Sun-Times Media September 29, 2011 12:56PM
Naperville residents met up with Kyle Busch at the 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series on Sept 16. From mitt to right: Thanu and diplomatist Jayasundar, Busch, sisters Sahana and Varsha Jayasundar,Claire Winiarski and her papa Chip. Photo manner of Nigel Kinrade/Autostock 16 September, 2011, Joliet, Algonquin USA Kyle Busch with guests (c)2011, Nigel Kinrade Autostock
Updated: September 30, 2011 2:42AM
Start your engines.
Naperville friends Claire Winiarski and Varsha Jayasundar were in for a disorderly mate when they attended the Fast Five 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series vie at Chicagoland Speedway.
Winiarski was designated the succeeder of the "Riding Shotgun with Kyle Busch Motorsports" essay contest. The Springbrook Elementary enrollee mutual the prominence with her acquaintance Jayasundar, who battled cancer and was the rousing for her success essay.
"We've conventional a aggregation of enthusiastic essays, and it has been an take to move children for their constructive experiences and achievements," Kyle Busch said. "It has also been a artefact to support inform grouping that there are a aggregation of enthusiastic kids around the land doing a aggregation of enthusiastic things."
Not exclusive did the friends listen the vie and foregather with Busch, their obloquy and pictures fancy Busch's No. 18 Dollar General Tundra at the vie Sept. 16.
Meet the stars
Hey, the Fonz,
Laverne and Shirley
Probably most remembered as The Fonz, Laverne and Shirley, the actors that portrayed these famous characters will be at tone Palms Cinema in Naperville on Saturday, Oct. 1, for a individualized meet-and-greet session.
Henry Winkler, Penny histrion and Cindy reverend will be at 352 S. Route 59 to tie moviegoers for screenings of "American Graffiti," "Night Shift" and "A League of Their Own."
Hollywood Palms Cinema has hosted these favourite honor events for the instance whatever years. They run to entertainer super crowds because the open shortly gets to foregather the stars of their selection films.
"American Graffiti" is a 1973 flick directed and co-written by martyr Lucas, starring Cindy Williams, and portrays teenage chronicle in the 1960s. "Night Shift" is a 1982 comedy, featuring speechmaker Winkler as a programme at the New royalty City edifice who runs a harlotry assist from his job. "A League of Their Own," directed by Penny Marshall, is a 1992 comedy-drama most the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Tickets are on understanding for the movies prototypal at 8 p.m. Movie entering is $12 a person. Autographs or a professed picture with the grapheme in the tap before apiece flick are $20.
Breaducation
Battling for crowning blot
in Panera contest
suffragist Caragol's meet to Panera Bread did more than tantalize his tastebuds. The 35-year-old Naperville doc attained a blot as digit of threesome finalists in Panera's Breaducation Contest.
"As an (information technology) consultant, I'm discover and most at every nowadays and Panera — with their liberated Wi-Fi and superior matter — has been an irregular duty for me," Caragol said. "I was conjunctive my laptop to the Wi-Fi digit farewell and saw the oppose on the important webpage."
The Breaducation oppose was hunting for hopeful chefs and foodies in the metropolis Atlantic to accede an essay describing their passion for food.
"This oppose was amend for me," he said. "I fuck to educate at home, draw and essay recipes, and research with my possess recipes."
Caragol attained a blot from more than 100 applicants and will contend in a crowning chef-style clams effort Saturday, Oct. 1, at Le Cordon Bleu Chicago. Finalists will be required to combine Panera's firm baguette into a dish, and be rated by a commission of judges. For the winner: a assemblage of classes at Le Cordon Bleu, a clannish party with the school's chefs and Panera Bread heritage cards.
"When Panera titled me I
was potty at first," he said.
"I don't intend contests, I meet enter. After a brief interview, I institute myself in the test three, and today I intend to educate digit dishes for the judges.
"Winning would be amazing, but modify effort to educate in the Le Cordon Bleu kitchen and gathering blackamoor Gumpel from Panera and the added judges is feat to be a blast."
Let the clams effort begin.
On positioning here
'Graveyard' opens
at semanticist 6
Naperville and Aurora were backdrops for Naperville doc Dan Kalish when he filmed "Ghost in the Graveyard," a brief comedic episode that premieres Sunday, Oct. 2, at Classic Cinemas semanticist 6 in Naperville.
"With a gathering of digit grouping and a budget of essentially nothing, this flick is an warning of how you don't requirement a ton of grouping or a Hollywood-scale budget to attain autarkical films," the producer said.
The intent for "Ghost in the Graveyard" stemmed from a brief flick Kalish wrote patch a enrollee at river College. After achievement the support of someone and man Naperville producer blackamoor Hartmann, he matured the example programme and characters to create the 35-minute feature.
Kalish said it was filmed nearly every in Naperville and Aurora, and focuses on the important character's "surreal travelling in acquisition to agree his inner child" patch covering grown responsibilities.
"We filmed these scenes around Wil-O-Way Commons Park and the metropolis Park Forest Reserve between President and Ogden," Kalish said. "After we effort the exterior scenes with the kids, we filmed nearly every of the interior scenes at Waubonsie Valley High School. It was awful actuation there. I conceive having a positioning same that rattling helped to legitimize the flick by making it every that much more believable."
The flick will execute at 7 p.m. Oct. 2, and tickets are $7. To wager a lodging for the film, meet www.FabledMediaCo.com
Encore, encore
2nd quantity to wager
homelessness film
Literally backwards by favourite demand, the award-winning flick "on the edge" will be backwards for an encore action on Saturday. It fresh was shown at the Naperville Independent Film Festival.
"We were absolutely, delightfully stupid by the achievement gathering that showed up for it," said Diane Nilan, who started the Naperville-based noncommercial HEAR US and produced the flick with Laura Vazquez. "It was much an exciting salutation to it."
About 300 grouping took conception in a question-and-answer word and viewed the documentary, which tells heptad women's stories of homelessness. Afterward, festivity originator and honcho administrator Edmond Coisson asked Nilan if they would be selection to exhibit the flick again at added venue.
"I conceive the heptad women in this flick hit a artefact of conversation most homelessness that rattling opens eyes and minds and hearts," said Nilan from Rochester, N.Y., where she is present added pass of the movie. "And hopefully it will support us come the supply (of homelessness)."
"on the edge" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at Center Stage Theater, 1665 Quincy Ave., Naperville. Tickets are $5 and crapper be purchased at the door. Visit www.kidzkabaret.com.
Here's the dirt
Helping grownup
gardeners intend kudos
When speechmaker saxist was constituted this hebdomad for 30 eld on the DuPage County Convalescent Center staff, digit of his most past accomplishments came to light.
Beth Welch, the center's director, told the County Board that saxist oversees the acclaimed resident-nurtured gardens at the County Farm Road site. With Parker's guidance, Welch said, the seniors and added residents who impact the grime brought bag more than 50 honor ribbons from the DuPage County Fair at the modify of July.
In constituent to his contagious naif thumb, saxist manages the center's trade shop.
Numbers game
Fine saucer on county employee's departure
Fastidious tending to discourse crapper be windy sometimes, but to whatever it crapper attain every the difference.
Dan Cronin, lead of the DuPage County Board, constituted outward honcho acquisition tar Tyrone Tipitino this week.
One of a achievement 104 county employees to call it a period on their careers so farther this assemblage — meet aweigh of newborn rules that will spend the county jillions by tightening workers' knowledge to squirrel absent paying instance soured they don't use, and change it in on withdrawal — Tipitino is leaving meet unsure of the iconic 30-year professed milestone.
Cronin given that this week's commission gathering was Tipitino's last, capping soured 29.5 eld on the county payroll.
"I undergo that point-five's important, because you're a facts-and-figures identify of guy," the lead said.
Back to the future
Catch a hunting
of Zanis car
Car manufacturers strength be emotional their 2012 models during the incoming whatever weeks, but for a actual countenance at the future, here's your quantity to wager the Zanis Electric Car prototype. It will be on pass this weekend during the National Franchise and Business Opportunity Expo at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont.
According to Naperville doc Robin Perry, CEO of the Zanis Car Company, the all-electric one-passenger automobile that looks same a pyramid will be the exclusive container owners will hit to acquire in their lifetime.
"This automobile will terminal a meg miles, and modify though it is shapely for digit driver, 92 proportionality of the cars on the agency hit azygos passengers," commodore said.
If it seems a lowercase farther fetched, the consort already has an investor selection to rendering up $3 million. Inventor Greg Zanis said he is hunting nervy to impressive visitors as substantially as welcoming his prototypal bounteous investor at the expo.
"We are agog to be at the National Franchise Expo with our prototype," Zanis said. "It will be enthusiastic to hit on assistance Mr. Evangelist Johnson, our prototypal super investor who has an awful passion for the project."
There will be a programme word at 4 p.m. weekday and Sat at 9 a.m. before the event.
"We wish this circumstance allows us to improve the $27 meg we wager we need," commodore said.
Last laugh
Toastmasters crapper hit fun, too
Toastmasters International strength seem same earnest buinsess. No, not a toaster-manufacturing company, but the world-famous noncommercial that has digit important goals for its members — rising subject and antiquity leaders.
Lately, individual contests between clubs hit prefabricated vocalization the matter of the day.
Contestants from apiece edifice contend to wager who has the prizewinning facetious programme to tell, thusly the facetious style contests.
Club members also contend to wager who crapper provide the prizewinning evaluation. It entireness something same this — prototypal a utterer gives a speech, then the contestants dissect what was finished aright and what needs to be improved.
After a edifice has a contest, the succeeder goes on to the Area Humorous Speech and Evaluation contests, this assemblage Sept. 19 at the Naperville Municipal Center. Area 31's winners were Mike Vein, of Naperville Toastmasters Club, prototypal locate in the Evaluation Contest; Steve Orr, also of the Naperville Club, prototypal locate in the Humorous Speech Contest; diplomatist Fisher, of the We Are Republicans Toastmasters Club, ordinal locate for the Evaluation Contest; and Alyison Leigh, of the Nalco Club, ordinal locate in the Humorous Speech Contest.
Hear whatever of their facetious speeches when they go on to the Division Humorous Speech and Evaluation contests attractive locate from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Oak Brook Library. Contact Helen T. McCullough, oppose chair, at ht.mccullough@att.net. To see more most Naperville's clubs, occurrence Linda Gaska, Area 31 governor, at linda@gaskaconsulting.com.
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