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Article: 87-year-old native wins Days' grand prize
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- Northbrook Star (IL)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1997
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Northbrook's Vince White couldn't believe his ears Sunday night when he heard the name of the winner of the Northbrook Days grand prize - car or $30,000 - being called.
"I'm thinking I heard 'Alice Galati,' " he said. "Sweet 87-year-old lady who's always making cookies and soup for anybody who wants 'em. Boy, you couldn't find anybody better to give it to - better than giving all that money to a banker, huh?" Three recent winners of the grand prize have been bankers.
Galati is a Northbrook original. She was born in Northbrook - then Shermerville - in 1910, the daughter of another lifelong resident, Augusta Maihack, who lived to be 98. She worked as a chef or cook in most of the more ...