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The COVID-19 shutdown fell last March, just as local communities and businesses were readying for their St. Patrick's Day celebrations. While life is not back to normal yet, many are feeling lucky to be able to once again welcome people to participate in the Irish fun. Here are opportunities near Hinsdale to go green: • Shamrock Fest March 12-14 & 17 Palmer Place 56 S. La Grange Road, La Grange (708) 482-7127 https://www.palmerslagrange.com Palmer Place will hold its 38th a...
The Hinsdale Fire Department is once again participating in the annual statewide Keep the Wreath Red fire safety program. A wreath will be hung outside the station at 121 Symonds Drive. For each fire caused by holiday decorations, a red bulb will be replace with a white bulb. The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to discourage people from traveling at the levels usually seen around the holidays, meaning more people will be spending the season at home. That shift, experts say, will lead to increased cooking activity and greater...
No matter what challenges we’ve faced this year as individuals, family members, business owners and community members, we still have countless reasons to be thankful. Here’s our list — one for each day of the month leading up to and including Thanksgiving. Nov. 1 — the health care workers whose professional and personal lives have been so much more difficult since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March Nov. 2 — Sammy Hanzel and Heather Bereckis, the creative minds at the village’s parks and recreation department,...
The pandemic may have disrupted a lot of our regular routines, but it did not diminish Hinsdaleans’ commitment for giving back. We’ve documented that bounty of benevolence in our Good News section over the past year, and, as we approach Thanksgiving, wanted to highlight a few of them as an expression of gratitude for those gifts: • The 2020 Pillars Ball raised $242,000 for Pillars Community Health to support medical, dental, mental health and substance use disorder services along with domestic and sexual violence services to...
Jennifer Reenan was volunteering in the art room at Avery Coonley School on April 11, 2018. Her phone was off. Meanwhile, workers at her home at 329 E. Sixth St. were in the final stages of replacing the roof on the 119-year-old home. They were using a blowtorch to seal the synthetic shingles on the porte cochere when the material caught fire. "When I came out (of school), I turned my phone on and I had all these text messages," Reenan said. She and her youngest son, Declan,...
What is the best recipe for kitchen safety? The kitchen is often called the heart of the home. It's the place where family recipes are prepared, celebrations are created and memories are made. But it also can be one of the most dangerous places in a house. "Cooking is the leading cause of home fires and home injuries," said Nick McDonough, firefighter paramedic with the Hinsdale Fire Department. That's why the National Fire Protection Association has chosen "Serve up fire...
Cooking is the leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries in the United States, mostly from the ignition of food or other cooking materials, according to the National Fire Protection Association. The majority of those incidents occur when the cooking is unattended. Those alarming statistics has prompted the NFPA to theme 2020 Fire Prevention Week, “Serve Up Fire Safety in the Kitchen!” This year’s observance of the annual nationwide campaign started Sunday and runs through Saturday. Almost half — 44 percent — of re...
Their deaths often are not recorded in the daily statistics tracking COVID-19 fatalities and often don't make the evening news. But the grief is just as profound for families of the 53 people who died of an overdose in DuPage County from the start of the quarantine until the end of June. "I have reached out to multiple rehabilitation leaders and they confirm the increase in those seeking rehabilitation, drug use relapse and instances of fatal and non-fatal overdoses in their p...
The Hinsdale Fire Department lost a firefighter/paramedic candidate Tuesday when 25-year-old Nicole Hladik took her own life. "It's a devastating loss for her family, and the fire department itself is a family. They are grieving the loss of one of their own," village manager Kathleen Gargano told The Hinsdalean Wednesday. Village officials have been in contact with her family and brought in grief counselors to talk to her co-workers in the department, Gargano stated in a...
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...
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...
Among other business May 28, board members: • approved one-time lump sum hazard payments of $1,000 to 51 district employees in the buildings and grounds, IT and security departments for their on-site work while district facilities were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The measure passed 5-1, with Eric Held opposing the payments, citing current economic uncertainty and other potential expenses. “Could this money be going toward keeping somebody on the payroll in the future if things get tight enough or some sort of eme...
An NFL player who grew up in Hinsdale, a Hinsdale police officer and 11 individuals at ManorCare Hinsdale are among those who have confirmed cases of COVID-19. Last week Hinsdale Central graduate Brian Allen, starting center for the Los Angeles Rams, became the first NFL player to admit he had COVID-19. Allen, 24, tested positive three weeks ago, the NFL announced April 15. FOX Sports’ Jay Glazer first reported the development. Rams coach Sean McVay spoke about Allen during a segment on FOX Football Now, according to the N...
D181 DONATES FACE SHIELDS Community Consolidated District 181 donated 425 medical face shields to local health care professionals April 3 after D181 families volunteered to assemble the shields. The shields, critical for health professionals as they care for those affected by COVID-19, were donated to Amita Health Adventist Medical Center and two nursing homes, ManorCare Health Services in Hinsdale and Chateau Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Willowbrook. With social distancing guidelines in place, D181 families gathered...
This has been a very stressful time for our front line first responders and medical staff. The Hinsdale Police and Fire departments are in need of N-95 masks and Chlorox wipes. They can be dropped off at the police or fire department at 121 Symonds Drive. A note, card or even a video offering thanks and encouragement would certainly go a long way in this difficult time. Notes can be mailed to either department at 121 Symonds Drive, Hinsdale, IL 60521. Or send cards to Hinsdale Hospital, 120 N Oak St., 60521, and they can...
How is the fire department responding to COVID-19? Residents reaching out to 911 with a health emergency during this time of heightened vigilance may be asked a number of questions. Please be patient and answer them, Hinsdale Fire Chief John Giannelli said. "A call comes in: 'My mom's sick.' OK, well has she been traveling? Does she have a fever or a cough? Those are all necessary questions that our dispatch will ask anybody to prepare us for when we get in there," he said....
What a difference a week makes. Last week, Gov. J.B. Prtizker banned events with more than 1,000 attendees, canceled Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parade and urged businesses to allow employees to work from home. The state had only 32 confirmed COVID-19 and no deaths. This week, the governor has closed schools, restaurants and bars. The number of cases in Illinois is approaching 300 and the state reported its first COVID-19 death. Hinsdaleans, like Americans across the cou...
How should families observe Fire Prevention Week? Masks, helmets and air tanks are just some of the firefighting equipment that will be on display during the Hinsdale Fire Department's annual Fire Prevention Week Open House Saturday, Oct. 12. Firefighter/paramedic Andy Smith, a 19-year veteran of the Hinsdale Fire Department, said the department works year-round to help prevent fires and to teach people what to do when a fire occurs. Fire Prevention Week is a chance to drive...
The second-floor room at Hinsdale Central High School looks like other administrative offices, with desks and computers and a Keurig machine. But the command center has one unique feature - two 65-inch screens that can pull up as many as 36 views from the 150 security cameras in and around the high school. On this Tuesday morning, security officer Tammy Madden is monitoring activity. She's a retired commander from the Oak Brook Police Department, notes Kevin Simpson, security...
Carol Baker, who has served as assistant superintendent for academics/chief academic officer in District 86 since Aug. 1, 2018, will be out of a job on June 30. The Hinsdale High School District 86 Board voted unanimously last week not to renew her contract, for reasons other than a reduction in staff, board President Nancy Pollak said in her report after the Jan. 9 vote. “It’s a personnel matter,” Pollak said. “We are not at liberty to provide any information additionally above and beyond what is included in the resolut...
The Hinsdale fire department rigged up sound and lights to provide Santa with a comfortable and musical ride into the village during the Christmas Walk Friday night. With hundreds of children on hand to greet him, Santa was lowered to the ground and joined Village President Tom Cauley at the Memorial Building to officially light the Christmas tree. Please turn to Page 16 for more pictures....
Susan M. Schroeder, 60, of Clarendon Hills passed away Nov. 26, 2019. She was born in 1959 in Evergreen Park and was a longtime employee of ServiceMaster. She was preceded in death by her brother-in-law, Mark Johnson, former deputy chief of the Hinsdale Fire Department. She is survived by her mother, Mary (the late Leo) Schroeder; her sisters, Cheryl Johnson and Carrie (Richard) Cmaylo; her nieces and nephews, Matt (Rachel) Johnson, Addie (Elliot) Jones and Jessica (Nathan...
The Hinsdale Fire Department is once again participating in the annual statewide Keep the Wreath Red fire safety program. A wreath will be hung outside the station at 121 Symonds Drive. For each fire caused by holiday decorations, a red bulb will be replace with a white bulb. The fact the wreath had not been displayed as of Wednesday because new red bulbs were needed could be received as welcome news. Those red bulbs must have held their positions, signaling a series of safe seasons. Let’s all make sure that streak c...
Nicole Hladik wasn't sure of her career path after earning a degree in business management in 2016. She just knew the 9-to-5 office life was not her destination. "I had no idea what I wanted to do," Hladik said. Then a family acquaintance suggested a ride-along with a female firefighter she knew in Broadview. One ride led to another and eventually carried Hladik onto her new career path. "I was sold," she said, recounting calls to help a young man with his trach tube and...
Fire Prevention Week is the longest running annual public health observance in this country. Since 1922, the National Fire Prevention Association has sponsored week, which is timed to commemorate of the Great Chicago Fire, which began on Oct. 8, 1871. The conflagration killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres of land. To help children, adults and teachers learn how to stay safe in the event of a...
