Summer 2001

Barrington Hills: Steward Becomes Trustee

For the last 15 years, Barrington Hills resident Daria Sapp has served as the volunteer steward for the 560-acre Spring Lake Nature Preserve in northwest Cook County. She has also been an active participant in the orchid recovery project, trying to help the federally endangered prairie white-fringed orchid to reestablish itself in likely habitat. Now, she adds village trustee to her resume.

Sapp, a former junior high school English teacher, had served on the village planning commission for eight and a half years. She’d worked to maintain the atmosphere of living nestled in nature so beloved by area residents. (Barrington Hills has residential lot sizes of five acres and 42 percent of the village is owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.)

"We have an equestrian community here," Sapp noted. "There’s a lot of building going on and we’re trying desperately to preserve our green space. We also need to protect our water."

Sapp has been named chairman of the Barrington Area Council of Government’s Water Resource Initiative, a new effort by seven villages to collaborate on ground water issues such as quality, contamination, and groundwater recharge areas.

— Adam Wilson