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Northbrook farmers market opens, celebrates 10 years SARI MISHELL, Editorial Intern

More than a decade after first envisioning the idea, Dale Duda exuberantly welcomed in hundreds of guests on Wednesday, June 20 as Northbrook’s farmers market opened for its 10th season.

The market’s inception traces back to Duda’s desire to further engage members of the Northbrook com-munity. While heading her parish rummage sale at Our Lady of the Brook, Duda was enticed by its spacious parking lot, prompting her visualization for the possi-bility of a market.

Now years later, the mar-ket has grown in size, but not to the point of oversatu-ration, just as Duda and the market’s vendors desire.

Douglas Coggeshall, the owner of Waterfall Glen Soap Company, joined the farmers market shortly af-ter he started his company in 2013. Coggeshall heard about the market from a

fellow vendor and always enjoys his experiences at the farmers market.

“There’s a lot to be said for the farmers market be-ing small and close-knit,” Coggeshall said. “Some farmers markets, there are so many vendors. Every-one is competing for the same dollar and if there are too many options for a customer, they either get confused or don’t purchase anything. Northbrook is real good about the size of the farmers market and we really appreciate that.”

Even though the North-brook Farmers Market is small, it still has a rich va-riety of foods and products.

“When you see a smaller market, they usually don’t quite have everything to of-fer,” Coggeshall said. “At Northbrook, that’s not true. They have just about ev-erything you can possibly need.”

Although Duda started the market, she knows the

community really owns it. “It’s their farmers mar-

ket,” Duda said. “We very much listen to the feedback that we get from our cus-tomers. So when they tell us stuff, we listen to them and we respond.”

After a few seasons in the Our Lady of the Brook parking lot, residents sug-gested Northbrook’s farm-ers market move to the more centrally located downtown area, where it has now been for the past seven years.

Northbrook’s farmers market became so popu-lar that it attracted out-of-state vendors, who also love the close-knit feel of the market. Kyle Froehlich owns Sunny Harvest Farm in Berrien Center, Mich. and got involved with the Northbrook Farmers Mar-ket when he was still in college.

Froelich knew that when he graduated, he was go-ing to start farming and he

needed to hit the market right away, which led him to Northbrook. Since 2012, Northbrook has become a very special place for Fro-elich.

“I’ve really liked North-brook,” Froelich said. “A lot of our customers, they’re not just customers, we’re more on a personal basis. We know these peo-ple by first name and a lot of them are friends and al-most like family to us. It’s small so you can be per-sonal there compared to a large market where there’s so many people, it’s hard to

Liz Barnett hands out a fresh strawberry to Northbrook resident Bruce Cueno June 20 at the opening of Northbrookʼs 10th farmers market. MARTIN CARLINO/22ND CENTURY MEDIA

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have conversations.”The friendly farmers

market is not just made up of customers and vendors — Northbrook’s farmers market is also the only vol-unteer-run market on the North Shore. Most mar-NHWV�DUH�UXQ�E\�WKH�9LOODJH�or the chamber and usually include a paid marketing manager. Northbrook’s is completely made up of volunteers and about a dozen “onion heads.”

“The neat thing is, people step up and do it,” Duda said. “They help out. They love this farmers market. They wanted to be here. They don’t want it to go away. Onion heads help wherever and when-ever they can. They want to make sure the farmers market is the best it can be and it continues on this path that were on,” Duda said.

This path has led Fro-elich and Sunny Harvest Farms to introduce a new tomato variety this year because of how much the people of Northbrook en-joy the fruit. Also, Cogge-shall and Waterfall Glen Soap Company are launch-ing new products as well to commemorate the 10-year anniversary.9LOODJH� SUHVLGHQW� 6DQG\�

Frum officially opened this year’s market with a proc-lamation recognizing its 10th anniversary.

“I encourage all citizens to support and celebrate our local longstanding farmers market,” the proc-lamation read in part.

“This is a real treasure of Northbrook,” Frum said just moments before the annual watermelon-cutting ceremony.

For more information on the market and a complete list of vendors, visit north-brookfarmersmarket.org.

WEST NORTHFIELD D31 BOARD OF EDUCATION

Winkelman hires new principal after unexpected departureJASON ADDY Freelancer Reporter

After accepting the unex-pected resignation of Win-kelman School Principal Dana Tamez on Thursday, June 21, the District 31 Board of Education wasted no time in promoting her assistant to the elementary school’s top job.

Erica Berger will be Win-kelman’s third principal in six years, with Tamez mov-ing on after just two years in the position. Tamez took over in 2016 from Michael Kahn, who left the school after three years. Berger, 40, will start her new job on July 1.

Following the board’s rapid approval, Berger said she had never felt so proud in her life.

“Four years being an as-sistant principal was really hard and there was a lot of work for it, but it was defi-nitely worth all the blood, sweat and tears,” Berger said.

Before joining Winkel-

man’s administrative setup in 2015, Berger taught for HLJKW� \HDUV� DW� 3DUN� 9LHZ�School in Morton Grove District 70. She came to West Northfield District 31 after serving for a year as assistant principal at the Edison School in Skokie District 69.

Berger, a Park Ridge resident, earned her under-graduate degree in human development and family studies from the University of Illinois in 2000, and holds a Master’s Degree in Teaching from National Louis University, where she is pursuing her doctorate.

Tamez wrote in her June 13 resignation letter that she is leaving the district to accept an “opportunity to work with early adoles-cents once again.”

“I will be forever grate-ful for the opportunity you provided me these past two years,” Tamez wrote.

Tamez was brought to the district in 2016 follow-ing a nationwide search for a new principal, but the

school board and Superin-tendent Alexandra Nichol-son are confident the best person to keep the school moving forward was al-ready in the principal’s of-fice.

“She has been the as-sistant principal for three years. She is very familiar with everything regarding the building, the staff. She knows all the students, all the parents. She’s been in-volved in all of our school-improvement planning,” Nicholson said. “It’ll be a very smooth transition.”

With several leadership shake-ups at Winkleman in recent years, district officials “want and need somebody to stay” to bring consistency to the school, Nicholson said, and Berger is ready for the long haul.

“I’m here to stay,” Berg-er said. “I did three years as an [assistant principal], and I look forward to many more years as a principal. I feel at home here.”

Berger said she is look-ing forward to taking a

more hands-on role in curriculum mapping and encouraging collabora-tive teaching and learning practices in the school, but Nicholson said the most important thing is that

Berger gets comfortable in her new position during the first year.

“She has the skills. I have no hesitation whatso-ever that she’s going to do a great job,” Nicholson said.

Erica Berger, the current assistant principal at Winkelman School, will take over as the schoolʼs principal on July 1 following the resignation of Dana Tamez. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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FROM THE VILLAGEVehicle stickers help support Fourth of July

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Northbrook residents can make a donation ($20 minimum) to support the holiday festivities and receive a special vehicle sticker, featuring the 4th of July logo. 2018 vehicle stickers must be displayed by Saturday, June 30 at midnight.

Purchase a sticker by noon on Saturday, June 30, IRU�WKH�ORZHU�UDWH��7KH�9LO-lage Hall is open for stick-

er sales this week. Additional Fourth of July information

All traditional Fourth of July festivities will take place on Wednesday, July 4. For the complete sched-ule of events, visit www.Northbrook4thofJuly.com

Residents may text 4thjuly to 888777 to re-ceive a link to the 4 th of July website and special notifications related to 4th of July activities and weather alerts.

Edens Spur Improvement Project

The Illinois Tollway has started a multi-year repair and reconstruction project on the Edens Spur (I-94).

This project includes roadway repair and recon-struction work between Lake-Cook Road and the Edens Expressway, as well as replacement of the Pfingsten Road bridge over the Edens, repairs to the Waukegan Road bridge over the Edens, and median and lighting improvements. The first segment of the project began last week with con-crete work on the Edens Spur between Lake-Cook

Road and Pfingsten Road. During this work, the

Tollway will be closing lanes and shifting traffic as necessary. The Tollway provides daily construc-tion updates at: https://www.illinoistollway.com/media-center/constructio-nalerts. The Tollway antic-ipates replacing the Pfing-sten Road bridge in 2019. This project will require closure of the bridge for an anticipated four months.

The Tollway is coor-dinating their Pfingsten Road Bridge Replace-ment Project with IDOT’s Dundee Road Culvert Re-

placement Project and the two projects will not be occurring simultaneously. For more details, visit: https://www.illinoistoll-way.com/projects/tri-state/edens-spur

Fire academy graduatesOn June 15, Firefight-

ers Thomas Longaker and Jack Trimble gradu-ated from the NIPSTA Fire Academy.

From the Village is informa-tion submitted by the Village of Northbrook, www.northbrook.il.us