000Hambleton/Hazlett, @properties 847.763.0200 73. 1102 Ash street winnetka SUNDAY 12-2 $1,959,000Monica Childs, @properties 847.881.0200

74. 1138 scott Avenue winnetka SUNDAY 1-3 $919,000Susan Ringel Segal, @properties 847.881.0200

75. 989 elm stwinnetkaSunday 1-3 $799,000Muggsy Jacoby, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.924.3811

76. 1258 Pine winnetkaSunday 1-3 $739,000Chris Downey, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.340.8499

77. 1144 Tower RdwinnetkaSunday 1-4 $1,695,000Sherry Molitor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.204.6282

78. 517 Cherry st.winnetkaSunday, 12-2$3,288,000Nancy Powers, Coldwell Banker Winnetka

847.446.4000 79. 456 elder ln.winnetkaSunday, 2:30-4$2,399,900Marina Britva, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 80. 361 Hawthorn ln..winnetkaSunday, 1-3$1,995,000Kathy Almond, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 81. 1136 Cherry st.winnetkaSunday, 12-2$929,000Maureen Mohling, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 82. 1040 elm st.winnetkaSunday, 1-3$895,000Betsy Barnes, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000

83. 435 sunset Rd.winnetkaSunday 2-4$1,249,000Jenni Gordon, Coldwell Banker847-778-0359

84. 326 oxfordKenilworth $1,299,000Sunday 2:15 - 4:15 Joanne Hudson, The Hudson Company 847.971.5024

85. 307 Melrose Avenue Kenilworth SUNDAY 1-3 $3,295,000Kathryn Mangel, @properties 847.881.0200 86. 614 essex Road Kenilworth SUNDAY 1-3 $2,430,000Colleen P. McGinnis, @properties 847.881.0200 87. 200 oxford Road Kenilworth SUNDAY 2-4 $2,195,000Mary Grant, @properties 847.881.0200 88. 423 Abbotsford Road Kenilworth SUNDAY 12-2 $1,999,999Mary Grant, @properties 847.881.0200 89. 325 Richmond RdKenilworthSunday 1-3 $2,375,000Betsy Burke, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.565.4264

90. 549 earlston Rd.Kenilworth

Sunday, 2:30-4$1,399,000Linda Martin, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000

91. 2421 Fir street Glenview SUNDAY 1-3 $1,575,000Monica Sofranko, @properties 847.881.0200 92. 338 nora Avenue Glenview SUNDAY 12-2 $774,900Connie Nadia Dornan, @properties 847.998.0200 93. 606 Huber lane Glenview SUNDAY 12-2 $649,000Connie Nadia Dornan, @properties 847.998.0200

94. 604 long Rd.GlenviewSunday, 1-3$375,000Beth Groebe, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000

95. 1034 elmwoodwilmetteSunday 1-3 $1,100,000 Georgia Garvey, Baird & Warner 847.446.1855

96. 1022 Pawneewilmette $1,749,000Sunday 1-3Julie Bradbury Miller 847.751.2619

97. 777 Michigan Avenue wilmette SUNDAY 1-3 $1,489,000Christina Fawcett, @properties 847.881.0200 98. 2217 Beechwood Avenue wilmette SUNDAY 2:30-4:30 $1,044,000Monica Childs, @properties 847.881.0200

99. 835 16th wilmetteSunday 1-3$1,980,000M.J Black, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.507.9124 100. 1140 sheridan RdwilmetteSunday 1-4 $2,299,000Bree Misiak, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.420.1214 101. 1947 Greenwood Avewilmette

Sunday 12-2 $1,195,000Sherry Molitor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.204.6282

102. 714 elmwood wilmetteSunday 1-3 $1,635,000Constance Coll, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.707.6143

103. 124 Maple Ave.wilmetteSunday, 12-2$899,000Team Van Horn, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 104. 108 Hollywood Ct.wilmetteSunday, 12-1:30$859,000Linda Martin, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 105. 2610 Kenilworth Ave.wilmetteSunday, 2-4$649,000Elaine Mulroy, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 106. 1616 sheridan Rd. #3dWilmetteSunday, 12-2$309,000Carmen Corbett, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000

107. 2015 lake Ave.wilmetteSunday, 2-4$1,593,000Team Van Horn, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 108. 1047 Miami Rd.wilmetteSunday, 2-4$1,300,000Pam & Jim McClamroch, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 109. 1630 sheridan unit 4iwilmetteSunday 1-3$525,000Carrie Healy, Jean Wright Real Estate847-507-7666 110. 1500 sheridan unit 2BwilmetteSunday 1-3$485,000Carrie Healy, Jean Wright Real Estate847-507-7666

111. 1328 Monroe st.evanstonSunday, 2-4$510,000Debra Guillod, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000


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31 Valley, Highland ParkOffered at $929,000

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There is one anecdote that perfectly illustrates Glen-brook North senior center

Kyle Fisher’s personality and the respect he had among team-mates.

When the Spartans hockey team voted for its captain ahead of the 2015-16 season, Fisher got all but one vote — his own.

Fisher said this admiration likely stemmed from his com-mitment to being a team leader in the offseason, including going out of his way to take the Spartan youngsters under his wing.

“(That everyone voted for me) is definitely good to hear,” Fisher said. “I did try during offseason workouts to make myself prominent and be there for the team. I was already es-tablishing myself as a captain figure, and I guess that was (well-received) by teammates.”

Senior defenseman Jack Elowe, one of two alternate captains, called Fisher unselfish, modest, hard-working and dif-ficult not to like.

“Everyone respects him,” Elowe said, “He always had a smile on his face, but he knew when to be serious and when to have a good time. Every day at the rink, he has a great time, but he knew we always had to be working for a state champion-s h i p . ”

After capturing the state crown in 2015, the Spartans’ bid to repeat came to an end on March 11 with a 5-2 defeat to Loyola Gold in a AHAI state quarterfinal.

Fisher said the finality of that high-school career-ending loss hit him a few days later.

“You realize, ‘Wow, I’m never going to play with these guys again,’ ” he said. “I think I liked being with the team even more than playing. We all would carpool to the games, and I’m going to miss those carpools as much as the games. Just being with the boys was so fun.”

Though the defeat to Loyola Gold meant Glenbrook North missed its first title game since 2012, there were plenty of

positives for the Spartans, who graduated 18 players from the previous season. Though some in the state predicted a big drop-off for the club, Glen-brook North’s record of 53-20-2 (including 6 shootout losses) suggests it was anything but a transition year.

Head coach Evan Poulakidas said Fisher’s leadership was one of the major reasons for the Spartans’ success.

“When you look at graduat-ing so many kids and winning 53 and only losing 14 in regula-tion … a big credit goes to our captains, and Fish was our captain, and it was him saying, ‘We’re not going to rebuild; we’re going to contend.’ That’s a big deal,” Poulakidas said.

Fisher’s performance on the ice also was a key ingredient in the Spartans’ strong campaign, though injuries prevented the

5-foot-10, 150-pound center from contributing as much as he had hoped. Fisher, who played on the first or second line, was hampered by a linger-ing left shoulder injury, which may ultimately require surgery, and he also spent some time out with an ankle problem. Though he missed only six games, there were many nights Fisher was far from 100 percent

healthy. He did finish with a solid 46 points (21 goals, 25 assists), seventh-best on the team.

“It was a disappointment, being senior year and having to face all these injuries, which affected my game negatively,” said Fisher, whose postseason play as a third-liner in 2015 was instrumental in Glenbrook North’s run to the title.

The problem shoulder may

have limited Fisher in several facets of the game, but speed was not one of them. Poulakidas called Fisher the fastest high school player in the state of Il-linois.

“He’s got lightening speed,” the coach said. “He can flat out fly. No one is close to his speed.”

Poulakidas said he believes Fisher has the tools to play high-level hockey next year, in this case putting off college in order to play juniors. The coach has encouraged Fisher to con-sider his options.

“He’s a smart kid. He’s an honor role student. He has a real opportunity to do things in the future (academically and beyond),” Poulakidas said. “But if he’s willing to take a year off, play hockey a little longer and see where it takes him … it may take him somewhere special. I don’t think he’s reached three-quarters of the player he can be. He can be a sensational player.”

Fisher, who was named as an alternate for Team Illinois, which is set to play in the 2016 America’s Showcase in Pitts-burgh on April 14-18, said he appreciates the sentiment, but it sounds like he’s leaning toward attending a big univer-sity and playing club hockey like one of his older brothers Jared, a former Spartan, who went the club hockey route at Northwestern. Kyle said he’s considering University of Illi-nois, Miami (Ohio) or Univer-sity of Denver, and he may study engineering.

“I don’t really know what I’m doing yet,” said Fisher, whose twin sister Sarah will play hockey at Division III Hamil-ton University in New York next season. “I know my coach wants me to try to play juniors, but that’s a huge commitment. What if I get injured again? Then, I’m wasting a whole year

“I might end up just playing (club hockey) in college, which would be just for fun and not to better my hockey career. My brother did that and he had a lot of fun with it, and he still got the experience of being on a team.”

BY DAN SHALIN, [email protected]

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Glenbrook North’s Kyle Fisher looks to pass to a teammate during play this past season. pHotoGrApHY BY GeorGe pFoertNer

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America’s Showcase new Trier green, Loyola gold and glenbrook north will be well represented in the 2016 America’s Showcase.

new Trier green, which defeated Providence Catholic 5-2 in the AHAi state title game on March 19, placed four players on Team illinois: junior forward Charlie burton, junior forward Michael graham, senior defenseman Stephan ba-zianos and senior defenseman dillon Munson.

Two Loyola gold senior forwards made the roster in Ryan Hill and danny O’grady.

glenbrook north’s Joey day, a senior forward, also will made the squad, while two Spartans were named as alter-nates (senior forward kyle Fisher and junior defenseman Zach knudson).

The roster also includes Michael Altobelli (Providence), Jacob barnhart (benet Academy), Colan Fitzgerald (St. Rita), John Hatton (naperville Central), Ryan iaciancio (Providence), Ryan Lieber (St. Rita), Thomas Magnaville (St. Rita), Mitchell Plonka (benet), Jacob Rott (Providence), Luke Sammons (benet Academy), Eric Simkowski (Sand-burg), Jake Vennetti (Providence) and Sam Weiss (glen-bard).

America’s Showcase will be held April 14-18 at Robert Morris island Center in Pittsburgh.

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America’s Showcase: There will be a number of local players competing for Team illinois at the 2016 America’s Showcase, which will be held in Pittsburgh on April 14-18.

The roster features Victoria Soukup and Hannah nelson of the Lake Forest Scouts; Taylor Munson and Meagan Hearn of new Trier; and Mathilda Sullivan of Loyola Academy.

The other squad members include Liliana bibian, Anna Cockey, Catherine Heyboer, Maureen Hogan, Michelle kac-zmarek, Andrea Mcdougald, Amelia Murray and Jessica Sloat.

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Kevin Kucera: A sophomore point guard for Washing-ton University in St. Louis, the ex-Loyola Academy standout claimed honorable mention all-University Athletic Asso-ciation (UAA) accolades this winter.

kucera, who started all 25 games for the division iii bears (15-10), led the team in assists (136). His 5.4 assists per game were third best in the UAA. His assist-to-turnover ratio was 2.7.

The 6-foot-2 lefty also shot the ball well, averaging 11.1 points per game. He hit 36 percent of his three-point tries, while he knocked down 74 percent of his free throws. He also averaged 1.4 steals and 3.4 rebounds per game.

Evan Boudreaux: He turned in a sensational freshman season.

The former Lake Forest High School star capped his season with a number of high honors. The 6-foot-8, 225-pound power forward was named the ivy League Rookie of the year and earned All-ivy League honors (second team).

basketball writers liked him. boudreaux also made the United States basketball Writers Association (USbWA) All-district i team after averaging 17.7 points and 9.4 re-bounds per game for dartmouth College.

And that’s not all. boudreaux also was named dart-mouth’s most valuable player and was presented with the A.d. “dolly” Stark Award. He recorded 10 double-doubles and tallied 20 points or more in 10 games for the big green (10-18).

boudreaux, who is the all-time leading scorer and re-bounder at LFHS, finished the season in pretty exclusive company. The only other division i freshman to average 17 and 9 was LSU’s ben Simmons, who already declared for the nbA draft.

Connor Boehm: He had an extremely productive college career.

The 6-foot-7, 235-pound boehm, a new Trier grad, played in 112 games during his four-year career at dartmouth College. He’ll go down in the school record books as one of only eight big green players to shoot a career 50 percent or better from the field. For his career, he averaged 10.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.

in the 2015-16 season, boehm remained consistent. He average 11.1 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. He shot 50 percent from the field (128-for-256).

For his efforts, the senior was honored with the school’s John dilorio ’56 Award for hustle, drive and determination.

Steven Cook: The new Trier product came up with another strong season for Princeton University.

Cook, a 6-foot-5 junior guard, was honorable mention All-ivy League this season after averaging 11.7 points and 4.1 rebounds per game for the Tigers (22-7). He shot 36 percent from beyond the three-point arc (47-132) and 75 percent (45-60) from the foul line.

Cook, who made Second Team All-ivy League as a sophomore, tallied a team-high 22 points and added three assists in Princeton’s 86-81 loss to Virginia Tech in an niT opener on March 16.

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Arguably the biggest goal of Lily Sands’ Glenbrook South soccer career came

last May and took regulation and nearly two overtimes to arrive.

It was the final of the 2015 Glenbrook Cup, when Sands, then a sophomore, scored a golden goal 24 seconds before the end of the second extra session, and just before the teams went to penalties, giving the Titans a 2-1 win.

Glenbrook South fans did not have to wait as long for Sands’ most recent game-winning goal, which came in the Titans’ 4-1 victory over Stevenson on March 19. Actually, if fans were out for a halftime hot chocolate or warming up in their car on that chilly Sat-urday afternoon, they might have missed it.

Shortly after the second-half kickoff, Glenbrook South senior Olivia Peters passed to Sands, who dribbled up the left side, used her pace to beat one defender and, nearing the goal, put the ball in the net at the far post.

Just 43 seconds had elapsed in the half, and the strike gave the Titans a 2-1 lead and the momen-tum in a game they had trailed early. Stevenson eventually con-ceded two more times, both own goals.

“It’s always nice to score, but when it really means something, when you put the team into the lead (for good) or get a game-winner, it’s a lot more special,” Sands said.

Sands, a speedy third-year varsity player, is off to a fine start this spring. She has three goals and one assist for the red-hot Titans (4-1), who have won four straight.

As a sophomore, Sands was third on the team in goals (14) and tied for third in assists (7), earning all-Central Suburban League South honors for a Titans team that went 16-5-3 and lost to Hersey in a Class 3A regional final. Entering this season, Sands’ 46 career points (18 goals and 10 assists) ranked her No. 19 on Glenbrook South’s all-time points chart.

Glenbrook South head coach Seong Ha said that some of the Titans’ forwards rely on strength and power, but that is not the case with Sands.

“She’s all finesse,” Ha said. “(Sands) is not going to bowl you

over. She plays hard, but is grace-ful on the field. She’s quick with the ball, very technical. She’s got natural speed and speed with the ball. She’s at her best taking players on 1 v. 1.”

Sands may find herself in many of those 1 v. 1 scenarios this season, as most defenses will be reluctant to double-team any one member

of Glenbrook South’s potent group of attackers.

When the team lines up in a 4-3-3, Sands often finds herself playing alongside the prolific Peters, a senior who entered the season second on the school’s career points chart, and 6-foot Gabby Baldo, a signee at Division II University of Tampa making

her return to high school soccer for the first time since her fresh-man year. Sands said each member of the trio brings something dif-ferent to the field, and therefore they complement one another.

Peters currently leads the team with seven goals and four assists. She had a trick in GBS’s 7-0 victory over Glenbrook North on

March 23.Baldo is the team’s second

leading goal scorer with four. She also has two assists.

“Baldo can control the ball, turn and take a shot. Peters is good with her head. I can go off and run, get to a ball,” Sands said. “We’re each good at different things and that works really well together.”

Though Ha said he would like to see Sands improve the velocity of her shot, she appears to have many of the tools necessary to play at the next level. Baldo, who said she looks up to the younger and shorter Sands, also said her team-mate has the skill and athleticism to play in college.

Yet, as of now, Sands said she has no plans to continue her soccer career beyond her senior year in 2017.

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“Every time tryouts come around, I think whether I want to try out at another club. But I don’t want to play in college and I want to be with my friends,” said Sands, who is joined at FC-1 by several of her Glenbrook South team-mates. “I’m comfortable at the club, I get to play with my friends and I don’t feel I need to change.”

As of now, Sands said she is leaning toward studying education in college and could see herself as a teacher and coach one day.

But how will she feel if team-mates and opponents whom she’s as good as or better than are playing college soccer, and she is not?

“Part of me feels like I will have regrets if I don’t play, but I won’t take it too hard if I don’t,” Sands said. “If I see other people playing in college, I’ll just be happy for them.”

Notable: After opening the season with a 3-0 setback against Loyola Academy, the Titans have put things together. Besides beating Stevenson and Glenbrook North, they have recorded shutout wins over St. Ignatius 6-0 and Waukegan 7-0. Junior Maude Tarbox (3-1-0) and freshman Libbie Vanderveen (1-0) con-tinue to shine in goal. … The team’s other offensive leaders include junior Callie Pekosh (1 goal, 5 assists), freshman Makayla Stadler (2 goals, 2 assists) and senior Rosemary Maher (2 goals, 2 assists).

BY DAN SHALIN, [email protected]

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GoAl-oRIENTED: Titans junior lily Sands puts pressure on loyola Academy goalie Maggie Avery in their season opener. Sands had 14 goals and seven assists last spring.. pHotoGrApHY BY GeorGe pFoertNer


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Eileen McCarthy Gardner wanted to know everything there is about Type 1 diabetes. Everything.

That would have been impossible had she continued to work as a full-time manager for Ford Motor Company. So she retired. She read all about dia-betes, asked questions, read more medical literature, asked more ques-tions.

Her new full-time job became Type 1 diabetes researcher (salary: $0).

The woman did not have the metabolic disease.

Her son, Ryan Gardner, had it.“My mom practically became my

nurse,” Gardner, a Loyola Academy senior volleyball player and Winnetka resident, recalls. “She took the initiative to learn about Type 1 diabetes and became a stay-at-home mom because of me. A great mom. A caring mom.”

Ryan Gardner attended an over-night camp for kids with Type 1 dia-betes for eight years. The camp is based in Ingleside, way north of Winnetka. He has served as a volunteer coun-selor at the camp for the past four

summers.“It’s stressful for parents, taking care

of kids with Type 1 diabetes. The camp gives the parents a break, and the kids like it because of the experience. All kids like the overnight camp experi-ence.”

Not all kids enjoy competing against Gardner, a 6-foot-5, 170-pounder listed as an outside hitter/right-side hitter/middle on LA’s roster. He was all set to enter the 2016 season as a middle, a year after seeing little playing time as a first-year varsity member. But a starting outside hitter sustained an injury, forcing Ramblers coach Lionel Ebeling to shift Gardner to the outside last month. Gardner shifted.

Gardner dominated. Seamlessly.He was named to the all-tourna-

ment team at Vernon Hills High School on March 26 and then pounded 10 of his 13 kills in the first set of a 28-26, 25-23 loss to visiting St. Patrick on March 31. Gardner, on the next day, finished with 11 kills — second among teammates, behind

freshman outside hitter Jack Howard’s 14 — in LA’s 27-25, 22-25, 28-26 defeat of host Lake Forest High School.

“Coming into the season we didn’t even know which position he’d play,” Ramblers senior libero Noah Regnier says. “Then, at the [Vernon Hills] tournament, he jumped to another level, stunning us. There was no going back. Ryan and I play for the same club, [Skokie-based] Division I, and I’d seen him play well, but nothing like this, nothing like the way he’s playing for us now. He’s got a lot of things going for him. He’s got that killer instinct.”

Gardner’s placid, clean-cut, altar-boy mien belies his competitive fire on a volleyball court. Nobody wants to win a match more than Gardner does. He was polite and open and engaging during an interview after a tough loss, that setback to St. Patrick last week. Inside, though, he probably was steaming, wishing he and his teammates could play the Shamrocks in a rematch … that night.

“He’s a great kid, super nice,” Ebeling, whose crew owns a 5-4 record through April 1, says. “A great kid to coach and a very good volleyball player, intense and determined. Losses upset him. A loss probably makes him want to punch his pillow all night and disrupt his sleep.

“Here’s a guy,” the coach adds, “who didn’t get a ton of playing time last year, continued to work hard in the offseason and then emerged as a major contributor this spring. You want a Ryan Gardner on the floor, battling for you, a guy who adapts to any situ-ation, a guy who plays with as much heart as he does. He was a quick learner, and he’s got a high volleyball IQ. But it all comes down to heart, wanting to play. Ryan has a lot of heart.”

Gardner had his heart set on playing baseball for Loyola Academy’s freshman team in 2013. The hopeful pitcher got cut, disheartening him for about two days. He went out for vol-leyball. Gardner had not had a whole lot of volleyball experience. He had

played in a couple of matches in the eighth grade and was, at 5-foot-11, “semi tall for a freshman,” he says. The LA volleyball coaches did not cut him.

The volleyball coaches did not cut any volleyball hopeful that spring.

“Good thing they had a no-cut policy that year,” Gardner, still relieved, says. “Had they had one, I never would have made the team.”

Gardner is considering Xavier (Ohio) University and Providence College, Xavier nudging ahead of PC because one of its new academic pro-grams (sports marketing/sports man-agement) is an appealing one to him. The opportunity, as an XU student, to complete an internship with the Cin-cinnati Bengals or the Cincinnati Reds intrigues Gardner. Excites Gardner.

“Maybe I’ll become a sports agent or maybe I’ll work in the marketing department for a professional sports team,” Gardner says.

Ebeling knows one thing for sure: Gardner won’t stay away from Loyola Academy’s campus after he graduates. Volleyball, after all, is a lifetime sport.

“I’ll bet he will show up at our open gyms (in the summertime) for the next 10 years,” the coach, a Loyola Academy graduate, says.

Gardner stands near a volleyball court after a recent home match, discussing his favorite sport and his future and his little brother, Owen, a sixth-grader. Owen is a volleyball player, a libero.

“He’ll be a better player than I am, definitely,” the proud big brother says.

The topic of Type 1 diabetes resur-faces. Gardner briefly addresses the challenges of living with it and playing a sport with it.

“It’s been tough at times, condi-tioning-wise,” he admits, taking a swig of Gatorade. “I have to make sure I drink a lot of Gatorade.”

Gardner smiles. Perhaps he is thinking about the coincidence of his swig and his reply. Perhaps the son, forever grateful, is thinking about his mom.

“My mom,” he adds a short time later, “is fun and fun-loving. She is a great mom overall.”

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Let’s Talk Real Estateby Jean Wright, President/Broker Owner Crs, GrI

re-DefIne, nOt re-DesIGn!Staged Homes Professionals® provide both buyers and sellers a variety of “concierge services”—though it’s statistically proven that Staged Homes® sell faster and for more money than unstaged homes, did you know that as a home buyer, the services of an ASP® are also helpful in making the most of your new home? Here are just a few of the reasons to consider professionally staging your home when it’s time to list it on the market.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression!

Home staging professionals help you ensure that your home’s first impression on potential buyers will be the very best. By creating a room design that is neutral and open to interpretation, buyers are better able to view your home and “mentally move in”, creating an emotional connection that will help your house move quickly and at its highest possible value.

An objective eye lends to a competitive sale!

How you live in a home is completely different from how you sell a home. The professional home stager is able to look at your home objectively in a way that you, your friends and your family cannot—after all, you’ve lived there for years and have many happy memories associated with the rooms. Your buyers, however, don’t have that history—that’ll be theirs to make, when they make an offer. When your house is on the market, it’s absolutely critical to create rooms with aesthetically pleasing focal points, direct the flow of traffic between rooms and generate an overall ambience that promotes each room as an oasis of calm, inviting buyers to not think of the property as “your house”, but instead, to see it as “their home”.

Color, art and room themes—what’s really important?

There’s a reason we trust the services of trained professionals—when you cut corners, you always take a risk. Just as you wouldn’t trust a janitor to perform surgery, you should remember that home sales and Home Staging® are professions like any other, and that by enlisting the services of a trained professional, you’ve shown prospective home buyers how serious you are about the piece of real estate you’re listing. While your friend or family member may indeed have a good “eye” for home design, ask yourself if you’d be willing to keep your home on the market longer, or settle for a lesser offer than your home is worth, just to save a few pennies in having it professionally staged. To get a top-notch home sale, you must be willing to invest in top-notch service!

SUNDAY BREAKFAST


Briana “Bree” Muldoon dis-cusses her musical tastes over a plate of two eggs

over medium and sausage links at Walker Bros. Original Pancake House in Wilmette. She enjoys Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, just like her mother, Keri, still does. She and her father, Tom, share an appreciation for Billy Joel tunes.

Bree Muldoon later reveals she bought a vinyl record player last year. The thought spinning at 78 rpm in my mind is, She cannot be a Millennial. Muldoon, with a Baby Boomer job title of Win-netka Youth Organization Program Director, is a Millen-nial, a 22-year-old who has visited more countries than most passport-toting octogenarians have.

“Music,” the Northbrook native and University of Iowa graduate says, “brings people together.”

The Winnetka Youth Organi-zation — The YO, for short — uses music to attract teens looking to perform in a non-school setting and to raise funds for worthy causes. Muldoon has organized at least four benefit concerts for budding musicians since October. The YO rents a room in the basement of the Winnetka Community House

for the events. Proceeds from a concert in November helped an organization provide new winter coats for impoverished children.

Concertgoers felt the beat.Kids later felt warmth.Win-win.“Our concerts allow teens to

be themselves in front of an au-dience,” Muldoon says. “North Shore teens feel pressure to succeed, sometimes too much pressure; they don’t feel that at The YO. The concerts allow them to open up, to try new songs in front of their friends and peers and family members. That’s im-portant, giving them an oppor-tunity like that. Teens need vali-dation.

“Our organization is a safe place, and it gives our teens a sense of community.”

Muldoon earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology and minored in anthropology at the University of Iowa. It was in Iowa City where the opportuni-ties to work and interact with younger kids paved the first stretch of her career path. Two professors needed a nanny. They hired Muldoon. She served as a research assistant in an Infant Communicative Development laboratory and interned at a bi-lingual elementary school in Turin, Italy, while studying abroad.

“I am so grateful for the op-

portunity to do what I do at The YO,” Muldoon says. “I get to work with kids (ages 13-18), find my authoritative voice, run events, contact other organiza-tions. Networking … that has been valuable. Our teens volun-teer at a ‘A Just Harvest’ com-munity kitchen in Rogers Park. It’s like a soup kitchen, but it’s more elegant. The people don’t wait in line for their food; they’re served, restaurant-style. My first time there I noticed our teens welcoming and carrying on con-versations with the people they had served. That was special. Nobody told them to do that.

“A man, maybe 50 years old, said to me and others, ‘Thank you. God bless you.’ That was reassur-ing, hearing that, for all of us. He was genuinely grateful. His words confirmed our mission, solidified it.”

Muldoon never hesitates to strike up a conversation with people in a public setting. She once startled — and comforted — a woman in the waiting room of a dentist’s office after asking the stranger, “How is your day going?’ Once, in the checkout line at a store, Muldoon was waiting to purchase cashews, avocados and body wash. She turned to another shopper in line and ad-mitted how unusual her basket of items was that day. She made another stranger smile that day.

“I love meeting people, and I appreci-ate time with people to the fullest,” Muldoon says. “I grew up in a family [her younger brother, Tommy, is 20] that liked to eat dinner together every night. My parents wanted to know how their kids’ days went, what they had learned each day. Dinner was a time to slow down, catch up. Today, it seems, everybody is go, go, go, in a con-stant state of busy-ness. My parents, raising me the way they did, how sup-portive they were … I was super lucky. I feel blessed.”

Muldoon has been to London, Amsterdam, Ireland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain and Central America. The Glenbrook North High School graduate feels blessed for having experienced each trip. A basket-ball/softball player in high school, Muldoon has plans to backpack in Europe with a friend this summer. Graduate school is in her promising future, too. She can see herself applying for a position in a humanitarian aid organization such as Doctors

Without Borders.“I am interested in doing the

hands-on work for non-profits,” Muldoon says. “I like to get in-volved, deeply, with people and with projects. I like challenges. I want to push the limits of my comfort zone.”

Books? Muldoon has read a few. Times 100. She has already devoured six books in 2016, plenty more on the table waiting for her eyes. Some of the books are for Muldoon, the profes-sional. Some are for Muldoon,

the avid reader. She has read The Price of Privilege, by Madeline Levine. Teen-agers from affluent fami-lies, Levine posits, have more intense psychological problems than expected. She has read, “three or

four times,” The Alche-mist, by Brazilian

author Paulo Coelho.

“ T h a t b o o k , ” M u l d o o n says, “is about recognizing your Per-s o n a l

Legend. It also stresses the im-portance of fol-lowing your

Personal Legend, your destiny.”

You listen to Bree Muldoon. You get the feeling she is doing just that.

The Millennial’s favorite Led Zeppelin song is, “Ramble On,” produced in 1969. The hard rock track from the Led Zeppelin II album starts slowly, picks up later. An early portion of the lyrics:

Thanks to you, I’m much obliged for such a pleasant stay.

Can you hear a teen at The YO saying, or singing, those words to Muldoon after a Muldoon-run event?

Youth Group Striking the Right NoteBY Bill mclean

bree Muldoon | Illustration by barry blitt

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