Lake Forest Podcast

Lake Forest Podcast

By Pete JansonsSociety & Culture
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Lake Forest Podcast episodes

  • Highwood Design Week with George Markoutsas and Carolyn Cerf Highwood Chamber of Commerce

    George Markoutsas and Carolyn Cerf of the Highwood Chamber of Commerce stopped by with Rebecca Pogonitz  to tell Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons all the cool things coming up at our next-door neighbors in Highwood

    Design week is coming up!!!

    MONDAY I SEPT 20 | 5PM | LAUNCH PARTY

    TUESDAY | SEPT 21 | 6PM | PROCLAMATION NIGHT AT CITY HALL & HAPPY HOUR

    WEDNESDAY | SEPT 22 | 4:30PM | WELLNESS DESIGN TRENDS & AFTER CELEBRATION

    THURSDAY | SEPT 23 | 5 PM | WINE & DESIGN EVENT - WITH REAL PRODUCERS MAGAZINE

    FRIDAY | SEPT 24 | 5PM | RENOVATION TRENDS AT EARTH RENOVATIONS

    SATURDAY | SEPT 25 | 11AM-4PM | DESIGN EXPO with Kid Zone & CHAIRity AUCTION

    https://www.highwoodchamber.com/designweek.html

    https://www.highwoodchamber.com/

    https://www.powerhousesmart.com/


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    36 min
  • 2021 LFHS Scout Football Outlook with Eric Nowik

    Eric Nowik came on the show to give his thoughts on the upcoming Lake Forest High School Football Season. Since Erik also works Prosperity Home Mortgages he gives an update on the Lake Forest Real Estate market.

    1st game of the season is tomorrow at 7:30pm St. Francis in Wheaton

    Warren will be the toughest matchup this year while Libertyville is always rough

    Players discussed:

    SR 20 Jahari Scott 6'0" 150 RB DB

    SR 2 Jake Milliman 6'3" 190 WR DB

    SR 18 Brock Uihlein 6'2" 210 RB LB

    JR 70 Harry Capstick 6'1" 190 OL DL

    SR 95 Max Terlap 6'0" 240 OL DL

    SR 80 Cade Nowik 6'0" 180 WR DB

    http://www.lakeforestschools.org/schools/lfhs/athletics/teams-schedules/team-page/~athletics-team-id/171


    Eric mentioned that in June 2021 82 homes were sold in Lake forest which was the most in a month in 20 years!!

    https://ericnowik.phmloans.com/


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    22 min
  • Greg and Dawn Barnum founders Beef4hunger.org

    Greg and Dawn Barnum from Beef4Hunger.org came on the Lake Forest Podcast with Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons to discuss their mission To provide fresh beef for America’s hungry through a network of food banks and hunger relief organizations.

    Beef 4 Hunger is the only organization that exclusively provides fresh beef high in protein to food banks to feed America’s hungry. Beef is the most difficult product for food banks to get, and the most desirable. At a cost of approximately .50 cents per meal, every dollar helps put  meals on the table for a hungry family.

    Notes:

    Lake Bluff Brewing Co. Block Party Fundraiser this Saturday, August 28, 2021,  5:00pm - 10:00pm for Beef4Hunger.org Blocking off the street, serving some grub, sling a coupla two tree beers, showcase some live music by the Hellhounds, and all for the amazing cause that is Beef 4 Hunger!

    https://www.lbbrew.com/events/2018/2/28/beef-4-hunger-charity-block-party-with-the-hellhounds

    Notorious Lake Bluff Rib Fest Saturday, October 2, 2021, 10:00am -  5:30pm

    https://www.beef4hunger.org/ https://www.beef4hunger.org/donate/

    Every $.50 donated provides a fresh beef meal for a hungry person.

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    17 min
  • Lori Tisinai Owner Computer Concepts USA

    Lori Tisinai Owner of Computer Concepts USA came on the show with Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons to talk about her companies services. Many of the small businesses that we have had on the show swear by Lori's company so we had to get her on!!

    Topics:

    • Passwords
    • Backup Drives
    • Ransomware
    • Multifactor Authentication
    • Pete ...Dropbox is not a backup drive DUH

      • http://www.computerconceptsusa.com/

      https://lori360.com/

      847-604-8421


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      22 min
    • Arthur Miller wishes a Happy Birthday to Marshall Field in "Art Class"

      August 18 is Marshall Field's Birthday so Arthur Miller's Art Class will be about Marshall Fields relationship with Lake Forest 

      Show Notes:

      LF has been the home of Marshall Field 5th for many years and now a daughter has a weekend house here as well, a rehabilitated 1911 Shaw mansion.

      Marshall Field, I died after a Jan. 1, 1905 or 1906 golf game on the Chicago area, catching a bad cold a third of a century before antibiotics. P.D. Armour had died the same way playing outside with his grandkids five or so years earlier. After Field died, John G. Shedd took over as the second president of the firm, continuing to grow it, including working personally with Edward H. Bennett ca. 1907 on the Walnut Room, with Bennett’s design.  Shedd died in the late 1920s, having given LF lakefront homes to two daughters, Mrs. Schweppe on Mayflower and Mrs. Reed, later Keith. Mrs. Reed rebuilt the garden and house, the latter with David Adler. Mrs. Reed also built an indoor tennis court and adjacent living quarters, where they lived while the 1931 Adler house was built. The two sisters donated the 1931 LF Library, in the same cruciform plan as their father’s late 1920s Aquarium, Chicago. When wings were added in 1978, Mrs. Reed’s son, John Sheed Reed, was the donor; he was chair of the Santa Fe RR, then headquartered in Chicago.

      Field I had been planning to build a museum downtown for 1893 fair anthropology artifacts, etc. his nephew, Stanley Field, in the cold golf party, inherited the job of creating the museum. After court losses over putting the museum in Grant Park, they created new landfill south of the grant Park landfill, from coal ashes from the Loop, hand shoveled, and built the building, which opened in 1921. Field also built a Lake Bluff lakefront home at the end of today’s Lakeland Rd.

      One of the first branch stores of Fields was in the west building facing the park in Market Square, 1931, eventually expanding to take over the whole building. The upstairs by the 1970s was women’s dresses and sports wear. The basement sold linens, etc., and the main floor accessories, cosmetics, and a few men’s clothes. The malls, with a bigger Fields at Hawthorne, cut into that trade in Market Square. By 2006 the Fields successor company, Macy’s, closed most of the store, though kept the cosmetics business as Blu Mercury.


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    • Bruce Himmelblau Owner Blue Sky Video Productions

      Bruce Himmelblau Owner Blue Sky Video Productions has been in business for over 35 years. He gave Pete Jansons some tips on how to improve the quality of his podcast. Bruce's company helps clients overcome the fear of hitting the record button, and has clients coast to coast as well as London!

      Use this link https://www.bsvp.com/playbook to receive a free copy of:

       Bruce's On-Camera Playbook The guide to looking your professional best on camera.

      Notes

      • Bruce has a background in video production, live streaming, and marketing. His background helped guide him through the Covid uncertainty.
      • He doesn't recommend using a green screen for beginners
      • Open strong with a call to action
      • Never store your data on your system drive!
      • His Grandfather helped found Arthur Anderson
      • Notes. Blue Sky did the video work for Bob Bell's Funeral (Bozo)
      • Nicknamed Uncle Brucie

        • https://www.bsvp.com  

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        32 min
      • The "Email Show"

        Skoo Walker, Arthur Miller, and Pete Jansons discuss the email Pete sent out 8-10-21 which asked for feedback on the Lake Forest Caucus Committee

        Problem: It's becoming harder to find volunteers for the Lake Forest Caucus Committee. (Voting residents of Lake Forest) Invitations to participate are being turned down. No Volunteers means no Caucus committee.

        Objections.

        1. It’s Political with a liberal bent, its groupthink, “Boys Club”, Clique, and “Insiders Only”
        2. They don’t know what it is, and Current Caucus Committee members cannot overcome objections while explaining what the Caucus is.

          3. Objection #1:

          t’s Political with a liberal bent, it’s groupthink, “Boys Club”, Clique, and “Insiders Only”

          Possible Reasons:

          • The LFCC Executive Committee (LFCCEC) is formed by the LFCC President selecting who she wants for Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Fundraising Chair, External Communications, Internal Communications and the 4 ward chairmen. The Vice President from the prior year automatically becomes the President. It could be perceived that the president can surround herself with people she knows and likes.
          • LFCC members are presented with a list of LFCCEC members to vote on in March      with no information
          • LFCC is a 3-year term for first-year LFCC members who don’t want to “make waves” and vote with who the LFCCEC puts on the card.
          • LFCC is a PAC and the LFCC including the LFCCEC cannot explain what it is
          • The current LFCCEC President and Vice President are not held to the same attendance standard as the LFCC. School Board Candidates were determined by a Task      Force selected by the President versus letting the entire LFCC presenting candidates.
          • Cannot      afford to make donations (2020 Caucus Committee was asked to donate and      would be recognized in front of the Caucus Committee)

            • Solution:

            • The LFCC Executive Committee should be vetted by the LFCC. The LFCC should have a nomination process for all positions in LFCCEC.
            • Determine interest within LFCC for each position to be nominated
            • Nominees are vetted by LFCC
            • LFCC Nominates candidates to be on the election in March
            • Positions that handle money should be additionally vetted (Treasurer and Fundraising Chair)

              • Objection #2: The LFC (residents and small businesses) don’t know what the LFC  or LFCC is and LFCC members cannot overcome objections while explaining what the Caucus is.

              Possible Reasons:

              • Resources are put on dealing with situations after the fact versus preventing them (education      public on LFCC process versus spending on lawn signs)
              • There is no onboarding process for members
              • Bylaws have not been updated for 3 months.
              • Cannot explain why it’s a PACT
              • The Lake Forest Caucus (The voting residents of Lake Forest) do not understand the selection process for example, one candidate on the “Let’s Do Better” Slate wanted to pitch in and be on the School Board and didn’t      know about the Process

                • Solution:

                • More Scrutiny and oversight to External and Internal Communications 
                • Funds/Marketing for prevention vs Contest Elections.

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                  51 min
                • Stacey Flaster and Liz Fauntleroy Co-Founders of The Performers School

                  Stacey Flaster and Liz Fauntleroy Co-Founders of The Performers School stopped by to tell us about their awesome performer's school

                  • Improve confidence, study, and presentation skills
                  • They produce shows at Ravinia!! Frozen Jr! Got to listen on when to audition!!
                  • Got to listen to their cool story of teaching Chance the Rapper how to dance!

                    • https://www.theperformersschool.com/

                    https://www.theperformersschool.com/our-founders

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                    36 min
                  • Lake Forest Day and its relationship with Lake Forest College

                    "Art Class" is in session with Lake Forest History Legend Arthur Miller. He goes on to tell Pete Jansons....

                    • Lake Forest Day was started at Lake Forest College in 1908
                    • Income Tax was caused by Lake Forest College?
                    • Art's Elephant Story
                    • Arts Book Lake Forest College guide to campus 2007
                    • Patterson Lodge

                      • http://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/2662

                      Pete Jansons and Skoo Walker will be in front of the Lantern during the Lake Forest Day Parade 8/4/21 10 am giving away "Skoozies" and doing a podcast stop by!! If you can't see us at the Parade Skoo and Pete will be bartending 4-6 pm at the beer tent at Lake Forest Day

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                      36 min
                    • Mr. T. and the "Chainsaw Massacre" taught by Arthur Miller

                      Arthur Miller teaches "Art Class" to Pete Jansons each week. This Weeks's topic is Mr T and his Lake Forest Trees in 1987

                      Just recently the house that Mr. T lived in was sold. 

                      The house, the trees and the man is quite the story. We cover everything from Mr. T's early days bouncing at Dingbat's to Critical Race Theory.

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                      40 min

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