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Starting in the fall of 2022, Hinsdale High School District 86 students will follow an integrated math curriculum in a move district officials say will promote thoughtful problem solving over simply producing calculations. At their Oct. 29 meeting, board members voted unanimously for the new model to enhance the learning experience for students. The integrated curriculum will weave algebra 1, geometry and algebra 2 into three courses titled Math 1, 2 and 3. Christopher Covino, assistant superintendent for academics, told...
Hinsdale police earned praise at Tuesday night’s village board meeting for preventing a suicidal man from jumping off the Ogden Avenue bridge over Interstate 294 on Friday, Oct. 30. “They did just an exemplary job of taking control of the situation and not using any lethal force, if you will, to contain someone who was wanting to do himself harm,” village manager Kathleen Gargano told trustees. “We don’t realize our police officers are trained to negotiate with these individuals and take control of these situations because t...
The official end of World War I occurred on Nov. 11, 1918, and America has observed the 11th day of the 11th month ever since. The occasion was first known as Armistice Day, and since 1954 as Veterans Day. The yearly observance honors all veterans, living or lost, but is especially intended to express gratitude to those still with us today. The pandemic has forced the cancellation of many regular Veterans Day events, while others have been turned into online programs. Here...
Anna Rose Howard, 81, of Willowbrook, formerly of Hinsdale, passed away Oct. 20, 2020. Anna was born to Alta, née Dickerson, and Finis Blankenship in Huntingdon, Tenn., and was raised in Akron, Ohio, where she graduated from Garfield High School. Anna loved life and lived it to the fullest. She always had a gift with fashion and started a modeling school in Akron. Anna moved to Hinsdale in 1976 and raised her three sons here. She worked in financial management at Morgan...
Michael Henry Erskine, 79, of Burr Ridge, formerly of Hinsdale, passed away peacefully Oct. 31, 2020, after a long illness. He was born in Pittsburg, Texas, in 1941 to Clayton Haralson Erskine and Kathryn Hoppel Erskine. Mike attended Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas. In 1963, after graduating from the University of Texas on an ROTC Scholarship, Mike went through Navy flight training and flew 223 missions as a Naval aviator in Vietnam. He was a proud member of...
Dolores Rose Blecha, 98, a former Hinsdale resident, passed away Nov. 2, 2020. Dolores was the only child of Bessie and Edward Hruska. She married the love of her life, John, in Big Springs, Texas where John was stationed as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Shortly after the war, they settled in Hinsdale, where they raised their six children. Dolores’ most treasured moments were spent with her children, their spouses whom she loved like her own and all of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. S...
Several homes across the village were sporting the “latest” in technology to help keep Halloween candy and trick or treaters COVID-free. (Jim Slonoff photos.)...
Results of some races in Tuesday’s election have yet to be finalized, but candidates already are preparing to run for seats on village, school and library boards in the April 6 election. Voters will choose a village president and three trustees to serve on the Hinsdale Village Board. Four seats are up for election on the Community Consolidated District 181 Board, the Hinsdale High School District 86 Board and the Hinsdale Public Library Board. Candidates have been able to circulate petitions since Sept. 22. The filing p...
The Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Department invites residents to find giant turkeys all over town in the Hinsdale Turkey Trail. The event is a free and fun way for families to stay engaged and positive this season. Plus everyone can burn calories to make room for Thanksgiving dinner. Simply take a walk through the neighborhood or the village’s business districts and be on the lookout for the oversize gobblers. Also search #HinsdaleTurkeyTrail or @HinsdaleParks on social media to locate others (hint: more than 10 big birds a...
What does a psychic medium do? A reminder to see the dentist wasn't what Meredyth Willits' client was looking for in requesting the medium to reach out to her deceased mother. But moms will be moms, in this life and beyond. "It's interesting when spirit can give us those cues," said Willits, who said the woman acknowledged an ongoing issue with the exact tooth her mother pointed to. "There's no one more amazed by this than me." The Hinsdale resident and mother of four said...
As the color guard marched into the gym to open the Veterans Day assembly at Madison School Monday, the students rose to their feet and one Boy Scout snapped his hand to his fore-head in a salute. He and the other kindergartners through fifth-graders then sat at attention for close to an hour, listening to veterans from many branches of services who served during peace and war discuss their experiences. Of course the students are too young to comprehend the horrors some of the...
On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, we pause to give thanks to those who have served both to defend our nation’s liberty and to aid in protecting the flame of freedom around the world. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are more than 18 million veterans living across the country and about 600,000 in Illinois. The Veteran’s Health Administration is the largest integrated health care network in the United States, with 1,255 health care facilities serving 9 million people each year. But the level of care accorded to veterans has...
First-time voter Gisel Santiago said her mom woke her up early Tuesday morning so she could head to her polling place at The Community House. "She wanted me to go yesterday, but I had school and work," said Santiago, an 18-year-old graduate of Hinsdale Central High School and freshman at the College of DuPage. "Bravo!" one election judge said after hearing this was Santiago's first election. "I love to see that. It's so exciting." Santiago said she was equally excited to cast...
Trading time — Taking a candy break on Garfield Avenue, Nicholas Mattson, Hunter Datewood, Alex Schaeffen and Tommy Phelps review their haul on Halloween afternoon. While the amount of kids out trick-or-treating this year might have been a bit lower due to the pandemic, many streets were filled with kids going house to house enjoying the annual tradition in perfect weather. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
The coronavirus has many people preoccupied with how to avoid getting sick and what the future holds. People are stressed. They’re stuck in a worry loop of anxious thoughts. They could use some mindfulness in their daily lives. Jon Kabat-Zinn, a known expert in mindfulness-based stress reduction, defines mindfulness as “awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally.” Mindfulness can help people stop their mind’s constant chatter about COVID-19. It can help people center...
Nokoma is a beautiful gray tabby kitty who is looking for her forever home, with kids of any age. She's a sweet 5-month-old girl whose adoption fee is $150. The Hinsdale Humane Society Tuthill Family Pet Rescue & Resource Center is currently closed to the public, but anyone who is interested in adopting a pet can fill out an online application at https://www.hinsdalehumanesociety.org and then call (630) 323-5630 for an interview. Temporary adoption hours are noon to 6 p.m....
Kevin Camden has taken his short tenure as D86 president and board member straight to the ditch. At the Oct. 29, 2020, meeting, President Camden uttered homophobic slurs, including the pejorative use of “Jew” in his outlandish hypotheticals as justification of D86’s suppression of residents’ First Amendment rights. The ease in which he used these words and his depiction of a father’s accusation that his son is a “f----t” (homophobic slur) and he won’t be playing, even in the hypothetical sense, reveals Camden’s thinki...
Early into the school shutdowns this past spring, I got reassured by the two girls next door. Not missing a beat, Caroline began Zooming ballet, younger Julia hip hop. Caroline took violin, Julia the clarinet, and both took piano - also virtually. While I doubted this to be as effective as in-person learning, I was much impressed by their resilience, enthusiasm and optimism. I pondered all this more, weeks later. News of the California fires brought video of adults and...
On a rookie mission at the start of his combat tour in Vietnam, U.S. Marine pilot Bill Trader was jolted in his cockpit by bright tracers of anti-aircraft fire in the skies ahead. His veteran bombardier/navigator next to him brushed it off. "He said, 'Oh, that's far away, don't worry about it,' " the longtime Hinsdale resident recalled. "Because it's at night, you see the tracers streaming and it's like, 'Ooh!' " Trader had been deployed to Da Nang, Vietnam, in September of 19...
Hinsdale police distributed the following reports Oct. 28 and Nov. 3. Controlled substance arrest Alexandria J. Miller, 26, 374 Twilight Drive, No. 4, Morris, was arrested on a felony count of possession of a controlled substance, obstructing identification, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving without a registration light and driving with a suspended license at 2:43 a.m. Oct. 29 at 55th Street and County Line Road. Miller gave a false name and birth date and was in possession of a white powdery substance that field...
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business Oct. 29, board members: • listened to Superintendent Tammy Prentiss announce that, starting the week of Nov. 9, the in-person instruction rotation of A, B, C and D hybrid learning groups will change to every other week instead of one week per month. She also reported that the district will not give first semester final exams in light of the alterations that were made to the pace, structure and focus of instruction in the remote and hybrid models, as well as the c...
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, https://www.d181.org On the draft agenda: COVID-19 update, fall MAP and school improvement plans, November institute day update, district office action plan, fund balance strategy, tax levy presentation and resolution Hinsdale Firefighters Pension Board 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, https://www.villageofhinsdale.org Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Commission 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, https://www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: ice rink options,...
Twenty-nine Hinsdale residents have been diagnosed with a confirmed case of COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 24 new cases and the Cook County Health Department reported 5 new cases. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in the village to 487, up from 458 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had 17 confirmed COVID-19 patients and 12 patients awaiting test results on Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Community Consolidated District 181 reported 11 new cases on Nov. 2. The cases...
Teeing it up - According to Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," golf was first played in Hinsdale in the 1890s on a six-hold course located along Ayres Avenue near Lincoln Street. In 1898 the Hinsdale Golf Club was founded, located just east of its present Chicago Avenue site. The photo here is of the clubhouse in 1923....
Members of Hinsdale American Legion Post 250 held a shredding event at the Memorial Building Sept. 19. Dozens of boxes of documents were dropped for processing by Citadel Information Management. Cmdr. Jack Orbell takes a box of documents over to Paul Flood and Post Adjutant Joe McCann for processing. Donations received for the shredding are used to fund school and community service projects. The post is planning on having another shredding event in May. (Jim Slonoff...
