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HOSPITAL Greets FIRST BABY OF ’23 AdventHealth Hinsdale welcomed the first baby of 2023 on New Year’s Day. A boy, Abyudh, was born to Niharika Reddy Donda and Sheshidhar Reddy Donthi of Westmont at 1:31 p.m. Jan. 1. Abyudh weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. He was delivered by Dr. Shamim Patel. A photo appears online at www.facebook.com/thehinsdalean. SOLSTICE FINALIST FOR CROWN AWARD For the third straight year, Solstice, the art and literary magazine produced by students and staff at Hinsdale Central, has...
COUNTY OFFICIALS TAKE OATH DuPage County hosted an inauguration ceremony Dec. 5 for 23 elected officials who took office. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin presided over the event. Board members who took the oath of office included newcomers Kari Galassi and Lucy Chang Evans along with incumbent Brian Krajewski for District 3 and incumbents Elizabeth Chaplin and Paula Deacon Garcia and newcomer Yeena Yoo for District 2. Terms lengths were determined in a Dec. 13 lottery. Galassi and Krajewski in District 3 and G...
CENTRAL TEENS ARE STATE SCHOLARS More than 200 students from Hinsdale Central High School were named Illinois State Scholars by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. Students were selected for this honor based on their SAT and/or ACT test scores and sixth semester class rank. They are Nysha Adusumilli, Dalia Ahdab, Sarah Alamir, Raphael Aliaga, Isabella Alt, Mehlum Anjarwala, Marley Arquines, Alexander Aschinberg, Shrihan Atluri, Sebastian Attlan Ella Backus, Mariya Bajwa, Amy Bayarsaikhan, Aubrie Be...
CENTRAL HOLDS DAY OF SERVICE Some 200 students and staff members participated in Hinsdale Central’s annual Day of Service Oct. 29. Teams completed services projects at several area locations, including the Hinsdale Humane Society, People’s Resource Center, Feed My Starving Children, the Burr Ridge Park District, Indian Prairie Public Library, Maple Grove and Danada forest preserves, and All Community Events Hot Cider Hustle. Students and staff also made 242 scarves and collected nonperishable food, water, socks and toi...
COUNTY LINE JOINS WITH LARGER FIRM Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Connections today announced that County Line Properties in Hinsdale has joined with the company and will now operate as Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate County Line. The combined operations now include three offices and more than 100 affiliated agents serving many desirable neighborhoods in the Chicago area as well as the Indiana suburbs around Crown Point. The combined service area spans more than 50 miles. A luxury brokerage highly regarded for its...
COMMUNITY house RECEIVES GRANT The Community House in Hinsdale received a $250,000 grant as part of $3.8 million in transformational grants the DuPage Foundation and DuPage County Board awarded to 17 social service nonprofit agencies. This marks the second set of grants distributed by the DuPage Community Transformation Partnership, established by the board and foundation in January. The organizations selected for grants serve DuPage County residents in the areas of food insecurity, housing instability, mental health and...
FASHION SHOW supports HHS Rino Burdi and Burdi Clothing in Hinsdale held a fundraiser Oct. 6 and raised $12,000 for the Hinsdale Humane Society. The community came out in force. Guests were greeted by canine ambassadors from the humane society working the red carpet. The champagne was flowing, DJ Lee Michaels spun upbeat tracks and celebrity chef Paul Virant handed out small bites from Vistro in Hinsdale. The street was fabulously decorated by Continental Autosports with a beautiful Ferrari lineup. Burdi showed a sampling of...
PROJECT RISE DONATES TO HCS Members of the Chicago Project Rise team donated several boxes of laundry soap, dish detergent and personal care items to HCS Family Services Sept. 15. This is the third donation Project Rise has made to HCS this year, following diaper drives in May and June. Project Rise is a Global Dawoodi Bohra initiative whose sole mission is to help the less fortunate. “Project Rise is an important member of the HCS family,” Executive Director Wendy Michalski said. “Their continuing support is a shining exampl...
SEPPANEN RECEIVES VOLUNTEER AWARD Hinsdale’s Stephanie Seppanen received the 2022 Katharine Van Dusen Sylvester Service Award from The Community House earlier this month. Seppanen’s involvement with The Community House began with her first performance in the Community Revue “Addicted to Hinsdale” after moving to town in 2011. Seppanen connected with many long-time TCH trustees while rekindling a childhood passion for musical theater. Since then, Seppanen has been in four more Revues and makes mental notes on Hinsdale life to...
CENTRAL TEENS ARE SEMIFINALISTS The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced the names of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program, including several from Hinsdale Central. Central’s Merit Semifinalists are Sebastian Attlan, Analise Budziak, Alexander Burt, Natalie Chang, Jiming Chen, Luke Chung, Samuel Chung, Cole Clawson, Rohan Devulapally, Priya Dhananjaya, Annaka Freve, Sherry Gong, Rebecca Guan, Jessica Han, Jacob Haverkos, Nicole Hu, Nicole Catherine Huber, Andrew...
ARTIST’S WORK ON DISPLAY A painting by artist William Blake of Hinsdale is part of the University of Illinois Springfield’s physical and digital art exhibit titled “Making Our History: Artists Render Lincoln’s Legacies.” Over the past year, Blake and 19 other Illinois artists have been in a virtual residency with the UIS Center for Lincoln Studies to create 20 original artworks on Lincoln’s Legacies. Blake’s painting of reenactor Hugh Goffinet portraying a soldier of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at Fort Stevens outside of Wa...
Agency Collects 453 Pounds of Food Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago is pleased to announce that the Hinsdale, Downers Grove and La Grange offices collected 453 pounds of nonperishable food items for the Downers Grove Area FISH Pantry in June during the firm’s all-company Community Kindness event. Each of the offices served as a drop-off location for agents, their clients and the public. During Community Kindness, held in conjunction with the firm’s Kindness Foundation, each of the company’s 24 offices select local...
Best Maternity Hospitals List AdventHealth Hinsdale has been named on Newsweek’s list of Best Maternity Hospitals 2022. This prestigious award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. Newsweek and Statista invited more than 10,000 medical professionals to participate in the survey. AdventHealth Hinsdale is one of only 350 winners nationwide to be recognized on the list. “This national recognition from Newsweek comes at a time where families have many cho...
Hospital earns recognition AdventHealth Hinsdale and AdventHealth La Grange have received the American Heart Association’s Silver Plus Get With The Guidelines — Stroke quality achievement award for their commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, ultimately leading to more lives saved and reduced disabilities. With this recognition, the hospitals also received the Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award, for ensuring patients with Typ...
HINSDALE CENTRAL HONOR ROLL Hinsdale Central has released the names of students who earned a place on the dean’s list or honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2021-22 school year. Dean’s list Seniors Masa Abboud, Eliza Abdullai, Althea Abrusci, Jeremiah Adams, Jon Adams, Arnima Agrawal, Aminah Ahmed, Shaan Ahuja, Arman Akbar, Sydney Akers, Mohammad Al-Sabek, Marleni Alcantar, Rami Alkadri, Ayah Almusaddy, Anna Amine, Emmelia Anderson, Theodore Andrews, Ellie Andrzejewski, Marianna Angelopoulos, Ann Ascher, Max Aschinber...
HJWC AWARDS 24 GRANTS Hinsdale Junior Woman’s Club raised more than $364,000 during the 2021-2022 club year. The record breaking total was distributed to 24 nonprofits through HJWC’s philanthropic giving process. The club’s 250 members also participated in 18 service projects to further support local organizations. The club funds tangible items for deserving Chicagoland nonprofit organizations. During the 2021-2022 grant application period, more than 50 organizations submitted more than $1.2 million in grant requests. “HJWC...
PHYSICIANS NAMED TOP CANCER DOCS Five AdventHealth physicians have been recognized as top cancer doctors in the Chicago area according to a study conducted by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a healthcare research and information company, and published in the June 2022 edition of Chicago magazine. On staff and practicing at AdventHealth Hinsdale and AdventHealth Cancer Institute Hinsdale, the oncologists named to the list are • Dr. Jay Dalal, medical oncology/hematology • Dr. Rekha Harting, medical oncology/hematology • Dr. A...
HMS LISTS HONOR ROLLS Hinsdale Middle School has released the names of students who earned a place on the honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2021-22 school year. Sixth grade HMS honor roll Hassan Ads, Javier Aguilar, Emma Aguirre, Hadi Al-Khudari, George An, Lucia Aschinberg, Noor Atassi, Tuleen Attassi, Ella Barone, Savanna Barrios, John Bartoli, Jack Berube, Lillian Bier, Brian Byrne, Jack Cavanah, Gabriella Chillo, Ava Dannhausen-Brun, James Davis, Alexandra De Vita, John Doyle, Abigail Forsythe, Giuliana G...
D181 NAMES NEW ADMINISTRATOR Nick Shepkowski will be the new director of communications in Community Consolidated Elementary District 181 effective July 1. The school board approved his appointment June 20. Shepkowski has significant experience in content creation, both in school communications and in radio and television. He comes from Park Ridge-Niles Elementary District 64, where he oversaw all communications, social media and the website for the district. “Throughout the interview process, we were impressed by Mr. S...
NAZARETH ACADEMY Lists GRADUATES Nine students from Hinsdale participated in commencement ceremonies May 22 with 153 other members of the Class of 2022 at Nazareth Academy in LaGrange Park. They are Sarah Battaglia, Lorraine Healy, Sofia Lewis, Grace Mouw, Joelle Peterchak, Olivia Schaff, Ryan Short, Cody Sweeney and John Wheeler. COLLEGE STUDENTS MAKE DEAN’S LIST Several college students from Hinsdale have earned a spot on the dean’s list or the equivalent for the second semester of the 2021-22 school year. • Chase Acker...
WALK THE WALK A SUCCESS More than 400 people came out to the Walk the Walk for Mental Health at The Community House May 15, raising almost $50,000 in support of equitable mental health services in the community. The top fundraising team was Life Insight. The top individual fundraiser was Carol Schwerha. The Madison Elementary Panthers won the Big Blue Shoe Trophy for the highest participation among District 181 schools. Proceeds from the walk are used to support The Counseling Center at The Community House, which has...
HINSDALE CENTRAL LISTS GRADUATES More than 650 members of the Class of 2022 graduated from Hinsdale Central High School May 26. They are Masa Abboud, Eliza Abdullai, Althea Abrusci, Obada Abuzneid, Amy Ackerman, Jaydon Adams, Jeremiah Adams, Jon Adams, Arnima Agrawal, Aminah Ahmed, Shaan Ahuja, Arman Akbar, Sydney Akers, Marleni Alcantar, Ward Aldasoqi, John Alden, Mujtaba Ali-Khan, Rami Alkadri, Sean Allison, Ayah Almusaddy, Mohammad Alsabek, John Alter, Mohammed Alyousef, Mindaugas Ambrozas, Rayya Amina, Anna Amine, Collin...
STUDENTS WIN AWARDS AT STATE Several Hinsdale Central students won awards during the recent Family, Career and Community Leaders of America’s state competition. • Toral Bhatt, gold, apparel construction casual category • Chloe Chang, gold and most outstanding, child care provider category • Zuzanna Sokolowski, gold, apparel construction semi-formal category Faculty sponsors are Dawn Oler and Elizabeth Meersman. TEAM MEMBERS RECOGNIZED Nine students from Hinsdale Central’s Model U.N. team earned the Diplomacy Award during th...
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...
HINSDALE FUMC OFFERS SUPPORT Members of the Hinsdale United Methodist Church delivered 24 boxes of food and 10 boxes of children’s books to Olivet United Methodist Church in Chicago’s West Garfield neighborhood on Palm Sunday, April 9. The two churches have been in mission partnership for many years. This year’s delivery was particularly joyful because after two years of sending gift cards, members of the two congregations were able to meet in person. The inclusion of children’s books to the Easter food boxes was new this ye...
