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Trying to ‘Save Oregon’ Sixth-graders start club to pick up trash, beautify Oregon ALEXANDER CRAMER Unified Newspaper Group

Alyssa Schrimpf and her friend Leah Sieren were playing on the banks of the pond behind their houses late last month when they saw a piece of trash float by on the wind and land in the water.

They decided to try to get it out, and once they started, they didn’t stop.

More than four hours and five bags of trash later, Schrimpf and Sieren, both 11, were tired and muddy, but excited by the work they’d done.

They decided to start a club to pick up trash around Oregon and started enlisting their friends. The next afternoon, they were back at it again.

“We want to go all over Oregon,” Schrimpf said. “We don’t just want this part to be clean, we want all Oregon to be clean.”

There were five girls gathered for the first official meeting of the Save Oregon club around the Schrimpfs’ kitchen table on April 4. All sixth-graders at Rome Corners Intermediate, each had a personal reason for wanting to contribute, but they all expressed a collective concern

for the environment and the way it’s being treated.

Lucy Carlson, 11, said the impact pollution has on animals inspires her to try to help.

“I remember watching a documentary where a penguin got his head stuck in a soda ring thing and he ended up choking to death,” Carlson said. “If you just take the extra step of (cutting it up) and putting it in a trash can you might save a life.”

And she hasn’t just seen it on the screen: Carlson says she remembers

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Trying to prioritize needs with a limited budget in a “super-competitive market,” the Oregon school board approved several new positions for 2018-19 Monday night.

Those were the words of district superintendent Brian Busler, who said administrators “agonize” over the

staffing plan every year as they try to find the right fit. “ We f i n d c o m m o n ground as an administrative team and bring you a consensus recommendation,” he told the board. “It feels like we’re interviewing around the clock and trying to get confirmation from teachers and administration so we can keep moving forward.

“We know it’s not easy

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New positions added in special ed, STEAM to sit in your shoes and try to process all the moving parts.”

After several hours of debate both Monday night and at its previous meeting April 9, the board unanimously approved nearly all of the administrative team’s “first priority” staffing recommendations, holding off on a decision to add a full-time first-grade teacher at Brooklyn Elementary

until the school’s enrollment picture clears later this spring. The teaching position was on administrators’ “watch list,” as was a social worker position the board approved.

“We would come back and discuss that relative to class size and whether we needed that,” said board p r e s i d e n t S t eve Z a c h , who noted that growing

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The Village Board last week adopted changes to the application for an alcohol server’s license – known as an operator’s license – and is considering enacting a demerit point system for businesses that hold a liquor license.

The board met last Tuesday, April 17, to discuss alcohol sales to minors at several local businesses.

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The committee discussed the matter at a Feb. 26 meeting and recommended the Village Board adopt three changes to the application for an operator’s license, which it did unanimously last week.

The board also asked police chief Brian Uhl to

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Leah Sieren, 11, moves a piece of construction trash from the pond to the pile on April 4.

Village officials are trying to determine whether there is a parking problem downtown or just a “perception.”

After more than an hour of discussion April 16 with downtown property and business owners who insisted there’s a shortage of parking, the Village Board decided to have an analysis done on how much parking space is needed.

Administrator Mike Gracz will solicit a cost proposal from the village’s planning consultant for a parking study, and planner Mike Slavney of Vandewalle and Associates will

bring a proposal to design downtown-visitor wayfinding signs and a map to show locations for the signs.

Gracz and other village staff had met with downtown stakeholders about the issue in March.

Dan Donoghue, owner of The Chocolate Caper, said many customers from outside the village are not familiar with where to park and will go to other communities if they can’t find parking close to their destinations.

Restaurants “are hurting because there’s not enough parking spots,” he said, speaking on behalf of the Downtown Business Association.

He presented a draft 10-year plan for addressing that and other concerns, including a lack of designated and accessible parking for people with

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Honoring the ‘Father of Lerner Park’ Rotarians dedicate bench to Al Miller ALEXANDER CRAMER Unified Newspaper Group

Collaborative efforts The entrance to Lerner Conservation Park now features a rough sandstone table surrounded by five stone benches. The table bears a plaque that reads, “Thank you Al Miller, Father of Lerner park. He made the impossible possible.”

T h e n ew s i g n a t t h e entrance of the park features metalwork done by Rich Fizzell of Prairie Art

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Al Miller and his wife Judy test out the bench dedicated in his honor on April 22.

Above, children play on the table and seats dedicated to “the father of Lerner Park” Al Miller during the celebraton at the park on April 22.

Right, the new sign at the entrance of Lerner Conservation Park features metalwork done by Rich Fizzell of Prairie Art Metal in Brooklyn and a group of Oregon High School art students. Around 30 people attended the dedication cermony.

Metal in Brooklyn and 10 of Heidi Coutre’s OHS art students: freshmen Alix McCorkle, Connor Goenier, Braeden Zienemann, Chris Learish, Bradley Mauldin, Katie Kisely and Annika Baumgart, junior Sophia Wilke, and seniors Nikki Broadhead and Jaelin Henn, who worked on the metal portion.

The collaborative effort behind the colorful sign is

the way things have gotten done at the park under Miller’s leadership. His wife, Judy, taught second grade for many years in the district and once a year would have a field day where students would fling mud balls filled with flower seeds into the park to restart prairie growth.

Al Miller said when he saw the rows of lupines growing next to the path, he

knew the kids had done a good job.

Eighth-graders in the district have field days as well, clearing brush and learning how to use a shovel and what it means to work outside.

A dozen Eagle Scout projects have made improvements to the park, including the bridge, benches, prairie observation deck, pond walkway and informational

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More than 500 Oregon students visit the park annually as part of the second-grade introduction to a conservation park, a sixthgrade project, the middle school field day, and a high school science class or the OHS Ecology Club.

Larry Mahr, who first met Miller around 1975 when Miller was coaching three of Mahr’s children in gymnastics, said Miller is an educator at heart.

“He has a real sense of getting people organized and getting a task accomplished,” Mahr said. “I know that Al likes working with the hands-on things with kids. Figure they can learn so much more that way and it’s a lot more fun.”

in what used to be the outskirts of Oregon but now is quickly being surrounded by the growing village.

“It’s a big sponge,” Miller said, noting that “many thousands” of acres of land drain through the park. “We can’t lose this.”

Prairie plant roots reach down five or six feet, compared to the inch-and-ahalf of normal grass, so restoring the park back to its native prairie state is important from an ecological standpoint.

But involving kids in the work is also important for Miller, who made his career after leaving the Marines with the UW Sea Grant Institute, whose mission statement is to “promote the sustainable use of Great Lakes resources through research, education and outreach,” according to its 2016 biennial report.

“The climate is changing.

We are losing species diversity,” Miller said. “We cannot ignore that.”

He hopes his work with the park – getting people interested and exposing children to the natural world – will “slowly but surely change attitudes” about conservation.

After posing for photos on the newly dedicated bench with his wife and children, Miller looked around and reflected on the ceremony.

“It’s just wonderful,” M i l l e r s a i d . “A l l y o u r friends coming out to tell you, you did a good job.”

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Twenty years ago, Lerner Park was little more than wasteland – too wet for cultivation and overgrown with honeysuckle.

But on Sunday, around 30 people gathered at its entrance, where a ribbon was tied across the head of a trail that meandered its way through freshly burned prairie toward an imposing oak tree in the background.

They were there to celebrate improvements to the entrance – including a new sign – and the man who’s played such an important role in developing the park, as a new bench under that oak tree bore the insignia, “In honor of Al Miller, Father of Lerner Park.”

Judging by the testimony from the friends and colleagues who attended the Earth Day ceremony, the impact Miller has made isn’t limited to the prairie grasses, trees and trails he’s helped cultivate over the last few decades.

It’s in the memories of all the second- and eighth-graders who worked to plant native species in the park, the Scouts who earned their Eagle badges doing projects in the park and the countless volunteers who came to work days to clear honeysuckle or shore up a walking path.

“Every person under about 30 who graduated from (Oregon High School) has shoveled dirt (and worked in the park),” Miller reflected at the ceremony Sunday. “It’s truly been a community effort.”

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The Oregon School District is one of 66 school districts throughout Wisconsin that will receive state funding for programs to reduce or prevent student use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

The district will get $25,000 for its ongoing student leadership and staff training on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) programming, district superintendent Brian Busler wrote the Observer in an email Tuesday.

“We are very fortunate to have been awarded this grant,” he said. “This will provide meaningful support for our AODA initiatives and help programming for our students and staff. We thank

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Staff: Board could add staffing as needed Continued from page 1 Bergamont development is in the Brooklyn attendance area.

“There are a lot of houses going up in Bergamont right now,” he said.

Zach said the board will revisit staffing likely in July, after the new school year starts and more information is known about enrollment numbers and teachers’ availability.

“This is a fluid situation as we move through May, June and July,” he said.

“We’ll keep you updated as to where we go with this.”

B o a r d m e m b e r Ti m LeBrun said he wanted to find a compromise to add a mental health counseling position that was on administrators’ “second priority” list, perhaps reducing the STEAM teaching position at OMS from full-time to halftime. “ We k n ow t h e r e ’s a n issue around mental

health, (but) that’s at the top of the second priority list,” he said. “We’ve got to find a way to work our way into a different mental health picture than we’re at today. I’m having way more conversations about it than I ever anticipated.

I don’t mean to restart the conversation, but I’m really conflicted.”

Busler said the district has added close to three mental health position in recent years and has

SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group

The Village of Brooklyn will borrow $1.1 million to reconstruct three streets later this year.

The South Kerch Street, Hilltop Circle and Hilltop Court projects, set to begin June 4, will include new water and sewer systems.

Vi l l a g e c l e r k L i n d a Kuhlman told the Observer the project had no specific end date, but work will not stop until the project is completed.

The roads, all of which are dead-ends, are expected to be accessible for residents during construction, Kuhlman said.

“It shouldn’t affect anybody except the residents down in that area,” she said.

The borrowing, approved by the board Monday night, includes $650,000 for the street work, $295,000 for water projects and $200,000 for sewer improvements.

As a result of the project, South Kerch Street will be widened and there will be curbs and gutters installed on all three streets.

Sidewalks are not part of the project, though portions will be completed on residents’ driveways so that if they are added in the future, crews would not have to tear up driveways at that time.

“There’s no immediate plans to put sidewalk in,” Kuhlman said.

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Steve Zach will return as president of the Oregon school board for the next year, but he said he would like to see a “rotating” presidency in the future.

Monday night was the board’s annual reorganization meeting, which generally follows a few weeks after the April elections.

Zach was unanimously re-elected president, a

placed a high priority on students’ mental health.

“We’ve made a significant investment in the last several years,” he said.

“Would we like it to be bigger? Absolutely.

“We’re only going to continue to make those investments in the years ahead.”

Email Unified Newspaper Group reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.delaruelle@wcinet.com.

OSD in brief Teacher contracts While contract negotiations continue between the district and the Oregon Education Association, the board approved issuing contracts to returning teachers for the 2018-19 school year, which begins July 1.

District human resources director Jina Jonen said the contracts are based on 2017-18 salaries, and will be adjusted “retroactively to the start of the school year”

position he’s held since 2016, when he defeated then-member Charles Uphoff in a 4-3 vote. Former board president Courtney Odorico was unanimously selected as vice president and will succeed Barb Feeney.

Feeney was elected treasurer, succeeding Jeff Ramin, who did not seek re-election this spring. Krista Flanagan will continue as clerk after being re-elected.

Zach, a 1973 OHS graduate and longtime board

member who was re-elected to another three-year term earlier this month, said he does not intend to serve as president for that entire period.

“I think it’s wise we look at a rotating president at some time,” he said. “Thank you for your confidence for this year.”

when the salaries for next school year are finalized.

Following the regular meeting, the board met in closed session for a collective bargaining agreement with the OEA. New board member Troy Pankratz, whose wife is a teacher in the district, left the room and abstained from voting on the teacher contracts, based on legal advice from the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.

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The board met in closed session after the regular meeting to talk about a possible land acquisition.

The district is currently deciding whether – and where – to build as many as two new schools in the next few years.

“We’re in a sensitive time with that, which warrants a closed session on that,” president Steve Zach said.

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Chapter 331, Laws of 1979, is designed to help local school districts utilize their staff and program resources to develop comprehensive AODA programs. Funding The state 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey given last for the AODA competitive spring to 2,067 public high school students in 43 schools grants is authorized as part of indicated alcohol use is down around 25 percent from the state’s biennial budget.

2001. Thirty percent of students report using alcohol in State Superintendent Tony the past 30 days and 18 percent report binge drinking, Evers said the funding “gives down 16 percent from 2001. school districts support to According to the survey, students who were offered, sold, address alcohol, drug abuse, or given an illegal drug by someone on school property and school safety concerns.” during the past 12 months was down 8 percent from 2001 “Though data show that to around 18 percent. Marijuana use in the past 30 days we’ve made tremendous continues to drop and is at 16 percent; 9 percent lower progress in curbing alcothan in 2001. hol use, Wisconsin’s underage drinking rates are still Smoking cigarettes is down 25 percent since 2001, to 8 quite high compared to the percent. Two new questions indicate future work is neednation,” he said in the news ed in the areas of electronic cigarette usage and prescriprelease. “Grant-funded activtion pain medication misuse, both of which are around 11 ities that curb drug use will percent. help improve the school climate, making schools safer the Department of Public drug use, according to a Wis- and more welcoming for all Instruction for this funding consin Department of Pub- kids.” lic Instruction (DPI) news support.”

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Thanks from Brooklyn Fire/EMS On behalf of the Friends of the Brooklyn Fire/EMS Departments, I would like to thank those that financially supported the annual card party and those that braved the Saturday night wintry weather on April 14 to attend the event.

As a major fundraiser, your support and participation is appreciated.

A big thank you to all the businesses that donated door prizes.

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Swap retractable leashes for something less harmful J udging by the number of people I see walking dogs on retractable leash devices, it appears they are popular.

They are also unsafe for both people and pets, and there are alternatives that are inexpensive and don’t take a lot of time or effort to learn to use.

A retractable leash is “not so much a leash as it is a length of thin cord wound around a spring-loaded device housed inside a plastic handle,” as veterinarian Dr. Karen Becker explains in her article “10 Antolec Reasons Not to Use a Retractable Leash.”

Pet stewards have told me the variable length – typically from 15-30 feet – and ability to lock them in place appeals to them so they may keep their dog close or let them go sniff about.

But the variable length is also one of the most dangerous features of the product.

One reason is dog handlers often lack the situational awareness, timing and motor skills to lock the cord under exigent circumstances. That’s why there are often local ordinances restricting the leash length, such as we have in Oregon.

Another is that if the dog bolts or the handler jerks the leash, serious injury may occur to the dog or those who may be entangled in the long cord. I saw this happen one afternoon while driving to an appointment, when an older woman’s small dog wandered into the street and she yanked it back.

And their thin cords break. A lot. Every retractable leash I have ever owned broke… leaving me with my dog 20 feet away and no safe way for me to shorten the

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lead.

The injuries are my biggest concern.

In the situation I witnessed, the woman was walking two small dogs and paying no attention to either, both of whom were walking in different directions.

Naturally, one wandered about six feet into the street before she noticed, prompting her to jerk on the leash and scold the dog.

Obviously, the dog could have been struck by a vehicle. But, as critical care specialist Dr. Garret Pachtinger points out in a story on the Veterinary Information Network, a dog he treated for getting hit by a motorcycle might have been hurt more by the yanked leash than the collision.

Two types of (canine) injuries are most common, Pachtinger wrote.

“The first is muscular, such as a neck strain or sprain; the other is a cervical intervertebral disc herniation, which can be more severe,” he wrote. Whether the handler intentionally jerks the leash, presses the lock button as the dog has bolted or tries to yank the dog back to them, the damage is the same.

Among the most common effects are “back pain, lameness, incoordination, and/or inability to walk in the hind legs or all four limbs,” according to a fact sheet compiled by UC-Davis Veterinary Medicine.

These leashes can and do also cause injuries to handlers, as well.

Consumer Reports analyzed federal statistics from 2007 and found “16,564 hospital-treated injuries associated with leashes.” Of those, about 10.5 percent involved children 10 and younger; 23.5 percent involved injuries to the finger.

The most common injuries reported were burns and cuts, usually sustained when the cord came in contact with skin as it

rapidly reeled out from the handle of a leash. Others occurred when the cord got wrapped around part of the owner or the dog.”

The good news is if you’re a retractable leash user, it’s not difficult to change your habits.

I recommend a no-pull chest harness with a chest D-ring leash attachment and a 6-foot nylon or leather leash. And then pay attention when you walk, even if that means a shorter walk.

Occasionally, that will mean diverting from your intended path, but it doesn’t have to be for long. Just watch for your dog to put his nose to the ground and recognize he has detected a scent.

Follow him as he sniffs and satisfies his natural doggie behavior.

When he is done, he will lift his head and you can resume the walk.

At the Applied Animal Behavior Conference I attended in April, board-certified veterinary behaviorist Dr. Debra Horwitz explained that a short sniffing walk is far more beneficial to a dog than a long, no sniffing walk.

Walking four blocks away from home and then returning is just fine.

When you are in a safe location where a longer leash is permitted, you may use a long training lead.

Give your dog more distance to sniff when they want to and pick up the slack when they are done.

Retractable leashes are not often thought of as aversive, as shock, prong and choke collars are, but they can cause serious harm to people and pets alike.

The alternatives are better for everyone.

Daniel H. Antolec, CBCC-KA is the owner of Brooklyn-based Happy Buddha Dog Training and is a member of Pet Professional Guild and chairs the PPG Advocacy Committee.

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Nearly 20 citizens attended a crime prevention workshop held at Village Hall April 5.

Crime prevention workshop Nearly 20 people attended a community forum on crime prevention earlier this month featuring a pair of police department officials and two other community leaders.

Oregon Police Department chief Brian Uhl, Detective Sgt. Chad S c h a u b , Vi l l a g e B o a r d member Amanda Peterson and community member Randy Glysch all spoke on the panel. Peterson and Glysch worked with Schaub to organize the April 5 meeting at Village Hall.

Brooklyn resident Daniel Antolec attended the meeting and told the Observer in an email it included discussion about overall crime

Oregon Police Department chief Brian Uhl speaks at a crime prevention workshop at Village Hall earlier this month.

in the village, relationships with police officers and keeping neighborhoods safe.

“My impression, as a retired police officer, is that those living in the greater Oregon community are engaged with their police officers and all stakeholders are working together to maintain a safe environment in which families can raise their young, and folks can go about their business and engage in their livelihoods with safety and security,” Antolec wrote. “This sort of police-community connection is inspiring to me and I commend everyone involved.”

Youth softball takes care of home fields

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Oregon Youth Softball spent a chilly weekend cleaning up area parks as part of the Oregon Area Wellness Coalition’s parks cleanup push.

Angela Zych, whose daughter is on the 12-metro team that cleaned up Legion Park in Brooklyn, told the Observer that the softball teams and their families volunteer every year to pick up their “home fields.” “We try to get the kids to take a little ownership in their fields,” Zych said. Different softball teams went to different fields, including Legion, Kiser, Rustic Vineyards and the fields at RCI. All told, around 40 people — including coaches, players and their families — participated in the cleanup effort, raking fields and picking up trash.

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The Oregon Masonic Lodge is hosting its annual pancake breakfast and bake sale from 7 a.m. to noon Sunday, April 29, at its lodge, 201 Park St. Tickets are $8 for adults, $3 for kids ages 5-10 and everyone younger than 5 is allowed in for free.

The menu includes pancakes, French toast, eggs, sausage, coffee, milk and juice. The Optimist Club and friends and family of the Masons will also bring homemade desserts and treats for the bake sale.

Proceeds from this year’s event will go toward the Masons’ current fundraising project, purchasing and installing wheelchair-accessible swings in a park in Oregon.

Last year, the lodge raised $5,000 for the proposed downtown splash pad, and they hope to raise a similar amount this year.

Mason Denny Erfurth told the Observer the lodge was inspired by the Evansville lodge, which got one of the specialized swing sets for one of their parks.

The Masons have been working with the plan commission to figure out which park would work best, but the vision is to integrate the wheelchair-accessible swing set so that “everybody who’s in a wheelchair can swing with the other kids,” Erfurth said.

The swing set alone costs $1,600-2,000 without the protective padding that would have to be lain underneath.

Erfurth says the club’s goal is that no one “feel like they’re being singled out because they’re handicapped.”

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Women’s baseball author visit

Plant sale fundraiser

A historic presentation about women’s baseball will be from 2-3 p.m.

April 28 at the Oregon Public Library.

“Joyce Westerman and the All American Girls Professional Baseball League: Play Ball!” is about Westerman, one of 37 women who played during the 1940s and 1950s. Bob Kann, the author of “Joyce Westerman: Baseball Hero,” will share stories.

No registration required. For information, email Kara Ripley at kripley@oregonlibrary.org.

From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 28, the Oregon Welcome Center, 134 Janesville St, is hosting a plant sale fundraiser.

The sale will include hanging baskets and perennials and is in collaboration with Fitchburg Farms. It will donate 15 percent of the proceeds to ongoing maintenance of the Welcome Center and Tin Man. For information, email Randy Glysch at rgbk316@charter.net.

Memorial fundraiser

The library is holding an adult craft event from 6-7 p.m. on Thursday, May 3.

People 14 and up with basic crochet or knitting experience are invited to join the group making blankets for Project Linus, a non-profit that gives blankets and quilts to those in need.

Yarn and patterns are provided, but participants are asked to bring their own knitting needles or crochet hook.

Walking Wednesdays For information, email kripley@oreWalking Wednesdays kicks off this gonlibrary.org

A country music show will benefit the Brooklyn Area Veterans Memorial.

The show features Maggie Mae and the Heartland Country Band and runs from 1-3:30 p.m. April 28. It’s sponsored by the Brooklyn American Legion.

For tickets, call Lyle at 516-5401 or Kimberly at 617-0500.

Tinker Tuesday

at 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 2 at the Oregon Area Senior Center, 219 Park St. Officer Kevin Gowan from OPD will talk about walker safety before a 45-minute walk around the village.

Walkers of any age are welcome.

The event marks the beginning of a series of Wednesday Walks that will continue until the end of October. All are welcome to the senior center after the walk for coffee.

For information, visit facebook. com/OAWCWI.

Craftivism

Kids in grades K-4 are invited to the library from 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, for Tinker Tuesday.

The program exposes students to STEAM concepts in a fun and engaging way.

This week’s Tinker Tuesday will have kids make their own cards using a printing press.

For information, call 835-3656.

Community calendar ‌Thursday, April 26‌

• 9-11 a.m. and 3-7 p.m., Oregon Area Food Pantry distribution, 107 N. Alpine Pkwy., obfp.org‌ • 6:30 p.m., Orchestra concert, BKE, 204 Division St., 835-4500‌

‌Friday, April 27 ‌

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Arbor Day at Anderson Park with Arbor Systems & RCI, 914 Union Road, anderson parkfriends.org‌ • 1 p.m., Coffee with a reporter, Firefly, 114 N. Main St., 845-9559‌ • 1 and 7 p.m, Netherwood Knoll Musical, OHS PAC, 456 N. Perry Pkwy., 835-4100‌ • 3:30-4:15 p.m., State reps. Vruwink, Ringhand listening session, Firefly Coffeehouse and Artisan Cheese, 114 N. Main St., 835-6238‌

‌Saturday, April 28‌

• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Plant sale for Tin Man and welcome center, Welcome Center, 134 Janesville St., rgbk316@charter.net‌ • 10-11 a.m., Workshop: Plants to enhance shady spots, Winterland Nursery, 5655 Lincoln Rd., 835-6556 ‌ • 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Band booster

mattress sale, OHS band room, 456 N. Perry Pkwy., oregonwi.com‌ • 1 p.m., American Legion’s Maggie Mae concert and military tribute, OHS, 456 N. Perry Pkwy., 516-5401‌ • 2-3 p.m., Joyce Westerman: Baseball Hero talk, library, 8353656 or kripley@oregonlibrary.org‌

‌Sunday, April 29‌

• 7 a.m. to noon, Masons’ pancake breakfast and bake sale, ($8, $3 ages 5-10, under 5 free), 201 Park St., oregonwi.com‌ • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Boy Scout Troop 168 car wash, Oregon Floral, 933 N. Main St., snow53575@charter.net ‌

‌Monday, April 30‌

• No School‌ • 3:30-4:15 p.m., Author Bonnie Manning storytelling, (ages 5-9), library, 256 Brook St., orelib@ oregonlibrary.org‌

Community cable listings Village of Oregon Cable Access TV channels: WOW #983 & ORE #984 Phone: 291-0148 • Email: oregoncableaccess@charter.net Website: ocamedia.com • Facebook: ocamediawi New programs daily at 1 p.m. and repeats at 4, 7 and 10 p.m. and 1, 4, 7 and 10 a.m.

Thursday, April 26 WOW: Oregon Historical Society presents: “With One Shot - Family Murder and a Search for Justice” by author Dorothy Marcic (4/15/18) ORE: OHS Panther Girls Soccer vs Ft. Atkinson LIVE 6:45pm & live streamed on ocamedia.com Friday, April 27 WOW: Maggie Mae @ OHS PAC (4/29/2017) ORE: OHS Fine Arts Week: OHS Orchestra (4/18/18) Saturday, April 28 WOW: Retro Swing Band @ Senior Center (4/16/18) ORE: Oregon/Stoughton Rugby Club vs Patriots II (4/23/18) Sunday, April 29 WOW: Holy Mother of Consolation Catholic Church Service ORE: OHS Fine Arts Week: Academy of Sound (4/18/18)

‌Tuesday, May 1‌

• 1 p.m., Movie matinee: “The Darkest Hour,” senior center, 835-5801‌ • 1-2:30 p.m., Free car fitting program, senior center, make an appointment at 835-5801‌ • 3:30-5 p.m., Tinker Tuesday:

Monday, April 30 WOW: Village Board Parks Meeting (4/16/18) ORE: Oregon/ Stoughton Rugby Club vs Patriots II (4/23/18) Tuesday, May 1 WOW: West Point Academy Cadets Glee Club @ OHS PAC Fine Arts Week (4/20/18) ORE: OHS Fine Arts Week: Music Composition Recital (4/18/18) Wednesday, May 2 WOW: Road To Recovery: Finding Effective Care ORE: OHS Fine Arts Week: German Exchange Students (4/19/18) Thursday, May 3 WOW: Oregon Village Board Organizational Meeting (4/17/18) ORE: OHS Fine Arts Week: 4 Seasons: Fiddler on the Roof (4/19/18)

Make cards with a printing press, library, 835-3656‌ • 6 and 7 p.m., RCI band concert, (5th grade: 6 p.m., 6th grade: 7 p.m.), OHS PAC, 456 N. Perry Pkwy., 835-4300‌

‌Wednesday, May 2‌

• 9 a.m., Wellness Walks kickoff event, library, 835-3656‌ • 10:30 a.m., Great Beginnings book club, “Whistling in the Dark”

by Lesley Kagen, senior center, bookclub@oregonlibrary.org‌

‌Thursday, May 3‌

• 1 p.m., Five steps to inner peace with Tina Mancusi, MSSW, senior center, 835-5801‌ • 6-7 p.m., Craftivism (14+, knitting/ crocheting for charity), library, kripley@oregonlibrary.org ‌ • 6:30 p.m., BKE/NKE combined choir concert, OHS PAC, 456 N. Perry Pkwy., 835-4300‌

‌Friday, May 4‌ • 1 p.m., Coffee with a reporter, Firefly, 114 N. Main St., 845-9559‌ • 6-8 p.m., Girls’ Night, (games/jewelry making, dinner), youth center, 110 N. Oak St., 886-9093‌

Senior center Monday, April 30 Pizza Casserole* Steamed Broccoli, Wheat Roll Peaches, Brownie NCS – Orange VO – Veggie Pizza Casserole Tuesday, May 1 Chicken Macaroni Salad Marinated Tomatoes Mixed Greens with French Dressing Peaches, Ice Cream Cup VO – Soy Mac Salad NCS - SF Ice Cream Wednesday, May 2 Cheeseburger, Wheat Bun Calico Beans, Peas Fruit Cocktail Frosted Marble Cake VO – Garden Burger NCS – Diced Peached Thursday, May 3 My Meal, My Way Lunch at Ziggy’s Smokehouse and Ice Cream Parlor! Drop in between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Friday, May 4 Enchilada Casserole Corn Salsa Black Beans Cornbread Banana Vanilla Ice Cream VO – Bean Burrito NCS – Fruit cup SO - Fruit Plate *Contains Pork

Monday, April 30 10:30 StrongWomen 12:45 Get Fit 1:30 Bridge 3:30 Weight Loss Support Tuesday, May 1 8:30 Zumba Gold Advanced 9:30 Wii Bowling 9:45 Zumba Gold 10:30 Parkinson’s Exercise 12:30 Sheepshead 12:30 Shopping at Pick-NSave 1:00 Movie: “The Darkest Hour”, Car Fitting program 5:30 StrongWomen Wednesday, May 2 Morning: Foot Care 9:00 Wednesday Walk Kick-Off 10:00 Shopping in Madison 10:30 Book Club 12:45 Get Fit 1:00 Euchre 3:30 One-on-One Class Thursday, May 3 8:30 Zumba Gold Advanced 9:00 Pool Players 9:45 Zumba Gold 10:30 StrongWomen 12:30 Shopping at Bill’s 1:00 Five Steps to Inner Peace 1:00 Cribbage Friday, May 4 9:00 CLUB 9:00 Gentle Yoga 9:30 Blood Pressure 12:45 Get Fit

All Saints Lutheran Church

2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg (608) 276-7729 Interim pastor SUNDAY 8:30 a.m. classic service 10:45 a.m. new song service

Brooklyn Lutheran Church

101 Second Street, Brooklyn (608) 455-3852 Pastor Rebecca Ninke SUNDAY 9 a.m. Holy Communion 10 a.m. Fellowship

Community of Life Lutheran Church

PO Box 233, Oregon (608) 286-3121, office@ communityoflife.us Pastor Jim McCoid SUNDAY 10 a.m. Worship at 1111 S. Perry Parkway, Oregon

Brooklyn Community United Methodist Church

201 Church Street, Brooklyn (608) 455-3344 Pastor George Kaminski SUNDAY 9 a.m. Worship (Nov.-April) 10:30 a.m. Worship (May-Oct.)

Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church

143 Washington Street, Oregon (608) 835-3554 Pastor Jeffrey Hendrix SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship Holy Communion 2nd & last Sundays

First Presbyterian Church

408 N. Bergamont Blvd. (north of CC), Oregon, WI (608) 835-3082 - fpcoregonwi.org Pastor Kathleen Owens SUNDAY 10 a.m. Service 10:15 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Fellowship 11:15 a.m. Adult Education

Memorial UCC

5705 Lacy Road, Fitchburg (608) 273-1008, memorialucc.org Pastor Kristin Gorton SUNDAY 8:15 and 10 a.m.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church ECLA

Central Campus: Raymond Road and Whitney Way SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship SUNDAY - 8:15, 9:30 and 10:45 a.m.

Worship West Campus: Corner of Hwy. PD and Nine Mound Road, Verona SUNDAY - 9 & 10:15 a.m., 6 p.m.

Worship (608) 271-6633

Hillcrest Bible Church

752 E. Netherwood, Oregon Eric Vander Ploeg, Lead Pastor (608) 835-7972, www.hbclife.com SUNDAY 8:30 a.m. worship at the Hillcrest Campus and 10:15 a.m. worship with Children’s ministries, birth – 4th grade

Holy Mother of Consolation Catholic Church

651 N. Main Street, Oregon Pastor: Fr. Gary Wankerl (608) 835-5763 holymotherchurch.weconnect.com SATURDAY: 5 p.m. Worship SUNDAY: 8 and 10:15 a.m. Worship

People’s United Methodist Church

103 North Alpine Parkway, Oregon Pastor Jason Mahnke (608) 835-3755, www.peoplesumc.org Communion is the 1st & 3rd weekend SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship and Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. Worship

St. John’s Lutheran Church

625 E. Netherwood, Oregon Pastor Paul Markquart (Lead Pastor) (608) 291-4311 SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship SUNDAY - 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worship

Vineyard Community Church

Oregon Community Bank & Trust, 105 S. Alpine Parkway, Oregon - Bob Groth, Pastor (608) 513-3435, welcometovineyard. com SUNDAY - 10 a.m. Worship

Zwingli United Church of Christ – Paoli

At the Intersection of Hwy. 69 & PB Pastor Laura Crow (608) 255-1278 SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Family Worship

Support groups • Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, First Presbyterian Church, every Monday and Friday at 7 p.m.

• Caregiver Support Group, Oregon Area Senior Center, third Monday of each month at 9 a.m.

• Diabetes Support Group, Oregon Area Senior Center, second Thursday of each month at 1:30 p.m.

• Relationship & Divorce Support Group, State Bank of Cross Plains, every other Monday at 6:30 p.m.

• Veterans’ Group, Oregon Area Senior Center, every second Wednesday at 9 a.m.

• Weight-Loss Support Group, Oregon Area Senior Center, every Monday at 3:30 p.m.

• Navigating Life Elder Support Group, People’s United Methodist Church, 103 N. Alpine Pkwy., every first Monday at 7 p.m.

Guarding the Gates of the Senses The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.”

– Habakkuk 2:20 NIV St. Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits, advised the following for novices seeking to enter his order: “All should take the most diligent care to guard the gates of the senses—particularly the eyes, ears, and tongue.”Guarding the senses and not allowing them free rein is good advice for all of us, not just novices embarking on holy orders. One way that we can do this is to maintain “custody of the eyes,”meaning that we should not allow our eyes to look anywhere we please, giving idle curiosity the power to direct our gaze. There are many things that it would be better not to see. We simply cannot un-see things once we have seen them, and some things get burned into our souls, as it were.

Parents do well to teach their children restraint of the eyes. As a former teacher of teachers used to say, you must first get control of your students’ eyes. But not just the eyes,for what we hear and touch and what goes into and out of our mouths also leaves its imprint on our souls. There is a silence of the eyes as well as of the ears, and even a silence of the heart and soul. We do well to remember that God often speaks in a whisper, and if we are surrounded by noise and distractions we might never hear,see or taste the goodness of the Lord.

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Lucy Carlson, 11, left, helps Leah Sieren, 11, remove construction trash from a pond on the village’s southwest side as part of the Save Oregon club. Sieren and Alyssa Schrimpf, 11, started the club after they spent an afternoon removing five bags of garbage from the pond behind Schrimpf’s house.

Save: Several RCI students are brainstorming ways to help beautify the Oregon area seeing a deer pick up some trash it thought was food and try to eat it.

Bizzy Vieaux, 11, put voice to the sentiment shared by all around the table that they were proud of their village and wanted it to look good.

“You can’t really embrace the beauty of this world with trash everywhere,” Vieaux said. “You see the trash, and not the beauty.”

Growing the club One of the first afternoons Schrimpf and Sieren were out cleaning, a neighbor came out and began talking to them. When she learned what they were doing, she went back to her house and came back with supplies for the girls to use and a few dollars to donate.

The gloves, trash bags, boots and old clothes the neighbor contributed solidified the girls’ idea to officially start the club. But it was the neighbor’s description of a documentary in which a bird fed plastic to its young that made a lasting impression and inspired the girls even more.

Schrimpf and Sieren are neighbors who live on the

village’s south side, just north of Lincoln Road.

Most of the trash the girls pick out of the pond is from homes being built in the nearby Bergamont housing development.

There’s no shortage of plastic – Schrimpf said her brother uses it to roof the mud huts he and his friends build on the banks of the pond – but there are also beer cans and empty soda bottles.

Even after removing five bags of trash a few weeks before, the club members spent a couple hours finding trash on the day of the first official meeting.

The girls brainstormed ways to expand Save Oregon during their meeting: they want to involve their siblings – Sieren’s sister has already cleaned with them – and maybe expand to the elementary schools, having adults take younger kids around in groups to clean up trash around their schools.

“I know little kids learn about this stuff because they’re like, ‘I want to help the Earth,’” Vieaux said.

But first, the girls are working to coordinate their extremely busy schedules to find a time they can all

meet.

Jessica Schrimpf, Alyssa’s mother, is happy to encourage her daughter’s efforts. She said this club has energized Alyssa’s “willingness to serve our community.”

Alyssa and her friends have done this all on their own, Jessica explained – all of the tromping around in the mud picking up trash, reaching out to the Observer to get press coverage and thinking about reaching out to the construction companies that are the source of most of the trash to see if they’ll sponsor the club has been driven by the girls.

It’s clear Alyssa enjoys the time with her friends, laughing as they use long Mae Rozak, 10, brings a piece of plastic she removed from the pond to the trash pile. sticks to fish trash out of the pond and squelch through the mud on the bank. But she also knows they’re working to accomplish something important. “ I ’v e a l w a y s l o v e d nature,” Schrimpf said. “It seems like people used to care more about the enviMay 30, 2018 Great Dane Shopping News ronment. People don’t seem Display Deadline: Wednesday, May 23 at 3 p.m. to be as concerned about where their waste goes.”

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Reverend Kathleen Cook Owens blesses 8-month-old Darby’s stuffed animal Skit-skat while mom Beth Powers look on at the Earth Day Blessings of the Animals event at First Presbyterian Church on April 22.

Nolan McDermid, 8, does his best to hold on to the aptly-named Wiggles the guinea pig

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The First Presbyterian Church welcomed pets of all kind – even stuffed ones – for an Earth Day Blessing of the Animals celebration.

From horses to guinea pigs, dogs to a picture of a cat, Reverend Kathleen Cook Owens blessed them all.

Nolan, 8, and Garrett McDermid, 4, brought their guinea pigs Hopscotch and Wiggles to be blessed. (Hopscotch has a

butterscotch-colored patch on his nose and Wiggles doesn’t like to sit still.)

Nolan said he thought it was “awesome” when Owens “said a couple strong words” and blessed the beasts.

Owens had done something

similar while in seminary in Chicago, and thought the event would be a nice way to commemorate Earth Day, which this year fell on a Sunday.

Owens points out that even though many of us have deep relationships with our pets, “we

don’t often get to gather with them” socially.

“There’s a lot that animals have to teach us about caring for each other,” Owens said.

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Over 40 vendors gathered at Prairie View Elementary School for the Spring Craft Fair on Sunday, April 22. The event was a fundraiser for Occupaws Guide Dog Association, a non-profit based in Madison that trains guide dogs and pairs them with visually-impaired people in and around Wisconsin free of charge.

Barb Schultze, who is the president of Occupaws and has been with the

organization for 12 years, says they currently have about 40 dogs in the field and another 35 in training.

Time and again, volunteers said the biggest thing a guide dog gives its human is independence.

Susan Gasal, who is legally blind and has had Meadow as a service dog for six years, says it’s things like being able to go into a grocery store and go shopping without her children holding the back of her shirt that has made the relationship so worthwhile.

Lois Thuemmler, who

is currently training a 14-week-old golden retriever puppy named Caramel, said the reason she’ll be able to give the puppy up after raising it for months is the good she knows Caramel will bring to whoever she ends up working with. “ I t ’s j u s t s o m e t h i n g that’s fantastic,” Thuemmler said. “First time you raise a dog and it’s working for a blind person, you can’t express it.”

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Girls track and field

Egwuonwu, 4x200 leads Oregon JEREMY JONES

Player of the week From April 17-24

​Sports editor

Athletes and coaches alike were looking for a break in the weather just to get outside last week.

It took snowblowers to clear the track and a little help from Mother Nature, keeping temperatures above freezing, but Friday’s third-annual Sun Prairie Invitational went off without a hitch.

The Oregon girls track and field time tied Bay Port with 43 points out for fourth place out of 16 teams thanks to a strong performance by the Panthers’ sprinters, middle distance and throw crews. There Panthers were without University of Wisconsin-Madison recruit Alexis Jackson.

The host Cardinals won the meet with 142 points. Wausau West (87) and Brookfield East (68) rounded out the top three.

Oregon senior Addison Schipper, Jenna Igl, Jenna Sharkus and Scarlet Egwuonwu won the 4x200-meter relay in 1 minutes, 48.99 seconds.

Egwuonwu also finished second in the 100 and third in the 200. She took a runner-up finish to Monona Grove’s Ali Dorn (12.32) of Monona Grove in the 100-meter dash in 12.60.

Egwuonwu was third in the 200 dash behind defending state champion junior Brooke Jaworski (25.13) and Dorn (25.35) in 26.2.

Jaworksi added the 400 (55.8) and long jump (17 4 1/4). Wausau West’s 4x4 and 4x1 relays finished second.

Sophomore Liz Uhl finished fourth in the 800 with a season-best 2:26.86, and Schipper was fourth in the 100 dash (13.18). Oregon’s 4x1 relay of Jenna Igl, Oliva Keast, Jenna Sharkus and Schipper finished

Girls soccer

Name: Ryan Candell Grade: Senior Sport: Golf Highlights: Candell finished tied for fourth overall with a 76 at Monday’s Edgewood Invitational at Blackhawk Country Club, helping Oregon take seventh with a 337

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Senior Ellen McCorkle was sixth in the shot put competition Friday at the Sun Prairie Invitational with a toss of 35 feet, 8 1/2 inches. fifth in 53.66.

Senior Ellen McCorkle was sixth in the shot put competition with a toss of 35-8 ½, and sophomore Izzie Peterson finished seventh in the 400 dash (1:04.85).

Fort Atkinson triple dual Oregon traveled to Fort Atkinson

on a beautiful Tuesday afternoon to compete in a Badger South quad.

McCorkle won both the discus and discus and sisters Scarlett and Isabella Egwuonwu added the 400 and 100 hurdle titles.

McCorkle uncorked a 10010 to win the discus and had a

What’s next Oregon hosts Madison Edgewood, Belleville, DeForest and Portage at 4:30 p.m. Friday in a relay meet.

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Honorable mentions: Scarlet Egwuonwu (girls track) finished second in the 100- and third in the 200-meter dash Friday at the Sun Prairie Invitational. She also helped the Panthers 4x2 relay to victory Kyler Schriever (baseball) finished 2-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and two runs scored in a loss against Milton Saturday Brett Wannebo (boys track) finished second in the shot put with a personal-best 50 feet, 5 inches Friday at the Sun Prairie Invitational Ashton Meyers and Sean Benet (boys tennis) went 3-1 at No. 3 doubles for Oregon last weekend at the Eastside Invitational

Boys track and field

Grutzner to Panthers finish fourth at Sun Prairie invite step down after this season JEREMY JONES

​Sports editor

Julie Grutzner has been the head coach of the Oregon High School girls soccer team for 13 years, but at the end of the 2018 season, Grutzner is stepping down from the position.

G r u t z n e r ’s h u s b a n d recently took a job out of state, and their family will be moving at the end of the school year.

“Julie has been an outstanding and respected leader in the Madison soccer community,” Oregon Athletic Director Mike Carr wrote in a press release.

“She has been an excellent role model for our student-athletes.”

Grutzner was named

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It’s hard to believe what it took in order for the Oregon boys track and field team to get back outside Friday for the Sun Prairie Invitational. The host Cardinals used shovels and snow blowers to clear the track on Thursday and Mother Nature finally came through with warmer temperatures on meet day.

Senior Kardelle Phillips placed in the top five of three events and fellow senior Brett Wannebo took second in another as the Panthers tied Verona for fourth place with 49 points.

Brookfield East won the meet with 98 points, followed by Bay Port (86) and Sun Prairie (64).

Phillips, who joined the team this year, took third in the triple jump with a leap of 43 feet, 6 ¼ inches. The jump was third all-time in OHS history. He also added a pair of topfive finishers in the hurdle events.

Phillips and Devin Keast finished in the top six of the 300 hurdles and in the top seven of the 110 hurdles. Phillips finished runner-up to Brookfield East senior Abel Christiansen (39.96) in the 300 hurdles with a 41.42 - 10th all-time in school history. Keast was sixth in 43.19.

Phillips took fifth place in the 110 hurdles with a 15.96, and Keast was seventh (16.72).

Phillips’ time was less than .05 away from 10th place in school history.

Wannebo finished second in the shot put with a personal-best 50 feet, 5 inches. Junior

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Matt Kissling helped lead Oregon’s 4x200-meter relay to a fifth-place finish in 1 minute, 34.33 seconds. John Auer, Blake Anderson and Jahlil Turner were also on the relay.

Michael Williams-Davis of Monona Grove won with a throw of 54-4.

Junior Carter Hendrickson and senior John Auer each finished fourth. Henrickson took fourth in the 400 meters (53.03) and Auer matched the finish in the long jump (21 1/4).

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What’s next The Panthers host a relay meet at 4:30 p.m.

Friday with Belleville, DeForest, Edgewood and Portage.

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Candell, Klus lead Panthers at Edgewood invite ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor

Senior Ryan Candell and junior John Klus both shot sub-80 rounds Monday at Monday’s Edgewood Invitational at Blackhawk Country Club.

Candell finished tied for fourth with Waunakee’s Sean Murphy with a 76, and Klus tied Edgewood’s Drew Arndt for 11th with a 78.

Junior Sam Schroeder was tied for 35th with an 85, and senior Ryan Michek was 62nd with a 98. Sophomore Colton Eyers’ 100 was

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thrown out from the final team score.

The Panthers took seventh out of 16 teams with a 337 and had the second-best score out of the Badger South Conference teams at the meet. Edgewood 1, which was runner-up, had a 311, but Fort Atkinson and Monona Grove tied for 10th with 350s and Edgewood 2 was 12th with a 364.

Badger North favorite Waunakee won the meet with a 309.

Waunakee’s Joe Guerrera was the overal medalist with a 74, winning in a scorecard

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Tanner Hake won his No. 3 singles match 6-4, 6-2 on Wednesday. The victory helped Oregon blank Monroe 7-0 in a Badger South dual meet.

Bychowski, Panthers once again return to the courts JEREMY JONES ​Sports editor

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Shortstop Duncan Morgan prevents an overthrow in the first inning Monday as Watertown’s Ryan Hayden steals second base. Oregon lost the Badger South Conference game 8-0.

Panthers edge Stoughton in eight innings ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor

Oregon baseball had a busy week of Badger South Conference games with two makeups and a game against rival Stoughton.

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run on nine hits and a walk in 2 1/3 innings, striking out one.

Four Oregon errors led to 10 unearned runs.

Junior Noah Brindley recored two outs, and Alvord allowed an earned run on four hits, striking out two in four innings.

Blake Fuchs earned the win.

He allowed five earned runs on four hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings, striking out two.

The Panthers were supposed to host Monona Grove Friday in a makeup from April 3, but field conditions Watertown 8, Oregon 0 were still poor after nearly The Panthers traveled to eight inches of snow fell last Watertown Monday for a Wednesday.

A makeup date hasn’t been makeup game from April 19 and fell 8-0. chosen yet.

Oregon mustered three hits Milton 12, Oregon 9 off Ryan Hayden, who had Oregon hosted Milton on seven strikeouts and no walks Saturday at Zach Field in a in a complete-game shutout.

Adler took the loss. He makeup game from April 17 and dropped the Badger South allowed four earned runs on six hits and two walks in two game 12-9.

The Panthers (4-2 overall, innings, striking out one.

Juniors Patrick McCor3-2 Badger South) fell behind 11-0 by the third inning before mick and Cameron Carpenter the offense came alive. Ore- worked out of the bullpen. gon scored five times in the McCormick allowed two bottom of the third, once in earned runs on two hits and the fifth and three more times three walks in two innings, striking out three, and Carpenin the sixth.

Junior Duncan Morgan was ter allowed three hits in two 2-for-3 with two runs scored, innings. and junior Kyler Schriever Oregon 5, had a double, two RBIs and two runs scored. Junior Jack Stoughton 4 (8 inn.)

Haufle had two RBIs and a Oregon traveled to Stoughrun scored, and junior Kevin ton on Tuesday and the two Alvord had a double and an Badger South rivals needed RBI. extra innings to decide the Senior Carson Timberlake winner. scored two runs and collectA line drive single by ed an RBI, and senior Quinn Schriever (2-for-4) plated Adler had a double and a run Haufle in the top of the eighth, scored. and Haufle was able to get out Junior Zach Tower took the of a jam in the bottom of the loss. He allowed one earned inning to allow the Panthers to

What’s next Oregon travels to Firemen’s Park in Cottage Grove at 5 p.m. Thursday to take on Monona Grove and travels to Riverside Park at 11 a.m.

Saturday to take on Beaver Dam and Janesville Craig. hold on for a 5-4 win.

Haufle stranded runners on second and third in the bottom of the eighth by getting Saxton Shore to ground out.

The Panthers took a 4-3 lead in the fourth on an RBI groundout by senior Nate Newton that brought home Brindley, but the Vikings tied the game in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI double by Alec Tomczyk.

Oregon took a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the third. Alvord singled home Carpenter in the first, and senior Matthew deFiebre singled home Carpenter in the second.

Stoughton tied the game at 3-3 in the third with RBIs

by Brady Schipper, Dillon Nowicki and Tomczyk.

Haufle allowed an earned run on two hits and walked in two innings for the win. He struck out two. Brindley started and gave up an earned run on five hits in six innings. He struck out eight.

Shore took the loss, allowing an earned run on a hit and two walks in three innings.

Junior Sean Bychowski went from one virus to another before returning to the courts for the first time in nine days last week for the Oregon boys tennis team.

Fortunately for the team’s No. 1 singles player, the Panthers only played once during that time.

His return helped Oregon win a pair of Badger South Conference dual meets and go 2-2 at the Eastside Invitational over the weekend.

Bychowki, who hadn’t played since the team’s first match April 10 against Sauk Prairie, got cleared to play by his doctor the day before the Monroe match.

And despite the layoff, he rolled 6-0, 6-1 over Daniel Adamo on Thursday to help the host Panthers sweep Monroe 7-0.

The first virus held Bychowski out at the end of last week. He returned to practice Monday, April 16, but missed practice the next two days.

“I felt a little drained,” he said “And it took me a couple games to find a rhythm.”

Thursday morning, Bychowski was ready to go, but he and his teammates were not expecting to play, with snow and water on the courts.

“We found out at 1 p.m. today that we were playing,” he said. “It sounds like coach G (assistant coach Terry Geurkink) was out working to get the courts ready since noon.”

Oregon coach Ben Conklin and Monroe’s Matt Bordner went back and forth about whether or not to play but eventually decided to try.

The Panthers, who had gotten in only two dual meets prior to last week, have already had the Manitowoc Lincoln tournament canceled and the Stoughton dual meet postponed.

“We were going to try and do anything we could go get this match in today,” Conklin said. “It was good to get in a match, because obviously when you don’t, the schedule really starts to fill up, and there isn’t a lot of room for makeups.”

While it could have been a little warmer, the conditions were otherwise just about perfect, Bychowski said.

“It just felt great just to get outside,” he said.

Before the weather turned better heading toward the weekend, late-season snow storms forced local teams to seek out more indoor courts, which has its positives and negatives.

“It sucks because you play better inside, but only after you’ve been outside for awhile,” Bychowski said.

What’s next Oregon hosts Monona Grove at 4:15 p.m. Thursday.

Zak Roskos added a 6-1, 6-0 win at No. 2 singles. Senior Tanner Hake completed the singles sweep with a 6-4, 6-2 win at No. 3 singles.

Seniors Dan Koopman and Kyle Rehrauer dropped just two games in a 6-0, 6-2 win atop the doubles lineup. It was smooth sailing for the Panthers to closeout the match as juniors Ben Heller and Jacob Ayers won 6-2, 6-2 at No. 2 doubles and Senior Ashton Meyers and junior Sean Benet added a 6-1, 6-2 at No. 3 doubles.

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The Panthers participated in the Madison East Invitational over the weekend and went 2-2, with wins over Pewaukee and Stoughton.

The Panthers opened the tournament Friday morning with a 6-1 loss against Badger South rival Monona Grove.

Among the favorites to win the Badger South Conference title this year, the Silver Eagles swept all four singles flights and two of three doubles flights.

“MG got almost everyone back this season, and their top guys back,” Conklin said. “We’ve got some guys back but not at the top, so we have to really step up.

“They could really be the front-runners for the conference at this point.”

Meyers and Benet had Oregon’s lone win, cruising 6-3, 6-1 at No. 3 doubles against Keaton Straka and Noah Ehrlinger.

The Panthers lost at Nos. 1 and 2 singles but swept the rest to beat Pewaukee 5-2 on Friday afternoon.

Hake fought through a close second set to win 6-3, 7-5 at No. 3 singles, and Wiedemann won 6-0, 6-2 at No. 4 singles. Oregon swept all three doubles matches.

Rehraurer and Koopman prevailed 7-6 (5), 6-3 at No. 1 doubles, Benet and Meyers added a 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 win at No. 3 doubles. Ayers and Heller won 6-4, 6-2 at No. 2 doubles.

Bychowski had a tough start to the tournament, losing to a pair of state qualifiers on Friday. He fell 6-0, 6-2 to Monona Grove’s Cole Lindwall and 6-1, 6-0 to Ariti Kodal of Pewaukee.

Wiedemann had Oregon’s lone win in a 6-1 loss against West DePere on Saturday, defeating Hayden Simpson 6-1, 7-5.

Oregon 7, Monroe 0 The Panthers concluded play Saturday The Panthers were undoubtedly the afternoon with a 6-1 win over Stoughmore skilled team Thursday in a 7-0 vic- ton.

Hake cruised 6-0, 6-0 and Oregon tory over visiting Monroe.

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The Oregon girls ultiThe boys A team beat mate frisbee team hosted Edgewood 13-0 on April Stoughton last Friday and 19. lost 13-5.

Golf: Morgan Stanley up next playoff over Eau Claire Memorial’s Trevor Hudecek (74). Verona’s Garhett Kaegi was third with a 75.

Conference mini-meet Oregon traveled to Koshkonong Mounds Country Club Tuesday for a Badger South Conference mini-meet and finished runner-up with a 331.

Klus and Candell both led the Panthers with 79s, and Schroeder followed with an 81. Michek and Eyers both shot 92s, but one of the scores was not counted toward the final team score.

Edgewood won the meet with a 325.

Coach Sara Mess said that Candell and Klus are a little ahead of some of the other golfers despite cold and snowy weather earlier this month taking away practices and meets.

Mess said they both played in February and March when it was not as cold, and they also got time in during spring

What’s next Oregon travels to University Ridge Golf Course at 12:30 p.m. Thursday for the Morgan Stanley Shootout and to an invitational noon Friday at Evansville Golf Club.

The Panthers also travel to The Meadows of Sixmile Creek Golf Course at 9 a.m. Saturday for the Waunakee invite and travel to two Badger South Conference mini-meets, 2 p.m.

Monday, April 30, at The Oaks Golf Course and Wednesday, May 2, at Monroe Country Club. break.

“They came in with a better mental attitude this year,” Mess said. “That little bit of practice they got in at the beginning has really helped.”

Grutzner: OHS coach moves on from girls soccer program Continued from page 9 the head coach in January 2006. After a 32-33-11 record in her first four seasons, the Panthers are 12725-16 since. That includes a record of 54-4-7 in the past three seasons, which includes the first state championship in school history in 2015, a state runner-up finish in 2016 and a state semifinal appearance in 2017.

Oregon has also either won or shared the Badger South Conference title for the past six seasons and have won five consecutive WIAA regional titles and three consecutive sectional titles.

Grutzner has received several honors and awards during her time at Oregon: Wisconsin State Journal Madison Co-All-Area Coach of the Year (2017), Madison Sports Hall of Fame Special Achievement Award (2016), Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association Large School Coach of the Year (2015), National Soccer Coaches Association of America Wisconsin Coach FREE

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of the Year (2015) and Wisconsin State Journal Madison All-Area Coach of the Year (2015).

Grutzner has also been the assistant coach at Edgewood College for the past three seasons.

Before being hired at Oregon, Grutzner was an assistant coach at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School in Minnesota and Middleton High School.

Grutzner has also coached club soccer for the Oregon Soccer Club, Madison 56ers and the Wayzata Soccer Club.

She played her college soccer at UW-Green Bay. “Julie has taken the soccer program to new heights and has built a strong program foundation,” Carr wrote in a press release.

“We will always appreciate her leadership, commitment and all that she has done for our student-athletes and Oregon High School.”

The search for Grutzner’s replacement will start immediately. The position will be posted on the WECAN employment website.

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Oregon/Stoughton stays unbeaten The Oregon/Stoughton high school rugby team walloped Madison West, 45-0, on April 11 and defeated Sheboygan, 34-12, on April 23.

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efforts to win their third tourney of the season were thwarted due to inclement weather, causing the cancelation of the Green Bay rugby tournament scheduled for April 14.

Next up for the 8-0 rugby team are away games April 27 at Kenosha and May 2 at Muskego.

The winner of the Muskego game will have the inside track on winning the conference championship.

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Bats continue to shine in MG blowout JEREMY JONES ​Sports editor

Another big night with the bats helped Oregon softball remain undefeated with a 10-1 win on the road against Monona Grove.

The Panthers (5-0 overall, 4-0 Badger South) opened the season March 29 needing to rally to beat the Silver Eagles

6-5 with a four-run sixth inning.

Coach Sydnee Wyss said her team was firing on all cylinders Tuesday.

Sam Mikkelson cashed in with a triple and a home run to score three runs for Oregon, which also had a triple and three RBIs from Meghan Detra. Erin Newton and Sadie Gaberelle each had a double.

Gaberelle singled home a run in the first inning but the host Silver Eagles

took advantage of an Oregon error to tie the game in the bottom of the second.

It was the last run MG would get off Panther started Hannah Christensen, who allowed just two hits over five innings. She struck out two.

Oregon knotched four runs in the third inning to pull away. Mikkelson tripled to plate two runs, and Gaberell singled to plate another.

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Panthers only scheduled game for the week is cancelled ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor

Oregon has only played three games in 2018 so far, and their struggles to get outside with several snow storms hitting the area in April continued last week.

The Panthers were forced to

cancel their game against nonconference Cedarburg Friday after seven inches of snow fell on Wednesday, making Huntoon Field too wet to play on.

Oregon is 2-0-1 overall (2-0 Badger South Conference) and has had a tournament and two nonconference games called off so far.

What’s next Oregon hosts Fort Atkinson at 7 p.m. Thursday and hosts Madison West at 4 p.m. Saturday. Oregon also travels to Watertown at 7 p.m. Monday, April 30.

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Nos. 2 and 3 doubles team of Meyers and Benet and Ayers and Hessler added 6-0, 6-1 wins, respectively.

Tuesday evening at Rock River Park in Fort Atkinson Conklin called Koopman and Rehrauer’s victories at Nos. 1 and 2 singles “stellar.” The duo had been playing No. 1 doubles before

Tuesday.

Koopman won 6-3, 6-0 at the top of the lineup and Rehrauer added a 6-1, 6-1 win at No. 2 singles.

Roskos blanked his No. 3 singles opponent and Christian Branson added a 6-4, 6-3 in his first varsity match.

Meyers and Benet cruised 6-0, 6-1 at No. 2 doubles and Zach Bennett and Owen Johnson won 6-3, 6-0 at No 3 doubles.

Oregon’s only loss came at No. 1 doubles where Hake and Wiedemann dropped a three-set match 2-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Girls track: Relay meet up next at home on Friday Continued from page 9 personal-best 35-11 in the shot put.

The throwers weren’t done, though. Senior Alyssa Milski finished third in the shot 32-8 3/4, and sophomore Michaela

Rosga finished third in the discus with a personal-best 98-4.

Scarlett Egwuonwu won the 400 in 59.88, and Schipper led a 2-3-4 finish with a 27.34 in the 200.

Isabella Egwuonwu won the 100 hurdles in 17.94.

Oregon showcased its sprint depth, going 1-2 in the 4x2. Angeline Flogel, Ashley Johnson, Emma Roemer and Looze won the event in 1:53.19.

Johnson, Sharkus, Igl and Keast were second in the 4x1 (54.01).

Lily Hannibal, Tori Phillips, Scarlett Egwuonwu and Bush finished second inthe 4x4 (4:26.85).

Clara Hughes, Julia Hutchinson, Breanna Bastian and Beauchaine were second on the 4x8 in 10:58.8.

Boys track: Throwers go big at Badger South quad Continued from page 9 Senior Jahlil Turner was ninth in the 100 (11.5). Sophomore Matt Kissling matched the finish in the 200 (23.74).

Fort Atkinson quad The Oregon throwers had a combined 14 personal bests Tuesday at the Fort Atkinson quad. No final scores were available as the Observer went to press.

Sam Reynolds finished third in the shot put (44-9 1/2) and first in the discus with a personal-best 141-6.

Wannebo took yet another shot put title for the Panthers with a 49-10 1/2, and Adam Yates was third in the discus with a personal record 131-7.

Phillips won both the 100 and 200 in 11.65 and 22.97, respectively, and Turner added the 400 in 52.36.

Treyton Waldner cleared 5-6 for second place in the high jump, and Blake Anderson reached 9-6 for third in the

pole vault.

Bryce Trace, Gavin Koenig, Teagan Gilbertson and Keast finished second in the 4x200 (1:38.19), as did the 4x400 team of Raul Ramos, Jack Daguanno, Nick Borden and Turner in 3:38.29.

Oregon’s 4x100 team of Ben Adams, Mason Grender, Waldner and Anders (47.43) finished third.

Kissling (11.93) was third in the 100 and De’Andre Burrell (52.7) was third in the 400.

Oregon did not compete in the 3,200.

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Getting an early start It might have still been winter, but some Netherwood Knoll Elementary School students got a big jump on the fall planting season last month with some prairie seed plantings.

First- and second-graders gathered at the school’s arboretum for a “seed-sowing” project, planting seeds in milk jugs that act as mini-greenhouses. Students planted around 25 types of native prairie seeds — one species per milk jug — collected last fall by NKE parent Theresa Nelson.

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Liquor: Four downtown businesses cited for selling alcohol to underage buyers within year Continued from page 1 bring a “draft template” of a demerit point system that it may adopt in an effort to reduce alcohol sales to minors.

Uhl told the board he had consulted with other police chiefs from around the state and has a model from the Tomah Police Department that seems to have “curbed the problem a whole lot before it ever got started.”

“There are several communities that have ad hoc committees to deal with this,” he added.

State restrictions Under state law, municipalities may fine a server for selling alcohol to a minor but not the business owner. Local officials, including village attorney Matt Dregne, don’t like the law – which was changed a few years ago – because it relieves owners of responsibility for violations and places it on employees.

“We used to be able to cite the license holder,” Dregne said. “The lobby (that convinced the state legislature to change the law) knew what they were doing.”

The police department typically does compliance checks twice a year at businesses that sell alcohol, and servers are issued a citation if caught selling to minors. The lowest fine is $376.

“For the servers, it’s already a stiff penalty,” Dregne observed. “The discussion is, what can we do about the business owner?

We have limited options, partly because of the way the law is written.”

He noted that while the village cannot issue a citation to a business owner for an employee’s actions, even suspending a license “can be

problematic on the basis of these violations.”

“We can explore that,” Dregne said, “but it’s unusual, if not unheard of. I don’t know of an establishment whose license was suspended or revoked based on a handful of underage sales.”

Suspension and revocation proceedings are conducted for more significant problems like fights and drug sales, he said.

He recalled that the Village Board declined to go in the direction of license suspensions for selling alcohol to a minor when it adopted a more stringent application process a few years ago.

“For the business owners, I don’t have an answer other than to continue to encourage them to do better,” Dregne said. “Unless you want to explore turning up the heat from a legal standpoint.”

Dregne noted that some Oregon businesses fire employees if they’re found selling to an underage buyer.

Demerit point system Village president Steve Staton and Trustee Jeff Boudreau expressed interest in the demerit point system idea, but Trustee Jeanne Carpenter had doubts.

Uhl said there are different ways of dealing with alcohol sales to minors, but he thinks the demerit point system is the most effective because it gives the board guidance on how to respond to violations and it’s agreed upon by the business owners, who understand the consequences.

“The businesses are aware of the problem, the demerit system itself, and they’re aware that if they get to a certain number, their license could be suspended – and they’ve agreed to that,” Uhl said.

Under a demerit point system like the one used in Madison, points are ascribed to particular violations, with consequences tied to a license holder’s point total.

In Madison, for example, selling alcohol to a minor amounts to 50 points. Once a license holder, or agent, has 100 points in a year, an alcohol review committee conducts a revocation or suspension hearing, according to the city’s ordinance.

In Tomah, the agent holding the license will be warned once demerit points add up to 149 in a rolling 12-month period. For 150-199 points in the same period, the agent is warned and could have the license suspended from three to 90 days. And for 200 or more points in an 18-month period, the consequence is a suspension of not less than 10 days and not more than 90 days or revocation of the license, according to an email to Uhl from Tomah police chief Mark Nicholson that was in the board’s meeting materials.

State law says suspension of a liquor license must be not less than 10 days and not more than 90 days.

Carpenter, chair of the Personnel, Public Safety

and Protection committee, said she didn’t think the Village Board was “interested in revoking or suspending licenses.”

“If we adopted this,” she said, “we’d have a demerit point system with no teeth.

We don’t want to put people out of business.”

But Carpenter agreed with changing the village’s operator’s license application.

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10. Fire & EMS Report (Oregon/ Van Kampen, Belleville/Clark, Brooklyn/O’Brien).

11. Park Committee Report and Action – Root.

12. Anderson Farm Park Report – Root.

13. Assessor’s Report and Recommendation – Blomstrom.

14. Building Inspection Services Report – Arnold.

15. Constable’s Report – Maher.

16. Plan Commission Report and Recommendation - Christensen.

17. Public Works and TORC Report – Ace. 18. Discussion and possible Action re: Senior Center – Van Kampen.

19. Board Communications/ Future Agenda Items.

20. Town Board Committee Assignments – Ace. 21. Approval of payment vouchers – Arnold.

22. Clerk’s Report – Arnold.

23. Adjournment.

Note: Agendas are subject to amendment after publication. Check the official posting locations (Town Hall, Town of Oregon Recycling Center and Oregon Village Hall) including the Town website at www.town.oregon.wi.us. It is possible that members of and possibly a quorum of members of other governmental bodies of the town may be in attendance at any of the meetings to gather information; however, no action will be taken by any governmental body at said meeting other than the governmental body specifically referred to in the meeting notice. Requests from persons with disabilities who need assistance to participate in this meeting or hearing should be made to the Clerk’s office at 835-3200 with 48 hours notice.

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Application changes One change to the application reduces to 10 years the period for which applicants must provide their history of violations and/or convictions for any offense. Applicants were previously required to list all violations with no date limit.

Another change alters the application to say that applicants “will” be denied a license – instead of “may” be denied – for failure (intentional or not) to disclose an accurate and complete violations/convictions history.

The final change allows the police chief to present findings of an applicant’s background check to the Village Board in a cover memo without making a recommendation for approval or denial unless the board requests such

a recommendation. Previous- and stronger penalties for ly, the chief was expected to noncompliance. make a recommendation one She noted that once a way or the other. license is granted, it becomes “a quasi-property right” and Court concerns cannot be revoked without Cox said she’s concerned giving the license holder that citations issued to serv- “considerable due process.”

To avoid that, Cox sugers for selling to a minor become “a regular cost of gested establishing a policy doing business” for some that calls for a violating busiestablishments, although it’s ness to meet with the Village the employee who actually Board and legal counsel to pays the fine, not the business plan a correction aimed at preventing continued violaowner.

In Oregon, when a business tions of alcohol sales law. The is found to violate the law business owner would voluntwice in a rolling 12-month tarily enter a memorandum period, the server is issued of understanding with the vila citation and the business lage that stipulates if the busiowner or manager is asked to ness fails to comply with state meet with the Village Board and local alcohol laws, the business agrees to surrender to discuss the infractions.

Citations were issued this the license.

She said the MOU could be year to servers at Maria’s Pizza, Señor Peppers Mexi- attached to the liquor license can Restaurant, Ace’s Main as a condition of issuance, Tap for failing two compli- but it must be voluntary. If the ance checks in 12 months, license holder refuses to parand Charlie’s on Main, which ticipate, the village could take failed three compliance more serious steps as allowed under state law. checks in 12 months.

“When voluntary compliCox said the best way to address the problem is ance cannot be achieved,” through voluntary compli- Cox wrote in her memo, ance. She listed 10 steps “apply the law consistently she thinks the Village Board and firmly.” could consider to curb the Contact Bill Livick at bill. problem, including setting up livick@wcinet.com agreements with businesses

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*** ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS JEFFERSON STREET & S. MAIN STREET PARKING LOT LIGHTING & ELECTRICAL IMPROVEMENTS (RE-BID) VILLAGE OF OREGON DANE COUNTY, WI The Village of Oregon will receive sealed bids at the Village Hall located at 117 Spring Street, Oregon, WI 53575 for the construction of Jefferson Street & S. Main Street Parking Lot Lighting & Electrical Improvements until May 10, 2018 at 2:00 PM CST. All bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at that time.

The work for which bids are asked includes the following: A. The project consists of extending the downtown streetlights along both sides of Jefferson Street to the easterly side of the railroad bridge and within the new South Main Street Parking Lot accessed from Jefferson Street. The project includes lighting and associated amenities (bases, conduit, handholes, pole and fixtures, etc.).

B. The project includes burying the service lines from the meter pack to the rear of the South Main Street Buildings (addresses 101-123 S. Main Street), placing new junction boxes, and making the connections at the interior of the buildings.

C. The project also includes relocating the light pole in the terrace at the Kwik Trip at 135 N. Main Street including the removal of the existing pole base and associated connections.

The BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be examined at the offices of MSA Professional Services, Inc., Madison, Wis-

consin; and the Village of Oregon; Wisconsin. Planholders list will be updated interactively on our web address at http:// www.msa-ps.com under Bidding.

Copies of the BIDDING DOCUMENTS are available at www.questcdn.com. You may download the digital plan documents for $20 by inputting Quest eBidDoc #5703527 on the website’s Project Search page. Please contact QuestCDN. com at 952-233-1632 or info@questcdn. com for assistance in free membership registration, downloading, and working with the digital project information.

No proposal will be accepted unless accompanied by a certified check or bid bond equal to at least 5% of the amount bid, payable to the OWNER as a guarantee that, if the bid is accepted, the bidder will execute and file the proper contract and bond within 15 days after the award of the contract. The certified check or bid bond will be returned to the bidder as soon as the contract is signed, and if after 15 days the bidder shall fail to do so, the certified check or bid bond shall be forfeited to the OWNER as liquidated damages.

No bidder may withdraw his bid within 60 days after the actual date of the opening thereof.

OWNER reserves the right to waive any informalities or to reject any or all bids.

Published by the authority of the Village of Oregon.

CONSULTING ENGINEER: MSA Professional Services, Inc. 2901 International Lane, Suite 300 Madison, WI 53704 Mike Maloney, P.E. 1 (608) 242-7779 Published: April 19 and 26, 2018 WNAXLP *** AGENDA OREGON TOWN BOARD TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2018 6:30 P.M. OREGON TOWN HALL 1138 UNION ROAD, OREGON, WI 53575 6:30 p.m. Board Meeting 1. Call Town Board meeting to order.

2. Roll Call.

3. Approval of minutes from previous meeting.

4. Financial Report and Acceptance.

5. Public Comments.

6. Discussion and Possible Approval of Recommendations from Plan Commission. a. Land Division and Rezone Request. Petition # DCPREZ-2018-11299.

Parcel # 0509-354-8030-3; 114 Union Road, Brooklyn, WI 53521. The request is to create a 2-acre residential lot for son.

Owner and applicant is Russell Schmid, 114 Union Road, Brooklyn, WI 53521.

7. Communication and Action of the Dane County Board – Bollig.

8. Discussion and possible Action re: Lincoln Road Agreement with Village of Oregon.

9. Discussion and possible Action re: Update on financing of 2018 road

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OREGON FOR REZONING REQUEST AT HWY CC AND WEST NETHERWOOD ROAD PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Village of Oregon Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. on May 10, 2018 to discuss and act upon an application filed from Forward Development Group for a rezoning request for a property located at Hwy CC & West Netherwood Road. The proposed rezoning request would allow the property currently zoned Institutional (I) (Parcel No. 165/0509-034-8460-1) to be zoned as Multi-Residential (MR-8) and the property currently zoned Agricultural– County Zoning (A-3) (Parcel(s) 165/0509-0348001-0 & 165/0509-034-9500-9) to be zoned Single-Family Residential-5 (SR5), Single-Family Residential (SR-6) and Multi-Family Residential (MR-8), and Rural Holding (RH). The hearing will be held at the Village Hall at 117 Spring Street, Oregon, and Wisconsin.

A copy of the Ordinance is on file

at the office of the Village Clerk for public review. Office hours of the Village Clerk are 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. All persons interested are invited to attend this hearing and be heard.

Subsequent to the hearing, the Village Board intends to deliberate and act upon the request.

Any person who has a qualifying disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act that requires the meeting or materials at the meeting to be in an accessible location or format must contact the Village Clerk at (608) 835-3118, 117 Spring Street, Oregon, Wisconsin, at least twenty-four hours prior to the commencement of the meeting so that any necessary arrangements can be made to accommodate each request.

Peggy S.K. Haag Village Clerk Published: April 26 and May 3, 2018 WNAXLP ***

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STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTY, NOTICE TO CREDITORS (INFORMAL ADMINISTRATION) IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH F. BERGLAND Case No. 2018PR248 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: 1. An application for Informal Administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth February 27, 1923 and date of death November 3, 2017, was domiciled in Dane County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 212 Glenway Road, Brooklyn, WI 53521.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is July 13, 2018.

5. A claim may be filed at the Dane County Courthouse, 215 S. Hamilton Street, Madison, Wisconsin, Room 1005.

Electronically signed by Danell Behrens Deputy Probate Registrar April 3, 2018 Jonathan M. Hajny 221 Kings Lynn Road Stoughton, WI 53589 (608) 877-4081 Bar Number: 1014429 Published: April 12, 19 and 26, 2018 WNAXLP

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Parking: Poor lighting, lack of signage, access for people with disabilities cited as problems disabilities, the absence of signs indicating where public parking is located and poor lighting in certain walking corridors.

The plan calls for installing signs identifying public parking areas and directing visitors to them, changing existing wayfinding signs to remove specific business names and instead direct people to commercial areas, installing more lighting and painting street lines for all on-street parking.

The draft also calls for developing a process for semi-truck deliveries downtown and exploring parking time limits, parking meters and other measures that encourage more turnover in spaces.

The board unanimously adopted Trustee Jeanne Carpenter’s motion to seek a proposal from Vandewalle for an analysis of downtown 340 Autos

parking and designing wayfinding signs. Trustees also agreed with a staff plan to add disabled-only spots.

Village president Steve Staton told the Observer the analysis is the right way to proceed.

“In my time on the board, I’ve always felt that we make our best decisions when we have data,” he said.

He said installing wayfinding signs could be a big part of the solution, and Donoghue agreed.

But, Donoghue added, “If we’re going to say the parking needs to be further away, then we need to support that with signage and lighting to enable it to be valid parking.”

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Trustee Jeff Boudreau challenged the business owners, saying he’s “never had a problem parking downtown” even though he goes to restaurants weekly.

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there may be “certain times” when it’s more of a problem. He said there is a lot of “anecdotal evidence” from customers and business owners and that a study would address whether it’s “perception or real.”

David Heide, owner of Charlie’s on Main, told the board customers tell him “all the time” they have trouble finding a place to park on a Friday or Saturday night and go “to Stoughton or wherever” because they can’t find parking.

“You guys live here, and that’s why you don’t see a problem,” he said.

Staton agreed with Boudreau that the concern is more perception than an actual shortage, but he said that’s “the same as a real problem, because people don’t know where to go.”

While the village has eight restaurants in a small area, he said, businesses on Williamson Street and Monroe Street

in Madison have no parking other than on the street and manage all right.

He said people have to be willing to walk a little, which is reasonable in a small downtown.

But, he warned, “We’re not going to have enough parking downtown for people with mobility issues – it’s just not going to happen.”

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She teared up when she said Staton’s comment “makes me feel like I need to move.”

“It makes me feel like I’m not part of the community,” she added. “I’ve been here 10 years, watched the growth, and it’s starting to backfire in a way.”

Staton clarified his comments, saying, “It’s significant problem because there just aren’t a lot of parking spaces in front of businesses downtown.”

Gracz said he, Uhl and public works director Jeff Rau walked the area recently and came up with “a proposal” to designate two disability parking stalls in the Village Hall parking lot near the row of businesses along North Main Street.

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“I’ve got people who say they won’t stop because they don’t know where to park.”

Police chief Brian Uhl said enforcing time limits would “probably” mean hiring additional staff at an estimated cost of $15,000 a year, and “we’re probably going to be ticketing your customers or employees.”

Heide suggested placing a two-hour limit in all public parking lots, anyway. Once the new Jefferson Crossing apartment building opens this summer, he said, “we will have literally no parking ever if it’s not a two-hour lot.”

The disability parking comments upset Francis Anderson, owner of Pivotal Point Acupuncture, who said many of her 1,500 patients have “mobility issues,” and “every single day we have comments about parking.”

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FISH HATCHER Y RD.

Directions from Stoughton: Take 138 toward Oregon. Go past Eugster’s Farm Market, one mile and turn right on Sunrise Rd. Go one more mile then turn left on Town Line Rd. Continue on to Sand Hill Rd. (approximately one mile) and turn right.

Directions from Fitchburg: Take Fish Hatchery Road south to Netherwood Road. Turn left and go through Oregon past Walgreen’s to a left on Sand Hill Road.

Directions from Verona: Take Cty. M to Fish Hatchery Rd. Turn right and go to Netherwood Road. Turn left at Netherwood Rd. through Oregon past Walgreen’s to a left on Sand Hill Rd.

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Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

Saturday 8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Sunday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

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