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AQUA MAN

44 Make Opening Spread Coachmichael25@james Gustin 2

Swimming has taken longtime coach/USA Swimming administrator Michael Lawrence to natatoriums in countless countries, but what continues to mean the world to him is located right here—the Lake Forest Swim Club. ALYSE MAURO MASON KNOWS ALL about Michael Lawrence, the exceptional head coach/executive director at the Lake Forest Swim Club (LFSC), and Michael Lawrence, the

HIGH NOTES

78 Tlw Chris Fisher By Tom Bachtell For Forest & Bluff

Bringing Nashville to Lake Forest for a unique fundraising event this summer also brings hope to children in Haiti, India, and Venezuela. Lake Forest and Nashville, Tennessee, are separated by 500 miles. For the fourth year in a row, Music City will come calling—and singing, via the appearances of three esteemed singer-songwriters—here in Lake Forest

THE GREAT ‘SCAPE

82 Tlw Bernard Pondexter Deerpath Streetscape Project Tom Bachtell

The end of the road for Lake Forest’s Deerpath Streetscape Project is nigh, assures Bernard Pondexter Bernard Pondexter wants business owners along Deerpath Road in Lake Forest to grow tired of seeing him. “I like to over-communicate,” admits the City of Lake Forest’s affable Engineering Section Lead Project  Manager,  who  oversaw Phase 1—water main replacement—of

TREE-MENDOUS HONOR

82 Tlw Sue Peecher Tom Bachtell C

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

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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

64 Jim Thompson, Vp Of Communications For Veterans Of Lake Barrington Shores And Bill Bishop Main

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

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