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The Pioneer Press has come up with their top 50 list of male senior athletes in suburban Chicago.  Among the list are two Deerfield greats, Scott Lieberman and Alex Loukas.  The two made the list for their outstanding achievements in tennis and football.

Scott Lieberman went all the way to second-place in state for his amazing tennis abilities.  The singles star placed top-five his sophomore and junior year with his big serve and “monster” forehand.  He is going to attend Vanderbilt University and continue his career this fall.

Alex Loukas is an all-state quarterback who signed with Stanford for the fall.  He led his team to an outstanding season, with a 9-2 record.  His statistics are impressive, scoring 16 touchdowns his senior year alone.  He also won a state doubles title in tennis his Junior year.

Congratulations boys on a job well done.

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Deerfield has recently joined Digital Past, a local history digitization project by libraries, historical societies, museums and other groups working in partnerships with the North Suburban library system in Wheeling.  You can now view pictures of Deerfield when Waukegan road was a dirt path, when downtown was surrounded by, well, nothing, and when everyone young and old worked at the National Brick Company.  By going to digitalpast.org you can click on the Deerfield Public Library link and view 60 historical photographs.  By joining Digital Past, the Deerfield Historical Society and the Deerfield Public Library both feel it is a way to preserve heritage in the community.  Most of these pictures were taken before we can even imagine, no film was used because most of them were on a glass plate long before there were negatives (which makes it all the more interesting).  Others see this as an interactive approach to history.  Future plans for this neat project include videos, film clips, oral histories, listings from old telephone books and cemetery records.  With those included, it should make any history buff’s day.

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Reading about amazing people in Deerfield is always great.  But reading stuff that involves two young daughters following their mother’s footsteps in helping others is even better.

Aliza Goldberg, 13, and Jessica Lane, 22 have vowed to each other to follow their mother’s footsteps, Barb Goldberg of Deerfield, and continue her passion to help others.

Recently, their mother lost her life to breast cancer at age 51.  Even during her six-year battle, she still managed to continue helping others.  Quite the remarkable woman.

Barb Goldberg is definitely someone worth remembering.  She formed an after-school enrichment program called But Enough About Me, a.k.a. B.E.A.M.   This weekend, there will be a B.E.A.M. garage sale, organized by Aliza and three of her friends, with proceeds going to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to help provide mammograms for women who can’t afford them.  At 136 Aspen Way in Deerfield, you can find the hardworking girls holding the sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.  At the sale,  you can find an amazing amount it items, ranging from clothes, toys, sheets and towels to bikes, bassinets and books.  The girls behind the sale have worked hard and long to make this happen, and have carefully planned out everything needed to make this successful.  As Deerfield residents, support your amazing community neighbors and head out to the amazing sale to support Goldberg’s work for others.

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