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Even with her requisite 200 hours of training behind her, Piyorose Narakol felt ill equipped on her first day as an au pair. Placed with a host family in Virginia, the young woman from Thailand didn't know how to open a stroller, use a dishwasher or, most critically, attend to the 16-month-old left in her care. "I knew nothing about how to take care of the kids," said Narakol, who earned her 200 hours by volunteering in her mother's school. As owner of Asia Bridge Childcare,...
Suja Mathew's first encounter with Cook County Hospital, now known as John H. Stroger Hospital, wasn't as a physician or even as a medical student. It was as the daughter of a critical patient. That experience 30 years ago led Mathew from a career in foreign service to one dedicated to providing care for underserved populations. Today as chair of medicine for the Cook County Health System, Mathew considers it "a profound privilege" to help lead the team at the same facility...
A bicycle built for one - This photo is from Sandy Williams book, "Images of America - Hinsdale." Sadie Noble is shown with her new bicycle in 1897. Residents across the village loved the form of transportation, and men, women and children all rode around town. During the week almost 100 bicycles were parked at the train station and nearly as many at churches on Sunday. Do you have a Hinsdale photo that is at least 25 years old? We'd love to share it with our readers. Stop by...
There are many lessons to be learned from seeing new places and welcoming new experiences. For the Kapcar family of Hinsdale, the first lesson of their epic 2016 journey to visit America's national parks occurred just seconds after leaving their driveway in their rented motorhome. "We were RV rookies. We didn't know how to do it at all," said Carissa Kapcar, wife of Chris and mother to Jack, Lucy and Vivian, then 12, 8 and 5 years old, of their Preparing the RV and stocking...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports July 28 and Aug. 4. Arrest for domestic battery A 44-year-old Hinsdale woman was arrested for making contact of an insulting or provoking nature with a family member at 1:47 a.m. July 31. She was charged and transported to Cook County Jail. Hit and run arrest Christian Rice, 22, 929 S. La Grange Road, La Grange, was arrested for failing to give aid or information at attended accident involving vehicle damage, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and operating an...
The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board on Monday appointed Tamakia “TJ” Edwards to fill the board vacancy. Edwards is the founder of Inner-View Coaching and Consulting Services as well as the capital construction program manager and project executive for the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Public Buildings Service. The Darien resident and mother of three sons alao has served as a member of the special committee working in conjunction with the district’s facilities committee. She said that joining the board i...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, https://www.d181.org Hinsdale High School District 86 Board 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, https://www.hinsdale86.d86.org Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, https://www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale Village Board 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, https://www.villageofhinsdale.org...
A total of 266 Hinsdale residents have confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of July 21, compared to 249 a week ago. The DuPage County Health Department reported 247 confirmed cases in Hinsdale and the Cook County Health Department reported 19 confirmed cases in the village. A total of 168 confirmed cases and 33 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 three...
With teachers and many families opposing a full, five-day return to school for students amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Community Consolidated School District 181 Board members Monday night approved both a hybrid in-person/remote model and a full remote learning option for the 2020-21 school year. "We need to listen and hear (our constituents) and work with them to come up with the safest plan possible," said Board President Margie Kleber following the 5-1 vote on the reopening pl...
The Illinois High School Association last week issued its modified plan for athletics during the 2020-21 school year, creating condensed seasons and moving some fall sports, including football, to late winter/spring and pushing back the season of traditional spring sports. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing unprecedented changes to the sports landscape, the IHSA, in consultation with the Illinois Department of Public Health, postponed the football, boys soccer and girls...
Sandra Holt didn't intend to become an artist. Although she had enjoyed a career teaching art to others, the purses she began making in retirement were supposed to be nothing more than a hobby. "I just couldn't stop," said Holt, who pairs her talents as an artist with the sewing skills gained from her grandmother to create one-of-a-kind handbags. Using unique fabrics and cork from Portugal, she creates special occasion bags in a variety of shapes and sizes. The bags will be am...
Larry Repel, a 40-year resident of Hinsdale, passed away at his home July 26, 2020. Larry, 51, was born in 1968 in La Grange to William and Mary Anita Repel. Hewas a friend to many, and had an overwhelming sense of humor and an unforgettable personality. He will be missed deeply. Larry is survived by his siblings, Ellen (Cris), Steven (Sarah), Amy, Kenneth (Laura), Neal (Sharon), and Timothy; his nieces and nephews, David, William, Maxine, Miranda, Lincoln, Hugh, Charles,...
Salvador “Toots” Tabuena of Hinsdale passed away on Aug. 3, 2020, in Florida. Born in Manila, Salvador spent most of his youth in the company of his 11 siblings. He later moved to Chicago where he met his wife and eventually settled in Melrose Park to raise a family. He enjoyed golf, had a passion for piano playing and singing and is best known for his sunny, happy-go-lucky disposition. A dutiful husband, devoted father, doting grandfather, fun-loving uncle and cheerful friend, he will be missed by all. Salvador was pre...
Ronald J. Peterman, 77, a former longtime resident of Hinsdale, passed away March 21, 2020, in Germantown, Wis., surrounded by family. Born in 1942 in Berwyn, Ron went to Morton East High School and pursued his college education at Northern Illinois University, earning a degree in science. He spent his entire career teaching at his high school alma mater, Morton East, while living in Hinsdale, before moving to Wisconsin to be closer to family. He was a passionate Chicago...
Rosemarie "Sis" Erdmann, 91, , a former resident of Hinsdale, passed away peacefully July 20, 2020. Sis was born in 1929, in Detroit to Libbie and Paul Pokorny. She received her degree in dental hygiene from the University of Michigan in 1951. She married E. Thomas (Tom) Erdmann Jr. in 1953. Sis was a resident of Hinsdale and Burr Ridge for nearly 60 years. For years, Sis worked in Hinsdale as a dental hygienist at the office of Dr. Donald Thorne, DDS. Her chairside manner...
Bonnie Hallar Bergdoll 87, a longtime resident of Oak Brook, passed away peacefully July 22 in Naples, Fla. Bonnie was born in 1933 in Peoria and graduated from Pekin High School, where she began her lifelong thirst for and appreciation of knowledge. She attended Western Illinois University and graduated from San Jose State University with a major in English Literature and a minor in Music. With her beautiful red hair, Bonnie worked as a professional runway and print model in...
Zdenek Durek, M.D., 82, of Westmont, passed away July 26, 2020. Dr. Durek was born in 1937 and was a devoted family and internal medicine physician, serving the Hinsdale and surrounding communities for many years. He will also be remembered as an author of numerous publications abroad. He is survived by his wife, Milena Durek, née Coufalova; his children, Sandy (Vikkii) Durek, Nicole (Brian) Milnamow, Denise (Daniel) Wright, Matthew, and Lucia Durek; his grandchildren, Delilah, Preston and Calvin Durek, and Tyler and Dylan Mi...
A great American once wrote that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. An overwhelming majority of respondents to a D181-commissioned survey wanted the board to adopt a five-day per week, in-person reopening plan for our schools. Those respondents, and the D181 community at large, were deprived of an up-or-down vote on that reopening plan. The failure to call for a vote on that plan was an injustice. While that injustice is trivial compared to those that Dr. King faced while writing those words from a...
I applaud Pamela Lannom’s July 30 “Democracy at Stake ...” opinion for exposing the left’s double standards and coercive practices. The censorship of John Kass is but one of many examples of cancel culture in action. Rather than pursue facts, journalists genuflect to Twitter mobs. This is happening because no one speaks up. The deafening silence is easily understood when the Twitter mob threatens one’s family and livelihood. And this will worsen as the public sits by idly. What’s next? Banning of “offensive” library books l...
As an ICU physician, I have seen the horrors of COVID-19 up close. I have witnessed firsthand what this virus can do to people, to their bodies, to their spirits and to their families. These patients become frighteningly sick, and they do so frighteningly quickly. In all my years of clinical practice, I have never seen anything like this before. And so, I am a big believer in doing what we can do as individuals to help reduce the spread of this virus. This includes social...
The show must go on - The Hinsdale Dance Academy presented its eighth annual recital as a socially distanced drive-in theater on July 11 and 12. Eleanor Lancey takes her cues from Anne Marie Walsh as they danced to "Sunshine." Please turn to Page 7 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
“I’ve been enjoying your crossword puzzle,” a friend mentioned to me at a party a couple of weeks ago. We tend to get a little insulted when people talk about what they love most in the paper and it’s something — like horoscopes or police beat — that we did not write. But this is a friend I know to be an avid reader of the paper. So I wasn’t offended when he told me he has been enjoying our crossword puzzles. I recognize he is not alone due to the uptick in our phone call vo...
Less than 24 hours after the Illinois High School Association had released its plans for high school sports during the 2020-21 school year, people already were complaining. The plan certainly is not ideal. Instead of a school year with three seasons that last a dozen weeks or so, the IHSA is proposing a year with four shorter seasons. Non-contact fall sports like golf, tennis, cross country and swimming will be played this fall. Other sports that typically open the school year — football, boys soccer and girls volleyball ...
Deeds for the following properties in Hinsdale and Golfview Hills were recorded in DuPage County from June 22 to July 17. 1. 935 N. Madison St., Samuel and Annette Cremin to Eileen and Charles Hiatt, June 22, $630,000 2. 410 W. Eighth Place, Naomi Sullivan to Mark and Amy Molepske, June 22, $650,000 3. 498 Old Surrey Road, Virginia and Mary Kula and the Donald J. Kula Trust to Naishilkumar Patel, June 25, $260,000 4. 510 Burr Oak Place, Sharon Zandell to Arjun Rangarajan and Sripriya Venkataraman, June 26, $405,500 5. 736 S....
Day camp The Community House Summer Camp Through Aug. 21 The Community House 415 W. Eighth St., Hinsdale (630) 323-7500 https://www.thecommunityhouse.org This year’s day camp program for ages 5-14 will have a 40-camper maximum. Children will be broken by age (and siblings) into groups of 10, each of which will stay together for the entire day to guard the safety of the children, staff and community. Outdoor activities will be prioritized. Campers will wear face coverings, remain at least six feet apart and will not share o...
