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Thursday, August 28, 2014 Vol. 48, No. 14 Verona, WI Hometown USA ConnectVerona.
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Admin trio gets fresh start at VAHS
3 new associate principals

enjoying challenge so far
Scott Girard
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Pheng Lee was very hesitant

to come to Verona when he was
offered an associate principal job
at Verona Area High School in the
spring.
In fact, he turned down the first

job the district offered him in May,
calling VAHS principal Pam Hammen two days before the school
board was set to approve his contract.
I knew that being an admin was
going to take a lot of time, so I was
like, I want to spend time with my
kid and I knew that wasnt going to
be the only opportunity I was going
to get, said Lee, whose daughter
was born in June.

The position went to Dan Kigeya
two weeks later, and Kigeya joined
Tamara Sutor as a second new associate principal. But when another
associate principal job opened up
at the end of June, Hammen once
again reached out to Lee, who had
come to recognize it was an opportunity he wanted to take.
As Lee and Kigeya said, some
things simply happen for a
reason.
Look at the three of us, Lee
said of how his turning down the
job originally and Kigeya getting the position brought them
all together. That opened up
things and things happened.
Now, the three are working to
fill the hole left by all of the last
years associate principals leaving the school. So far, theyre
Back to School
Five Things to
Watch in 2014-15
New VAIS director
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Turn to Principals/Page 7
From Bowling Balls to Bibles VACT deal

Sugar River UMC moves into Wildcat Lanes
City of Verona
sets $360K
purchase
Samantha Christian
Agreement sets stage for

construction of larger building
Jim Ferolie
Verona Press editor
Photos by Samantha Christian
Above, Bill Lease, of Village Lanes in

Monona, looks for tools while disassembling bowling alley equipment from Wildcat
Lanes in Verona on Aug. 20. The lanes will
eventually become the sanctuary for Sugar
River United Methodist Church.
At right, moving coordinator Diane Lukas

holds up a light for her husband, Greg
Changing lanes
Luke Lukas, in the old pool hall at Wildcat
The first order of business is to pack up Lanes, which will be the temporary nursery
and haul out everything this week from the for Sugar River UMC.
former library, 130 N. Franklin St., because

the churchs lease with the city ends Aug.
31. More than 90 volunteers have signed up
to help with the moving efforts, child care
and food prep.
Next Step Ministries will also bring 15
volunteers, including some youth from Sugar River UMCs mother church, Asbury
UMC of Middleton, to help paint over the
Turn to Church/Page 20
The
Bowlers react to
Wildcat Lanes
closing
Page 20
Verona Press
The city has settled on a price for the

10-year-old Verona Area Community Theater building, affirming its interest in both
expanding its public works operations and
helping the local nonprofit build a larger,
more useful home.
The Common Council voted 6-2 Monday
to proceed with terms outlined on a singlepage summary, directing staff to create a
contract for the $360,000 purchase of the
building and a 50-year, no-cost lease for the
new building on the south end of the fire
station lot and also to begin securing a state
trust fund loan.
Alds. Jack Linder (D-2) and Brad
Stiner (D-3) voted against despite having
Turn to Building/Page 15
Alders hone downtown

investment priorities
Jim Ferolie
Verona Press editor
City and community leaders spent much

time and effort in 2013 putting together a
vision and a plan for growing and developing its downtown.
Last Wednesday, some of those same
people spent two hours getting ready for
action.
As Ald. Brad Stiner (D-3) noted in that
Committee of the Whole meeting, the city
has created several plans, but only bits
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Sugar River is on the move the church,

that is.
Having previously worshipped in an athletic center and library, the congregation
will again forgo a steeple and begin services
in the citys longtime former bowling alley
starting Sunday, Sept. 14.
With approval from the city and floor
plans in hand, Sugar River United Methodist
Church is in the process of making the former Wildcat Lanes facility, 415 W. Verona
Ave., its permanent home. The church has
owned the building since Friday, Aug. 15.
We as a church just felt that instead of
trying to build another building, to repurpose a building made more sense good
stewardship, said Pastor Gary Holmes.
When the bowling alley became available it was under foreclosure, so the bank
was trying to sell it (and) several companies (that) considered keeping it as a bowling alley looked at it and decided it was not
usable. We went to look at it and thought
that it could be a possibility for us.
The projected cost of the project, including
the purchase of the building and refurbishing, is $1.875 million. Holmes is hopeful that
everything will be completed by spring.
Our dream would be to open up the new
worship center at Easter, said Holmes.
Thats when wed do our big kick (off) to
welcome the community to see it.
But there is still much work to be done
before the transition from bowling balls to
Bibles is complete.
August 28, 2014
The Verona Press
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Above, a pair of oars are propped up on a tree for use in the paddling event.
Paddling down the river

The Upper Sugar River Watershed Association held its
annual Paddle and Pig-Out event Saturday, Aug. 23, with
music, food and activities at Paoli Park and 45-minute
guided paddling trips down the Sugar River. The foggy day
began with a full bus load to take the first kayak and canoe
trip. However, a smaller group that departed at noon came
back drenched and the rain and lightning forced the event
to cancel the 3 p.m. trip. Still, more than 100 people came
to the park with about 60 paddlers throughout the day.
Above, Kendall Werner, 4, helps her mother, Allison
Werner, of Madison, kayak down the Sugar River.
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The Verona Press
Downtown: Landscape architect begins planning streetscape improvements immediately

Continued from page 1
how the CDA and VEDC

of course, and the Common there is more parking, it
Council would need to act will be difficult to get more
are separate entities that
on
them.
business.
rarely meet, and they disand pieces have ever been
One problem has been
cussed the possibility of
implemented. So the city Streetscapes
that
much
of
the
parking
combining their functions
staffs goal was to come out
is
private
the
Millers,
somehow.
The
city
will
have
the
of the informal discussion
at the Verona Senior Center ability to make some invest- Ace and World of Variety
Other ideas
with a set of priorities for ments, with a tax-increment lots, for example. The public
parking
that
lines
South
City staff provided a
financing
(TIF)
district
covgetting the ball rolling.
Main
Street
fills
quickly
ering
much
of
the
downlist
of potential spots for
Once there is momentum,
redevelopment, such as
everyone agreed, growth town and a placeholder line and can be difficult to get
item in the 2014 budget for into and out of during rush
the former House of Flowwill come much easier.
ers and the former Norland
W h i l e t h e r e w e r e n o an unspecified major down- hour.
The downtown plan recLearning Center on North
votes, city administra- town development that can
ommends
a
variety
of
straMain Street and the former
be
carried
over
to
2015.
tor Bill Burns said he took
B u t o n e o f t h e f i r s t tegically placed small lots
Chinmi on West Verona
home several important
to
focus
on
convenience.
Avenue. But there were no
actions
the
city
will
take
is
points of consensus that
Those, of course, will
takers.
should help the city gain updating the look and feel
have
to
come
a
bit
at
a
time.
through
streetscaping.
Sayre did not recomtraction with both develmend investing in any of
The look and feel has But alders put a priority on
opers and current and proalready been included in the it.
them, noting that some had
spective business owners.
Right now, we acknowlhigh price tags, others were
One of the biggest and downtown plan, but the city
brownfield sites and none
most readily agreed-upon is employing a landscape edge that parking is generwould solve any of the
was the idea that moderate architect starting this week ally adequate, planning
identified priorities downinvestment in improving to apply it to specific areas director Adam Sayre noted.
However,
if
projects
and
the
city
staff
could
town on their own.
the downtown streetscape
do come in, when they do
Burns pointed out that
and functionality perhaps build it, mostly next year.
come
in,
parking
will
create
We
just
need
some
help
m
unicipal investments
even a few hundred thouinto its downtown can
sand dollars worth would in our guidance of mov- some challenges.
One that could go in as
help inspire private develgo a long way toward showing forward with it, public
opment, but Sayre noted
ing developers and business works director Ron Rieder early as next year is on Park
Lane,
where
the
city
bought
explained.
there were other potenowners that the city is seriWhile theyre updating an old house last year. Othtially available properties
ous about implementing
that would be better investthe plan and investing in the look, the city will fix er properties in those areas
are
for
sale
or
are
expected
some
problems
caused
by
ments. Ald. Evan Touchett
it. That should inspire con(D-4), who had prompted
fidence in private invest- inadequate infrastructure, to be soon.
such
as
extension
cords
for
Sayre for his opinion, said
ment, they reasoned, and it
Incentives
Photo by Jim Ferolie redevelopment should be a
should be mostly done in holiday lights getting in the
way of snow removal.
The final major initiative The streetscape project will try to bring a consistent look and feel to priority with Verona quick2015, they agreed.
Ald. Dale Yurs (D-2) the city is embarking on is the terraces, street lights and shoulders downtown.
ly becoming landlocked
Another important piece
also
suggested
new
signs
sharpening
its
economic
and should give itself comof that puzzle is parking,
mitments in small doses.
something that is a concern that would lead people to development tools.
It has TIF, of course, the ability to make loans its $250,000 in seed money
Ald. Dale Yurs (D-2)
not just for visitors but for key landmarks, such as the
businesses and develop- library, Verona City Center, which is useful for many to assist development, but and growing it through the agreed with the concept,
ers looking to invest. The parking and parks. The city projects but sometimes neither has been used much loans, which meant a con- suggesting it would be best
downtown cant very well has had those before, but complicated and not always in recent years. The VEDC servative approach to dol- applied to properties east of
accommodate a large res- some of the landmarks have applicable, as it requires a handed out its one and only ing out cash and an interest Main Street. And Ald. Jack
taurant, for example, with- moved and Verona Avenue development to have been loan to Edelweiss Cheese rate that isnt much more Linder (D-2) added that it
Shop shortly after its incep- attractive than alternatives. would be beneficial to have
out a place for several doz- is no longer the main thor- impossible without it.
tion two years ago.
Another reason could be a part-time economic develoughfare
of
U.S.
Hwy.
The
citys
CDA
and
the
en cars to park.
Burns suggested that one simply not marketing it opment staffer to focus on
Verona Economic DevelBut as much time had 18-151.
Ald. Brad Stiner (D-3) opment Commission have reason was the VEDCs enough.
such opportunities.
been spent talking about
original design, of taking
Alders also discussed
traffic issues over the previ- complained that the preOR
ous year, Mondays group vious downtown plan, in
(six alders, three staff mem- 1998, contained all sorts of
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shelf
without
being
comthe importance of that hour
pleted.
But
Burns
explained
or two of congestion daily
thats exactly what the disduring the school year.
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improving the attractive- architect was aimed at preness of the citys economic venting, by gathering the
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ing, but Burns suggested there today?
The plan will redesign
to the group that a more
terraces,
lighting and many
aggressive, higher-risk
set of programs such as visual elements, something
lower interest rates and an that was listed in the downexpanded palate of poten- town plan as part of the
tial uses might inspire overall street improvement.
Part of the architects role
more interest.
With those priorities in will be determining cost
mind, Burns told the Vero- estimates for each part.
na Press he now can have Parking
different conversations with
Making the downtown
developers. City staffers
more
attractive might draw
still need to come up with
workable, actionable plans, more visitors, but until
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Corrections
Due to incorrect information supplied by the Verona Area School
District, last weeks Back to School supplement contained two errors
related to the Verona Area International School.
The Aug. 28 meeting was incorrectly listed as starting at 6 p.m. The
meeting runs from 4-6 p.m. and is a chance for parents and students to
meet the schools teachers and see classrooms.
The VAIS back to school night will be Sept. 16 from 6-7:30 p.m.
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s weve seen in the recent

past and the more
recent, the worse it is
there is little to no bipartisan
cooperation in higher levels of
government.
Both sides have their own
agendas with their own twists
of facts in support. This is especially true when tax spending is
involved.
As we enter another budget season in
Verona, Im
reminded that
municipal budgets like Veronas can offer a
ray of sunshine
when compared
to bigger jurisdictions.
Simons
Municipalities have
an advantage when it comes to
the budget process and budget
outcomes. As citizens, we must
live entrenched in local elected
officials decisions. We can visibly see the success or failure
of initiatives. We see the tax
dollars at work more than we do
from state or federal taxes and
we can easily identify how those
decisions have impacted our
community.
There are few initiatives,
especially in small cities like
Verona, that cannot be seen by
everyone.
We also see the elected officials at work literally. We
know our elected officials on a
first-name basis in many cases.
We work with them at their day
job or have kids who are on the
same soccer team as theirs.
Because of this, no matter
what their political agenda, local
elected officials get to know the
problems to be solved or successes to be maintained at a very
granular level. They experience
it the same way the voters do
because they live in the same
location.
The impetus for cooperation
to get things done to make a real
impact on the community they
live in is greater than in larger
jurisdictions.
Also, unlike in the bigger
forms of government, the people
heading city departments are not

there as political appointments
or as folks with their own political aspirations.
Verona citizens are lucky
to have eager, smart and talented department heads in every
department. Our job as department heads is to advocate for
our department, to make it the
best it can be, to serve the citizens of Verona the best way we
know how.
At the same time we all realize
were on the same team. I would
argue that no department head
ever actively competes with
another for city resources.
You may be thinking, But
clearly, you must be competing
for city resources because there
are only so many dollars to go
around. In that context, youre
correct, but its an indirect competition for resources.
The Common Council discussion debate, and decisions are
what pit one departments needs
against another. Many times,
that is not their fault, either.
Lets be honest, the council
has difficult decisions to make
sometimes, and by making them,
it may seem like one department
is a winner and one is a loser.
But city department heads generally are beyond that simplistic
understanding of the budget
decision outcomes.
Department heads are professionals. If we do not get what we
are requesting because the council has other priorities, we do
not take it personally. While it
can be mildly disappointing and
could mean a more difficult road
ahead or a more scaled-back
service for our department, there
are no hard feelings because
indirectly, it still helps our community.
If one of us is allowed to
improve our services to the
community, we all improve our
services.
If we have a safer community,
we have a community capable of
learning in schools and a community that has time to explore
ideas, invent and innovate at the
library because they are not worried about safety. Conversely, if
we have a learned community,
we have a safer community and

one that respects its elders and
its elders respect the next generations needs to grow and do
good.
If we have well-maintained
streets, we can easily travel
to the senior center, library,
schools and parks, where recreation activities are held that
teach teamwork and dedication,
skills that will go far with learning, employment and keeping
kids out of trouble.
So while each of us advocates
for our department because that
is our area of specialty, we also
understand we are on a team and
a win is a win, no matter who
scores.
So as the process for the 2015
budget begins, a little understanding and attention can go a
long way for everyone from the
mayor to the casual voter.
Department heads should continue to advocate passionately
for his/her department because
thats how positive progress and
new ideas happen. With new
ideas, Verona can remain a preeminent city.
Id urge elected officials to
read all materials thoroughly
and talk to the department head
directly if there are questions.
Keep an open mind, and keep
in mind that no one is trying to
intentionally upset anyone else.
And just as importantly, Id
like to see the general public
engaged in the process. In the
eight City of Verona budgets
Ive been a part of, last year was
the first budget hearing where
more than one general citizen
attended, and even then, the
room had a lot of open seats.
Talk with your elected officials. Show up at meetings.
Write to the newspaper. These
things help guide elected officials and department heads,
because we then know what
matters to you most.
After all, we all have some
skin in the game and were all
on the same team.
Brian Simons is the director of

the Verona Public Library.
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August 28, 2014
Score Participation
Verona Area High

Schools class of 2014
graduates set a new high
for average ACT scores for
the school in 17 years of
data.
According to figures
released last week by the
Wisconsin Department of
Public Instruction, 2014
graduates averaged a composite score of 24.5 out
of a possible 36 points on
the college entrance exam,
up from the class of 2013
score of 23.6 and the highest since the 2011 score of
24.
Along with the score
increase, district participation on the exam rose from
67 percent for the class of
2013 to 74.7 percent, the
Verona
State
highest among the last seven years of data available

on WISEdash, DPIs information portal.
Among 19 non-alternative Dane County high
schools, Verona had the
fourth-highest average
score, trailing MiddletonCross Plains (25.4), Waunakee (25.3) and Oregon
(24.7).
Statewide, the participation rate rose from 62 percent to 63.3 percent among
students enrolled in public
If you go
What: Aquatic Invasive
Species Bridge Snapshot
Day
When: 9 a.m. - noon,
Sept. 13
Where: Paoli Park,
6901 Paoli Rd.
Info: 437-7707
Web: usrwa.org/events/
invasive-species-bridgesnapshot-day/
according to its website.
The USRWA is a nonprofit conservation group
that acts as a local steward
of the sugar river.
Sturdy shoes or waders
are needed for participation.
Registration is not
required for the event but
is recommended. For more
information contact Wade
Moder at usrwa@usrwa.
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To find a list of other
locations please visit wisconsinrivers.org/events/
display/item/snapshot-day
before Aug. 31.
You can also follow
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74.7 percent
63.3 percent
schools, while the average

score went from 22 to 22.1.
The average score including private high school
graduates was 22.2, good
for second in the nation
among ACT-taking states
behind Minnesota with a
score of 22.9, state superintendent Tony Evers said
in a news release.
Veronas disparity
between white and minority students scores continued, however, with the 247
white students who took
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Construction on Hwy. 69 to begin
Stables back for permits
The state Department of

Transportation will begin
fixing one of the areas
biggest problem roads in
September.
The work is scheduled
to begin Sept. 2, as Payne
and Dolan will begin the
construction of Hwy. 69
between Verona and Belleville.
An email from the Town
of Verona to residents said
the contractor will have 25
working days to complete
the project, so an end date
around the second week
of October is expected,
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Commission will
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Two stables in the Town
of Verona will be back in
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new conditional use permits (CUPs).
The commission last
month tabled making a
decision whether to allow
a pair of property owners
on White Crossing Road
to increase the number of
horses allowed on their
property until commissioners could visit the
sites.
The commissioners
made those visits Aug. 6.
Bill Krell has asked the
town for a permit allowing
20 horses on his property,
an increase from the current 10. Across the street,
Mandy Thomas is asking
for unlimited horses during business hours and
up to 25 overnight, an
increase from the current
limit of 18 at any time.
Thomas has been
warned in the past for the
number of horses on her
property, but is currently
in compliance with her
limit, according to a letter
from Dane County.
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On Saturday, Sept. 13,
nearly 200 river enthusiasts will gather at 20 different sites around Wisconsin to help search for
invasive species as part
of the statewide Aquatic
Invasive Species (AIS)
Bridge Snapshot Day.
In partnership with the
River Alliance of Wisconsin, The Upper Sugar River Watershed Association
(USRWA), will be hosting
one of the sites at Paoli
Park from 9 a.m. to noon.
Volunteers will gather
at the park to learn how
to identify invasive species, such as purple loosestrife and brazilian waterweed, that threaten nearby
waters. They will then
disperse to priority bridge
crossings in hunt of them
and reconvene to submit
their findings.
This effort will help
gather important general
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the distribution of invasive species in local waterways, as well as focus
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aquarium plant releases.
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If the commission
approves the new permits,
they will move on to the
town board at its September meeting.
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the exam averaging a 25.3.

The 12 Asian students
averaged a 24.9, nine black
students averaged a 17.6
and 19 Hispanic students
averaged a 19.5.
But the participation rate
among Hispanic students
was a stark increase from
last year, with 45.2 percent
participating compared
to 22.9 percent last year.
Participation among black
students stayed nearly constant, from 35.9 percent
last year to 36 percent for
the class of 2014. White
and Asian students both
saw sizable increases in
participation.
A recent law change
requires that almost all high
school juniors statewide
take the ACT in the coming
year, rather than the previous optional system.
To see more data on
the ACT results, including broken up by gender,
economic status, subject area and more, visit
wisedash.dpi.wi.gov.
The ninth annual Quilt

Expo is taking place the
first weekend of September
in Madison.
The event will feature
lectures and displays of
many handmade quilts.
Quilt Expos lectures are
given by notable quilting
authorities, and provide an
opportunity for quilters of
all skill levels to acquire
new ideas from leading
quilting educators.
Quilt Expo runs Thursday, Sept. 4, through
Saturday, Sept. 6, in the
Exhibition Hall at the
Alliant Energy Center.
Quilters from Verona
whose work will be on
display include Kris
Malmberg (Not Your
Grandmothers Wedding Ring) and Natalie
Salt (Christmas Quilt).
Other highlights include
a 10-category quilt contest, hundreds of quilts
on exhibit, a vendor mall,
stage presentations, Sit &
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Churches
Summer luncheon
The women of Primrose Lutheran
Church, 8770 Ridge Dr., Belleville,
are hosting their annual summer luncheon on Thursday, Aug. 28. The
bazaar and bake sale will start at 11
a.m. in the fellowship room. The luncheon will begin at noon in the dining
area with hot dishes, salads, dinner
rolls and dessert. The program will
start at 1 p.m. featuring music from
Rosalie Huntington and Ron Kittleson.
Piano concert
Mary Payton will perform a piano
concert at the senior center from
12:30-1:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 29.
The long-time Madison Metropolitan
School District teacher has played
programs for several years now,
with a focus on rekindling memories
through songs of our heritage. Attendees often share personal experiences
and connections with the songs.
Spirited musical duo

Musical duo Spirited will be making a stop in Verona during its national tour at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30,
and at 9 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 31. St.

James Lutheran Church, 427 S. Main
St., will host author and composer
Jonathan Richard Cring and his musical partner Janet Clazzy for two free
shows that will be incorporated into
the services.
The Saturday show, called 567: Go
Tell It From the Mount, is a musical
rendition in three acts of the Sermon on
the Mount. The Sunday show, called
The Gospel According to Common
Sense, combines more music, both
singing and instrumental, among the
stories. For more information call the
church at 845-6922.
Wii Bowling traveling team

The fall season of the Wii Bowling
Traveling Team starts on Thursday,
Sept. 4. All levels of players are welcome. The traveling team plays once
weekly, with six away games and six
home games at the senior center. For
more information or to join call Gil
Strelow at 848-2040.
Robin Williams movies
showing movies featuring the late

Robin Williams each Friday from 2-4
p.m. during the month of September.
Good Morning Vietnam, a film
from 1987, will be shown on Sept. 5.
In the movie, Army DJ Adrian Cronauer, deployed to Vietnam to host a
morning radio show, delivers hilarious on-air rants that are a hit with the
troops but a headache for his superiors.
Dead Poets Society, a film from
1989, will be shown on Sept. 12. In
the movie, English teacher John Keating inspires his students to love poetry and to seize the day. Mrs. Doubtfire, a film from 1993, will be shown
on Sept. 19. In the movie, following
a bitter divorce, actor Daniel Hillard
disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children
held in custody by his former wife.
Good Will Hunting, a film from
1998, will be shown on Sept. 26. In
the movie, a young janitor at M.I.T.
has a gift for mathematics but needs
help from a psychologist to find
direction in his life.
The Verona Senior Center will be
Community calendar
Thursday, August 28
11 a.m., Summer Luncheon,

bazaar and bake sale, Primrose
Lutheran Church, 8770 Ridge Dr.,
Belleville
12:30-2 p.m., Bingo, senior center
2 p.m., The Lone Ranger movie
(PG-13, 150 min.), senior center
6-8 p.m., Summer Concert: Mark
Croft, Paoli Schoolhouse Shops &
Cafe, 848-6261
Friday, August 29
Gospel According to Common

Sense, St. James Lutheran
Church, 427 S. Main St., 845-6922
Tuesday, September 2
9:30-11 a.m., Hometown Helpers,

senior center
6:30 p.m., Family Story Time,
library
6:30 p.m., Plan Commission, City
Center (tentative)
6:30 p.m., Town Board, Town
Hall
12:35-1:30 p.m., Piano concert by

Mary Payton, senior center
Friday, September 5
1:45 p.m., ice cream social,
2-4 p.m., Good Morning
senior center
Vietnam movie, senior center
Saturday, August 30
5 p.m., Spirited presents 567: Go

Tell It From the Mount, St. James
Lutheran Church, 427 S. Main St.,
845-6922
6-8 p.m., Summer Concert: Jeff
German Trio, Paoli Schoolhouse
Shops & Cafe, 848-6261
Sunday, August 31
9 a.m., Spirited presents The
Monday, September 8
9:30 a.m., Everybody Story Time

(ages 0-5 and caregivers), library
10:30 a.m., Preschool Story Time
(ages 3-5), library
1-7 p.m., 9/11 Never Forget traveling semi-trailer exhibit, Verona
Public Library, 845-7180
7 p.m., Common Council, City
Center
7 p.m., Verona Area School

District, administration building
Tuesday, September 9
9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Toddler

Story Time (ages 1-2 and caregivers), library
3:30 p.m., Kitchen Art: Painting
with Supplies Usually Found in the
Kitchen art class, senior center
Wednesday, September 10
9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., Toddler

Story Time (ages 1-2 and caregivers), library
6-8 p.m., Every Womans Journal
workshop, library
Thursday, September 11
9:30 a.m., Everybody Story Time

(ages 0-5 and caregivers), library
10:30 a.m., Preschool Story Time
(ages 3-5), library
10:30 a.m.-noon, Diabetes
Discussion Group, senior center
3-4:30 p.m., Veterans Group,
senior center
Whats on VHAT-98
Wednesday, Aug. 27
5 p.m. Common Council
(from Aug. 25)
7 p.m. Capital City Band
8 p.m. Scams Presentation
at Senior Center
10 p.m. Maintain Brain at
Senior Center
11 p.m. Paoli Street
Pickers at Senior Center
Football
8:30 p.m. Scams
Presentation at Senior Center
Senior Center
Saturday, Aug. 30
8 a.m. Common Council
(from Aug. 25)
11
a.m.
Scams
Presentation at Senior Center
1 p.m. 2012 Wildcats
Football
4:30 p.m. Deans Blue
Country at Senior Center
(from Aug. 25)
at Senior Center
10 p.m. Deans Blue
Thursday, Aug. 28
7 a.m. Maintain Brain at
Senior Center
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m. Paoli Street
3 p.m. Daily Exercise
4 p.m. Self Defense at
Senior Center
5 p.m. A Taste of Theater
6 p.m. Salem Church
Service
7 p.m. Words of Peace
9 p.m. Chatting with the
Chamber
Sunday, Aug. 31
10 p.m. Deans Blue
7 a.m. Hindu Cultural Hour
9 a.m. Resurrection
Church
Friday, Aug. 29
10 a.m. Salem Church
7 a.m. Self Defense at Service
Senior Center
Noon Common Council
1:30 p.m. Chatting with from (from Aug. 25)
the Chamber
3 p.m. Scams Presentation at Senior Center
at Senior Center
4:30 p.m. Deans Blue
4 p.m. A Taste of Theater Country at Senior Center
5 p.m. 2012 Wildcats
from (from Aug. 25)

9 p.m. Scams Presentation Chamber
at Senior Center
10 p.m. Deans Blue
10 p.m. Deans Blue Country at Senior Center
11 p.m. Paoli Street Wednesday, Sept. 3
7 a.m. Self Defense at
Senior Center
Monday, Sept. 1
1:30 p.m. Chatting with
7 a.m. Self Defense at the Chamber
Senior Center
1:30 p.m. Chatting with at Senior Center
the Chamber
6 p.m. Plan Commission
3 p.m. Scams Presentation (from Sept. 2)
at Senior Center
7 p.m. Capital City Band
5 p.m. 2012 Wildcats at Senior Center
Football
9 p.m. Hindu Cultural Hour Senior Center
Senior Center
Thursday, Sept. 4
Tuesday, Sept. 2
Senior Center
Senior Center
Senior Center
6 p.m. Salem Church
Senior Center
Service
6 p.m. Resurrection
Church
Chamber
6:30 p.m. Plan Commission
10 p.m. Deans Blue
Live
8 p.m. Words of Peace
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.
THE CHURCH IN FITCHBURG
2833 Raritan Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 271-2811
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Sunday: 8 & 10:45 a.m.
THE CHURCH IN VERONA
Verona Business Centre
535 Half Mile Rd. #7, Verona
(608) 271-2811
livelifetogether.com
Sunday: 9 a.m.
FITCHBURG MEMORIAL UCC
5705 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 273-1008
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Pastor Phil Haslanger
Sunday: 9 a.m.
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
CHURCH ELCA
(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 Tim Dunn
Sunday: 9:30 a.m.
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
(608) 845-7125
MBCverona.org
Lead Pastor Jeremy Scott
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
REDEEMER BIBLE FELLOWSHIP
102 N. Franklin Ave., Verona
(608)848-1836
redeemerbiblefellowship.org
Pastor Dwight R. Wise
Sunday: 10 a.m. family worship
RESURRECTION LUTHERAN
CHURCH-WELS
6705 Wesner Rd., Verona
(608) 848-4965
rlcverona.org
Pastor Nathan Strutz and Assistant
Pastor Steven Pelischek
Thursday: 6:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.
ST. CHRISTOPHER CATHOLIC
PARISH
St. Andrew Church
301 N. Main St., Verona
St. William Church
1371 Hwy. PB, Paoli
(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
ST. JAMES EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH
(608) 845-6922
stjamesverona.org
Pastors Kurt M. Billings and Peter
Narum
Office Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday and Thursday; 8 a.m.-noon
Wednesday and Friday
Saturday: 5 p.m.
Sunday: 9 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.
Staffed Nursery: 8:45-10:15 a.m.
Fellowship Hour: 10:15 a.m.
SPRINGDALE LUTHERAN
CHURCH-ELCA
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
Aug. 31: 9 a.m. worship, Harriet Park
Sept. 7: 9 a.m. worship, Harriet Park
Sept. 14: 9 & 10:30 a.m. contemporary worship. Refreshments and
fellowship are between services.
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.
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
Be Happy at Work
We all know that work can sometimes be mind-numbingly boring, difficult to the point of frustration, and stifling
to the soul. But, it can also be exciting, provide a sense
of accomplishment, and allow us to serve God by serving
our fellow man. So, how do we ensure that we have more
of the latter and less of the former? There is considerable
evidence that what makes workers happy is a sense of
agency, the sense that they are effective at what they are
doing and that it is worthwhile work. What this really boils
down to is doing something that you are good at. So, if
you're in a job or career that you don't feel particularly
suited to, you're probably not feeling great about your
work. In that case, you should probably either retrain for a
different job or work on the skills that will make you more
effective in your current job. God has given all of us specific talents, and if we can incorporate those into our work
we are bound to be happier and more effective. But, even
if you aren't particularly good at what you do or happy
where you work, do your best to put on a happy face each
day at work. Sometimes happiness at work, like happiness
in life, is just a choice that we make.
- Christopher Simon via Metro News Service
Work hard and cheerfully at whatever you do, as
though you were working for the Lord rather than for
people.
Colossians 3:23
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Though hes lived just a

mile from VAHS for eight
years, Kigeya, 35, has spent
the last three years working
as a social worker in the Sun
Prairie School District.
He first got into education while working in a
pre-college program on college campuses, helping to
encourage students to apply
to college. But a former
teacher he knew asked him
to come speak to a group
of educators that ended up
inspiring his current career
path.
They invited me to come
and speak and they said to
me when I left that I need
to go back and really think
about getting into education, Kigeya said. Id had
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enjoying the challenge, and

each other.
I feel like Ive known
these guys forever, and I
think about it and its been
a month-and-a-half, Sutor
said, with Lee pointing out
that hes actually only been
on for a few weeks.
In an email to the Press,
Hammen said she is excited
to have new minds in the
office, and looks forward
to them bringing new ideas
to the table to improve the
school.
Its exciting to create a
new team of professionals
who will bring many fresh
ideas and a unique gathered
wisdom to VAHS, Hammen said. We are fortunate that they have decided
to share their talents and
insights with us and eagerly anticipate a great year
ahead for Verona Area High
School.
The three joked with each
other in Kigeyas office last
week as they shared their
backgrounds and looked
ahead to the upcoming year.
They emphasized their focus
on promoting teamwork
and collaboration among
students and staff for the
upcoming year. They also
hope to continue the districts work to tackle the
achievement gap, the difference in test scores and
upper-level class enrollment
between white and minority
students.
(Closing the achievement
gap) is what I think our biggest challenge is, Kigeya
said. But it is a goal that all
of us are committed to.
him here.
He first taught science in
Appleton before he moved
to Sun Prairie High School,
where he had taught for
five years before getting his
administrators certification
this December.
Lee recognized another
things happen for a reason moment when he was
offered the second position.
He became the director of
the Exploration Academy,
the districts charter high
school in its second year of
operation, which focuses on
students taking the lead on
designing their projects.
He had been working on
developing personalized
learning ideas in his own
classroom in Sun Prairie in
recent years as he noticed
there were some students his
traditional methods werent
reaching, and hes excited to
continue that type of work at
EA.
When they told me about
Exploration Academy and
how its project-based, lead
by students, the projects are
Photo by Scott Girard directed by students and you
have the advisor team helpPheng Lee, Dan Kigeya and Tamara Sutor were all hired since May, as all three of last years associate principals at Verona Area High
ing them, leading the way,
School left. They hope to bring fresh ideas to the school, and all report enjoying their short time in the district thus far.
setting some guidelines, Im
like, Wow, thats what I
multiple conversations with about one person that Ive childhood home and where Pheng Lee
was doing my seventh year
worked
with.
shes
spent
the
majority
of
other people that said, You
When Lee, 34, got the call as a teacher, he said. I
her education career, Sutor
should be in education, but
said Verona has become in late June from Hammen thought it was a good fit.
that conversation was what Tamara Sutor
Sutor, 38, was inspired somewhere she can genu- that another job had opened,
really sparked the move.
The Madison West High to get into education after inely and with my heart say he knew it was a sign he
should take his second
School graduate first started working with a group of this is home.
Its home because every- chance at the opportunity to
his work at La Follette High female high school dropouts
School in Madison, and he through her degree in reha- body have made me feel come to Verona.
The reason why I had a
completely welcomed and
confirmed early on that he bilitation psychology.
change
in mind was, I had a
I
absolutely
love
the
pasBringing
all
of
them
in
a
had found his calling.
conversation
with my mom
I feel like education is room, and I just, I thought, sion and the dedication in
the
night
before
she had
everything
that
Ive
already
one of those transforma- Oh my gosh, Im at home,
tive things that can have a Sutor recalled. I still think experienced with all of our a heart attack she had called
me and said, Why didnt
big impact on kids and their about those girls, so I knew staff, she said.
She credited her father, you take the job? recalled
futures, and I feel like I have I had to get back in schools.
a unique background that I wanted to get in schools who was a 30-year educator, Lee, whose mother passed
can help support kids in that before it gets to a point her 9-year-old daughter and away a week before his
5-year-old son as inspira- daughter was born. When
process, he said. It was where theyre expelled.
Steph Buell
That experience also tions for her career, and her Pam called me in late June
like the journey up until this
Deaf & Hard of Hearing
point, its like this is what I inspired one of her focuses high school sweetheart hus- I looked up and I said,
Specialist
was supposed to be doing. as an educator: the achieve- band with supporting her in Thank you, Mom.
Lee, who was born in
a big move for her career.
He was officially hired at ment gap.
Text: 608-576-1019
While the family was Thailand, graduated from
A lot of the girls in that
the May 19 board meeting,
Video 608-234-5072
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turned down the job the first color, and thats when my expressed a concern when degree in biology and began
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Five things to watch in 2014-15

1. Country View
reopens
A 14-year-old school
opening to students for
another school year would
not normally be a highlight.
But part of that school
was decimated by a tornado
less than three months earlier, leaving holes in walls
and debris all around. So the
prospect of children entering the building Sept. 2 has
become a momentous occasion for the community.
The June 17 tornado,
which also damaged nearby homes, left the district
scrambling to replace the
gym floor, rebuild three
classrooms and sort through
what items were salvageable. But VASD superintendent Dean Gorrell has
been adamant from the first
day that the school would be
ready for students.
His optimism proved true,
mostly because of general
contractor Findorffs dedication to the project, Gorrell
has said, with only a short
list of small finishing touches left before school begins.
Most of the rebuilding
effort was covered by insurance, but some things have
required a community effort.
Throughout the summer, the
school and its students and
parents adopted the #CountryViewStrong hashtag as
they raised money for missing teacher items and other
replacement supplies for
impacted students through
T-shirt and bake sales.
The PTO raised more than
$15,000, said vice president

Rachel Cannistraro, which is
more than they know what
to do with, though shes sure
theyll find uses. To start,
they asked CV teachers for
any lists of items they need
and helped to supplement
school supplies donated to
children in the neighborhood
impacted by the storm.
Once theyve covered
everything they can from
the storm and replenished
some book supplies at CV,
Cannistraro said its possible
theyll look at what other
district elementaries or students need.
Weve got a lot of families in our district that are in
need otherwise, she said.
Anything thats left over
were going to find either
other schools in the district
or other families ... that might
need some additional assistance.
2. April referendum?
Late last school year, the
Verona Area School Board
approved a $3.4 million land
purchase for a high schoolsized, 40-acre plot on the
west side of the city, and
Gorrell indicated another
might be on the way for a
pair of November referenda.
But some contingencies
on the first purchase and
stalled progress on the second have forced the district
to hit the pause button with
respect to asking voters for
their approval.
The board has held regular closed sessions to discuss
potential purchases at its
meetings over the summer
but has not spoken about

them openly.
It just wasnt coming
together as quickly as it
needed to, Gorrell told the
Press earlier this month.
As the boards discussion
of a second purchase progresses, it will become clear
whether even an April vote
will take place.
district.
This year, it will fill out to
a full K-5 elementary school,
leaving a decision on the
horizon about what to do as
those fifth-graders move on
to middle school. The district
has no other Chinese language instruction available.
New VAIS director Barbara Drake, who took over
for one of the schools
3. Enrollment growth founders, Amanda Mayo,
said she expects the discuscontinues
sion on what to do next will
The motivation behind include a community of
those purchases and poten- parents, district administratial referenda is a continu- tors and school staff.
ing upward trend in district
enrollment.
5. Common Core
While that trend brings the
While not specific to the
space issues district is try- Verona
School Dising to get ahead of with new trict, theArea
Common
Core
buildings, it also has become standards and tests that come
a financial boon, as state aid along with them have riled
has continued to increase.
controversy in recent
A major factor in the up
months
both in Wisconsin
growth was the creation of and nationwide.
the 4K program in 2012,
The standards, which were
which brought a big jump in adopted
in Wisconthe districts numbers. But sin, willinbe2010
tested
for the
the number of students in first time in the 2014-15
K-12 has continued to grow, school year with the Smarter
as well, and district officials Balanced test.
expect the 2014-15 numbers
Legislators in some states
to grow by another 121 stu- that
initially approved the
dents, up to 5,412.
standards
since backed
If the trend continues, it off under have
political
pressure,
will make those potential ref- and Wisconsin Gov.
Scott
erenda all the more timely.
Walker has made comments
opposing the standards in
4. VAIS fills; whats
the run-up to the November
next?
gubernatorial election.
District officials will
The Verona Area International School began five move forward as planned
years ago with a kindergar- unless or until a change in
ten class as a pair of parents the law, Gorrell has told the
brought the idea of Chinese Press.
-Scott Girard
language-immersion to the
Photo by Scott Girard
New Verona Area International School director Barbara Drake

stands in front of a map of China in one of the schools classrooms.
Drake brings high school

experience to VAIS
Scott Girard
For years before she

retired in 2009, Barbara
Drake worked to bring a
Chinese program to her high
school in Illinois.
She couldnt get it mostly
because of tight budgets.
Instead, shell help bring the
language to Verona students
as the new director at Verona
Area International School.
If were going to offer
French and German and
Spanish, we should be able
to offer Chinese, she said of
her efforts in Illinois. When
theres 1.3 billion people
speaking it, if not more, its
just important to our country.
Now a Fitchburg resident, she began volunteering at Glacier Edge Elementary School last school year,
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where she had a chance to

observe the districts new
Two-Way Immersion Spanish program, more commonly called TWI.
Thats one of the reasons
I thought, Wow, Chinese
is even a bit more intense,
she said.
While shes excited for
the job, she also enters the
school in what might be its
most important year since it
opened in 2010, as it expands
to a full K-5 elementary
school and leaves questions
about what this years fifthgraders will do next year.
How do we sustain that
beyond K-5? she said. And
I think other districts are
going to be watching us to
see what happens here.
She expects to eventually
see a Chinese program at
the high school, but knows
the next steps will be a long
process, with many people involved, from school
administrators to parents.
Those parents, she said,
are a key to what makes
VAIS work, and Drake looks
forward to working with
them and the elementary
students, an experience she
says is similar to working
in a high school, with a few
important differences.
The schedule is so different, you have to build in
recess and things like that,
that at the high school level
those arent concerns, she
said. The amount of work,
the hours put into this school
by parents is just mind-boggling.
The school couldnt operate without them.
Drake, a University of
Wisconsin-Madison and
University of Minnesota
graduate, was the second
person hired for the position after former director and
founder Amanda Mayo left
last spring. Stacey Struessel,
the first hire, had left due to
health reasons, Verona
Area School District superintendent Dean Gorrell told the
Press last week.
Drakes background
includes 17 years as a high
school administrator in
Minnesota, where she lead
schools that included grades
7-12, and Illinois, as well as
time as an associate dean at
Harper College in Illinois.
When she moved to Fitchburg last summer, little did
she realize shed be just a
six-minute drive from her job
a year later.
Sometimes things just
happen for the right reasons,
I guess, Drake said. I am a
seriously lucky person.
Business
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Cerniglia family
takes over Avantis
The Cerniglia family is
once again managing the
longtime Verona Italian
restaurant Avantis.
The family, along with
Veronan Barb Miller,
will take over the restaurant and pubs day-today operations.
Miller said shell focus
on managing the books,
while she and Vito Cerniglia will share the supervision and management
Photo by Kathryn Chew
Founder of Wisconsin Recycling Company Ken Clark Jr. takes a break from a busy afternoon of collecting and weighing recyclables to pose for a picture in front of his trailer.
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The recently remodeled dining room will
remain the same for now,
Miller said, though they
do plan to have a new
menu in the not-toodistant future that will
include both traditional
menu items and new
ones.
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Verona business provides recycling alternative

Every Monday from 4-6
p.m., rain or shine, a large,
white trailer parks outside
Doks Klassik Tavern with a
picture of an animated soda
can named Al Uminum and
the words, we buy aluminum here year round printed
on its side.
Nearby in a lawn chair sits
Ken Clark Jr., 62, the owner
of the truck and Wisconsin
Recycling Company.
Servicing the Verona community for over 20 years,
WRC provides an alternative
to municipal curbside recycling in which customers are
paid for the materials they
bring.
Specializing in non-magnetic metals, Clark accepts
materials many customers
might not otherwise know
how to recycle.
I collect anything a magnet doesnt stick to, he
quipped.
That includes all things
aluminum, such as cans, foil,
pots, pans, doors, windows
and chairs.
Clark just asks that people
remove glass, metal screws,
plastic or wood from the aluminum recyclables.
He also collects copper,
brass, vehicle batteries (e.g.
car, truck or tractor batteries)
and all electrical wires.
Ill even take peoples old
Christmas lights, he added.
In addition to his Monday
Wisconsin
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Company
410 W. Verona Ave.
Mondays, 4-6 p.m.
collections at Doks Klassik Tavern, 410 W. Verona

Road, he also works in Lodi
every Saturday from 10 a.m.
to noon at the corner of Hwy.
113 and County Hwy. J. Its
a year-round operation.
Ill still be here when the
snow is flying, Clark said
with a chuckle. The only
time Im not here is if the
police say (to) stay off the
roads or (if) it is a belowzero day.
The drop-off process is as
simple as his collection policy and operating hours. Customers pull up their vehicles
next to his truck and hand
him their recyclables.
Clark then weighs the contents on a state-certified scale
and pays his customers so
much per pound, depending
on the material brought in.
Hes consistently here,
customer Garth Dockter said
as he handed Clark a bag of
cans on July 28.
Dockter was just one of
a steady flow of customers
that Clark welcomed with
a friendly smile and casual
conversation that afternoon.
As a personal touch,
The Verona Area Chamber of Commerce

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Clark offered free trash bags

to each customer as they
hopped back in their cars
before pulling away.
After collection hours,
Clark looks through everything to make sure it has
been sorted correctly.
Often times people put
glass bottles in with the aluminum cans. While I dont
want them in there, I will
make sure they get recycled, he explained. I make
sure everything that can be
recycled will be recycled.
He then re-sells the materials he has collected to bigger
recycling companies.
Clark first established the
WRC to create extra income
for his family and because he
wanted to do something that
was a good thing to do for
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He also allows his customers to donate their earnings to
the local organization of their
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at the end of the year.
He hopes he has made a
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Wisconsin History Tour in Verona

The Wisconsin History Tour: Sharing Wisconsins Stories One Community at a Time
was held in August at the Verona Public Library. The Wisconsin Historical Society
brought authors, genealogists, storytellers and many exhibits to bring history alive for
the whole family from Aug. 19-23.
At left, Krishna Biyani, 5, of Middleton, pretends to use an old-fashioned game as a
hair accessory during family fun day. The event, held Saturday, included prohibitionstyle soda tasting from Grays Tied House, scavenger hunts, old-fashioned games and
kite decorating, prizes and snacks.
At right, the library hosted a cheese tasting event with samples from Veronas
Edelweiss Cheese Shop during a Creating Dairyland book talk with author
Edward Janus. The program, held Aug. 21, talked about how caring for cows saved
Wisconsins soil, created its landscape and brought prosperity to the state.
Photos by Debra Seubert
Above left, Hank Southgate, of Madison, holds up a historic telescope for his daughter, Adeline
Southgate, 2, to see through while she snacks on food provided at the family day event.
Above, Dale-Harriet Rogovich, left, and Paul Rogovich talk about Wisconsins fur trade in character as
a part-Ojibwe wife and a voyageur, respectively. They shared stories about maple syrup, cache, hunting
and explained the blending of cultures that resulted from this early industry. Historic tools, artifacts,
pelts and garments worn by people of their time were also displayed during the program, held Aug. 21.
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Football
Boys soccer
Strong
midfield
highlights
2014 squad
Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor
Photo by Anthony Iozzo
Senior captain running back Eric Schmid powers forward for more yards on a fourth-quarter run Friday in the season opener against Madison West at Mansfield Stadium.
The Wildcats later scored on the drive on a 1-yard run by senior quarterback Noah Roberts to take a two-touchdown lead. But West scored 22-unanswered points and
Verona fell 36-27.
Cats shocked by Regents

Bad snap on costs
Wildcats in 36-27 loss
Anthony Iozzo
It was already a shock for the

Verona Area High School football
sideline to suddenly be in a tied
game last Friday against Madison
West at Mansfield Stadium.
But shock quickly turned to
silence in a 36-27 loss to open the
season.
After sophomore quarterback
Xavier Miller connected with
sophomore wide receiver Terrell
Carey on a 29-yard touchdown
pass, Miller tied the game on a
2-point conversion pass to senior
running back Terrence McNeal Jr.
The Wildcats (0-1), which led
27-13 with 11 minutes, 52 seconds
left in the game, were then forced
into a 3-and-out on offense with
just under two minutes to play, and
that is when bad became worse.
The next snap went over senior

kicker Nick Hansons head into
the end zone, resulting in a safety
and an injured Hanson.
Now down 29-27, Verona
attempted an onside kick and
couldnt recover. On the next play,
junior running back Greg Wright
scored on a 35-yard touchdown
run to complete a wild fourth quarter for West (1-0).
It was one mistake after another, after another. It is hard to
take, Verona head coach Dave
Richardson said. You worked this

hard and were hoping that because
you have a two-score lead, you
should be all set.
Verona did have some luck to
take its 14-point lead early in the
fourth. A fumble after a 15-yard
completion was recovered by
senior running back Jackson Bryant in the end zone to let the team
breath a sigh of relief.
But that sigh was short-lived as
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The Verona Area High

School boys soccer team
returns 10 players from
last seasons 17-5-1 squad
that fell in the regional
final to Madison Memorial.
And it is the midfield
that looks to be the top
strength for the Wildcats
as it hopes to once again
challenge for the top three
spots in the Big Eight Conference and go deeper in
the playoffs.
I am extremely excited
about the senior dominated
team, head coach Jake
Andreska wrote in a fall
survey. We are the strongest through the midfield
as we have ever been.
Seniors Casey Thompson (6 goals, 6 assists),
Conlin Bass (4G, 7A)
and Nicholas Graese (4G,
3A) headline the returning midfielders in 2014.
Senior Kyle Monson, who
spent time as a midfielder
last season, also returns.
There will be some lost
contributions that will
need to be accounted for
with the graduation of top
midfielder Garrett Grunke,
who is playing soccer at
St. Marys University of
Minnesota this fall. Grunke collected 19 goals and
eight assists last season.
Also gone from last year
is graduate forward Santi
Azcarate, who picked up
six goals and three assists.
Senior forward Kenny
Gomez-Cruz (3G, 1A)
is also not returning this
season. Forwards Shahan
Zaman and Harry Seid are
also gone from last season.
But senior forwards
Sawyer Quade (2G, 1A)
and Evan Bailey (1G, 2A)
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Girls swimming
Nelson leads Cats in

the pool this season
Jeremy Jones
Sports editor
A national-ranked club
swimmer for her age group
with Olympic aspirations,
individual accolades are
nothing new for junior
Beata Nelson.
The experience of swimming with friends shes
grown up swimming with
and against in her hometown, however, is something nothing else can top.
Nelson, a five-time state
champion and state record

holder in three events (50
freestyle, 100 backstroke
and 100 butterfly), once
again leads the Verona/
Mount Horeb girls swimming team back into the
pool this fall.
The two-time returning
state champion in the 100yard, Nelson shattered her
own state record and nearly the national benchmark
Photo by Jeremy Jones
with a blistering pace of
Returning letterwinners for the Verona/Mount Horeb girls swimming team (front, from left) are: Shelby Rozeboom, Olivia Prescott, Kirsten
53.19 seconds.
Queoff, Sammy Seymour, Julia Ver Voort and Natalee Drapp; (back) Carrie Snodgrass, Beata Nelson, Rose Parker, Kristi Larsen, Claire
Turn to Swim/Page 14 Wilson, Maizie Seidl, Sarah Schulz and Lindsey Steinl.
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Girls golf
Reinecke, Wildcats win Wisconsin Dells Invitational

Anthony Iozzo
Senior Jessica Reinecke won her

second invitational of the season
Aug. 19-20 at the Wisconsin Dells
Invitational, and the Verona Area
High School girls golf team won its
first meet of 2014.
Reinecke shot a 73 on day one of
the tournament at Trappers Turn
Golf Course, and she shot a 75 on
day two to finish with a 148, six
strokes ahead of second-place finisher Maddy Neumeier of Green Bay
Preble (77-77 154).
The Wildcats (344-348 692) also
held off Stoughton (350-357 707)
to win the Division 1 tournament.
Oregon finished third overall (368373 741).
Junior Emily Opsal (86-85 171)
was tied for seventh with Stoughtons Tayler Wise (88-83 171).
Junior Melissa Biesmann was
third on the team with a 185 (90-95),
and junior Hanna Rebholz finished
the scoring with a 188 (95-93).
Holmens Courtney Bergum took
third overall (80-79 159), while
Oregons Taylor McCorkle was
fourth (78-87 (165). Oregons Jenny
Johnson (84-82 (166) was fifth, and
Stoughtons Kailey Taebel (83-84
167) was sixth. Wisconsin Rapids
Cierra Botcher was ninth (89-87

176), and Fond du Lacs Shania
Schibbelhut rounded out the top 10
(91-89 180).
The Wildcats continued the season
Wednesday in the Portage Invitational. Results will be in next weeks
paper.
Verona hosts Sun Prairie and
Janesville Craig at 9 a.m. Thursday
at Tumbledown Golf Course.
Big Eight quad

The Wildcats hosted Madison
West, Madison La Follette and
Beloit Memorial last Friday at Tumbledown Golf Course and defeated
all three teams with a 344.
La Follette (two golfers) and
Beloit (no golfers) forfeited to Verona, and West shot a 496.
Reinecke led the Wildcats with a
78, while junior Bailey Smith shot
an 87. Biesmann was third with an
87, and Rebholz finished the scoring
with a 92.
Maddy Morrison led West with a
91.
Waunakee invite
The Waunakee Invitational at the
Meadows of Sixmile Creek Golf
Photo by Bailey Hildebrandt
Course was rained out Monday.
The
Verona
Area
High
School
girls
golf
team
won
the
Wisconsin
Dells
invite
Aug.
19-20.
The
returning
letterwinners (from
No makeup date was announced
left) are Emily Opsal, Jessica Reinecke, Bailey Smith, Hanna Rebholz, Melissa Biesmann and Amanda Holman.
by the Press Tuesday deadline.
Swimming
Toomey joins Trojan Swim Club in Southern California to swim professionally

Former VAHS and University of Minnesota swimming standout Derek Toomey, the first Big Ten man
under 19 seconds in the 50
free, will join the Trojan

Swim Club out of Southern
California to continue his
professional career.
Toomeys career with
the University of Minnesota, included breaking the

Big Ten record in the 50
free with an 18.95, earning 15 All-America honors
and most recently being

awarded the Big Ten Medal
of Honor. He graduated this
spring and will now head
to Los Angeles to continue
training.
Im looking forward to
working with Dave Salo,
Toomey said of the University of Southern California
and Trojan Swim Club

coach. I really like his
training philosophy and I
think itll be a great fit for
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The Verona Press
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Girls tennis
Wildcats fall in Big 8 debut

Jeremy Jones
Sports editor
Verona Area High School

girls tennis team suffered
through its share of growing pains last week.
Mad. West 5, Verona 2
Photo by Empire Photography
The Verona Area High School soccer team players (front, from left) are: Kevin Cashman, Casey Thompson, Danny Prudisch, Noe
Temozihui, Conlin Bass, Noah Herkert, Kyle Monson and Nicolas Graese; (middle) assistant coach Kyle Kasten, Nolan Fink, Renzo
Albertini, Malcolm Kinsey, Alex Pletta, Alex Hofstetter and head coach Jake Andreska; (back) Connor Melzer, Kye Hanson, Avery
Fossum, Robert Wagman, Sawyer Quade and Evan Bailey; (not pictured) Nate Cleghorn.
Soccer: Cats crush McFarland, tie Notre Dame

and junior midfielder
Robert Wagman (3A) will
be back.
The defense also has a
few question marks headed into the season with
seniors Kye Hanson and
Kevin Cashman being the
only backfield returners
from last season.
Hanson is the only starter back on defense with
the graduations of Joe and
Pat Stevens and Sam Douglass. Midfielder defender
Ben Solomon and defender Christian Perez are also
gone from last season.
Also gone from last season is all-conference goalkeeper Connor Rortvedt,
who is playing soccer at
Upper (Fayette) Iowa University this fall. Rortvedt
had 99 saves and allowed
17 goals in 1,645 minutes
last season.
Senior Alex Hofstetter,
who collected 13 saves
and allowed three goals
in 330 minutes in 2013,
will be the new starting
goalie. Senior Nolan Fink
is going to be the back-up
goalie.
We will be looking to
Photo by Anthony Iozzo
fill three starting spots on
defense and replace an all Junior Robert Wagman (left) and junior Connor Melzer celebrate
conference goalkeeper, a goal on Aug. 19 in a nonconference game against McFarland at
Reddan Soccer Park. Melzer scored, and Wagman picked up the
Andreska wrote.
Conference outlook
The Big Eight Conference outlook is similar
to the past few seasons.
Madison Memorial (9-0)
looks to once again be
one of the best teams,
while Middleton (7-2)
and Madison West (5-3-1)
also look to challenge the
Wildcats for the top three
spots.
Madison Memorial
returns six of eight allconference players from
last season. First-team
senior forward Sean
Surtees, first-team senior
midfielder Alex Young
and first-team defender
Teon Fountain are all
back.
Second-team senior
forward Ty Pelton-Byce,
second-team senior goalie
Paul Koebke Barsic and
junior honorable mention
assist. Verona won 10-0.
midfielder Dominick Mesdjian are also back.

The Spartans lose honorable mention midfielder
Michael Bliss and honorable mention defender Jeremy Gottlieb.
Middleton only returns
one of five all-conference
players from last season.
Senior second-team midfielder Devin Ott is back.
First-team defender Jack
Hagstrom, second-team
forward Trent McKinnon,
honorable mention forward Emmerson Kovacs
and honorable mention
midfielder Will Salmon
all graduated.
West loses first-team
forwards Woo Jin Jeon
and Luke Miller, firstteam midfielder Ghedi
Omar and first-team
defender Trevor Stewart.
The Regents also lose
second-team defender
Zach Thal and honorable
mention midfielder Simon
Weaver.
West does return 12
players, including honorable mention midfielder
Alexis Solache.
Sun Prairie (6-3) finished ahead of West last
season but lose its top
three offensive contributors in Jacob Wilkins
(13G, 12A), Joaquin
Rodriguez (13G, 5A) and
Alhagi Dukuray (11G,
1A). The Cardinals also
lose goalie Andy Mengelt
(160 saves, 15 goals
against, 17 games).
Sophomore forward
Nicholas Jatta (6G, 3A),
junior forward Garrett
Risch (5G, 3A), senior
forward Ben Zacher (4G,
3A), junior defender Jacob
Boebel (3G, 2A) and
junior midfielder Victor

Lombardino (2G, 4A) all
return.
Senior goalie Tom
Schuette (38 saves, 5
goals against, 10 games)
will take over in net.
Verona plays at Madison West at 7 p.m. Thursday at Mansfield Stadium,
and it hosts Middleton at
7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2 at
Reddan Soccer Park.
The Wildcats travel to
Janesville Craig at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 11, and it
will be at Beloit Memorial
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.
16.
Verona hosts Madison
East at 7 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 18, and Madison La
Follette at 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Sept. 23, at Reddan. The
Wildcats then travel to
Sun Prairie at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, and finish
up the conference season
against Madison Memorial at Mansfield Stadium at
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7.
Verona 10, McFarland 0

Verona hosted McFarland on Aug. 19 to open
up the regular season at
Reddan and won 10-0.
Graese and Bailey each
scored two goals, while
senior Noe Temozihui,
junior Nate Cleghorn,
junior Connor Melzer,
sophomore Renzo Albertini and sophomore Noah
Herkert all scored one
goal each.
Wagman picked up
three assists, and junior
Alex Pletta had two.
Whitefish Bay 2,
Verona 1
The Wildcats hosted
Whitefish Bay in a nonconference game last Friday at Reddan and fell
2-1. Andreska couldnt be
reached for results by the
Press Tuesday deadline.
Verona 1, Notre Dame 1

Verona hosted Notre
Dame De La Baie Academy last Saturday at Reddan and tied 1-1.
Andreska couldnt be
reached for results by the
Press Tuesday deadline.
The Wildcats earned

wins at No. 1 and 2 doubles
Tuesday en route to a 5-2
loss at Big Eight rival Madison West.
Senior Steph Keryluk
and junior Greta Schmitz
improved to 5-0 at No. 1
doubles, cruising to a 6-3,
6-1 win over Laura Nichols
and Hoi Ming Lee McVey.
Senior Genna Sticha and
junior Carissa Wittthuhn
added Veronas other win
in a super-tight 7-6 (6),
7-6(6) win at No. 2 doubles.
Veronas closest match
after that came from Lauren
Supanich at No. 1 singles.
Supanich won a first set
tiebreaker only to fall 6-7
(1), 6-1, 6-2.
and Wausau West tied for

fifth place with 13 points.
Stephanie Van Fossen
finished runner-up at No.
4 singles 6-2, 5-7, 10-5
against DePere.
Lauren Supanich won
one match at No. 1 singles
before falling to Onalaskas
Shannya Waltz. Supanich
went on to defeated Laura
Larrain of Newman Catholic 6-4, 6-2 for third place.
I-90/94 Challenge
Verona looked to have

found its No. 1 doubles
team last weekend as Keryluk and Schmitz earned
four wins at No. 1 doubles
at the I-90/94 Challenge.
Keryluk and Schmitz
earned Veronas lone victory in a 6-1 loss against
Homestead, defeating Madeline Slicker and Nicole
Martin 6-3, 2-6, 10-4. They
then found themselves
locked into an even tougher
battle, holding off Kettle
Moraine seniors Haley
Reynolds and Megan Zeier
SPAHS tennis
7-6 (6) 6-7 (7), 10-6.
The Wildcats top douinvitational
bles team cruised to a 6-2,
The host Panthers fin- 6-0 victory to help Veroished five points ahead of na to its only win of the
the DePere with 31 points.
Onalaska (31) rounded out
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the top three, while Verona
Football: Middleton is next

the Regents took over from
there with 22-unanswered
points. Two holding penalties helped West get the
ball back after a 3-and-out
on Veronas next possession.
And Miller, who finished
6-for-13 for 157 yards and
three touchdowns, later
found senior wide receiver
Isaac Dennis for a 7-yard
touchdown pass to cut
Veronas lead to 27-19 with
5:27 to go.
On the next kickoff,
Verona misplayed the ball
and touched the ball near
the sideline instead of letting the ball go out of
bounds, and the Wildcats
had to start the drive on
their own 8-yard line.
After a quick first down
on a 15-yard run by junior
running back Dominic Sabbarese who placed injured
junior running back Cameron Tindall at the start of
the fourth Verona ran two
negative plays before being
forced to punt.
It only took Miller and
the Regents four plays on
the next drive to score and
tie the game.
Tindall dislocated his
shoulder and was out, so we
were kind of one-dimensional. But we just needed a
few plays to get a few first
downs, and we just couldnt
do it, Richardson said.
And they executed. They
beat our secondary. We
need a better pass rush. We
need better coverage, and
we need better offense.
It is just all of those
things that just kind of
compounded themselves in
the last eight minutes.
The Wildcats took a 20-7
lead with 3:31 left in the
third on a 1-yard run by
Noah Roberts (10-for-20
121 yards, two interceptions), but West cut the lead
to 20-13 on the next drive
as Miller connected with

Dennis for a 56-yard touchdown pass.
West struck first with a
57-yard touchdown run by
Wright, who finished with
150 yards on 16 carries,
but Verona answered with
two touchdowns by senior
captain running back Eric
Schmid (28 carries for 156
yards).
Schmid made it 7-6
early in the second with
a 15-yard run, and he put
Verona ahead 13-7 with six
minutes to go in the first
half on a 1-yard run.
Verona now has to put
the tough loss behind them
before playing a tough Middleton team (1-0) at 7 p.m.
Friday at home, but Richardson said he saw a few
positives in the West loss.
He said that the Wildcats
just have to learn how to
finish a game when in the
same position as they were
against the Regents.
Noah is a good passer,
and I think we have some
people that can pass the
ball, Richardson said.
Eric is Eric and will get
his yardage, and when
Cameron is healthy, he will
get to the edge and maybe
make some people miss.
We have some decent
players. We just have to
close the deal.
Other Big Eight results

The West upset of Verona wasnt the only shock in
the opening week of the Big
Eight Conference season.
Madison La Follette (1-0)
held off pre-season favorite Sun Prairie (0-1) 28-21
on the road, and Madison
Memorial (1-0) barely survived a 42-41 win at Madison East (0-1).
Middleton (1-0) crushed
Janesville Parker (0-1) 36-0
at home, and Janesville
Craig (1-0) handled Beloit
Memorial (0-1) 58-12 at
home.
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50-year reunion for Verona CC
The Verona Cross Country teams
will host a 50th reunion for all men
and women who have run cross
country for the Indians or Wildcats
since 1965.
The event will be held on Saturday, Sept. 6, in conjunction with
the 38th annual Verona Area High
School cross country invitational.
The event will begin with the

high school races at 9 a.m. and the
Open 5K race/jog/walk at 11:40
a.m. Members of all the state championship teams and all state runners
will be introduced before the high
school awards at about 12:30 p.m.
There will be a spaghetti dinner
that evening at 5 p.m. for all interested including present runners and
former and present coaches.
The dinner will be followed by

a picture taking session in the high
school gym, time capsule movie
of 50 years of cross country and a
social at a local location.
For information, contact coach
Randy Marks at rtmarks@tds.net
and check the team website at sites.
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Swim: Season opens against Middleton Friday

Photo submitted
Local softball players help

Jaguars win another title
Local softball players Nathasha Horsfall (left) and pitcher Shannon
Whitmus helped the Oregon Jaguars wrap up back-to-back titles at
the 10th Annual Chicks Softball tournament in Adams Friendship
the weekend of Aug. 2-3.
Last year, the Jaguars took the 16U championship which was their
first championship.The Jaguars advanced undefeated through the
17U pool and bracket play this year to once again.
During the tournament, Horsfall hit abases loaded home run and
Whitmus pitchedtwo shutout games.
Tennis: Fifth at SPASH invite

tournament 4-3 over Oak
Creek before concluding
their weekend with a 6-4,
6-2 against a pair of Whitefish Bay underclassmen.
Supanich earned her first
win of the tournament,
knocking off Oak Creek
junior Kayla Stolz 6-2,
6-2. Sticha and Wittthuhn
capped the win with a 6-0,
6-3 at No. 2 doubles.
Verona junior Elizabeth

Thompson added a 6-1, 6-1
win against Oak Creek.
The Wildcats, who only
played four matches over
the weekend as their Saturday afternoon match
against Arrowhead was
rained out, finished the
tournament with a 5-2 loss
against Whitefish Bay.
Supanich took her
No. 1 singles match 6-3,
6-3 against Gwennie
OConnell.
Swimming the 100 butterfly for

the first time at last years WIAA
D1 state meet, Nelson destroyed the
14-year record of Brookfield Easts
Sarah Wanezek by well over 2
seconds in a ridiculously fast 52.06.
Relays should continue to be a
strength for Verona this season
as the Wildcats welcome back its
entire 200-yard freestyle relay team
as Nelson, sophomores Maizie Seidl
and Kristi Larsen and senior Shelby
Rozeboom are all back after winning the 200 free relay in 1:33.70.
Seven-hundredths of a second from
the Madison East state record set in
2008, the Wildcats could very well
smash another record this season.
Senior Sammy Seymour, Rozeboom and Larsen also give the
Wildcats three-fourths of last seasons third place medley relay team
with only Maddy Nelson having
graduated.
The only real question, depending
on what head coach Bill Wuerger
does with the lineup, could be the
400 free relay which finished fourth
at state a year ago. Though Seidl
and Nelson both return, the Wildcast will need to find a replacement
for Lindsay Craig and Becca Wilson who both graduated.
Other individuals who had strong

showings at state last season include
senior Seymour, who placed 13 th in
the 100 butterfly, Larsen (15th in the
100 breaststroke) and junior Julia
Ver Voort (20th in the 200 IM).
Underclassmen looking to step up
this season will be sophomore Rose
Parker and freshman Sophie Henshue.
The Wildcats 8-1 in the Big Eight
(9-1 overall) finished fourth overall
at last seasons WIAA Division 1
state swimming meet behind (number) medals. Based on points returning from last year, Wuerger doesnt
see Verona/Mount Horeb finishing quite that high this season with
Madison West, Middleton and Madison Memorial most likely being the
top three teams in conference.
Gone from last year for the Wildcats are Maddy Nelson, Mallory
Olson, Lindsay Craig and Anna
Kopp, who fished 11th, 16 th , 20 th ,
21st and 24 th in the 100 backstroke,
500 free, 200 free, 100 fly and 100
breaststroke at state, respectively.
The Regents, who finished seventh at state a year ago, look to
make the biggest move up the conference ranks behind Mary First.
West returns 3/4 of its fourth-place
200 free and fifth place 400 free
relays in senior Katie Feller and
juniors Sydney Higgins and First.
Middleton and Madison Memorial, which finished third and

eighth overall at state last season as
always, will be near the top of the
standings.
Memorial junior Maya Gomez
was fifth in the 100 breaststroke a
year ago.
Sun Prairies Rachel Powers, who
finished third overall in the 500 ad
fourth in the 200 free as a freshman,
returns to give the Cardinals some
firepower.
The girls got the season underway
with its annual Alumni meet Saturday, Aug. 23 against the likes of
Emily Tiedemann (St. Cloud State),
Maddy Nelson (UW-Milwaukee),
Mallory Olson (St. Cloud State),
Lindsay Craig (Nova Southeastern) and Bree Parent (UW-Stevens
Point).
Verona faces a much stiffer challenge right out of the gate, opening the Big Eight Conference dual
meet season Aug. 29 at 5 p.m. home
against Middleton. The Wildcats
face Madison Memorial and Madison West back-to-back on Oct. 17
and 21, respectively.
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13, Waukesha South (Sept. 20),
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Verona company part of

Animal Planet show
Price: $360,000
Other costs: $26,000 for
improvements, $46,155 for
parking at new facility
Location: Fire station lot
Lease: 50 years, no cost
Lot maintenance: city
responsibility
prominent VACT board

member involved with the
building plans is Terry
Dvorak, who is married to
Epics chief operating officer.
Another suggested location was at Firemans Park,
across from VACTs current building, but it, too,
would have cost valuable
park land and been more
costly. The fire station lot is
already under construction
and its plans left space for
the 10,000-square-foot new
building, which is planned
to hold a 148-seat auditorium.
In any case, the city had
agreed in July that purchasing the building would be
in its best interests, as the
public works and parks
departments are in need
of additional space at their
10-year-old facility.
The 5,000-square-foot
Cleary building will need to
be retrofitted with $26,000
worth of improvements,
including a drain system
and an overhead door, and
will buy the city a few more
years before it needs to
expand its operations. The
only alternative presented
to the council this summer
would have been a building

about double that size but
about five times the cost.
Under the preliminary
deal, the city would pay
for the building upon
completion of VACTs
new home, which the
group must build within 18
months of the lease approval. The plan is to approve a
formal contract this fall, but
the transfer wont happen
until some time in 2015.
The agreement is also
supposed to provide language to allow the city to
use the facility for various
events, including its recreation departments dance
program something that
had been held at the old
City Hall before it was torn
down two years ago.
The preliminary deal and
a previous discussion on
purchasing the facility with
no numbers attached both
were designed to aid in the
groups fundraising efforts
by offering some certainty.
Burns said city staff set a
purchase price by researching the replacement cost,
the original cost (plus
inflation) and an appraisal
something that hadnt
been previously necessary
because it is tax-exempt
property.
VACTs expansion is
designed both to accommodate growing interest
from locals in participation and theater camps and
to provide a space other
than the Verona Area High
School Performing Arts
Center to stage its productions, particularly for some
childrens theater shows
and experimental or niche
works.
Fire station tally: $10.7 million

Jim Ferolie
Verona Press editor
Though the citys project

manager is still looking for
ways to cut costs in bits and
pieces, it now has a solid
projected cost: $10.7 million.
That includes the last
several bid items that were
chosen Monday, bringing
the construction to a total
of $9.5 million, as well as
architect fees and furnishings and equipment. It also
includes $147,000 worth of
savings in the latest round
of value engineering,
essentially swapping some
materials like copper and
brick in selected areas for
less costly alternatives.
Unlike the last set of bids,
when there was debate over
some alternates and a complex, even confusing discussion about how to proceed with some unqualified
or shockingly high bids, the
council had almost nothing
to say Monday.
It even picked an asphalt
contractor with no discussion despite there having
been lingering questions
about how much concrete to

use something that would
have affected the winning
asphalt bid. Contractor Bill
Pennoyer worked with fire
chief Joe Giver to reduce
the amount of concrete in
the plan quite a bit, shaving $28,000 out of the original $98,000 up-front cost
of having concrete in the
rear apron.
Other action
The city approved an
agreement with the state to
contribute 20 percent of a
$471,000 rebuilding of the
Old County PB bridge over
the Badger Mill Creek.
The new bridge, which
replaces one built when
there was no water to speak
of in the creek, will include
pedestrian and bicycle
accommodations. It is
scheduled for 2016.
The council agreed to
pay for the design of a widened Locust Drive bridge
over U.S. 18-151. It is
scheduled to be built next
year. Thats two years earlier than previously planned,
because of significant
going through a process with

the television crew, Wilson
said they did not get slowed
down too much.
Rather than the installers
just showing up and doing
their job and leaving, theres
a little more work involved
with the camera crews there,
Wilson said. It just takes
a little more time, but they
actually were pretty good.
Wilson said it was hard
to publicize much following the show, given the
short window they were featured in, but that their supplier, Owens Corning, was
excited to hear about their
involvement in the project,
and it was enjoyable for the
employees involved.
It was fun, she said. It
was one of the most unique
projects that weve done.
with their mortgage and

home equity needs.
For more information on
Summits
mortgage
Norland Learning has loan office,Verona
visit summitcremoved to 115 N. Main St.
The tutoring center is ditunion.com.
owned and operated by Verona Family Dental
Nadine Norland, a certified teacher with a masters welcomes new dentist
degree in education.
Dr. Austin Wessell has
The center helps students joined the team at Verona
with math, reading, writ- Family Dental.
ing, and provides homework
With the addition of
help and guidance with Wessell to the practice, Dr.
study skills, as well as test Wadzinski will be reducpreparation.
ing his schedule, though the
For information, visit clinic is expanding hours to
norlandlearningcenter.org.
include Fridays.
Wessell was born and
Summit plans loan
raised in Stevens Point.
He attended the Univeroffice in Verona
of Wisconsin where he
Summit Credit Union will sity
received
Bachelors of
open a new mortgage loan Science inhis
Biology. During
office in Verona in October. his undergraduate
studies he
The credit union has
his time as the
signed a lease and begun volunteered
of Wisconsins
remodeling the office space University
Bucky Badger. He
at 202 E. Verona Ave. The mascot,
his education at
location will be the financial continued
University where
institutions 30th location Marquette
received his Doctor of
and its third mortgage loan he
Dental Surgery degree.
office.
The office will have a Engineered Constr.
mortgage loan officer and
a mortgage loan office spe- adds new hire
cialist to serve consumers
Engineered Construction
added Heidi Dunn as the

new director of marketing
and business development.
In this role, Dunn will
enhance relationships with
current clients, build new
affiliations in the community
and work to create businessto-business partnerships.
Dunn comes with a wealth
of diverse experience in real
estate, property management and restoration as well
as marketing and business
development. She received
her education locally, with a
business degree from Edgewood College in Madison.
growth in the Scenic Ridge

and Cathedral Point subdivisions recently.
The council settled a
motorists $218 claim for
damage done to his vehicle
when a city employee cutting weeds shot debris into
his car. Ald. Mac McGilvray (D-1) voted for it but
emphasized that the city
worker had used proper
procedure and the motorist
was at fault.
He added that it was a
compromise from the original claim of nearly $1,400
and that the cost and trouble
of fighting it would exceed
the claim itself.
Scott Girard
Insulation is not the most

visible part of a construction
project, but that doesnt take
away from its importance.
Renee Wilson, the president of Verona-based Rockweiler Insulation, recognizes
that, so she was pretty excited about the three seconds
of airtime the companys
installers got on a recent episode of Tree House Masters on Animal Planet.
Because our work was
hidden, nobody wants to talk
about it, Wilson said. So
In brief
Norland Learning
moves
Verona resident hired

as plant manager
Verona resident Todd
Schilling will become the
plant manager at the SICO
America Inc. facility in Belleville Dec. 1.
Schilling has worked with
SICO America, a manufacturer of mobile folding tables, stages, portable
dance floors, wallbeds and
more, since April 30, 1998.
His last promotion was in
2001.
For more information on
SICO America Inc., visiit
sicoinc.com.
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About the deal
we were pretty pleased that

we actually got shown.
The company got
involved on the Middleton
tree house, which was featured in the July 25 episode
of the show, without realizing the scope of the project.
(The construction company) just emailed and asked
for a bid, she said. We
werent even really familiar
with the show, we just knew
it was a tree house, and we
thought that was kind of
interesting.
When the installers
showed up and realized it
was for the show, which
they both watch, Wilson
said they were excited.
While it caused slight
delays here and there, without the ability to park right
up next to the job site and
Three seconds of
airtime special,
president says
Photo by
Jim Ferolie
expressed strong support

for the organization. Linder
didnt like the city paying
an additional $46,155 to
build the parking lot while
its building the fire station,
and Stiner had previously
argued against the location
as unsafe and pressed for
it to go on the north side of
Veterans Park.
Ald. Heather Reekie
(D-4) also wondered about
the location, and city
administrator Bill Burns
replied that city staff had
collectively concluded that
not only was the Veterans
Park location unsuitable
because of utility line locations and the loss of needed
parkland but that the shared
parking with the fire station
would be a feature, allowing both the fire department
and theater group to exceed
its normal parking capacity
for special events.
Another location that had
been suggested, on Badger
Prairie County Park land
near the library, would likely be unworkable because
of its lack of utilities and
the countys plans naturebased plans for the area.
Burns and Ald. Dale Yurs
(D-2) noted the chosen
location is prominent and
said that would be fitting.
The first location VACT
had pinpointed, on land
dedicated by Epic more
than a year ago when it purchased the former Cross
Point subdivision, did not
go over well with some area
neighbors, who complained
it would bring extra traffic
and cost them a park. One
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Community
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Bruce St., sits
north of the
public works
garage on
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Verona History
Police reports
June
Information from Verona vehicle was registered to a

police log books:
man who was involved in a
suspicious activity report on
Aug. 1
May 31. The man was not
3:57 a.m. Police respond- successfully contacted.
ed to a car vs. deer crash on
westbound U.S. 18-151. The Aug. 5
driver locked up her brakes
9:14 p.m. An officer
to avoid hitting the deer, stopped a woman leaving the
skidded into a ditch and Prairie Oaks Citgo parking lot
rolled the vehicle into east- after an employee reported
bound traffic. Despite facial, seeing her chase cats around
arm and leg lacerations, she the lot. The officer had a long
refused transport to a hos- conversation with her about
pital and was instead given the cats. However, she did not
a ride to a Kwik Trip to catch seem impaired.
a cab to Dodgeville.
3:13 p.m. An officer locat- Aug. 6
ed a man driving on U.S.
6:48 p.m. A woman asked
18-151 toward Watertown police what she should do
to visit his son in the hospi- with a bat she caught in a
tal and informed him that his shoebox. Police advised her
son was flown to UW Hospi- to release it or take it to a vet
tal. The mans daughter had and have it tested for rabies.
made the request.
She released it.
10:16 p.m. A woman
7:06 p.m. A woman
reported five teenagers enter- reported a vehicle following
ing the abandoned residence close behind her with a driver
east of Sows Ear. Police giving her the middle finger.
found no sign of recent Police stopped the driver,
entry. The same woman had who admitted to the behavior,
reported a similar incident and issued a warning.
two weeks prior, claiming the
9:02 p.m. A woman reportkids disappeared between ed a missing Jack Russell tertwo houses.
rier who had longer legs than
normal. The dog had escaped
Aug. 2
while chasing a rabbit and
9:28 p.m. An adult at was found about an hour
Verona Fest notified an offi- later.
cer of three teenage girls
who were making suspi- Aug. 7
cious comments toward a
5:18 a.m. Three unofficial
group of children. The girls letters of warning were left on
were not located.
vehicles explaining the large
12:29 p.m. A man noti- vehicle parking ordinance.
fied police that seven vehicles and 15 bicycles failed Aug. 8
to stop at the intersection of
2:57 p.m. Police respondCross Country and Hemlock ed to a call concerning a
within a 10-minute period.
woman who was sitting on
Earlier that morning, offi- a front porch on Main Street
cers had stopped 11 bicy- and seemed unable to get
clists and vehicles for failure home. She had walked to
to stop or improperly stop- Millers to get groceries and
ping at that same intersec- was unable to get home due
tion. All were issued verbal to general weakness. Officers
warnings.
noticed stroke symptoms and
Fitch-Rona EMS transported
Aug. 4
the woman to the hospital.
1:17 a.m. Four park9:05 p.m. Police assisted
ing warnings were issued in a Craigslist dispute in
for vehicles parking on the which a woman went to pick
street with trailers, campers up a lawn mower from an ad
and boats in violation of city and dug through the homeordinance.
owners trash can looking
10:41 a.m. A man notified for string to tie her vehicle
police that someone threw a trunk lid down. The homewalnut at his vehicle, caus- owner contacted the woman
ing about $300 worth of after she left because he was
damage. The subjects ran upset she had been looking
away when the man stopped around his yard. The homehis vehicle.
owner wanted extra payment
12:28 p.m. A man report- for what she took or have it
ed a vehicle driving slowly returned. Police stood by as
and stopping in front of open the item was returned.
garage doors around Scenic
Kathryn Chew
Ridge neighborhood. The
40 years ago
A special Verona Town
meeting voted to build a joint
fire station with the Village of
Verona on Dane County land
at the east edge of the Village.
This plan included joint purchasing eight acres of land,
costing the Town and Village
$10,000 each, $20,000 total.
This was part of a deal in
which the Dane County Board
offered to sell eight acres of
Dane County Hospital and
Home land located on the east
side of the Village and on the
south side of U.S. 18-151 for
municipal uses to the Village
and the Town of Verona.
The Village had previously
agreed to this deal months
before the Towns decision.
The total cost of building the
fire house was projected to be
around $250,000.
Dane County Farm Bureau
supported Foreign Dairy Quality
Act of 1973, which advocated
for import standards to protect
the public from imported dairy
products of low sanitary quality. It passed later that year.
An editorial by Hank W.
Schroeder was published with
no capitals in The Verona
Press because a less than
trustworthy typewriter failed to
capitalize any letters at all.
Members of the Sugar
River Riders Snowmobile
Club, Verona Jaycees and
other Verona volunteers erected $5,000 worth of new playground equipment bought by
the Village of Verona in the
Verona Parks.
The Verona Board of
Education voted to back a proposed trip by the Verona High
School band to the Festival of
States in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
in April.
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was awarded charter school
status by the Department of
Public Instruction.
It was among the first 10
school districts in the state to
get the ability to create DPI
regulation-free schools. New
Century School would later
become one of the first charter
schools in the state.
St. James Lutheran Church
dedicated an 11,000-squarefoot addition during a Sunday
service.
The 1,400-member congregation had gone without its
church for six months because
of the construction.
Verona Area High School
discus thrower Luke Sullivan
won his third straight state
championship, earning him an
athletic scholarship to UCLA.
Later, at the Golden West
Invitational Track and Field
Championships in Sacramento,
Calif., he threw 198 feet, 11
inches, the longest recorded
toss in the country that year.
Sullivan would eventually
become a two-time Olympic
Trail discus thrower.
Verona Police Department
began its first annual Kid Care
photo identification program.
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Council discussed plans to
drain Harriet Lake.
The $150,000 project was
intended to make the lakes
two-to-three acres into park
land and eliminate water problems the lake caused in neighborhood basements.
Voters at the towns annual
meeting rejected a proposed
$550,000 park project that
wouldve been a joint effort
with the city.
The vast majority of the
175 people who showed up to
the 90-minute debate at a hot
and sweaty Town Hall voted
against borrowing $220,000,
which wouldve been a town
share.
The Verona High School
girls track team won the state
championship by 10 points
after having lost the title by two
points the year before. Dianna
Johnson, Sue Rast, Michelle
Dziak and Kelly McCormick
won the 800-meter relay, and

the 1600 and 400 relay teams
each took third place. Lisa
Kartman placed third in the
100 low hurdles.
Jim Niederberger was the
only Verona male athlete at the
state track tournament, taking
fourth place in both the 1,600
and 3,200.
The Friends of the Verona
Public Library tried to raise
consciousness and money in
order to build an addition to
the library. The library reported 60,000 visits per year and
had 50,000 books, to which
it added 600 books each year.
The city rejected an
attempt to rezone land in Cross
Country Heights to a 40-unit
apartment complex. Critics of
the proposal had circulated a
petition that was signed by
about 250 people.
The VHS trades class sold
the house it built for $71,000.
The school board allowed
the VHS band to appear in a
back-to-school ShopKo program. The band received $500
for its appearance.
Dependable Auto Body
Shop opened on the 200 block
of Paoli Street. Kevin Forrett
and Mike Willett, both 1978
MATC graduates in auto body,
went in together on the shop.
Mr. And Mrs. Ralph Maas
celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Wadell Kahl
celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.
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were invited to a free photo
session at Verona City Hall to
compile a list of pictures and
information about local children.
Verona native Lee Wilkins
toured the country with
Broadways Tony Awardwinning show, Cats, with a
role as five different cats.
Today, Wilkins is a Broadway
performer and choreographer.
His most recent work is as
associate choreographer for
Rogers and Hammersteins
Cinderella and First Date.
Fifty Verona Middle School
students gathered at the
schools entrance to plant a
tree in memory of classmate
Patrick Pfeffer, 13, who had
unexpectedly died in his sleep.
Its a living tribute, said his
mother. It will be there forever.
The city, by request of
the Verona police, decided to
prohibit rollerblading on heavy
traffic roads (Verona Avenue,
Main and Paoli streets, Nine
Mound Road) and allow it,
with regulation, in residential
areas.
VASD extended superintendent Bob Gilpatricks contract by two years, giving him
a 3.8 percent raise in the first
year, increasing his salary to
$76,310 per year.
At the same time, VASD
teachers had received a 3.8
percent salary and benefits
increase from the previous
year.
Jason Schuetz, a former
VAHS athlete and a member
of the South Dakota State
University varsity basketball
team, was named a Collegiate
Scholastic All-American by the
United States Achievement
Academy for excelling in academia as well as athletics.
He majored in mechanical
engineering and went on to
receive a master of science in
industrial management.
Forty swimmers represented Verona Aquatic Club in
the 10th annual Badger State
Games. Future Olympian Neil
Walker brought home four
gold medals and set several
records.
University of Wisconsin
football tight end Darrell
Larson spoke to 100 Country
View Elementary School fifthgraders about the importance of staying away from
drugs and alcohol as part
of the annual DARE (Drug
Abuse Resistance Education)
graduation at Country View
Elementary School.
In an effort to increase
interaction between youths
and police officers, Verona
officers began giving away free
Milwaukee Brewer cards upon
request.
Irene Beers retired from
the Bank of Verona after 37
years. Upon retirement, Beers
commented, You dont work
in a place more than half your
life and not miss it.
The first annual arts
and crafts fair at the Verona
Hometown U.S.A. Festival
drew 70 artists and crafters
from the Midwest.
-Kathryn Chew
10 years ago
The Verona Area School
District approved a grievance
settlement with the teachers union that cost the district $27,600, far less than
the $250,000 that had been
claimed.
The contract improved the
salary of starting educators
in the district and maintained
costs within the budget.
The district had been struggling to compete with other
Dane County school districts, so
it hoped that the improved salary
would draw teachers to Verona.
The initial disagreement centered on the career steps, with
the district preferring a stepby-step process and the union
figuring on a multi-step process. The compromise allowed
a few of the teachers to take
two steps at a time while others took one step at a time.
A Verona man surprised
the owner of Bretls Wine and
Spirits by walking into the
store without any clothes on.
Chris Bretl, who was working at the counter, watched
the nude, highly intoxicated
Michael Coats as he went for a
bottle of vodka. Bretl remained
calm as Coats approached and
placed the bottle of vodka and
his keys on the counter to
write a check.
Bretl discreetly placed the
keys under the counter, then
called 911 when Coats left.
The man was found in his
vehicle, where he was arrested
before he was taken to the
hospital. Testing indicated that
he had a blood alcohol content
level of .45.
Coats was charged of lewd,
lascivious behavior-exposure
and disorderly conduct.
The Fitch-Rona Little
League was granted a portion
of the 18-acre park in Verona.
The land had previously been
on a lease-to-own deal until
Veronas Parks Commission
unanimously suggested that a
portion of the 18-acre park
should be devoted to the organization.
Two years later, the since
renamed Verona Little League
built four baseball diamonds
and a complex on the land
after several discussions over
the complex.
A 15-year-old girl drove a
car into a garage door on the
300 block of Jenna Drive with
enough force to crumple it
and propel the minivan parked
inside into the garage wall.
The house took on some
significant damage, and so did
the vehicle. The damage to the
suspects vehicle led police to
the driver.
After getting several calls
about a peeping tom downtown, police managed to catch
the Paoli man, Brian Lins, hiding in the bushes.
Lins was found guilty of disorderly conduct.
The Verona Area Education
Foundation received $4,350 in
donations from the families
of 12 seniors who graduated
in 2004.
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17, passed away on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Kia
was born March 31, 1997
in Madison, the daughter
of Stan and Colleen (Makinen) Godfriaux.
The word unique may
have been invented to
describe Kia. She had a
personality that grabbed
you the second you met
her. Always happy to share
her views on any number of subjects, yet always
considerate of the views
of others. A champion for
the underdog. A warm and history. She won an award

loving smile that told you participating in Model UN
she cared about you. Very and enjoyed debating (in
strong, yet sensitive, a school and out). She was a
beautiful and kind soul that strong feminist and enviwill live forever in all who ronmentalist. She enjoyed
knew her. She was a bril- being outdoors, hiking,
liant light in our lives and wild flowers, working at
Subway, and taking picwill forever be missed.
Kia loved reading, Harry tures with her Polaroid
Potter, Dr. Who, John & camera. She loved spending
Hank Green, the Nerd- time with family, friends
fighters, painting Japanese and her boyfriend Warren.
Kia is survived by her
watercolor art, the Beatles
and Pride & Prejudice. She loving parents Colleen and
enjoyed all things academ- Stan Godfriaux; caring
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SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT
Update on reconstruction of Country View Elementary School Chris Murphy was present and shared with the
board that the reconstruction project is
going very well. Construction meetings
are taking place every Tuesday morning. The steel and roofing materials are
scheduled to arrive earlier than anticipated. They anticipate that security will
no longer be needed at the site as of
July 16th or 17th as that damaged area
will be enclosed. Work has begun on the
replacing of the gym floor. Findorff is
optimistic that they will be ready to reopen on August 25th. Dean added that
the environmental status of the building
is continually monitored to prevent the
growth of mold, etc.
Update on PLTW classroom renovation Chris Murphy reported that
everything is going as scheduled. Chris
shared that there have been few changes considering it is a remodel project.
Update on tennis court reconstruction Chris Murphy reported that the
completion date is anticipated to be July
25th ahead of required completion
date of August 1st. Black topping was
completed this last week. They poured
the sidewalks this week. The vertical
posts were put in this week for the fencing. The net posts have been installed.
Once fencing is completed, the final
coating over the black top will be done
and the last step will be the landscaping
and trees.
Update on hiring of Public Information Office Dean updated the board
that there were 24 applicants 6 were interviewed and that they have narrowed
it down to the final 2 candidates. Calls
to reference will be done this week and
Dean hopes to have a recommendation
to the board by the next board meeting.
Update on open enrollment Dean
reminded the board that at the August
4th meeting updates to the open enrollment numbers (those allowed in) will be
provided. Principals will have an idea
of what their actual numbers look like
and whether or not more spaces can be
added. Dean also shared that the district
has had a number of appeals made in regards to open enrollment denials. Thus
far, all denials have been upheld by DPI.
Annual meeting reminder Dean
reminded the board that the Annual
Meeting will be August 18th. The budget
review and meeting will be at 6pm prior
to the regular board meeting.
PERSONNEL ITEMS
Consider approval of administrative contracts - Motion (Gauthier) second (Zook) to approve the administrative contract for Pheng Lee. Motion
carried (6-0).
Consider approval of teaching
contracts Motion (Gauthier) second
(Almond) to approve the teaching contracts for Sarah Mueller, Andrew Riley,
Leah Sutton, Kathryn Moldenhauer,
Scott Pelton, Katherine Fasbender,
Danyelle Perry, Aaron Zander, Nicholas
Faus, Cassondra Lee, Lauren Germann
(Wittmann), Mallory Long, Jamie Morris,
Sara Stremlow, Cheryl Bently and Kim
Feller-Janus. Motion carried (6-0).
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS / MEETING DATES
Denny reviewed the future meeting
dates. Denny indicated that the annual
meeting is August 18th and that as of
October the board will resume a regular
schedule.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Building, Grounds and Transportation Has not met.
Finance Committee John reported
that the committee met tonight at 5:45.
The committee discussed the lunch
price increase and commended Cindra
on a job well done organizing everything. John added that having a breakfast offered to our students is a huge
bonus that helps our students in their
learning. July 1st state aid estimates are
in and the committee will share more
information regarding this at the next
board meeting.
Motion (McCulley) second (Almond) to pay the bills in the amount of
$4,977,045.49. Motion carried (6-0).
Personnel Committee Has not
met.
IDAC Committee Met on July 7th.
Chris, Denny, and Dean represented on
behalf of the school district Bill Burns
and Adam Sayre attended and gave an
update for the City of Verona. There is
a Hyatt Hotel proposed for the Hwy M/
County PB intersection in the Liberty
Business Park. It will be a 230-room hotel 2nd biggest in the county. There is
a Fairfield Inn proposed for the corner
Nine Mound and Half Mile. It will have 90
rooms no amenities.
The storm damage to the city was
not significant enough to gain disaster
relieve from FEMA or SBA Disaster Relief. There is a possibility of getting the
Wisconsin Fund, which is disaster fund
set up for municipalities. Both the City
of Verona and the Town of Verona may
qualify for this, but otherwise there is
no state or federal aid for the damages
done by the tornado. Denny gave kudos to all those involved with the storm
clean up - Town of Verona, City of Verona, Fire, Police, and the district staff.
The TIF for Epic is contingent on
them paying for the improvements on
Nine Mound Rd. and PB intersection,
which they are currently working on to
get completed for the 2015 construction
date. Campus 4 and the new parking
structure construction are underway.
The City of Verona is also working
on a new website and welcomes suggestions.

The North Neighborhood planning continues (area bound by North of
Country View South of Hwy PD, West
of Hwy M and east of Nine Mound Road).
The district has been consulted on a
possible school site near that neighborhood.
Adam Sayre reported that there
have been 47 single family and 2 duplex
housing permits issued so far this year.
A 76-unit multi-family, Murray Glenn,
which is in between the Draft House and
the Reddan Soccer fields, is also in the
works.
Town of Verona reported that they
have 2 housing starts for this year
down from 10 last year. They are working on a memorandum of understanding with Fitchburg regarding Fitchrona
Road due to new developments on the
Fitchburg side as to who is going to be
responsible for the utilities, road, etc.
Tony Roach attended for the City
of Fitchburg to give an update. Tony addressed the latest on the TIF there. The
Orchard Point TIF has been expanded
to the East side of Verona Rd. They will
also be adding a new access road into
the industrial park. It will give those
businesses better access to Hwy PD.
Quarry Vista is the name of the new
development going in on the corner of
Fitchrona and Lacey. 54 single family
lots and 15 duplex lots. The multi-family
lots are on hold. The Verona Area Needs
Network is looking for space in Fitchburg.
Carl Curtis from the Verona Area
Chamber of Commerce reported on the
success for Verona Hometown Days.
This was the first year the Chamber was
predominantly responsible for the event.
Attendance was down slightly. They are
considering changing the dates next
year so the VASD staff advised them of
graduation dates. Their membership is
up to 316 members.
The next meeting is scheduled for
October 6th at 8am.
ADJOURN to closed session Motion (Connor) second (Zook) to adjourn
to close session under Section under:
Section 19.85(1)(c) and (e) for: Deliberating and strategizing regarding the negotiation for possible purchase of one or
more school sites, where competitive
and bargaining reasons require closed
session.
Roll call to vote: Almond-Yes;
Beres-Yes; Zook-Yes; McCulley-Yes;
Connor-Yes, Gauthier -Yes. Motion carried (6-0).
ADJOURN from closed session
Motion (Connor) second (Zook) to adjourn from closed session at 9:13 p.m.
Motion carried (6-0).
Published: August 28, 2014
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grandparents, Tana Godfriaux (Dan Shapera), Judy

Tanzer and Michael Makinen; many aunts and uncles
include Shawn Schneider
(Larry), Steve Godfriaux,
Lynnea Godfriaux-Pregeant (Brad), Janine GodfriauxLeystra (Jim); cousins
include Justin Godfriaux,
Alyssa and Isaac Leystra,
and Justin, Emily and Evan
Schneider; great aunt, Lorraine Godfriaux; and great
uncles, Neil Godfriaux and
Wayne Miller.
She was preceded in
death by grandfathers, Jim

Godfriaux and Les Tanzer;
and grandmother, Alpha
Makinen; and an uncle,
Lloyd Godfriaux.
A service in celebration of her life was held at
Olbrich Botanical Gardens,
3330 Atwood Ave., Madison on Saturday, Aug. 23,
2014. A memorial fund is
being established in memory of Kia.
Online memories and
condolences can be
shared with the family at
866allfaiths.com
of Sections-62.15, 66.0901, 66.0903, and

779.15 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
WAGE RATES: CONTRACTORs
shall be required to pay not less than the
prevailing wage rates on the Project as
established by the State of Wisconsin,
Department of Workforce Development.
Copies of these wage rates are on file in
the office of the City Clerk and incorporated in the Contract Documents.
BID SECURITY: Bid Security in the
amount of not less than 5% or more than
10% of the Bid shall accompany each
Bid in accordance with the Instructions
to Bidders.
CONTRACT SECURITY: The Bidder to whom a Contract is awarded shall
furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to
the Contract Price.
BID
REJECTION/ACCEPTANCE:
OWNER reserves the right to reject any
and all Bids, waive informalities in bidding or to accept the Bid or Bids, which
best serve the interests of OWNER.
BID WITHDRAWAL: No Bid shall be
withdrawn for a period of 60 days after
the opening of Bids without consent of
OWNER.
Published by authority of the City of
Verona, Wisconsin.
By:
Jon H. Hochkammer, Mayor
Kami Scofield, Clerk
Quam Engineering, LLC
McFarland, Wisconsin
Project No. 2014-103
Published: August 28 and
September 4, 2014
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(1) Discussion and Possible Action

Re: Payment of Bills. Motion by McGilvray, seconded by Doyle to approve
the payment of bills in the amount of
$586,552.36. Motion carried 6/0.
10. Old Business
(1) Discussion and Possible Action Re: Discussion of the Process for
Leasing the City?s Old Library Building
at 130 N Franklin Street. Mr. Burns provided information on potential processes for leasing the building. The Council
directed Mr. Burns to proceed with advertising for those interested in leasing
the building.
Re: Case No. 13CV3717 (Local 311, IAFF,
AFL-CIO v. City of Verona and Verona
Joint Fire District) Dane County Circuit
Court (currently pending).
The Common Council may convene in closed session as authorized
by Section 19.85(1)(g) of the Wisconsin
Statutes for the purpose of conferring
with City of Verona legal counsel who
is rendering oral or written advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the
City with respect to litigation in which it
is involved. The Common Council may
reconvene in open session and discuss
and take action on the on the subject
matter discussed in closed session.
Motion by Yurs, seconded by
Linder to convene into closed session
as authorized by Section 19.85(1)(g) of
the Wisconsin Statutes. A roll call vote
was taken with the following members
voting ?aye?: Linder, McGilvray, Stiner,
Yurs, and Doyle. Ald. Diaz voted ?no?
and the Motion carried 5/1.
11. New Business
Re: Negotiating Strategy for Boundary
Agreement Discussions with the Town
of Verona
The City Council may convene in
closed session as authorized by Section 19.85 (1)(e) of the Wisconsin Statutes for the purpose of deliberating or
negotiating the purchase of public properties, the investing of public funds, or
conducting other specified public business whenever competitive or bargaining reasons require a closed session.
The Common Council may reconvene
in open session and discuss and take
action on the on the subject matter discussed in closed session.
Motion by Linder, seconded by
Yurs to convene into closed session
as authorized by Section 19.85(1)(e) of
the Wisconsin Statutes. A roll call vote
was taken with the following members
voting ?aye?: McGilvray, Stiner, Yurs,
Diaz, Doyle, and Linder; there were no
members voting ?no?. The Motion carried 6/0 and at 7:30 p.m. the Common
Council convened into closed session
to discuss item 10. (2) and 11. (1). Motion
by Yurs seconded by Diaz to reconvene
into open session. Motion carried 6/0. At
8:41 p.m. the Common Council reconvened into open session.
Re: Approval of Operator?s Licenses
Motion by Yurs, seconded by McGilvray
to approve the operator licenses as listed. Motion carried 6/0.
12. Announcements
13. Adjournment
Motion by Yurs, seconded by McGilvray to adjourn the meeting at 8:43
p.m. Motion carried 6/0.
Kami Scofield, City Clerk
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Legals
The Verona Area Board of Education met on Monday, July 14, 2014 in the
District Administration Building. Board
President Dennis Beres called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. Deputy Clerk
Renee Zook confirmed the meeting was
properly noticed.
Present: Renee Zook, John McCulley, Dennis Beres, Amy Almond, Derrell
Connor and Joanne Gauthier
Absent: Ken Behnke
Audience Portion There was no
one present to speak to the Board.
Announcements There were no
announcements.
BOARD BUSINESS
Consider approval of minutes
Motion (Zook) second (Gauthier) to
approve the minutes from the June 16,
2014 Board Meeting. Motion carried (60).
Consider action on CESA II contract for services Dean reviewed the
CESA II contract for services. It is an
annual contract entered into each year.
The district belongs to CESA II primarily for the school nutrition program and
co-op purchasing. The savings exceeds
the cost of the contract. Motion (McCulley) second (Almond) to approve the
2014-2015 contract for $2747.00. Motion
carried (6-0).
First reading on Board Policy 345.1
Grading System Dean explained to
the board that the proposed change
would be to add two words, proficiency
reports, under the Grading System
policy. This would insure that Savanna
Oaks and their current system of proficiency reporting follow the board policy.
Renee asked for clarification on Savanna Oaks 8th grade algebra needing to
have the proficiency converted to a traditional grade for DPI. Dean will check
on this and report back to the board.
Denny and Dean clarified that Exploration Academy does not fall under this
same Grading System as these policies
are waived for charter schools. This was
just a first reading; no action was taken.
Consider action on proposed
changes to Employee Handbook related
to OPEB - The Board discussed and reviewed the proposed language changes
to the Employee Handbook related to the
discussions that they have been having related to OPEB. There is proposed
language for each of the four groups;
VAEA, VESPA, Non-Support Staff and
Administrative staff. The mechanism
and tiers are identical for all groups.
The Handbook contains section for all
groups thus the need for four sets of
language. No changes were made since
the first reading. Motion (Gauthier) second (Connor) to approve the proposed
changes to the employee handbook
related to post employment retirement
benefits. (Motion carried 6-0).
Consider action on proposed
changes to Board Policy and Rule 652.1
Employee Benefit Trust Fund Investments. The Board discussed and reviewed the changes to policy 652.1 Employee Benefit Trust Fund Investments
and Rule 652.1 Guidelines for Investments in Employee Benefits Trust Fund.
The goal is to set out basic perimeters,
primary objections on returned cost,
diversification and safety. Changes to
Rule 652.1 discuss the selection of an
investment manager, which is a key
piece because of the large amount of
money. The rule outlines criteria to be
considered when selecting an investment manager, how the funds will be
monitored, yearly review, options for the
district if not satisfied with the investment manager and also acceptable asset allocations for investment of funds.
No changes were made since the first
reading.
Motion (McCulley) second (Zook) to
approve the proposed changed to Board
Policy and Rule 652.1 Employee Benefit
Trust Fund Investments as presented.
(Motion carried 6-0).
Consider action on lunch prices
for the 2014-2015 school year Cindra
Magli, Food Service Director, attended
to request an increase in the lunch prices for the 2014-2015 school year due to
FDA regulations. The proposed increase
is $0.10. Renee asked if there was a drop
off in participation with the last increase
and Cindra responded that lunch has
held to the same, when historically there
has been a drop. Breakfast participation
increased. There was a discrepancy with
the information provided in the board
packet. Current and proposed prices are
as follows:
Current Breakfast, Proposed Breakfast,
Current Lunch, Proposed Lunch
Elementary Schools, $1.00, $1.00, $2.05,
$2.15
Middle School, $1.00, $1.00, $2.10, $2.20
High School, $1.05, $1.05, $2.20, $2.30
Adult, $1.35, $1.35, $2.85, $3.00
Reduced Rate, No Charge, Same, $.40,
$.40
Motion (McCulley) second (Connor)
to approve the increase in lunch prices
for the 2014-2015 school year.
Discussion of Board salaries for
the 2014-2015 school year Denny addressed the board and audience and advocated for a 2% increase in the board
salaries for the 2014-2015 school year. A
vote on this item will be held at the Annual meeting on August 18th.
***
Town of Verona
Regular Town Board
Meeting
Tuesday, September
2,2014 6:30 P.M.
Town Hall,
335 N. Nine Mound Road,
Verona, WI 53593-1035
1. Call To Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Approval of Agenda
4. Announcements
5. Public Comment -This section of
the meeting provides the opportunity for
comment from persons in attendance
on items not listed below over which
this governing body has jurisdiction.
Comments on matters not listed on this
agenda could be placed on a future Plan
Commission meeting agenda.
6. Unfinished business
A. Discussion and action re: Chapter 1(General Government) and Chapter
2 (Finance and Taxation) of the new
code of ordinances
B. Discussion and action re: fireworks permit for 7474 Rolling Meadow
Rd.
7. New business
A. Presentation, discussion, and
action re: resolution for the transfer of
N. Nine Mound Rd.
B. Discussion and action re: driveway permit for Heartland Farm Sanctuary, 7713 Midtown Rd.
C. Discussion and action re: temporary Class B/ Class B license for the
sale of fermented malt beverages and
wine for Heartland Farm Sanctuary, 7713
Midtown Rd.
D. Approval of operators license for
Dana Barre for Heartland Farm Sanctuary for10/5/2014 through 6/30/2015
8. Reports
A. Plan Commission:
i. Discussion and action re: Land
Use Change Application #2014-6
dated 6/30/2014 for property located at
2817 White Crossing Rd. submitted by
Bill Krell for the Krell Company. The
purpose of the application is to allow
a Conditional Use Permit for unlimited
livestock on 3-16 acres within the A2(8)
zoning district.
ii. Discussion and action re: Land
Use Change Application #2014-7 dated
7/8/2014 for property located at 2796
White Crossing Rd. submitted by Mandy
Thomas. The purpose of the application
is to allow a Conditional Use Permit for
unlimited livestock on 3-16 acres within
the A2(8) zoning district.
B. Public Works:
i. Update on current road projects

ii. Discussion and action re: retroactive driveway improvement permit for
a joint drive at 1960 and 1964 Range Trail
iii. Discussion and action re: retroactive driveway improvement permit for
a drive located at 6450 Shady Bend Rd.
C. EMS:
D. Open Space and Parks:
E. Town Chair:
F. Supervisors:
G. Clerk/Treasurer:
i. Update and action re: driveway
ordinance
H. Planner/Administrator:
i. Update on RFP for assessment
services
ii. Update and discussion re: municipal court and prosecuting representation
9. Motion to go into closed session
per Wis. Stats. 19.85 (1) (e) for deliberating or negotiating the purchase of
public properties, the investing of public funds, or conducting other specified
public business, whenever competitive
or bargaining reasons require a closed
session. Discussion and possible action
pertaining to the purchase of land for
Town operations.
10. Motion to return to open session
11. Discussion and possible action
on matters discussed in closed session.
12. Approval of payment of bills for
August
13. Review of Building Permits, Inspection Reports, Road Haul Permits,
and Right-of-Way Permits
14. Discussion and approval of
minutes of the August 5th and Aug 14th
meetings
15. Adjourn
Board agendas are published in the
Towns official newspaper, The Verona
Press. Agendas are also posted at the
Town Hall, Miller & Sons Grocery, and
the Verona Public Library. If an agenda
is amended after publication, the official
sites for notice of the final version are
the Verona Public Library, Town Hall and
Miller & Sons Grocery. If anyone having
a qualifying disability as defined by the
American with Disabilities Act needs an
interpreter, materials in alternate formats, or other accommodations to access these meetings, please contact the
Town of Verona Clerk @ 608-845-7187
or jwright@town.verona.wi.us. Please
do so atleast 48 hours prior to the meeting so that proper arrangements can
be made.Other upcoming meetings include Open Space and Parks Commission on9/3/2014and Plan Commission
on 9/25/2014. Agendas will be posted
at the locations listed above and www.
town.verona.wi.us. Use the subscribe
feature on the Towns website to receive
agendas and other announcements via
email. Notice is also given that a possible quorum could occur at this meeting of the Plan Commission and/or Open
Space and Parks Commission, for the
purposes of information gathering only.
David K. Combs,
Town Chair, Town of Verona.
Posted:August 22, 2014
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OFFICIAL NOTICE
TO BIDDERS
Liberty Business Park
Street and Utility
Construction-Phase 2
City of Verona,
Wisconsin
OWNER: The City of Verona, Wisconsin hereby gives notice that sealed
unit price Bids will be received for the
construction of approximately 674 lin.
feet (centerline length) of 12-inch diameter and 369 lin. feet of 8-inch diameter
sanitary sewer, 1,030 lin. feet (centerline length) of 8-inch diameter ductile
iron water main, 6,145 square yards of
asphaltic concrete paving over crushed
aggregate base course, landscaping,
erosion control, traffic maintenance, and
all appurtenant Work within the right-ofway of Liberty Drive, Laser Street, and
Clarity Street within the City of Verona,
Dane County, Wisconsin.
TIME AND PLACE OF BID OPENING: Sealed Bids will be received until-2:00-p.m., Local Time on the 17th-day
of September, 2014 in the office of the
City Clerk, 111 Lincoln Street, Verona,
Wisconsin. After the official Bid closing
time, the Bids will be publicly opened
and read aloud.
BIDDING DOCUMENTS: The Bidding Documents are on file for review
at the office of the City Clerk, City Hall,
Verona, Wisconsin, and the offices
of Quam Engineering, LLC, 4604 Siggelkow Road, Suite A, McFarland, WI
53558. Copies may be obtained by applying to Quam Engineering, LLC, 4604
Siggelkow Road, Suite A, McFarland, WI
53558. Requests shall include street address for delivery of documents.
A $40.00 non refundable payment
will be charged for each set of Bidding
Documents. A check made payable to
Quam Engineering, LLC is required
because of accounting procedure. Cash
and credit cards cannot be accepted.
1. Copies of the Bidding Documents may be secured in person at the
Quam Engineering, LLC office in McFarland, Wisconsin.
LEGAL PROVISIONS: The Contract
letting shall be subject to the provisions
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CITY OF VERONA
MINUTES
COMMON COUNCIL
August 11, 2014
Verona City Hall
1. The meeting was called to order

by Mayor Hochkammer at 7:01 p.m.
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Roll Call: L. Diaz, E. Doyle, J.
Linder, Mac McGilvray, B. Stiner and
D. Yurs. Ald. Reekie and Ald. Touchett
were absent and excused. Also in attendance: City Administrator, B. Burns;
City Engineer, B. Gundlach; City Planner, A. Sayre; Fire Chief, J. Giver; and
City Clerk, K. Scofield.
4. Public Comment: None
5. Approval of Minutes: Motion by
Yurs, seconded by McGilvray to approve the minutes of the July 28, 2014
Common Council meeting. Motion carried 6/0.
6. Mayor?s Business
* National Night Out was another
successful event, Mayor Hochkammer
thanked the Police Department and staff
involved with the event.
* The Partisan Primary Election is
tomorrow, August 12th
* On Wednesday August 20th there
will be a Committee of the Whole meeting to discuss the downtown.
7. Administrator?s Report
8. Engineer?s Report
9. COMMITTEE REPORTS
A. Plan Commission
Re: Ordinance No. 14-849. Motion by
Linder, seconded by Diaz to approve Ordinance No. 14-849. Motion Carried 6/0.
Re: Ordinance No. 14-850 Motion by
Linder, seconded by Diaz. Motion Carried 6/0.
B. Finance Committee
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402 Help Wanted, General

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143 Notices
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honors; Curtis Langer, deans list and
semester honors; Kathy Harings, deans
list and semester honors; Tracey Woock,
deans list; Nicole Martineau, semester
honors; Natalia Harris, semester honors;
Dominic Egizi, semester honors; Mike

Wanta, semester honors; Colleen Latzke,
semester honors; Hannah Kaeser, semester honors; Allison Schultz, semester
honors; Josh Barnard, semester honors; Kimberly Ferris, semester honors;
Cati Ecton, semester honors; Shah-Jahan
Dodwad, semester honors
Verona
Katie Remondini, deans list; Erica
Remondini, semester honors; Elizabeth
Mackler, deans list; Michael Hershberger,
deans list; Eric Zink, deans list and
semester honors; Meghan Phillips,
deans list; Brooks Martin, deans list;
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O'BRIEN TRUCKING
5995 Cty D, Oregon, WI
608-835-7255
www.obrientrucking.com
or 835-6677.
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and semester honors; Alex Osborn,
deans list and semester honors; Audrey
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semester honors; Mitchell Feller, semester honors; Elizabeth Mackler, semester
honors; Michael Hershberger, semester
honors; Jessi Blackburn, semester honors; Meghan Phillips, semester honors;
Amanda Wedderspoon, semester honors;
Sara Wozniak, semester honors
560 Professional Services

CALL-A-PRO PLUMBING
Your local plumbing professionals!
Have plumbing problems?
We have the solution.
Call us 24/7. 800-605-4582 (wcan)
576 Special Services

BANKRUPTCY- STOUGHTON and surrounding area. Merry Law Offices. 608205-0621. No charge for initial consultation. "We are a debt relief agency. We
help people file for bankruptcy relief
under the bankruptcy code."
586 TV, VCR &

Electronics Repair
DIRECTV STARTING at $24.95/mo.
Free 3-months of HBO, Starz, Showtime
& Cinemax. Free receiver upgrade. 2014
NFL Sunday ticket included with select
packages. Some exclusions apply. Call
for details.
800-918-1046 (wcan)
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mo for 12 mos. High speed internet
starting at $14.95/month (where
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and programming starting at $19.99/mo.
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590 Wanted: Services

AFTER SCHOOL babysitter needed
from 3-5pm for 3-5 nights per week.
Days flexible. Perfect for high schoolers.
Constance 608-469-5737.
601 Household
NEW MATTRESS SETS from $89. All
sizes in Stock. 9 styles.
PlymouthFurnitureWI.com
2133 Eastern Ave, Plymouth WI
Open 7 days A Week (wcan)
602 Antiques & Collectibles

28TH ANNUAL Pickett Steam Show
September 6-7. Veteran's 1/2 price adm
on Sunday. Farm & Hot Tractor & Pickup Truck Pull Friday. 7:30pm. Saturday,
Horse Pull @ 11am. Antique Tractor pull
@ 1:30pm.
7pm-12pm Folk Grass Music by:
The Dead Horses. Sunday 1pm Lawn
mower & Combine Demo Derby.
Features: Small grain equip & all brands
of tractors & gas engines. $5 admission.
Food & Refreshments available. Hwy
26 Olden Rd, 4 1/2 mi N of Rosendale.
920-379-5057 (wcan)
COLUMBUS ANTIQUE MALL
& CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
MUSEUM
"Wisconsin's Largest"
Enter daily 8am-4pm 78,000 SF
200 Dealers in 400 Booths. Customer
Appreciation Week
20% discount on all items $10 and
over Oct 6-12.
Third floor furniture, locked cases.
Location: 239 Whitney St
Columbus, WI 53925
920-623-1992 www.
columbusantiquemall.com
638 Construction &

Industrial Equipment
FARMI 3PT Logging Winch's,
Valby 3pt PTO Chippers, New 3pt
Rototillers, Loader Attachments and 3pt
Attachments, New Log Splitters. www.
threeriversforestry.com
(866) 638-7885 (wcan)
835-6677.
I&H BEAMS $3/ft & up.

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Grating Expanded Ornamental Stainless
Steel Aluminum. New, Used, Surplus. 12
acres usable items. Pal Steel Co 262495-+4453 Palmyra WI (wcan)
646 Fireplaces,
Furnaces/Wood, Fuel
SEASONED SPLIT OAK, Hardwood.
Volume discount. Will deliver. 608609-1181
648 Food & Drink

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652 Garage Sales

OREGON RAVEN OAKS
6242 Trail Ridge Ct.
Moving sale! Friday, 8/29,
8am-4pm. Rain date 8/30.
Quality items. Furniture.
Household downsizing.
STOUGHTON 1902 Meadow Dr.
Thurs, 3pm-6pm, Fri-Sat 7am-5pm,
Humongous! Eastwood Estates
Antiques, collectibles, Americana
collection. Like new: young boys clothes,
children's toys, books.
Household goods, furniture, loads of
very nice stuff. Priced to sell!
STOUGHTON 1918 Skyline Dr.
Estate/Downsizing Sale.
Thursday, 8/28, 4pm-7pm
Friday, 8/29, 9am-4pm.
Saturday, 8/30, 9am-4pm.
Sunday, 8/31, 10am-2pm.
African Masks, Clark's Gnomes, Crystal
dishes, vases, glasses, bowls 2 dining
room sets, drop leave table, printers,
furniture, linens, holiday villages, quality
jewelry, clothes junior thru adult, baby
stuff, CD, DVD. Credit cards accepted.
STOUGHTON 900 Eisenhower Rd.
8/28, 1pm-6pm, 8/29, 7am-6pm,
8/30, 7am-3pm.
Make Me an Offer SALE!
Moving! End tables, recliners, lamps,
household decorations, kitchen stuff,
quilts, hard sided travel golf bags, sm
workout bench, excersize bike, luggage
and much more.
666 Medical & Health Supplies

ACORN STAIRLIFTS
The affordable solution to your
stairs. Limited time $250 off your
stairlift purchase. Buy direct and
save. Please call 800-598-6714 for
free DVD and brochure. (wcan)
SAFE STEP Walk-in tub Alert for
Seniors. Bathrooms falls can be fatal.
Approved by Arthritis Foundation.
Therapeutic Jets. Less than 4 inch stepin. Wide door. Anti-slip floors. American
made. Installation included. Call 800940-3411 for $750 off. (wcan)
668 Musical Instruments

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Exceptional condition.
Pecan. H42Dx25W58.
$900. 608-579-1009
676 Plants & Flowers

PROFLOWERS ENJOY 50%off
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Plus save 20% off your order over $29!
Visit www.proflowers.com/ActNow or call
800-615-9042 (wcan)
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For information call 845-9559 or 873-6671.
CHILD CARE
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NEED of Foster Homes NOW! Recruiting people
age 25+ interested in parenting youth in need.
TAKE ACTION NOW! Call 866-776-3760
www.
communitycareresources.com/now-recruiting (CNOW)
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WE BUY WE BUY Boats RV Pontoons

ATV's & Motorcycles! "Cash Paid" now.
American Marine & Motorsports Super
Center, Shawano
www.americanmarina.com
866-955-2628 (wcan)
696 Wanted To Buy

TOP PRICES Any Scrap Metal
Cars/Batteries/Farm Equipment
Free appliance pick up
Property clean out. Honest
Fully insured. U call/We haul.
608-444-5496
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
705 Rentals
EVANSVILLE- LARGE 2 and 3 bedroom
duplex with new kitchen, appliances
and bath. Historic district. Security and
reference required. Available now.
$700-850/mo.
No pets. Call 608-295-6665
GREENWOOD APARTMENTS
Apartments for Seniors 55+, currently
has 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $725 per month, includes
heat, water, and sewer.
608-835-6717 Located at:
139 Wolf St., Oregon, WI 53575
STOUGHTON 1616 Kenilworth Ct.
Large 2-BR apts available now.
Pets welcome. Many feature new wood
laminate flooring.
$775-$825/mo. 608-831-4036
www.madtownrentals.com
STOUGHTON 2-BEDROOM House,
$1100/month plus utilities and security
deposit. No smoking.
No pets. Available September 15.
608-205-2380 Mary
STOUGHTON 2-BEDROOM
Upper, Includes Utilities
Laundry, Garage, Appliances
No Smoking. No pets.
Mowing/Shoveling responsibilities
required. $625/mo + Security
608-873-6711 608-695-9460
STOUGHTON 2-BR Duplex/Condo.
All new carpet, vinyl, paint. Garage,
appliances, A/C, washer/dryer hook ups.
Full basement for storage, yard work
provided. Just move in and enjoy! No
pets, no smoking. $850. plus utilities.
920-723-6535
STOUGHTON TOWNHOUSE
2 Bedroom, 2 Bath
All appliances including W/D
FF Laundry C/A Basement
Attached garage. $885/Month No
pets. No smoking. 835-8806
CLASSIFIEDS, 873-6671 or 835-6677. It
pays to read the fine print.
STOUGHTON TWO bedroom upper.

$595/month + utilities. Water/Sewer paid.
Yard. 608-712-3384
STOUGHTON WEST Side lower.
No Pets. No Smoking. Now available.
608-873-3432
720 Apartments
OREGON-2 BDRM, 1 bath. Available
for summer/fall. Great central location.
On-site or in-unit laundry, patio, dishwasher and A/C. $720-$730/month. Call
255-7100 or www.stevebrownapts.com/
oregon
ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors
55+. 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $695 per month. Includes
heat, water and sewer. Professionally
managed. Located at
300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI
53589 608-877-9388
STOUGHTON 2BR $780, heat
water/sewer included. No dogs, 1 cat ok.
EHO. 608-222-1981 x2/3
740 Houses For Rent

STOUGHTON 3 BR/2BA on
Lake Kegonsa. Available 9/1/20145/31/2015. Flexible 9 month lease.
$1600/month 608-217-6954
STOUGHTON AREA HOME
Country sub-division between Madison
and Stoughton. Spacious.
2BR, 1.5BA, 2.5 car garage.
Large dining/family room, living room
Extra large remodeled kitchen.
3 season room, fenced back yard.
Large patio. Pets welcome.
Full basement w/additional family room,
stove, fridge, DW, W/D.
$1350 rent, $500. Sec Dep.
Please call Brady 608-286-5282
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
FRENCHTOWN
SELF-STORAGE
Only 6 miles South of
Verona on Hwy PB.
Variety of sizes available now.
10x10=$50/month
10x15=$55/month
10x20=$70/month
10x25=$80/month
12x30=$105/month
Call 608-424-6530 or
1-888-878-4244
NORTH PARK STORAGE
10x10 through 10x40, plus
14x40 with 14' door for
RV & Boats.
Come & go as you please.
608-873-5088
OREGON SELF-STORAGE
10x10 through 10x25
month to month lease
Call Karen Everson at
608-835-7031 or
Veronica Matt at 608-291-0316
RASCHEIN PROPERTY
STORAGE
6x10 thru 10x25
Market Street/Burr Oak Street
in Oregon
Call 608-206-2347
UNION ROAD STORAGE
10x10 - 10x15
10x20 - 12x30
24 / 7 Access
Security Lights & Cameras
Credit Cards Accepted
608-835-0082
1128 Union Road
Oregon, WI
Located on the corner of
Union Road & Lincoln Road
760 Mobile Homes

OREGON MOBILE Home.
High efficiency appliances, A/C, new
steel front door/storm. $10,000
608-835-8552
801 Office Space For Rent

OFFICE SPACES FOR RENT
In Oregon facing 15th hole
on golfcourse
Free Wi-Fi, Parking and
Security System
Conference rooms available
Kitchenette-Breakroom
Autumn Woods Prof. Centre
Marty 608-835-3628
820 Misc. Investment

Property For Sale
L:1966:930 ACRES w/mixed hard and
soft woods near Minocqua. Gravel roads,
miles of river frontage. 40 acre lake
frontage, year round home completely
fenced. Operating as public game farm.
Would make excellent private retreat.
Contact Nolan Sales, LLC, Marion, WI
800-472-0290. www.nolansales.com
(wcan)
CLASSIFIEDS, 873-6671 or 835-6677. It
pays to read the fine print.
845 Houses For Sale

FARMETTE FOR SALE- McFarland
Location, Location, Location!
5.23 acres, farmhouse, barn,
outbuildings. 1.5 miles to
Lake Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa.
Close to Madison. Bordered by a
creek, freight train tracks and cornfield
near Door Creek Wildlife Area. Asking
$240,000.
3333 Elvehjem Rd @ Hwy AB.
Call 949-433-4512 or
email lutfive@sbcglobal.net.
STOUGHTON-EXCELLENT
INCOME PROPERTY
3 units or can be converted back to
single family home. Fabulousopportunity
for owner occupancy. Excellent rental
history. Hardwood floors, all appliances,
garage, basement and off street
parking. Many new updates. Must see to
appreciate. $145,000 OBO
608-291-0665.
Friday for The Great Dane and Noon
or 835-6677.
SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS

& PARATRANSIT
DRIVERS
Part-time. Excellent Wages
20+ hours/wk. CDL bonus program
Paid training/testing. Signing bonus.
5501 Femrite Dr. Madison
Call Paul at 608-310-4870 or email
paulm@badgerbus.com
EOE
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688 Sporting Goods

& Recreational
August 28, 2014
DEER POINT STORAGE

Convenient location behind
Stoughton Lumber.
Clean-Dry Units
24 HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS
5x10 thru 12x25
608-335-3337
The Verona Press
STOUGHTON-EXCELLENT
INCOME PROPERTY
3 units or can be converted back to
single family home.
Fabulous opportunity for owner
occupancy. Excellent rental history.
Hardwood floors, all appliances,
garage, basement, and off street
parking. Many new updates. Must
see to appreciate. $145,000 OBO.
608-291-0665
TOWN OF DUNKIRK FSBO
Ranch home. 2BR-1BA. Low taxes.
22x16 Living/Dining room.
Finished basement, 2-car garage.
Concrete driveway. Fenced backyard
on .43 acres, A/C, wood burning stove.
16x12 3-season porch
Appliances. Newer roof & furnace.
Priced to sell. Call 608-873-7389
855 Manufactured Houses

NEW FACTORY Built Homes
3BR, 2BA put on your foundation
$59,980 Horkheimer Homes.
Hazelton, IA 800-632-5985
Friday for The Great Dane and Noon
or 835-6677.
970 Horses
CENTRAL WI Horse Sale
Clark County Fairgrounds
Sept 17-20, 4 days. Horses,
Equipment. Neillsville, WI
www.centralwihorsesale.net
715-238-8088 R. Reineck
#594 (wcan)
WALMERS TACK SHOP
16379 W. Milbrandt Road
Evansville, WI
608-882-5725
990 Farm: Service &

Merchandise
RENT SKIDLOADERS
MINI-EXCAVATORS
TELE-HANDLER
and these attachments. Concrete
breaker, posthole auger, landscape rake,
concrete bucket, pallet forks, trencher,
rock hound, broom, teleboom, stump
grinder.
By the day, week, or month.
Carter & Gruenewald Co.
4417 Hwy 92
Brooklyn, WI, 608-455-2411
835-6677.
Service Technician
Must have clean driving record

and be able to pass a physical/
background check. Knowledge of plumbing
helpful. Good Mechanical aptitude. Will train the
right person. Join a great group of people! Must be able
to work some nights and weekends. Good Benefits. Also
hiring p/t entry-level office help. Answer phones and
general clerical work. To apply stop by our McFarland
location or send resum to:
4808 Ivywood Trl., McFarland, WI 53558

608-256-5189
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Resident Caregivers/CNAs
Cooks
Now hiring part-time cooks and PM and night shift
caregivers at our beautiful senior living residence on
Madisons west side. Shift & weekend differentials,
paid training and an array of benefits are available.
download
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Bavaria Sausage, Inc.
8210 Highview Drive - Madison
for more
information call:
608.243.8800
has an opening for a
Retail / Deli Associate

Food or deli experience helpful
but not necessary.
AODA
Counselors
to provide counseling to inmates,
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Send resum to:

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employment including medical insurance (92%
employer paid with no annual deductible!),
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401k, vacation and personal days.
Candidates will be given a blueprint qualification
test. EOE.
Apply online at
www.subzero-wolf.com
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Epic is looking for professional cooks who are dedicated

to their craft for our in-house dining service. Youll be
scratch-cooking for our staff, customers, and guests
creating exciting and executing a menu that changes
daily and features a variety of regional, seasonal, and
international dishes.
All experience levels are encouraged to apply, fine
dining and large volume experience is preferred. Our
team feeds a campus of approximately 7,700 people in
addition to internal caterings, receptions, and large-scale
on-site conferences.
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air-conditioned kitchen, and will enjoy full-time, regular
hours, competitive wages, and full benefits including
paid vacation.
Inquire online at careers.epic.com.
1979 Milky Way, Verona, WI 53593
to provide counseling to inmates,

supervision
managementatat
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Oakhill
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Correctional
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Must be a licensed AODA counselor with a
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with correctional/criminal justice clients.
Must also hold, at a minimum, valid

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Fabrication
Machine Operators
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Horizon Healthcare, Inc. is recruiting

for full time licensed
full or part-time
6317 Nesbitt Road, Fitchburg
19
WELDER
Carnes Company, a leader in the manufacture of
commercial HVAC products accepting applications
for welder.
Applicants should have a steady, employment record
with preference given to experience in assembly
and frame welding. Prefer experience in welding,
however, will train if necessary and must have the
ability to read and work from prints. The use of
simple measuring devices, moderate to heavy physical
lifting, stand 8 hrs./day and pass a pre-employment
drug test as well as daily attendance are required.
Carnes offers weekly paychecks, PAID holidays,
vacations, life & disability insurance and more.
Email resume to:

HR@CARNES.com
or apply in person at
448 South Main Street
Verona, WI 53593
7:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m.
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20
August 28, 2014
The Verona Press
ConnectVerona.com
Church: Volunteers continue to work on remodeling project

Wildcat Lanes exterior sign
Saturday, weather-permitting.
The word that the building
has been sold has not reached
everyone yet. With the sign
still visible, some people have
been stopping by thinking
they can grab a burger, hang
out by the bar or knock down
some pins.
Even some of the children
of the congregation seem to
be confused. A few were concerned that the church and all
the people in it were going
away, so the church is planning to give them a tour of the
new building as a field day
soon to help them understand
the situation.
The church held its last services at the former library on
Sunday, Aug. 24, a day filled
with mixed emotions for
members.
It was touching when
they took the cross out, said
Diane Lukas, moving coordinator for the project.
The congregation of about
250 members had been outgrowing the library space,
which Holmes said was not
the best design for a church.
Moving between the fellowship and sanctuary areas
was complicated, and the
childrens ministry had been
located in the basement along
with the Verona Food Pantry.
Still, they had invested a lot
of time and energy into making the space work for their
needs over the years.
The bowling alley is nearly
double the size of the library,
giving the church plenty of
room to expand its services.
We (were) utilizing maybe
Upcoming
services
Sunday, Aug. 31: 9 a.m.
at Harriet Park
Sunday, Sept. 7: 9 a.m.
at Harriet Park
Sunday, Sept. 14: 9
a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at 415
W. Verona Ave.
Info: sugarriverumc.org
Photo by Samantha Christian
Pastor Gary Holmes describes the Sugar River UMC floor plans for
the renovation project of Wildcat Lanes, 415 W. Verona Ave.
13,000 square feet, and this

is 26,000 square feet, said
Holmes. So it allows us to
create a sanctuary.
Holmes added that there
will be a two-story open foyer
to bring in more natural light.
Were excited about this
design, he said. Itll definitely be better than it is now.
The completed sanctuary
will occupy the space where
the 16 bowling lanes were
located. The ceiling will be
raised to almost 20 feet.
We were taking tiles out
of it the last couple days, and
it was so neat to see it go up
19 feet in the air instead of
nine feet, Holmes said.
To help reduce costs and
keep some things out of the
landfill, the ceiling tiles from
above the lanes have been
recycled and cut into squares
for use upstairs.
renovating certain areas of the

bowling alley, especially the
upstairs banquet hall, where
services and fellowship will
be held for roughly the next
six months.
That area will eventually be
the youth center with classrooms, which Lukas said will
also be available for the community to use. In the meantime, Sunday School will be
held downstairs for most of
the children.
The area where pool tables
were located is being transformed into the temporary
nursery, as well.
Were moving into the
banquet hall area for several
months while were reconstructing the rest of the building, Holmes said. Were
putting in as much sweat
equity as we can.
Many volunteers from the
congregation have already put
Work in progress
in numerous hours.
Most of this work, as far
Church volunteers are
already in the process of as the sanctuary (banquet
cleaning, painting and hall) and downstairs, is all
volunteers at this point in

time. Were pretty much here
from 9 (a.m.) to 9 (p.m.),
Lukas said -- and sometimes
even earlier.
We have a lot of good
people spread out through
everything. What we need is
an electrician and a plumber,
she joked.
Lukas said the construction company will start fullfledged work on the rest of
the building around October.
Robin Roberts with NCIRoberts Construction, Inc. of
Madison will be in charge of
construction for the sanctuary, exterior, entry and elevator. The architect for the project is Doug Pahl with Aro
Eberle of Madison.
Our first priorities are to
get the entrance in and the
building exterior done this
fall, said Holmes.
While the church is in transition between buildings, it
will hold a 9 a.m. service at
Harriet Park for the next two
Sundays.
Things are going better
than anticipated, even though
it seems slow at times, said
Lukas. Were just happy we
have it.
Bowlers have
fond memories
Scott Girard
While a segment of the

Verona community is surely
excited for the new use of
the old Wildcat Lanes building, at least a few Veronans
will miss the history and
camaraderie the bowling
alley provided for years.
When the bowling alley
officially closed at the end
of July, it marked the end
of a home for everybody
in Verona, said Dave Zurbuchen, who had worked
in the building in different
capacities since the early
1970s.
It offered something
that Verona will never see
again, said Zurbuchen, a
lifelong Veronan lamenting the loss of his use of a
building his parents helped
construct.
The alley first came to
Verona as competition
to another bowling alley,
Verona Bowl, which itself
had come in as competition to Fischls, a three-lane
bowling alley in the middle
of the 20th century.
Originally called KammAnn Lanes, it was the largest bowling alley in Verona
and eventually expanded to
offer a banquet hall as well.
Zurbuchen got married in
that hall. It also hosted the
wedding reception for District 3 Ald. Brad Stiner who
spoke against allowing the
alley to be closed at the June

plan commission meeting.
This is just my family,
me, Stiner said. These are
the kind of memories everybody has. And we lost it.
Zurbuchen echoed the
sentiment, calling the day
he knew it was going to be
closed very painful.
The shock value was
huge, he said. You never
thought it would happen.
You didnt think it would
go that way.
Both men also touched
on recent hotel proposals for the city, wondering
where people who come to
stay in Verona will go for
entertainment.
Those hotel owners
have no place to send their
customers, Stiner said.
The bowling alley was a
place somebody could go
from the Holiday Inn.
All these people are
coming in here to stay in
Verona, but we cant keep
them in the town because
were destroying what little
we had.
But most of all, Zurbuchen said hell miss the
community hed built there,
between employees and
regular customers.
It was home, he said.
It was a place that I could
go, and hundreds of others
could go at anytime and see
a face that you enjoyed, to
have a reasonably priced
meal.
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Thursday, August 28, 2014 Vol. 48, No. 14 Verona, WI Hometown USA ConnectVerona.

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