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grading change
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In December
Whats behind the
change to proficiencybased grading, and
whats next?
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Verona Area High School senior Kayla Ballweg competes in the hunter hack class with her horse, Triton, at Jefferson County Fair Park
in early October during the Wisconsin Interscholastic Horsemanship Association District 2 show. The Verona Equestrian Team placed
first and earned a trip to the state competition Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at the Alliant Energy Center, where they placed third in Division B.
Gaining speed
Equestrian team earns state accolades, school club status
A barely debated vote

at an August 2014 school
board meeting has become
a key piece of objections
to the new Savanna Oaks
Middle School grading system.
A group of parents
is questioning whether
the school, which put
Samantha Christian
Mueller added.
School support
Scott Girard
Until this year, the Verona Equestrian Team had been trotting along
with three members since its inception in 2012.
Having grown to nine and earned
an official status, the group has finally found its stride.
Fresh off a first-place finish in
their division at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Horsemanship Association
district show in early October, these
Verona Area School District middle
and high school students were looking for recognition from more than
just the state competition later that
month where they placed third.
The team also wanted to clear the
last hurdle of becoming a schoolsanctioned club sport, said coach
Sherry Combs. The district granted
that Nov. 4.
Now, Verona Area High School
seniors and VET co-captains Kayla
Ballweg and Heidi Mueller can look
forward to seeing their accomplishments from their final year highlighted in the trophy case and yearbook
and on their letter jackets.
But students earned more than just
awards this season. They also gained
confidence in their riding skills,
Although VET could still function

on its own rather than be sanctioned
by the school, WIHA encourages the
collaboration.
For the students, theres more
opportunities and its more in line
with how WIHA wants it to mimic
or be like a team sport if a school
would embrace it, Combs said.
A similar proposal to form an
equestrian team under different leadership at the high school in 2010 was
voted down partly because of district
budget cuts, even though that team
was not asking for any financial support, insurance or access to horses
and equipment.
However, at that time, high school
athletic director Mark Kryka told the
Press school-sanctioned clubs inevitably require staff, including himself, to spend time fielding phone
calls, scheduling events and checking students eligibility and whether
they conform to the schools code of
conduct. Two other club proposals
mountain biking and sledding were
also voted down that year.
Combs team which also was not
The Verona
Equestrian Team
competes in WIHA
shows.
respect from their school and friendships with fellow teammates.

VET, unlike other schools sports,
allows both boys and girls in grades
6 through 12 to compete against each
other at WIHA shows. Still, it is a
team effort.
Sophomore Sophie Kooiman said
with a relatively young team next
year, VET wants to recruit more students, especially middle schoolers.
She hopes to take on a leadership
role to help other kids like this years
captains were able to do for her.
Its very unique and all of us have
gotten very close because of this, and
we just want other people to experience this really cool thing that we get
to do, she said.
And its the only sport you get to
play with a thousand-pound animal,
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Verona Aid aims to help

on local, global levels
Syrian refugee crisis
inspires VAHS group
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proficiency-based grading in place beginning in

the 2014-15 school year
and then modified it this
year, violated Verona Area
School District policy by
doing so.
The relevant policy on
grading systems, 345.1,
Recent political rhetoric

on Syrian refugees has not
discouraged Verona Area
High School teacher Jason
Knoll or the students who
created the Verona Aid
group to help them.
The group formed earlier
this fall to focus on helping
those very refugees, after
Knoll could no longer handle seeing photos of children being carried through
horrific conditions as their
parents looked for safety.
I couldnt just sit back
and keep watching the news
and seeing these images,
Knoll said. It broke my
heart. Im a father of three
kids.
He took the idea to help
to a group he knew already
talked about issues facing the world: his students.
Knoll, a social studies
teacher and adviser for the
VAHS Model UN team, has
known some of the students
The
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for years, and while he was

not surprised at their interest, he has been impressed
with their work so far.
After coming up with an
initial list of dozens of items
to donate, Knoll quickly ran
into a roadblock, as sending
them was too expensive for
the UN Refugee Agency, or
UNHCR, Knoll reported on
the groups blog.
Instead, he and the students decided they could
help on both a local and
global scale at the same
time.
They decided to still collect the items, giving them
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Pantry distributes Thanksgiving meals to needy

The Badger Prairie Needs
Network has been a hub of
activity in the past week
as volunteers prepared for
the food pantrys annual
Thanksgiving basket giveaway to local families in
need.
More families served

A total of 290 families were served this year,
which is up from the 225
baskets distributed last
year.
Area churches, grocery
stores, businesses and residents donated Thanksgiving turkeys and all of the
fixings and fresh produce
on Nov. 15. Then, the
18-21 year olds in Verona
Area School Districts transitional special needs program helped sort items into
the right size of baskets for
each family Nov. 16-17.
By Wednesday, Nov. 18,
the community room was
filled with bags of stuffing,
cranberries, apples, onions,
carrots and squash for families to pick up in carts and
take home to make their
holiday meal.
Record-setting month
BPNNs food pantry
served record numbers in

October, almost doubling
its average from the beginning of the year.
The total served in October was 1,139 individuals
in 285 households. Of those
households, 43 were new or
had not been to the pantry
in the last nine months.
In comparison, for the
first nine months of 2015
the average number of
individuals served was 633
per month. When BPNN
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that number jumped to 814
individuals.
Of those individuals
served in October, 824 were
from Fitchburg, 234 were
from Verona, 76 were from
Madison and five were
recorded as homeless.
The pantry provides
enough food for seven to 10 Volunteers Kristi Johnson, Sharon Berkner and Marge Purcell sort donations on Nov. 15.
days each month, including
a variety of meat and fresh
produce. Each family gets
to shop the shelves of the
For information about what foods are most
pantry themselves to ensure needed, organizing a food drive, volunteering or
they will be able to use each
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of the items.
Financial and food donations are needed to continue to meet the increased
demand.
- Samantha Christian
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VAHS students
hosted national
conference this fall
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Showing off
Exploration Academy students had the
chance to share the projects theyve worked
on this year at the schools fall showcase
Thursday, Nov. 19. The showcase included
presentations and projects on display, with
the students there to explain what theyd
learned and what standards they had demonstrated through their project.
Above, Antonio Hernandez demonstrates
how he measured the force of a car on a
roller coaster with a swing at the top of an
incline.
Right, Elena Butler explains how she
researched her project on climate change.
Town of Verona
With few questions at budget hearing, voters approve levy

Open space and parks
commission disbanded
Scott Girard
The Town of Verona board will

vote on the proposed budget at its
next meeting after town residents
approved the tax levy at the public
budget hearing Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Town administrator Amanda
Arnold said there were few questions
focus(ed) in on the budget, and the
15 or 20 people in attendance approved
the tax levy as it was requested.

That will likely mean a nearly negligible difference in their property tax
from the town, though clerk/treasurer
John Wright was still calculating the
final numbers. His early estimate,
provided to the Press before the budget meeting, was an increase from
$3.76 per $1,000 of property value
last year to $3.78. That amounts to a
$3.41 change in the town portion of
the property tax bill for the owner of
a $250,000 home.
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commission was established years ago.
Its not something that the town
board could just disband, she said.
The change will be effective Jan.
1, though Arnold noted its likely to
be replaced with a smaller committee
that will focus on the same topics.
She said its likely part of a broader movement toward rethinking the
towns committee structure and how
the town board operates, and that will
play out in the coming months.
The Town Board is expected to
vote on the budget at its December
meeting.
Hosting a national
conference on race has
inspired a group of Verona Area High School students to focus on solving
disparities in their own
school through respect and
increased awareness.
Students in the Minority Student Achievement
Network hosted a national
conference for the organization earlier this fall in
Madison, and came out of
the event with an action
plan.
The plan has three main
components: behavioral
management, closing
the achievement gap and
improving multicultural
awareness.
The group said the keys
to success for the plan
include exposure, collaboration among students,
administration and faculty,
data, support and openmindedness.
To improve behavioral
management, the students
told the school board
Nov. 16, there needs to
be a clear understanding
and definition of disrespect around the district.
They also requested that
students not be removed
from class as a disciplinary measure, and that a
group of student ambassadors should attend teacher
meetings to create a full
understanding of the issues
facing the student body.
The group also suggested creating a sort of
restorative justice program
one of the behavioral

responses the district has
discussed that would
have a board of peers
decide on punishments for
when a student gets into
trouble.
The students suggested
an important component
of closing the achievement
gap would be notifying
kids that they can be part
of Advanced Placement
classes, because the awareness is not always there for
minority students, especially English language
learners. Over the last
two years, the district has
changed the pre-requisites
for students getting into
AP classes, which has
increased the number of
minorities in those classes.
Finally, the students
want to create a multicultural week that would
include the current multicultural showcase in the
spring. That, plus a meeting hosted by the Multicultural Leadership Council
of all of the schools student organizations, would
help improve communication across the schools
clubs, they said.
The students stressed
LGBTQA inclusion as
another key factor, including the suggestion of nongendered homecoming and
prom courts.
Administrators who
worked with the students
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SOMS parents have every reason and right to feel that they were
misled by the schools administration about the return to letter
grades.
The schools change back to the
more familiar ABCD was not at all
what they expected, and is nothing
more than a translation of the new
system into old-school terms.
But the ones who pushed for that
ultimately cosmetic change are
wrong about the approach.
We can complain about Common Core,
about school
standards, about
new systems all
we want, but
trying to stop
it is no more
realistic than
returning to the
days of yore
Ferolie
when elementary school kids
would run off to the local pond by
themselves to go ice skating. Love
it or hate it, that ship has sailed and
it is never, ever returning.
The ability to memorize numbers and dates and piles of information was never terribly useful,
but in the age of mobile phones
and Google, its a skill as pointless as being able to recite Pi to
the 15th decimal or recall every
American Idol finalist since the
show debuted.
There is, of course, value in displaying work and discipline. But
anyone who spends time around
their childrens schools as I do
daily can tell you that doesnt
need to be emphasized. Keeping
kids on task is the No. 1, No. 2 and
No. 3 job of teachers for six hours
a day.
I completely understand the
mind-set of parents who want to
see hard work rewarded Im sure
theyre all familiar with the Thomas Edison quote about genius being
1 percent inspiration and 99 perspiration. But what they might not
all remember is that Edison was
also kicked out of second grade for

having an addled mind because
teachers couldnt deal with him.
Edison would not have been earning As for his hard work, but a
savvy teacher might have recognized a twinkle in his eye when
they talked about chemistry and
electricity.
That is the primary goal of the
new grading system, regardless of
what growing pains there might be
in its implementation or whether
the district has done a good enough
job of communicating it. Rather
than rewarding the ability to regurgitate information correctly and
on point, its recognizing not
rewarding a students keen interest or unusual talents and playing
to their motivations.
Rather than stamping the word
failure on students who struggle
in a particular area or in general
it attempts to build confidence at
whatever level each student is at so
they feel comfortable trying things
that are different.
I understand the reluctance
some people have. Most parents of
school-age kids these days grew up
with the factory model of education, something that stuck around
so long, it has felt like theres
never been anything else. But like
everything else that doesnt change
much over time, its got problems.
One of them is a tendency to
ignore the highest performers and
spend too much time getting too
little response from the lowest performers. It basically aims for the
middle.
We all know American society
has never been about setting low
expectations. And if you teach for
the middle youll get mediocre
results.
Some people dont want their
kids to be guinea pigs, and I
understand that, as well. That was
part of the reason my son is not in
the two-way immersion program.
But being innovative is something
the Verona Area School District
is known for and has long prided
itself on.
And while its on the progressive
side of this issue, its hardly alone.
Personalized learning, alternative
grading and alternative behavior
are major initiatives in school districts all over the country.
The Industrial Revolution is
long past. Todays global economy
rewards innovation, risk-taking
and specialization, rather than people who work hard and memorize
answers but dont deeply understand the subject matter.
Besides, rewarding childrens
hard work in school is a job for
parents, not for report cards. If you
want to know whether your son or
daughter is working hard at school,
ask the teacher. I guarantee youll
get plenty of information in your
response, far more than youd get
by seeing an A on a test.
Now, none of this is to say that
Savanna Oaks or any other school
has done a perfect and consistent
job of adapting to a changing
system. There are questions about
whether it followed the process
correctly, and whether it has been
implemented well.
And just as with any major
initiative with any other group of
human beings, some teachers are
resistant to change, some embrace
it wholeheartedly and some are
willing and interested but arent on
the same page with other teachers.
That can make this evolution in
education confusing for parents,
students and administrators, just as
the evolution in the behavior rules
has been.
But we all need a more open
approach to discussing the way
education is evolving. If parents
are open-minded and administrators are open-door, they can help
one another, by administrators providing a crucial understanding and
parents providing crucial feedback.
Jim Ferolie is the editor of the
Verona Press and the parent of
a Verona Area School District
second-grader.
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VAIS event Dec. 5

Verona Area International
School will welcome the
public Saturday, Dec. 5, to
commemorate a recognition
it received earlier this year.
Chinas Hanban Institute
named VAIS, the Verona
Area School Districts Chinese language immersion
charter school, a Confucius
Classroom this summer.
The Dec. 5 event from 3-6
p.m. at Savanna Oaks Middle
School will include Chinese
calligraphy and crafts, dumplings and Chinese food and
two special performances of
a dance and martial arts.
VAIS is the only school
in Wisconsin to receive
the Confucius designation,
which includes a $10,000
grant.
Its just a great honor,
VAIS director Barb Drake
told the Press earlier this year
Getting the
willies
If you go
Verona Area International

School second-graders put on
their class play of The Boy Who
Wanted the Willies for parents
Friday, Nov. 20, in the Savanna
Oaks Middle School step room.
The short play follows a boy
named Hans searching to be
scared, or for the willies. He
eventually realizes he will not be
scared, and instead has multiple
sons named Willie.
What: VAIS Confucius

Classroom celebration
When: 3-6 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 5
Where: Savanna Oaks
Middle School, 5890 Lacy
Road, Fitchburg
Info: vaisverona.org
Left, the king (Brady Lake) and

princess (Mira Hartman) tell
Hans (Roark Janke) where to go
to get the willies.
of the award.
Hanban, which aims
to spread Chinese education around the world, also
recently allowed Drake to
travel to China and will
potentially provide a Chinese
teacher for the school beginning in January.
For information on the
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The City of Verona has

narrowed its search for a new
clerk to two finalists, and
likely will be able to extend a
formal offer of employment
when the Common Council
next meets on Dec. 14.
One is an internal candidate, Holly Licht, who has
been the deputy clerk for the
past year. Her position was
reclassified to be under the
supervision of the clerk after
the administrative assistant
left.
The other is the deputy
clerk in Neilsville, Ellen
Clark. Neilsville is a city
of 2,400 in Clark County,
between Stevens Point and
Eau Claire, and the deputy
clerk there works under the
clerk-treasurer.
The council was scheduled to hold a closed session
Monday night after press
time to discuss the candidates after they went through
interviews last week.
Kami Lynch left earlier
this month to take a job in
Appleton, a significant step
up after the 27-year-old spent
more than five years here,
four as clerk. Lynch had

come here as a recent college graduate and worked her
way into the job after the former clerk had been forced to
resign.
Licht has been filling the
clerk duties since Lynch
left. As deputy clerk, city
administrator Bill Burns told
the Press, she assisted with
elections, voter registration,
licensing, the city newsletter, updating information on
the website and managing
agendas, minutes and other
records. She also took on
some human resources-related duties, such as the online
application system.
Clark worked in an office
with no administrator, so
the clerks duties were even
more personnel intensive,
Burns said. She was involved
in standard clerk duties plus
employee benefits, onboarding and similar HR duties.
Generally, when alders
agree on a candidate after a
closed-session discussion,
city staff or a representative
contact the candidate and
begin discussions on contract
terms and bring those back
to the next Common Council
meeting for approval.
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Coming up
Churches
Parents day out

Verona Area Community Theater,
405 Bruce St., will hold Parents Day
Out: Black Friday Edition from 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 27.
Parents can bring their kids (ages
5-12) to the VACT building for a day
of movies, dancing, games and holiday
activities while parents enjoy Black Friday shopping. The cost is $7.50 per kid
per hour; pay when you pick them up.
For information, contact event organizer Alyssa Dvorak at alyssamdvorak@
gmail.com.
Health talk
Students from UW-Madisons School
of Pharmacy will visit the senior center
at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, for a HalfHour Health Talk discussing causes of
incontinence, medication options and
more. For information, call 845-7471.
Estate planning
Local author and estate-planning
attorney Melinda Gustafson Gervasi
will discuss her book Middle Class

Philanthropist: How Anyone Can Leave
a Legacy and the basics of wills, trusts
and probate from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday,
Dec. 1 at the library. To register for this
free program, visit veronapubliclibrary.
org or call 845-7180.
Hometown Holidays
The annual Hometown Holidays
weekend will take place Friday, Dec.
4 and Saturday, Dec. 5 at locations
throughout Verona. See a performance
of VACTs A Very Merry Hometown
Christmas at the Verona Performing
Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec.
3, Friday, Dec. 4, and Saturday, Dec. 5
or at 2 p.m. Saturday or Sunday, Dec. 6.
Stop by the Holiday Tree Lighting at 5
p.m. Friday, Dec. 4 in Central Park featuring WISC-TVs Gary Cannalte, caroling by Resurrection Lutheran Church
and a visit from Santa on a Verona Fire
Truck. The Verona Fire Departments
5-Alarm Chili Supper will follow from
5:30-7 p.m. at the senior center. Have
your picture taken with Santa in front of

the fireplace.
Knock out your shopping for the season from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Salem
United Church of Christ Holiday Bazaar
and Luncheon at 502 Mark Dr. Residents and visitors alike are encouraged
to shop local throughout the weekend,
as sales, discounts, activities, treats and
more will be available at various Verona
retailers. Revelers can stop by the library
to warm up and get a free candy cane all
day Friday and Saturday.
For more details on the full listing of
events, call the chamber at 845-5777.
Breakfast with Santa

The Verona Lions will hold a breakfast with Santa at 9:30 a.m. Saturday,
Dec. 5, at the American Legion Hall,
207 Legion St. A magic act by Wayne
the Wizard at 10 a.m. will follow breakfast, and families can visit with Santa
from 10:30 a.m. to noon. For information, call 845-6067 or email verona.
lions@gmail.com.
Community calendar
Thursday, November 26
All city facilities closed
Friday, November 27
All city facilities closed

8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Parents Day Out
Black Friday Edition, VACT, 405
Bruce St., alyssamdvorak@gmail.
com
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Red Cross
Blood Drive, State Bank of Cross
Plains, 108 N. Main St., 1-800-7332767
Monday, November 30
10 a.m., Half Hour Health Talk:

Incontinence, senior center, 8457471
Tuesday, December 1
6-8 p.m., Estate planning presentation, library, 845-7180

6:30 p.m., Town Board meeting,
Town Hall
Thursday, December 3
7:30 p.m., VACT A Very Merry

Hometown Christmas, Verona
Area Performing Arts Center, vact.
org
Friday, December 4
Hometown Holidays, all day, 8455777

10 a.m., The Young and the
Restless indoor play time (ages
0-5), library, 845-7180
5 p.m., Holiday Tree Lighting,
Christmas Carols by Resurrection
Lutheran Church and a visit from
Santa, Central Park
5:30-7 p.m., Chili Supper, Santa
visit, senior center
7:30 p.m., VACT A Very Merry
org
7:30 p.m., Madison Songwriter
Showcase with Cris and Ann Plata
and open mic ($5 donation), Tuvalu
Saturday, December 5
Hometown Holidays, all day, 8455777

9:30 a.m. to noon, Breakfast with
Santa, American Legion Hall, 207
Legion St., 845-6067
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Salem United
Church of Christ Holiday Bazaar
and Luncheon, 502 Mark Dr.
2 and 7:30 p.m., VACT A Very
Merry Hometown Christmas,

Verona Area Performing Arts
Center, vact.org
3-6 p.m., VAIS Confucius
Classroom celebration, 5890 Lacy
Road, vaisverona.org
7 p.m., Rachel and Alan, Tuvalu
Sunday, December 6
Hometown Holidays, 845-5777

1-4 p.m., Holiday Baking class
($35), Badger Prairie Needs
Network, 1200 E. Verona Ave.,
bpnn.org
2 p.m., VACT A Very Merry
org
3-6 p.m., Chinese calligraphy
and crafts, dance performances
and martial arts demonstration;
Savanna Oaks Middle School
Monday, December 7
4 p.m., Monday Maker (ages

11-18), library, 845-7180
6:30 p.m., Plan Commission, City
Center
7-8:30 p.m., Healthy eating habits
presentation, library, 845-7180
(608) 845-6613
stchristopherverona.com
Fr. William Vernon, pastor
Saturday: 5 p.m., St. Andrew, Verona
Sunday: 7:30 a.m., St. William, Paoli
Sunday: 9 & 11 a.m., St. Andrew,
Verona
Daily Mass, Tuesday-Saturday: 8
a.m., St. Andrew, Verona
THE CHURCH IN FITCHBURG

2833 Raritan Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 271-2811
livelifetogether.com
Sunday: 8 & 10:45 a.m.
ST. JAMES EVANGELICAL

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

Verona Business Center
535 Half Mile Rd. #7, Verona
(608) 271-2811
livelifetogether.com
Sunday: 9 a.m.
FITCHBURG MEMORIAL UCC
5705 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 273-1008
memorialucc.org
Pastor Phil Haslanger
Sunday: 8:15 and 10 a.m. Worship
Sunday School: 10:15 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 School: 9 a.m.
Sunday Worship: 10:15 a.m., staffed
nursery available
Fellowship Hour: 11:30 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.
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
DAMASCUS ROAD CHURCH WEST

The Verona Senior Center
108 Paoli St., Verona
(608) 819-6451
info@damascusroadchurch.com,
damascusroadonline.org
Pastor Justin Burge
Sunday: 10 a.m.
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
201 S. Main St., Verona
(608) 845-7125
MBCverona.org
Lead Pastor Jeremy Scott
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
REDEEMER BIBLE FELLOWSHIP
130 N. Franklin St., Verona
(608)848-1836
redeemerbiblefellowship.org
Pastor Dwight R. Wise
Sunday: 10 a.m. family worship
RESURRECTION LUTHERAN
CHURCH-WELS
6705 Wesner Rd., Verona
(608) 848-4965
rlcverona.org
Pastor Nathan Strutz and Assistant
Pastor Eric Melso
Thursday: 6:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.
SUGAR RIVER
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
415 W. Verona Ave., Verona
(608) 845-5855
sugar.river@sugarriverumc.org,
sugarriverumc.org
Pastor Gary Holmes
9 & 10:30 a.m. contemporary worship.
Sunday School available during worship. Refreshments and fellowship are
between services.
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
ST. CHRISTOPHER CATHOLIC

PARISH
St. Andrew Church
301 N. Main St., Verona
St. William Church
1371 Hwy. PB, Paoli
We Shall Overcome
Whats on VHAT-98
Thursday, Nov. 26
7 a.m. Hearing Loss Coping
Strategies at Senior Center
8 a.m.- Zumba Gold
9 a.m. - Daily Exercise
10 a.m. - 3 Rs at Senior
Center
2 p.m. - Zumba Gold
3 p.m. - Daily Exercise
4 p.m. Tony Rocker at
Senior Center
5 p.m. Jessie Garcia at
Senior Center
6 p.m. - Salem Church
Service
7 p.m. - Senior Center Redo
9 p.m. Veterans Day 2015
at Senior Center
10
p.m.
Verona
Sesquicentennial at Historical
Society
Friday, Nov. 27
7 a.m. Tony Rocker at
Senior Center
1:30 p.m. - Veterans Day
2015 at Senior Center
3 p.m. Chuckwagon at
Senior Center
Senior Center
5 p.m. - 2014 Wildcats
Football
8:30 p.m. - Chuckwagon at
Senior Center
10 p.m. - Hearing Loss
Coping Strategies at Senior
Center
11 p.m. 3 Rs at Senior
Center
Saturday, Nov. 28
8 a.m. - Common Council
from 11-23-15
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.
11 a.m. - Chuckwagon at
Senior Center
Football
4:30 p.m. Verona
Society
6 p.m. Common Council
from 11-23-15
9 p.m. - Chuckwagon at
Senior Center
10
p.m.
Verona
Society
11 p.m. - 3 Rs at Senior
Center
Sunday, Nov. 29
7 a.m. - Hindu Cultural Hour
9 a.m. Resurrection Church
10 a.m. - Salem Church
Service
Noon - Common Council
from 11-23-15
Senior Center
4:30 p.m. - Verona
Society
from 11-23-15
Senior Center
10
p.m.
Verona
Society
11 p.m. - 3 Rs at Senior
Center
Monday, Nov. 30
Senior Center
Senior Center
Senior Center
Football
9 p.m. - Hindu Cultural Hour
10 p.m. Hearing Loss
Center
Center
Tuesday, Dec. 1
10 a.m.- Zumba Gold
10 a.m. - 3 Rs at Senior
Center
2 p.m.- Zumba Gold
Senior Center
Senior Center
6 p.m. - Resurrection Church
9 p.m. - Veterans Day 2015 at
Senior Center
10
p.m.
Verona
Society
Wednesday, Dec. 2
Senior Center
Senior Center
from 11-23-15
7 p.m. - Capital City Band
Senior Center
10 p.m. - Hearing Loss

Center
Center
Thursday, Dec. 3
8 a.m.- Zumba Gold
10 a.m. 3 Rs at Senior
Center
Senior Center
Senior Center
6 p.m. - Salem Church
Service
9 p.m. Veterans Day 2015
at Senior Center
10
p.m.
Verona
Society
The shooting and killing of nine people engaged in a

Bible study this past June in a Charleston church basement was horrific on many levels. How anyone could do
such a thing was beyond comprehension for most of us.
But what strained our comprehension even more was the
reaction of love and forgiveness by family members of
the slain victims. Forgiving such a heinous crime requires
a deep and abiding faith, and was so morally and spiritually beautiful as to bring many of us to tears. Out of tragedies such as this, God works miracles, and the miracle
here was how a young man hoping to bring strife and
division to our country actually brought a show of love
and unity. There will always be hate and haters among us,
but love is stronger and more pervasive, and ultimately
more effective in overcoming hate. We are reminded of
Jesus words on the cross: Father, forgive them, for they
do not know what they are doing. (Luke 23:34 NIV) And
remember, its easy to forgive the little stuff; the real task
is to forgive the seemingly unforgivable.
Christopher Simon, Metro News Service
Do not be overcome by evil,
but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:21 NIV
Support groups
AA Meeting, senior center, Thursdays at 1 p.m.
Caregivers Support
Group, senior center, first
and third Tuesday, 10:30
a.m.
Healthy Lifestyles
Group meeting, senior
center, second Thursday
from 10:30 a.m.
Parkinsons Group,
senior center, third
Friday at 10 a.m.
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The Verona Aid group has been mostly run by students, adviser
Jason Knoll (pictured center) said.
Aid: Recent rhetoric fuels

efforts focused on Syria
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to Porchlight to help the
homeless community in
Dane County. Monetary
donations will go to the
UNHCR to aid the refugees.
The students involved
have begun planning
T-shirt designs, events
and posters to bring attention to their cause. Theyve
also created a website,
veronaaid.wordpress.com,
to keep those interested
updated on their progress.
The group, which meets
once a week during the
A-plus period, is hoping
to hold a gala sometime in
February to mark its transition from focusing on
items for local donations
to school supplies for the
United Way, and also a
5K run sometime in May,
Knoll said, to raise awareness and money.
The group is getting recognized beyond VAHS,
as well, as Knoll noted
a recent article in The
Capital Times garnered
comments from teachers
around the district offering to help, and even one
teacher from a different
school district who wants
to be part of the effort.
Some of the students
involved told the Press its
been a great experience
going from discussing the
problems the world faces
to taking action on them.
Ive always wanted to
do something about all
of the problems going on
on the other side of the
world, said sophomore
Andy Knuppel. I just
really feel like also its our
duty to care. Just because
theyre from another country doesnt make them
worth any less than people
here.
For others, its served as
an educational experience
to learn a lot about Syria
and the world in how different countries are dealing with the refugees, said
sophomore Abby Davis,
and working with their
peers to bring help to the
issue is powerful.
Its amazing, Davis,
who is in Knolls World
Studies class, added. We
all have these big ideas.
Beyond raising money
or supplies, though, Davis
and others said sharing the
knowledge they gain from
research with their peers is
just as important.
(Education) is going
Sustainable
Development
Goals
Verona Area High
School teacher Jason
Knoll said the Verona
Aid group has its focus
on Syrian refugees, but
hopes to inform people
about the overall problem
of global poverty in the
process.
Knoll cited the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals as
a set of principles the
group hopes to share on
social media.
Theres also this larger global problem of poverty, he said. One of
the ways that the global
community is coming
together to address issues
like poverty is these Sustainable Development
Goals.
For more on the SDGs,
visit un.org.
to lead to people being
more aware and wanting to
donate, said senior Sasha
Anderson. Theres a lot
of people who probably
live in their own bubble
and thats kind of an issue
because stuff that goes on
in the world affects us even
if we dont know.
Knoll said overall, hes
been inspired by how the
students took his idea and
ran with it, and looks forward to the group sticking
around for years to come,
or simply until the crisis
is over.
He said he dislikes some
of the rhetoric that has
been used since the Paris
terrorist attacks, with many
governors around the U.S.
saying they did not want
Syrian refugees in their
state, but added that it
makes the work he and the
group have planned going
forward even more necessary.
If anything, it just
shows how important the
work that Verona Aid is
doing in education people
first, he said. This is a
humanitarian crisis. As
human beings, we should
be trying to help as many
people out as possible.
Just because theyre

from another
country doesnt
make them worth
any less than people
here.
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Andy Knuppel, VAHS

sophomore
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In brief
Clearly Building Corp.,

based in Verona, recently
sold its 100,000th building. The building was
sold by Verona building sales specialist Jay
Gunderson to a client in
the Madison area.
Cleary Building Corp.
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Sows Ear celebrates milestone year, readies for expansion
Scott Girard
The Sows Ear
When the Sows Ear coffeeshop opened on Main

Street 15 years ago, Deb
Errington was one of the
staff members.
Now, as the owner for the
past eight years, she recognizes what the space and
its combination of focuses
on knitting and coffee has
spawned.
It just creates that community, Errington said.
People come here because
they got friendships here
after divorces, after losses
and people have a place
where they can come and
feel safe, hang out and
always have someone to
talk to no matter what.
While Errington said that
the Sows Ears emphasis
on a comfortable atmosphere has been around
from the start, she marveled
at how the shop, which celebrated its anniversary in
October, has come into its
own over the years.
It was slow-going at
first because it was such a
different concept, she said
of the knitting and coffee
coupling. We started getting a lot of regulars and
groups meeting and classes
going, and its really just
taken off.
While that is exciting,
it also comes with problems, Errington added. One
example is the closetsized kitchen they use to
cook everything on their
menu.
Soon, though, that problem will be fixed, as Errington has plans to move
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the shop into the rest of the

buildings first floor, which
Errington owns, beginning
Jan. 1 when the current tenant moves out. The goal
is to finish a remodel by
March 1.
The initial design (of
the shop) was not meant to
do what we do (now), she
said of the remodel. It is
exciting.
With the new space,
Errington said she hopes
to offer more community
meeting areas, including
rooms with larger screens
for knitting lessons or business meetings.
Theyll also move more of
the knitting supplies into the
rear of the shop in order to
expand the cafe space.
Were starting to see an
increase in just coffee people, they dont have to be
knitters, she said.
She hopes the shop
wont have to close for too
long during the remodel,
but said they may need a
week or two to fully expand
and rearrange the space.
The Sows Ear opened
on the idea that coffee and
knitting are the perfect
pairing, and Errington said
thats still true today, even
though she only gets to
Photo by Scott Girard
Sows Ear owner Deb Errington began working at the coffeeshop when it opened 15 years ago, and
took over ownership seven years later.
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as you can when youre
focused on helping others
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The knitting side of the
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yarn for sale, welcomes
anyone at any skill level,
Errington emphasized.
Well help them no matter what, she said. If they
come in with a problem and
they didnt get their yarn
here or take classes here,
well help them no matter
what, because were happy
just to see them doing it.
Over the past 15 years,
Errington said the shop has
evolved to become a community space where customers can meet neighbors and
other Verona residents, especially as the city grows as a
fast pace.
Though she enjoys seeing
new faces as well, the relationships shes developed
with regular customers during those years are one of
Erringtons favorite aspects
of being a business owner.
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coming here for 15 years,
Errington said. Ive seen
the same faces every morning (during that time). Its
very cool to have that community and peoples kids
and you can watch their
kids grow up.
She said that she and the
rest of the staff look forward to serving the community by providing a
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years to come.
We just really love the
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
The
Verona Press
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Girls basketball
Boys hockey
Verona looks
to replace
departed
offense
Jeremy Jones
Sports editor
Verona boys hockey finished 15-9 overall during the

regular season and 8-6 in conference last year, placing a
team-worst fifth since joining
the Big Eight Conference in
2008.
The Wildcats averaged 4.04
goals against last season and
converted on 23.4 percent of
its power plays, while killing
87.7 power plays in 24 games.
Verona graduated second
team forward and leading
scorer Brodie Roehrig, however. Roehrig had 21 goals and
25 assists in 24 games. Roehrigs graduation was followed
by teammates Jacob Taylor,
Grant Smith and Liam Schmitt
as well.
Sophomore Sam Renlund would have been the
teams leading scorer, having amassed 16 goals and 26
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Photo by Anthony Iozzo
The returning letterwinner for the 2015 Verona Area High School girls basketball team (front, from left) are: Cassie Hei, Cheyenne Trilling, Alyssa Erdman, Heather Rudnicki
and Bria Sweeney; (back) Alex Luehring, Kira Opsal, Grace Mueller, Grace Schraufnagel and Chandler Bainbridge.
Poised to make a run
Verona returns 10 players,

looks to make a push to
Green Bay
Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor
The Verona Area High School girls

basketball team was so close to making a trip to state last season, falling to
Middleton in the WIAA Division 1
sectional semifinal despite sharing the
Big Eight Conference title with Janesville Craig.
But with 10 players back, including
four starters, the Wildcats will once
again be in the conversation for not
only a Big Eight title, but for making
the state tournament in Green Bay, as

well.
This is the deepest team we have
had in years, head coach Angie Murphy wrote in a preview questionnaire.
This senior class has a combined
varsity record of 42-6 over the last
two years. ... Our strength is our size,
depth, and overall team speed.
Seniors Grace Mueller (a Division
I University of Wisconsin-Madison
recruit), Kira Opsal (a Division II
Winona State University recruit) and
Cheyenne Trilling and junior Alex
Luehring (committed to Division I
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
are back after starting last season.
Graduate Kateri Trilling is the only
starter not back from last season.
Mueller (first-team all-conference)
averaged 13 points per game, while

Opsal (second-team all-conference)
and Luehring (second-team all-conference) both averaged 12 points per
game. Cheyenne Trilling (honorable
mention all-conference) averaged
eight points per game.
Seniors Heather Rudnicki, Alyssa
Erdman and Cassie Hei and junior
Grace Schraufnagel all have experience off the bench, while senior Bria
Sweeney and sophomore Chandler
Bainbridge will look to have more
minutes.
Newcomers Alley Johnson and Sisi
Mitchell are added to the roster to take
the place of graduates Jenna Riley and
Kateri Trilling.
Verona (22-3 overall, 16-2 conference) is one of the favorites to be the

class of the Big Eight Conference for
the 2015-16 season, but Middleton,
Janesville Craig and Sun Prairie will
all be teams vying for a title, as well.
Janesville Craig (22-4, 16-2)
returns senior Delaney Schoeneberger
(first-team, 361 points) while losing
graduate Allison Hughes (first-team,
458 points).
Seniors Anne Schumacher (204
points), Kamryn Brittingham (114
points) and Nikki Foster (95 points)
and junior Sam Pierson (101 points)
are also back, while graduate Aleya
Slatter (175 points) is gone.
Middleton (22-5, 15-3) returns
Conference preview
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Girls hockey
Lynx return 13
this season
Jeremy Jones
Sports editor
The Metro Lynx finished

12-9-5 a year ago.
Middleton returns 13 letterwinners from last season and only lost four.
Of the notable departures are one of the states
defensemen in Maegan
Sheehan, who is now playing at Bowdoin College in
Maine.
Seniors Anna Schieldt
and Lizzy Conybear are
two key returners.
Schieldt is back as the
returning captain after
posting three goals and
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Boys basketball
Wildcats return five in tough Big Eight

Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor
The Verona Area High School

boys basketball team will look for
a few different contributors for the
2015-16 season, but the Wildcats
do return two of their four top scorers.
Senior Cole Schmitz (secondteam all-conference, 338 points)
and junior Nathaniel Buss (157
points) were two of four doubledigit scorers from last season
with graduates Will Kellerman
(first-team, 358 points) and Jake
Toman (284 points) as the others.
Senior Keaton Knueppel (65
points), Kwan Clements (52 points
and Josh Hernandez are also back
from last season, but there will be a
need for newcomers to make up for

the other losses of graduates Casey
McClure (68 points), Avery Fossum (61 points), Tyler Hallmark
(35 points), Austin Lois, Maurice
Richmond and Colin Griffin.
Seniors Robert Wagman, Marcus Ferguson and Brycen Smith
and juniors Nick Pederson, DeAngelo Dixon, Max Fink, Tyler
McClure, Nick Yound, Colton
Reiber, Brian Murphy and John
Van Handel are the newcomers.
Conference preview
Madison Memorial (19-6 overall, 15-3 conference) won the Big
Eight Conference last season, the
12th straight time. Verona (15-10,
9-9) finished fifth.
The Spartans do not return any
all-conference players graduating

Shareef Smith (first-team, Player
of the Year, 385 points), Henry
Houden (second-team, 252 points)
and Brett Tauber (honorable mention, 208 points).
They also graduate Koko Songolo (286 points) and Travis
Lindquist, but senior Jake Ferguson (147) is back.
Madison East (20-7, 14-4)
took second in the conference
and returns seniors Deang Deang
(first-team, 364 points), Tre-vone
Irby (253 points), Courtland Cuevas (40 points), Oliver Allison (37
points); juniors Chris Warren (39
points), Kenny Jones (91 points)
Photo by Anthony Iozzo
and Cameron Cratic (34 points)
The
returning
letterwinner
for
the
2015
Verona
Area
High
School
boys
basketball
team
and sophomore Keshawn Justice
(from left) are: Cole Schmitz, Keaton Knueppel, Nathaniel Buss, Kwan Clements and
Turn to Boys BB/Page 10 Josh Hernandez.
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November 26, 2015
The Verona Press
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Photo submitted
Special Olympians win medals

Verona Special Olympians Caleb Heisz, Will Rose, Nick Nawrocki, Sarah
Pang, Cameron Johnson and Jennifer Blum; (not pictured) Madeline Walker
competed at the Special Olympic Regional tournament Oct. 24 at Prairie
Lanes in Sun Prairie.
Heisz, Rose, Nawrocki, Pang and Johnson won gold medals. Blum earned
silver, while Walker took bronze.
Girls BB: Verona starts 2-0

juniors Bria (third-team, 290
points) and Alyssa (honorable
mention, 193 points) Lemirande
but loses Elizabeth Norregaard
(first-team, 380 points) and Cole
Jordee (honorable mention, 174
points).
Middleton also returns senior
Grace Douglas (121 points),
junior Alexis Thomas (130
points) and sophomore Halle
White (99 points). Jenna Blair
(134 points) is gone from last season.
Janesville Parker (16-8, 12-6)
returns senior Bree Porter (honorable mention, 195 points) and
loses graduates Paige Smith (firstteam, 333 points) and Kathryn
Dubanowich (third-team, 232
points).
Senior Kaitlyn Foster (111
points) and junior Katie Uhl (101
points) are also back. Graduate
Jessica Thompson (77 points) is
gone.
Sun Prairie (15-11, 10-8)
returns sophomore Jayda Jansen (second-team, 285 points)
and loses graduate Bailey Huser
(third-team, 205 points).
Senior Brittany Jansen (110
points), junior Alyssa Blair (117
points) and sophomore Carly
Coulthart (196 points) are also
back. Graduate Megan Hartnett
(126 points) is also gone.
The Wildcats travel to Middleton on Tuesday, Nov. 24, and

host Middleton on Tuesday, Feb.
9. They travel to Janesville Craig
on Friday, Dec. 4, and host Craig
on Saturday, Jan. 23.
Verona hosts Janesville Parker
on Thursday, Dec. 10, and travel
to Parker on Friday, Jan. 29. It
hosts Sun Prairie on Thursday,
Jan. 7, and travel to Sun Prairie on
Thursday, Feb. 18.
All conference games are at
7:30 p.m.
Verona 65, Waunakee 60

The Wildcats opened the regular season on Nov. 17 at nonconference Waunakee and won
65-60.
Opsal led with 14 points, while
Mueller and Bainbridge added
10 points each. Trilling and Erdman finished with nine and eight
points, respectively.
Sophomore Ciara Rindy led the
Warriors with 23 points.
Verona 92, Mad. West 39

Verona opened the Big Eight
Conference season Friday and
won 92-39.
Mueller led with 28 points,
while Luehring and Opsal added
18 and 14, respectively. Johnson
added 10 points, and Rudnicki
finished with eight.
Kate Carlson led West with 15
points.
Boys BB: Verona starts 2-0

(246 points).
Graduates DeShawn Burks
(282 points), DAngelo Millon
(135 points) and Jordan Chester
(33 points) are gone.
Middleton (17-7, 13-5) was
third in the conference and returns
juniors Tyree Eady (second-team,
258 points) and CJ Fermanich
(third-team, 188 points), as well
as, seniors Cody Markel (133
points), Cam Maly (39 points),
Kevin Ripp (30 points), Brady
Thomas (28 points) and Mitch
Bacon (25 points) and junior
Storm Murphy (192 points).
Graduates Ian Hokanson
(192 points), Kellan Schulz (93
points), Tyler Ballweg (63 points),
Andrew Gardner (54 points),
Brett Joers (46 points) and Jordan
Smith (30 points) are gone.
Sun Prairie (14-10, 10-8) finished fourth in the conference and
returns seniors Sam Kerr (thirdteam, 252 points), Roderick Johnson (151 points) and DeShawn
Black (43 points) and juniors Ben
Hauser (138 points) and Nate Verstegen (55 points).
Graduates JT Ruffin (first-team,
268 points), Nick Noskowiak (180
points), Malik Robinson (142

points) and Nate Oehrlein (31
points) are gone.
Beloit Memorial (8-10, 12-11)
took sixth in the conference
and return seniors Dremond
Long (145 points) and Keyon
McEachin (31 points) and juniors
Lamont Patton (88 points), Jequan
Pegeese (71 points), Fred Brown
(35 points) and Anthony Johnson
(24 points).
The Purple Knights graduate Kyan Pleasant (first-team,
417 points), Will McEachin
(59 points), Dallen McAtee (43
points), Mario Nixon (86 points)
and Gerry Marks (23 points).
The Wildcats host Madison
Memorial on Tuesday, Jan. 5, and
travel to the Spartans on Thursday, Feb. 25. They travel to Madison East on Saturday, Dec. 19,
and host East on Saturday, Feb.
13.
Verona travels to Middleton
on Saturday, Dec. 5, and host
Middleton on Thursday, Jan. 28.
It hosts Sun Prairie on Thursday,
Jan. 14, and travels to Sun Prairie
on Friday, Feb. 19. The Wildcats
host Beloit Memorial on Thursday, Dec. 17, and travel to Beloit
on Thursday, Feb. 11. All conference games are at 7:30 p.m.
Photo by Jeremy Jones
Returning letterwinners for the Verona Area High School boys hockey team (front, from left) are: Alex Jones and Nathan
Cleghorn; (middle) Max Hankard, Braeden Schindler, Zack Ritter, Graham Sticha, Spencer Polk and Zach Lanz; (back) Noah
Maurer, Jeff Bishop, Gavin McCormick, Josh Novotny, Jake Keyes, Jack Anderson and Aidan Schmitt.
Boys hockey: Cats face two top-10 opponents Fri-Sat

assists, including the teams two playoff games. Instead he is now playing
with a U16 team in Omaha.
Verona also lost Jack Kerlyuk,
who decided to play AAA with the
Madison Capitols U16 team, as well
as incoming freshman Brock Baker
(the younger brother of former VAHS
players Tarek and Brogans) who
decided to move to Omaha and play
for a U15 team.
Other VAHS students already playing AAA hockey were: Konur Peterson, Ken Fiala, Kaeden Mauer and
Jake Osecki.
We would be really good if they
all played high school hockey, Verona head coach Joel Marshall said.
Regardless, we had more players tryout this year than any other year that I
have been coaching.
All the departures, though, leaves
junior Jack Anderson as the Wildcats
top returning scoring after posting 15
goals, including four on the power
play, and 16 assists in 25 games last
season.
More will also be expected of sophomore forward Jake Keyes (10 goals,
8 assists) and senior forwards Zach
Ritter (4G, 13A), Jeff Bishop (6 goals,

8 assist), Josh Novotny (5G, 11A)
Verona brings back second team
defenseman Zach Lanz (2G, 4A) to
lead along the blue line. Lanz, Ritter
and Novotny will captain this years
team.
Swiss exchange student Brendan Broccard and Verona freshman
Mason McCormick should also contribute this season.
Behind the defense, Verona struggled in net at times last year, allowing
2.33 goals per game, leaving seniors
Alex Jones and Nathan Cleghorn both
looking to have bounce back seasons.
Jones (8-4-0) posted a team-high
.885 save percentage, 2.29 goals
against average and had three shutouts last year, while Cleghorn (8-6-0)
stopped .800 of the shots he faced to
go along with a .911 save percentage
and one shutout.
Middleton won the conference last
year but lost first-team goaltender
Max McConnell. The Cardinals continue to have depth at all positions
though, including first-team defenseman Davis Buns.
Second place Madison Memorial
graduated player of the year Ty Pelton-Bryce, honorable mention Riley
Karns and second team defenseman

Cory Dennis. The Spartans welcome
back plenty of talent from their state
tournament run in first-team senior
defenseman Jack Andringa and senior
Jacob Padley.
Third place Madison West graduated first-team forward Cole Paskus
and second-team goaltender Henry
Cutting, but will most likely be led by
returning second-team forward Mick
Messener.
Marshall said Janesville and Sun
Prairie could be sleepers this season.
Verona rolled over the Madison
La Follette/East co-op in the opening
round of the playoffs before falling
against Madison West in the regional
finals.
The Wildcats dropped the puck on
their season Tuesday inside LaBahn
Ice Arena against non-conference
Madison Edgewood, but the game
took place after the Press early
Thanksgiving deadline. The Crusaders
are ranked eighth on the wisconsinprephockey preseason state rankings.
Veronas run against top-ranked
opponents continues this weekend as
they host fifth-ranked Hudson at 7:30
p.m. Friday and ninth-ranked SPASH
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Metro Lynx: Girls open conference season Tuesday

seven assists a year ago.
Conybear was the Metro Lynx
most explosive offensive player last season. She is the teams
leading returning scored after
putting up 10 goals and seven
assists.
Verona juniors McKenzie
Imhoff and Ella Hall (3G, 9A)
lead a talented group of returns.
Imhoff, who played for the
Lynx two years ago and the Madison Capitals AAA team last year,
has returned this year.
Ward said Hall is a young player who made some real strides
this summer.
Kara Epping, Julia Dragoo and
Siera Petet round out a solid core
of returners.
Epping took some time off
from hockey, but has decided to
play for the Middleton this year.
Kara will make a difference
for us this year, Ward said.
Dragoo was a solid player who
scored three times and assisted on
10 others last season. She will be
counted on even more if the team
hopes to be successful this season.
Petet battled through injuries
last year, but is back healthy this
season. She will be counted on as
a leader for a team that hopes to
compete in the Badger Conference.
The Cap City Cougars have
a lot of returning talent, Ward
said. Jada Ward is one of the
best players in the area.
Photo by Jeremy Jones
Verona girls hockey players on the Middleton Metro Lynx co-op this winter (front,
from left) are: Megan Biesmann, Jenna Jurrens and Ella Hall; (back) Sam Dingle,
Lucy Waschbusch, Ellen Cieslak, Brenna Gladding and McKenzie Imhoff.
The Rock County Fury also has

Emily Gabel helped the Lighta lot of girls returning, while the ning dig back out of the whole,
Badger Thunder have some good setting up Riley Schmitter early
talent.
in the second period. Schmitter
returned the favor on an early
Lynx 3, Lightning 2
third period power-play goal earMiddleton dropped the puck on ly. Lynx goaltender Erin Webb
the 2015-16 season Saturday with kept the Lightning off the scorea 3-2 victory over the Lakeshore board the next 14 minutes, finishLightning in Ozaukee.
ing with 17 saves in the win.
Schieldt got the scoring goal
The Metro Lynx continued its
midway through the first peri- season Tuesday by opening the
od. Petet helped the Metro Lynx Badger Conference season on
extend the lead to three with a the road in Reedsburg against the
goal minutes later before add- rival Badger Thunder. The game
ing another 2:35 into the second took place after the Verona Press
period.
early Thanksgiving deadline.
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The Verona Press
11
Verona History
September
40 years ago
The village began conducting registration of voters
because, as Trustee James
Berkner put it, Verona
was now a community of
3,000 persons and that poll
watchers still think they can
remember every person and
they cant.
Two large dogs that had
killed a pet goat and two
pet rabbits in the town were
hunted down and shot by
the dogs owner and a friend.
They had apparently gone
wild, the owner said, and the
30 years ago
The school board added a
new bus route to the system
after a debate in front of a
crowded room of 85 people
about overcrowding on the
buses.
The districts numbers indicated there was plenty of room,
but it was based on three kids
per seat, which Baileys Bus
owner Ted Bailey said wasnt
enough rump room. The
new route cost about $15,000
a year.
The city decided to name
its baseball diamond in
Community Park Stampfl
Field, in honor of longtime
baseball booster Charles
Stampfl, who had died in 1979.
Ken Zingg retired after 35
years with the post office.
First responders in
Barneveld honored Fitch-Rona

EMS for their help with the
tornado.
Walter and Ruth Brink celebrated their 50th anniversary.
20 years ago
The school district
was chosen as the School
District of the Year by
Wisconsin Manufacturers and
Commerce.
District administrators did
not know what criteria led to
the award, but information
submitted included management, parental involvement,
student and teacher assessment and teacher training,
and the release accompanying the award noted its 40
percent growth over the past
seven years and its per-pupil
costs remaining below the
state average.
A judges ruling on
the definition of retail
cleared the way for Horizon
Investment and Development
to put a Super 8 hotel and
McDonalds restaurant in the
business park off East Verona
Avenue.
The city had claimed the
two businesses did not fit the
definition and should not be
allowed. However, the developers victory in Dane County
Circuit Court still meant the
two entities had to work out a
deal for where they could be
located, and that happened
in December, when Horizon
planned for them to go on the
east side of the development,
farther away from residential neighbors. And later, the
city allowed a Culvers to go
where the McDonalds had
originally been planned.
A plan to change city
ordinances about sidewalk
requirements in new subdivisions led to a large outcry
from East View Heights residents, some of whom misunderstood the action being
debated and others who worried that it would be a slippery slope toward eventually
requiring sidewalks in all subdivisions.
More than 100 residents
signed a petition against adding sidewalks to their neighborhoods, and more than
20 people waited through a
closed session on another
matter to speak out about it.
The Verona Area Chamber
of Commerce hired its first
paid executive director,
Lonnie Selje.
Selje, a Portage resident,
had been the first full-time
chamber director in Baraboo.
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civic movers and shakers. It
was the fifth Optimists Club
in the Madison area, and its
first meetings were held in the
Auditorium hotel.
The school district sought
a grant to study the possibility
of bringing 4-year-old kindergarten to the districts.
By the time it actually did
bring 4K, in 2012, more than
80 percent of Wisconsin districts had started a 4K program.
With Epic almost ready to
move into its first set of buildings in Verona, the company
asked the city to study the
possibility of adding turn lanes
to the intersection of County
Hwys. M and PD well outside
the city limits.
A guest column in the
Press advocated a town-city
merger, something that would
be aggressively studied over
the next two-plus years and
ultimately defeated in an April
2008 vote.
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for the city to consider their
impact.
Ald. Jon Hochkammer
was the lone vote in favor of
the ordinance in a 7-1 vote.
The city still does not have
an ordinance specific to big
box stores, but a few policies
address larger buildings and
offer some protections.
A new Ironman route that
moved the annual race down
Verona Avenue, rather than
staying on South Main Street,
drew fewer complaints from
businesses.
The city came to a deal
with Metro Transit to provide
bus service for Epic on a twoyear trial basis.
The chamber of commerce
had been working on the deal,
which included stops along
Verona Avenue.
The Optimists Club marked
50 years of serving Verona
with a detailed history in the
Press from longtime member
Ed Faber.
The club, which still exists
today, was formed to benefit boys and provide peri-
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The district opened its

first charter school, New
Century School, while continuing to discuss plans for
a second one, which would
open a year later as Core
Knowledge Charter School.
The city and Madison
Metropolitan
Sewerage
District began building a
force main to transport water
to Nine Springs wastewater
plant, something that would
eventually allow the city to
shut down its own sewer
treatment.
The line had to go across
the Badger Mill Creek, which
meant clearing out of many
trees, worrying many nearby
residents, and public works
director Ron Rieder went
to the Common Council to
explain the restoration plan.
Verona Mayor Art
Cresson, Town Chair Harland
Dahlk and Fitchburg Mayor
Doug Morisette joined school
district staff and students
at the groundbreaking for
Stoner Prairie Elementary
School in Fitchburg.
The state awarded the
final contract for the Verona
U.S. 18-151 bypass, allowing
work on the 6-mile segment
to begin. It was scheduled to
take about 20 months.
A change in the states
date for the spring primary
and general elections for
the 1996 presidential election
meant candidates for local
office had to file nomination
papers a month earlier than
usual.
Public works crews began
blasting rock as part of the
infrastructure work at the
new Westridge Estates subdivision.
Heritage Woods condominiums opened on Cross
Country Road.
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sheriffs office was concerned

about the safety of small children in the area.
A petition signed by 39
Verona businesses and residents objected to the villages
decision to restrict parking
downtown, at the corner of
South Franklin and Verona
Road, in front of Millers
Supermarket and in front of
the Town Pump.
With Millers Supermarket
planning an expansion, it
razed and burned the last of
the old houses south of the
store.
The Town Board had an
intense debate over the use of
a tape recorder at a previous
meeting.
Plan Commission chair
Donald Mitchell had refused
to allow a supervisor to tape a
meeting that the Verona Press
reporter couldnt attend. The
board ended up voting 2-1
to go on the record allowing
tapes of any public meeting,
with board chair Donald Feller
voting against.
Tom Duerst was chosen
as Homecoming King and
Darcy Hagemann was voted
Homecoming Queen. Duerst
is now a member of the
Verona Area school board.
The Village Board held
what the Press called an illegal meeting, on a Saturday,
without notice, a month after
another special meeting had
been called without notice.
The Press blamed the secret
meetings, which included the
sale of industrial park land, on
the administration of Village
President Burr Weiland but
called out the rest of the village board and the administrator, as well.
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50 years ago
Hundreds attended the
dedication of St. Andrew
Churchs new building.
Veronas 161 seventhand eighth-graders started
school in their new junior high
school, housed in the former
Verona Grade School building
at 401 W. Verona Ave. That
building now houses New
Century School, which has
about 120 students.
Albert Frazier Jr., son of
Verona police chief Albert
Frazier Sr., took a job as the
police chief in Maple Bluff,
making it the first time since
1907 the state had fatherson police chiefs. At first, it
caused some confusion at the
police chiefs convention.
Enrollment at Verona
schools increased by 135 students over the previous year,
or about 12 percent.
School district electors
voted to construct a fourroom addition to Verona
Elementary School by a vote
of 87-14.
Thieves stole $668 from
a local gas station at some
point during the evening shift.
At that point, there was no
lock on the cash register.
A runaway truck that
hadnt been secured properly
when parked heavily damaged four cars in the Carnes
parking lot.
As part of Crazy Days,
a chamber of commerce promotion, the Press ran several silly, mock stories on its
front page, called the Verona
Mess.
The local municipal judge
ordered a local man to dispose of his two dogs after he
was convicted with allowing
them to run free and annoy
neighbors and people who
walked past his house.
Ottis Onsrud took the
grand champion honors in
the quality beef contest at the
state fair.
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The Verona Equestrian Team placed first in the WIHA district show and third at state. Pictured from left at Jefferson County Fair Park on
Oct. 4 are Ozzy with Sophie Kooiman, Heidi Mueller on Stetson, Kayla Ballweg, Abby Last, Leonie Tollefson, Katie Brye, Gaelan Combs
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Heidi Mueller, center, volunteered to represent Verona in the mascot race during the WIHA state show. Cheering her on were Leonie
Tollefson, left, and Abby Last, right.
whom Kooiman, Mueller and to. But the company she was
Ballweg have come to know in and the circumstances suras friends.
rounding the show made it
a learning experience for
Friendly competition
everyone involved, Combs
In the spirit of Halloween, remarked.
students and horses had the
For instance, half of the
chance to dress in costume team members happened to
during the WIHA state com- be at the national FFA conpetition, held Oct. 31 and vention in Kentucky the day
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Mueller borrowed a tiger
We got back at 1 a.m. on
onesie to act as the Wildcat Saturday morning and then all
while all the teams paraded went home and were ready to
around the ring wearing giant show by 7:30 a.m., Mueller
mascot heads, limiting their said.
visibility. She joked that it
With a tired team, some of
probably wasnt safe dur- the students parents and sibing the mascot race, but it lings had to help get horses
was definitely entertaining to washed and cleaned, take
watch.
them to the arena and get their
Combs said this fun display food and stables ready.
and laid-back atmosphere
Despite the obstacles, VET
contributed to making state placed third out of nine teams
one of the most enjoyable in Division B at its first state
horse shows shes ever been appearance.
Up until the very end,
we were in the running for
second place, so through the
whole show there was something to ride for, Combs
said. Because, yes, third
place is really great, but there
also was this possible second
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Its a completely different environment, she said.
I think its a lot less stressful, because theyre all cheering each other on. Its just so
much fun.
The kids, parents and
coach all get to know each
other very well through these
shows and offer any help
needed.
It got to the point where ...
I would stick my head out of a
stall and yell Mom and three
more heads would pop out,
Sophie Kooiman said.
Combs said the parents are
directly involved in the sport
as opposed to being spectators.
The truth is, when Gaelan
plays football, as a parent
youre on the sidelines watching the football team. In this
one, the parents are right
there, she said.
Mueller added that the long
breaks in the state show gave
the team time for more than
just rest.
It was a great way for all
of us to actually support
each other instead of just
being worried about ourselves, she said.
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presented its case to the
VAHS site council in midOctober, hoping for a better
reception this time around.
VET adult sponsor Cindy
Kooiman said the team took
extra precautions to ensure
every question was answered.
We made sure we opened
it to everyone, even if they
dont have a horse; if anyone
wants to learn about horseback riding and come help
at shows and learn what they
do, Kooiman said. At one
point last fall we had 20 people interested.
The 14 members of the site
council voted unanimously to
grant VET club status Nov. 4.
Sophie Kooiman, who has
been riding since fifth grade,
said it was a great experience
to present about something
she and her fellow teammates
were so passionate about.
The biggest thing for us
was that we had kind of done
something that would make
an impact on our school and,
as long as theres interest, be
a part of the school and part
of the community for the long
run, she said.
Seniors Mueller and Ballweg, who have been riding
horses for more than 10 years,
agreed that it was cool to
gallop through a successful
season and reach state as an
official team in their last year
of school.
Other VET team members
include sophomores Katie
Brye, Gaelan Combs, Abby
Last and Leonie Tollefson
and eighth-graders Samantha
Hill and Ava Wildenborg,
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Team may be that anyone
interested in joining can
jump on a horse and start
competing.
But coach
S h e r r y
Combs cautions that
the function
of the club
is not to
teach horse- Combs
back riding.
Students
need a horse and at least
one year of show experience
to compete at the WIHAsponsored shows. However,
students who want to be a
member of the club but who
do not own or lease a horse
may still help at WIHA
events with grooming, tack
changes and assisting the
coach and team support.
Whoever wants to ride
and can ride and can meet
the requirements can be on
the team, Combs said.
Combs said she is not in
a position to coach on fine
points since the riders do
other showing on their own.
Rather than holding tryouts
or running drills at practice
like other sport coaches,
VET includes an educational component in some
meetings by bringing in past
members to talk about how
to run classes, such as speed.
I expect the kids that
might run that class to
remember some of that and
try to use it, she said.
Combs asks riders what
they are comfortable with
and want to ride and she
tries to match them with
those classes.
And then hopefully we
can cover what we need to

with the disciplines from
their experience and their
horses experience, she
said.
WIHA shows are unique,
she said, because of the
range of classes offered.
Combs said pinto shows
generally just do hunt seat,
western and showmanship,
rodeo events offer speed and
driving is usually on its own.
So this one youre taking everything and smushing it together into one
show, she said.
Combs encourages team
members to try new things
with their horses, which is
a rewarding experience for
both coach and rider.
For example, senior Heidi Mueller tried saddle seat
showmanship this year and
seamlessly completed a
more difficult pivot pattern
than any other competitor
there tried with their horses.
I taught my horse (Stetson) something really new
five minutes before the
class, and he did it really
well and so I was really
proud of him for that one,
she said.
Sophomore Sophie
Kooiman said her mom
describes these kinds of
shows as a dance recital.
But instead of having
all your routines memorized the day before, youre
learning them in between,
she said.
Coaching is also done by
teammates before shows.
So many shows youre
seeing the trainers running
everything, and in this case
it was the team, VET adult
sponsor Cindy Kooiman
said.
Anyone in grades 6
through 12 interested in
learning more about VET
should contact Combs at
sherrymcombs54@gmail.
com or 845-6607.
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Obituary
You can say what you

want, but This signaled
that Lester Palmer was
about to offer up one of his
many keen observations. If,
on the other hand, he started
with, What are you doing
right now? you had better
schedule out the afternoon
for an adventure whose outcome only he knew. Either
way, after a few minutes
of conversation he would
say, Other than that I dont
know much.
Fact is, he knew a lot.
Though he would deny it,
Les was a man brimming
with wisdom and, fortunately for his family and
friends, he
was not in
the least bit
shy about
sharing
opinions
that were pretty much all
quotable. He was even better at listening. Principled,
generous, and painstakingly
fair in all his dealings, he
was amazingly accepting of
people for whom they were
inside. Little wonder Lester himself was a Town of
Montrose landmark as much
as was the familys solid
limestone block farmhouse
just south of Paoli.
Born at home on July
4, 1926, Les was merely
two and the tag end of a
Death notice
Geraldine L. Geri
Schumann
Geraldine L. Geri
Schumann passed away on
Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 at her
home from natural causes.
There will be funeral
services at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 4, at St. Martins
Lutheran Church, 2427
Church St., Cross Plains,
with the Rev. Kirsten Curtis
officiating. Inturnment will
be at Oak Hill Cemetery in
Black Earth at a later date.
Visitation will be from 9:30
a.m. to 10:50 a.m. Friday,
Dec. 4, at the church. The
Ellestad Camacho Funeral
Home is serving the family.
Look for a full obituary
in the Dec. 3 Verona Press.

requires that site councils
are the decision-makers for
grading policy changes.
Administrators acknowledged that they were unsure
if the SOMS site council
ever took a formal vote on
changing the grading system, but they said other
votes by the council illustrated its endorsement of the
change.
Some parents, though,
have said the process that
changed the grades was
too much of a top-down
mandate, as SOMS parent
Michelle Gigot Puent put it
at the Oct. 26 school board
meeting.
The proficiency-based
grades are in place for all
of the schools core classes
at each grade level, and the
school tied letter grades to
the different standard levels
this year to bring it to a more
familiar language for parents.
Now, a student who gets
every answer right might
still receive a B showing mastery of a subject
while a student who shows
an exceptional understanding
of a subject and expands it to
another might receive an A
for exceeds mastery.
The policy governing the
change is among the many
examples of why the board
has discussed changing the
power of site councils in
recent months and hopes to
increase consistency at the
districts middle and elementary schools.
Parents have continued to
question how the system has
actually been implemented. A recent parent advisory meeting at the school
focused on the grading system, and nearly 30 parents
came to hear from teachers
and SOMS principal Sandy
Eskrich on the topic.
The proficiency-based
grading will be a major component of a middle school
study currently underway
to assess what is working
best among the two middle
schools, and that will likely
be when the district has a
chance to decide whether
to continue ahead or move
away from the system.
Grading changes
Superintendent Dean
Gorrell acknowledged the
district might not have followed the letter of its policy
when it implemented the
proficiency based grading
Timeline of
change
May 2013: SOMS
awarded Innovation Grant
for Chromebooks for
sixth-graders
2013-14: Personalized
Learning Innovation Grant
implemented
Aug. 2014: School
board changes grading
policy to include proficiency reports
2014-present:
Proficiency-based grading
standards used at SOMS
Summer 2015: SOMS
administration agrees to
bring letter grades back,
but ties them to mastery
standards
system at SOMS, but he
said the change followed the
spirit.
Gorrell and Eskrich said
while they werent sure the
site council voted specifically on the grading system
which the policy says it
must approve they did
vote on moving funding
away from staff stipends to
the online software required
for the grading standards.
We cut, I think, four or
five team leader positions
and we cut four or five compensated staff site council
seats in order to come up
with (the funding) to be able
to subscribe to those webbased products, Eskrich
said. Because the site council made that commitment of
resources to buy the products to support the program
that was being developed,
they didnt do it blindly.
Gorrell and Eskrich asserted the change was grassroots, with the idea coming
from sixth-grade teachers
after their year of implementing an innovation grant they
received for the 2013-14
school year to focus on personalized learning.
After hearing that, they
said, Gorrell brought a
change to the board to
policy 345.1 to add proficiency reports to the grading procedures, though it
did not change the language
that said site councils shall
approve
The board had little discussion at either its July 14
or Aug. 4 meetings, where it
had a first reading and then
a vote on the change. Gorrell
explained to the board at the
time that the change was to
ensure that Savanna Oaks

and its current system of
proficiency reporting falls in
line with the policy.
This year, a letter grade is
attached to the different levels of mastery, rather than
titles like exceeds mastery, though parents who
asked for the return of letter
grades have criticized the
addition as a meaningless
way to appease them.
It follows the literal letter
of, but not the spirit of, the
request, Gigot Puent said at
the Oct. 26 meeting.
Council powers
Gorrell said while he still
felt the change largely followed board policy, it illustrated why there has been a
discussion about changing
site council powers this year.
Theres probably a lot
of things that site councils
do that either are in or out
of board policy, he said. I
would be shocked going forward if that language in the
board policy (345.1) carries
through much longer.
That discussion has also
led to a middle school study,
which is comparing the different schedules, grading
and other systems in place
at SOMS and Badger Ridge
Middle School. A group of
administrators is expected
to determine what policies
work best and try to bring
consistency between the
schools.
Gorrell said that did not
necessarily mean proficiency-based grading would
come to BRMS; he said
the study would determine
that and whatever body is
in charge after the board
decides on site council policies will make the ultimate
decision.
Though the success and
usefulness of the new standards has been debated
among teachers and parents,
Gigot Puent told the board
last month better communication will be necessary
moving forward for any further major changes.
We do expect a process
to be in place that requires
thoughtful evaluation, planning and communication
before, during and after
decisions directing major
changes are made, she said.
As education and district
needs change, it will be crucial to provide better guidance regarding district goals
and policies with both staff
and families.
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your destination until you

arrived. Above all else, he
would choose to talk to you
and made time in every day
to visit or call someone in
his extensive social network
which he developed over the
years long before Facebook
came into being. Les devoted himself to his vast circle
of friends as well as his family, and they loved him back
for it.
You can say what you
want, but Les Palmer was
a great man. If you didnt
know him, you should have.
After 89 years, on Nov. 19
he died at home exactly
where he so much enjoyed
greeting you.
Lester Palmer is survived by his wife of 65
years, Barbara (Sarbacker);
his children, Mike (Barb)
Palmer, Karen (Duncan)
McLean, Mary Kay Palmer
(Lee Haag), Daniel Palmer
(Eileen Rosenberg), Jeffrey (Heidi) Palmer, Patrick
(Temple) Palmer; his grandchildren, Ryan, Anthony,
Madeline, Anna, David,
Amanda, Mark, Jill, Grace,
Eve, Charles, Dylan, and
Dalton; and great-grandchildren, Logan, Carter, and
Johanna.
Lester was preceded
in death by his two sons,
Anthony and Richard;
daughter, Bonnie; his greatgrandson, Everett; his parents; and his brothers and
sisters, Earl, William, Julius,
Stanley, Floyd, Elmer,
Esther, Florence, and Dorothy.
A Mass of Christian burial
will be held at 10 a.m. on
Saturday, Nov. 28, at St.
Andrews Catholic Church,
301 N. Main St., Verona,
with the Rev. William Vernon officiating. A private
family inurement service
with full military honors
will follow in the St. Williams Cemetery, Paoli.
Relatives and friends may
call from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on
Friday, Nov. 27, at the St.
Andrews Catholic Church,
301 N. Main St., Verona.
A memorial fund has been
established.
Thank you to the caregivers from Agrace Hospice
Care, Ashley, Lisa, Kim
and Heather; to Father Vernon and Catherine Schneider from Saint Christopher
Catholic Parish for their
visits; and to Andy and Brad
for their services.
An online memorial with
guestbook is available at
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seemingly endless stream of

children when Julia (Gafke)
and Wayne Palmer moved
the family from the farm
on Whalen Road into the
house on County Trunk PB.
It would have been hard to
imagine that the little kid
slogging off to Paoli Grade
School after morning chores
would one day own the very
house he grew up in and
raise his family there, but he
took a step in that direction
when he pulled out of Belleville High School to do the
farm work his older brother
left behind by enlisting.
Les eventually had his own
opportunity to see the world.
His Navy stint aboard the
U.S.S. Philippine Sea as
they delivered Admiral Bird
to the Antarctic remained
a favorite memory and a
superb excuse to attend
reunions in later years.
The future of the dairy
farm ultimately relied on
Less strong back, but it
took Barbara Ann Sarbacker, whom he married
on Nov. 9, 1950, to change
it from a house to a home
and together to rechristen
the farm as Breezy Meadow.
Les and Barb set out to raise
cows, but after celebrating 65 years of marriage it
is clear that their success at
growing remarkable children outstripped even their
ability to collect ribbons for
Brown Swiss at the Dane
County Fair. With the example of their parents in front
of them daily, a solid work
ethic and fervent devotion to
each other became the norm.
Eventually worn from
incessant labor, Les was
forced to sell the cows
in 1985. If anything, this
allowed him to become
even busier as he diverted
his energies from the field
to community work as a
member of the Dane County
Farmer Service Board, the
Belleville School Board,
the Belleville Senior Citizen
Board, the Belleville Community Club, Duppler-Smith
Post 460 of the American
Legion, and the Antique Car
Club. Until the age of 80 he
drove a bus for Belleville
schools.
Not that he didnt know
how to relax. There was
always time to watch the
Packers or the Badgers. Or
he would get out his perfectly polished 1930 Model
A or 1966 Ford Galaxy
convertible to pick you up
for a ride, though true to
form you would not know
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Police reports
All reports taken from the Verona Aug. 6
police logbook.
12:38 a.m. Police responded to a
call of a 27-year-old Madison man
Aug. 5
knocking on the door and ringing the
2:27 p.m. Police responded to doorbell of a home on the 300 block
reports of two men in an older black of Meadowside Drive. Police warned
Nissan driving off without paying for the man not to be on the property,
gas at a business on the 2100 block who was later determined to be the
of County Hwy. PB. According to the ex-fiancee of the occupant.
business, this is the third time these
3:34 p.m. Police monitored the
men have committed such a crime. 1300 block of North Main Street
1:57 a.m. Police cited a 22-year- for approximately 40 minutes. A
old Fitchburg woman on suspicion 25-year-old Verona man was cited
of what would be her 2nd OWI and for speeding.
operating a vehicle while her license
was restricted from the first OWI intersection of W. Verona Ave. and
offense. Police released the woman Westlawn Ave. for approximately
to a responsible party.
one hour. Stops made during that
3:22 p.m. Police monitored the time included a 32-year-old Madi200 block of Nine Mound Road son woman, for suspended regisfor approximately 50 minutes. A tration; a 24-year-old Atlanta man,
31-year-old Texas woman was cited for speeding; and a 53-year-old New
for speeding.
Glarus man for non-registration.
1:24 p.m. A Verona woman
reported to police that her debit card
had received fraudulent charges originating from Scranton, Pennsylvania.

3:41 p.m. A woman called police
to report damage to her mailbox on
the 300 block of Mesa Road that had
occurred sometime over the previous night. During the investigation,
police found another mailbox nearby
had also been damaged.
7:28 p.m. Police monitored
the 300 block of S. Main Street
for approximately 45 minutes. A
42-year-old Brooklyn woman and a
40-year-old Verona man were cited
separately for speeding.
Aug. 7
8:41 a.m. Police stopped a
25-year-old New Glarus man at the
intersection of Paoli Street and S.
Nine Mound Road and cited him for
possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving
with suspended registration and
operating while suspended.

westbound lanes of U.S. Hwy. 18 at
Cty. Hwy. M for approximately 45
minutes. A 24-year-old Oostburg
man was cited for speeding.
traffic on the westbound lanes of

U.S. Hwy 18 at County Hwy. M for
approximately one hour. A 19-yearold Fitchburg man and a 30-year-old
Whitewater man were cited separately for speeding.
7:58 p.m. Police responded to a
call from a home at the 400 block
of Westlawn Ave. of a suicidal man
holding a knife to his throat. After the
man was taken into custody, he was
placed under arrested for probation
violation, domestic disorderly conduct and domestic damage to property. The man's girlfriend activated
her right to a 72-hour no-contact
order.
Aug. 8
1:07 a.m. A 42-year-old Stoughton woman was arrested with the
help of a Verona officer for having
a suspended registration, operating
with a suspended license and her
first OWI. VPD units were on hand
as part of an OWI task force stop.
3:49 a.m. Police responded to
reports of a vehicle driving eastbound in the westbound lanes of
U.S. Hwy. 18/151. Officers stopped
and arrested a 25-year-old Arena Aug. 10
man for what would be his 2nd OWI,
11:36 p.m. Police monitored trafafter a breathalyzer found his BAC fic on the 700 block of Enterprise
to be .10.
Drive for approximately one hour. A
27-year-old Utah man was warned
Aug. 9
for speeding.
Jacob Bielanski
12:00 p.m. Police monitored
Legals
Notice
The City of Verona Plan Commission will hold Public Hearings on Monday December 7, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. at
City Hall, 111 Lincoln Street, for the following planning and zoning matters:
1) Conditional Use Permit for a
proposed Indoor Commercial Entertainment land use, known as Toot and
Kates Wine Bar, to be located at 103
South Main Street.
2) Conditional Use Permit for a
proposed Indoor Commercial Entertainment land use, known as Fitness in the
608, to be located at 807 Liberty Drive.
3) Proposed General Development
Plan (GDP) for a Planned Unit Development (PUD) to allow for the construction
of a mixed-use project containing 36
apartment units and 3,770 square feet of
commercial space located at 142 Paoli
Street.
Interested persons may comment
on these planning and zoning matters
during the public hearings at the December 7, 2015 Plan Commission meeting. The Plan Commission will make recommendations on these matters, which
will then be reviewed by the Common
Council for final decisions on Monday,
December 14th.
Contact Adam Sayre, Director of
Planning and Development, at 608-8489941 for more information on these
items or to receive copies of the submittals.
Holly Licht,
Deputy Clerk
Published: November 19 and 26, 2015
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The City of Verona Plan Commission will hold a Public Hearing on Monday December 7, 2015 at City Hall, 111
Lincoln Street and the Common Council
will hold a Public Hearing on Monday
December 14, 2015 at City Hall, 111 Lincoln Street, for the following matter:
1) Subdivision Regulations text
amendment to create Section 14-110(a)(48a) defining a private street and
amending Section 14-1-70(m) relating to
the regulation of private streets.
Interested persons may comment
on this item at the December 7th or December 14th public hearings. The Plan
Commission will make a recommendation on this matter, which will then be reviewed by the Common Council for final
decisions on Monday, December 14th.
Contact Adam Sayre, Director of
Planning and Development, at 608-8489941 for more information on these
items or to receive copies of the submittals.
Holly Licht,
Deputy Clerk
Published: November 19 and 26, 2015
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1900-1980. Dead or alive! 920-371-0494
(wcan)
WCAN (Wisconsin Community Ad Network) and/or the member publications

review ads to the best of their ability. Unfortunately, many unscrupulous
people are ready to take your money!
PLEASE BE CAREFUL ANSWERING
ANY AD THAT SOUNDS TOO GOOD
TO BE TRUE! For more information, or to
file a complaint regarding an ad, please
contact The Department of Trade, Agriculture & Consumer Protection 1-800422-7128 (wcan)
ATV & SIDE-BY-SIDE Headquarters.

Huge blow-out pricing. Youth ATV's starting @ $699 plus FSD. Over 100 Honda/
CF Moto at liquidation $$ 866-955-2628
www.americanmarina.com (wcan)
163 Training Schools

DENTAL ASSISTANT Be one
in just 10 Saturdays!
WeekendDentalassistant.com.
Fan us on Facebook! Next class begins
1/2/16. Call 920-730-1112 Appleton. WI
approved. (wcan)
340 Autos
2007 BUICK LUCERNE. Sun roof.
Heated seats, steering wheel. New tires.
112,000 miles. $7600. 608-206-4235.
DONATE YOUR Car, Truck or Boat
to Heritage for the Blind. Free 3-Day
Vacation. Tax Deductible.
Free Towing. All paperwork taken care
of! 800-856-5491 (wcan)
342 Boats & Accessories

BOAT & Pontoon Blowout - (new/used)
Over 400 to choose from @ the guaranteed best lowest price. American Marine
& Motorsports www.americanmarina.
com, 866-955-2628 (wcan)
THEY SAY people dont read those little
ads, but YOU read this one, didnt you?
Call now to place your ad, 873-6671 or
835-6677.
355 Recreational Vehicles
360 Trailers
TRAILERS @ LIQUIDATION PRICING.
For boat, ATV, sled or pontoons. 2 or
4 Place/Open or Enclosed. American
Marine, Shawano
866-955-2628 www.americanmarina.
com (wcan)
402 Help Wanted, General

DIESEL TRUCK Mechanic:
Excellent pay! Benefits available!
PM, DOT inspections,
Brake/Clutch/Tire repair.
3+ years exp./tools req. Exp.
Email resume to: jay.delatte@
blackhawktransport.com 855-980-1338
DISHWASHER, COOK, WAITRESS,
& DELI STAFF WANTED. Applications
available at Sugar & Spice Eatery. 317
Nora St. Stoughton.
IMMEDIATE OPENING: Movers, Drivers. Two Men and a Truck is hiring friendly, reliable crew who enjoy being active.
Apply at https://careers.twomenandatruck.com or 3817 Kipp St., Madison.
LOOKING TO earn a little extra spending
money? Econoprint in Verona is
looking for seasonal help in our bindery
department. Flexible daytime hours M-F.
No experience necessary but speed and
accuracy are a must.
Pay starts at 12.50 ph.
Send us an e-mail at
on-call@econoprint.com
beginning on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.

Town of Verona
Office, Incumbent
Town Board Third Supervisor, Manfred Enburg
Town Board Fourth Supervisor,
Douglas Maxwell
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that
the first day to circulate nomination papers is December 1, 2015 and the final
day for filing nomination papers is 5:00
p.m., on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, in the
office of the municipal clerk.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that if
a primary is necessary, the primary will
be held on Tuesday, February 16, 2016.
Done in the Town of Verona, on November 23, 2015.
John Wright, Clerk/Treasurer,
Town of Verona
Published: November 26, 2015
WNAXLP
***
Town of Verona
Regular Town
Board Meeting
Tuesday,
December 1, 2015 6:30 P.M.
Town Hall,
335 N. Nine Mound Road,
Verona, WI 53593-1035
1. Call To Order/Approval of the

agenda
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Announcements
4. Public Comment - This section of
the meeting provides the opportunity for
comment from persons in attendance
on items not listed below over which
TAXI DRIVERS. Must be friendly, reliable, have clean driving record. Must be
at least 23-years-old. 608-669-6727.
434 Health Care, Human

Services & Child Care
COMFORT KEEPERS IN MADISON
Seeking caregivers to provide care
to seniors in their homes. Need valid
DL and dependable vehicle. FT & PT
positions available. Flexible scheduling.
Sign-on bonus.
Call 608-442-1898
HEALTHCARE EMPLOYMENT
Opportunities
DIRECTOR OF LABORATORY
SERVICES - Full-time salaried
management position
DIRECTOR OF REHAB SERVICES Full-time salaried
management position
REVENUE/CHARGE INTEGRITY
SPECIALIST - Full-time business
office position
FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER Full-time clinic position
OR TECH - .8 FTE p.m. tech position
MED TECH/MLT - .8 FTE p.m. shift
position To find out more detailed
information about all open positions
and to apply,
go to our website at
www.uplandhillshealth.org
Upland Hills Health
800 Compassion Way
Dodgeville, WI 53533
OREGON MANOR, a 45-bed skilled
nursing facility just 8 miles from Madison has an opening for a FT cook. This
position is 10:30 am to 7pm, 32 hours a
week including every other weekend with
rotating holidays. We offer a competitive benefit package. Experience is not
required. You may apply on-line at www.
oregonmanor.biz or stop by 354 N. Main
St, Oregon for an application. EOE
Increase Your sales opportunitiesreach over 1.2 million households!

Advertise in our Wisconsin Advertising Network System.
For information call 845-9559 or 873-6671.
HELP WANTED- TRUCK DRIVER
ON THE ROAD TO A BRIGHTER FUTURE! Midwest Truck
Driving School. Now offering Log Truck & School Bus training.
cdltrainingmidwest.com contact us at mtdsmac@gmail.com or
call 906-789-6311 (CNOW)
Marten Transport. NOW HIRING DRIVERS FOR DEDICATED
& REGIONAL RUNS! Dedicated Fleet, Top Pay, New Assigned
Equipment, Monthly Bonuses Up to $66,000 Per Year!!
WEEKLY HOMETIME! CDL-A, 6 mos. OTR Exp. Reqd. EEOE/
AAP LIMITED POSITIONS! APPLY TODAY! 866-370-4476
www.drive4marten.com (CNOW)
MISCELLANEOUS
ATTENTION TRUCK RECRUITERS: RECRUIT an applicant
in over 179 Wisconsin newspapers! Only $300/week. Call this
paper or 800-227-7636 www.cnaads.com (CNOW)
STEEL BUILDINGS
DIAMOND STEEL STRUCTURES - Fall close out - Prices
slashed. Archwall & straight wall steel buildings 40 X 62
starting at $9,900. Factory direct pricing. Call - 1.844.297.8335
(CNOW)
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this governing body has jurisdiction.

Comments on matters not listed on
this agenda could be placed on a future
meeting agenda.
5. Public Hearings
A. Public Hearing, Discussion and
Action re: Resolution 2015-14 to discontinue Oak Grove Road.
B. Public Hearing, Discussion and
Action re: Resolution 2015-15 to partially vacate Wesner Road.
C. Public Hearing, Discussion and
Action re: an amendment to Chapter 5 of
the municipal code (traffic regulations)
to prohibit parking on the Manhattan
Drive cul-de-sac.
6. Old business
A. Discussion and action re: adoption of a resolution to amend Ordinance
91-1 for the purpose of setting new
Public Utility fees adopted by the Utility Commission at its Public Hearing on
Nov. 17, 2015
B. Discussion and action re: Resolution 2015-17 amending the 2015 budget
C. Discussion and action re: Resolution 2015-18 adopting the 2016 general
fund budget
7. New business
A. Discussion and action re: Resolution 2015-19 to establish the January
2016- December 2017 Town of Verona
Election Board
8. Reports
A. Public Works:
i. Discussion and action re: driveway permit for Heartland Farm Sanctuary located at 11713 Mid Town Rd.
B. Plan Commission:
i. Discussion and action re: land
use application #2015-9 dated 8/14/2015
for property located at 2821 Prairie Cir-
UNITED CEREBRAL
Palsy of Dane County
is looking for experienced,
confident care providers.
We support a wide variety
of children and adults with
developmental disabilities
throughout Dane County.
Part-time positions
available immediately!
For more information, or to
request an application,
please visit our website at www.
ucpdane.org
or contact Shannon at
shannonmolepske@ucpdane.org
or (608) 273-3318. AA/EOE
449 Driver, Shipping

& Warehousing
OWNER OPERATORS Dedicated runs
Midwest w/wo own tri. Home weekends.
Year-round freight $1.65/mi(all)+fuel,
Reimbursed unloading Safety/ Insp
bonus 800-236-5319 Robin (wcan)
548 Home Improvement

A&B ENTERPRISES
Light Construction Remodeling
No job too small
608-835-7791
ALL THINGS BASEMENTY!
Basement Systems Inc. Call us for all
your basement needs! Waterproofing.
Finishing. Structural repairs. Humidity
and mold control. Free Estimates! Call
800-991-1602 (wcan)
DOUG'S HANDYMAN SERVICE
"Honey Do List"
Gutter cleaning and covers
No job too small
608-845-8110
HALLINAN-PAINTING
WALLPAPERING
**Great-Fall-Rates**
35 + Years Professional
European.Craftsmanship
Free-Estimates
References/Insured
Arthur Hallinan
608-455-3377
RECOVER PAINTING currently offering
winter discounts on all painting, drywall
and carpentry. Recover urges you to join
in the fight against cancer, as a portion of
every job is donated to cancer research.
Free estimates, fully insured, over 20
years of experience. Call 608-270-0440.
TOMAS PAINTING
Professional, Interior,
Exterior, Repairs.
Free Estimates. Insured.
608-873-6160
CLASSIFIED AD DEADLINE IS NOON
Monday FOR THE Verona Press
cle submitted by Wayne Weber. The purpose of the application is rezoning from
RH2 to RH1 to allow for the splitting of
one parcel into two. A preliminary CSM
is also included.
ii. Discussion and action re: land
for property located at 2783 Prairie
Circle submitted by Steve and Sandy
Andres. The purpose of the application
is rezoning from RH2 to RH1 to allow
for the splitting of one parcel into two. A
preliminary CSM is also included.
iii. Discussion and action re: land
for property located at 2778 Prairie Circle submitted by Tim and Linda Sweeney. The purpose of the application is
rezoning from A3 to RH1 and RH4 to
allow for the splitting of one parcel into
two. A preliminary CSM is also included.
iv. Discussion and action re: land
for property located 2771 Prairie Circle
submitted by David Dimaggio. The purpose of the application is rezoning from
RH4 to RH1 and RH3 to allow for the
splitting of one parcel into three. A preliminary CSM is also included.
v. Discussion and Action re: approval of Certified Survey Maps for the
following previously approved rezoning:
2101 Sugar River Rd. submitted by Carmon Wilson
C. EMS:
D. Open Space and Parks:
E. Town Chair:
i. Discussion and possible action
re: contract with owners representative
for building construction
ii. Discussion and possible action
re: committees
F. Supervisors:
G. Clerk/Treasurer:
H. Planner/Administrator:
i. Discussion and possible action
re: resolution related to provision of
dental insurance
9. Approval of payment of bills
10. Discussion and approval of minutes of the Nov. 3rd meeting
11. Adjourn
Regular 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 locations listed
above. Agendas are also posted at 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 of the Plan Commission
and could occur at this meeting for the
purposes of information gathering only.
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 at least 48
hours prior to the meeting so that proper
arrangements can be made.
Mark Geller, Town Chair,
Town of Verona.
Posted: November 24, 2015
Published: November 26, 2015
WNAXLP
554 Landscaping, Lawn,

Tree & Garden Work
618 Building Supplies:

Tools & Fixtures
FULL SERVICE Landscape Company,

renovation, patios, walls, snow removal
and much more. Call for FREE ESTIMATE! Nostra Terra 608-695-1742 or
nostraterrascapes.com
KNAACK STEEL Job Site Box, 2'x2'x5' $125 OBO. 2 - 7 Ton Axel Stands - $20/
pair OBO. 3/4" HD Electric Drill - $15
OBO. 608-835-5070.
SNOW PLOWING
Residential & Commercial.
Fully insured.
608-873-7038 or 608-669-0025
560 Professional Services

A PLACE for Mom. The nation's largest
senior living referral service. Contact our
trusted, local experts today! Our service
is FREE/no obligation. Call 1-800-9303021 (wcan)
COMPUTER PROBLEMS - viruses, lost
data, hardware or software issues? Contact GEEKS ON SITE! Service. Friendly
Repair Experts. Macs and PC's. Call for
FREE Diagnosis. 1-800-290-5045 (wcan)
572 Snow Removal

PLOWING, BLOWING.
Residential & Commercial.
20+yrs exp. Fully insured.
608-669-0025.
586 TV, VCR &

Electronics Repair
DISH NETWORK. Get more for less!
Starting at $19.99/mo (for 12 mos.).
PLUS Bundle & Save (fast internet for
$15 more/month) Call now 800-374-3940
(wcan)
602 Antiques & Collectibles

COLUMBUS ANTIQUE MALL
& CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
MUSEUM
"Wisconsin's Largest Antique Mall"
Customer Appreciation Week!
Dec 07-13. 20% Discount!
Enter daily 8am-4pm 78,000 SF
200 Dealers in 400 Booths
Third floor furniture, locked cases
Location: 239 Whitney St
Columbus, WI 53925
920-623-1992
www.columbusantiquemall.com
606 Articles For Sale

SWITCH&SAVE EVENT from DirecTV!
Packages starting at $19.99/mo. Free
3-months of HBO, Starz, Showtime &
Cinemax. Free Genie HD/DVR Upgrade!
2015 NFL Sunday Ticket included with
select Packages. New Customers Only.
IV Support Holdings LLC- An authorized
DirecTV Dealer. Some exclusions apply.
Call for details 800-918-1046 (wcan)
***
638 Construction &

Industrial Equipment
FARM & Construction Toys for kids of all
ages! Open 7 days a week! Hounsell's
W13196 Hwy 23, Ripon 920-748-2360
& 302 Prospect Ave North, Fon du Lac
920-322-9483 Best Selection in the Midwest (wcan)
HUGE BLACK Friday Sale now thru
11/30 with Jet & Powermatic, up to 50%
off!! WoodworkersDepot.com M-F 8-6,
Sat 8-4. Oneida St., off 41 @ Subway,
2965 Ramada Way, Green Bay 1-800891-9003 (wcan)
646 Fireplaces,
Furnaces/Wood, Fuel
DRY OAK and Cherry Firewood For
Sale. Contact Dave at 608-445-6423 or
Pete 608-712-3223
FIREWOOD: TRUCKLOADS 8' pulp, cut,
split or retail pkg. Quality outdoor wood
boilers & furnaces 920-833-7839 (wcan)
SEASONED SPLIT OAK,
Hardwood. Volume discount. Will
deliver. 608-609-1181
648 Food & Drink

EMERGENCIES CAN strike at any time.
Wise food storage makes it easy to prepare with tasty, easy-to-cook meals that
have a 25-year shelf life. Free sample.
Call: 800-986-3458 (wcan)
ENJOY 100% Guaranteed, deliveredto-the-door Omaha Steaks! Save 76%
plus 4 Free Burgers - The Happy Family
Celebration - Only $49.99. Order today
1-800-307-1674 mention offer 47222VPY
or www.OmahaSteaks.com/ mbfave37
(wcan)
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)
CPAP/BIPAP SUPPLIES at little or no
cost from Allied Medical Supply Network.
Fresh supplies delivered right to your
door. Insurance may cover all costs. 800995-0831 (wcan)
GOT KNEE pain? Back Pain? Shoulder
Pain? Get a pain-relieving brace at little
or NO cost to you. Medicare Patients
Call Health Hotline Now! 800-431-3924
(wcan)
ConnectVerona.com
SAFE STEP Walk-in tub. Alert for

Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal.
Approved by Arthritis Foundation. Therapeutic Jets. Less than 4 inch step-in.
Wide door. Anti-slip floors. American
made. Installation included. Call 800940-3411 for $750 off. (wcan)
668 Musical Instruments

$25,000 IN cash for old guitars, basses,
amps, Gibson, Fender, Martin & Gretsch,
etc.! I'll come to you! 920-467-4762
672 Pets
GOT AN older car, boat or RV?
Do the humane thing. Donate it to the
Humane Society. Call 800-990-7816
(wcan)
688 Sporting Goods

& Recreational
STOCK YOUR pond or lake now! Order
early. All varieties of fish & minnows.
Aeration systems. roeselerfishfarm.com
920-696-3090 (wcan)
WE BUY Boats/RVs/Pontoons/Sled/
ATVs & Motorcycles! "Cash Paid" now.
American Marine & Motorsports Super
Center, Shawano 866-955-2628 www.
americanmarina.com (wcan)
692 Electronics
DIRECTV'S BIG DEAL special. Only
$19.99 per month. Free premium channels HBO, Starz, Cinemax and Showtime
for 3 months & FREE receiver upgrade!
NFL 2015 Season included. Call now!
800-320-2429 (wcan)
705 Rentals
STOUGHTON 1616 Kenilworth Ct.
Large 2-BR apts available now.
Pets welcome. Many feature new wood
laminate flooring.
$775-$825/mo. 608-831-4035.
www.madtownrentals.com
STOUGHTON- 2/BEDROOM, 4 unit on
dead end st. One upper, one lower.
Remodeled bath, kitchen, dishwasher,
microwave, stove, refrigerator. Window
blinds, oak floors, storage, coin laundry. Heat, water/sewer included. $775/
mo. lower, $750/mo. upper. 1 month
deposit. One dog lower, one cat upper.
561-310-5551
STOUGHTON 3-BEDROOM lower level
of two-flat, near downtown, River Bluff
School. Newly renovated. Central air.
W/D, water included. No pets. $855/
month+security deposit. 608-873-7655
or 608-225-9033.
STOUGHTON 3BR/2BA west-side
duplex w/one car garage. No smoking.
$1,000. Call/text 608-695-2565.
STOUGHTON- 517 E Jefferson. 2-bedroom lower, $740. Utilities included. Call
608-455-7100.
STOUGHTON- 517 E Jefferson. 2-bedroom lower, $740. Utilities included. Call

608-455-7100.
720 Apartments
OREGON 2BR 1BA apartments
available. On-site or in unit laundry,
patio, D/W, A/C. Off street parking,
garages available to rent.
From $740/mo. Details at
608-255-7100 or
www.stevebrownapts.com/oregon
ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors
55+. 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $750 per month. Includes
heat, water and sewer. Professionally
managed. Located at
300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI
53589 608-877-9388
740 Houses For Rent

FOR RENT: Vacation home.
1-1/2 hours from Madison.
Lake frontage. Great ice fishing, skiing
and snowmobiling.
See us on Facebook:
The Pines at Lake Arbutus.
715-333-5056
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
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
DEER POINT STORAGE

Convenient location behind
Stoughton Lumber.
Clean-Dry Units
24 HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS
5x10 thru 12x25
608-335-3337
FRENCHTOWN
SELF-STORAGE
Only 6 miles South of
Verona on Hwy PB.
Variety of sizes available now.
10x10=$60/month
10x15=$70/month
10x20=$80/month
10x25=$90/month
12x30=$115/month
Call 608-424-6530 or
1-888-878-4244
980 Machinery & Tools
WELCOME TO Verona! 1843 Locust Dr.

Reduced Price! $249,000. Large 3-bdr
ranch home w/ 2-1/2 bath over 3 acres of
land. Large 2-car garage. Home has had
many interior updates throughout. Take
advantage of a motivated seller looking
to sell quickly! Also offering 0% financing!
Location is close to Epic Campus and
Madison. Contact Chris Lukens at 608575-5185. Re/Max Preferred.
FARMI logging winches, Valby PTO chippers, Skidsteer woodsplitters, log loader,
trailers, grapple rotators, rototillers 866638-7885 threeriversforestry.com (wcan)
6803 SUNSET Dr., Lot 3. Rural Wooded

desireable lot within 1 mile of town.
8+ acres. No deed restrictions. Verona
schools. MLS# 1758398. $267,500. Mary
Ruth Marks, (608) 513-7490. Bunbury &
Associates.
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
970 Horses
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
SELL IT
NOW
WALMERS TACK SHOP

16379 W. Milbrandt Road
Evansville, WI
608-882-5725
975 Livestock
THE Verona Press CLASSIFIEDS, the

best place to buy or sell. Call 873-6671
or 835-6677.
NORTH PARK STORAGE

10x10 through 10x40, plus
14x40 with 14' door for
RV & Boats.
Come & go as you please.
608-873-5088
845 Houses For Sale
865 Mobile Homes &

Lots For Sale
801 Office Space For Rent
15
PURE BRED Red Angus Bulls, open and

bred heifers for sale. Pick your bulls now
for summer delivery. Shamrock Nook
Red Angus 608-558-5342
CLASSIFIEDS, 873-6671 or 835-6677. It
pays to read the fine print.
in the Classifieds!
835-6677 or
connectverona.com
NOW HIRING
Programmed Cleaning Inc. is looking for reliable,

energetic individuals to ll numerous job
openings in the Madison Area:
Excellent Starting Wages and Benefits

Employee Travel Discounts
Oce Assistant: Full-Time Bilingual (Spanish & English),

Monday-Friday, 8:30am to 5pm, $15.00 with benet package
after 60 days, this individual will be responsible for general
administrative oce and have computer knowledge in Word,
Excel and Outlook.
Building Supervisor: Part-Time evenings, pay rate starts at
$12.00 + based on experience.
General Cleaners: Part-Time, evenings starting after 5pm,
Monday-Friday, NO WEEKENDS! Pay rate starts at $9.00.
Apply now in person at 2001 W. Broadway, Monday-Friday,
9am-5pm. If you have questions, call (608) 222-0217, or ll
out an online application at www.programmedcleaning.com
adno=441540-01
adno=441479-01
NOW HIRING DRIVERS FOR DEDICATED & REGIONAL RUNS!

Work a rotating 4 day on/4 day off schedule!
Running WI, MN, & the UP of Michigan!
Full benefits! New tractors!
CDL-A, 6 mos. OTR exp. reqd EEOE/AAP
LIMITED POSITIONS! APPLY TODAY!
866-370-4476
www.drive4marten.com
Holiday Inn Express & Suites is

currently hiring for the following
full and part-time positions:
Fairfield Inn & Suites is

currently hiring for the following
full and part-time positions:
Guest Services Representative (FT/PT)

Night Auditor (FT/PT)
Breakfast Host (PT)
Bell Staff/Shuttle Driver (PT)
Maintenance Assistant (FT/PT)
Guest Services Representative (FT/PT)

Night Auditor (FT/PT)
Breakfast Host (PT)
Bell Staff/Shuttle Driver (PT)
Maintenance Assistant (FT/PT)
Weekend availability is
required for all positions
Weekend availability is
required for all positions
Email resumes to
Email resumes to
hr@hixverona.com
515 W Verona Ave Verona, WI 53593

608-497-4500 hixverona.com
THE NEW GLARUS HOME, INC.
hr@fairfieldverona.com
adno=436038-01
LIFE ALERT 24/7. One press of a button

sends help FAST! Medical, Fire, Burglar.
Even if you can't reach a phone! FREE
Brochure. CALL 800-931-2177 (wcan)
The Verona Press
November 26, 2015
613 W Verona Ave Verona, WI 53593

608-845-3000 fairfieldverona.com
Grow With Us
THE NEW GLARUS HOME, INC.
We are currently accepting applications for
Universal Care Workers
is recruiting for the following positions:
Full-Time Nights
at these 2 locations
Registered Nurse
Part/Full-Time
St. Clare Friedensheim

&
Glarner Lodge
CNA
Part/Full-Time
Benefits Include: Competitive Wages; Shift and

Weekend; Differentials; Incentive Pay; Health, Dental,
Vision, Disability and Life Insurance; Retirement Plan;
Vacation, Paid Sick Days and Holiday Pay.
Join our team of professionals & experience the
pleasures of working on a retirement campus serving
our senior citizens. Our facility is nonprofit, church
affiliated, with a dedication to serve our residents.
Visit our website www.nghome.org to apply!
We offer competitive starting salary and differentials!

Zero deductible healthcare options, Vision, Dental,
Disability, and Life Insurance, Retirement Plan,
Vacation, Paid Sick Days, and Holiday Pay.
SEASONAL HELP WANTED!

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MATERIALS HANDLER 1ST & 2ND SHIFT
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The New Glarus Home, Inc
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ConnectVerona.com
Right, the Macys

head salesperson (Nolan
Brandenburg),
thinking Buddy
(Jacob Connor) is
an overly enthusiastic employee, tells
him to calm down
and wait for Santa
to arrive.
ON HIGHWAY 69N IN BELLEVILLE

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND SALE

ONLY AT OUR OUTLET STORE
80
UP
TO
% OFF
Spreading Christmas cheer
On the web
Buddy the Elf, played by Jacob Connor, spread Christmas cheer by

singing loud for all to hear last weekend in the Verona Area Childrens
Theater production of Elf Jr. The shows at the Verona Area High School
Performing Arts Center were Thursday and Friday nights and Saturday
afternoon, and told a shortened version of the story from the movie Elf.
See more photos from Elf

Jr.:
ConnectVerona.com
Above, Walter Hobbs (Derek Argall), pictured left, finds out Buddy (Jacob Connor) is actually his son
according to a DNA test. Michael Hobbs (Jackson Vilker), right, is much happier to have a brother than
Walter is to have a son.
Buddy
(Jacob
Connor)
greets
Deb the
Secretary
(Libby
Pleva) at
his fathers
office,
though Deb
assumes he
was sent as
a joke and
mistakes
him for a
Christmasgram.
ORIGINAL RETAIL PRICES
HURRY! SALE ENDS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29

Home of Ballroom Jeans, Buck Naked Underwear, Fire Hose Workwear,
Longtail T Shirts and more gear all designed and tested by tradesmen
DULUTH TRADING OUTLET STORE

1107 River Street (HWY 69N) BELLEVILLE
Near Burresons Foods 608-424-1227
Overstocks, catalog returns, and seconds in mens and
womens clothing, footwear, tools and other gear.
STORE
HOURS
WED - THU
11am - 6pm
FRI
10am - 7pm
SAT
9am - 5pm
SUN
12pm - 5pm
*Store closed on Thanksgiving Day. Offer valid November 27-29, 2015. Offer valid at Belleville Outlet only,
during normal business hours. Offer not valid in our other retail stores. Not valid on prior purchases, phone or mail
orders, or on DuluthTrading.com. All sales final.
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We Have All Your

Holiday
Decorations!
FRIDAY
ONLY!
NOW is a perfect
time for one step
furniture painting!
Amy Howard at Home
One Step Paint
NOVEMBER 27, 2015
845-7920
Family Owned for 44 Years!

Hours: M-F 8am-7pm,
Sat 8am-5pm, Sun 9am-4pm
on any one regular-priced item under $30
No top coat needed.
or get $15 off any one regular-priced item over $30
We can match any color!
Must present this coupon to receive offer.
Works on fabric!
Limit 1 per household. Coupon good only at participating Ace Hardware stores and on acehardware.com.
Valid for one transaction only. Not valid on sale or clearance priced merchandise, Weber branded products,
power equipment, rental, in-store services, Ace gift cards, city stickers, previously purchased
merchandise, or in conjunction with any other coupon, excluding Ace Rewards. Additional
exclusions may apply. See store for details. Void if copied, transfered, sold and where
prohibited. No cash value. Cant be combined with other offers.
acehardware.com promo code: FRI015
Rescue outdated furniture

without the prep!
No sanding or striping needed!
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119 W. Verona Ave., Verona
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