THE HISTORY CENTER is turning 50 and several golden opportunities to share local history are underway. Landscape designers working in Lake Forest in the 1920s were more than artists plying their…
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Board Willing
THE ANNUAL Baby Alumni Party for infants born at Lake Forest Hospital drew 50 attendees in its first year, 1948, two years after the hospital’s Women’s Board—the event’s host—was born….
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Family Matters
IT HAS NEVER BEEN difficult for former record-setting Deer Path Middle School wrestler Brian Dacy to pin down exactly what’s allimportant to him. Family, pure and simple. As a son….
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Golfer Par (And Birdie) Excellence
Andrew Vitt was 12 and golfing by himself when he carded his first hole-in-one at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. Hole No. 8 swallowed the youngster’s tee shot whole….
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A Star Was Born-And Died Too Young
ROSS AND NANCY Friedman don’t just think about their late son, Gregory Paul Friedman, every day. “I think about him every minute,” Ross says. “Every second,” Nancy insists. Time will never…
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Spotlight on Kindness
PICTURE A LIGHTHOUSE. There it stands, a tower of strength and comfort, tall and firm and reliable. See it? Good. Need a light, be it atop calm waters or troubled…
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Servant Extraordinaire
TWO PHONE CALLS, separated by about 24 years, stunned Susan Garrett. Maybe she said, “Who? Me?” each time. Perhaps she thought, “Really? Why me?” each time. Garrett was all set…
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Letter Perfect
IF IT’S RAINING LETTERS—as in written letters, tucked inside envelopes—it must be either field hockey season or girls lacrosse season at Lake Forest High School. Cat Catanzaro coaches both varsity…
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Jared The Gem
A TYPICAL SOPHOMORE in high school crams for geometry tests, begs for a one-hour-later curfew, and smiles at a DMV camera for the first time. Perhaps Jared Zenni, while attending…
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Moving Off The Mat
A REFEREE GRABS a wrestler’s right hand and raises it. A round of applause rings out in the arena, giving the victor his immediate, audible “medal.” “There aren’t many things…
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