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At Hinsdale Covenant Church's annual vacation Bible school, fun shares a pew with prayer and scripture. Covsports offered kids in first through sixth grades the chance to play a favorite sport, learn a new one, expand their dance and cheerleading moves or tap into their artistic creativity, all while learning about the role God plays in all of it. Before embarking on their chosen activity last week, campers began each day of the four-day camp in the church's sanctuary. Led by...
Members of St. Isaac Jogues and Notre Dame parishes participated in the annual Corpus Christi Eucharistic Procession June 3. Following Mass at St. Isaac's, more than 1,500 people joined in the procession to Notre Dame in Clarendon Hills. Along the way, Mass was celebrated in two locations in Hinsdale. The participants march up Stough Street about to cross the tracks at the West Hinsdale station. Please turn to Page 29 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Earlier this month, the Hinsdale Devils Black 12U travel baseball team rolled in Cooperstown, N.Y., for a 5-day tournament. Playing in the bucolic upstate New York town at the southern tip of Otsego Lake is a summer rite of passage for hundreds of youth travel programs around the country, not unlike the pilgrimage fans of the sport make to celebrate the icons of the game enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum located there. Devils team member Ryder McLaurin s...
n Summer Day Camp Through Aug. 9 The Community House 415 W. Eighth St. www.thecommunityhouse.org (630) 323-7500 Kids entering first through eighth grade will create memories and safely enjoy time with their peers. The camp offers a variety of creative learning experiences including sports, drama and environmental awareness to name a few. The camp is broken up into weekly themes, with the field trip, activities and projects for the week related to the theme. Before (7 to 9 a.m.) and after (3 to 6 p.m.) care is offered at an...
Bonded brothers Big Mac & McRib have been together all their lives and must be adopted together. Big Mac is very playful and friendly, and will even let you carry him around like a baby. McRib is a little more on the shy side and depends on his brother to help him be brave. These lovely boys will be turning 1 on June 23. Both cats are neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. The adoption fee for both is $150. For more information, stop by the Hinsdale Humane Society Tuthill...
Copperhill, Tenn., was the site of one of the largest copper producing mines in the country in the early 1900s. By about 1920, however, the copper had been depleted and the environment had been destroyed. "When that copper vein was mined out, the area was devastated economically. Copper mining was about all that they had," said Kevin Pritchett, volunteer leader of the senior high youth program at Grace Episcopal Church in Hinsdale. While conservation efforts have restored the...
What are the newest breast cancer treatments? The area's top oncologists, surgeons and healthcare professionals will provide the latest news in the fight against breast cancer when Wellness House presents Hot Topics in Breast Cancer Saturday, June 22. Following a half hour of gentle yoga, participants in the daylong event will hear about the latest advances in breast cancer treatment and research from an expert panel from 9 to 11 a.m. Among the panelists is Nan Chen of...
Doris Maurine Snedeker, 100, of LaGrange Park, a former longtime resident of Hinsdale Burr Ridge, died May 25, 2024. Born in 1924 in Fayette, Mo., Maurine grew up in Boonville, Mo. and graduated from high school in 1942 and McMurry College in Jacksonville, Ill., in 1946. During her sophomore year of high school she won the Missouri state oratorical contest sponsored by a U.S. congressman and won a trip for her family to visit Washington, D.C. This led to her interest in...
Jean Ann Metcalf, nee Humes, 81, passed away peacefully in Stuart, Fla., on May 27, 2024. She was born in 1943, to Elmer and Ellen Humes in Rochester, New York. Jean's life was marked by love, adventure, reading and travel. She met and married the love of her life, Bruce Metcalf, while attending Northwestern University in Evanston. Their union blossomed into a lifelong partnership brimming with family and exciting memories. Jean's passion for exploring the world remained...
Pamela Lannom’s article with regard to the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival which took place on June 1 and 2 was engaging and informative, with many good quotes from the artists themselves. Unfortunately, after reading it, one would have no idea that an extremely loud anti-Israeli protest disrupted the normal peace and tranquility of the event for almost two hours of the six that the show was open on Sunday. While Ms. Lannom mentioned the cicadas buzzing and the rain on Saturday, saying neither deterred art show attendees, she l...
We are nearing the one-year anniversary of Sean Richards tragic death. Sean was killed on July 17, 2023, while walking on a Hinsdale sidewalk. I would like to thank the Hinsdale Village Board for improving public safety by proactively installing jersey barriers around Fuller’s Car Wash. As a resident of Hinsdale, however, I am concerned by some comments made by Village President Tom Cauley that were reported in Ken Knutson’s June 13 Hinsdalean article. At the June 11 board meeting, Mr. Cauley inserted himself into the mid...
The cicadapocolypse is in full flight. I had hoped that, by some strange fluke of nature, our town would be spared the entomological onslaught. Sadly, I was wrong. All around us now are hundreds of thousands of these bugs. I have heard and read many people describe this event as “wondrous,” or “fascinating” or even “magical.” Of all the words of which I could think, these three are among the very last. Quite simply, they are revoltingly disgusting. They are big. They have f...
Church has been a part of my life since before I can remember. And since I haven’t had to move from town to town over the years, I’ve been able to attend only four churches since I was a kid. The one I spent the most time at, and the one where I experienced the most spiritual growth, is the First United Methodist Church of Western Springs. I attended my last service there last month. Actually it was the final service for the church at 4300 Howard Ave., which started in 188...
Are you a fan of John Grisham? The late Michael Crichton? Danielle Steel? All three have new books out this summer (Grisham’s “Camino Ghosts” and Crichton’s “Eruption” are available now, with Steel’s “Resurrection” due June 25.) Perhaps you have yet to read Hinsdale author Cristina Henriquez’s latest novel, “The Great Divide.” Or maybe you’re a middle schooler working your way through the “Percy Jackson” series or a preschooler sounding out words in your first “I Can Read!” book. Regardless of your age or preference, readin...
Dave Stevens isn't one to collect cars. He and his wife share a Ford F-150 as their sole means of motorized transportation. Yet his basement is filled with pistons, cylinders and other parts from all sorts of vehicles. His collection of components are the fuel for a hobby that Stevens started decades ago, turning used car parts into one-of-a-kind lamps. Stevens said his hobby started with a broken washing machine. Back in the 1990s, he and his wife set out to shop for a new...
The Hinsdalean is looking for volunteer writers to contribute columns once every seven or eight weeks during the school year for a two-year term. To apply, send a sample 450-word column to editor Pamela Lannom at [email protected]. Please provide ideas for three additional columns. The ideas don’t need to be extremely detailed, but they are a factor in the selection process. Applicants should include a name, address and cell number and a few sentences about why they are interesting in writing a column. Student w...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports June 18. Arrest for property damage Richard D. Martinez, 35, 610 The Lane, Hinsdale, was arrested for disorderly conduct, criminal trespass to property and criminal damage to property at 5:10 p.m. June 17 when he remained on neighbor’s property after given verbal notice to leave. He damaged property and knocked over a portable basketball hoop and made comments and threats of an alarming and disturbing nature. He was cited and released to appear in court. Warrant arrest A...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board members are poised to approve a tentative budget of $136.8 million for fiscal year 2025. At the June 13 committee of the whole meeting, Josh Stephenson, the district's chief financial officer, told the four board members in attendance the proposed spending plan is a balanced one with revenues projected to virtually match expenditures. Expenditures would be 3.8 percent more than the $131.8 million outlay for fiscal year 2024. The revenues...
Community Consolidated District 181 Board Among other business at their meeting Monday, board members: • held a public hearing on and approved the fiscal year 2024-25 budget, which shows revenues of $86.7 million and expenses of $77.8 million in the operating funds and revenues of $90.5 million and expenses of $105 million for all funds, which includes construction projects for a new district office and full-day kindergarten at six schools. No one spoke at the hearing or has commented on the tentative budget since it went o...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, June 20 District Administrative Center 5500 S. Grant St. www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings On the agenda: self-evaluation meeting in closed session Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, June 27 Hinsdale South High School 7401 Clarendon Hills Road, Darien www.hinsdale86.org/board-of-education/board-meetings Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Thursday, June 20 Hinsdale Public Library 20 E. Maple St. www.hinsdalelibrary.info On the...
Proprietors from the past - Hinsdale's building services supervisor, Jim Piontkowski, took this photo in 1979. Jordell's was located at 21 E. First St. at the time. Currently Blue Mercury calls that location its home. 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 [email protected]....
As part of the Hinsdale Public Library's HPL After Dark series, Imperial Oak Brewing presented a craft beer tasting event recently. Christopher DiBraccio presented information about brewing as well as some background on Imperial Oaks, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Willow Springs and Brookfield. Executive Director Karen Keefe was one of the designated pourers of the four beers sampled. On July 28, HPL After Dark will host a blues summer family concert on the...
Construction projects have started at six elementary schools to enable Community Consolidated School District 181 to offer full-day kindergarten beginning in the 2025-26 school year. “We are making great progress so far in the short amount of time that we’ve been working,” Mike Duggan, facilities director, reported at Monday’s school board meeting. At Oak School, demolition is taking place in the area of the school being remodeled, according to Duggan’s memo to board mem...
