Quinn birthday
By STELLA FOSTER sfoster@suntimes.com December 14, 2011 7:02PM
Sherrill Bodine of Glencoe. | Mary Blanco~For Sun-Times Media
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Updated: January 16, 2012 10:26AM
T HE SCOOP: The dapper and forever young Gov. Patrick Quinn celebrates his 63rd birthday Friday and on Monday will fly to Germany where he will visit Illinois servicemembers at the Ramstein Air Base, as well as host a holiday dinner for them on Tuesday at the Romano’s Macaroni Grill on the base.
Quinn will also visit the wounded soldiers at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the Warrior Center housed on the base.
This is a trip that he’s been making for the past few years to show heartwarming support for our service men and women.
“The duty of all of us on the homefront is to take good care of those who have borne the battle,” Quinn told this columnist. “And everyone should visit our website, operationhomefront.org, and find a way to help our soldiers. I am also taking boxloads of homemade Christmas cards from the students of Illinois for the servicemembers.”
The gov also told me that his son David Quinn, a software exec, shares the same birthday with his dad and will turn 27.
AND congrats to Quinn’s deputy chief of staff Toni Irving on his recent Champion for Change in Juvenile Justice award from the Models for Change organization.
RADARONLINE recently reported that Robbie Powell, 23, who allegedly is the “real father” of Mariah Yeater’s so-called Justin Bieber baby, was arrested Nov. 26 on drug and burglary charges in San Diego. Yeater is the unemployed and broke 20-year-old single mom who filed a paternity lawsuit against Bieber, claiming he is the father of her baby son, Tristyn, which the Bieb denies.
Yeater recently dropped her paternity lawsuit. But local attorney Jeffery Leving, who claims to still represent her, is still pushing for a DNA test. He told this reporter, “As of this date, Justin Bieber’s attorney has not sent me confirmation that his client took a DNA test. And I will be flying out to California the first week of January.” (And I say this case is a pitiful scam.)
By the way, Leving joined a small group of Latino movers & shakers, including actor John Leguizamo, who had dinner with President Obama on Nov. 30 in New York to discuss getting out the Latino vote.
THE BOOK REPORT: Ian Schrager, owner of the swanky Public Chicago Hotel, hosting a private reception for chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s new book, Home Cooking with Jean-Georges, on Jan. 10....Chicago author/fashionista Sherrill Bodine having a private launch party for her latest book, All I Want Is You, on Jan. 5 at the Drake Hotel. Last week Bodine and Laurie Davis, owner of Lulu’s at the Belle Kay, attended a private breakfast and viewing of Liz Taylor’s jewelry hosted by Christie’s in New York....Publicist Allen Rafalson talks about his new book, The Santa Claus Trial, on Rick Kogan’s WGN radio program Sunday at 6:30 a.m., and signing his book at the Homewood Library on Saturday.
ABOUT TOWN: Renown hairstylists Luis Alvarez and Ann Bray drew a huge crowd at the Cosmetologists Chicago event recently held in Chi Town. The duo will be back in town for the America’s Beauty show in March....Elmhurst Hospital’s Conor Gee is now engaged to the lovely Becky Terlep....The Cubs’ Kerry Wood and wife, Sarah, had lunched at Harry Caray’s on Kinzie and ran into Ernie Banks, who happily agreed to be one of the celebrity bartenders at their “Woody’s Winter Warmup” benefit Jan. 13 at Harry’s on Navy Pier. Other sports jocks confirmed include Geovany Soto, Matt Garza, Ryan Dempster, Randy Wells and Starlin Castro.
HOLIDAY News: The Greek Media Club celebrating Thursday at the new National Hellenic Museum....Open House at Shell Reyes’ Kai Koto Galleries Friday & Saturday ... “A Morning of Christmas Music” at Sixth Grace Presbyterian Church at 10 a.m. Sunday.
BIRTHDAYS: Gov. Pat Quinn, WBBM radio’s Don Schuble, and belated to Channel 32’s Dawn Hasbrouck. On Friday: WBBM-Channel 2’s Mai Martinez, Shaunese Teamer and Laverne Rostenkowski. On Saturday: Fabu photog Vic Skrebneski and my sis Shirley Foster Hunter. On Sunday: Brad Pitt, Katie Holmes, Mike Sheahan, George Daniels (celebrating at Park 52 on Friday), Betty Sitbon and Ann (Lettuce Entertain You) Johnson. On Monday: Dr. Steve Stryker and James Strong.
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