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One of the joys of my work as pastor at Hinsdale Covenant Church is making our church building available for a community men's group called Men's Fraternity (runs October-February each year). The mission of this group is to equip men in our community to be better fathers, husbands, employees and employers. We meet at the crack of dawn and usually have 50 to 70 men from the community sitting around tables together, learning and growing. One November morning our speaker was Juli...
How can music help people feel better? "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Berthold Auerbach As a medical student, Dr. Benjamin Levy had grown close to a patient with severe heart failure who had spent weeks in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant. Also a cellist, he brought in his instrument one day in a effort to ease the patient's anxiety. His tour schedule quickly expanded as he recognized the therapeutic power the music had. "The nurses k...
Walk the Walk for Mental Health to support the counseling programs at The Community House bursted out in full color Sunday morning. More than 400 walkers took part in the event. Enrique Hoover was loaded up and ready to take on the crowds. Grandmothers Susan Santefort and Louise Perkowski dodge and weave as their granddaughter, Claudia Perkowski, adds some color. London Max, Leandra Gruft and Zoeya Khan check out their new look. Community House Executive Director Dan Janowick...
Community Consolidated District 181 Board Among other business Monday night, board members: • approved a tentative budget for fiscal year 2023 to be placed on public display. The spending plan anticipates $80 million in revenue and almost $81.7 million in expenses, with the difference to be made up from the district’s fund balance of about $44 million. The biggest source of revenue, at almost $75.5 million, is local property taxes, with salary and benefits at almost $55.6 million as the largest expense. Anticipated costs inc...
In last week’s Ask an Expert, Dr. Benjamin Levy, speaking about a patient’s move to hospice care, intended to say, “When a patient goes to hospice, they realize it’s the end of their hospital care and a transition to palliative care....
Hinsdale Plan Commission 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 24 Memorial Building 19 E. Chicago Ave. On the draft agenda: public hearing on Vine Street Station proposal, finding and recommendations on exterior appearance and site plan review for 222 E. Ogden Ave. (Normandy remodeling) Hinsdale Public Library Board 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 24 Hinsdale Public Library 20 E. Maple St. https://www.hinsdalelibrary.info On the draft agenda: nonresident card program resolution, emergency operational changes...
The DuPage County Health Department reported 53 new cases of COVID-19 in Hinsdale over the past week, bringing the total number of cases in the DuPage County portion of Hinsdale to 3,566, compared to 3,513 last week. The Cook County Health Department is no longer reporting on cases specific to Hinsdale. Hinsdale High School District 86 reported 42 positive cases as of May 13, including nine staff members, 28 students at Central, three students at South and two at the transition center. Community Consolidated School District...
B.C. - before coffee - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," is taken from the corner of Hinsdale Avenue and Washington Street facing east. "Hinsdale Avenue is immediately recognizable in this c. 1926 photograph. On the site of Hinsdale's first store and post office, this corner drugstore was built in 1900 by Hinsdale builder Adolph Froscher. A drug store operated here for over 100 years until Starbucks sensitively rehabbed the building in...
Hinsdale firefighters were called out before 5 a.m. Thursday, May 19, to extinguish a truck whose trailer was on fire on First Street. The truck was about to make a delivery to Einstein Bros. Bagels at 54 S. Washington St. The rear brakes on the truck's trailer reportedly locked up and caused the fire on each side of the trailer's exterior. First Street was blocked for most of the morning before tow trucks were able to remove the trailer. (Jim Slonoff photo...
Hinsdale trustees Tuesday approved several outdoor dining permits as local eateries look to capitalize on the al fresco enthusiasm that’s been a byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic. The permit applications were submitted with plans for each business’s outdoor space. Under an ordinance enacted last month, restaurants were granted continued use of downtown parking areas to set up their tables and chairs. The measure also established design guidelines to promote a more uniform look across the business district. “We found out t...
YOUTH AWARD $30,000 IN GRANTS Sixty students participating in Community Memorial Foundation’s youth philanthropy program have awarded $30,000 in grant funding to four local nonprofit organizations working to meet people’s basic needs in the Western Suburbs. The program, known as YC2 (Young Community Changemakers), unites students from Hinsdale Central, Lyons Township, Nazareth Academy and Riverside-Brookfield high schools in a semester-long effort dedicated to understanding the important roles of the philanthropic and non...
Kari Smith will be the new assistant superintendent of student services in Hinsdale High School District 86 effective July 1. Smith, whose appointment was approved by the school board May 12, will replace Brad Verthein, who is leaving to become the director of student services for Batavia Unit District 101. Superintendent Tammy Prentiss thanked Verthein for his service and congratulated Smith. “Dr. Smith is an accomplished educator and outstanding leader with a strong background in special education and a wealth of k...
On Friday, a month to the day after the Windhover was removed from its home along Washington Street and sent off for a makeover, it returned to its new home sporting its new look. The new site along Third Street will have benches as well as landscaping and lighting to better display the Smithsonian piece of art. Workers from Methods and Materials Inc in Lake Bluff did the refinishing as well as the reinstallation. Committee member Erica Posthuma offered advice on the...
New look, new location — The Windhover took off for its facelift on Monday, April 4. It returned, sporting a new and improved look, to its new pad on Third Street in front of Hinsdale Middle School on May 4. Please turn to Page 41 for more pictures. (Jim Slonoff photo)...
On a rainy April Friday, students at Hinsdale Central High School were digging holes to plant seeds and perennials near the rain gardens along 55th Street. The hope is that this summer, the plants will help sustain monarch butterflies and other pollinators. The initiative is part of the Rotary Club of Hinsdale's Operation Pollination, and the planting was the inaugural event of the club's Executive Junior Board. They got some help from friends in the school's Ecology Club....
Hinsdale High School District 86 Board Among other business April 28, board members: • decided against pulling the public Freedom of Information Act request log, which includes documents supplied in response to those requests, off the district’s website. District attorney Steve Richart had recommended the board release documents only to the individuals who had made the FOIA request rather than posting them online to reduce the district’s liability. He said District 86 is the only district he is aware of who posts all respo...
Hinsdale police are investigating a robbery to a postal carrier near the intersection of Stough and Hinsdale Avenue at 1:19 Monday afternoon. The offender was described as an adult male Hispanic with a facial covering and a knit hat. He was armed with an unknown type of handgun. Taken in the robbery was a set of postal box keys. The offender fled in a black vehicle with no license plates....
Children attending the Zion Lutheran Early Childhood Education Center's Candyland preschool prom at the Hinsdale Golf Club April 29 were treated to a full menu of prom activities. With a pint-sized buffet and a DJ spinning tunes, the kids had a evening full of fun. Elle Meyer takes a look at her face painting. Maeve Maloney takes a water break. (Jim Slonoff photos)...
The DuPage County Health Department reported 77 new cases of COVID-19 in Hinsdale over the past week. That brings the total number of cases in the DuPage County portion of Hinsdale to 3,513, compared to 3,436 last week. The Cook County Health Department is no longer reporting on cases specific to Hinsdale. Hinsdale High School District 86 reported 82 positive cases as of May 6, including 18 staff members, 55 students at Central, six students at South and three at the transition center. Community Consolidated School District...
The names of John Hughes and Lucas Smith were inadvertently switched in two photo captions in the May 5 sports feature. The photos of the two also were switched in the graphic that ran on the main sports page....
Community Consolidated Elementary Dist. 181 Board 7 p.m. Monday, May 16 Hinsdale Middle School, 100 S. Garfield Ave. https://www.d181.org On the draft agenda: budget presentation/approval of tentative budget for display, 2022-23 assessment calendar, D181 student success/high school outcomes, transition program highlights Hinsdale Economic Development Commission 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 18 Memorial Building, 19 E. Chicago Ave. https://www.villageofhinsdale.org On the draft agenda: Restaurant Week 2022, Health & Wellness Week...
Almost 100 years ago, the first students walked to their first day of classes at Monroe School. "It was a great and important day in 1928 when the pupils in Maple School packed their books and made the pilgrimage over to their beautiful new building, the Monroe School," Marie Loomis, former principal, reminisced in a document from the Hinsdale Historical Society files dated March 26, 1973. Enrollment in Hinsdale was growing rapidly at the time. In the fall of 1925, the year Ma...
A teardown ahead of its time - This photo in Sandy Williams' book, "Images of America - Hinsdale," shows a home where the Memorial Building currently is located. "Built for C.T. Warren in the 1870s, this home stood on the site now occupied by the Memorial Building. Warren and his two brothers, all early Hinsdaleans, were partners in a Chicago grain business. In 1926, the vacant home was acquired by the village and demolished to allow for the construction of Hinsdale's...
Hinsdale firefighters and police responded to assist Clarendon Hills personnel with a fatal accident involving a train and truck shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday. According to reports on the scene, a box truck was unable to clear the tracks at Prospect Avenue and was struck by an inbound METRA commuter train. The truck was thrown about 25 feet east from the crossing and burst into flames. The fire was quickly extinguished. Reports indicated the truck driver and two passengers...
Feeling the impact of the tight labor market, Hinsdale officials have boosted village pay rates in a bid to stay competitive with other municipalities. At the May 3 village board meeting, trustees approved increases to the pay plans for full- and part-time employees, public service workers and seasonal staff, retroactive to May 1. The board held a brief discussion on the measure following the proposal’s introduction at the April 26 board meeting by Trustee Matt Posthuma. “The pay plans consist of a range and steps of pay bas...
