Articles from the February 6, 2020 edition


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  • This week's cover

    Updated Feb 6, 2020

    Middle school musical chairs — The teachers got into the halftime game at the Hinsdale Middle School faculty-student basketball game Friday. Lauren Miller was the unlucky player in this round, while Troy Huber, Kelly Reid and Heather Scott were some of the lucky ones. At the end, with only one chair left, Huber was up against Vicki Johnston. Johnston was the winner after Huber was ejected from the game by ‘referee’ Rocky May. Huber could have been cited for some unspo...

  • Instant replay

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Hinsdale Central's Ron Kruse gets the upper hand on his Hinsdale South opponent in their 170-pound match, while teammate J. T. Pyle squares off in the 182-pound bout. The Red Devils defeated the Hornets in the intra-district contest 71-6....

  • Results

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Basketball, boys Feb. 4 @ St. Viator V loses 51-55 Jan. 31 @ OP-RF V wins 59-57 Isaacson, 31 points Basketball, girls Feb. 4 vs. LT V loses 51-67 Cernugel, 12 points Monyek, 9 points Butler, 8 points Sarros, 7 points Randle, 6 points Conley, 5 points Amegadjie, 3 points Ward, point Feb. 1 @ OP-RF V wins 42-38 Monyek, 14 points Cernugel. 10 points Randle, 8 points Butler, 5 points Sarros, 5 points Gymnastics, girls Feb. 1 @ WSC Silver Meet V places 2nd with 136.1 points All-around Klobach, 2nd, 9.1313 Sommers, 3rd, 8.4875...

  • Student athlete profile

    Pamela Lannom|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Name: Lucas Schiavitti Year: senior Hometown: Hinsdale When did you start playing basketball? Probably preschool or kindergarten. My dad played in high school and I have two older brothers and he coached them, and I would always go and watch their games. That kind of got me into basketball. What do you enjoy most about the sport? Probably the bond that I have with my team and the relationships it creates. Are you better on offense or defense? I preferred playing offense up...

  • Seeking Central sports? Think rink

    Ken Knutson|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    The action was heating up at the Willowbrook Ice Arena Tuesday night, boards rattled by the slam of the puck, followed by the much larger crash with the impacts of players furiously chasing it. The Tuesday night match-up pitting the Hinsdale Central Hockey Club against Naperville North could be seen as one of redemption for the Red Devils after dropping the previous two in the Illinois West league playoff tournament. The team hadn’t lost two consecutive games all year, the r...

  • Pet pic of the week

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Andi is a beautiful buff and white domestic short-haired cat. She is playful and outgoing and would prefer to be your one and only Valentine. She loves to cuddle and snuggle. She is 3 years old, weighs 8.9 pounds and is spayed and up-to-date on her vaccinations. Meet this gorgeous girl and all of the other pets at the Hinsdale Humane Society Tuthill Family Pet Rescue & Resource Center at 21 Salt Creek Lane. The shelter is open from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, noon to 6 p.m....

  • Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to sex education

    Rachel Simmons|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    For parents, it can be a nerve-racking time as children start to reach the age where they are old enough to learn about pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The child needs not only to understand the ways in which these can occur, but also the importance of prevention. Navigating this topic with a child can be stressful, and many parents feel as though they are not well enough equipped to answer questions or discuss this subject; which, despite many efforts to...

  • Pamela Lannom|Updated Feb 5, 2020

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  • Good news

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    COLLEGE STUDENTS MAKE DEAN’S LIST Several Hinsdale residents have earned a place on the dean’s list or equivalent at their respective colleges and universities for the fall 2019 semester. Nicholas Alfano, University of Iowa Molly Allen, University of Iowa Christina Aucoin, University of Iowa Thomas Batina, University of Alabama* Austin Feldman, University of Alabama Olivia Fix, University of Alabama* Jorune Gurevicius, Augustana College Paige Hart, University of Iowa Stanley Heimke, Carthage College Grace Hennessy, Uni...

  • Ask an expert - Lisa Hikes, guidance counselor

    Ken Knutson|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    What's it like being a school counselor? Lisa Hikes works in the "heart" of Hinsdale Central High School. That's how her former boss described the counseling department, anyway, where Hikes and her colleagues address student needs ranging from lunchroom anxiety to college admissions. She's been walking alongside Red Devils for 19 years, helping to shape their evolution from freshman to senior. "We're really the only people in the building that will have students for four...

  • Corey Nelson

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Corey Nelson, 50, of Western Springs passed away peacefully Dec. 20, surrounded by his family and friends. Corey will always be remembered for his kind heart, sense of goodness, love for family and friends and the ever-present twinkle in his eye. Throughout his childhood growing up in Natick, Mass., Corey had a zest for life and embraced his New England upbringing. That shaped his lifelong passion for the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics, which he enthusiastically shared with his children. He graduated with a bachelor’s from t...

  • Dorothy Witmer Johnson

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Dorothy Witmer Johnson, 93, of Minot, N.D., passed away Jan. 29, 2020, at the Benedictine Living Center in Garrison, N.D., surrounded by her husband, Weyburn and son, Wayne, as the BLC’s nurse and spiritual director provided compassionate guidance and care. Dorothy was born in 1926, along with her twin sister, Doris, to John and Sylvia Witmer. The twins and their three siblings — Helen, Beulah and Raymond — grew up on a farm near Brown City, Mich. Dorothy attended a one-room country schoolhouse and then graduated co-sa...

  • Police beat

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Hinsdale police distributed the following reports Feb. 4. DUI arrests • William C. Koziel, 26, 6707 Lake Shore Drive, No. 3, Westmont, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, illegal transportation of open alcohol, speeding and driving an uninsured vehicle at 12:18 a.m. Jan. 30 in the 10 block of East 55th Street. He was charged and released to appear in court. • Calvin Albert Adriani, 24, 111 S. Wilmette Ave., Westmont, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a blood-alcohol con...

  • Chet and Ron and the quality of regret

    Jack Fredrickson|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    The small stack of elderly firewood beside my garage occasionally reminds me of Chet and Ron. They were my first two project bosses after I was hired by a management consulting firm, soon after grad school. Guys in their late 50s, Chet and Ron were managers of big consulting contracts for airlines, insurance companies, manufacturers. As a rookie "green pea" analyst, my job was to collect data and run my thinking by them before parading it before a client. My chief task,...

  • Hard for me to see halftime show as empowering

    Pamela Lannom|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Everyone seems to be able to agree on one thing about Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show. It was sexy. So sexy, in fact, that my 11-year-old covered her head at one point with a blanket and remained hidden for most of the performance by Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. Two adult friends shared their feedback with me Monday. One guy, married with no kids, said he appreciated the Latina influence and enjoyed watching Shakira and J-Lo try to out-dance one another. The other, a mom who...

  • Life with a healthy heart is so much sweeter

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Hearts are everywhere this month — but not all of them are for Valentine’s Day. For the past 56 years, February has been American Heart Month. President Lydon B. Johnson issued the first proclamation in February 1964, nine years after he suffered a heart attack. Science has advanced medicine in exciting new ways since that time, but heart disease remains the No. 1 killer of Americans, taking more lives than all forms of cancer combined. Seventy-two percent of Americans don’t consider themselves at risk for heart disea...

  • Teen's lifelong curiosity leads to earth-friendly discovery

    Sandy Illian Bosch|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Herbert Wang said his love of science is something his father began fostering when he was just a child. Rather than quiz his son on the periodic table or test his knowledge of mathematical theories, Jin Wang asked a simple question, over and over again: "How does it work?" The curiosity and knowledge that resulted from asking and answering that question time and again is what Wang believes led him to where he is today - the laboratory at University of Chicago. That's where, as...

  • Meeting roundup

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Hinsdale Village Board Among other business Tuesday, trustees • agreed to spend $429,000 to Linblad Construction to pave the lower level of the new parking deck. Trustees initially planned to spend about $263,000 for asphalt in order to lower the cost of the deck. Village President Tom Cauley said there should be enough money in the $300,000 contingency fund to pay for the upgrade. “I don’t want to spend more money then we have to, but I think these funds are well spent,” he said. The item will be up for a vote at the Tue...

  • Weekly agenda

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10 District office 115 W. 55th St., Clarendon Hills On the draft agenda: special education mid-year report, CPI report, FY19 year-end revenue and expense analysis, CSCI survey results, tax abatement, new electrical supply purchase agreement, approval of school fees Hinsdale Firefighters Pension Board 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 Hinsdale South High School 7401...

  • Janowick takes helm of Community House

    Ken Knutson|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Longtime Community House staffer Dan Janowick has been named executive director of the organization. Mary Blue Henneman, chair of The Community House’s board of trustees, announced last week in an email that the board’s executive committee had unanimously tapped Janowick to succeed Annie Krug. “I am thrilled to officially announce the appointment of Dan Janowick to the role,” she stated, adding that Feb. 3 was Janowick’s first day on the job. Henneman cited Janowick’s strong leadership skills and his 15 years working in the o...

  • Police advise resident to lock cars, deter thieves

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Hinsdale police are asking residents to help combat auto thefts in the village after an uptick in overnight auto thefts and auto burglaries since the beginning of December involving unlocked cars with key fobs left inside. In the latest incident, police reported that at 3:46 a.m. Monday, Jan. 27, an officer assigned to special overnight patrols observed a vehicle reported stolen at Third and Princeton streets in the Woodlands neighborhood of Hinsdale. The offenders fled south on County Line Road and then east on the...

  • Life will go on after loss of a loved one

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Pets bring comfort on journey as daugther copes with loss of dad Kathy Burns started grieving long before she lost her dad last year. The process began about five years earlier, when her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The family was familiar with the disease, as Burns' mother had it as well. She made the decision to retire from her job as director of global cash for Meed Johnson so she could travel from her Burr Ridge home to southern Indiana one week every month to...

  • First look at proposed parking plan

    Pamela Lannom|Updated Feb 5, 2020

    Trustees took a test drive Tuesday on a new parking plan for downtown Hinsdale that would go into effect after the parking deck opens in August. The deck at First Street and Garfield Avenue will add 189 spaces on the lower level, increasing the parking supply in downtown Hinsdale by 40 percent, Village President Tom Cauley said. The “3-6-8” plan would allow free parking up to three hours in the central business district and up to six hours in the deck and pay box parking for...

  • Once upon a time

    Updated Feb 5, 2020

    This old home - The house located at 306 S. Garfield Ave. was built for William Coffeen in 1899. According to Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," Coffeen was a director of a baking powder company in Chicago. The company supplied the first local golf club with baking powder cans that were used for the holes. Do you have a Hinsdale photo that is at least 25 years old? We'd love to share it with our readers. Stop by our office at 7 W. First St. or email it to...