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The Exploration Academy seniorstood at the side of the stage Sunday,hands clasped together, waiting forhis moment.

Noah Currier, said Verona AreaHigh School teacher Bill Wuerger,calling the names of Class of 2016graduates.

The crowd of his fellow classmatesand their parents filled Epics Epicen-ter with applause and cheers, recog-nizing Currier for all that had trans-pired in the last week-and-a-half, not

to mention all hes dealt with sincebeing diagnosed with an immune dis-order in seventh grade.

Hes technically not a graduate yet he still has one half-credit of mathto complete but he didnt need hisdiploma Sunday.

He simply wanted to celebrate thecrowning accomplishment for manyadolescents high school graduation with his classmates.

Just 28 hours earlier, he didntknow if the district would let him dothat. That half-credit meant he didnot meet the districts requirement forparticipation.

Though he had worked out a planwith his adviser at Exploration Acad-emy to complete the half-credit bythe end of June before the districtssummer school even technically

begins, he noted the districts policystates all credits must be completedby graduation.

That his would come two weekslate was related to an immune disor-der, hypogammaglobulinemia, thatleft him missing weeks of school at atime with illnesses that would rarely

Last-minute effort allows EA senior to participate at graduation

Noah Currier, left, and his mother, Christina Currier-Sager react after Verona AreaSchool Board president Dennis Beres tells them, along with lawyer Chad Kemp(partially pictured at left), that Currier could walk at graduation after a two-hourclosed session meeting Saturday morning.

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graduation ceremony

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Boundary deal set for hearing

JIM FEROLIE

Verona Press editor

For the city, it offerssome security and simplic-ity. The comfort of know-ing there wont be anyargument when it comestime to plan.

For the town, however,the boundary agreementheading to a public hear-ing and possible vote nextweek offers a measure offreedom.

Monday , the TownBoard and Common Coun-

cil of the Town and Cityof Verona, respectively,

will convene together tohear any final commentson a deal theyve workedon actively for a year and

City of Verona

Dog day care

rezone passes

after failing

JIM FEROLIE

Verona Press editor

They were for it afterthey were against it, but ittook a lot of persuading toget there.

After another grueling,painful discussion at Vero-na City Center on rezon-ing land to accommodatea dog day care and board-ing facility, the Common

Council reversed its owndecision Monday, allow-ing the project to proceed.

The 5-2 vote in favorcame about 30 minutesafter District 2 Ald. JackLinder refused to accepta contingency of sale byDec. 1 as a strong enoughguarantee that Tailwag-gers would move intothe spot in the middle ofVerona Technology Parkand not some other busi-ness. Shortly afterward, he

Photos by Scott Girard

Noah Currier walks across the stage Sunday, June 12, for graduation. It took a Saturday morning school board meeting thatfollowed an outpouring of support through petitions and a #LetNoahWalk hashtag on social media to give Currier, who isone half-credit short of the math requirements related to an immune disorder, the chance to celebrate his graduation.

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made an official request to

reconsider his vote.The debate had far less

to do with a pet facility,which barely went throughan initial review last week,than with whether the cityshould allow more com-mercial projects in a most-ly industrial area of thecity.

Linder had provided theonly no vote a week earlier,when the Plan Commissionexpressed strong reserva-tions before recommend-ing in favor of the rezone.Linder had said then hedidnt want to change thezoning of a property with-

out some certainty that thebusiness being introducedwould actually go there.

The council was just asambivalent as the commis-sion. Even alders and com-missioners whod voted infavor the first time aroundexpressed reservationsabout reducing the amountof land zoned industrial inthe city, and those who hadvoted against the first timemostly expressed supportfor the business itself.

Both discussions draggedon as alders or commis-sioners tried to figure outalternatives while guardingagainst other landowners

wanting the same treat-ment. Just across CountyHwy. M, David Reinkes

development team hasbeen pushing to add morecommercial and even resi-

dential development to theLiberty Business Park.

Monday, Ald. Luke Diaz(D-3) said hed preferchanging the zoning ordi-nance to allow such facil-ities on industrial land.Several alders and commis-sioners lobbied to put thebusiness elsewhere in theLivesey Co.-owned tech-nology park, somethingLivesey Co. representativeAlex Weis said was a non-starter. And Linder lament-ed the mess of a discus-sion and, after his sugges-tion of swapping anothercommercial piece to indus-

trial was shot down, askedfor everyone to just waituntil the Fox Cities-basedbusiness ownership cameback with a more definitiveplan.

But once the groupvoted 4-3 against, plan-ning director Adam Sayrelobbied hard to have thecouncil come up with analternative motion thatwould lend some certaintyto the process or at leaststate that its still underconsideration.

That eventually led tothe reversal after Weis andTailwaggers consultantFred Campbell both stated

the land is under contractto Tailwaggers and bothopined that the ownership

group would likely getspooked, as Weis put it,and not be willing to com-

mit further resources to aproject that might not getapproved and could easilygo in another Dane Countycity.

They were pretty upsetthe other day, Campbellsaid of the Plan Commis-sion aftermath. In thatsame meeting, he sug-gested it might have beena mistake to attempt tocome here because of thedifficulties.

Sayre, for his part, notedon multiple occasions thatthe citys neighborhoodplan for the area showsthat parcel as a commercial

property and that nobodyin the city or at the LiveseyCo. could remember why itwas even zoned suburbanindustrial.

Diaz joined Linder in

reversing, saying this isreally tough for me, and Iwish it was a warehouse or

a factory.Alds . Heather Reek-

ie (D-4) and Brad Stiner(D-3) were steadfast intheir contention that thecity should not be con-verting any more indus-trial land to commercial,though Reekie said shedbe more inclined to sup-port the change if it couldbe shown in writing thatthere were no other alter-natives something Weissaid hed be the one to do,as we wont move (it) toanother site in our com-mercial-zoned land. Reek-ie also said she was glad

to hear its going to passdespite her vote on prin-ciple.Email Verona Press editor

Jim Ferolie [email protected].

Dog:Debate about commercial projects in industrial areaContinued from page 1

City notesUnited Vaccines

extensionThe Common Council

approved an adjustment tothe United Vaccines devel-oper agreement Monday,providing more time for thecompany to move from itsFitchburg plant to Verona.

As managing directorRebecca Kearns explainedit, the company was fartoo aggressive in its orig-inal t imel ine , a t tempt-ing to have the buildingunder construction whilestill being designed. Thebuild process went on hia-tus from February untilJune, and the agreement which involves $700,000in tax-increment financing now states it must be 85percent complete by Dec. 1.The original deal requiredthe building to hit that levelby June 1, and the buildingwas previously expected

to be complete by the endof 2016 and fully, inde-pendently operational bythe end of the year.

Paoli project passesA previously controver-

sial development on PaoliStreet earned the councilsendorsement for a changein its general developmentplan.

The GDP is the second ofthree steps in the planned-unit development process,which allows for uncon-ventional zoning configu-rations such as combinedresidential and commercialbuildings.

The project was approvedin 2013 with a large restau-rant but failed to draw ananchor tenant and devel-oper Bill Dresser attempt-ed a revision last year thatdid not go over well withneighbors. The third ver-sion of the plan scales backthe commercial projectwith expansion options butretains the undergroundparking and the split-levelapartment configuration ofthe original.

Ald. Luke Diaz calledDresser a model citizenfor listening to neighborsand added, some other

developers could takesome lessons.Final approval of the

project will need to gothrough both the PlanCommission and CommonCouncil again for the pre-cise implementation plan,

as well as any necessarypermits.

Other approvalsT h e c i t y q u i c k l y

approved permits for sever-al proposals that had beendiscussed at the Plan Com-mission: Epics 1,535-stalladdition to its Campus 5

parking garage, a JimmyJohns restaurant on Home-town Circle, a drive-thrupickup lane for food andcoffee at the BP gas stationon Kimball Lane.

I t a lso approved anadjustment to the PureSwee t Honey gene ra ldevelopment plan for anaddition and the annexationof 46 acres and rezoning of16 acres for an expansion atthe Coating Place.

Committees filledAld. Scott Stewart made

his debut representing Dis-trict 2 on Monday, andthough he didnt say muchduring the council meeting,he was confirmed on twocommittees.

Stewart will chair thePublic Safety and Welfarecommittee and will be amember of the Personnelcommittee.

Library boardMayor Jon Hochkammer

appointed two new mem-bers to the Library Board,and both were confirmedwith no discussion.

Mawara Soha i l w i l ltake a term that expires in2018. She is the owner ofthe Goddard School, a day

care that opened this springon Prairie Oaks Drive, andHochkammer noted she hastwo preschool-aged kids.

Sarah Gaskell will take aterm expiring in 2017. Shewas an applicant for theVerona Area School Dis-tricts board opening andfor the recently filled Dis-trict 2 seat, and she has twochildren who attend NewCentury School.

Police and FireThe council also filled an

open spot on the Police andFire Commission with for-mer alder Louie Eifert.

Eifert is a former mem-ber of the Fitchburg PoliceDepartment. His term willexpire in 2021. The five-year terms are defined bystate statute in order to keepcommissioners free frompolitics.

Council approves more housingJIM FEROLIE

Verona Press editor

With the citys housing stockdiminishing bit by bit, alders havewelcomed opportunities to add to

available lots.The Common Council on Monday

approved two housing subdivisions inthe city that will help provide a bridgeuntil the North Neighborhood devel-ops in a couple of years.

Both had been to this spot before,and one of them is not ready todevelop fully, but they could providearound 100 single-family housingunits in the immediate future and atotal of more than 200.

Hometown Grove

The Hometown Grove developmentacross from Glacier Edge Elementa-ry School adds 32 conventional sin-gle-family units and 20 zero-lot lineunits, which are townhomes. It is a

revision to a plan that was approvedtwo years ago but never developed,and planning director Adam Sayresreport compared it to the Badger Prai-rie subdivision on North Edge Trail.

Developer Chuck Buells submis-sion explained the previous versiondid not proceed because of financingdifficulties at the time. The changeeliminates three lots and returnsalmost all specifications to city

standards, avoiding the difficult battlehe went through for the previous plan,a traditional neighborhood design-in-spired haven for empty nesters.

Asked whether this time it willactually happen, Buell replied, 100

percent and said theyll be on themarket by Thanksgiving.All the houses will be along a sin-

gle road split into two names, MozartStreet and Schubert Street.

Kettle Creek North

The city approved the last remainingbuildable lots in the Kettle Creek areaon the north side of the city, a 174-unitsubdivision called Kettle Creek North.

Planning director Adam Sayre point-ed out that only about one-third of thedevelopment, which abuts the NorthZone water tower, can be built easilynow. The other two-thirds will requireeither additional stormwater ponds or,

more likely, waiting for other parts ofthe North Neighborhood to developand being part of combined facilities.

The preliminary plat, which despiteits name is the most important part ofthe approval process, shows two neigh-borhood parks, one smaller and withexisting trees and the other larger andwith ball fields.Email Verona Press editor Jim Fero-

lie at [email protected].

City of Verona

Administrator search continuesJIM FEROLIE

Verona Press editor

More than three weeksafter interviewing four can-

didates to be Veronas nextcity administrator and nearlythree months after the previ-ous administrator tenderedhis resignation, the searchcontinued.

Monday the CommonCouncil met in closed ses-sion and discussed the searchfor about an hour with itsrecruiter, Steve Hintz. OnTuesday, Mayor Jon Hoch-kammer updated the Pressbut had limited official, pub-lic comments.

We are still deliberating,he said. We have asked ourconsultant to do some addi-tional work for us.

Hochkammer

acknowledged that one of thecandidates has been eliminat-ed from consideration, butthe other three who visitedMay 20-21 are still in the

mix, he said. At the moment,he said, there are no addi-tional finalists.

If there are, he said, anymeetings would be nextweek at the earliest. Thecouncils next scheduledmeeting is June 27.

The four finalists wereMonroe County administra-tor Catherine Schmit, for-mer Dixon, Ill., administra-tor David Nord, former Cityof Pewaukee administratorTammy LaBorde and formerFairfield, Iowa, administratorKevin Flanagan.

Email Verona Press editorJim Ferolie at veronapress@

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Map courtesy DOnofrio Kottke Associates

About one-third of the 174-unit subdivision north of Country View ElementarySchool could be developed in the near future.

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#LetNoahWalk process

was right, just too lateT

he feeling I got watchingExploration Academysenior Noah Currier

and his mother react Saturdaymorning as the school boardtold them Noah could walk atgraduation the following day is

why Im in journalism.Clearly, the event mattered tothis 17-year-old and his moth-er, and given that hes foughtan immunedisorder sinceseventh grade,I dont blamethem for car-ing so much.

The processthey had togo through toensure thatCurrier couldmake that riteof passage along with his class-mates including the cap tossand photos outdoors after theceremony followed the correct

steps.But it didnt follow the cor-

rect timing.His mother, Christina, told

the Press and other media that aschool administrator informedthem Noah would not be ableto walk in graduation June 1.Thats just 11 days before theculmination of 13 years ofschooling.

And it is inexcusable.Administrators were com-

pletely in the right as boardpresident Dennis Beres said ina prepared statement Saturdaymorning to not bypass thepolicy themselves and make anexception. Decisions like that

open the door to controversyin the future, when unelectedand less-accountable people aremaking decisions about who canbreak the rules and who cant.

The board has to make that

decision, and it did. If they hadmade a different decision, youcan bet people would have letthem hear about it when theywere next up for election, aswell as the next day, duringgraduation.

But board members shouldnot have had to plan a last-min-ute, Saturday morning meetingthat would take up more thantwo hours of their days. Or risknot being able to muster a quo-rum and have no way to resolvethe situation.

In the future, situations likeCurriers, in which the studentclearly has demonstrated theydeserve to walk, should gothrough the same process, but atleast a month earlier.

Beres has said the board isgoing to revisit the graduationpolicy in coming months.

I hope they dont overreactand change anything about therequirements or allow admin-

istrators to make exceptions.Instead, they should simplyrequire administrators let stu-dents at risk of not meetingrequirements during their lastsemester know well before theceremony is scheduled.

Given the flexibility ofExploration Academy, that willunderstandably require someextra work and communicationbetween the schools studentadvisers and administratorsto ensure everyone is on thesame page. But such things areimportant to students the kindof things they remember theirwhole lives so administratorsshould consider it well worth

the effort.Somewhere in this situation,communication to Currier andhis family broke down. Wheth-er that was from his adviserto administrators or from

administration to them, Im notsure.

A time requirement would fixthat at whatever level it brokedown in this case.

I know that administrators didnot intend to cause any harm or

hardship to Currier and his fam-ily. One of the benefits of work-ing at a community newspaperis getting to know those youcover quite well, and I knowthese administrators care aboutthe districts kids even if somein the community disagree withthe way they go about their

jobs.Seeing them smiling after

Beres shared the decision, andwatching superintendent DeanGorrell and Currier share amoment together on stage Sun-day leads me to believe theywere just as happy with the out-come as each board member andthe family were.

Maybe thats just the optimist

in me, but seeing a movementthat garnered more than 1,700signatures on an online petitionto #LetNoahWalk in just a fewdays and forced that Saturdaymorning closed-session schoolboard meeting showed the bestof what a community can be,supporting one of their own whothey felt was being mistreated.

I hope everyone, includingthose who jumped to criticismof the administration and dis-trict, can look at the situationwith pride that the process,eventually, worked how it issupposed to.

Then, lets make sure the pro-cess is better next time.

Scott Girard covers educationfor the Verona Press.

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Explore online safety this summerThe end of the school year

means that more kids will beturning to their cell phones,iPads and other wireless devicesto occupy their free time. Theinternet can be an intimidat-ing place, filled with phishingscams, hackers and cyber-bul-lying.

June is National Internet Safe-ty Month, which gives parentsan opportunity to talk with theirkids about the safe and properinternet use. In this spirit, thefollowing tips offer a way forparents to discuss safe andresponsible internet usage withtheir children.

Discuss online communica-tions: Talk about the importanceof never posting hurtful or hate-ful comments about others, andalways being responsible forwhat is said online.

Set boundaries for onlinesharing: Make sure children

know to never share personalinformation online, includingtheir name, age, address, schoolor passwords.

Post photos appropriately:Discuss appropriate guidelinesfor sharing photos with friendsor on social media sites, andalert them to never post photosthat could contain informationabout where they live or be seenas inappropriate.

Have an agreement withyour children that can help guideyour familys conversationsabout mobile phone usage.U.S. Cellular has an example atchildphoneagreement.com.

Use parental controls:Consider apps like NQ FamilyGuardian, which provides safe-ty and security by monitoringyour childs location and mobileusage.

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VACT debuts Mary Poppins this week

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Fly away with a belovedcharacter from both stageand screen with the VeronaArea Community Theater asthey debut their summer pro-duction of Mary Poppins.

The first performanceof the show is slated for7:30 p.m. Friday, with addi-tional shows at 7:30 p.m.Saturday, June 18, Thursday,June 23, Friday, June 24 andSaturday, June 25; as wellas a matinee performance at2 p.m. Sunday, June 19. Allshows will be performed atthe Verona Area High SchoolPerforming Arts Center, 300Richard St.

Based on the childrensbook by P.L. Travers andthe 1964 Disney adaptation(of which a revival is in theworks), the musical featuresa cast of about 80 area adultsand children. According to anews release from VACT, theproduction offers a fusionof the book and the film (to)give its audiences the classicstory they recognize withsome fun new twists.

As the well-known storygoes, Mary Poppins (playedby Kelsey Odorizzi) appearsat the Banks residence, circa1910, to serve as the fami-lys nanny. Upon her arrival,

Mr. and Mrs. Banks (KarlScheidegger and AngieCampbell) and their children,Jane and Michael (EliseBenz, Morgan Moll, OwenSehgal and Alex Kiefert), aretaken on a ride of a lifetime

as Mary teaches valuable les-sons about life and love, therelease said.

The production is directedby Julie Murphy and nar-rated by Garrett Coombs,playing the role of Bert. Themusicals most well-knownsongs Jolly Holiday,Spoonful of Sugar, Super-califragilisticexpialidociousand more will be sung, inaddition to new material.

Although the musical isslightly different than themovie, I know audiences willleave our show smiling andhappy, believing that any-thing can happen, Murphysaid in the release.

Just as in the film andthe Broadway production,

Mary Poppins will be tak-ing flight during the VACTshow. Founder Dee Bal-dock said the company wasable to apply a $750 awardit received this month fromthe Dane County Cultural

Affairs Commission towardshiring Hall Associates FlyingEffects, based in Illinois, toassist with the special effectsfor the play.

Among those workingbehind the scenes on MaryPoppins are Jane Voege-

li (music director); MarshaHeuer, Angela Myers andAlyssa Dvorak (choreogra-phers); Terry Dvorak (pro-ducer); Alex Rosenbaum,(stage manager); Paula Blan-kenheim and Sara Pfantz

(costume designers); andKendra Johnson (set design-er).

Tickets are $15 for gen-eral admission, and $10 forseniors 65 years and old-er and children/studentsthrough high school. Tickets

can be purchased in advanceor at the door, depending onavailability.

For information or to pur-chase advance tickets, visitvact.org, email [email protected] or call 845-2383.

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Photo submitted

Bert (Garrett Coombs) and Mary Poppins (Kelsey Odor-izzi) are pictured with two of the actors playing Michael(Alex Kiefert and Owen Seghal) and one of the actressesplaying Jane (Morgan Moll) in Verona Area CommunityTheaters production of Mary Poppins, which debutsat 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Verona Area High School Per-forming Arts Center. Elise Benz, also in the role of Jane,is not pictured.

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What:Verona Area Com-munity Theater presentsMary Poppins

When:7:30 p.m. Friday,June 17, Saturday, June

18, Thursday, June 23,Friday, June 24 and Sat-urday, June 25; 2 p.m.Sunday, June 19

Where:Verona AreaHigh School PerformingArts Center, 300 RichardSt.

Tickets:$15 general ad-mission, $10 for seniors/children/high schoolstudents; available atvact.org or at the door

VACT to holdgroundbreakingceremony Friday

After raising more than $1million toward a new facili-ty, Verona Area CommunityTheater is inviting the publicto celebrate its groundbreak-ing during a Friday ceremo-ny.

Our dream building isfinally becoming a reality!reads a Facebook invitationfor the event, which will beheld at the building site at103 Lincoln St., behind theVerona Fire Department.

VACT founder Dee Bal-dock told the Press that May-or Jon Hochkammer wouldbe in attendance and that theorganization invited mem-bers of the Common Counciland all VACT members toattend, as well.

Itll be the first time somepeople have been on the site,she said.

The ceremony will includea performance by childreninvolved in VACT produc-tions, singing the theme ofthe buildings fundraisingcampaign titled Its Pos-sible (a riff on the song,Impossible; Its Possiblefrom Rodgers and Hammer-steins Cinderella).

After minor revisions

to the 14,625-square-footbuilding were approved bythe City of Verona Plan-ning Commission earlierthis month, the projects

builder, 1848 Construction,will officially break groundon July 6, according to theVACT website. The newfacility will include expand-ed rehearsal space, as wellas a 150-seat theater, dancestudio, expanded costumingand set-building workshopsand storage areas. Meetingand event spaces within thebuilding will be open forpublic use, as well.

Construction is expected tolast about nine months. Theorganization is still acceptingdonations toward the project,which can be made online atvact.org/donate-now.

For information, visit vact.org.

Kate Newton

Construction on newbuilding officially

starts July 6

If You Go

What:Verona AreaCommunity Theaters ItsPossible groundbreakingceremony

When:3:30 p.m. Friday,June 17

Where:103 Lincoln St.

Info:vact.org

See something wrong?

The Verona Press does not sweep errors under the rug.If you see something you know or even think is in error,please contact editor Jim Ferolie at 845-9559 or at [email protected] so we can get it right.

Verona Area School District

Badger Bus offers private contractsfor those outside busing distance

SCOTT GIRARD


Badger Bus will beginoffering rides to some Vero-na Area School District stu-dents within the boundariesfor mandated busing nextschool year.

Last year, when VASDchanged its busing ser-vices from First Student to

Badger Bus, some parentscomplained that previous-

ly offered private contractswere no longer available.

First Student had allowedthe contracts for familieswithin two miles for middleand high school and one-and-a-quarter miles for ele-mentary schools, which arethe distances the district usesto determine whose costs itwill cover for busing.

But Badger Bus in thetransition had not made aplan, and parents found out

just before the school yearthat the contracts would notbe available.

In a June 6 email to par-ents, though, the district

announced it was workingwith the company to offerprivate contracts.

All special requests needto be resubmitted for eachschool year, the email reads.There may be a fee associ-ated with some requests ifthey, for example, involve analternate location from yourstudents primary residenceor attendance area.

The email also statesthe bus company will con-tact families by Aug. 22 toinform them if their requestcan be fulfilled.

If Badger Bus Linesapproves the request, there

is no guarantee as to the timeperiod that transportationcan be provided due to buscapacity available for yourspecial request, the emailadds.

To fill out a request, visitverona.k12.wi.us, click Dis-trict Information and chooseStudent Transportation.

Contact Scott Girard [email protected]

and follow him on Twitter @sgirard9.

Students within

normal routedistances can

request

Work starts at area parksThe City of Verona will be

tackling a few park projects inthe next month, said park andurban forestry director DaveWalker.

Last week staff removedthe 18-year-old playgroundstructure at Westridge Parkand are prepping the site fornew equipment, which a con-tractor is set to install by July1. The citys budget for thatproject is $35,000.

The department will alsobe at Cross Country Park thisweek to begin removing sandand replacing it with wood

chips, Walker said.After that is completed, the

citys next project is to updatethe playground structure atKay Park. The departmentwill remove the 20-year-old equipment but keep theswing, climber and seat spin-ner that were added a fewyears ago. The new $9,400structure will have some sim-ilar features as the existingplay set, including two slidesand a shaded area.

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Coming up

Community calendar

ChurchesAll Saints Lutheran Church

2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg(608) 276-7729allsaints-madison.orgPastor Rich JohnsonSunday: 8:30 & 10:45 a.m.

The Church in Fitchburg2833 Raritan Rd., Fitchburg(608) 271-2811livelifetogether.comSunday: 8 & 10:45 a.m.

The Church in VeronaVerona Business Center535 Half Mile Rd. #7, Verona(608) 271-2811livelifetogether.comSunday: 9 a.m.

Fitchburg Memorial UCC5705 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg(608) 273-1008memorialucc.orgPastor Phil HaslangerSunday: 9:30 a.m.

Good Shepherd Lutheran ChurchECLA

(608) 271-6633Central: Raymond Road & WhitneyWay, MadisonSunday: 8:15, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m.West: Corner of Hwy. PD & NineMound Road, VeronaSunday: 9 & 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Damascus Road Church WestThe Verona Senior Center108 Paoli St., Verona(608) [email protected],damascusroadonline.orgPastor Justin BurgeSunday: 10 a.m.

Memorial Baptist Church201 S. Main St., Verona(608) 845-7125MBCverona.orgLead Pastor Jeremy ScottSunday: 10:15 a.m.

Redeemer Bible Fellowship130 N. Franklin St., Verona(608) 848-1836redeemerbiblefellowship.orgPastor Dwight R. WiseSunday: 10 a.m. family worship

Resurrection Lutheran Church WELS

6705 Wesner Rd., Verona(608) 848-4965rlcverona.orgPastor Nathan Strutz and AssistantPastor Eric MelsoThursday: 6:30 p.m.Sunday: 9 a.m.

St. Christopher Catholic ParishSt. Andrew Church301 N. Main St., VeronaSt. William Church1371 Hwy. PB, Paoli

(608) 845-6613stchristopherverona.comFr. William Vernon, pastorSaturday: 5 p.m., St. Andrew, VeronaSunday: 7:30 a.m., St. William, PaoliSunday: 9 & 11 a.m., St. Andrew,VeronaDaily Mass, Tuesday-Saturday: 8a.m., St . Andrew, Verona

St. James Evangelical LutheranChurch

427 S. Main St., Verona

(608) 845-6922stjamesverona.orgPastors Kurt M. Billings and PeterNarumOffice Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday,Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 8 a.m.-noon WednesdaySaturday Worship: 5 p.m.Sunday Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.

Salem United Church of Christ502 Mark Dr., Verona(608) 845-7315salemchurchverona.orgRev. Dr. Mark E. Yurs, PastorLaura Kolden, Associate in MinistrySunday Worship: 9 a.m.Fellowship Hour: 10:15 a.m.

Springdale Lutheran ChurchECLA

2752 Town Hall Rd. (off Hwy ID),Mount Horeb(608) 437-3493springdalelutheran.orgPastor Jeff JacobsSunday: 8:45 a.m. with communion

Sugar River United MethodistChurch

415 W. Verona Ave., Verona(608) [email protected],sugarriverumc.orgPastor Gary Holmes9 & 10:30 a.m. contemporaryworship.Sunday School available during wor-ship. Refreshments and fellowship arebetween services.

West Madison Bible Church2920 Hwy. M, VeronaSunday Praise and Worship: 9:15 a.m.Nursery provided in morning.Sunday school (all ages): 10:45 a.m.Small group Bible study: 6 p.m.

Zwingli United Church of Christ

Hwy. 92 & G, Mount Vernon(608) 832-6677Pastor Brad BrookinsSunday: 10:15 a.m.

Zwingli United Church of ChristHwy. 69 & PB, Paoli(608) 845-5641Rev. Sara ThiessenSunday: 9:30 a.m. family worship

Whats on VHAT-98

Support groups AA Meeting, senior cen-ter, Thursdays at 1 p.m.

Caregivers SupportGroup, senior center, firstand third Tuesday, 10:30a.m.

Healthy LifestylesGroup meeting, seniorcenter, second Thursdayfrom 10:30 a.m.

Parkinsons Group,senior center, thirdFriday at 10 a.m.

Thursday, June 16

7 a.m. Hometown DaysParade8 a.m. Zumba Gold9 a.m. Daily Exercise10 a.m. Bonnie and Bill Ste-

vens at Senior Center2 p.m. Zumba Gold3 p.m. Daily Exercise4 p.m. Greg Anderson at

Senior Center5 p.m. Crossing Cultures at

Senior Center6 p.m. Salem Church Ser-

vice7 p.m. Tom Waselchuk at

Senior Center8 p.m. Daily Exercise9 p.m. Hometown Days

Fireworks10 p.m. Sondy Pope at

Historical SocietyFriday, June 177 a.m. Greg Anderson at

Senior Center1 p.m. Hometown Days

Fireworks3 p.m. Lincoln Elementary

Choir at Senior Center4 p.m. Crossing Cultures at

Senior Center5 p.m. 2014 Wildcats Foot-

ball8:30 p.m. Hometown Days

Fireworks10 p.m. Hometown Days

Parade11 p.m. Bonnie and Bill

Stevens at Senior CenterSaturday, June 188 a.m. Common Council

from June 13

11 a.m. Lincoln ElementaryChoir at Senior Center1 p.m. 2014 Wildcats Foot-

ball4:30 p.m. Sondy Pope at

Historical Society6 p.m. Common Council

from June 139 p.m. Lincoln Elementary

Choir at Senior Center10 p.m. Sondy Pope at His-

torical Society11 p.m. Bonnie and Bill Ste-

vens at Senior CenterSunday, June 137 a.m. Hindu Cultural Hour9 a.m. Resurrection Church10 a.m. Salem Church Ser-

viceNoon Common Council


Choir at Senior Center4:30 p.m. Sondy Pope at

Historical Society6 p.m. Common Council


Choir at Senior Center10 p.m. Sondy Pope11 p.m. Bonnie and Bill Ste-

vens at Senior CenterMonday, June 207 a.m. Greg Anderson at



Choir at Senior Center4 p.m. Crossing Cultures at

Senior Center

5 p.m. 2014 Wildcats Foot-ball9 p.m. Hindu Cultural Hour10 p.m. Hometown Days

Parade11 p.m. Bonnie and Bill

Stevens at Senior CenterTuesday, June 217 a.m. 1988 Verona Bas-

ketball10 a.m. Zumba Gold9 a.m. Daily Exercise10 a.m. Bonnie and Bill Ste-

vens at Senior Center2 p.m. Zumba Gold3 p.m. Daily Exercise4 p.m. Greg Anderson at


Senior Center

6 p.m. Resurrection Church8 p.m. Tom Waselchuk at


Fireworks10 p.m. Sondy Pope at His-

torical SocietyWednesday, June 227 a.m. Greg Anderson at



Choir at Senior Center5 p.m. Common Council

from June 137 p.m. Capital City Band8 p.m. Lincoln Elementary

Choir at Senior Center10 p.m. Hometown Days

Parade

11 p.m. Bonnie and BillStevens at Senior CenterThursday, June 237 a.m. Hometown Days

Parade8 a.m. Zumba Gold9 a.m. Daily Exercise10 a.m. Bonnie and Bill

Stevens at Senior Center3 p.m. Daily Exercise4 p.m. Greg Anderson at


Senior Center6 p.m. Salem Church Ser-

vice7 p.m. Tom Waselchuk at

Senior Center8 p.m. Daily Exercise9 p.m. Hometown Days

Fireworks10 p.m. Sondy Pope at

Historical Society

Sing-along

Join Chicago-based musician LauraDoherty for a sing-along from 1:30-2:30p.m. Thursday, June 16 at the library.

Doherty will play acoustic folk-poptunes from her three Parents Choiceaward-winning CDs. This event is wel-come to all ages.

For information, call 845-7180.

Birthday, anniversary partyJoin the senior center for the June

birthday and anniversary party beginningat 11:45 a.m. Friday, June 17.

Lunch will be served at 11:45 andlive entertainment provided by Greg andChris Layton will begin at 12:30 p.m.Greg and Chris will be playing a mixtureof 50s and 60s music. Lunch reserva-tions are due by noon on Thursday, June16. For information or to make a reserva-tion, call 845-7471.

NASA Explorations

Learn about current National Aeronau-tics and Space Administration (NASA)explorations with Kevin Hutchison,Madisons Solar System Ambassador,from 7-8 p.m. Thursday, June 16 at thelibrary.

Hutchison will discuss Mars

exploration, the Rosetta Mission and theupcoming Juno Mission, scheduled tovisit Jupiter on July 4. He will also sharephotos from the New Horizon Mis-sion and discuss collaboration betweenNASA and other space agencies.

The Solar System Ambassadors Pro-gram (SSA) is a public outreach pro-gram sponsored by the Jet PropulsionLaboratory in Pasadena, California, an

operating division of the California Insti-tute of Technology and a lead researchand development center for NASA.


Brat sale

Help raise funds for the Verona PublicLibrary from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday,June 18 at the Wisconsin Brewing Com-pany, 1079 American Way.

Brats, hot dogs and beverages will beavailable for purchase, and there will belive music as part of 80s night at thebrewery. All proceeds from food salesbenefit the librarys endowment fund.


Fathers Day picnic

Families can attend the Bring Your

Pop to Pops Knoll! Fathers Day pic-nic from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, June19 at Donald County Park, 1945 State

Highway 92, Mount Horeb, in the PopsKnoll picnic shelter.

Music will be provided by BluegrassTea and Company, and there will beactivities for all ages. Hot dogs and rootbeer floats will be available for purchase.

For information, visit donaldpark.org.

Beneficiary designations

Determine if your beneficiary desig-

nations and ownership arrangements areup to date and consistent with your estateplanning goals from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday,June 21 at the library.

During Avoid the Top Ten Mis-takes Made with Beneficiary Designa-tions, attorneys John Horn and Dera L.Johnsen-Tracy of Horn and Johnsen SC,will share their expertise.


Puppet show

Visit the library for a CRITTERrr-rMan puppet show, with two separateshowings at 1 and 2:30 p.m. Thursday,June 23.

The show features life-like animalpuppets, humor, music and storytellingto illustrate how the loss of healthy ani-

mal habitats directly impacts the envi-ronment. The event is open to all ages.For information, call 845-7180.

Thursday, June 16 7-8 p.m., NASA Explorations pre-sentation, library, 845-7180

Friday, June 17 11:45 a.m., June birthday andanniversary party (reservationsrequired), senior center, 845-7471 3:30 p.m., VACT groundbreakingceremony, 103 Lincoln St. (behindfire station), vact.org 7:30 p.m., Verona Area Commu-nity Theater presents Mary Pop-

pins ($15 general admission, $10children/students/seniors; purchaseat vact.org), VAHS Performing ArtsCenter, 300 Richard St.

Saturday, June 18 5:30-8:30 p.m., Library brat salefundraiser, Wisconsin BrewingCompany, 1079 American Way,845-7180 7:30 p.m., VACT presents MaryPoppins ($15 general admission,$10 children/students/seniors; pur-chase at vact.org), VAHS PAC, 300Richard St.

Sunday, June 19 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Bring YourPop to Pops Knoll! Fathers DayPicnic, Donald County Park, 1945State Highway 92, Mount Horeb,donaldpark.org 2 p.m., VACT presents Mary Pop-pins ($15 general admission, $10children/students/seniors; purchaseat vact.org), VAHS PAC, 300 RichardSt.

Monday, June 20

1-3 p.m., Open Art Studio (ages3-10), library, 845-7180 4-8 p.m., Maker Monday (ages11-18) library, 845-7180 6:30 p.m., Joint Common Counciland Town Board meeting on bound-ary agreement, fire station, 101 Lin-coln St., 845-7187 6:30-8:30 p.m., Adult Coloring Club,library, 845-7180

Tuesday, June 21 1:30-2 p.m., STEM Tuesdays (ages8-10), library, 845-7180 2-8 p.m., Crafty Tuesdays (ages

11-18), l ibrary, 845-7180 2:30-3 p.m., STEM Tuesdays (ages5-7), library, 845-7180 4 p.m., Open video gaming, library,845-7180 7-8 p.m., Avoid the Top Ten Mis-takes Made with Beneficiary Desig-nations workshop, library, 845-7180

Thursday, June 23 1 and 2:30 p.m., CRITTERrrrManpuppet show, library, 845-7180 4-5:30 p.m., Anime Club (grades

6-12), library, 845-7180 7:30 p.m., VACT presents MaryPoppins ($15 general admission,$10 children/students/seniors; pur-chase at vact.org), VAHS PAC, 300Richard St.

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Be the Hero of Your Own Life

Works of fiction are sometimes disparaged by those witha practical bias as being useless, or at best, a harmless

diversion. They would rather read non-fiction, presumablybecause it gives them knowledge which they can actuallyuse. But fiction often teaches us valuable lessons abouthow to live life, how to handle adversity, and what it is to

be human in difficult circumstances. Furthermore, we aresometimes struck by the realization that we might bend cir-cumstances and events to our will, and in effect become the

heroes of our own life. That is a valuable lesson, and onewhich can be learned from reading fiction, but also fromreading biographies, autobiographies, and the narrativesof the Bible. Becoming a hero usually starts, as it does infiction, with conflict or adversity. From there, one must beinspired to resolve the conflict or deal with the adversity.

And before the inspiration fades, one usually has to createa workable plan. In the same way that an author must planher work, thinking over and trying out different plots andplans for character development, we should plan our ownlives, perhaps imagining different paths toward achievingsomething great, something worth writing about. And justas an author has to develop her characters, so too do we

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Greatness for girls

SCOTT GIRARD


It can be hard to find

girl time in elementaryschool.

At New Century Schooland Sugar Creek Elemen-tary School, though, theGirls on the Run programhas made that possibletwice a week since it beganlast fall at NCS and thisspring at SC.

Between the two pro-grams, nearly 40 third-through fifth-grade girlshave had the opportunity toimprove their self-esteem,build a community andlearn about fitness.

GOTR is a national pro-gram that began in 1996 to

promote positivity for girlswhile also helping improvefitness levels through phys-ical activities. As SC stu-dent Hanna Mathiot putit, the girls are workingtogether and learning howto be closer to each other.

The season culminated ina regional 5K run June 4 atEdgewood College for allof the GOTR programs inthe area.

Jennifer Klawiter, a NCSteacher who started theprogram at the school andhelped inspire it at SC, saidthe program inspires girlsto build their inner wealth.

They learn how to pluginto the positive cord to seethe greatness in themselvesand others, Klawiter saidin an email. Its so much

more than a running pro-gram, but it does sneak upand surprise the girls in

how much better of a run-ner they become.

The groups meet twiceweekly to perform physicalactivities, talk and recog-nize positive traits in eachother. NCS student SierraPosey said shes learnedsome life lessons thatwill help her long-term,like celebrating everyoneand focusing on positives.

That positive focus fitswell with the districtsrecent push on behaviorinitiatives, Klawiter add-ed, with the Nurtured HeartApproach promoting con-sistently positive feedback

on what students do cor-rectly.The best part for me

was to weave NurturedHeart within the alreadysolid program for girls whoneed a strong role model intheir lives, she said.

Girls also organize acommunity service projectduring the semester. TheSugar Creek team recentlyheld a bake sale at Millerand Sons Supermarket tobenefit the American Fam-ily Childrens Hospital,while the NCS girls col-lected new and used itemsfor the YWCA and RonaldMcDonald House.

SC counselor and GOTRliaison Avery Kansteinersaid the program has had ahuge impact on the girls

this spring.They have learned so

much about being a partof a community, havingconfidence in themselves,working toward personalgoals and other importantconcepts such as the por-trayal of girls in the mediathat will help them main-tain a positive sense of selfas they approach adoles-

cence, Kansteiner wrotein an email.

NCS student Kyrah Kit-tleson summed up whatshes gotten out of the pro-gram simply.

Its about being kind toother people and yourself,she said.

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Field day funSchools around the VeronaArea School District heldtheir field day events duringMay or June. The events got

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Above, Sugar Creek Ele-mentary School fifth-graderGavin Holmes tries not topop a bubble.

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Paar, LaBerge to resign

The Madison DioceseKnights of Columbus willlose two valuable leaders atelection time, June 16, withthe departures of WilliamPaar and William LaBerge.

Knight Paar, District 45Deputy, will resign his posteffective July 1 after serv-ing the district for six fra-ternal years. He has guidedhis district to five star coun-cil awards, seven completecouncil awards and added 37knights to the fraternal orga-nization. Paar is a memberof Verona KC Council 11155and a two-time Grand Knight.

LaBerge, who is a KCCouncil 11155 12th GrandKnight, Medallion Awardwinner, Star Council Awardwinner, improved the coun-cils membership with 14first-degree knights duringhis tenure. The Verona coun-cil collected and distributed$13,400 for charity caus-es within the Verona area,

and councilknights donat-ed 912 hoursassisting thosewho needed

help.VeronaKnight ErinKennedy willmove into thedistrict dep-uty positionfor District45. KnightClyde Hellen-brand, whohas servedthe councilthe past twoyears as depu-ty grand knight, will becomeVeronas 13th grand knight atthe July 21 installation of offi-cers ceremony at St. AndrewChurch. There, Knight DougUlaszek will also give a pre-sentation highlighting theretiring leaders.

Awards

The council was recentlyhonored with several awardsat the State KC Conferenceheld at Wisconsin Dells inMay.

Jared Kuchenbecker of theyouth program earned secondplace in the State KC Christ-mas coloring contest.

LaBerge, a long-time mem-

ber of KC 11155, was select-ed as the Medallion Awardwinner for 2016. The awardhonors him for his achieve-ments and leadership duringthe past fraternal year.

Knight Ryan Hartberg, hiswife, Christy, and their familywere named the Family of theYear for the State of Wiscon-sin. This adventurous fami-ly achieved recognition fortheir dedication to the church,council and community.

The Council 11155 Histo-ry Book was given the Dia-mond Award for 2016. Thisbook illustrates the councilsachievements within theVerona community, churchdedication, and councilswork within the church, com-munity and council, with spe-cial recognition given to thosethat need help the most.

Charity, fraternity andpatriotism are the backboneof this award-winning councilfrom Verona.

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Josie Hansen, 2, of Verona, searches for inspiration while working on a chalk drawing out-side the library.

Knights of Columbus

Photos by Kate Newton

Summer Reading CelebrationThe Verona Public Library kicked off its summer reading program with a community celebra-tion Saturday, June 11, complete with performances from the Verona Area Community The-ater and University of Wisconsin-Madison marching band, a bounce house, plenty of craftsand life-sized versions of games like Candy Land and checkers.

Above, Patricia Grahmann and Sam Haack, 12, dance during the UW marching bands per-formance.

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SPORTSThursday, June 16, 2016

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Verona Press

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From graduationto pro baseball

ANTHONY IOZZO

Assistant sports editor

It was a dream come true for Verona Area

High School graduate Ben Rortvedt.On Thursday night, Rortvedts name

was called by the Minnesota Twins as the56th overall pick in the second round of theMLB first-year draft.

Rortvedt who officially signed with theTwins organization Monday said whenhe heard his name, it overwhelmed him.

It has been a long time coming. It is agreat feeling, Rortvedt told the Press.

Rortvedt said he was shaking as nameswere being called throughout the night, andhe was just trying to remain relaxed withhis family.

He finally got a call from a scout from theMinnesota Twins late Thursday. That scouthad already talked with Bens uncle, whohelped work out the details.

He called me and asked me specificallyif I wanted to be a Twin. I said yes, Rort-vedt said.

After the phone call, Rortvedt didnt tellhis family. He just waited.

Three picks later, my name was called.It was a really cool moment, he said.

If that wasnt enough, Rortvedt had grad-uation on Sunday and then drove to Minne-sota, arriving at midnight. At 7 a.m. Mon-day, he had to go through a physical and a

lot of tests to make sure his health was OK.At 3 p.m., he received a tour of the Min-

nesota Twins Target Field and sat withgeneral manager Terry Ryan and other frontoffice people, and that is when his dreamreally came true.

It was really cool to put on the Twins jer-sey and hat and ink my name on the paper,Rortvedt said. I cant really explain thefeeling. It didnt feel real. It still hasnt hit

me. I have been dreaming of that ever sinceI picked up a bat. That is all I wanted to do.I couldnt be happier.

The decision to play professional ball didhave a fallback. Rortvedt signed a NationalLetter of Intent to play baseball at the NCAADivision I University of Arkansas last year.

Even the thought of playing baseball atArkansas was something Rortvedt saidhe hadnt thought about as recently as hissophomore year.

Considered one of the top catching pros-pects in the Big Eight Conference, Rortvedtearned second-team all-conference honorsboth his freshman and sophomore seasons.

But he kept working, and the accoladeskept coming. As a junior, Rortvedt earnedfirst-team all-conference honors, first-teamAll-State honors and was also invited to theUSA Baseball Tournament of Stars.

During that stretch, he committed toArkansas, and he just kept working.

It is crazy. I just want to thank all thepeople that helped me get to this place,Rortvedt said.

It was at the Tournament of Stars fromJune 23-27 that Rortvedt started to gainnational attention. He was 8-for-12 with six

Photo by Anthony Iozzo

Verona Area High School graduate Ben Rortvedt, pictured after hitting an RBI triple in theWIAA Division 1 sectional semifinals June 7, was drafted 56th overall by the MinnesotaTwins in the second round of the MLB draft. Rortvedt officially signed with the Twins onMonday and will start his professional career in the Gulf Coast League.

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Baseball

Girls soccer

Cats season ends in overtime

against Madison WestANTHONY IOZZO


It was not how how the VeronaArea High School girls soccer teamenvisioned it.

On Friday, the Wildcats fell 2-0to Madison West, a day after theirWIAA Division 1 sectional semifinalbegan at Reddan Soccer Park.

The two teams ended regulationon Thursday in a 0-0 tie, and thun-derstorms forced the game to be sus-pended to Friday afternoon.

I felt like we really had somegood momentum going into the endof last nights game, so having to dothe postponed game certainly, I dontthink, played to our advantage, headcoach Jen Faulkner said. This isnthow we drew it up. Good luck tothem as they move on. They battled.They are a physical team.

After the first 10-minute overtimeended in a 0-0 tie, the game seemedheaded for a shootout. But less thantwo minutes into the second half ofovertime, sophomore Claire Mooneyscored to put the Regents up 1-0.

With the Wildcats press ing,Mooney added another goal in thefinal minute.

They dont play the game we typi-cally like to play, and it played to theiradvantage, Faulkner said. They did

a nice job of finishing it today, whichis something we didnt do.

Senior Emily Krogman had the


Assistant coach Andy Moll and senior Emily Krogman watch Madison Westcelebrate after the Wildcats fell 2-0 in overtime Friday in a WIAA Division 1 sec-tional final at Reddan Soccer Park. The game ended in a 0-0 tie after regulationon Thursday, but thunderstorms forced the rest of the game to be postponed toFriday.

Softball

Wildcats bats baffled in state

quarterfinalJEREMY JONES

Sports editor

All season long, the Vero-na softball team found a wayto scratch out runs.

That was until Thursday,when the Wildcats batsfinally went cold in a 7-1

loss to Watertown in theWIAA Division 1 quarterfi-nal game.

Verona was held to threehits, two of which didntcome until the final inningagainst Gosling senior

Photo by Jeremy Jones

Watertown junior Gabriella Genz scores in the bottom of thesecond inning ahead of the tag of Verona sophomore Savan-na Rainey. The Wildcats lost their WIAA Division 1 statequarterfinal game 7-1.

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Boys tennis

Tough draw leads to quarterfinals lossJEREMY JONES

Sports editor

After a 12-year hiatus from theWIAA Division 1 boys state teamtennis tournament, Verona got the

unluckiest of draws Friday insideNielsen Tennis Stadium. It was aquarterfinal, which pitted the Wild-cats against a Marquette UniversityHigh School team that had won eightof the past nine state titles.

It is tough, but at the same time,we knew from the beginning of theseason that this was what the drawwas going to look like, Verona assis-tant coach Andrew Witmer said afterthe teams 7-0 loss. Weve beenworking hard all season knowing thatthis was going to be our opponent.

Verona had faced six of the otherseven teams at team state during theregular season, beating Eau ClaireMemorial, Middleton and Wauke-sha South. The Wildcats fell against

Brookfield Central, Neenah and5-2 to a Marquette team, which hadfive flights ranked in the top 12 atthe individual state tournament twoweeks ago.

The Wildcats saw a different line-up during the regular season, though,as Marquette was without its top twosingles players.

We knew they had a lot of depth,which is something that has allowedthem to win eight of the last nine statechampionships, being able to improveon that lineup today made it that muchtougher, Witmer said. Everybodyknew today was going to be a hardermatch, but at the same time, it was

just another tennis match.We definitely felt good coming

into today and thought we could get

a good run going.

Veronas most competitive matchcame at the end of the day in a con-tentious bout that pitted two of thestates top No. 1 singles players inWildcat freshman Will Tennisonand Marquette junior Ethan Marda-nus-Budionoi.

Mardanus-Budioni was seededfifth at individual state two weeksago where he finished fourth, whileTennison matched his No. 6 seed.

Hooked on a couple of calls inthe second set, neither of which wasoverturned by the chair judge, Tenni-son went into a super tiebreaker visi-

bly upset against Mardanus-Budionoi

and eventually lost 5-7, 6-2, 10-6.I told our guys we are just as

skilled as Marquette today theywere just doing the small things abit better than we were at the moreimportant times, Witmer said.

Despite a heat index that reachedupwards of 90 degrees Friday, theWildcats found little respite insideNielsen Tennis Stadium.

Sophomore Vivek Swaminath fell6-0, 6-0 to one of the states top No.4 singles players in lefty Caleb Schi-fan in a match that lasted a half-hour.

Photo by Jeremy Jones

Senior Luke Schoberle (front) gets to a ball in front of freshman Chris Queoffat No. 3 doubles during Fridays WIAA Division 1 state team tennis tournamentquarterfinal bout against Marquette. Schoberle and Queoff lost the game 6-3,6-3 against sophomore Robbie May and freshman Jack Stockhausen. Veronalost the dual 7-0.

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Baseball

Three players earn first-team

All-Big Eight selectionsANTHONY IOZZO


Seniors Keaton Knueppel(pitcher) and Ben Rortvedt(catcher, Player of the Year)and sophomore StephenLund (infield) all earned

first-team Big Eight Con-ference selections for theVerona Area High Schoolbaseball team this season.

Knueppel was 6-3 with a1.02 ERA (nine earned runs


Sophomore Stephen Lund was named to the first-team All-Big Eight Conference this season, joining Ben Rortvedt andKeaton Knueppel.

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best chance for Verona inovertime. She dribbled theball into the box and hit ashot toward the net. But

West junior goalie GiselleMonette made the save.

Monette also saved a shotfrom junior Rachel Knoe-bl in the 81st minute onThursday and finished withfive for the game.

Verona sophomore goalieRachel Thomas also endedup with five saves.

While it wasnt the wayseniors Ellery Rourke,Bobo Zaugg, Bella Geno-va, Makenna McGilvray,Shelly Wing, Sofia Abreuand Krogman wanted toend their careers, the seniorgroup did help lead theWildcats to a Big Eight

Conference title, a top-seed in the sectional and aregional championship.

Those seniors helpedlay the groundwork forthe future of the program,which looks to be brightwith juniors Kate Melin,Dani Gilboy, Jillian Ybanezand Knoebl; sophomoresAnna Heizen, Megan Kro-gman, Ashley Hofstetter,Lauryn Hahn, ChandlerBainbridge and Nelson; andfreshmen Nicole Thomasand Julia Gilboy all set toreturn.

I am really proud of thisteam. They worked reallyhard, Faulkner said We

had a wake-up call early inthe season and were strug-gling. They decided that itwas within their control towork harder and do better,and they did that. We areproud of our whole team. Ittook 19 players to get here.We win and lose together asa team.

Every year is a freshyear. We have a lot of depth

on our team, a lot of young

kids. They have a goodexample that they havelearned from here, and Ithink we will pick up rightwhere we left off last yearand move forward in a posi-tive direction.

The Wildcats finished theseason 10-8-2 overall. Westended up making it to thestate tournament with a 4-1win over Kettle Moraine in

the sectional final.


Verona senior Shelly Wing dribbles past midfield Thursdayagainst Madison West.

Sectionals:Cats finish season 10-8-2 overall,

return 13 players next yearContinued from page 11

pitcher Ellee Jensen.We wanted to baffle them

at the plate, and they baffledus, Verona head coach ToddAnderson said. We didnthit very well, and they madesome great plays to keep usoff the basepaths.

Jensen, an Iowa Staterecruit, struck out six in acomplete-game effort. Sheallowed one earned run onfour hits, walking two andhitting another.

She definitely was a tal-ented pitcher, but she wasntanything we couldnt han-

dle, said Emily Osieckiw

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