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Name: Luke Gatewood Year: senior Hometown: Hinsdale When did you first start playing football? My freshman year. Coach (Tom) Dodd, the freshman coach, recruited me and a bunch of others guys on the team called me out. I've loved it ever since. What do you enjoy most about the sport? We have a family built at Hinsdale Central. All the guys, we have mutual respect for each other. The hard work that goes into the game is something I've grown to love over the past four years. How...
Although trustees had planned to repave Eighth Street with asphalt, an attractive bid has them considering concrete instead. J. Nardulli Concrete submitted the low bid of $1.34 million to pave Eighth Street from Garfield Avenue to County Line Road with asphalt. The board also asked contractors to submit a bid for concrete, and one from G&M Cement Construction came it at $1.48 million. With an additional $50,000 in construction observation costs for concrete, the savings from asphalt totals $192,000. Concrete typically is...
Hinsdale’s Jeff Waters, the top vote-getter among 10 candidates in the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board race, according to unofficial election results, said he is elated for all four winners in Tuesday’s election. “It’s unfortunate that more seats weren’t available, because there were a lot of quality candidates running,” he said. He sees the choice of four newcomers as indicative of voters’ discontent with the current board. He and running mate Peggy James, along with Debbie Levinthal and Terri Walker, who also ran...
The Hinsdale Central girls badminton team ended a season like no other, placing sixth at the state tournament March 30 and April 1 at Hinsdale South High School in Darien. "I knew my No. 1 doubles team, Angelia Berti and Lily McCain, I knew that they were going to get a medal," varsity head coach Katie Maley said. "These girls went to state and did awesome as sophomores. I knew as seniors they were going to dominate and they really did. They had a huge upset against a...
My memories of taking Ainsley to Disney World when she was 5 are magical. We rode many wonderful rides, met many princesses and ate dinner at Cinderella's castle, with Ainsley dressed as a perfect miniature of the palace owner. We picked a week when attendance was historically low and never waited more than 40 minutes in line. We had a slightly different experience over spring break when we visited a crowded Universal Studios and its Islands of Adventure. I usually don't...
With District 181 schools set to resume full-time in person classes next week, the Parry family of Hinsdale is spending spring break enjoying some unscheduled fun. Mom Kristen and her youngest two, Lucy, 5, and Gavin, 3, were at the Robbins Park playground Tuesday afternoon with some friends. Her oldest, Colin, a fourth-grader, and Owen, a second-grader - both Oak School students - were biking with friends. "We take a lot of bike rides," Parry said. "We are at the parks. We...
"And into the forest I go, to lose myself and find my soul." - John Muir How many steps have you logged today? At times, the number listed on our phone or watch seems to be more important than where those steps are leading us - and whether we are enjoying taking them. With the arrival of spring and its temperate weather, the 26,000 acres and 145 miles of trails in DuPage County forest preserves and the 70,000 acres and 350 miles of trails in Cook County forest preserves are...
As this unusual year continues, the relocated football season gets its bearings alongside traditional spring sports such as boys and girls water polo. The coaches of these three programs share insight about their squads in the first of two spring preview articles. Boys gymnastics and the two other fall transplants, boys soccer and girls volleyball, will be featured in the second part April 1 . Football First game: March 19 vs. OP-RF (V wins 42-7) Last year: lost in the first...
How will women be remembered in history? Clearly it depends on whom you ask. Esquire magazine identified the 75 greatest women of all time a couple of years ago. The headline popped up in one of my Google searches Monday afternoon and I was intrigued. I suppose I should not have expected too much after reading the blurb that accompanied the list: “Politicians, pop stars, Native American guides: A definitive list of the women who have shaped the world. Well, inasmuch as definit...
Concerns over science and math curriculum changes in Hinsdale High School District 86 have become a focal point in the Tuesday, April 6, election for school board members. Three incumbents and seven challengers are running for four open seats on the board. Generally speaking, incumbents support the changes and challengers oppose them. This Q & A presents both detractors’ objections and the district’s positions, as articulated by Chris Covino, assistant superintendent for curriculum. What was the impetus for changing the scien...
News last summer about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic struck a chord with eighth-grader Catherine Yan of Hinsdale. She immediately thought about the residents of nursing homes, where she had performed as a kid. "I thought it would be nice to bring this up again and play music for nursing homes," said Yan, who plays piano and French horn. "And that's basically how Magic of Music got started." Yan began recruiting members by reaching out to her friends, including pianist...
Administrators said they are focused on finalizing protocols and procedures for the return to full-time in person school in Community Consolidated District 181 next month. “As you know, we have school going on in full mode, and we’ve been working hard to get ready for April 5,” Superintendent Hector Garcia said at Monday night’s board meeting. The board voted 4-3 Feb. 8 to return to full in-person instruction and agreed to send out a survey asking parents if they want their children to return. Sixty-two percent of families (1...
Last year was a year like no other - especially for the docs who take care of Chicago's professional athletes. "It was kind of eerie - kind of like watching a men's softball league game," Dr. Chuck Bush-Joseph of Hinsdale, a surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush and one of the team doctors for the Chicago White Sox, said of the team's games in empty stadiums. This March looks much different. Spring training is in full swing, and the Sox home opener is set for April 8. But...
Name: Erkan Ozgen Year: senior Hometown: Burr Ridge When did you first start swimming competitively? I was about 5 or 6 years old when I first competed. My mom used to (swim) in high school, so she had my brother start. After watching him, I wanted to start doing it. What do you enjoy most about the sport? Just all the relationships I've made throughout the years I've been swimming. All of those guys are some of my closest friends. Did COVID-19 make it tough to stay in shape i...
Work to replace the 98-year-old, 12-inch water main under West Chicago Avenue from Washington Street to Stough Street will begin later this month. Trustees Tuesday awarded the $1.7 million contract for Phase 2 of the project to John Neri Construction Co., whose bid came in $515,000 under budget. Work is tentatively set to start March 15. Before that project begins, ComEd has construction work to complete on Chicago Avenue from Vine Street to Washington Street. “If you’ve been down Chicago Avenue in the last couple of days, yo...
With favorite authors, it often doesn't matter what their next book is about. Their fans know they want to read it. "There are certain writers, they could write anything and you know you're going to love it. It could be a grocery list and it's amazing," said Hinsdale's Cristina Henriquez, author of two novels and a collection of short stories. Writer Susan O'Byrne of Hinsdale has her list as well. "I will read anything these women produce - it doesn't matter," she said....
Many Hinsdale Central students who said they wanted to attend classes two days a week in person haven't been showing up. "There are a good portion of students, who even though they're in the hybrid, are actually not coming to the hybrid on a regular basis," Chris Covino, assistant superintendent for instruction, said at the Feb. 23 Hinsdale High School District 86 Board meeting. "Given those trends, we want to talk about a change." Under the district's new "fill every seat"...
I remember when my mom first uttered the words. "The doctors are all kids!" she told me. My father, who was a brittle diabetic, had been hospitalized again. My mom - younger at the time than I am now - couldn't believe how youthful the medical professionals looked. From then on, she would periodically offer this assessment of any adult who was under the age of 30. They all looked like kids to her. I heard a similar comment from a co-worker's husband at an office Christmas...
The Muppets are back. And they are offensive. That's the message attached to 18 of the 120 episodes of the family variety show, which Disney Plus launched Friday. You remember them, right? Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, the Swedish Chef? And those crabby old guys in the balcony? I loved watching the show, which aired from 1977-81. I have absolutely no memory of Johnny Cash singing "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" in a barn decorated with the U.S. flag and the Confederate...
Snow and extreme cold are just two of the challenges that have surfaced during construction of the new swimming pool complex at Hinsdale Central High School, but the facility is expected to be completed in June. "(We) have had some challenges with a couple of different contracts that we worked through and obviously (we're) hampered somewhat by the significant snowfall that has fallen over the last three weeks," Marty Platten of Pepper Construction said at Friday's Hinsdale...
With years of playing sports under her belt and a degree in communications, a young Katie Maley planned to go into sports broadcasting. As a senior at DePauw University, she secured an internship at Comcast Sports Net. She loved meeting the athletes and logging play-by-plays. She did not enjoy working 3 to midnight every Friday and Saturday night. "I kind of realized getting into sports (broadcasting) was not what I thought it was going to be," she said. With a double major in...
