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Diaz, new council: subtle shifts ahead JIM FEROLIE Verona Press editor
Before Luke Diaz joined the Common Council in 2013, it had been 10 years since an incumbent was defeated. That year, four were sent home. Another was defeated the n ex t y e a r, then another in 2017 and two more earlier this month, for a Diaz total of eight in five years. It’s just now getting to the point of what Diaz, Verona’s mayor-elect, sees as what should be the norm in Verona politics – regular campaigns empowering voters to make frequent changes to the direction of the city. T h a t ’s a s i g n i f i c a n t change from how many alders perceived their role a decade ago, more as volunteer civil servants who assumed that if people weren’t complaining, they must be doing their jobs well. In those days, the best way for citizens to encourage a change was starting a telephone campaign to alders or bringing several people to a meeting. Perhaps that’s a reflection of our smartphone culture. Now, alders are sending
email updates, candidates are campaigning on Facebook and the city is putting out electronic newsletters and hosting online polls. After Diaz is sworn in as mayor Tuesday, April 17, he plans more cultural changes from Jon Hochkammer’s administration, as well as some switches in city committees and commissions. He also wants to use what he calls the “soft power” of the mayor’s office to increase the transparency of the city’s dealings and explore technological innovations to improve communications and workflow. It’s only natural, he said, for the city to keep pace with the changing needs of its constituents. “Verona’s gotten really younger, really fast,” he said. “One of the poll workers (in the April 3 election) said (to me), ‘There are a lot of young people voting today.’” But there’s still room for some old-school, fundamental thinking, like bringing down the city’s debt load and putting an emphasis on bringing new businesses and building up the city’s downtown. Diaz hopes to bring “aggressive incrementalism” to the way the city works, making many small changes, rather than the major shift some could expect after a 64-year-old Republican mayor of 12 years is succeeded by a 36-year-old card-carrying Democrat. The new alders who have shifted the council’s politics from a leftward lean to a
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Cole Emerick, 5, of Middleton, tests a magnet to see if will stick to the metal side table at the STEM Fair April 7.
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A STEM Fair was held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 7 at the public library. The fair was hosted and led by Navigant employees, who showed children how magnets work, demonstrated how rain falls out of clouds and See more photos from the STEM Fair at the library: showed them how to design bead necklaces that imitated computer code. ConnectVerona.com
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Spotlight: Verona becomes a city First council went through ‘learning experience’ to modernize, stop Madison JIM FEROLIE Verona Press editor
The grainy, fluttering video recovered recently by the Verona Area Historical Society only shows a piece of the proceedings, but for the 265 people attending, mostly in suits and formal dresses, it was clearly a big deal. The acting governor was there. WMTV’s new evening news anchor – Verona graduate Rick Fetherston – emceed the ceremonies. And Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Shirley Abrahamson, who would later become chief justice, did the swearing in as Verona made the transition
‘It was great except that every Monday morning I had certain people who always called me and gave me their agenda for the week.’ Jane Pearcy, on being an alder from a village of 3,000 to a city during a banquet at Verona Middle School on April 18, 1978. Abrahamson, in her third year on the court at age 44, kept it light, cracking jokes, like pointing out that it was a rare occasion “where I can swear in public and people can swear back at me in public.” The result was serious business. Becoming a city changed the way things were done, for better or for
worse, as Verona continued its explosive growth. But members of the first Common Council – only three of whom were holdovers from the Village Board – had all sorts of troubles and confusion the first year as they learned their way around the new system. By the end of the year, they had several contentious issues to deal with, including the abrupt resignation of the administrator five months later, a petition demanding a referendum over the city’s plan to build a city-community building, what was called the biggest tax rate jump in history, a scandal over cable television that would continue to be an issue for years and a temper-raising split vote over alternate-side parking, a policy that still exists today. Forty years later, it’s still debatable whether the change truly accomplished the purpose some people expected.
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Town of Verona residents can “bring up issues for the board to consider” at the upcoming annual meeting April 17. The meeting, which town administrator/planner Amanda Arnold told the Press would include updates on the “continued progress” on topics like building permits and road projects, will begin at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 7669
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City: Former village president Weiland drove the change from a village Continued from page 1 Burr Weiland, the village president at the time the decision was made, Oct. 10, 1977, had been working for nearly two years to make it happen despite a failed advisory referendum the year before. Under his watch, the village set up a ward system, hired an administrator and prepared all the legalities to become more modern and hopefully help put a stop to Madison’s aggressive expansion. But two weeks after the vote, he resigned over a minor scandal. Verona has a modern government to be sure, but the other part of the effort has had questionable results, as Madison is far closer to Verona now than it was then. Art Cresson, one of the members of that first Common Council and later the mayor, wasn’t sure how the switch to a city might have helped Verona control its borders, but he said once Weiland decided he wanted it, he was going to made sure it happened. “Burr was a very forceful individual,” Cresson said. “If he put his mind to something, he proceeded with due diligence to get it done.”
Why the switch? A few scattered newspaper clippings from 1976 and 1977 help tell the story behind the change to a fourth-class city (under 10,000 population), but none went into much depth and the Press has been unable to contact anyone who was actually involved in the decision. Most are dead, including Weiland, who passed at age 80 at Four Winds Manor in 2003. And the three members of the original Common Council still in the Verona area all were in their first year serving at the top level of Verona’s government and could only go by speculation and memories of what they’d
heard. John Perkins, for example, was of the opinion that being a city provided a longer reach in controlling expansion or development outside its borders, but statutes show extraterritorial jurisdiction is the same for villages and fourth-class cities, 1.5 miles. Cresson, too, thought the ETJ, as it’s commonly called, was stronger for a city. And fellow original alder Jane Pearcy said she had no idea. A story in the Press in a public meeting preceding the vote reported one resident asking point blank what the advantages were, and Weiland told her it had to do with the city’s growth and having a better handle on Madison’s annexation, but he didn’t say how. Other trustees told her it would be a more efficient form of government, it would force recodification of outof-date ordinances and it would be reasonably easy to accomplish now that Verona used wards, rather than having all candidates run at-large. Of course, that was a cyclical argument, because the village had switched to wards in anticipation of becoming a city. The city’s website says the effort goes back to “early 1976,” when people here were afraid “of becoming nothing but a minor aldermanic district of the City of Madison.” A Verona Press story covering that debate, in January 1976, said Weiland wanted to switch right then, and in fact wanted a vote that night, mainly because he believed it would bring improved representation with a system of alders, but also because he believed the ETJ would get bigger. Other trustees resisted, because they all lived in the same part of the village and didn’t want to push themselves out of office, so they appointed a committee to look into the issue.
“People worried about Madison gobbling us up; that’s not a concern I had,” Pearcy told the Press. With a huge annexation by Madison into the Maple Grove area on the table and a fight in progress over a landfill east of the city – filled and covered decades ago – an advisory referendum on becoming a city went before voters that April. According to numbers on the front page of that week’s Verona Press, it failed 534-313, and nothing else was written about it over the next several months. Still, the village expanded its board to eight people in September 1976, creating wards, now known as aldermanic districts. And a year after that, the Village Board voted unanimously in favor of the change, with nobody from the public speaking or registering in opposition.
Turbulent first year For all the improvements it was supposed to bring, the first year as a city was messy. It started with Weiland, who had resigned in October 1977 after it was discovered he hadn’t hooked up his water meter when building his new house. He joined the mayor’s race as a write-in, leading to a three-way vote, which Dick Brown won 359306 (former village trustee Paul Stein got 201). “That stuck in his craw for years,” Weiland’s son, Vince, told the Press. It also involved a cable television scandal, with an alder being flown by one of the prospective cable companies to Verona in time for a vote, later drawing an investigation by Dane County District Attorney Jim Doyle. In September, the city a d m i n i s t r a t o r, Wi l l i a m Wachtendonk, resigned, and his successor, Clarence Motz, ended up being ousted the next year after it was discovered he’d lied on his job application.
And throughout the year, as Brown pushed for a better place for the city to do its business than the cramped, poorly designed outbuilding on the Carnes property, he drew the ire of many concerned taxpayers. But the building, Pearcy said last October at a Verona Area Historical Society presentation, was entirely unsuitable. “The furnace was so loud we could either have heat and not hear each other or turn it off and we froze to death,” she said. Brown’s grand plan for a do-it-all building with an attached senior center or community center attracted a petition demanding an advisory referendum. The council instead ended up reducing its scope significantly, but when the building opened in October 1980, it was even more expensive and got the pejorative nickname, “Brown’s Monument.” That council also upset people with closer-to-home issues of taxes and parking and got hounded for how it handled its business. Ve r o n a wa s g r ow i n g quickly – the year before, home values had gone up 22 percent – and city taxes went up about 20 percent that fall. Alternate-side parking, which ticketed anyone on the wrong side of the street overnight, also drew many complaints from citizens. A variety of questions of transparency, including post-council chats at a bar called the
Dugout, got complaints from Press editor Henry Schroeder on the opinion page. By the time elections rolled around two years later, five of the first eight alders and the mayor were all gone, though Cresson survived long enough to become mayor. “It was certainly a rough time for those first couple years,” Perkins told the historical society in October. “It was a learning experience for all of us,” Pearcy told the Press.
Becoming professional Becoming a city had some nuanced advantages. The most important, probably, was the closer representation. Alders took calls from people in their wards and referred others to their proper representative. Pearcy told the Press that was a constant. “I received lots and lots of phone calls,” she said. “It was great except that every Monday morning I had certain people who always called me and gave me their agenda for the week. I kept saying, ‘We make policies, we don’t run the city.’” Being a city, of course, was a stronger-sounding moniker than a village, even though the powers have been similar since 1933 (other than some strangely obscure differences, such as how many members are on a library board and that village presidents are considered officers of the peace).
The biggest difference, perhaps, is the office of mayor, which has veto power in a city and more direct administrative control over the staff, as the CEO of the city and head of police and fire departments. But in 1978, Verona had a first-year mayor, too. Despite a professional administrator carrying over from the village, Pearcy said, the council was “flying blind” at times. “(Wachtendonk) always had an answer, but it wasn’t always the correct answer,” she said. “He kind of liked for us to (do) what he wanted.” Though those experiences and a couple bad ones after led the city to take a 15-year break from having an administrator, it did continue to modernize as it grew. Among other things, it hired a finance director, a planning director and more recently, an economic development director. Vince Weiland said his father rarely talked about his time on the Village Board or how the city changed over the years, but he could tell his dad felt his “passionate” advocacy of becoming a city made a difference. “He was very proud of the fact Verona had become a city, because he knew what he had contributed to that push,” Vince Weiland said. Email Verona Press editor Jim Ferolie at veronapress@wcinet.com.
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• Because of a transcription error, the Press incorrectly identified mayor-elect Luke Diaz’s age in a story last week. He is 36, not 38. • A story in last week’s Verona Press previewing “Bye, Bye Birdie” included an incorrect number of kids in the show. The correct number is 114 participants. The Press regrets the errors.
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In last week’s election story, the Press reported that mayor-elect Luke Diaz called the previous composition of the Common Council “weird.” That was a reference to a comment about the difference in the decades before 2013, when there were few if any women on the council, and he found that strange. He did not suggest any of the individuals were “weird,” as some people have inferred.
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Transparency is a bigger challenge from power spot W hen Barack Obama campaigned for president in 2008, he promised to have the most transparent administration in history. Love or hate the man or the president, history has clearly shown otherwise. Whether he was being disingenuous, had trouble controlling his staff or simply discovered that openness is not as simple as it sounds from the outside, that was not one of the Obama administration’s strong suits. Verona’s Ferolie mayor-elect, Luke Diaz, has made similar promises – or at least implications – during his campaign, and he reiterated them to me last week after winning his race handily. It will be fascinating to see whether he can hold to those statements. I’ve spoken with and challenged Diaz enough times to know he’s serious about the concept and believes in it. The question is whether such a vision can truly be accomplished. Certainly, the turnabout in how the city discussed its negotiations the Verona Area School District about a road to the new high school over the past few months has shown more transparency was possible and was, in fact, a net positive for everyone. When the two governments started speaking more openly, rather than sniping at one another through vague public comments, they and their constituents got to understand the problems better. Diaz said all along it should have all been in open session,
and he might very well have been right. But that was an easy one in relative terms. The city and school district represent many of the same people and have many of the same goals, and both have a duty to be open. What will be more telling is how our new administration and Common Council handle developer agreements, budget discussions, personnel issues and union contracts. Certainly Diaz has enough allies on the council to get his way, at least at the beginning, so if the city attorney isn’t yanking his leg back from the breach, he’ll likely be able to avoid any closed session he wants to. But sometimes, as funny as it might sound for a journalist to say this, being completely open is either unrealistic or not in the best interests of the city. And as an alder, Diaz voted against the vast majority of closed sessions, even when there was clearly a fiscal responsibility for the city. Alders who are in the minority have freedom to make protest votes or vote on principle, but mayors have to decide whether to put potential closed sessions on the agenda and how to run such meetings if they stay open. It’s certainly possible portions of these closed sessions didn’t really need to be closed or the discussions tended to wander, but it’ll still have to create a conflict for him any time he authorizes the words “The Common Council may convene in closed session” on an agenda. The fact is, Verona, at least by comparison to its peers I oversee coverage for – Oregon, Fitchburg and Stoughton – has done a pretty good job of being open since I’ve been here. I had some troubles in my first couple of years (also Mayor Jon Hochkammer’s first couple of years),
but our requests are professionally handled, and even when the city has tried to hold them back, its attorney makes plausible cases for it. Being transparent takes the concept of being open one step further. It means not just being willing to serve requests but rather going out of the way to make sure people can see what you’re doing. And that means making yourself vulnerable to attack in a way that goes against human nature. To be sure, Diaz has done some of this as an alder. On more than one occasion, he gave me a rundown of key points from a closed session or forwarded me a useful piece of information I didn’t ask for. But he was in the “opposition,” so to speak, for most of his first five years. It’s a much bigger challenge when that information can be used against your own goals. That brings me back to the school district, where the evolution of that conversation showed gray areas, places where sure, you still eventually have a closed session, but you can narrow its scope to what’s essential. And that is what a meeting chair – the mayor in this case – can do. If the majority is with him, it could create a paradigm for what truly should be the correct balance of openness and protecting a city’s interests. But as all executives learn, it won’t be easy to walk that balance and hold to the principles he’s sworn to uphold. I, perhaps more that anyone else in Verona, wish him good luck in this endeavor. Jim Ferolie is the editor of the Verona Press and has covered Verona government since 2006.
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Into the Ice Age
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Verona is certainly growing these days. But around 10,000 years ago, it was shrinking – or at least the massive sheet of ice that covered the area was. This part of the state is geographically significant, as it represents the southern extent of the glaciers from the last Ice Age, which occurred around 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. And people can find out all about it – including recent efforts to extend the Ice Age Trail that runs through the area – at the Saturday, April 14 meeting of the Verona Area Historical Society. Verona is located at the southern edge of what once was an enormous ice sheet that covered the top 25 percent of the Earth, VAHS president Jesse Charles wrote the Press in an email. “When it melted, about 10,000 years ago, it left behind many features that are easily visible today – if you know what to look for,” he said. April’s historical society meeting will review the history of the Ice Age, paying particular attention to Wisconsin, Dane County and Verona. “We’ll talk about Pleistocene “mega-fauna,” including woolly mammoths, giant beavers, sloths and
What: VAHS meeting When: 10 a.m. April 14 Where: Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli St. Info: veronahistory.com saber-toothed tigers that lived in Wisconsin,” Charles wrote. “We’ll also talk about the changing landscape of plants as the climate warmed and dried.” Another topic will be the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, which follows the terminal moraine left by the retreating glacier, including a seven-mile “Verona Segment” with many interesting glacial features, some less than a mile from the senior center. The group will also discuss the Ice Age Trail Alliance, the 60-year-old organization whose mission is to “create, support and protect” the Ice Age Trail.
Verona’s leper colony The story of the Verona leper colony is one of the more intriguing oral histories handed down through the last several generations in Verona, Charles wrote. “There is a good chance that if you live here long enough, sooner or later you are going to come across some mention of this ‘urban legend’ … and wonder if it is just that,” he said. Longtime residents like John Scharer remember being told as kids to stay away from a certain patch of county-owned land in
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After three years, the Fire Department is officially opening its doors. The Fire Department has invited anyone interested in seeing the completed fire station to visit during an open house, where firefighters will lead small group tours around the building. Attendees are to enter through the west entrance into the classroom to meet up with the tour guides. The open house, 101 Lincoln St., will run from15 p.m. Saturday, April 14. Fire chief Joseph Giver said a series of issues popped up that prevented the department from holding an official open house up to this point. “We thought we could finish building last fall, but we had to do things like tearing up the floor. We also had some complications with contractors,” Giver said in a phone interview Monday. The new, 42,000 squarefoot space makes it possible to have crews at the station 24 hours a day, which Giver said helps firefighters respond faster to emergencies. Being at the station helps cut the commute because they no longer have to travel from their house to the station in order to respond to an incident. The new area features an office space, living quarters and a larger garage, which the last station didn’t
If You Go What: Open house Where: 101 Lincoln St. When: 1-5 p.m. April 14 Info: 845-9401 provide. Giver said the last station, being built in 1976, simply was not big enough. He explained the 10,200 square-foot building, while adequate at the time it was built, could not meet the needs of Verona’s growing community.
“The old station was built for the volunteer department and served its purpose at the time … It couldn’t fit the fire trucks we have now since the older models were smaller. We also didn’t have space for an ambulance,” Giver said. He said while the station has hosted different safety expos and family events, this open house will be different. The open house is a time for anyone who has yet to see the station to come visit and ask any questions that they have. For more information, call 845-9401.
PRESENT MOMENT PARENTING WORKSHOP April 14, 2018 • 8:30-11:30 am Resurrection Lutheran Church 6705 Wesner Rd., Verona WI
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the southeast part of town, because that’s where the lepers had been kept. In fact, a monument on East Verona Avenue is dedicated in to memory of past residents of the old county poor house, asylum and a leper colony. The Verona Leper Colony, located in the southern 80 acres of today’s “Prairie Moraine Park” (the dog park half) was active from 1896 to 1902. But the story really started, Charles said, in 1896 in Bristol Township, just north of Sun Prairie, where in January, Hans Gjerde and Thomas Larsen were diagnosed with leprosy and they and their wives were forced into isolation from the rest of the population to protect the public health. The Dane County Poor House, established in 1854, was charged with dealing with them. At the time the county owned several hundred acres of farmland on the east side of Verona, where a cottage was built for the two leprosy patients and their wives to live. Gjerde died shortly after being relocated, and his wife later reunited with her four children in Bristol. Larsen died in 1902, effectively ending this first iteration of the Verona Leper Colony. Charles said this was not the end of leprosy patients’ presence in Verona, however, as evidence suggests people affected by leprosy were being cared for by the Dane County Poor house (currently Scheidegger park) as late as the 1930s.
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Banner reception is April 19
Verona Area School District students whose artwork was chosen to hang on Main Street will be honored at a reception April 19. T h e Ve r o n a P u b l i c Library, 500 Silent Street, will host the event from 6:30-8 p.m., with the printed banners on display, and students receiving certificates, cake and ice cream. The banners, submitted through a program with the Verona
If You Go What: City Banner Art Project reception When: 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, April 19 Where: Verona Public Library, 500 Silent St. Info: verona.k12.wi.us
Area Education Foundation, will remain on display at the library through the rest of April. VAEF first partnered with the City of Verona to hang banners in 2017. Those were
hung along East Verona Avenue. This time around, VAEF received 111 submissions and narrowed the group to 40 in January. Volunteers judged the submissions at the district office. The theme both years has remained “Hometown USA,” with submissions ranging from a cow with a smile to drawings of flowers and Verona-area buildings. Contact Scott Girard at ungreporter@wcinet.com and follow him on Twitter @sgirard9.
Soccer team begins shoe drive Soccer players need shoes. But the Verona Area High School boys soccer team’s shoe drive this and next month isn’t for themselves. Instead, it will raise money for the team and get shoes sent to small businesses around the world that partner with the nonprofit the fundraiser is run through, Funds2Orgs. “Funds2Orgs works with micro-entrepreneurs in helping them create, maintain and grow small businesses in developing countries where economic opportunity and jobs are limited,” states a news release on the fundraiser. “Proceeds from the sales
of the shoes collected in shoe drive fundraisers are used to feed, clothe and house their families. One budding entrepreneur in Haiti even earned enough to send to her son to law school.” The soccer team will receive funds based on the total weight of shoes donated. According to the release, the shoes can be new or “gently worn.” Shoes can be dropped off at Miller and Sons Supermarket, Hy-Vee in Fitchburg or the VAHS main office throughout April and May. The money will go toward new jerseys for the freshman soccer team.
“We know that most people have extra shoes in their closets they would like to donate,” parent Missy Prout said in the release. “By doing so, we raise money for the VAHS Soccer Team and we have the chance to help families in developing nations who need economic opportunities. It’s a win-win for everyone.” As of last week, the drive was already at 250 pairs donated. For more information on the drive, contact Prout at missyprout@msn.com. – Scott Girard
Kick off the Julien Dubuque International Film Festival with the Dubuque Chorale as we bring you Movie Melodies! 7:30 pm Saturday, April 21 & 2:00 pm Sunday, April 22
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A concert full of sneak peeks featuring some of this year’s film selections, along with classic movie music performed by the Dubuque Chorale and the Dubuque Chorale Children’s Choir. For updates on special guests and all festival events:
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Coming up home or personal property. permitting, or inside a barn. There will Support group for parents To schedule an appointment, call 712- be an additional 15 minutes for visiting Parents of middle and high school- 0236. the animals after the story time. It is sugers, who feel alone in the world of pargested to come early to sign a general enting tweens and teens can participate Business/education mixer liability waiver. in a support group from 6:30-7:30 p.m. For information, call 845-7180 or visit Verona Area High School students are Thursday, April 12, at the library. invited to a networking event at the Vero- veronapubliclibrary.org. It will be a supportive, nonjudgmental na Area Chamber of Commerce, 120 W. and safe place to talk with other parents, Verona Ave., from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Tues- April birthday/anniversary where they can share frustrations, gain day, April 17. lunch insight and ideas. Certified parent coach Students will learn how to network in The Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli Tia Fagan and other parents will dis- business settings and how to greet and St., invites people with April birthdays cuss the trials and tribulations of raising talk to future employers. or anniversaries to a celebratory lunch at tweens and teens. For information, call the chamber at 11:30 a.m. April 20. For information, call 845-7180. 845-5777. The meal is $8. Jim Hetzel will per-
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The Verona Area Historical Society will meet 10 a.m. Saturday, April 14, at the senior center. The April meeting will explore the Verona area from the time of the last Ice Age, around 100,000 years ago. For information, visit veronahistory. com.
Open Book Open Book for the City of Verona will be held Monday, April 16 through Friday, May 4 by appointment, phone or email with the assessor at Verona City Hall, 111 Lincoln St. During the Open Book period, citizens may speak directly with the assessor regarding the assessed value of their
Money saving tips
form country music songs at 12:30 p.m. For information, call the senior center Learn about money saving cell phone at 845-7471. apps from 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, at Learn lyric writing the library. The class will explore some of the top Songs from Four Seasons Theater will rated apps that can help consumers save explore the art of lyric writing at 6:30 money, whether it is at the grocery store p.m. Monday, April 23, at the library. or while online shopping. The singers will use the work of masFor information, call 845-7180. ter lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Learn about the craft through Sondheim’s own Story time at Heartland words and performances of his songs. Visit Heartland Farm Sanctuary, The event is made possible by Four 11713 Mid Town Road, for story time Seasons Theater will support from the with the library from 1:30-2:15 p.m. Beyond the Page program, the National Wednesday, April 18. There will be Endowment for the Humanities and the another event at the same time Tuesday, Madison Community Foundation. April 24. For information, visit veronapublicliThe event is geared towards ages 0-5. brary or call 845-7180. It will be outside in a pasture, weather
Community calendar Thursday, April 12
• 6 p.m., VACT “A Race to the Finish” and “The Jungle Book Kids,” Verona Area High School Performing Arts, 300 Richard St., vact.org • 6:30-7:30 p.m., Support group for parents of tweens and teens, library, 845-7180 • 7:30 p.m., VACT “Bye Bye Birdie,” Verona Area High School Performing Arts, 300 Richard St., vact.org
Friday, April 13
• 6 p.m., VACT “A Race to the Finish” and “The Jungle Book Kids,” 300 Richard St., vact.org • 7:30 p.m., VACT “Bye Bye Birdie,” Verona Area High School Performing Arts, 300 Richard St., vact.org
Saturday, April 14
• 10 a.m., Ice Age Verona, senior center, veronahistory.com
• 12 p.m. or 3 p.m., VACT “A Race to the Finish” and “The Jungle Book Kids,” 300 Richard St., vact.org • 1:30 p.m. or 5 p.m., VACT “Bye Bye Birdie,” Verona Area High School Performing Arts, 300 Richard St., vact.org
Sunday, April 15
Tuesday, April 17
• 4:30-5:30 p.m., Business/education mixer, Verona Area Chamber of Commerce, 120 W. Verona Ave., 845-5777 • 6-7 p.m., Money saving tips, library, 845-7180
Wednesday, April 18
• 10:30-11 a.m., Bird storytime (ages 0-5), Badger Prairie Needs Network, 1200 W. Verona Ave., 845-7180 • 6:30-7:30 p.m., Earth Day storytime (ages 0-5), Orange Leaf, 611 Hometown Circle, 845-7180 • 6:30-8:30 p.m., Adult coloring club, library, 845-7180
• 1:30-2:15 p.m., Storytime at Heartland Farm Sanctuary (ages 0-5), 11713 Mid Town Road, 845-7180 Friday, April 20 • 11:30 a.m., April birthday/anniversary lunch, senior center, 108 Paoli St., 845-7471
Monday, April 16
• 10:30-11 a.m., Earth Day storytime (ages 0-5), BPNN, 1200 W. Verona Ave., 845-7180 • 6:30 p.m., Lyric writing program, library, 845-7180
• 9:30-10 a.m., Earth Day storytime (ages 0-5), Holiday Inn, 515 W. Verona Ave., 845-7180
Monday, April 23
What’s on VHAT-98 Wednesday, April 11 10 p.m. – Diabetes Info at Senior Center 11 p.m. – Review & Preview at Senior Center Thursday, April 12 7 a.m. – Diabetes Info at Senior Center 8 a.m.- Zumba Gold 9 a.m. – Daily Exercise 10 a.m. – Review & Preview at Senior Center 2 p.m. – Zumba Gold 3 p.m. – Daily Exercise 4 p.m. – Marcel Letters at Senior Center 5 p.m. – Hedda Hopper at Senior Center 6 p.m. – Salem Church Service 7 p.m. – Al Anderson at Senior Center 8 p.m. – Daily Exercise 9 p.m. – Heart Health at Senior Center 10 p.m. – Leper Colony? at the Historical Society Friday, April 13 7 a.m. – Marcel Letters at Senior Center 1 p.m. – Heart Health at Senior Center 3 p.m. – Vintage Verona Sports 4 p.m. – Hedda Hopper at Senior Center 5:30 p.m. – 2016 Wildcats Football 8:30 p.m. – Vintage Verona Sports 10 p.m. – Diabetes Info at Senior Center 11 p.m. – Review & Preview
at Senior Center Saturday, April 14 8 a.m. – Common Council from 4-09-18 11 a.m. – Vintage Verona Sports 1 p.m. – 2016 Wildcats Football 4:30 p.m. – Leper Colony? at the Historical Society 6 p.m. – Common Council from 4-09-18 9 p.m. – Vintage Verona Sports 10 p.m. – Leper Colony? at the Historical Society 11 p.m. – Review & Preview at Senior Center Sunday, April 15 7 a.m. – Hindu Cultural Hour 9 a.m. – Resurrection Church 10 a.m. – Salem Church Service Noon - Common Council from 4-09-18 3 p.m. – Vintage Verona Sports 4:30 p.m. – Leper Colony? at the Historical Society 6 p.m. – Common Council from 4-09-18 9 p.m. – Vintage Verona Sports 10 p.m. – Leper Colony? at the Historical Society 11 p.m. – Review & Preview at Senior Center Monday, April 16 7 a.m. – Marcel Letters at Senior Center 1 p.m. – Heart Health at Senior Center
3 p.m. – Vintage Verona Sports 4 p.m. – Hedda Hopper at Senior Center 5 p.m. – 2016 Wildcats Football 9 p.m. – Hindu Cultural Hour 10 p.m. – Diabetes Info at Senior Center 11 p.m. – Review & Preview at Senior Center Tuesday, April 17 7 a.m. – Diabetes Info at Senior Center 10 a.m.- Zumba Gold 9 a.m. – Daily Exercise 10 a.m. – Review & Preview at Senior Center 2 p.m.- Zumba Gold 3 p.m. – Daily Exercise 4 p.m. – Marcel Letters at Senior Center 5 p.m. – Hedda Hopper at Senior Center 6 p.m. – Resurrection Church 8 p.m. – Al Anderson at Senior Center 9 p.m. – Heart Health at Senior Center 10 p.m. – Leper Colony? at the Historical Society Wednesday, April 18 7 a.m. – Marcel Letters at Senior Center 1 p.m. – Heart Health at Senior Center 3 p.m. – Vintage Verona Sports 5 p.m. – Common Council from 4-09-18 7 p.m. – Capital City Band 8 p.m. – Vintage Verona
Sports 10 p.m. – Diabetes Info at Senior Center 11 p.m. – Review & Preview at Senior Center Thursday, April 19 7 a.m. – Diabetes Info at Senior Center 8 a.m.- Zumba Gold 9 a.m. – Daily Exercise 10 a.m. – Review & Preview at Senior Center 2 p.m. – Zumba Gold 3 p.m. – Daily Exercise 4 p.m. – Marcel Letters at Senior Center 5 p.m. – Hedda Hopper at Senior Center 6 p.m. – Salem Church Service 7 p.m. – Al Anderson at Senior Center 8 p.m. – Daily Exercise 9 p.m. – Heart Health at Senior Center 10 p.m. – Leper Colony? at the Historical Society
Churches All Saints Lutheran Church 2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg (608) 276-7729 allsaints-madison.org Interim Pastor Sunday: 8:30 & 10:45 a.m. The Church in Fitchburg 2833 Raritan Rd., Fitchburg (608) 271-2811 livelifetogether.com Sunday: 8 & 10:45 a.m. Fitchburg Memorial UCC 5705 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg (608) 273-1008 memorialucc.org Interim Pastor Laura Crow Sunday: 8:15 and 10 a.m. Good Shephard Lutheran Church ELCA (608) 271-6633 Madison: Raymond Road & Whitney Way, Madison Sunday: 8:30 & 10 a.m.. Verona: Corner of Hwy. PD & Nine Mound Road, Verona Sunday: 9 & 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m. Damascus Road Church – West The Verona Senior Center 108 Paoli St., Verona (608) 819-6451 info@damascusroadchurch.com, damascusroadonline.org Pastor Justin Burge Sunday: 10 a.m. Memorial Baptist Church 201 S. Main St., Verona (608) 845-7125 MBCverona.org Lead Pastor Jeremy Scott Sunday: 10:15 a.m. Redeemer Bible Fellowship 130 N. Franklin St., Verona (608) 848-1836 redeemerbiblefellowship.org Pastor Dwight R. Wise Sunday: 10 a.m. family worship Resurrection Lutheran Church – WELS 6705 Wesner Rd., Verona (608) 848-4965 rlcverona.org Pastor Nathan Strutz and Assistant Pastor Timothy Priewe Thursday: 6:30 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. St. Christopher Catholic Parish St. Andrew Church 301 N. Main St., Verona St. William Church 1371 Hwy. PB, Paoli (608) 845-6613 stchristopherverona.com Fr. John Sasse, pastor Saturday: 5 p.m., St. Andrew, Verona Sunday: 7:30 a.m., St. William,
Paoli Sunday: 9 & 11 a.m., St. Andrew, Verona Daily Mass, Tuesday-Saturday: 8 a.m., St. Andrew, Verona
St. James Lutheran Church ELCA 427 S. Main St., Verona (608) 845-6922 stjamesverona.org Pastors Kurt M. Billings and Peter Narum Office Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 8 a.m.-noon Wednesday Saturday Worship: 5 p.m. Sunday Worship: 8:30 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Salem United Church of Christ 502 Mark Dr., Verona (608) 845-7315 salemchurchverona.org Rev. Dr. Mark E. Yurs, Pastor Laura Kolden, Associate in Ministry Sunday School: 9 a.m. Sunday Worship: 10:15 a.m. Fellowship Hour: 11:30 a.m. Springdale Lutheran Church ELCA 2752 Town Hall Rd. (off Hwy ID), Mount Horeb (608) 437-3493 springdalelutheran.org Pastor Jeff Jacobs Sunday: 8:45 a.m. with communion Sugar River United Methodist Church 415 W. Verona Ave., Verona (608) 845-5855 sugar.river@sugarriverumc.org, sugarriverumc.org Pastor Gary Holmes 9 & 10:30 a.m. contemporary worship. Sunday School available during worship. Refreshments and fellowship are between services. West Madison Bible Church 2920 Hwy. M, Verona (608) 845-9518 www.wmbiblechurch.org Pastor Dan Kukasky Jr. Sunday Worship: 9:15 a.m. Sunday School: 10:45 a.m. Zwingli United Church of Christ Hwy. 92 & G, Mount Vernon (608) 832-6677 Pastor Brad Brookins Sunday: 10:15 a.m. Zwingli United Church of Christ Hwy. 69 & PB, Paoli (608) 255-1278 Rev. Laura Crowe Sunday: 9:30 a.m. family worship
Coworkers in the Service of God “For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.” – 1 Corinthians 3:9 NIV The creation of the world and the salvation of the souls therein is a work in progress.Every dawn is, in some ways, a vestige of creation, but more than just a vestige, it is indeed a new creation.The world is clearly in the process of becoming what it will be, and we are cocreators with God in determining how things will work out.Just as the physical universe is in flux,so too the moral universe. Good and evil are locked in mortal combat, and we are all called to do our part on the side of God and the angels.It can sometimes be discouraging to see how depraved people can be. Governments, which should serve their people,sometimes seem more bent on subjugating or otherwise taking advantage of them.Wars and rumors of wars there will always be, but we can take heart that most of us cringe when we see people acting cruelly, and the human heart is more moved by pity, compassion and kindness than by cruelty and evil. And while there may be a bit of larceny in every heart, most of us are more desirous to become better human beings and to help our fellow human beings than to fleece them. So take up your cross (or your shield), and help God and your fellow man fight the good fight. – Christopher Simon
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Lettermen bring ‘backseat music’ to performing arts series BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group
Tony Butala, founding member of the vocal trio The Lettermen, says the group has managed to continue performing almost six decades after it began because its members are not only fine singers, but also terrific entertainers. The Lettermen will display those talents when they appear in the Verona Area Performing Arts Series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 21. The concert will take place at the Performing Arts Center, 300 Richard St. The first iteration of the group started in 1959 and produced hit songs beginning in the early 1960s, continuing through the ‘70s. Their trademark is close-harmony singing of romantic songs, with such hits as “When I Fall in Love,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” “Goin’ Out of My Head/Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” and “Hurt So Bad.” The group has released 11 gold records and received five Grammy nominations. It was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2012. In a telephone interview with the Verona Press, Butala said he began singing professionally as a 7-year-old in Pennsylvania, and later was a lounge performer before launching The Lettermen. He said those early experiences taught him the importance of taking care of his voice and living well by avoiding drugs and hard liquor. “I was in lounge groups before The Lettermen – we did like five shows a night in those days in Vegas and Reno and Tahoe and Atlantic City
– and I’d watch these other guys go out after the show to bars and stay up all night drinking and trying to find broads,” Butala said. “It just never appealed to me, because I’d been singing since I was 7 years old. I’d gone through bouts of non-sleep and my voice being harsh, and I thought this is my Stradivarius, this is my livelihood, and I’d better darn well take care of it. So I never drank hard liquor, I never did drugs and I never smoked.” The group’s lineup has changed numerous times over the years, with Butala the only continuous member. Today’s Lettermen includes Donovan Tea, who joined the group in 1984, and Bobby Poynton, who performed from 1989-95 and rejoined in 2011. Butala said the group found a niche when it became both recording artists and entertainers. “Being a lounge singer for many years, I had to learn all the tricks to entertain audiences,” he said. “Since the very first Lettermen tour, we’ve always had comedic banter and jokes and audience participation. “A lot of people do that now,” he noted, “but even Wayne Newton got that from us. He was a young kid in a lounge and saw The Lettermen do their schtick and he started doing audience participation.” When he established the group, he found “the best-looking guys with the best solo voices,” he said. The Lettermen were always three “totally entertaining individual singing soloists, that happened to be able to sing together,” Butala said. “Most groups – 90 percent of them – have one lead singer and two or three guys in the background,” he observed. “The Lettermen were different, and that’s the key to our longevity.” Contact Bill Livick at bill. livick@wcinet.com
Q&A with The Lettermen Press: Sounds like you’ve had a really interesting life. How did you get your start in music? Tony Butala: I’ve been blessed. I get a chance to be paid to do what I like to do. I love to sing. I’ve been singing professionally since I was 7 years old. I went to California when I was 11 on a visit, and when I sang out there for some friends they told me I should sing for the Mitchell Boys Choir. So I auditioned and was accepted during the five-day period out there, and my mother was put out with this suggestion and had to call my dad. She said what do we do, John? Our little boy’s been accepted into the choir in Hollywood. So my dad said put him on the phone, and I’d been singing professionally in Pennsylvania, and he said Anthony, whatever you want to do. I said I want to sing, so two days later my mother had to get on the train and come all the way back to Pennsylvania, and I was out there with my career.
If You Go Who: The Lettermen in concert When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 21 Where: Verona Performing Arts Center, 300 Richard St. Tickets: $32; $30 seniors (over 65); $10 students (18 and under) Info: vapas.org in that stuff. That’s who listened to us and came to our shows. We all read about the tragic guys, but we had a pretty darn good life. We toured with Jack Benny and George Burns and were regulars on the Red Skelton Show and knew Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. We were involved with the positive people who were entertaining people and not with the people on the city streets, drugged out in the gutter.
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Four gymnasts qualify for regional championship The Wisconsin State meet was held last week at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, where gymnasts from all reaches of the Wisconsin competed to not only achieve state-wide ranking but to qualify to the regional championship held in Minnesota. Gymnasts competed in Level 6 through Level 10 in USA Gymnastics competitive levels. Three Level 7 gymnasts from Verona qualified: Addie Murphy (13), Jayden Mathias (13) and Alex Hernandez (13). Murphy placed second on uneven bars, fourth on floor exercise and four in the allaround competition. Mathias took fourth on vault and eighth in the all-around. Hernandez placed fifth on vault, third on floor and sixth all around. Seven other Level 7 gymnasts from Gymfinity in Fitchburg also qualified to compete at the regional meet in Minneapolis on April 20-22. Gymnast needed to score a 34.5 or 8.625 on each event to qualify for the regional meet in Level 7 competition. Gymfinity qualified 20 total gymnasts to the Junior Olympic regional competition, including two Level 8 gymnasts from Verona. Annika Rufenacht placed fourth on bars, third on balance beam, seventh on floor
and fifth in the all-around competition. For Level 8 qualifications, gymnasts need to score a 34, or an 8.5 average on each event. Maggie Veak also fared well, placing second on vault, second on beam, sixth on floor, second all-around, and she took top honors as the new Wisconsin uneven bars champion. The Level 8-10 region 4 gymnastics championship will be held in St. Paul on April 13-15. Wisconsin is part of a seven-state region in the USA Gymnastics Junior Olympic Competition as well as the USA Gymnastics Xcel competition program. Xcel offers gymnasts a completion circuit outside of the Junior Olympic progressive system. The levels proceed from bronze to silver, gold, platinum and diamond. Gymnasts from Verona include: (silver level) Kennedy Crowe, Savanah Rooks, Eva Siegenthaler, Brooke Budd-Krause and Dominika Ziemba; (gold level): Kayla Wagner, Anna Haack, Denise Ta and Charlotte Guetzlaff; (platinum level): Paulina Rodriguez, Alexa Fueldner, Katherine Ryan and Abby Wampfler; (diamond level) Alyssa Fischer.
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Gymfinity gymnasts from Verona (left to right) who qualified for the regional championship - Article submitted held in Minnesota this month are: Maggie Veak, Addison Murphy, Alex Hernandez and Annika Rufenacht; (not pictured) Jayden Mathias.
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Hustle claim five tournaments
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The Verona Hustle third-grade boys basketball team finished the season with five tournament wins. Team members (front, from left) are: Evans Bartell, Ryder Blodgett, Cooper Blodgett and Emmitt Vukobrat; (middle) Connor Lambe, Jackson Bubbers, Caden Jonjak, Asher Grady and Will Stremlow; (back) coach Troy Blodgett, coach Mike Lambe and coach Pete Stremlow.
Boys golf
Wildcats shoot a 330 to win first Big Eight meet ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor
Verona boys golf started of the 2018 season Tuesday at Sun Prairie Country Club against the Cardinals and Janesville Craig, winning the meet with a 330. Junior Austin Gaby shot a 74 out of the No. 3 spot to lead all golfers, and senior Jack Bates followed with an 81 out of the No. 5 spot. Senior No. 1 golfer Garhett Kaegi and senior No. 2 golfer Logan Lindell finished the scoring with an 87 and an 88, respectively. Sun Prairie was second at the meet with a 335. Ethan Carrick had an 82, and Mickey Keating and Ethan Churchill both had 84s. Austin Draws had an 85.
What’s next Verona travels to Blackhawk Golf Course for the Edgewood invite at noon Monday, April 16, and to Yahara Hills Golf Course at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, for a Big Eight meet against Madison East and Middleton. Craig shot a 343. Kade Salemi finished with an 80 and Daniel Thomsen shot an 86. Anthony Schroeder and Connor Kelly finished the scoring with an 87 and a 90, respectively.
Verona boys track and field was finally able to get outside Tuesday for a Big Eight Conference dual meet against Janesville Craig and fell 69-66. Coach Joff Pedretti wasn’t overall concerned though, and actually didn’t know the final score. “The focus of dual meets is more developmental,” he said. “Tonight we were trying some guys out and prepping everyone for bigger meets.” Verona didn’t have a pole vaulter, triple jumper or 4x200-meter relay compete at Monterey Stadium, and no one will have a 4x800 relay compete until the conference championship meet. Senior Dylan Bourne led a dominant performance by Verona in the throws. Bourne led a 1-2 finish in the discus and a 1-2-3 in the shot put for the Wildcats. He cruised to the discus title by nearly 11 feet with a heave of 132-10, and added the shot put title with a toss of 46-2. Jason Acker was second in both events (128-11, 42-6) and Timmy Curtis added a
What’s next Verona returns to the track at 4:30 p.m. for a Big Eight Conference dual meet against Madison East that was rescheduled from April 3. The meet will be held at Lussier Stadium. third-place finish in the shot (41-5). Acker added the 100-meter dash in 11.2. seconds. Jayden Joe-Wright, who moved back to Verona from Texas this spring, also looked good running against the wind to win the JV 100 with the same time as Acker. Michael Egle won both the 110 and 300 hurdles. He posted a time of 16.8 to claim the 110s and added a 46.2 to win the 300s. Jared Jenkins was also part of two wins, joining Bryan Lopez, Eric Blun and Mason Jordan to take the 4x400 in 3:38.4. Jenkins also won the 400 in 52.0. Treven Lieck won the high jump over teammate Sam Mast with a height of 5-4. Jatavion Hawkins claimed the long jump with a leap of 18-10 1/2.
Girls track and field
Lichty wins 100, 200 in Janesville JEREMY JONES Sports editor
Verona girls track and field traveled to Monterey Stadium on Tuesday for a Big Eight Conference dual meet against Janesville Craig and fell 82.5-58.5. Senior Emelia Lichty had two of the Wildcats’ four wins, claiming the 100- and 200-meter dash. Lichty raced to victory in the 100 in 13 seconds flat and added the 200 with a time of 27.9. “Weather has really limited us getting outside this spring, but I thought Emelia had solid times for the conditions and with it being our first outdoor meet of the season,” coach Robert Martin said. Teammate Tamiya Smith, who is coming back from an injury, took second in both sprints, posting times of 13.2 and 30.2.
What’s next Verona returns to action at 4:30 p.m. Thursday for a Big Eight dual meet against Madison East at Lussier Stadium. “We’ve been working with just running mechanics with Tamiya,” Martin said. “Tonight we just wanted to ease her and some of the girls into the meet.” Annika Larson won the 300 hurdles in 53.6 and Lily Brings cleared 8-6 to win the pole vault on a balmy afternoon. Verona finished second on the 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 relays. There was no 4x800 relay. The Wildcats plan to load athletes up a little more Thursday against Madison East.
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Sports Complex in Beloit, the Wildcats moved that game to May 7. The game will still be Weather forced the postpone- played at 4:30 p.m. It is the ment of two more games last second time the game has been week for the Verona softball rescheduled. The Wildcats also had a March team. 27 game against Janesville ParkVerona, Beloit (ppd.) er moved to April 16. Originally scheduled to play Verona, Middleton (ppd.) M o n d a y a t S t a t e l i n e Yo u t h Sports editor
A predicted windchill of sub40 degrees on Tuesday forced Verona to cancel its first game of the season Tuesday at MidVerona travels to Olbrich Park at 4:30 p.m. Thursday to play Madison dleton’s Firefighter’s Park. The La Follette. game has been rescheduled for 4:30 p.m. April 18. That means the Wildcats will have games April 16 through 19 in a make-up game at 5 p.m. Sun Prairie at 5 p.m. Thursday. and a doubleheader on Saturday. Monday. The Wildcats play Mid- Madison East hosts Verona at Verona hosts Janesville Parker dleton on Wednesday and host 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17.
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Postponements keeps ‘Cats off the diamond ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor
Verona baseball had two games against Janesville Parker postponed last week. Thursday’s game at Parker was moved to 5 p.m. Friday, April 20, and Monday’s game at Verona was moved to 5 p.m. Monday, April 23.
The Wildcats also had a game at Beloit Memorial Tuesday that was postponed until Friday, April 13. That game will now be played at the Stateline Youth Sports Complex. Verona has played just one game so far this season, a win over Milton on March 29. Cold weather has pushed back game two until Thursday.
What’s next Verona hosts Beloit Memorial at 5 p.m. Thursday and travels to Beloit at 5 p.m. Friday, April 13, to take on the Purple Knights at Stateline Youth Sports Complex. The Wildcats also travel to Mansfield Stadium at 2 p.m. Saturday to take on Madison Memorial and host Madison West at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 17.
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Spring Sports Guide 2018
Baseball
Softball
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Members of the Verona softball team (left, from right) are: Molly McChesney, Taytum Geier, Savanna Rainey, Amie Rudnicki, Emma Kleinsek and Alyssa Bostley; (back) Katie Pederson, Amelia Hust, Emily Bloomfield, Ari Vogel, Meghan Anderson, Kallie Knueppel, Kasie Keyes and Alina Yazek.
Infield/pitching look to be strengths for Wildcats in 2018 ANTHONY IOZZO
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Verona baseball has been one win away from state for the past four seasons, and the Wildcats look to once again be a contender in 2018. Six players return from a team that finished 14-12 — including five starters — and both the pitching staff and infield look to have plenty of depth. Senior catcher Stephen Lund was a first-team All-Big Eight selection in 2016 as an infielder, but he missed all
Seniors: Stephen Lund (catcher), Connor McGowan (infield, pitcher), Tristan Largent (infield, pitcher), Tucker Teskey (outfield, pitcher), Grant Kelliher (pitcher) Juniors: Reagan Klawiter (pitcher) of 2017 due to Tommy John surgery. Lund is back healthy in 2018 and looks to be one of the leaders on offense and a valuable asset behind the plate, coach Brad D’Orazio wrote in a preview questionnaire.
Lund batted .325 (25-for77) as a sophomore with 22 RBIs and 18 runs scored. He had six doubles, a triple and two home runs. Senior pitcher Tristan Largent and junior pitcher
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth
Wildcats return all nine starters JEREMY JONES
2018 returning letterwinners
Sports editor
Verona softball coach Todd Anderson said the Wildcats will have to come together as a team if they wish to return to the WIAA state tournament. Anderson joked that the Wildcats have become an every-other team, last appearing at the state tournament in 2016. “We’d like to be more than an every-other team, but since we didn’t go last year, we’ll settle for going this year,” he said. All-State players Savanna Rainey and Taytum Geier are important part of that effort, as well as a slew of returning letterwinners as Verona graduated just one part-time
Seniors: Savanna Rainey (catcher), Taytum Geier (infield), Amie Rudnicki (infield), Emma Kleinsek (infield), Kallie Knueppel (infield/outfield)), Emily Bloomfield (DH) Juniors: Molly McChesney (outfield), Meghan Anderson (pitcher) Sophomore: Amelia Hust (infield, outfield), Kasie Keyes (outfield/infield), Alina Yazek (infield), Ariana Vogel (outfield) starter from last year’s team. “To steal a line from the movie Miracle, ‘we’re not good enough to get to state on just our talent,” Anderson said. “We’ve got to become more than our talent.’” That, he said, begins with senior captains Amie Rudnicki, Rainey and junior Molly McChesney.
Rainey, a UW-Madison recruit, was selected as a WFSCA first-team All-State honoree and Geier, a St. Cloud State women’s hockey player, was named to the second team. Rainey hit .475 and finished with a team-best 43
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The returning letterwinners for the Verona baseball team (from left) are: Stephen Lund, Reagan Klawiter, Tucker Teskey, Connor McGowan, Grant Kelliher and Tristan Largent.
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The returning letterwinners for the Verona Area High School girls soccer team (front, from left) are: Ashley Hofstetter, Anika Quaid, Megan Krogman, Caitlyn Ott, Mia Hoeve and Hannah Steiner; (back) Delaney Dykman, Chandler Bainbridge, Rachel Nelson, Grace Kaatz, Julia Gilboy and Olivia Rawson; (not pictured) Paige Saltz.
Cats look strong in middle ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor
Verona girls soccer has 13 players returning to the field in 2018; six of whom were listed as midfielders, forwards or both last season. The Wildcats finished 8-9-4 in 2017. “We are looking forward to some goal scoring this season,” coach Jen Faulkner wrote in a preview questionnaire. Senior captain Chandler Bainbridge looks to be a leader in the midfield this season and not only help create offense but be a contributor on defense as well, Faulkner wrote.
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2018 returning letterwinners Seniors: Rachel Nelson (goalie), Chandler Bainbridge (midfielder), Ashley Hofstetter (defender), Megan Krogman (defender) Juniors: Julia Gilboy (midfielder/forward), Delaney Dykman (defender) Sophomores: Mia Hoeve (midfielder/forward), Caitlyn Ott (midfielder/forward), Hanna Steiner (midfielder/forward), Paige Saltz (defender), Grace Kaatz (defender), Anika Quaid (midfielder/forward), Olivia Rawson (forward) Bainbridge finished with 12 varsity player, who was also goals and five assists last sea- a standout four-year varsity son and was named first-team girls basketball player. All-Big Eight Conference and Junior Julia Gilboy and honorable mention All-State. Bainbridge is a four-year Turn to Soccer/Page 15
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The returning letterwinners for the Verona Area High School boys golf team (from left) are: Logan Lindell, Austin Gaby, Jack Bates, Garhett Kaegi and Cale Rufenacht.
Three starters return in 2018 ANTHONY IOZZO Assistant sports editor
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Verona boys golf looks to be in the postseason mix in both the Big Eight Conference and the sectional this season, with three starters Seniors: Garhett Kaegi (projected No. 1 back. golfer in lineup), Jack Bates (projected “Senior leaders are always a factor, and starter), Logan Lindell (projected starter) from the looks of things, our group of newJuniors: Austin Gaby (projected starter) comers are going to benefit from the example Sophomores: Cale Rufenacht (projected being set by our senior leaders,” coach Jon starter) Rebholz wrote in preview questionnaire. Senior Garhett Kaegi leads the way as a two-time state qualifier, and senior Jack Bates returns after earning letters as a sophomore and a junior. Sophomore Cale Rufenacht was last year’s individual Big Eight champion, times during the season and shot an 81 at sectionals. scoring a career-best 75. Kaegi was strong in all facets of the Kaegi finished tied for 19th at the WIAA Division 1 state meet last season, posting a game, but he especially came through in 155 (79-76), and Bates was in the 70s a few
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Boys tennis
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ” -Vince Lombardi
Verona focuses on team state JEREMY JONES Sports editor
2018 returning letterwinners
Seniors: Aaron Young (doubles), Vivek Swaminath (douVerona boys tennis could bles), Jonah Berry (doubles) very well see the first state champion in program histoJuniors: Will Tennison (singles), Conner Dugan (doubles), ry crowned at the end of the Kevin Fan (singles), Chris Queoff (singles), Evan Schmidt season. The ultimate goal for (doubles), Jordan Hutchcroft (doubles) the Wildcats, however, coach Sophomores: Kush Nagpal (singles), Rick Engen said, is to get this year’s senior class back to the WIAA team state like to see them go seed at state as a freshman and meet for the secout on top,” Engen eventually lost the fifth-place ond time in the match to rival Colt Tegtmeier said. last three years. After a pair of top- of Madison Memorial. And The Wildcats six finishes the first helped the Wildcats reach return all 10 vartwo seasons, junior Will their first state team tournasity starters from Tennison could play for the ment since last year. Last season, Tennison “Our seniors have worked Wildcats’ state singles chamhard to get us where we are pionship. Tennison earned a 10th and I think everyone would Turn to Tennis/Page 15
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Returning letterwinners for the Verona boys tennis team (front, from left) are: Kevin Fan, Vivek Swaminath, Conner Dugan and Kush Nagpal; (back) Jonah Berry, Aaron Young, Evan Schmidt, Will Tennison, Chris Queoff and Jordan Hutchcroft.
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Boys track and field
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Returning letterwinners for the Verona Area High School boys track and field team (front, from left) are: Michael Egle, Sam Mast, Max Herkert, JT Hawkins, Brad Tuomi and Peter Barger; (back) Jason Ford, Dylan Bourne, Mason Jordan, Tim Soko, Joe Riley and Eric Blum.
Returning letterwinners for the Verona girls track team (front, from left) are: Andrea Wheaton, Rachel Witthuhn, Ashley Kundinger, Caroline Bobb and Jessica Ayite-Atayi; (back) Mary Saley, Lucinda Bakken, Ally Kundinger, Lucy Waschbusch, Leah Remiker, Emelia Lichty and Tamiya Smith; (not pictured) Annika Larson.
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Change starts at the top for the Verona girls track and field team this spring as Robert Martin takes over as coach following the departure of longtime coach Mark Happel. Martin, a volunteer assistant with the team last year, said his goal this season, “is to continue building a strong program, and creating a culture that aspires work hard to become better, while generating a high level of enthusiasm among all athletes.” Martin’s prior experience covers 11 years of coaching track and field, all but last year at Fort Atkinson High School under Dennis Schwedrsky. He’ll be leading a team that returns 13 letterwinners following a third-place finish in the Big Eight Conference a year ago. Weather has limited the Wildcats to just two indoor meets so far this season in which returning letterwinners
2018 returning letterwinners Seniors: Emelia Lichty (sprints/relays), Annika Larson (hurdles/jumps/relays) Juniors: Andrea Wheaton (sprints/relays), Ashley Kundinger (jumps/sprints/relays), Caroline Bobb (distance), Ally Kundinger (jumps/relays/sprints), Lucy Waschbusch (mid-distance/distance) Sophomores: Jessica Ayite-Atayi (throws/sprints/relays), Mary Saley (mid-distance), Lucinda Bakken (distance), Leah Remiker (sprints/relays), Tamiya Smith (sprints/ relays), Rachel Witthuhn (throws) senior Emelia Lichty sophomores Leah Remiker, Rachel Witthuhn and junior Ally Kundinger, have all looked strong. Lichty returns to the track as the Wildcats’ most experienced sprinter. She joined juniors Andrea Wheaton, Ally Kundinger and Tamiya Smith at conference last year to finish runner-up to Madison Memorial in the 4x100 relay. The quartet also took third place in the 4x200-meter relay. A n i nva l u a b l e r e l a y
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member last season, Lichty teamed up with senior Annika Larson, Leah Remiker and Ally Kundinger took fifth place on the 4x4. Lichty has had a strong start to the season, winning the 60 dash and finishing sixth in the 200 at Ripon. Remiker is the Wildcats’ top returning middle distance runner after taking fifth in the 800 at conference last year. She was also part of a fifthplace 4x8 finish along with Natalia Aparicio and Lucy Waschbusch. Preston Ploc graduated following last
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The Verona Area High School boys track and field team returns 12 letterwinners from a team that finished second at the Big Eight Conference meet last season. If the Wildcats want to bring home a first-place trophy from the conference meet this season, however, they’ll need some new faces to make an impact. Max Herkert, Dylan Bourne, Mason Jordan, Peter Barger and Jared Jenkins all return following top five finishes last season. Jason Ford, Tim Soko, JT Hawkins, Michael Egle, Sam Mast, Brad Tuomi, Joe Riley and Eric Blum are also back as letterwinners. The graduation of high jumper/hurdler Jack Herkert and thrower Hunter Bourne leaves a big hole for the Wildcats. Hoping to make up at least some of those points are Herkert and Bourne’s younger brothers. Jack Herkert, who is now competing at Stanford University, won the Big Eight high jump title and finished second in the 110-meter high hurdles. Younger brother Max Herkert finished third in the pole vault last season
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but faces a difficult task in moving up the ranks as both defending champion Alec Hanson and second-place Palmer Goodwick return. Max cleared 13 feet during the indoor season to move him up to fourth all-time at VAHS. He also finished ninth in the triple jump last season and is the third-best returner this season. Hunter Bourne won the conference shot put title
with a heave of 52 3/4. His younger brother, Dylan, is one of the top contenders to claim the title after finishing sixth as a sophomore with a throw of 46-5 3/4. Four of the top five graduated following last season, with only Amourji Grosskopf (47-8) of Beloit Memorial having a better throw from the returners. Dylan (129-5) is also the
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Although Middleton boys track and field is the favorite to win the Big Eight Conference this season, the race could be interesting once again. The Cardinals graduated 200-meter dash champion Tre Turner but do something no other Big Eight team does this season, return a pair of conference champions. Both seniors Aaron Richardson (long jump) and Alec Hanson (pole vault) are back to defend their titles. Middleton’s Caleb Easton is the top returner in both the 800 and 1,600. Madison La Follette’s Josh Freitag could challenge in the mile and Daniel Jacobs of Madison
West will push Easton in the 800. Madison West should also be solid in the distance events and on the 4x800, where the Regents return three-quarters of last year’s championship team. Madison Memorial lost 110-meter high hurdle champion Hunter Peters to graduation but the Spartans should be OK thanks to the relays. Memorial lit up the sprint relays last season and returns three-quarters of its 4x200 relay and all of its 4x100. Sun Prairie graduated discus champion Andre Johnson, 100 dash champion Jalen Taylor and three-quarters of its 4x400 relay.
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Softball: Games begin this week Continued from page 10 RBIs to go along with 10 doubles, two triples and nine home runs. She scored another 10 runs and had a team-best .688 slugging percentage. The junior was also solid behind the plate, recording 131 putouts to go along with a .978 save percentage. Geier played 18 games at first base for the Wildcats. She collected 37 hits (30 singles, six doubles and a triple) in 65 at-bats. She drove in 16 runs and scored 19 more. Defensively, she had 101 putouts and only one error at first base. “I don’t think anyone on this team thinks they can take Taytum’s spot. Part of that is her offensive capabilities,” Anderson said. “Taytum was uncanny getting on base last year. She’s just a pure athlete.” McChesney and Amie Rudnicki were tabbed as honorable mention picks all-conference picks last year. The each had high on-base percentages and are expected to put pressure on opposing pitching staffs with their speed once again this season. McChesney, like Rudnicki, had all singles, going 22-for-61 at the plate for a .367 batting average. She scored 19 runs and drove in eight. McChesney will hold down center field this year but the other two outfield positions are up for grabs. Her move to the outfield also opened up a competition at shortstop. Returning sophomores Kasie Keyes and Alina Yazek and freshman Katie Pederson are competing for time at shortstop. “Katie is really a catcher but she has the athleticism to allow here to compete with the veterans at short,” Anderson said. Verona’s starters in left and right
field will be determined by who wins the shortstop competition, with the other two girls moving to the outfield. Ari Vogel and Amelia Hust, who is rehabbing from a volleyball injury, should also be in the mix. “No matter how it turns out, we’re going to have a pretty strong outfield because we have the players to do it,” Anderson said. Rudnicki went 25-for-63 at the plate last season, scoring a team-best 23 runs and driving in 12 more. She had an .831 fielding percentage and returns at second base. Third baseman Emma Kleinsek and pitcher Meghan Anderson earned second-team Big Eight honors last year. Kleinsek had 23 hits in 51 at-bats over 17 games this season, including five doubles, three triples and two home runs. She finished second on the team with 18 RBIs and fourth with 18 runs scored. Kleinsek was second on the team with a .439 average. Defensively, she had 11 putouts and 24 assists in 38 chances to go along with a .921 fielding percentage. “We had other players at third last year before settling in with Emma,” Anderson said. Anderson struck out 100 hitters and walked 19 in 67 1/3 innings. She had ERA of 1.25 and seven shutouts on the year. Verona only graduated part-time pitcher Quinn Nelson, who tossed 43 1/3 innings, going 6-2 in eight starts. She allowed 16 earned runs while striking out 27 and walking six. “Meghan is our workhorse,” Anderson said. “Her first two years she split time with Quinlan (Nelson). Right now we don’t see ourselves as a two-pitcher team. We see ourselves with a girl we want to hand the ball to and say, go get us a win.”
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Conference race goes through Sun Prairie Sun Prairie and Janesville Craig shared the Big Eight title last year but the Cardinals are the sole favorite this season. “I think if one goes into the season not thinking Sun Prairie has the initial edge, they are not paying attention,” Verona coach Todd Anderson said. “They return a really good ball club, and I assume like us, they’ve added a few players.” The Cardinals advanced to the WIAA state tournament for the fourth time since 2013, where they lost 6-0 to Stevens Point in the state quarterfinals round last year. The Cardinals went 16-2 in conference and despite graduating a first-team AllState outfielder, Sun Prairie returns plenty of firepower to get back to state this season. Alyssa Blair graduated following the season which saw her voted outfielder of the year. Sun Prairie returns firstteam All-State shortstop Katie Tews and honorable mention All-State pitcher Maddie Gardner, however. A Yale University recruit, Tews wound up with 53 hits, including 15 doubles, and hit .535 — all single-season school records. She had an on-base percentage of .568 and slugging percentage of .828. Tews, who hit two home runs, was second on the team with four triples and
Big 8 conference schedule Date Opponent Location Time April 9 Beloit Memorial Beloit 4:30 p.m. April 10 Middleton Verona 5 p.m. April 12 Mad. La Follette Olbrich 4:30 p.m. April 16 Jan. Parker Verona 5 p.m. April 17 Mad. East Olbrich 4:30 p.m. April 19 Sun Prairie Verona 5 p.m. April 21 Jan. Craig (DH) Verona 11 a.m. April 24 Jan. Parker Janesville 4:30 p.m. April 26 Beloit Memorial Verona 5 p.m. May 1 Mad. Memorial Verona 5 p.m. May 3 Mad. West Jefferson M.S. 5 p.m. May 8 Middleton Firefighter’s 5 p.m. May 10 Mad. La Follette Verona 5 p.m. May 14 Madison West Verona 5 p.m. May 15 Madison East Verona 5 p.m. April 17 Sun Prairie Sun Prairie 5 p.m.
knocked in 29 runs, fourthbest on the team. She scored a team-best 51 runs while also stealing 15 bases and walking 10 times. In the field, she made three errors and had a .955 fielding percentage. Garnder, a sophomore, has already committed to play for the University of Wisconsin. She has already thrown a no-hitter, striking out 16 against Middleton this season. Sun Prairie third baseman Schyler Ek is also a Division I recruit who plans to attend Illinois-Chicago. Janesville Craig graduated
second-team All-State pitcher Jenna Brandt. The Cougars brings back catcher/ t h i r d b a s e m a n Ke n n e d y Cox, an All-State honorable mention. “You’d have to say after the past few years, Janesville Craig has to be in the race, but they lost their p i t c h e r t o g r a d u a t i o n ,” Anderson said. “You don’t know what they’re returning, but Dan (Bayreuther) does more with less some years than any other coach, so they’re always dangerous.” Verona was 14-4 in the Big Eight last season.
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Golf: First meet of the season was Tuesday Continued from page 11 pressure-putting situations last season, including a birdie putt on a playoff hole at sectionals just to make state. Bates was consistent and if he was able to avoid a double bogey or more on a hole, he showed the ability to be a top-tier golfer and a potential state candidate. Rufenacht lowered his scores by the end of last season, and he showed off his short game and putting skills at the conference meet, picking up two eagles and a birdie to help him win the individual title. The rest of the lineup will be determined by tryouts and season performance, but seniors Logan Lindell, Matt Payne, Connor Rufenacht and Jon Buchert, juniors Ryan Mirwald and Austin Gaby and sophomore Ryan Ritter are all competing for the fourth and fifth spots. “This competition amongst ourselves should breed a strong team all throughout
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the regular season and when things begin to sort themselves out come tournament time,” Rebholz wrote in the questionnaire. Freshmen Andrew Aune, Jake Rebholz and Walker Haessig will also join the program this season, but Rebholz wrote that they have a ways to go. Still, he wrote it wouldn’t be surprising to see them posting low rounds by the end of the season as well. The competition that a large group can bring can also help the Wildcats survive one of the toughest sectionals in the state. Rebholz wrote that Middleton, Waunakee, Reedsburg, Baraboo and Sparta all return varsity experience and will be tough to beat in any tournament. Regionals is at Pleasant View Golf Course (Middleton’s home course) this season, and sectionals is at Edelweiss Country Country Club in New Glarus, which is Verona’s home course.
Coach Jon Rebolz wrote in a preview questionnaire that Middleton and Janesville Parker look to be two of the biggest challengers to Verona in the Big Eight Conference this season. He wrote that those teams have “strong” rosters with “experienced, talented returners.” Middleton brings back senior state qualifier Andy Zucker and senior Mitch Giroux from its sectional qualifying team. Zucker posted a 157 at state to finish 28th. Janesville Parker returns all five of its
Big Eight conference schedule Date Opponent(s) Time Place April 10 Sun Prairie, Craig 2 p.m. Sun Prairie CC April 17 Madison East, Middleton 2 p.m. Yahara Hills GC April 30 Madison Memorial, West 2 p.m. Tumbledown Golf Course May 7 Parker, Beloit, La Follette 2 p.m. Janesville CC May 17 Big Eight meet 8:30 a.m. Evansville GC
Boys track: Outdoor season started Tuesday Continued from page 12 second-best discus thrower returning as well, following the graduation of the top three in that event. Only Gary Barnes (132-9) of Madison La Follette had a better throw last season. Verona also lost big points from twins Obi and Chudi Ifediora and hurdler Jared Biddle, who finished third in the 110 hurdles and seventh in the 300s. Sprinter Malik Odentunde turned some heads at the West Relays, running one of the fastest 55 dashes in VAHS history. His emergence should help add some depth to the sprint crew. Caleb Tollefson broke Biddle’s freshman 55-meter
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hurdle record, and he and Michael Egle should be among the team leaders in the 100 hurdles. Jordan took fourth in the 400 dash last year and is the top returner this season. He was also part of a second-place 4x400 relay that returns Barger and Jenkins. They will need to find a fourth to replace Obi Ifediora, who won the 400 dash before re-injuring his leg in the 200 dash finals. Obi Ifediora is now running at Brown University. Barger and Jenkins also return on a 4x800 relay that finished second. Barger has looked good so far during the team’s indoor season, posting the fastest 800 time in VAHS history for third place at the Madison West Relays.
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Reagan Klawiter return with a combined 40-plus innings pitched. The duo will be asked to lead a staff that graduated first-team all-conference pitcher Jeff Bishop and honorable mention all-conference pitcher Brad Laufenberg. Largent allowed 11 earned runs on 20 hits and 12 walks in 22 2/3 innings (3.40 ERA). He had 12 strikeouts and finished 0-3 as a spot starter. Largent is also listed as a first baseman. He batted .282 (22-for-78) and finished with 13 RBIs and eight runs scored. In the field, Largent had a .909 fielding percentage, committing four errors on 44 chances and adding 37 putouts. Klawiter started four games and was 3-0. He allowed four earned runs on 13 hits and 18 walks in 26 innings (1.08
ERA), striking out 28. Senior pitchers Grant Kelliher and Tucker Teskey also look to help on the mound. Both had limited innings last season. Teskey was also a first-team all-conference outfielder. He batted .373 (31for-83) and had six RBIs and 18 runs scored. Teskey also added a .957 fielding percentage. He had two errors on 46 chances and had 42 putouts. Junior outfielder/pitcher Sam Pederson is another arm that should see some innings in 2018. He got the start in right field in the season opener on March 29. The infield looks to be led by senior Connor McGowan, also listed as a pitcher. He will be an asset in the middle either at second base or shortstop this season. McGowan was an honorable mention in the Big Eight in 2017 and batted .247
(19-for-77) with 17 RBIs and 17 runs scored. In the field, he finished with an .896 fielding percentage, with 11 errors on 106 chances and 94 putouts. McGowan also helped turn 10 double plays. Freshman Ryan Taylor looks to be a new asset who will join McGowan on the infield in 2018. Taylor was 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored in the first game of the season on March 29 at Milton, and he had three putouts on three chances and helped turn one double play at second base. Junior Jake Osiecki received the start at first base in that first game, and junior Jonah Haffner had the start at third base. Junior Brooks Brazeau was a designated hitter, and junior Tyler McWilliams was in left field. All of those players are newcomers to varsity this season.
‘Cats picked to finish third in Big 8 by coaches Verona baseball finished behind Janesville Craig and Sun Prairie last season in the Big Eight Conference, and the coaches believe it will be a similar season in 2018. The Wildcats finished tied for third with Madison West (11-7) in 2017 and were picked to finish third this year in the conference, which qualified three teams to state in 2014 and 2016 and two last season. Craig won the Big Eight in 2017 for the third straight season with a 16-2 record. The Cougars return junior first-team all-conference pitcher Mitchell Woelfle, senior first-team catcher Jacob Campbell (2017 co-Player of the Year in the Big Eight) and senior first-team infielder Luke Malmanger. Craig graduated firstteam outfielder Austin Kraus, first-team infielders Jack Blomgren and Evan Spry and honorable mention outfielder Caleb White. Sun Prairie was Big Eight runner-up and finished 14-4. The Cardinals return senior second-team c a t c h e r Ty H a m i l t o n , senior second-team
Big 8 Conference schedule Date Opponent Time April 10 at Beloit Memorial 5 p.m. April 12 Beloit Memorial 5 p.m. April 14 at Madison Memorial 2 p.m. April 17 Madison West 5 p.m. April 20 at Janesville Parker 5 p.m. April 23 Janesville Parker 5 p.m. April 24 Middleton 5 p.m. April 26 at Middleton 5 p.m. May 1 at La Follette 5 p.m. May 3 La Follette 5 p.m. May 5 Madison Memorial 11 a.m. May 8 at Madison East 5 p.m. May 10 Madison East 5 p.m. May 15 Sun Prairie 5 p.m. May 17 at Sun Prairie 5 p.m. May 22 Janesville Craig 5 p.m. May 24 at Janesville Craig 5 p.m. outfielder Carson Holin, sophomore second-team infielder Joe Hauser and senior honorable mention outfielder Alex Oakley. Sun Prairie did graduate first-team infielder and co-Player of the Ye a r Wa l k e r J e n k i n s , first-team DH Ben Hauser, second-team pitcher Ta y l o r M i d d a u g h a n d second-team infielder JP
Suchomel. M a d i s o n We s t w a s t i e d w i t h Ve r o n a f o r third and returns junior second-team DH Otto Treichel, junior honorable mention catcher Drake Baldwin, senior honorable mention outfielder Eli Sorensen and senior honorable mention infielder Donovan O’Flahrity.
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Girls: Big Eight season began Tuesday Continued from page 12 season. Remiker took fifth in the 400 at Ripon. Witthuhn is the team’s top returning thrower after finishing sixth in the discus and eighth in the shot put at conference. She took seventh in the shot put at Ripon. Ally Kundinger, who tied for seventh place in the high jump at conference last season, won the triple jump at the University of Dubuque High School Indoor Classic. Sophomore sprinter Tamiya Smith finished fifth in the 100 at conference. Senior Annika Larson is the team’s top returning hurdler after finishing sixth in the 300 hurdles and ninth in the 100 hurdles last year.
Big 8 conference schedule Date Opponent Location Time April 10 Janesville Craig Monterey Sta. 4:30 p.m. April 12 Madison East Lussier Stadium 4:30 p.m. April 17 Madison La Follette Verona 4:30 p.m. April 24 Janesville Parker Verona 4:30 p.m. May 1 Sun Prairie, Middleton Sun Prairie 4 p.m. May 11 Conference Lussier Stadium 3:30 p.m. Ashley Kundinger is expected to help the team out after finishing 15th in the triple jump at conference a year ago. Caroline Bobb, Jessica Ayite-Atayi, Mary Saley and Lucy Bakken are also back as letterwinners. Verona will need some new faces to step up as well in order to help offset the graduation of standout Sie’anna
Mitchell, who won Big Eight titles in the 100, 200, 400 and finished fifth in the long jump. Mitchell is now competing at UW-Oshkosh. Freshman Tatum Reisdorf could help the team out in the sprints, while freshman Anna Knueve and junior Natalia Aparicio could also see bigger roles as middle distance runners with Janina Brunh.
Tennis: Conference schedule starts Thurs. Continued from page 11 earned a top three seed and finished fourth after dropping a three-set match to Neel Raut of Oshkosh West. With the graduation of Brookfield East state champion Robert Krill, Tennison and Tegtmeier are among the favorites to take the title this season. Nicolet junior Jaden Aranda earned a fourth seed last season and senior Neel Raut of Oshkosh West was seeded fifth. Each could also contend this year. “Will is very focused on his goals and is looking to work on a day-to-day basis to attain those goals,” Engen said. Engen went on to say, “Will knows that team always comes first and that if he attains his goals. He helps his team attain its goals.” Junior Chris Queoff finished last season strong at No. 2 singles and hopes to
continue building off that momentum this year. “Chris worked hard to prepare for this year,” Engen said. “He would like to win at sectionals to get to individual state. But most of all he wants to help his team in whatever way he can this year.” Sophomore Kush Nagpal and junior Kevin Fan return at Nos. 3 and 4 singles. “Kush plays a very smooth game and does not make a lot of mistakes,” Engen said. “That can frustrate a lot of opponents.” The team’s returning No. 4 singles player, Fan put in a lot of time in the offseason and could prove hard to keep at No. 4 singles. Verona’s Jordan Hutchcroft and Vivek Swaminath went 21-11 and won a round at state in a tiebreaker last year at the individual state tennis tournament. The senior No. 1 doubles team has the goal this season is to earn a topeight seed at individual state
and spot on the podium at the conclusion of the individual state tournament, Engen said. Seniors Aaron Young and Jonah Berry played very well together and the No. 2 doubles team is looking to either win sectionals or earn a special qualifier to the individual state tournament. Young had success on the gridiron for the Wildcats as the team’s starting quarterback last fall. “Both Aaron and Jonah are looking to have a great end to their senior seasons,” Engen said. Juniors Evan Schmidt and Connor Dugan worked together in the offseason, playing in several tournaments, to prepare for the upcoming season back at No. 3 doubles. “They are young and talented but have not had the opportunity to move up the lineup,” Engen said. “They are working to help secure a team state bid.”
Cats, Sun Prairie favorites to win Big Eight Ve r o n a c o a c h R i c k Engen said the Big Eight will be a very tight between his team, Middleton and Sun Prairie. The Wildcats, however, are the only one of those teams that did not lose any varsity players to graduation. “Hopefully, that would give us the edge, but the team knows it will be a hard-fought battle,” Engen said. While the Wildcats have made it their goal to win the dual meet and conference tournament this year, Sun Prairie returns two individual state qualifiers, as well as a state qualifying doubles team. The Big Eight had three of the top 10 seeds at last year’s WIAA Division 1 singles tournament and all three should move up this season. Madison Memorial’s Colt Tegtmeier earned the second seed and Verona’s Will Tennison was seeded third. Sun Prairie’s Aidan Schutter was 10th at state. Tegtmeier bested Tennison 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-3 in the quarterfinals and then finished second overall to Brookfield East’s Robert
Big Eight schedule Date Opponent Location Time April 12 Janesville Parker Verona 4 p.m. April 17 Beloit Memorial Beloit 4 p.m. April 19 Madison Memorial Memorial 4 p.m. April 24 Middleton Verona 4 p.m. May 1 Madison La Follette La Follette 4 p.m. May 3 Madison East East 4 p.m. May 8 Sun Prairie Verona 4 p.m. May 10 Janesville Craig Verona 4 p.m. May 16 Conference Nielsen 9:30 a.m. Krill 6-0, 4-6, 6-1. Tennison placed fourth, falling 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 to Oshkosh West’s Neel Raut in the third-place match. Tennison and Tegtmeier’s early-season match April 19 could go a long way toward determining who earns the No. 1 seed at the WIAA individual state tournament May 1-June 2. In addition to Schutter, the Cardinals return individual state qualifier Josh Baldwin, who was 26-4 as a sophomore. Sun Prairie also returns the state qualifying No. 1 doubles team of senior Elijah Schimelpfenig and Andrew Olson,
who earned a 15th seed at state last season, and half of its No. 2 doubles team in senior Taran Katta. Middleton is always solid and could make another run at the Big Eight title with the return of two state qualifying flights. Junior Ryan Gold who won a round at last year’s state meet, and junior Sam Dettman and senior Rafael Sanga earned the 16th seed and won two rounds a year ago. Senior Adam Schiebler gives the Cardinals half of their returning No. 2 state doubles qualifier.
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Sun Prairie loaded again this season Verona girls track finished third at the Big Eight Conference meet last season and could find itself in the same spot this season. Defending champion Sun Prairie and second-place Madison Memorial both return sold teams and Janesville Parker could be a darkhorse after finishing eighth last season. Sun Prairie dominated the 800 last year with a 1-2 finish by Maddie Thompson and Michaela Nelson. The juniors are both back for a very competitive event, which returns all six of last season’s top finishers. Thompson could also contend for the 1,600 title after finishing last season. She also helped lead the Cardinals to victory on the 4x800. Sun Prairie returns all four girls from that relay this season. Seniors Jada Schuh and Carly Coulthart finished 2-3 in the 100 hurdles. Schuh also finished third in the 300 hurdles. Madison Memorial sophomore Grace Korger is also back after placing third in the 100. Senior Meg Fitzpatrick finished third in
the 200 and 400. The Spartans return threefourths of its 4x1 and all of its 4x2 relay and the conference’s top discus thrower in junior Elle Kinney. Janesville Parker sophomore Tina Shelton returns as the top finisher in the 100 and 200 dash. Janesville Parker junior Julia Hartwig is the defending champion in the shot put. Janesville Craig junior Grace Meister is the top returner in the 400 after finishing second last season. Senior Peyton Sippy, a UW-Madison recruit, is back as to defend her 1,600 and 3,200 titles. Middleton won the 4x4 relay and returns three-fourths. Madison West senior Nona Anderson returns to defend her high jump title, and Madison East junior Parker Buske will look to win another long jump title. The pole vault and triple jump will feature a new champion with the top finishers from last season. Sun Prairie junior Ashley O’Connell is the top returning after taking third place last year.
Soccer: Conference games start on April 17 Continued from page 11 sophomores Mia Hoeve, Caitlyn Ott, Anika Quaid and Hanna Steiner all contributed on offense as midfielder/forwards last season and now look to take that experience a step further in 2018. Sophomore forward Olivia Rawson joined the team from JV last season and scored the only goal in the win over top-seeded Middleton in the regional final. “Our large sophomore class will surprise some teams this year,” Faulkner wrote. “They have a year of high school experience under their belts, and they have come to practice ready to prove themselves. Their quick ball movement and team play will be a strength for our team.” Freshmen Binta Jammen (forward), Kasey Gilboy and Morgan Gringnoon (midfielders) are newcomers who bring speed. Faulkner wrote that Jammen adds a potential goal scorer, and that Kasey Gilboy has a “great field of vision.” Senior first-team goalie Rachel Nelson, who had 123 saves in 21 games last season, will return to the net. Nelson has been on varsity since she was a freshman, and was key during last season’s sectional semifinal run, stopping 11 shots in the regional final win over
Middleton. Nelson was one of only two Big Eight goalies to make the first-team in the conference, and she was one of the vocal leaders on the field to make sure her teammates were in the correct positions, especially on direct and corner kicks. Senior defender Ashley Hofstetter earned an honorable mention as a defenseman last season, and senior Megan Krogman, junior Delaney Dykman and sophomores Paige Saltz and Grace Kaatz look to add depth to the position. Krogman and Hofstetter bring the most significant experience from that group. “We will need to continue to develop our defensive presence as we acclimate some new players to that key position,” Faulkner wrote in a questionnaire. Freshman Kirsten Poppen is one of the newcomers on defense. Faulkner wrote she is a “smart player” who anticipates angles on passes and shots. Senior Anna Heinzen and junior Nicole Thomas decided to become managers this season and will help the team on the sideline, and senior Lauryn Hahn is no longer with the program. First-team forward Kate Melin, second-team defenseman Rachel Knoebl and honorable mention midfielder Dani Gilboy graduated last year.
Top of the Big Eight is loaded in 2018 Verona girls soccer finished 4-3-2 in the Big Eight last season and had 14 points to place fifth in the standings. Last year’s champi on Middleton (8-1-0, 24 points), runner-up Madison West (7-0-2, 23 points) and third-place finisher Sun Prairie (6-3-0), which tied Janesville Craig, are all expected to once again challenge at the top, coach Jen Faulkner wrote in a preview questionnaire. “The Big Eight is always a strong conference and our expectation is to compete in every conference game,” she wrote. “Each game will show us a bit more about our team, and we will work to improve each week.” Middleton returns five of 10 Big Eight All-Conference players from last season. Senior first-team defender Emily Duecker, sophomore second-team midfielder Tyler Wilson, junior honorable mention defender Emily Raisleger, junior honorable mention midfielder Charlotte Dunn and junior honorable mention forward Lexi Schultz are all back. First-team forward Maya Shea and first-team midfielder Kalli Acker both
Big Eight schedule Date Opponent Time April 17 Janesville Parker 7 p.m. April 19 at Beloit Memorial 7 p.m. April 24 at Madison Memorial 7 p.m. April 26 Madison West 5 p.m. May 1 Middleton 7 p.m. May 7 at La Follette 7 p.m. May 10 at Madison East 7 p.m. May 15 Sun Prairie 7 p.m. May 17 Janesville Craig 7 p.m. graduated. Madison West, which has tied Verona in the regular season meetings for five straight seasons, brings back senior first-team forward Claire Mooney, senior second-team midfielder Anna Grutzner, senior second-team defender Hannah Conner and senior honorable mention defender Sophia Reddan. The Regents graduated Player of the Year and first-team all-conference defender Celeste Kasper. Sun Prairie brings back senior first-team midfielder Camryn Hart, senior second-team forward Katie Kern, junior honorable mention forward Alexis Baker
and junior honorable mention midfielder Maura Kalmerton. Janesville Craig surprised as a young team last season and brings back seven girls from the all-conference list, including four who are now sophomores: first-team midfielder Abby Membrino, first-team defender Hannah Dunlavy, honorable mention midfielder Sarah Gregg and honorable mention midfielder Brooke Parkhurst. Senior honorable mention forward Kaitlyn Shanks, senior honorable mention midfielder Blaize Butler and junior honorable mention forward Greta Hanthorn are also back.
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Nona Rae McSherry, age 83, passed away on Saturday, March 31, 2018, at UW Hospital in Madison. She was born on Oct. 17, 1934, in Racine, daughter of Arthur and Ramona (Ryan) Klapproth. She graduated from Racine Horlick High School in 1952 and earned a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy in 1956 and a Master’s Degree in Physiology in 1958 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nona spent her entire career in research, the first 15 years with Dr. John Mangos in the Department of Pediatrics working on Cystic Fibrosis. She co-authored many published papers on this subject. The last 13 years were spent in the Department of Medicine with Dr. Wen and Dr. David P. Simpson in the specialty
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of Nephrology. She retired early in 1989 as a Senior Research Associate. Nona married William “Don” McSherry on Dec. 27, 1958. They lived in Madison, Lodi, and Verona. Nona is survived by her husband, William Donald McSherry of Black Earth; sisters-in-law, Judy Klapproth of Eureka, Calif., and Elizabeth Schmelzer of Arlington Heights, Ill.; brothers-in-law, Leo (Phyllis) McSherry of Waupaca, and Raymond (Evelyn) McSherry of Wisconsin Rapids; nieces and nephews, Rosanne McSherry, Mary Kay (Anthony Rosario) McSherry, Sharon (John) Riester, Michael McSherry, Patrick McSherry, Dean (Dianne) Schmelzer, Daniel (Stacey) Schmelzer, Sherry (Scott) Reese, Heather McSherry, and Matthew McSherry; a cousin, Richard (Jean) McSherry; other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Thomas Klapproth. A visitation with family and friends was held on Saturday, April 7, at the Ellestad Camacho Funeral Home, 500 N. 8th St., Mount Horeb. Burial was at St. Bridget’s Catholic Cemetery. Donations are preferred to the charity of your choice. camachofuneralhomes. com 608-437-5077
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John F. Homrig, age 71 of Blue Mounds, WI went home on Friday, April 6, 2018, to meet Jesus. He was born March 6, 1947, in New London to Harold and Monica (Bassett) Homrig. He graduated from Grayslake High School in 1965; and at Lake County College
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Marilyn E. Doerfer, age 69, died on Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Agrace HospiceCare. She was born to Fredrick and Margaret (Blumke) Doerfer on Jan. 20, 1949. She attended Verona schools from kindergarten through high school, graduating in 1967. She began her career at Cuna Mutual right after graduation in 1967, and worked there for 37.5 years. She continued her career working at Group Health Cooperative for 13 years until her retirement on Jan. 12, 2018. Marilyn loved to travel, especially in Europe and
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in Grayslake, Ill., he received an associate degree in Architecture Design. In 1973, he graduated from UW-Stout with both a Bachelor of Science and Master’s Degree in vocational education. He was united in marriage to Diana K. Sperry on July 1, 1972 in Macomb, Ill. In 1974, John started his teaching career at Centralia High School in Illinois. He taught building trades, construction and wood working. In 1978, he worked in the home design industry in Green Bay. John relocated his family to Mount Horeb in 1980. He taught in Barneveld Schools; Stephenson Area Career Center in Freeport, Ill.; Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Madison Technical College, and the Verona Area School District. John retired in 2011 after a 36-year career in teaching.
You could often find John gardening, antiquing, and traveling. His favorite place was in his woodworking shop or sharing his skills with a friend on a project. John left a legacy with many of his students. He also had a great sense of humor and was known for his practical jokes. His legacy lives on through homes, furniture, clocks and toys he created. John shared Christ’s trade as a carpenter. Survivors include his wife of 45 years, Diana; his daughters, Bethany (Daniel) Holl of Pulaski, Ericka (James) Foster of Guatemala; grandchildren, Samuel, Hava and Nora; sister, Geraldine (Randall) Grosvenor of Denver, Colo.; and other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents and his stepdad, Ivo Peterson.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 12, 2018, at Blackhawk Church, 2920 Brader Way, Middleton, with Pastor Bill Minser officiating. Inurnment will be at Mount Horeb Union Cemetery at a later date. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at the Ellestad Camacho Funeral Home, 500 N 8th St., Mount Horeb. We would like to thank Agrace HospiceCare, the Blackhawk Church community, friends and neighbors, and the Dr. Peter Mullin and SSM cancer care team for their care and support during a very difficult time. A memorial fund will be established at a later date, in lieu of flowers or plants.
Door County. She was proud of her extensive list of travels from 1996 through 2017. She enjoyed attending Badger sports games, as well as watching the Badgers and Packers, or most football or basketball games on TV. She also enjoyed playing golf for many years, and enjoyed watching golf tournaments as well. She was a member of the Thursday Thrillers card club for over 35 years with many lifelong friends. Another enjoyment of hers was getting groups together to travel near or far to a new supper club. Lobster was her favorite. She was a lifelong member of St. James Evangelical Lutheran church in Verona, where she shared the musical talents she was blessed with, having been one of the organists for over 50 years, and retiring in 2017. She also used her musical talents singing in and accompanying the church choir. In addition to sharing her musical talents at church, she was a member of the Madison Symphony Chorus for 14 years until her health caused her retirement
from singing in 2017. She will be missed by her family who survive her, the remaining two “lyn” sisters, Carolyn Doerfer, and Evelyn Cain, as well as her brother-in-law, Mark Cain. She is further survived by an uncle, Donovan Doerfer of Loudonville, Ohio, and many cousins, extended family members, friends, her GHC work family, and St. James Church family. She was preceded in death by her parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. The family will greet friends and relatives on Friday, April 13, 2018, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Ryan Funeral Home, 220 Enterprise Dr., Verona. Marilyn’s Celebration of Life will be held at St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, 427 S. Main Street, Verona, with Pastor Kurt Billings officiating on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 11 a.m. Family will greet friends and relatives at the church from 9 a.m. until the time of service. Marilyn requested a special thanks to her family and friends for the many
prayers, cards, notes, phone calls, gifts, and visits during the last months of her life, as well as the prayer shawls from St. James. Thanks to Dr. Toby Campbell and the staff at UW Carbone Cancer Center and a special thanks to the staff at Agrace HopiceCare for both their in-home services as well as the residential staff when Marilyn made her decision to make Agrace her home in February. Having survived melanoma for 22 years and a bladder cancer diagnosis in 2016, her journey ended after an eight-month diagnosis with lung cancer. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Verona or Agrace HospiceCare at 5395 E. Cheryl Parkway, Fitchburg WI 53711. To view and sign this guestbook, please visit ryanfuneralservice.com.
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Election: Transparency, communication major themes for winners Continued from page 1 full-on list have similar priorities. Kate Cronin, who defeated 22-year incumbent Brad Stiner in District 3, said she wants to find “more creative ways to allow people to engage,” suggesting individual blogs for each alder on the city’s website, as Madison has, and more polls. Katie Kohl, who ousted Jack Linder in District 2, hopes to set up a Facebook page and an email list. A self-described “people person,” she wants to continue meeting people in person, perhaps with a face-to-face listening session at the library. All three, plus the three they defeated, said they knocked on hundreds of doors each and spoke to hundreds of people during the campaign. And all were surprised by the huge margins of victory – with winners receiving at least 61 percent in each race. While only three of them (Diaz, mayoral opponent Denny Beres and Cronin) spent more than the $2,000 threshold that required them to fill out campaign finance Submitted by Shari Ferolie reports, all had money spent on Luke Diaz, right, joins Katie Kohl, left, and Kate Cronin at an election party at the Draft House on April 3, 2018. their behalf through glossy flyers All three won and said they will emphasize better communication in their upcoming terms. in the mail, from either the Dem“This was just a case where it races don’t give people a chance ocratic Party or the Madison Area lost, “it definitely hurts more.” Linder, who welcomed his sixth was time,” he said. “I’ve been to air their opinions.” Builders Association. child two weeks before the elec- receiving phone calls, and they’re Looking ahead The losing side tion and was still making regular all saying, ‘Aren’t you sad?’ I N ow t h a t h e ’s wo n , D i a z Beres, who joined the race visits to the neonatal intensive said no, it was a fair fight, and we campaigned and we talked, and it knows he’ll have a lot of his time more than a month after Diaz did, care unit until this was a good experience.” spoken for, with a full-time day suggested the “blue wave” credit- past Sunday, said While Stiner’s opponent, Crojob and a 5-year-old son. But he h e k n o c k e d o n ed by conservative politicians and nin, is older than the average feels prepared for it. pundits for carrying Rebecca Dal- every door in Disalder now, at 45, she’s still two “Honestly, the campaign was lett to the Supreme Court seemed trict 2 at least once decades younger, and he said the way more work than being maya n d s o m e m o r e to have played a part in the result, youth movement is a good thing. or is,” he said. “That’s going to which had Beres losing by more than once. He compared it to his own expe- be a challenge in some ways for N ow, w i t h h i s than 800 votes. rience in 1996, saying there was a me, but I think I can work it out.” Mondays open for “It’s obvious there are people Beres similar changing of the guard. The first order of business, the in this town who want a progres- the first time in 14 Stiner offered his assistance to candidates generally agreed, was years – he served sive voice,” he told the Press on Cronin, whom he called a “wonworking out the conflicts that o n P l a n C o m Thursday after admitting he was derful person,” saying, “Don’t be have put the city and school dism i s s i o n b e f o r e hesitant to speak on the record. afraid to call me.” trict at odds. That was a common a n d d u r i n g h i s “I hope they listen to other voicLinder wished Kohl “the best” theme in the campaigns, and peoes than their chorus they have. time away from and pointed out that sometimes a ple on both sides of the win-loss Everyone’s voice is important to the council – he historical perspective helps, such column agreed it should be top looks forward to hear.” as recognizing mistakes made priority. s p e n d i n g m o r e Beres, a retired financial advisduring the construction of the fire Diaz said he’ll push for a er, said he was proud of his cam- time coaching his Linder station, which is just now holding “more aggressive line on open daughter’s softball paign – all local people, “old guys its open house this weekend three communication and transparwith bad knees delivering litera- team. years after being built because of ency,” which he felt could have Stiner, who faced ture” – but he admitted “it’s hard problems on the back end. prevented some of the problems an opponent for to get rejected.” Beres said he felt he “had a lot from snowballing. the first time in 22 At least knowing the result to offer” but doesn’t expect he’ll Beres wasn’t there for the was as lopsided as it was – years on the counbe running for any local offices closed-session meetings after the cil, didn’t want any 2,223-1,379 – gave Beres some anytime soon. He was still glad he April 2017 referendum authosolace there was no point in sec- condolences for his offered voters a choice. rized spending nearly $200 milloss. He called the Stiner ond-guessing campaign strategy. “I am sorry we failed in that lion for a new high school, but he campaign and the Linder saw it the other way. Having worked much harder on citizen engagement a “win-win effort but there is real value in the had been part of the Intergovernattempt,” he said. “Uncontested mental Development Advisory this campaign than in others he’d situation” for Verona citizens.
Read more Appointment of new alder will be up to the council Page 18 Committee for many years before stepping down, and he said having alders serve on that committee, rather than just city staff, could have made a difference and could help going forward. Kohl, a member of the Governance Committee of her children’s school, New Century, said she’d be happy to be that person. “I think we can have a positive communication with them going forward,” she said. “It’s very important to me.” She and Cronin both said they want to continue positive communication with their constituents, as well. They said they thoroughly enjoyed getting to know people throughout their respective districts, finding out many of them share the same concerns they do, such as yard waste operations, library hours, how to encourage more local small businesses to locate here and how to make downtown walkable. “That was the best part of that experience, not just being able to introduce myself and to get a chance to hear what are their issues,” Cronin said. Diaz, who visited most of the city in his campaign but focused his efforts on likely voters, said he’s hoping to find ways to engage people beyond the usual methods. “I might push technical solutions more than Jon did,” he said of the outgoing mayor. “People get news from different (types of sources). We kind of have to be everywhere, and we can’t look for one sort of solution.” For example, brief videos on the website introducing staffers responsible for each area, as many companies have, could reach people in a way that a bunch of words on a page might not. “As the city grows and new people come in, we have to reach people in different ways,” he said. Email Verona Press editor Jim Ferolie at veronapress@wcinet. com.
Legals ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS 2018 TOWN OF VERONA ROADWAY MAINTENANCE TOWN OF VERONA DANE COUNTY, WI The Town of Verona will ONLY receive and accept bids through QuestCDN.com via the online electronic bid service (QuestvBid) for the construction of 2018 Town of Verona Roadway Maintenance until April 20, 2018 at 11:00 AM. All bids will be downloaded and publicly read aloud at MSA Professional Services, Inc., 2901 International Lane, Suite 300, Madison, WI 53704 at that time. The work for which bids are asked includes the following: Riverside Road – Culvert replacement and associated roadway repair. Timber Lane – Roadway milling and overlay of areas. Cross County Road – Miscellaneous roadway milling and overlay and pavement wedging. Whalen Road – Miscellaneous pavement wedging. Grandview Road – Miscellaneous pavement wedging. The BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be examined at the offices of MSA Professional Services, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin; the Town of Verona; 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. QuestCDN Vbid system requires Bidders to purchase BIDDING DOCUMENTS from QuestCDN. You may download the digital plan documents for $30 by inputting Quest eBidDoc #5674953 on the website’s Project Search page. Please contact QuestCDN.com at 952233-1632 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. BIDDER is required to deliver the original certified check or bid bond within the 72 hours of bid opening to MSA Professional Services, Inc., Attn: Kevin C. Lord, 2901 International Lane, Suite 300, Madison, WI 53704. 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 Town of Verona. CONSULTING ENGINEER: MSA Professional Services, Inc. 2901 International Lane, Suite 300 Madison, WI 53704 Kevin Lord, P.E. 1 (608) 242-6617 Published: April 5 and 12, 2018 WNAXLP *** TOWN OF VERONA BOARD ADOPTS A CODE OF ETHICS ORDINANCE Please take notice that the Town Board of Verona enacted Ordinance 2018-2 to amend Chapter 1 General Government at their regular meeting held on April 4, 2018. Section 1.10 Code of Ethics was added to Chapter 1 to provide guidance to Town officials, employees, and candidates running for a local elected office to help them avoid conflicts between their personal interests and their public responsibilities, to improve standards of public service, and to promote and strengthen the faith and confidence of the citizens in their Town’s officials and employees. The full text of Ordinance 2018-02 and amended Chapter 1 may be obtained at the Town of Verona office located at 7669 County Highway PD, Verona, Wis-
consin or on the Town website: http:// www.town.verona.wi.us/. For additional information, please contact Town Clerk/ Treasurer John Wright at (608) 807-4466. Published: April 12, 2018 WNAXLP *** ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS DEMARCO TRAIL ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS TOWN OF VERONA DANE COUNTY, WI The Town of Verona will ONLY receive and accept bids through QuestCDN.com via the online electronic bid service (QuestvBid) for the construction of DeMarco Trail Roadway Improvements until April 20, 2018 at 1:00 PM. All bids will be downloaded and publicly read aloud at MSA Professional Services, Inc., 2901 International Lane, Suite 300, Madison, WI 53704 at that time. The work for which bids are asked includes approximately 970 LF of adding 3 inches of millings to the center 18 feet of pavement and pulverizing the entire roadway, grading, two lifts of asphalt pavement, adding 3.25 inches of millings to the 1 foot wide shoulder, sanitary manhole adjustments and restoration. The BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be examined at the offices of MSA Professional Services, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin; the Town of Verona; 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 $30 by inputting Quest eBidDoc #5673102 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. BIDDER is required to deliver the original certified check or bid bond within the 72 hours of bid opening to MSA Professional Services, Inc., Attn: Kevin Lord, 2901 International Lane, Suite 300, Madison, WI 53704. 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. The project is funded in part by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Local Road Improvement Program (LRIP). OWNER reserves the right to waive any informalities or to reject any or all bids. Published by the authority of the Town of Verona. CONSULTING ENGINEER: MSA Professional Services, Inc. 2901 International Lane, Suite 300 Madison, WI 53704 Kevin Lord, P.E. 1 (608) 242-6617 Published: April 5 and 12, 2018 WNAXLP *** MEETING OF TOWN OF VERONA PLAN COMMISSION THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018, 6:30 P.M. TOWN OF VERONA HALL, 7669 COUNTY HIGHWAY PD 1. Call to Order/Approval of Meeting Agenda 2. Public Comment - This section of the meeting provides the opportunity for comment from persons in attendance on items not listed below over which this governing body has jurisdiction. Comments on matters not listed on this agenda could be placed on a future Plan Commission meeting agenda. 3. Approval of minutes from 3/23/2018
4. Reports Chair: recent inquiries and updates on past applications Committee Reports: (Public Works, Finance, Natural and Recreational Areas) Commissioners: Planner/Administrator: 5. Land use application 2018 – 5 – for property located at 3121 Timber Lane submitted by Gerardo Jimenez on behalf of Paul and Sarah Ansay. The purpose of the application is the splitting of 10.4 acre parcel into two residential lots each larger than 2.0 acres. No zoning change is required. The existing zoning is RH1. * Public Hearing * Discussion * Action 6. Comprehensive Plan Discuss scope of work by consultants Comments on potential edits to the future land use map Review of the draft document (goals, objectives, and policies) Chapters 9, 10, 11 Policies for land use – e.g. phased development, lot averaging, slopes, types of subdivisions Future schedule for completion of the Comprehensive Plan Meetings with Montrose and Springdale entities 7. Other 8. Adjourn Plan Commission agendas will be posted at Millers Grocery and Town Hall and on the Town’s website. Go to www. town.verona.wi.us and sign up for the Town List Serve to receive notices via email. Public hearings will be published in the Verona Press. If anyone having a qualifying disability as defined by the American With Disabilities Act, needs an interpreter, materials in alternate formats or other accommodations to access these meetings, please contact the Town of Verona Clerk’s office @ 608-845 -7187 orjwright@town.verona.w.us Please do so at least 48 hours prior to the meeting so that proper arrangements can be made. Notice is also given that a possible quorum could occur at this meeting for
the purposes of information gathering only, of the Town Board, Natural and Recreational Areas Committee, and/or Public Works Committee. Douglas Maxwell, Chair, Town of Verona Plan Commission Posted: April 6, 2018 Published: April 12, 2018 WNAXLP *** ORDINANCE NO. 18-913 AN ORDINANCE REZONING THE HEREIN DESCRIBED PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF VERONA The Common Council of the City of Verona, Dane County, State of Wisconsin, does hereby ordain as follows: 1. That Section 13-1-42, “Zoning Map” of Title 13, Chapter 1 “Zoning Code”, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Verona be amended by repealing the existing zoning of Urban Commercial (UC) on the following described parcel in the City of Verona and assigning the Central Commercial (CC) zoning classification: * 201 East Verona Avenue 2. That the City Clerk is directed to forthwith make the above change in the zoning district boundaries on the official map of the City of Verona pursuant to Section 13-1-42 of the City ordinances after passage and publication as required by law. The foregoing ordinance was duly adopted by the Common Council of the City of Verona at a meeting held on April 9, 2018. CITY OF VERONA _______________________ Jon Hochkammer, Mayor (seal) _______________________ Ellen Clark, City Clerk Enacted: April 9, 2018 Published: April 12, 2018 WNAXLP ***
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With Luke Diaz’s promotion to mayor, a District 3 seat is now open. City ordinances put the power for appointing the position entirely in the hands of the Common Council, though the mayor has typically led it. Under Jon Hochkammer, the process generally involved candidates meeting with the mayor and the other alders in the district and a recommendation brought to the council. But that group and the council didn’t always agree, most notably in 2013, when Mike Bare spoke with four new alders individually and won with four votes, causing an uproar that essentially
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COLUMBUS ANTIQUE MALL & CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS MUSEUM "Wisconsin's Largest Antique Mall"! Customer Appreciation Week 20% DISCOUNT May 7-13 Enter daily 8am-4pm 78,000 SF 200 Dealers in 400 Booths Third floor furniture, locked cases Location: 239 Whitney St Columbus, WI 53925 920-623-1992 www.columbusantiquemall.com
NORWEGIAN BUNAD SOR Trondelag Region. Blouse, skirt, apron, bodice, cuff links, large brooch. Size 10. $800. Carol at 920-421-0708 or pcsoper69@gmail. com
Full/Part Time Positions Available
Drive Locally andWages Support your Community •Excellent Badger BusTraining Offers: •Paid • $150 Sign-On Bonus for Van Drivers •CDL Program • $500 Sign-On Bonus for (If Qualified School Bus Drivers •Signing Bonus Applicable) • Paid Training and Available Bonus to get in your CDL •Positions Madison and Verona • Full and Part-Time Positions Available
PAR Concrete, Inc.
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515 W. Verona Ave. • Verona, WI 53593 608-497-4500
ANTIQUE SALE Friday & Saturday April 13-14. 8am-5:30pm. 11398 N Dallman Road Edgerton(inside). Gas, oil, soda, beer advertising signs, cans, bottles, crates, old toys, farm primitives, pedal tractors, fishing items, lanterns, taxidermy, records, military collectibles Civil War, WWII, Tons more!
630 Clothing
Apply at Koffee Kup 355 E Main St., Stoughton Ask for Ken
Excellent Starting Wages and Benefits Employee Travel Discounts
Website questions ungweb@wcinet.com Any other news tips or questions ungeditor@wcinet.com 602 Antiques & Collectibles
LAWN MOWING Residential & Commercial Fully Insured. 608-873-7038 or 608-669-0025
Also looking for full-time/part-time dishwashers
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Replacing the Dist. 3 seat
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• Driveways • Floors • Patios • Sidewalks • Decorative Concrete Phil Mountford 516-4130 (cell) 835-5129 (office)
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Full & Part Time Teachers Hearts & Hands, Inc. in Mount Horeb is looking for Teachers to join our awesome team. We offer: • $22,880 - $31,200/year starting (based on education completed) • Substantial child care discount • Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays • 50% Employer Paid Premium for Employee Health Insurance • 3% match of SIMPLE IRA • 100% Employer Paid Long Term Disability • Access to Dental, Vision, and Life Supplemental Insurance • Paid Planning and Continuing Education Hours • Flexible Schedules • Training in WMELS, Pyramid Model, CPR, and more Apply ininperson: Apply person:8900 8900Ridgeview RidgeviewRd. Rd.Mount MountHoreb Horeb WI WI 53572; 53572; email: heartsandhands@mhtc.net; or call (608) 437-6400 email: heartsandhands@mhtc.net; or call (608) 437-6400
DEER POINT STORAGE Convenient location behind Stoughton Lumber. Clean-Dry Units 24 HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS 5x10 thru 12x25 608-335-3337
FRENCHTOWN SELF-STORAGE Only 6 miles South of Verona on Hwy PB. Variety of sizes available now. 10x10=$60/month 10x15=$70/month 10x20=$80/month 10x25=$90/month 12x30=$115/month Call 608-424-6530 or 1-888-878-4244
OREGON SELF-STORAGE 10x10 through 10x25 month to month lease Call Karen Everson at 608-835-7031 or Veronica Matt at 608-291-0316
990 Farm: Service & Merchandise RENT SKIDLOADERS MINI-EXCAVATORS TELE-HANDLER and these attachments. Concrete breaker, posthole auger, landscape rake, concrete bucket, pallet forks, trencher, rock hound, broom, teleboom, stump grinder. By the day, week, or month. Carter & Gruenewald Co. 4417 Hwy 92 Brooklyn, WI, 608-455-2411
RASCHEIN PROPERTY STORAGE 6x10 thru 10x25 Market Street/Burr Oak Street in Oregon Call 608-520-0240
NORTH PARK STORAGE 10x10 through 10x40, plus 14x40 with 14' door for RV & Boats. Come & go as you please. 608-873-5088
UNION ROAD STORAGE 10x10 - 10x15 10x20 - 12x30 24 / 7 Access Security Lights & Cameras Credit Cards Accepted 608-835-0082 1128 Union Road Oregon, WI Located on the corner of Union Road & Lincoln Road
NOW HIRING!
Up To $30/Hour
915 Auction Ads DESIGNER SHOWROOM LIQUIDATION New Furniture Auction Over $100,000 of Inventory Saturday, April 14th, 11am Sunday, April 15th, 1pm Inspection 1 hour prior Woodworks Furniture & Design has turned over all their showroom floor samples to the Auction Company for a final liquidation! A Once In a Lifetime Opportunity! AMISH, UPNORTH & DESIGNER FURNITURE Bring Your Truck or Trailer Woodworks Furniture & Design 6609 Watts Road Madison, WI 53719 Questions? - 608-630-8108 Registered WI Auctioneer; R. Sicheneder #998-52 Inspection Daily 10am-6pm 10% Buyers Fee Check - Cash - Credit Card
801 Office Space For Rent OFFICE SPACES FOR RENT In Oregon facing 15th hole on golfcourse Free Wi-Fi, Parking and Security System Conference rooms available Kitchenette-Breakroom Autumn Woods Prof. Centre Marty 608-835-3628
FULL TIME Shifts Available! Resident Assistants/CNAs Variety of Hours & Shifts
970 Horses
Cook & Housekeeper Positions Day Hours We offer a great working atmosphere, competitive wages, paid training, excellent shift differentials and more!
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To Apply, Email Resume to: info@email.edi.com 500 S. Main Street • Verona, WI
Skilled Plumber Wanted Join Epic’s facilities team where your expertise will keep our one-of-a-kind campus running smoothly and help us improve healthcare. Journeyman Plumber – First Shift: You will work to maintain our plumbing fixtures, install and repair pipes and fittings, and keep our systems running smoothly. You will also perform preventative maintenance and repair work and resolve unplanned issues as they arise. As a member of our dynamic team, you’ll work in a state-of-the-art, air conditioned facility, enjoy consistent, full-time hours, earn competitive wages, and receive benefits befitting a leading software company (401k match, great health insurance, life insurance, and performance bonuses).
MACHINIST
AM Shift, Part and Full-Time With Sign-On Bonus
Furseth Machining, Inc., located in Verona, is seeking a machinist capable of programming and operating CNC machining centers and lathes.
Cook & Dietary Aide
AM & PM Shift, Part and Full-Time Come be a part of this beautiful, new retirement living community in Verona. Great team environment with a positive and active atmosphere. Benefits, Insurance, 401k, PTO offered.
Starting wage of $20-$26/hr. This is a full-time position on 1st shift with a 4-day work week.
Apply online at www.noelmanorliving.com or email your resume to administrativeassistant@noelmanorliving.com.
Contact Paul at 608-845-3803 for more details. You can also send a resumé, or stop by to fill out an application at: Furseth Machining, Inc. 682 S. Nine Mound Road Verona, WI 53593
THE Verona Press CLASSIFIEDS, the best place to buy or sell. Call 873-6671 or 835-6677.
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CLASSIFIEDS, 873-6671 or 835-6677. It pays to read the fine print.
Noel Manor is Hiring!
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SUMMER HORSE boarding $65 per head. Arena, Round Pen, Trails. Monroe Area. 608-558-0874
471 Prairie Way Blvd., Verona, WI
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C.N.R. STORAGE Located behind Stoughton Garden Center Convenient Dry Secure Lighted with access 24/7 Bank Cards Accepted Off North Hwy 51 on Oak Opening Dr. behind Stoughton Garden Center Call: 608-509-8904
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WE ARE GROWING! | C AR E E R FAIR WHEN WHERE April 21, 2018 Wolf Facility, Doors 61 & 62 9:00 am-1:00 pm 2866 Buds Drive Fitchburg, WI 53719 • Competitive new hire wages • Comprehensive health & welfare benefits including: On-site UW Health Employee Clinic & Free On-site Employee Fitness Center
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Keep it Local, Right Here In Town!
Supporting ALL Local Businesses! Verona Area Chamber of Commerce 120 W. Verona Avenue, Verona, WI
www.veronawi.com 608-845-5777
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Every Day Freshness EVERY Day,
Miller & Sons has some of the best fresh produce, quality meats, deli, spirits and more!
Not Just a Pharmacy Shop our excellent selection of gifts while we fill your prescription Hours M-F 9am-6pm Sat 9am-1pm Closed Sunday
Hours
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SUNDAY
9:30AM - 8:30PM BRUNCH SERVED 9:30AM - 2:00PM
• Milkhouse Creamery Candles • Willow Tree and More (HSA cards accepted)
210 S. Main St., Verona • 845-6478 Open 7 Days a Week from 6:30am-9:00pm
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• Crabtree & Evelyn Products
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Providing Solid Footing Since 1978 A MODERN TREATMENT FOR RECEDING GUMS
Gum recession affects persons of all ages. It may be caused by clenching and grinding your teeth, crooked or misaligned teeth, aggressive brushing, tobacco use, or gum disease. When gum recession occurs, the root structure of your tooth becomes exposed and may be sensitive. Tooth decay may occur along the gum line and damage to tooth roots may occur.
Dr. Kate Schacherl
Family Owned and Operated Since 1978.
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407 E. Verona Avenue, Verona, WI 608.845.6403
Brenda Trainor of
Dependable
Pyramid Travel Earns Top Sales Award
Quality Collision Repairs & More!
Brenda was recently honored as a recipient of the 2017 Million Dollar Agent Sales Award by the MAST Travel Network.
Brakes
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An awards ceremony recognized the top travel consultants among 220 travel agencies across seven states in the upper Midwest.
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Contributing to Brenda’s success is her dedication & commitment in providing superior customer satisfaction and expert vacation planning. With that kind of professional excellence, hundreds of clients come back to Pyramid Travel each time to plan their vacations.
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