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Four months ago Stop 5G Hinsdale & Neighbors was formed. Since then, we have made significant progress, but much more remains to be done. We have had town hall educational presentations. We have diligently worked with our village board and staff, resulting in the hiring of a lobbyist and an engineer who will review each telecom application for its impact on our community. We have convinced Sen. Durbin to cosponsor a federal bill (S2012) and Rep. Mazzochi to sponsor a state bill (HB-4653) that will allow the return of local au...
Leap Day! That quadrennial quirk of our time-marking system — rendering the shortest month a little less short and making winter seem a LOT longer — is upon us. But we shouldn’t complain about more days on the calendar. It’s a gift, really, these extra 24 hours that open wide the doors to experiences and activities that would be unthinkable in a normal 8,760-hour span. Activities like The Community Revue that hits The Community House stage tomorrow and Saturday, for example. How many times over the last few decades have yo...
Even if you're not in the cast, you might see yourself on stage at this year's Community Revue. Hinsdale's spoof on itself returns Feb. 28-29 and March 6-7 to once again poke fun at Hinsdale happenings while supporting the important work of The Community House. Portraying properties and pieces from a Monopoly board, the 23-member cast of "Hinsdopoly" will sing, dance and spare almost no one as they explore and expose the village's notable developments, discussions and...
Back in the olden days, when I taught literature, I often began with a broad discussion of what "comedy" and "tragedy" mean. Broadly speaking, classical comedy is a structure; the stories may begin with mayhem, but they end by bringing people together. Song and dance are the most frequent-used symbols of this social harmony. Comedy, strictly speaking, is not necessarily funny; it can be humorous, but that's not what "makes" a comedy a comedy. When we laugh at something on a...
Hinsdale continues to welcome new businesses to town, providing even more destinations for village shoppers. The latest arrivals to the town's merchant community - along with signs of growth from longstanding proprietors - are highlighted here. A market for renovation A growing family vacating a stylish modern Chicago condo for a forever Hinsdale home built in the 1970s is likely to seek remodeling help. John Bohnen of County Line Properties envisioned an answer in County...
The Angel Harvey Family Health Center provides traditional health services to more than 13,000 patients annually in the Chicago area. But the access to vital resources and programming for those living with autism and other behavioral disorders is what makes one member of the Hinsdale Auxiliary of the Infant Welfare Society Chicago continue to give back. Kimberly O'Gorman's autistic nephew thrives, with access to behavioral, occupational and speech therapy. His success...
Gabrielle Tufano loved painting and drawing, but as a college student, her hobby didn't have a place on her intended career path. Teaching art certainly never crossed the science major's mind. A single comment from an art professor at Illinois Benedictine University changed all that. "He told me that the world will always have enough doctors. What it needed was a great figure painter," Tufano said. That's when she turned her course of study from pre-med to painting. Tufano now...
Happy Valentines Day! Tomorrow is the designated day for showing love, but we find plenty of examples in our town of how to lead with one’s heart every day. To these people, we bestow our 2020 “valentines.” • Liz Joseph puts her heart into her volunteer work at Elm School, serving as vice president of the PTO exec board and overseeing all the room parents, class parties, teacher gifts and more. She also devotes many hours to the Art Appreciation program and SELAS activities, from conception to fruition. • Hinsdale Central’s...
Longtime Community House staffer Dan Janowick has been named executive director of the organization. Mary Blue Henneman, chair of The Community House’s board of trustees, announced last week in an email that the board’s executive committee had unanimously tapped Janowick to succeed Annie Krug. “I am thrilled to officially announce the appointment of Dan Janowick to the role,” she stated, adding that Feb. 3 was Janowick’s first day on the job. Henneman cited Janowick’s strong leadership skills and his 15 years working in the o...
Pets bring comfort on journey as daugther copes with loss of dad Kathy Burns started grieving long before she lost her dad last year. The process began about five years earlier, when her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The family was familiar with the disease, as Burns' mother had it as well. She made the decision to retire from her job as director of global cash for Meed Johnson so she could travel from her Burr Ridge home to southern Indiana one week every month to...
Four short weeks from tomorrow is opening night for “Hinsdopoloy,” the 2020 Community Revue. I’ve been part of the revue cast for 16 years now. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the revue, it’s a fundraiser for The Community House held just about every other year. A very talented group of writers and our esteemed director create an original script and rewrite the lyrics to Broadway and popular songs to create a show that pokes fun at all things Hinsdale (wealth,...
From his Oak Brook office at FGM Architects, John Ochoa can gaze into the past. Specifically, Ochoa can see Mid America Plaza at the corner of Route 83 and 22nd Street, which he helped design early in his career. "That was very significant project when I was a young architect," the Hinsdale resident said. "It was a big project and kind of grew my confidence at the time in terms of the scale of projects that I could work on and could handle." Shortly after the building's 1985...
"Meditation is, in my mind, the most radical thing a human can do. It's a way to shift our state in the moment to be more relaxed and available. But even more importantly, it's a way to shift who we are in all future moments, so that our baseline way of operating in the world is calmer and clearer, more fearless, more caring." - Jeff Warren Some people think they would never be able to meditate. They have too many thoughts racing through their minds. Those folks aren't the...
In 1995 La Grange Memorial Hospital was sold and part of the proceeds were used to create Community Memorial Foundation. Who could have imagined the work the foundation would do? The foundation, which has issued more than $77 million in grants to nonprofit agencies in 27 communities, will kick off its 25th anniversary celebration tomorrow. The theme — turning Silver into Gold — reflects the foundation’s approach to working with local nonprofits. CMF works to leverage the funds it has available to provide even more finan...
Newcomer is a title that Heather Laughman has held more than once. And no matter how many times she finds herself as a resident of an unfamiliar new town, it's always a challenge to make it feel like home. As a member and former co-president of the Newcomers and Neighbors of the Greater Hinsdale Area, she tries to make that transition easier for those who are new to Hinsdale. Laughman said she remembers feeling a little lost, lonely and overwhelmed shortly after moving to...
The winter months can bring a variety of experiences and expectations that can leave us feeling at times elevated and at other times exhausted. While some things are entirely out of our control, such as days getting shorter and weather changing 10 degrees within an hour, there are things we can do to enhance a time of year which, for many, can be draining. Different people have various remedies for dealing with challenges the winter months can bring to their doorstep. Some of...
Stage Door Fine Arts' production of "Shrek the Musical" opens at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at The Community House, with additional shows Saturday and Sunday as well as next week, Thursday through Sunday (see Page 28 for details). The triple-cast spectacular involves an impressive roster of student performers ranging from those in the early grades to high schoolers. The Hinsdalean talked with three of the cast members hailing from Hinsdale to get their insight on their particular part...
Readers of Scary Mommy and the Today Show parenting blogs know Christie Cuthbert as a contributor. Texans know her as a writer for San Antonio Woman Magazine and Alamo City Moms. Hinsdaleans remember her as a former neighbor, fellow parishioner, Juniors member - and associate editor of The Hinsdalean. Now she's also the author of a new book. "Mom! I Farted in Church," which she officially released at a launch party Jan. 9. I caught up with her over the phone Tuesday to talk...
The Hinsdale Public Library provided the perfect place for entertainment Sunday afternoon to brighten a cloudy day. "Little Miss Ann" - who is actually Ann Torrabla - had the full house of children and their moms and dads singing and dancing to her music. Stephanie Freda and her daughter, Grace, work on their dance moves. Emma McMonagle jumps to the beat and Aisling Gray and her daughter, Beth, get into the swing of things. The event was cosponsored by the Hinsdale Community...
Learn more about 5G, how 5G will affect the community and how to take action at a town hall meeting set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, at The Community House, 415 W. Eighth St., Hinsdale. Hinsdale Village Board and DuPage County Board members will speak at this session, sponsored by Stop 5G Hinsdale and Neighbors....
At the start of each new year, The Hinsdalean asks the leaders of nonprofit agencies in town to share a recap of the previous year and offer their hope for the next 12 months. This is the second installment of the series. HCS Family Services, Robert Crown Center and Wellness House were featured in a Jan. 2 article. Community Memorial Foundation Leaders at Community Memorial Foundation spent at least part of 2019 looking forward to the year ahead. The foundation, which has granted more than $77 million to partners since its...
Jacquelyn Eleanor Jefferson, nee Fishbaugh, a 62-year Hinsdale resident, passed away peacefully Dec. 1, 2019. She was 88. Jackie was born in 1930 and raised on a farm in Iowa, where she graduated from high school in 1948. She spent two years at the University of Iowa, before transferring to the University of Florida to study art and graphic design. After graduating college, she moved to Chicago and worked as a copywriter for the Montgomery Ward catalog and at the Campbell Mithun advertising agency. She also met Chad...
The last days of one year and the first days of the next are traditionally a time to analyze events of the past 12 months and set goals and expectations for those to come in the next 12 months. Today we offer a fusion of both, with a look at what we observed in 2019 and what we hope to see in 2020. 2019: Laurel Haarlow is elected to serve on the Hinsdale Village Board, becoming the first woman to join the group in two years. 2020: More women are elected to the board, creating a governing body that is more representative of...
It was about 14 years ago when Lisa Kolavennu's father was diagnosed with cancer. In walking that journey with him, she discovered Wellness House and, along with it, her vocational calling. "His experience inspired my own passion for wanting to help the oncology population," Kolavennu said. "It felt personally and professionally gratifying for me to move to Wellness House and start a career here." More than a dozen years after launching that career as a program director with...
In the first of two sets of year-in-review reports from Hinsdale’s nonprofit organizations, leaders of HCS Family Services, Robert Crown Center for Health Education and Wellness House share 2019 highlights for their agencies. The second installment will run Jan. 9. HCS Family Services Stan Cook, executive director of HCS Family Services, said attendance at the agency’s two food pantries increased 40 percent over the last six months of 2019. Clients represented about 1,000 families from 24 local communities. “We’re working...
