Bill McLean

TREE-MENDOUS HONOR

First Presbyterian Preschool staff plants a hackberry tree in Lake Forest to commemorate beloved teacher Sue Peecher’s nearly three-decade tenure at the school. Kids say the funniest things. Longtime First Presbyterian (Lake Forest) Pre-school teacher Sue Peecher has hilarious proof. “One day, in our playground, I asked a 3-year-old girl, ‘How are you, my friend?’”

STUDENTS TEACHING—AND WARNING!—STUDENTS

Concerned Barrington High School students form the Josh Burks Foundation High School Council, hoping to do all they can to raise critical awareness about the dangers of fentanyl poisoning while honoring the life of a vibrant BHS graduate who died at the age of 20 after taking a counterfeit pill laced with the synthetic opioid.

BRIMMING WITH GRATITUDE

Veterans of Lake Barrington Shores can’t thank sponsors and the community enough for their help in raising more than $60,000 over the last few years for an LBS charter club that redistributes funds to several military support organizations. Jim Thompson was pushing a cart overflowing with toys in a Walmart one day when a woman—startled

RECIPE FOR HOPE

The North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic—founded by Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering—celebrates its 10th anniversary. In 2020, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering was unted by the presence of a second and silent pandemic—a spike in the rate of domestic violence during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Houses, sanctuaries to most during the worldwide sread of a new

PLOTS THICKEN

Lake Forest Place’s gregarious green thumb and garden committee chair, Patrick Cosgrove, now tends to his eight garden plots—up from four last year— at the senior living community. Any gardener worth their soil likes to get dirty—literally, not verbally. Lake Forest Place (LFP) resident Patrick Cosgrove was 3 and living near Wrigley Field when he

DAY IN THE LIFE: KAMILA GLOWACKI

EDUCATOR/ARTIST/MUSICIAN KAMILA GLOWACKI THRIVES IN HER TRIO OF FIELDS How Kamila Glowacki found the time to Field questions from Country, we’ll never know. The super-busy, impossibly industrious, 33-year-old serves the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) in Champaign as its assistant curator of community learning and engagement; creates all kinds of artwork (drawings, paintings, posters, prints, sculptures,

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