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President’s Message 2

Garden Tour Review 2

Golf Course History 3

Walking Band 4

Storm Channel 6

Neighborhood News 8

Healthy Lawn Team 8

Calendar 11

Garage Sale Review 11

Sept ember 2005

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Did you know that new neighbors in West-morland receive a packet of useful goodies from their Block Captains when (or, hope-fully, not too long after) they move in? The packets contain maps, a Courier, a direc-tory, coupons and other promotions for area businesses, and, of course, a membership form encouraging them to support the WNA by paying dues and volunteering to join a committee, work on a project, or bake treats for a neighborhood event. If you own, work for or have another connection to a neighborhood business, perhaps you're

thinking, hey, that's a good marketing tool! And you're right. There's no charge for lo-cally owned companies or service providers to include a business card, magnet, or other item identifying a firm, store or service. If you could include a coupon or some other form of benefit for the recipient, that would be great. And you need to provide (and replenish) the supplies. About 30 packets are distributed each year. We're also in search of a new supplier for the bags that hold all these goodies. Until

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Give your little princesses, ghosts and gob-lins a trial run before Halloween...Come check out the annual Halloween Parade & Party on Sunday, October 30th. Families and neighbors will be gathering, in costume, at the Westmorland Park at 4:00. We will proceed up Holly Ave., lead by our own Westmorland band, up to Queen of Peace Church. The parade will lead to a party with live entertainment and home-made good-ies. Headlining this event will be Wayne the

Wizard. He will amaze us with his Hallow-een Magic Show and Ventriloquist Act. He will also entertain us with a balloon sculpting stage show followed by individual balloon sculpturing for the children. The show will be in the lower-level cafeteria at QP. More de-tails about Wayne the Wizard can be found at www.waynethewizard.com. If you are in-terested in donating goodies, please send an email to adragoo@edgewood.edu.

Call for Help to Neighborhood Businesses by Becky Lien

Westmorland Annual Halloween Party by Amie Dragoo

Membership Drive by Elissa Pollack

If all went as planned, you received your Membership Drive packet from your Block Captain with this edition of the Courier. As always, the Westmorland Neighborhood Association is asking you to contribute, both financially and by volunteering your time, to the programs and events that define West-morland. The WNA is also continuing to support the Combined Health Fund Drive.

WNA materials and Health Fund contribu-tions should be returned to your Block Cap-tain by October 1. If you're not sure who your Block Captain is, please check the ros-ter at www.westmorland-neighborhood.org, or contact the Block Captain coordinator, Joy Grapentine. Her contact information is on the back of this newsletter. Questions can be addressed to your Block Captain or any Board member. Thank you for support-ing Westmorland.

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President’s Message by Betsy Hauser

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Corner Mineral Pt. And Glenway Packaged Goods at Liquor Store Prices

Whew! This summer went by fast. We enjoyed several opportunities to show off our beautiful neighborhood dur-ing the summer. The 64th annual July 4th Celebration drew hundreds to West-morland Park The bike/trike/wagon/scooter parade wound its way from Queen of Peace to the Park led by the Westmorland Walking Band and Num-ber 9's fire truck. The weather held (barely) while neighbors listened to Macon Dew and kids played games and walked for cakes. The neighborhood-wide garage sale event brought lots of eager bargain hunters on August 6th (see related arti-cle on page 11), then on August 7th gar-den admirers flocked and toured some of our beautiful gardens during the Westmorland Garden Tour. On July 13th neighbors gathered in the Park with City engineers and listened to

plans to restore and repair the storm water drainage system in the Park’s wooded area. (See related article on page 6.) We also ate ice cream! Westmorland Neighborhood Association is active because neighbors like you work together to make things happen or because you help fund them, or both. Be sure to submit your WNA member-ship this Fall, and join the rest of us who make this a great neighborhood to live and play in. Also, the WNA board of directors would like your ideas for neighborhood pro-jects that could be funded by WNA membership dollars. Send your ideas and an explanation of how they would b e n e f i t W e s t m o r l a n d , t o wnaboard@gmail.com. As always, if you have comments or concerns, give me a call at 236-4211 (before 9:00 pm, please).

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recently, RZ & Company donated clear plastic bags with their logo and phone number printed on the outside. How-ever, the salon has moved out of Mid-vale Plaza, so we will not be using their

bags any more, and we've run out of bags! To suggest or provide a replace-ment for the RZ bags, please contact Becky Lien at jlien1@charter.net or call 231-5969.

The Westmorland Garden Tour was held Sunday, August 7th. Between 75 and 80 people attended. We raised $80.00 for the Westmorland Neighbor-hood Association. Garden Tour partici-pants said that the Tour attracted just

the right number of people for the home-owners to be able to talk to everyone. Thanks so much to those homeowners who graciously allowed us into their gar-dens:

Garden Tour 2005 by Pat Sammataro

Jim and Sue Bohlman 4 Birch Circle

Marla and Jeff Rybowiak 3926 Paunack Ave

Eugenia and Jim Beecher 501 Toepfer Ave

Luba Konowalskyj and Gray Williams 621 Gately Terrace

Mark Lilleleht 3821 St. Clair Ave.

Donna Paske 4121 Euclid Ave

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Uncovering Westmorland’s Past: The Westmorland Golf Course

by John Evenson

You might have heard the story when you purchased your current house. Ma ybe one o f W estm or land ’s “oldtimers” told you how a golf course once existed where your home was built. It’s true. And here is a little bit of the story, as we know it (so far). In 1925, a nine-hole golf course was constructed on farmland owned by Wil-liam Doerfer. Imagine the space bounded roughly by Holly Avenue on the east, Midvale Boulevard on the west, Mineral Point Road on the north, and the Westmorland Park woods to the south. Mostly treeless, this par 35 course had a longest hole of 560 yards and a total yardage of 2945 yards. A round cost a whopping 25 cents. A copy of an original scorecard states, “You can beat today’s score. Come again!” The course existed for 20 years until the post-war housing boom began.

“Oldtimers” remember Minnie Cashawn (sp?) as the ever-present manager and starter operating from the “shack” by the first tee. The shack was the original milk house of the Doerfer farm. Sometimes Minnie’s mother would be there too, tell-ing stories about Madison’s early days, including encounters with the Native Americans living near Lake Wingra. Minnie charged 25 cents a round, and you had to carry your own bag. Believe it or not, the course went broke at least once during the depression era. And, ultimately, Queen of Peace Church was built on the spot where Minnie’s shack had stood. A 1940 aerial photo (see page 5) shows the faint outlines of the round greens. Apparently the first three holes ran from the area near Mineral Point and Holly

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I would like to publicly thank the mem-bers of the Westmorland Walking Band for another wonderful July 4 season. You are a great and dedicated group of people and I thoroughly enjoy playing with all of you! Thanks to Emily Hines, Janet Smith, Mary Campbell, Bill McWilliams, Laura McWilliams, Claire Gervais, John Rolling, Mitch Hagopain, Dave Verban, Tony Young, Austin Young, Kurt Meyer, Jon Pollack, and Jim Omohundro for participating in this year's parade. We look forward to work-ing with our other members Lorrie Hylkema, Emily McWilliams, Rebecca Smith and Melissa Weddle, and hope to welcome new members Katie and Cindy McWilliams, Ryan Dolan, and

Laura Ketterhagen among others for the Halloween Parade. Look for email or snailmail information regarding Hal-loween rehearsals in early October. I also want to acknowledge the wonder-ful work of Betsy Hauser, Katie Spels-berg, Mary Young, Boy Scouts, and everyone else who dedicated much time and energy into maintaining such a wonderful neighborhood event. It is a huge amount of work, and I'm sure I speak for many, many others in thank-ing you for continuing this tradition. It was great to see so many neighbors not afraid of a few drops of water and sup-porting this event as well. Westmorland Rocks!

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Come Join the Band by Julie Verban

The Westmorland Walking Band is al-ways looking for new members. Our mu-sic is easy, the members are fun, and there is not a lot of practice or talent needed! We're just the right musical or-ganization for busy parents, young mu-sicians, serious musicians, and anyone who has played in a past life and regret-ted not picking up their instrument in a while. I am happy to help with parts,

give a quick lesson, take a look at an old horn. I can also write very simple parts for our songs consisting of just a few notes to get you into the musical groove. We will resume a few rehearsals in Oc-tober to get ready for the Westmorland Halloween Parade. Please give Dave or Julie a call at 233-4675 if you are inter-ested in being notified for rehearsals.

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due south to what is now the park. From there, it’s anybody’s guess. If any of the readers have more information, or can refer us to an “oldtimer” we could

interview, please contact John Evenson (phone: 233-4405; email: jeven-son@sbcglobal.net). The Westmorland History Committee would love to pub-lish a follow–up to this article!

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3502 Monroe Street Call: 233-8912

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Westmorland Park Storm Channel by Kurt Welke

On Tuesday, July 13, interested neighbors met with City of Madison En-gineering and Parks Department repre-sentatives to discuss options for upcom-ing repairs which will be made to the open ditch lying within the wooded por-tion of the park. The meeting was called in response to the City being asked in 2003 to develop a suite of options for consideration. The current, actively eroding condition of the channel contributes to tree loss and a general degradation of the park wooded space. Additionally, sediment, nutrients, and pollutants are delivered to Lake Wingra via the settling basin adjacent to Mallatt Pharmacy. Three plans were presented that fea-tured varying levels of aesthetic, envi-

ronmental, safety, and construction costs and benefits. A balance is sought in whatever option is selected that mini-mizes damage to valuable trees and the aesthetic they provide, controls further erosion of the ditch, addresses some water quality enhancements where practicable, and is reasonable in its maintenance and operation demands. After discussion, a straw poll was taken to decide if any option was acceptable. There was consensus that a hybrid plan (called # 3) represented a workable op-tion that satisfies most concerns that were mentioned. This alternative com-bines stabilizing the current outfall and ditch with an extension of buried pipe for approximately 2/3 the current channel length. This pipe will discharge into an

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Do you ever wish that you had a pick-up truck or a van to haul awkward pieces of furniture? Does your household have two cars, but you really only need one? Community Car enables you to get rid of a car and still have access to flexible transporta-tion. Community Car’s goal is to reduce the number of cars on the road, while adding back a small number of highly fuel efficient vehicles. If you are intrigued about how this works, come to a coffee at my house, 626 Orchard Dr. on Sunday, November 6 from 2-4 pm. Or log onto www.communitycar.com (and then come to the coffee).

Community Car by Judy Skog

Voluntary Simplicity by Bryant Moroder

Sustain Dane, a local non-profit organization, will be of-fering one of its most popular courses, “Voluntary Simplicity”, an eight session discussion course, beginning on Tuesday, October 4th at 7:00 p.m. hosted by the Sequoya Branch Public Library. The course will allow participants an opportu-nity to explore the benefits of simple living. The course is de-signed to help people better understand material and psy-chological distractions in their lives and share with one an-other suggestions for simpler and more rewarding living.

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infiltration basin (rain garden) before be-ing directed into the existing buried storm water system. This option neces-sitates less disturbance and tree re-moval as well as provides a safe, use-able space where the current eroded ditch had been. A copy of the plan is below. Plans are available for review at the Se-quoya Branch Library. If you want to learn more or engage in discussion of

options, plan to attend the normally-scheduled Parks and Engineering meet-ings at the Warner Park community cen-ter. Times and dates will also be posted at the library. Construction is slated for 2006, pending permitting, bidding, and budgeting ap-provals. Questions about the neighbor-hood-approved plan can be directed to Mike Dailey at Mdailey@cityofmadison.c o m o r T i m T r o e s t e r a t ttroester@cityofmadison.com.

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Additional articles of interest to the Westmorland neighborhood are

available to read on our website. Too numerous to list!

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Neighborhood News Welcome New Neighbors

Jesse and Emilie Sondel to 4118 Birch Ave. Jesse – Veterinarian at Spring Harbor Animal Hospital. Rob Asen and 3 year old daughter Simone to 4121 Birch Ave. Rob is a UW Professor in Communication Arts. Adam and Jamie Gepner to 642 An-thony Lane. Matt and Kathy Swelstad and daughters Georgia and Madelyn, to 525 Holly Ave. Matt is with UW Hospi-tal and Clinics. Johanna Kenney, John Rafter and their son Declan Rafter to 650 An-thony Lane. Johanna is a teacher and John is a scientist. Welcome to West-morland! Heather Rice to 1420 St. Clair St. Jennifer Nordlof to 3910 St. Clair St. Jennifer is a manager at Virchow Krause and Company. Kevin & Laura Baggett to 3905 Min-eral Point Rd. Kevin works at the UW. Laura is transitioning into the veteri-nary services area. Aubrey Smith & George Reynolds, and son Cole to 434 Toepfer. Aubrey is a physician and George does home-based computer work.

Births Thomas Bittencourt arrived on March 17, 2005. He lives with his parents, JP and Ligia Bittencourt on the 4200 block of Saint Clair Street. Susan and John Miller are the proud parents of Davis James born on April 11, 2005. Et h an J o h n s o n an d Mau r a Ducharme of 3915 Fern Court are

proud to announce the arrival of their first child, Eamon Robert Johnson. He was born on June 28, 2005. Heather Abercrombie and Chris Chambreau of 3909 Birch Avenue are the proud parents of Jasper Aber-crombie Chambreau, born on July 21, 2005. Deb and Jen Trieloff at 3906 Paunack Av welcome Charles Jennings Trieloff III who was born July 11th.

Moving Jim and Stephanie Roots are moving to the east coast due to a new job for Jim. The Roots recently welcomed a new baby to their home, Ava Anna Roots! Rob and Helen Williamson have lived on Waite Circle since 1967 and will be moving this fall. All of your neighbors wish you the best of luck in your new home. We will miss you.

More Neighborhood News Nona Reddeman of 3915 Fern Court passed away on June 30, 2005. Nona was always working around the house, feeding the birds, and keeping beauti-ful gardens. She and her sister, Lola Reddeman, lived in Westmorland for 40 years.

The 3800 and 3900 blocks of St. Clair St. held their second annual block party on June 25th. Everyone enjoyed good food, fun, and conversa-tion. About the time everyone was go-ing home it started to rain, our last good one this summer. Thank you to those that organized it, our cooks and everyone who attended to make it a success.

HEALTHY LAWN TEAM ACTION by Claire Gervais

Westmorland neighbors have begun to prepare for fall lawn care and many are planning to apply a fall application of corn gluten meal for crabgrass con-trol and fertilization. The Healthy Lawn

Team has been a neighborhood source for this product since it is not readily available in most stores. Due to the de-mand for these products, there is cur-

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rently a nationwide effort to promote that lawn and garden stores carry safe and natural lawn care products. Therefore, the National Coalition for Pesticide Free Lawns has launched a campaign to urge Home Depot to carry these products. The letter writing campaign will also show that con-sumers want these products. To participate, go to the website at www.healthylawnteam.org. Print the letter and send it to the west side Home Depot then call Claire Gervais at 233-8455 or send an email to cmg@healthylawnteam.org to let me know you have sent the letter.

Healthy Lawn Team

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Voluntary Simplicity is practiced by a growing number of people who are re-evaluating the things that are most important to them. It presents a way of life that helps us slow down, sim-ply our daily lives, and find the most meaningful ways to spend our time. Voluntary Simplicity can serve as a healing balm on a stressful life. Registration is free and is limited to 12 participants per course. The re-quired supplemental book costs $20. To register or for more information, stop by the Sequoya Branch Library Reference Desk or contact Ann Michalski at 267-1981, annm@scls.lib.wi.us.

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Calendar of Events In and Around Westmorland

Date Event Time/Place Contact

Thursday Sept. 22

Car-Free Challenge Kickoff

Downtown 8:30 am

Rebecca Grossberg 280-0800

Tuesday Oct. 4

Voluntary Simplicity Course

Sequoya Library 7:00 pm

Ann Michalski 267-1981

Sunday Oct. 30

Westmorland Halloween Party

Westmorland Park 4:00 pm

Amie Dragoo 271-3124

Sunday Nov. 6

Community Car Information

626 Orchard Dr. 2:00 pm

Judy Skog 273-4813

Please send calendar submissions to Dave Santek at dasantek@wisc.edu or 231-1223

2005 Garage Sales a Success by Betsy Hauser

Westmorland streets were a-buzz with shoppers bright and early on August 6th for the neighborhood-wide garage sale event. Over 70 neighbors participated this year ! For a $5 registration fee, each participating neighbor benefitted from a

bold ad that ran for 3 days in the Madi-son newspapers, had the opportunity to have Easter Seals pick up their left-overs, and received a map of the ’hood listing all the participating sales that shoppers could use to find their deals.

For two weeks this fall, hun-dreds of Madison area resi-dents will take on a unique life-style challenge: how free can they be of their cars for two weeks? Anyone who is willing to eliminate at least one car trip a week from September 22 to October 5 is welcome to participate. To sign up, visit www.carfreechallenge.com, call Re-becca Grossberg at 280-0800, or come to the kick-off event (see below). You’ll keep a sim-ple log of all your travel for two weeks. In the process, you’ll learn a lot about your driving habits and have some fun try-ing new things. Please join us at the Car-Free Challenge Kick-Off, Thurs-day September 22 from 8:30-9:30 am. Come enjoy a morn-ing coffee and meet other Car-Free Challenge participants. We will be on the sidewalk in front of L'Etoile and Madison Environmental Group offices, 25 North Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square.

Car-Free Challenge by Rebecca Grossberg

Betsy Hauser President 236-4211 betsyhauser2206@yahoo.com Brian Tennant past-President 233-2482 bd.tennant@mailbag.com Elissa Pollack Vice President 238-2533 elissa@tds.net Brandon Casto Treasurer 204-9013 bcasto@tds.net Dan Knauss Secretary 236-4082 dknauss@twt.com Joy Grapentine at-large member 238-8818 joy.grapentine@esker.com Peter Lukszys at-large member 236-0598 lukszys@tds.net

Current Committee Chairs and Other Important Contacts Advertising Manager Kristy Casto 204-9013 kecasto@tds.net Adult Social Events Coordinator Brandon Casto 204-9013 bcasto@tds.net Bike Path Beautification Liaison Jana Stewart 233-3806 fifi@blackhawkskiarea.org Block Captain Coordinator Joy Grapentine 238-8818 joy.grapentine@esker.com Children's Social Events Coordinator Mary Campbell 238-2920 mattmary@tds.net Combined Health Fund Drive Richard Miller 238-2873 aIanrich@execpc.com Database Manager Elissa Pollack 238-2533 elissa@tds.net Garage Sale Coordinator Betsy Hauser 236-4211 betsyhauser2206@yahoo.com Garden Tour Coordinator Pat Sammataro 770-2019 spaniels@charter.net Healthy Lawn Team Representative Claire Gervais 233-8455 cmg@healthylawnteam.org History Committee Liaison Kristy Casto 204-9013 kecasto@tds.net July 4th Event Betsy Hauser 236-4211 betsyhauser2206@yahoo.com New Neighbor Packets Coordinator Becky Bishop Lien 231-5969 jlien1@charter.net Parks & Green Spaces Manager Keith Pierce 238-6459 pierce@chorus.net Safety Committee Chair Mike Bell 238-2223 michaelbell@wisc.edu Santa Visits Coordinator Katie Spelsberg 661-9874 spelsberg@charter.net Web Site Developer Chris Dolan 236-9840 chris@clotho.com

2005-2006 Board

Please direct newsletter submissions to:

The Westmorland Courier c/o David & Lori Santek

4126 Birch Avenue Madison WI 53711

Phone: 231-1223

Email:

dasantek@wisc.edu

Deadline for the November 2005

Courier is October 31

To advertise in the Westmorland Courier

please contact Kristy Casto at 204-9013

kecasto@tds.net

P.O. Box 5303 Madison, WI 53705-5303