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14 live from… Former “Saturday Night Live” star Nora Dunn is starring in a one-woman show.

20 veteran spotlight A 22-year-old gets a medal for bravery in Afghanistan at the Naval Station Great Lakes.

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36 goings on aBout towns Find out about the best events coming

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i want to be sensitive to all of the homes out there: none of you are dumb.

But some of you are smart — as in, brimming with gadgets that let homeowners control tem-peratures, cooking and more using an iPad or

another device while ensconced in a comfortable seat. When parents leave for an evening, they can

even program the father’s voice to warn a toddler who gets too close to a hot tub to stay away. And when adults flee to Florida on vacation, an iPhone can unlock a door in Winnetka so the plumber can get in.

Smart homes are still somewhat of a novelty on the North Shore — perhaps 10 percent of residences are so fitted. Certain homeowners will never bite, concerned either about price or turning their home into a prop out of the Jetsons. Read Bill McLean’s report inside.

Ladies, which would you prefer: a new engage-ment ring or one with family history? Joanna Brown looks at both sides in Love & Marriage. She also points out an item that might startle male readers; some men are choosing to have

“man-gagement rings” these days. Check out her insights in these pages.

In your hands rests Issue 49 of The North Shore Weekend, meaning we’re closing in on our one-year anniversary.

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■ by bill mclean

It will be shouted in the near future if it hasn’t already — either in the heat of battle or in jest:

“My home is smarter than your home!”Bill McMartin is a general manager at Abt Electronics in Glenview. To explain to cus-

tomers what a smart home could allow its owner to do, he sets up a scenario.“Say you’re vacationing in another state, and your neighbor calls you on your smart

phone because your dog won’t stop barking in the house,” McMartin began. “Your neighbor is concerned, and so are you while you’re on a beach somewhere. You’d like the neighbor to enter the home to check up on things.

“It’s possible,” he added, “to open a door for your neighbor — using your smart phone.”A smart pad mounted on a wall might very well become as common of a fixture in a

kitchen as a cabinet. With a few touches of a screen, a homeowner has the power to con-trol the lighting and temperature of each room for that day and to select the genres of music that will be played in two rooms for a party that night.

There isn’t a Mensa International society for intelligent homes. Yet. And don’t be sur-prised if chimneys get fitted for oversized mortar boards in the next five years.

“People are tired of dealing with 48 different kinds of remotes at home,” said Don Zordani, a high-end residential developer based in Lake Forest. “They want to simplify, and they want to be able to do all kinds of things with an iPhone, like arming and dis-arming an alarm system or opening their garage door. People are no longer afraid of technology and its challenges like many of them were 10-15 years ago.

“Look around,” he added. “Everybody is familiar and comfortable and walking around with devices.”

Like students, pets, phones and pads, some homes are smarter than others. The cost to juice up a home’s intelligence varies widely, because a homeowner who cherishes secu-

rity doesn’t necessarily care about all the bells and whis-tles — make that, sound bars and 4K Ultra HDTV units — of a smart home theater. Green homes also boast high IQs, as they help homeowners reduce their carbon footprint from the size of a Sasquatch impres-sion to one closer to that of a hamster’s.

Owner Brandon Weiss of Weiss Building & Development in South Elgin has been at the forefront of the green building movement for years, becoming only the 24th Master Certified Green Professional in the country.

“Homeowners are able to install a dashboard and mon-itor daily a home’s energy consumption,” Weiss said.

“Maybe the utility bill is high one month because somebody inadvertently left a light on in a closet all weekend. Homeowners don’t just want durable, comfortable homes; they also want homes that provide consistent, efficient temperatures in rooms.

“Green homes do that,” he added. “Green homes help homeowners save money in the long run. More and more people are realizing they don’t have to be super environmental-minded to live in a green home.”

Keith Fisher is security-minded and owns Keyth Security Technologies in Highland Park, a leader in residential and commercial security solutions throughout the Chicagoland area. Its clever mission is, “To service and protect.”

Fisher compared many of today’s high-tech cars to smart homes, dubbing them “little motorized homes.” Even $15,000 cars have essentially morphed into PCs on wheels, he noted.

“Computers adjust the seats, the mirrors, the sound system,” Fisher said. “All you hear these days is ‘smart’ this, ‘intelligent’ that. ‘Automated’ means the same thing. Young people today, many of them were born with smart spoons in their mouths. They’re going to grow up, and everything in their homes will be smart, intelligent, automated.

“The other buzz word out there,” he added, “is ‘connectivity.’ Everything, it seems, is connected, with a tablet controlling a smart home system’s subsystems.”

Imagine Media opened in Lake Forest in 2006 as a developer of home entertainment

systems. Co-founder Brad Alves has been in the business since 1977, meaning he remem-bers the era when homeowners were first able to time shift TV programming and blink back at a VCR’s blinking “12:00.”

“It’s always been an exciting time to be in this business because it’s always about cut-ting-edge technology,” Alves said. “The biggest challenge and thus the biggest reward is making things simple for our clients, and that also applies to people who own smart-home technology and insist on efficiency. They want a button for lighting, a button for music. They want simplicity.

“If a person doesn’t know how to operate a system easily, I’m not doing my job.”Paul Faber co-owns Media Tech Intelligent Home Systems in St. Charles, which deliv-

ers home automation in lighting, music, thermostat, security and energy management systems. Among the home design firms Media Tech works with is Studio 41; one of Studio 41’s locations is in Highland Park.

Media Tech provides three automated home systems, including its flagship, AMX. The other two are Savant and Control4. With a Control4 system, you are able to control the lights, picture and sound of a home theater with one touch — and have a door “tell you” exactly when your tiptoeing teenager gets home at night.

“Smart-home systems control multiple subsystems,” Faber said. “Homeowners who own only one computer know that computer needs attention at times. The drawback of a smart-home system, with the addition of computers, is that sometimes it’s a challenge to maintain those extra devices.

“But,” he added, “there are plenty of benefits, from saving energy with light controls to getting a surveillance system that can tape the time a babysitter spends with the homeowner’s child.”

“The Jetsons” animated series originally ran in primetime in 1962-63. It later aired on weekdays and weekend mornings until 1987, entertaining viewers with episodes set in 2062 and plot lines featuring farfetched inventions. One of the characters was an apron-wearing, red-buttons-for-eyes robotic maid named Rosie.

“We haven’t designed one of those,” cracked Abt’s McMartin. “But we’re working on it.” ■

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Since an invitation sets the tone for an occasion, stationery expert Devon Fahner of Cheree Berry Paper in Winnetka is pas-sionate about giving clients a customized creative process.

“She has such a clear love for anything paper-related and she treats it with impor-tance, which is very refreshing,” said Angela Rogna, a former downtown Chicago wedding planner.

When Rogna and her husband, Christopher McNicholas, were planning their Aug. 17 wed-ding, Rogna chose Fahner after seeing her devotion to the process with previous clients and to her parents’ 30th wedding anniver-sary. With little guidance, Fahner nailed a natural color palette, suggested calligraphy and came up with the idea of a monogram that was used throughout the event, such as on banners and menu cards.

“The second you sit down with Devon, it’s almost like she’s reading your mind,” said Rogna. “She knows what direction she wants to go but still gives you options.”

Wedding clients get an all-in-one package, as Fahner is also a former vice president of a Washington, D.C. wedding planning firm. Rogna contacted her with questions several times throughout the months lead-ing up to her wedding and even put her in touch with her florist.

Fahner came to Winnetka after marrying a Chicagoan and was introduced to Cheree Berry through a former colleague. Cheree Berry Paper, which is based in St. Louis, has a downtown studio and Winnetka office. Cheree Berry, founder of the epon-ymous firm, had done most of her clients’ wedding invitations, and Fahner, too, was

a client four years before joining the team. Because she had done so many weddings,

it was hard for Fahner to narrow down the options. She instead gave Berry an idea, and she ran with it. The colors of the tie her husband was wearing at their first meeting became the color palette, and the invitations came with a charming “How-To” on tying a tie.

“We really try to focus on playful details, and incorporate little surprises or touches that make it feel like opening a present in the mail,” Fahner said. “There’s a time and place for online invitations, but because you receive so many e-mails, it makes it all the more special to receive something like that. Once you work with a custom stationery place, you’re kind of hooked.” (Examples of clients’ invitations can be found at www.chereeberrypaper.com. )

The bubbly character enjoys building friendships with her clients beyond their first order. Many that started off as brides continue utilizing Fahner›s designs for baby announcements, graduations and even play dates. The North Shore clients particularly want to throw parties that are one of a kind, she says, and the cards get people excited to come and keep talking about after the party is over.

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Nora Dunn is a woman of many voices. In her new one-woman show “Mythical Proportions,” Dunn

dons the personae of an 87-year-old Hollywood authority and raconteur, a precocious seven-year old girl, a 65-year-old African-American woman and a wide-eyed middle-aged British civil servant, to illustrate the power of mythology.

But when Dunn speaks as Dunn, she is pure Chicago, West Side accent and attitude and all. A familiar face to fans of vintage “Saturday Night Live,” Nora Dunn’s length career has kept her busy on the small screen, the big screen and the stage. “Mythical Proportions” will run through Sept. 22 at Theater Wit on Belmont in Chicago.

Gregg Shapiro: Nora, in the last couple of years you have appeared on Chicago stages in “Love, Loss and What I Wore,” as well as in your new one-woman show “Mythical Proportions.” As a native Chicagoan, what does it mean to you to perform in your hometown?

Nora Dunn: I have performed here a lot in the past. I came back here from a long stint on the West Coast and felt I reconnected with an important piece of my person-hood. I wanted to premier this in Chicago because it has so much to do with having been born here. It’s special in that way. My father adored Chicago. He wanted to live and die here, and he did.

GS: “Love, Loss and What I Wore” was an ensemble piece, and “Mythical Proportions” is a solo show. What are the rewards and challenges of both?

ND: Well, “Love, Loss…” was a reading, though it was an ensemble show. Bringing written monologues to life is its own species. On stage, alone, doing your own work is a

much bigger risk. I don’t feel responsible for other people’s writing, and all I can do is my best with it. But with my own writing, there are so many more ways to let myself down, and that is the profound challenge. To treat the material as if I did not write it, and honor it the same as I honored Nora Ephron, and so forth.

GS: The title of your new show, “Mythical Proportions,” is portrayed in various ways, including the mythology sur-rounding the prosthetic leg in the basement of your child-hood home, the puzzling mythology of the neighborhood in which Mr. Rogers resided and the mythological memories a Hollywood octogenarian. As a writer and performer, how important are myths in your life?

ND: Myths are metaphors. And the most magical experiences in my life have been metaphorical. Ironies. Experiences that save you from one particular moment in your life when you feel despair, or confusions, these sorts of miracles happen. You don’t have to be prepared for them, but you have to recognize them when they arrive.

GS: “Mythical Proportions” is a combination of personal storytelling and memories with the voices of four charac-ters. Were there more than four characters at any point in creating the show, and if so, how did you decide that these were the four you wanted to include?

ND: There was more of everything and in the end I had to make less of everything so as to tell one story with basi-cally one theme.

GS: The Hollywood mythology character – is she based on someone that you met in Hollywood or elsewhere?

ND: No. She is loosely based on Robert Evans, the producer.GS: Is part of her mythology the way that she gets facts

wrong, such as Rock Hudson’s real name?ND: No. Her monologue is true but it is based in her

world, which is of course fiction.GS: In terms of the personal stories, what was involved

in the process of selecting what you wanted to tell? ND: It was a long process. I worked on the piece in vari-

ous forms and venues for a year and half. GS: One of the more personal stories that you tell has a

professional angle – about how you feel like something of an outsider in the industry. If you could go back to the early days of your career are there things you would change or do you think you would do it all the same way?

ND: We can’t go back, and so there is no point in doing that. Of course we do, though. Anyone who says they don’t have regrets is not telling the truth. I was who I was then, and I am who I am now because of my experiences since. We have to forgive ourselves for our mistakes, or we won’t be able to forgive others who have made them. I did not have the wisdom then that I have now. I had courage and will. I still do, but I experience both of those in another form now. There is less drive to achieve, and more joy in the doing of it.

GS: From your years on “Saturday Night Live” all the way

through “Mythical Proportions,” you have displayed a mar-velous knack for doing voices and accents. How old were you when you discovered that you do voices and accents?

ND: I have always been a parrot. I have a good ear, but bad knees.

GS: Did doing voices and accents result in laughs or did also get you into trouble for doing them?

ND: Well, I suppose I did get in trouble for some of my impersonations. I did one of my manager and he found out, so I had to do it for him, but he laughed.

GS: As someone who grew up in Chicago and has spent time here as an adult — do you have any memories of time spent on the North Shore, perhaps a favorite restaurant, night spot or performance venue?

ND: We never went to the North Shore. I didn’t know Wilmette existed until a week ago when I wandered in by accident. I love the harbor. Actually, I worked for a caterer in the ‘80s and I served a Thanksgiving dinner in Glencoe. I had never been there before. The only thing I remember about the experience is the turkey. But now I have friends in Lake Forest, Peach and Wayne Carr, and they have taken me to a wonderful Mexican restaurant in downtown Lake Forest, and another great place in Highwood, I think, right next to Highland Park. Tin ceilings. Great food and wine list. The owner is a very funny guy and he and his wife are there in the restaurant. I am bad with names, but I do remember faces, so trust me that I can see their faces now.

I have discovered the North Shore now and I think I will try to crash a beach there before the water chills down. Maybe they won’t know I am from Chicago.

GS: Julia Sweeney, another Saturday Night Live alum, currently lives in Wilmette, and Tim Kazurinsky lives in Evanston. Do you ever socialize with these former SNL cast members while you are in the area?

ND: I have run into Tim and saw him do “The Odd Couple” (at Northlight). What a hilarious guy. I also saw him as a guest on “The Dinner Party.” He makes me laugh. He is such a warm and genuine man. I don’t know Julia; only from her work on “Saturday Night Live” and her remarkable one-woman show. I saw her first one She inspired me to get up off my easy chair and start work-shopping my own piece. ■

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The new building will provide two pri-mary performance spaces, a 250-seat theatre and a smaller flexible space theatre. The building will include a two-story lobby space with an upper level gallery, rehearsal space, box office, space for Woman’s Library Club pro-grams, meetings and functions, offices, storage rooms, dressing rooms and out-door areas — including a roof terrace. Lake fOreSt

The City Council approved the second phase of Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart’s master plan by a vote of 7-0 on Sept. 3.

“Over the next several weeks, you will notice increased activity as materials from the interior of the Old Main building continue to be harvested for re-use else-where, and as cellular telephone carriers continue to install and test their antennas on the newly constructed cell tower,” said Head of School Gerald Grossman.

Once that work is complete, demoli-tion of Old Main — which was built in the early 1900s — will begin.

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Community members gathered again on Tuesday, Sept. 10 to plant the flags, which were left standing overnight and removed at dusk on Sept. 11.

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Nearly 700 trees on Lake Bluff green-ways are being cut down because of the emerald ash borer.

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The Burt Collection at 28392 Ballard Drive is hosting an auction of 125 vin-tage motorcars beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21.

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James Balog is the founder and director of Extreme Ice Survey, the most extensive photographic study of glaciers ever conducted (featured in the documen-tary “Chasing Ice”). He will be one of the guests of honor at Ragdale’s A Novel Affair on Sept. 27-28.

Reading: I just finished the “Secret Nights of the Shadow Catcher,” by Timothy Egan, about Edward Curtis, a photographer. I read another book called “True Summit,” by David Roberts, about the first ascent of Annapurna, a mountain in the Himalayas. That’s been the past few weeks.

Listening: I’ve been, unnaturally, devoid of music the past few months. But what I have been lis-tening to is my old favorites: Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 5,” the Back Keys, Led Zeppelin and Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words.” That’s me: Mr. Eclectic.

Watching: I watch virtually no TV. The waste-land is appalling; but I did just watch Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris,” a film called “The Fierce Green Fire,” about climate change and sustainability. And just last night I watched a segment of the PBS series on the American West. The overall series is simply called “The West.”

Following: In terms of subjects that I follow, it kind of makes my head spin. I follow way, way, way too much. I try and keep up on economic news; I read The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The big thing I keep track of is about a dozen dif-ferent sectors of science knowledge, anthropogenic change. What I’m looking at is atmospheric science, ice science, particularly in Greenland, and mountain glaciers in Antarctica. I’m looking at forest changes, animal extinction, sea level rise, ocean acidification. And the science of extreme weather, particularly as it relates to severe storms and drought. I read the leading scientific journals on a regular basis, and it’s absolutely exhausting. I’ve had intermediaries filter-ing it for me at times, as it’s almost a half-time job.

The other thing I’m thinking about is the view of political trends as it relates to climate security. I try

to stay aware of what Chinese and European trends are in clean energy, in very clear terms, because I’m not an engineer. And of course I’m watching what’s going on in Washington, vis-à-vis climate change and energy policy.

Activity: We’re preparing for two big expeditions this winter: one to Patagonia in Argentina, and one in Antarctica. It’s a big process. I’m writing a book, a series of stories of what I’ve seen as a photographer looking at the current era of massive human-caused change on the planet — that’s basically what my whole career has been about. At Ragdale, I’ll be talk-ing about what I saw in the world of climate change.

Eating: I’ve been focusing on eating a lot more protein and cutting down on carbs, trying to feed that engine. That’s sort of the general concept — I’m not a foodie, and I’m a big fan of really good fruit. I eat gallons worth of blueberries every summer, and when I can get good strawberries, I eat those too. I make a bit of a religious experience out of good fruit. It’s probably all about my sugar fix. It’s a healthy sugar fix.

What is your favorite mistake? In this book I’m writing, I’ve listed a long inven-

tory of mistakes. Which one is my favorite? Not being roped up at the edge of a giant cavern on the Greenland ice sheet as the surface melt water was draining down through it and causing the ice sheet to vibrate with ice quakes. That was probably the dumbest thing I’ve done in the past seven years. It could have easily gone really, really wrong. ■

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■ by angelika labno

Sgt. Luis Garcia sits in the Starbucks across from Wrigley Field just after a Sunday afternoon game — a spot quite different than his days as a Marine in Afghanistan.

“I was not ready to die in my young 20s,” said Garcia, 22. “I just had the mindset that I was going to go back home.”

He recently did — and was rewarded at Naval Station Great Lakes, where Garcia was given the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for a 2012 incident that turned out to be friendly fire. It occurred dur-ing his second deployment in Afghanistan, this time in Musa Qala with the 2nd Battalion 5th Marines. He recalls the sound of a suppressed shot, the frantic thought of being on top of a hill with no cover, and the sight of his buddies dropping to the ground. His first instinct, however, was to grab his rifle and to run to protect them.

“The thoughts of ‘I might lose my life’ didn’t cross my mind,” he said, rubbing at his forearms, on which great angel wings are tattooed. The angels were watching over him that day, he says, because he didn’t even notice that his body armor was shot twice.

One of the wounded, a Navy medic who was shot in the head, helped Garcia tend to a critically injured Marine. Seeing his uneven chest movements, they thought fast to puncture his lung with a needle, which allowed his chest to immediately swell with air.

“I want to continue doing things to help people,” says Garcia, who hopes to become a Chicago firefighter and paramedic and who has family members in Lake Bluff.

He joined the Marines after graduating early from Zion Benton High School in 2009. The decision largely came as a challenge to his older sister enlisting in the National Guard.

Garcia completed boot camp in San Diego, engineer school in North Carolina, and was stationed at Camp Pendleton with the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion. A year and a half later, he was deployed with the 3rd Battalion 5th Marines — also known as the “Darkhorse Battalion” — to the perilous

Sangin, located in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.“Imagine going to a Third-World country — and then a

step down,” said Garcia.The Marines took over from the British troops, who told

Garcia that “one in four will not come back” and a “good luck.” He describes it as entering a bee’s nest: it was a heavily Taliban area that was none too pleased with new

American visitors. During this period, Sangin saw an increased use of

improvised explosive devices (IEDs), resulting in heavy casualties involving missing limbs. It was Garcia’s job to act as minesweeper in front of the patrols, finding and sometimes disassembling IEDs. His eyes trained to pick up on signs like patches of dirt that were darker than others.

“You really had to be on top of your game 120 percent of the time,” he said. “The way they would fight us would just be like going around playing cat-and-mouse with these bombs, putting them in the ground at night and watching the ways that we go.”

Garcia lost 25 from his unit, and 200 were wounded in action.

“That brotherhood really comes into play,” he said. “They say you do it for your country, which mainly you do, but the real reason why you even do anything while you’re out there is because of that dude to your left and to your right. You care about them and they care about you.”

After his first tour, Garcia admits to breaking down and finding solace in heavy drinking. Aware of his downward spiral, he was able to clean up for his second tour, which included getting married to Maribel, with whom he is a proud parent to one-month-old Luis Jr. He now hits the gym five days a week and finished his first semester of college.

“Don’t sweat the small things, and don’t sweat the big things — my Dad always said that to me, and that stuck with me, especially after going through stuff like [war],” Garcia said of his approach to life.

He adds that seeing death, especially young guys like him, made him appreciate the small things. He is looking forward to marking off his bucket list, visiting his comrades and “juking” players on the soccer field.

“I don’t regret how life happened,” he reflected. “I just want to have a happy life; as long as I have that, money doesn’t matter. You can’t take that with you too.” ■

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Once the Chicago Blackhawks astonished the Boston Bruins by scoring two late goals to capture the Stanley Cup in June, the streets of the Windy City swelled with thousands yearning to celebrate.

Not Mitch Rogatz. After watching the game with his dog Clementine — along with a few bags of taco chips and a cold beer — he remained indoors. Work beckoned.

“I sent communications to the Midwest printer to hit the button on the run of 32,000 copies of ‘Unstoppable!’,” says Rogatz, the publisher of Chicago-based Triumph Books, referring to the company’s 128-page large paperback reliving the Blackhawks’ championship season. “Then I jumped into the backorders to make sure all books could get shipped, received, and put on shelves 3-1/2 days later.”

Those instant books — “Unstoppable!” appeared in about 450 area Walgreens stores by the weekend after the Monday night clincher — are a crucial business for Triumph, once owned by Random House before Rogatz (along with a private investor) bought the company he started back from the New York publisher in 2011.

Championships are big sellers for the leading sports-book publisher in the country — and speed is crucial.

“That first weekend, the passion is still high,” says Rogatz, a Glencoe resident and Northbrook native who notes nearly a third of sales are achieved at that time. “It’s like a toboggan hill. The more you have at the stores early on — and managers see so much selling so fast — the toboggan is high and can have a long run. They’ll keep that prod-uct by the cash register much longer.”

Standout seasons can also prompt the quick book turnaround — Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson’s MVP performance a year after major surgery spurred “Rush to Greatness” this past winter.

But Triumph’s best-selling instant book ever fit neither category.

On April 1, 2001, Rogatz picked up the Sunday New York Times on his driveway. He soon checked the paperback non-fiction best-seller list. Propped at No. 1 was Triumph’s “Dale Earnhardt: Remembering the Intimidator.”

“It was April 1, so I thought, ‘Did someone slide this in to give me a hard time?’ “ recalled Rogatz.

Right after Earnhardt died in a Daytona 500 crash on Feb. 18, Wal-Mart called Rogatz’ salesmen to ask if a book was planned. Triumph published one in about a week, printing 350,000 copies. “Remembering the Intimidator” topped the New York Times’ charts for 13 weeks.

The firm partners with local newspapers (such as the Daily

Herald on the Blackhawks and the Star Tribune in Minnesota on Peterson)

to write commemora-tive books. Though the Peterson work was obvious as his season progressed — and Triumph could focus solely on him — the playoffs in all pro sports leagues create spe-cial challenges.

Rogatz and others must assess what

teams hold the best chances to win the Super Bowl, Stanley

Cup and the like. When the finals begin, two books are nearly com-

plete, and printing con-tracts have been procured in

the two contending cities. But only one press will

run.In fact, Rogatz faced more work after the Blackhawks’ win

that night; he needed to deal with the second-place city. After informing the

Boston Globe that the Bruins’ book it had been working on would not be published (Triumph did green-light a runner-up book once, after Seattle lost its first Super Bowl), Rogatz cancelled the print run of 24,000 copies as well as orders slated for retailers such as BJ›s Warehouse Club and stores in Logan Airport.

Triumph publishes more than 100 books a year, primarily related to sports (perhaps five percent are instant books, but they provide a big chunk of the company’s $10 million-plus annual sales). Especially popular is the “100 Things” series — for example, “100 Things Nebraska Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” Biographies on sports legends such as Bobby Orr and Vince Lombardi are a Triumph staple.

“We have to come up with a whole list of new titles every six months,” said Rogatz, whose fall titles are now hitting bookstores. “The good news is, in sports, there’s always

something new. The bad news is, unlike a Procter & Gamble product, the shelf life is generally only several months.”

Growing up in Northbrook, Rogatz has wonderful memo-ries of the village he enthusiastically refers to as “the speed-skating capital of the world.” His street was filled with boys around the same age.

“You’d choose sides for kickball, football — you could count on having a game of anything,” Rogatz said.

His father, Bruce Roberts, was a well-known sports-caster on CBS, teaming up with Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson some nights.

“He’d take me to a Bears’ practice. While he was inter-viewing, I’d be catching punts from Bobby Joe Greene,” Rogatz said. “I’d go to Bulls’ games and catch free throws for Tom Boerwinkle.”

Following stints at Arthur Andersen and Quaker Oats and after procuring a masters in business administration from the University of Chicago in 1985, Rogatz met with a friend who wanted to enter the book business.

“I thought, ‘Spend a dollar and make a million.’ Thought I knew everything like other MBAs — I was one of those guys,” Rogatz said.

The duo started a company called Bonus Books. After publishing the hugely successful “Ditka: An Autobiography” in 1986 after the Bears’ Super Bowl win, the company faltered. Rogatz launched Triumph Books in 1989 by him-self in shared office space in the South Loop.

Over lunch at Yoke, a few football fields from Triumph’s present office on Franklin Street, Rogatz recalled a bruis-ing start as a solo entrepreneur before he noticed the NCAA was publishing annual media guides for college football teams — and a light went off.

“I thought, ‘You know what? You could have a record book,” says Rogatz, sipping a Ben Hogan (half cranberry juice and half orange juice, a drink so named during lunch). “You already have the information. What if we put on a new cover, change the design …’ ”

“The Official College Football Record Book” was born, as was Triumph’s relationship with sports entities (the NHL and others eventually followed the NCAA). Its success long since established, Triumph — with the bankruptcy of Borders and the rise of e-books — faces different challenges these days.

“If it’s a four-color book like the Adrian Peterson one, the e-book platform is not great,” Rogatz sighs. “I liken this to grinding in the corners in hockey. You have to work a little bit harder, but it’s there to be had.”

And the publisher is optimistic he has the right formula for the future.

“The sports and the emotion aren’t going away,” he says. “The delivery mechanism may change, but the story and the message and the commentary will still be there.” ■

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Mary Hess and Beth Parsons have a lot in common.Both residents of Lake Forest, their children are class-

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And now they’re co-chairing the 58th Gold Coast Fashion Award Show, a showcase for rising designers to benefit Lurie Children’s Hospital on Friday, Sept. 27 in the Hilton Chicago and Towers at 720 S. Michigan Ave.

Eight fashion designers will bring their work to the run-way, and audience members vote for their favorite; Hess compared it “American Idol.”

“It’s great recognition for these up-and-comers to have as they start their careers and start to get noticed,” she said. “This fashion show has been in Chicago for a long time,

and some of the past winners have been names like Bill Blass, Monique Lhuillier and Rubin Singer, who designed Beyonce’s Super Bowl outfit. But among those who have competed and not won are Jason Wu, who has worked with Michelle Obama, and Tory Burch, who everyone knows.”

Competitors are selected by a producer from the Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, Parsons explained. The 2012 Fashion Award Show Winner, Wes Gordon, will be honored this year and show a capsule collection of his work on the runway.

“It’s as close as you can get to New York’s Fashion Week,” Parsons said. Also showcasing their fall lines on the run-way will be local retailers Escada, Lanvin, McElroy Furs, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Thom Browne.

The co-chairs’ excitement for the Fashion Award Show is obvious, but it pales in comparison to their passion for its beneficiary, Lurie Children’s Hospital.

Hess took her son there 11 years ago when he spiked a fever two weeks after his birth. A virus kept him in the hospital for five days.

“It is the darkest time in your life because you don’t know what’s going on,” Hess said of a child’s illness, but Lurie Children’s Hospital was “the best place to be. The nurses and staff there are like a bunch of angels. The way they took care of our family and our visitors was amazing, and I vowed then to do whatever I could for them.”

Parsons, whose daughter had heart surgery at Lurie Hospital several years ago, made a similar promise.

“The care we got from all the people there – starting with the volunteers who deliver games to the kids who aren’t ambulatory — they all make a difference in families’ lives.”

The fashion show is the largest fundraising event hosted by the Children’s Service Board to benefit hospital pro-grams. Among their past gifts is funding for bilingual emergency room staff specifically trained in healthcare communications to provide information and comfort to Spanish-speaking families.

Hess’s advice to first-time Fashion Award Show attend-ees was simple: find a great outfit, bring along a good friend, and have great time. Parsons suggested that the Fashion Show would make a special mother-daughter outing.

“Some many people are touched by the hospital in one way or another – that’s why it’s awesome,” Hess said.

Gold Coast Fashion Award Show sponsors include Lana Jewelry, Digital Realty, Server Farm Realty, The Africa Channel, Beacon Capital Partners, The Hearn Company, Turner Construction and Sheridan Road magazine.

Find more information and purchase tickets at www.gcfas.com. ■

Mary Hess (right) and Beth Parsons are co-chairing the 58th Gold Coast Fashion Award Show.



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It’s been a while since I started reading “The Engagements,” but I’m still thinking about rings.

The beautiful novel by J. Courtney Sullivan intermingles four fictional couples, in four separate decades, and their experi-ences with marriage with the true story of Frances Geraty, the woman behind DeBeers’ famous tagline, “A Diamond is Forever.” Ms. Geraty contributed significantly to the rise in popularity of diamond engagement rings in the U.S., though she herself never married.

Since I first discussed Ms. Geraty in this column I learned about the rings worn by Glenview resident Gail Kalina and her daughter. The story begins with a small solitaire Gail’s mother-in-law, Florence, received on her 17th birthday with her father’s advice: don’t be in a hurry to get a diamond from a young man. Florence took it to heart and spent 10 years after secre-tarial school working and traveling the

country. In 1944, she received a one-carat emerald cut engagement ring from her future husband, Joseph.

Joseph replaced Florence’s ring with a larger one on their 25th anniversary, and the first ring was handed down to their youngest son — Gail’s husband — for use as Gail’s engagement ring.

Many years after that, in 1976, Florence passed down to Gail’s daughter the small solitaire Florence had received on her 17th birthday. She shared same advice that she had received with the ring: don’t be in a hurry.

Gail told me recently, “Both my daughter and I wear our rings everyday and cherish the memories of a very special woman.”

I feel the same way about my engagement ring, which previously served as my grand-mother Josephine’s (she is also my name-sake). I was her only granddaughter at the time of her death, and I kept her ring for many years in a box on my dresser.

My then-boyfriend knew that I wanted to wear the ring as my own, and surprised me when he proposed with a diamond to replace the small stone in the center of the ring that my working-class grandfather had

provided. The blend of the old and new makes the ring that much more special to me. I designed a special necklace a few years ago to display the tiny original diamond, which is similarly precious to me.

While Gail and I are most fond of our old rings, a recent survey of 10,000 newly engaged and recently married women by The Knot revealed that second-hand rings account for only 14 percent of engagement rings. Fifty percent of women opted for new, fully fashioned rings; and 36 percent wear new, custom-designed rings.

Included in those custom rings are likely some non-traditional stones that make Ms.

Geraty roll over in her grave. Jennifer Lopez, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Prince William all chose colored gem-stones to send the trend on fire.

And then there are the 5 percent of men who seek out a “man-gagement ring.” An additional 17 percent reported that they would be willing to wear such a thing. Jennifer Hudson gave her fiancé a ring, and singer Michael Buble wore one. I imagine that Justin Bieber will wear one, too.

What other new marriage and wedding customs can you see coming? Share your predictions with me at [email protected] ■

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“I’ve said it many times: if it were me that got cancer, she would have started an organization similar,” says Tom Schaffner of his wife Julie — whose middle name was Wine.


Husband continues woman’s posthumous fight against ovarian cancer ■ by angelika labno

Having Wine as her middle name was a fun coincidence for wine aficionado and Wilmette resident Julie Schaffner.

On Sept. 27, glasses of wine — or beer or scotch — will be raised to her posthumous fight against ovarian cancer as part of the Julie W. Schaffner Ovarian Cancer Research Fund second annual fundraiser.

During one of Schaffner’s chemotherapy sessions, she established the framework for a namesake organiza-tion. Less than three years after she succumbed to the disease, the organization is making big strides, largely thanks to her husband, Tom.

The event, titled WineHopsScotch!, will take place at the Kenilworth Club. The offerings — limited to wine tasting last year — have grown to incorporate local craft beers and single malt scotch. There will also be a jazz band, gourmet food stations and an auction, but the focus will be raising awareness and funds.

“I’ve said it many times: if it were me that got cancer, she would have started an organization similar; it’s in our nature,” said Tom Schaffner.

He hosts meetings in his kitchen and spreads the word across many generations. The younger ones are reached through his daughter Lindsay, 25, who hopes to continue the fund’s trifold mission: research, aware-ness and education.

Ovarian cancer is a silent killer — it is hard to detect symptoms, and once most women do, it’s often in the later stages. According to the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, mortality rates for the cancer have

not improved in 40 years. If detected early, the survival rate jumps to 93 percent. A mere 15 percent of patients, however, are diagnosed early. Awareness and education is critical.

“I feel like I have an impact,” said long-time family friend and financial advisor to the organization Linda Steen. “With early detection, we can save a lot of lives.”

The Schaffner Fund is also raising money for an Ovarian and Breast Cancer Molecular Research Center at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, headed by Dr. James Dolan. He was not only Schaffner’s cancer surgeon but technically one of her employees while she was the chief operating officer at Advocate. The research will focus on finding out exactly how uncon-trolled cells resist various forms of treatment. The first phase of this long-term project is establishing a labora-tory and fund fellowships for a decade.

“It’s one thing to have a lab in D.C., but to have it right here, that’s going to help a lot of people right in our neigh-borhood,” said Schaffner. “We’d like to affect people’s lives where we live first, and then spread from there.”

Tickets for the event start at $125, or one can become Julie’s Gal Pal, which is $500 for two tickets and addi-tional recognition. Purchasing is available at www.jws-fund.org as is more information on the organization’s progress, news and upcoming events.

“It’s tough to lose someone so close to you...but the most awesome part of it is we’re doing something about it,” said Lindsay. “We can’t bring my mom back, but we’re aiming to make a difference for someone down the road, so they don’t have to experience the same thing.” ■

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matter of tasteHewn looks to be greatest thing since sliced bread

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Ellen King is the head baker and co-owner at Hewn in Evanston.

How did you start baking? I worked in restau-rants in Seattle, doing organic farms and cheese buying, and bread was always taken for granted — I didn’t make it because we always had access to great bakeries. About four years ago I moved to Evanston, and I didn’t see any bread like I did on the West Coast, so I started focusing on it.

Years cooking? 10 years.What made you decide to become a professional

chef? Food is a way for people to connect and come together. It was how I relaxed at the end of the day, and finally it dawned on me: why didn’t I go to culi-nary school and make it a career?

Best recipe tweak? I can’t eat cow’s milk, so a lot of stuff I make here is with sheep or goat’s milk, or miso to simulate dairy. When there’s something I want to eat with a dairy base, I can have a small bit to try, and then I’ll change the recipe so I can eat it. Everything I make is for people who have a problem with cow’s milk. We don’t add meat either — in Seattle, I worked in a vegetable restaurant. We highlighted vegetables and grains and didn’t use meat substitute. That’s how we cook here. We want it to be filling and umami and delicious, but it doesn’t have meat and you don’t miss it.

Signature dish? Really, it’s the bread that drives us. It’s the heart. Our country bread is for sure our mainstay, by far. The second one is the picholine-olive. My favorite bread to eat is the caramelized onion rye.

Favorite style of bread to make? All our breads are influenced by ancient bread making. We don’t add instant yeast; we rely on out leaven [wild yeast]. France is definitely an inspiration, but I spent time in Israel and one of our bakers lived in Turkey. Our breads have a Middle Eastern, Persian flair. I like to call us an American bakery — the blending of cultures makes this bakery American. That’s why we’re called “hewn.” Hand-made on a small scale, very seasonal.

What do you like to eat at home? I love salads

— I’ll have a meat salad, but it’s a small part. I’ll have a cucumber salad or a lot of little salads along-side of it. The simpler and more seasonal, the better.

Worthwhile gadget? A wooden reamer. I add lemon or lime or orange into so many different things, and I am always using it.

Favorite cookbook? I just got a new cookbook that is so beautiful, “The River Cottage Cookbook,” by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Favorite fruit or vegetable? I love strawberries. Favorite vegetable might be the onion. It’s so ridicu-lous, it has to be cooked.

Funniest or most memorable kitchen incident? I was working under a French chef and I was really

nervous on the line — whenever he gave an order you’d run to do what he asked. He said “Helen” — he always called me Helen — “go get the heel from the walk-in.” I couldn’t find it, I was freaking out. The chef was yelling where it was — and then he said, “Eel! Eel!” The eel was right in front of me, but I didn’t realize I was look-ing for it. It took me a long time to live that one down.

Hewn is located at 810 Dempster Street in Evanston. For more information, visit hewnbread.com or call 847-869-4396. ■

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The VIPs: The committee responsible for the event’s success was headed by Monica Thompson, Christine Guthrie, Lori Burck, Candy Gibson, Bridget Kirkendall, Deneen Brennan, Jamie Kanner, and Lisa Miceli.

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The VIPs: The event was organized by founder and Executive Director Sandy Haggart and co-chair Justine Cody.

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Liza Kraff might be the ultimate student-athlete, but not just because the Highland Park High School senior plays golf and is taking three Advanced Placement courses and an Honors class this fall.

The fourth-year varsity golfer sometimes identifies plants for her teammates — between golf shots.

“It’s kind of funny, the way she points out and then names various plants on golf courses,” said Giants junior Kelli Ono, another varsity regular since the start of her fresh-man season. “She is taking AP Environmental Science.”

Kraff’s golf game is certainly in full bloom. A member of the Giants’ state teams in 2010 (seventh place) and 2011 (program-best third), she placed third at the Lake County Invite, shooting a 77 at Bonnie Dundee Golf Club on Aug. 26. Kraff then earned nine-hole medalist honors (37, 39) at recent duals with Libertyville and Mundelein respectively.

Against Mundelein, Kraff rolled in a 60-foot birdie putt.“Her confidence is up, she understands the game well,

and her short game is strong,” Highland Park coach said Cathy Nachman said of the key factors behind Kraff’s steady success. “She deserves to be playing as well as she is because she’s worked hard to improve in such a hard sport.

“It’s also a scary sport, playing four to five hours, some-times with nobody to talk to during a round,” the coach added. “But Liza has matured tremendously as a player, and it’s showing.”

Kraff is looking to attend a big school, with the University of Texas and the University of Michigan high on her list. She has opted not to play collegiate golf, a decision she made before the start of her final prep season.

“But I will continue to play,” said Kraff, who shot a runner-up 36 in a season-opening dual with Stevenson at Crane’s Landing Golf Club in Lincolnshire August 19. “I love golf, and I’m glad it’s a sport I’ll be able to play for the rest of my life. What I like about it [at the high school level] is that it has team and individual aspects. Plus it’s fun to be out there with others, competing and relaxing.”

Because she has a healthy approach to a challenging sport, bogeys rarely bother her. There’s always the next hole, after all.

Or tomorrow.“There are going to be tough holes, tough days,” said

Kraff, whose older brother, Noah (HPHS, ’10) toured courses for the Giants. “Golfers have to accept that. There will also always be easy holes, easy days.”

Her days off the course this fall are crazy-busy at times, from applying to colleges to tackling advanced courses to preparing for college-entrance exams to fulfilling her vari-ous roles as one of the school’s consummate leaders.

“It’s all about time management,” Kraff said. “Is it hard? Sometimes. But I can handle it.”

Ono, for one, knows exactly where to turn if she’s going through a rough patch.

“Liza,” the junior said, “is really funny, knows how to make me laugh. It’s nice knowing she’s around if I’m having a bad

day and I need to get over something. She’s the best teammate.”The competition between Kraff and Ono this fall has

been fiercely friendly — the best kind, especially when it involves teammates.

“All aspects of her game have improved so much,” Ono said. “Her scoring, her putting … everything. I love play-ing golf with her.”

When Kraff arrived as a varsity golfer her freshman year, the Giants welcomed more than just a capable scorer.

They got a bundle of positivity.“She’s been peppy for as long as I’ve known her,” Nachman

said. “Her smile; she always has that smile going. I’ll never forget the first time she broke 80 and the way she reacted, the way she said, ‘Wow.’

“What is wonderful about her now,” she added, “is not just what she’s doing as a golfer. Liza also sees the big picture.”

Somewhere in that image is a broad-leaved herbaceous plant or two.

Notable: Lightning twice interrupted last weekend’s 18-hole Waukegan Invite at Bonnie Brook Golf Course. Some teams left after the second delay; some teams stayed until dusk. “It morphed into a practice more than anything else,” Nachman said. … HP split a pair of duals in four days last week, beating Libertyville 163-174 at Willow Glen Golf Club in North Chicago on Sept. 3 and falling to Mundelein 168-178 at Highland Park Country Club on Sept. 6. Giants sophomore Daniella Cohen shot a career-best 47 against Mundelein. Ono carded a 39, second among teammates, at Willow Glen.■

Advanced placementHighland Park’s Kraff taking her game to another level

Highland Park High School’s Liza Kraff, seen here during earlier action this fall, is making the most of her senior campaign.


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Boys Cross Country: The senior ran away from the competition at the Art Campbell Lake County Invite on Sept. 3 at the Waukegan Sports Park. He was clocked in 15:41.8 and won the title by nearly 12 seconds.

Then, on Sept. 7 at the Hornet-Red Devil Invite in Hinsdale, Estrada cruised to a second-place finish (15:03.18) in a field of 366 runners.

Teammate Ben Casey has been a solid No. 2 run-ner. He placed third (15:59.7) in county meet and 17th (15:49) at Hinsdale.

The Giants earned runner-up honors to Barrington 49-86 in the county meet as Jeremy Bloom (23rd), Griffin Bojan (28th) and Andrew Huddleston (31st) rounded out the top five.

HP was seventh in the 17-team Hinsdale meet.

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Boys Cross Country: He earned all-county honors (top 15) on Sept. 3, when he raced to a 14th-place finish (16:35.3) at the Art Campbell Lake County Invite at the Waukegan Sports Park.

The Scouts, who took eighth as a team (176 points), also received solid efforts from Liam Gayter (21st) and Matt Mekaelian (22nd).

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Boys Cross Country: He was one of the standouts at the Hornet-Red Devil Invitational on Sept. 7 in Hinsdale. He finished third overall in 15:06.7.

The Trevians, who captured runner-up honors (74 points), also had fine showings from Chase Silverman (12th, 15:39), Om Kanwar (15th, 15:45), Tarek Afifi (20th, 15:54) and Charlie Pearlman (24th, 16:03).

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Girls Cross Country: This senior is off to a terrific start. Yandell finished third in the Art Campbell Lake County Invite on Sept. 3. She cruised the layout at the Waukegan Sports Park in 19:24.4.

Running in her first-ever cross county meet, sopho-more Nora Burgener came in 18th overall (20:26.8) and just missed earning all-Lake County honors.

“Nora Burgener was a great surprise,” said LF coach Steve Clegg.

The Scouts, who scored 108 points for fourth place, had five other runners in the top 35: Gabrielle Simeck (28th), Kelsey Schmidt (30th), Emma Allen (33rd), Callie Schmidt (34th) and Bailey Ehrens (35th).

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Girls Cross Country: She led the Giants — 27th (19:14) — at the Hornet-Red Devil Invite in Hinsdale on Sept. 7. The Giants wound up 10th in the team stand-ings (321 points).

On Sept. 3, Marni Pine turned in HP’s top showing at the Art Campbell Lake County Invite, finishing 32nd in 21:06.6. The Giants placed 11th (248 points) as a team.

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Girls Cross Country: The junior earned runner-up honors in a tough field at the Hornet-Red Devil Invite in Hinsdale on Sept. 7. She ran a 17:34.10, which was five seconds behind Hinsdale Central’s Alexa Haff.

The Trevians placed fourth overall (90 points). Kelli Schmidt (19th, 28:45), Katherine Ho (25th, 19:06), Anna Sanfilippo (26th, 19:07) and Oona Jung-Beeman (28th, 19:13) rounded out the team’s top five.

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Girls Cross Country: The senior, who placed 51st at last year’s IHSA Class 1A state meet, is off to a flying start. One of only two runners for Woodlands, Watts

took eighth at the Art Campbell Lake County Invite on Sept. 3. Her time on the Waukegan Sports Park course was 19:39.9, which was eight seconds better the Libertyville’s Kristi Del Prato.

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Field Hockey: She compiled two goals and an assist to lead the Scouts to an 8-0 victory over Woodlands on Sept. 5. LF’s balanced attack also featured goals from Lindsey Close, Katherine Kallergis, Caroline Blank, Kelly Nolan, Emily Cavalaris and Ginny McGowan. Elise Wong, Nicole Beshilas, Kenny Adams, Close, Blank, Kallergis and McGowan had the assists.

On Aug. 30-31, LF won its pool in the Gateway Classic in St. Louis. The highlight was beating reign-ing Missouri state champ Cor Jesu 1-0. Off an assist by Nolan, Emily George hammered in the game-winner. Goalie Chandler Scoco recorded two shutouts at the tourney.

And, on Aug. 28, the Scouts topped Lake Forest Academy 6-1 in their season opener. Hallie Frain, Adams, Cavalaris, Blank, Warren and George scored LF’s goals.

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Football: The star running back averaged more than 10 yards per carry (13-139) and scored three touchdowns — 58, 1 and 35 yards — in his team’s 39-19 win over visiting Grant on Sept. 6.

The Scouts (2-0), who were scheduled to host Mundelein on Sept. 12, also received touchdown runs from Trent Williams (19 yards) and Jack Yale (1 yard). Kyle Gattari added a 38-yard field goal in the second quarter and finished 4 for 4 on PAT kicks.

Quarterback Regis Durbin also put up good numbers: 10-19-1 passing for 126 yards. David Glynn had three catches for 35 yards. Geno Quaid hauled in a 31-yard reception.

Quaid led the team in tackles (8). Jack Kutschke was credited with 7 ½ tackles, while Jack Traynor made seven stops, including one for a loss. Charles Moss, Andrew Nelson and Connor Adams also recorded tack-les for loss, while Joseph Beible had the team’s lone interception.

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Football: Johnson was a bright spot on defense in NT’s 42-6 loss to host Warren on Sept. 6. Late in the third quarter, he not only forced a fumble on a 9-yard tackle for loss but he also recovered the loose ball. In the fourth period, he recorded a five-yard quarterback sack.

Snyder was part of two big offensive plays. Late in the second quarter, he completed a 34-yard pass to Spencer Cotten (3 catches, 70 yards) on a gimmick play (wide receiver option pass). And, on the last play of the game, he caught a nine-yard TD pass from back-up QB Matt McCaffery.

The Trevians, who were scheduled to play Niles North on Sept. 12, also had a successful fake punt early in sec-ond quarter, when McCaffery — the up man — took the snap and raced 27 yards for a first down.

Danny Hines also made a play for NT, intercepting a pass in the first quarter.

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Football: The senior quarterback accounted for a big chuck of LA’s yards — 114 rushing, 128 passing — in its 44-20 win over O’Fallon on Sept. 7 in East St. Louis.

His afternoon included a one-yard TD run and an eight-yard TD pass Joe Joyce.

Joyce finished the game with three catches for 44 yards. Three also was the number of made field goals by Mike Kurzydlowski, who connected from 34, 30 and 41 yards.

LA’s running game also featured Julius Holley (18-73) and Donnel Haley (7-63). Haley had a pair of fourth-quarter TD runs: 20 and 10 yards.

John Kecki was one of the defensive stars. He scored on a seven-yard interception return in the third quarter. Andrew Cerney and Mark Dowdle also had interceptions.

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Football: This tandem played a huge role in HP’s 31-12 victory over host Mundelein on Sept. 6. Sutker threw for 235 yards and three touchdowns as the Giants improved to 2-0. The senior quarterback also had a rushing TD.

McGuire, who was making his first start, caught three passes for 117 yards. With starting wideout Jeremy Levin sidelined with an ankle injury, the Giants needed McGuire to step up.

The Giants, who were scheduled to host Evanston on Sept. 12, received a strong defensive effort from line-backer Jason Goldsmith (14 tackles). Aaron Weinstein made an interception.

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Football: The junior scored two touchdowns — a 75-yard reception and a 35-yard fumble recovery — in his team’s 48-31 loss to host Bishop McNamara on Sept. 6. Brissett now has three touchdowns for the Caxys (0-2) on the young season.

Quarterback Chris Karamanos (4-9, 113 yards) also threw a 57-yard touchdown pass to Malcolm Chaka.

Nick Frystak had a solid two-way showing. He led the team in tackles (7) and rushing (4-104).

Other stat leaders included Kurtis Burton-Rowe (9 rushes, 45 yards), Thomas Schaffer (6 tackles) and Wesley Annan (6 tackles).

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Boys Golf: The senior claimed medalist honors (68) at the Deerfield Invite on Sept. 7 at Twin Orchard, when he won the playoff over Lake Forest’s Mac Montagne with a birdie on the second hole.

Sparked by Flavin, the Giants edged New Trier 295-296 for the team title. Noah Apter shot a 71 (5th), while Noah Fishbein and Daniel Hetlinger added 78s (tied for 23rd).

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Boys Golf: Highlighted by Montagne’s 68 (second place), the Scouts scored a 297 to finish third in the tough Deerfield Invite on Sept. 7. Drew Barrett and Jack Garrity recorded 76s to place in a four-way tie for 15th place. Jacques Zureikat shot a 77 (tied for 19th).

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Boys Golf: Led by this duo, the Trevians ended up with runner-up honors (296 points) in the Deerfield Invite at Twin Orchard on Sept. 7. Connelly and Junge finished with 72s for a share of sixth place.

Nick iserloth (75, tied for 12th) and David Bradnfonbrener (77, tied for 19th) also figured in the scoring.

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Boys Golf: He shot a 72 and finished in a three-tie for sixth place in the Deerfield Invite at Twin Orchard on Sept. 7. Tyler Aldrich carded a 77 to share 19th place. The Ramblers finished sixth with a 306.

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Soccer: The senior tallied two goals to help the Scouts turn back host Loyola 6-2 on Sept. 5. LF’s attack also featured goals by Robert Schyns, Matt Moderwell, John O’Connor and Keegan Filkin. Goalie Jack Sentell had four saves on a defense which also featured Sam Danneker and Hunter Moore.

On Sept. 4, the Scouts (3-2-1) played Niles North to a 1-1 tie. Paul Passalino had the team’s lone goal.

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■ by bill mclean [email protected]

Shortly after the start of what looks to be another highly successful girls tennis season at Lake Forest High School, Scouts coach Denise Murphy praised a finisher last weekend.

Senior Victoria Falk’s primarily strength in doubles is her ability to end points quickly at the net.

“I love her movement on the court and how instinctive she is, especially up close,” Murphy said during morning matches of the Deerfield Invite on Sept. 7. “Victoria anticipates so well.

“She’ll be a force for us in doubles, no doubt,” the coach added.

But Falk — a two-time state qualifier in doubles — battled in singles last week-end, claiming the No. 2 title to help LF net runner-up honors (29.5 points) behind Stevenson (41). The co-captain dropped only a combined nine games in three matches, including a 6-0, 6-3 defeat of New Trier’s Laura Swenson in the final.

Murphy paired sisters Elizabeth Zordani and Christina Zordani at No. 1 doubles at the eight-team gathering. Elizabeth, a senior, placed fifth in singles for the state champion Scouts last fall, while Christina, a sophomore, and Maddie Lipp (LFHS, ’13) captured the doubles championship. “Z-squared” cruised to the Scouts’ other flight title last weekend, capping their day with an impressive 6-1, 6-1 win over Stevenson’s Alexxis Kiven and Kendall Kirsch.

Kiven/Kirsch took third at the state meet two years ago.

“We’re extremely deep, and it’s so inspiring to see our talented players working as hard as they do,” said Murphy, who also guided LF to the state title in 2010. “I have [lineup] choices with this group, so many choices.

“We’re mixing and matching now, trying to pair up our strengths in doubles as best we can and seeing who rises in singles.”

LF’s other co-captain, senior Catherine Orfanos, fell 6-4, 6-3 to Stevenson’s Zoe Manion in the No. 1 singles final last week-end after winning a pair of straight-set matches. Orfanos won three of five singles matches at state last fall.

Her value to this year’s team isn’t restricted to the winners she strikes in matches.

“Cat’s always there to pump everybody up and keep everybody positive,” Murphy said.

LF’s No. 2 doubles team of juniors Margaux Miller and Colleen Morris co-authored the team’s other runner-up effort; sophomore Zoe Park (No. 3 singles), junior Natassia Najman (No. 4 singles) and junior Caroline Asmussen/sophomore Brynn Carlson (No. 3 doubles) each contributed a third-place flight finish.

Asmussen/Carlson defeated an Oak Park-River Forest HS pair 6-4, 6-0 in their match for third place.

“She’s aggressive at the net, like a tiger up there,” Asmussen said of Carlson.

Senior Olivia Murphy and sophomore Sofie Koppmann competed at No. 4 doubles for the Scouts.

“We’re all close, on and off the court,” Asmussen said.

“We’re tight-knit, and our motto, our thing, is, ‘Psyched,’ ” added Carlson.

Look for “Psyched” on the back of the Scouts’ shirts again this fall. It’s their

rallying roar.“We also like to dig deep, though that’s

not on a T-shirt yet,” Murphy said. “Digging deep — that’s how we roll.”

Notable: A shorthanded crew of Scouts went 2-1 in duals at the New Trier Invite on Aug. 31, topping New Trier Green and Oak Park-River Forest. Inclement weather prevented teams at other sites from complet-ing matches. … Lake Forest’s girls tennis program hands out (Wizard of) Oz Awards after each season. Last year’s honorees were Asmussen (Courage), Murphy (Heart) and ’13 graduate Lucy Lincoln (Brains). … Lipp and Taya Zoubareva represented LF’s Class of 2013 at state last fall. Zoubareva and

Falk went 5-2 as doubles partners, with their biggest win (a 6-4, 6-4 decision) com-ing against second-seeded Tiffany Chen/Katie Lee of Hinsdale Central in a conso-lation-round match. Zoubareva and Falk were seeded 9-16. … Blessed with artis-tic talent, Falk designed the Scouts’ bag tags this fall. … Elizabeth Zordani earned team MVP honors last fall. … Murphy, on the Zordani sisters: “They get along and they constantly challenge each other at our practices. Neither tries to be the alpha sis-ter; each helps raise the other’s game.” … Asmussen, on Murphy: “She’s passionate about tennis, about our team. She stresses fitness, with an emphasis on footwork.” ■

‘Z’ best: Sisters Christina and Elizabeth Zordani huddle after a point at the Deerfield Invite. They took first at No. 1 doubles.


‘PsyCHed’Lake Forest’s deep tennis team poised for another big season


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Most Division I volleyball players begin their high school careers on varsity or as key members of the sophomore team.

Loyola Academy senior middle blocker Kelsey O’Neill took a different path. Already close to her full 6-foot-1 height as a freshman, O’Neill played with her classmates … on the freshman B team.

How would O’Neill describe herself back then?“Super skinny, not very strong,” she said. “I just played for fun and I remember how

much I wanted to make any team. I didn’t really have the skills yet.”From there, O’Neill progressed and was a key member of the sophomore team the fol-

lowing year.“She was so much better and I remember wondering what happened to her in the off-

season,” senior outside hitter Victoria Lord.Of course, as a sophomore, O’Neill was just scratching the surface. She exploded onto the

scene that summer, earning an invitation to try out for the USA Volleyball program. She earned a spot on the Youth A1 team, which is one notch below her age-group national team.

She followed that up with a dominating junior season for Loyola Academy and is poised for an even better senior season. Earlier in the year, she gave a verbal commitment to play in college for the University of Pittsburgh where she will also pursue her dream of becoming a doctor.

Loyola Academy coach Mark Chang said that even though O’Neill was still a bit raw as a sophomore, it was clear she had massive potential.

“She moved very effortlessly and you could tell by her facial reactions after good plays and mistakes that she wanted to get better,” he said. “That summer, she grew her vol-leyball acumen and her athleticism improved. That brought about a major change in her game and was really a formative summer.”

Playing with USA Volleyball invigorated O’Neill and drove her to continue to develop her game.

“When you play people at that high of a level, it makes you want to get better so you can be as good as them,” she said. “Going up (against taller players), I had to be smarter about my shots and where to place them.”

As a junior at Loyola Academy, she anchored the Ramblers’ attack and the team advanced to an IHSA regional final. This season, the Ramblers have won seven of their first eight matches including a victory over Niles North, the team which bounced them from the 2012 playoffs. Loyola Academy placed second at the well-regarded New Trier Summer’s End Tournament.

“Our team is pretty good young but we have some really good skilled players,” O’Neill saidOne of those is sophomore setter Katie Randolph.“It’s awesome to have her as a go-to hitter,” Randolph said. “We have a really good

connection.”To prepare for her senior season, O’Neill played club volleyball and also spent more time

with USA Volleyball. In addition, she found the free time to attend open gyms where she played against boys on their taller net.

“I improved my vertical a lot by playing against them,” she said. “I had to reach a lot higher and focus more on my contact.”

As her skills have grown and expanded, so has her passion for the game.“I love the team aspect, the intensity and how during a game you don’t think about

anything else,” she said. “It keeps you focused and you play with really high energy all the time.”

Upon graduation, O’Neill is excited to continue developing as a player and student at the University of Pittsburgh. Interestingly, the roster is peppered with area players: Delaney Clesen (Evanston Township High School), Casey Durham (Evanston), Amanda Orchard (Lake Zurich), Jenna Jacobson (Whitney Young) and Jessica Boddy (Metea Valley).

O’Neill also seriously considered Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown.“I got a really good sense of what the school was about and I liked the medical center,”

she said. “I love the volleyball program and the new coaches. I could tell it was the right fit for me.” ■

realizing her potentialPitt-bound O’Neill playing at high level for Ramblers

Kelsey O’Neill (No. 1) teams with Julia Murphy during action at the New Trier Sum-mer’s End Tournament. O’Neill will play college volleyball at the University of Pitts-burgh.


nt volleyball team off to a fast start■ by t.j. brown [email protected]

New Trier High School vaunted volleyball team took care of business, breezing to a first-place showing in its own Summer’s End Tournament.

After going 3-0 in pool play, the Trevians beat Niles West 25-8, 25-13 in the semifinal and Loyola 25-7, 25-15 in the final on Sept. 7.

“I am proud of the girls, the depth of the team,” NT head coach Hannah Hsieh said. “We played around with several lineups and everyone stepped up when given the

opportunity to play.”The Trevians (6-0) entered this season as the defending

IHSA Class 4A runner-up. While New Trier lost leaders such as Brittani Steinberg (Yale) and Maggie Carragher (Carleton) to graduation, the team has plenty of firepower in seniors Taylor Tashima (Northwestern), MC Magner, Haley Fauntleroy (Virginia), Abbey Boyd and Emily Friedler along with junior Sarah Shafiq (Cal-Berkeley).

Tashima, who spent the summer playing for the U.S. Youth National Team, was rated the 10th-best high school player in the country by Prepvolleyball.com. Fauntleroy was rated 54th.

Notable: Carragher has only been at Carleton for a few weeks, but she is quickly making a name for herself. In a weekend tournament at Macalester College in St. Paul, Carragher furnished 8 kills in a 25-16, 25-11, 25-11 win over Northland College.

Meanwhile, Steinberg is already drawing notice in New Haven. According to the student newspaper Yale Daily News, Steinberg is third on the Bulldogs in points and second in kills per set. She was a big part of Yale’s 2-1 performance in its Yale Invitational, where the Bulldogs lost to Missouri but beat Colgate and Seton Hall. ■

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CAtCHing AttentionFormer HP star Lundevall receives Ivy League preseason accolades■ by bill mclean [email protected]

As a junior wideout at Highland Park High School dur-ing the 2006 football season, Tellef Lundevall finished with four receptions.

As a wideout last fall for Brown University, he amassed 17 receptions — in a game. But the only number that mat-tered to the 6-foot-4, 210-pounder that day was 20.

Host Penn had scored that many points.Lundevall and the rest of Brown’s Bears managed 17.“Tellef was quite upset after the loss,” recalled Brown coach

Phil Estes, in his 16th season at the school. “It didn’t matter that some of his catches were spectacular. One of the most competitive players I’ve ever coached doesn’t care about his stats; he cares about wins, about helping his team win.”

The 2008 HPHS graduate is a fifth-year senior at Brown this fall, just like his good friend and Bears quarterback Pat Donnelly. The pair met at Phillips Exeter (N.H.) Acad-emy in 2008 before matriculating the following year at the Ivy League school in Providence, R.I.

“I had 100-percent confidence each time I threw to Tellef that day,” Donnelly said of Lundevall’s 17-catch, 170-yard, one-touchdown day at Penn. “He was giving the secondary fits, making some big catches. He won the matchups, caught everything.”

Born in Norway and a resident of Australia for three years, Lundevall caught his first football well after moving to Highland Park as a second-grader.

“I played mostly tennis and soccer in Australia,” Lunde-vall said. “Football captivated me more and more as I got closer to high school.”

Basketball enthralled him, too. Lundevall starred for coach Paul Harris and the Giants at HPHS, earning all-Central Suburban League honors and qualifying for the state finals in the Three-Point Showdown as a sophomore.

As a senior, months after setting a school record for most receiving yards in a game (217), he competed in the state slam dunk contest.

“An exceptional athlete and a tremendous competitor, that’s Tellef,” Brown offensive coordinator Frank Sheehan said. “There’s no throttle in him; he’s pedal to the metal, always. But he’s also special for a number of other reasons, particularly his love for the game. That love drives Tellef to devote considerable time to film study and makes him practice as hard as he practices.

“He is,” Sheehan added, “a football rat.”Lundevall paced Brown in receiving in each of the last

two seasons and ranks fifth in school history with 155 ca-reer reception. He landed all-Ivy League second-team hon-ors last fall after coming down with 72 grabs for 718 yards in a 7-3 season, 4-3 (third place) in league play.

A 2013 Preseason First Team All-Ivy pick by College

Football Preview publisher Phil Steele, Lundevall also was named to the College Football Performance Awards 2013 Watch List.

“I’ve never seen Tellef take a play off,” said Donnelly, a native of Massachusetts who visited Lundevall for five weeks this summer and worked out with him at EFT Sports Performance in Highland Park. “He plays so hard and with so much heart and passion. He’s big and physical and good in traffic, and he never shies away from contact. In fact, Tellef usually initiates contact.”

Lundevall got physical at Brown for one season of bas-ketball, in 2011-12. He had wanted to try hoops earlier in his collegiate career, but a broken left foot his freshman year derailed that plan.

“It was a good experience, playing that one season of basketball,” said Lundevall, who has suffered a broken right foot twice. “I’m glad I was able to compete at the next level in that sport as well.”

It’s now all about football and gaining a shot at making an NFL team in 2014 for Lundevall, whose mother Jessica’s brother-in-law is former Major League infielder and cur-rent San Diego Padres executive Mark Loretta.

“I’m going to have to excel at Brown this fall to keep that dream alive,” said Lundevall, who is majoring in econom-ics and in line to graduate in December. “If I do get that opportunity, credit will have to go to my coaches [at HPHS and Brown], to the great people at EFT, to so many people. I got to work with wide receivers there [EFT], wide receiv-ers who are at the next level.”

Looking back at his monster receiving game against Penn last fall, Lundevall — still stinging from the loss — tossed around some more credit.

None of it boomeranged to him.“My coaches, my quarterback, our other wide receivers

… they all had a lot to do [with the 17 catches].”Lundevall still keeps in touch with former Giants varsity

football coach Kurt Weinberg (now serving as head coach at Lyons Township). He recently completed a third year as a counselor-owner at Camp Cuamba in Highland Park, a summer day camp for 7-, 8- and 9-year-olds. A fan of nov-els, fantasy books, rock music and animals, Lundevall and HPHS classmate Nick Wieczorek are working on a mobile app, Cliqster. When it’s launched, it will help users meet people in an urban environment and develop meaningful relationships.

On Aug. 8, Lundevall woke up super early and drove to Brown to prepare for his final collegiate training camp. The Bears don’t play their season opener until Sept. 21, against Georgetown’s Hoyas, who will have played three games by then.

That means there should be plenty of time this month and next for Estes to take Lundevall on — in basketball.

“I’d beat Tellef one-on-one with my three-point shots, no problem,” said Estes, second all-time at Brown in career football victories (92). “I would out-physical him, too. You tell him that, OK?”

Lundevall was told that.But the ultra-competitive, ever-reliable wideout refused

to get caught up in a war of words (mostly fun-loving) with his head coach. Instead, he paused and said, “So that’s what my coach said, huh?”

Lundevall then paused again, perhaps envisioning the kind of vicious dunk he’d throw down on his three-time Ivy League champion coach.

The former two-sport Giants star continued to take the high road, while waiting to field a question about another topic.

Estes, though, did not hold back as he turned serious about his prized pass catcher.

“I love Tellef, and I treat him like a son,” he said. “He’s a heck of a kid. Not too many out there like him.

“Whenever he’s on the field, he wants to dominate the situ-ation, no matter what it is. He’s a special player, with the kind of drive and toughness you want in all of your players.” ■

Highland Park High School grad Tellef Lundevall is a 2013 Preseason First Team All-Ivy pick.

photography by aspics.com

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Soccer: He finished the four-match set at the Barrington Tournament with two shutouts.

Sparked by Jaggard, the Trevians played Lake Zurich to 0-0 tie in the third-place match on Sept. 7.

On Sept. 5, New Trier and Crystal Lake South went scoreless.

The team also tied Rockford Boylan 2-2 on Sept. 6. Spencer Farina and Charlie Malkin scored. Jamie Minturn and Dillon Gunther had the assists.

And in the tourney opener on Sept. 2, NT downed St. Charles North 4-1 on goals by Jack Cornelo, Will Belliel, Steven Childs and Malkin. The assists went to Spencer Farina, Belliel and Childs.

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Tennis: She finished 3-0 to win No. 4 singles at the Deerfield Invite on Sept. 7. Abt defeated Stevenson’s Rachel Mopper 6-3, 6-2 in the championships.

At No. 3 doubles, Liz Raab and Rachel Retsky advanced to the final before losing 6-1, 6-2 to Stevenson.

At No. 2 doubles, Kim Rhum and Casey Frommer took third place.

The Giants tallied 21 points to finish in a tie for third place with New Trier.

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Tennis: Swenson took second place at No. 2 singles at

the Deerfield Invite on Sept. 7. She dropped a 6-0, 6-3 decision to Lake Forest’s Victoria Falk.

Lubin also made it to the final at No. 3 singles where she fell to Stevenson’s Lena Arafa 6-2, 6-3.

New Trier, which tied Highland Park for third place with 21 points, also received a second-place finish from Amanda Newmark and Lily Stein at No. 4 doubles.

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Volleyball: The freshman setter was credited with 12 assists in her team’s 25-18, 25-18 setback to Glenbrook South on Sept. 3. Jenna Dethlefsen and Ashley Williams finished with four kills each.

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09/14 – 09/15/13 THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND perfect weekend | 55

We went camping last year in the summer for three days at Turkey Run State Camp near In-dianapolis. It was our first time camping with our kids Ethan (12) and Audree (10) — and it was a total blast.

A bunch of our neighbors decided to go and drive down together. There’s a meat market near our home, and we bought food there to eat while camping.

Camping out was incredible. We had no elec-tronics. We hung out at the campfire, and the kids put on a talent show. We cooked steaks one night over the open fire. It was totally peaceful at night — you could see a million stars com-pared to here.

One day we took an all-day hike. We also went horseback riding and canoeing. The weather was boiling hot, and there was a drought — so when we went canoeing, there weren’t any rag-ing rapids. The site also has an awesome pool — no diving board, but it’s humongous. The campground itself is huge with great ravines.

We had all camped out separately before but never together. It was a great experience.

Lisa and Wes Spewic, as told to David Sweet. ■

“Camping out was incred-ible. we had no electronics. we hung out at the campfire, and the kids put on a talent show.”

For lisA And westhe great outdoors is hard to beat

Lisa and Wes Spewic plan to enjoy the great indoors when they attend Oktoberfest, the Gorton Drop-In Center fundraiser, on Sept. 27.


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