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Thursday, September 14, 2017 • Vol. 133, No. 11 • Oregon, WI • ConnectOregonWI.com • $1

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‘Healthy Schools’ in Oregon 5 district schools among 15 honored statewide SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group

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Danny Tomaro, founder of Oregon Juggling Club, plays juggling clubs at Waterman park, where the team practiced before.

Balls no longer in the air After 21 years, Oregon Juggling Club calls it quits Unified Newspaper Group

Danny Tomaro, founder of the Oregon Juggling Club, is pretty sure the club met for the last time Aug. 30. The club’s last event two weeks ago was cut short due to a heavy rain, but the group did manage to meet at Waterman Triangle Park downtown – as it has for the past 21 years – for about half an hour. “When we got there, it looked threatening for rain almost immediately,” Tomaro recounted. “We were just warming up without any fire, and it started getting real windy. We actually did light up the torches for a

while and we all took a turn, but the wind was blowing the fire out, and it was getting pretty tough to juggle.” The group of five jugglers then took out some glowing balls and clubs that have lights inside them and juggled for another 20 minutes before the rain came and the participants left for the last time.

Opening doors Tomaro’s not happy to see the club end due to a lack of participants, but he is grateful for the many doors that juggling opened since he formed the club 21 years ago. “We didn’t juggle professionally – none of us consider ourselves

professional jugglers – but we got invited a lot of times to juggle for other people,” he said. “We juggled for the Boy Scouts, at the senior center, at New Year’s Eve parties that the community put on, at some of the local daycares and other groups like that.” Tomaro observed that most people found entertainment in watching others juggle, although to him it was more a demonstration than a performance. He learned to juggle when he was 40 by reading a book his wife had given him as a Christmas gift,

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West-side subdivision clear for construction residential lots on the village’s west side Monday. Its unanimous approval of a developer agreement for the first addition to Oregon Parks Neighborhood BILL LIVICK allows the village to have its first wooded subdiviUnified Newspaper Group sion, featuring an unusual T h e Vi l l a g e B o a r d street profile known as a opened the door for 34 new “rural cross-section.”

Oregon Parks will have no curbs, keep most trees

Board approves preliminary 2017-18 budget SCOTT DE LARUELLE

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It includes a main road with sidewalks but no curbs. The hilly, treefilled 21-acre subdivision is located west of North Alpine Parkway and south of West Netherwood Road, and has a requirement to preserve at least 70 percent of the trees on site. Kyo Ladopoulos, project

manager for the All Star Group development and property management company, told the Observer on Tuesday he hopes to have the main street, Kassander Way, completed this fall and expects building to begin next spring.

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Oregon School District officials are pleased how this year’s school year’s budget is looking so far. School board members approved a preliminary budget Monday night with a mill rate of 11.62 per $1,000 of equalized assessed value. That would translate to $2,314 on a $200,000 home, and school district property taxes are slightly more than half a

home’s overall property tax bill. The final rate will be set at the board’s annual public hearing and budget meeting on Sept. 25. The board plans to finalize the entire budget next month. “We are looking very good,” district business manager Andy Weiland told the board, noting the numbers are not yet final. “The staffing plan was covered … and also Year 3 of teacher compensation plan

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When it comes to having healthy schools, the Oregon School District is at the head of the class. District schools were honored recently by two national healthy schools programs. Oregon Middle School, Rome Corners Intermediate School, Brooklyn Elementary School, Netherwood Knoll Elementary School and Prairie View Elementary School were among only 15 schools in the state and 323 in the country named to the 2017 list of America’s

Healthiest Schools. The awards are based on criteria like serving healthier meals and snacks, getting students moving more, offering high-quality physical and health education, and empowering school leaders to become healthy role models, according to the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. “ T h e s e s c h o o l s h ave worked to serve healthier meals and snacks, increase physical activity, offer high-quality physical and health education programs, and empower school leaders to become healthy role models,” said State Superintendent Tony Evers in a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction press release.


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