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The Northbrook Park District’s new director of parks and properties is James Kim, whose experience in the field spans two decades.
Kim served as parks superintendent for the Vernon Hills Park Distri.
On Thursday evenings, the Ed Rudolph Velodrome in Northbrook is filled with excitement as the Northbrook Cycle Committee hosts three hours of racing for track cyclists, with some exceeding 35 mph.
Up until 2008, when he retired, I can recall listening to the news broadcast by Paul Harvey on ABC radio. He’d come on in the morning and again at midday.
Writing a report this week about the recreation and replacement of the
Olympic gold medals won by Canada’s Percy Williams more than 40
years after they were stolen while on display, I was reminded of the
pathos of the sprinter’s final years.