The Village of Barrington Hills made this announcement via social media yesterday:
“Barrington Hills Road Program begins tomorrow, Wednesday, June 20th, on Hills and Dales & Honeycutt Roads and on Thursday, June 21st on Haeger’s Bend between Chapel and River Roads. Please proceed with caution and obey the traffic control measures.”
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This news comes via the Barrington Hills Police Department:
“Barrington Hills Police Department (BHPD) Officer Jeremy Hensler was recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which is progressively debilitating and eventually terminal. As we all know, lives, priorities, and future plans can change in an instant and this is sadly the case for Officer Hensler.
Jeremy is a 13-year veteran of BHPD and served five years as a police officer in Richardson, Texas before moving to Illinois with his wife and young daughter. His daughter is now 15 years old, beginning her high school years and is the light of Jeremy’s life.
BHPD Officer Jeremy Hensler
Jeremy has spent all of his adult life in public service and he has gone above and beyond in his career at BHPD, serving 12 years as a Northern Illinois Police Alarm System (NIPAS) Emergency Services Team (EST) sniper. Jeremy is also a 10-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps in which he served as an infantry rifleman in the 1st Battalion 9th Regiment at Camp Pendleton, California – consequently, he is very proud and was initially reluctant in allowing Department members to organize a request for assistance on his behalf.
Jeremy is currently on an administrative desk assignment and is in the process of obtaining a non-duty-related disability. He will need progressively more care and assistance during the course of this terrible disease. While we all pray for a miracle cure or remission, we also realistically know that the financial strain on Jeremy is something he should not need to worry about.
Any assistance you may provide to assist Jeremy in facing this difficult disease will be greatly appreciated by him, his daughter, and the entire Barrington Hills Police Department staff.”
Interested parties may contribute to Officer Hensler’s Go Fund Me page here.
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Barrington Hills’ Sanfilippo estate is a popular venue for elegant, charitable fundraising parties, but Tuesday it was all about scientific research in the property’s spring-fed creek by Shedd Aquarium experts and a local nonprofit conservation group.
In collaboration with the Sanfilippo family, the Barrington Area Conservation Trust organized the monitoring of Spring Creek to sample fish populations to determine abundance, density and species composition. Conservation trust Executive Director Lisa Woolford said the organization is helping the family legally protect a “big stretch” of its land from development in perpetuity.
“So, part of what we do is we identify as many plant, insect and animal species as we can as part of the project,” Woolford said during a break from slogging through Spring Creek in waders. “And we put it into a nice, big, hefty report so we know exactly what it is we’re preserving.”
To read the full text of the Daily Herald feature, click here.
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The Village of Barrington Hills made the following announcement yesterday.
“ROAD WORK BEGINS JUNE 4th on Otis and Brinker Roads–Expect Delays. Please proceed with caution or choose an alternate route.”
Additional information from the Cook County Department of Transportation can be found at this link BrinkerConstruction.
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The life story of Dr. John Prunskis and his wife Dr. Terri Dallas-Prunskis is the stuff of an epic novel. The only challenge is where to begin. The obvious place would be right at the beginning—John growing up in Chicago in the 1960s, the son of Lithuanian immigrants who attended Lithuanian school on Saturdays, and didn’t hear spoken English until kindergarten. His parents, both refugee physicians, spoke only Lithuanian at home to honor their homeland’s heritage (and in defiance of the Soviets who deported their parents into Siberian slavery).
“Lithuania was an abstract concept to me when I was 5 or 6 years old, but essentially the Soviets turned Lithuania into one big prison,” explains John. In addition to receiving the Knight of the Order of Merit bestowed by the President of Lithuania for his professional and philanthropic contributions to that country, Dt. Prunskis is also an award-winning Barrington Hills physician. He is co-founder and medical director of the Illinois Pain Institute with Terri—a fellow physician who he met 32 years ago during his post residency fellowship at the University of Chicago.
That romance alone is another contender for a compelling opening narrative—two brilliant young physicians working together, pushing each other intellectually, and driving forth on a mission to become healers and innovators. They were colleagues; they were friends. Then they dated for six years, and (as it sometimes happens) they were engulfed in spontaneous combustion. They fell in love for life, marrying in 1991. “I have affection for many things, but the word ‘love’ I reserve for her and my children” he says.
To read the full story in Country Magazine, click here.
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The Village of Barrington issued the following Special Traffic Alert today.
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Barrington Hills police have narrowed down the model of the vehicle that struck and killed a bicyclist late Friday on Route 59. The offending vehicle is believed to be either a black 2010 Toyota Sequoia SUV or a black 2007 or later model Toyota Tundra pickup, according to information released by Barrington Hills police Tuesday afternoon. Police said the vehicle likely sustained extensive damage to the passenger side. The victim, identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as 28-year-old Rafal Ryndak of Schiller Park, was thrown several feet from his bicycle and was unresponsive when first responders found him. Police have yet to release a description of the driver of the vehicle.
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