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Vince highland park village11/20/2023 We encourage you to support our local businesses and restaurants during these challenging times. Below is a list of Highland Park restaurants and businesses, offering special hours, take-out, delivery, dine-in, and/or curbside service. The COVID-19 pandemic is a difficult time for everyone, including the Town’s business community. Outdoor gatherings of 100 or more people must be approved by local governments, with certain exceptions.Restaurants may remain open for dine-in service, but at a capacity not to exceed 50% of total listed indoor occupancy, beginning Monday, June 29, 2020.These businesses may remain open for delivery and take-out, including for alcoholic beverages, as authorized by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. All bars and similar establishments that receive more than 51% of their gross receipts from the sale of alcoholic beverages are required to close at 12:00 PM today.The targeted, measured directives in the executive order are based on links between certain types of businesses and services and the recent rise in positive cases throughout the state. This decision comes as the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 and the number of hospitalizations have increased and the positivity rate in Texas increased above 10%, which the Governor previously stated would lead to further preventative action. June 26, 2020: Governor Greg Abbott today issued an executive order limiting certain businesses and services as part of the state’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. September 17, 2020: Governor Greg Abbott allows many businesses to operate at 75% capacity. The 1998 Biskupic family Christmas card.Governor Abbott Announces Temporary Pause Of Additional Reopening Phases Note the collared shirt under the jersey and the always game Outlaw Mary Jane. It’s blurry and their eyes are closed but any picture of these two is automatically a gem. How great is this picture? That’s our Charlie, Vinnie, Katherine and the Bulls-and-fun-loving Grandpa Vince. It’s amazing how good it feels to summon memories of good men. Here’s to Toni Kukoc, currently working as a special advisor to the Chicago Bulls, and to the other Croatian Sensation, Vince Biskupic, esq., a grandpa known as Mr. Vince and his wife Mary Jane raised their nine kids in Chicago and then Naperville, a western suburb. Toni and his wife Renata still live in the house they purchased when he first came to Chicago and are raising their family in Highland Park, a suburb just north of there. Last four spent in Milwaukee (Grandpa Vince grew up in Sheboygan, just north of Kukoc retired as a player following his 15-year career, the Like Grandpa Vince), and negotiated (something at which Grandpa Vince excelled)Ī contract that brought him to Chicago in 1993, just after the Bulls’ famous “threepeat” He loved to watch Michael Jordan and the Bulls play (just Kukoc, one of the first European basketball stars to cross the pond and play for the NBA, grew up in Split, just down the gorgeous Croatian coastline from Mala Mlaka, the village where so many Biskupics were born and raised. In addition to their height (Grandpa Vince stood 6-4) and love of family, Toni Kukoc and Vince Biskupic shared a lot of other interests. In 1998, we gave him a Toni Kukoc jersey, marking the final season of the 6-11 Croatian Sensation’s storied tenure as a player for the Chicago Bulls. Something on hand to pair with our gifts. I think he bought himself a pair of jeans just so he could have Still, every time we gave him aĬasual jersey or goofy shirt, he put it on proudly when he knew he would be One for daytime and one for evening meetings. My father in-law Vince Biskupic carried himself with aĭignity he could not help, tucked it in every morning with his pocket squareĪnd wore it starched like the two fresh dress shirts he buttoned up every day, So, brought to you courtesy of my sweet sisters-in-law, please enjoy this post celebrating men I will admire for as long as I live: And I was likewise touched but not surprised to receive a text from Donna with the exact vintage photo I had somewhat vaguely described, three minutes after I requested it. So, we were touched but not surprised last week to receive an unsolicited package from Sharon that contained a Toni Kukoc jersey we once gave my father-in-law for Christmas. Keepers and the sharers of Biskupic family history. My sisters-in-law Sharon and Donna have become both the
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