May 8, 2015 - The Beacon

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Road relocation would
deny drivers lake view
By Dennis West
It isn’t the first time that a plan by a
government agency has proved to be controversial, and it won’t be the last.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources’ latest plan to remake Bigfoot
Beach State Park has elicited outcries from
residents, tourists and conservationists,
alike.
According to Lake Geneva officials,
lake waters are eroding Big Foot Beach
and threatening to underemine South
Shore Drive, which runs alongside it.
Because nothing has been done to
build it up, the beach has eroded over the
past few years to the point where it isn’t
wide enough for people to safely enjoy. It
is the only public beach on the lake that is
free to public use. If the plan goes through,
more people would be able to use the
beach, but they would have to pay a park
fee to gain access to it. Although it no
longer draws many beach-goers, that portion of the lakeshore is a magnet for largeboat owners who like to anchor there
because the lake bottom is sandy. That
sand used to be on the beach before it
washed away and wasn’t replaced.
In 1996, the DNR said it planned to
rebuild the beach by adding sand and put-
ting materials in place to stem erosion. It
was never done. The DNR says moving
the road would provide more room to
widen the beach.
The DNR proposal would involve
building a road from South Shore Drive to
the east through the park, which detractors
say would, added to a parking lot for a proposed boat launch and the launch itself,
result in the loss of as much as 22 percent
of the park’s trees.
One of the reasons for the change is that
the City of Lake Geneva wants to relocate
its boat launch from Center Street to the
lagoon in the park in order to alleviate traffic congestion downtown. Those in opposition say launching boats in the manmade
lagoon, which was constructed in the 19th
century by the Maytag family, would result
in erosion of the banks, stir up silt and further pollute the lake with phosphates.
The drive along Big Foot beach is also
one of the few places motorists can get an
unobstructed view of the lake.
The DNR says it has not set a date for
the construction to begin, but that it would
be done over a period of years.
Opponents of the DNR plan have
launched a Facebook page, Facebook.
com/careforlakegeneva.
May 8 – 21, 2015
Lakeland School Prom Queen Kaylin Hergott and King Austin Frischmann
lead the first dance at the annual event on Friday, April 25. The theme of this yearʼs
prom, which was held at the Monte Carlo Room in Elkhorn, was Moonlight Over Paris.
See complete coverage of the prom starting on page 18.
(Beacon photo)
Delavan to host mural artists from around the globe
By Dennis West
The first time I heard the term
“Walldogs” it conjured up a vision of
canine leg-lifters attending to business.
But I was wrong. Very wrong.
The Walldogs are a group of artists
who paint murals on the sides of buildings – hence the walls. While doing it in
a constrained amount of time, they work
like dogs – hence the last part. Simple.
And the Walldogs, who have painted
murals in communities throughout the
Midwest, are coming to Delavan.
Between June 24 and 28, approximately 150 artists from as far away as
Europe and Australia, will bring their
tools and their considerable talents to
pay tribute to many facets of the city’s
history.
Altogether, there will be 18 murals
illustrating such themes as local artists, a
cigar manufacturer, local historian Gordon
Yadon and a commercial artist and fellow
sign painter named Elmer Gauger.
“It’s the first time in the 22-year history of the Walldogs that a sign painter
will be recognized for his work,” said
Brad.
Brad and Kim Bandow, who have
been members of the Wall Dogs for several years now, are acting as hosts for
this year’s event. Partly because they
will be busy coordinating their fellow
artists during five day period when the
others will be painting, they finished
their own artwork ahead of time. The
mural, which looks more like a billboard
because the surface wasn’t suitable for
painting, can be seen on a wall facing
the China Garden Restaurant parking
lot. It tells the story of Elmer Gauger
who not only painted many of the signs
that identified Delavan businesses, but is
famous for the painting of a clown that
Brad and Kim Bandow of Brushfire Signs in Elkhorn answer questions about
the mural they created to honor the late Delavan sign painter, Elmer Gauger. Theirs is
one of 18 that will be painted by the Wall Dogs between June 24 and 28.
(Beacon photo)
was used by the United States Postal
Service in 1966 to commemorate the circuses, for which Delavan is famous as
the 19th century capital when, during a
period from 1840 to 1870, approximately 26 circus made the town their winter
headquarters. A separate mural will be
dedicated to that circus heritage.
A bonus for viewers of the Bandow’s
work is that hidden within the mural are
the names of a number of community
members, including two artists who
worked in Delavan. One was William F.
Tower, who was involved in Delavan’s
renowned artists’ colony, while another
was Prof. Vanderpol of the Chicago Art
Institute, who held art classes here and
had a student named J.C. Leyendecker
who was famous for Arrow Shirt advertisements in the same vein as Norman
Rockwell. In fact, he predated Rockwell.
Of course, one of the murals will
highlight the history of the big bands
that played the many ballrooms around
Delavan Lake during the 1930s and 40s,
including Glen Miller, Louis Armstrong,
Lawrence Welk and Al Yankovic.
Some of the locations for the murals
will be the Delavan Chamber of
Commerce building, the back of the former Delavan House Hotel, a wall on the
Delavan Fitness Center, Remember
When, the former Williamson Carriage
Barn, the Post Office, the former
Delavan Theatre building, the American
Legion building, Jet Wash, the former
Doyne-Rayne Lumber Yard that now
houses Noble Insurance, the new fire
station, one on Wileman School to be
painted by students, and another on the
inside of Lake Lawn Resort.
“None of the murals will depict living persons or companies that are still in
business,” said Brad Bandow. “We want
them to be historic tributes, not promotional advertising.”
Brad’s first Walldog meet took place
in Belvidere, Ill. in 1997. He and Kit
have worked together on murals at
meets in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin,
including some in Plymouth, Algoma
and Waukesha.
The artists will begin on the evening
of Wednesday, June 24 by projecting
transparencies of their artwork onto the
surfaces that will carry them. They will
rough in the outlines that night and
begin the next day to paint in the details.
Because they have to be done by the
weekend, they sometimes work into the
night if they can find the lights to illuminate their “palates.”
According to Brad, the artists welcome spectators, and even questions
when time permits. Local people often
offer insight about the subjects from
their own experience or stories they
have heard from forebears.
On Saturday night, June 27, there
will be an auction during which attendees will be able to buy some of the
original artwork on which the artists
based their murals. They will also sell
some of their other original art, proceeds
from which will go to pay Wall Dogs’
expenses and another part will go to the
Wall Dogs Foundation.
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Some residents may have the misconception that taxpayers’ money is
being used to fund the event.
“The first mural is being paid for by
room tax funds, which, by law, must be
used to promote tourism,” says
Walldogs committee member Patti
Marsicano. “The rest of the money has
been raised from private contributors
and corporate sponsors. The total cost of
the project will be approximately
$135,000. If you were to hire an artist to
paint a mural like this on a building, it
would cost $20,000.
As far as Delavan is concerned, the
project will add a special sense of pride
and create a draw for visitors who will
visit the community and – residents
hope – spend some money to augment
the tourism dollars on which the community already depends. According to
Brad and Kit, communities that have
hosted the Walldogs have experienced
an increase in traffic during the event
and afterwards as the word spreads
about the unique attraction.
Of course, all of this doesn’t just
happen. The Bandows say they have
been working on the Delavan meet for
three years. And they are excited that
their work is about to bear fruit.
Marsicano says there are many
things to arrange before the meet takes
place.
“When the artists come, one-third of
them will camp out, one-third will stay
in hotels and one-third will stay with
host families,” she explains. “We have
had to locate scissor lifts to help artists
reach their work on walls, scaffolding,
extension cords, water, small containers
with lids in which artists can mix their
paints, 300 black Sharpies they’ll use to
outline the components of the Murals
before they paint them, overhead projectors and a whole lot more.”
Approximately two weeks before the
event, the walls will have to be power
washed and primed. The panels on
which some of the artwork will be painted will need to be primed, too.
What happens if it rains?
“We need tarps that we can weight
down on the roofs of the buildings and
drape over the scaffolds so that the
artists can work underneath them,” she
explains. “We will also have to have
someplaces out of the rain where the
panels can be painted.”
Many of the more than 150 artists
will travel long distances to participate
in the meet.
“We have two coming from
Germany, three from Canada, others
from Washington state, California,
Nebraska,
Minnesota,
Kentucky,
Florida, Georgia, Illinois and around
Wisconsin,” she says.
A just-published schedule lists the
following activities:
Wednesday, June 24
7 p.m. Walldogs welcome dinner in
Phoenix Park
9:30 p.m., Mural projections downtown
Thursday, June 25
Dawn to dusk, Walldogs mural
painting, downtown
11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Art display
7-9 p.m., Music by Harvestpoint
Church, Phoenix Park. Silent auction of
painted Adirondack chairs, self-guided
mural bike/walk available
Friday, June 26
Dawn to dusk, mural painting. Selfguided mural bike and walking guide
available. Silent auction of painted
Adirondack chairs will continue.
11 a.m. to 4 p.m., art display and
also at www.readthebeacon.com
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kids’ activities
12-2 p.m. Music by Cheryl Niemo
and the Down Home Boys, Third Street
1:30 p.m. Carting canines, Aram
Public Library
2:30-4:30 p.m., New Image featuring Cedric Square, Tower Park
7-10 p.m., Jazz/blues jam session
with Glenn Davis, Phoenix Park
Bandshell
10 p.m. - ? Jam session and
Afterglow, Brick Street Market
Saturday, June 27
Dawn to dusk, mural painting. Selfguided mural bike and walking guide
available. Silent auction of painted
Adirondack chairs will continue
10 a.m., Donuts and doodles at Aram
Public Library
10 a.m., Gauger mural dedication,
This is one of the murals painted by Walldogs during a 2007 meet in Plymouth,
130 E. Walworth Ave.
Wis. Walldogs plan to paint 18 murals in locations around Delavan between June 24
11 a.m. - 4 p.m., art display
and 28.
(Photo furnished)
12-2 p.m. Music by Blackwater on
Third Street
Phoenix Park Band Shell
as the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame and
2:30-4:30 p.m., Music by Cheryl
Sunday, June 28
Museum and the Livingston County War
Niemo and the Down Home Boys,
All murals completed or being finMuseum. It is scheduled to be open in
Tower Park
ished. Self-guided mural bike guide,
May. Pontiac is located about mid-way
6 p.m. Reception and Walldog
walking guide available.
between Joliet and Bloomington on
Appreciation Dinner, Phoenix Park, folAn International Walldog Mural &
Interstate 55.
lowed by live auction of mural art,
Sign Art Museum in Pontiac, Ill., has
For more information, log on to
Adirondack chairs and more
been in the process of moving to a new
http://delavanwalldogs. org/.
8:30-10:30 p.m., Music by 76 Juliet,
location in the same museum complex
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By the time I began working in television, except for the local news programs and an occasional telethon, live
broadcasting was a thing of the past. So
the opportunities for on-camera screwups were pretty rare. Only one stands out
in my mind during my time at WIFR-TV
in Rockford.
It was during a newscast that a cameraman was trucking across the studio
from left to right. The camera was raised
on its pneumatic pedestal as far as it
could go, so the whole thing was topheavy. Add to that the fact that it was
one of the original RCA color TV cameras, which were huge. Unfortunately,
someone had forgotten to move a thick
electric cable out of the way and when
the wheeled base hit the cable, the whole
thing toppled slowly over to crash onto
the floor.
Studio crew members had various
reactions to the unexpected disaster. One
yelled “Timberrr,” while another, unfortunately, since the microphones on the
news team were live – yelled “Oh shit!”
Meanwhile, at home, viewers saw
the news set gradually tip sideways until
the picture suddenly went black. It was a
matter of seconds before the shocked
director in studio control got someone to
point the only other camera – again
unfortunately, a black and white one – at
the set.
Viewers saw the news anchor with
shaking hands and a somewhat lopsided
grin trying to recover and return to the
script, while the sports anchor sat with
his head in his hands and the weatherman, who had turned away from the
camera and was banging his head
against the map of the United States,
strangled on his laughter.
The vintage RCA color television camera that was so top-heavy it toppled over
during a live newscast on WIFR-TV.
(Photo furnished)
At that point, the director did what
he should have done in the first place
and switched to a commercial break.
Aside from the fact that our only
color studio camera was destroyed and
we had to produce a one camera show in
black and white until we could get
another. newer, lighter one delivered –
viewer response was limited. Although
we were somewhat grateful, we were
concerned that it might indicate that no
was watching. Heaven forbid!
When television was in its infancy,
before programs began to be filmed, and
then videotaped, just about anything
could, and did, happen on live TV.
A new station owned by the Los
A ngeles Times went on the air Jan. 1,
1949. Its first telecast was to be the Rose
Parade. Chief Engineer Joe Jensen
May 8, 2015 — 3
remembered, in an interview with Jeff
Kisseloff for his book, “The Box,” that
everyone was very nervous before the
parade. “Then, at five minutes to nine,
bang! we lost our picture. Some guy
with a popcorn machine plugged into the
same house where we were getting our
power and it blew a fuse.
“The director said, ‘Make him
unplug it.”
‘He paid $25 to the people to use
their electricity,’ replied a crew member
on the scene.
‘Collect $25 and buy popcorn,’ the
director advised.’
“They did and got the power back
with just seconds to spare,”
According to Herb Horton, “When
Israel became a state, WFIL sent a camera crew from Philadelphia to Boston to
shoot a freighter that was sailing under
the new Israeli flag. “We got a recording
of the ‘Boston Cadre March’ to play
over the video,” said Horton. “The
whole thing was beautiful until they cut
to a shot of the flag as it went up the
mast, and the music changed to eight
bars of ‘Onward Christian Soldiers.’”
Wes Kenney, a cameraman who was
working for the DuMont Network, said,
“Live shows like Chuck Tranum’s
‘Manhattan
Spotlight’
weren’t
rehearsed. We would just wing ’em. Of
course all kinds of things happened. One
day a baby elephant was going to appear
on ‘Manhattan Spot-light.’ Meanwhile,
‘Captain Video’ was on the air live in the
next studio. Suddenly the elephant started to trumpet. The trainer gave him a jab
and he trumpeted again. On the air,
Captain Video stood up and said, ‘What
the hell is that?’
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May 8, 2015
Perspectiv e
The rules of war need updating
William Shatner boldly goes after the
Northwestʼs water for California
By David Horsey
On the voyages of the Starship
Enterprise, Dr. Spock was always the
logical one, while Captain Kirk led with
his heart. No surprise then that William
Shatner, the actor who played Kirk in the
original “Star Trek” television series,
has boldly gone where few have dared
by proposing a $30 billion pipeline to
carry water from the Pacific Northwest
to drought-ravaged California.
Shatner says there is too much water
in places like Seattle, so no one would
miss it.
“How bad would it be to get a large,
4-foot pipeline, keep it aboveground —
because if it leaks, you’re irrigating!”
Shatner told an interviewer. “It’s simple.
They did it in Alaska – why can’t they
do it along Highway 5?”
Well, as Spock would respond, “It’s
not logical.”
Despite the stereotypical image that
most people in country have about the
far, upper left hand corner of the United
States, it doesn’t always rain there. In
fact, New York City gets more total rainfall than Seattle. The difference is that
Seattle rain is generally more of a mist
that stretches the cloudy days out over
weeks and, sometimes, months, which is
why the city is a great place for cozy
coffee shops, movie theaters and public
libraries – anywhere to escape the soggy
gray. It may or may not be true that the
weather inspires more suicides, but it
certainly is the reason that Northwesterners all dress like mountain climbers,
even if they are headed to the opera.
The hidden secret, though, is that,
from July through September, Seattle is
usually as sunny and rainless as Los
Angeles. Surrounded by mountains,
The
lakes and Puget Sound, the place is spectacularly beautiful. It makes the gray
months’ worth enduring.
This year, though, even those gray
months have not been so gray and definitely not as wet. Like the rest of the
West Coast, the snowpack in the
Cascade Range is way below normal.
Already, large sections of Washington
and Oregon are seriously parched. It’s
easy for people unfamiliar with the
region to overlook the fact that the eastern halves of both states are arid. Like
the Central Valley in California, it is
massive irrigation that keeps vast agricultural areas of the Northwest from
drying up and returning to dust and tumbleweeds.
The region’s salmon fisheries also
depend on water from the Columbia and
other rivers. And the industrial sector of
the economy is built on cheap hydroelectric power. That is why officials in
Oregon and Washington have quickly
rebuffed past schemes by Californians
thirsting for a share of all that water up
north and why they will certainly say no
again.
So, Shatner’s pipeline scheme is not
likely to get off the ground. He could, of
course, try pitching the plan using
Spock’s often-stated assertion that “the
needs of the many outweigh the needs of
the few.” There are, after all, close to 40
million human beings in California and
just 11 million in Washington and
Oregon, combined. Think of all the
Golden State crops to be irrigated, the
lawns to be watered, the cars to be
washed, the swimming pools to be
filled, the golf courses to be kept lush
and green!
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By Cal Thomas
Tribune Content A gency
The attack on a cafe in Sydney,
Australia, by a self-described Islamic cleric with a long police record, left two
hostages dead,
along with the
cleric, one Man
Haron Monis. He
was an Iranian
refugee
who
enjoyed the hospitality and protection of the
Australian government.
That incident,
which was televised worldwide,
Cal Thomas
was
quickly
eclipsed by the murder of 145 people at an
army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Many of the dead were children. Press
reports said Pakistani Taliban fighters
burned a teacher alive in front of children
and beheaded some of them. A Taliban
spokesman said they were exacting
revenge for a major operation by
Pakistan’s Army to clear Taliban strongholds in the North Waziristan tribal area
near the Afghan border.
How is the West responding to these
and other atrocities? More importantly,
how is the Muslim world responding?
In the United States, we have been preoccupied with a one-sided and incomplete
report by Democrats on the Senate
Intelligence Committee that details some
of the enhanced interrogation techniques
used in the aftermath of 9-11 to extract
information from prisoners confined to
Guantanamo prison and other facilities run
by the U.S. government. Supporters of
those techniques assert they saved lives by
thwarting more terrorist attacks; detractors
assert the opposite.
In Britain, the Army has issued new
guidelines for interrogating suspected terrorists. They include no shouting, no banging of fists on tables and no “insulting
words.” If Britain had employed those
techniques during World War II, Hitler’s
face might be on the British pound note,
instead of the Queen’s. When I was in the
U.S. Army, drill sergeants frequently
yelled at me and they pounded more than
tables.
Are we fighting a war, or trying to win
“Miss Congeniality”?
Every time we witness these attacks,
the apologists here and abroad are quick to
issue the familiar excuses. This doesn’t
represent true Islam, which they say is a
religion of peace. These are “lone wolves”
(lone rats would be a better designation;
wolves at least have some nobility
attached to their species). ISIS openly
campaigns on the Internet to attract more
“lone wolves.” In the end, it doesn’t matter
whether one person or an army of Taliban
terrorists kill you. You are still dead.
When the next attack occurs in
America – as it surely will – will the
Obama administration issue the predictable denunciations and apologies for
Islam, or will we do what needs to be done
to stop the killers? Civil liberties are worth
protecting until they are used by our enemies - along with the constitutional protections we enjoy - to commit murder. If we
are attacked again as on 9-11 and many
thousands more of us are killed, what
then? Will we eventually go back to business as usual, thus ensuring more attacks?
Why aren’t the world’s estimated 1.1
billion Muslims forming an army of their
own to take out those they claim misrepresent their religion? Why must America
face most of the financial and human burden? These killers claim to be acting in the
name of Islam, so how about members of
the “peaceful religion” doing themselves
and the world a favor by taking the lead
and neutralizing the threat of Islamic radicalism?
Or would that be an “enhanced technique” that might offend the sensibilities
of Democrats on the Senate Intelligence
Committee? Apparently, those senators
have forgotten that the one hijacked plane
American heroes forced down in
Pennsylvania might have been headed for
the Capitol Building.
(Cal Thomas’ latest book is “W hat
Works: Common Sense Solutions for a
Stronger A merica” is available in bookstores now. Readers may email Cal
Thomas at [email protected].)
©2015 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
Achieving balance
By Dennis West
Having taken 19 years of criticism
about The Beacon being too liberal, I
recently decided to do something about it.
After giving it much consideration, I
decided that there would no one better to
add to our editorial lineup than the conservative columnist Cal Thomas.
Although I miss his mustache and
often disagree with his opinions, I am
more than willing to admit that they are
well written. Thomas is an evangelical
Christian who was vice president of the
Moral Majority from 1980 to 1985. He is a
regular contributor to Fox and has written
10 books. He is well qualified to balance
liberal cartoonist, columnist, and two-time
Pulitzer Prize winner, David Horsey.
Neither Walworth County Administrator
Dave Bretl nor Lee Hamilton take sides on
political issues. So now we have a balanced editorial section that features better
writers than any newspaper in the area. We
hope our readers enjoy the change.
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Considering the Code of Ordinances
By Dave Bretl
Our County Clerk, Kim Bushey,
warned me not to write this column. About
thirty minutes into our conversation
regarding the differences between republication and codification of ordinances, Kim
posed a very reasonable question; why was
I asking for all of this esoteric information
so late on a Friday afternoon? After admitting that I was
gathering the information to write
a column, she
suggested that the
topic might be a
bit too “inside
baseball” for the
average
reader
who just wants to
know what the
county is up to
lately.
Kim’s actual
David Bretl
warning was that
my “readers’ eyes will glaze over.” She
was right, of course, but with a sunny,
warm weekend approaching, I had already
committed too much time to the topic to
start over.
My idea for this column began innocently enough. As I mark my fourteenth
anniversary with the county this month, I
thought it would be interesting to look
back to see what I wrote about when I first
started. Rather than just re-running a piece
from that year (trust me I was tempted), I
pondered the risks of getting caught if the
column happened to contain any references to Governor McCallum or Brett
Favre throwing an interception. I decided,
instead, that the better course would be to
reflect on a topic that I had written about in
2001, given the passage of nearly a decade
and a half of time.
The column that caught my attention
was entitled “Stickler for Rules,” which
ran in the Lake Geneva Regional News in
mid-November of that year. The gist of the
piece was that I had just been “busted” by
our finance department for attempting to
unilaterally approve a last minute grant
that promised to pay the county for housing certain prisoners in our jail.
There were two ironic aspects to the
situation, but only one was apparent to me
at the time. The first, and obvious one, was
that the grant appeared to have no real
downside. By combing through our databases, a third-party contractor could identify prisoners who were not U.S citizens or
who were receiving Social Security benefits.
In the first case, the county was entitled to a reimbursement from the federal
government for certain costs of providing
care. In the second case, the Feds paid a
sort of finder’s fee. If a prisoner was
receiving food and shelter from us, Social
Security would suspend certain benefits
and pay us for making them aware of the
situation. The vendor who culled our database would be paid from a cut of the federal payment. The Sheriff endorsed it, I
endorsed it and even the acting Finance
Director, at the time, didn’t see a downside. The problem was that under our
rules, grants required approval by the
county board and there wasn’t enough
time to convene a meeting of the 35-member board.
There were (and still are) lots of good
reasons why the county board should
approve grants. Grants rarely come without any strings attached. If a department
head accepts a state grant that will pay for
the salary of a new position for three years
on the condition that the county fund the
position for the next five years, then a nonelected official just made a significant
budget decision. We are taught in civics
class that the legislative branch holds the
power of the purse. That statement is true
only if legislators diligently hold onto the
purse strings. If decisions to spend money
have already been made before elected
officials provide their input, then the
power of the purse is illusory.
Luckily, the situation had a happy ending. By rearranging the deal as a vendor
contract and encumbering the vendor’s
anticipated fee from currently budgeted
funds, we were able to satisfy our own
rules and implement the program. We have
maintained this arrangement to this day,
which annually delivers a six-figure return
to the county. I wouldn’t say that this particular incident was a seminal moment in
the history of Walworth County government, but it did set the tone for the years
that were to follow. If I was going to convince our managers and supervisors that
rules were important, then I needed to follow them myself.
I mentioned that there is another ironic
aspect of this situation which is, we didn’t
have many rules on the books at the time.
In retrospect, I’m amazed that I was actually able to run afoul of one. Our rulebook,
governing county operations (known as a
code of ordinances) was sparse in 2001.
This was the aspect of the old column that
interested me the most and prompted my
call to Kim.
County boards take actions in two
main ways, through the adoption of ordinances and resolutions. Ordinances are
considered more formal and permanent
and trump resolutions, in the event of a
conflict. In some cases, state law may
specify which particular form must be
used; if not, the county is free to conduct
its business using either resolutions or
ordinances. In general, one-time actions
are addressed by resolutions, while ongoing policy statements are enacted by ordinance.
Our May county board meeting contains examples of both. Supervisors will
congratulate the Badger High School culinary team for its success at a recent competition, by resolution. The Board will
establish the priorities of our Health and
Human Services department by ordinance.
The advantage of ordinances is that they
can be codified, that is, assembled into a
single book which can be widely distributed and referenced by county employees
and the public. Our ordinance book has
grown considerably since 2001. How that
happened and the implications of having
more rules will be the subject of my next
column.
The opinions expressed in these
columns are those of the author and not
necessarily those of the Walworth County
Board of Supervisors.
May 8, 2015 — 5
Money and politics: We need change now!
By Lee Hamilton
I’ve seen a lot over my decades in
politics, and not much alarms me. But I
have to be blunt: Money is poisoning
our political system.
The people who matter most to a representative democracy – the ordinary
voters in whose interests elected politicians are supposed to act – feel as
though they’ve
become an afterthought in
the
political
process. The
tidal wave of
money washing
over our elections, with no
end in sight, is
causing Americans to lose
faith in the system. In that Lee Hamilton
way, the course
we’re on threatens the core values and
principles that define us as a nation.
Oddly, many politicians see no problem – except perhaps the inconvenient
need to spend a significant portion of
every day dialing for dollars. They
don’t, however, believe this is corrupting. They don’t believe they’re selling
their votes, or even that money influences their behavior.
Most Americans believe differently.
Poll after poll finds that about half the
voters think members of Congress are
corrupt. A Democracy Corps poll last
summer found clear majorities across
the spectrum worried about the impact
of Super PAC spending as “wrong” and
leading “to our elected officials representing the views of wealthy donors.”
In fact, while it is a rare member of
Congress who would change his or her
vote because of money, there is ample
evidence that where the majority of
Americans and a small but wealthy
minority disagree, the influence of
money on politics tends to outweigh the
views of ordinary voters. When donors
contribute heavily, they have a disproportionate influence over the legislator;
that’s not “corruption,” but it means that
opinions of average citizens are diminished and the views of the big donors are
amplified when it comes to policy-making.
If it appears that this state of affairs
has gotten worse in recent years, it has
indeed. A series of Supreme Court decisions over the past half-decade has
resulted in Super PACs’ unfettered ability to raise and spend money, and freed
individuals from limits on their giving.
The result has been not just the surge in
campaign spending we’ve seen, but the
fact that much of it is “dark” – or beyond
the ability of journalists and regulators
to discern its sources.
This money purchases attack ads that
saturate the airwaves with scant clue as
to who is funding them. It buys ads that
drown out even the voices of the candidates and the parties themselves. It pushes our politics toward the extremes,
emphasizing ideological purity, unremitting partisanship, and a political culture
that exalts confrontation over consensus-building. In other words, it cripples
representative democracy.
So what can we do? In an ideal
world, we’d see a constitutional amendment or a reversal of the Supreme
Court’s recent decisions. I’m not holding
my breath. For the present, we’ll need to
work within the bounds of the court
decisions.
The first priority is to find ways of
boosting prompt financial disclosure –
ways to trace the source of campaign
spending on behalf of candidates and
incumbents before an election so that
voters know who is supporting whom,
and can match candidates’ positions on
issues with the interests of their financial
backers. Disclosure done after elections
is meaningless.
Since it appears unlikely that
Congress will soon step up to the plate,
it may be that regulatory commissions –
the FEC, IRS, FCC – will have to move
on stricter disclosure definitions and
rules. The White House could even consider an executive order requiring full
disclosure of political spending by all
companies with federal contracts.
The second major reform is to make
public funds available for financing
campaigns, thus amplifying the contributions of ordinary Americans, freeing
candidates to spend more time on substance rather than fundraising, and letting them engage more fully with voters
rather than donors. In states that have
used it, public money works.
The odds of action are not encouraging. Yet I’m heartened by something
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told
reporters in New Hampshire the other
day. “You’re going to have money
dumped in this election cycle that’s
going to turn off the American people,”
he said. “There’s going to be a need and
a movement to try to control the money
in politics.” Let’s hope he’s right.
Lee Hamilton is Director of the
Center on Congress at Indiana
University. He was a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives for 34 years.
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Sales begin at Row Homes of Fontana
Shodeen Homes has announced that
sales are underway at the Row Homes of
Fontana, a new community of 18 luxury
low-maintenance homes that will be located
at the northwest corner of Third Avenue and
Douglas Street across from the Abbey
Resort in the heart of Fontana. Those interested are now able to preview the townhome
designs at the newly-opened sales office and
design center located at 138 Fontana Blvd.,
one block from the building site.
The Row Homes of Fontana feature
two designs, both with three bedrooms,
two and one-half baths plus flex room and
many luxury features. Prices range from
$419,900 to $459,900 (prices subject to
change without notice) for 1,923 to 1,980
square feet of living space. All homes are
designed with an attractive streetscape featuring cultured stone and Hardie Board
fiber cement exteriors with two-car
attached rear-loaded garages. The Row
Homes will be built in two four-unit buildings and two five unit buildings.
“The Row Homes hold special appeal
to those who want to spend their time
relaxing with family and friends, enjoying
the lake as well as taking in the many
amenities that the area has to offer – without spending precious time on home maintenance,” said Craig Shodeen, President of
Shodeen Homes.
“Our introductory pricing will include
the purchaser’s choice of one of four
amenity packages: a Boater’s Delight
Package, a Golfer’s Package, a Winter
Amenity Package or a Complete Convenience Package,” Shodeen explained.
Located in downtown Fontana, the
Row Homes are within walking distance to
many area amenities, including The Abbey
Resort, Marina and Avani Spa, Gordy’s
Boat House Restaurant, Fontana Paddle
Company, Chuck’s Lakeshore Inn,
Novak’s Restaurant, and Fontana Beach
and Municipal Pier.
“It has been a pleasure to work with
the village to introduce a product to
Fontana that is currently not represented in
the community,” said Dave Patzelt,
President of Shodeen Construction. “We
look forward to continuing our positive
relationship with the village with our
exciting project.”
The Row Homes of Fontana feature
hardwood floors and nine foot ceilings
throughout the main level. Kitchens have
custom cabinetry, granite countertops and
an Energy Star stainless steel appliance
package. The lower level flex space can be
used as an office, media room or a fourth
bedroom.
Four generations of the Shodeen family have called Fontana home since the
1940s, giving this introduction of the Row
Homes of Fontana special significance.
Shodeen Homes’ most ambitious residential development to date is Mill Creek,
which spans over 2,000 acres in Geneva, Ill.
Mill Creek’s unique land plan features more
than 2,400 single- and multi-family residences located within several different
neighborhoods, two public golf courses,
and two 11-acre elementary school campuses. Additionally, more than 900 acres of
open space are dedicated to outdoor recreation and ecological preservation, including
195 acres of parks, 17 miles of nature/bike
trails and 127 acres of wetland preserves.
In addition to large subdivisions, there
are multiple attached home properties to
the company’s credit including Dodson
Square,
Seventh
Street
Terrace
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Condominiums. Shodeen has been negotiating with the Town of Delavan for several years to develop many acres of property
it has acquired in the community.
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sales office at 138 Fontana Blvd., online at
www.shodeenhomes.com or phone (262)
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p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon
until 5 p.m. on Sunday.
Shodeen Homes has announced that sales are underway at the Row Homes
of Fontana, a new community of 18 luxury low-maintenance homes with prices starting from $419,900 in Fontana. A newly-opened sales office and design center is located at 138 Fontana Blvd., one block from the building site.
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Wisconsin Tourism Secretary Stephanie Klett (center) and State Sen. Stephen
Nass (in white shirt) join representatives from the Lake Geneva Area Convention and
Visitors Bureau in celebrating receipt of a $39,100 check from a Joint Effort Marketing
(JEM) grant.
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State tourism funds to help promote
first Lake Geneva Restaurant Week
The first Lake Geneva Restaurant
Week is cooking up some fun with the
help of a $39,100 Joint Effort Marketing
(JEM) grant presented by Wisconsin
Department of Tourism Secretary Stephanie Klett. Hosted by the Lake Geneva
Area Convention and Visitors Bureau,
area restaurants will be showing off their
signature dishes from May 29- June 7.
Estimates are that the event will have an
economic impact of $438,000 from traveler spending at area hotels, restaurants,
and stores.
“We’re thrilled to support the first
ever Lake Geneva Restaurant Week, an
event that will truly showcase the outstanding culinary experiences available
throughout Walworth County,” said
Klett. “Lake Geneva blends small town
charm with big city sophistication and
this new event will draw more travelers
and create a positive economic impact in
the area.”
In fiscal 2014, the Department funded 60 Joint Effort Marketing projects,
awarding a total of more than $1.1 million dollars. Visitor expenditures driven
by the marketing from these projects
will exceed $28 million. In 2013, the
tourism economy in Wisconsin totaled
an estimated $17.5 billion, a four percent increase over 2012. Total business
sales in Walworth County topped $633
million in 2013, supporting more than
6,700 jobs and generating more than $60
million in state and local taxes.
The Lake Geneva Area CVB will be
partnering with local restaurants, hotels,
and activities to create the first annual
Lake Geneva Restaurant Week. The 10
day event will feature prix fixe menus,
offering multiple courses for what promoters say will be a great value.
In addition to promoting area restaurants, Lake Geneva Restaurant week
will feature many events, including
cooking demonstrations, tastings, educational segments and food tours.
Concluding Restaurant Week, the Lake
Geneva CVB will award a $5,000
“Charity Check,” sponsored by Lake
Geneva Country Meats, to a non-profit
organization to be voted on by diners.
The JEM Grant funds will help pay for
print, radio, direct mail, and online
advertising.
“Restaurant Week will shine a spotlight on the diverse and dynamic restaurant offerings available in the Lake
Geneva area,” said Darien Schaefer,
Lake Geneva Area Convention &
Visitors Bureau president and CEO.
“It’s our opportunity to appeal to the
foodie in everyone by putting the focus
on everything [connected with] dining in
Walworth County.”
JEM grant funds are available to
non-profit organizations for the promotion of Wisconsin tourism events and
destinations. The state can fund up to 75
percent of a project’s first-year advertising and marketing costs, and provide
support for second- and third-year projects with decreasing amounts for funding until projects become self-sustaining. For information on the JEM
Program and application materials, visit
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May 8, 2015 — 7
Accountability Board calling for
online voter registration in Wisconsin
By Gilman Halsted
The Government Accountability
Board is calling on the state Legislature
to follow the lead of 29 other states and
implement an online voter registration
system.
The Board is a non-partisan regulatory agency of the State of Wisconsin
that administers and enforces Wisconsin
law pertaining to campaign finance,
elections, ethics and lobbying. The
G.A.B. staff is also non-partisan. The
agency is organized into two divisions:
The Elections Division and the Ethics
and Accountability Division.
The Board consists of six members,
all former state judges, who serve staggered, six-year terms. Board members
are appointed by the Governor, and
serve part-time, receiving per diems for
each meeting they attend.
The governor nominates a judge to
fill a vacancy from a roster of potential
board members previously selected by a
panel of Wisconsin Court of Appeals
judges; and the nominee must be confirmed by the Wisconsin State Senate.
At it’s meeting on April 29, the
Board voted 5-1 to endorse online voter
registration for those who have state
issued driver’s licenses or ID’s, as a way
to save taxpayer dollars.
The Board’s legal counsel Mike
Haas said studies in other states have
shown considerable administrative savings. Arizona, for example, spent 83
cents per paper form and 3 cents to
process an online registration.
“Certainly there would be a cost savings to taxpayers when municipal clerks
are able to process voter registration in
less time and with less staff than they
currently do with a paper-based system,”
Haas said.
But Mary Ann Hansen of the group
We Are Watching Wisconsin Elections
said the Legislature should hold off on
adopting an online system until there’s
proof it’s not susceptible to being hacked.
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Marcus offers new movie
experience in Sun Prairie
Its a classic date-night dilemma. How
can you make sure you finish at the
restaurant in time to head over to the theater for the movie?
Increasingly, the new wave of
movie theaters lets you get both dinner
and a show in the same place.
Sundance Cinemas started the trend in
Madison in 2007, selling wraps and
sandwiches (and wine, beer and cocktails) at the concession stand that you
can take into the theater.
But the new Marcus Palace Cinema,
now open in Sun Prairie, has upped the
ante. In four of its 12 screens, customers
can have a full menu of burgers, appetizers, salads, even a slice of chocolate lava
cake delivered by a server directly to
their seat. Not that we expect anyone to
drive from Walworth County to Sun
Prairie. How soon before one comes to
Lake Geneva?
Wileman Elementary School Principal Shawn Madden (right) accepts an
ExxonMobil Education Alliance Grant check for $500 from Jim Mehta, manager of the
Evergreen Mobil Mart in Delavan.
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Wileman Elementary School gets
Exxon/Mobil math/science grant
Jim Mehta, manager of the
Evergreen Mobil Mart in Delavan is
responsible for securing a math/science
grant for his neighbors at Wileman
Elementary School in Delavan. Mehta
worked with his company’s management staff and school officials to secure
the grant.
According to a company spokesman,
the grant is an extension of the ExxonMobil Educational Alliance Program, which encourages retailers to par-
ticipate in the program and invest in the
future of their communities.
The $500 donation will be used to
help support Wileman Elementary
School’s math and science programs.
The Evergreen Mobil Station had to
meet stringent eligibility criteria before
being allowed to apply for the grant,
including having a commitment to providing a superior buying experience for
customers. The station is located at 746
E. Geneva St. in Delavan.
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Incidence of diabetes rises with daily soda consumption
By Melissa Healy
Los A ngeles Times
A comprehensive study of European
adults has found that compared with people who drink a single sugar-sweetened
drink daily, those who drink water, coffee
or tea instead are at 14 percent lower risk
of developing type 2 diabetes.
The research found that drinking sugarsweetened milk products was an even
more powerful driver of diabetes; compared with those who drank one such beverage daily, people who drank water, coffee or tea instead were on average 20 percent to 25 percent less likely to develop
diabetes.
The British study, which tracked the
consumption habits of more than 25,000
Britons (ages 40 to 79) over about 11
years, offered little comfort to drinkers of
artificially sweetened beverages. While
consumers of coffee, tea and water had a
diminished risk of diabetes, the study
found consumers of diet sodas to have type
2 diabetes risks on par with drinkers of
sugar-sweetened beverages.
But when the authors took body mass
index and waist circumference into account,
they found that consumption of diet beverages was not linked to higher rates of diabetes. This suggests that diet soda drinkers
are already more likely to be overweight or
obese, and that this – rather than their diet
soda consumption – might account for their
elevated diabetes risk.
The new research, published in
Diabetologia, the journal of the European
Association for the Study of Diabetes,
offered another surprise as well: consumption of fruit juice and sweetened tea or coffee was not associated with diabetes.
While offering some insights into different beverages' contribution to diabetes
rates, the study does not test the likely
effects of changing established consumption patterns and substituting one kind of
drink for another. Instead, it tracked the
consumption patterns of a large population
over a lengthy period of time to see who
was more or less likely to develop diabetes.
Such a “prospective observational
study” does not establish that sugar-sweetened sodas directly cause diabetes, or that,
say, a long-standing consumer of sugary
sodas can lower her diabetes risk by
switching to tea. As a "prospective observational study," it may be finding, for
instance, that more health-conscious people – those already at lower risk of diabetes – from the start are simply more likely to choose coffee, tea or water over
chocolate milk, sweetened beverages or
diet soda.
But it does give some sense of scale to
what the authors call the “population
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impact of sweet beverage consumption on
type 2 diabetes”: in a large population,
each 5 percent increase of average total
daily calorie intake provided by sweetened
drinks appears to boost new cases of type
2 diabetes by 18 percent. And if people's
average daily calorie intake from sweetened beverages were below 10 percent, 5
percent or 2 percent of their total daily
calories, 3 percent, 7 percent or 15 percent
respectively of new-onset diabetes cases
could be avoided, the authors concluded.
Public health experts recommend that a
typical adult diet – with an intake of about
2,000 calories a day – should include no
more than 130 calories from added sugar. A
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May 8, 2015 — 9
Kurt Picknell attends
National Sheriff ’s Institute
Sheriff Kurt Picknell of the
Walworth County Sheriff’s Office completed participation in the 107th session
of the National Sheriffs’
Institute
(NSI) held in
A u r o r a ,
Colo., April
12 - 17. The
NSI is the
only national
executive
development
program designed
for
sheriffs. This Sheriff Kurt Picknell
no-cost program is co-sponsored by the National
Institute of Corrections (NIC) and the
National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA).
Sheriff Picknell is the first Walworth
County Sheriff to graduate from the
NSI.
Picknell joined 27 other sheriffs from
across the country for training on contemporary challenges facing America’s sheriffs today. In light of those challenges, the
sheriffs explored the role of the local
sheriff in providing effective leadership
for the public good in such areas as public safety, criminal justice system policy,
community relations, and organization
effectiveness and efficiency.
Fred Wilson, NSA Director of
Operations, said, “Sheriff Picknell is a
leader with vision for the Walworth
County Sheriff’s Office. It is an honor to
have Sheriff Picknell join the more than
2,500 graduates of the NSI since 1973.”
The NIC is a division of the U.S.
Department of Justice, Bureau of
Prisons. It is the primary federal source
of technical assistance, training, and
information services for state and local
corrections. NIC provides a wide variety
of services to the nation’s jails, most of
which are the responsibility of sheriffs.
The NSA is a non-profit professional
association located in Alexandria,
Virginia. NSA represents the nearly
3,100 elected sheriffs across the nation
and has more than 20,000 members,
including law enforcement professionals, state and federal government
employees, concerned citizens, students,
and others. Since 1940, NSA has served
as an information clearinghouse for law
enforcement professionals. NSA also
provides management training for sheriffs and their personnel in court security,
crime victim services, domestic violence, homeland security initiatives, jail
operations, and traffic safety.
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Share and receive the support of other
people facing the challenges associated
with the grieving process by attending
the Mercy Hospice Grief Care Support
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The next session is Tuesday, May 19, 6
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Q: What is a sealant?
A: A sealant is a plastic material a
dentist applies to the chewing surface of
the permanent back teeth – the molars –
to prevent cavities. Those teeth, which
are designed for crushing and chewing,
have an uneven terrain full of pits and
fissures. They’re good for what they do,
but are susceptible to cavities.
In a painless procedure, the dentist
will thoroughly dry the teeth, then apply
a layer of acid liquid that will etch the
teeth’s surfaces lightly. Over that he will
apply the liquid plastic that will seep
into the depressions of the teeth and
harden. The protective coating keeps out
the plaque and acid that cause decay.
Sealants are used most effectively
with children who have newly formed
permanent teeth. A person who has not
developed cavities in the pits and fissures of molars by his or her late teens
or early twenties is not likely to get them
later.
The American Dental Association
says sealants are virtually 100 percent
effective in preventing tooth decay
where they are applied. Considering the
cost of filling and repairing decayed
teeth, an investment in sealants is also
economical. Nevertheless, as effective
as they are, sealants are no substitute for
regular visits to the dentist for twice-ayear cleaning and examination. Talk
with your dentist about the value of a
sealant.
Tooth Chatter is presented as a public service by Dr. Paul Kreul, who has
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See? We knew he was a hero. What
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attention to a big challenge – not just the
drying up of California, but the drying
out of the entire West. It is a challenge
that needs to have brought to it some
bold, futuristic ideas. It is a worthy mission for everyone, from border to border.
On second thought, do not think of
the golf courses. Or the pools. Or those
dust-streaked Maseratis and Teslas.
And don’t think badly of Shatner. He
has made his proposal with tongue firmly planted in cheek. After receiving a
negative response from folks up in the
land of Amazon, Starbucks, REI and
Microsoft, Shatner sent out a tweet that
read: “Dearest Citizens of Seattle, if you
think I’m an idiot or evil enough to steal
your much needed water, you don’t
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
David Horsey is a political commentator
for the Los A ngeles Times.
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May 8, 2015
Mercy Health
Seasonal Allergies Have Begun
Spring is in the air and so are
the allergens that will lead to sniffling,
sneezing, itching eyes and running
noses. Trees are the earliest pollen producers, releasing their pollen as early as
January in the Southern states and as late
as May or June in the Northern states.
Trees can aggravate your allergy
whether or not they are on your property, since trees release large amounts of
pollen that can be distributed miles away
from the original source.
Of the 50,000 different kinds of
trees, less than 100 have been shown to
cause allergies. Most allergies are specific to one type of tree such as ash, box
elder, cottonwood, elm, hickory, maple,
olive, pecan, poplar, sycamore, walnut,
and willow.
However, people do show crossreactivity among trees in the alder,
beech, birch and oak family, and the
juniper and cedar family.
Preventive Strategies
If you buy trees for your yard, look
for species such as catalpa, crape myrtle,
dogwood, fig, fir, palm, pear, plum, redbud and redwood that do not aggravate
allergies.
Avoid the outdoors between 5 and 10
a.m. Save outside activities for late
afternoon or after a heavy rain, when
pollen levels are lower.
Keep windows in your home and car
closed to lower exposure to pollen. To
keep cool, use air conditioners and avoid
using window and attic fans.
Be aware that pollen can also be
transported indoors on people and pets.
Dry your clothes in an automatic
dryer rather than hanging them outside.
Otherwise pollen can collect on clothing
and be carried indoors.
Allergy treatments are available and
help bring relief to the symptoms that
afflict so many.
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Senate committee approves
amended speed limit bill
By Breann Schossow
State Senators voted April 30 to
move a bill out of committee that raises
the speed limit to 70 mph on some
stretches of interstates and highways.
The committee’s decision to pass the
bill came after lawmakers made a deal
earlier in the week to make some
changes. Under an amendment, the
state’s Department of Transportation
would decide which roads could increase
from 65 to 70 miles per hour. Also, the
limit cannot be raised on four-lane roads
that don’t have entrance or exit ramps.
Republican Sen. Jerry Petrowski
worked with the bill’s sponsors on the
change. He said he didn’t like the openended bill that was initially brought forward.
“I think this is a safe way of making
Wisconsin not the only state in the area
that is still at 65 (mph),” said Petrowski
The bill could now proceed to the Senate
floor for a vote. The measure stalled in
the Legislature last session.
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The Beacon
May 8, 2015 — 11
Health Through Chiropractic
Spring is for the birds
By Marjie Reed
A cardinal alighted in one of our
trees this morning. What an amazing
splash of red in a world struggling to get
its “green” on after a brown winter.
I’ve always wanted a cardinal to
build a nest in our tree, so I thought I’d
encourage it.
“Little bird,”
I said through the
glass by our
door, “that is a
great tree in
which to raise
your family, and
there are still
vacancies. So far
our only tenant is
a pleasant robin
family that recycles; they’ve reMarjie Reed
vamped a nest
another
robin
built last year.
The leaves will be out soon to give
adequate protection to your brood, and
cats are at a minimum around here.”
He probably saw my mouth moving
and thought, “Hmm, I like this tree, but
I’m not sure about having my kids this
close to that crazy dame standing in
there talking to herself. He did fly on,
but I’ll peek out again tomorrow morning to see if he has reconsidered and
returned to take up residence.
When I was in Florida a couple of
years ago, I was at a stop light and saw a
large hawk-sized osprey flying with a
long, thick stick in its mouth.
For once I was glad the light was a
long one. I had time to watch the bird
balance the lone stick on top of a thirtyfoot high light standard on the corner of
that maddeningly busy street, and then
fly away.
The light changed and I went my
way. The next day while sitting at the
same stop light, the bird flew past carrying another large stick. I looked up and
was amazed at the nest she had constructed in only one day.
I had to laugh as I compared it to the
nests I was used to seeing in our trees in
Illinois. Our songbirds generally hide
their symmetrical, neatly woven nests in
the crook of a tree. Not so with the
osprey.
The days went by and as the bird
continued to build stick by stick, the nest
grew to into a gigantic aerial hodgepodge. Unlike songbirds, the osprey had
sticks shooting out in every direction
and didn’t care that people or other birds
knew it was there.
These nests can weigh 500 pounds. I
hope they “lick ’em and stick ’em firmly to the light poles, for on any given day
the wind can blow at a brisk pace in
Florida. Look out below!
My mom’s favorite bird was the
wren. To appear more knowledgeable, I
looked up wrens on Wikipedia only to
find I don’t have enough knowledge to
understand what I read. The first line
said, “Wrens are mostly small, brownish
passerine birds in the mainly New World
family Troglodytidae.” Huh?
In plain English, I would assume that
means that wrens are cute little feathered
rascals that have a sweet song and like to
live in boxes. Why couldn’t Wikipedia
just say that?
Anyway, we had a wren box on our
pine tree that was in use year after year.
We had no other songbirds that sang as
high and sweetly as these tiny, winged
Troglodytidae family members. Since I
took the time to look it up, I might as
well use it. Sounds impressive, doesn’t
it?
When our youngest daughter was
about eight years old, she disappeared
into the garage one spring morning. She
scrounged up pieces of mismatched
wood, nails of all sizes and a large hammer with the intention of knocking a
bird house together.
She wasn’t good, but she was fast.
She produced a few of these lopsided
wonders in a couple hours. Finally, she
emerged from the garage with her creations and said in her forthright manner,
“Well, let’s go hang ’em, the birds are
waitin’.”
My husband and I secretly chuckled
as we hung these little imaginative bird
habitats in our trees. We knew she would
feel bad because no self-respecting birds
would raise families in them. But it
turned out the laugh was on us. Every
one of her boxes was soon full of happy
bird families.
It seems that even concerning hastily
banged-together birdhouses, the voice
that talked to Ray in the movie, “Field of
Dreams,” was right. “If you build it, they
will come.”
Dear God,
The children in our families can be
as different as the birds in the air. Some
children resemble songbirds by being
predictable and keeping their surroundings neat.
Our “osprey-type” kids, on the other
hand, constantly surprise us and are
happy with their surroundings being helter skelter.
How we thank You, God, that as the
varied natures of the cardinal, robin,
osprey and wren add dimension to
nature, so the differences in our kids’
natures make our brick and mortar nests
more challenging, fun and lively day
after day.
Amen
Marjie Reed lives in Harvard, Ill.,
with her husband, Bob. They have been
married nearly 45 years and have three
children and eight grandchildren.
Contact Marjie at [email protected].
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By Dr. Bernice Elliott
Most people would agree good posture
is important, but did you know good posture is more than just sitting and standing?
It’s just as important to observe proper
posture while sleeping.
While the correct mattress is important, there is little scientific research on which
mattress is the
best one for
back pain or for
maintaining a
healthy back.
You
should
choose a mattress that is right
for you. This
means one that
lets you wake up Dr. Bernice Elliott
feeling fully rested and pain free.
Your mattress should support the natural curves of your spine and feel comfortable. Consider changing your mattress
every 9 or 10 years. If you share your bed,
make sure you allow enough space to
move to a comfortable sleeping position.
You can also speak with your trusted chiropractor to discuss mattress options and
finding the type that would be best for you.
Pillows are an excellent tool to assist in
correct posture during sleep. Pillows can
help keep your spine in the proper position
when used correctly. The natural curve of
your neck should be comfortably supported; a pillow that is too high causes muscle
strain on your back, neck and shoulders.
When choosing a pillow, find one that will
keep you neck aligned with your chest and
lower back. Your pillow should be
adjustable to allow you to sleep in different
positions and replaced every year.
Sleeping on your stomach is not recommended because your spine can be put
out of position due to the stress caused to
your back.
When sleeping on your back, place a
small pillow under the back of your knees
in order to reduce stress on your spine and
support the natural curve in your lower
back. Ensure that your pillow is supporting
your head, the natural curve of your neck
and your shoulders.
If you’re a side sleeper, place a firm
pillow between your knees to prevent
your upper leg from pulling your spine out
of alignment and reduce stress on your
hips and lower back. Place a rolled towel
or a small pillow under your waist to help
support your spine. Pull your knees up
slightly toward your chest while ensuring
your pillow for your head keeps your
spine straight.
Keep your ears, shoulders and hips
aligned when turning as well as when
sleeping. Remember not to twist or bend at
the waist but rather move your entire body
as one unit. Keep your belly pulled in and
tightened, and bend your knees toward the
chest when you roll.
The muscles and ligaments in your
back relax and heal themselves while you
sleep. By adjusting your sleeping positions
you can positively affect your posture.
Experiment with different sleep positions
to find the best fit for you and for your
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Genealogical Society to meet May 5
The public is invited to the Tuesday,
May 5 meeting of the Walworth County
Genealogical Society (WCGS) at 6:30
p.m. in the Delavan Community Centre,
826 E. Geneva St., Delavan.
Following a short business meeting,
representatives of local lineage societies
will be available to discuss their organizations. Plan to attend and bring a friend
if you or someone you know is interested in one of these societies: Colonial
Dames of America, Daughters of the
American Revolution (DAR), Daughters
and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil
War (DUV and SUV), Society of
Mayflower Descendants, United States
Daughters of 1812, and Walworth
County Genealogical Society (WCGS).
This is an opportunity to check out
areas of interest, introduce a friend to the
wealth of information in the Society,
join WCGS or renew a membership, and
add your knowledge and experience to
an informational evening.
Future meetings will feature a
research night at the Area Research
Center in Whitewater, programs on Civil
War veterans, Secrets of Walworth
County, Witch Tales, and an Overview
of Chicago’s Newberry Library. Annual
events such as a cemetery walk, ice
cream social, Christmas party, and annual dinner are also on the calendar. The
WCGS will host the Family History Fair
on October 17 at Immanuel Lutheran
Church in Lake Geneva.
The WCGS meets on the first
Tuesday of every month at the Delavan
Community Centre at 6:30 p.m.
Meetings are free and open to the public.
Guests are invited to join WCGS by paying annual dues: Individual $15, Family
$18, Student $7.50.
Visit the Genealogy Library in the
Matheson Memorial Library, 101 N.
Wisconsin Street, Elkhorn, every
Tuesday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. or the WCGS
website www.walworthcgs.com.
12 — The Beacon
May 8, 2015
Tips on how to position a baby
for optimal development
United Church of Christ – Delavan confirmation students (from left) Henry
McLeod, Caden Reece and Christopher Dettmann have been working for several
months to help keep recyclable materials out of landfills. Their next project will be an
electronics recycling event on Saturday, May 16.
(Photo furnished)
Delavan UCC to hold recycling event
The United Church of Christ in
Delavan began an environmental mission several months ago to keep as much
waste out of landfills as possible. In just
a few short months the church has recycled 12,290 pounds of metal and 291
pounds of Christmas lights as part of
their Mission to preserve our planet.
But the church’s Confirmation students,
decided there was much more to do, particularly as it related to electronics.
They have planned an Electronics
and Metal Recycling Drive for Saturday,
May 16 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the
church, which is located at 123 East
Washington Street in Delavan. Drivethrough drop off will be available.
Electronics are one of the fastest
growing parts of the waste stream, with
millions of devices discarded each year
in the United States. Computers, TVs,
cell phones and other electronics contain
valuable materials that can be recovered
through responsible recycling.
Electronics also contain potentially
hazardous materials, such as lead and
mercury, that can pose a risk to human
health and the environment if not properly managed. Wisconsin’s electronics
recycling law keeps many devices out of
landfills and incinerators and creates
recycling opportunities for state residents. That is why it’s illegal to simply
“throw away” a television or computer
and why there is a charge for their disposal.
The mission of the Delavan UCC
event is to provide a reasonably priced
option for safe disposal of such items, as
well as a convenient way to do it.
Working with DP Electronic Recycling
televisions and computer monitors will
be recycled for only $20 each. For $5 the
hard drive of your old computer will be
wiped clean and shredded, keeping your
information and the environment safe.
A variety of electronics and metals
will be collected that day. For a full list
of materials to be collected and fees,
consult the church’s website www.dela
vanucc.org or call the church at 7282212 for more information.
According to Dictionary.com, bafflegab is slang for confusing or generally
unintelligible jargon; gobbledegook: an
insurance policy written in bafflegab
impenetrable to a lay person.
“On direct exam, the expert – a psychiatrist – had cobbled together a questionable opinion and wrapped it in arrogant psychiatric bafflegab to make it
sound like scientific certainty.
James W. McElhaney, “Make ‘Em
Laugh,” ABA Journal, October, 2002
Bafflegab is a portmanteau of baffle
and gab and is credited to Milton A.
Smith, a lawyer for the US Chamber of
Commerce during the 1950s. Milton
humorously defined this word as “multiloquence characterized by consummate
interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, inscrutability, and other familiar
manifestations of abstruse expatiation
commonly utilitzed for promulgations
implementing Procrustean determinations by governmental bodies.”
Word of the week: bafflegab
By Jan Lawrence, PT
New Berlin Therapies
The learning curve is high when you
are blessed with a new baby. How to establish a routine with feedings, sleep, and
how to care for your little one are usually
on the forefront of new parent’s minds.
What you might not be thinking about is
how to position your baby for optimal
physical and emotional development.
There are many options for awake time
that can be incorporated into your daily
routine to help in these areas.
The Back to Sleep Program begun in
1992 has decreased the incidence of SIDS
by 40-60 percent. Research shows that
babies sleeping on their backs in their own
bed have a decreased risk of SIDS.
Although “back to sleep” has improved
safety for sleep, we should remember that
“tummy to play” is important too. Since
your baby spends time on her back while
sleeping, it is important to change to a different position as much as possible during
awake time.
In the past decade there has been a
great increase in the use of equipment
designed to hold babies. Swings, bouncy
seats and the use of car seats outside of the
car are examples that can help for brief
periods of time so caretakers can attend to
other household tasks. However, your
baby will benefit greatly from time spent
out of equipment.
One of life’s greatest joys is to hold
your baby! Holding your baby is very
important for bonding, giving baby a sense
of security, language development and eye
contact. Physical touch gives your baby
important information about his body.
Tummy time stretches and strengthens
muscles for gross and fine motor skills.
The muscles in the front of the trunk and
hips are shortened from baby being in the
fetal position. Tummy time stretches out
these muscles as well as strengthening the
muscles in the back, neck and shoulders as
your baby lifts her head against gravity.
Your baby will feel the surface against her
face, body and hands which help her
understand her body and how it moves.
The baby’s head is moving in the horizontal position, which will help with rolling
and eventually balance and coordination.
Typically, a baby can lift his head up off
the floor soon after birth. He will be able to
lift his head and chest off the floor and rest
on forearms by 4 months. By 6 months,
baby starts to reach for toys while lying on
his tummy. To make tummy time more
interesting, place toys in front of him or get
down on the floor with him, as faces are
very exciting to him.
If lying flat on the floor on the tummy is
difficult for your baby, place him over your
lap with one leg slightly higher to reduce
effects of gravity. This can be helpful for
babies with reflux. Other options are leaning back in a recliner with baby on your
chest or placing him with arms over a
Boppy pillow. Sidelying with a towel roll
placed behind the back is another good
option for awake time. This helps your baby
to feel the sides of his body and be comfortable with his head in a different position.
There are many other options for carrying your baby so your arms are free. A
front carrier is for babies without head
control. A back carrier is for babies who
can hold their heads up well. There are
also many types of slings that can be used
both in front and back.
Due to the increased time babies now
spend on their backs, a condition called
torticollis has increased dramatically the
last 10 years. It involves muscles in the
neck becoming tight so that the baby is
unable to hold her head in a vertical position, resulting in a head tilt. She may have
trouble turning her head to one side.
Sometimes this can be caused by in utero
positioning or by irritation to the neck
muscles during delivery. Other times it
may not appear until 2-3 months of age
due to repetitive positioning with pressure
on the back of the head. It can result in
shortening of the neck and trunk muscles
and lead to uneven motor skills later on.
Positional plagiocephaly is a deformity of the head due to sustained pressure.
The back of the head may become flattened, usually more to one side. One side
of the forehead may be bulging forward,
with the ear pushed forward as well. This
condition often accompanies torticollis.
Oftentimes, physical therapy as well as varied positioning can help with these conditions. A
helmet may be needed at times to correct a
baby’s head shape. Talk to your doctor if your
have concerns in these areas.
The preferred goal, of course is prevention! Consider these guidelines: place
your baby in many different positions
throughout the day, use equipment as little
as possible, start with tummy time early
and often.
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May 8, 2015 — 13
Home & Family
St. Benedict Parish celebrating 100th anniversary
In the early part of the 20th century,
Roman Catholics in Fontana found it difficult too get to church. One parishioner
recalls that her parents had to take a horse
and buggy all the way to Lake Geneva.
Another reported having to walk three
miles to Fontana and then take the electric
interurban to Harvard, Ill.
The need having been proved, on March
10, 1915, Father Thomas Pierce signed the
articles of incorporation of St. Benedict’s
Church. Property on which to build a church
on Third Street in Fontana was purchased in
1915 and the deed was recorded in the courthouse in Elkhorn in 1916.
A March 16, 1916 news article indicated that Fontana Catholics were anticipating a church.
“Frank Featherstone and Eugene
Sullivan are hauling store for the foundation of the church to be built this spring,”
the article reported.
According to a long-time parishioner,
the men of the congregation built the
church, which was completed in 1916.
Parents took turns transporting nuns from
St. Catherine’s in Sharon to Fontana for
summer religious classes.
The church on Third Street served the
congregation until the present church was
built on drained wetlands at 137 Dewey
Avenue, near the intersection of what is
now Highway 67 in Fontana. Construction
began on March 21, 1960 and was completed on March 21, 1961.
St. Benedict had received a decree as a
parish on January 1, 1954, from the
Archdiocese in Milwaukee. Until August,
1952, it had continued as a mission church
of St. Catherine’s.
Father Arthur Kelly had come to the
church in 1952 to assist Father Peil. In
Parishioners gather outside the old St. Benedict Catholic Church on Third
Street in Fontana. Worshippers occupied the church in 1916 and moved to a new facility on Dewey Avenue in 1961.
(Photo furnished)
August of that year, he was named St.
Benedict’s first resident priest. Father
Kelly died suddenly on Feb. 24, 1980,
while at St. Benedict’s. He was 66 years
old. Archbishop Rembert Weakland was
the celebrant at Fr. Kelly’s funeral mass.
On July 4, 1980, Father Joseph Zeihen
became a pastor. He served until his retirement on June 2, 1996. Under his direction,
construction of the 10,400 square foot
Educational Parish Center began in the fall
of 1987 and was completed in the summer
of 1988. He retired on June 18, 1996 and
passed away in April, 2006.
Father Zeihen had asked Sister
Florence Russ to come to St. Benedict to
organize the CCD classes. Soon Sister
Florence took on housekeeping duties as
well. She remained at St. Benedict until
May, 1991.
Father Robert Stiefvater became a part
of the parish family when he came in the
spring of 1995 to be the first coordinator of
the Walworth County Spanish Ministry, a
post in which he served until Jan. 1, 1997.
On June 30, 1996, Father Steve
Stradinger was installed as St. Benedict’s
new pastor. When he left, Father Daniel J.
Sanders was officially welcomed on
March 19, 2000. It was under his direction
that a number of innovative programs were
initiated. They included Helping Hands,
Chipmonks, Lenten Fish Fries, “Sogni
D’ore,” Golf Outings, the St. Benedict
website, the parish picnic, the backpack
project, a mission trip to help benefit the
victims of Hurricane Katrina at Our Lady
of Lourdes Parish in Slidell, La., a homeless shelter, Walworth County Catholic
Schools mass and picnic and the Baby
Bottle Project. He was reassigned after his
terms expired in 2011.
In 2005, sculptor Jay Brost produced
and donated the sculpture of St. Benedict
for the church’s garden area
On June 25, 2011, Father Norberto
Sandoval was installed as St. Benedict’s
new pastor.
According to Sara Burton-Zick, Parish
Council Secretary and Liaison to the 100Year Anniversary Committee, many activities are being planned to celebrate the
parish milestone.
There will be a dinner cruise on May
23 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. on the Lady of
the Lake. The special cruise will leave
from, and return to, the Fontana Municipal
Pier. Tickets are still available at $41 per
person.
On June 20, at 7 p.m. there will be a
Music Ministers Concert in the church
featuring the Anniversary Choir.
And on July 11 at 5 p.m., Archbishop
Jerome Listecki will celebrate a special
outdoor anniversary mass, to be followed
by a pig roast and ice cream social.
More information about the church
and its activities may be found on the
Internet at www.StBensParish.org or at St.
Benedict Parish on Facebook.
(Historical information courtesy of
Ginny Hall.)
14 — The Beacon
May 8, 2015
Long-time Williams Bay resident Elsa Weber dies at age 98
Elsa Louise Andersson Weber, of
Williams Bay died peacefully on April
27 after an extended illness while visiting her daughter Sandra Angstrom in
North Royalton, Ohio.
Elsa was born April 5, 1917, in Chicago to Giedeon and Stina (Dahlgren)
Andersson, who immigrated to the
United States from Sweden. Elsa married Wesley A. Weber on April 25, 1936,
in Chicago and lived there and in
Aurora, Ill, for much of her adult life,
where she was one of the first women to
serve on the Vestry of St. David’s
Episcopal Church in the early 1960s.
Elsa and Wesley relocated to Williams
Bay in 1970.
When her husband Wesley opened
Mode Industries in Genoa City, Elsa
assisted with bookkeeping for the business; however, she found her passion at
the age of 65 after purchasing a spinning
wheel at an antique shop in Vermont.
With no knowledge of spinning or weaving, Elsa enrolled in two courses at the
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
and learned the fiber arts in addition to
knitting and crocheting. She learned to
use the drop spindle and found joy in
teaching others her craft, from showcasing her work in juried exhibitions and at
the “sheep to shawl” demonstrations at
the Walworth County Fair, to making
visits to children’s classrooms in
Wisconsin and Florida.
Elsa was an avid reader who enjoyed
sharing her love of history as a longtime member of the Questers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study,
conservation, and preservation of historical objects. Elsa served as a docent in
the Questers’ Museum at Yerkes Observatory, where she enthusiastically shared
Betty Bartholomew admires Elsa Weberʼs crown during a Scandinavianthemed luncheon hosted by the Questers
(Beacon photo)
stories of the lives of astronomers and
scientists who visited the Observatory
throughout the years.
Her involvement with the GFWC
Woman’s Club of Williams Bay showed
her commitment and dedication to the
Williams Bay community and Walworth
County. She especially enjoyed chairing
and working on the very successful Fall
Ham Dinner fundraiser.
Elsa also enjoyed sharing her travels
with family and friends, including many
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the dangers of indoor air pollution. Asthma, allergies, and dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide are all hazards that families face in their own
homes everyday. The Clean Indoor Air Alliance, or
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present in virtually every home.
The focus on the quality of the air we breathe inside our homes is becoming more important than
ever before. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), people spend
up to 90% or more of their day indoors, with much
of that time taking place at home. “The EPA states
that indoor air is 2 to 10 times more hazardous than
outdoor air,” stated Keith Nissen, president of Master Services Plumbing, Heating & Cooling.
Master Services is one of many HVAC contractors nationwide who have decided to come together to combat the hazardous effects of poor air
in people’s homes. The group they formed, called
the Clean Indoor Air Alliance, or CIA2, is dedicated
to giving homeowners options to improve the quality of the air inside their homes.
“The well-constructed, or ‘tight’ homes, which are
being built today may be more energy efficient, but
they are also more efficient at holding in dangerous
airborne particulates,” commented Keith Nissen. “In
fact, asthma and many allergies are attributed to the
poor quality of the air in many homes,” he added.
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Homeowners in the Walworth County area may
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trips to Sweden, where she visited
cousins, aunts and uncles, some who
lived in the hometowns of her parents,
Grums and Karlstad. Her love of
Sweden was passed down to her family
through traditional customs and celebrations such as the Christmas smorgasbord
that she loved.
Elsa will be most lovingly remembered for a warm sense of humor, her
positive outlook, and a genuine interest
in others. Whether Elsa was playing
bridge with dear friends, cooking or
knitting with family, or watching her
great-grandchildren play on the hill
outside her home in Williams Bay, she
always offered words of encouragement or support for those she loved,
and her enthusiasm for life was an
inspiration to all who were blessed to
have known her.
She is survived by three children,
David Weber (Ellen), of Williams Bay,
Sandra Angstrom (Wayne), of North
Royalton, Ohio, and Kathy Weber. She
was preceded in death by her parents,
Giedeon and Stina (Dahlgren) Andersson; a brother, Harry Andersson (Ruth);
her husband, Wesley A. Weber; a son,
Ronald Weber (Patricia); a grandson,
Kurt Weber; a daughter-in-law, Marilyn
Weber and a brother-in-law, Gerald
Weber (Sarah). In her 98 years, Mrs.
Weber was blessed with 13 grandchildren: Nicole Weber Shaffer (Drew), of
Naperville, Ill; Spencer Weber (Michelle) and Stacey Weber Higgins
(John), of Williams Bay; Kurt Schadewald, of Fredericksburg, Va.; Christopher Schadewald, Sara Schade-wald
Wulf (David), Derek Weber, and David
Weber, of Williams Bay; Mark Angstrom, of Boca Raton, Fla.; Carl Angstrom (Anne), of Naples, Fla.; David
Angstrom (Jennifer), of Denver, Colo.;
and Kristina Angstrom Neumann
(David), of North Royalton, Ohio; and 5
nieces and nephews. In addition, Mrs.
Weber enjoyed spending time with 24
great-grandchildren.
The family requests that, in lieu of
flowers, expressions of sympathy be
made to the Quester Museum at Yerkes
Observatory, Williams Bay or VIP
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Wisconsin Farm Technology
Days seeks recipes for book
Walworth County will host the 2016
Wisconsin Farm Technology Days on
July 19-21, 2016 at Snudden Farms in
Lake Geneva. The Family Living
Committee will have cookbooks for sale
featuring the best recipes from
Southeastern Wisconsin, and they need
people to submit their favorite recipes to
be included in this special edition cookbook.
Recipes can be sent to Family Living
Co-Chairs Laurie Kyle (nutrition
[email protected]) or Deanna Malin
([email protected]). The deadline for submission is July 15, 2015.
The cookbook is a promotional tool
to help stimulate interest in the event, as
well as to raise additional funds to offset
some of the expenses of the show. It
will also provide a platform to showcase
the different heritages within the community. To properly showcase Walworth
County, all residents throughout the
county are encouraged to submit recipes.
The cookbooks will be on sale prior to
and during the event. Look for future
information regarding how to obtain a
copy of this special collection.
For more information, contact
Laurie Kyle at (262) 903-5047 or, at the
risk of being repetitive, email nutrition
[email protected].
Regulators approve WE Energies
acquisition of Illinois utility
By Patty Murray
The state’s utility regulation agency
is letting We Energies acquire the
Illinois utility, Integrys Energy Group
Inc., a move that would create the country’s 15th-largest utility.
The Public Service Commission set
some conditions for WEC Energy
Group Inc., the new company that
would emerge from the acquisition and
serve roughly half of the state’s
ratepayers. It will have to ask permission if it wants to move its headquarters out of the state in the next decade.
An earnings cap would also require the
company to pass on excess profits to
ratepayers for three years.
PSC Chairwoman Ellen Nowak said
it’s a good deal for shareholders and
ratepayers.
“This acquisition involves the joining of one utility that is short on generation capacity (Integrys) to a utility that is
long on capacity (We Energies). If these
two generation systems are integrated
fairly, general modeling performed by
PSC staff suggest ratepayers could save
up to $600 million,” said Nowak.
If the deal is approved by Illinois and
Minnesota, it could be finalized by this
summer.
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Hand-colored lithograph depicts the 1825 Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort
Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William
Clark, Governor Lewis Cass and more than 5,000 representatives of the Sioux, Sac,
Fox, and Iowa tribes, established boundaries to prevent conflict between the tribes. It
also cleared the way for later land purchases. The scene, one of the largest such gatherings of Native Americans, was sketched by James Otto Lewis, who accompanied
Cass, and it was published in 1835 as part of his Aboriginal Portfolio.
(Wisconsin Historical Society)
Pike’s peek at Wisconsin in 1805
On Sept. 4, 1805, Capt. Zebulon
Pike (1779-1813) stepped ashore at
Prairie du Chien, having come up from
St. Louis in a 70-foot keelboat rowed by
20 soldiers. A year after dispatching
Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, Thomas Jefferson had sent him to
discover the source of the Mississippi.
Pike found the views in the upper
Mississippi “so variegated and romantic, that a man may scarcely expect to
enjoy such a one but twice or thrice in
the course of his life.” The Ho-Chunk,
Menominee and Dakota received him
with respect and hospitality, and
pledged their loyalty to the United
States.
Prairie du Chien’s French-Canadian
residents competed at sports with his
soldiers (“my men beat all the villagers
at jumping and hopping”) and the handful of English-speaking settlers showed
“spontaneous effusions of goodwill” at
meeting a fellow-countryman.
A week later, Pike and his crew
stopped at “a prairie called Le Cross,
from a game of ball played frequently
on it by the Sioux Indians” and two days
afterwards “passed the mountain which
stands in the river, or as the French term
it, which soaks in the river” (Mt.
Trempealeau).
Pike made it into northern
Minnesota before turning back in 1806.
He was immediately sent into the far
West, where he climbed the mountain
peak that bears his name before being
captured by the Spanish.
He died during the War of 1812
while commanding an attack on York
(modern Toronto), when the British detonated explosives buried under his
advancing troops.
This and many other fascinating stories about history in Wisconsin are available on the website of the Wisconsin
Historical Society, www.wisconsinhistory.org.
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Delavan-Darien High School hosts FFA plant sale
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May 8, 9 a.m. - noon on Saturday, May
9, 3-5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, May
14 and 15.
The FFA has been keeping the
DDHS greenhouse full of hanging baskets and combo pots. New this year is a
limited supply of specialty “tomtatoes.”
With these grafted potato/tomato
hybrids, you’ll get potatoes on the bot-
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According to organizers, there is also
a great selection of potted plants and
hanging baskets.
“Our petunia and dragon wing hanging baskets look really good,” said FFA
advisor Marty Speth. “The Cheesecake
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Breeze, look really good, too.”
Back this year, are the 12-inch
“Welcome” and “American” sign planters.
For vegetable gardeners, there are
lots of various tomatoes, assorted other
veggies and herbs.
Proceeds from the plant sale support
the DDHS FFA Chapter. The sale is open
to the public. Parking for the DDHS greenhouse is available through the school’s
staff parking lot entrance on Highway 11.
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Aram Public Library, 404 E. Walworth
Ave., Delavan. Library Hours: Mon. - Thurs.,
9 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.,
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Sunday, 1-4 p.m.
• LEGO Club - Monday, May 18 at 4:30
p.m. Give our LEGO blocks a workout building anything from a dinosaur to a spaceship.
Work in teams or individually, give your creation a name, then see it displayed in the
Children’s Library.
• Storytime with Ms. Denise, Wednesdays at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Spring is springing up all over. Why not celebrate with fantastic songs, stories, and activities?
Mornings are for babies and toddlers, afternoons are for all ages, and both sessions follow fun themes: May 13 – In & Out.
• Knit and Crochet Club, May 11, 20
and 27 at 6 p.m. For all ages and experience
levels.
• Baby to Three, Come Wiggle With Me,
Monday, May 11 at 10 a.m. Words and wiggles go together like peanut butter and jelly
in this special story time/dance party/open
play extravaganza for babies and toddlers.
We’ll provide stories, songs, and things to
explore…all we need is you.
• Oh, My Aching Back, Monday, May 11
at 6 p.m. Registration is required. Too much
digging in the garden? Strained your back
lugging yard furniture out of the garage?
Learn about maintaining back health in this
wellness presentation by physical therapist
Meghan Bretl from Mercy Health.
• Wiggly Worms, Tuesday, May 12 at
4:30 p.m. Let’s talk worms! We need your
help introducing our friendly little wigglers
to their new home in the Kinder-Garden.
We’ll learn about worms and what they do
for the soil and plants, read a story, and learn
how to make our very own worm farm at
home.
• Sparkle, Sparkle, Big Star Glitter
Extravaganza, Thursday, May 14 at 6 p.m.
Glitter is a blast to craft with, but ends up
everywhere! Save yourself the hassle of
cleaning and come to the library to make fun,
sparkly works of art.
• Aram Book Club – Thursday, May 21 at
6:30 p.m. will discuss “Shotgun Lovesongs”
by Wisconsin writer Nickolas Butler
• Guilty Pleasures Book Club, Monday,
May 18 at 6 p.m., will discuss “The
Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax” by Dorothy
Gilman.
• 1,000 Books before Kindergarten. Help
your preschool child acquire learning and literacy skills through exposure to books and a
language-rich early childhood experience.
This program is open-ended, so you can read
at your own pace, year-round.
• Tech Tutorials, Wednesdays from 9:30
to 11 a.m. Registration is required. Baffled
by technology? Sign up for a 45-minute oneon-one session with a librarian for assistance
with anything computer related. Bring in
your own device or use one of our computers.
• Check out the special cart of sale books
on the main level. New arrivals in hard cover
are featured near the adult services desk for
$1, and children and teen’s books of all sizes,
shapes and topics are offered for 50 cents
each, or three for $1 near the elevator on the
entrance level.
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Barrett Memorial Library, 65 W. Geneva St., Williams Bay. Open Mon. and Wed.
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Tues., Thurs., Fri. 9 a.m. - 6
p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Check the library’s
new Web site at www.williamsbay. lib.wi.us/
• Classic movie, Wednesday, May 13, 10
a.m.
• Adult video bowling, Tuesday, May 19,
10:30 a.m., using the new Xbox to bring
bowling back to the library.
• New book group for teens, Thursday,
May 21, 4 p.m. Stop at the library to choose
from a great selection of teen books.
• The What Are Teen’s Reading? book
group now meets on the third Monday of the
month at 7 pm. This group is for parents to
read and review teen books. Stop at the
library to choose from a great selection of
YA books.
• Friday Morning Playgroup in the children’s room, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Meet other
families with young kids.
• StoryTimes: Tuesdays 10 a.m. and
Thursdays 1:30 p.m. Crafts to follow. Same
books and craft both days.
• Video Game Tournaments, Fridays at 4
p.m.
• Lego and Beading Club: Mondays at 4
p.m. Ages 9 and up.
• Movie Showings. Watch our website,
www.williamsbay.lib.wi.us, for upcoming
dates.
• Scrabble Club, Wednesdays 10 a.m. noon.
• Knitting Circle, Wednesdays 1-3 p.m.
All skill levels welcome. Take a project to
work on.
• The Saturday Morning Book Group
meets the second Saturday of the month at 10
a.m.
• Ongoing sale of a great selection of
used books. Browse Barrett for Books.
All programs are free and open to the
public unless otherwise indicated. Call 2452709 or e-mail [email protected].
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Brigham Memorial Library, 131 Plain
St., Sharon. Hours: Mon. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.;
Tues. 12-8 p.m.; Wed. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Thurs.
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sat. 9
a.m. - noon. Phone 736-4249.
• Story Time, Wednesdays, 10 – 11 a.m.
A theme will unite a story and a craft.
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Clinton Public Library, 214 Mill St.,
Clinton. Hours: Monday and Friday 8:30
a.m. - 5 p.m.; Tuesday - Thursday 8:30 a.m.
- 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Phone (608) 676-5569.
• Storytimes at the library, Mondays at
10 a.m. for children 3 to 24 months; Fridays
at 1 a.m. for 2-5-year-olds.
• 55+ Tech Desk. A new technology service offers free help to people 55 and older.
Available every other Thursday. Call to register. Free one-on-one help is available for all
ages by appointment.
• Adult book discussion the fourth
Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
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Darien Public Library, 47 Park Street,
Darien. Hours: Monday - Thursday: 10 a.m.
to 7 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Closed
Friday and Sunday. Phone: (262) 882-5155.
Web page: www.darien.lib.wi.us.
• Photocopies 10 cents per page. Faxes
sent or received for $1 per page
• Free Wireless access
• Ten computers for patron use at no cost
• Free library cards
• Book Cub for Adults, third Wednesday
of the month at 5:45 p.m.
• Ongoing library book sale: children’s
books for 25 cents; adult paperback books
for 50 cents; adult hardcover books for $1;
and DVDs for $2.
• Wide selection of magazines, music
CDs and DVDs to check out
• Large selection of children’s joke
books, including Small Critter Joke Book,
Huge Animal Joke Book, Hysterical Dog
Jones, Silly Cat Jones, and Brainless
Birthday Jokes.
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East Troy Lions Public Library, 3094
Graydon Ave., East Troy. Hours: Mon. Thurs. 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Fri. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.,
Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Phone 542-6262.
• Story Time, Fridays, 11 a.m., for ages
18 months – 4 years.
• Lego Club, Thursdays at 3 - 4 p.m.
For more information, call 642-6262.
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Fontana Public Library, 166 Second
Ave., Fontana. Open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 8
p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Saturday.
• Happy-to-Be-Here Book Club, third
Thursday of each month, 1 p.m.
• Evening Book Club, third Thursday of
each month, 5:30 p.m., sometimes off-site.
public unless otherwise indicated. Call 2755107 for more information.
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Genoa City Public Library, 126 Freeman St., Genoa City. Hours: Mon. and Wed.
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Tues., Thurs. and Fri. 9 a.m.
- 5 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Story time, Fridays, 10 a.m. for kids
ages 3-5 and siblings.
• Ongoing book sale. Donations of new
or slightly used books, including children’s
books, may be dropped off at the library.
public unless otherwise indicated. Call 2796188 or email [email protected] for
more information.
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Lake Geneva Public Library, 918 W.
Main St., Lake Geneva. Hours: Mon. - Thurs.
9 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sat. 9
a.m. - 1 p.m. Phone 249-5299 or visit
www.lakegene va.lib.wi.us.
• Family Movie Nights. Families and
people of all ages are invited to attend the
ongoing Family Movie Nights. The Library
will show the newly-released movie “Annie”
on both Monday, May 18 and Thursday, May
21 from 6-8 p.m. Family Movie Night is a
monthly program that will feature family
friendly films especially appropriate for children age four to eleven, accompanied by an
adult. However, people of all ages are welcome to attend. Newly-released and favorite
classic films will be shown. Children are
encouraged to visit the library in comfy
clothes, bring pillows and blankets, and relax
in front of the screen. Popcorn will be served.
Everyone is welcome to attend at no charge.
For more information, call the library at 2495299 or visit the Library website.
• Adults are invited to attend the new
“Tuesdays at the Theater” movie showings
on the Library’s big movie screen. “To Write
Love on Her Arms” will be shown on
Tuesday, May 19 from 6-8 p.m. and is rated
PG-13. The movie is based on the true story
of Renee Yohe, a Florida teen played by Kat
Dennings who is introduced to a world of
drugs and self-destructive behavior. After
hitting rock bottom, she rededicates herself
to helping others by founding a charity.
[Sounds like a million laughs. Editor.]
• Preschool Story Time” every Friday
through May 29 from 9:30-10 a.m. Children
ages 3-5 years are especially encouraged to
attend this half hour reading program, however, families and children of all ages are
also invited. Each week, library staff read
aloud stories that are often based on a seasonal theme. “Preschool Story Time” may
include singing, dancing, and other participatory activities.
• Toddler Time for babies through age 2
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every Thursday from 9:30-10 a.m. through
May 28. Toddlers are invited to enjoy stories,
rhymes, songs, and play.
• Computer coaching and basic computer
problem-solving sessions are available at the
library for adults of all ages. Tutors will be
available Tuesdays from 9:30-10:30 a.m. in
the library’s reference room. Computer
coaching is led in a question and answer format by volunteers from Volunteer Connection of Walworth County. It is a one-on-one,
or two or more, training session that covers a
specific technology topic of interest, such as
setting up an email account. This service is
intended for all levels of users who need to
get more comfortable with specific computer
topics, such as using Google. People may
attend an unlimited number of sessions.
Topics covered include: email, Internet,
basic computer set-up, and basic troubleshooting. Topics not covered include:
hardware problems, Adobe Photoshop,
Linux Software, or other specialized, jobrelated software.
Please contact the reference desk staff to
register for a session at 249-5299 at least one
day in advance. Sessions are free.
For more information, call the library at
249-5299 or visit the Library Web site, www.
lakegeneva.lib.wi.us.
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Matheson Memorial Library, 101 N.
Wisconsin St., Elkhorn. Open Monday Thursday 9 a.m. - 8 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. - 6
p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 723-2678.
• Oh My Aching Back, Monday, May 11,
6 – 7 p.m. Too much digging in the garden?
Strained your back lugging yard furniture out
of the garage? Learn about maintaining back
health in this wellness presentation by physical therapist Meghan Bretl from Mercy
Health. Registration is required.
• Bee keeping will be the subject of a
program on Saturday, May 16 at 1 p.m. Rick
has been keeping bees for 35 years, both
commercially and as a hobbiest. He is also
skilled in queen rearing. April has been
keeping honey bees for six years at
LotFotL Community farm, an organic vegetable farm that she helps to manage outside
Elkhorn. April and Rick will talk about what
it takes to get starting with beekeeping,
including equipment, costs, where to get
bees, and other basic skills needed. No registration is required. All are welcome!
• The library hosts two book clubs per
month. The Page Turners meet on the first
Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. and the
Afternoon Book Club meets on the third
Wednesday of the month at 2 p.m. You can
check out a copy of the book club selection
3-4 weeks prior to the book club meeting. All
meetings are held at the library and are facilitated by staff librarians.
• Story times are about 30 minutes and are
filled with books, songs and more. Each week
will bring something new. No registration
required. Toddlers on Tuesday at 10 a.m. and
11 a.m.; Books n Babies on Thursday at 10
a.m.; Preschool age on Wednesday at 10 a.m.;
and Tiny Tots 2nd and 4th Monday at 6:30
p.m. We Explore, ages 3+, Friday 10 a.m.
• Slipped Stitches, every Wednesday, 68 p.m. in the Youth Services story room. A
group for anyone who does some sort of
stitching: knitting, crocheting, needlepoint,
tatting etc.
• The Lego Building Club for all ages
meets every other Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in
the community center. Each meeting will
feature a different building theme. Creations
will be displayed in the library and online.
Lego donations greatly appreciated.
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Pet Questions and Answers
Q: My spayed 5-year-old indoor calico cat is not normally vocal. However,
in the evening she carries her fabric lanyard in her mouth, wailing mournfully,
until she drops it. I am puzzled as to why
she does this and what this behavior
means.
A: It really doesn’t mean anything;
it’s just something that she likes to do. A
spayed cat has no estrogen, so she can’t
have any mothering behaviors, so it’s
not like she thinks it’s a kitten.
It could be that she is treating it like
a prey animal she may have just caught
and is looking for a place to hide it and
then is not satisfied with any of the spots
she encounters and then forgets the idea.
Or it could just be that she did it randomly one day and liked the way that you
reacted to her behavior and learned that
when she does this you will give her
attention, so it has become a game.
Whatever the reason, it is not a reflection on your care of her, and it’s not
because she is lacking anything in her
life.
When I was a kid, I had a cat named
Frosty who lived outdoors and indoors
and spent the whole day roaming the
woods. He lacked nothing in his life, and
yet he liked to just pick up things and
carry them home. He would bring back
sticks and small rocks and leave them on
our back porch in a pile. It was a hobby
of his, and only Frosty knew why he
liked to do it.
Q: About four years ago my husband
and I saw a strange squirrel in our yard.
He is completely hairless. His tail is long
and curls, but he has no hair or fur. I feed
the birds in my yard and he also came to
dine. We thought he would die over the
winter, but lo and behold he is back. He
fights with the other squirrels. It’s funny
to see this weird squirrel. We then saw
two other hairless squirrels. Is this a disease or is it genetic?
A: The lack of hair is not due to a
disease but rather to the same hairless
mutation that occurs in other rodents.
I have had hairless mice, rats, hamsters and guinea pigs. Either this squirrel
has bred and passed on the mutation or
its parents have had others, and thus
there are siblings surviving in the neighborhood.
Q: My cat is four years old. Last year
we left for a four-day trip and had someone check on her each day. After we
returned, the cat would stay on the bay
window at night and come up to us while
we were watching TV or reading and
have a strange, crazy look in her eye,
then viciously bite us. She has even
attacked us in the middle of the night
while we were sleeping. But during the
day, while not at the window, she is very
pleasant. We try to cover the window at
night, but this is all very exhausting. I
believe there may be a stray cat outside.
What can we do to get our cat back to
normal? Can we have her teeth filed?
A: I’ve had many readers complain
about their cats jumping on the bed and
playing with them in the middle of the
night, but this takes the question to a
completely different level. Obviously
the cat sitting in the window at night is
the trigger here. Whatever the cat is
experiencing while looking out the window is causing it to enter a “red zone.”
The drama for you that the cat causes
when it takes out its frustration (or whatever it is that it is feeling at the time) is
the reward, so this is one of those self
rewarding behaviors that can never go
away on its own.
You are doing the correct thing by
covering the window at night because
this removes the trigger, as long as you
are consistent about doing it. But the situation has to be consistent and complete
so that the cat can’t push the cover aside
to look out. I am visualizing some sort of
custom-made blind that you can just
close at night. If you remove the trigger
for a long enough period of time, the
behavior should stop. How long that
might take I can’t say, because each case
is different.
I also would talk to your vet about
putting the cat on some of the new antianxiety medications that are available
now. Some may say prescription drugs
for this sort of thing seem to be the easy
way out, but they are based on sound
science, and I have seen them work
many times, making life easier for both
pets and their keepers.
Q: I have lived in Smithtown, Long
Island, for 50 years now and never saw
anything quite like what I saw the other
day.
I went to the high school to run on
the track, and in the parking lot I saw a
large group of crows – perhaps 20 or
more – all gathered around something
on the ground. They were not feeding on
it as they do on road kill. They were just
looking and milling about. When I got
out of the car to get a closer look, they
all flew off and I saw that what they
were looking at was a dead crow that
must have been hit by a car.
I know that a group of crows is
called “a murder,” but nobody was get-
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ting murdered here. It almost looked like
they were paying their respects to the
dead bird as you would at a wake. Do
you think that is what they were doing?
A: Intelligent, social animals that
have the mental ability to have a sense of
the past, present and future do gather
around the dead bodies of members of
their own species. Birds of the corvid
family, such as crows and ravens, qualify with this cognitive ability. Was it
actually a funeral? That is hard to say.
Most species of birds will grieve for
their dead, but this emotion is usually
just experienced by the bird’s mate or
close family. Because you saw such a
large gathering, I doubt that was the
case. I would think the birds were using
this moment to work out a new group
hierarchy, because they are very social
and tend to stay in large flocks in the
winter.
The dead bird may have been one of
the more dominant crows in the resident
flock, and when the others witnessed its
death, they may have been trying to figure out who’s the new “boss bird.”
However, this is just a guess. Such situations are very hard to duplicate in a laboratory in order to get definitive
answers, and your guess may be as good
as mine.
Q: We really want to get a dog in our
family now as we feel our children are
old enough. Although there is a gap of
about six hours during the day when
nobody is home, we are in and out the
rest of the time. Is it possible to train a
puppy under such circumstances, and, if
so, what breed do you advise?
A: Anything is possible, but training
a puppy of any breed is challenging. To
base it on the age of a child should not
be the decisive reason. Everybody likes
getting a puppy, but it is even more challenging if your time is limited.
Realistically speaking, most of us just
want to come home to a happy dog that
wags its tail when it sees us and does not
chew the furniture and poop on the rug.
One option that many people do not
consider in a situation like yours is to
adopt a retired racing greyhound. They
make the perfect additions to a dog-loving family that is very busy. They have
spent such hard lives at the racing tracks
that when they have been retired and
given the opportunity to just lay around
the house all day, they are happy to do so.
They are also very clean and do not need
to be taken to a groomer once a month.
There are many organizations out there
run by dedicated volunteers who do a
great job of rescuing these dogs and fitting them with the perfect family. I think
such a dog would complement your life
rather than complicate it.
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New ‘Fab Lab’ coming to Delavan-Darien High School for 2015-16
DELAVAN — The drive to provide
more outstanding opportunities for
Science, Technology, Engineering and
Math (STEM) training for DelavanDarien students has reached its next
phase.
With support from various community partners, the district has announced
a new “Comet Creations Fab Lab” will
become a reality in the high school’s
technical education department.
A Fab Lab is an area meant for learning and innovation where students, and
eventually community members, could
fabricate, experiment, create, mentor
and invent. Using the latest high-tech
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and more – the Fab Lab will help prepare students for the technical workforce
challenges of many of today’s manufacturers.
“Students get to experience learning
and applying knowledge to real-life
challenges,” said Cindy Yager, director
of careers and occupations for DDHS.
“Kids get excited about this kind of
technology because the connection to
the real world and life after graduation is
huge.”
Over the summer, a workspace in an
existing DDHS computer lab will be
retrofitted to house this new state-of-the
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equipment should be ready to use by the
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after they graduate from high school or
a technical college. And students in
some of these classes, which are
through the Project Lead The Way curriculum, can receive college credits here
at DDHS.
“The jobs are out there and we want
to help provide skilled, job-ready adults
to keep our community, state and country strong. The Fab Lab will benefit
many students. We’re excited to see the
interest level in technical education
courses growing here at DDHS.”
Once the Fab Lab is set up, students
will begin to make their own projects, as
well as help other entrepreneurs from
the community get theirs off the ground.
“In our first year, we’re mainly going
to have it open to students and eventually introduce it to the community for their
use through the students and their
instructors,” Yeager said. “Students and
instructors will be able to ‘quote’ the
work a community member needs done
based on the time and material costs to
create a prototype or product for them
based on submitted designs. That way,
the lab becomes more self-sufficient.”
Students receive tremendous skills
training in Fab Labs, from the engineering and math behind product development, to the business training related to
quoting work, making deadlines and
working with customers, Yager said.
The Fab Lab would also be used by
other curricular areas at DDHS, she said.
Art students could find creative uses for 3D models and laser-etched pieces. Social
studies students can study economics
behind a product going from an idea to a
mass-produced consumable product.
Biology students can model cells, molecules or even parts of the human body
with 3-D printers, Yager added.
It’s possible that, over time, the Fab
Lab could become available for more
direct community use as well.
“The opportunities are endless and
we are very excited to offer this Fab Lab
opportunity to our students and community members,” Yager said. “The anticipation is certainly growing in our building to see it come to fruition.”
Foundation Grant setup
To support the ongoing development
of the Fab Lab and overall improvement
of the technology education department
at DDHS, district officials are setting up a
“foundation grant” structure, Yager said.
The grant format is based on sponsorships from community partners. In
exchange for monetary, equipment or inkind donations, donors receive various
benefits and recognition depending on
their level of contribution.
Yager said foundation grant programs like this have experienced much
success across the state and nation. Like
members of the supporting Career and
Technical Education (CTE) Support
Committee, local businesses often support technology education in schools
because it helps improve the school-towork pipeline for student graduates who
are ready for the workforce.
The schools are better equipped to
teach specific skills needed in the workforce, and the business partners in turn
have a greater pool of skilled, welltrained job candidates, something that
often lacks in the increasingly high-tech
manufacturing sector.
Funds from this type of work, and
through foundation grant supporters,
will allow the Fab Lab to continue to
grow and provide additional equipment
that will expand learning opportunities
for students, Yager said.
To Help
Any individuals or corporations
interested in becoming a partner in the
Delavan-Darien “Comet Creations Fab
Lab” project should contact Career and
Occupations Director Cindy Yager at
728-2642. ext. 4402, or cyager@dd
schools.org. Various sponsorship levels
– from $0 to $500 “friend” giving up to
$15,000+ platinum level sponsors – are
available and include various benefits to
the donor(s), such as recognition on promotional materials and equipment.
Program Needs
The following “wish list” of items
will be added to the Fab Lab as additional funding becomes available: Laser
engraver, 3-D printers, 3-D mill, pickand-place robot, Solidworks software
license, storage cabinets, work tables,
drill press, band saw, drills, specialty
tools, tool storage, shop vacs, stools,
whiteboards, computers, classroom
upgrades.
CTE Support Committee
The Delavan-Darien Career and
Technical Education (CTE) Support
Committee exists to support DelavanDarien’s technical education and STEM
programming efforts. Committee members meet monthly to discuss ways to
help and make plans to further the
progress of the school’s technology program offerings. The committee receives
support from: Gateway Technical
College, Precision Plus, Mode
Industries, Continental Plastics, Micro
Precision, SPX, Vision Plastics, Better
by Design, Scot Forge, Walworth
County
Economic
Development
Alliance, City of Delavan officials,
retired teachers and others.
Anyone who would like to take part
in the committee shhould contact Career
and Occupations Director Cindy Yager
at 728-2642, ext. 4402, or cyager@dd
schools.org.
26 — The Beacon
Plan ahead. Look through the calendar to
make advance reservations for events that
require them. Phone numbers are in area
code (262) unless otherwise indicated.
FRIDAY, MAY 8
Award winning musical, “Hello Dolly,”
by Lakeland Players, 7:30 p.m., Walworth
County Performing Arts Center (former
Sprague Theater) in downtown Elkhorn. All
tickets are $14 and may be reserved by calling 728-5578 or 723-4848, by ordering on
line at www.lakeland-players.org, or at the
Elkhorn Chamber Commerce.
SATURDAY, MAY 9
Butchers Model Car Club 4H models
project meeting , 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the
Walworth County Fair Grounds Activity
Center, 411 E. Court St. (Hwy. 11), Elkhorn.
Take models for display and projects to work
on. Sale and swap items are also welcome.
The club also hosts the 4H scale models project and young people in the project are
encouraged to attend. Call Keith at 728-1483
or Barry at 248-1075 for more information.
Bingo Night Fundraiser for NAMI, The
National Alliance on Mental Illness, at the
Walworth Lakeland Elks Lodge in Delavan.
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner
beginning at 6 and bingo will start at 7. This
year’s menu is a pizza buffet with tossed
salad and dessert with children under 12 eating for free. Tickets are $10. Call (262) 2034248 for tickets and information.
SUNDAY, MAY 10
by Lakeland Players, 3 p.m., Walworth
TUESDAY, MAY 12
Tuesdays@2 presents Aprons, Aprons
and Aprons by fiber curator Betty Less. Your
mother wore them, your grandmother wore
them and their history is really fascinating.
Geneva Lake Museum, 255 Mill St, in downtown Lake Geneva. Free to museum members and a guest, $5 for non-members. Free
parking at the rear of the museum. Call 2486060 for reservations.
Ballroom Dance Class and beginning
swing, 7 p.m., Elkhorn Park Recreation
Center, 200 Devendorf St., Elkhorn. Call
741-5114 for more information.
FRIDAY, MAY 15
Dan Blitz (solo guitarist), 9 p.m. to midnight, Lakeview Lounge, Geneva Ridge
Resort, W4240 Hwy. 50, Lake Geneva. 2493800, www.genevaridge.com.
SATURDAY, MAY 16
Junk in Your Trunk sale, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.,
Christ Episcopal Church of Delavan, 503 E.
Walworth Avenue. Food and beverages will
be available for sale.
Founders Day Picnic, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at
White River County Park, a new, 195 acre
property at the intersection of Sheridan
Springs Road and Short Road in the Town of
Lyons. Everyone is invited to enjoy a free hot
dog or hamburger lunch, take a walk on the
trails, fish in the pond, play some outdoor
games or even take a kayak ride on the White
River (weather permitting).
National Museum History Day at the
Geneva Lake Museum will feature lots of
activities and presentations during this community event. Geneva Lake Museum, 255
Mill St, in downtown Lake Geneva. Free
parking at the rear of the museum. Call 2486060 for reservations.
Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra concert, 7:30 p.m., Calvary Community Church,
Highway 50 and Harris Road, Williams Bay.
The concert will consist of Leonard
Bernstein’s “On the Waterfront,” Mozart’s
“Piano Concerto No. 12 with Matthew
Zarema on Piano and Sibelius’ Symphony
No. 2.Tickets are $12 for adults, no charge
for students in grades K-12. Call (62) 3599072 for tickets.
SUNDAY, MAY 17
Flea Market, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., downtown
Sharon. The Sharon Chamber of Commerce
will hold its Country & Flea Markets. Some
items for sale are: farm and horticultural
products, honey, arts and crafts, jewelry, furniture, house hold items, clothing, books,
DVD's, tools, etc.
Antique Flea Market, 7 a.m. - 4 p.m.,
Walworth County Fairgrounds, Hwy. 11
Elkhorn. Free parking, $5 entry fee, rain or
shine. More than 500 inside and outside dealers, food, paved walkways, no pets.
by Lakeland Players, 3 p.m., Walworth
The Chancel Choir of the Delavan
United Church of Christ will host the Third
Annual Choir Festival and will be joined by
the choir of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church
and School. The 40-voice combined choirs
have said this event is one of their favorites
and will join in four part harmony to present
this great concert of sacred music at 7 p.m. at
UCC of Delavan, 123 E. Washington St.
Guests will be able to join in some congregational singing. A free will offering will be
taken for the Open Arms Free Clinic in
Elkhorn. Refreshments will be served after
the concert. Call 728-2212 ext. 13 for info.
Monday May 18
Red Cross Blood Drive, 2 - 5 p.m., East
Troy Bible Church, 2660 North St. (Hwy 20)
East Troy.
TUESDAY, MAY 19
Tuesdays@2 presents artist Neal
Aspinall, who has brought Lake Geneva to
life on canvas. Geneva Lake Museum, 255
Mill St, in downtown Lake Geneva. Free to
museum members and a guest, $5 for nonmembers. Free parking at the rear of the
museum. Call 248-6060 for reservations.
Recently lost a loved one? Share and
receive the support of other people facing the
challenges associated with the grieving
process by attending the Mercy Hospice
Grief Care Support Group. There is no
charge for attendance. Family and friends are
welcome. The meeting will take place at 6
p.m. in the Mercy Walworth Hospital and
Medical Center lower conference room,
Hwys 50 and 67, Lake Geneva. RSVP by
calling (888) 39-MERCY.
Spaghetti Supper, Night in Venice, 4 30 7 p.m. at Creek Road Community Church,
W7778 Creek Rd., Delavan, $8 for adults, $4
children, buffet style with all the fixings.
Enjoy the Italian decor and accordion music.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20
Limber Timbers Square Dance Club,
7:30-10 p.m., in the cafeteria of Elkhorn
Middle School, 627 E. Court St, (Hwy 11),
Elkhorn. Callers, Bob Asp and Curt Braffet,
cuer, Jerry Buckmaster. For information, call
Barb at (608) 883-2017.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19
Limber Timbers Square Dance Club,
7:30-10 p.m., Darien Senior Center, 47 Park
St., Darien. (Pie Night). Callers, Don and
Doug Sprosty, cuer, Doug Sprosty. For information, call Barb at (608) 883-2017.
FRIDAY, MAY 22
Red Cross Blood Drive, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.,
Sunset Park Recreation Building, 200
Devendorf St., Elkhorn.
Red Cross Blood Drive, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.,
Mercy Walworth Medical Center, N2950
State Road 67 at Hwy 50, Town of Geneva.
End Prohibition night at the Geneva Lake
Museum – a special evening event to open the
Roaring 20’s and 30’s Exhibit. Geneva Lake
Museum, 255 Mill St, in downtown Lake
Geneva. Free parking at the rear of the museum. Call 248-6060 for reservations.
Brett Gaertner (modern pop & country),
9 p.m. to midnight, Lakeview Lounge,
Geneva Ridge Resort, W4240 Hwy. 50, Lake
Geneva. 249-3800, www.genevaridge.com.
Monday, May 25
Memorial Day
Lyons American Legion Post #327
Memorial Day ceremony at the flag pole in
downtown Lyons at 10 a.m.
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Geneva Lake Museum is located at 255
Mill St. in downtown Lake Geneva. Hours in
May are: Monday, Tuesday, Friday and
Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. - 3
p.m.
The Delavan Historical Society, 663 E.
Ann St., at the intersection with Seventh St.
(Highway 50), is open free to the public from
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Mondays and Saturdays.
Volunteer work day, every Saturday
from 8:30-11:30 a.m. at Kishwauketoe
Nature Preserve, Highway 67, north,
Williams Bay. Meet at the main entrance.
The work location will be posted at the
kiosk. Contact Harold at (262) 903-3601 or
email [email protected] to get on the list.
AARP Local 5310, 9:30 a.m. the fourth
Tuesday of every month (except August and
December) at Peoples Bank, 837 N.
Wisconsin St. Elkhorn. For information, call
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[email protected].
American Legion Auxiliary meeting,
6:45 p.m. on the second Monday of each
month at the Legion Hall on Second Street in
Delavan. The group raises money for scholarships and to send gifts at Christmas time
to the servicemen and women that are hospitalized due to injuries while in combat.
Attention horse lovers – Walworth
County Boots and Saddle Club is looking for
new members. Meetings take place at 7 p.m.,
second Saturday of each month for potluck
and to plan events. Sugar Creek Town Hall,
N6641 Co. Road H, Elkhorn. Call Fred
Campisano, 716-6355 for more information.
OFA-LG, meets at 6:30 p.m. on the
fourth Monday of each month at Caribou
Coffee in Lake Geneva. Come join us for discussion and updates on the happenings in
Washington, D.C.
Southern Lakes Masonic Lodge #12,
1007 S. 2nd St., Delavan. Stated meetings
are second and fourth Mondays at 7 p.m.
Geneva Masonic Lodge #44, 335 Lake
Shore Dr., Lake Geneva. Regularly stated
meetings, second and fourth Tuesdays, 7:30
p.m. 725-3062.
Ice Age Trail Alliance, monthly meeting,
third Tuesday of each month 7 p.m. at U.S.
Bank, Elkhorn (Downstairs in the community
meeting room, enter at the back door).
Home-brew Club, 7 - 9 p.m., Lake
Geneva Brewing Emporium, 640 W. Main
Street, Lake Geneva, meets the third
Wednesday of every month. Call 729-4005
for more information.
Bingo, second and fourth Thursday of
the month at the Delavan American Legion
hall, 111 S. 2nd St. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.,
a 15-game session begins at 6:30.
Progressive session follows. $1 face, progressive pot grows until it is won. $100 consolation prize.
Bingo, St. Andrew Parish in Delavan.
The games will be played on the first Friday
of every month, with doors opening at 6 p.m.
and play starting at 7 p.m. For more info see
www.standrews-delavan.org.
Bingo, St. Francis de Sales Church, 148
W. Main Street, Lake Geneva. First and
Third Wednesdays of the month. Doors open
at 5:30, bingo starts 7. Refreshments available. Games include 50/50, Pull Tabs,
Progressive. For info call Mary or Bill
Gronke at (847) 840-8878.
Bingo, 1 p.m., Sunday, March 22, Elks
Lodge, 627 S. Second St., Delavan.
Progressive game. Call 728-9820 for information.
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LAKE. MUSIC. MAGIC.
Music by the Lake 2015 Season
Presented by George Williams College of Aurora University
TICKETS
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SATURDAY, JUNE 27 | 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, JULY 12 | 4:00 p.m.
Michael Feinstein
John Pizzarelli Quartet
Sinatra Centennial Celebration
World-renowned jazz guitarist,
singer and bandleader
performs classic pop, swing
and stylish modern jazz.
Grammy Award-nominated
entertainer and “Ambassador
of the Great American
Songbook” pays tribute
to Frank Sinatra.
SATURDAY, JULY 18 | 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, JULY 26 | 4:00 p.m.
BoDeans
Doktor Kaboom!
Legendary rock band
entertains with chart-topping
hits such as “Closer to Free,”
“Idaho” and “Fadeaway.”
Look out! Science is coming!
Interactive show amuses all
ages with explosive comedy,
exploring the fun of science.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 | 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 | 7:30 p.m.
Arrival from Sweden
Creedence Clearwater
Revisited
Elena Montes is excited to be at the Lakeland School Prom, especially with her
husband, Salvador, and son, Salvador Jr., who dressed alike for the event, which was
held at the Monte Carlo Room in Elkhorn on Friday, April 25.
(Beacon photo)
Reunited band members
celebrate iconic classic singles
such as “Fortunate Son,”
“Bad Moon Rising” and
“Who’ll Stop the Rain.”
News from the Belfry Theatre
The Music of ABBA
World’s most popular and
best-selling ABBA tribute
band performs hits “Dancing
Queen,” “Mamma Mia” and
“Take a Chance on Me.”
Purchase tickets at musicbythelake.com
Performances take place at the Ferro Pavilion on the shores of Geneva Lake.
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The Belfry Music Theatre will hold a
networking event at the Shore Club in
Williams Bay from 6 to 8 p.m. on
Monday May 11. Attendees will hear
about plans to renovate the Belfry and
how they can get involved in restoring it.
For more information, log on to
BelfryMusicTheatre.com.
The Belfry Music Theatre will host a
on-act play festival on July 24 and 25.
Organizers are inviting actors to audition
for the 12 one-acts written by local playwrights. They are looking for men and
women of all ages to email a headshot
and bio to receive a time slot and directions to [email protected].
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LA GRANGE
MLS #1411021 - 3 bdrm., 4.5 bath
custom home on 7+ wooded acres.
In the Kettle Moraine with extensive
landscaping and panoramic views.
Top of the line kitchen, 3 upscale
frplc., hickory woodwork throughout. Tailor built elevator. 48x60
Morton pole barn. $729,900
1001 APACHE CT.
FORT ATKINSON
MLS #1386792 - Luxurious home, 2
separate family rooms on main floor w/frplc.,
huge mstr. bdrm. w/spacious mstr. bath
including ceramic tile and Whirlpool. Huge 6
car garage w/2nd floor rec room, bdrm., bath
and storage room. Fenced cement patio, inground pool, sauna/hot tub, and 16x15 pool
storage room. Home is built on 2 lots and
both are sold together. $574,900
5621 TAMARACK TRAIL
LAGRANGE
MLS #1401930 - Private and
secluded property on 5 wooded
acres with a 3 acre pond. Minutes
from Whitewater and Kettle
Moraine. 5 bdrms., 4 baths, inground pool. Lower level exercise
room, rec room, pool deck, office
and 5th bdrm. $449,900
N1951 SUNNYSIDE AVE.
LINN
MLS #1317170 - Very well maintained
4 bdrm., 3.5 bath home just blocks from
the lake. Wooded lot. 3 season room,
gigantic mstr. bdrm. w/walk-in closets.
Double sided frplc. Huge lower level
with much storage space. Roomy driveway and garage. So many updates.
Priced to sell. $344,900
400 E. MAIN ST., 400 & 402
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opportunity to have your own vacation home with 8.5 wooded acres
and a creek. Endless trails throughout wooded land. Seller has just
painted the exterior and most of
interior as of May, 2014. New roof
and driveway. $339,900
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N1698 HILLSIDE ROAD
LINN
MLS #1416415 - Spacious 3
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Geneva Lake. Hillside pier and boat
launch just a short walk away.
Wooded lot. Call now for a personal tour. $179,900
3142 W. NORTH DRIVE
DARIEN
MLS #1377909 - 4+ acres, 60x30
heated, insulated with 2 overhead
doors pole barn. Large barn with
hayloft and a newer storage unit
outbuilding connected to the barn.
8 (10x10), 1 (10x36), 1 (10x40)
and 1 (20x36) units. Conventional
septic and well on site. $139,900
W3270 HILLTOP DR., LINN
MLS #1401035 - Beautiful 3 bdrm., 2
bath ranch home located in private and
tranquil subdivision. Short walk with
access to Geneva Lake and boat
launch. High effiency furnace, mound
system and well pump are just some of
the updates. Full bsmt. can be finished
the way you want. $122,900
534 DEVILS LANE
WALWORTH
MLS #1406101 - Extremely spacious 4 bdrm., 2 bath home with so
much potential to add more.
Unfinished lower level, mstr. bdrm.
w/private bath. Upstairs has 3 other
rooms for storage or bdrms.
$129,900
219 NELSON ST., SHARON
MLS #1387676 - Beautiful 2 story
home on a very spacious lot. 4
bdrms., 1 bath, new roof and all new
windows in 2011. Main floor laundry and very big dining area. Please
call for personal tour. Sale includes
HSA Home Warranty. $114,900
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184 ANDREA COURT
DARIEN
MLS #1392349 - Sellers have poured
heart and soul into this home. 3 bdrm.,
1.5 baths on main level, another 2 bdrms.
and bath on finished lower level. Marble
tile floor in kitchen, dining room and hall.
New carpet, all rooms cable ready, surround sound wiring on both levels. 12x20
vinyl shed, 3 tiered deck one with hot tub.
New vinyl fence. $199,500
SOLD
SOLD
N7501 KETTLE MORAINE DR.
WHITEWATER
MLS #1402855 - Beautiful property across the street from
Whitewater Lake with deeded
access rights and sell will include
your own boat slip! 3 bdrm., 4 bath
home built in 2009, mstr. bath
w/hot tub. 4 car garge with tool
shop in lower level. $389,900
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LA GRANGE
MLS #1339078 - 4.12 acre
farmette, 3 level pond w/waterfall.
Spacious wrap around deck. 4
bdrms., 2 bath farm house has an
open kitchen. Inside parking for 5
cars and machine shop with upper
floor office space. $199,900
SOLD
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262-949-1660
www.rgeaslen.shorewest.com
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LA GRANGE
MLS #1405911 - Unique property.
Seller has taken great care of this 6 bdrm.,
2 bath home. Newer roof and septic, land
can be used for livestock. Mature orchard
supplies numerous fruits, outbuilding.
Close to Kettle Moraine and Whitewater
Lake. Recently appraised for $330,000.
Priced well below the value. $239,900
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SUGAR CREEK
shorewest.com
MLS #1381286: Very will maintained 3
bdrm., 2.5 bath home in a private wooded area. Gorgeous deck overlooking
lrg. backyard. Huge mstr. bdrm. w/spacious mstr. bath. Numerous storage
areas with walk-in closet and full bsmt.
April Aire, paved driveway, brick sidewalk, new kitchen floor. $193,500
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May 8, 2015
20’s to roar again at museum
The Geneva Lake Museum will be
transformed into a 1920’s gin joint on
Friday, May 22 from 6 to 8:30 p.m., for
a “Roaring 20’s Speakeasy Party,” to
celebrate the opening to the public the
next day of the museum’s newest exhibit, “Flappers and Bootleggers.”
A Gangster Getaway
The secluded resort town of Lake
Geneva provided the perfect get-away
for gangsters looking to hide from the
prying eyes of the law. Visiting gangsters and their wives and “molls” spent
their days in the 20’s strolling through
downtown Lake Geneva throwing
around their seemingly limitless stacks
of stolen money, Some of the original
buildings and businesses the gangsters
frequented are still open, including the
Baker House.
Over on Lake Como, an even quieter
locale than Lake Geneva, the Lake
Como Hotel became a favorite haunt of
some mobsters. It had originally been
the Danish Pavilion of the Columbian
Exposition in 1893, and was bought by
Christian Hermanson of Denmark, and
shipped to Lake Como where it was
reassembled.
In the 20’s, it became a hangout of
Bugs Moran, John Dillinger, Baby Face
Nelson and even Al Capone and their
buddies, who liked the secluded location. They moved illegal whiskey
through the hotel and offered banks of
slot machines and high stakes poker
games for their pals and the locals.
The fundraising event for the museum will admit local “hoodlums,” who
contribute $60 per person, for an
evening of 20’s swinging entertainment
featuring the Badger Jazz Ensemble and
including wine, beer and hors d’oeuvres
prepared by Chef Mike.
Partygoers will celebrate the grand
opening of the new “Flappers to
Bootleggers” exhibit, which will open to
the general public the next day at regular
museum admission rates.
The museum is located at 255 Mill
Street in Lake Geneva, and reservations
to the speakeasy preview party can be
made by calling the museum at 2486060.
Walworth County Arts Council artist of the month Paul Boland points to one of
the pieces he made in his Darien studio. He is in the process of opening a 2,000
square foot studio and gallery in the village.
(Photo furnished)
Boland is WCAC artist of the month
The Walworth County Arts Council’s
Artist of the Month for May is Paul
Boland, who is a Potter from Darien.
He produces pots that are nonassuming and has been utilizing clay
that he has mined/excavated within a
half mile of his studio. Many of
Boland’s tools are homemade. He says
he throws the ware without surface
embellishments so the patterns of stripes
and circles can be added during the glazing process.
Boland is currently working to open
a 2,000 square foot studio and gallery in
Darien. He teaches adults to make pots
as well as working with local community recreation departments for youth and
special needs adults to experience
ceramics.
To contact Boland call 724-8099 or e
mail [email protected].
Anyone who has a skill and would
like to be featured at the Walworth
County Arts Council display at the
Government Building should contact
Joyce Atkinson at 728-3880.
DO YOU WISH TO PROTECT YOUR LAND FOREVER
AND LEAVE A LEGACY FOR YOUR CHILDREN?
Walter Pruessingʼs daughter, Beverly, accepts a bronze star that her father
won during World War II from Robert Webster, Sr., of American Legion Post 102 who
applied for the medal and received it for Walter. Pruessingʼs awards included the World
War II Victory Medal, European Theater Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Purple Heart,
and now the Bronze Star. In 1944 Pruessing was injured in the Battle of Mt. Battaglia,
in Italy. The Germans had his unit surrounded with only 30 of the original 100 not killed
or wounded. Walter was wounded. The Germans allowed him and other wounded soldiers through their lines and back to the American line, after which he was sent to various aid stations and hospitals.
What’s Happening
Civil Air Patrol, Walco Composite
Squadron, meets every Thursday from 6:30
to 8:30 p.m. at the Elkhorn National Guard
Armory, 401 East Fair St., Elkhorn.
Visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com/ or call Maj.
Robert Thomas at (262) 642-7541.
Authors Echo Writers group meeting, 7
p.m., first and third Tuesday of every
month, Grace Church, 257 Kendall St.,
Burlington. Call Frank Koneska at 5346236.
Yerkes Observatory, 373 W. Geneva St.,
Williams Bay. The observatory offers free,
45-minute tours, Saturdays, 10 a.m., 11 a.m.
and noon as well as night sky observations
for a fee of $25. Visitors may also view the
Quester Museum, which covers some of the
observatory’s history. For more information,
call 245-5555 or e-mail [email protected].
Cards and games, Mondays, 1 – 4 p.m.
Darien Senior Center, 47 Park St., Darien.
Call 882-3774.
Senior Card Club, every Thursday 11:30
a.m. - 3 p.m., Matheson Memorial Library
Community Room, Elkhorn. Bridge, 500,
everyone welcome.
Bridge - every Tuesday, 12:30-3:30 p.m.,
Lake Geneva City Hall kitchen. Call 2483536 for more information.
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Elkhorn, Saturdays 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
beginning June 6, Veterans Park, 100 West
Walworth Street East side of the square along
Wisconsin Street.
Lake Geneva, Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.,
Horticultural Hall, 330 Broad St. (262) 7459341, www.horticulturalhall.com.
CONTACT THE CONSERVANCY TODAY
P.O. Box 588 • 398 Mill Street • Fontana, WI 53125
262-275-5700 • www.genevalakeconservancy.org
The Conservancy is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization supported by contributions and community volunteers
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May 8, 2015 — 29
Take a walk on Mother’s Day
Mother Nature on Mother’s Day –
what could be better? Take your mother
and join experienced birders to explore
some of the best Mother Nature offers
around Rainbow Springs Lake.
On Sunday, May 10, Kettle Moraine
Land Trust will again host its free Bird
Walk. This guided event is both educational and fun, a great opportunity for
the whole family to come together and
celebrate Mother’s Day.
The Walk meanders through the former Rainbow Springs Golf Course, now
owned and managed by the Wisconsin
DNR. The beautiful Mukwonago River
flows through the property, an excellent
habitat for warblers, tanagers, herons,
cranes and other native birds.
This family-friendly event is geared
for beginning and intermediate birders.
Led by seasoned birder Jim Marrari,
walkers will learn to identify birds by
sight, recognize bird sounds, and
understand the natural history of the
birds they see. An avid birder for over
20 years, Jim has led outings for many
groups, including the Madison Audubon
Society and the Sierra Club.
Join the walk at Rainbow Springs on
County Rd. LO, 0.5 miles east of County
Rd. E, at 8 a.m. on Sunday, May 10. Wear
sturdy shoes and take your own water and
binoculars, if you have them. Please
leave pets at home; they would scare the
birds. Registration is suggested, but not
required, at the Kettle Moraine Land Trust
website, www.kmlandtrust.org, or by calling (262) 949-7211.
Surprise mom by asking her to take a
hike.
Waiters (from left) Nathan Birdsall, Dan Greben, Jon Birdsall, Nate Huberty and
Javan Wehmeier welcome Dolly Levi, played by Susan Greben during a rehearsal of
Lakeland Playersʼ production of the hit musical, “Hello Dolly,” now playing, through May
17 at the Walworth County Performing Arts Center in Elkhorn.
(Photo furnished)
‘Hello Dolly’ comes to Elkhorn
Members of a mariachi band make their way to Tower Park for Delavanʼs Cinco
de Mayo Festival on Saturday, May 2. The turnout was huge on a beautiful spring day.
(Beacon photo)
The Lakeland Players production of
“Hello Dolly,” kicks off tonight at the
Sprague Theatre in Elkhorn. Advance
reaction to the hit musical has been
quite positive.
“Hello, Dolly” is full of memorable
songs, including: Put On Your Sunday
Clothes; Ribbons Down My Back; Before
The Parade Passes By; It only Takes A
Moment; and of course Hello, Dolly.
According to Linda Kouzes, the
Lakeland Players production is a “family affair” with the Birdsall family of six
from Walworth taking major roles, and
chorus parts. There are also five cast
members from the same neighborhood
in Fontana. Sue Greben, also of Fontana
will fill the major role of “Dolly,” and
Donald Patten of Lake Geneva plays the
part of Horace Vandergelder. There are a
total of 37 cast members from all over
the area.
The musical will be performed at
The Walworth County Performing Arts
Center (formerly the Sprague Theatre)
in Elkhorn on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, May 8, 9, 10, 15, 16 and 17.
Friday and Saturday performances will
take place at 7 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 3. All tickets are $14 and may
be reserved by calling 728-5578 or
723-4848, or by ordering online at
www.lakeland-players.org. They are
also available at the Elkhorn Chamber
of Commerce, 203 E. Walworth St.,
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May 8, 2015
Christian Arts Centre schedules
auditions for musical, ‘Godspell’
Chapel on the Hill’s Christian Arts
Centre will hold auditions for their
upcoming July production of “Godspell,”
a musical based on the Gospel according
to St. Matthew.
The auditions will be held at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday, June 2 and Wednesday,
June 3. The cast will include children
(ages 6 and older), teens, and adults of
all ages. Those auditioning will be
asked to sing any song of their choice
and there will also be readings from the
script.
The auditions will be held at the
Christian Arts Centre, which is located
on Highway 50 four miles west of Lake
Geneva, at Cisco Road (across from
Geneva Ridge Resort). More information is available on the website:
www.chapelon thehill.net.
Performances will take place from
July 24 - August 2. Friday and
Saturday performances will be held at
7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees will be
at 3. All tickets are $10 and may be purchased by calling the Chapel at 2459122 or online at www.brownpapertickets.com.
Black Point interpretor to present
sneak peak of downtown tour
Members of the Open Arms Free Clinic Golf Outing planning committee (from left) Sue Wendt, Eileen Kurinsky, Joan Iversen and Judy Johnson
meet with Hawkʼs Viewʼs Matt Boesch to select food for the event, which will
take place on Tuesday, June 2.
(Photo furnished)
Time to register for OAFC golf
outing at Hawk’s View on June 2
It’s not too early to register for the
third annual Open Arms Free Clinic
Hawks View Golf Outing to be held on
Tuesday June 2. The event will take
place from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. at Hawk’s
View Golf Club, 7377 Krueger Rd, Lake
Geneva, with the assistance of key sponsors MPC and Mercy Health System.
Planning Committee members Sue
Wendt, Eileen Kurinsky, Joan Iversen,
and Judy Johnson recently met with
Matt Boesch, Hawks View’s PGA Head
Professional, to select food and plan the
different hole and club house activities.
According to Wendt, OAFC is looking forward to another event to create
awareness about the first and only safety-net free clinic in Walworth County
and raise funds to continue the mission
of caring for the uninsured and underserved in OAFC’s new, larger location at
205 E. Commerce Ct. in Elkhorn.
The charges for the event will be
$110 per golfer for 18 holes of golf, cart,
lunch and dinner, or $400 per foursome,
a $40 savings. Attendees who wish to
have dinner only will pay $45 and
should arrive between 5 and 5:45 p.m.
The event schedule is as follows:
11 a.m., Check-in and light lunch
Noon, Shotgun start to 18 holes of
golf
5 p.m., Appetizers at the clubhouse
6 p.m., Two-meat buffet dinner,
silent auction and bucket raffle
Anyone who has question or is interested in sponsorship opportunities
should email [email protected] or call OAFC at (262) 379-1401.
Open Arms Free Clinic, Inc. is a
501(c)(3) not-for-profit volunteer medical clinic located across from the
AmericInn near the intersection of
Highway 67 and I-43. The clinic offers
non-emergency health care to people
with no health insurance who live or
work in Walworth County and have a
household income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level and who
otherwise would not have access to
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Lead Interpreter of Black Point
Estate, Michael Rehberg, will preview a
new audio-visual presentation, “Pull Up
a Chair, Take a Walk: An Historic Tour
of Lake Geneva,” at the Lake Geneva
Public Library on Wednesday, May 20,
at 6:30 p.m. The program will provide a
virtual sneak peak of the new docentled, downtown tour “Legends and
Landmarks: A Walking Tour of Lake
Geneva.”
At the Library, Rehberg will lead his
audience through historic and recent
photographs from the new walking tour
route. Because no walking is involved,
more material can be explored with less
time. Rehberg will showcase the historic
architecture, colorful people and the fascinating, sometimes controversial, and
always entertaining stories of the lovely
lakeside town. From architect Daniel
Burnham to Dungeons and Dragons cocreator Gary Gygax and Lake Geneva’s
Horticultural Hall to its Riveria
Ballroom, Rehburg will bring the history of Lake Geneva to life.
The inspiration for this new tour was
Lake Geneva Historic Preservation
Commission’s recently-published selfguided architectural walking tour. The
booklet, updated and revised by Patrick
Quinn from a 1993 version, will be
available at the library during the event.
As some of the first people to sample
this new tour, the audience will be
encouraged to share their favorite Lake
Geneva stories and give feedback following the presentation.
Rehberg was the project manager for
developing the Lake Geneva’s new
walking tour, in collaboration with the
Geneva Lake Museum and Lake Geneva
Historic Preservation Commission. The
tour, to be offered every Thursday
evening from June 18-August 20, will
last 90 minutes, cover roughly 1.5 miles,
and cost $8 per person. All revenues and
donations in excess of costs will go to
the City of Lake Geneva’s Historic
Preservation Com-mission to further
their efforts.
Under the direction of the Wisconsin
Historical Society, Rehberg and the staff
of the estate are developing programs
that bring history into the community.
Rehberg is a year-round resident of
Walworth County, with a home on the
south shore of Lake Como. He earned
his BA and MBA degrees from UWMadison and a Certificate in Non-Profit
Leader-ship from UW-Parkside. He is
active in local history, genealogy and
historic preservation groups.
Everyone is welcome to attend the
program at no charge. For more information, call the Lake Geneva Public
Library at 249-5299 or visit the library’s
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Free community meal to be
served monthly in Genoa City
The Walworth County Retired
Educators will meet at Sperino’s Little
Italy in Elkhorn (around the side of the
Monte Carlo room) at noon, Tuesday,
June 9.
The program following luncheon
will feature Lucinda Lester of Lake
Geneva, activity and memory care specialist for Alzheimer’s or other dementias. She also offers an interactive brain
fitness club and a support group for
caregivers of loved ones with memory
problems. For more information contact
www.adayintime.org.
The retired educators organization
sponsors a food drive at every meeting
and ask attendees to bring non-perishable
food items to go to the Lake Geneva food
pantry. Raffle tickets will be sold with
profits going toward a scholarship fund.
A short business meeting will follow.
They would like to welcome any and
all retired educators, administrators,
teachers, or support personnel. Anyone
who is new or is in need of a ride, should
contact Beverly Faust at (262) 584-5500.
Lunch reservations and payment
(non-refundable) must be made before
May 28. The $14 cost of the lunch
includes tax and tip. This will be a full
meal including a baked ham entrée,
desert, and refreshments.
Send reservations to Beverly Faust,
W1928 Pastime Lane, East Troy, WI
53190. Anyone with questions may call
her at (262) 684-5500 or email her at
[email protected].
The next scheduled meetings of the
organization will be heldd on Sept. 8 and
Nov. 10.
Jose Sierra sings and plays the guitar on a number of his own composition
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~ HEALTH AND FITNESS ~
Mercy Walworth Grief Support Group
provides comfort, guidance and stability in
times of loss. Experts in the field of grief
counseling provide their expertise and compassion when healing is needed. The group
meets on the third Tuesday of every month, 6
p.m. in the lower level community education
rooms at Mercy Walworth Hospital and
Medical Center, highways 50 and 67 in the
Town of Geneva. For more information or to
reserve a spot in the next meeting, call (888)
396-3729.
Mercy Walworth’s Stroke Support Group
provides compassionate and understanding
care for those who have experienced a stroke
as well as their caregivers. The group meets
on the second Tuesday of every month at 2
p.m. in the lower level community education
rooms at Mercy Walworth Hospital and
Medical Center, corner of highways 50 and
67.
Cancer Support Group meets in the
church at Chapel on the Hill, 4 miles west of
Lake Geneva on Highway 50, the third
Friday of the month at 3 p.m. For more information, or to receive answers to questions,
call Lou Kowbel at (847) 922-5461.
Alcoholics Anonymous Walworth
County Hotline is 723-1224. Their website is
www.area75.org. Call or check online to get
information about meetings in your area.
Alanon self help program, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesdays, VIP building, 816 E. Geneva St.,
across from Elkhorn High School in Elkhorn.
Mindfulness and Loving kindness
Meditation each Thursday, 7-8 p.m., at
Elkhorn Matheson Memorial Library
Community Center Room, 101 N. Wisconsin
St. Beginners and experienced practitioners
are always welcome. No registration is necessary, just drop in. Meditation is practice for
being more awake and attentive in our daily
lives. Sponsored by Wisconsin Blue Lotus, a
meditation group led by Buddhist nun
Vimala (Judy Franklin). For more information, call 203-0120, or visit www.bluelo
tustemple.org.
Diabetes Support Group meets at 6 p.m.
on the second Monday of the month, April
through October at Aurora Lakeland Medical
Center, Highway NN, Elkhorn. This group is
for adults with insulin or non-insulin dependent diabetes and their family/support person.
The purpose is to provide support and education to the person with diabetes to help manage this chronic disease. The group is facilitated by a registered nurse. Call the diabetic
educator at 741-2821 for further information.
Breast Cancer Support Group meets the
first Wednesday of the month at 4 p.m. at
Aurora Lakeland Medical Center, Highway
NN, Elkhorn. The group addresses the fears
and adjustments faced by women with breast
cancer. It encourages participants to develop
a positive attitude about the future and discuss common concerns after being treated for
breast cancer. Contact Leann Kuhlemeyer at
741-2677 for more information.
Stroke Support Group provides emotional support through opportunities to interact
with others who have experienced stroke.
Informational programs will also be provided
on topics related to stroke/brain attack. The
group welcomes individuals newly diagnosed
and those with a history of stroke. Family,
friends and caregivers are also encouraged to
join. The group meets the third Monday of
every month from 6 – 7:30 p.m. Call Pat
Positano at 741-2402 for further information.
Free blood pressure screening, courtesy
of The Walworth County Public Health
Department on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of
every month from 9 – 10 a.m. at the Walworth
County Public Health office, located at the
east entrance of the Department of Health and
Human Services building, W4051 County
Road NN, Elkhorn. Screenings are open to
all. Contact the Health Department at 7413140 for more information.
Free blood pressure screening, last
Friday of every month, 2 - 4 p.m., Williams
Bay Care Center, 146 Clover St.
Narcotics Anonymous meetings in the
southern lakes area. Call (877) 434-4346
(toll free) for times and locations.
White River Cycle Club, 7 p.m., VIP
Services, 811 E. Geneva St., Elkhorn, second
Tuesday of each month. Contact Mike Lange
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Lake Geneva Alzheimer’s support group,
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Milwaukee Keyboardist Al White,
Sunday, May 17, 4-8 p.m., Ye Olde Hotel in
Lyons. 1 (262) 763-2701. No cover charge.
Pianist Rex Wilkinson, Wednesday and
Sunday nights 6:30-10 p.m. at Mars Resort
on Lake Como’s south shore.
Scott Thomas, karaoke, Fridays and
Saturdays from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m., Lake Lawn
Resort, Highway 50, Delavan
Pianist Kathy Fry, Wednesdays from 5-8
p.m., Lobby Lounge, Grand Geneva Resort,
Highway 50 and 12, Lake Geneva, and
Fridays from 6-11 p.m., Lake Lawn Resort,
Delavan.
Guitarist Paul Silbergleit, Thursdays
from 5-8 p.m., Lobby Lounge, Grand
Geneva Resort.
Karaoke, Saturdays 9 p.m. - close (usually 2 a.m.), Snug Harbor Lakefront
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Pianist Tom Stanfield, Thursdays 6-9
p.m. in the music parlor of The Baker House,
327 Wrigley Dr., Lake Geneva.
Brian Fictum, That Sax Guy, from 6-9
p.m. on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursdays of the
month, and Acoustic guitar with vocals on
the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at
B.J. Wentkers, 230 Milwaukee Ave., Burlington.
Dan Trudell’s Contemporary Jazz Trio,
Fridays and Saturdays from 5-8 p.m., Lobby
Lounge, Grand Geneva Resort. Trudell also
plays piano Monday from 5-8 p.m.
“All Shook Up,” through June 7 at The
Fireside Dinner Theatre, 1131 Janesville
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sidetheatre.com or call (800) 477-9505 for
schedule, prices and reservations.
Townline Road, Lake Geneva. Call Andy
Kerwin at 248-4558.
Alzheimer's/Dementia support group,
third Wednesday of the month at 4 p.m.,
Delavan Community Bank Community
Center located at 826 E. Geneva Street in
Delavan. Call Bob Holland at 472-0958 or
Arlene Torrenga at 728-6393 with questions.
Alzheimer’s Support Group, first
Thursday of the month, 1:30 p.m.,
Hearthstone/Fairhaven, 426 W. North Street,
Whitewater. Facilitators: Janet Hardt,
Darlene Zeise, 473-8052. Respite care is
available with no advance notice.
Harbor of Hope grief support group, first
Thursday of each month, 3 - 4:30 p.m.,
Aurora VNA of Wisconsin, 500 Interchange
North, Lake Geneva. 249-5860.
NAMI, The National Alliance on Mental
Illness, Support Group, first and third
Wednesday from 6-7 p.m. at the Health and
Human Services building on Co. NN,
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Everyone is welcome. Call 758-0886 for
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St. Parking is available on the street or the
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215-6893, Maureen at 723-8227 or through
the
Families
Anonymous
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Geneva St., Delavan. Encourages nutrition
and exercise with a positive attitude. Guests
are welcome, no weekly meeting fee.
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Toyota gets ‘emotional’ with the new Camry and elicits a smile
By Terry Box
The Dallas Morning News
Vanilla ice cream and tan Dockers
belong in every Toyota Camry, Amer-ica's
favorite midsize car.
They might give the tepid Toyotas a
dash of flavor and color.
Make mine white with gray interior
and a “Honk if you love life” bumper
sticker. May I also borrow one of your
Julio Iglesias CDs?
So equipped, the stalwart sedan should
not be even a blip on revenue-hungry
police radars – effectively invisible, I
think.
Granted, few flaws leap out at you
from the solid-citizen, super-reliable
Camry, a car that with the Honda Accord
came to define quality and value.
It just possesses all the excitement of a
potluck supper at the community rec center.
But even super-conservative Toyota
realizes that quiet competence doesn't
attract the buyers it once did – or many
promotions, for that matter.
Though the Camry is still the top-selling sedan in America, its yearly volume
over the last five or six years has dropped
nearly 10 percent.
Not only has this soft-shoe segment
gotten more competitive, some consumers
have abandoned it altogether, opting
instead for more interesting and useful
crossover vehicles.
So I figure Toyota made the right move
in ordering up a thorough restyling and
tweaking of the Camry for 2015.
The stylish new Camry almost looks as
if it could dance – maybe a little low-key
shuffle to a moody Drive-By Truckers
tune.
As part of its more “emotional” look,
every panel on the car’s body got changed
but the roof. (I’m still working on my
“emotional” look, incidentally.)
The glossy maroon XSE model I had
recently featured a lower, sleeker front end
with a simple single-bar grille up high and
a deeper blacked-out grille beneath the
bumper.
Newly curved sides wore a couple of
well-placed character lines – one dashing
jauntily through the door handles at a
slight angle and a second down low curving up Lexus-like in front of the rear
wheels.
While the gray 18-inch wheels and
225/45 tires looked kind of small, the
Camry's curvy new body seemed to settle
onto them pretty comfortably.
In back, standard-issue taillamps
wrapped around a softer, more curved
rump.
My high-end $36,000 model even
exhaled through dual exhausts, tied to a
familiar 3.5-liter V-6 up front.
And Toyota should be lauded for still
The 2015 Toyota Camryʼs curvy new body seems to settle comfortably onto the
gray 18-inch wheels and 225/45 tires. Itʼs rated at 21 miles per gallon in the city and
31 on the highway.
(Photo courtesy Toyota/TNS)
offering a V-6. Many big competitors in
the midsize sedan segment, including the
Ford Fusion, Chevy Malibu, Hyundai
Sonata and Kia Optima, now roll solely on
four-banger power.
As with many of Toyota’s engines,
though, the V-6 generates about the same
horsepower and torque that it did back
when I had dark hair and a carefree smile.
I guess Toyota just likes the feel of its
numbers or something.
The aging 3.5 still cranks out a decent
268 horsepower and is tied to a modern
six-speed automatic.
Torquey and smooth down low, the
engine pushes the 3,500-pound Camry
around with relative ease, sprinting to 60
in a quick 5.8 seconds, according to Car
and Driver's timing gear.
The front-wheel-drive sedan is also
rated at a reasonable 21 miles per gallon in
the city and impressive 31 on the highway.
But under hard acceleration, the engine
got kind of coarse above 4,000 rpm, and it
lacked the sharp responses of a directinjected V-6.
Likewise, while the six-speed automatic typically shifted seamlessly, it occasionally stumbled as it searched for a
downshift.
But, unlike the Camry I drove a couple
of years ago, this one rode with firm, athletic confidence – seeming at times to have
a few shreds of German in it.
The new Camry has the same dimensions as last year’s sedan, but it got additional spot-welds for more rigidity.
In addition, high-end XSE models ride
on firmer shocks and springs and harder
bushings and benefit from a more aggressive tune for the electric power steering.
But I wouldn’t go challenging any 3series Bimmers on the next set of curves.
While the Camry turned into corners pretty cleanly with relatively little lean, the
car's skinny tires lacked sporting grip and
the suspension in general didn’t much like
being under duress.
I understand that, and maybe it’s too
much to expect from a mainstream midsize
sedan.
But with competitors like EcoBoost
Ford Fusions, high-end Mazda 6s and V-6
Honda Accords becoming more European
in feel, Toyota needs to keep moving in
that direction.
Take solace in the fine highway ride of
the Camry, best appreciated from its new
upgraded interior. The one in my Camry
was black with faux red stitching on the
dashboard, seats and door panels.
A big, flat dash featured some Lexus-like
lines as it wrapped around a large center
stack.
The gauges on the instrument panel
almost looked like something you might
find in a BMW – black-faced with thin
chrome rings around them.
Meanwhile, the big center stack resembled one in a late-model Hyundai Sonata –
broad with smartly placed buttons and
large knobs, and topped by a 7-inch display screen.
Inside, plastic still dominates the landscape. The door panels and dash are all or
mostly plastic.
But the faux red stitching relieves
some of the hard darkness, and the leather
seats looked pretty luxurious. With perforated suede centers and leather bolsters,
the seats felt as good as they looked.
Moreover, legroom and headroom in
back were ample even for contemporary
large adults.
In short, it would be a pleasant place to
watch the miles fly by on a day trip.
But what about the long run? The midsize segment appears to be stagnating, and
crossovers – those car-based SUV pretenders – aren't the only challenge to keeping buyers in sedans.
A loaded midsizer can easily cost
$35,000 or more, which also is the doorway to the burgeoning near-luxury segment and vehicles like the Mercedes-Benz
CLA 250 and Audi A3.
Ironically, though, vehicles in the midsize segment are better than ever, and the
Camry is no exception.
2015 Toyota Camry XSE
Type of vehicle: Five-passenger, frontwheel-drive, midsize sedan
Price as tested: $35,688
Fuel economy: 21 miles per gallon
city, 31 highway
Weight: 3,484 pounds
Engine: 3.5-liter V-6 with 268 horsepower and 248 pound-feet of torque
Transmission: Six-speed automatic
Performance: 0 to 60 mph in 5.8 seconds
SOURCES: Toyota Motor Sales USA;
Car and Driver
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And his quick-thinking sidekick, the
Ranger, said, ‘I don’t know Captain, but
you’d better get down. It could be dangerous.’”
Ralph Locke and Eva Marie Saint
were doing a Philco Playhouse. In the
play, they were talking to each other
while supposedly flying on an airplane.
All of a sudden, Locke couldn’t remember anything. There was a long, terrible
pause. The dialogue was such that Saint
couldn’t say anything, either. Finally,
Locke said, ‘Well this is where I get
off,” got up and walked off the set.”
There is no record of what Saint did at
that point.
Of course, in the beginning, not only
were the shows live, but so were the
commercials.
“Some not so good things happened
on live commercials,” remembered Herb
Horton. “We did a thing with a swan for
a cake mix [Swansdown would have
been the name of the product]. The swan
was in a tank on a set that looked like a
back yard. At rehearsal, the advertising
agency account executive decided that it
looked too boring. ‘Have the swan do
something,” he said. ‘He’s supposed to
be a trained swan.’
“The trainer said, ‘Maybe I can get
him to wiggle his wings.’ The swan did
nothing, so the account exec said,
‘Christ, Horton, I thought you said you
got yourself a trained swan. Make him
do something!’
“I didn’t know what he wanted him
to do, just something, so I got hold of the
head electrician and I said, ‘Hook up a
wire to the tank and give him a little
smidge just to wake him up.’
“In rehearsal the swan went ‘Honk!’
“Howdy Doody Time” was a childrenʼs show hosted by Buffalo Bob Smith
and his sidekick, Clarabell Clown, played by Bob Keeshan, who later became Captain
Kangaroo. Buffalo Bob dressed in Western gear, but he got his nickname from his
hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., not the animal or the nickel.
and there was glee in the control room.
Now we waited for our cue to go live.
The account exec said, ‘Gee, that was
great. Get him to do a little more.’
“I told the electrician to give him a
smidge more. I gave him the cue and the
electrician gave him a shot. The swan
went ‘Honk!’ and dropped dead as a
door nail. The account executive was
stricken. Nobody knew who executed
the swan except the electrician and me.
The trainer walked into the pool and
picked him up.
“‘Oscar, Oscar, please wake up,’ he
pleaded.
“I just went to the product shot as
soon as I could.”
Some things weren’t what the audi-
ence thought they were. According to
people who worked with him Gene
Autry couldn’t get on and off a horse.
‘He was a lousy actor and a rotten
singer and he certainly wasn’t any cowboy,” said Tommy Carr, who was obviously not one of Autry’s biggest fans.
Talking about another Western TV
star, Hopalong Cassidy, Dick Jones said,
“Hoppy was scared stiff of horses. He
hated kids, too. I worked in a film with
him when I was eight or nine and I could
hear him cussing me.”
In the early days of television, before
spot advertising, companies sponsored
whole programs. Consequently, they had
a lot to say about what went on the air.
This caused a lot of tension between
May 8, 2015
producers, agency people and their
clients.
Perhaps the most famous example
took place on a show sponsored by the
American Gas Association.
“I told them what they needed was a
prestige show, so I sold them ‘Playhouse
90,’ which was a 90-minute play that
aired once a week. We read the script for
‘Judgement at Nuremberg,’ and when
we asked the client about it, they said,
‘The audience will think it’s our kind of
gas [that was used by the Nazis in the
concentration camps], and ours is a different kind of gas. You don’t need it in
there, so we had them take it out.”
The result was a humiliation for CBS
and it became the joke of the industry.
But Ethel Winant, a casting director
at CBS, said “The story of how it happened actually began a couple of weeks
before, when we did this show called
‘Portrait of a Murder.’ In the end, the
killer was put into the gas chamber.
They closed the doors and turned the
handle and a commercial [for the
American Gas Association] came up that
said, ‘Nothing but gas does so many jobs
so well.’ The next day, all hell broke
loose. That’s why they were so determined it should never happen again.”
These are just some of hundreds, if
not thousands, of first-person stories that
Kisseloff tells in “The Box, An Oral
History of Television, 1920-1961,”
which, though it was written in 1995, is
still available from Amazon in paperback or as an e-book. The author used
the same excellent technique of interviewing people and blending their comments into a sort of round-table discussion in another book, “You Must
Remember This: An Oral History of
Manhattan From the 1890s to World War
II.” Both are fascinating reads and I recommend them without reservation.
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L au g h in g M at t e r
A man applied for a job
as an industrial spy. He
was given a sealed envelope and told to take it to
the fourth floor. As soon
as he was alone, he
stepped into an alcove and
opened the envelope.
Inside there was a message that read: “You’re
our kind of person. Report
to the fifth-floor personnel office.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
If you going to try
cross-country skiing, start
with a small country.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
My girlfriend broke up
with me last week. She
did it cruelly. She sent me
a letter saying she ran
away with a tractor salesman. I was devastated. It
was the first time in my
life I’d gotten a John
Deere letter.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
An exhausted looking
man dragged himself into
a doctor’s office.
“Doctor, there are dogs
all over my neighborhood.
They bark all day and all
night, and I can’t get a
wink of sleep.”
“I have good news for
you,”
the
doctor
answered,
rummaging
through a drawer full of
medication
samples.
“Here are some new
sleeping pills that work
like a dream (no pun
intended). A few of these
and your trouble will be
over.”
“Great,” answered the
man. “I’ll try anything.
Let’s give it a shot.”
A few weeks later the
man returned looking
worse than ever.
“Doc, your plan is no
good. I’m more tired than
before.”
“I don’t understand
how that could be,” said
the doctor, shaking his
head. “Those are the
strongest pills on the market.”
“That may be true,”
said the man wearily, “but
I’m still up all night chasing those dogs, and when
I finally catch one it’s
almost impossible to get
him to swallow the pill.”
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
A woman kelt in the
confessional and said,
“Bless me, Father, for I
have sinned.”
“What is it, my child?
“Father, I have committed the sin of vanity.
Twice a day I find myself
gazing into the mirror and
telling myself how beautiful I am.”
“The priest turned and
took a good look at her
and said, “My daughter, I
have good news for you.
That isn’t a sin – it’s only
a mistake.”
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Success is a matter of
luck. Just ask any failure.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
A woman was talking
to a friend.
“My husband bought
me a mood ring the other
day,” she said. “It lets him
monitor my emotional
state.”
“How does it work?”
asked her friend.
“When I’m in a good
mood it turns green and
when I’m in a bad mood it
leaves a big red mark on
his forehead.”
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
A couple were arguing
about money.
“Do you know,” said
the man, “if it weren’t for
my money this house
wouldn’t be here at all.”
“Yes,” answered his
wife, “and it it weren’t for
your money, neither
would I.”
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
I am currently having
an out-of-money experience.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
In the beginning there
were only wind instruments in the orchestra.
Then someone noticed
that many of the people
were too stupid to play
wind instruments, so they
have them boxes with
wires strapped across
them. These people were
known as “strings.” Then
they noticed that some of
the people were too dumb
to play strings, so they
were given two sticks and
were told to hit whatever
they wanted. These people were known as “percussionists.” Finally, they
noticed that one percussionist was so dumb he
couldn’t even do that, so
they took away one of his
sticks and told him to go
and stand in front of
everybody. And that was
the birth of the first conductor.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
A man went to an optician.
“I keep seeing spots in
front of my eyes,” said the
man.
“Have you ever seen a
doctor,” asked the optician.
“No,” replied the man.
“Just spots.”
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
What do you get when
you cross an elephant
with a rhinoceros?
ElephIno.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
“Hi, I’m probably
home, I’m just avoiding
someone I don’t like.
Leave me a message and
if I don’t call back, it’s
you.”
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Strange, isn’t it? You
stand in the middle of a
library
and
yell,
“Aaaaaagghhhh!”
and
everyone stares at you. Do
it on an airplane and
everyone joins in.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Politicians and babies’
diapers have one thing in
common. They should
both be changes regularly,
and for the same reason.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
What’s an atheist’s
favorite movie? Coincidence on 34th Street.
Pickles
by Brian Crane
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Mr. Boffo
by Joe Martin
Garfield
by Jim Davis
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Willy and Ethel
by Joe Martin
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Crossword Clues
ACROSS
1 CAESAR’S LOVE
5 SIGNAL TO AN ON-CALL DOCTOR
9 OMITS
14 CHOWHOUND’S REQUEST
15 SHARIF WHO PLAYED ZHIVAGO
16 WORLD COURT SITE, WITH “THE”
17 SHEPARD IN SPACE
18 PLATE UMP’S PURVIEW
20 BRAND FOR HEARTBURN
22 PROVIDENCE-TO-BOSTON DIR.
23 SCRAPS FOR ROVER
24 UNIT OF WORK
25 SODA FOR DIETERS
28 FRENCH SEASON
30 THIN PANCAKE
31 VIOLINIST’S GIFT
34 MOVE VERY SLOWLY
36 SUFFERS FROM
37 IN RECENT TIMES
39 MECHANIC, AT TIMES
41 “THAT WORKS!”
42 4-DOWN COLLECTOR
43 BOY KING
44 MADE A HUE TURN?
45 SUFFIX FOR RECORDS
46 OATER GROUP BENT ON JUSTICE
48 NILE BITER
49 BLUSH WINE, FOR SHORT
51 SHORT MARKET LINES?
54 PIEDMONT WINE REGION
57 ERIE CANAL MULE
58 __ PIPELINE, OAHU SURFING ATTRACTION
60 “SHE’S NOT THERE” ROCK GROUP
63 “RIPOSTES” POET POUND
64 OVERNIGHT REFUGE
65 THEATER PART
66 CHOIR PART
67 BLOW SOME DOUGH
68 __ COLLAR
69 STONEWALL’S SOLDIERS
♠
Bridge
Clever bid? Not really
Goren on Bridge with Bob Jones
Neither vulnerable. North deals.
NORTH
♠ 10, 7, 6
❤ A, Q, 4, 3
♦ Q, J
♣ A, 6, 3, 2
WEST
♠ 8
❤ 10, 9, 7, 6
♦ 9, 6, 3, 2
♣ Q, 10, 8, 5
EAST
♠ 5, 2
❤ K, J, 2
♦ A, K, 10, 8, 7, 5
♣ K, 7
SOUTH
♠ A, K, Q, J, 9, 4, 3
❤ 8, 5
♦ 4
♣ J, 9, 4
The bidding:
NORTH EAST
1♣
1NT
Pass
2♦
Pass
Pass
FILMS
9 SHIP REFERENCE
10 MUSICAL BUZZER
11 COMPOSER STRAVINSKY
12 FOURTH-DOWN PLAY
13 DATES
19 PROPERTY BORDER WARNING
21 THE RED SOX’ JON LESTER, E.G.
26 1980S CHRYSLER PRODUCT
27 ALTERED MTGE.
29 SOCIAL CUPFULS
31 THIS CROSSWORD, LITERALLY FOR
SOME, PHONETICALLY FOR ALL
32 “PLEASE DON’T YELL __”
33 OBOE, E.G.
34 EYE RUDELY
35 THEY’RE FOUND IN LODES
36 REASON FOR A MEDAL
38 CLASSIC FORDS
40 LAST YEAR’S FROSH
41 1956 MIDEAST DISPUTE AREA
43 J. ALFRED PRUFROCK CREATOR
47 STRAW-STREWN SHELTER
48 SANTA __ WINDS
49 SHRIVEL
50 “A DOLL’S HOUSE” PLAYWRIGHT
52 MEDICARE SECTION
53 INFORMAL BYES
54 DOLLAR DISPENSERS, FOR SHORT
55 HIT A TARGET?
56 HEAD OF PARIS?
59 CLOSE BY
61 GETTING ON IN YEARS
62 BIG ONE ON THE SET, PERHAPS
SOUTH
Dbl
4♠
Sudoku
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2 LARGE GRINDER
3 CITRUS SHAVINGS
4 PAYMENT TO 42-ACROSS
5 “THICK AND RICH” CHOCOLATE SYRUP
6 RESCUE PRO
7 ONES ON THE PAYROLL
8 FREDDIE __ JR. OF “SCOOBY-DOO”
WEST
Pass
Pass
Opening lead: Two of ♦
East made a “clever” overcall of one no
trump, as some players like to do. South doubled with gusto, no doubt planning to lead
his fourth best spade. East ran like a thief and
♦ ♣
South got back to playing bridge by bidding
what he thought he could make.
East won the opening diamond lead with
the king and continued with the ace. South
ruffed and paused to make a plan. The opening lead, presumably fourth best, marked
East with six diamonds and East’s bid
marked him with the king of hearts. Had he
held four hearts to go with his six diamonds,
he would never have bid one no trump,
Accordingly, South decided to play East for
a short king of hearts.
Declarer drew trumps in two rounds and
led a low heart, playing low from dummy.
West, surprisingly, won with the heart six
and shifted to a club, ducked in dummy and
won by East with the king. A club came
back, to the nine, 10 and ace. South next
cashed dummy's ace of hearts and led a low
heart, ruffing as East played the king. The 10
of trumps was in the dummy as an entry to
the established queen of hearts and South
had his 10 tricks. Well done!
Had East shifted to the king of clubs at
trick two, the defense might have prevailed.
Plays like that require x-ray vision. No one
would fault East for his diamond play.
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Complete the grid so that each row, column and 3x3 box (in bold
borders) contains every digit, from 1 to 9.
Hannah Rabenhorst as Edwina Spoonapple realizes what is most important in
life with “Sing Your Own Song,” in Williams Bay Junior High Schoolʼs production of
“Edwina, Jr.”
The Beacon
Library Notes
(Continued from page 22)
• Messy Art Club meets on the alternate
Thursdays from the Lego Building Club at
3:30 p.m.
• The Walworth County Genealogical
Society Library is open Tuesdays from 10
a.m – 3 p.m. and by appointment, which can
be made by calling the WCGS librarian at
215-0118. Note: It will be open from 1-6
p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, instead of the regular time. This is a one-time change. Regular
hours will resume on Tuesday, May 5. The
WCGS Library is also open the third
Saturday of the month or by appointment.A
board member will always be there to render
assistance if needed. To obtain membership
information or find literature regarding
Walworth County, visit walworthcgs.com.
public unless otherwise indicated. Call 7232678 or visit www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us for
more.
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Twin Lakes Community Library, 110 S.
Lake Ave., Twin Lakes. 877-4281. Hours:
Monday - Wednesday 10 a.m. -8 p.m., Thurs.
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Friday – Sunday 12-4 p.m.
• Books and Boogie, Family/Preschool
(2 1/2 - 5 years), Thursdays 10:30-11 a.m.,
May 21. Registration appreciated, but dropins welcome. Bounce on in for Books &
Boogie. Play our rhythm instruments, dance
to music, and hear lively tales.
• Wee Reads, Fridays 10:30-11 a.m.
Registration appreciated but drop-ins welcome. Learn pre-reading skills the fun way.
A lap-sit program designed just for babies 0
– 2 years with plenty of activities including:
stories, songs, bubbles, scarves, and parachute play.
• Garbage into Gold: All about
Composting, Tuesday, May 12, 6-7 p.m.
Registration required Presented by Master
Gardener and Master Composter Susan
Obry, this program will teach participants
how to turn their yard trimmings and household waste into soil amendment gold.
Program includes a composting demonstration.
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Walworth Memorial Library, now locat-
ed in the West Garden Plaza in Walworth,
south of Aurora Health Care, Aurora
Pharmacy and Tracy Building. Grand
Opening will be held after New Years. Open
Mon. and Wed. 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., Tues.,
Thurs., Fri. and Sat. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Now offering wireless Internet service.
• Knitting and crocheting classes,
Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. Call for details.
• Preschool Story Hour, Fridays, 9:45 –
10:30 a.m., for preschool-age children infant
to age 5 and their caregivers. The hour will
include stories, snacks, crafts and more.
• Children’s story hour, age kindergarten
through grade 3, Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30
p.m.
• Book Club for adults, third Saturday of
each month, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
• Digital downloads of electronic books
(e-books) are growing in popularity. The
Digital Download Center (http://dbooks.
wplc.info) is sponsored by the Wisconsin
Public
Library
Consortium. You
can also access the
Digital Download
Center
through
May 8, 2015 — 39
your library’s online catalogue.
Available to all Wisconsin residents, the
Digital Download Center offers e-books,
audio books, videos and music that you can
download to devices such as iPods and other
MP3 players, Kindles, Sony eReaders,
Nooks and iPads, to name just a few. For a
complete list of supported devices, visit the
Digital Download Center and use the link
near the bottom of the left column. While all
new titles will not be available immediately,
the purchase of new titles has already begun
and will continue.
public unless otherwise indicated. Call 2756322 for more information.
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Librarians and Friends Groups: Send
information about upcoming library events
by mail to: The Beacon, P.O. Box 69,
Williams Bay, W I 53191; by fax to 2451855; or by e-mail to [email protected].
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May 8, 2015
TOWN OF DELAVAN FRIENDS OF THE PARKS
2015
SATURDAY, JUNE 6
DELAVAN LAKE
Hwy. 50 & South Shore Drive, Delavan, WI
8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. - Free Fishing For The Kids (Poles, Instructions and Bait Provided)
9:00 a.m. - Walworth Lakeland Elk’s Lodge Flag Day Ceremony
9:30-11:00 a.m. - Breakfast Buffet - $7.00 per person Provided by the Elks Lodge
10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. - Town of Delavan Local Vendors on Display at Pavilion Park
LIVE MUSIC
1:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
FREE ADMISSION
Simple Rezonation • Mike Stone Trio • Glenn Davis
Food, Beer, Soda and Wine Will Be Available For Purchase From 11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
FUN AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE KIDS OF ALL AGES
THIS EVENT SPONSORED BY:
www.DelavanLakeFest.com
See Us On Facebook
608-852-3156
174 State Road 50/P.O. Box 466
Delavan, WI 53115
(262) 728-3055 Phone
(262) 728-3099 Fax
[email protected]
www.BoatReeds.com

May 8, 2015 - The Beacon

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