owner JIM FLINT HELPS marK baton’S 46th anniversary WINDY CITY THE VOICE OF CHICAGO’S GAY, LESBIAN, PAGE 21 BI AND TRANS COMMUNITY SINCE 1985 MARCH 25, 2015 VOL 30, NO. 26 TIMESwww.WindyCityMediaGroup.com Making waves Thousand Waves marks 30 years of mission-driven work BY ROSS FORMAN Thousand Waves Martial Arts & Self-Defense Center, located in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood, kicked off a year of celebratory events in February, marking the 30th anniversary of its founding. The milestone brings up feelings of “pride, happiness, joy,” said Nancy Lanoue, the lesbian founder and current co-executive director of the non-profit, which sprang from feminist roots and POLITICAL now serves a broad demographic of Chicagoans, including adults of all genders, teens and youth. ACTIVIST JEAN But it has not always been an easy go. In fact, things looked bleak for the organization early on. “Lots of bad things happened in the early years, including the death of my first partner, Jeannette HARDISTY DIES Pappas, who I had started the venture with,” Lanoue said. PAGE 6 The two women moved to Chicago together to build a women’s fitness center and start a karate program dedicated to women’s empowerment and safety. Two years after the Women’s Gym opened, Lanoue learned—on her 35th birthday—that she had breast cancer. Two years later, Pappas got pancreatic cancer and only lived eight more months. So, after only four and a half years in business, they had to close the Women’s Gym (it later re-opened with new owners). However, their karate program survived. In 1990, Lanoue reopened under a new name, Thousand Waves. A year later, her new partner (and now spouse), Sarah Ludden, also a martial arts instructor, moved here from California to help run the fledgling organization. Thousand Waves’ Nancy Lanoue. 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