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CK program promotes brain safety AMY SMITHVerona Press correspondent

At Core Knowledge Charter School, third graders this spring are getting a hands-on education – liter-ally - about the importance of pre-venting brain, spinal cord and other traumatic injuries.

Through a partnership with Think-First, a national injury prevention foundation, the school is hosting four class sessions for third graders and a parent information night April 4.

During the first class on March 11, third graders were able to see and

touch a real brain in order to observe how fragile it is.

A week later, students learned about proper helmet use by craft-ing helmets for eggs out of materi-als such as string and foam before sending the eggs down a ramp, called

Eggburt, on a mini bicycle. If their helmets weren’t made properly, stu-dents were left with cracked eggs.

ThinkFirst, which has teamed up with the UW Health Neurology Department, promotes the prevention of traumatic injuries through educa-tion. Core Knowledge is ThinkFirst’s “pilot” school, according to Dr. Casey Madura of UW Health, who helps teach the lessons.

The program was in place five years ago in the Madison school dis-trict, and after the director left, the

Verona Area School District

McPartland, Behnke seek board seatSETH JOVAAGUnifi ed Newspaper Group

After a 39-year teaching career, Pat McPartland says she’s long had a “passion for education.”

But two years ago, when W i s c o n s i n l a w m a k e r s approved controversial new laws that undercut most public unions, McPartland realized she couldn’t “sit on the sidelines.” The 61-year-old decided to give local politics a try.

“I just got fired up,” said McPartland.

On Tuesday, she hopes to defeat six-time incum-bent Ken Behnke, 64, for an at-large, three-year term on the Verona Area school board.

B o t h B e h n k e a n d McPartland said in separate interviews they opposed

many provisions in Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker’s signa-ture 2011 legislation that sparked a firestorm of pro-tests from public education advocates.

Both candidates also

Rare choices in city, board racesMARK IGNATOWSKIUnifi ed Newspaper Group

Every voter in the city has at least two local offic-es they can cast their ballot for this coming Tuesday, along with contested state and county elections.

This year’s spring elec-tion marks what appears

Photos by Jim Ferolie

Egged onThe Verona Public Library’s annu-al Easter egg hunt last Thursday was as popular as ever. Kids were asked to limit their haul to six eggs apiece, but many went over that amount.

Above, wide-eyed kids squeal as they scramble into the children’s area seconds after getting the go-ahead from library staff.

Left, twin sisters Hallie (right) and Ciara Vanden Heugel, 3, check out their loot with mom Casey after picking up their quota of plastic eggs.

At a glanceTwo candidates –

incumbent Ken Behnke and former teacher Pat McPartland – are vying for one at-large seat on the school board.

Another board member, Amy Almond, is unopposed for the seat that represents Fitchburg residents.

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If you goWhat: ThinkFirst parent assembly When: 6 p.m. Thursday, April 4Where: Core Knowledge Charter

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chapter asked Aimee Lem-rise of UW Health to take over the position.

Lemrise , an alumnus of the Core Knowledge schools, wanted to bring the program to Verona as a way of giving back to the com-munity, she said.

“I wanted to find a con-nection with the school and make it a community wide thing,” Lemrise said.

It is important to learn safe behaviors at a young age because so many kids play sports, said Chris Uel-man, Core Knowledge cur-riculum coordinator.

“We see so many kids get concussions playing sports,” Uelman said. “It’s important to start when kids

are younger, so they under-stand why they need to wear a helmet.”

The parent information night on April 4 will include videos and team activities encouraging students to use their mind to protect their body, according to a news

release from ThinkFirst’s Madison chapter.

It will include several sta-tions for families to visit, including bike helmet fit-tings and an area to take height and weight measure-ments to help parents deter-mine whether their children need car booster seats.

ThinkFirst will have dis-counted helmets available for families that cannot afford to buy one. A mas-cot called “Crash” will also greet the kids and take pic-tures with them.

In lessons on April 15 and 22, students will learn about pedestrian safety and review what they have learned.

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Brain: Activities include touching a brainContinued from page 1

Photos by Amy Smith

Curriculum Coordinator Chris Uelmen declares one Core Knowledge third-grader the safety trivia winner.

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Above students cheer on each team’s egg as it makes its way down “Eggburt.” Below they work together to create a helmet to protect their egg from cracking as it goes down the track.

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Epic, T. Wall back for new buildingsJim FerolieVerona Press editor

The city’s new planning director gets a trial by fire next week.

Adam Sayre joined the city staff Feb. 18, and his f i rs t Plan Commission meeting, on Monday, will feature some fascinating and difficult topics – more apartments for developer Terrence Wall, the first stage of Epic’s two new campuses, the long-awaited medical building and stadi-um at Reddan Soccer Park and the new downtown plan.

Each of those is an initial review, meaning no action is expected. In some cases, the commission can waive an uncontroversial or par-ticularly well-planned pro-posal straight to the Com-mon Council for approval, but none of these is likely to fit that bill.

The commission does have some potential for approving some i tems Monday, with an Advance Auto Parts store at the old Grandview Motel property on West Verona Avenue making its third trip before the commission, a request for PC/Nametag to build a two-story warehouse addi-tion and for the Kwik Trip on the southeast side of the city to add a natural gas filling station. None would need council approval.

The most provocative item Monday is likely to be a request for a fourth set of apartment buildings – with a total of 40 units – in the West End. Though the apartments had been approved long ago, the city has allowed T. Wall Proper-ties to tinker with the plan to accommodate market conditions and there’s cer-tain to be some debate.

F o r o n e t h i n g , t h e commission reluctantly approved moving most of the apartment units in the 62-acre retail/residential development to the northern side of the property and the new 40 units would be the last ones allotted – mean-ing the eastern edge would need to be rethought. For another, the city last year began restricting new apart-ment approvals to 50 units per year. But Sayre pointed out that the new request meets al l of the ci ty’s requirements otherwise.

Complicating the matter is that Wall is no longer in charge of T. Wall Proper-ties, the large commercial development firm he found-ed, but now runs T. Wall Enterprises, which special-izes in building apartments.

Epic’s plans are unusu-ally controversial this time, too.

Normally, another expan-sion from Dane County’s largest employer is the s imples t of approvals , with highly detailed plans that always exceed estab-lished standards. But many neighbors voiced objec-tions when the company

introduced its plans for Campuses 4 and 5 last December – including the purchase of some land that had been previously planned for homes in the Westridge Estates subdivi-sion on the west side of the city.

A series of meetings and changes to the plan – including the addition of a large earthen berm and shifting the new Northern Lights road about 200 feet farther from the existing houses – has helped soothe relations. But there still should be plenty to talk about.

At this point, the new plan is only a concept for the road, one 1,500-stall u n d e r g r o u n d p a r k i n g garage, the plat and the zoning. Those will need to return go through the coun-cil in May, when the com-pany is hoping bring initial plans for Campus 4, Sayre said.

Reddan Soccer Park’s upgrade is one the biggest steps in its multiyear proj-ect, though the most contro-versial part – the lights – is already there and the wide-ly desired road upgrade was finished last year. This year the plan is to update its championship field with a synthetic surface and build a medical building, a press box, bleachers and a score-board.

The commission will also discuss the new downtown plan, event though the plan has its own steering com-mittee. An initial public forum drew about 40 peo-ple earlier this month, and the city is planning to bring back more detail to the pub-lic in May. Planners were meeting with business and property owners downtown this week for more specific feedback.

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City of Verona

Commission seeks input on park planrecommendations include building more large, community parksmark ignatowskiUnified Newspaper Group

It might be hard to think about the future of parks and open space in the city with a few inches of snow still on the ground, but resi-dents are encouraged to weigh in about the city’s proposed parks, recreation and open space plan next week.

Many details in the plan were still being filled in early this week, several months after it was originally supposed to go before the public. It mostly updates the previous plan, from six years ago, but one clear recommendation it makes is to add more acreage of “community parks” – or 20-acre-plus areas with multiple recre-ation opportunities.

Parks director Dave Walk-er said he hopes residents will

turn out next week to share their thoughts on what sort of parks and recreation opportunities they hope to see in the city.

“The goal of our plan is to iden-tify what our projects are going to be for next year,” Walker said. “The plan, at this point, doesn’t identify any of that.”

That’s why public input is needed, Walker said. Residents will be able to weigh in on how they think the parks department is doing, what they’d like to see in the coming years and what priori-ties the department should make.

The plan is part of the city’s master plan and helps elected officials and city staff members plan for open space areas in the town.

The parks department contract-ed with Verona-based JSD Pro-fessional Services to develop the plan for the 2013 budget cycle. The plan was delayed, Walker said, but that gives staff and the city’s parks and open space com-mission more time to review and answer questions about the plan.

Walker said the commission provided input on the goals for the plan, including park shelter projects, new playground equip-ment, where to add benches, con-crete pads and more.

A rough draft was delivered to the city last week, with many details about existing parks still to be filled in. It includes nearby recreational opportunities, such as the two large county-owned parks on the edge of the city and the Ice Age Trail but does not consider them among the city’s facilities. It also recommends preserving – and in some cases even acquiring – prime recreational areas such

as Stewart’s Woods and an oak woodlot off Whalen Road.

The plan compares the city’s acreage in different types of parks to national standards and notes that the city is far beyond that number in smaller neighborhood parks but falls slightly short in larger community parks, like Vet-erans Park and Harriet Park.

“What its shows is an analysis of our existing parks system,” Walker said. “After we take a look at what we have, were going to get residents opinions on what they’d like to see and how they think were doing.”

The public hearing will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, at the Verona Senior Center. There will be a presentation and maps for residents to look at.

Walker previously told the Verona Press the city would like feedback on the plan in order to guide budgeting decisions in the coming months.

Walker said the plan includes guidelines for budgeting for the next five years; however, those

items on the wish list aren’t always approved in the city’s final spending plan.

Among the facilities planned in the next few years is a park on the Zingg property on the north side of town that would include a shelter and basketball and tennis courts. Also mentioned are more long-term items frequently men-tioned as part of a wish list, such as an aquatic center.

After the public input session next week, the Parks, Recre-ation and Forestry Commission is expected to review and update the draft at its April meeting. The commission likely will review a final draft in May.

The city’s Plan Commission and Common Council also will need to review and adopt the plan as part of the city’s master plan and work any recommendations for this year into budget plans.

Verona Press editor Jim Fero-lie contributed to this story.

If you goWhat: Public meeting on

Verona parks planWhen: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday,

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expansion/upgradesPC/NametagReddan Soccer ParkKwik Trip


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Opinion

We’re so proud of the Verona boys hockey team! Today’s Wis-consin State Journal byline, “Vero-na hockey falls” could not be far-ther from the truth. They didn’t fall. They may have come up short on the scoreboard but there are other, more important lessons, to be learned here.

They are lessons about guts and grit, perseverance, teamwork and especially about sportsmanship. These are lessons that many adults have not yet learned, and yet, we have a team of young men who have shown by example that win, lose or draw, they are “all for one

and one for all!” Not only are we proud of our

Verona Wildcat hockey team, but we give kuddos to their parents for raising such an exceptional group of young men and to their coaches for their leadership, dedication and mentoring. They may not have walked away with the gold but they walked away with their heads held high. They’re not the miracle on ice; that phrase does not serve them justice. They are Verona Wildcats and in Hometown America, that’s as good as it gets!

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Take pride in boys hockey team

Sequester cuts things nonsensicallyThe Sequester cuts this year are

7.8 percent of non-exempt domes-tic spending and 13 percent of non-exempt defense spending. In future years (because this is a 10 year deal) they will be 5 percent and 9 percent.

Before you talk about the ease of doing cuts, you need to realize there is no rhyme or reason to them, they are just across-the-board cuts – so if you run a nonprofit program with staff on a shoestring earning of $18,000 a year, you get cut the same percentage as the seven-figure CEO on a corporate contract .

Where this becomes most obvi-ous is looking at the Department of Defense budget, which are often divided into two lines: Obligated (money identified to be spent) and Unobligated (not under contract to be spent). We cut both lines the same percent! And often they are almost the same size – we are talking bil-lions here in unobligated funds.

Bizarrely, we are cutting mainte-nance budgets on existing vehicles while we are buying additional ones with no money to maintain them often incurring future debt to pay off.

I am not saying that all unobligat-ed funds are bad. Personally, I would not cut any unobligated funds from

our local snow budgets. The reality is, though, we are cutting critical ser-vices in the military and elsewhere while there is probably enough unused unobligated military funds that could at least cover most of the critical military cuts and maybe a few key economic domestic ones like air traffic controllers and scien-tific research.

The Medicare cuts at the federal level and Medicaid cuts at the state level – we will all just pay for those in the way of higher premiums and health-care costs (especially in Dane County as the Medicaid cuts are designed to hit here harder).Those are cost shifts from the government to the rest of us.

If I were to do this, I would begin by separating out the war-related debt and figure out how to pay for it since it should have been paid for as it occurred. Then I would deal with the overall spending cuts by starting with a thorough review of the unob-ligated contract funds.

That will never happen until we get significant campaign finance reform. You may want to sign a “Move to Amend” petition to help.

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Financially speaking

The new tax rules that might affect youYou know what they say

about death and taxes… and perhaps the same can

be said for Washington dragging every fight out until the very last minute.

Just as I had expected, the final sands of time were just about to fall through the hourglass before Congress managed to agree on a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. And, also as I had predicted (though to be fair, it’s not like I was a minority in expecting this) they kicked the can down the road on a number of the issues, namely automatic spending cuts that are sched-uled to begin this year.

What they did pass, how-ever, was actu-ally a fairly comprehensive tax reform bill, known as the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Despite its name, the majority of the changes will actu-ally increase taxes over what they were in 2012 – but without it, taxes would have increased much more.

Let’s take a look at some of the key provisions that are most likely to affect taxpayers locally.

The first change is one that every one of us that receives a paycheck has already felt. Effec-tive Jan. 1, the 2 percent payroll tax holiday expired, bringing the employee half of Social Security and Medicare taxes on the first dollar of earned income back to their normal 7.65 percent. For someone earning $40,000 per year, that means their take-home pay declined by a little more than $30 every two weeks.

While in theory, this was sim-ply a reversion to the norm, in practice, it felt like a pay cut for many Americans. It was espe-cially painful for those who don’t follow the news on these things very closely and were not expect-ing the change.

A number of measures were put in place that are meant to target taxpayers with incomes that exceed certain levels. The affected income levels vary between $200,000 for an indi-vidual ($250,000 for married fil-ing jointly) and $400,000 for an individual ($450,000 for married filing jointly).

For purposes of this column, I will simply refer to “higher-income earners” but I strongly suggest that you consult with your tax adviser if you think that you may fall into any of these categories.

The headlines focused on the increase in the highest marginal tax rate to 39.6 percent, but in fact, many of the other, less pub-licized changes will likely have a bigger impact. While seemingly politically popular, some of these changes may have unintended consequences.

For example, new rules related to the ability for higher-income earners to itemize deductions took effect. Under the act, item-ized deductions will begin phas-ing out (i.e. being disallowed) at certain income levels – including the ability to deduct contributions to charity (which is one of the five biggest itemized deductions annually).

Some charities have expressed concern that this may affect the donations they receive going forward.

Another one of the five biggest itemized deductions, the medical expense deduction, now has an increased floor of 10 percent of adjusted gross income (compared with the 7.5 percent it used to be).

Some of the biggest changes came in the taxation of invest-ment income. Higher-income earners may see their federal tax on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends increase from 15 percent to 20 percent. This is in addition to the 3.8 percent Medicare surtax that was already scheduled to take effect this year.

What many don’t realize is

how many unsuspecting people may be affected by this. When most think of investment income, they think of the sale of stock and stock dividends, but the definition is much broader than that and includes things like net rental income, interest on bank accounts and the sale of real estate (excluding your primary residence), to name a few.

Let’s say you own a second home in Florida but have found that you aren’t using it as much as you used to, so you decide to sell it. You bought it many years ago and sell it for $400,000 above what you have into it.

Your normal annual taxable income is about $100,000, so you aren’t affected by the new rules right? Wrong.

The gain on the home sale is added to your other income, bringing your total to $500,000 – and as a single filer, that means at least a portion of the sale pro-ceeds are subject to the increased capital gains tax rate and the Medicare surtax. By my quick calculation, selling the home in 2013 could cost you $16,400 more in taxes than selling it in 2012 would have, everything else being equal.

On a more positive note, the act did provide for permanent indexing for the alternative minimum tax, which would have adversely affected mil-lions of taxpayers this year if not addressed.

If you think you may be affected, I urge you to consult with your tax adviser now to see if there is anything different you should be doing. This is especial-ly important if you are consider-ing a large financial transaction.

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Community garden plans go to Verona publicFor years, planners and com-

munity leaders have envisioned a community garden at Badger Prairie County Park. With fund-ing finally in its budget, the coun-ty is making preparations to have it ready this year.

The county will host an infor-mational meeting for the garden from 7-8:30 p.m. April 9 at the Verona Public Library. It will cover the planning and implemen-tation of the garden, and attendees will have a chance to see garden designs. County officials and community organizers will be there to answer questions.

The Badger Prairie Master Plan adopted in 2009 called for installing community gardens at the park. Dane County Execu-tive Joe Parisi and Verona Sup. Erika Hotchkiss worked together

to include $40,000 in the 2013 county budget to dig a well and improve the parking lot.

Badger Prairie will have first community garden in the county’s park system, and Parisi said the County will continue to explore expanding options for community gardens on county lands.

“Bringing the first county com-munity gardens to Badger Prai-rie County Park is one more way Dane County can support local agriculture,” he said in a news release. “Working together with the Community Action Coali-tion and the many other volun-teers dedicated to this project will make this a great success.”

The CAC, a nonproit group which provides food pantries throughout the county, has been leasing the land and growing pin-to beans on it.

Hotchkiss has been working directly with community mem-bers to set up the meeting.

“This project will meet the needs of many in the Verona Area and beyond,” Hotchkiss said in the release. “I am impressed with the outpouring of support and

volunteers working many hours to make this dream possible. I love this community and the way we come together time and again to work for positive change.”

Local groups, schools, church-es, families and individuals will be able to rent plots on a sliding scale fee at the garden allowing people of all ages and abilities a part in the farm-to-table move-ment. The gardens will occupy five acres of the park with 1-2 acres for individual garden plots and 3-4 acres managed by the Community Action Coalition to grow fresh food for local food pantries.

“Badger Prairie Community Garden will serve as an educa-tional component to schools in the area, assist in providing food to our local food pantry, and

allow people of differing abilities, cultural, and socioeconomic sta-tus to work together to help create part of a local food system in our community,” Hotchkiss said.

John Migon, a local gardener, is encouraged by the strong com-munity support for the gardens at Badger Prairie County Park.

“With Supervisor Hotchkiss’ help we’ve coordinated with a group of citizen gardeners to help create a place for all community members to come together and learn and grow their gardening potential,” Mignon said in the release.

For information, call Hotchkiss at 219-0908 or email [email protected].

Dog park cleanups moved to April 6

Grab a bucket and get ready to scoop the poop w i t h v o l u n t e e r s f r o m throughout Dane County next weekend.

April 6 marks the annual dog park cleanup day at Dane County’s off-leash dog parks . Crews had planned to meet March 30, however, the event was pushed back a week due to snow cover.

The event takes place from 8 a.m. until noon at Badger Prairie park at 6720 U.S. Hwy. 18-151 and Prai-rie Moraine park on County Hwy. PB, as well as oth-er parks in the Madison, Middleton, Sun Prairie and Dane County areas.

Volunteers will assist with picking up litter and scooping up dog waste that has been hidden under the snow. Participants are asked to bring gloves, a 5-gallon pail (if possible) and a trowel or scooper tool.

Each dog exercise area will have a volunteer leader and will be provided bags and gloves for our volun-teers.

The event will be held rain or shine, but could be canceled if there is a heavy snowfall. The snow date would be the following Sat-urday.

For more information, or to volunteer as a Crew Leader, call Pete Blawat at 516-8057 or Rhea Stan-gel-Maier at Dane County Parks at 224-3601.

If you goWhat: Badger Prairie County

Park community garden public informational meeting

When: 7 p.m. April 9Where: Verona Public Library,

500 Silent St.Info: Call Erika Hotchkiss at

219-0908

If you goWhat: Countywide dog

park cleanup dayWhen: 8 a.m.-noon

Saturday, April 6Where: Badger Prairie

park at 6720 Hwy. 151 and Prairie Moraine park on Hwy. PB

Friday, April 5 from 11 a.m.-6 p.m.Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli Street

Brats - Chips - SodaDine-In or Take-Out

845-7471Call ahead orders for take out accepted.

All proceeds benefit activities and programming provided by the Verona Seniors.

First Brat of the Season Sale!Sponsored by the

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Explorer-author, dog visit library

Fording rivers, scaling rugged cliffs and endur-ing storms, explorer Pam Flowers and her dog Ellie (aka Eleanor Roosevelt), hiked the 2,000-plus mile Appalachian Trail.

Flowers will relate this 2008 experience – which she chronicled in a book ca l l ed “E l l i e ’ s Long Walk” – next weekend at the Verona Public Library.

Each year, 2 million people walk on the 2,179-mile Appalachian Trail, which covers 14 states f rom Maine to Geor-gia. The story of Flow-ers’ journey became the only children’s picture book available on the trail, according to a news release from her publish-er.

“Ellie’s Long Walk” is the true story of adven-ture, friendship and team-work that teaches lessons about courage, determina-tion, trust and love.

Pam adopted Ellie, a Labrador mix, as a puppy and carefully trained with her to prepare for the long journey, including distance hiking and car-rying packs. On Aug. 4, 2008, Flowers and Ellie left Baxter State Park in Maine and spent over six months hiking the Appala-chian Trail.

She will share their sto-ry from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 6, at the Verona Public Library. Participants can ask ques-tions and get a chance to meet Ellie.

For information, visit

veronapubliclibrary.org.A c c o r d i n g t o t h e

r e l ease , F lowers has worked with and adven-tured with dogs for over 32 years, including nine arctic expeditions by dog-sled.

She is the 14th recipient of the Gold Medal from the Society of Women Geographers, following in the footsteps of Amelia Earhart, Margaret Mead and Jane Goodall.

Flowers was also named Outsider of the Year by “Outside” magazine.

Flowers is the author of six books about her adventures with dogs, including a new book, “Ordinary Dogs, Extraor-dinary Friendships,” com-ing out this fall.

She has written many magazine articles, pro-duced an educat ional newsletter, spoken at the Smithsonian and the St. Louis Science Center and presented to more than 700,000 students at more than 1,200 public and pri-vate schools and libraries.

For information, visit PamFlowers.com.

If you goWhat: Book discussion

on “Ellie’s Long Walk”When: 10:30 a.m.

April 6Where: Verona Public

Library, 500 Silent St.Info: Visit

veronapubliclibrary.org


Blood driveA blood drive will be held from 11

a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, March, 28 at State Bank of Cross Plains, 108 N. Main St.

Call 1-800-733-2767 or visit red crossblood.org to make an appoint-ment.

Stepping On Identify and address your risk of

falling by registering for “Stepping On,” an evidence-based, seven-week series for adults with balance con-cerns or fear of falling.

The class runs from 9:30–11:30 a.m. Thursdays starting April 4 and runs throgh May 16 at the Verona Senior Center.

The cost is $35 per person for instruction, materials and snacks. Call 845-7471 to register.

Brat fryThe “First Brat of the Season” sale

runs from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Fri-day, April 5, at the Verona Senior Center.

Brats, hot dogs, chips, cookies and soda will be available for purchase.

Pre-orders are welcomed by call-ing 845-7471.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail Visit with author and adventurer

Pam Flowers from 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Saturday, April 6, at the Verona Public Library.

When Pam adopted Ellie, an aban-doned puppy, she was sure she had found a new friend. But Pam wanted more than just a friend; she wanted a companion to hike the world-famous Appalachian Trail.

Hear Pam tell the exciting story of their 2174-mile journey and get a chance to meet Ellie. All ages are welcome, but registration is recom-mended.

Learn more about the author at pamflowers.com

Drawings by Azul SphaeraAn exhibition of pen and ink

and watercolor drawings by Azul Sphaera will be on display April 2 - 27 at the Verona Public Library.

Viewers will have an opportunity to meet the artist at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4, when Sphaera will present a program on the process of creating pen and ink and watercolor draw-ings. Register online for the meet the artist presentation.

Knitting 101 Learn the basics of knitting start-

ing at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, at the Verona Senior Center.

Have you ever wanted to learn the basics of knitting or crocheting? If so, this is the class for you free of charge, and paced for beginners (or

as a refresher course). This is a six-week class with some

materials available at no cost. If interested, please call Becky at the Senior Center at 845-6465. Space is limited to six.

Anime Evolution: Teen Movie Marathon

Teens come sit back and relax dur-ing an anime movie marathon from 3 to 8:45 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at the library.

Enjoy a pizza dinner while watch-ing Japanese animated films from three different decades.

The event is for ages 13-18. The program meets in the community room. No registration is required.

Introduction to ExcelLearn how to create and use a

Microsoft Excel worksheet, com-plete with formulas and functions, during a class at the Verona Public Library from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tues-day, April 9.

You will also learn how to format, sort data, and create charts. Train-ing is provided by John Harris from Harris Multimedia & Computers.

This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Register online at the library web-site at veronapubliclibrary.org

Coming up

Community calendar

ChurchesALL SAINTS LUTHERAN CHURCH2951 Chapel Valley Road, Fitchburg(608) 276-7729allsaints-madison.orgPastor Rich Johnson

THE CHURCH IN FITCHBURG2833 Raritan Road, Fitchburg, WI 53711(608) 271-2811livelifetogether.comSunday Worship: 8 and10:45 a.m.

THE CHURCH IN VERONAVerona Business Centre535 Half Mile Rd. #7, Verona.(608) 271-2811livelifetogether.comSunday Worship: 9 a.m.

FITCHBURG MEMORIAL UCC5705 Lacy Road, Fitchburg(608) 273-1008 • memorialucc.orgPhil Haslanger

GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH ELCA(608) 271-6633Central: Raymond Road & Whitney WaySUNDAY8:15, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m. WorshipWest: Corner of Hwy. PD & Nine Mound Road, VeronaSUNDAY9 & 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Worship

LIVING HOPE CHURCHAt the Verona Senior Center108 Paoli St. • (608) 347-3827livinghopeverona.com, [email protected] a.m. Worship

MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH201 S. Main, Verona(608) 845-7125MBCverona.orgLead pastor: Jeremy ScottSUNDAY10:15 a.m. Worship

REDEEMER BIBLE FELLOWSHIP102 N. Franklin Ave., VeronaPastor Dwight R. Wise(608) 848-1836 www.redeemerbible-fellowship.orgSUNDAY10 a.m. Family Worship Service

RESURRECTION LUTHERAN CHURCHWisconsin Synod, 6705 Wesner Road, Verona(608) 848-4965 • rlcverona.orgPastor Nathan Strutz and Assistant Pastor: Timothy RosenowTHURSDAY 6:30 p.m. WorshipSUNDAY9 a.m. Worship Service

ST. CHRISTOPHER CATHOLIC PARISH301 N. Main St., Verona(608) 845-6613Stchristopherverona.com

Fr. William Vernon, pastorSATURDAY 5 p.m. Sunday Vigil, St. Andrew, VeronaSUNDAY 7:30 a.m., St. William, Paoli9 and 11 a.m., St. Andrew, VeronaDaily Mass: Tuesday-Saturday at 8 a.m., St. Andrew, Verona

ST. JAMES EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH427 S. Main Street, Verona(608) 845-6922www.stjamesverona.orgPastors Kurt M. Billings and Peter NarumService5 p.m., Saturday8:30 and 10:45 a.m., Sunday

SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST502 Mark Dr., Verona, WIPhone: (608) 845-7315Rev. Dr. Mark E. Yurs, PastorLaura Kolden, Associate in Ministrywww.salemchurchverona.org9:00AM Sunday School (for all ages)10:15AM Worship ServiceStaffed nursery: 8:45am-11:30am11:30AM Fellowship Hour

SPRINGDALE LUTHERAN CHURCH-ELCA2752 Town Hall Road (off County ID)(608) 437-3493springdalelutheran.orgPastor: Jeff JacobsSUNDAY8:45 a.m. Communion Worship

SUGAR RIVER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH130 N. Franklin St., Verona(608) [email protected], sugarriverumc.orgPastor: Gary HolmesSUNDAY9:00 & 10:30 Contemporary worship with chil-dren’s Sunday school.Refreshments and fellowship are between services.

WEST MADISON BIBLE CHURCH2920 Hwy. M, Verona, WI 53593Sunday (nursery provided in a.m.)9:15 a.m. - Praise and worship10:45 - Sunday School (all ages)6 p.m. - Small group Bible study

ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST – Located at Hwy. 92 & Ct. Road G, Mount Vernon(608) 832-6677 for informationPastor: Brad BrookinsSUNDAY10:15 a.m. Worship

ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST – At Hwy. 69 and PB, Paoli(608) 845-5641Rev. Sara ThiessenSUNDAY9:30 a.m. Family Worship

Call 845-9559 to advertise on the

Verona Press church page430 E. Verona Ave.

845-2010

Wednesday, Mar. 275 p.m. – Common Council from 3-11-137 p.m. - Capital City Band8 p.m. – Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center10 p.m. – 911 at Senior Center11 p.m. – Jerry Zelm at Senior Center

Thursday, Mar. 287 a.m. – 911 at Senior Center9 a.m. - Daily Exercise10 a.m. - Jerry Zelm at Senior Center3 p.m. - Daily Exercise4 p.m. – 2013 Candidates Forum at

Senior Center6 p.m. - Salem Church Service7 p.m. - Words of Peace8 p.m. - Daily Exercise9 p.m. – Chatting with the Chamber –

New10 p.m. – Memorial Baptist at Historical

Society

Friday, Mar. 297 a.m. – 2013 Candidates Forum at

Senior Center1:30 p.m. - Chatting with the Chamber

– New! 3 p.m. - Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center5 p.m. - 2011 Wildcats Football 8:30 p.m. - Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center10 p.m. - 911 at Senior Center11 p.m. – Jerry Zelm at Senior Center

Saturday, Mar. 308 a.m. – Common Council from 3-11-1311 a.m. - Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center

1 p.m. - 2011 Wildcats Football 4:30 p.m. – Memorial Baptist at Historical

Society6 p.m. – Common Council from 3-11-139 p.m. - Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center10 p.m. - Memorial Baptist at Historical

Society11 p.m. - Jerry Zelm at Senior Center

Sunday, Mar. 317 a.m. - Hindu Cultural Hour 9 a.m. – Resurrection Church 10 a.m. - Salem Church ServiceNoon - Common Council from 3-11-133 p.m. - Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center4:30 p.m. - Memorial Baptist at Historical

Society6 p.m. – Common Council from 3-11-139 p.m. - Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center10 p.m. – Memorial Baptist at Historical

Society11 p.m. - Jerry Zelm at Senior Center

Monday, April 17 a.m. – 2013 Candidates Forum at


– New3 p.m. - Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center5 p.m. - 2011 Wildcats Football9 p.m. - Hindu Cultural Hour10 p.m. – 911 at Senior Center11 p.m. – Jerry Zelm at Senior Center

Tuesday, April 27 a.m. – 911 at Senior Center

9 a.m. - Daily Exercise10 a.m. - Jerry Zelm at Senior Center 3 p.m. - Daily Exercise4 p.m. – 2013 Candidates Forum at

Senior Center6 p.m. - Resurrection Church 8 p.m. - Words of Peace9 p.m. - Chatting with the Chamber –

New10 p.m. - Memorial Baptist at Historical

Society

Wednesday, April 37 a.m. – 2013 Candidates Forum at


– New3 p.m. – Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center5 p.m. – Common Council from 3-11-137 p.m. - Capital City Band8 p.m. –Acupuncture & Children’s

Hospital at Senior Center10 p.m. - 911 at Senior Center11 p.m. – Jerry Zelm at Senior Center

Thursday, April 47 a.m. – 911 at Senior Center9 a.m. - Daily Exercise10 a.m. – Jerry Zelm at Senior Center3 p.m. - Daily Exercise4 p.m. – 2013 Candidates Forum at

Senior Center6 p.m. - Salem Church Service6:30 p.m. – Plan Commission Live8 p.m. - Daily Exercise9 p.m. – Chatting with the Chamber –

New10 p.m. – Memorial Baptist at Historical

Society

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Thursday, March 28No school - VASD spring break • 10 a.m., Women’s group, Verona Senior Center, 845-7471• 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Blood drive, State Bank of Cross Plains - Verona, 800-733-2767 • 3-8:45 p.m., Anime movie marathon, Verona Public Library, 845-7180

Friday, March 29No school - VASD spring break

Saturday, March 30• 11 a.m.-noon., Easter Egg Hunt, West Madison Bible

Church Sunday, March 31

Easter Sunday

Monday, April 1 • 6:30 p.m., Bible discussion, Resurrection Lutheran Church, 6705 Wesner Road, 848-4965

Tuesday, April 2 Spring election, VASD classes resume

Thursday, April 4 • 9:30-11:30 a.m., Stepping on class begins, Verona Senior Center, 845-7471• 7 p.m., Meet artist Azul Sphaera, Verona Public Library, azulsphaera.com

Friday, April 5 • 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., First brat fry of the season, Verona Senior Center, 845-7471• 7 p.m., Disney’s Winnie the Pooh KIDS and Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr., Verona Area Performing Arts Center, www.vact.org

Saturday, April 6• 10:30-11:30 a.m., Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Verona Public Library, 845-7180 Sunday, April 7 •Noon-2:30 p.m., Skate-a-thon, Eagles Nest, 451 E. Verona Avenue• 2 p.m., Disney’s Winnie the Pooh KIDS and Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr., Verona Area Performing Arts Center, www.vact.org Ambivalence

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ambivalence as “simultaneous and contradictory feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action.” This is an

all-too-human experience that has a physical basis in our two-sided brain. Positive emotions are usually processed on the left

side of the brain and negative emotions on the right. A child who has just “appropriated” a cookie after strict instructions

to stay away from the cookie jar may feel pleasure at the same time he is feeling guilt or fear. All of our significant relationships

have some ambivalence. Parents love their children and yet nothing can be quite as exasperating as a child misbehaving. The secret to dealing with ambivalence is to not let it spoil an otherwise good experience. Going to a party should be fun,

though it will perhaps also have some anxiety attached if you aren’t crazy about parties, but that doesn’t have to ruin the experience. Commit yourself to enjoying the event and you

probably will, regardless of the hassles involved. Likewise, our relationships can be spoiled by ambivalence if we focus too

much on the negative aspects, but if we commit ourselves to loving the other person despite their flaws then the ambivalence is neutralized. Another way to deal with ambivalence is to reflect on our values and to reconcile our feelings based on the higher

value.

“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God. . . . But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the

one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything

from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.”James 1:5-8


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Building Relationships That Make A Difference

Spotlight on Service: Mike Petta

Mike Petta, Market President of Capitol Bank Verona, talks about the importance of forming personal relationships in business banking:

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In the 1970s, Carol Lar-son took horticulture as an elective at Verona Area High School. She would go on to manage the school greenhouse her junior and senior years before gradu-ating in 1977.

“That’s really what got me interested in this field,” Larson recalled in an inter-view last week.

Almost 35 years later, Larson has come home and come full circle. She transplanted her business, English Garden Floral , from Belleville to Verona in July.

“It’s been going very well,” said Larson, who grew up in Verona and lives about six miles south of the city. “Every day people are discovering me.”

Larson has opera ted Engl i sh Garden Flora l since 2003. She decided to relocate her operation here after Verona’s House of Flowers shuttered last year amid legal and finan-cial troubles. The two men behind that business earli-er this year pleaded guilty to charges of stealing from a Town of Verona event p lanning company and now await sentencing.

“I just felt there was a greater need here,” she said of why she moved from Belleville, which is a “wonderful place to live” but has been hard hit by

the recession.So Larson decided on

415 E. Verona Ave. , a former house with great curb appeal as a commer-cial property, as the new home for her business. The house was previously occupied by the Frog Bog, the water garden and foun-tain business.

“The house is very, very charming,” Larson said.

Larson has f i l led i t s first floor (she also shares space with a landscaping company) with flowers for multiple occasions, from Valentine’s Day to wed-dings to births to anni-versaries, as well as gifts. It also sells some garden

accessories, an area that Larson hopes to grow.

“I really wanted people to get that feeling (of an English garden) when they walked in,” she said of the store name and layout.

As for herself, Larson said she enjoys the flowers business because “I find it just really relaxing.”

Larson can talk about the benefits of flowers, cit-ing studies that show how fresh flowers in an office an increase productivity. She can talk how Euro-peans purchase flowers as often and as easily as Americans purchase “cof-fee,” she said.

And she can talk about

one thing that is probably the same in many cultures. It’s “really fun to see peo-ple’s expressions when you deliver them” flowers, she said.

Verona graduate grows local floral business

English Garden Floral415 E. Verona Ave.848-6511theenglishgardenfloral.com

Hours: 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. M-Fri, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat.

Photos by Derek Spellman

Carol Larson, a 1977 graduate of Verona Area High School, moved her floral business from Belleville to Verona last year. Larson said a horticulture class at VAHS piqued her interest in the field. Her shop at 415 E. Verona Ave. has flowers, gifts and garden accessories.

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Happy Easter!Bruce Workman, co-

o w n e r o f E d e l w e i s s Cheese Shop in Verona and of Edelweiss Cream-ery, captured a first-place award in the U.S. Cham-pion Cheese Contest ear-lier this month at Lambeau Field Atrium.

Workman took the top honor in the open soft cat-egory with his Edelweiss Butterkase, according to a press release sent to the Verona Press. The annu-al contest this year fea-tured more than 15 tons of

cheese. Wisconsin led the nation with 47 gold med-als out of 81 categories. Mar ieke Penterman of Holland’s Family Cheese won the Championship title with Mature gouda 6-9 months.

This was the 17th bien-nial competition, the con-test said in a separate news release.

The Workmans opened Edelweiss Cheese Shop at 202 W. Verona Ave. on July 15. Kathy Workman, a former Verona school-teachers , and her hus-band master cheesemaker, Bruce, converted a 1950s bungalow home into a retail outlet store offering about dozens of varieties of Wisconsin cheese.

The Workmans in 2003 purchased and refurbished a small cheese factory in Monticello, where they reside, and opened the Edelweiss Creamery in August 2004.

Their cheese has since become a staple at places like Brennan’s Market, the Willy Street Co-op, Met-calfe’s Market, and the farmers markets in Verona and Madison’s west side.

Edelweiss snags a first place in national cheese contest

AnchorBank advisor awarded

Rainer Hohlbein, an LPL financial advisor at Anchor Investment Services (AIS), a division of AnchorBank, recently earned AIS’ Presi-dent’s Club award and was named to the “LPL Financial Director’s Club.” Hohlbein serves the Junction Road, Mount Horeb, New Glarus and Verona AnchorBank branches.

Cleary sells 90,000th building

Verona-based Cleary Building Corp. recently announced that its 90,000th pre-engineered building was sold to a customer in Nebras-ka.

Tanya’s expandsTanya Cook, owner of

Tanya’s Big House 4 Kidz in Verona, recently opened a second center just outside

Verona.King’s Kids Academy is

located near Midtown Road at 8133 Mansion Hill Avenue. It has openings for kids ages six weeks to 12 years.

The new academy opened Jan. 7. For more information, call 845-5464.

Klagos joins First Choice

First Choice Dental Group recently announced that Jodi Klagos has been promoted to the role of Insurance Manager at the group’s Verona busi-ness office, 925 N. Main St.

Klagos will manage the company’s relationships with major insurance companies and oversee insurance-related services for patients. Klagos holds a degree in health care administration from the Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Milwau-kee.

Verona attorney recognized

Verona resident and Foley

& Lardner attorney David W. Reinecke has been named to the annual Super Lawyers list.

Reinecke is a senior part-ner with Foley & Lardner LLP and the chair of Foley’s nationwide Tax & Individual Planning Practice. Super Lawyers is a rating service of lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement, according to a news release.

Cleary employees receive awards

A pair of Cleary Building Corp. building sales special-ists have been recognized in the company’s sales awards program, Cleary said in a news release.

Jay Gunderson collected the “Supreme Sales Special-ist Award” and Building Sales Specialist and Subcon-tract Sales Specialist of the Year honors. He also reached the “5 Million Dollar Club” for career sales, Cleary said

in its news release.Dick Acker received

the “Elite Sales Special-ist Award” for 2012 and reached the “Twenty-Five Million Dollar Club” for total sales.

Cleary Building Corp. is a family-owned business that has operated since 1978. Its corporate office and manu-facturing plant are both locat-ed in Verona, while it oper-ates manufacturing facilities in Grand Island, Neb., and Hazelton, Idaho. It employs 800 full-time employees throughout the United States in 80 offices.

Angus Association recognizes Andersens

John and Jacquel ine Andersen, of Verona, have been recognized nation-ally by the American Angus Association® for having one registered Angus bull includ-ed in the Association’s 2013 Pathfinder® Report, accord-ing to a news release.

Only 1,992 of the more

than 25,000 American Angus Association members are represented in this year’s report, Bill Bowman, chief operating officer and director of performance programs of the Association, said in that release.

The Pathfinder Program identifies superior Angus cows based upon recorded performance traits that are important to efficient beef production.

Hohlbein collects pair of accolades

Rainer Hohlbein, LUTCF, an LPL financial advisor at Anchor Investment Services (AIS), a division of Anchor-Bank, has been recognized as a top advisor and named to the LPL Financial Director’s Club, according to a news release.

LPL Financial provides investment services to the customers of AnchorBank. The distinction is based on an annual production ranking of approximately 12,800 advi-sors who are affiliated with LPL Financial nationwide,

the company said in the release.

Hohlbein is also a recipi-ent of Anchor Investment Services’ President’s Club award, the highest award of achievement presented by AIS for fiscal year achieve-ments in production and cus-tomer service.

Engineered Construction honored

Engineered Construction Inc., of Verona, has received the Platinum Award of Hon-or from ABC (Associated Builders and Contractors Inc.) after going through a year without a recordable accident or lost time, accord-ing to a news release from the Wisconsin chapter of ABC.

ABC represents nearly 800 merit shop contractors, sub-contractors, material suppli-ers, manufacturers and other construction-related profes-sionals throughout the state and nearly 25,000 member firms nationwide, the release said.

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Summer softball has lasting impact for Verona gradsFor more than nine years, the

Verona Area Girls Softball Asso-ciation (VAGSA)has offered a variety of summer softball pro-grams for girls in the Verona Area School District.

Programs are available for all levels of skill and interest for girls in kindergarten through high school.

Many girls who were first introduced to softball through VAGSA have used their acquired skills and understanding of the game to play beyond their sea-sons in VAGSA.

Many have gone on to play Varsity/JV softball at Verona Area High School or continued their softball career at the colle-giate level.

Softball is one of those sports that once you learn it in your younger years, the skills can accompany you to community or adult recreation softball pro-grams.

Softball is a sport that spans ages and can create an athletic and social outlet that extends way past high school or college.

This sport is also a great way for a person, of any age, to more quickly pass a hot and humid Wisconsin summer.

Three ladies from Verona (Alyssa Schulting, Katie Hart-nett, and Tia Goglio) played VAGSA summer softball every year from T-ball all the way through their four years of high school softball.

All three played high school softball for the Verona Wildcats and Schulting has gone on to be a player for Edgewood College.

All three believe that playing VAGSA summer softball had a very positive and lasting impact on their lives, softball skills, and the bonds they created with teammates.

When asked what they found most enjoyable about playing softball, team camaraderie was a central theme. Alyssa shared “I was able to make life-long friendships while playing the sport I love.”

Katie pointed out that the game of softball includes “individual and team aspects.”

Tia added she really enjoyed “hanging out with all the girls and being part of a team that you grew up with.”

The center piece program at VAGSA is the summer softball program. Weekly league play is available from recreational to competitive to tournament team action.

Katie loved playing summer ball because she had such amaz-ing coaches.

“It was a perfect time to work on skill improvement in a relaxed and fun way,” she said.

Tia further supports this com-ment by adding summer ball was “always competitive” but also “fun.”

All three ladies agreed that playing VAGSA summer soft-ball was not only fun but it also helped them become better play-ers, increased their knowledge of the game and helped them retain their softball skills in the offsea-son that they learned during high school softball.

Valuable skills needed dur-ing high school softball were not

allowed to be lost or go rusty, according to Tia.

Summer softball also includes an instruct ional program in which all three ladies participat-ed as instructors.

Katie pointed out “it is so awe-some to see how much the girls improve over the summer with their softball skills and to see them fall in love with the game like I did.

“I know how big of an impact this program has had on my life, and I am so grateful that I am able to pass that tradition on to younger generations through coaching.”

Alyssa further added that any-one considering playing sum-mer softball will find that it “can change their life, and make new friends that can become family.”

Tia recommends summer soft-ball because “it is worth your time, you’ll meet a lot of people, have great coaches, and it is just fun to play softball with your friends.”

Alyssa concluded “I would not have changed my experience

with summer softball for any-thing in the world.

“Those girls will forever be my sisters and I will cherish the memories for the rest of my life.”

As you can tell by the com-ments of these three VAGSA alumni, playing summer softball was more than just getting dusty out on the diamond, throwing a ball and swinging a bat.

It was about creating a love of a sport and building connections through friendships and appreci-ated coaches.

These skills are not only valu-able in softball but more impor-tantly in the game of life.

Participating in VAGSA youth softball programs will teach the athlete proper and consistent application of fundamentals in a positive, safe and fun environ-ment while enriching their enjoy-ment of playing the game.

For more in format ion on VAGSA, visit them on the web at vagsa.org or e-mail vags [email protected].

–Article submitted

Kicking it at St. CloudANTHONY IOZZOAssistant sports editor

Senior Derek Witte had several Division III schools look at him and a few DII schools, but his decision to sign a National Let-ter of Intent to kick at St. Cloud (Minn.) State University in Feb-ruary had more do with it than simply choosing to play at the higher division.

Witte visited both Minnesota State Mankato and St. Cloud, talked to coaches and had a feel that both could fit.

But it was St. Cloud that jumped over the other choices because he felt he was needed.

“I had great opportunities at both colleges, but there was more security in the job at St. Cloud, and I liked the coaching staff better,” Witte said. “I felt more wanted at St. Cloud.”

It also helps that with the kick-ing situation at St. Cloud not hav-ing much depth, Witte is wanted to be a first-string kicker and back-up punter in his freshman season.

So he won’t redshirt and instead could contribute right away.

“I will be working hard to lock that spot up and keep it,” he said.

And despite the high percent-age of certainty in being a starter, Witte is working with Kohl’s Kicking and Taylor Mehlhaff Kicking, LLC, a coaching school started by ex-University of Wis-consin all-conference kicker Tay-lor Mehlhaff.

Mehlhaff does private lessons and has worked with the Univer-sity of Tennessee and the Univer-sity of Pittsburgh.

“I really like him because he is close to my age and I can connect with him on a personal level,” Witte said. “I get a lot done with him. I learned a lot from him.

“I am definitely looking to keep on working with him. He will help me with that transition with kicking off the ground and getting ready for college.”

Coming through Verona’s football program

There is a lot Witte already can take with him from his days at Verona Area High School.

Besides hitting 104 of 113 extra points and four of six field goals in his career, Witte said he also learned to become a better per-son, which is something he will take with him as he grows older.

“Coach (Dave) Richardson always tried to implement the idea of being a good person, not just a good football player,” he said.

Witte said he remembered Richardson answering the ques-tion of how his team was going to be by saying to wait 20 years and see how the players turn out as men. Then, he would know how good of a coach he was.

That was something Witte took to heart and what he hopes to use as he goes to St. Cloud this fall.

As for the upcoming season, Witte is definitely happy his

decision is over.“It is nice to have that weight

off my shoulders with where I am going to go,” he said. “ ... It just gets me an earlier start on this whole college process and experi-ence than a lot of other kids.”

Witte said he doesn’t have any personal goals yet, but he will strive to help St. Cloud win games and a conference champi-onship.

File photo by Anthony Iozzo

Senior Derek Witte (left) signed a National Letter of Intent to be a kicker at St. Cloud (Minn.) State University next year. Witte was the starting kicker for the Verona Area High School football team the last two seasons.

Witte looks to be first-string kicker at college next season

Burmeister

Catching up with ...

Trevor BurmeisterSchool: UW-La CrosseYear: seniorPosition: outfieldVerona graduate: 2009Major: Organizational Communications

The Verona Press recently caught up with Verona graduate Trevor Bur-meister to find out how life has been at the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse.

Here is what he had to say:

VP – After starting for two years at Madison College, did you have interest from oth-er teams? If so, why did you decide to attend UW-La Crosse?

TB – I received interest from sev-eral schools, most notably being Whitewater and Ashford University in Iowa, but once La Crosse showed interest in me I was really set on going there.

My brother also went to La Crosse so I was very familiar with the univer-sity and the community, which was all very appealing.

I knew, on top of getting a really good education, I would be joining a successful baseball program on the rise, ready to compete for champion-ships in arguably the best Division III conference in the nation.

VP – The Eagles won their first out-right league title since 1978 a sea-son ago and also won their second WIAC tournament title.

Yet despite returning 17 letter-winners, the team is picked to fin-ish second behind Whitewater in the WIAC this season. How do you feel about the team’s prospects?

TB – I’ll admit that I was a little surprised that we were picked to finish second considering everyone we were returning and our key acquisitions in the off season, but honestly as a

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Nothing but the goalpostDerek Witte’s Verona High School kicker stats

Year XP/XPA FG/FGA Long Touchbacks2012 37-43 2-4 40 75 percentCareer 104-113 4-6 40 72 percent


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Seventh graders dunk competition The Wildcats seventh grade Tri-County team (12-3) won league and tournament championships. They played Deforest, Barneveld and Middleton to win the overall championship.

Team members (front, from left) are: Matthew Payne, Tommie McNight, Noah Steffenson, Owen Patti, Jaylen Hayes and Jacob Walton; (back) James Kemper, Michael Egle, assistant coach Cory Patti, head coach Lynne Walton, assistant coach Chris Kemper, Tristan Largent, and Chris Canada; (not pictured) team manager Kim Steffenson.

team it doesn’t bother us at all.We were completely

overlooked last season and we ended up only losing two games in a very competitive conference schedule. It gives us all a little bit more of an

edge to prove who we are yet again.

Also, I think it’s a testament of how good our conference truly is.

VP – Do you remember how old you were when you realized you wanted to play baseball collegiately?

TB – As a kid I always had that dream of being a profes-sional football or baseball player. Once I got to high school, I knew I either wanted to play baseball or football in college but wasn’t sure which direction I would go.

When it was baseball sea-son, I wanted to play college baseball, and when it was football season, I wanted to play college football.

I would say my junior year of high school is where I real-ly started to consider baseball as a future path.

But football was always in the back of my mind even

until graduation.

VP – Going to Madison Col-lege before La Crosse, did it make you appreciate this opportunity all the more?

TB – I owe so much to Coach Davenport and Madison Col-lege. I can’t even begin to describe how much I learned going to MATC.

Not only did it help me with baseball, but it led me to UW- La Crosse which has been an unbelievable experience. Not to mention the two world series appearances we had at Madison College is something I will never forget.

I have been very fortunate throughout my life being

surrounded by great teams and coaches, even going back to high school.

Shout out to coach (Dave) Richardson.

VP – What has been the highlight so far playing at La Crosse?

TB – Winning conference and the conference tournament last year was very special.

To be able to join a program that was nearly cut by the uni-versity a couple years earlier, and being able to play a part in helping the team and espe-cially the seniors win confer-ence and the tournament was a great experience.

Those seniors went through so much when the program was almost let go, yet they stuck together, and ended up

leading us to a special season.

VP –With graduation almost around the corner, what do you plan to do after college?

TB – I really feel my next calling is coaching. I have been around teams my whole life and the thought of not being involved with one is weird to me.

I really feel like my life in baseball is far from over, and that I have a lot to give consid-ering all I have learned over the years.

I have also considered grad school to study Sports Man-agement. Ideally, I would like to go to graduate school and hop onto that university’s baseball team as an assistant coach.

Burmeister: Verona grad talks about time at Madison College and UW- La CrosseContinued from page 9 ‘I would say my junior year of high school is where I really

started to consider baseball as a future path. But football was always in the back of my mind even until graduation.’

2009 Verona graduate Trevor Burmeister

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Sport shortsKieser wins all-academic award

Verona graduate and Eau Claire senior Jeremy Kieser was named to the 2012 Division III All-Aca-demic Cross Country team.

To qualify for the UST-FCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumula-tive grade point average of 3.30 or greater through the most-recent semester and placed in the top 35 at the NCAA Regional Cham-pionships. A total of 201 women and 162 men were selected to their respective teams.

Softball skills assessment

The Verona Area Girls S o f t b a l l A s s o c i a t i o n (VAGSA) will be hosting a skill assessment from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m Sun-day, April 14, at Coun-try View Fields behind Country View Elementary school.

In the event of inclement weather, the assessment will be held in the VAHS Gym.

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separated by age into two-hour sessions. Girls inter-ested in playing fastpitch softball this summer are invited to attend.

Skill evaluations are used to create recreation and competitive teams for the coming summer girls fastpitch softball season.

Athletes will compete against teams from sur-rounding communit ies as well as other Verona area teams. Competitive leagues are also available for more dedicated and advanced softball players ages 10U-16U.

Practices will begin in mid to late May with the season starting in June and running through the end of July.

For the assessment, ath-letes should be prepared to play by bringing your cleats/gym shoes, sweats/sweatshirt, field glove, bat-ting gloves, water bottle and a snack, if needed.

Additional information (including times by age) and registration forms (including costs) are avail-able at vagsa.org. Registra-tions can also be complet-ed at the door on the day of the assessments.


Eighth-grader places in state spelling bee

A local eighth-grader from Badger Ridge Middle School placed fifth Sat-urday in the Badger State Spelling Bee held at Edge-wood College.

Alankrit Shatadal was one of two local competitors in a 47-student field, culled from across Wisconsin.

Also representing Vero-na was Maya Reinfeldt, a 12-year-old seventh-grader at Savanna Oaks Middle School. Reinfeldt lasted five rounds before missing “peloton,” which refers to the main group of riders in a bicycle race.

Both girls qualified for the state competition by being the top two spellers at a regional bee in February featuring school champions from sev-eral area school districts.

Alakrit is “an avid read-er” who was motivated to study provided word lists

after finishing second run-ner-up last year at Badger Ridge’s school spelling bee, her father, Pankaj Shatadal said in an e-mail.

The state bee is spon-sored by the Wisconsin State Journal. This year’s winner,

Aisha Khan, a 13-year-old seventh-grader at Spring Harbor Middle School, spelled 17 words correctly to advance to the national com-petition in Washington, D.C., held May 26 to June 1, the paper reported.

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Local eighth-grader Alankrit Shatadal finished fifth in a state spell-ing bee last Saturday.

SC students compete in Math 24 challengeSugar Creek Elementary

School student Keegan Lindell earned a first-place trophy at a regional math competition, and fellow fifth-grader Elli Houtakker took second.

The two were part of a fifth-grade team at the Math 24 Challenge, a student competition for grades 4-8. Regional tournaments are run by the Greater Dane County Talented and Gifted Network.

The tournaments are

based on five versions of the Math 24 card game ranging from addition and subtraction to integers and early algebra. Math 24 games advance mental math and problem solving skills.

T h e s t u d e n t s w e r e coached by staff member Jamie Schultz and parent volunteers.

Sugar Creek’s fifth-grade team also included Ben Cra-mer. Its fourth-grade team was Annika Larson, Kol-son Roddick (fourth place),

Ryan Kelliher (sixth) and Ravenne Wedige.

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tary School sent two teams to the meet, as well.

The fif th-grade team included Derek Iszczyszyn, Zach Lowry, Shelby Breit-nauer, and Nate Redfern. The fourth-grade team included Lexi Diehl, Ben Newton, Bai-ley Felsheim, Ryan Porter, Taylor Kalish, Coen Fewel, and alternate Claudia Rush.

Photo submitted

Sugar Creek’s fourth-grade team at the Math 24 Challenge (from left): Annika Larson, Kolson Roddick, Ryan Kelliher and Ravenne Wedige.

Photo by Victoria Vlisides

Spring is in the airThe Glacier Edge spring concerts were Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. At the fifth-grade con-cert, the students did recorder pieces, including “Camptown Races” and “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.” They also sang, played percussion instruments like xylophone (above) and even did some dancing.


oppose keystones of Walk-er’s proposed 2013-15 bud-get, including a freeze on spending limits for public schools and increased fund-ing for vouchers and inde-pendent charter schools.

But beyond state politics, differences remain.

As a first-time challenger, McPartland said the school district needs to do more to “empower” teachers by giv-ing them more of a role in major decisions, and she’d like the board to take “a more proactive role.”

“I would like to see more questioning and more dis-cussion (from board mem-bers),” said McPartland, who retired last June as a special education teacher at Verona Area High School but still substitute teaches in the district.

“I don’t see that at all,” she said. “I think board members need … to gather information that’s not just

from the superintendent.”Behnke counters that

the board does its home-work before making major decisions, and he said the district’s reliance on “site councils” – committees at each school made up of par-ents, staff and administra-tors – is emblematic of how staff have a major voice in how each school runs.

“We give individual sites immense discretion here,” he said.

A good place to work?First elected to the board

in 1995, Behnke is its only Verona native. He gradu-ated at the top of his class at Verona High School in 1971.

Having a historical per-spective on where the dis-trict has been “has value,” Behnke said. But he’s seek-ing a seventh term because he’s excited about where the district is headed, not where it’s been, he said.

In particular, he likes

how efforts to “personal-ize” education for each stu-dent are gaining steam. He points to the rising use of mobile computing devices to let each kid work at their own pace, as well as a char-ter school that will launch next year at VAHS that will let teens work on projects that mesh with their pas-sions and interests.

Similar efforts could help Verona close a longstand-ing “achievement gap” between white and minority students while improving motivation for all students, he said.

“There are really some exciting things developing in our district,” he said.

Addressing the achieve-ment gap is also a top goal for McPartland, who said her experience as a special education teacher gave her an on-the-ground perspec-tive of how to offer “rel-evant and challenging” curriculum to all students and help struggling kids become successful adults.

But McPartland also said the district must address an “exodus” of teaching staff.

Last year , about two dozen retired. Changes in Act 10 undoubtedly con-tr ibuted to that record number of retirements – including McPartland’s. But McPartland thinks the district could improve staff retention if staff “feel they have a voice, that they can

contribute and are respect-ed.

“I don’t real ly think that’s the case right now,” she said.

Behnke, however, notes that this spring, just 10 of 56 teachers eligible for retirement have put in their notice, evidence that teach-ers still feel Verona “is a good place to work.”

And he points to a plaque presented to the board last spring by the local

education unions, com-mending them for collab-orative efforts to create a new “employee handbook” that replaced long-held col-lectively bargained agree-ments after Act 10.

In crafting the handbook, he said, Verona relied on teacher input in a way that was “the epitome of col-laboration,” which speaks to a larger point about how Verona treats teachers.

“We want to attract and retain the best people,” he said. “It’s counterproduc-tive to provide a bad work-ing environment . Why would we do that? There’s no reason to.”

Sending ‘a message’McPartland, who accepts

the moniker of “teacher

activist,” has been endorsed by local unions represent-ing teachers and support staff. Behnke’s backers include former superinten-dent Bill Conzemius and former board president Tom Duerst.

Despite applauding the board for its work on the handbooks, McPartland said it should do more to “send a message” opposing state budget cuts to public schools.

Unlike many area school districts, the Verona board didn’t issue a public state-ment condemning Act 10, and it has yet to do so regarding Walker’s current budget proposal.

But Behnke noted that the board last week began work to craft a resolution opposing cuts to public education. And he ques-tioned how much influence such statements have, par-ticularly because Verona’s state senator and state rep-resentative are already “on our side.”

Despite painful cuts to education, Behnke empha-sized that the district’s finances have remained on relatively solid ground, compared to many districts, as Verona has steadily built up reserve funds and com-pleted several major facility renovations in recent years without going to referen-dum.

“I think the district has done a really good job,” he said.

For her part, McPart-land commended Behnke for his years of service, bu t sa id she wants to bring “a different per-spective” to the board. “This is not something that I’m doing because I want to be a nice contributing citi-zen,” she said. “I’m doing it because I’m very worried about the quality of educa-tion in Verona.”

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to be the first time every incum-bent Common Council member up for election has faced a chal-lenger. An at-large school board seat is also up for grabs, along with two judicial races, the state superintendent of schools and a referendum.

In the City of Verona, incum-bent alder Clark Solowicz, run-ning for his third full term in District 1, will face challenger Elizabeth Doyle. Steve Ritt , running for his fourth term in District 2, will face Dale Yurs. Richard Streich in District 3 will run against Luke Diaz. Evan Touchett, running for his sec-ond term in District 4, will face Heather Reekie.

The eight candidates debated policy and the state of the last week at a public forum hosted by the Verona Press. Candidates dif-fered on a variety of topics, from communication with citizens to apartments and low-income housing.

The tape-delayed forum is being replayed on local-access cable channel VHAT-98 and will be online on the Verona Public Library’s YouTube channel.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 for the spring election. Voters do not need to bring a photo ID to vote if they are already registered.

For more information about where to vote, how to register to vote or what’s on the ballot, visit gab.wi.gov or call your local clerk’s office.

Verona Area School BoardThere will be two seats up

for election on the Verona Area school board, and one is contest-ed.

An at-large seat held by six-time incumbent Ken Behnke has drawn one challenger, former VASD teacher Patricia McPart-land.

Incumbent Amy Almond is running unopposed for the other seat, which represents the City of Fitchburg. She joined the school board in 2005.

Town of VeronaTown of Verona residents will

see the same Town Board repre-sentatives and town chair re-elect-ed in April, barring a campaign by

any write-in candidates.Town Chair Dave Combs, and

Sups. Gregg Miller and Robert Rego all filed for re-election. No challengers turned in the proper paperwork, town administrative assistant Tammy Dresser told the Press.

County and stateVoters will weigh in on several

county and state measures.Joe Parisi, current Dane Coun-

ty executive, will seek the seat again this spring. He is running unopposed.

A countywide referendum on same-day voter registration is slated for Tuesday, as well. The referendum asks if voters support allowing people to register to vote at the polls.

The Dane County Circuit Court seat for District 16 is also up for grabs this spring.

Incumbent Rebecca St. John is being challenged by Rhonda Lanford, a Madison lawyer. St. John was appointed to the seat in August 2012 to fill a vacancy left by the retirement of Branch 16 Judge Sarah O’Brien.

In s tatewide races, public schools state superintendent Tony Evers faces a challenge from Don Pridemore, a Repub-lican state representative from Hartland.

Incumbent state Supreme Court judge Pat Roggensack will face a challenge from Ed Fallone.

At the pollsPolls are open from 7 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 for the spring election. Voters do not need to bring a photo ID to vote if they are already registered.

For more info, visit gab.wi.gov.

Patricia (Pat) McPartland

Age: 61Family:

Husband, Jerry Mathson, and three children, Kristin, Jenny and Alex Mathson

Hometown: raised in Pennsylvania, Verona resi-dent for 28 years

Occupation: Retired special education teacher, current substitute teacher

Education: bachelor’s of science, West Chester (Pa.) University, certifica-tion work at Penn State, master’s degree from UW-Madison

Public office experi-ence: None

Ken Behnke Incumbent

Age: 64Family:

wife, Marsha; adult children Lauren Behnke and Jessica Callaway

Hometown: VeronaOccupation: Realtor for

over nine years. Retired from U.S. Postal Service management

Education: Graduate of Verona Area High School (valedictorian); bachelor of business administra-tion degree, UW-Madison, 1971

Public office experi-ence: School board mem-ber since 1995 (chair of personnel committee and board clerk); former mem-ber of Verona Town Board for eight years; former member of Verona Fire District Commission.

School: Behnke, McPartland agree on Act 10, disagree on district’s efforts to retain staffContinued from page 1

Council challengers raise more than $9kJim FerolieVerona Press editor

The four challengers for next week’s spring aldermanic elec-tions have raised a combined total of more than $9,000 as of Monday, with each raising more than any of the incumbents.

None of the four incumbents was required to file a Pre-elec-tion Finance Report because each pledged to keep his receipts under $1,000.

But each of the challengers except Dale Yurs (Dist. 2) has brought in more than $2,000 in 2013, and as of March 18, each had more than $1,000 available to spend.

The challengers have all drawn support from local Coun-ty Board Sup. Erika Hotchkiss and Forward Verona, and each has earned contributions of $200 from a pair of teacher union orga-nizations – the Verona Area Edu-cation Association and Capital Area Uniserv South.

Such connections and the presence of multiple challeng-ers in a city that rarely gets even one contested election have raised eyebrows at Vero-na City Center, where alders who are not up for election

have expressed concerns about local politics being coordinated behind the scenes. The Verona Area School Board, too, has a rare contested election, just four years after it needed a write-in candidate to fill one of its seats.

However, that’s about as far as the organized politics go, in terms of money. Three of the challeng-ers each reported $25 donations from the Friends of Sondy Pope political action committee, which supports the local Assembly-woman, and one reported a $200 donation from Friends of Sam Stevenson, supporting a chal-lenger in this year’s Madison Common Council races.

The challengers share a few common individual donors, including Hotchkiss and Fitch-burg Ald. Steve Arnold, but they have collected their con-tributions of $100 or less from between 20 and 41 individuals.

Almost all expenditures so far have gone toward printing, mailing and similar costs.

Luke Diaz leads the group in receipts, at $2,802, with Elizabeth Doyle and Heather Reekie close behind, at $2,563 and $2,550, respectively. Yurs’ $1,395 brings the total for the four to $9,311.

Election: Council features unprecedented four racesContinued from page 1


Pharmacy robbedA man robbed Home-

town Pharmacy Tuesday.The man entered the store

at 202 S. Main St. at 4:59 p.m. demanded Oxycon-tin, and fled the store with an undisclosed amount of the prescription painkiller, according to a news release from the Verona Police Department.

Police did not say in the release if the man had a weapon or fled on foot or in a vehicle. The man was described as a white male, 20-30 years old, scruffy face, wearing a darker orange coat with a hood and having dirty boots. The Fitchburg Police

Department’s K9 officer responded and assisted with a K9 track.

Anyone with informa-tion should call the Verona Police at 608-845-7623. Anonymous tips can be left by calling Crime Stop-pers, 608-266-6014.

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NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTION AND

SAMPLE BALLOTSAPRIL 2, 2013

OFFICE OF THE CITY OF VERONA CLERK & TOWN OF VERONA CLERK

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY AND TOWN OF VERONA

Notice is hereby given of a spring election to be held in the City and Town of Verona on the 2nd day of April, at which the officers named below shall be chosen. The names of the candidates for each office to be voted for, whose nomi-nations have been certified to or filed in these offices, are given under the title of the office, each in its proper column, together with the questions submitted to a vote, for a referendum, if any, in the sample ballot below.

INFORMATION TO ELECTORSUpon entering the polling place,

an elector shall state his or her name and address and sign the poll book before being permitted to vote. Where ballots are distributed to electors, the

initials of two inspectors must appear on the ballot. Upon being permitted to vote, the elector shall retire alone to a voting booth and cast his or her ballot except that an elector who is a parent or guardian may be accompanied by the elector’s minor child or minor ward. An election official may inform the elector of the proper manner for casting a vote, but the official may not in any manner advise or indicate a particular voting choice.

Where optical scan voting systems are used, the elector shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to the name of the candidate of his or her choice for each office for which he or she intends to vote. To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the ballot, the elector shall write in the name of the person of his or her choice in the space provided and fill in the oval or connect the arrow on the write-in line. On refer-endum questions, the elector shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “yes” if in favor of the question, or the elector shall fill in the oval or connect the arrow next to “no” if opposed to the question.

The vote should not be cast in any other manner. Not more than five min-utes time shall be allowed inside a vot-ing booth or machine. Sample ballots or other materials to assist the elector in

casting his or her vote may be taken into the booth and copied. The sample ballot shall not be shown to anyone so as to reveal how the ballot is marked.

If the elector spoils an optical scan ballot, he or she shall return it to an elec-tion official who shall issue another bal-lot in its place, but not more than three ballots shall be issued to any one elec-tor. If the ballot has not been initialed by two inspectors or is defective in any other way, the elector shall return it to the election official, who shall issue a proper ballot in its place. After casting his or her vote, the elector shall leave the voting booth, properly deposit the ballot and promptly leave the polling place.

After an official optical scan ballot is marked, it shall be inserted in the se-curity sleeve so the marks do not show. After casting his or her vote, the elector shall leave the booth, insert the ballot in the voting device and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an inspec-tor for deposit. If a central count system is used, the elector shall insert the ballot in the ballot box and discard the sleeve, or deliver the ballot to an inspector for deposit. The elector shall leave the poll-ing place promptly.

An elector may select an individual to assist in casting his or her vote if the elector declares to the presiding official

that he or she is unable to read, has dif-ficulty reading, writing or understand-ing English or that due to disability is unable to cast his or her ballot. The selected individual rendering assistance may not be the elector’s employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of a labor organization which rep-resents the elector.

The following is a sample of the of-ficial ballots:

Kami Lynch, City of Verona John Wright, Town of Verona

Published: March 28, 2013WNAXLP

* * *NOTICE

ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF VERONA

SAMPLE BALLOT FOR SPRING ELECTION

APRIL 2, 2013Attention City of Verona votersThe Municipal portion of the ballot

will include the following offices and candidates: (the published ballot shows Town Offices in the municipal category)

Alderperson District 1Elizabeth DoyleClark Solowicz

Alderperson District 2Dale E. P. YursSteve Ritt

Alderperson District 3Luke DiazRichard Streich

Alderperson District 4Heather ReekieEvan Touchett

There are separate ballots for each of the Aldermanic Districts as you may only vote for an Alderperson that repre-sents the district in which you live in.

All other offices on the ballot re-main as listed.

Sample ballots and Aldermanic District information for the City of Ve-rona may also be viewed on the City of Verona website www.ci.verona.wi.us

All sample ballots are viewable on the Government Accountability Board’s MyVote website at www.myvote.wi.gov.Click on ‘Regular Voter’ and enter your information to enable the viewing of sample ballots on the left side naviga-tion.

Kami Lynch, City of Verona ClerkPublished: March 28, 2013WNAXLP

* * *LOCATION AND HOURS OF

POLLING PLACEAt the Spring Election to be held

on April 2, 2013 in the City of Verona the following polling place locations will be used for the wards indicated:

Location, WardsVerona Public Library 500 Silent

Street Verona, WI 53593, Wards 1-5 (Ald. Districts 1 & 2)

Verona City Hall 111 Lincoln Street Verona, WI 53593, Wards 6-9 (Ald. Dis-tricts 3 & 4)

ALL POLLING PLACES WILL OPEN AT 7:00 A.M. AND WILL CLOSE AT 8:00 P.M.

If you have any questions con-cerning your polling place, contact the municipal clerk.

Kami Lynch111 Lincoln StreetVerona, WI 53593

608-845-6495M-F 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

All polling places are accessible to elderly and disabled voters.Published: March 28, 2013WNAXLP

* * *TOWN OF VERONA

TOWN MUNICIPAL BOARD OF CANVASSERS

APRIL 2, 2013NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the

Town of Verona Municipal Board of Canvassers will hold a meeting at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at the Town Hall, 335 N. Nine Mound Rd, Vero-na, WI 53593. The meeting is to conduct canvass of the offices from the Spring Election.

If the Town has any absentee bal-lots or proof of residency provided for provisional ballots to be returned after 8:00pm on April 2, 2013 AND before Fri-day, April 5, 2013 at 4:00 p.m., then the Town Board of Canvassers will recon-vene on Monday, April 8, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. to conduct canvass.

This meeting is open to the public to observe the canvass process.

LOCATION: Town Hall of Verona, 335 N. Nine Mound Road, Verona, WI 53593

DATE: Tuesday, April 2, 2013TIME: 8:00 P.M.; or immediately

following ballot counting1. Proof of Posting and Notice

2. Call to order; roll call3. Verify statement of election of-

fices4. Determine winners of election5. Adjourn

Tammy DresserDeputy Clerk/Treasurer

Town of VeronaPublished: March 28, 2013WNAXLP

* * *VERONA AREA

SCHOOL DISTRICTNOTICE OF SPRING

ELECTION OF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS

(SEC. 120.06 [8])Notice is hereby given to the quali-

fied residents of the City of Verona, City of Fitchburg, City of Madison, or in the Towns of Middleton, Montrose, Spring-dale, and Verona who reside in the Ve-rona Area School District, that on April 2, 2013, being the first Tuesday in April 2013 a spring election will be held in the following polling places:

CITY OF FITCHBURG:Aldermanic District 1 (Wards 1, 2,

3, 4):Fire Station #2 – 5415 King James

Way, Fitchburg 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Aldermanic District 2 (Wards 5, 6, 7, 8, 9):

Fire Station #1, 5791 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.


Fairways Apartments, 2301 Trace-way Dr., Fitchburg 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

(Entrance in the rear off Mutchler Rd.; do not park on Osmundsen Rd.)


Fitchburg Community Center - 5510 E. Lacy Road, Fitchburg 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

CITY OF MADISON:Ward 59: Leopold Elementary –

2602 Post Rd, Madison 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Ward 68: Head Start – 2096 Red Ar-row Tr, Madison 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Ward 90: Heritage Congregational Church - 3102 Prairie Rd., Madison 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Ward 91: St. Mary’s Care Center - 3401 Maple Grove Dr, Madison 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Ward 92: Chavez Elementary – 3502 Maple Grove Rd, Madison 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Ward 93: McKee Clinic – Meriter Health – 3102 Meriter Way, Madison 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Wards 107, 142: Our Redeemer Lu-theran –1701 McKenna Blvd, Madison 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Ward 123: Madison Police West Dis-trict –1710 McKenna Blvd, Madison 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

CITY OF VERONA:Aldermanic Districts 1 & 2:Verona Public Library – 500 Silent

St., Verona 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Aldermanic Districts 3 & 4:Verona City Hall - 111 Lincoln

Street, Verona 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

TOWN OF MIDDLETON: Middleton Town Hall – 7555 W. Old

Sauk Rd., Verona 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

TOWN OF MONTROSE:Montrose Town Hall - 1341 Diane

Ave., Belleville 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

TOWN OF SPRINGDALE:Springdale Town Hall - 2379 Town

Hall Road, Mt. Horeb 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

TOWN OF VERONA:Verona Town Hall - 335 North Nine

Mound Road, Verona 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The electors are directed to vote in their normal or regular polling place.

PLEASE NOTE: All residents of the Verona Area School District may vote for no more than one Portion 2 can-didate and no more than one At Large candidate, no matter where they live in the district.

Dated this 13th day of March 2013.Published: March 28, 2013WNAXLP

* * *STATE OF WISCONSIN,

CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTY, NOTICE TO

CREDITORS (INFORMAL ADMINISTRATION) IN THE

MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN M. BECKER

Case No. 13PR162PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:

1. An application for Informal Ad-ministration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth October 20, 1930 and date of death Feb-ruary 10, 2013, was domiciled in Dane County, State of Wisconsin, with a mail-ing address of 119 N. Main Street, Ve-rona, WI 53593.

3. All interested persons waived notice.

4. The deadline for filing a claim against the decedent’s estate is June 14, 2013.

5. A claim may be filed at the Dane County Courthouse, Madison, Wiscon-sin, Room 1005

Lisa ChandlerProbate Registrar

March 11, 2013Atty. Marilyn A. Dreger200 W. Verona AvenueVerona, WI 53593608-845-9899Bar Number: 1001608Published: March 21, 28 and April 4, 2013WNAXLP

* * *TOWN OF VERONA

REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 6:30 P.M.

TOWN HALL, 335 N. NINE MOUND ROAD

VERONA, WI 53593-10351. Call To Order/Approval of Agenda2. Public Comment This section of the meeting pro-

vides the opportunity for comment from persons in attendance on items that are either listed below or is a matter over which this governing body has jurisdic-tion. Comments on matters not listed on this agenda could be placed on a future board meeting agenda.

3. Presentation by Paul Musser about next steps in the reevaluation process

4. ReportsA. Public Works:i. Discussion and possible action

on 2013 road projects ii. Discussion and possible action

on bidding for a new snow plowB. Plan Commission:i. Comp plan mapping process up-

dateii. Discussion and possible action

on County wind turbine ordinanceC. EMS:D. Fire:E. Open Space and Parks:F. Town Chair:G. Supervisors:H. Planner/Administrator:i. Work space updateI. Clerk/Treasurer:i. Discussion and possible action

on Ordinance 99-1dealing with the tim-ing of tax refunds

5. Discussion and approval of pay-ment of bills for month of March

6. Review of Building Permits, In-spection Reports, Road Haul Permits, and Right-of-Way Permits

7. Discussion and approval of min-utes of March meeting.

8. AdjournBoard agendas are published in the

Town’s official newspaper – The Verona Press – (Legal section) and are posted at the Town Hall and the Town’s bulletin board at Miller & Sons Grocery – 108 N. Main St. If an agenda is amended after publication the official sites for notice of the final version are the Verona Public Library bulletin board, Town Hall and Millers.

If anyone having a qualifying dis-ability as defined by the American with Disabilities Act, needs an interpreter, materials in alternate formats or other accommodations to access these meet-ings, please contact the Town of Verona Clerk @ 608-845-7187 or [email protected]. Please do so at least 48 hours prior to the meeting so that proper arrangements can be made.

Other upcoming meetings include Open Space and Parks Commission on 4/17/2013 and Plan Commission on 4/25/2013. Agendas will be posted on the locations listed above and the Town’s website (www.town.verona.wi.us). Use the ‘subscribe’ feature on the Town’s website to receive town meeting agendas and other announcements via “Town Info”.

Notice is also given that a possible quorum could occur at this meeting of the Plan Commission and/or Open Space and Parks Commission, for the purposes of information gathering only.

David K. Combs, Town Chair, Town of Verona


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DENTAL ASSISTANT Be one in just 10 SATURDAYS! WeekendDentalAssistant.com Fan us on FACEBOOK! Next class begins 3/30/ 2013. Call 920-730-1112 Appleton (Reg. WI EAB) (wcan)

602 antiqueS & coLLectibLeS

1920 SECRETARY w/attached curio. Original finish & hardware. Mint $800 firm. 608-938-2298

MILLER HOUSE ANTIQUE RESTORATION

Restoration antique & wood furniture. Stripping doors,

woodwork, kitchen cupboards. Pickup/delivery available. Call 608-873-1652

606 articLeS For SaLe

AFFORDABLE MATTRESS Sets. T/D/Q/K. Starting at $89. Warranty, delivery. Call 608-438-3900.

BEDROOM SETS Cherry! 4-pc. Starting at $250. Delivery available. 608-438-3900

BRIDAL GOWN SALE $200-$500 off 100's of Gowns By Pronovias, Mag-gie Sottero, Mori Lee and Many More! EDITHS 9 S. Main St Fond du Lac www.ediths.com (wcan)

NEW MATTRESS Sets from $89 All Sizes in Stock! 9 Styles.

PlymouthFurnitureWI.com 2133 Eastern Ave Plymouth, WI Open 7 days A Week

(wcan)

618 buiLding SuPPLieS: tooLS & FixtureS

I&H BEAMS $3/ft & up Pipe-Plate-Chan-nel-Angle-Tube-ReBar-Grating-Expand-ed-Ornamental-Stainless Steel & Alumi-num. NEW-USED-SURPLUS. 12 acres usable items Pal Steel Co 262-495-4453 Palmyra WI (wcan)

THEY SAY people don’t read those little ads, but YOU read this one, didn’t you? Call now to place your ad, 845-9559, 873-6671 or 835-6677.

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For information call 845-9559 or 873-6671.

AUCTIONHuge 400 Gun Auction: Modern & Antique, Winchester, Colt, Ruger, Browning & More! Sat. March 30th Prairie du Chien, WI- Kramer Auction (608) 326-8108 or www.kramersales.com (CNOW)

FOR SALE- CARS/MOTORCYLES/ ATVS/SNOWMOBILES

AUTOPLEX, INC * LATE MODEL REPAIRABLES * WWW.AUTOPLEXSHOWROOM.COM * NEW ARRIVALS DAILY * TOLL FREE 877-398-2211. (CNOW)

FOR SALE- MISCELLANEOUSSAWMILLS from only $3997.00- MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill- Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info/DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com 1-800-578-1363 Ext.300N (CNOW)

HEALTH AND BEAUTYIF YOU USED THE MIRENA IUD between 2001-present and suffered perforation or embedment in the uterus requiring surgical removal, or had a child born with birth defects you may be entitled to compensation. Call Johnson Law and speak with female staff members 1-800-535-5727 (CNOW)

HELP WANTED- SKILLED TRADESContractor hiring the following: Carpenters, Electricians, Concrete Labor, Steel Erectors, local and traveling Welders, Fitters, Millwrights. For Milwaukee: 262-650-6610, Madison: 608-221-9799, Fox Valley: 920-725-1386, Wausau: 715-845-8300. (CNOW)

HELP WANTED- TRUCK DRIVEROwner Operators: $5,000 Sign-On Bonus & Paid tolls. Home Daily. Excellent Pay, plus paid FSC. Fuel & Tire Discounts. Third Party Lease Purchase available. CDL-A with 1 year tractor-trailer experience required. Call 888-703-3889 or apply at www.comtrak.com (CNOW)Drivers- CDL-A $5,000 SIGN-ON BONUS For exp’d solo OTR drivers & O/O’s Tuition reimbursement also available! New Student Pay & Lease Program. USA TRUCK 877-521-5775 www.GoUSATruck.com (CNOW)Drivers: Inexperienced? Get on the Road to a Successful Career with CDL Training. Regional Training Locations. Train and WORK for Central Refrigerated (877) 369-7893 www.centraltruckdrivingjobs.com (CNOW)

MISCELLANEOUSTHIS SPOT FOR SALE! Place a 25 word classified ad in 180 newspapers in Wisconsin for $300. Call 800-227-7636 or this newspaper. Www.cnaads.com (CNOW)DISH Network. Starting at $19.99/month (for 12 mos.) & High Speed Internet starting at $14.95/month (where available.) SAVE! Ask About SAME DAY Installation! CALL Now! 1-800-437-4489 (CNOW)

SPORTING GOODSGUN SHOW March 29 & 30. Madison Marriott Convention Center, 1313 John Q Hammons Dr, Middleton WI. Fri 3pm-8, Sat 9-5. Admission $7. Buy sell or trade. 608-752-6677 www.bobandrocco.com (CNOW)

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Specializing in Residential CleaningInsured • 11 Years Experience

Reliable • Free Estimates

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Culinary team places fourth at state competitionThe Verona Area High

School Prostart Culinary team placed fourth at the W i s c o n s i n R e s t a u r a n t Association’s 12th annual Prostart Invitational at the Delta Center in Milwaukee March 12.

During the competition, students were asked to cre-ate a menu consisting of an appetizer, entree and dessert. The students were randomly assigned a spe-cific knife cut once they got

to the competition, so they needed to be well-practiced on all knife cuts.

S t u d e n t s w e r e t h e n allowed 15 minutes to dem-onstrate their knife skills and find all of their recipes’ ingredients and an hour to cook.

They did not have access to electricity, only two butane burners.

Along with knife cuts, students were judged on teamwork, sanitation, menu

presentation, taste, texture and flavor pairings.

The students and their teachers, Keely Graettinger and Megan Wenn, practiced with chef mentor and pro-fessional test chef at Sub-Zero-Wolf, Brian Rizzo, before school and on week-ends twice weekly since November.

According to the Wis-consin Restaurant Asso-ciation, the “ProStart pro-gram, administered by the

National Restaurant Asso-ciation Educational Foun-dation and state restaurant associations, is a college prep, two-year curricu-lum designed to teach high school students the skills needed for a career in the restaurant and food service industry.”

This was the first year Verona had a Prostart class and a Prostart Culinary Team.

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Verona’s Prostart culinary team placed fourth at the Wisconsin Restaurant Association invitational. From left: Brian Feiler (12th grade), Brennan Lightfoot (12), Kealy Click (11), Leah Sinner (11) and alternate Arianna Hanson (12).

March 28, 2013 The Verona PressConnectVerona.com 15638 ConstruCtion &

industrial EquipmEnt

FARMI 3PT Logging Winch's, Valby 3pt PTO Chippers, New 3pt Rototill-ers, Loader Attachments and 3pt Attach-ments, New Log Splitters. www.threeriv-ersforestry.com (866) 638-7885 (wcan)

648 Food & drink

100% GUARANTEED Omaha Steaks - Save 69% on the Grilling Collection. Now Only $49.95. Plus 2 Free Gifts & to-the-door-delivery in a reusable cooler. Order today. 1-888-676-2750 Use Code: 45102DJW www.OmahaSteaks.com/gcoffer83 (wcan)

SHARI'S BERRIES: order mouthwater-ing gifts! 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Hand-dipped berries from $19.99 + plus s/h. Save 20% on qualifying gifts over $29! Call 888-479-6008 or visit www.ber-ries.com/happy (wcan)

652 GaraGE salEs

MOVING SALE! Thurs-Sat-9am-4pm. Everything goes! 4364 S Jordan Dr, Mcfarland.

STOUGHTON HUGE Kids & Maternity Sale! April 5 10am-7pm, April 6th 10am-4pm 400 Mandt Pkwy at Stoughton Fair-grounds.

664 lawn & GardEn

3'-12' EVERGREEN & Shade Trees. Pick up or Delivery! Planting Available! DETLOR TREE FARMS 715-335-4444 (wcan)

666 mEdiCal & HEaltH suppliEs

ATTENTION JOINT & Muscle Pain Suf-ferers: Clinically proven all-natural sup-plement helps reduce pain & enhance mobility. To try HydrAflexin Risk Free for 90 days. Call 888-550-4066 (wcan)

ATTENTION SLEEP APNEA SUFFER-ERS with Medicare. Get FREE CPAP Replacement Supplies at NO COST, plus FREE Home Delivery! Best of all, prevent red skin sores & bacterial infection! 888-797-4088 (wcan)

MEDICAL ALERT FOR SENIORS - 24/7 monitoring. Free Equipment. Free ship-ping. Nationwide Services. $29.95/month Call Medical Guardian today. 877-863-6622 (wcan)

668 musiCal instrumEnts

AMP: LINE 6 Spider IV 75 watt guitar amp. Tons of built in effects, tuner, and recording options. Like new, rarely used, less than 2 years old. Asking $250 OBO. call 608-575-5984

GUITAR: FENDER American made Standard Stratocaster guitar. Tobacco burst finish, mint condition. Includes tremelo bar, straplocks, and custom fit-ted Fender hard-shell case. Asking $950 OBO. Call 608-575-5984

676 plants & FlowErs

PROFLOWERS ENJOY SEND FLOW-ERS for any occasion! Prices starting at just $19.99. Plus take 20% off your order over $29! Go to www.Proflowers.com/ActNow or call 877-592-7090 (wcan)

680 sEasonal artiClEs

PERSONAL CREATIONS - Deluxe All-in-One Easter Basket! Includes wicker keepsake basket with polka dot liner, personalization, plush bunny and many Easter treats. To Redeem this offer, visit www.PersonalCreations.com/Best or call 888-716-3361 (wcan)

688 sportinG Goods & rECrEational

ANNUAL SPRING OPEN HOUSE & Camper Sale! April 5-7 At ALL "3" Scheik's LOCATIONS! Eden, Kiel & Red Granite! For info: 800-325-4182 or www.clickcampers.com (wcan)

GUN SHOW MAR 29 & 30 Madison Marriot Exit 252/Hwy 12 Middleton Fri 3-8 Sat 9-5 608-752-6677 bobandrocco.com (wcan)

690 wantEd

DONATE YOUR CAR- FAST FREE TOWING

24 hr. Response - Tas Deduction United Breast Cancer FOUNDATION

Providing Free Mammograms and Breast Cancer Info. 866-343-6603 (wcan)

692 ElECtroniCs

DISH NETWORK STARTING at $19.99/mo for 12 mos. High Speed Internet start-ing at $14.95/month (where available) SAVE! Ask about SAME DAY installa-tion! Call 888-719-6981(wcan)

HIGHSPEED INTERNET EVERY-WHERE By Satellite! Speeds up to 12mbps! (200x faster than dial-up). Start-ing at $49.95/mo. Call Now & Go Fast! 888-709-3348 (wcan)

SAVE ON CABLE TV, Internet, Digital Phone. Packages start at $89.99/mo (for 12 mo's) Options from ALL major service providers. Call Aceller today to learn more! 866-458-1545 (wcan)

696 wantEd to Buy

WE BUY Junk Cars and Trucks. We sell used parts. Monday through Friday 8 am

- 5:30 pm. Newville Auto Salvage, 279 Hwy 59, Edgerton, 608-884-3114.

705 rEntals

2 BEDROOM Townhouse apartment w/full basement on Racetrack Rd-Stough-ton $775/mo includes utilities. No Pets. Security deposit and references are required. Available Now for an approved applicant. Call 608-241-6609

BROOKLYN 4 BR, 2 1/2 BATH 1850 sq. ft. DUPLEX. Custom built w/

Amish cabinets, L/R & F/R, private deck. Master BR/BATH, high end appliances,

2 car gar, corner lot country sub-division. Pet & smoke free. $1150 mo 608-647-

7355

GREENWOOD APARTMENTS Apart-ments for Seniors 55+, currently has 1 & 2 Bedroom Units available starting at $695 per month, includes heat, water, and sewer. 608-835-6717 Located at 139 Wolf St., Oregon, WI 53575

STOUGHTON 721 S Monroe. Upper of 2-flat. 2-bdrm, hardwoods, washer-dryer in unit, lrg yard, lrg kitchen. Cats/Dogs ok. Available now. $790. incl heat and electric. Call Jim 608-444-6084

STOUGHTON EASTSIDE upper 2 bed-room in quiet historic neighborhood avail-able May 1st. Huge sunny living room and master bedroom, hardwood floors and charming details throughout, big yard, deck, washer and dryer, tons of storage space in attic, 1 block from park, minutes to downtown, off street parking, references, non smokers only, small pet considered, $725 mo.+ some utilities 719-7227.

STOUGHTON-LARGE 2-BDRM units in quiet, owner managed 10 unit. D/W, range, fridge, A/C, decks/patios. Close to shopping. Off street parking, large yard. Laundry in building. April 1-$665/mo plus gas/elec. Cats/small dogs ok-fee. Call/text 608-772-0234

VERONA NICE 2 Bedroom Duplex. Appliances, A/C, No Pets/Smoking. $750/Mo. Available 3/1/13. 608-845-7397

VERONA-RARELY AVAILABLE 2 bed-room, no smoking, H/W included, A/C, laundry hookups, appliances, quiet neighborhood, $750/mo., 608-558-7017

720 apartmEnts

OREGON-2 BDRM, 1 bath. Available spring/summer. Great central location, on-site or in-unit laundry, patio, dish-washer and A/C. $700-$715/month. Call Kelly at 608-255-7100 or visit www.ste-vebrownapts.com/oregon

ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors 55+, has 1 & 2 bedroom units available starting at $695 per month. Includes heat, water and sewer. Professionally managed. 608-877-9388 Located at 300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI 53589

740 HousEs For rEnt

STOUGHTON HOUSE 2-bdrm, 1-bth, all appliances, main level W/D, family room w/gas fireplace, 2-car garage, security fenced backyard, A/C, $950. pets extra. Available May 1st 608-798-3087 - 608-843-2671

750 storaGE spaCEs For rEnt

ALL SEASONS SELF STORAGE 10X10 10X15 10X20 10X30 Security Lights-24/7 access

BRAND NEW OREGON/BROOKLYN Credit Cards Accepted CALL (608)444-2900

C.N.R. STORAGE Located behind

Stoughton Garden Center Convenient Dry Secure

Units in all sizes 5x10 thru 10x30

Lighted with access 24/7 Bank Cards Accepted

Off North Hwy 51 on Oak Opening Dr. behind

Stoughton Garden Center Call: 608-509-8904

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=$50/month 10x15=$55/month 10x20=$70/month 10x25=$80/month

12x30=$105/month Call 608-424-6530 or

1-888-878-4244

NORTH PARK STORAGE 10x10 through 10x40, plus

14x40 with 14' door for RV & Boats.

Come & go as you please. 608-873-5088

RASCHEIN PROPERTY STORAGE

6x10 thru 10x25 Market Street/Burr Oak Street

in Oregon Call 608-206-2347

UNION ROAD STORAGE 10x10 - 10x15 10x20 - 12x30 24 / 7 Access

Security Lights & Cameras Credit Cards Accepted

608-835-0082 1128 Union Road

Oregon, WI Located on the corner of

Union Road & Lincoln Road

801 oFFiCE spaCE For rEnt

BEST LOCATION in Stoughton. Retail space for rent. 211 E Main 4,000+ sq ft. Beautifully renovated. Available Now $1900/mo.Call Connie 608- 271-0101

VERONA- OFFICE/WAREHOUSE 1000 Sq Ft.$500 +Utilities.

608-575-2211 or 608-845-2052

805 CommErCial & industrial lots

VERONA INDUSTRIAL Park 2600 sq ft. shop, warehouse, office space. Available April 1, 2013 845-7630

820 misC. invEstmEnt propErty For salE

144 ACRES 130 tillable near Monroe, WI on Badger State Bike Trail. Investor's dream. 608-329-5033. First Place Realty, Fran Donny

2.0 ACRE lot. Dunkirk Area. 2 miles South of Stoughton, Hwy-N wooded-lot private drive. Taking offers 608-609-9607

DANE COUNTY’S MARKETPLACE. The Verona Press Classifieds. Call 845-9559, 873-6671 or 835-6677.

870 rEsidEntial lots

ALPINE MEADOWS Oregon Hwy CC.

Call for new price list and availability. Choose your own builder!

608-215-5895

402 HElp wantEd, GEnEral

EXPERIENCED SERVICE WANTED. Apply at Sunrise Family Restaurant 1052 W. Main, Stoughton

FULL-TIME CNA needed for PM shift. Includes every other weekend and holi-days. PT PM/NOC shift position available also. Excellent benefits including: Health, Dental, ST Disability, Life Insurance, 401K, Flex Spending Plan and generous PTO. Apply in person or send resume to: Four Winds Manor, Inc. 303 South Jef-ferson St. Verona, WI 53593

OAKWOOD VILLAGE, a nationally rec-ognized retirement community, is seek-ing Production Cooks for our Univer-sity Woods location on Mineral Point Rd. Responsible for the preparation of nutritious, attractive and tasty food. Various schedules. Prior experience in quantities production cooking preferred. High School education or equivalent. To learn more and apply online visit www.oakwoodvillage.net.

RESIDENTIAL CLEANER needed to work 2 to 3 days per week. $8.50 per hour. Days only . Experience helpful.

Non smoker 835-0339

SUPER 8 Verona is seeking Front desk associates and Housekeepers. Experi-ence preferred but willing to train the right people. Apply in pe son at: 131 Horizon Drive Verona

423 work wantEd

WILL DO Experienced Office Cleaning. With references. 608-214-4884

447 proFEssional

OTR TEAM & SOLO DRIVERS * Above Average Mileage Pay

*Teams Avg 6000 miles/wk *Solos Avg 2500-3500/wk

* Flexible Home Time * 100% No Touch/Drop&Hook

* Full Benefit Pkg CDL/A * 12 Months Exp. Preferred

1-888-545-9351 Ext. 13 Jackson WI

www.doublejtransport.com (wcan)

THEY SAY people don’t read those little ads, but YOU read this one, didn’t you? Call now to place your ad, 845-9559, 873-6671 or 835-6677.

449 drivEr, sHippinG & warEHousinG

KLEMM TANK LINES is now hiring Class A CDL company drivers & Owner-Oper-ators out of Madison, WI! We offer local, home daily pos tions, competitive pay, medical benefits for you and your family, paid training on product handling, paid uniforms, paid vacations, 401K & MORE! We require 2 years recent, verifiable tractor-trailer experience, tank & hazmat endorsements (or ability to obtain) & safe driving record. Apply now at TheKAG.com or call recruiting at 800-871-4581 for more information.

WANTED STRAIGHT Truck Driver for seasonal employment. CDL and non-CDL positions available. Call 608-882-5756. The Delong Co, Inc. Evansville.

CLASSIFIED AD DEADLINE IS Noon Friday for The Great Dane and Noon Monday for the Verona Press unless changed because of holiday work sched-ules. Call now to place your ad, 845-9559, 873-6671 or 835-6677.

453 voluntEEr wantEd

THE ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA ALLI-ANCE of Wi is seeking volunteers to become Volunteer Ambassadors. Vol-unteers will share information about the disease and the resources available with their friends, neighbors, church or club members and local businesses in their community. Volunteers are needed to assist residents and music Therapists at Oakwood Village Prairie Ridge or Uni-versity Woods Retirement Communities Music Therapy groups. Help with set up/break down, bring residents in wheel-chair to/from the music therapy group, and provide assistance for residents or possibly participate as a player during the

music therapy groups. City of Madison Parks Division has changed the date of our Annual Dog Park Cleanup event toApril 6th from 8am-noon. Give a few hours of your day to keep our off-leash parks clean and open to all. Participating dog parks with projects are: Quann, War-ner, Brittingham, Sycamore, Detramal and McCormick. Volunteers are asked to bring scooper; bags and gloves will be provided. Call the Volunteer Center at 246-4380 or visit www.volunteeryour-time.org for more information or to learn about other volunteer opportunities.

PRESS OPERATORThe Press Operator is responsible for placing inserts, picking, trimming, in-specting and packaging small injection molded plastic parts. Other responsibili-ties may include finishing operations at the press during production.

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Culinary Professionals WantedEpic is looking for professional culinary artists who are dedicated to their craft for our in-house dining service. We currently have positions open in the following areas:

Cook – high-volume, fine dining scratch cooking

Baker – scratch baking, wide variety of desserts

Dishwasher – clean thousands of dishes and utensils daily for staff and guests

Caterer – serve meals and coordinate catering

All experience levels are encouraged to apply, though the expertise listed above is preferred. Our team feeds a campus of approximately 6,300 people, in addition to internal catering, receptions, and large-scale on-site conferences.

You will work with a dynamic team in a state-of-the-art, air conditioned kitchen, and will enjoy full-time hours, competitive wages, and full benefits—including paid vacation. Bus-line access is available.

Please apply online http://careers.epic.com/,or

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1979 Milky WayVerona, WI 53593

TOWN OF MONTROSE - $35,500. Elaine Holpin, (608) 278-4180. MLS# 1660776.TOWN OF BROOKLYN - $109,000. Julie Bollig, (608) 225-2324. MLS# 1665437.OREGON - $129,900. Brenda Cuta, (608) 278-4199. MLS# 1677794.OREGON - $130,000. Brenda Cuta, (608) 278-4199. MLS# 1677392.BROOKLYN - $147,000. Marge Van Calligan, (608) 219-8918. MLS# 1672498.OREGON - 4 bed, 2 bath - $192,900. Brenda Cuta, (608) 278-4199. MLS# 1669712.OREGON - $199,900. Brenda Cuta, (608) 278-4199. MLS# 1677773.OREGON - $236,900. John Norwell, (608) 698-5246. MLS# 1666650.OREGON - $236,900. John Norwell, (608) 698-5246. MLS# 1666649.FITCHBURG - $299,000. Sharon O. Christensen, (608) 843-9185. MLS# 1671705.FITCHBURG - MVP $299,900 - $312,900. Julie Bollig, (608) 225-2324.

MLS# 1672480.WHISPERING OAKS, TOWN OF OREGON - $324,900. Brenda Cuta, (608) 278-

4199. MLS# 1675027.OREGON - $339,900. Julie Bollig, (608) 225-2324. MLS# 1677744.FITCHBURG - $69,900. Randy Hess, (608) 276-5211. MLS# 1667869.

TOWN OF DUNN/STOUGHTON - $149,900. Charlie Fuller, (608) 469-1355, Julie Larson, (608) 661-5466. MLS# 1666962.

VERONA - MVP $199,900 - $220,000. Barb Dawson, (608) 575-3290. MLS# 1671410.OREGON - $269,000. Barb Dawson, (608) 575-3290. MLS# 1652766.SPRINGDALE - $295,000. Pam Birschbach, (608) 576-9206. MLS# 1655806.OREGON - $310,000. Patricia Sternad, (608) 216-5749. MLS# 1670262.VERONA - $390,000. Lisa Mohar, (608) 276-5218, Renee Christman, (608)278-4166.

MLS# 1675358.VERONA - MVP $420,000 - $440,000. Barb Dawson, (608) 575-3290.

MLS# 1671411.VERONA - $439,900. Lisa Mohar, (608) 276-5218, Renee Christman,

(608) 278-4166. MLS# 1674634.FITCHBURG - $489,000. Renee Christman, (608)278-4166, Lisa Mohar, (608) 276-

5218. MLS# 1677788.MIDDLETON - $550,000. Kristin Weber Nick, 219-8960, Annette Tande Riemer, (608)

772-0322. MLS# 1673340.OREGON - MVP $700,000 - $800,000. Laurie Howard, (608) 469-6710.

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** DRIVERS **FULL-TIME DRIVERS

FOR REGIONAL WORK

Tractor-trailer drivers needed for the Walgreen’s Private Fleet Operation based in Windsor, WI. Drivers make hand deliveries to Walgreen’s stores within a regional area (WI, IL, IA, MN, ND, SD). Workweek is Tuesday-Saturday. All drivers must be willing & able to unload freight.

• Earn $21.25/hour (OT after 8 hours) or $0.4650/mile• Full Benefit Pkg. includes Life, Dental, Disability, &

Health Insurance with Prescription Card• 401k Pension Program with Company Contribution• Paid Holidays and Vacation• Home every day except for occasional layover

Drivers must be over 24 years old, have a min. 2 yrs. tractor-trailer exp. & meet all DOT require-ments. Send resumé to:

[email protected] call CPC Logistics at 1-800-914-3755.

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Thinking is believingThere might be snow on the ground, but at Savanna Oaks Middle School, there are flowers everywhere. The painted doors are actu-ally part of a lesson. Isabel Becker and Justyn Toussaint (below) have decorated a few doors at the school in preparation for a PBIS lesson that will take place after spring break.

Snow days make for more make-up time at VAHS

School cancellations due to wintry weather have forced Verona Area High School to alter its schedule again.

VAHS classes will begin at 8:30 a.m. Monday, May 6, instead of its normal “late-start” time of 10 a.m., offi-cials announced last week.

The high school in Feb-ruary began ending school two minutes later than normal for the rest of the school year to meet state r e q u i r e m e n t s r e g a r d -ing minimum minutes of instruction.

No other Verona schools are affected.

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