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Satisfying silver
New cord
recognizes grads
for volunteer hours
SCOTT GIRARD
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Photo by Jeremy Jones
Junior Jack Herkert cleared 6 feet, 8 inches Friday to win the WIAA Division 1 boys state high jump title. Herkert became the Wildcats first
boys state high jump champion and their first title winner since 2011.
Golden leap
Herkert wins gold, Ifediora also medals at state track meet

JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Verona boys track and field standout Jack Herkert made a drastic
improvement of eight inches between
his sophomore and junior seasons,
culminating in his first WIAA Division 1 state high jump title Friday at
UW-La Crosse.
Herkert, who entered the meet as
the favorite following his clearance
of 6 foot, 10 inches at sectionals,

reached 6-8 to wrap up his first title.
Fellow junior Obi Ifediora ran
back-to-back lifetime bests over the
weekend, twice breaking the VAHS
800-meter dash record on his way to
fourth place in 48.96.
Both Herkert and Ifediora, along
with junior Jared Biddle, who finished
eighth in the 110 hurdles, should have
the Wildcats in the hunt for the team
championship next year.
Inside
More on Herkert and
Ifedioras performances at
the state track meet
Ve r o n a A r e a H i g h
S c h o o l s t u d e n t s h ave
helped out community
organizations for years.
Now, as they graduate,
those who have accrued
100 volunteer hours or
more this year will be recognized for their efforts
with a silver cord to wear
over their robe.
This Sundays ceremony, set for 3p.m. at Epics
Voyager Hall, will be the
first to feature the silver
cords.
Of the 411 students
in the Class of 2016,
38 with 4,400 hours
among them will wear
the cord across the stage.
For its first year, thats
great, senior coordinators Brooke Felsheim and
Allissa Woodman said,
and they hope it can grow
in the future as it becomes
more well-known.
(The program) wasnt
If You Go
What: Class of 2016
graduation
When: 3p.m. Sunday,
June 12
Where:
Epicenter,
Voyager Hall
Graduates: 411
Song: Good Riddance
(Time of Your Life) by
Green Day
Flower: Lavender
Quote: In the end its
not the years in your life
that count. Its the life in
your years. Abraham
Lincoln
r e a l l y k n ow n a t a l l ,
Woodman said. A lot of
people I know have a lot
of volunteer hours and
didnt know about it.
This years graduates
needed 100 hours in their
senior year to receive the
cord, but in the future
students will need 100
hours in both their junior
and senior years. Adviser
Turn to Cord/Page 20
Inside
See photos from Hometown Days 2016
Page 2
Page 12
TIF will fund iPads for all this fall

Board OKs $2.6
million, four-year
lease of 5,865 devices
Im almost speechless, Im so happy, Wottreng told the Press. This

is something weve talked
Board looks at calendar survey results,
about for a long time.
preliminary budget, transgender issues
A letter sent to district
staff June 7 to explain the
Page 18 purchase said the money
will be paid on or before
June 1, 2017, to Apple,
6 that will use nearly $2.6 getting students to a 1-to-1 which is leasing the devices.
million of the expected student-to-device ratio.
Director of technology
The lease includes 5,770
$11.2 million from the
closeout of the Epic tax-in- Betty Wottreng said Tues- iPad Air 2s with 64 GB
crement financing district to day it is amazing that
Turn to iPads/Page 18
accelerate the timeline for were at this place.
Inside
E v e r y Ve r o n a A r e a
School District student will
have an iPad starting this
fall.
The school board unanimously approved a fouryear lease agreement June
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Kids had a good view of the fireworks from the top of the Fun Slide at the carnival.
On the Web
See more Hometown Days photos:
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The patriotic stilt walkers returned again for this years parade.
Photo by Samantha Christian
Hometown Days set off fireworks on Friday, June 3. People gathered near the carnival to watch the colorful display, and some wisely
brought along rain gear. A short burst of rain fell during the grand
finale, but the fireworks were not canceled.
Wenzels Amazements once again brought the carnival and midway to Hometown Days in 2016. It featured rides, games and snacks
across Hometown U.S.A. Community Park.
Photo by Scott Girard
Sunday afternoon offered perfect weather for the annual Hometown

Days parade, which began on Paoli Street, turned onto Main Street and
then another left onto West Verona Avenue and up the hill.
The event featured acts from around the area, including local Verona
Area Community Theater actors and actresses, martial arts performances and stilt walkers.
Lucas Mitchell, 3, of Verona, doesnt shy away from giving Montgomery, an albino Burmese python, a little scratch on the back
during ZooZorts live animal show on Saturday.
Danite Agnew, 7, of Cottage Grove, picks out some

colors for her section of the mural.
A group of boys scrambles for candy thrown in front of them on the street.
In 2016, Verona Hometown Days featured plenty of additional kids activities

compared to years past. In addition to the
well-loved ZooZort show, the event added
in laser tag, brought back the penny find and
Wall of Art mural after several years away,
and had plenty else for families to do with
their children.
Gia Uelmen, 6,
left, and Blake
Wilson, 6, both
of Verona, ride
together on
an otherwise
empty ride near
the beginning
of the festival
Thursday.
Photo by Samantha Christian
Madison County lead vocalist Mike Zibell plays the banjo during a
performance Friday evening.
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The Verona Press
June 9, 2016
City of Verona
Dog day care draws dogged debate

VeloCity gets support
Verona Press editor
the lots already zoned commercial were much more

expensive with their better
visibility.
Four commissioners voted in favor, and most said
they supported the business but had reservations
about the rezoning. Ald.
Jack Linder (Dist. 2) voted against, suggesting that
rezoning for a specific business is generally poor policy.
The commission barely
even glanced at the specific design and did not
have a formal discussion
on what would be a necessary change to language in
the zoning code prohibiting
outdoor play areas in such
establishments, but commissioners indicated agreement with proceeding on
both.
Planning director Adam
Sayre said he believed the
zoning limitation might be
a mistake, based on the way
the code introduces the language, but a comment from
Verona Veterinary Medical
Service manager Bob Feller
suggested otherwise. Feller said it was intentionally included about 20 years
ago to prohibit the business
he represents from having
such a facility.
Feller told the Press after
sitting through the entire
meeting he would be interested in adding such an
option at Verona Vet, which
is located in a tight spot in
Car wash to food

After some effort and explanation from the proprietors,
the Plan Commission on Monday reluctantly agreed with
a plan to convert a car wash bay at the BP station in Vincenzo Plaza into a drive-through pick-up area for coffee
and food.
The car wash would retain one bay, and the other would
have minimal changes and retain the same north-south
traffic flow meaning solo drivers would have to exit their
cars and cross the bay to pick up their coffee or food. The
service being proposed is not a new service, but rather an
additional convenience for the existing operation.
It earned unanimous recommendation in favor and will
advance to the council.
Its not the business layout I would choose for myself,
commented commissioner Pat Lytle, but I wish you luck.
Hometown Grove
The return of Hometown Grove to standard zoning with
no planned-unit development overlay which had allowed a variety of zoning variances for smaller-than-usual
lots and related features got only brief discussion. Plans
are for 32 single-family units and 20 zero-lot-line units,
which are configured similarly to duplexes without condominium-style ownership.
Developer Chuck Buell said leases on the existing Kimball Lane townhomes that will be moved to accommodate
the plan will end in July and the moves should take place
around August.
Kettle Creek North
Commissioners were happy with a major revision of a
plan to add a 174-unit single-family subdivision on the
citys north side.
Developer Tony Heinrichs originally brought Kettle
Creek North to the commission in April 16 years after
the area was master planned seeking to include 144
apartment units, and it wasnt received well. The new proposal got unanimous approval.
New, expanding
Plans for a Jimmy Johns, an expansion to the Coating
Place and expansion to Pure Sweet Honey sailed through
with little discussion.
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The common sense of

placing a potentially noisy
dog day care in an outof-the-way area next to a
brewery that hosts outdoor
evening parties with amplified music took a back
seat to the complication
of changing zoning in an
industrial park particularly since Verona has put
so much effort into pushing
industrial uses on the southeast side of the city over the
years.
With Liberty Business

Park developer Dean Slaby sitting in the back row
throughout most of the fourand-a-half-hour meeting,
waiting for his own proposal to get reviewed, the commission was sensitive to the
idea that changing zoning
to accommodate a single
business can be a legally
delicate affair. Liberty Park
owner David Reinke has on
multiple occasions attempted to increase the amount of
commercial property available on his 240 acres just
across the street from the
tech park.
The fact that the tech
park isnt really loaded with
technology even factored
into the discussion, as two
of the commissioners wondered whether the dog day
care would be the right fit
for such a development.
Those two (Scott Manley
and Steve Heinzen) went
back and forth trying to slot
it into other places in the
park and even suggested
other business parks as they
parsed why this particular
lot (in a central location)
was chosen and scrubbed
over the legal ramifications
of zoning changes.
Tailwaggers consultant
Fred Campbell helped
wind down the discussion
when he explained the decision-making process behind
the location, which would
be the Fox Cities-based
chains first foray into Dane
County.
Maybe it was a mistake
trying to come into Verona, he quipped, before
noting that spot zoning is
generally considered a bad
idea and pointing out that
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On a Plan Commission agenda packed with

multi-million-dollar projects and big businesses,
it was the potential addition of a dog day care and
boarding business that drew
the longest, most grueling
discussion.
Commissioners spent
about an hour Monday
debating not so much the
business itself, Tailwaggers, but rather the requested change in zoning from
industrial to commercial
in the Verona Technology
Park to accommodate the
business. That zoning discussion also related to the
adjustment of an obscure
part of the code preventing outdoor uses, but that
aspect was mostly held off
for July.
The commission held
nine public hearings Monday but was only able to
give the final OK to three
items a 65,000-squaref o o t bu i l d i n g f o r L i b erty Parts Team in Liberty Business Park, the
15,000-square-foot Verona
Area Community Theater
building on Lincoln Street
and a 3,500-square-foot
Sherwin-Williams paint
store on East Verona Avenue. All three passed with
virtually no comment after
waiting more than three
hours for their item to come
up on the agenda.
The rest of the 20 action
items all included recommendations for the Common Council, and a few
will even need to return to
the commission again.
Among the items that will
need to return was a discussion of VeloCity, a project
that drew great neighborhood resistance last year
but went through significant changes and earned
the councils recommendation to advance to the final
planned-unit development
stage.
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The commission perhaps

expected more of a debate
over the VeloCity project
on Paoli Street, something
that first came to the city
in 2013 but was never built
despite earning approval.
In December, the city
rejected a much different
version proposed amid a
parade of neighbors complaining about the number
of apartments, the proximity of commercial buildings
to homes and the size of the
parking lot. And after several neighborhood meetings,
the developer returned closer to the original vision a
single building with half of
the parking underground
oriented close to the bike
path.
The council will need to
provide its own review of
the project, and it will need
a second trip through both
bodies as part of the threestep planned-unit development process, but this time,
only one neighbor spoke
out, and he had mostly positive comments.
Like that neighbor, commissioners expressed some
r e s e r va t i o n s a b o u t t h e
increased density 29
units, compared with 24 in
the original project but
were generally willing to
accept that as a compromise.
Scott Manley spoke apologetically as he explained
his vote the only no.
He said he would be more
likely to favor exceeding
the standard multifamily
zoning in the area (equivalent to 18 units there), if it
were not an infill project,
and bordered by an existing
neighborhood.
I think its a great project, he said, commending the developer, Town of
Verona resident Bill Dresser, on taking neighbor concerns seriously.
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the original industrial park,

just off South Nine Mound
Road.
VACT revision
approved, Paoli
Street plan advances
June 9, 2016
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We should try
harder to eradicate
monolingualism
he first time I heard the word

monolingualism, I thought
it was some kind of disease,
although this probably had to do
with the way it was pronounced to
me.
Europeans, in
particular, tend
to let it escape
from the back of
their throats in
that same gently
horrified tone
that one uses to
talk about lepDresser
rosy or syphilis.
Monolingualism! they gasp,
The poor thing will have to be
sent to the nuns convent.
Or Monolingualism?! You
should really get that checked out.
In the Basque Country of Spain,
where I live, monolingualism
was never even a tangible threat.
One could argue it had its heyday
during the rule of the dictator Francisco Franco, but Spains regional
languages never really went away,
they just moved to being spoken
behind closed doors.
Nowadays, many parts of Spain
are trilingual with residents
speaking a regional language (such
as Basque), Spanish and English,
and all three taught in school.
Multilingualism is the norm for
many schools across Europe, and
while its not always easy to find a
utopic balance, most agree it is better than a monolingual upbringing.
As a foreign-language teacher, I
often hear: I wish we didnt have
to learn so much languages, (so
much instead of so many, because
Im directly quoting here), but Ive
never heard anyone say that they
wished they only knew one. Furthermore, my students occasionally enjoy complaining about monolinguals and Americans above all.
While not all of us Americans
suffer from this troubling malady,
enough of us do that it has become
our established international stereotype.
In reality, we arent even the
only country guilty of being monolingual, but as Ive been schooled
in more than one classroom
discussion, we just happen to be

the most annoying. Not only are
most Americans blissfully monolingual, but we also appear to have
the nerve to obligate the rest of the
world to learn our language if they
want to secure any longstanding
economic opportunities.
I frequently remind my determined, but often tired English
learners that most Americans are
not personally hell-bent on ruining
others lives with their language
(myself, as their teacher, being the
exception).
They laugh when I say the rest
of us are too busy eating fast food
and buying firearms.
In reality, our lingua franca has
more to do with luck and politics
than personal vendettas. Before,
it was French, now its English,
and our children will probably be
learning Chinese. Would anyone
like to try their hand at Chinese? I
ask them. Silence.
Even though I owe the majority
of my international career success
to the fact that English is the current lingua franca, I would argue
this is both a blessing and a curse.
Monolingualism might not be a
disease, but it is a severe handicap,
and we should be working hard
to eradicate it from our country.
Because unless we require all of
our citizens to go about the monumental task of acquiring another
language, we will never fully
understand the insurmountable
effort that our counterparts are
making, year after year, to communicate with us.
That deeper understanding
and appreciation for this effort is
fundamental to our survival and
respectability in a global society.
Language learning must work both
ways.
The good news is, we are
getting better. On one of my
annual visits home to Verona,
I was delighted to see that my
former elementary school had
taken steps to post signage in
both English and Spanish and
that bilingual programs are very
much alive in the school district. However, there is still a lot
of work to be done in actively
encouraging a multilingual ideal

outside of the school environment.
It isnt enough to take a crash
course on a foreign language
in university or show off your
Spanish food vocabulary at a
Mexican restaurant. Nor can we
claim to be a multilingual nation
just because many languages are
spoken, when those languages
are predominantly used only by
those who consider it to be their
native tongue. Tolerating foreign
languages is simply not the same
as actively speaking one in your
daily life.
Well beyond just another
school subject, the ability to
speak a foreign language is perhaps the most powerful resource
available to us.
It teaches us humility, because
when you are suddenly stripped
of a skill that youve had nearly
since birth and handed a blank
slate, you must swallow a lot
of pride. It pushes our patience,
because fluency is a lifelong journey. It doesnt happen overnight
and you dont learn a language
and then know it forever; you
have to maintain it. It even helps
our creativity to flourish, because
were forced to find new ways to
convey our message.
Most importantly, a multilingual society builds solidarity
between cultures. Taking the time
to learn a foreign language is perhaps the most authentic gesture
of goodwill. It says, quite simply:
I care about you and where you
come from.
Its the perfect design for
mutual respect, one I experience
every time I rattle something off
in Spanish and receive the reaction: Wow, where did you learn
your Spanish?
I always respond, Right here.
From you. Because I wanted to
learn and you took the time to
teach me.
Ashley Dresser is a Verona

native living in the Basque Country of Spain. She has a bilingual
blog at www.elbigmonday.com.
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June 9, 2016
Library begins summer reading program

The Verona Public Library
begins its summer reading
program with a musical bang
on Saturday, June 11.
The all-ages event features
songs from the Verona Area
Community Theaters production of Mary Poppins
at 10a.m. That is followed by
music and dancing performed
by members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
marching band at 11a.m.
There also will be crafts, a
bounce house and a Kiwanis
brat sale.
On Monday, June 13, the
librarys weekly Story Time

starts for the summer, and
is arranged for various age
groups.
The Baby Story Time (ages
0-18 months) is for a lap-sit
story time for infants and their
caregivers at 10:30a.m. Fridays.
A Toddler Story Time (ages
1 and 2) features stories,
songs, fingerplays and crafts.
Its at 9:30a.m. Mondays,
Tuesdays and Thursdays and
at 10:30a.m. Thursdays.
The Preschool Story Time
(ages 3-5) presents stories,
songs and crafts, and will be

held at 2:30p.m. Tuesdays
and 10:30a.m. Wednesday.
An Everybody Story Time
(ages 0-5) meets at 10:30a.m.
Mondays and Tuesdays and at
9:30a.m. Wednesdays. And
finally, a Sensory Friendly
Story Time (ages 3-5) will
help build communication
and friendship skills in a
supportive environment at
9:15a.m. Fridays.
For more details, visit
veronapubliclibrary.org.
Madisons only nature-based Waldorf preschool option!
If You Go
What: Summer Reading
Program Kick-Off Celebration
When: 10a.m. to noon
Saturday, June 11
Where: Verona Public
Library
Info:
845-7180
or
veronapubliclibrary.org
Tom Alesia
Verona historical society tour offers new look at local history

In lieu of its regular Saturday meeting
this week, the Verona Area Historical
Society is holding a Verona Cemetery
History Walk a tour and historical
perspective on days of the Verona past.
Art Cresson, Mark Huntsman and
VAHS president Jesse Charles will
serve as guides, telling stories of Veronas founding families, veterans, notable
citizens and ordinary folks who helped
shape Verona and still rest here today,
including someone with a hollow metal
headstone (for bootlegging).
(Its) the successes and struggles of
pioneer life, the effects of the Civil War
on Verona families, Charles wrote in
an email to the Press. (Attendees can)
learn about the symbolism and themes
carved into the headstones; why do so
many graves have fingers pointing?
Cresson, a former mayor of Verona
and former Verona Cemetery sexton,
literally knows where the bodies are buried. Charles said hell describe the cemeterys history, what it takes to maintain it,
and interesting anecdotes from his time
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We will be stopping many times to

talk, Charles said.
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What: Verona Area Historical Society

Verona Cemetery History Walk
When: 10a.m. Saturday, June 11
Where: Verona Cemetery
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caring for it.

Hunstman has a passion for researching and sharing historic towns, churches,
and cemeteries, Charles said, and was
inspired by witnessing dramatic funeral
processions in New Orleans during his
time there studying French.
Charles, a notable local historian, has
been researching Veronas founding
families and has led the recent effort to
save the Matts House.
The tour is expected to take about 90
minutes. Chairs will be placed around
the cemetery to facilitate sitting.
At last months meeting, Sondy Pope

shared stories about her collection of
arrowheads that dates back to when
she started collecting them as a young
girl. She said her parents and her three
sisters were constantly on the lookout
for Native American artifacts, and they
scoured plowed fields in the spring,
especially after a heavy rain.
Pope, a representative of the state
Assembly who lives in Mount Horeb,
said most of their searching took place
in the Wisconsin River valley, with the
rivers ever-changing current continually creating new shoreline to explore.
Her collection contains more than 200
arrowheads. Pope presented a lesson on
identifying different types of arrowheads
based on the notching, the base, barbs
and blades.
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What: Firemans Park
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When: Noon Monday,
June 13
Where: Firemans Park,
600 Bruce St.
Info: 845-5761
Wednesday, August 3.
Season membership rates
for City of Verona residents
are $35 (youth), $50 (adult)
and $90 (family); non-resident rates are $60 (youth),
$75 (adult) or $140 (family).
A combination Natatorium
and beach rate is also available to residents, which is
$60 for adults and $110 for
be adjusted due to weather

and other circumstances.
To purchase a season pass
online to pick up at the beach,
visit ci.verona.wi.us/320/
Firemans-Park-Beach and
click the Purchase a Pass
Here link. Season passes can
also be purchased at the beach
during operating hours.
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Daily fees to access the
beach are $2 for youth residents and $3 for adult residents, or $4 for nonresident
youth and $5 for nonresident
adults.
The beach is staffed with
certified lifeguards during
operating hours, and it also
features picnic tables, a beach
house with changing rooms
and concessions. Visitors can
also fish for bluegill and bass
on the two available piers,
but no fishing is permitted in
the swimming area when the
beach is open.
Children under the age of
8 visiting the beach must be
supervised at all times by a
responsible person 15 or older; flotation devices are not
permitted. Beach hours may
Menu: Cheesy scrambled eggs,

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Emcee - Pam Jahnke, Farm Director
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Alice in Dairyland
Expo area featuring dairy information
& food samples
Horse-drawn wagon rides
Educational displays & activities
Face painting
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For those who believe summer doesnt begin until they

hit the beach, the impending
opening of Veronas Firemans Park Beach on Monday
should be welcome news.
The beach, located at Firemans Park, 600 Bruce St.,
opens at noon for the summer
season and features outdoor
swimming and two water
slides one for older kids,
teens and adults and another
for younger children.
The beach will be open
from noon to 6p.m. through
June 21; from noon to 7p.m.
from June 22 through August
7; and from noon to 6p.m.
August 8-21. On Fridays
from June 24 through August
7, the beach will open early
at 9a.m. The annual Beach
Bash is set for 4-7p.m.
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Coming up
Churches
Mary Poppins
Victorian tea party
Asian medicine
Verona Area Community Theater will

debut Mary Poppins at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 17, with additional shows at
7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18, Thursday,
June 23, Friday, June 24 and Saturday,
June 25; and at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 19.
All shows will be performed at the Verona Area High School Performing Arts
Center, 300 Richard St.
Tickets are $15 for general admission
and $10 for seniors 65 years and older and children/students through high
school. To purchase tickets in advance,
visit vact.org or call 845-2383. Tickets
will also be available at the door depending on availability.
Pull out your fancy hats and gloves for

the senior centers Victorian Tea Party
from 2-3:30 p.m. Monday, June 20.
Lyn Lokken will give a presentation
and has a collection of over 350 aprons
to share. Tea and light desserts will
be served, and friends and family are
welcome to attend the event. RSVP is
required by Monday, June 13.
For information or to RSVP, call 8457471.
Learn about the benefits of Asian medicine during a class from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 14 at the senior center. Jo
Ann Lindberg MED, ABT and author
will explore the history of Asian medicine and self-care practices. The event
is free, but registration is required. For
information or to register, call 845-7471.
Movie bashing
Eat pizza while movie-bashing the

film Shaolin Soccer from 6-8 p.m.
Monday, June 13 at the library.
Text as you watch and your thoughts
Food pantry tour
will appear as subtitles on the screen.
Sugar River Gardeners will meet at 6 This event is recommended for ages
p.m. Thursday, June 9, with a tour of the 11-18; no registration is required.
Badger Prairie Needs Network, 1200 E.
For information, call 845-7180.
Verona Ave.
Attendees will learn about how Losing a pet
healthy produce is provided to pantry
Learn how to cope with losing a pet
patrons. A tour of the food pantry gar- at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 14 at the senior
den, located in the Verona Community center. Shaun OKeefe, a professor at
Garden plot, will follow. New members Lakeland College and grief counselor
are welcome.
for Memorial Pet Services, will lead the
For information, contact JoAnn event.
DeMuth at 669-0429.
Resiliency workshop
Learn more about coping with life
changes during Resiliency: Helping
You to Thrive in Challenging Times
from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday, June 14 at the
library. Janet Nodorft, a certified wellness coach and worksite wellness specialist, will lead the discussion.
Color war
Wear clothes you dont mind getting dirty for a color war from 4-5 p.m.
Wednesday, June 15 at the library. Glasses, goggles and bandannas to cover eyes
and mouths are recommended, as well
as a towel for your car. This event is for
ages 11-18; registration is recommended. Meet in the community room and
then outside, weather permitting. For
information or to register, call 845-7180.
Community calendar
Thursday, June 9
4-5:30 p.m., Anime Club (grades

6-12), library, 845-7180
6 p.m., Sugar River Gardeners
meeting, Badger Prairie Needs Network, 1200 E. Verona Ave., 669-0429
Pizza: Shaolin Soccer, library, 8457180
Tuesday, June 14
10 a.m., Pet Loss and Grief discussion, senior center, 845-7471

1:30-2 p.m., STEM Tuesdays (ages
8-10), library, 845-7180
Friday, June 10
2-8 p.m., Crafty Tuesdays (ages
1 p.m., Movie Matinee: Concus11-18), library, 845-7180
sion, senior center, 845-7471
2:30-3 p.m., STEM Tuesdays (ages
Saturday, June 11
5-7), library, 845-7180
10 a.m. to noon, Summer Reading
Program Kick-Off Celebration, library, 4 p.m., Open video gaming, library,
845-7180
845-7180
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Prairie Kitchen 6:30-7:30 p.m., Stay Vital with
Asian Medicine discussion (regisfree community meal, BPNN, bpnn.
tration required), senior center, 845org
7471
Monday, June 13
7-8 p.m., Resiliency: Helping You to
Thrive in Challenging Times work Noon, Firemans Park Beach
shop, library, 845-7180
opens, 845-6495
12:30 p.m., TRIAD: Drug Trends,
Wednesday, June 15
senior center, 845-7471
3-4 p.m., Tween Craft Wednesday:
1-3 p.m., Open Art Studio (ages
Sharpie Tie-Dye (ages 9-12; registra3-10), library, 845-7180
tion required), library, 845-7180
6-8 p.m., Movie-Bashing and
4-5 p.m., Color war (ages 11-18;
registration recommended), library,

845-7180
4:30 p.m., Tech Time with Tim
(30-minute appointments; reservations required), senior center, 8457471
Thursday, June 16
1:30-2:30 p.m., Sing! Sing a Song!

with Laura Doherty, library, 845-7180
4 p.m., Teen Gaming (ages 11-18),
library, 845-7180
7-8 p.m., NASA Explorations presentation, library, 845-7180
Friday, June 17
11:45 a.m., June birthday and anniversary party (reservations required),

senior center, 845-7471
2 p.m., Movie Matinee: Woman in
Gold, senior center, 845-7471
7:30 p.m., Verona Area Community
Theater presents Mary Poppins
($15 general admission, $10 children/students/seniors; purchase at
vact.org), VAHS Performing Arts
Center, 300 Richard St.
Whats on VHAT-98
Thursday, June 9
7 a.m. Hometown Days
Parade
8 a.m. Zumba Gold
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m. Bonnie and Bill
Stevens at Senior Center
2 p.m. Zumba Gold
3 p.m. Daily Exercise
4 p.m. Greg Anderson at
Senior Center
5 p.m. Crossing Cultures at
Senior Center
6 p.m. Salem Church Service
7 p.m. Tom Waselchuk at
Senior Center
9 p.m. Hometown Days
Fireworks
10 p.m. Sondy Pope at
Historical Society
Friday, June 10
7 a.m. Greg Anderson at
Senior Center
Fireworks
3 p.m. Lincoln Elementary
Choir at Senior Center
Senior Center
5 p.m. 2014 Wildcats
Football
8:30 p.m. Hometown Days
Fireworks
Parade
11 p.m. Bonnie and Bill
Saturday, June 11
8 a.m. Plan Commission
from June 6
11 a.m. Lincoln Elementary Choir at Senior Center

Football
4:30 p.m. Sondy Pope at
Historical Society
6 p.m. Plan Commission
from June 6
10 p.m. Sondy Pope
Sunday, June 12
7 a.m. Hindu Cultural Hour
9 a.m. Resurrection Church
10 a.m. Salem Church
Service
Noon Plan Commission
from June 6
4:30 p.m. Sondy Pope at
Historical Society
6 p.m. Plan Commission
from June 6
10 p.m. Sondy Pope
Monday, June 13
Senior Center
Fireworks
Senior Center
Football
7 p.m. Common Council

Live
9 p.m. Hindu Cultural
Hour
Parade
Tuesday, June 14
7 a.m. 1988 Verona Basketball
10 a.m. Zumba Gold
2 p.m. Zumba Gold
Senior Center
Senior Center
6 p.m. Resurrection
Church
Senior Center
Fireworks
Historical Society
Wednesday, June 15
Senior Center
Fireworks
5 p.m. Common Council
from June 13
7 p.m. Capital City Band
Parade
Thursday, June 16
7 a.m. Hometown Days
Parade
8 a.m. Zumba Gold
Senior Center
Senior Center
6 p.m. Salem Church Service
Senior Center
Fireworks
Historical Society
All Saints Lutheran Church

2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 276-7729
allsaints-madison.org
Pastor Rich Johnson
Sunday: 8:30 & 10:45 a.m.
(608) 845-6613
stchristopherverona.com
Fr. William Vernon, pastor
Saturday: 5 p.m., St. Andrew, Verona
Sunday: 7:30 a.m., St. William, Paoli
Sunday: 9 & 11 a.m., St. Andrew,
Verona
Daily Mass, Tuesday-Saturday: 8
a.m., St. Andrew, Verona
The Church in Fitchburg

2833 Raritan Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 271-2811
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Sunday: 8 & 10:45 a.m.
St. James Evangelical Lutheran

Church
427 S. Main St., Verona
(608) 845-6922
stjamesverona.org
Pastors Kurt M. Billings and Peter
Narum
Office Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 8 a.m.noon Wednesday
Saturday Worship: 5 p.m.
Sunday Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.
The Church in Verona

Verona Business Center
535 Half Mile Rd. #7, Verona
(608) 271-2811
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Sunday: 9 a.m.
Fitchburg Memorial UCC
5705 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 273-1008
memorialucc.org
Pastor Phil Haslanger
Sunday: 9:30 a.m.
Good Shephard Lutheran Church
ECLA
(608) 271-6633
Central: Raymond Road & Whitney
Way, Madison
Sunday: 8:15, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m.
West: Corner of Hwy. PD & Nine
Mound Road, Verona
Sunday: 9 & 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Damascus Road Church West
The Verona Senior Center
108 Paoli St., Verona
(608) 819-6451
info@damascusroadchurch.com,
damascusroadonline.org
Pastor Justin Burge
Sunday: 10 a.m.
Salem United Church of Christ

502 Mark Dr., Verona
(608) 845-7315
salemchurchverona.org
Rev. Dr. Mark E. Yurs, Pastor
Laura Kolden, Associate in Ministry
Sunday: 9 a.m. Worship, 10:15 a.m.
Fellowship Hour
Springdale Lutheran Church
ECLA
2752 Town Hall Rd. (off Hwy ID),
Mount Horeb
(608) 437-3493
springdalelutheran.org
Pastor Jeff Jacobs
Sunday: 8:45 a.m. with communion
Sugar River United Methodist
Church
415 W. Verona Ave., Verona
(608) 845-5855
sugar.river@sugarriverumc.org,
sugarriverumc.org
Pastor Gary Holmes
9 & 10:30 a.m. contemporary
worship.
Sunday School available during worship. Refreshments and fellowship are
between services.
Memorial Baptist Church

(608) 845-7125
MBCverona.org
Lead Pastor Jeremy Scott
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
Redeemer Bible Fellowship
130 N. Franklin St., Verona
(608)848-1836
redeemerbiblefellowship.org
Pastor Dwight R. Wise
Sunday: 10 a.m. family worship
West Madison Bible Church

2920 Hwy. M, Verona
Sunday Praise and Worship: 9:15 a.m.
Nursery provided in morning.
Sunday school (all ages): 10:45 a.m.
Small group Bible study: 6 p.m.
Resurrection Lutheran Church

WELS
6705 Wesner Rd., Verona
(608) 848-4965
rlcverona.org
Pastor Nathan Strutz and Assistant
Pastor Eric Melso
Thursday: 6:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.
Zwingli United Church of Christ

Hwy. 92 & G, Mount Vernon
(608) 832-6677
Pastor Brad Brookins
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
Zwingli United Church of Christ
Hwy. 69 & PB, Paoli
(608)845-5641
Rev. Sara Thiessen
Sunday: 9:30 a.m. family worship
St. Christopher Catholic Parish

St. Andrew Church
301 N. Main St., Verona
St. William Church
1371 Hwy. PB, Paoli
Transcendence
Transcendence occurs when we have an experience which
gives us a glimpse beyond our mundane physical world.
Sometimes this happens when we experience God in the
stillness of prayer or solitude. Other times this happens
when we confront the power or vastness of nature. The
starry sky can overwhelm one with the sense of eternity, just
as the power and size of the ocean can make us aware of
God because we feel so small by comparison. Transcendent
experiences where we feel the presence of God cant be
forced, but we can make ourselves ready for them, and put
ourselves in situations where they are more likely to happen.
Nature and solitude are two of the more common ways to
foster transcendent experiences, but many people also get
them through being in sacred places, such as churches or
temples. Some find the experience through works of art or
music, and it can also come via our contact with holy men
or women. Truly holy people often radiate Gods love so
strongly that one feels Gods presence through that person.
One problem with transcendent experiences is that they
dont last forever. Despite glimpsing eternity in the experience, we inevitably fall back into the humdrum monotony of
everyday life, and that return can be a letdown. We should
seek these experiences, but realize that they are but a
glimpse of our ultimate origin and destination.
Christopher Simon, Metro News Service
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge
of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths
beyond tracing out! Romans 11: 33 NIV
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Princl named NCS director, will split time with VAIS

SCOTT GIRARD
In May, longtime Verona

Area School District teacher Ann Princl got her first
administrator job.
This month, she got her
second.
Princl, who was hired as
director of Verona Area International School for the 201617 school year last month,
will also serve in the same
role in an interim capacity at
New Century School.
I certainly have my work
ahead of me as far as the
research goes and to understand the different components that are involved in each
of the charter schools, she
told the Press on June 3, a day

after the announcement of her
role at NCS.
Both director positions are
part-time, and with VAIS
charter agreement up after
next school year, its unclear
whether the position will exist
long-term for that school.
Retiring NCS director Jim
Ruder has also served as the
special education coordinator
at neighboring Sugar Creek
Elementary School while he
led the districts oldest charter
school. Princl, who does not
have the certification for special ed, will not serve in that
role.
Instead, the district will hire
someone else for that position
separately.
Princl said she expressed
interest in the position when

it came open, but realized
this may not be a possibility
because of
the special ed
part.
They knew
they could
approach
me if things
didnt go as
planned, she Princl
said.
Thats
exactly what happened.
According to an email sent
to parents, the schools hiring
committee for the position did
not find any candidates who

possessed all the necessary
skills and attributes to fulfill
the position as posted after
two postings and many
interviews.
Princl, who will now have
worked at every elementary
school in the district except
for Core Knowledge Charter School, said shes excited to get to know both the
VAIS and NCS communities, especially with the high
parent involvement at charter
schools.
Im impressed there
are parents who are that
involved, she said. Its a real

advantage that we have their
viewpoints.
She has worked as a classroom teacher, library media
specialist and district-wide
mentor program coordinator
at various times in her 20-plus
years in the district.
The first task for Princl will
be creating a plan for effective communication, she said,
as she splits duties between
the schools. VAIS is housed
in Fitchburg, while NCS is
located in Verona.
Building that trust and
explaining to everyone how
they can reach me and if they

cant reach me what will be
the protocol for what they will
do until they can (is key),
she said. First things first
is building relationships with
everyone that I will be working with.
Its work shes ready for.
I love challenges and am
looking forward to this one,
she said.
Contact Scott Girard at
ungreporter@wcinet.com
and follow him on Twitter @
sgirard9.
Epic garage a sign of

slowing construction
Millennials happy
sharing offices,
company says
JIM FEROLIE
Verona Press editor
Though Epic will be adding something in the neighborhood of $50 million

worth of parking facilities
this year (and two contractor
buildings), its actually a sign
that construction for future
offices is slowing.
A 1,546-stall expansion of
its planned Campus 5 garage
on the west side of Verona
got a unanimous favorable
recommendation from the
Plan Commission Monday
and will be reviewed by
the Common Council next
Monday. That last approval
amounts to a formality, given
the nature of previous submissions and the extent of
planning that goes into such
facilities.
It also amounts to a pause
on planning for what would
be Campus 6.
After the 10-minute discussion on the new construction, Epic facilities manager
Bruce Richards and Findorff
project management director
Deana Turner explained the
reasoning behind the facility
to the Verona Press.
No. 1, Richards said, is
getting rid of existing temporary parking, including
the 700-stall lot next to the
Learning Annex.
That surface lot out back
was never meant to be permanent, nor will it be, he
said.
Its also accommodating continued growth past
10,000 employees, Richards
said, though he added its not
quite as fast as it had been in
recent years, when the health
care information technology
company seemingly could
not build offices quickly
enough.
T h e n ew l o t e n s u r e s
employees have a place to
park but not necessarily an
office of their own.
The company is finding
more people prefer sharing
offices than administrators
once believed. Richards
confirmed that statement for

the Press, something that has
been speculated elsewhere in
recent months.
Sharing offices was never
part of the companys plan.
Epic representatives told the
Press years ago that though
the need for space was more
than they could immediately accommodate, they had
found cubicles and similar
shared modern office layouts
were inefficient, particularly
given the nature of their business, which includes a lot
of coding, troubleshooting,
telephone support and other
things requiring sustained
concentration.
But as hiring far exceeded the companys ability to
construct offices that met
administrators standards, the
company began doubling up.
Though in some cases that
seemed to work out well
implementers, for example
can be gone for weeks at a
time they still pushed for
individual offices.
Recent employee surveys have found people like
the setup, Richards told the
Press on Monday. One reason, he speculated, was that
millennials, which make up
a large portion of the Epic
workforce, tend to prefer the
social interaction.
As a result, Richards
and Turner said, there has
not been any planning or
design work for Campus 6
in months and there are no
current plans to build one
though he admitted such
things are always in flux. All
of the design work, they said,
has been focused on finishing
the plans for Campus 4 (the
Wizards Academy, which
strongly resembles Harry
Potters Hogwarts) and Campus 5 (the Authors Campus).
Richards confirmed that
Epic has occupied three
buildings in Campus 4 and
one building in Campus 5.
The other buildings in Campus 4 are expected to be
occupied by the end of this
year and Campus 5 is likely
to be finished around the end
of next year.
Email Verona Press editor
Jim Ferolie at veronapress@
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Sugar Creek recognized for PBIS work

Sugar Creek Elementary

School was the first in Verona
Area School District to fully
embrace Positive Behavioral
Interventions and Supports.
Now, its the first in the district to be named a School of
Distinction by the state PBIS
network, which helps schools
implement the program.
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Former Verona alder Dale Yurs will not run for state
Assembly this fall.
Thats despite his name appearing
on the state Government Accountability Boards list of candidates who have
submitted their names to run for the
80th Assembly District, albeit with a
pending status.
Yurs told the Press in an email Monday he was not running because he Yurs
ended up with more things happening personally than would allow him to run a strong
campaign.
Yurs left the Common Council in March after moving out of District 2.
Incumbent state Rep. Sondy Pope, D-Mount Horeb,
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as well as the ongoing support of our families.
The school had previously been recognized as a
School of Merit for PBIS,
a designation Glacier Edge
Elementary School has also
achieved. A School of Distinction, though, must sustain a set of goals for at least
two years and use detailed
student data to help with its
implementation.
The requirements include

scoring above a fidelity
threshold on a Benchmarks
of Quality assessment and
having the student data disaggregated by race and disability.
The school will receive a
banner, recognition at the
annual state PBIS conference and a free registration
to the conference or a free
copy of a related book.
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Dane County
Parisi to run for re-election

Dane County Executive Joe
Parisi will run for re-election
in 2017.
Parisi, who was first elected
in a 2011 special election and
re-elected in 2013, announced
his decision Monday, June 6.
Serving Dane County has
been a great honor and I hope
to have the opportunity to
continue our work addressing
our communitys most pressing challenges, Parisi said in
a news release that followed
his announcement. I look
forward to expanding innovative partnerships weve created together to reduce poverty, improve mental health
services, clean our lakes,

expand clean energy, and
support our schools by allowing kids to realize their full
potential.
The election, in April 2017,
will be for a four-year term as
county executive.
The release said with
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Jeremy Jones
Sports editor
Before Will Tennison

had even hit a ball in a varsity match for the Verona
boys tennis team it seemed
like the expectation was
that this freshman was
something special.
Tennison showed that
throughout the Big Eight
Conference dual meet
season, going undefeated,
which along with a solid
showing in the postseason,
helped him lock up the
10th seed at last weeks
WIAA Division 1 individual state tennis tournament.
I kind of expected it out
of myself (to be at state
and to be seeded). I didnt
really have an expectation.
I just wanted to play my
best tennis, Tennison said.
While seeds look great
on paper they dont mean
much if you cant carry in
over on the court, which
Tennison showed he was
more than capable of by
playing to a program-best
sixth place finish at No. 1
singles.
The son of HittersSportsplex general manager Joel
Tennison, Will has pretty
much had a racket in his
hand ever since he was
born.
I cant really tell you a
specific age when I picked
up a racket, he said. Ive
just always had a tennis
racket in my hand.
Te n n i s o n b l e w p a s t
Waukesha South junior
Riley Teutschmann (19-17)
6-0, 6-0 and Menomonee
Falls freshman Alex Buddle (19-6) 6-3, 6-0, which
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Junior Jack Herkert cleared 6 feet, 8 inches Friday to win the WIAA Division 1 boys state high jump title. Herkert became the Wildcats first boys state high jump champion
and their first title winner since 2011.
Championship clearance
Herkert becomes
Veronas first state
champion since 2011
Jeremy Jones
Sports editor
Junior Jack Herkert can expect

his phone to get a lot busier over
the next couple of months.
Though he was unable to match
his lifetime best 6 foot, 10 inch
effort which moved him to 27th
nationally nationally a week ago
at sectionals, Herkert was happy to
settle for a clearance of 6-8 and his
first state title.
Im fine with winning, but
another goal I had was trying to tie

the state record (7-0). I still have
a year left to try and do that, he
said. I cant wait to see what I do
next year.
Fridays effort at the WIAA Division 1 state meet at UW-La Crosse
was a big improvement from last
year when Herkert cleared 6 feet at
state for 17th place.
Ive gotten so much more accurate over heights and consistent,
he said. Coming into this season, I
cleared 6-6 at our first indoor meet
and at the next meet I jumped 6-7.
From there on it just kept going up
and up thats when I was on a different level.
While several Division II and III
schools have already reached out
to him, Division I schools are only

now able to reach out to potential
recruits.
The University of Nebraska
already contacted me this season
and the University of Iowa spoke
with coach (Mike) Kundinger at
state, as well as a few others,
head coach Joff Pedretti said.
UW-Madison and Marquette have
expressed interest as well.
Herkert became the first Wildcat
state champion since Drex Jackson in 2011 and the first boys high
jump champion with the clearance. Never year he will be the first
Verona athlete to have a chance to
defend his title since Luke Sullivan
in 1994.
Herkert met the A stand for the
New Balance National Scholastic

meet in North Carolina on four different occasions this season and he
plans to participate in that meet
considered by many to be the top
national meet for high school track
and field athletes in two weeks.
As a result of him reaching a
high level in track, several college
football programs are also reaching
out to Herkert, hoping he can use
his physical talents on the football
field.
When you combine Jacks success in track and field, along with
his academic success, Im quite
confident he will have many opportunities to compete at the collegiate
level, Pedretti said.
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Baseball
Verona falls short to Craig

Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor
The Verona Area High School baseball team

did what it had all season battle until the last
out.
Going up against the defending state champion and top-seeded Janesville Craig Cougars,
the second-seeded Wildcats knew they would
have their work cut out for themselves Tuesday in the WIAA Division 1 sectional final.
But even down two in the top of the seventh
the dugout was still standing and cheering.
Verona loaded the bases with one out, but
Craig junior Jack Blomgren struck out the next
two batters, and the Wildcats season came to
an end in a 2-0 loss at Pohlman Field in Beloit.
Still, despite the heartbreak in the bittersweet ending, Verona made history with its
third straight sectional runner-up.
I love each and everyone of these guys.
Some of them have been my teammates since

little league so it is tough to end like this,
senior Keaton Knueppel said. We thought we
could finally pull it out, third times a charm,
but Craig is a good ball team, and they came to
play. They just outplayed us today.
Down 2-0 in the seventh, senior catcher
Ben Rortvedt and sophomore shortstop Stephen Lund both singled. Following a senior
Sam Favour strike out, senior designated hitter
Jason Frahm walked to load the bases.
Craig junior pitcher/third baseman Evan
Spry, who pitched six shutout innings, was
relieved by junior Jack Blomgren after Rortvedt singled, and he struck out junior Tyler
McClure and senior Josh Hano to end the
game.
Craig was the first to strike in the first
inning. Blomgren was hit by a pitch and he
Photo by Anthony Iozzo
stole second and third. While stealing third, Senior Keaton Knueppel hugs senior Luis Acosta (6) while junior Jacob Slonim reacts Tuesday after the
Turn to Baseball/Page 15 Verona Area High School baseball team fell 2-0 to Janesville Craig in a WIAA Division 1 sectional final.
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Baseball
Dreams of playing professional ball

Rortvedt is excited about
possibility of being
drafted into MLB
Anthony Iozzo
Besides being in another postseason run with the Verona Area High
School baseball team, senior catcher
Ben Rortvedt has another thing to be
excited for this weekend the MLB
first-year player draft.
Rortvedt, who has started on varsity for the Wildcats all four years, will
find out if he will be drafted by an
MLB club from Thursday-Saturday,
June 9-11.
At this stage, according to MLB.
com, Rortvedt is the No. 51 draft

prospect in the draft and the fourthbest catcher. He is considered the top
prep catcher in the draft.
If those rankings hold serve, Rortvedt could be selected as high as the
second round.
It puts a smile on my face because
it shows a lot of hard work paying off
and a lot of hours I put in are paying
off, Rortvedt said. It is just great
that it is all coming full circle now.
If Rortvedt is drafted high enough,
he will have a decision to make. Rortvedt is currently committed to play
baseball at the University of Arkansas, a NCAA Division I college.
If he decides to forgo the commitment to Arkansas, he said the pick
would have to include a certain signing bonus that he chose to keep to
himself until after the draft.
But if everything doesnt line up,
he said he will not be upset because

he will still be able to play ball for a
top university. Rortvedt is also committed to playing baseball with the
Madison Mallards this summer.
This weekend is a win-win situation. If it doesnt work out, I have a
great college to go to, Rortvedt said.
I have that lined up, and that is fanSenior
Ben
Rortvedt
is
projected
to
be
drafted
at
the
end
of
the
second
round of
tastic.
If I dont get it, I will just go play the Major League Baseball first-year player draft, according to MLB.com, . The
baseball at college and go through the draft is Thursday-Sunday, June 9-11.
draft process again in three or four
years.
But despite the excitement, Rortvedt isnt about to give himself any
The MLB draft begins at 6p.m. round, lottery round A, the second
projections.
Thursday and day one will be
round and lottery round B. Day
Nothing is really for sure. It
aired on MLB Network and MLB. two begins at noon and includes
hasnt happened yet, He said. All
com, while the second and third
rounds 3-10, and day three is
the mock drafts arent done by the
days
will
be
on
MLB.com.
at 11a.m. and includes rounds
professional clubs, so we just have to
wait and see what happens Thursday
Day one includes the first
11-40.
through Saturday.
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Cavs 10-runned by first-place West Middleton
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fence to score leadoff hitter

Heather Rudnicki, who led
the inning off with a single.
A second crack of the
bat against Central junior
Leah Kramer accounted for
a solo home run and a third
RBI in the fifth inning.
It was nice. She threw
fast, but her ball didnt
move, said Neitzel who
has four home runs in her
last seven at-bats. I saw
the ball really well and
Im just on it right now, I
guess. Both games in the
playoffs I have felt really
great. There were no nerves
whether its hitting or fielding.
Ve r o n a a d d e d t w o
unearned runs in the second
inning.
Seniors Emily Osiecki

and Alyssa Erdman singled
with one out before Heather Rudnicki chopped an
infield grounder that was
thrown over second base
and allowed a par of Wildcat runs to cross the plate.
C o nve r s e l y, T h e R e d
Raiders struggled to plate
runners in scoring position,
leaving two runners on base
with no outs in the first and
fourth inning and again in
the fifth with one out.
Central leadoff hitter
Emily Hayden singled in
the top of the first and then
moved to third as Emma
Tryggestads sacrifice bunt
was thrown into right field.
Nelson worked out of the
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Spencer each had two hits.

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innings, walking one. Spencer
started and allowed two earned
runs on nine hits in six innings,
The
Jeremy Jones
Sports editor
Junior Quin Nelson and

freshman Meghan Anderson took care of business in
the circle, combining for a
pair of shut outslast weekend and senior Nicole Neitzel supplied the offense.
Nelson and Anderson
shut down fifth-seeded
La Crosse Central and
sixth-seeded Holmen last
Wednesday and Thursday,
respectively, while Neitzel
drove in half of the Wildcats RBIs to help Verona
return to the WIAA Division 1 state tournament
after losing in the regional
finals last year.
The Verona Home Talent

team went into the top of the
eighth tied at 3-3, but firstplace West Middleton scored
10 runs to win 13-3 in eight
innings.
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Girls soccer
Wildcats claim regional title

The Verona Area High

School girls soccer team is
on its way to sectionals after
claiming its first WIAA Division 1 regional title since
2012, and there will be a
familiar foe standing in the
Wildcats way of moving on
to the sectional final.
Top-seeded Verona hosts
third-seeded Madison West
at 7p.m. Thursday at Reddan
Soccer Park in the D1 sectional semifinal. The Wildcats and
Regents tied earlier this season, and the two teams met in
2012 in a similar position with
West getting the nod.
But junior Kate Melin said
Verona is confident to play
any team in the sectional right
now.
In past years, we have
always had the goal to go to
state, but this is the first year
where we have really made
the best path for ourselves to
really make it happen, Melin
said. We are really confident
going in and taking it one
game at a time, but these are
all teams that we have played
and hung with. Every team
that we can possibly see on
the way to state, we know we
can easily contend with and
win against.
The Wildcats went 8-0-1 in
the Big Eight Conference to
win the title and earn the No. 1
seed, and with a 6-0 win over
eighth-seeded Janesville Parker last Thursday and a 4-2 win
over fourth-seeded Madison
Memorial Saturday, Verona
now has 10 wins against conference foes, looking for the
11th Thursday.
solution for us, Faulkner

said. Once they started playing one-touch and two-touch,
they created a whole lot more
opportunities and we put
some of those away in the second half.
Melin added a goal and
two assists in the second half,
while senior Makenna McGilvray, freshman Julia Gilboy
and Bainbridge all collected
goals as well.
I feel that throughout the
season we have had our ups
and downs working as a team.
Tonight, we really kicked it
into gear knowing that this
Photo by Anthony Iozzo could be our last game and
Senior Bobo Zaugg races to keep the ball inbounds in the second
that we cant overlook anyhalf Thursday in a WIAA D1 regional semifinal against Janesville
one, Melin said. We really
Parker at Reddan Soccer Park. Verona won 6-0.
had the team dynamic going
and were lifting each other up
instead of pushing each other
The girls worked realdown. Overall, that made the
ly hard for that conference Verona 6, Parker 0
championship, and I am super
It could have been an even difference.
proud of the way they are
bigger blowout Thursday in
playing, Faulkner said. The a 6-0 win over Parker. But it Verona 4, Memorial 2
one-seed is a good place to
Senior Shelly Wing, Julia
took a while for the Wildcats
be because we know most of to put the ball away.
Gilboy, Melin and Krogman
the possible opponents in our
Parker sophomore goalie all scored goals for the Wildsection. These girls play well
Elexus Vike faced 15 shots cats Saturday against Madison
when the competition and the on goal in the first half, and Memorial in the regional final,
stakes are high.
Verona didnt score until while McGilvray collected
When we play together, Melin knocked one past her in two assists.
we play well. If we start lookSophomore goalie Rachel
the 31st minute. Sophomore
ing individual or stop playing Chandler Bainbridge picked Nelson had five saves while
as a team, that is when we
Memorial goalie Sydney
up the assist.
run into trouble defensively. I
Senior Emily Krogman Stroud also had five saves.
think that their growth speaks added an unassisted goal
We have to play big in
to the character of the team.
in the 42nd minute, and the every game from here on out,
They really jelled. They have Wildcats led 2-0 at halftime.
so our conversation before
taken in the new kids, and we
They really packed their every game is that we are all
found a place for everyone to defense in. They had 10 play- in because in any given
play.
ers in the box, and so it is hard moment someones season is
The winner of Verona/Madto find space to get a decent going to end, Faulkner said.
ison West will play the winner shot. When we met at half- We have to make sure we
of Kettle Moraine/Oconomotime and had a conversation set the tone for play and not
woc in the D1 sectional final about quick ball movement, play at someone elses pace or
Saturday at 6p.m. in Kettle that seemed to be the good someone elses level.
Moraine.
Girls track and field
Cats unable to make finals at state

Sports editor
Junior Sieanna Mitchell crosses the finish line

of the 1,600-meter relay in 4 minutes, 3.18 seconds. Verona finished 13th in the preliminaries
and missed the finals.
Verona girls track and field stacked

its relays in the hopes of doing something special in the postseason. The
move partially backfired at sectionals when the 800 relay was unable to
qualify for state, and then somewhat
surprisingly neither the WIldcats 1,600
or 400 relays reached the finals at last
weekends WIAA Division 1 state
meet at Veterans Memorial Stadium in
La Crosse.
Veronas top finish came from the

1,600-meter relay team of sophomore
Emelia Lichty, seniors Kylie Schmaltz
and Lexi Alt and junior Sieanna
Mitchell who took 13th in 4 minutes,
3.18 seconds. The same quartet finished 15th in the 400 relay with a time
of 50.06, but only the top 10 advanced
onto finals.
Junior Kailey Olson cleared 4-10,
finishing 21st in the high jump. Alt
meanwhile, was unable to clear the
opening height of 10 feet, which would
have been a PR in the pole vault.
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The Verona Area High School boys lacrosse team celebrates after
advancing to the Wisconsin Lacrosse Federation D1 state semifinal Saturday.
Boys lacrosse
Back to the state semifinals

Anthony Iozzo

School boys lacrosse team
is back in the Wisconsin
Lacrosse Federation state
semifinals after a 10-3 win
over Waunakee on Saturday
in the Division 1 sectional

final.
The top-seeded Wildcats
outscored the eighth-seeded
Warriors 6-2 in the second
half after grabbing a 4-1 lead
at halftime.
Sophomore Ian Edwards
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set up a showdown with
a familiar rival and seventh-seeded Xavier Sanga
(18-5).
Im definitely more
focused here at state than I
have been the rest of the season. I just wanted to get the
job done today, Tennison
said. Theres always a little
bit of pressure, especially at
state.
Tennison defeated Sanga
6-4, 6-4 during the regular
thing, but lost 6-3, 7-6 (4)
to Sanga at the Big Eight
Conference meet. The freshman took the grudge match
7-5, 7-6 (10-3), however,
before falling 6-1, 6-0 to second-seeded Robert Krill from
Brookfield East who in turn
went on to fall 4-6, 6-2, 7-5
against his top-seeded teammate David Horneffer.
The loss dropped Tennison
into contention for fifth place,
where he beat 11th-seeed
Nathan Balthazor of De
Pere 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, but then
fell to Big Eight rival and
fourth-seeded Colt Tegtmeier 6-1, 6-1 in the fifth-place
match.
Leaving this tournament,
Im just using it as an experience when Im playing
USTA tournaments and traveling the USTA circuit and
just making my tennis game
better, Tennison said.
Senior Alex Pletta (275) defeated friend and
13th-seeded junior James
Paradisin 7-5, 6-4.
I felt like James was a
good player, but I thought I
could definitely hang with
him, Pletta said. I just tried
to stay in the moment and not
think too far ahead because
thats usually when I get nervous and start making mistakes.
Pletta then fell 7-5, 7-5
against Racine Horlick junior
Andre Antressian (22-3).
Verona freshman Will Tennison

was seeded 10th entering last
weeks WIAA Division 1 individual state tennis tournament.
Tennis ended up finishing a
program-best sixth overall
Senior Matt Blessing

and sophomore Jordan
Hutchcroft (10-9) fell 6-2,
6-7 (7-5), 10-3 to Franklin
seniors Matthew Brandes and
Alex Eder (22-5).
Team state
Pletta and Blessing get one
more match to end their prep
careers, as do teammates
Patrick Conley, Mitch Kealy,
Connor Melzer and Luke
Schoeberle at 5:30p.m. Friday in the WIAA team state
tournament inside Nielsen
Tennis Stadium, where Verona (19-10) will face Marquette (25-2).
Defending champion
Marquette is making its 10th
straight appearance and its
13th overall. The Hilltoppers
have won the team championship eight of the last nine
years and have won 10 titles
overall.
Verona is making its fourth
overall appearance and first
since 2004. The Wildcats
had a streak of three straight
state experiences from 200204, with the furthest advance
being to the semifinals in
2003
Marquette defeated Verona
5-2 during the regular season.
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Girls lacrosse
Season comes to an end in regional final

School girls lacrosse team
closed out their season with
a 17-4 loss to Waukesha in
the second round of the state
tournament.
Sophomore Garhett Kaegi tees off on the 16th hole Monday in

the first round of the WIAA Division 1 state boys golf tournament
at the University of Wisconsin Madisons University Ridge Golf
Course. Kaegi finished the round with an 80.
Boys golf
Sophomore Garhett Kaegi had a tough round two

Tuesday in the WIAA Division 1 state golf meet at the
University of Wisconsin
Madisons University Ridge
Golf Course.
Kaegi, after finishing with
an 80 in round one Monday,
started on the back nine and
had a bogey, a double bogey
and a triple bogey on holes
10-12.
He ended up with a 47 on
the back nine, and he followed it up with a 50 on the
back nine, to finish 99th at
state with a 177 (80-97).
Kaegi will be back as the
No. 1 golfer next season as
a junior.
Round one of state

Kaegi who finished with
an 8-over par 80 had a
tough start to his day Monday in round one of the state
tournament, but he made up
for it on the back nine.
Kaegi bogeyed holes one,
two, four, six, seven and
eight on his way to a 6-over
42 on the front nine, but
minus holes 14 and 15, he
finished strong.
I am not overall thrilled
with how I played, but it was
a new experience and was
getting my legs under my
body, Kaegi said. I am not
too disappointed with how
I finished out. A big part
about Day 1 is figuring out
what works best off the tee
and how you need to play
holes. It makes you learn a
lot more than the practice
round.
Kaegi birdied 11 to get

back to 5-over par, but he
bogeyed 14 and double
bogeyed 15 after his tee shot
went out of bounds.
He finished with three
pars, including a big
up-and-down save on 17.
After pushing his tee shot
toward the rough near the
grandstand construction,
he chipped the ball to within eight feet of the hole and
nailed the putt.
I saw a pretty good
comeback probably in the
last 10 holes, head coach
Jon Rebholz said. His
swing wasnt as crisp as it
was yesterday, so he was
struggling through those
first seven or eight holes,
but he had a nice run on
the back nine. It was a nice
comeback with a little bit of
a struggle over the last few
holes, but I think he held it
together pretty well.
Sectionals
Kaegi joined senior Nick
Meland at sectionals on June
1 in the D1 Onalaska sectional at La Crosse Country
Club.
Kaegi moved on to state
with a 77, which was tied for
the sixth overall score and
tied for the second-best individual state qualifier score.
Verona hasnt had the
strong history of golfers
making it here, so I am just
glad that we can get Verona
back in the mix and being
able to represent my school,
Kaegi said.
Meland ended his high
school career with an 80,
which was good enough to
tie him for 13th overall.
University on June 2, where

the team faced eighth-seeded
Waukesha. The Nighthawks
took a quick lead and led
the entire game. Megan Lois
scored twice and Amanda
Best and Makena Meyers
each contributed one goal.
Sigal Felber had an assist.
Freshman goalkeepper Sofia
Jeddeloh had 10 saves in the
game.
Seven seniors are
graduating from the team,

including the three captains
who will play in college.
Amanda Best will play for
Illinois Wesleyan University,
Abby Filsinger joins former
Wildcat Sarah Guy at the
University of Redlands (California) and Natalie Schad will
play for Smith College (Massachusetts).
Michelle Felber
Baseball: Cats crush MG for regional title

Kaegi finishes 99th at state

Anthony Iozzo
led the scoring with a season-high eight goals, and

seniors Amanda Best and
Morgan Fritzler and junior
Kelli Blaisdell each found
the net three times. Junior
Meyers (two goals)
Verona 21, La Follette 3 Makena
and senior Natalie Schad and
The ninth-seeded Wildcats junior Sigal Felber (one goal)
hosted24th-seeded La Fol- rounded out the scoring.
lette on May 31 at Connor
Waukesha 17, Verona 4
Field.
Sophomore Megan Lois
Verona traveled to Carroll
Rortvedt tried to make a play and threw

the ball into left field, which allowed
Blomgren to score.
Craigs other run came in the fifth.
Spry doubled into left-center field to
bring home junior third baseman Austin
Kraus.
Veronas other opportunity was in the
third. Junior Noah Anderson singled,
stole second and reached third on a balk.
But Spry struck out junior Jacob Slonim
and got Knueppel to fly out to end the
threat.
The rest of the game was a pitchers
duel between Spry and Knueppel, who
pitched six innings and allowed an earned
run on three hits, striking out eight, walking three and hitting a batter.
Spry went six innings and allowed no
runs on three hits, striking out three.
Despite the ending, the seniors leave a
legacy of making three straight sectional
finals Luis Acosta, Evan Fernandez,
Jason Frahm, Hano, Favour, Rortvedt

and Knueppel.
I cant give back to this program
enough, said Knueppel, who is going to
play at Gonzaga University. Ever since
little league, it has given me an opportunity to succeed, an opportunity to make
friends, an opportunity to learn how to
play a game that is unreal.
That is the reason I am playing at
the next level. If we didnt have that little league program and if we didnt have
this great program, baseball would mean
almost nothing to me.
While the seniors are impossible to
replace, there is still hope of making it
back next season with 12 returners.
Sectional semfinal
The Wildcats started Tuesday with a
5-3 win over sixth-seeded Madison West
in the sectional semifinal.
Verona scored four runs in the bottom of the third. Knueppel started off
the inning with an RBI triple that scored
Slonim. Rortvedt followed with an RBI

single and Lund had with an RBI triple.
Favour finished the offense in the
inning with an RBI single.
The Wildcats added an insurance run
in the fifth as Rortvedt tripled and Lund
brought him home on a safety squeeze.
West got an RBI groundout by senior
Cam Porter, but Lund, who took over for
junior Brad Laufenberg, ended up with a
scoreless relief appearance..
Wests first runs came in the top of the
third. Freshman Drake Baldwin had an
RBI triple and senior Daelon Savage followed with an RBI single.
Junior Jeff Bishop started and allowed
two earned runs on five hits in three
innings, striking out one and walking
one. Laufenberg pitched three innings
and allowed one earned run on three hits,
striking out four and walking three.
Porter took the loss. He allowed four
earned runs on seven hits in 3 1/3 innings,
striking out five and hitting a batter.
Boys lax: Verona is a win from the state final

collected four goals and two assists,
while junior Jake Keyes added three
goals. Senior Josh Novotny had five
assists, and sophomore Graham Sticha
picked up two goals.
Junior Patrick Stigsell also scored a
goal, while senior Alex Schultz had an
assist.
Senior Alex Jones finished with 16
saves.
Verona played fifth-seeded Kettle
Girls lacrosse
Boys basketball camp
The Verona Area High School boys
basketball coaches will again be leading the summer Wildcat Hoop Camp
for boys entering grades first through
Moraine Wednesday in the state semifinals after the Verona Press Tuesday
deadline. Results will be in next weeks
issue. The other state semifinal pits second-seeded Hartland Arrowhead and
third-seeded Hudson.
The D1 state final is Saturday at 7p.m.
at Carroll University in Waukesha.
Keyes had four goals and three assists,

while Edwards collected three goals and
three assists. Sticha picked up five goals
and an assist.
Senior Noah Maurer scored two goals,
and Schultz and Novotny each had two
assists. Senior Peter Christian, senior
Taylor Scott, senior Dom Sabbarese and
also scored goals.
Verona 18, Lakeshore (Racine) 4 Stigsell
Sophomore Cameron Corless collectThe Wildcats opened the WLF played four saves in 12 minutes in net, and
offs on June 2 with an 18-4 win over Jones had six.
Lakeshore Christian (Racine).
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Sessions for grades first through sixth
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Sessions for grades seventh through
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Boys track: Ifediora medaled in the 400
Softball: Cats shut out Holmen in final
Junior Obi Ifediora ran a

school-record 49.53 in prelims and then moved up two
more spots to finish fourth
overall with his first state
medal with a second straight
VAHS record in 48.96.
Obi had two amazing
back-to-back performances, Pedretti said.
In the finals, Ifediora
stuck to his pace and it paid
off as he dropped another
half-second from his time
the day before. Hes already
set the goal to try and take
the record even lower next
year, breaking it under 48
seconds.
That would be incredible, but I think its within
reach, Pedretti said. With
three of the top four in the
state returning next year,
I think thats what he will
have to do in order to move
closer to the top step of the
state podium.
Ashwaubenon sophomore
Jose Guzman won the event
in 47.53 seconds, while Oak
Creek senior Caleb Ogden
(47.81) and Kettle Moraine
junior Ben Psicihulis (48.36)
rounded out the top three.
Verona junior Jared Biddle earned the final spot in
the 110 hurdle finals Friday
with a 15.2 and had an even
stronger performance in Saturdays finals. A first-time
state qualifier, Biddle posted a personal-best 15.07 to
move up to spots and scored
a point with an eighth-place
finish 12 spots higher than
he was seeded.
inning with a strikeout and

two fly outs. Hayden had
a chance to score on the
second fly out, but never
tagged up at third base.
La Crosse clean-up hitter Megan Kappauf leadoff the fourth with a bloop
single in left and moved
to second when Kramer
walked.
Verona again got out of
the jam thanks to a pair of
ground outs and a pop out.
Central led off the fifth
with back-to-back singles
by Ashley La Rue and
Morgan Holter before the
Wildcats turned to Anderson to finish out their second straight playoff game.
Anderson promptly
struck out Tryggestad and
Kappauf to end the threat.
S i n c e M eg h a n i s a
freshman we wanted to let
her get her feet wet and
not have to experience too
much pressure. Quin has
been our leader in the circle all year. She goes out
there and settles everybody
down, pitching coach
Rick Monson said. When
we can finesse a team and
then come out them with
a more powerful game
its a tough contrast for
other hitters to deal with.
Its never really part of
the strategy, and anything
can go out the window
after the first pitch, but its
worked out pretty well.
The victory advanced
top-seeded Verona on to
Junior Obi Ifediora runs the 400-meter dash prelims on Friday. Ifediora posted a 49.53 to make the finals, where he bested that school
record with an even faster 48.96 for fourth place.
The only senior competing for Verona at state, shot

putter Reggie Curtis had
the second-best throw of
his career and finished ninth
with a toss of 54-08.
Veronas three juniors
scored a total of 16 team
points, which was good for
14th place as a team.
Our goal this year was
a top 10 finish at state to
prove we are on pace with
our ultimate goal of winning

the D1 state team championship next year, Pedretti
said. Based on our weekend,
our returning state qualifiers
and I agree that is a realistic
goal.
Based on my look at the
results, I feel we are one of
just a handful of teams that
have a chance at coming
home with the gold trophy
next year.
the sectional finals Thurs- Molly McChesney then

day against sixth-seeded singled to put runners at
Holmen.
the corners before Sydney
Schaefer reached base on
Verona 3, Holmen 0
an error that allowed Geier
Neitzel laid down a per- and Osiecki to score.
Nelson allowed three
fectly executed suicide
squeeze in the bottom of singles and struck out two
the fifth inning Thursday in five innings. Anderson
to score Heather Rudnic- struck out four, including
ki and help the Wildcats the side in the sixth inning
post a 3-0 WIAA Division and gave up two hits.
Holmen left two runners
1 sectional final win over
on with one out in the first
Holmen in Sun Prairie.
That was perfect, Rud- inning and Verona came
nicki said. Being unself- right back and loaded the
ish is a big thing for us. bases and stranded three.
I didnt think the game
Well do whatever it takes
to get the win for the team. would be so tight when
We r e n o t a bu n c h we got here today, but we
of superstars, but were hit the ball hard and they
a team that works well made plays, Verona head
coach Todd Anderson said.
together.
Neitzels bunt and a Our girls showed they are
second straight shutout capable of being locked in
by Nelson and Anderson a pitchers duel and still
worked so well togeth- finding a way to get a run
er in fact that they helped across.
Rudnicki, a standout
punched the teams 12th
trip to the state tourna- volleyball and basketball
player, advanced to the
ment.
This has been one of state tournament in all
our biggest goals all sea- three sports this season
son. I dont even know including a girls basketball
how to express my excite- season which culminated
ment for it, Nelson said. with the Wildcats winning
I trust Meghan. We com- their first title in school
pliment each other I history.
I think our last time at
throw movement pitches and she throws with state softball my sophomore speed. We probably more year, the nerves got
wouldnt do as well as we to us and we played one
of our worst games of the
have without her.
Verona tacked on two season, Rudnicki said.
more insurance runs in With some experience on
the sixth as Taytum Gei- the team, I think that will
er singled and moved into help a lot, and that wont
scoring position on a Emi- happen again.
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Obituaries
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Audrey L. Stampfli
Audrey Stampfli
Audrey L. (Sherven) Stampfli, age 76 of Verona, passed

away on June 4, 2016 at
Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg following a courageous
battle with breast cancer.
Audrey was born Nov. 17,
1939 on the home farm in
Perry Township to Orton and
Esther (Knudtson) Sherven.
She grew up on the family
farm and graduated from New
Glarus High School in 1958.
Following high school, Audrey
went on to meet the love of
her life, Rodger Stampfli, at
a dance hall called Club 18.
They were joined in marriage
56 years ago on June 18, 1960
at York Memorial Lutheran
Church in Blanchardville, and
they moved to Verona.
Audrey enjoyed dancing,
music, baking, sewing, gardening and traveling. Her most
recent adventures included
annual trips to Branson, Mo.,
with family and friends. She
also cherished staying up north
Ryan Funeral Home & Cremation Services

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at her cabin on Lake Alice
near Tomahawk. Many great
memories were made at the
cabin. Audrey loved caring for
her children so much that she
opened an in-home daycare. In
addition, Audrey also cleaned
homes for families in the area.
Prior to that, she worked for
numerous companies.
She is survived by her husband, Rodger; children, Kevin (Rachel) Stampfli, Pam
(Jim) Licht, Rita (Paul) Cripe
and Jason (Cindi) Stampfli; grandchildren, Heather
(Ross) Westra, Travis Licht,
and Brooke, Melanie, Alexa,
and Connor Stampfli, Blake
Dey, and Jackson and Trinity
Stampfli; great-granddaughter, Kaylee Westra; siblings,
Verdean (Mary), Jerome (Sylvia), Larry (JoAnn), Steven
(Kris) and Duane (Janet) Sherven; and many cousins, nieces,
nephews, in-laws and friends.
She was preceded in death
by her parents and her sister,
Joyce Sherven.
Funeral services will be held
at noon Thursday, June 9 at St.
James Lutheran Church, 427
S. Main Street, with the Rev.
Peter Narum officiating. Visitation will be from 10-11:45a.m.
on Thursday prior to the funeral at the church. The Ellestad
Camacho Funeral Home, 500
N. 8th Street, Mt. Horeb, WI,
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Patricia Miller
Patricia Pat Miller passed away

on Monday, June 6, 2016.
She was born on Nov. 10, 1919, the
daughter of Floyd and Ethyl Mayhew.
Pat graduated from Baraboo High
School and the Milwaukee Nursing
School. She lived all over the world
with her first husband, Major Julian
Biniewski. Pat raised her beloved
boys, Lieutenant Colonel Dan (Vicki) of San Antonio, Texas, Todd
(deceased) and John of Lake Oswego,
Ore. She enjoyed many years with her
second husband, Bill Miller and his
children, Larry (Ellen Bravo) Miller
and Pat (Mike) Nardi; the loves of
her life, her grandchildren, Nat Miller, Craig Miller, Matt (Emily) Nardi
and Tony Nardi; and great-grandson,
Enzo, who brought her amazing joy.
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Thomas M. Banta
Pat enjoyed family, golfing, bowling, playing bridge and baking

Christmas cookies for her family and
friends. She had several careers that
she loved, including nursing, working
as a medical records technician and
raising her family.
Pat was the oldest of three sisters
and one step-brother. She is survived
and loved by her sister, June Davis;
step-brother, Jim (Barb) Mayhew;
special families, Amy (Jim) Wollangk
and Garry (Connie) Lone; and many
nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
She was welcomed into heaven
by her husband, Bill; parents, Floyd
and Ethyl; son, Todd; sister, Marilyn; brothers and sisters-in-law,
Jack Davis, Agnes (Art) Fleming,
Ceil (Albert) Endres, Dorothy (William) Meinholz, Marcella (Wilfred
Fuzzy) Fassbender, Marie (Louis)
Rauls, Catherine (Connie) Kuehn and
Al (Margaret) Miller.
She loved us all dearly and will be
tremendously missed! Many thanks
go out to the St. Marys Care Center
team that has cared and loved her for
the past year. In keeping with Pats
wishes, a private service will be held.
Online condolences may be made at
www.gundersonfh.com.
Thomas Banta
Thomas Michael Banta, age 49, of

Verona, passed away unexpectedly
at home, Tuesday, May 24, 2016.
The youngest of eight children,
Thomas was born July 21, 1966 to
Richard and Carol Banta in California. He was a doting father who
embarked on many different careers
and was always a musician at heart.
A proficient bass guitar player and
vocalist, Thomas was a cornerstone
in the local Houston, Texas music
scene. His resume included playing in bands that were headliners in
their own right, as well as opening
for nationally renowned acts like
Pantera.
Mr. Banta is survived by his partner, Elizabeth Doyle, and daughter,
Zoe.
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On a beautiful sunny morning, a new journey began

for our dear husband, father,
grandpa, great-grandpa and
friend, Russel L. Burgenske, at
the age of 95.
Russel was born on April 4,
1921 to Paul and Augusta (Paradise) Burgenske. He passed
away peacefully at Willow
Pointe Assisted Living on June
3, 2016 with his family by his
side.
Russel was born and spent
his entire life in Verona. He
graduated from Verona High
School in 1938, took over
the family farm in Verona
and also worked and retired
from the Dane County Highway Department. On June 25,
1943, he married the love of
his life and soulmate, Betty
Jane Connelly, in Basco, Wis.
Russel and Betty would have
celebrated 73 years of marriage this month. They enjoyed
spending winters in Florida,
where they established many
wonderful friendships that
have continued over the years.
They also enjoyed fishing trips
with friends and family to the
Northwoods, good old country
music, polka dancing, playing
cards and an occasional day at
the casino. Russel also loved
his garden, and was more than
happy to share his abundance
of vegetables with family and
friends.
Russel loved spending time
with his grandchildren, and
they all enjoyed their time with
Patricia Pat Miller
Verona Road
Highway 151
Russel L. Burgenske
grandpa. They would do anything with or for him. As his

health started to fail, grandpa
was so grateful for all the help
he received from them. They
made sure he was well taken
care of. An additional blessing
for Russel was becoming a
great grandpa. He enjoyed visits from each and every one of
them. He always said, Ma and
I are so blessed.
Russel is survived by his
loving wife, Betty; children,
Doug (Linda) and their daughter, Dani; Joan (Mark) Emerson and their children, Jackson,
Leah (Neil) Harrop, Nathan
(Sheila); and Mary (Doug)
Way and their children, Bradley (Stephanie) and Jordan
(Trisha). He is also survived
by great-grandchildren, Alexa,
Sierra and Erin Emerson, Jace
and Tate Harrop, Duke and
baby Way (due next week).
He is further survived by his
loving sister-in-law Gloria aka
Lena Stafseth of Rockford,
Ill., as well as nieces and nephews that were very close to his
heart.
Russel was preceded in
death by his parents; brother,
Rodney; sisters, Emily Donkle
and Marguerite Oliversen.
A Christian celebration of
Russels life was held on Monday, June 6. The family would
like to extend our heartfelt
thanks to the caring staff at
Willow Pointe Assisted Living,
Agrace HospiceCare, as well
as Pastor Jeff Jacobs.
Russel was a thoughtful,
soft-spoken and generous man,
and he will be missed by family and friends. We have lost.
Heaven has gained, the most
wonderful dad this world contained, there is just one thing
that makes us glad, God chose
you to be our DAD. To view
and sign this guestbook, please
visit: www.ryanfuneralservice.
com.
Anton
Russel L. Burgenske
June 9, 2016
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June 9, 2016
The Verona Press
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Survey: Mixed response Budget could increase 1.6 percent

would pay $12
on late start Mondays District
million in debt service
Committee suggests
more detailed
surveys to come
SCOTT GIRARD
Late start Mondays are

under discussion in Verona but the days wouldnt
change, if at all, until fall
2017.
The best way to assist
all of our parents is to have
the calendars made up as far
ahead of time as possible,
said board member Amy
Almond, who sat on the
committee tasked to create
the calendar.
The district convened a
committee last year tasked to
create the 2016-17 calendar,
and after they completed that
task, they began early work
toward more significant
changes for 2017-18. The
group has since sent out and
received responses on a survey about the calendar that
showed a mix of opinions,
especially on late starts.
While most of those surveyed agreed with maintaining the districts current
holidays, like winter and
spring breaks, the responses were more muddled
on late start Mondays, said
district director of human
resources Jason Olson.
Forty-three percent of
the respondents agreed or
strongly agreed with continuing late start Mondays,
while 32 percent disagreed
or strongly disagreed, with
the other 23 percent neutral.
Though most responses
leaned toward keeping late
starts as they are now, there
was not a clear majority
either way.
Board member Meredith
Stier Christensen added
that while the numbers did
not make an answer obvious, the comments of families who have an extra cost
because of the late starts
need to be considered.
It sounds to me that
the concerns against late
starts were fairly compelling concerns, she said.
That underscored the
difficulty of changing the
school calendar as the district looks to find more time
for its staff for professional

development and common
planning.
Its never going to be
ideal, said board president
Dennis Beres. Its one of
those tough ones.
One possibility mentioned in the committees
update to the board would
be to eliminate late starts at
the high school level only.
Those late starts would
be replaced with an equivalent amount of face to
face instructional time,
which would then allow
us to schedule an equivalent amount of full days
off for students and would
allow for more robust staff
professional development
throughout the year, the
update said.
Such a change would
allow for 3.6 full days of
staff development, parent
outreach or planning time,
all goals of the district
administration as schools
move toward personalized
learning plans that should
involve family and student
input.
But a majority of survey
respondents (57 percent)
agreed or strongly agreed
that late starts should be
scheduled the same on a
K-12 basis.
The committee also suggested exploring the change
for schools with grades K-8,
but acknowledged that part
of late start time at elementaries is reserved for individual prep time, so that
would need to be replaced.
The committee suggested
sending out a more detailed
survey to students, teachers and parents at both levels with some specific idea
changes.
Nearly 1,500 parents
responded to the survey,
along with 285 teachers, 189 students, 103
non-teaching staff, 21 community members and nine
who selected other.
The calendar committee
is expected to continue to
meet in the coming months
and bring a proposed 201718 calendar to the board in
November.
@sgirard9.
SCOTT GIRARD
A 1.6 percent proposed increase to

the Verona Area School District budget
would keep the mill rate nearly flat for
the 2016-17 school year.
The budget, detailed at Mondays
school boards meeting, calls for more
possible, business manager consultant

Chris Murphy explained. The proposed rate, which wont be finalized
until October after the districts attendance is officially counted, would drop
from $11.99 per $1,000 of property
value to $11.98.
The board reviewed the budget in
more detail Wednesday night after the
Press deadline at the citizens budget
meeting, and is expected to consider
approving it in preliminary form at its
June 20 meeting.
Schools reaching tipping point on transgender

Legal presentation
comes as district
considers policy
SCOTT GIRARD
School districts around the

country are at the tipping
point of dealing with transgender issues, a lawyer told
officials and residents Monday.
Christine Hamiel, a lawyer
with von Briesen and Roper
who has been giving presentations on the topic for more
than a year, spoke at Badger
Ridge Middle School to help
community and board members better understand the
topic as the district moves
toward creating a policy.
Schools really are becoming the battleground for these
issues, she said.
Hamiel said discussion
about transgender issues has
heated up since she gave a
presentation at a state school
board convention last June,
where superintendent Dean
Gorrell first heard from her
on the topic. Just in the past
two months, Hamiel pointed
out, a state law in North Carolina, federal guidance and
multiple lawsuits have complicated the discussions.
That federal guidance outlined what public schools
should do for transgender students, telling them to allow
students to use a bathroom
and locker room of the gender they identify with, among
other acceptable behaviors.
Parent vs. student?

Verona Area High School principal Pam Hammen asked
a lawyer presenting on transgender issues Monday what to
do if a student and parent are in disagreement on a name
or gender change. Christine Hamiel, of von Briesen and
Roper, said its complicated.
Go with what the student says, she advised. I could be
absolutely wrong on this.
She said the law is not clear on the issue when a student is a minor, but felt that going with the students request
would be the safest route for avoiding potential lawsuits.
The district last fall started

a transgender ad hoc committee, which has completed
a draft policy that has been
reviewed by a consultant with
the Wisconsin Association of
School Boards. The school
board is expected to consider it for final approval in the
coming months.
But some in attendance
wondered what that means
for cisgender students, or
those who identify with the
gender they were assigned at
birth, who are uncomfortable
with transgender students
and feel their privacy could
be violated, as some parents
asked Hamiel about their
rights.
Its almost, Too bad,
Hamiel said. One of the
things that is not protected
under the law is the fears or
misconceptions or the misplaced fear that other individuals may have.
Ideally, she said, districts
should construct new schools
with individual facilities that

would better conform with
the law. But she added with a
laugh, thats next to impossible to do.
Beyond bathrooms
Bathrooms are also not the
only concern, as teachers,
parents and administrators
asked what the school should
do with regard to traditions
like prom court, how to name
students in the yearbook and
what privacy requirements
they are held to.
Laurie Burgos, the districts director of bilingual
programs and instructional
equity, asked Hamiel if she
would be able to tell a teacher
or colleague about a students
gender identity if they were
to open up to her on the topic.
A students sex is protected under FERPA, Hamiel
replied, adding that staff
would have to determine
whether other staff members
were required to know for
any given reason.

Other questions like
that from Verona Area High
School technology coordinator and yearbook director
Rita Mortenson worried
about outing a student to other students.
Hamiel said the district
should inquire with a transgender student whether they
want their legal name or chosen name in the yearbook,
as you cant expect students (or staff) to know what
theyre not told.
That is probably one of
the topics that you want to
discuss with the student in
the transition plan, Hamiel
said. Prom court, yearbooks, how they wish to be
addressed in all aspects of
their educational experience
at the district.
Hamiel also briefly mentioned athletics, and advised
the audience on the WIAAs
rules as the governing high
school sports body in the
state.
She added that sitting
down with a student going
through a transition is paramount to anything else.
Were riding the coattails
of what the students wishes
are, she said.
But given the uncertain
court rulings through a system that is very slow to play
out, all of Hamiels thoughts
came with a caveat.
My best advice is all
pretty vague, and it all has
question marks by it, she
said with a laugh. Were
still kind of in a state of
flux because things could
change.
iPads: Lease gives district time to build in annual cost

offer more teachers a laptop, though some will also
memory each, a case for all replace old devices and other
of them, and 95 addition- teachers will still be without
al Macbook Air laptops to one.
Last year, the district
entered a four-year lease
agreement for iPads that
offered most students in
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
CIRCUIT COURT,
grades four through 10 an
DANE COUNTY, NOTICE TO
iPad. Those devices will be
CREDITORS (INFORMAL
resold, with the district hopADMINISTRATION) IN THE
ing to get in the ballpark
MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
JULIAN O. RHINER
of $600,000, superintendent
Case No. 16PR371
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
Dean Gorrell said.
1. An application for Informal AdminThe board discussed the
istration was filed.
2. The decedent, with date of birth agreement in closed session
September 11, 1928 and date of death
April 11, 2016, was domiciled in Dane
during Mondays meeting
County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailand approved it after returning address of 304 Barbara Street, Verona, WI 53593.
ing to open session.
3. All interested persons waived notice.
The staff and Board are
4. The deadline for filing a claim
very excited to be able to proagainst the decedents estate is September 2, 2016.
vide this technology to our
5. A claim may be filed at the Dane
County Courthouse, Madison, Wiscon- students and their families,
sin, Room 1000
Lisa Chandler
the letter told staff. With
Probate Registrar
the guidance of our expertly
June 1, 2016
Atty. Marilyn A. Dreger
trained and dedicated staff,
200 W. Verona Avenue
Verona, WI 53593
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than a 300 percent increase in debt

service paid down during the year, to
more than $12 million, to keep that
mill rate consistent. If not for that
increase, there would be a large drop
in district residents property tax rates
from the district, as the Epic tax increment finance district closing dramatically alters the districts equalized
value.
The district especially with a referendum likely coming in spring 2017
wanted to keep that rate as flat as
***
The district began discussing the one-to-one

devices during the 2014-15
school year, when it became
increasingly clear students
had more or less access to a
device depending on what
school they attended. With
the districts focus on equity
for all students, that became
a problem.
Administrators advocated
for treating the cost of devices as a utility, like electricity or water.
That will ultimately be the
goal and this agreement
buys the district four years
to make that happen, Gorrell
said.
Thisll jump start this and
position us so that in four
years we will have built in
a line item over time to take
the place of the one-time
money, he said. It was like,
Gosh, this looks like Mount
Everest to climb in one budget cycle.
Some, including business
manager consultant Chris
Murphy, were skeptical of

using one-time money for the
purchase at past meetings.
Murphy acknowledged, however, that the TIF closeout
might be a special case, as
its a larger sum of one-time
money than taking some out
of the districts fund balance,
for example.
In the letter to staff, Gorrell expanded on additional
benefits of the lease, including that it standardizes
the devices in the district,
which will help with service
and accessing similar applications. Through this year,
some middle and elementary
school students had Google
Chromebooks.
It sure makes professional development easier when
were on the same platform
and we have the same capabilities, Wottreng said. Its
taking away a lot of barriers.
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602 Antiques & Collectibles
1976 CRESTLINER boat, 15.5ft, 90hp

Mercury, excellent condition, newer
seats, CD player & speakers, $4,000
OBO. 608-558-9590 or 608-328-4428
402 Help Wanted, General

BADGER STATE Drilling has an immediate opening for a driller/driller's assistant.
CDL preferred. Must pass DOT physical
Excellent opportunity for advancement,
Year round work. . 608-877-9770.
CLEANING LADY for larrge house in
Town of Middleton, 608-833-4726
DISHWASHER, COOK,
WAITRESS, & DELI STAFF
WANTED.
Applications available at
Sugar & Spice Eatery.
317 Nora St. Stoughton.
652 Garage Sales
HELP WANTED on Argyle area dairy

farm, housing available. Experience a
plus. Full or Part-time. 608-558-1911
ORGANIST/PIANIST: FIRST Lutheran
Church is seeking an organist/pianist.
The organist (Moller pipe organ) leads
weekly traditional services and accompanies the choir. The pianist leads weekly
contemporary services and the praise
band. Send resume and cover letter to
info@flcstoughton.com or First Lutheran Church, PO Box 322, Stoughton, WI
53589.
PART TIME SCHOOL BUS Driver
Oregon-area 3-4 times per week, for
sporting events. CDL-preferred, but will
train. Excellent pay. 608-669-2618
STUDENTS NEEDED for general landscaping. $12.00/hr. Dunkirk. 608-3352750 leave message.
410 Employment Agencies

EXPERIENCED SERVERS Needed
Part-time and dishwashers full-time.
apply at Sunrise Family Restaurant 1052
W Main, Stoughton
434 Health Care, Human

Services & Child Care
452 General
OFFICE CLEANING Team lead available in Stoughton Mon-Fri 4 hours/night.
Visit our website: www.capitalcityclean.
com or call our office: 608-831-8850
506 Beauty & Supplies

J.R. WATKINS Products for sale. Call
JoAnn 608-873-8779
548 Home Improvement

A&B ENTERPRISES
Light Construction Remodeling
No job too small
608-835-7791
STOUGHTON- 100 Isham 6/9-6/11

8am-5pm Furniture, Household misc,
Collectables
STOUGHTON- 1021 Riverview Dr. Saturday-June 11, 9-5pm, garden-yard decor,
furniture, patio sets, kitchen equipment/
supplies/dishes folding wringer washer
stand, treadle sewing machine
STOUGHTON- 1725 Buckingham,
3-family, 6/10-11, 8am-5pm Norman
Rockwell Plates, household, decor, furniture, wicker, clothes, toys, Aluma Trailer,
Air compressor and tons more
STOUGHTON- 209 S-Monroe St Thurs
6/9 4-7pm Fri 6/10 8am-4pm See Craigslist
696 Wanted To Buy

WE BUY Junk Cars and Trucks.
We sell used parts.
Monday thru Friday 8am-5:30pm.
Newville Auto Salvage, 279 Hwy 59
Edgerton, 608-884-3114
GREENWOOD APARTMENTS
Apartments for Seniors 55+, currently
has 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $750 per month, includes
heat, water, and sewer.
608-835-6717 Located at:
139 Wolf St., Oregon, WI 53575
OREGON 2-Bedroom in quiet, well-kept
building. Convenient location. Includes all
appliances, A/C, blinds, private parking,
laundry, storage. $200 security deposit.
Cats OK. $690/month. Available 7/1.
608-219-6677
SHARE YOUR Space and Save We
roommate match individuals in 2 bed/2
bath luxury apartments at West End
Apartments in Verona. These luxury
apartments have all of the extras, come
tour today! One female space available
immediately, from $775/mo. Inquire for
additional availability. Details at 608-2557100 or veronawiapartments.com
STOUGHTON- 105 West Street, 2 bedroom, appliances, water, heat, A/C, ceiling fan, on site laundry, well kept and
maintained. Off street parking. Next to
park. On site manager. Available June
15th, 2016. $770 a month. Please call
608-238-3815 or email weststreetapartments.com with questions
DOUG'S HANDYMAN
SERVICE
Gutter Cleaning & Gutter Covers
"Honey Do List"
No job too small
608-845-8110
HALLINAN-PAINTING
WALLPAPERING
**Great-Spring-Rates**
35 + Years Professional
Interior/Exterior
Free-Estimates
References/Insured
Arthur Hallinan
608-455-3377
STOUGHTON- 115 Hillside 3 bedroom,

Lower. $750 + Uttilies. 608-338-5408
STOUGHTON 1616 Kenilworth Ct.
Large 2-BR apts available now.
Pets welcome. Many feature new wood
laminate flooring.
$775-$825/mo. 608-831-4035.
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RECOVER PAINTING Offers carpentry,

drywall, deck restoration and all forms of
painting Recover urges you to join in the
fight against cancer, as a portion of every
job is donated to cancer research. Free
estimates, fully insured, over 20 years of
experience. Call 608-270-0440.
TOMAS PAINTING
Professional, Interior,
Exterior, Repairs.
Free Estimates. Insured.
608-873-6160
STOUGHTON 2 bedroom Upper. $850/

mo + utilities $850 security deposit. 608873-3679
STOUGHTON-2 BEDROOM Upper w/
appliances, heat/electric/water, garage.
$650+ deposit 608-873-6711
VERONA- 538 Melody Lane: 3 bedroom
Duplex. Living room, kitchen/dining room,
heat/water furnished. 1 car garage, storage area, patio. NO Pets $825.00 Available Now 608-845-6159
CLASSIFIEDS, 873-6671 or 835-6677. It
pays to read the fine print.
554 Landscaping, Lawn, Tree &

Garden Work
720 Apartments
ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors
55+. 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $750 per month. Includes
heat, water and sewer. Professionally
managed. Located at
300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI
53589 608-877-9388
STOUGHTON SENIOR Apts, Cottage
style 2 bdrrm. $715 plus utilities. Private
entrance and patio All Appl inc/W/D. No
Pets No Smoking. 608-873-0884
750 Storage Spaces For Rent

ALL SEASONS SELF STORAGE
10X10 10X15 10X20 10X30
Security Lights-24/7 access
BRAND NEW
OREGON/BROOKLYN
Credit Cards Accepted
CALL (608)444-2900
C.N.R. STORAGE
Located behind
Stoughton Garden Center
Convenient Dry Secure
Lighted with access 24/7
Bank Cards Accepted
Off North Hwy 51 on
Oak Opening Dr. behind
Stoughton Garden Center
Call: 608-509-8904
DEER POINT STORAGE
Convenient location behind
Stoughton Lumber.
Clean-Dry Units
24 HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS
5x10 thru 12x25
608-335-3337
FRENCHTOWN
SELF-STORAGE
Only 6 miles South of
Verona on Hwy PB.
Variety of sizes available now.
10x10=$60/month
10x15=$70/month
10x20=$80/month
10x25=$90/month
12x30=$115/month
Call 608-424-6530 or
1-888-878-4244
WEST MADISON - Country Grove.

3,410 sq.ft. 3 bed+den, fireplace, wooded/landscaped lot, 3-car garage. 608335-8940. $434,900+
NORTH PARK STORAGE

10x10 through 10x40, plus
14x40 with 14' door for
RV & Boats.
Come & go as you please.
608-873-5088
970 Horses
WALMERS TACK SHOP
16379 W. Milbrandt Road
Evansville, WI
608-882-5725
RASCHEIN PROPERTY
STORAGE
6x10 thru 10x25
Market Street/Burr Oak Street
in Oregon
Call 608-520-0240
975 Livestock
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students will have to demonstrate ongoing service in at
least four different activities.
Opportunities for volunteering included Second Harvest Food Bank, the Call
an Elf program and the
schools Childrens Carnival, among other community
groups.
Felsheim, who along with
Woodman will be among
those wearing the cords Sunday, credited the Class of
2015 with creating the initiative that allows the school
to recognize more than just
academics at graduation at
the end of last year.
Its great that people in
NHS (National Honor Society) and highest honors get
recognized but the silver
cord recognizes the people
who are doing more in their
community and really making an impact on the lives of
those around them, she said.
Both of the coordinators
said the opportunity is especially important to improve
the general attitude some
Verona Area High School Class of 2016 students Brooke Felsheim,

left, and Allissa Woodman will be wearing silver cords as they cross
the stage at graduation. The pair served as student council coordinators of the volunteer recognition program in its first year.
have toward their age group.

Teenagers have a bad
rap, Woodman said. When
the community sees theyre
giving back and volunteering
for the greater good, theyre
like, Hey, we shouldnt
judge them so quick.
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the ground and checking on
everyones hours to ensure
the integrity, Felsheim said
did not count toward their
own hours for the pair of students, but they were glad to
do it anyway. Somehow, they
found the additional time
to meet the standard themselves.
Its really hard to find
100 hours in a school year,
Woodman said.
Both of the students hope
the initiative will help create lifelong habits for those
who choose to take on the
challenge but it already
changed their own outlooks.
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