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Red Devil Nation stuffs the truck - Stephanie Zeis and Sofia Cooper were among the dozens of Hinsdale Central students from the National Honor Society and Business Professionals of America who sponsored a Stuff the Truck event in early November. Please turn to Page 16 for more photos. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
Next Christmas, the Glenn family will have a new member at the holiday table. Laura and Matt Glenn's daughter, Taylor, is getting married in July 2022. The family typically gathers at the Hinsdale home the Glenns have lived in for 26 years. They raised their three children there - Riley, 25, Taylor, 22, and Jack, 21. "We love our house," Laura Glenn said. "We love our location." Glenn also has enjoyed the more than a decade she has spent volunteering with the Hinsdale...
Planning is the key to preparing Thanksgiving dinner - especially if you want good leftovers, like turkey enchiladas. "There's usually plenty of cheese leftover from the cheese appetizer tray," Hinsdale's John Sachanda said. "That's a great thing to add to the enchiladas. Put some good cheese out there to begin with. Get ahead of the game." Another favorite ethnic dish that uses up leftovers and pays tribute to Sachanda's eastern European heritage is pierogis. He fills them...
n Giving Tuesday Scholarship Fundraiser Nov. 30 Il Poggiolo 8 E. First St., Hinsdale Tips and 20 percent of bar proceeds will go to a scholarship program supporting youth in need, foster youth and Chicago interns. Donations up to $4,000 will be matched. Donations also may be made online at https://www.econcouncil.org/giving. Time: 6 to 9 p.m. n ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Pop-Up Bar Dec. 3-4 Joe’s Saloon 9220 47th St., Brookfield https://www.beds-plus.org Come dressed as a favorite character to experience Martini’s and Nick’s wh...
n Light up the Park Nov. 26 Parkway Bank Park 5501 Park Place, Rosemont https://www.parkwaybankpark.com Enjoy a variety of family-friendly festivities from 2 to 6 p.m., including visits with Santa and Mrs. Claus, free horse and carriage rides, characters on ice, caroling and ice carving viewing. At 5:30 p.m. the switch will be flipped on more than 80,000 holiday lights throughout the park. The Chicago Wolves Ice Rink will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and then open daily through Jan. 4. See the website for hours and other...
As the holiday season arrives, so do my childhood memories of baking in my family’s kitchen. Spending those moments together was always so exciting. I especially remember how important I felt when I got to help — following directions, measuring ingredients, testing new recipes and eating the results! As an adult, I love spending this time with my 8-year-old niece as she blossoms into quite the baker. These special experiences can happen in the kitchen or somewhere else, and we hope the library will be a place you find ins...
Waldo is a gray and white kitty who is ready to meet his new family. He would do well with kids 5 and older. He's a talkative and sweet 13-year-old whose adoption fee is covered by our Match Me Up cat campaign. The Hinsdale Humane Society Tuthill Family Pet Rescue & Resource Center has re-opened to the public. Hours are noon to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays and 1 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Capacity will be limited to about 20 visitors. Interested adopters are encouraged to fill...
Members of Hinsdale Central's National Honor Society and Business Professionals of America sponsored a Stuff the Truck food drive earlier this month. Their mission was accomplished, as they filled one truck with food and personal items and partially filled a second with diapers. Riley Matthews was among the dozens of students who brought items, which were donated to the People's Resource Center in Westmont. Aiden Bonino helps out with loading the goods onto one of the trucks....
Following the 1990 founding of Hinsdale's Wellness House, the agency needed a reliable stream of funding to help sustain its mission of supporting cancer patients. Sisters Shelia Botti and Nancy Keenan and their friends Kathy Ryan and Suzy Stout recognized that their shared interest in pre-owned household treasures could translate into an enterprise furnishing resources for hope and healing. They launched The Courtyard consignment shop in 1991, a move Botti half-jokingly said...
Frederick William "Bill" Trescott of Hinsdale passed away Nov. 17, 2021. Born in Chicago in 1929, the son of Frederick George and Leila (Williams) Trescott, Bill was a multi-sport athlete at Wheaton (now Wheaton-Warrenville South) High School, graduating in 1948. His subsequent studies at New Mexico Highlands University were interrupted by service in the Korean War as a cryptographer with the 15th Radio Squadron, Mobile, U.S. Air Force Security Service. After the war, Bill...
William J. Schuler of Willowbrook passed away Nov. 21, 2021, with his family by his side. Bill was a devoted father, never giving up no matter how many phone calls he had to make or miles he had to travel. Generous in hard times, he always had a comforting hand and sympathetic ear, backed by a godly conviction to stand for what was right. He was the eldest of eight children and a brother to those who never had one. Bill was a longtime member of St. Isaac Jogues Church. He...
Dorothy Florence Maas (née Schramm), 91, of Western Springs, formerly of Hinsdale, passed away Nov. 21, 2021. She and her identical twin sister Dolores (Kolzow) were born in 1930 to Roy and Ruth (née Dieckhoff) Schramm in Hinsdale, where she grew up on Chestnut Street. Dorothy enjoyed the arts and after graduation from Hinsdale Central High School, she attended the Chicago Academy of Art. She married Richard H. Maas on June 20, 1954, and traveled to Arizona, where he earned his master’s degree in education at Northern Ari...
Milagros Villanueva (nee Tuason) Acosta, affectionately known as Mila, peacefully passed away Nov. 19, 2021, at the age of 88. Mila was born in Tue, Mountain Province, Philippines in 1933. She was the second oldest of nine daughters of Remegio and Monica Tuason. Mila attended Baguio School of Nursing and worked as a nurse for 50 years. Mila met Alfredo Acosta in Chicago and the couple married in 1959. They resided in Hinsdale where they raised their three children, Noella (Wade) Brewer, Al (Joann) Acosta and Monica...
Lynn M. Johnson, 88, of Burr Ridge passed away peacefully Nov. 4, 2021, surrounded by her children. Lynn's greatest joy in life was to love and care for her family. She was active in numerous community activities throughout her life, including as an involved parent with PTA and school activities, chapter president of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago, co-founder of the Badman Theater Company of Clarendon Hills, deacon at Community Presbyterian Church of Clarendon Hills...
On our National Day of Thanks, I would like to send out a special message of appreciation to the woman who managed to not kill me when I was out for a run a couple weeks ago. When you didn't have your turn signal on, I assumed you actually weren't turning your car. Silly me! Honestly, after decades of jogging and biking through our fine town, I should have known better. For some inexplicable reason, certain people just refuse to flip that little lever on the steering wheel....
Every year when the broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade begins, I tear up. This is a great source of amusement at my house, with Dan and Ainsley eager to supply their annual admonition of what a dork I am. I agree it's ridiculous, but I can't help it. Every year, I try to figure out what it is about the parade that hits such an emotional chord with me. I wonder if it's memories of watching the parade on the black and white television that sat on a cart in the...
If we could come up with one reason to be thankful for each day of November — up to and including Thanksgiving — in 2020, we certainly can do so in 2021. Complaints seem to be in abundant supply this year. But if we stop, take a breath and look around, there are so many reasons to be grateful. 1. anyone who passed out full-sized candy bars yesterday 2. the coaches and parents who support the dozens of athletes on the girls tennis, girls swimming and boys and girls cross county teams at Hinsdale Central High School, all of...
For some, the holiday season begins with the first snowfall, the radio's transition to songs about Santa or the first spotting of an evergreen tree tied to the top of a minivan. For dancers like Samantha Leddy and Kylie Norman, the holidays begin with rehearsals for the annual production of "The Nutcracker." "I love that 'The Nutcracker' has always been part of my holiday season," Norman said. But after this year, the holidays will never be quite the same for Leddy and Norman,...
Another image of an armed vehicle burglar in Hinsdale caught on surveillance camera has led to increased police patrols and a call for residents to do their part to deter criminal activity. Overnight burglaries were reported the morning of Nov. 17 to unlocked vehicles in the 800 block of South Thurlow Street and the 300 block of East Sixth Street, according to Hinsdale police. Police Chief Brian King said home security video from the Sixth Street incident shows one of the offenders holding a firearm while accomplices rifle...
Forty-eight Hinsdale residents have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week. The DuPage County Health Department reported 45 new cases, and the Cook County Health Department reported three new cases. That brings the total number of reported cases in the village to 2,220, compared to 2,172 last week. Amita Hinsdale Hospital had nine confirmed COVID-19 patients and three patients awaiting test results as of Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. Hinsdale Central High School reported seven positive cases, 15 in isolation and...
The Hinsdale Village Board, Community Consolidated District 181 Board and Hinsdale High School District 86 Board are not scheduled to meet the week of Nov. 22-26....
Hinsdale High School District 86 Among other business Nov. 18, board members: • approved the Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South programs of study for the 2022-23 school year. The most notable provision is the inclusion of separate science pathways, with one beginning with physics and the other beginning with biology. Both sequences will be offered on both campuses. This is a compromise plan after a proposal for all students to follow the physics-first sequence was met with considerable community opposition. The p...
Hinsdale High School District 86 students got a couple of extra days off after board members expanded the Thanksgiving holiday to a full week to address mental health concerns. At the Nov. 18 board meeting, board members voted unanimously to make Nov. 22 and 23 nonattendance days. Nov. 24-26 were already scheduled days off. In a report to board members, administrators said the added time was for students and staff “to rest, relax and recharge.” Hinsdale Central Principal Bill Walsh said the recommendation was made after adm...
Road trip - Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," mentions the Castle Inn, which was on Ogden Avenue. "Over time, (Benjamin) Fuller amassed about 800 acres. His acquisition in 1843 of a portion of Orente Grant's property included this building, Castle Inn. The inn, built by Grant in 1836, was located on the south side of the Southwest Trail, today's Ogden Avenue, just east of York Road. In addition to serving travelers, settlers took shelter at the inn while...
Many days you can see this pair of red-tailed hawks hanging around the Memorial Building and Burlington Park. With eyesight that lets them spot a potential dinner at a distance of a mile or more, the hawks found the perfect meal-planning location on building's weather vane. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
