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What's the story on hosta? Homeowners looking to brighten up a shady garden spot or set off their front walkway might want to stop by The Community House Sunday for the Northern Illinois Hosta Society's annual auction and plant sale (see Page 20 for details). Presiding over the 1:30 p.m. auction will be Mark Zilis, a leading expert on the plant as evidenced by his books, "The Hostapedia: An Encyclopedia of Hostas" and "Mark Zilis' Field Guide to Hostas." Zilis earned his maste...
When the American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 to support those returning from the World War I battlefields, many felt "the Great War" veterans organization needed an equally great mate. The American Legion Auxiliary was founded by women committed to serving those who still had health battles to fight back home and their families. Auxiliary eligibility extended to wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of American Legion members or service members "between April 6,...
How do we live like we're dying? "There's a lot more things scarier than death," remarked author, speaker and podcaster Kimberly Paul. Like suffering, for instance. Paul thinks people often conflate the two, so many avoid facing the truth that one's life will end. "We're all dying. How do we live with the knowledge that we are dying every day? Would that change the way that we live? If we can get enough people to think about their mortality every day, our priorities would be...
The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board has given the green light for a 10-lane pool at Hinsdale Central, following administrators’ recommendation but departing from a pre-referendum pledge to build a six-lane swimming facility to match the one at Hinsdale South. A majority of board members voiced support for moving ahead with designs for a larger Central pool, saying it made sense from both a programmatic and economic standpoint. Board member Kathleen Hirsman described how her position shifted from initially opposing a n...
Hinsdale trustees Tuesday signaled unified support for prohibiting recreational cannabis-related businesses within the village. During a first read discussion of an ordinance to ban such establishments, trustees said the village should opt out of allowing dispensaries under the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law in June. “This is not a way that the village should be pursuing a revenue-generating opportunity,” Trustee Scott Banke remarked. “This is just not what this commu...
The National Football League is back in action, and Hinsdale is well-represented. Among the local products competing are former Hinsdale Central standouts and teammates Ian Bunting and Thomas Ives. The tight end and wide receiver, respectively, joined the Chicago Bears as undrafted free agents for the preseason training and game schedule. As a result of their performances, the Bears kept Ives on its 10-member practice squad while the New York Jets signed Bunting to theirs. In...
What constitutes an memorable summer? If you're a professional tennis player like Hinsdale's Caroline Dolehide, the season couldn't have served up a much better sequence of thrills and delights than 2019's just did. To kick it off, the USTA chose Dolehide to represent Team USA at the Pan Am Games in Lima, Peru. It was a smart choice. On Aug. 3, she and partner Usue Arconada became the first American gold medalists in women's doubles since 1991 at the quadrennial sporting...
Chinmay Amin Year: senior Hometown: Westmont What do you remember about your first cross country running experience? I started running when I was in sixth grade. I played tennis, too, but I found that I was enjoying running a lot more that tennis. Once I got to high school I was fully committed to it year-round. What makes it so enjoyable? There's just something about running a lot of miles with a group of guys. You develop a bond that you don't get in other sports. It's reall...
The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that 31 percent of the country's food supply is thrown away. While the majority of that waste is from homes, one-third is from the retail sector. Sadly, food waste is considered the single largest component of municipal landfills. But even more agonizing is wondering how much of a dent that food, if rescued, could make in helping the millions of Americans who struggle with hunger. September is Hunger Action Month, and HCS...
Hinsdale's' Maureen Hegarty just returned from the National Assistance League Conference in Las Vegas. As a longtime member of the village's Assistance League Chicagoland West chapter, she enjoyed the fellowship with other volunteers from the organization's 110 chapters nationwide. "It's really nice to network and share ideas with the different chapters and see how they do things," Hegarty said. One idea that seems unique to ALCW is the New Start program providing kitchen esse...
Advance work began last week on work to rebuild the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Bridge over Interstate 294 as part of the Central Tri-State Tollway widening project. The Illinois Tollway is reconstructing the bridge, which carries the triple-track railroad over I-294 between Hinsdale and Western Springs, to accommodate the reconstruction and widening of the Central Tri-State Tollway. The new bridge will be a longer, wider, two-span steel beam structure that will accommodate four tracks, with the fourth track to be...
Hinsdale's Katherine Legge Memorial Park is serene on a midweek afternoon. Falling chestnuts can be heard periodically thudding onto the damp ground, wet from morning rains. Overhead a large hawk suddenly swoops between towering trees. In a clearing stands a pup tent. Closer inspection reveals it's not really a tent, but a two-sided climber, part of a refurbished nature-based playground at the park thanks to Cole Harris and fellow Troop 52 Boy Scout volunteers. Harris, a...
This is the third and final installment in our series previewing Hinsdale Central High School's fall sports teams. The boys and girls golf teams and football squad and were featured in the Aug. 22 issue, and girls cross country, boys soccer and girls tennis were spotlighted Aug. 29. Those articles are available online at https://www.thehinsdalean.com. Boys cross country First meet: Aug. 27 Red Devil Tri (vs. Benet & Fenwick) Last year: 4th in regional, 5th in sectional, 11th...
Jeanne Walsh said unveiling her own alterations shop in 1987 as a 24-year-old woman was quite avante-garde for the time. "There was a lot of talk of how young I was," Walsh recalled of the decision to open The French Seam. "There was a lot of uproar, which was good for me." Good in that it compelled her to work that much harder to achieve customer satisfaction. And good in that she can now look back on more than 30 years in business in Hinsdale. "The return business was shocki...
Labor Day Weekend is here, to the disgruntlement of many. Summer is packing up, pools will soon be drained and all those fun, enriching activities planned for the season will have to wait another year. Or will they? A slew of events and activities are taking place this holiday weekend to send summer off with a smile. That includes, of course, Hinsdale Community Pool's swan song, with hours from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and noon to 6 p.m. Monday (the wading pool...
If nothing else, Hinsdale's Peter Marcus' overseas study experience this summer taught him one thing: It's a small world. "I was in Rome and we went to this bar on the Fourth of July. I ran into a girl who I hadn't seen since middle school. She had been studying abroad in Rome," he recounted. Pretty remarkable, especially considering Marcus was just visiting Rome on break from his coursework at Trinity College in Oxford, England. The University of Georgia junior took...
Name: Lauren Ridgway Year: senior Hometown: Burr Ridge What are you most excited about this volleyball season? Probably being a captain of varsity because I get to have such a big impact on the younger players. I'm captain for community outreach, so my job is to reach out to the feeder schools to encourage them to come to our games and encourage the younger players to be the best version of ourselves on and off the court. It's great being able to represent the program in that...
No Illinois high school golf program has won eight straight state titles. Now the Hinsdale Central boys team has its sights set on making history after capturing its seventh last fall. Meanwhile, the girls squad is aiming to stay among the state's top contenders as it looks for roster newcomers to step up. And Red Devil football has a new coach and renewed motivation to perform on the gridiron. Football First match: Aug. 30 vs. Naperville North Last year: 8-3, co-conference...
What Social Security considerations should people keep in mind? With about 70 percent of Americans opting to collect their Social Security benefits early, many likely are not making the most of that income potential as it relates to their overall financial picture. John Deppe, regional vice-president for Transamerica and author of "It's Your Money! Simple Strategies to Maximize Your Social Security Income," wants to help people optimize their benefits. Deppe will present the...
Hinsdale police officer Mike Coughlin could have handed in his badge in January after 30 years of service. But duty kept him on a few more months. "I wanted to finish out the school year," said the longtime juvenile and crime prevention officer and familiar figure to current and former Hinsdale youth. "I didn't want to leave them high and dry." Off Cough, as he is affectionately called, retired from the force earlier this month, ending a community-focused career in which he...
With the first day of school in Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 set for Friday, Aug. 23, district board members got reports from administrators on readiness for the 2019-20 school year. John Munch, assistant superintendent of human resources, told the board that the teaching staff, as in years past, has both those with considerable experience and promising young ones. “It’s nice to have a good mix of experiences coming in as this cohort,” Munch said. A couple of late resignations were addressed, he noted...
In the second half of our annual round-up of recent Hinsdale Central student-athlete graduates advancing to college sports programs, we continue sharing the new undergrads' thoughts about their fondest Red Devil memories and collegiate aspirations. Layo Adelakun DePaul University, tennis I'll remember: the team atmosphere and having that bond with all the other players. The first day of the state tournament I had a lot of adrenaline, and it was just really cool. I'm looking...
Super Bowl LIII was fast approaching, and Chris Revord was determined to be in his Hinsdale home, not a Hinsdale hospital bed. His battle with multiple myeloma was taking a heavy physical toll, but it couldn't touch his resolve. "He wanted out so badly, and they didn't really want to let him out," said his wife, Callie, recalling a highly charged exchange between Chris and his doctor over the matter. "So they got him fixed up to come home. And that was actually the last time...
Hinsdale's Ella Russell has spent her summer honing her supernatural powers, theatrically speaking. Russell, 11, is one of two young actors portraying the titular character in BAMtheatre's production of "Matilda" Aug. 2-4 at Nazareth Academy in LaGrange Park (see Page 24 for details). The musical is based on Roald Dahl's beloved novel about a highly precocious girl equipped with telekinetic abilities, which emerge in confrontations with her contemptible parents, Mr. & Mrs....
The final installment of our series on Hinsdale-area microbreweries ventures eastward to explore what's on tap at Blue Nose Brewery, BuckleDown Brewing and Imperial Oak Brewing. And don't forget - tomorrow is International Beer Day, the perfect occasion to pour a pint of something new. There are certainly a lot more crafters and varieties available within just a short drive than ever before. Perhaps one of the nine breweries we've profiled in this series has the brew for you....
