Sarah Matthews’ heart got super warm near an ice rink several years ago. The Highland Park resident was on a break with other young campers at her first hockey goaltenders…
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Steadfast Ed
Ed Kugler quit meat cold turkey nearly 50 years ago. The Highland Park teen who’d regularly eat bacon for breakfast, cold cuts for lunch, and some kind of meat for…
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You Can’t Beat Drum’s Timely Messages
Forty-six-year-old Steve Drum stands 6 feet and weighs 220 pounds and could easily pass for either an All-Pro NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles or the Brawny Paper Towels Man….
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August Augie
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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