Bill McLean

Fine Results At Refined

Parents have encouraged their kids to do it. Personal trainers often remind their clients to do it. And dogs, desperate to go out for a walk, would bark the same four words to their owners—if only they had the ability to pronounce them. The plea? “Get off the couch.” But Eric Smoot Hemphill—co-owner of Wilmette’s

Family Matters

IT HAS NEVER BEEN difficult for former record-setting Deer Path Middle School wrestler Brian Dacy to pin down exactly what’s allimportant to him. Family, pure and simple. As a son. Or as a sibling. Or as a husband and a father. Or even as the co-founder/CEO of Life Tech, a leading provider of high-tech home

Golfer Par (And Birdie) Excellence

Andrew Vitt was 12 and golfing by himself when he carded his first hole-in-one at Exmoor Country Club in Highland Park. Hole No. 8 swallowed the youngster’s tee shot whole. “I was celebrating near the tee box, all while hoping, at the same time, that someone had seen my ball go in,” Vitt, a Kenilworth

A Star Was Born-And Died Too Young

ROSS AND NANCY Friedman don’t just think about their late son, Gregory Paul Friedman, every day. “I think about him every minute,” Ross says. “Every second,” Nancy insists. Time will never heal the Lake Forest couple’s grief, after Greg, 27, died a week after taking a seemingly adulterated dose of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA)/Molly that was

Sweet, Not Sour

Erika Hlavacek was 5 when her eyes tripled in size during an impromptu visit to the cockpit before a flight to Disney World. “I was overwhelmed and thrilled,” recalls Hlavacek, who lives in Wilmette with her husband, Jeff, and their children, Francesca, 13, and Antonio, 12. “Right after entering, I asked the three uniformed men

Spotlight on Kindness

PICTURE A LIGHTHOUSE. There it stands, a tower of strength and comfort, tall and firm and reliable. See it? Good. Need a light, be it atop calm waters or troubled waters? It’ll deliver, unwaveringly. “A lighthouse,” Lake Forest author Steve Pemberton says, “is the most selfless structure, one that has never needed technology. It’s there

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