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Balancing act - Livi Dombrowski and Sawyer Myhra work on a skills challenge in Robbins Park Monday afternoon. With Illinois entering Phase 4, the 5 Star Soccer Premier Day Camp was able to resume its annual summer programs in Hinsdale and other locations. Besides the soccer skills being taught, social distancing was a primary focus during the camp. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Hinsdale High School District 86 officials expect in-person learning to resume for the 2020-21 school year. But exactly what that will look like in the midst of a pandemic remains unclear. At the June 25 school board meeting, Superintendent Tammy Prentiss updated board members on the work of the district's Recovery-Revitalization-Restored Committee, a group composed of teachers, department chairs, and building and district administrators charged with crafting return-to-school...
By the end of July, Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 officials hope to have a guidebook and web page that details procedures for reopening schools available to families. “We will continue our conversations in the coming weeks and want to be sure we are incorporating the voices of our teachers, staff, parents and community partners,” Superintendent Hector Garcia wrote in a June 26 email to district families. The district has formed a transition team that includes a school board representative, a PTO president fro...
Nancy Pollak, who served as president of the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board from May 2019 to May 2020, resigned from the board effective July 1. She and her family are permanently relocating to a home they own in Michigan. Pollak had expected to finish her term in 2021 before moving, but the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 altered her plans, she told The Hinsdalean. “We’ve already spent 100 days (in Michigan) this year. It just seemed to make sense,” she said. Asked if her decision was prompted by happenings in th...
FIREFIGHTERS EARN HARTMANN AWARD Six members of the Hinsdale Fire Department recently received the Hartmann Award from the Good Samaritan Hospital EMS System for their efforts to save a man on Aug. 6, 2019. They are Chief/paramedic John Gianelli, Capt./paramedic Michael Neville, Lt./paramedic Andrew Ziemer and firefighter/paramedics Douglas Niemeyer, Patrick Schaberg and Michael Wilson. The fire department was dispatched for a man trapped in a storm drain on a berm about 30 feet off the road who was not breathing. The patient...
Why is pelvic floor health important? In the early months of 2020, physical therapist Khushboo Joshi was busy tweaking a telehealth version of her new private practice as a means of providing pelvic health services to women living in places that lacked easy access to care. In March 2020, that place became Joshi's own home. A physical therapist for 18 years, Joshi opened her own private practice upon moving to Hinsdale earlier this year. Along with a telehealth site that would...
Hinsdale police are alerting residents to a number of auto burglaries that have taken place in Hinsdale in the past week. • A handgun valued at $600 was taken from a vehicle parked in the driveway in the 100 block of South County Line Road between 11 a.m. June 23 and 8:30 a.m. June 24. • A $100 cooler, $100 laptop, $250 computer, $80 headphones, two external hard drives valued at $100, a computer mouse and keyboard and about $5 in change was taken from an unlocked vehicle parked in a driveway in the 400 block of West Hic...
Catherine "Kay" Trankina, nee Doyle, of LaGrange Park, formerly of Burr Ridge, passed away June 23, 2020, at her home. Kay, 96, of LaGrange Park, was born in 1923 in Loogootee, Ind. She was a retired real estate agent. She and her husband were longtime parishioners at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in Hinsdale She was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard; and her siblings, Lela (George) Cik, Betty (Jim) Dowling, George and James (Joan) Doyle. She is survived by her chil...
James A. Schneider, 92, a former 20-year resident of Hinsdale, died June 21, 2020, at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove. He was a seven-year resident of Downers Grove and a former 18-year resident of Clarendon Hills. Jim was an electrical engineer for Commonwealth Edison and retired after 35 years of service. He was preceded in death by his wife of 68 years, Gladys J. Schneider, nee Hilburger; and his parents, William J. and Agnes Emma Christina Schneider, nee...
Joyce C. Hahn, nee Cordts, 88, a 15-year resident of Clarendon Hills, formerly of Hinsdale and Burr Ridge, passed away peacefully June 17, 2020. She was born in 1932, in Pekin to Glenn F. and Blanche A. Cordts. She graduated, as a National Honor Society Member from Pekin Community High School in 1950 and from the School of Nursing at The Methodist Hospital of Central Illinois in 1953. Her first nursing job was at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. Joyce married Jerome J. Hahn,...
Ernest M. Basile, 89, passed away on June 28, 2020, at St. Patrick's Residence in Naperville. Ernest, 89, was born in 1930 in Chicago. He worked as a psychologist and teacher for many years at Moraine Valley Community College. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elaine M. Basile; and his stepson, James Marrero He is survived by his stepchildren, Susan (Steve) Markus, Kathleen (Michael) Pagnano, Richard (Amy) Marrero, Annette (the late Floyd) Garver and Stephen (Paula) Marrer...
Helen Goble Craigmile of Sun City West, Ariz., a former longtime resident of Hinsdale, passed away on June 25, 2020. Helen, 92, was born in 1927 in Evanston to Paul and Helen Goble. She lived for more than 20 years in Hinsdale, where she attended school and met her husband, Winston “Wink.” She attended William Woods College in Missouri and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Helen and Wink spent their married years in Wisconsin, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and finally retired in Arizona. She was...
Dear neighbors — This week, I retire as executive director of HCS Family Services. It wouldn’t, however, be right to leave without sharing my deep thanks with our good-hearted community. Even in these days of social distancing, you’ve come together to make an impact right here in our own backyard. You’ve found many important ways to support local hunger relief. You’ve volunteered, made financial donations and organized food drives for our two food pantries. Please know that we couldn’t have responded to the surging dem...
I think the refugees currently living with my husband and me would have enjoyed Hinsdale's Fourth of July parade. By "refugees" I mean my daughter, Amanda, son-in-law Drew and my 5-year-old granddaughter, Avery. The trio made a hasty exit out of New York City at the end of March, just as the COVID-19 crisis made life there too uncertain for them. After an anxious 12-hour drive across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and on into Illinois, the trio arrived on our doorstep in the midd...
On Tuesday night, the Hinsdale Plan Commission wisely voted 4-2 against imposing any type of moratorium on home demolitions. Even the two members in favor expressed doubts that the proposed six-month duration was actually necessary. Unfortunately, the plan commission is merely an advisory body and the village trustees, who have heard no public testimony, are free to disregard the commission’s vote. The top-down, hastily-conceived moratorium proposed by the board was sparked when current owners of three old homes in S...
Holidays always trigger a lot of memories, and Independence Day is no exception. One of my favorite Fourth of July holidays is quite possibly one of yours as well. In 2013 the Hinsdale parade featured none other than Coach Q and the Stanley Cup. When the fire engine he was riding on made the turn from Garfield Avenue onto First Street, you could hear the roar of the crowd from more than a block away. The first Hinsdale parade I ever attended is etched in my mind as well, for...
The parades won’t be marching past nor fireworks bursting overhead for most of us Saturday. The Fourth of July is next in the unyielding procession of “This is not our normal (fill in the blank)” occasions. Backyard barbecues and pool parties that are held will hopefully by socially distanced or face-mask friendly or both as we find ways to gather while balancing socializing with safety. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to alter life as we knew it. The freedoms we once had when it came to our comings and goings, our excha...
Several years ago a recent immigrant from China who had settled in the Hinsdale area with her family stopped into The Community House, looking for a way to connect with her new neighbors. She met Marcie McGonagle, director of volunteer services, who worked through the language barrier to find a good fit. "I was trying to get a sense of what she would be interested in," McGonagle recounted. "I could sense that she was lonely." She asked the woman if she had made any friends....
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports June 30. Criminal trespass, theft arrest Jamie J. Dubrovay, 57, 38 S. Madison St., Hinsdale, was arrested for battery, criminal trespass to vehicle and theft for removing a briefcase containing $2,000, a $350 watch and other personal items from an ex-boyfriend’s vehicle at 5:35 p.m. May 22. An arrest warrant was obtained June 5, and Dubrovay was served at 4:45 a.m. June 17. After being charged, she was taken to DuPage County Jail. DUI arrest Luz Maria Rivera, 30, 475 Laurel Av...
A total of 193 Hinsdale residents have confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 30, compared to 184 a week ago. The DuPage County Health Department reported 181 confirmed cases in Hinsdale and the Cook County Health Department reported 12 confirmed cases in the village. A total of 168 confirmed cases and 32 deaths are associated with ManorCare in Hinsdale, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Those numbers include residents and staff who might not be DuPage County residents. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had five...
Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 8 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: findings and recommendations on proposed moratorium, continued public hearing on Ryan senior housing development at Ogden and Adams (contingent on submittal of updated plans)...
The man convicted of killing Andrea Urban in the kitchen of her Hinsdale home on May 4, 2017, was sentenced Tuesday to natural life in prison. In sentencing Dominic Sanders of University Park, DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Brian Telander agreed with the jury that the murder was exceptionally brutal and heinous and indicative of wanton cruelty, the legal standard for imposing natural life. A jury in January found Sanders guilty of first-degree murder, home invasion and residential burglary. Telander disagreed with the...
Fun at the club - In 1899 The Hinsdale Club built this building at the corner of Garfield Avenue and First Street. The club was the center of village social life at the time. This photo is from Sandy Williams' book "Images of America - Hinsdale." 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]....
A week before plan commissioners finished their deliberations on a proposed moratorium to stop the demolition of historic homes, Village President Tom Cauley presented a draft ordinance designed to help preserve such homes. The draft is actually a revision to Title 14 of the village code, which covers historic preservation. The new language offers several incentives to homeowners who want to renovate a historic home, including an exemption from floor-area ratio requirements (which regulate the size of a home relative to the...
The Hinsdale Plan Commission does not support a 180-day moratorium on the teardown of historic homes in the village. The 4-2 vote came at the close of a public hearing during which commissioners listened to more than eight hours of comments stretched across three sessions. Because the hearing was held via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic, residents were allowed to call in or submit written comments expressing their opinion. "The village board of trustees wanted community...
