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For the first time, the children's book "A Fall Ball For All" was available to see for the public in Plainfield at Settlers' Park. With a $6,000 donation from the friends at the Plainfield Public Library, StoryWalk boards were displayed around Settlers' Park in September to promote the event. "This was our grand opening for the StoryWalk which is from a partnership from the Plainfield Public Library and Plainfield," Plainfield Library Director Lisa Pappas said last week. "We...
Retirement plans vary from person to person. For Bill Leibforth, there is no taking a break during retirement. A resident of Chicago his entire life, he fell in love with baseball at the age of eight and the game has always been a big priority in his life. He authored the book "Baseball's Forgotten Black Heroes" and discussed it recently at the Lisle Library, "I never really thought I was ever going to be an author even though that I love baseball," Leibforth said. "I've...
In Downers Grove, the Harvest Fest has been a hit the last three years. In it's fourth year being held at Fishel Park, not much changed. "Every year we have changed it up a bit, but not too much because of the past success we have had with it," said Downers Grove Park District Director of Marketing and Community Dawn Hartman. In this being the first year that the Downers Grove five-and-eight mile races were not part of the fest, other activities for kids and adults will be...
In an effort to raise funds for the students and scholarships at Plainfield Central High School, the Athletic Booster Club hosted its first Car Show and Food Truck Rally to also go along with the movie "The Goonies" on the football field. Ran by the Plainfield Central Athletic Booster Club fundraising committee chair, Tristan Torres, each vehicle had to pay $10 to enter. "We wanted something for the kids to do leading up to our homecoming on Saturday," Torres said. "We wanted...
For the third year in a row, the "Fall Fest- Explosion of Color" event took place at the Bolingbrook Recreation and Aquatic Complex. Superintendent of Facilities John Chase said the event usually expects between 1,000 and 2,000 people, but because of the weather, he wasn't sure what the crowd would be. "Well we usually have between 1,000 and 2,000 people here and it does increase with size every single year," Chase said. "Even though it's raining and cloudy, I think so far...
The 38-15 victory that Benet had over Marian Catholic Saturday afternoon at Benedictine University doesn't quite do the Redwings justice. With a 5-0, 1-0 start to the 2019 season, Benet Academy has enough wins to qualify for the playoffs, Redwings coach Pat New said that he wouldn't let his team look past the Spartans. "I always tell our guys to resist the temptation of looking anywhere else but this week," New said. "Taking it one game at a time is what we want to be about...
With a 22-12 overall record in the 2018 season, Maine South is poised for another good year. Head coach Kathleen Durkin said she knows the seven seniors last year had a big impact on the success of the Hawks, but her 2019 squad also has some great players. "I know we had seven seniors last year that really played well for us," Durkin said. "However, this year, we have some girls back and we have a really tall team which plays into our favor." The height advantage the Hawks...
Whether it's Queen Elizabeth II, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy or anyone else, Leslie Goddard seems to be able to portray anyone. This time, it was Jackie Kennedy. At the Joliet Library in front of more than 100 spectators, Goddard portrayed former first lady and fashion icon. "She is the most fascinating person I portray and people are just fascinated by her," Goddard said. "I've been doing this program for 10 years, and every I think if everyone's...
After a 16-21 overall record in 2018, Plainfield East has some work to do to get better. Following a departure of head coach Alex Rodriguez; the Bengals new head coach Kurt Dolson has not had the start he anticipated. Losses in its first six contests, while not winning a single match has called for improvement everywhere on the team. With the Bengals not playing their first home match until September, Dolson said that not playing to others teams levels is essential for the 201...
With a 12-13 overall finish in the 2018 season, head coach of Downers Grove South, Kristina Conrad, expects more. "I have extremely high expectations for this group of girls," Conrad said. "I expect that we should make it to regionals, and on to sectionals, winning at least 70 percent of our games." Consistency is something that has been a theme that Conrad preaches to her team that lacked last year, but the Mustangs will not have an easy road ahead. With a schedule that has t...
The Illinois State Board of Education awarded District 58's Grove Children's Preschool with the Gold Circle Quality of Excellence on its 2018-19 Preschool for All state audit report. "It's a part of the preschool for all grant," said preschool coordinator Jackelyn Cadard. "Part of that involves a audit of the Illinois State Board of Education." The gold rating is the highest score that an Illinois preschool can achieve, and this is the second consecutive time that Grove...
Replacing a superstar in sports is never easy. Especially when it is Natalie Mitchem. Mitchem, who is now playing D-I college volleyball at Ball State University, led Bolingbrook last year to a school best 24 wins, was named the team's Most Valuable Player as a senior and finished her career with a school record 801 career kills. "Well it's never easy replacing someone like Natalie who was obviously great," said Bolingbrook coach Moly DeSerf. "It's going to be an all in team...
Congressman Dan Lipinski (IL-3) recently announced that Lewis University Airport in Romeoville has been awarded a $3.3 million federal grant from the Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Improvement Program (AIP) to reconstruct Taxiway B, the airport's main artery. In 1989, The Joliet Regional Port District assumed ownership of the airport. The Director of Aviation for Joliet Regional Port District, Chris Lawson, said that the Lewis University Airport is just like many...
At Maine South, championships are the expectation. Since taking over the program in 2001, head coach David Inserra has won four championships the most recent coming in 2016. "I owe it all to the coaches," Inserra said. "Whenever we have adversity, we try and grow from that and we will just keep coaching the boys and not letting them take a easy route out." This year, the Hawks started 0-2 for just the fourth time under Inserra. In the three previous occasions, the Hawks went...
A StairMaster, elliptical, or even a treadmill seems to suffice for most people. For Plainfield Park District Division Manager of Parks Mike Brouillard, that's not the case. In 2016, Brouillard discovered World Vision, a non-profit whose mission he wanted to help, one that would also force him to push himself to his physical limits. While he discovered World Vision, which he said has changed his life, he also discovered something most people just can't physically or mentally...
Ever since Nico Brito was born, he's been an inspiration to other people. A three-year-old from Downers Grove, who will be making a special appearance in Times Square to launch the NYC buddy walk, has been dealt a tricky card - Down Syndrome. "I received a prenatal diagnosis very early in the pregnancy," said mother Jacqueline. "I think I was 11 weeks pregnant the time." After finding about her son's condition, which came from a routine checkup at the doctor's office,...
For 65 years, the White Fence Farm restaurant has been in the family of Laura Hastert. The original White Fence Farm location is in Romeoville, where it was established in the early 1920s on US Route 66. Founded by Stuyvesant 'Jack' Peabody, son of Peabody Coal Company founder Francis S. Peabody and himself CEO of Peabody Coal at the time, opened on a 12-acre plot that Jack Peabody owned across U.S. Route 66/Joliet Road from his 450-acre Lemont horse farm where thoroughbred...
For 65 years, the White Fence Farm restaurant has been in the family of Laura Hastert. The original White Fence Farm location is in Romeoville, where it was established in the early 1920s on US Route 66. Founded by Stuyvesant 'Jack' Peabody, son of Peabody Coal Company founder Francis S. Peabody and himself CEO of Peabody Coal at the time, opened on a 12-acre plot that Jack Peabody owned across U.S. Route 66/Joliet Road from his 450-acre Lemont horse farm where thoroughbred...
After an uncharacteristic 0-2 start to the 2019 season, Joliet Catholic Academy football has recently hit a hot streak. In their last two games, the Hilltoppers, now 2-2, have outscored their opponents 83-47. Most recently, JCA defeated Fenwick 49-14 in the first game of the newly formed Chicago Catholic League/East Suburban Catholic White "The first drive of the game Fenwick marched down the field on us but with that interception that was huge to establish early," coach Jake...
Last week, the Center for Disability Services (CDS) held its annual event "Racing for a Cause" for those who love sport cars, vintage automobiles and have a passion for supporting individuals with developmental disabilities. This fundraising event that usually allows for a race and offers guests a rare opportunity to drive around world-class road course at the Autobahn Country Club in the opposite direction. Unfortunately, because of rain this year, the race outside couldn't...
Bolingbrook and Plainfield East soccer are on two different tracks. For the Bengals, a sub .500 record so far in the early season has coach Cosimo Patano searching for answers. "We're still trying to establish our identity at this point in the season," Patano said. "Our style and what brand of soccer we want to play is still something this team is trying to figure out." Senior leaders including Brayden Saunders and Kolin Goss headline the young Bengals roster, but Patano said...
About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year, which comes out to one in every four deaths. Aware of those numbers, Downers Grove South did something to try and help and prevent those statistics from rising. Downers Grove South High School had 1,936 students screened through the Young Hearts for Life (YH4L) Cardiac Screening Program, in order to take more precautions and find out if they are at risk for cardiac problems. "[YH4L] is an organization...
Later this month, more than over 500 ComEd employees will participate in the American Heart Association's annual Heart Walks taking place in Chicago, Oak Brook and Northfield. For local Lisle resident Scott Vogt, this walk means more to him than he can describe. "This is my fourth walk and it's important to me to for personal reasons," Vogt said. "In 2015 my own health issues with my heart when I thought I was pretty healthy overall." During an annual check-up in 2015, Vogt me...
While Illinois Governor J.B Pritzker has signed legislation that makes recreational marijuana legal in Illinois, Bolingbrook will not participate in that movement. The bill allowing possession and sales to begin on Jan. 1 that was approved by the House and Senate, makes Illinois the 11th state to legalize cannabis and the first state in which a legislature approved commercial sales. Under the law, recreational cannabis can be sold to anyone over the age of 21 and consumed in p...
With 2019 being the 50-year anniversary of the first moon landing, Terry Lynch came to the Joliet Library to give his best Neil Armstrong impersonation. "I'm portraying Neil because of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing itself," Lynch said. "What I try and present in it is actually just how impossible it was to accomplish that back then." In what was known as being less than a 50 percent survival rate while trying to accomplish something that has never been done, Lynch...