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Aug. 25By Katherine Michalets

Freeman Staff

WAUKESHA — With timeto spare before the launch ofthe annual fundraising cam-paign, United Way in Wauke-sha County and the UnitedWay of Greater Milwaukeehave successfully integratedoperations.

Mary Lou Young, CEO ofthe new United Way ofGreater Milwaukee & Wauke-sha County, said the two non-profit entities were fully inte-grated from an operationalstandpoint by the start of thefiscal year on July 1.

To run an efficient cam-paign, Young said it was cru-cial to have everything in syncfirst.

“As difficult as it was, overtime we have to demonstrateto all of the counties where wehave a footprint to show themthat (merging) was the rightthing to do,” Young said.

She believes that a success-ful campaign and allocationcycle will reinforce that com-bining the United Way entitieswas the right decision.

To also signify the impor-tance of the two organizationsworking together, an ad cam-paign will be launched featur-ing billboards supporting theUnited Way of Greater Mil-waukee & Waukesha County,including photos of WaukeshaCounty Executive Paul Far-row with Milwaukee CountyExecutive Chris Abele.

By Matt MastersonFreeman Staff

WAUKESHA — A new studyfound there are almost 300,000more heroin users nationwidenow than a decade ago, but thenumber of opiate-related deathsin Waukesha County appears to be

trending downward through thefirst half of 2015.

According to a study by the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Pre-vention released this week, nearlythree in every 1,000 Americanssaid they had used heroin in thepast year. That’s up from undertwo per 1,000 about a decade ago —

a 62 percent increase which trans-lates to hundreds of thousandsmore people — governmentresearchers said.

While total usage is risingacross the country, the number ofoverdose deaths appears to beslowing down, at least locally.

Through the first half of 2015,Waukesha County has seen sevendrug-related deaths, according todata provided to The Freeman by

the county Medical Examiner’sOffice.

Of those, two cases involvedheroin and four were related toother opiate medications. Theother death was attributed to a“non-opiate medication combinedwith alcohol.”

While those are the officialtotals, the medical examiner’s

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Starry Nights, 6:30 p.m. today, Sharon Lynne WilsonCenter for the Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive, Brookfield.Free. Music by The Britins. Also classic car show.

Waukesha Friday Night Live, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.today, downtown Waukesha. Nine stages of live music.www.waukeshafridaynightlive.com

Delafield Block Party, 5 p.m. to midnight today andSaturday, municipal parking lot on Main and Dopkinsstreets, Delafield. Food and music.www.visitdelafield.org

Free Friday Night Concert, 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. today,City Beach, 324 Wisconsin Ave., Oconomowoc. Musicby Andrea and the Mods.

Magic/illusionist show with Glen Gerard, 7:30 p.m.today, SummerStage at Lapham Peak, W329-N846Highway C, Town of Delafield. 262-337-1560,www.summerstageofdelafield.org

Ice cream social, noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Good Har-vest Market, 2205 Silvernail Road, Waukesha. BenefitsHAWS of Waukesha. www.goodharvestmarket.com

40th Annual Lake Country Art Festival, 9 a.m. to 4p.m. Saturday, Naga-Waukee County Park off Highway83, Delafield. Fundraising event of the Lake CountryWomen’s Club. Admission fee is a $5 per carload dona-tion. www.lakecountrywomensclub.org

Music by Gerry Sloan, 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday,

The Clarke Irish Hotel and Bar, 314 W. Main St.,Waukesha. Traditional Irish music.

Oconomowoc Arts Center open house, 6 p.m. to 8p.m. Saturday, 641 E. Forest St., Oconomowoc. Liveentertainment by Tom Klubertanz and Andy Zietlow onthe patio stage. www.oasd.k12.wi.us

Bluegrass concert, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, SummerStageat Lapham Peak, W329-N846 Highway C, Town ofDelafield. Music by Piper Road Band. 262-337-1560,www.summerstageofdelafield.org

Ice cream social, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Clark HouseMuseum, 206 E. Wisconsin Ave., Pewaukee. Hosted byPewaukee Area Historical Society.

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Heroin, opiate deaths appear to be declining in county

Seven so far this yearDuchniak: Alternative

more harmful thanLake Michigan

diversionBy Matt Masterson

Freeman Staff

WAUKESHA — Weeks afterWaukesha’s Lake Michiganwater diversion application tookits first meaningful step forwardin years, a group of local environ-mental nonprofits opposed to theplan offered its own alternativebuilt around the city’s currentwater source.

But the city’s Water Utilityclaims that alternative puts costbefore effectiveness and would bemore harmful than its proposeddiversion.

In a press briefing Thursdaymorning, the Compact Imple-mentation Coalition called on thestate Department of NaturalResources to deny Waukesha’s

request for GreatLakes water.

The group alsooffered its ownalternative — cen-tering on addition-al treatment to thecity’s radium-con-taminated ground-water — thatmembers saywould have noe nv i r o n m e n t a limpact on sur-

rounding wetlands and save tax-payers “tens of millions” of dol-lars.

“The alternative being pro-posed would rely on the abundantwater supplies that Waukeshahas available to it,” said PeterMcAvoy, an attorney for the CIC.“It would utilize, importantly, itsexisting infrastructure and dis-tribution system and it would addin additional treatment where it’sneeded to deal with any healthissues related to the water qualitythat is being pumped out.”

Dan Duchniak, general manag-er of the Waukesha Water Utility,said the CIC alternative is notonly nothing new, it’s also incon-sistent with Wisconsin water sup-ply planning laws.

“As the coalition indicated,they have repeatedly made thesesame suggestions to the DNR dur-ing its five-year review,” he toldThe Freeman. “Their water sup-ply proposals were analyzed andfound to be inadequate, causingsignificant adverse environmen-tal impacts to groundwater, wet-lands and surface waters.”

The coalition retained GZAGeoEnvironmental, Inc. andMead & Hunt, Inc. to evaluatethe city’s water alternativesincluded in its diversion applica-tion, as well as other alternatives

City officials,environmental

group clashover alternate

water plan

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What you need to know

about Walker’s presidential

announcementMonday

in WaukeshaWAUKESHA — With Gov.

Scott Walker set to makehis presidential announce-ment Monday at theWaukesha County ExpoCenter, here is all the infor-mation those planning toattend need to know.

■ WHERE: 1000 NorthviewRoad, Waukesha, ■ WHEN: Doors open at 3p.m., while the event beginsat 5 p.m.■ PARKING: Available byentering through Gate 1■ MAIN ENTRANCE:Guests with red ticketsshould enter through Door 4,while those with blue ticketsare asked to enter throughdoor 11.

Those wishing to attendmust RSVP and bring yourregistration ticket — avail-able at:www.eventbrite.com/e/an-announcement-from-gover-nor-scott-walker-tickets-17455067577?aff=website —with you to the event foradmittance.

The name on your regis-tration ticket also mustmatch your government-issued photo ID.

All guests will go throughairport-like security andare asked to bring as fewpersonal items as possible.Items not allowed insideinclude: large bags, sharpobjects, signs, umbrellas,liquids, aerosol containers,guns, ammunition, fire-works, electric stun guns,Mace, selfie-sticks, martialarts weapons/devices orknives of any size.

— Freeman Staff

United Way entities FULLY INTEGRATED

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Marquette University students Rocco Danna and Sam Cannon repair a shakenbaby syndrome awareness banner at the Association for the Rights of Citizenswith Handicaps on Thursday as part of a United Way volunteer day.

College-age volunteers work with the ARCh youth team to build promotional mail-ings for the Association for the Rights of Citizens with Handicaps during a Unit-ed Way volunteer day on Wednesday.

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based on Waukesha’s exist-ing water supply servicearea.

In their findings, thegroups concluded Waukeshacan use “existing deep andshallow water wells to pro-vide ample clean andhealthy water to their resi-dents now and in the futureif they simply treat for radi-um.”

“The nondiversion solu-tion that these experts havefully vetted and support willbe a true game-changer withrespect to the city of Wauke-

sha’s application,” said JodiHabush Sinykin of MidwestEnvironmental Advocates, aCIC member. “Whereas thecity of Waukesha contendsthere is no reasonable wateralternative available to itsresidents, other than a LakeMichigan diversion, today’sreport proves otherwise.”

A long-term solutionLast month, the DNR

issued its draft environmen-tal impact statement andtechnical review — docu-ments five years in the mak-ing following Waukesha’sfirst application for GreatLakes water in 2010 — thatstated the Lake Michigan

diversion “appears to meetkey technical requirements”while other alternativesreviewed were more likely tocause environmental harm.

The cost of the CIC alter-native is said to be approxi-mately $174 million —cheaper than the $206 mil-lion price tag for the GreatLakes Diversion — butDuchniak said the city’splan is primarily based onenvironmental impacts.

While the coalition notedthat the deep sandstoneaquifer had rebounded 80 to100 feet over the past 15years, Duchniak said it isstill well below the thresholdfor use as a groundwater

management area.“We are still 400 feet-plus

below, showing that theaquifer has been stressed,”Duchniak said, “and whilethere has been some recovery,a lot of that recovery we’veseen is in relation to a num-ber of our deep wells beingoffline because of catastroph-ic events we have had.”

Once those wells wentback online, Duchniak said,his department received anotification from the U.S.Geological Survey indicat-ing they had found aquiferlevels had lost about 35 feetof what had rebounded.

Their CIC’s position isalso inconsistent with Wis-

consin water supply plan-ning laws, according toDuchniak, who added thatthe group’s proposal wouldforce area residents to beremoved from sewer serviceareas that have been in placefor decades.

“Water supply systemsinvolve investments of hun-dreds of millions of dollarsin infrastructure that mustlast for generations,” Duch-niak said in a statement.“Decisions should not bemade on short-term trendsor impacts, but on resourcesthat are sustainable and reli-able for the long term.”

Email: mmasterson@conleynet.com

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Suzanne Kelley, presidentof the Waukesha CountyBusiness Alliance and co-chair of the fundraisingcampaign for United Way ofGreater Milwaukee &Waukesha County, said shehas been calling CEOs ofcompanies that have loyallysupported the organizationto thank them and gaugetheir potential involvementin the next campaign.

“Ninety-none percent ofthe responses have been‘thank you,’” Kelley said ofthe contributors. “‘We seethis as being very respon-sive to the donors and cus-tomers.’”

The companies said hav-ing one United Way repre-senting both Milwaukeeand Waukesha counties willmake the process moreseamless.

So far, Young said, there’sno indication of anythingshe should be concernedabout even after meetingwith numerous businessleaders and nonprofit staff.

“It’s a very rewardingexperience,” Kelley saidabout helping chair the

campaign. “It’s incredibleto see the way individualscome together from all dif-ferent industries and walksof life to support an organi-zation whose mission is tohelp people.”

The fall campaign will belaunched Aug. 25 at the Mil-waukee County Zoo, whichwas selected to show unitybetween the two counties,Young said. The campaign’sclosure will be celebratedDec. 15 at Johnson Controlsin Milwaukee.

No goal for the campaignhas been set, but Young saidthe process is that staff goesthrough past allocationsline by line, while examin-ing projections and otherresearch to determine theright amount.

This past year, UnitedWay’s allocations were stillbased on the previous for-mula allocation implement-ed by each entity.

“I want to make sure thatin this critical year, it isgoing to be a very successfulcampaign that will moveforward positively,” Kelleysaid.

www.unitedwaygmwc.org

Email:kmichalets@conleynet.com

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office also has several casesawaiting completion of tox-icology testing, but staffwould not speculate on howmany of those may be drugrelated.

With six months down in2015, it appears the county’stotal number of drug-relat-ed deaths is declining. Thir-ty-four people died inWaukesha County in 2014either by accident, suicideor other undeterminedmanner relating to drugs —including 10 tied to heroinand 20 to opiates.

The county medicalexaminer also recorded 35such deaths in 2013.

“We don’t seem to be —here in our communityright now, anecdotally —seeing a big spike, but theabuse of heroin has dra-matically increased fromwhere it was 10 years ago,”Waukesha Fire DepartmentInterim Chief StevenHoward said. “But we arenot currently, and knock onsome wood, seeing a dra-matic spike.”

The Milwaukee CountyMedical Examiner reportedas many as 16 likely heroin-related deaths in one weekearlier in July, but officialswith the Waukesha officesaid no such trend had beenseen locally.

So far this year, Howardsaid, his department hasdeployed naloxone — betterknown as Narcan, an opi-oid-inhibitor used toreverse the effects of aheroin overdose — 29 times,a total that appears in linewith recent history.

Through all of 2014,Howard’s departmentadministered the drug 58times. But Howard said notall of those were necessari-ly tied directly to a heroinoverdose, as Narcan canalso be used on people whoaccidentally over-medicat-ed themselves.

The Waukesha CountySheriff’s Department alsocompleted training to usenasal Narcan early thisyear. But departmentspokeswoman JenniferWallschlaeger said the drughas only been administeredonce during 2015 — in June,on a 22-year-old man in theTown of Lisbon — asdeputies often arrive at ascene after medical and firepersonnel, who can providethe life-saving drug first.

CDC director: More people ‘primed for heroin use’

The CDC’s findings mir-ror trends seen in earlierreports, which notedmarked increases in heroinuse in white people livingoutside major cities, saidKatherine Keyes, aColumbia University epi-demiologist who research-es drug abuse issues.

But the new report offerssome additional detailsabout heroin users, govern-ment scientists said.

While heroin use morethan doubled among thewhite population, itappears to have leveled offin other racial and ethnicgroups, the report found.

But it grew among differ-ent income levels, in differ-ent parts of the country.And the rate of heroin usedoubled in women — amore dramatic rise fromwhat was seen in men.

For years, officials haveworried about misuse ofprescription opioidpainkillers like Vicodinand OxyContin. Expertssay recent restrictions onprescribing suchpainkillers may be reduc-ing illicit supplies of themat a time when the heroinsupply has been increasing.

Heroin has become apopular alternative. It isessentially the same chemi-cal as that in the prescrip-tion painkillers, but it costsroughly five times less onthe street, CDC Director Dr.Tom Frieden said.

“An increasing numberof people are primed forheroin use because theywere addicted to an opioidpainkiller,” Frieden said.

The new report foundthose who abused opioidpainkillers were 40 timesmore likely to abuse hero-in.

The heroin death ratequadrupled over a decade,reaching nearly 8,300 in2013, with most of the fataloverdoses involving otherdrugs at the same time —most often cocaine. Deathsinvolving opioidpainkillers have been level-ing off, but continue to bemore common than heroin-related deaths, governmentstatistics show.

Contributing:The Associated Press

Email:mmasterson@conleynet.com

Charles Auer/Freeman Staff

United Way volunteers repair a shaken baby syndromeawareness banner during a volunteer day on Wednesday atthe Association for the Rights of Citizens with Handicaps.

IRAN

Kerry threatens to quitnuke talks; Iran blamesWest for divide

VIENNA (AP) — U.S. Sec-retary of State John Kerrythreatened Thursday towalk away from nucleartalks as he signaled thatdiplomats won’t conclude anagreement with Iran overthe coming hours — anotherdelay that this time couldcomplicate American effortsto quickly implement anydeal. The Iranians immedi-ately fired back, accusingthe U.S. and its European

allies of causing the dead-lock.

BOLIVIA

Pope denounces‘throwaway’ culture ofconsumer society

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia(AP) — Pope Francisdenounced the ‘‘throwaway’’culture of today’s societythat discards anyone who isunproductive as he celebrat-ed his first public Mass inBolivia on Thursday, one ofthe key days of his SouthAmerican pilgrimage.

The famously unpreten-

tious pope changed into hisvestments for the Mass in anearby Burger King.

SAUDI ARABIA

Saud al-Faisal, formerSaudi foreign minister,dies

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia(AP) — Saudi Arabia’sPrince Saud al-Faisal, whowas the world’s longest-serv-ing foreign minister with 40years in the post until hisretirement this year, hasdied, the ministryspokesman said Friday. Hewas 75.

“It’s incredible to see the way individuals come togetherfrom all different industries and walks of life to support

an organization whose mission is to help people.” — Suzanne Kelley,

Waukesha County Business Alliance president and fundraising campaignco-chair for United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County

WASHINGTON, D.C.

U.S.: More than 21Maffected by governmentdata breach

WASHINGTON (AP) —Hackers stole Social Securi-ty numbers from more than21 million people andsnatched other sensitiveinformation in a recentbreach of U.S. governmentcomputer systems, theObama administration saidThursday.

Russia is biggestthreat to U.S. nationalsecurity, says JointChiefs nominee

WASHINGTON (AP) —Russia poses the world’sgreatest threat to U.S.national security, MarineGen. Joseph Dunford, Presi-dent Barack Obama’s nomi-nee to lead the military’sJoint Chiefs of Staff,declared on Thursday. TheWhite House quickly dis-tanced the president fromthat blunt assessment.

House scraps vote onConfederate flag in federal cemeteries

WASHINGTON (AP) —The Republican-controlledHouse scrapped a vote onpermitting the Confederate

flag at Park Service-runcemeteries on Thursday, aretreat under fire that onlyescalated a ferocious attackby Democrats complainingthe banner celebrates amurderous, racist past.

U.S. provides marriagebenefits to gay couplesin all states

WASHINGTON (AP) —Same-sex married couplescan start applying forSocial Security and veter-ans benefits for spouses inall 50 states, but there arestill issues to resolve as thefederal government worksto implement the SupremeCourt ruling allowing gaycouples to marry nation-wide.

Attorney General LorettaLynch announced Thurs-day the federal governmentis making marriage bene-fits available to same-sexcouples in every state.

FBI head: Potential violence plots stoppedahead of July 4

WASHINGTON (AP) —The FBI stopped severalpotential acts of violence inthe month before the July 4weekend, FBI DirectorJames Comey said Thurs-day.

Comey declined to

describe any of the poten-tial plots that might havebeen thwarted or to identifyspecific individuals the FBIthought might carry out anattack.

Jeb Bush and alliesraise $114.4M for presidential bid

WASHINGTON (AP) —Fulfilling ambitions toraise a historic amount ofmoney in pursuit of theWhite House, Republicanpresidential candidate JebBush and his allies took fulladvantage of the nation’sevolving campaign financelaws to collect more than$114 million in the first sixmonths of the year.

No candidate for presi-dent has benefited from somuch money so early in acampaign.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Haley: Confederate flagcomes down today

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) —South Carolina Gov. NikkiHaley signed a law Thurs-day relegating the Confed-erate flag to the state’s‘‘relic room’’ more than 50years after the rebel bannerwas raised at the State-house to protest the civilrights movement.

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