Augie Fontanetta’s green thumb endured quite a workout last month. New Trier High School’s athletic director flitted from front yard to front yard along the North Shore, planting a lawn…
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Chalet’s Cachet Continues To Grow
Lawson Thalmann’s dream to play in the NBA dribbled out of bounds halfway through his basketball career at Loyola Academy. But not because he had lost the drive to shoot…
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Resiliency On Rolek’s Watch
Joanna Rolek’s dining room table at her home in Fort Sheridan has doubled as her work desk for … too many weeks. The pandemic has reduced the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff…
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Doc’s Cup Of Optimism Runneth Over
Cardiologist and Lake Forest resident Michael Waligora can’t wait to take off his beat-up work sneakers one day and set them on fire. “That’ll be part of a celebration, whenever…
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Sears School’s Helfand Towers As A Leader
Dr. Stephanie Helfand misses greeting students each morning at The Joseph Sears School in Kenilworth. The interim assistant principal and future principal at the pre-kindergarten-eighth grade school yearns to hear…
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A Cut Above
Connor Clark got cut from the Lake Forest High School freshman boys basketball team in 2016. “I’d anticipated making it,” Clark, now a senior, recalls. But the Lake Bluff resident…
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Comfort Sown
The basketball point guard/volleyball setter in Nicole “Nikki” Fernandez continues to pace and galvanize others, decades after she “quarterbacked” teams of hoopsters and spikers at St. Francis Academy in Pittsburgh….
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Fear Not
Good thing Alex Rodriguez—the former Wauconda High School shortstop, not the former Major League Baseball shortstop—wasn’t a shy guy in high school. His outgoing personality forced his chemistry teacher to…
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Combo of Fun and Learning Brightens Gray’s Days …
If anybody could pull off hosting a pizza party for children and turning it into a fun, impromptu geometry lesson—pizza slices are yummy triangles, right?—it would be Erika Gray. The…
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Shaking My Head at the Shaky Status of Handshakes
My feet hurt. My mind churns. Behold a new regular walker’s reality in this nascent COVID-19 Age. Painful and blissful, with every step. I approach a neighbor walking a dog…
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