By TOM ROBBJournal & Topics Reporter

A full house of between 500 and 600 were given a sneak peak of the annual Illinois High School Theatre Festival

production of “Sweeney Todd” during a final dress and technical rehearsal Sun-day at Glenbrook North High School.

The production will be presented at the 42nd annual theatre festival in first week of January at the University of

Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Most of those at Sunday’s dress re-

hearsal were family and friends of the cast, crew and musicians. Students, including more than 30 cast members, more than 30 crew and more than 30

musicians from across Illinois, came to Glenbrook North in Northbrook to rehearse the annual all-state musical under the direction of GBN Theatre Director Julie Ann Robinson over a

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The full ensemble cast, including GBS actress Yael Sheinfeld, feast, drink and revel at Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop during dress re-hearsal for “Sweeney Todd” at Glenbrook North. They really don’t want to know what’s in those pies. (Journal photo) Seeing ‘Sweeney’

Dist. 225 Actors, Director, Orchestra Conductor Rehearse For All State Musical ‘Sweeney Todd’

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Glenview Park District of-ficials kicked off a comprehen-sive master planning process in October to guide decision making and set a course for the park district over the next decade. Last week, that planning process entered its second phase: reaching out to the public.

Tuesday, Dec. 13, the park district launched an On-

Parks Reach Out To Public On Master Plan

Public Input Portal Launched; Open Houses, Stakeholder Meetings Scheduled; Surveys Going Out By TOM ROBB

line Community Forum at chartingourfuture.com to so-licit input from the public on how the park district should move forward with planning for land use, facilities and pro-gramming. The online forum will stay active through early

February. Open houses are scheduled

at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11 at Glenview Park Center, 2400 E. Chestnut Ave., and at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8 at Park Center.

Park district Supt. of Parks

and Facility Services Jim Warn-stedt said a slightly different survey for the comprehensive master plan, looking at the needs of the park district, would be sent to 4,000 homes within the park district in the coming weeks.

A series of meetings with stakeholder groups including village officials, officials from school districts 30, 31, 34, 37, 63 and 225, and foundations connected to the park district are also set. Those groups include the Friends of the Glen-view Park District, Friends of Wagner Farm and the Grove Heritage Foundation, senior

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The Glenview Park District’s new Park and Facility Services East building recently won two top awards for outstanding de-sign. This new facility replaces the original building that was destroyed by fire in November 2010.

The building was recently named a Gold winner in the 2016 Association of Licensed Architects Design Awards Pro-gram at a reception Oct. 3. Out of 133 submissions, only five to six projects are named a Gold winners. This award is shared with Dewberry, the architect for the project, as well as the Frederick Quinn Corporation,

the construction manager.The building also received

the Outstanding Facility & Park Award from the Illinois Park & Recreation Associa-tion’s Awards and Recognition Program. The park district had the highest total points in this di-vision and category throughout the state of Illinois. This award recognizes public agencies for their exceptional and unique achievements in design and development. The Illinois Park and Recreation Association will present the awards at their busi-ness meeting Jan. 20.

“This facility was truly a collaboration between the park

district, board members, staff, residents, and the project team,” said James Warnstedt, superin-tendent of Park & Facility Ser-vices. “Because of its location within a neighborhood setting, design sensitivity and resident feedback was important to the process.”

The Park and Facility Ser-vices East building houses staff and resources that help keep the parks and facilities well-maintained for the community. This includes: plumbers and electricians, HVAC and pool maintenance staff, custodial staff, a carpentry shop and weld-ing shop.

Glenview Park, Facility Services East Wins Two Awards

Glenview Park District’s new Park and Facility Services East building.

(Continued from page 1A)groups and members of the Park Center Fitness Center.

The park district has not completed a comprehensive master plan since 1983. Park board commissioners inked a $172,400 contract with Hitchcock Design Group of Naperville to complete the plan.

At their Thursday, Dec. 15 park board meeting, Glenview commissioners discussed results of the first phase of the master planning process, an inventory of park district assets and compari-son at the state and national levels. They discussed the planned mailing of the park district needs survey. A full report on phase one of the comprehensive master plan is expected to be presented to park commissioners next month.

The Glenview Park District serves more than 50,000 residents with more than 30

parks and indoor facilities, including two golf courses, indoor and outdoor pools, a small lake, the Park Center facility which includes a fit-ness center, gyms and activity rooms, the Grove National Landmark, Wagner Farm, the Glenview Ice Center and many fieldhouses located in parks.

The park district is also conducting a separate needs assessment, site analysis, facility study and cost and constructability analysis for Glenview Ice Center. The ice center is located on Landwehr Road just north of Lake Avenue. Williams Architects of Itasca was contracted to conduct the ice center study for $85,000.

The ice center study has an expected completion date in late winter or early spring. Warnstedt said that study would be folded into the overall comprehensive master plan.

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