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Bellying up with …On Fridays, we’ll spotlight the men and women serving up cold ones and conversation in our neck of the woods. Let us know about your favorite bartender by emailing ltaylor@news-gazette.com.
After Donna Hoffman retired from her role as an administrative assistant at the University of Illinois, she didn’t plan on a second career.
That is, not until her friends, owners at the North Forty, begged her to fill in while their daytime bartender wintered in Florida.
Now, Hoffman spends her summers golfing only a couple days a week behind the bar, then steps it up to an afternoon shift almost every…
