Submitted by the communications department at Lake Forest High School

– Registration for 2011-12 for the Class of 2015 is in progress. Parents and students are invited to an informative meeting at LFHS on Curriculum Orientation and Information January 26, 2011 at 6:00pm at Lake Forest High School East Campus. Counselors will kick off the evening with an overview of the registration process. At 7:00pm various faculty members will present specific information and answer questions about course offerings. 

Please note that parking is at a premium so shuttle bus service will be provided from both the Lake Bluff and Deer Path Middle Schools.



– On February 9 from 5:00 – 6:30pm families will have the opportunity for consultations with Department ID’s and/or Chairs regarding level changes upwards in core courses. Level changes downward or schedule change requests in the elective areas (non-core courses) do NOT need to be present at this evening’s meeting.

– The following dates concern the registration process for the Class of 2015 ONLY. Eighth grade parents are invited and encouraged to attend any one of the below presentations. These presentations are a repeat of what was previously presented in December at DPMS and LBMS. Thursday, January 6 at Lake Forest Country Day School, 
1:35-2:25 pm- Registration Overview and Packets to Students by LFHS Counselor, 
 2:30-3:15 pm– Parent Session Question and Answer, 

Friday, January 7 at St. Mary’s School
, 9:00-9:30 am – Registration Overview and Packets to Students by LFHS Counselor
, 9:30-10:30 am – Parent Session Question and Answer, 

Wednesday, January 26 at Lake Forest High School
, 6:00-9:00pm – Class of 2015 Curriculum Orientation Night, Wednesday, February 9 at Lake Forest High School Library
, 5:00-6:30pm – Upward Level Change Requests for Core Course.

– There will be a regular meeting of the Board of Education of Lake Forest Community High School District 115, Lake County, Illinois on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 7:00 p.m., Board Rm, LFHS West Campus, 300 S. Waukegan Road, Lake Forest, Illinois.

LFHS Semester 1 Finals will take place according to the following schedule: January 11 (English 7:50 a.m. Math 10:50 a.m.), January 12 (World Language 7:50 a.m., Science 10:50 a.m.), January 13 (Social Studies 7:50 a.m., Make-ups 10:30 a.m.).

– There will be no school for students on Friday, January 14, which is the End of First Semester and a Faculty Workday.

– There will be no school on Monday, January 17 in recognition of Martin [...]

By Adrienne Fawcett

Lake Forest’s Rommy Lopat and her daughter Danielle Drummond have more in common than familial ties; they both blog about subjects they feel passionate about sharing. In Danielle’s case, the subject is frugal fashion—or stingystyle. For Rommy, it’s Lake Forest’s Forest Park and its original architect, O.C. Simonds.

Danielle is a senior at University of Illinois. Her mom is an avid gardener and former regional planner who for many years published The Weedpatch Gazette, a Chicago region gardening newsletter. Ms. Lopat has always enjoyed genealogy and Chicago history (click here to read about her work photographing gravestones in the Lake Forest Cemetery). When she realized how little was publicized about Simonds, one of the country’s most prolific and influential landscape designers of the 1875-1930 era, Ms. Lopat sought out his biographer, Barbara Geiger, and his family, and then jumped in to create a blog about his life and times–and current Chicago area landscape designers as well.

The blog is in its infancy–Ms. Lopat received four cartons of biographical material from Ms. Geiger and has a long way to go in adding the information to the site. Local garden designers and historians have pledged to add articles to the blog as well.

Click here to read SavingForestPark.org
…. You can also follow this blog and many other local blogs on the GazeboNews local blogroll–click here to get there.

Ms. Lopat’s daughter Danielle started her blog, StingyStyle.com, a year ago. GazeboNews wanted to know more about how a college student got started in the blogosphere–and why–so we sent her a few questions. Here are her answers:

Q: Why did you start StingyStyle? And what inspired you?
Danielle: I created Stingy Style as an early New Year’s Resolution, right at the end of 2009. School was dragging on and I was getting quite restless, bored really, and I desperately need a new hobby. I had been reading so many articles in magazines and the New York Times about specific bloggers (some that I mentioned before), and I decided I could make a website that gave readers what I thought many magazines lacked- a budget.

Many magazines will show low cost items that you might need to dial a phone number to buy, or $300 dollar shoes that are “affordable,” or the comparative less-costly outfit looks nothing like the expensive one, etc etc. I [...]

The Smithsonian Institute’s website has a story on Jens Jensen and the Prairie School of Landscape Architecture, and it features a photo of Haven Wood, a now-gone Lake Forest estate that Jensen worked on. The story includes a link to more photos of Haven Wood that were provided by the Lake Forest Garden Club–it’s a nice glimpse into the past.

Visit the Smithsonian Institute story by clicking here: http://si-siris.blogspot.com/2010/12/jens-jensen-pioneer-of-prairie-school.html

The Village Lake Bluff will conduct a “simultaneous filing lottery” on Dec. 29 at 5:15 p.m. in Village Hall to determine the order of Village Board candidates on the election ballot. The reason for this is that three candidates filed their petitions at 8 a.m. on Dec. 13. They are Steve Christensen; Mark Dewart; and Kathy O’Hara

Here is a list of the people who have filed for candidacy as of 5 p.m. on December 20 (candidates are listed alphabetically, and the numbers next to their are for lottery purposes only):

Village Trustee
Steve Christensen – 1
Mark Dewart – 2
Kathleen O’Hara – 3

Library Board
Linda Verbeke
Kathleen Meierhoff
Judith Nickels
(Candidates are listed as they will appear on the election ballot)

Village Clerk
Bill Meyer

For more information, please contact Ryan Waller, Assistant Village Administrator, at 847-283-6889.

Citadel Theatre Company in Lake Forest is hosting general auditions for the third show of its 2010-2011 season, “Something’s Afoot,” a musical murder mystery. The company is seeking six men and four women 20 to 60 years of age. The production is May 6 through June 5, 2011. All performances will be held in Lake Forest. All roles are paid positions. Non-Equity.

The auditions are:
Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011
11am – 2pm
Greenhouse Theatre Center
2257 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

Monday, Jan. 17, 2011
6pm – 9pm
Citadel Theatre
West Campus
300 S. Waukegan Road, Lake Forest

Appointments are recommended. Walk-ins will be accommodated as time permits. Please call 847-947-2155 or email CitadelProducer@comcast.net to schedule an appointment.

Please prepare a 1 to 2 minute monologue and 16 bars of your favorite tune.

Possible call backs are scheduled for Monday, Jan.24 at Citadel Theatre in Lake Forest. Visit www.citadeltheatre.org for more information

The Chicago Tribune reported that former William Blair & Co. Managing Partner Edward “Ed” McCormick Blair, 95, died at his home in Lake Bluff on Dec. 22. Blair was the son of William McCormick Blair, founder of William Blair & Co., a Chicago-based investment firm, and the great grandnephew of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the McCormick reaper. Please visit the Trib’s “Chicago Breaking Business” website for the full story.

You can find more information about William Blair & Co and Edward McCormick Blair on the web–here are some links:

William Blair Co. home page: https://www.williamblair.com/Pages/index.asp
William Blair & Co.–history of the firm: https://www.williamblair.com/Pages/index.asp

There are a lot of links on the following website, but it’s worth noting that the person or people behind the website don’t identify themselves: www.smokershistory.com

http://www.smokershistory.com/WmBlair.htm

Christmas traditionally brings wayward sheep back into the fold. And what about the Sunday after Christmas? A lot of sheep took one look at the foot of snow in the meadow on Dec. 26 … and pulled the fleece blanket over their head and went back to sleep. So here’s something for those of you who missed church, as well as for those who never go to church: It’s a new feature that GazeboNews is experimenting with called “Sunday Sermons.”

The idea is to post the first paragraph of recent sermons from local places of worship, and also include a link to the church websites for those people who want to read (and sometimes hear) more. Our goal is to include any house of worship that would like to be included, so please contact adrienne@gazebonews.com if you would like to see your community represented here. Some of the sermons are from the most recent Sunday, others are from the previous week or two.

Union Church of Lake Bluff

“Love Incarnate”
1 John 4:7-12
December 26, 2010

Pastor Mark Hindman

Welcome to worship on the Sunday after Christmas which this year happens to be the very day after Christmas! Next to having Christmas day fall on a Sunday (which is what happens next year) this is a red letter, low attendance Sunday! This is the day when an awful lot of faithful members and friends think to themselves, “Wasn’t I just at church?” This is also the day when most pastors have thought ahead and wondered, “Who can I get to preach?” I’m here, though. So are you! I’m really glad you’re here! (Just promise you won’t tell the folks who aren’t here this morning about the free I-pad give away!)

Click here to read the sermon on the Union Church of Lake Bluff’s website

Christ Church, Lake Forest
“The Big Question”
Pastor Mike Woodruff
Dec. 24, 2010

It’s remarkable to believe that God once arrived in a package this small. It’s remarkable to believe that we were all once this small. (baby crying) It’s remarkable to believe that we thought having a live baby was the right way to go. (laughter)

If you are not happy with me, I was going to point out that it’s also remarkable when we see a baby and we’re filled with wonder, to think of all the different things that we [...]

The Christmas tree that looked so lovely in your living room just a few days ago is going to evoke a darker emotion real soon. Here’s how you can dispose of your tree in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff–please note that pick-up is free but is only for real trees:

Lake Forest: During January, Christmas trees will be picked up on regularly-scheduled recycling days at the curb. Trees must be free of all lights and ornamentation. To be collected, trees cannot be in plastic tree bags and must be cut in sixfoot lengths

Lake Bluff: Residents must remove all tree decorations (tinsel, lights, plastic bags, and other miscellaneous items) and place the tree at the curb on a regular refuse collection day. For additional information, please contact
Village Hall at 847-234-0774.

We at GazeboNews are working hard to keep our readers in the loop of all that’s going on in our communities, and we’ve got a few new things on the horizon for 2011. One of these is a new “GazeboNews Sports Scoreboard.” This feature includes the most recent scores and next scheduled events for all varsity sports seasons at Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest Academy, Woodlands Academy and Lake Forest College. In time, we hope to add scores and results from youth sports leagues as well. Where available, descriptions and a photo of the competition are included.

Note that coverage is for all sports.

The information often comes from the websites maintained by the schools, but GazeboNews encourages direct reports and photos from coaches and team boosters. All information can be submitted to gnsports@gazebonews.com. Byline credit will be given.

The Scoreboard is updated twice-daily, seven days a week.

Sports activities other than those of schools are also welcome. The Scoreboard is currently following Lake Forest Sailing, a program of the Receation Department, at a winter regatta.

Reader comments on sports that should be included in the Scoreboard are welcome at gnsports@gazebonews.com

Please click on the following to visit the GazeboNews Sports Scoreboard

One of the best ways to keep up with what’s going on with the kids at our local schools is to read the newspapers that are written by the students themselves. Here are links to newspaper websites or pdf files of newspapers from several local schools. This is a starter list–some schools are working on new editions and will be included at a later date; and some schools either don’t have a newspaper or don’t post it online.

Lake Forest College: The Stentor.com

Lake Forest Academy: The Spectator

Lake Bluff Elementary School:
– LBES News issue #3 Dec.

– Lbes Issue #2 nov small