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Hebl gets committee assignments tate 46th Assembly Rep. Gary Hebl of Sun Prairie received appointments to five Assembly committees last week for the 2013-14 legislative session.

The committees include: • Judiciary (Ranking Member); • Joint Committee on Review of Administrative Rules (Ranking Assembly Member); • Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage; • Family Law; and • Tourism.

“I am excited to serve on all of these important committees,” Hebl (right) said in a release announcing the appointments.

“I would like to thank Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca for placing his trust in me to help represent Assembly Democrats on these critical issue areas,” Hebl added. He said he will continue to promote a strong economy, transparent government, clean elections, and a healthy environment. “I believe that these committees provide an excellent opportunity to advocate for these values.”

Hebl served on the Judiciary, Joint Review of Administrative Rules, and Tourism committees during the 2011-12 legislative session. The 201314 session will mark his service on two newly created committees, Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage committee and Family Law committee.

He was reelected in November to serve his fifth term representing the 46th Assembly District.

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Token Creek resident Faith Thomas gestured to Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) engineer Mike Rampetsreiter to show an area where her home is located along Highway 19, adjacent to a planned doublebridge replacement project scheduled to take place next

summer. The project will completely close Highway 19 to through traffic and force travelers to use a signed detour more than eight miles around the construction project -raising concerns for emergency service providers as well as residents.

Residents riled about Token Creek bridge project

By Chris Mertes Managing Editor, The Star he planned summer 2013 replacement of two bridges in Token Creek is raising regional concerns — and not just because Highway 19 will be closed for almost three months to complete the project.

Roughly 25 people attended a public informational meeting held Wednesday, Dec. 19 at Windsor Elementary School in Windsor to discuss the project.

Besides the timing of the project, emergency vehicle access and permanent widening of Highway 19 were questions raised by those attending the event.

This summer, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to replace two bridges – located between Portage Road on the east and Highway 51 on the west — carrying Highway 19 traffic over two crossings of Token Creek.

On Jan. 15, the DOT plans to have pre-final plans complete, with final plan submittal due Feb. 1, and construction expected to begin early to late summer 2013, with road closure during the project and only limited access only for residents in the area.

“Closing down the roadway was really the last resort,” remarked Eric Price, consultant project manager from AECOM Inc. during the public information meeting.

Price was uncertain whether or not the project would begin after Token Creek’s July 4 celebration, but anticipated the project will take

about 10 weeks to complete because of a new type of bridge construction.

The project has already raised some concerns. On Dec. 18, Sun Prairie Mayor John Murray sent a sternly worded letter to DOT Project Engineer Mike Rampetsreiter regarding the road closure and the lack of communication with Sun Prairie about the project.

“As I’m sure you can appreciate, the closure of the highway will cause significant hardship and delays for residents, businesses and emergency service responders,” Murray wrote in the letter. “On behalf of the City of Sun Prairie, I respectfully request that DOT limit the duration when the highway will be completely closed. In addition, please forward the proposed detour for this segment of highway at your earliest opportunity.”

Emergency vehicle access, or lack thereof, was the issue raised by Sun Prairie Fire Chief Tory Strauss, whose department contracts with the Town of Windsor and the Town of Burke for fire service in the area where construction will shut down 19.

During the meeting, Strauss said the Sun Prairie Volunteer Fire Department will have to detour north to Vinburn Road or south to Highway 151, then to Interstate 90-94 or Highway 51 in order to reach the western edge of the service territory in Burke – which will significantly increase response times. That’s because emergency vehicles will not have access during construction because the easterly

Exhibits available for public inspection on Dec. 19 show the two bridges expected to be replaced, includ-

ing the western bridge, determined recently by DOT inspectors to be the worst bridge in Dane County.

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Payday lenders resurface

By Scott De Laruelle Hometown News Group hey may not be called “payday” loans anymore, but a change in state law could leave people vulnerable to tempting, high-interest “installment” loans this winter.

“Payday” loans - so called because they essentially were due by the next payday, were unregulated until a few years ago when the State Legislature put some limits on the loans, considering factors like a person’s monthly income.

According to the Department of Financial Institutions (DFI), payday lenders are licensed to lend money and “accept the consumer’s check or authorization for electronic fund transfer and hold the check or authorization for a period of time before presenting the check or initiating the electronic fund transfer in payment of the loan.” The loans offered by payday lenders are limited to $1,500 or 35 percent of a consumer’s gross monthly income, whichever is less.

A way to get around those regulations, said Dane County Personnel and Finance Committee member Dennis O’Loughlin, is when people can’t make full payments on payday loans, setting themselves up for a dangerous financial trap.

Possessing an extensive background in finances, he called the payday loans a “pariah on the low and moderate-income customer.”

“If you have a $200 loan and payday comes and you can’t pay it back, (loan companies say),

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Sun Prairie native promoted at GAB After an intensive nationwide search, Staff Counsel and Sun Prairie native Michael Haas has been appointed Elections Division Administrator of the Government Accountability Board (GAB) effective Jan. 1, 2013.

“Since he joined the G.A.B. in 2008, Mike has earned the respect of the Board and his colleagues, as well as Wisconsin’s local election officials,” said Kevin J. Kennedy, director and general counsel of the G.A.B. “We had several excellent candidates, but in the end I decided – and the Board agreed – that Mike is the right person to lead our Elections Division

into the future.”

The six members of the G.A.B. approved the appointment of Haas during the closed sesMike sion of their Haas meeting Dec.18.

The G.A.B.’s two Division Administrators serve at the pleasure of the Director and with the approval of the six Government Accountability Board members.

“I appreciate the opportunity to serve the people of Wisconsin

in ensuring the integrity of the electoral process, and I look forward to working with the Board, the staff and Wisconsin’s local election officials,” Haas said.

Haas joined the G.A.B. in 2008 as one of the two staff attorneys who advise the Board on legal matters. During his time at the agency, Haas’ legal advice and management skills were instrumental in the agency’s successful processing of nearly 2 million recall petition signatures in 2012, Kennedy said.

Most recently, Haas is overseeing preparation of the staff’s study to determine the cost and

administrative impact on elections in Wisconsin if Election Day Registration is eliminated.

Haas is a native of Sun Prairie and currently resides in Fitchburg. He graduated from Sun Prairie High School in 1982 and Harvard University in 1987. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the UW Law School in 1994.

From 1995-2008, he practiced law as part of a general practice law firm in Rock and Dane counties, serving as lead city attorney for Stoughton, Edgerton and Milton.

Haas succeeds Nat Robinson as Elections Division Administrator.

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Chamber announces 2013 officers, directors

The Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce recently announced its slate of 2013 officers and directors.

2013 Officers — President: Sue Olson - Wisconsin Wealth Advisors; Vice President: Gary Hebl - Hebl, Hebl & Ripp; Treasurer: Dan O’Brien - Educated Mortgage Services; and Secretary, Steve Strobel - Town Planner 2013 Directors — Michael Allen, Energy Law Wisconsin; Mike Denu, Northeast YMCA of Dane County; Deb Dotzauer, McFarland State Bank; Jeff Gauger, Beans n’ Cream Coffeehouse; Carol Jones, Strawberry Fields, Stacey Riechers, Express Employment Professionals; Scott Wagner, First Weber Group, and Julie Wiedmeyer, Sunshine Supper.

The chamber also thanks its departing board members for their past three years of service: President: Lill Quant, Peaceful Hands Massage; Secretary: Ann Becker; Cheryl Namyst; and Kim Ripp, Hebl, Hebl, & Ripp Departing and incoming Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce board members will be acknowledged at the chamber’s Annual Meeting on Jan. 23.

Culver to speak at Chamber annual meeting

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The Sun Prairie Education Foundation awarded more than $8,000 in grant money to Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School staff on Thursday, Dec. 19.

Derek Block received a $1,347 grant for a field trip to Lake Wingra; Principal Ryan Ruggles received a $2,000 grant for The Cardinals Read

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program; Nicole Toepfer received a $5,000 grant for Vernier Labquests and probes; and Mike Roth and Ken Bremer received a $463.15 grant for the Freedom Pen Project, which involves students making pens for military personnel serving overseas.

King joins Hometown News UW-Whitewater student, Tierney King, 20, recently became part of the Hometown News Group (HNG) staff as an intern.

She will work at The Star in Sun Prairie, The Times-Tribune in DeForest, and at other HNG newspapers as needed.

King is a junior at Whitewater majoring in journalism with a minor in advertising.

She wrote articles for the UWWhitewater school newspaper, The Royal Purple, that helped start the paper’s new business section.

King, a Sun Prairie resident, will be taking publication photography classes because she hopes to fine-tune her photos for the Hometown News Group.

She has also taken web-based and print-based journalism classes to broaden her expertise.

To accompany her 18 credits, King said broadcasting classes may also be in her future to learn a bit of everything journalism has to offer.

She was also a member of UW-Whitewater’s Resident’s Hall Association (RHA) and interviewed the president of RHA. King wrote two newscasts on the RHA meeting and president.

She has also written early morning news for UWWhitewater’s news station.

During the week, King attends classTierney es, but her King weekend involves managerial work at Culver’s. She has worked at Culver’s for four years and has helped run Culver’s Kids’ Nights, Dollar Butterburger Days and holiday events.

For the past two summers she has also worked as a camp counselor at Camp PawPrint in the Dane County Humane Society.

King wrote an opinion article

on humane society adoptions and advocated their services. She experienced the adoption process first-hand when her family adopted her 110-lb dog, Taroh.

King also volunteered to walk the dogs to accurately represent her article and the humane society.

The Hometown News Group will apply real-life deadlines, feature stories and photography opportunities to help King sharpen her skills in the journalist world.

Eventually King hopes to integrate her passion for art and helping others by writing stories for magazines and newspapers and combine it with advertising and photography.

One day, King said, she would also like to write a novel.

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Craig Culver of Culver’s Frozen Custard will speak during the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting set for Wednesday, Jan. 23 at The Colonial Club, 301 Blankenheim Lane.

The breakfast buffet gets under way at 7:30 a.m., with a silent auction and entertainment planned until 8:10 a.m., followed by ambassador awards and special recognitions as part of the annual meeting until 8:30 a.m., when Culver will speak.

The cost is $12 per chamber member or guest. The breakfast buffet includes egg dishes, breakfast breads, ham, assorted fresh fruits, juice, coffee and beverages. In honor of Culver’s appearance at the breakfast, Culver’s frozen custard treats will also be served.

Silent Auction items are being accepted through Dec. 31st for the chamber’s annual meeting in January. All donors are acknowledged on the chamber’s website, at the event and in our newsletter publications; minimum value $100.

For more information, call the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce at (608) 837-4547.

Governor’s Business Plan Contest accepting entries through January 31

The 10th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest is accepting entries online for the 2013 competition until 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013.

The contest is designed to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into business plans, to prepare them to launch a company, to get feedback from mentors and to interact with investors and other professionals.

Finalists will share in more than $100,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.

For their initial entries, contestants will submit 250word idea abstracts online at www.govsbizplancontest.com. That’s where contestants will also find business plan templates and other information, such as the Entrepreneurs’ Toolkit. The toolkit provides business startup information and assistance, networking contacts and technical resources.

Contestants who advance to subsequent contest rounds will expand their plan in stages. More than 60 judges drawn from the finance, sales, marketing, research and technology sectors across Wisconsin will score the entries and provide feedback on submissions.

Contest categories are Advanced Manufacturing, Business Services, Information Technology and Life Sciences. Wisconsin residents 18 years old and older are eligible, as are teams from Wisconsin-based businesses and organizations.

Businesses or teams from outside the state are also eligible to compete if they demonstrate intent to base their business in Wisconsin. Entrepreneurs may also enter multiple ideas, though each idea must be separate and distinct.

Companies or individuals that have raised less than $25,000 in private equity for their plans in a current form are eligible to enter. Generally speaking, private equity refers to angel and venture capital.

As with past contests, the 2013 competition will take place in stages: • In the “Business Concepts” phase, which is open until 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, the contest will accept Idea Abstracts on the web site. Idea Abstracts are 250-word business concepts that will be graded on a scale of 1-10 (10 highest) by our judges. The top 50 ideas, plus ties, will advance to the Executive Summary stage.

• In the “Executive Summary” phase, which runs from Feb. 22 to 5 p.m. March 18, 2013, the top 50 Idea Abstract presenters, plus ties, post their 1,000-word summaries online for comments by the judges. Contestants may be encouraged to revise their plans based on judges’ comments. The top 20 plan summaries are selected for the final round.

• In the “Final Business Plan” phase, which runs from April 8 to 5 p.m. April 29, 2013, the top 20 Executive Summary presenters, plus ties, prepare plans of 15-20 pages for judging.

• The “Diligent Dozen” will present orally and compete in front of live judging for the contest’s grand prize at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference, to be held June 45 in Middleton.

To enter, become a judge or a sponsor, visit www.govsbizplancontest.com.

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Former Nelson’s Crossing gets new ownership

By Alyssa Skiba Assistant Editor, The Courier With a love of people and community, a local couple has stepped up to fill the void left by the closing of a former bar and grill in the outskirts of Marshall, freshening up an old building and bringing new life in the form of the newly opened JD & Me bar and grill.

Jim and Martha Rogers, owners of the establishment at 1152 Berlin Rd. in Deansville, saw the building as an opportunity to build a sense of community while also easing the burden of a difficult economy on their job prospects.

To the couple, business ownership had two big benefits – Jim was growing weary of the

dismal job market and Martha was searching for a less strenuous job after many years as a CNA. “We’re people pleasers. We love to sit and chit chat and the one thing I can say is, we really want to be there for the community, the surrounding communities are very, very important to us … It’s important for us to

give back to our community because without them, we wouldn’t be here,” Martha Rogers said.

The bar and grill is located in the building of the former Nelson’s Crossing, which closed at the end of June. The Rogers signed their lease for the space Nov. 19 and after some minor renovations, including

fresh paint, cleaning up and Hours for the bar and grill replacing ceiling tiles, they are: Tuesday through Friday, 11 opened the bar and grill Dec. 8. a.m. until close; Saturday and Martha Rogers describes it as Sunday, 8 a.m. until close, with a family-friendly bar and grill breakfast served from open until where the bar and dining area 11 a.m. and lunch following. are separate enough to allow Lunch and drink specials are younger children at the estaboffered Tuesday through lishment.

Sunday. JD & Me is not open “It’s very important to us Mondays. being that we have four children The bar and grill hosts a variand we know what it’s like,” she ety of specials throughout the said. “We want it to be where week, including Taco Tuesday they can afford to bring their with margaritas, Friday night children in and not spend an fish fry beginning at 5 p.m., arm and a leg trying to feed horseshoe tournaments on their family. We know how hard Tuesday and Thursday, emergencies. To avoid problems: it is to try to go out to eat.”

Wednesday night trivia from 6 • Use a broom to gently JD & Me has 13 employees, p.m. until 8 p.m. and karaoke brush snow off the meter. including three of Martha and from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. begin• Avoid kicking or hitting the Jim’s children. ning Jan. 9, and a DJ on Friday meter to break away built-up The couple’s two sons serve and Saturday nights from 9:30 snow or ice. as dishwashers and also bus p.m. until 2 a.m. beginning Jan. • Always shovel away from tables while one of their daugh11. the meter. ters serves as a waitress and barJD & Me will also hold an • Take care when using a tender, and occasionally as a all-day New Year’s Eve party, snow thrower or plow near your hostess. with a euchre tournament ($5 meter.

The bar and grill’s cook, per couple) with cash prizes and Any customer who smells a Tim, has been at the location for a 100 percent payout. A flat natural gas odor should leave the more than 10 years. It was a screen television will also be house immediately and call the conscious decision for the cougiven away. Beginning at 8 p.m.

We Energies gas emergency ple to hire him back. will be hourly door prizes. number at 800-261-5325 from a “Tim has been really, really A party will also be planned nearby phone. wonderful,” Martha Rogers said. for the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, as We Energies serves more “He has been here day and night well as Green Bay Packers parthan 1.1 million electric cushelping us fix it up.” ties on game days. tomers in Wisconsin and JD & Me is a standard bar “I want the community to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and and grill, and with a couple days know that we’re here for them,” more than 1 million natural gas advanced notice, the couple is Martha Rogers said. “It’s a place customers in Wisconsin. We willing to accommodate parties. that we want them to have fun, Energies is the trade name of Outside the building that houses to have good food, good times.”

Wisconsin Electric Power the bar are three volleyball For more information, call Company and Wisconsin Gas courts, one softball diamond, (608) 655-1163 or visit “JD & LLC, the principal utility suband four horseshoe pits. The Me” on Facebook. Events and sidiaries of Wisconsin Energy couple owns four-and-a-half daily specials will be posted on Corporation. Visit the We acres. their page.

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We Energies issues meter reminder We Energies reminds customers to avoid the dangers of snow and ice buildup on exhaust vents and natural gas meters.

These areas often are overlooked when buried under sever-

al inches of snow.

Snow and ice accumulation on furnace vents can lead to potentially deadly carbon monoxide levels in homes.

Accumulated snow and ice

also can damage natural gas meters, which could lead to potentially dangerous gas leaks.

Keeping meters clear also allows We Energies employees to properly service meters in case of

The frosty remnants of 15.2 inches of snow that fell in the Sun Prairie area on Dec. 20 could be found on these trees and shrubs located west of Highway C just across from the QBE Insurance headquarters facility.

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Union Cab driver gives opinions about Morgridge Center VTP

A recent article in InBusiness Magazine gave a Union Cab driver’s insight to the Morgridge Center for Public Service’s Volunteer Transportation Program (VTP).

Larry Sharp, the driver, provides local transportation to the Morgridge Center for Public Service student volunteers throughout the year, taking them to different organizations around the Madison community.

These organizations include: Elementary/middle/high schools, the Humane Society, Care Wisconsin, and other organizations working with children, the elderly, food pantries and the disabled.

“It is my pleasure to drive many of those volunteers on a daily basis,” said Sharp. “I per-

sonally thank each volunteer in my cab for taking time from his or her busy day to be of service to Madison residents.”

Union Cab, which recently received the contract for th City of Sun Prairie’s rideshare taxi service, offers a discounted cab fare to the Morgridge Center for its volunteers Sharp adds, “he is proud [of this discount]…as Union Cab’s contribution to this worthwhile effort.”

The Volunteer Transportation Program is a program for UW students that provides free cab rides to volunteers.

The program is designed to support volunteers who want to serve, but have transportation limitations because sites are off a bus route or too far to walk.

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Each volunteer using this program goes through an orientation and is offered up to 16 round-trips rides to their volunteer site each semester.

For more information about the Volunteer Transportation Program, or any other Morgridge Center for Public Services programs, contact Megan Miller at The Morgridge Center for Public Service, University of Wisconsin – Madison at (608) 262-8446 or via email at: mmiller5@wisc.edu, or contact Anna Emmerich via email at: ajemmerich@wisc.edu.

To get more information on Union Cab and its participation in the Volunteer Transportation Program, contact Larry Sharp via email at ldsharp@tds.net.

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Municipal Court News

The following cases were adjudicated by Sun Prairie Municipal Judge Thomas Lee Hebl on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 in Sun Prairie Municipal Court: Andrew J. Arvold, Waunakee, non-registration of motor vehicle Nov. 20, $88.80.

Greg T. Baker, Sun Prairie, use of fireworks Nov. 30, $177.

Catherine K. Beld, De Forest, underage drinking Nov. 30, $177.

La Quanda R. Body, Sun Prairie, operating while suspended Feb. 10, 2011, dismissed.

Gloria G. Boyd, Sun Prairie, non-registration of motor vehicle Nov. 19, dismissed.

Rache Tekea Boyd, Janesville, operating motor vehicle while under the influence Oct. 6, $731.

Anthony R. Brooks, Madison, underage drinking Nov. 30, $177.

Brandon S. Browere, Sun Prairie, operating a motor vehicle without insurance Nov. 24, $114.

Jonathon E. Butler, Madison, possession of fewer than 25 grams of marijuana Nov. 19, $202.20.

Marrie Dean III, Madison, operating after revocation Dec. 4, $114.

Timothy L. Dunn, Sun Prairie, possession or use of intoxicating substance prohibit-

ed, $303; and operating while suspended, $114; both occurred Nov. 19.

Laqueshia T. Etchin, Sun Prairie, operating a motor vehicle without insurance Oct. 26, dismissed.

Lorenzo A. Flores, Sun Prairie, failure to report accident, $177; and operating a motor vehicle without insurance, dismissed; both occurred Nov. 25.

Cleo D. Gibbs, Sun Prairie, operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license Nov. 25, $114.

Luis A. Gonzalez, Middleton, operating while suspended Dec. 11, $114.

Delia M. Hartman, Sun Prairie, operating while suspended, $114; operating vehicle with suspended registration, $88.80; both occurred on Nov. 21.

Jared M. Hoffmann, Cottage Grove, speeding in excess of posted limits Nov. 30, $88.80.

Sarah J. Howell, Sun Prairie, retail theft Nov. 19, $177.

Ky A. Hunter, Watertown, operating with detectable amount of restricted substance, dismissed; operating motor vehicle while under influence, $721.80; operating motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license, dismissed; operating vehicle with suspended registration, dismissed; and possession of drug paraphernalia, dis-

missed; all occurred March 16.

Paris C. Jackson Jordan, Sun Prairie, operating while suspended Nov. 25, $114.

Alison J. Klongland, Sun Prairie, operating while suspended Nov. 22, $114.

Paul J. Laird, Sun Prairie, possession of fewer than 23 grams of marijuana Nov. 27, $303.

Barry J. Mahlum, Sun Prairie, operating vehicle with suspended registration Nov. 20, $88.80.

Jeffrey P. O’Neill, Sun Prairie, operating while suspended Nov. 16, $114.

Bobby S. Oxford, Sun Prairie, reckless driving Nov. 15, $303.

Christopher J. Ramminger, DeForest, underage drinking Nov. 30, $177.

Lori J. Reyburn, Sun Prairie, retail theft Nov. 16, $177.

Olivia M. Robinson, Waunakee, theft Feb. 11, $366.

Darius D. Scott, Sun Prairie, underage drinking, $177; and failure to take action to prevent underage drinking, $114; both occurred Nov. 30.

Deon S. Simms, De Forest, underage drinking Nov. 30, $177.

Jessica J. Smith, De Forest, underage drinking, $177; and disorderly conduct, $177; both occurred Nov. 30.

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15 calls made to SPVFD

During the past few days, the Sun Prairie Volunteer Fire Department (SPVFD) responded to 15 Calls for Service: Three Electrical Issues, two Vehicle Fires, one Odor Investigation, one Oven Fire, five Carbon Monoxide Investigations, two EMS Assists, and one False Alarm.

Highlighted calls include the following: December 17 -- At 8:41 a.m. at Bird and Kelly streets: Vehicle Fire.

Upon arrival, firefighters found a Sun Prairie Taxi that had smoke coming from the engine compartment.

Crews found that it was an antifreeze leak and there were no further issues.

December 18 -- At 8:10 p.m. in the 1200 block of School Street: False Alarm.

Fire Crews arrived to find a commercial fire alarm sounding due to water leaking into a smoke detector.

Crews discussed issue with Monona Plumbing and cleared the building.

At 11:22 p.m. in the 2200 block of Montana Avenue: Carbon Monoxide Investigation

Fire Watch A summary of news from the Sun Prairie Volunteer Fire Department SPVFD Phone: 837-5066 Firefighters arrived on scene to investigate potential carbon monoxide issues. After investigation, found no CO present in the home.

WE Energies was called to check the house and Fire units returned to the station.

December 19 -- At 6:20 p.m. in the 800 block of Blazer Court: Carbon Monoxide Investigation.

Firefighters arrived to find 110 ppm of carbon monoxide in the home. Owners were instructed to stay out of the home and have t heir furnace repaired immediately.

December 20 -- At 2:51 p.m. in the 200 block of Park Circle: Vehicle Fire.

Fire crews arrived to find a vehicle fully involved in fire.

Engine 2’s crew extinguished

the fire and checked for extension.

Shovel out hydrants The Sun Prairie Fire Department is reminding residents to keep fire hydrants clear of snow (three to five feet around each hydrant) to ensure Sun Prairie Volunteer Fire Department access if needed.

Shoveling hydrants out now can save valuable time and protect lives and property if an incident were to occur.

New recruits sought The SPVFD is currently accepting applications for volunteer firefighters. Volunteers must be 18 years of age or older with a high school diploma or equivalent, have a valid driver’s license, and live within the Sun

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10 cited for underage drinking on December 23 Police cited 10 in connection with an underage drinking party on Dec. 23 in Sun Prairie, according to Sun Prairie Police Sgt. Ryan Cox. Police were called to the area of Emerald Terrace and Davison Drive just after 1:30 a.m. to investigate a noise disturbance.

Cox said officers checked the area and encountered a group of 10 people – four females and six males.

Upon completion of the investigation, the following were cited for underage consumption of intoxicants: Erynna Corcoran, 18, address unknown; Isaac Droster, 18, address unknown; Taryn Kalinowski, 18, of Madison; Clarissa Elmore, 18, of Monona; Austin Richardson, 19, of Cottage Grove; Coty Brown, 19, address unknown; Brandon Thayer, 18, of Middleton; Bradley Hinz, 19, of Madison; Alexander Zipperer, 18, address unknown; and Matthew Piehl, 19, of Madison.

All were cited and released, according to Cox. • Abandoned vehicles?

Notify SPPD. The SPPD is issuing a reminder for homeowners and others to be watchful for abandoned vehicles on the streets of Sun Prairie.

Sun Prairie has an ordinance that prohibits the abandonment of vehicles which states, “No person shall leave unattended any motor vehicle, trailer, semi trailer or mobile home on any public street or highway or private or public property in the City of Sun Prairie, for such a time and under circumstances to reasonably appear to have been abandoned.”

When a vehicle is parked for more than 48 hours, a municipal ordinance parking citation can be issued.

The fines for an abandoned vehicle may total over $100.

Any vehicle in violation of this ordinance can be removed and impounded. If the vehicle is impounded, a daily impound fee will be assessed.

Failure to pay the fines and impound fee can result in the suspension of your vehicle registration and drivers license. The abandoned vehicle will be disposed of if it is not lawfully

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claimed and/or fines are not paid. The reason for this ordinance and the penalties are so the city can help control “public nuisance.” This nuisance is defined as, vehicles that interfere with, obstruct or tend to render dangerous for passage, any street, alley, or highway.

Abandoned vehicles are an eyesore and tend to collect litter and leaves under them, and during winter weather, vehicles left on city streets can also cause hazards with snow and snow removal.

Individuals with unwanted vehicles are advised to check with the following organizations that may take your vehicle with some restrictions: American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, Rawhide Boys Ranch, and The Salvation Army.

Donating unwanted vehicles is a quick and easy method to keep your abandoned vehicle off the streets and could prevent you from receiving a citation, while you help others in the process.

To report abandoned vehicles, call the SPPD’s non-emergency number at 837-7336.

• Minnesota male cited following blockage of 151.

Cox said Sun Prairie police cited a Minnesota male in connection with a semi-trailer accident that blocked all lanes of Highway 151 on Dec. 20.

Police were called to Highway 151 just after 4:14 p.m. after receiving a report of a semi that had jackknifed and blocked all lanes of southbound 151 between North Bristol Street and West Main Street. The crash was cleared and the road reported back open to traffic just after 5:47 p.m.

Upon completion of the investigation, police cited Dejene

Kidankale, 28, for driving too fast for conditions and released him, Cox said.

• Cell phone collection program under way. The Sun Prairie Police Department has placed cell phone collection boxes in the lobby at each of its two locations — 300 East Main St. and 2598 West Main St. — for people to recycle their old cell phones.

The collection is being done to assist the Dane County District Attorney’s Office, Victim Witness Office, Crime Response Program.

Collected phones will be turned over to the Victim Witness Office, where money will be earned for each cell phone turned in, those proceeds go to the Crime Response Program, which provides immediate trauma services and support to victims, witnesses and their families on scene or at the early stages of a criminal investigation. Several people have already donated their cellular phones.

The phones are redeemed for gift cards used for lodging and other amenities to comfort or make victims of crime feel safer.

More information regarding the program can be obtained by calling the Dane County District Attorney, Victim/Witness, Crime Response Services at (608) 2846908 during business hours, or by calling the emergency pager number (608) 376-2630 after hours, or by e-mailing dane.crime.response@da.wi.gov.

• Vehicle owners still parking on streets in violation of city ordinances. Cox said despite the city snow route

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City winter parking laws now in effect

The City of Sun Prairie has two winter parking regulations to provide for safe and efficient snowplowing. The fine for violations of these ordinances is $50.

SNOW ROUTES are streets that carry heavy traffic and are used by emergency vehicles. Red and white “No Parking” signs with the distinctive snowflake symbol mark Snow Routes. No parking is allowed from midnight until 7 a.m. from Dec. 1 through March 31 on these streets. Vehicles parked illegally on a Snow Route may be ticketed or towed.

A SNOW EMERGENCY becomes effective when three or more inches of snow has fallen.

During a Snow Emergency, parking is prohibited on City streets until the Snow Emergency has been canceled.

Vehicles parked on a City street in violation of a Snow Emergency may be ticketed or towed.

Snow Emergency declarations and warnings are reported to local radio and TV stations.

Announcements are also available at 837-3050 or the City web site: cityofsunprairie.com.

The Star sets holiday deadlines

The Star, located at 804 Liberty Boulevard Suite 209, will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 1 to observe the New Year’s holiday.

Consequently, early deadlines will be in effect for all LifeStyle, Opinion, News and Sports items.

While early submissions are always encouraged, the deadline to submit items to be considered for Jan. 3, 2013 issues of The Star will be noon on Friday Dec. 28.

Materials may also be submitted through The Star’s website at hngnews.com/sun_prairie _star; or by calling The Star at (608) 837-2521 weekdays during regular business hours.

Questions can be directed to Managing Editor Chris Mertes at his direct dial extension, 4782521.

Center closed on December 31 The City of Sun Prairie Recycle Center will be closed on Monday, Dec. 31, in observance of New Year’s Eve. The center’s winter schedule is Mondays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.

The Recycle Center is available for use by City of Sun Prairie residents who are receiving citysponsored automated curbside cart collection and have a Recycle Center permit.

The center accepts yard waste (grass clippings, shrub trimmings,

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bridge will be removed.

Windsor Town Engineer Kevin Richardson wondered with the volume of traffic why the bridge did not include a widening of the roadway to four lanes. He pointed out Windsor residents will be doubly confounded on local roads because a portion of Windsor Road will be closed for reconstruction just after school ends in 2013 and may not reopen until late summer.

Price told the audience attending the meeting that the westerly of the two Token Creek bridges was recently classified

by DOT bridge inspectors as the worst bridge in Dane County.

The easterly bridge was not far behind the westerly one in terms of deterioration – raising the priority for the project due to the 17,500 vehicles per day using that stretch of Highway 19.

“The driving factor is the condition of those bridges,” Price said at one point during the meeting. “They are shot.”

But Price also said because the project was a replacement, and not a reconstruction, the widening could not take place.

Rampetsreiter pointed out a study would need to be completed to have the highway widened.

Tim Roehl, a real estate sales representative and consultant associated with the Revere Trails project in Windsor, criticized the DOT for not planning the project as a reconstruction. He said it made little sense to plan the project as a replacement when the volume of traffic exceeds the DOT’s 12,000 vehicle-per-day threshold for reconstruction to a four-lane road.

“Why isn’t this being designed as a four-lane from the get go?” Roehl asked. He said the traffic volume after the project is completed – and before the DOT likely will return to widen the highway – will be approaching 30,000 vehicles per day.

Faith Thomas, who resides along the highway, said she does not want to live along the highway if it is expanded to four lanes. “There are other roads besides Highway 19,” Thomas said.

At 44 feet, the new bridges will be wider than the current ones, Price said, but the road width will remain the same. He also said that although the bridges will be roughly the same elevation, their design and placement on new pillars would reduce some of the flooding that occurred when Token Creek overflowed its banks.

“From the Town of Bristol’s perspective, we’re just concerned about the local traffic and to make sure they don’t push a lot of traffic in our direction,” remarked Bristol Town Chair Jerry Derr, who attended the meeting. “People are going to come out to Highway N, and they do already, just because of the congestion on 19. There’s already people taking that into consideration. I think they’ll continue to do it. If they don’t build a four-lane, that situation will even get worse for local roads.

“Truck traffic, we need – during construction especially – to be aware they’re not using those town roads because most of our roads are posted for 10 ton, permits required. You know, we have problems with that already – some trucking companies that cut cross-country once in a while.

“It seems like the DOT is indicating the State Patrol is going to be available to help enforce, and that’s a good thing,” said Derr, who is also a member of the Wisconsin Towns Association and the Dane County Towns Association.

“I think, from an overall ‘big picture’ perspective, this should be a four-lane road,” Derr said.

“The numbers we had heard earlier – 17,500 [vehicles per day] . . . that’s way beyond the call for a four-lane road. Ten or 12 [thousand vehicles per day] was the threshold, but clearly, no matter what numbers you use, it’s probably 50 percent over and headed in the wrong direction for traffic count.”

Derr said some of the west side Sun Prairie developments will see an impact from the closure of Highway 19 during construction.

“Frankly, somebody said it’s like a quasi-Beltline there for the

Wisconsin Department of Transportation consulting engineer Eric Price (foreground) explained to residents that no vehicular traffic will be allowed from the east, and only limited traffic from north side, and that’s exactly what it is,” the Bristol town chair said.

“And the idea that we’ve got to get fourJerry lane all the way into the Derr city – those can be done in phases.

“But as long as you’re going to do this construction – in a sensitive area – let’s do it just once,” Derr said. “If we have to disturb the creek, let’s just do it once.

“We’re concerned about the Token Creek Watershed – we’ve been on that board since it was created – but we know that construction has to happen,” Derr said.

“Frankly, if you push these construction easements out to their limits on either side and then make some acquisition,

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Karli J. Springer, Waunakee, underage drinking Nov. 30, $303.

Antwan M. Starr, Sun Prairie, improper attachment of license plates Feb. 25, 2011, dismissed.

Michael R. Tomcany, Sun Prairie, operating while suspended, $114; and possession of fewer than 25 grams of marijuana, $555; both occurred Nov. 18.

Sharae M. Travis, Sun Prairie, operating motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license, $114; and operating vehicle with suspended registration, $88.80; both occurred Nov. 25.

Laurence Walden, Sun Prairie, speeding on highway/street within city Nov. 14, $114.

Amanda J. Weber, Windsor, underage drinking Nov. 30, $177.

Adam R. Weihert, Columbus, operating while suspended Nov. 29, $114.

Mark A. Zaring, Sun Prairie, possession of drug paraphernalia by adult Nov. 19, $555.

Brian A. Zifke, Sun Prairie, operating while suspended Nov. 27, $114.

Evan L. Zoellner, Sun Prairie, operating after revocation Nov. 19, $114.

Parking Court Kelly Ahlstrom, Sun Prairie, school parking restrictions, $10.

Timothy A. Blankenship, Sun Prairie, school parking restrictions, $10.

Shannon L. Cunningham,

Sun Prairie, emergency snow route no parking, $60.

Jeffrey M. Fuller, Sun Prairie, school parking restrictions, $10.

Guy E. Hangebrauck, Sun Prairie, school parking restrictions, $30.

Jennifer L. Mikalofsky, Sun Prairie, school parking restrictions, $30.

Marjorie M. Murray, Sun Prairie, school parking restric-

tions, $10.

Debra L. Ritchie, Sun Prairie, emergency snow route no parking, dismissed.

Montana M. Swiney, Sun Prairie, emergency snow route no parking, $10.

Darrel L. Unsinn, Greenville, emergency snow route no parking, $10.

Mary E. Wiske, Sun Prairie, school parking restrictions, $10.

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the west to residential properties in the area during the double-bridge replacement project anticipated to begin next summer in Token Creek and last roughly 10 weeks.

there’s enough room there . . . with a center barrier, so it doesn’t take up a lot of extra room to build four lanes in there. People envision buildings on both sides have to come down – none of that has to happen here.

“I think it’s a concern for the communities of Sun Prairie, DeForest, Waunakee [because]

19 goes in that direction,” Derr said. “Certainly from the local perspective, how it’s going to push traffic into these local roads and create some additional problems for neighborhoods . . . if we start getting half of those 17,000 cars going down Portage Road, you can only imagine what that’s going to bring.”

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leaves, garden waste); brush (sticks and branches); scrap metal; appliances; used motor oil and antifreeze; motor vehicle oil filters and oil absorbent materials; automotive tires (off the rim); automotive batteries; fluorescent light tubes and bulbs; move-in boxes and packing paper and some electronics.

For further information, residents may call the Public Works Department at 837-3050.

City lists refuse pick-ups

Due to the observance of Christmas, there will be no refuse and recycling pickup on Tuesday, Dec. 25. The Monday route will run as usual.

Residents receiving citysponsored refuse and recycle cart collections normally on Tuesday will have their carts emptied on Wednesday.

The Wednesday route will be collected on Thursday, the Thursday route on Friday, and the Friday route on Saturday.

Residents should have their carts curbside by 7 a.m. on the revised collection day to ensure they are not missed.

Christmas tree pick-ups scheduled

The City of Sun Prairie Public Works Department will collect Christmas trees curbside on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013.

Trees should be placed at the curb with the cut end facing the street by 7 a.m.

All trees from residential, condominiums, multifamily units including schools, churches, and businesses will be included in the city’s tree collection.

Trees should be placed at the curb on a city street for collection.

Bags, ornaments, lights, and tree stands must be removed prior to collection. Wreaths and rope materials, due to their wire content, must be placed with regular refuse for collection.

Please keep trees clear of snow The final curbside collection of Christmas trees will begin on Monday, Jan. 14. The entire city will be canvassed at that time, completing curbside collections for the season.

Trees can also be brought to the City of Sun Prairie Recycle Center.

The center is open for use by City of Sun Prairie residents who are receiving city-sponsored automated refuse and recycle cart curbside collections and have a Sun Prairie Recycle Center permit.

Winter hours for the recycle center are Monday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.

The City of Sun Prairie Recycle Center will be closed on Dec. 31 in observance of the New Year’s holiday.

‘OK, we’ll convert that loan to an installment,” he said. “That loan means they will begin to pay, on a monthly basis, a principal and interest payment. But you’re paying back very, very little principal; it’s all interest.

Now they’ve got them hooked in a plan that’s going to do nothing but hurt them. I’ve been in the mortgage business, in the finance business, savings and loan business and I know a little bit about that. People get in real trouble using those institutions.”

Kimberly Hazen of the Madison Better Business Bureau (BBB) office said while the organization is more of a “good business advocate” than a consumer group, the BBB was involved in a recent roundtable discussion on the issue because of how quickly things are changing with the issue.

Hazen said while their state investigator hasn’t seen a “disproportionate” increase in complaints about payday loan companies in recent months, that could soon change with the season.

“I would imagine we’ll see some (complaint number) jumps in January, as usage will go up – people will have tax bills, credit card bills from Christmas, things like that,” she said.

Market, brunch set January 12 at St. Al’s Madison area residents are increasingly seeking local foods produced on organic and sustainably run farms. On Saturday, Jan. 12, you will have the opportunity to taste and buy farm products produced locally by sustainable farmers in the Sun Prairie area.

St. Albert the Great Catholic Parish and the Churches Center for Land and People are sponsoring a Winter Farmers Market and Brunch on Jan. 12, 2013.

The market will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; the brunch will be served from 10-11:30 a.m., or while supplies last. Both the market and brunch are scheduled for St. Albert the Great Catholic Church’s lower level parish center, 2420 St. Albert Drive.

The scrumptious brunch is a special feature of this event, with menu prepared by Susan Young, who joins us from Sacred Hearts School in Sun Prairie. She will work with church members preparing egg strata (with sausage or vegetarian), her special oatmeal dish, sorghum cookies, and a seasonal side dish.

All foods served focus on using local ingredients. The Winter Farmers Market will feature these foods and a range of other locally-grown products, for example cheese, potatoes, maple syrup, honey, preserves, salsa, soap, variety of meats, poultry, and eggs.

The Winter Farmers Market and Brunch promotes economic justice by supporting family farmers and rural communities; earth stewardship by buying locally from sustainable farmers; community and spirituality by connecting farmers and consumers, rural and urban people.

Ten percent of the market proceeds will go to the Harvest of Hope Fund, a farm emergency fund helping Wisconsin farm families in crisis.

Purchase tickets for the brunch at St. Albert’s, or at the door on Jan.12. The suggested donation is $8 adults; $5 children 3-13; free for children under 3 years old; $25 per family maximum.

Now they’ve got them hooked in a plan that’s going to do nothing but hurt them. I’ve been in the mortgage business . . . and I know a little bit about that. People get in real trouble using those institutions.”

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dation repayment plans,” Hazen said. “There’s the Consumer Credit Counseling Service; they are non-profit and they help people. They will take all of your bills, put them together and negotiate with the creditors for one lump payment. The goal is to be chipping away at this debt and eventually get rid of it. It’s a big effort, and they work with creditors to reduce APR interest or something like that.”

Information According to the DFI, there are 16 listed “payday lenders” in Madison, and several other spread throughout the area, including Portage, Sun Prairie, DeForest, Watertown, Fort Atkinson, Fitchburg and Middleton. For more information, log on to wdfi.org/fi/lfs/pdl/default.htm Family Service Madison – Consumer Credit Counseling Service – (608) 252.1320; fsmad.org/credit.html National Foundation for Credit Counseling — nfcc.org

Consumer tips Hazen said the main thing for people to be wary of with payday loans is large fees. She said the BBB has always pushed for “full disclosure” of financial terms – the so-called “fine print” – because of the dangers of not following through on all the terms of agreement, and people can get seriously harmed financially.

“The finance charges can run to a 300 percent APR (annual percentage rate), and that can end up being a cycle,” Hazen said. “When you have a hard time making bills, you end up paying more money on borrowing when you didn’t have the money to begin with.”

People seeking short-term loans are better off with smaller lenders like credit unions, or seeking a paycheck advance or even personal loans, she suggested.

“Or you can go to the other side and ask the creditor for more time, or try debt consoli-

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By Rachel Wittrock Associate Editor ast year the Sun Prairie High School introduced a new Lifeguard Training for PE class, which students could take as a physical education credit. The class was a success, with two sections of students completing the class. This year, the number of students signing up for the class increased 50 percent, requiring a third section.

While the students learn all the regular skills – CPR/AED for the professional rescuer, first aid, using a backboard, controlling external bleeding and how to use an automated external defibrillator [AED] to name a few – they are learning something new this year: leadership and teaching skills.

Students in each of the two sections this semester have been working with fourth grade students at Eastside and Westside elementary schools one day a week for a month.

The students were bussed to the high school – Eastside from 11:30-noon on Wednesdays and Westside from 1:30-2 p.m. on Fridays – and were broken up into groups of eight or nine. Each group was then paired with two high school students.

The first 20 minutes of each class involved reviewing safety skills, such as how to

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use a life jacket properly, what to do if the child falls out of a boat and the current starts to take him or her, what to do if the water is extremely cold, and reaching and throwing skills.

The elementary school students also worked on the front crawl, elementary backstroke and treading water at swim stations. The high school students also taught the children how to swim underwater and the safeties and potential dangers associated with swimming underwater.

The last 10 minutes of each class were spent playing a water game, such as noodle tag, modified water polo or Pirate Treasure, which involved the elementary school children swimming to retrieve a piece of treasure.

While the fourth grade students benefited by learning or improving swim strokes and water safety skills, incorporating the younger kids benefited the high school students as well.

According to Eric Breidel, sometimes when a student gets a job as a lifeguard, they may be called to fill in for a swim instructor. But even if none of the students choose to become lifeguards or are never called on to teach a swimming class, the experience can be valuable in other

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Under the careful eye of members of the Sun Prairie High School Lifeguarding class, Eastside Elementary students practice throwing an empty milk

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ways.

For example, sophomore Makayla Allan said learning how to work with children is a good skill for her to develop because she is planning to become an elementary school teacher.

Sophomore Brianna Statz does not share Allan’s dream of becoming a teacher, but

“I thought it was a fantastic experience altogether, and it was so much fun to learn about them, and they learned about us,” senior Taylor Luecht said. “I enjoyed teaching them that they can do this when they get older and being somebody they can look up to.”

“When we were kids, we would always look up to high schoolers and I thought it was really cool that we brought them in and showed them [us] being good role models and they could do this when they were older,” Kristen Hoppman said.

The high schoolers also praised the children’s enthusiasm and willingness to partici-

said learning how to deal with kids is a good skill to have because most people will have to deal with children at some point, be it their own or their nieces or nephews.

Teaching the younger students also gave the high school students a chance to be a positive role model for a younger generation.

Be a responsible host this New Year Drinking and driving is never a good idea, and can result in death, injury or at the least, a hefty fine and/or jail time. According to www.aaa.com, more than 500,000 people are injured in alcohol-related crashes every year, with more than 12,000 resulting in death.

This New Year’s, keep yourself and your guests safe by preparing a few non-alcoholic drink mixes and following the ABCs of party giving, as shared by AAA in Oklahoma.

A – Alcohol Alertness: Be sure your guests are the life of the party.

Ask them to choose a designated driver for the evening, a person who will remain sober during the party and drive the group home.

Have a car key collection when your guests arrive. Tag the keys much like coats and hats. When guests leave, detect their level of intoxication. If you feel they would be unsafe behind the wheel, call them a cab or arrange for other transportation.

Mix drinks yourself and avoid open bars. Limit mixing drinks with carbonation, as carbonated beverages increase alcohol absorption.

Close your bar 90 minutes before your party is over – and don’t encourage “one for the road.”

B – Buffet: Always serve high protein foods, such as cheese and meats. They stay in the stomach longer and slow down the rate of intoxication. Mashed potatoes and beans (as well as other starchy foods) are great too.

Minimize salt. Salt makes people thirsty and speeds up intoxication.

Serve dips and spreads with unsalted or low-salt crackers or raw vegetables. Also consider cold-cut trays, cheese fondues and cheese balls.

Always provide non-alcoholic drinks, soft drinks, juices, punch and sugar-free beverages.

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“They are so energetic and they are so willing to try the things you ask them to try,” Allan said. “They are really fun to play with [and] interact with because they just don’t care what anyone thinks of them.”

“Every time we would walk out of the locker rooms they would all start clapping or they would start waving to each of their instructors,” Luecht said. “They would yell our names and they would get so excited by the time Eric [Breidel] would say it is time for everybody to go to their leaders, they would all get down on the bleachers and

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“Be Yourself” message at Sun Prairie High School DECA event

By Rachel Wittrock Associate Editor on’t be afraid to be yourself” was the message Sun Prairie High School DECA members Megan Edison and Ashley Krantz wanted to impart to the fourth and fifth grade students that attended the Dec. 16 event sponsored by the girls, called “The Best Person You Can Be is YOU.” The main purpose of the event was to help young students feel content with themselves, and not strive to be something they are not.

The two girls traveled to some of Sun Prairie’s elementary schools and delivered the same message, but also hosted a community event for fourth and fifth graders on Dec. 16. According to Krantz, the students that came to the community event were from Horizon, Northside, Eastside and Royal Oaks elementary schools.

“We had made a presentation, and it is the same that we did when we went into all of the elementary schools, and it was just about how you can be yourself even though there is all this media around you trying to influence how they might want you to be,” Edison said.

“It also kind of focused on self-confidence and self-esteem and kind of opening up when you are in a crowd,” Krantz added. “We kind of tied all those things into how the media can cause that.”

The day’s event began with a circle discussion with the students before moving on to crafts and activities.

One activity students participated was boosting kid’s selfesteem through positive reinforcement. The students stood on a makeshift scale, but instead of measuring a student’s weight, Krantz and Edison used a Smart Board to pop up a positive adjective, such as reliable, smart, strong, bubbly, honest, loyal and fabulous.

“It kind of led to a discussion about oh, I like this word and how you can become more like this word,” Krantz said. “It was a confidence booster.”

The second activity involved comparing a tool box, hammers and nails to things the students could do or use to hold themselves together and overcome obstacles.

Krantz and Edison also had the children write down and talk about some of their accomplishments and goals. The two DECA

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C – Carpool: Remember, only time will make your guests sober, not coffee or a cold shower. It takes about one hour to burn off an average drink. Five ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer and 1.5 ounces of liquor all contain about the same amount of alcohol.

Keep watch on behavior. Sleepy, too talkative, too giddy and uncoordinated guests are under the influence.

Arrange cab rides, rides with the designated driver or invite intoxicated friends to sleep over.

For irate intoxicated guests, “hide” their car keys until they have found another ride home. You may feel as if you have lost a friend that night, but you will have an ever better friend the next morning.

Be first a friend, then a host.

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Kelly family rings for a cause From left to right, Pat, Ailish, Jill and Cormac Kelly ring bells at the Windsor Street Walgreens for the Dane County Salvation Army’s Match Day on Saturday, Dec. 22.

McFarland State Bank agreed to match all donations that day, up to $5,000.

The Christmas Red Kettle campaign is the Salvation Army’s largest fundraising campaign, and all funds raised go to support services in Dane County, including providing food and shelter for people in need.

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Non-alcoholic drink recipes (Continued from page 7) Photos by Debbie Runkel-Kalson

1 cup heavy cream Above, Ashley Krantz and Megan Edison inspired 8 oz. dark unsweetened area fourth and fifth graders to be themselves at The chocolate (at least 70 percent Best Person You Can Be is YOU event on Dec. 16. cacao) Below, Eastside Elementary fifth grader Destini 3 tsp. cayenne pepper Tetzlaff models off her paper bag vest.

Directions: Mix milk, cream and seasonings in pan.

Heat to a bare simmer (do not boil) Stir in chocolate to melt. Pour into glass. Top with chocolate flavored whipped cream and a white chocolate snowflake.

Fruitloops Taken from www.drinksmixer.com Ingredients: 3 oz. pineapple juice 1.5 oz. orange juice 1 oz. cranberry juice 1 splash grenadine syrup Directions: Stir all ingredients and serve over ice.

Garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.

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Ingredients: 1/4 oz. passion fruit syrup 2 oz. pineapple juice 1/2 oz. lime juice 1 slice pineapple Directions: Prepare in a blender with crushed ice.

Strain into a large highball glass, fill with crushed ice and serve.

Merlin’s Treat (Continued from page 7) Taken from www.drinksmixmembers then handed out chocolate gold coins to the students in er.com order to show them how good it feels to accomplish things.

Ingredients: The students had a chance to craft positive influences in the last 2 oz. mango juice two activities.

1 oz. pineapple juice “In the last two rooms, one was [making] a body of yourself 1 oz. orange juice and we had magazines in there and we had markers,” Krantz said.

1/2 oz. strawberry syrup “We had them lay down on the big art paper and trace their bodies, 2 oz. dry ginger ale and inside their bodies they wrote positive things about themselves Directions: Shake juice and what they liked to do – what made them who they were. and syrup and strain into an “Then in the room next to it, it was kind of the same idea, but ice-filled wine goblet. Add the we made paper bags, the grocery bags, into vests. Then we had ginger ale, garnish with fruit them think of a role model and everything they liked about their in-season and sprinkle with role model they put on their vest,” she continued. “Then they wore grated nutmeg. Serve with the vest, kind of symbolizing how they were trying to be like their straws. role model.”

Mistletoe The idea for the event stemmed from a business class the two Submitted by the OKC girls took last year. The class focused on manipulative strategies Marriott/Remington Park in advertisers use, and Krantz and Edison wanted to give young stuOklahoma City, Okla. dents a chance to learn about positive marketing strategies, while knowing the difference between positive and negative strategies.

“Our main message was be confident, be who you are and no matter what tries to influence you negatively, whether it be media, and we stretched it beyond that to friends and school and other activities, just be yourself and step outside of your comfort zone,” Krantz said. “We don’t want them to join things just because their friends are in it or because the coolest celebrity tells them to. We want them doing something because they are interested.”

“We just wanted to make them the best version of themselves Many people are decoratthey can be,” Edison added. ing their homes for the holiAlthough both girls stressed they did the event because they days, but pet owners should wanted to help kids, they will also be using the project at an be aware that some plants upcoming DECA competition. The two girls have been document- used for holiday decorating ing everything, from how they got the word of the event out by can be dangerous to cats and submitted a press release to The Star and Sarah Heck at the dogs. Understanding which District Office, to the actual event. plants are toxic, and which Krantz said because Edison and she focused on fourth and fifth are not, can help bring home the festive spirit and avoid grade students, they may hold off from hosting the event again danger for pets. next year and wait until their senior year so they can reach a new One of the most popular group of students. holiday plants often consid“It went well and both the teachers and the community responded really well to it,” Krantz said. “We love doing this kind ered poisonous are poinsettias. But in fact, they are of thing for our community and for the kids.”

“It is a really good feeling knowing you have impacted them in “non” to “mildly” toxic and do not deserve their bad repa way, in a positive way,” Edison added.

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Ingredients: 4 mint leaves Juice of 1/2 an orange (fresh squeezed) 2 oz. pomegranate juice 1 oz. agave Top with Sierra Mist or soda water Directions: Muddle the mint leaves five times. Pour orange juice into a glass. Add the pomegranate and agave.

Give a good shake and pour over ice. Top with Sierra Mist.

Garnish with a fresh mint spring.

Spring Cooler Punch Taken from www.drinksmixer.com Ingredients: 6 oz. can frozen lemonade 12 oz. can frozen orange juice 6 oz. can water 4 cups sugar 6 cups water 5 bananas 42 oz. can pineapple juice 3 quarter ginger ale Directions: Boil the sugar with the cups of water in a large saucepan for 3 minutes.

Allow to cool.

Mash the bananas in a blender and combine with the can of water, orange juice, lemonade and pineapple juice in a large bowl. Add sugar syrup and blend well.

Freeze the mixture for at least 24 hours. Remove from freezer one hour before serving. Using a fork, break frozen punch into smaller pieces. Add ginger ale. Continue blending until slushy. Serve in punch cups (makes about 50 servings).

Strawberry Basil Soda Taken from www.thekitchn.com Makes about 6 (8-ounce) drinks Ingredients: 1 pound strawberries, trimmed Juice of 1/2 lemon 1/2 cup loosely packed basil leaves

Holiday plants can be deadly for pets utation. Pets that ingest poinsettias generally have no clinical signs or mild gastrointestinal discomfort. A mild rash may develop if rubbed on the skin, but they are considered safe to keep in the home.

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Strawberry Basil Soda 1 cup sugar Carbonated water Directions: Juice strawberries using a juicer or blender.

If using a juicer: Juice strawberries according to manufacturer’s instructions. Discard pulp. If using a blender: Place strawberries in a blender and pulse until smooth. Strain through a sieve, pushing juice through with a spatula.

Discard solids.

Pour strawberry juice into a liquid measuring cup. Add water to reach 1 cup if needed.

Pour into a small saucepan

with lemon juice, basil and sugar.

Heat mixture over medium heat until boiling. Simmer 5 minutes, stirring frequently.

Remove from heat and let cool. Strain syrup through a sieve into a clean container and discard solids.

To serve, spoon 2 tablespoons of syrup into an 8ounce glass, top with carbonated water, and stir. Taste and add more syrup, if desired.

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BBBS receives $4,000 grant

Sun Prairie school program to be funded On Nov. 27, The Greg Jennings Foundation announced the recipients of the “Be Great After School” program grants as part of their “Be Great” Youth Initiative.

Nine diverse organizations in Wisconsin and Michigan, including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County, will receive a total of $50,000 in funding to support specific youth education projects.

The goal of the “Be Great” Youth Initiative is to identify and partner with effective organizations that empower and inspire children to fulfill their potential. The “Be Great After School” Program grants were awarded to groups in Wisconsin and Michigan that work with K- 12 students in the areas of academic achievement, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and college readiness.

“Our committee reviewed all of the outstanding applications and we selected programs that we believe will truly make a difference in the lives of children,” said Gretta Terrentine, Director of The Greg Jennings Foundation. “These grants are made possible because The Greg Jennings Foundation’s community partners share our belief that with proper support all children can BE GREAT.” Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Dane County was awarded $4,000 to fund the ABCs of Success program at three Sun Prairie schools: Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School, Patrick Marsh Middle School and Prairie View Middle School.

ABCs of Success ensures kids graduate through collection and assessment of Attendance, Behavior and Classroom Data.

According to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County Development Director Christina Beach-Baumgartner, the program will be implemented at the three schools beginning with the 2013-14 school year.

She said Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County is starting small to test the program and is aiming to develop the program into other schools in Dane County.

“We are thrilled to be one of the recipients of the “Be Great After School” Program. The Greg Jennings Foundation

has increased our capacity to proactively drive and measure the success of children in our program both in and out of school,” said Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County Dora Zuñiga. “We have already begun measuring specific outcomes around our Littles’ attendance at school, behavior in school and academic achievement.

“Building strong children first requires that we understand the barriers that impact performance in school, and then develop strong partnerships between mentors, teachers, parents and the school district to address those challenges,” Zuñiga added.

“ABCs of Success is building a framework for partnership that will empower all children in Dane County to be great!”

Additional grant recipients include: • Above the Clouds. The Above the Clouds Arts Program serves 500+ students from central city Milwaukee and surrounding areas with quality, fine-arts education free of charge in eight locations. The program enhances self-esteem, provides discipline, helps with problem solving and motivates students to think and learn, as well as produce leadership skills in underserved communities.

• Urban Day School - Boys & Girls Club After-School Program. The program will provide after-school support for 200 students. The goal of this program is to increase reading and math performance and increase school based parental involvement.

Michigan recipients • Big Brothers and Big Sisters, A Community of Caring. High School Bigs currently serves approximately 1,250 youth annually, ages 6 – 17, in a five county region. BBBS hopes to serve 100 students this year through this mentoring program by recruiting high school students to be interviewed, screened and then intentionally matched with 1st through 4th graders in the same school district.

• Communities in Schools of Kalamazoo - KCHS After-School Program.

The mission of CIS of Kalamazoo is to surround students with a community of sup-

Potter, Titus named November Optimist Youth of the Month

port, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Their vision is an engaged community where every child fulfills his or her promise. The supported program is an after school program at a local Kalamazoo high school for 25 freshman students, four days per week, two hours per day, for students with at least one risk factor, such as attendance or academics.

• Kalamazoo Junior Girls OrganizationPathway to Success After-School Program.

KJGO’s mission is to “inspire girls to be self-reliant women one generation at a time.” Membership ranges from 45-60 girls a year and has served more than 2,000 girls since it opened in1986.

• Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Kalamazoo Kids In Tune Innovative afterschool music and youth development program patterned after the EL Sistema model, in a unique partnership with Kalamazoo Public Schools.

• Ujima - Ujima Sasa! Ujima works with children and families who are at-risk of school failure and vulnerable to participating in anti-social behavior. The program provides individualized plans for counseling, life skills and educational support for each student in the program.

• YMCA of Greater Kalamazoo - Prime Time After-School Program. This project will provide for opening a new KPS site for the YMCA’s PRIMETIME before-and afterschool program. Currently the Y serves 240 children from 15 elementary schools in Kalamazoo.

“I would like to personally congratulate all of the recipients on behalf of my foundation. I am glad we are able to support organizations that will offer quality educational services for youth in Wisconsin and my hometown Kalamazoo, Mich,” said Green Bay Packers Star Wide Receiver Greg Jennings.

Jennings and his wife, Nicole, are dedicated to helping children in underserved communities dream big and exceed their own expectations.

SPHS Dance hosts January 12 clinic The Sun Prairie High School Dance Team is holding a Dance Clinic for elementary students interested in dance. The clinic will be held on Saturday, Jan. 12 from 1:15-4 p.m. at Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School.

The cost is $25 and participants will receive poms, a T-shirt and learn a routine to perform at the Girls Varsity Basketball game on Thursday, Jan. 17.

Download a flyer at http://www.sunprairie.k12.wi. us/schools/high/athletics/pom_and_dance.cfm, or contact Tammy Knudtson at 345-1970 for more information.

Beth Potter

Jamie Titus

Beth Potter and Jamie Titus have been named Optimist Youth of the Month for November.

Potter is the daughter of Sherri and Mitch Potter. She is a junior at Sun Prairie High School and is a member of Future Educators of America, helps out at TEACH Camp and when she is not working at Woodman’s, volunteers her time at Lighthouse of Sun Prairie.

She has made the honor roll since sixth grade and received an award for her volunteer work at a local nursing home.

She is currently learning French and serves a teacher’s assistant at the high school.

After graduating, she intends to go to college to study to become a teacher. She hopes to one day teacher 9th grade English.

Titus is the daughter of

Heather Titus and James Bartrana and is a junior at the high school.

Her school activities include Future Educators of America, French Club and Lacrosse Club.

She has also served as a teacher’s assistant in summer school, volunteers at a local nursing home, is an Orchestra Mentor and has attended pre-college camps.

Her awards include: • Honor roll every year; • Level 1 Academic Award; and • Volunteering award for nursing home visits.

She is planning to continue her education by going to college in Wisconsin and continue to gain teaching experience and education. Her future plans include either joining the Peace Corps or helping in Chicago schools.

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Hear the bells toll Sun Prairie resident Bill Morrissey rings bells for the Salvation Army at Sentry Foods during Match Day on Saturday, Dec. 22.

Lunch Menus The following is a list of school meals scheduled to be served in Sun Prairie schools during the week of Dec. 27 Jan. 3 Breakfast (elementary, middle) Thursday, Dec. 27: Christmas break, no school.

Friday, Dec. 28: Christmas break, no school.

Monday, Dec. 31: Christmas break, no school.

Tuesday, Jan. 1: Christmas break, no school.

Wednesday, Jan. 2: Breakfast on a stick or cereal/ cheese stick, choice of fruit or juice, milk.

Thursday, Jan. 3: Oatmeal /apple strudel or cereal/apple strudel, choice of fruit or juice, milk.

Daily breakfast prices are $1.20, elementary and middle; 30 cents, reduced; $1.45, adults; and 35 cents, milk.

Lunch (elementary, middle) Thursday, Dec. 27: Christmas break, no school.

Friday, Dec. 28: Christmas break, no school.

Monday, Dec. 31: Christmas break, no school.

Tuesday, Jan. 1: Christmas break, no school.

Wednesday, Jan. 2: Beef ravioli or yogurt/cheese stick, pretzel roll, California blend vegetables, cucumber slices, chilled peaches, pudding cup.

Thursday, Jan. 3: Salisbury steak/pretzel roll or PBJ uncrustable, whipped potatoes/gravy, steamed broccoli, fresh orange wedges.

Lunch prices are $2.05 for elementary, $2.30 for middle school and $2.40 for high school.

Reduced lunches are 40 cents.

Adult lunches cost $3.10.

Milk is 35 cents.

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Christmas break, no school.

Friday, Dec. 28: Christmas break, no school.

Monday, Dec. 31: Christmas break, no school.

Tuesday, Jan. 1: Christmas break, no school.

Wednesday, Jan. 2: Beef ravioli/pretzel roll, garden salad, garbanzo beans, California blend vegetables, cucumber slices, chilled peaches, pudding cup; chicken patty/whole grain bun, garden salad, garbanzo beans, California blend vegetables, cucumber slices, chilled peaches, pudding cup; PBJ and cheese stick, bologna/ cheese, turkey/cheese, baked chips, garden salad with romaine, garbanzo beans, vegetable juice cup, cucumber slices, chilled peaches, applesauce cup.

Thursday, Jan. 3: Salisbury steak/whole grain rolls, whipped potatoes/gravy, steamed broccoli, red pepper strips, chilled pears, fresh orange wedges; BBQ chicken/whole grain bun, whipped potatoes/gravy, steamed broccoli, red pepper strips, chilled pears, fresh orange wedges; PBJ and cheese stick, hummus/tortilla wrap, turkey/cheese, ham/cheese, garden salad, garbanzo beans, baby carrots, cauliflower/broccoli florets, chilled pears, fresh orange wedges.

Sacred Hearts The following is a lunch schedule for Sacred Hearts School for the week of Dec. 27 - Jan. 3.

Thursday, Dec. 27: No school, Christmas vacation.

Friday, Dec. 28: No school, Christmas vacation.

Monday, Dec. 31: No school, Christmas vacation.

Tuesday, Jan. 1: No school, Christmas vacation.

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Thursday, Jan. 3: Menu not available by press time.

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CHUMS awarded SPEF grant Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School Principal Ryan Ruggles holds up his grant for $2,000 from the Sun Prairie Education Foundation on Thursday, Dec. 19.

Ruggles submitted a grant request to be used for the school’s The Cardinals Read program.

CHUMS received five grants, totaling more than $8,000 for student programs.

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Fifth annual Lily’s Luau to benefit epilepsy research You don’t often think about pulling out your grass skirts and Hawaiian shirts in January in Wisconsin, but thanks to Lily’s Fund for Epilepsy Research, that’s just what hundreds of Madisonians will do this January.

The fifth annual Lily’s Luau to benefit Lily’s Fund for Epilepsy Research will take place on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. at Union South Varsity Hall, 1308 W. Dayton Street, Madison. The event will feature food, music and an exciting live and silent auction.

Each year the event has experienced growth and success in attendance and funds raised. Last year’s luau was attended by 500 guests and raised $90,000 to support epilepsy research at UW Madison.

Lily’s Fund for Epilepsy Research was founded by Madison family David and Anne Giroux, whose daughter Lily has epilepsy. Funds raised support

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they would come.”

Luecht said even the students that might have been scared doing something like going into water that is over their head managed to overcome their fear and participate.

While the fourth graders did not vocalize their appreciation to be able to come in and use the pool, Allan said it was apparent in their behavior.

“They didn’t really come out and say that they loved being here,” Allan said. “It kind of just came across in how they acted, they came in every week and were so excited to be here. Their energy told us that they were excited to be here.”

Breidel said next year he is hoping to incorporate the fourth grade students at all seven elementary schools, then wait a year before trying to add one of the younger elementary school grades.

Breidel stressed there was no additional cost to bringing in the elementary school students – making the pool available to students at all schools was part of the deal when the pool was built.

Next semester, students in the third section of Lifeguard Training for PE will be working with fourth grade students from C.H. Bird.

Aside from incorporating the fourth graders into the lifeguard class, students across the district have enjoyed using

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Above, Eastside Elementary students on Wednesday, Dec. 18 practice swimming in the deep end of the pool while wearing life jackets. the facilities.

According to Breidel, students from Prairie Phoenix Academy and the two middle schools have come in to use the pool, as well as students in non-physical education class, such as math, science and even Sun Prairie High School Band Director Steve

Sveum’s students.

“What he [Sveum] is trying to do is he says the water naturally slows them down and that high school kids move too fast when they are playing music. So the water is to try to slow them down and have them experience it better,” Breidel said.

Military News Airman Schmitz serving onboard USS John C. Stennis

Navy Airman Zachary M. Schmitz, son of Kathy Schmitz of Sun Prairie and Mark Schmitz of Stevens Point, and other Sailors from the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) recently conducted operations in the vital Asia-Pacific region alongside with Sailors from the USS George Washington (CVN 73).

The two CSGs are part of a strong U.S. naval presence in the Photo taken from Lily’s Fund for Epilepsy Research Facebook page Pacific that has helped to maintain peace and stability in the The Giroux clan at the first Lily’s Luau fundraiser region as part of the U.S. 7th Fleet, which was established 69 for epilepsy research in 2009. Lily was diagnosed with years ago. The USS John C. Stennis returned to the 7th Fleet’s atonic seizures when she was 2 years old.

Concordia University area of operation four months ahead of schedule to maintain Joshua Ritchie, a resident combatant commander requirements for its presence in the epilepsy research at UW Tickets are available for $40 of Sun Prairie and a student at region. The crew has been engaging in live-fire exercises, torpeMadison. The organization also before Jan. 11 or $50 after.

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Children’s & Teen Programs Preschool Storytimes Preschool Storytime is geared for children ages 2.5 to 5 but all ages are welcome.

Storytimes are about 30 minutes long and are filled with books, songs, action rhymes and more. Each week is a new theme. Registration is recommended but not required.

Registration begins Tuesday, Jan. 22 for the Winter/Spring session.

Storytime starts the week of Jan. 29.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.

Small Fry Lapsit Storytimes This lapsit storytime is geared for little ones ages 0-3 but all ages are welcome.

Lapsit storytimes are about 20 minutes long and are filled with short books, songs, action rhymes and more. This program is customized to the shorter attention spans of a younger audience.

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C o l o n i a l C l u b The dos and don’ts of holiday plants SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER Patti Stockdale Director of Programs If you haven’t ever visited the Colonial Club before, we hope you’ll do so this week. Stop in for a tour, and we’ll tell you about our many programs and services that enhance seniors’ lives. The following highlights a few of the upcoming activities scheduled for the week of Dec. 28 – Jan. 3.

Friday, Dec. 28 Baby, it’s cold outside, but we’re staying warm playing Corn/Bean Bag Toss on Friday mornings. Join us at 10 a.m. in Cremer Auditorium for a little fun and exercise.

Monday, Dec. 31 The Colonial Club is closed today.

Tuesday, Jan. 1 The Colonial Club is closed today.

Happy New Year!

Wednesday, Jan. 2 Is it time to sign up for an exercise class? We offer Music & Motion on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 – 10 a.m. and Low Impact Aerobics on Mondays and Thursdays from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Yoga Made Easy is on Thursdays from 9 – 10 a.m., and Qi Gong is on Fridays at 12:30. For more information, please call Patti at 837-4611, ext. 129, or you can just come to the class!

Thursday, Jan. 3 If you are feeling lucky, stop by the Colonial Club today at 1 p.m. for Aster Retirement Community of Cottage Grove Birthday Bingo. You won’t want to miss the cash prizes and the delicious birthday cake donated by Sentry!

Future Trips: For more information about any of the following trips, call Patti at 837-4611, ext. 101.

• Ho Chunk – Jan. 21 • Romantic Rhine & Mosel River Cruise – April 10-19, 2013 • Alaska Grand Tour – Aug. 3 – 11, 2013 • California Coast – Sept. 1-9, 2013 Special Highlight: Colonial Club’s Adult Day Center Are you concerned about leaving a loved one alone during the day, but he or she isn’t ready for nursing home care? The Adult Day Center is a cost effective, community-based alternative for older adults needing health care monitoring, personal care, socialization and recreational activities. Whether a client has ambulatory issues, signs of forgetfulness, or is lonely, we can provide a safe and secure environment, prevent premature nursing home placement and offer excellent care.

Each new participant receives an individualized assessment with input from the participant, his or her physician, the family and our Adult Day Center staff. The participant then receives a service plan designed to best meet the individual’s unique needs. In addition to providing a variety of social activities and nutritious meals, we also offer bathing care, transportation, supportive home care, case management services and foot care assistance. The program can greatly benefit the caregivers of the older adults, too, freeing up time to complete daily tasks, continue their work schedules, attend school or simply take a respite from caregiving.

Fees are determined by how often the participant attends.

Scholarships are offered for low-income persons. The Adult Day Center is open Monday through Friday from 8 – 4:30.

For more information about this excellent service located right here in Sun Prairie, please call Melody Riedel at 8374611, ext. 115.

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but they really aren’t. Feel free to display them at Christmas.”

Christmas trees are also generally safe for pets.

However, pine needles can cause damage to eyes if pets should run into the tree, such as a corneal laceration.

Should pets ingest the sap produced by the tree, mild gastrointestinal discomfort may occur, but natural trees are generally non-toxic for cats and dogs.

Mistletoe, on the other hand, can be quite poisonous to pets. If ingested, pets may experience gastrointestinal upset, or show clinical signs of poisoning such as a change in mental function, difficulty breathing, or a low heart rate.

“If you see these symptoms in your pet and suspect or know they ingested mistletoe, you should seek veterinary assistance as soon as possible,” Black said.

“Mistletoe shouldn’t be used where pets could possibly reach it.”

Another holiday decorative plant, holly, can be dangerous for pets and is considered poisonous. Clinical symptoms may be displayed as vomiting, diarrhea, decreased energy, and general upset stomach. Owners should seek veterinary assistance if they suspect their pets of ingesting holly.

Amaryllis and Daffodils are also considered poisonous for pets. If ingested, pets may vomit, appear depressed, or show signs of a painful abdomen and a loss of appetite.

“Some pets who consume amaryllis or daffodils will show symptoms of tremors,” Black said. “This can be a sign of severe toxicity.”

Lilies are particularly toxic to cats. The ingestion of any part of any type of lily can lead to kidney failure. The clinical signs can include vomiting, depression or loss of appetite. If you suspect your cat of ingesting lilies, you should contact your veterinarian immediately. There is no antidote, and intense supportive care is needed for cats to recover.

“The more toxic the plant, the more careful you should be with displaying them in your home. While Poinsettias and Christmas trees are generally safe for pets, holly, mistletoe, amaryllis, daffodils, and lilies should be considered quite toxic,” Black said. “Pets should not

Colonial Club Senior Activity Center lists Local news? menu for the week of Dec. 27 - Jan. 3 Meals are served at the Colonial Club Senior Activity Center, 301 Blankenheim Lane, at 11:20 a.m., and include a beverage and bread.

Call the club at 837-4611 for reservations.

Meal Price: $6.60; donations are accepted.

Thursday, Dec. 27: Herb chicken breast, wild rice medley, creamed spinach, whole wheat bread, peaches.

Friday, Dec. 28: Tator tot casserole, green beans, wheat roll, mixed berries.

Monday, Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve, Colonial Club closed.

Tuesday, Jan. 1: New Year’s, Colonial Club closed.

Wednesday, Jan. 2: Menu not available by press time.

Thursday, Jan. 3: Menu not available by press time.

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be allowed to come in contact with poisonous holiday plants, and if they are dis-

played in the home they should be kept out of reach, and pet’s behavior should be

monitored to make sure they do not show symptoms of poisoning.”

The following Sun Prairie students were named to the first quarter honor roll lists for the 2012-13 school year at Lakeside Lutheran High School in Lake Mills.

High Honors To receive High Honors, a student must attain a grade point average of 3.749 or higher.

Grade 9: Brittni Jegerlehner, Meghan Pingel and Estrella Tesch.

Grade 10: Samantha Huebner, Winter Petry and Carolyn Runke.

Grade 11: Mathias Mahnke, Mariah Schoenherr and Jason Werre.

Grade 12: Leah Fax and Charlotte Huebner.

Honors To receive Honors, a student must attain a grade point average of 3.25-3.749.

Grade 9: Mason DeNoyer, Kendal Denson, Elijah Tesch

and Matthew Werre.

Grade 10: Alexandra Kohlstedt and Emily Olson.

Grade 11: Olivia DeNoyer, Ashley Mueller and Jeffrey Weber.

Commendables To receive Commandables, a student must attain a grade point average of 3.0-3.249.

Grade 10: Matthew Olson Grade 12: Nicholas Mueller

Lakeside Lutheran honor roll lists

Christmas transformations Living Water Church’s Christmas Eve church service entertained both children and adults alike with a skit called “Transformation Tonight.”

Ken Betts played Donny Larson, a late night TV show host who interviewed The Grinch (left, played by Brad Wentworth), Ebenezer Scrooge and George Bailey about their Christmas Day transformations.

Below, Lori Erdman, playing Mrs. Claus, is joined by the interviewees and some elves in a Christmas song and dance.

Pictures were taken during the church’s dress rehearsal on Sunday, Dec. 23.

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Clear hydrants Help your neighbors and the SPVFD Shovel out those fire hydrants to make it easier -and faster -- for local firefighters to find them

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ith the more than 15.2 inches of snow that fell or was blown in the area Dec. 20-21, many of our readers were more than likely too busy shoveling themselves out to consider doing something that will help them and their neighbors during the remainder of winter.

That helpful hand is clearing fire hydrants of snow for at least three to five feet around the hydrant to ensure access by the Sun Prairie Volunteer Fire Department (SPVFD).

Clearing the hydrants now saves valuable time for Sun Prairie firefighters seeking hydrants to hook up to when fighting fires.

This time saved allows your local volunteer firefighters to spend more time fighting the fire, rescuing pets and people and preventing damage to your valuable property.

That can help you as well as your friends and neighbors.

The property or lives SPVFD personnel save may be yours or that of a loved one.

And all it will take is a few extra minutes with a snow shovel or snow blower to clear that hydrant out.

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Up the Creek 19 needs widening to four lanes To reach The Star:

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Mail: P.O. Box 645, Sun Prairie, WI 53590

ast week, a public information meeting was held at Windsor Elementary School in DeForest regarding a project which will impact Sun Prairie.

The Token Creek Bridge Replacement will replace two bridges located along Highway 19 in Token Creek this summer.

Although the exact start date of the project has yet to be determined, the replacement itself will result in roughly 10 weeks of road closure.

All the new development on Sun Prairie’s west side may feel the impact the fastest because vehicles will not be allowed through the construction area.

That means to reach Sun Prairie, DeForest traffic will need to detour using Highway 51 and local roads, or Interstate 90-94.

The disruption of the Token Creek Watershed will be as minimal as possible, according to DOT engineers associated with the project. But with 17,500 vehicles per day traveling on those bridges, some attendees wondered why the DOT failed to plan to widen the highway at the same time to four lanes?

Although a more detailed study would be needed to undertake reconstruction, one attendee argued the DOT could have done the planning well in advance because the traffic volume far exceeds the 10-12,000 vehicle per day threshold needed to reconstruct the road.

Now, the DOT will need to return to the area in the future and install the fourlane road. At the same time, it will likely disturb the habitat in Token Creek, which has been praised by several environmental and preservation groups.

The tunnel vision to complete the project is understandable given a recent DOT inspection stating one of the bridges set to be replaced is the worst one in Dane County -- and the other one is close behind it.

The DOT’s lack of consideration given to a four-lane Highway 19 project -- minimizing inconvenience to just one time for travelers and residents -- demonstrates why many people deeply distrust state government and its decisionmaking process.

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Your View The Internet under siege?

They say you can not teach an old dog new tricks, well this old dog has learned how to use a computer a little bit - Just enough to find information on the internet an write a few letters. A wealth of information is available to everyone but it can be quite a task to sort through it all. I have been told that information (knowledge) is power and that the internet can help provide all the powerful information you may ever need - so let the unobstructed information continue to flow to the people.

Unfortunately, we have a potential problem that places the internet in harms way. Seems that the United Nations (U.N.)

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We welcome letters The Star gladly accepts letters on any subject but reserves the right to edit or to reject letters for any reason. Letters should be no longer than 350 words in length, and should contain the signature, address and telephone number of the author. Letters submitted after the noon Monday deadline may appear on The Star’s Web site, www.sunprairiestaronline.com. Group letters must contain the signatures of the group members. Names may be withheld upon request with a compelling reason, but signature(s), address and telephone number are required for verification purposes.

Thank you letters written in gratitude for various acts of personal kindness or organizational support are most appropriately published in specially designated box ads. Such letters are not seen as letters to the editor, which are reserved for the exchange of public opinions. Endorsement letters must be submitted two issues prior to the election (or earlier) in order to allow the opportunity to correct misinformation from opposing candidates or groups on opposing sides. Opinions expressed in letters are not the opinions of The Star, but rather those of the individual or organization sponsoring the letter who is solely responsible for the letter’s content. wants to control the internet.

They are not the only ones for

those in control of our own federal government have the same

desire to do so. If the U.N. or our Federal Government, should ever get control of the internet we will have lost a valuable resource in maintaining our freedom.

Please do not let them do so for we have too much to lose.

Looks like there are some people that want to keep us in the dark on the happenings around the world and here in America.

Furthermore, it appears that they do not want us to have the unrestricted ability to communicate with one another in rapid fashion. Who would have thought this possible here in America. What say you?

E. L. Bortmess Sun Prairie

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Do you know the new extensions? rom time to time, our readers know this column is used to review some new pieces of technology and how they might better serve our customers.

One of those pieces of technology is our new Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones.

These phones, to recall a longsince-forgotten term, are “nifty.”

Besides voice mail, they can do many things -- including allowing you to answer a phone without being at your desk.

Before you get any ideas that I’ll be heading to Punta Cana any time soon and working from

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around the bush too much, here is a complete list of staffers and their direct dial numbers (all with the 608 area code prefix): Chris Mertes -- 478-2521.

Karl Raymond (sports editor) Chris -- 478-2520.

Mertes Rachel Wittrock (associate editor) -- 478-2519.

Diane Watson (receptionist) - 478-2509.

Sales representative Mike there, you probably should know Wilson -- 478-2516. the numbers where you can Joan Squires (business and reach us. billing questions) -- 478-2510.

My direct dial extension Sales representative Pat phone number has the same last Johnson -- 478-2517. four numbers as the main numProduction manager Steve ber here. But without beating

Et Cetera

Goemans -- 478-2513. He can route calls to all the production artists working for Hometown News Group.

General manager Barb Trimble -- 478-2518.

I’ll probably get in trouble for listing the last one, but those are the key personnel and how to reach them.

And in case you don’t want to remember them all, The Star’s general phone number of (608) 837-2521 still works!

“Et Cetera” is a column of personal opinion and experience by the managing editor; opinions expressed are his alone.

Time to act on mental illness ewtown is the latest locale in America to become synonymous with senseless slaughter. The shock and the horror are so intense, it almost guarantees that Congress will act.

There will inevitably be an enormous brouhaha around guns and ammunition, leading to nothing likely to prevent the next massacre. Democrats are talking about a renewed assaultweapon ban and a prohibition on high-capacity magazines. But Adam Lanza could have killed just as indiscriminately with any semiautomatic gun, and if he didn’t have a high-capacity magazine, he could simply have reloaded with smaller maga-

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zines, something the Virginia Tech and Columbine killers managed to do.

If we are going to have a rush to action, it shouldn’t be on guns. It should be on mental illness. It doesn’t make for high political drama or emotional cable chatter, but getting treatment for more of the most seriously mentally ill might actually prevent future shootings. Even if it doesn’t, it would improve the lives of sick and vulnerable people.

We may never know what the dynamic was in the Lanza home. For too many parents of the mentally ill, though, it goes something like this: Their child becomes withdrawn, delusional

ents even if he is admitted. The choice might become living with a deteriorating child increasingly out of his mind or forcing him out of the home and into the streets.

Column Yes, this is 21st-Century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to and erratic. If they call the men- get it or not.

Where we supposedly detal-health system, they are told to bring the child in for an appoint- institutionalized the mentally ill by closing down psychiatric hosment and the sick child won’t pitals, and then reinstitutionalgo. If the parents call the cops, ized them behind bars. About a the cops show up and say the child doesn’t appear to represent third of homeless men and twothirds of homeless women are a threat, and they leave. If they take him to the hospital, he is (Continued on page 13) quickly released back to the par-

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Rich Lowry

Thursday December 27, 2012

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Last week’s poll results: Money & Politics Column Should the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) be dismantled after failing to track more than $50 million in loans?

Act on illness danger to self or others are too strict. As DJ Jaffe of Mental Illness Policy Org puts it, that seriously mentally ill. Imagine standard doesn’t prevent viothe national outrage if people with Alzheimer’s were permitted lence, it requires violence in order to get care to someone too to wander around the streets irrational to realize that he needs uncared for. But, by some perit. verse logic, it’s considered OK We don’t know yet if Adam for schizophrenics.

Lanza was mentally ill, or if a The federal government can better system would have helped act on this travesty only at the him. We do know that somemargins. It is largely up to the where out there a young man is states. about to get very sick. He could They can make a real difference by stopping the further clo- become the next Jared Loughner or James Holmes — unless sure of public hospital psychiatric beds and making it easier to someone gets him treatment.

Rich Lowry is editor of the compel treatment. Civil-commitment laws that require imminent National Review.

Yes 67%

Vote at sunprairiestar.com for this week’s poll until Monday, Dec. 31 and check next week’s issue for results!

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Thanks for supporting ‘Journey’ It is with overwhelming grati-

Prairie food pantry during the event. Because of you, we were able to raise over $500 for those in need this season.

We would also like to thank the 200(+) member volunteers of our congregation Bethlehem Lutheran Church, and all those who donated their time and talents, for bringing this vision to reality.

We also had generous other supporters in terms of props, animals, and financial assistance.

Thank you, thank you! This overwhelmingly successful endeavor could not have been done without the help of so

many.

Over 1,200 individuals walked through our re-created Bethlehem marketplace… and each were able to hear the characters bring to life tell the story of our King in a way that they, and their children, will cherish for a lifetime.

Our congregation plans to do this event every other year. So if you missed it, make sure you keep us in mind for 2014!

And, the greatest thanks of all to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ – for bringing us all together at this blessed event, and for keeping us focused on

By Bill Lueders Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism he Capital Times of Madison recently ran an article on Vince Megna, the flamboyant Milwaukee “lemon law” lawyer who plans to run against state Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack this spring.

“I’ve lived through four Supreme Court races in the last four years, and the first three were all controlled by the Koch brothers and out-of-state money,” said Megna, who sues companies that make defective products and stars in Michael Moore-ish YouTube videos lampooning Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other Republicans.

Asked what he thought of Roggensack, considered the leader of the court’s conservative majority, Megna replied, “I don’t really view her as my opponent.

I view David Koch as my opponent.”

Turns out Megna is himself churning out defective products.

Somebody call a lawyer.

In fact, the past four state Supreme Court races have played out over a six-year period and only the last one, which Megna exempted from his critique, had any apparent tie to oil billionaires David and Charles Koch. In that 2011 race between Justice David Prosser and challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg, a group affiliated with another group affiliated with the Kochs spent an estimated $985,000 bashing Kloppenburg.

“The Koch brothers were involved in the 2011 state Supreme Court race,” says Mike McCabe, executive director of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. “But if they were involved in other recent Supreme Court races, then they funneled money into those campaigns in a way that escaped our detection.”

That’s possible, since Wisconsin lets groups run “issue ads” that stop short of telling people how to vote without disclosing their funding sources.

But Megna — who now says he meant to include each of the past four races in his critique — doesn’t have any evidence of this.

Megna says he’s evoking the Koch brothers “as a general concept,” to illustrate the role of outof-state money.

But he can’t prove recent state’s Supreme Court elections were “controlled” by this either.

An analysis of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign data shows that about $20 million

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tude that I send this letter.

Heartfelt gratitude to The Star, and to the members of the Sun Prairie community for their generous support of our congregation’s first production of Journey to Bethlehem on Dec. 8 and 9.

We thank each and every individual who waited patiently for their turn to take the journey.

From the moment we started at 2 p.m. until we ended well past 6 p.m. the flow of people was constant and numerous.

And, we pray that each of you were touched by the experience – and God’s promise. We have many things to be thankful for during this season—it is our hope and prayer that the gift of a Savior became more real and central to your busy preparations and Christmas celebration.

Our prayer now is that this journey is one that stays with them throughout this Christmas season as we remember the Gift of gifts that came 2000 years ago to us all.

Thank you also to those who generously donated to the Sun

‘Lemon law’ lawyer lays egg

what matters most.

God’s blessings to you all this Christmas. Please remember what you’ve experienced, in the words of our faithful shepherds who left the manger glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen: “Go quickly now.

Tell the good news. The Savior is born. Go in peace, and like Mary, ponder these things in your heart.”

Pastor Steve Vera Bethlehem Lutheran Church Sun Prairie

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was spent on the last state Supreme Court races. Just $6.7 million came from the candidates’ campaigns, the rest from outside groups.

Leading the pack were the conservative Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, which spent an estimated $5.1 million, and the liberal Greater Wisconsin Committee, which spent an estimated $4.2 million.

Both are state-based groups.

As Casey Stengel used to say, you could look it up.

Megna is on much firmer ground when he predicts that money will play a “huge” role in the election, which could determine the ideological tilt of the court. He plans to spend some of his own money prior to the Feb. 19 primary, which will narrow the field to two candidates for the April 2 general election. But he won’t be going hog wild.

“I would not put up $3 million to win a $150,000 a year job,” Megna says. “I’m running for the Supreme Court, not trying to be locked up in an insane asylum.”

Marquette law professor Ed Fallone, who has also plans to run, believes he can be competitive in the race but declines to publicly discuss his fundraising strategy. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi is also considering a run.

Candidates have until Jan. 2 to file.

Brandon Scholz, Roggensack’s campaign adviser, rips Megna as an attention-seeker who’s careless with facts.

“There’s no evidence that the Koch brothers or the Greater Wisconsin Committee control the court,” Scholz said.

He contends that groups on both sides have a right to back candidates and that Roggensack and other justices retain independence of thought. “She is beholden to her philosophy, not somebody else’s.”

Megna shrugs this off, calling Scholz “the former chairman of the state Republican Party” — actually, he was executive director — which “destroyed consumer law in this state.”

The Republicans, says Megna, “go ahead without any concern of what they’re talking about.”

Look who’s talking.

Bill Lueders is the Money and Politics Project director at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (www.WisconsinWatch.org).

The project, a partnership of the Center and MapLight, is supported by the Open Society Institute.

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Police Beat: Snow rules in effect

the distinctive snowflake symbol mark Snow Routes. No parking information being published in is allowed from midnight until 7 both The Star and the city a.m. from Dec. 1 through March newsletter, motorists are still 31 on these streets. parking on city streets in violaVehicles parked illegally on tion of city ordinances – with a Snow Route may be ticketed three more cases on Sunday or towed. night, Dec. 22.

A snow emergency becomes “We’re definitely still having effective when three or more problems with people parking on inches of snow has fallen. the streets,” Cox said.

During a Snow Emergency, The police handled numerparking is prohibited on city ous parking complaints through- streets until the Snow out the city during the snow Emergency has been canceled. emergency that took place on Snow Emergency declaraDec. 20 as well. Streets where tions and warnings are reported police handled complaints to hngnews.com/sunprairiestar included Talon Place, Flint as well as local radio and TV Street, Field Court, Delaware stations. Announcements are Drive, Sun Court, Walmar Drive also available at 837-3050 or the at Wyoming Avenue; White Tail City of Sun Prairie web site: Drive; Kentville Drive; Granite www.cityofsunprairie.com.

Way; Hart Road at West Main; • Sun Prairie male North Bristol at Main; Frederick charged with carrying a at Bird; Tower Drive at concealed weapon, bail Grandview; and Jones Street at jumping. A 19-year-old Sun West Main, to name a few.

Prairie male was charged last The City of Sun Prairie has week in Dane County Circuit two winter parking regulations Court in connection with a Dec. to provide for safe and efficient 15 incident in Sun Prairie. snowplowing.

According to the criminal The fine for violations of complaint, Collin Culb was travthese ordinances is $50. eling east on Tower Drive at a City of Sun Prairie high rate of speed and was Municipal Ordinance 10.12.020 stopped by a Sun Prairie police specifically lists the 43 streets officer just after 6:54 p.m. that are designated snow emerThe officer “immediately gency routes. smelled the odor which he recOrdinance 10.16.070(B)(4) ognized through his training and states “No person shall park, experience to be suspect maristop, or leave standing any vehi- juana,” the complaint stated. cle upon the streets or any porWhen questioned by the tion of the streets or any posted officer, Culb admitted that there emergency snow route during was a small amount of marijuathe hours of twelve midnight to na located beneath his seat, as seven a.m. from December 1st well as a multi-colored glass through March 31st, inclusive.” pipe that he uses to smoke mariVehicles now parked in vio- juana. lation can be ticketed or towed.

Culb stated that he has been Snow routes are streets that “selling” marijuana for approxicarry heavy traffic and are used mately one month and normally by emergency vehicles. Red and buys about a half ounce of mariwhite “No Parking” signs with juana at a time.

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The officer observed a long brown rifle type weapon on the back seat, which Culb initially stated was a .22 caliber rifle, but later stated it was his BB gun.

Culb also stated that he had a “buck knife” concealed beneath the center console.

According to the criminal complaint, Culb said he concealed the buck knife for “protection” as well as sometimes using it to hunt.

Culb was unable to explain why all the remaining hunting gear that belongs to him was either in the back seat of his vehicle or in the trunk of his vehicle, but the buck knife was concealed beneath the center console.

Culb also stated there were numerous amounts of ammunition spread throughout his vehicle as well as in the trunk.

The officer said from the position where Culb was seated, he was unable to see the black buck knife in its case because it was out of plain view. Upon searching the vehicle, the officer observed hidden beneath the center console a black buck knife type weapon contained in a case.

A routine records check indicated Culb was charged Dec. 5 in Columbia County Circuit Court with theft of movable property (less than $2,500).

Because the charge was still pending, and Culb was found with a concealed weapon, he was also charged with bail jumping for violating a condition of his bail.

If convicted and sentenced to the maximum penalties allowed by law, Culb will receive 18 months imprisonment and be fined $20,000.

— Compiled by Chris Mertes

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A bumpy slope Moguls in the large sledding hill at Sheehan Park proved to be a tough landing for these sledders on Saturday, Dec. 22, but they were two of many with sleds, tubes and snowboards hitting the hill following 15.2 inches of snow that blanketed the

Sun Prairie area on Thursday, Dec. 20. The snowstorm created near whiteout conditions and resulted in at least one major crash on Highway 151as well as other fender-benders.

Police advised area residents to stay off the roads because of the storm.

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BOYS BASKETBALL

Cards perched in second after MadisonWest victory Sun Prairie tourney this Thursday, Friday

quarter,� said Boos. “We had some turnovers and they took advantage of them.�

West’s slim lead, however, vanished in the final quarter as Sun

By Karl Raymond Prairie fought back and built a Sports Editor slight cushion in holding off the The bad taste in coach Jeff Regents with a 20-13 scoring Boos’ mouth from the recent Madison Memorial loss is gradually going away. Since the Sun Prairie boys basketball team’s heartbreaking defeat to the Spartans on Dec. 13, the Cardinals have bounced back nicely with victories over Middleton and Madison West.

Originally scheduled as the season-opener back on Nov. 20, but postponed due to the WIAA state football game, Sun Prairie journeyed to Madison West last Tuesday evening and returned home with a gratifying, 66-60, win. “West is a physical and athletic team and they have one of the top scorers in the league (Malik Clements) and their guard play is solid. Right now they are just trying to blend things together and figure things out,� said Boos.

Added the head coach, “West has never been an easy place for us to play. Fortunately, we came out of there with a win. We had some moments where we played very, very well. But we also had some moments where we did not play that well.�

The Regents took a 13-11 first quarter lead, but Sun Prairie grabbed control in the second quarter with a 21-12 scoring advantage. But any momentum the Cardinals had vanished in the third quarter as West came roaring back and outscored Sun Prairie, Photo by Tim Neuenschwander 22-14, giving the Regents a 47JT Ruffin squares up 46 lead heading into the final before releasing a shot quarter. “We had a good second quarter, during a Big Eight boys but not a particularly good third basketball game

advantage. “I thought we did a good job of keeping our composure,� said Boos. “We found a way to get it done and we just kept battling. It may not have been the prettiest basketball, but it was a nice win for us.�

A key to the victory was Sun Prairie’s accuracy at the free throw line. The Cardinals put on a clinic by converting 23 of 26 shots.

Madison West, meanwhile, sank just 7 of 18 attempts.

Fuller led Sun Prairie with 27 points, including sinking 13 of 14 free throw attempts. Nick Noskowiak added 17 points and JT Ruffin, who drew Boos’ praise, finished with 11 points. Malik Clements led West with 23 points.

At this point in the season, Boos said he would still like to see more “defensive tenacity.� “I’d like to see us tighten things up on defense,� he said. “We’ve still got to continue to get better on the defensive end. And rebounding is still a concern and we’ve got to be more offensively efficient. “But we’re still a young team and we just have to keep building and work on what we do well and improve on what we aren’t doing well and keep the train moving forward.�

Photo by Betsy Butler Sun Prairie will host a fourSun Prairie sophomore Nick Noskowiak ball to the basket. The Cards enter the team tournament this Thursday and Friday. The first varsity game gets by Middleton’s defense and takes the holiday break in second place. on Thursday finds DeForest facing Fort Atkinson at 5:30 p.m. and Sun Prairie facing Manitowoc GIRLS BASKETBALL Lincoln in the 7:30 game.

The third-place game is 5:30 p.m. on Friday with the championship game slated for 7:30 p.m.

Last Friday’s home game against Janesville Parker was postponed due to the snowstorm and has yet to be rescheduled.

Cards crush Spartans; Tied for second place

BOYS HOCKEY

Skaters climb to .500

By Karl Raymond Sports Editor After losing back-to-back games by a combined score of 103, Sun Prairie High School boys hockey coach Steve Hanrahan was looking for a game to stop the bleeding. That game was last Tuesday night against Janesville

Postponed games Due to last week’s snowstorm, several Sun Prairie High School athletic events were postponed.

Last Thursday, girls basketball at Madison La Follette, boys swimming at Whitewater, wrestling at Hartland Arrowhead and boys hockey against Madison Memorial were postponed. The boys hockey game with Madison Memorial was rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 7 at the Sun Prairie Ice Arena at 7 p.m.

Also postponed last Friday were the boys basketball game at home against Janesville Parker and the girls hockey game against Appleton at the WaunakeeDeForest Ice Rink. No make-up dates were set.

as the Cardinals returned home from the Janesville Ice Skating Center with a 3-1 victory. “We played better and took a step in the right direction,� said Hanrahan. “We got better after each period and it was a big win for us; a conference win; and it got us closer to .500. “Tony Francois (goalie) played really well in the nets and kept us close until we took control in the third period. Scoring was a concern of mine going into the season and, unfortunately, it’s showing its ugly head. But our team defense is improving and goaltending has been real good.�

Against Janesville, it was an evenly matched first period with neither team scoring. “I told our guys between periods that we needed to generate more offense,� said Hanrahan.

The Bluebirds, however, scored the first goal of the game just as the Cardinals were getting a fifth skater back on the ice following a penalty.

Two minutes later, sophomore Carson Sanders evened the score with his first varsity goal of his

career. Sanders was able to secure the puck near the net and fire it past Janesville’s goalie that was caught off-guard. “He was in the right place at the right time,� said Hanrahan.

Austin Luxford helped the Cardinals take command in the third period, scoring a power play goal at the 2:25 mark. Tyler Carey and Drew Mikalofsky assisted on the goal.

Chase Mikula, assisted by Luxford and Tyler Carey, added an insurance goal at the 15:33 mark.

Francois finished with 16 saves in goal compared to 24 by two Janesville goalies.

Back to .500 Sun Prairie entered the holiday break with a 4-4 overall record after returning from Onalaska last Saturday with a 5-3 victory over the Hilltoppers at the Omni Center. “It wasn’t as well-played as we had hoped for, but some of that had to do with not having practice due to the snowstorm,� said Hanrahan. “But we got stronger as the as the game went on and (Continued on page 2)

By Dan Corcoran Hometown News Group On a brisk night with snow covering most roads and the parking lot outside the Sun Prairie Fieldhouse, the Sun Prairie Lady Cardinals basketball team had anything but a cold game shooting as it trounced Madison Memorial, 63-24.

An unusual start to the game helped Sun Prairie to take the early lead to improve to 4-1 on the still young season.

Following an administrative error – Madison Memorial forgot to include one of its dressed players in the scorebook – the game began with Sun Prairie shooting free throws instead of with a jump ball. Sun Prairie senior forward McKayla Yentz sank one of the two technical free throws to give the Lady Cards a 1-0 lead, a lead they never relinquished.

Sun Prairie then had the first possession of the game, also as a result of the technical foul, and Yentz continued what she started at the free-throw line. She scored the first basket of the game at 7:24 of the first quarter on a layup, and had the first 11 points for the Cardinals, playing a big part in a 13-2 run to open the game.

Memorial called several early timeouts as it tried to slow the hot start from Sun Prairie, but the timeouts did little to interrupt

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Sun Prairie’s McKayla Yentz takes the ball to the basket for an easy two points. the Cardinals play. At one point the Spartans did close the Sun Prairie lead to seven at 13-6, but that was closest they came the rest of the way, as the rout began to unfold.

After one quarter of play Sun

Prairie led 16-6, and it extended its lead to 36-13 by the end of the half, capped by a three-pointer from Jenna Conom. The halftime advantage of 23 points was due in large part to holding the Spartans to a mere two field goals over the course of the first two quarters.

Following the game Sun Prairie head coach John Olson commented on the effectiveness of his team’s defense, in holding Memorial to only 24 points and seven field goals in the game. “We established a side and we didn’t let them reverse the ball too much got them locked up in the corners‌which is what we wanted; that’s where we want the ball to go,â€? Olson said. “We didn’t allow any dribble penetration; I thought that was really a good thing too, defensively.â€?

Along with the defense, Yentz also played a big role in giving the Cardinals such a big advantage at the half, as she had 20 of her game-high 23 points to lead all scorers.

With Sun Prairie in the lead by such a large margin and several players in foul trouble to begin the second half, Olson had the opportunity to go to his bench and give some of his less-experienced players valuable playing time.

Yentz scored her final three points of the game at 7:14 of the third quarter off a shot from (Continued on page 2)

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ATHLETIC YEAR TO REMEMBER Sun Prairie Cardinals fly high in a number of sports

By Karl Raymond Sports Editor t wasn’t just a good year for Sun Prairie High School athletics – it was a great year.

It would be difficult to find a more memorable year since Sun Prairie joined the Big Eight Conference in the late 1970s than 2012. It’s not that Sun Prairie hasn’t developed solid winning traditions in some sports, but in 2012 there were more teams advancing to state than ever before and more individuals winning conference titles.

“Sun Prairie High School athletics are experiencing one of the most successful eras in the school’s history right now,” said Sun Prairie Athletic Director Jim McClowry. “We are not just talking about championships and trips to state tournaments, but about the quality of our coaching staff, the investment made by our student-athletes and the understanding that we are an educationally based program.

“Student participation on our 56 WIAA sponsored athletic teams and our 7 non-WIAA varsity and club level teams is at an all time high. Our kids are participating in more high school athletic events than ever before. They are being coached by a highly educated and talented group of coaches.

Many students still participate in more than one sport which is something we highly encourage.

The typical GPA for a high school athlete is about a 3.1.

“We have worked very hard to be intentional about how we lead our athletic programs. It certainly is a collective effort.

Many parents, booster organizations, teachers, custodial staff, and student-athletes have committed themselves to think about high school athletics differently.

“We do not set out to win

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games, but rather focus on taking ownership of our actions, working to change the culture of destructive decision making, teach our students how to be leaders and try to appreciate the value of every team member regardless if they are a starter or not.

“Our programs certainly are not perfect in any shape or form. But we are intentional in building unity, develop quality coaches, promoting ownership in our student-athletes, working cooperatively with parents, and using athletics as a vehicle to help kids get ready for life beyond high school.

“I could not be prouder of our coaches and kids. I love coming to work everyday and planning what we can do next to continue to grow these experiences for our kids.”

The 2012 fall sports season ended with Sun Prairie reaching the WIAA Division 1 state championship game for the first time since 1995.

During the regular season, Brian Kaminski’s Cardinals dominated the Big Eight Conference en route to an 8-0 record. It was Sun Prairie’s first unbeaten Big Eight season since Kaminski took over as head coach in 2003.

Indoors, it was a historic season for the Sun Prairie girls volleyball team. Not only did the Lady Cardinals, under the direction of head coach TJ Rantala, capture the conference tournament title, but also they advanced to the WIAA Division 1 state finals for the first time ever.

Individually, Sun Prairie had a pair of conference champions in girls cross country and girls tennis. Freshman Katie Hietpas was the best female runner in the Big Eight with a conference championship to her credit. Hietpas also was a state-qualifier and far exceeded head coach Matt Roe’s

Photo by Betsy Butler

Sun Prairie’s 2012 baseball team capped on the same weekend that the SPHS girls off its season with a state championship softball team finished runner-up at state. expectations by finishing sixth.

It also was a superlative season for freshman Dao Sysouvanh, who was the Big Eight Conference champion at No. 1 singles.

Sysouvanh, coached by Katie Anderson, advanced to the WIAA state finals where she won two matches before being eliminated.

She concluded her freshman season with a 22-2 record.

Tessa Lindner also took top honors in girls swimming as she was the Big Eight champion in the 100 butterfly event – the first Sun Prairie girls swimmer to win a league title since 1997.

Lindner, coached by Nancy Harms, also was a state qualifier in the 100 butterfly and 200 intermediate.

Spring sports also had a

College sports news

Nine Southwest Minnesota State University softball players have been named to the 2011-12 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America Scholar-Athlete team.

Among the nine is sophomore Chelsey Rodenkirch (Sun Prairie) The award is bestowed upon any student-athlete submitted by a member coach who achieved a 3.50 grade point average or higher during the 2011-12 academic year.

Student-athletes from more than 600 schools were honored.

The honor marks the second component of the Association’s academic award program. In October the squads with the highest GPAs in each membership category were recognized as 2012 NFCA Top Ten All-Academic Teams.

Sun Prairie softball clinic A Sun Prairie softball clinic for grades 3-8 is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 12 at Patrick Marsh Middle School. The clinic will focus on hitting, field, throwing, agility, speed and core.

The instructors are Roanna Brazier, who has over 21 years of coaching experience, including 15 years at Division 1 and is currently owner/operator of On the Rise Fastpitch; and Kevyn Feiner, who is a 2005 SPHS graduate and has seven years of professional baseball experience and is a certified speed/agility specialist.

Grades 3-4 meet 8-10 am ($50); Grades 5-6 meet 10:30 am – 1 pm ($60); and Grades 78 meet 1:30 – 4 pm ($60).

To register contact SPHS softball coach Jamie Olson at 834-7744 or her email: jlolson@spasd.k12.wi.us.

number of superlative teams.

Rob Hamilton’s baseball team captured its third straight Big Eight Conference championship before pounding Bay Port, 13-1, in the WIAA Division state championship game at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute. It was the Cardinals’ sixth state baseball title and the 2012 team set history by finishing with a 31-1 record, including ending the season with a 27-game winning streak.

It also was a golden season for the 2012 Sun Prairie softball team that ended in a silver finish at the WIAA state softball finals at Goodman Diamond in Madison.

Jamie Olson coached the Cardinals to a record-setting season as Sun Prairie won the Big Eight

Conference title and reached the WIAA state championship game for the first time where they lost a heartbreaking, 4-3, game to Chippewa Falls.

Sun Prairie finished the season with a 24-4 record. Other than starting first baseman Hannah Running, who graduated, the Cardinals return the rest of their starting lineup.

Doug Maughan’s girls track team continued its long, prosperous run, winning its fourth straight Big Eight Conference championship and fourth consecutive regional and sectional titles. Both the girls and boys track teams also sent a number of individuals to the state meet in La Crosse.

The winter sports season of 2011-12 set the tone for the spring and fall sports teams. The Sun Prairie wrestling team, under the direction of Jim Nelson, won its fourth straight Big Eight Conference championship. The also had four conference champions in Brian Riedel (132) Collin Enstad (160), Evan Broyles (285) and Jared Scharenbrock (145).

Enstad and Scharenbrock both were state qualifiers with Enstad placing fourth at state and Scharenbrock placing runner-up.

Scharenbrock, a junior this year, was unbeaten going into the state championship match. He ended his season with a 49-1 record.

In girls gymnastics, Sydney Stiener and Katyalex Schoenike – both state qualifiers last season, helped Sun Prairie win its first Big Eight Conference dual-meet title under head coach Jessica Thixton.

Sun Prairie boys basketball, coached by Jeff Boos, finished runner-up in the Big Eight Conference standings – its best finish ever since joining the league during the 1977-78 season.

The Cardinals, who finished 187 (13-5 Big Eight) last season, were coming off their best season record-wise with a 19-6 record (14-4 Big 8). And the girls basketball team, coached by John Olson, more than doubled their win total from the previous season.

The Sun Prairie boys hockey team, coached by Steve Hanrahan, and the girls co-op hockey team, coached by Mike Johnson, both had winning seasons. For Hanrahan, it was a milestone season as he recorded his 350th win in his 26 years as head coach.

In boys swimming, Tom Plagge qualified for state in two events. And no be outdone, both the SPHS boys and girls soccer teams had winning records.

It’s no wonder Sun Prairie tops the Big Eight Conference in fan and student support.

Skaters climb back to .500 (Continued from front page)

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Sun Prairie senior Austin Albert competes in the 200 medley relay. The swimmers had last week’s meet canceled to due the snowstorm.

we finished strong.”

Being inactive due to last week’s snowstorm that cancelled school for two days, along with practices, showed in the first period even though the Cardinals scored first on Tyler Carey’s goal at 6:07.

“After we scored the first goal we maybe thought the game was over and we sort of laid back,” said Hanrahan.

Three penalties in the first period plagued the Cardinals and Onalaska took advantage with a power-play goal at 15:12 to knot the score at 1-1. But Mikula regained the lead for the Cards just

2:35 in the second period. Logan Polack and Nick Nelson assisted on the goal.

Polack then scored at 7:29 to boost the Cardinals’ lead to 3-1.

The Hilltoppers cut the deficit to 3-2 with a penalty shot at 11:27.

Mikula, however, scored his second goal at 6:47 of the final period and Luxford followed with a goal, assisted by Carey at 11:05 to give the Cards a commanding 5-2 advantage.

Onalaska finished the scoring with a goal at 14:56.

Francois started in goal for Sun Prairie and made 14 saves before being replaced by Steve Plesh in the second period. Plesh finished with seven saves.

“Both of the goalies did a good job and it was our plan to have them split time before going into the holiday break,” said Hanrahan.

The head coach said a 4-4 record at this point in the season is about what he expected.

“Considering the late start (football playoffs) and the snowstorm we had, it’s a good indicative of where we are at,” said Hanrahan. “We’ve had some tough games, so I’m not disappointed and I’m glad we are back to .500.”

Sun Prairie returns to action on Thursday, Jan. 3 hosting Madison East/La Follette at 7 p.m. at the Sun Prairie Ice Arena.

The Cards then face Milwaukee Marquette on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. at Eble Park Ice Arena.

Lady Cards crush Spartans (Continued from front page)

behind the arc, and her teammates took over the scoring after that.

Much of that scoring came on an 11-to-0 scoring run that took place over the course of the latter stages of the third and early parts of the fourth quarters. Leading the charge was Conom, who had a three-point hit followed up by a 15-foot jumper a little less than a minute later at the 5:08 mark of the fourth quarter. The exclamation mark was put on the run and the game when Monica Miggins received a pass off of a steal and drove the length of the court for a basket and a foul. She missed the ensuing free-throw, but the Sun Prairie lead had ballooned to 41 at 59-18 as a result of the run.

Not much scoring took place

over the final four minutes of the fourth quarter, but Sun Prairie junior Alexandra Kaube made it to the free-three line and promptly sank both free-throws, sending her team and the Sun Prairie faithful into a frenzy to end the scoring for the Cardinals.

Sun Prairie proved to be too much throughout the course of the game in overwhelming the Spartans, which allowed Taube and many other bench players to secure quality playing time and the chance to score.

“Our scorers scored. Our rebounders rebounded. I thought some of our passing was really good. They lost a few people in the shuffle and their change of defense and we found people by themselves,” Olson said.

“All in all, we did a nice job.

Our bench came in and played well,

and in a game like this it’s really a confidence booster for the bench to come in and get some minutes.”

With her 23 points, McKayla Yentz now has a career total of 904 points.

Sun Prairie will compete in the Fond du Lac Tournament starting this Thursday (5 p.m.). The Cardinals will also play on Friday starting at 4 p.m.

Early deadlines for holiday issue

Due to the early holiday publication date next week the deadline for submitting copy is noon on Sunday, Dec. 30.

Photo by Betsy Butler Sunday sports events on those must be received by email at Jenna Conom (10) hustles up the court and leaves two spsports@hngnews.com no later Madison Memorial defenders trailing her in last Saturday’s than 8 a.m. on Dec. 31. girls basketball game.

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Kinning bowls 846 super series; Zimmerman rolls pair of nationals Steve Kinning bowled a super national honor series of 846 in last week’s Monday Major League.

Kim Zimmerman led the women bowlers with a pair of national honor series – 679 and 648.

M o n d a y M a j o r- S t e v e Kinning 846, Tim Taylor 7 8 2 , C a s e y Q u a n d t 7 5 7 , Aaro n Bert s c h 7 1 5 , Mark Junio 697, Adam Ney 691, Jose Aguilar 687, Blaine Haugen 686, Lucas Millin 684, Mike Schleis 680, Steve Reiber 673, Jim Schiess 668, Jeff Taylor 667, Rob Hamilton 667, Greg Falendysz 665, Craig Stofflet 650, Matt Hamen 645, Katlin Flathau 645, Carl Knapton 640, Paul Fischer 639, David Finco 626 To p N o t c h - M e n - Ti m McGowan 691, Roy Bauer 665, Broc Bussan 658, Jerry Garvey 643, Bradley T h o m p s o n 6 3 1 Wo m e n - Tracy Maves 571 NFL- Men- Tom Gugel 676,

Andy Kleinheinz 631, Ken Ferry 673, Jeff Thompson 641, Earl Chandler 693, Craig Anderson 695, Ross Bussan 686, Steve Parkinson 634, Jim Ruland 742, Dave Massey 6 5 7 , S c o t t B o r e n z 6 4 1 , To m Brabender 635, Bart Kinney 653, Paul Wright 754, Tim Sullivan 680, Dan Bauhs 654, Steve Bethke 647, Gary Bauhs 631, Gary Tietz 645, Bob Ruhland 637, Todd Bush 691, Chris Gladem 713 Women- Jill Doucette 538, Heather Bauhs 587 Big 10- Joe Jazdzewski 7 5 2 , K i rt P i r s o n 7 0 1, Brad Hegge 664, Cody Bailey 658, Ben Holznagel 637, Shawn Gherke 634, Rick Munz 629 Eagles- Men- Tyler Bischoff 688, Jeff Lynch 641, Jim Stutz 634 Women- Kim Zimmerman 6 4 8 , Nancy Cole 555, Shannon Moldenhauer 545 General Casualty- MenDave Diefenthaler 640, Joel

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Men's Rec- Al Rappe 739, Tom McBride 722, Matt Callies 7 1 4 , Gabe Callies 680, Jason Fabian 669, Brent Theisen 667, Tony Ravics 661, Jeremy Rappe 658, Brian Freitag 650, Ry a n Hoagland 640, Casey Quandt 638, Travis Poster 634, Mark Rudnicki 628, Adam Rappe 627, Curtis Ravis 625 Friday Odd Couples- MenJim Schiess 658 Women- Christine Jensen 536 Tw i l i g h t e r s - M e n - B i l l Seltzner 691, Doug Wilson 601 Women- Kim Zimmerman 679, Gayle Seltzner 566 S u r v i v o r s - M e n - Thomas Wendt 636, Brad Miller 7 0 6 Wo m e n - Heather Nelson 556, Carol Kemmerer 543 Early Birds- Men- Bill Niebuhr 633 Women- Jodi Driver 558.

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The Cardinal and White bowling team changed their rotation and continued to improve which was evident in their performance against Deforest/Middleton Monday night at Waun-a-bowl in Waunakee.

Another solid performance by the Cardinal bowling team has put the Cards only 1.5 points back in the loss column at the halfway mark of the 2012/2013 season.

The Cardinals went to a more balanced approach in their rotation giving all six players equal frames in the match for the first time this season. This was an attempt to get

more consistent play and scoring.

It seemed to work to the players liking as the team averaged 221 for the nine games firing seven games of 200 or better and again leading the league in scoring with a league high 1901. The 221 average was their second best night of the seasons and eight pins higher than their league high average of 213.

The Cards started hot with the new line-up firing a 234 in game one to D/M 210. A missed single pin almost cost the team in game two, but the Cards held onto a 182-171 win, game three was solid winning 193-154. After game three the Cards were not really challenged the rest of the way winning games four and five 214-142 and 226-214.

For the second time this season

Lou Bradley tourney results

Results from the Lou Bradley racquetball tournament that raised more than $700 for the scholarship fund are: Men’s Pro: 1, Woody Clouse; 2, Juan Herrera.

Men’s Open: 1, Danny Lavely; 2, Joey Salamone; Consolation, Dan Salamone.

Men’s 35+Open: 1, Brent Huff; 2, Terry Kisling; Consolation, Tracy Chynoweth (PAC).

Men’s AA: 1, Brent Huff; 2, Tim Williams; Consolation, Jeff Harding.

Men’s A: 1, John Nelson; 2, Bryan Leslie; Consolation, Marty Wingrove (PAC).

Men’s B: 1, Nick Richardson; 2, Aaron Boyd (PAC); Consolation, Michael Fredenberg (PAC).

Men’s C: 1, Nicky Godwod 2, Brian Pensinger; Consolation, Steele Beatty.

Men’s D: 1, Andrew Rajkovich (PAC); 2, Kyle Johnson; Consolation, Tyler Vang.

Women’s Open: 1, Kara Mazur; 2, Jesi Haak (PAC).

Women’s A: 1, Sheila Champion; 2, Erica Patchin.

Women’s B: 1, Kathryn Simon; 2, Kris Porter (PAC).

Mens 45+A: 1, Mike Martin (PAC); 2, George Alexander (PAC).

Mens 45+B: 1, Ron Berquist; 2, Dion Landon; Consolation, Scott Roberts.

Juniors 1-bounce: 1, Luke Thompson (PAC); 2, Caden Krueger (PAC); Consolation, Addison Ostrenga (PAC).

Juniors 2-bounce: 1, Kiana Patterson (PAC); 2, Nicholas Patterson (PAC).

Men’s Open Doubles: 1, Tracy Chynoweth/Joey Salamone (PAC); 2, Paul Krueger/Brad Falvey (PAC); Consolation, Terry Kisling/Tanner Gross.

Men’s AA Doubles: 1, Bryan Turtle/Steve Nevin; 2, DJ Johnson/Joe Urso (PAC); Consolation, Tommy Troutman/Lee Vandenberg.

Men’s A Doubles: 1, Daren Dudgeon/Bob Richards (PAC); 2, Randy Leppla/Mitch Dalgleish (PAC); Consolation, Mike Lawton/Chris Knight (PAC).

Men’s B Doubles: 1, Ron Berquist/Jack Maastricht (PAC); 2, Peter de Poutiloff/Sam de Poutiloff; Consolation, Matt Uebelacker/Danielle Falvey (PAC).

Mixed Open Doubles: 1, Jordan Powers/Tracie Studinski (PAC); 2, Terry Kisling/Kara Mazur; Consolation, Pam Klein/Ken Adamec (PAC).

Mixed A Doubles: 1, Michele Biese/Andy Kaminski; 2, Pam Klein/Bruce Thompson (PAC); Consolation, Danielle Falvey/Kevin Gratz (PAC).

the boys strung eleven strikes in a row, this time for a 290 game and a win in game six. With the guys feeling comfortable with the new rotation they easily won the final three 227-160, 203-151 and 222160.

For the third week in a row the Cards only had 10 opens in the 90 frames. Corey Sempf led the team and the league with a clean night shooting 10 strikes and five spare in 15 attempts for the 100% fill.

Three other Card’s filled in with 93% fill having only one open in t h e i r f i f t e e n a t t e m p t s , Ty l e r Sheehy(11-3-1), Zach Est(10-3-1) and Vinny Stewert(7-7-1).

“I felt the line-up gave us better rhythm tonight” said coach John Breunig “We were scoring well but we just weren’t as constant as I thought we could be and I felt the change in the rotation would give everyone a better feel for the game and it seemed to work pretty well” “ We still had six makeable spares we missed in the ten opens, if we can clean those errors up and continue to be more consistent I like our chances.”

JV Red split with Oregon five and five Monday night. JV Red struggled on very dry conditions this week averaging only 153 after averaging 193 last week. Red only won four games but won total by 108 pins giving them the split. Shooting games of 189, 124, 143, 175, 181, 132, 121, 155 and 162 for a total of 1382 and the 5-5 split. Strikes were hard to come by and spares were an adventure for the team.

Beau Blum(3-10-5) and Jacob Bauer(6-7-5) led the team with 72% fill percentage.

JV White won nine points against Waunakee on games of 128, 155, 159, 141, 119, 144, 160, 163 and 152 for a 1321 total to Waunakee’s 998. Jeromey Hodsdon led White and all SP JV bowlers with 9 strikes, 6 spares and 3 opens for an 83% fill percentage.

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Cougars blank Stoughton Skaters sit on top of Badger standings at halfway point

By Tim Neuenschwander Hometown News Group If there was any question about which team stood atop the Badger Conference, the Cap City Cougars answered it with authority.

The Sun Prairie girls hockey co-op got a pair of goals from senior defenseman Taylor Behnke and sophomore goaltender Dani Deltgen registered her first shutout of the season to help the Cougars skate past Stoughton 5-0 last Tuesday in a key conference road game.

With the victory, the Cougars cemented their spot atop the Badger standings, as the win completed a first-half sweep of the conference season and put them four points in front of second place Middleton as the squad aims for its third-straight Badger title.

The Cougars (7-4 overall; 50 in conference) set the tone with a pair of goals late in the first period, including the first from Behnke, of Sun Prairie, and another from senior defenseman Lily Klapper to seize a 2-0 lead over the MSO Icebergs.

Sophomore forward Payton Herwig (Sun Prairie) tacked on a goal late in the second period to push the lead to 3-0 before sophomore forward Alexis Peterson (Waunakee) and Behnke slammed home security goals in the third

Photo by Kevin Damask

Sun Prairie’s Taylor Behnke, (10) positions herself to the side of teammate and goalie Dani Deltgen during a girls hockey game. to seal the win.

Deltgen stopped 21 shots to blank the Icebergs (4-7; 3-2) while senior forward Michaela Johnson, of Waunakee, dished out a pair of assists to help lead the Cougars to their sixth-straight win.

The girls hockey co-op will next take the ice starting Thursday for the annual Schwan’s Cup in Blaine, Minn. The tournament

runs three days.

Sun Prairie then returns home on Friday, Jan. 4 to face Mosinee at the Waunakee/DeForest Ice Rink starting at 7:45 p.m.

The Cougars continue their home stand with games on Friday, Jan. 11 vs. Viroqua at 7 p.m. at the Waunakee/DeForest Ice Rink and on Saturday, Jan. 12 vs.

Green Bay East at 4 p.m. at the Sun Prairie Ice Arena.

Sun Prairie Youth Hockey

Sun Prairie PeeWee C - 6 vs.

Stoughton U14 – 3. Goals: Ethan Churchill, Roger Schoenike 4 (hat trick), Cade Macmiller. Assists: Cade Macmiller, Codey Patterson 3 (play maker), Josh Chlebowski, Roger Schoenike. Goalie: Jordan Witt (23 saves) Sun Prairie PeeWee C - 6 vs.

Baraboo U14 – 7. Goals: Roger Schoenike 4 (hat trick), Cade Macmiller, Codey Patterson. Assists: Codey Patterson, Josh Chlebowski, Ethan Churchill 3 (play maker).

Goalie: Jordan Witt (31 saves).

Sun Prairie PeeWee B 8 vs. Beloit PeeWee B 3. Goals: Owen Burke, Tyler Chitwood (6-Hat Trick), Zach

Zielsdorf. Assists: Zach Zielsdorf (3–Playmaker), Ryan Batterman, Eric Brendemuehl, Owen Burke (2).

Goalie: Cody Neises (24 saves).

Sun Prairie Squirt A 6 - vs.

Janesville 0. Goals: Nathan Walker (4 - Hat Trick), Spencer Wessel, Cody Menzel. Assists: Spencer Wessel (3 - Playmaker), Cody Menzel (3 - Playmaker), Alex Weber (2), Nick Johnson, Trevor Ogden, Jake Rauls, Cole Herwig. Goalie: Drew Gilbertson - 18 saves Sun Prairie Squirt A 1 - vs.

Middleton 3. Goals: Cody Menzel.

Assists: Spencer Wessel. Goalie: Drew Gilbertson - 20 saves.

Sun Prairie Squirt B-1 vs. Ozaukee

Squirt B-3. Goals: Davis Hamilton.

Goalie: Zachary Walker 25 Saves Sun Prairie Squirt B- 2 vs.

Stoughton Squirt A- 4. Goals: Jake Veldkamp & Jordan Draws. Goalie: Davis Hamilton 20 Saves.

Sun Prairie High School 2 (4)– Janesville JV (0). Goals: Thomas Loos (3 - Hat Trick Award), Austyn Trent. Assists: Noah Frassetto (2), Tanner Voskuil, Tyler Gehrmann.

Goalie: Jake Thornton (13 saves) SPHS 2 (3)– Petti Varsity(1).

Goals: Jeremy Nehmer, Dylan Vansyckel (2). Goalie: Jake Thornton (28 saves) SPHS 2 (0)– Southwest (5).

Goalie: Jake Thornton (23 saves).

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Church Corner Dec. 27, 2012 ASSEMBLY OF GOD LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP 411 N. Thompson, across from Prairie View Middle School livinghope@lhf-sp.org www.lhf-sp.org 837-9500 Pastor: Tom Edwards Youth Leaders: Aubrey and Jon Edwards alienyouth@lhf-sp.org SERVICE SCHEDULE Sunday Worship: 9 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m.

Nursery and Childrens Church (ages 3-11) available during service.

KIDS ROCK Wednesday, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

BAPTIST CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH “Bringing the Son to Sun Prairie.”

• Independent • Fundamental 304 Woodward Dr., Sun Prairie 837-1000 Pastor, Rick Bloom Sunday: Graded Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Adult Bible Fellowship, 9:30 a.m.; morning worship 10:45 a.m.; evening worship, 6 p.m.

Nursery for all services.

Wednesday: 6:15 -7:45 p.m., AWANA -- preschool to sixth grade; prayer and Bible study, 6:30 p.m.; Teen Chapel, 7:30 p.m.

CATHOLIC SACRED HEARTS CATHOLIC CHURCH 221 Columbus St., Sun Prairie www.sacred-hearts.org 837-7381 Msgr. Duane Moellenberndt Pastor Fr. John Silva Associate Pastor Sister Ann Raymond Gasser, Pastoral Associate Mass Schedule: Sunday: 7:30, 9 and 11 a.m.

Monday-Friday: Please call the parish office for Mass times.

Saturday: 5 p.m. Mass Reconciliation Schedule: Saturday: 9:30-10 a.m.

ST. ALBERT THE GREAT CATHOLIC CHURCH 2420 St. Albert Drive, Sun Prairie Parish office: 837-3798 Msgr. Terrence L. Connors, Pastor 837-3398 www.saintalberts.org Tuesday: 5:30 p.m. Mass Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. Mass Thursday: 8:30 a.m. Mass Friday: 8:30 a.m. Mass Saturday: 4 p.m. Mass Sunday: 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Mass COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION CHURCH “Seeing lives transformed, becoming more like Jesus” 2340 Manley Drive 837-4299 Ken Steele, Pastor Wednesday: Nightly prayer, 6 p.m.

Sunday: 10 a.m., worship, exciting music, drama, video and relevant teaching.

Nursery and children’s program up to sixth grade during worship.

Personal Growth Opportunities: Ladies’ Bible Study, men’s fellowship personal development, children’s activities, community support.

Our web site: www.transformationchurch.tv PRAIRIE CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH “...helping people believe.”

6484 N. Bird St., Sun Prairie 608-825-2876 www.prairiecreekchurch.org E-mail: prairiecreekchurch@att.net David Rostad, Pastor Sunday Worship: 10 a.m.

A Celebration of the Birth of Christ Kidzone Children’s Ministry Infant through 5th grade programming Open Prayer and Praise Wednesdays from 3-7 p.m.

Men’s Ministry - Second Saturday of the month, 8:30 a.m.

Fellowship Luncheon - Monthly Noon Luncheon EPISCOPAL GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCO-

PAL CHURCH (Intersection of Hwy. 19 and Cty. C) 3416 Swansee Ridge, Sun Prairie (608) 837-3308 • Father Mike Tess Worship services: Saturday: 5 p.m Sunday: 8 a.m.

Rite I; 10 a.m. - Rite II (Sunday school and nursery available.)

Wednesday 6:30 p.m.

Healing service w/Eucharist; LUTHERAN BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod Come and See . . . Go and Tell 300 Broadway Drive, Sun Prairie 837-7446 www.bethlehemlc.org E-mail: bethlehem@bethlehemlc.org Rev. Charlie Brandt, Senior Pastor Rev. Steve Vera, Associate Pastor Sunday Services 8 a.m. Traditional Worship (Sanctuary) 9:15 a.m. Sunday School/ Bible Class 10:30 a.m. Traditional Worship (Sanctuary) 10:45 a.m. Contemporary Worship (Fellowship Hall) Monday Service 6:30 p.m. Worship A Stephen Ministry Congregation “Handicapped accessible” “Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” Mark 11:28 BRISTOL LUTHERAN CHURCH The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America 6835 Hwy. N (Bristol Street) (2.5 miles north of Sun Prairie) Handicap accessible secretary@bristollutheran.org Rev. Rick Reiten Worship schedule Sunday -- 9 a.m.

Fellowship -- 10 a.m.

Sunday School - 10:15 a.m.

(During the school year) Staffed nursery is available “Inspired by the Gospel, we love and serve all creation through our Christ-centered community.”

BURKE LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) 5720 Portage Road, Madison 244-8486 e-mail: burkelutheran@att.net www.burkelutheran.org Oct. - April Sunday Worship: 8:30 and 10 a.m.

Sunday School offered at 9:45 a.m.

Services are a blend of traditional and contemporary worship styles, with 8:30 being more traditional and 10 a.m. more contemporary.

Fellowship between services.

Staffed nursery Sunday, Dec. 30 Worship: 9 a.m.

LIVING WATER 3075 Prospect Drive Sun Prairie, Wis. Jon Gerdts, Senior Pastor Telephone: 608-834-9899 questions@livingwaterflows.com www.livingwaterflows.com Sunday Worship: 8:30 and 10:15 a.m.

Children’s Ministry and nursery care provided at both services Jr. and Sr. Hi Youth meet on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.

AWANA meets on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.

Please check our website for other weekly activities “Relationships are everything.”

OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) 550 Lincoln Drive, Sun Prairie One block north of Windsor Street (Hwy. 19) at Paul Street Phone: 837-3111 www.oslc-elca.org Pastors: Rev. David Berggren and Rev. Julie Krahn Saturdays: 5:30 p.m. worship.

Sundays: 8 & 10:30 a.m. worship.

Fellowship between services, nursery provided.

Sunday school, 9:15 and 10:30 a.m.

PEACE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL (WELS) “Building to share Christ” 232 Windsor St., Sun Prairie Church Phone: 837-5346 School Phone: 834-1200

Church Email: church.office@peacewels.org School Email: school.office@peacewels.org “Lambs of Peace” Preschool (Ages 3 & 4) Lutheran Elementary School (Grade K-8) Luke C. Werre, Associate Pastor Gregory Lyon, Associate Pastor Kyle Raymond, Principal Sundays: Winter worship: 8 and 10:30 a.m.

Summer worship: 8 and 9:30 a.m.

Mondays: All year worship: 6:30 p.m.

Guests are always welcome!

NONDENOMINATIONAL Ezra Church Casual atmosphere Short services Loud music Fun for kids Meeting at Eastgate Cinema every Sunday at 9 and 10:30 a.m.

(608) 834-9050 www.ezrachurch.com Grace Evangelical Church 4127 Cty. AB (Buckeye Road) 222-1605 Sunday: 9 a.m. worship, (Nursery provided) 10:30 a.m. Christian Education classes (all ages) Other activities (see our Web page) www.graceisforyou.org “Where Christ is central, the Bible taught and people care.”

HEARTLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH “A different way to do church” 800 Wilburn Road 834-1900 www.heartland.cc Jon McNary, Lead Pastor Ross Kaellner, Director of Adult Ministeries Dan Wolfe, Director of Family Ministries Sunday Worship Experiences 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m.

Launch children’s programs provided for children from birth to third grade for both services.

Carbon for fourth and fifth graders offered at 9 a.m. service.

Student programs: ENGAGE, for 6th-8th grade students, and Delta: for 9th-12th grade students, meet Wednesdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

NEW CROSSING CHURCH “Bringing Jesus’ love across the street.”

686 Progress Way, Sun Prairie 834-8288 office@newcrossing.org www.newcrossing.org Craig Robertson, Pastor Sunday Worship and Kids Connection: 9:30 a.m.

Adult service: Contemporary worship and Biblical teaching Kids Connection: Creative worship and children’s programs for infants through grade 5 Weekdays: Youth groups for middle and high school students, adult life groups, men and women’s groups, monthly worship and prayer service.

Call or check Web site for times.

PRESBYTERIAN BRYN MAWR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH “The small church with the big heart” 229 N. Main St. Cottage Grove, WI 53527 (608) 839-4768 Rev. Dr. Craig M. Howard, Pastor brynmawrcg@gmail.com http://brynmawrpc.org Worship Service - 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School - 9:30 a.m.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST WINDSOR UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 4434 Second St. PO Box 187 Windsor, WI 53598 (608) 846-5731 www.windsorucc.org Dr. Rev. David McDonald, senior pastor Associate Pastor Rev. Julie Overman Sunday: Worship (September- May) 8 a.m., traditional & 10:30 a.m., contemporary.

Sunday School is held (September- May) at 9:15 a.m.

Childcare provided.

Guests and friends welcome at all events.

UNITED METHODIST SUN PRAIRIE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 702 North St., Sun Prairie 837-5554 Saturday worship: 5 p.m. contemporary worhip Saturday Church School: 5:15 p.m.

Sunday Worship: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. traditional worship Sunday Church School: 9:45 a.m.

Childcare provided during all

worship services.

Wednesday evening: LOGOS youth program, grades 1-12, October-March.

Pastors: Scott Carlson & Amanda Stein Weekend and midweek Christian education where all children are safe.

“We are a warm, progressive community of faith, sharing God’s grace.” www.sunprairieumc.org.

Bashford United Methodist Church 329 North St., Madison

249-9222 Sunday worship: Traditional 8:30 a.m.

Contemporary 10:45 a.m.

Nursery care all Sunday morning Sunday School at 9:30 a.m.

Pastor: Fran Deaner, Deacon Brenda Wingfield www.bashfordchurch.org “Your Family of Faith on the East side of Madison” Please note: ALL CHURCH CORNER CHANGES MUST BE SUBMITTED BY NOON ON MONDAY!

Obituary

William Haner “Buck” Birkinbine William Haner “Buck” Birkinbine died peacefully on Dec. 18, 2012 with his loving family by his side at St. Mary’s Hospital. He was born on Aug. 21, 1922 in New Rockford, N.D., the son of Robert and Neva (Maynard) Birkinbine. His farming family moved to Lodi, Wis. in 1927 and then they moved to Village View Farm in Sun Prairie in 1933. The house on that farm, known as “the castle” was built by his grandfather, William Henry Birkinbine, in 1904.

William married the love of his life, Honey Lewis on Oct. 26, 1944.

In 1947, he and his father went into business together. In August of 1950, William, Honey and two children moved to Village View Farm.

There they raised their six children and farmed for 43 years. In 1993, they sold their home and remained in Sun Prairie for a few years until they moved to Lakeland, Fla.

They returned to Sun Prairie in 1998 because Honey missed her family.

He enjoyed many fruitful years as a dairy farmer and built one of the first milking parlors in the state in 1958 on his Bird Street Farm. He also farmed in Bristol and Windsor.

William was a contributing factor in making Sun Prairie what it is today. His vision for schools, parks, churches, housing and recreational facilities in Sun Prairie continue to stand out. His investments and generous land donations to the community would include: Northside Elementary, Peace Lutheran Church and School, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Birkinbine Park, Village View Heights, Stonehaven, Liberty Square where Buck & Honey’s Restaurant was named in their honor, Prairie Athletic Club and Sun Prairie Hockey Rink.

He was a member of the Lions’ Club, Elks Club, Masonic Lodge #143 and a charter member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church.

William enjoyed bowling, cribbage, card games and was especially good at telling stories of his heritage and history of Sun Prairie.

He was an avid Packer fan and season ticket holder since 1959. He will be remembered for his sharp mind and his generous foresight in making Sun Prairie a better place to live.

William is survived by his six children: John (Sue) Birkinbine, Nancy (Bruce) Thompson, Eileen (Chuck) Peters, Barbara (Michael Garry) Birkinbine, David (Linda) Birkinbine and Jim Birkinbine; 13 grandchildren: Ben, Ann, Jennifer, Andrew, Katherine, Daniel, Ryan, Wendy, Andrew, Megan, Evan, Julia and Allison; and 10 great-grandchildren: Caden, Carter, Gracie, Taylor, Luke, Jordan, Cody, Nathan, Eric and Sarah. He is also survived by many other loving family and numerous friends.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Honey, of 66 years, four sisters: Roberta, Sally, Veretta “Toots” and Frances, and two brothers, Robert “Skeets” and Romayne.

Funeral services were held at Our Savior’s Lutheran Chuch, 550 Lincoln Drive, Sun Prairie, WI on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 at 11 a.m. with Reverend Dr. David Berggren and Reverend Julie Krahn officiating. A visitation was held at the church on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until the time of services.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to Dr. Motl and his staff, and the staff at Sun Prairie Health Care Center for all the years of care.

Cress Funeral Home 1310 Emerald Terrace Sun Prairie, WI 53590 608-873-9054

A Forever Calendar

By Rev. Paul Ibisch For The Star n the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.” Daniel 2:44 NIV A syndicated comic made fun of the Mayan calendar worries by having a husband shop for a “new” Mayan calendar. He justified his purchase by saying his wife would never have to replace it as it would last forever. Obviously the Mayans didn’t predict the end of time.

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According to the Bible, only God the Father knows when time will end, and “forever” begins.

But what if the Mayans had been right? Would you have been ready to meet your Maker?

Do you have all your affairs in order and have you righted all your wrongs? Did you make amends for your uncharitable thoughts? Are you sure you’re good enough to deserve heaven? God’s standard of perfection cannot be compromised. The Psalmist pronounces God’s verdict, “All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.” (Psalm 14:2 NIV) Thank

God we have both time and a Savior.

The end of time is coming.

Nations and kingdoms will fall.

Only one kingdom will remain, and that kingdom was established by Jesus. He came into this world to pay for our sins.

The kingdom that lasts forever is founded on faith that Jesus righted our wrongs. He is a leader worthy of our trust.

It’s time to start a new calendar and a new way of living.

See you in church!

Rev. Paul Ibisch retired from the public ministry after 28 years and has been writing devotionals for publication for many years.

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Winnowings

10 Years Ago December 26, 2002 American Legion Post 333 recently unveiled its plans for the new post to be located on the corner of Park and Market streets.

Police Lt. Bob Berndt recently graduated from Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command.

Walmart employees donated $1,600 to the Sun Prairie Emergency Food Pantry.

On her 40th birthday, Diane Seize received 40 flamingos.

Youth of the month, named by the Optimists, are Christy Birkholz, Theresa Kazmerzak amd Amanda Tanner.

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY: Jim and Lorie Schmitt, 30 years, Dec. 29.

BIRTHS: A boy to Matt and Kelly Hahn, Dec. 6 A girl to Rich and Laurie Vanderbloemen, Dec. 14.

DEATHS: Roberta M. Skrenes, 78, Dec. 20; she was born the daughter of Robert and Mary Waldo Leitsch at Columbus. She was a member of Bristol Lutheran Church. She is survived by a son, Ronald, a daughter, Karen Wortinger, three grandchildren and a sister.

Agnes H. Weigen, 105, Dec. 20; she was born the daughter of Helena and Andrew Hovey in the Town of Bristol. When she was a small child her mother died, and she was brought up by her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Boyum. She was confirmed at the Bristol Lutheran Church. She graduated from Sun Prairie High School. She married Dr. James A. Weigen in 1919. She is survived by one son, Thomas, five grandsons, one granddaughter and three great-grandsons. She was preceded in death by her husband, two sons, four brothers and a sister.

25 Years Ago December 30, 1987 For the second time in several weeks, Sun Prairie area residents found themselves digging out of a major winter storm.

A top news story of 1987 was the decision of the city to continue purchasing electrical power from Wisconsin Power and

Robert Beecham, the father of Robert K. Beecham moved to Sun Prairie sometime between 1843 and 1845. The Beecham family was part of the Irish “gentry.” The family moved into Ireland with Cromwell in an attempt to Anglicize the Irish people.

Robert immigrated to North America in 1818 and settled in Nova Scotia. He then settled in New Brunswick. He married Fanny Jane Cromwell on Sept. 9, 1830. In 1845 and 1846 the family moved to a farm that is the current site of Westside School.

Robert K. and his brother Charles operated a brick factory on the family farm prior to the Civil War. The brick manufactured by the brothers was crudely made and reddish in color. Both Robert K. and Charles served in the Civil War. Charles disappeared during the Civil War. Robert K. was a member of the Second Wisconsin Volunteers during the Civil War. Robert was taken prisoner by the Confederate Army and exchanged as a prisoner. He was captured a second time and escaped from the Confederate prison.

Robert then trained African Americans who then fought under his command during the remainder of the war.

The 1890 Plat Book of Dane County listed the Beecham farm as the Park Lane Farm. Robert K. was listed as a breeder of graded horses, shorthorn cattle, and Poland China hogs. Prior to publishing his book on Gettysburg in 1911, Robert prepared

speeches and poetry on Gettysburg in 1893.

Robert was refining his presentations on the Civil War for future use as a public speaker.

Robert K. married Miss Emma Watkinson on March 28, 1864 in Sun Prairie. Robert and his family moved to Everett, Wash. in 1894 where he published a newspaper and later served as a bailiff in the superior court. His obituary states that he came to prominence through his writings of poetry and philosophy.

This is a very brief account of Robert and Robert K. Beecham. The Sun Prairie Historical Museum has gathered information on the family.

Additional information can be found in the books published by Robert K. Beecham.

Michael Stevens edited a book on Robert Beecham’s Civil War in 1998. As If It Were Glory was published by Madison House.

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1987 was the third best year in the state’s history for existing home sales.

An article points out the need for parents to be more involved in how and what their children watch on TV. BIRTHS: Boys to – Richard

Christmas presents were destroyed last Friday night when fire swept through the storeroom and attic of the Claude Schuster farm home, four miles west of Sun Prairie. The cause is undetermined.

Bill Birkinbine infomed the school board that the land on the west side of the Northside School will not be developed for several years.

A brief article with eight photos tells of the wrestling program, which has been introduced at the high school for the first time this year.

SERVICE NEWS: Army Specialist Francis D. Nellen recently re-enlisted in the Regular Army, serving as a heavy equipment operator in Mannheim, Germany.

Peter W. Swenson, USN, is serving aboard the USS Enterprise, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, which was in the Caribbean recently.

BIRTH: A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Strohmenger, Dec. 22.

DEATHS: Leonard Burrington, 86, Dec. 18; he was born in the town of Windsor and was a lifelong area resident.

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DEATH: Mrs. Daniel Gilbertson, 73, Dec. 27; she was born in the town of Ridgeway to Richard and Stella Berryman Thomas. She married Daniel Gilbertson in 1933. She taught elementary school for 29 years.

She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Madison. Survivors include her husband, a daughter, Myrna Spenser, a son, DuWayne, seven grandchildren, one great-granddaughter and two sisters. She was preceded in death by one son, Kenneth.

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Left: The photograph of Robert K. Beecham first appeared in his book, Gettysburg. The Pivotal Battle Of The Civil War. The book was published in Chicago by the A. C. McClurg (McClure?) & Co., 1911. The caption states that the photograph was taken during the Civil War. Photograph courtesy of the Sun Prairie Historical Museum

Surviving are his wife, the former Josephine Fuller, two sons, Edward and Robert, two daughters, Mrs. Frank Eschler and Lorraine Burrington, one sister and four grandchildren.

Harold S. Curtis, 59, Dec. 3; he was assistant manager at the Plaza Bowling Alley. He served in the Air Force in World War II. Survivors are his wife, Gladys, of Madison, a stepson, James Harker, and four grandchildren.

Oscar M. Kalland, 80, Dec. 24; he was a retired Sun Prairie farmer and a lifelong area resident. Survivors are his wife, Helen, a daughter, Mrs. Sherwood Pfeil, two sisters, two brothers and two half brothers.

He was a member of Peace Lutheran Church.

was purchased about a month ago by William Gerber was sold last Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Misner.

Radio communication from the engineer to the caboose on long trains is being tried out to replace the lantern signals.

BIRTH: A boy to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woerpel, on Wednesday.

DEATHS: Mrs. Andrew Voelker, 94, Wednesday evening. She is survived by four sons, Ed, Andrew, Ben and Otto of Sun Prairie, and one daughter, Rose. Her husband and three daughters have preceded her in death.

Mrs. Unnie Quamme, 82, Dec. 25; She was born Unnie Burnson in Norway in 1855 and came to this country when she was 1 year old. Her husband, Herman Quamme, preceded her in death about 25 years ago.

Survivors are three sisters and three brothers.

101 Years Ago December 28, 1911 (Unexplainably this is filed in this order.)

Last Friday evening Nels Wasley’s team ran away near the Ed Crabtree farm, throwing him out of the wagon, breaking two ribs and a shoulder blade.

On Christmas Day the temperature was just cold enough to prevent thawing and mud, and the bright sunshine made it an ideal day, especially for the old people to get out.

About 10:30 Christmas morning, the Pierceville Creamery caught fire from a defective chimney and burned to the ground.

The first real cold snap is with us. Thermometers this morning reregistered 10 below zero.

Briggs and Barry have purchased a new Ford Torpedo runabout. The doctors started using automobiles in their practice in 1908.

In some of the papers of last week’s issue, the figures for the price of the Ford auto in the Peckham and Beers advertisement were wrong. The price quoted of $715 is correct, and not $750.

Wanted – Man past 30 with horse and buggy to sell stock condition powder in Dane County. Salary, $70 per month.

The big New Year’s Dance will be at Sun Prairie again this season at Conrad’s Hall.

125 Years Ago December 29, 1887 On the front page appears the judge’s full charge to the jury in the case of Mrs. Agnes Shaw vs. the Village of Sun Prairie. The jury decided for the plaintiff, and the village was asked to pay her 75 Years Ago $1,200 when she hurt her leg as December 30, 1937 With publication of her latest the result of a defective sidewalk. The village board has not suite of pieces written for the yet decided whether or not to piano, Miss Jennie Seltzner, local music teacher, has received appeal the decision.

On Dec. 31 there will be a further recognition as a composshooting match for turkeys – 40 er. The six numbers are being published by Carl Fischer, New rods, 6 inch bull’s eye. There York, one of the leading publish- will also be a raffle for oysters. ing houses of the world.

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Ignored and underfunded, mental health care thin at jails Key GOP lawmaker wants to examine issue

By Rory Linnane, Tegan Wendland and Kate Golden Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism For more than a decade, Milwaukee County’s jail system has been under the scrutiny of a court-appointed medical monitor for its failure to provide adequate health care, including for inmates with mental illness.

In August, the monitor found mental health care in Milwaukee County’s two jails was still in shambles. Among the problems: Vacancies in top medical positions left jailers to make medical decisions, such as when an inmate should be removed from suicide watch.

A man who had threatened to kill himself stopped eating and drinking for four days and was never taken to a hospital. He died in his cell.

Mental health advocates and correctional officials agree that Wisconsin’s 72 county-run jails are strapped for resources and not prepared to deal with the large numbers of inmates with mental illness they house. The state Department of Corrections (DOC) is charged with oversight of jails, but the agency’s inspectors are not physicians and, the agency said, not responsible for assessing the quality of health care.

The DOC inspection checklist includes whether the facilities keep adequate records, have the correct staff and keep medications secure. In Milwaukee County, for example, the two jails’ most recent DOC inspections last December give no hint of the problems identified by Dr.

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Danielle Densmore of Madison awaits an inmate's release at the Dane County Public Safety Building Jail on Dec. 18. The county’s jail system is one of just five in Ronald Shansky, the courtappointed physician.

Again and again, inspector Gregory Bucholtz marked an X for “meets approval” for each health-care standard, concluding that at Milwaukee County Correctional Facility-South, “Health care services at the facility continue to be good …

Mental health services also remain good.”

Shansky’s take, in an inspection days before that DOC visit, was radically different. He found systemic problems in several areas, including record keeping, delayed access to medical services and medications, and “severely mentally ill patients being inappropriately placed in disciplinary cells.”

In a more comprehensive August review, Shansky noted numerous other breakdowns, including in the case of the suicidal inmate who died and a similar case of an inmate with

Wisconsin that are accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.

mental illness whose kidneys failed after he refused to drink water or eat a punishment food, Nutraloaf.

Just five counties’ jails — Waukesha, Washington, Walworth, Fond du Lac and Dane — are accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which uses health-care professionals to assess the quality of care at facilities.

More information needed Rep. Garey Bies, R-Sister Bay, who chairs the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Corrections, said he plans to ask the DOC to present information to his committee on how well jails are caring for their inmates.

As a former chief deputy sheriff, Bies used to oversee the Door County Jail. He said he is particularly interested in ensuring inmates are screened for

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mental health problems, which he said is crucial to providing proper care, helping them transition back into the community and avoiding crises that could arise while they’re incarcerated.

“Do that (screening) up front, and it really cuts down on issues in the long run,” Bies said.

In a 2009 DOC survey, less than half of the county jails that responded had a registered nurse or mental health professional doing the initial health screening of inmates; correctional officers did it in most jails.

The DOC makes preannounced inspections of county jails annually, and investigates after suicides and other incidents. Technically it has the ability to close jails, though it hasn’t done so since the 1970s, according to a federal Department of Justice report. The agency sees its role as one of educating and advising jail managers.

“We mitigate risk by providing technical assistance and training, based on best correctional practice,” said Kristi Dietz, director of the DOC’s Office of Detention Facilities.

The agency provides verbal or written feedback after inspections, but it doesn’t punish jails with sanctions.

A DOC jail inspector added that her job does not include assessing the quality of health care.

“I cannot say what the proper treatment is; I’m not qualified for that,” said Nancy Thelen, a DOC jail inspector. “That’s for the doctors that the sheriff has on board with their facility to determine.”

Lawsuits are frequently cited as an incentive for jails to improve.

But “you can’t count on lawsuits to expose these types of problems,” according to Larry Dupuis, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, which sued Milwaukee County over its lack of jail health care services.

“There simply aren’t enough lawyers who take on these types of issues,” he said. “We need an effective, systematic inspection process.”

Ron Honberg, policy and legal director for the nonprofit National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), said county jails nationwide have a “long, long way to go” in providing adequate mental health care.

Honberg ticked off the problems: “Lack of oversight, lack of treatment resources, lack of expertise, lack of qualified staff, overcrowded conditions.”

More need, less attention Dietz said communities are falling short at helping people with mental illnesses, “and as a result the jails and prisons,

unfortunately, have been taking on more and more of that population.”

A national study estimated the one in three female inmates and nearly one in six males suffers from mental illness — far higher than the general population estimate of 6 percent. Even after a substantial drop from 1990 to 2010, the national jail suicide rate is still three times greater than in the general population.

Jail officials and advocates statewide have been seeing more inmates with mental illness in recent years, although no specific estimates are available.

The problems in jails are often overshadowed by those in prisons. But mental health needs may actually be greater at these facilities, where inmates face uncertain fates, more stress and fewer services.

And jails aren’t only for short-term detention — some inmates end up spending years there if they have consecutive sentences or their trials are delayed. Walworth County Jail Superintendent Howard Sawyers said his county almost always has inmates who have passed the one-year mark, some staying two or three years.

A 2005 U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics study of mental health at jails and prisons found jail inmates were more likely than prisoners to have mania, major depression or psychotic disorders. Another revealed that jail inmates were more than three times more likely than prisoners to kill themselves.

Since 2003, 52 Wisconsin county jail inmates have taken their own lives. According to a Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism calculation, Wisconsin’s jail suicide rate

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Ignored and underfunded, mental health care thin at jails (Continued from section 2, page 6)

Gaps remain in jails’ suicide prevention

By Tegan Wendland, Rory Linnane and Kate Golden Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Brenda Mombourquette tried three times to kill herself while in jail custody. She was not on suicide watch at the Monroe County Jail, despite a doctor’s recommendation. Her final attempt, in November 2002, left her with serious brain damage.

Photo by Rory Linnane, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Her sister sued the jail on Eric Tomlinson of Madison, in and out of jail, said he Mombourquette’s behalf, accusstruggled with suicidal thoughts but never saw a couning the jailers and nurses of selor in jail. deliberate indifference to protecting Mombourquette. Her nurses were also helping with lawyer claimed the Cashton mental health care. woman had reported a night Jailers aren’t medical professhift supervisor’s sexual assault sionals — but with limited of another inmate with mental staffing, sometimes they end up illness, before that supervisor acting the part. failed to follow the doctor’s At the Milwaukee County orders to put Mombourquette on jail, which has struggled with suicide watch. The jail, which vacancies in its top medical had been repeatedly criticized in positions, Shansky wrote that state inspection reports for its “several issues came up in which lack of suicide prevention officers attempted to substitute efforts, agreed to pay a maxitheir judgment for the judgment mum of $13 million. of health care staff,” creating Since 2003, 52 Wisconsin “potential catastrophes.”

Star file photo county jail inmates have taken Sawyers said his officers end Kathleen Vinehout, seen their own lives. Department of up counseling inmates when here during a gubernatorial Corrections jail inspector Nancy mental health professionals Thelen said that generally, recall campaign appeararen’t on deck.

Wisconsin’s 72 county-run jails ance at the Sun Prairie “People in jail are under criare doing “a very good job with Public Library, believes sis. Maybe they’ve never been in DOC should strengthen jail their suicide watches.” there, and they need a talk to be But a Wisconsin Center for oversight to help inmates. calmed down, or maybe they’re Investigative Journalism review feeling down because of bad because of the lack of local data of the counties’ most recent jail news from the outside,” Sawyers when researching a report this inspection records found that at said. “Jail’s not a place where fall urging more use of alternaleast one-third of them had, like you get a lot of good news.” tives to incarceration.

Monroe County, been cited for Meyer said jailers sometimes The Legislative Audit Bureau problems with their suicide premiss mental health problems has recently evaluated mental vention efforts. because they are stretched thin health care in prisons but not Even the La Crosse County with other jobs. jails. In the DOC’s 2009 mental Jail, which an inspector “Quite often in smaller and health survey of jails, only two- described as “a leader and medium-size jails, because thirds responded, and individual model for other jails throughout they’re limited staff-wise and answers were not provided in the the state and nation,” was not they have many other duties and summary. properly documenting actions responsibilities, those needs Bies and a fellow lawmaker, relating to potentially suicidal might not get recognized soon Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, Dinmates, the report found. enough,” Meyer said.

Alma, said they are concerned In a 2009 DOC survey of Lawmakers may about mental health care in jails, jails about their mental health examine jails but lack the information to tack- services, less than half of the 47 Jails are required by a state le the issue. Vinehout, a member law dating back to 1987 to proof the Senate Committee on vide the DOC with annual Education and Corrections, said reports on mental health care she couldn’t get information she services. Since 1989, the law has wanted from the DOC about the required the DOC to summarize types of inmates and the care and relay those findings to the they need. She believes the Legislature. But the DOC agency should strengthen its acknowledges it has not been oversight of local jails to help regularly asking jails for the inmates — and the general pubreports, and has not prepared lic. summaries for the Legislature, “We want to be able to the Center found. understand what’s happening It’s been five years since the and do what we can to lower the Baraboo News Republic newscost and make Wisconsin a safer paper pointed out that the reports place,” Vinehout said. weren’t being done. In 2007, This project was produced in DOC officials said they would collaboration with the address the shortcoming. This Investigative Journalism month, Dietz said her office “is Education Consortium, ijec.org. going to take another look at that The nonprofit Wisconsin Center statute.” for Investigative Journalism Even experts have trouble (www.WisconsinWatch.org) also characterizing mental health collaborates with Wisconsin problems in Wisconsin’s jails.

Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Kim Gilhuly, project director for Television, other news media the national advocacy group and the UW-Madison School of Human Impact Partners, said she Journalism and Mass had to rely on national numbers Communication.

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The cell block in the old section of the La Crosse County Jail, in 2011. Even the La Crosse County Jail, which an inspector described as “a leader and model for

other jails throughout the state and nation,” wasn’t properly documenting actions relating to potentially suicidal inmates.

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in recent years was 40 per 100,000 inmates, slightly higher than the 2007 national rate of 36.

According to Dean Meyer, executive director of the Badger State Sheriff’s Association, staterun prisons are “much better equipped” to provide health care.

“A prison has their own dentist, their own doctors and their own nurses. And for the majority of county jails, they contract that service out, and the providers only come when needed,” Meyer said.

Jails ill-equipped Another problem is that jails were never designed to deal with so many people suffering from mental illness. A Bureau of Justice Statistics suicide prevention guide for jails describes them as “conducive to suicidal behaviors.”

“Jails and prisons have become de facto mental health hospitals,” NAMI’s Honberg said. “Only they’re not hospitals at all — they’re environments that generally make people’s symptoms worse.”

Madison resident Eric Tomlinson can vouch for that. In and out of jail for child support, diagnosed with post-traumatic stress and attention deficit disorders and major depression, Tomlinson struggled with thoughts of killing himself.

While in the Dane County Jail earlier this year, he said, he never saw a counselor.

Tomlinson said he spent time isolated in “the hole,” a room he described as “a slab of concrete, a mattress, one blanket.” There was nothing to read “other than the (jail) handbook, the Bible or another religious book,” he said.

“If you go in with physical or mental problems, they put you in the hole,” Tomlinson said. “If you complain about something, they put you in the hole. If you say you’re suicidal, they put you in the hole.”

Dane County Jail officials declined to comment on Tomlinson’s account, saying privacy rules prevented them from discussing individual cases.

Services few for mentally ill Mental health care varies greatly from county to county, and it can be thin at many county jails.

For example, while inmates in Sheboygan County’s 286-person jail shared 40 hours a week of mental health services, those in comparably sized Marathon County received mental health services for “crisis situations.”

According to a December 2011 inspection report, the jail planned to begin offering mental health services 20 hours a week.

Mental health care can come in a variety of forms. Social workers do much of the work, according to a 2009 survey of county jails.

Forty percent of jails reported having a psychiatrist and 26 percent a psychologist, with their weekly hours ranging from one to six. In more than half of jails,

Photo by Peter Thomson, The La Crosse Tribune

An inmate in the La Crosse County men's jail, in 2006, has little to do but rest in his cell in a jail-issued uniform.

Even the La Crosse County Jail, which an inspector described as “a leader and model for other jails throughout the state and nation,” wasn’t properly documenting actions relating to potentially suicidal inmates. respondents said inmates were routinely screened by a registered nurse or mental health professional.

Suicides sometimes hard to predict Mombourquette’s suicide attempt came after warnings.

But sometimes inmates don’t betray their suicidal tendencies.

An October hanging at the Winnebago County Jail took Sheriff John Matz by surprise, he said.

“He exhibited no suicidal behavior,” Matz said. “That was one that nobody saw coming, including his parents. I don’t know what it was, other than fate.”

Roy Sindelar of Weyauwega was alive when officers found him, but their efforts to resuscitate him failed. Citing a demand for mental health services, Matz said he is requesting an increase in counseling services from 30 to 40 hours a week.

In a Feb. 15 inspection of the Winnebago County Jail, Thelen had recommended that the jail examine its mental-health services to ensure they were adequate.

What the Monroe County

Jail did in response to Mombourquette’s suicide attempt 10 years ago is unclear.

Mombourquette’s case was one of three successful lawsuits that alleged mistreatment of inmates with mental illness at the Sparta jail. Another inmate killed himself in 2008, according to the DOC. And a June inspection found “minor” problems with officers failing to check on potentially suicidal inmates at proper intervals.

The Monroe County Jail administrator did not respond to multiple messages over two weeks seeking comment.

In at least three county jails — Adams, Crawford and Green — inspectors noted lack of suicide prevention measures for the sixth year in a row. Thelen said inspectors work with deficient jails to improve their procedures.

“Occasional lapses may be inevitable,” countered Larry Dupuis, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. “But repeated warnings of deficient suicide prevention procedures suggest

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By Gina Covelli The Herald-Independent Three members of AT EASE (A Therapeutic Equine Assisted Self-Confidence Experience) have accepted an invitation by the Presidential Inaugural Committee to ride their horses in the 57th Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington D.C. on Jan. 21, 2013.

AT EASE is recognized as a Wisconsin non-profit organization and is located at Freedom Stables. It is owned by disabled Vietnam veteran Ted Schlueter, and is home of Harmony Horsemanship LLC in Deerfield. The mission of the organization is to provide a place where America’s disabled veterans can interact with each other, be at ease and build greater self-confidence, while developing a partnership with horses using Harmony Horsemanship’s 100 percent natural methods.

AT EASE has been in existence for the past two years, and this past year it adopted the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 105th Cavalry Squadron (105th Cav).

“We’ve adopted their whole unit and work with them as a family,” said Paulette Stelpflug, of Cottage Grove, co-owner of Harmony Horsemanship and coordinator for AT EASE, at a press event on Friday, Dec. 21.

Not only do veterans and active military personnel have the opportunity to connect with the horses, but AT EASE also works with the families of troopers who are deployed.

A difficulty for troopers who

return from deployment is learning to reconnect with their families, Stelpflug said. AT EASE allows troopers and their families to bond while working with a horse.

The program is an individual program completely run by volunteers. Stelpflug said participants come to the barn at their own schedule and can work with the horses at their own comfort level. Some simply groom the horses, others play Equisoccer. Many simply ride the horses.

“Just being around the horses has helped me,” said Dennis Landen of Lake Mills. Landen served in the Army from 19661969, and was in Veitnam from 1967-68. “Even right now, just being here and not being with the horses, is relaxing to me.”

“It’s such a good fit,” Landen continued. “How can you have cavalry soldiers without horses? And they’re so good to us out here. Just how well you’re treated. Anything they can do to help a veteran, they’ll do it. I’m totally sold on the project out here.”

Landen learned of AT EASE by his friend Terry Virgil, a disabled veteran of Cambridge, who said he’s trying to tell everyone about the program.

Virgil served in the Marine Corps in the 1970s, and said he was overseas for about 99 percent of his service years. He added that if he were able, he’d still be in the Corps today.

“It’s a privilege to come out here,” Virgil said. He’s been part of AT EASE for two years, and learned about it through the VA

Hospital in Madison.

“I really like it,” he said.

“Being able to spend time with the horses – it’s great to have something you love and enjoy.”

Virgil said it was a surprise to him that AT EASE was selected to be one of the participants in the inaugural parade, and he is determined to be in Washington DC for the parade to support the organization.

“This did surprise me,” he said. “I’m a broken military man no one wants and to represent this place… I’d be honored just to be there. I’m going.”

The partnership with AT EASE and the 105th Cav. Association is a perfect fit, said Staff Sgt. Dan “Canada” Killam.

“We’re a cavalry unit and they want to help us,” Killam said. “It’s sort of a no-brainer.”

He added a big strength of the program is that the families of troopers are also a part of AT EASE. “There’s a certain poetry that when a trooper is away, the family takes care of the horse,” he said. “There is some separation anxiety, and this gives troopers a chance to say, ‘Son, show dad what you learned.’

They bond over the horse.”

“We really admire their passion for veterans,” said Lt. Col. Jeff Alston. “We’re very fortunate to be involved.”

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We’re not even a 501(c)3.

We’re just a simple non-profit.

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tion from Wisconsin to be invited to the parade, will send three horses and riders to Washington DC, where they will carry the American Flag, the State of Wisconsin Flag, and a flag representing the 105th Cavalry.

The rider/horse combinations are: Stelpflug and her Arabian mare Misty, Stacy Lindbo of McFarland and her horse Chavez, and a yet to be announced third rider on Zippy, a Quarter Horse gelding who is Photo by Gina Covelli, The Herald-Independent owned by Schlueter.

“The Inaugural Parade is over Dennis Landen of Lake Mills (left) and Patti Huber pet the top,” Landen said. “I feel so Misty, one of the horses that will ride in the Inaugural proud they’re doing it.”

Parade.

Donations are being accepted We work with what we have.” involved with AT EASE is very at this time to cover travel and The program is on-going. excited to be selected to ride in lodging expenses for the riders Veterans simply call and schedthe 57th Inaugural Parade. and horses. ule a time with Stelpflug to “We’re honored,” she said.

Those interested in making a work with the horses.

“It will put AT EASE on the donation may write a check “You come in and you’re just map. We were in the first 20 payable to: AT EASE, Inc., c/o you,” she said. [applicants] to be invited.”

Wisconsin Bank & Trust, 580 N. Stelpflug said everyone AT EASE, the only organiza- Main St., Cottage Grove, WI OFFICIAL PUBLICATION

SUN PRAIRIE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT SUN PRAIRIE WI 53590 SCHOOL BOARD MEETING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012 6:30 P.M. SUMMARY OF MINUTES 1. Opening Items 1.01 Call to Order, Roll Call, Affirmation of Public Notice, Pledge of Allegiance President Tom Weber called the School Board meeting of the Sun Prairie Area School District to order at 6:32 p.m.

The meeting was held at the Municipal Building, 300 E. Main Street, Sun Prairie, with the following board members present: Caren Diedrich, Mike Krachey, Steve Schroeder, Tom Weber, John Welke and John Whalen. Board member absent: Jill Camber Davidson.

Also present: Tim Culver, Jennifer Apodaca, Phil Frei, Annette Mikula, and Alice Murphy.

The notice of meeting was published in the November 22, 2012, issue of The Star and copies distributed to Sun Prairie Media Center, and correspondents for the Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times newspapers. A revised notice was properly posted and distributed on November 21, 2012.

5. New Business 5.01 Personnel Motion by Tom Weber, second

by John Welke to approve personnel actions as presented. Final Resolution: Motion Carried 5.02 Changes to Administrative Contractual Benefits & Evaluation Plan Motion by Tom Weber, second

by Caren Diedrich to approve the Administrative Contractual Benefits & Evaluation Plan as presented in Attachment One. Final Resolution: Motion Carried

BCE & BCE-R. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yea: Caren Diedrich, Mike Krachey, Steven Schroeder, Tom Weber, John Approved consent items: 6.01 School Board Meeting Minutes - November 12, 2012 6.02 Child Rearing Leave 6.03 Checks and Deposits Deposits 1382 Local Govt. Invest. Pool $ 2,599.19 37397-37607 Bank of Sun Prairie $ 363,550.79 $ 366,149.98 Checks 118446-118870 $ 1,112,728.95 ACH 121300194-121300256 $ 8,409.08 $ 1,121,138.03 6.04 Curriculum Purchase: Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention RED SYSTEM, Levels L-Q 6.06 2013-2014 Course Deletions: Reading, Writing, Reasoning; Literature and Composition; and Modern American Writers 6.05 Policy BCE, Board Committees, and Procedure BCE-R, Standing Board Committee Procedures - 2nd reading Motion by Mike Krachey, second by John Whalen to approve the 2nd reading of policy BCE, Board Committees, and procedure BCE-R, Standing Board Committee Procedures. Motion Carried 9. Adjournment 9.01 Adjourn the meeting Motion at 8:58 p.m. by John Welke, second by Mike Krachey to adjourn. Motion Carried Mike Krachey, Deputy Clerk PUB. The Star: December 27, 2012 WNAXLP

5.03 Administrator Salary Pool for 2012-2013 Motion by Tom Weber, second

by John Whalen to increase administration salary pool by 2 percent to be distributed by the District Administrator according to the performance evaluation system.

Motion by John Welke, second

by Mike Krachey to amend the motion on the floor to apply all contractually mandated increased qualifications pay increases and then limit the base-building portion of each administrators raise to 110% of the average per diem amount listed in Board Policy CBBA-E and apply any remaining pay raise amount to each administrator in the form of a one-time non-base-building payment. Roll Call Vote: Motion Failed Vote on original motion: Final Resolution: Motion Carried 5.04 Audit 2011-2012 Motion by John Whalen, second by Caren Diedrich to accept the 2011-2012 audit report as presented. Motion Carried 5.05 District Health Nurse Proposal Motion by John Whalen, second by Mike Krachey to approve the proposal to convert 1 unassigned teacher FTE to 1 District Health Nurse FTE (administrative support). Final Resolution: Motion Carried 5.06 2012-2013 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Grant Motion by John Whalen, second by John Welke to approve the 2012-2013 ESEA Grant. Motion Carried 6. Consent Items Motion by John Welke, second

by Steven Schroeder to approve consent items as presented, except item 6.05

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Hometown News Group, an award-winning weekly newspaper group, has an opening for freelance reporters to cover news or sports. The position will start as soon as possible. Applicants must have previous reporting experience and be available for daytime and evening meeting coverage. Driver’s license required.

E-mail resume with clips to: Managing Editor Chris Mertes at spedit@hometownnewsgroup.com

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DELIVERY DRIVER NEEDED Driver needed to pick up papers at our McFarland office & deliver to 10 stores in McFarland on Wednesdays. Route should take about 1 hour. Pay is $45. Reliable vehicle is required.

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Comfortable executive style home with great location within Lake Mills, WI on beautiful Rock Lake.

Located off I-94, half an hour from Madison, one hour from Milwaukee and Rockford, and two from Chicago, this property presents a rare opportunity for the discriminating buyer to enjoy and entertain within a lakefront home. Situated just steps from the water and with almost all rooms overlooking the 1,300 acre lake, gorgeous sunsets can be enjoyed year round.

2001 Buick Lesabre

SALE $26,910 SALE $10,903 SALE $11,606

SALE $14,508

McFarland: Charming 3 bdrm, 2 bath cape cod across the street from Lake Waubesa. Newer mechanicals, new flooring & paint throughout. Walking distance to shopping & dining. $139,900 #2055

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Waterloo Meadows

Rent Starting at: $445 -1 Bdrm $492 - 2 Bdrm

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1& 2 Bedroom Apartments Home designed for Seniors or Disabled Persons. Onsite laundry, off-street parking. Small pets welcome.

Spacious ranch home with open floor plan, next to Oaks golf course. Attached 2-car garage and detached 2-car garage for all your toys. LL finished, great yard and so much more. $244,900. MLS #1668597.

HOME IMPROVEMENT . . . . .245 CHRISTMAS TREES . . . . . . . .250 CHILD CARE . . . . . . . . . . . . .290 SITUATIONS WANTED . . . . . .300 EMPLOYMENT . . . . . . . . . . . .310 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY . . .320 CARS & TRUCKS . . . . . . . . . .330 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES . .350 CEMETERY PLOTS . . . . . . . . .360 BOATS & MOTORS . . . . . . . .370 RVS/CAMPERS . . . . . . . . . . .380 VEHICLE PARTS SERVICE . . .390 CRAFTS & SUPPLIES . . . . . . .400

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Call 1-800-208-4553.

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Pet Policy O/O's Welcome! deBoer Transportation 800-825-8511 www.deboertrans.com (CNOW)

Drivers- CDL-A STAR OF THE ROAD Tuition reimbursement up to $5000.

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The McFarland Thistle, a weekly newspaper in South Central Wisconsin, is looking for an experienced and versatile journalist to join and lead our editorial department.

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on the web: www.sunprairiestar.com

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION

SUN PRAIRIE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT SUN PRAIRIE WI 53590 SPECIAL SCHOOL BOARD MEETING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012 CLOSED SUMMARY OF MINUTES 1. Opening Items 1.01 Call to Order, Roll Call, Affirmation of Public Notice Vice President John Welke called the special School Board meeting of the Sun Prairie Area School District to order at 6:31 p.m. The meeting was held at the District Office, 501 S. Bird Street, Sun Prairie, with the following board members present: Caren Diedrich, Mike Krachey, Steve Schroeder, John Welke and John Whalen. Board members absent: Jill Camber Davidson and Tom Weber. Also present: Tim Culver.

The notice of meeting was properly posted on November 21, 2012, and copies distrib-

December 27, 2012 The Star Section 2, Page 13

uted to The Star, Sun Prairie Media Center, and correspondents for the Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times newspapers.

2. Closed Session Motion by Steve Schroeder, second by John Whalen, to go into closed session for the purpose of discussing and reviewing the district administrator's performance evaluation [Wis. Stats.

19.85(1)(c)]. Final Resolution: Motion Carried 3. Discussion/Business Item Motion by John Welke, second

by John Whalen, to give a 2 percent base-building salary increase to District Administrator Tim Culver. Final Resolution: Motion Carried 4. Adjournment Motion by John Whalen, second by John Welke, to adjourn. Motion Carried.

Mike Krachey, Deputy Clerk PUB. The Star: December 27, 2012 WNAXLP

Gaps in prevention declined to confirm or deny Kalinoski’s account.

“You watch the person 24 these jails are a ticking time hours — but you’re also subjectbomb.” ing the person to great distress in But placing inmates on suidoing so,” said Ron Honberg, cide watch is far from ideal, policy and legal director for the because it may exacerbate their mental-health problems. Suicidal nonprofit National Alliance on inmates may been isolated. And Mental Illness. “The ultimate solution is to significantly most suicides are hangings, so decrease the number of people jail officials must remove anywith mental illness incarceratthing that could be made into a noose, leading to sparse accom- ed.”

Yet suicide watch is an essenmodations. tial prevention tool for jailers.

Sam Kalinoski of Madison Said Mombourquette’s attorsaid he was isolated on suicide watch for three days in the Dane ney, Michael Devanie: “Suicide watches are extremely effective County Jail while incarcerated - if they do them.” four years ago for violating The nonprofit Wisconsin terms of his probation. Kalinoski Center for Investigative said he had only a blue vest to sleep in and none of his medica- Journalism (www.WisconsinWatch.org) coltions for bipolar disorder. He laborates with Wisconsin Public called the experience “disturbing,” with “crazy people around Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media me, making noise in nearby and the UW-Madison School of rooms.”

Journalism and Mass Dane County Jail officials (Continued from section 2, page 9)

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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS TRANSFORMER PURCHASE SUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN Project No. S24-11E Specification No. 1137, Volume VIII The City of Sun Prairie will receive sealed bids for the project described below. Bids will be received at the office of Forster Electrical Engineering, 550 N. Burr Oak Avenue, Oregon, Wisconsin 53575, until 1:20 p.m. local time on the 3rd day of January, 2013, at which time all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Bids shall be marked: "Sealed Bid Submitted by (bidder's name) Transformer Purchase Specification 1137, Volume VIII” The work shall include furnishing and delivering one (1) new 15/28 MVA 67-12.47 kV substation transformer Bidding documents may be examined at or obtained from the office of the consulting Engineer. The nonrefundable fee for these documents will be $20 (for an electronic copy) and/or $50 (for a printed copy).

Forster Electrical Engineering, Inc. 550 N. Burr Oak Avenue Oregon, Wisconsin 53575 608.835.9009 No bid will be accepted unless accompanied by a certified check or bid bond of at least five percent (5%) of the bid amount, payable to the Owner.

Published by the authority of Rick Wicklund, Utility Manager and duly authorized agent for Sun Prairie Utilities.

December 17, 2012 PUB. The Star: December 20 & 27, 2012 WNAXLP

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on the web: www.sunprairiestar.com

Cable Access TV Listings 11:00 PM World Music 11:30 PM Tour Stop

(Continued from section 2, page 8)

January 1, 2013 8:00 AM Exercise 9:00 AM Paths to Wellness 9:30 AM Explore 10:00 AM Veteran’s Roundtable Major Dan Hanson 11:30 AM In the Fight 12:00 PM Colonial Club Commentator 1:00 PM The Exchange Club, Book of Golden Deeds 2012 2:00 PM Talk of the Town Candy Canes and Coal 4:30 PM Holiday Tree Lighting & Fire Truck Parade 2012 5:30 PM SPHS Symphonic Band & CHUMS 8th Gr Band 12/17/12 7:00 PM SPHS Wind Ensemble & CHUMS 9th Gr Band & Wind 12/17/12 8:00 PM Iceberg Hockey vs. Mad City 12/18/12 10 PM Democracy Now

January 2 8:00 AM Exercise 9:00 AM Municipal Court 12/19/12 10:30 AM Trial Court 12/19/12 12:00 PM Explore 1:00 PM SPHS Wind Ensemble & CHUMS 9th Gr Band & Wind 12/17/12 2:00 PM Iceberg Hockey vs. Mad City 12/18/12 4:00 PM Talk of the Town Candy Canes and Coal 6:30 PM NASA 360 7:00 PM Talk of the Town Spirit of Giving 8:00 PM SPHS Symphonic Band & CHUMS 8th Gr Band 12/17/12 9:30 PM Words of Peace 10:00 PM Democracy Now 11:00 PM World Music 11:30 PM Tour Stop

KIDS-4 Channels 95, 984 December 27 9:00 AM Community Bulletin Board 9:30 AM They’re Not Live Crew Compilation 11:30 AM Tuesday Twisted Twizzlers Crew Compilation 1:30 PM The Tuezday Terrorz Crew Compilation 4:30 PM Michael Jackson Impersonators Crew Compilation 6:30 PM Thursday Night Live (TNL) 8:30 PM Back in Time Crew 9:00 PM Fiddlers in Cannery Square 9:30 PM Community Bulletin Board 10:00 PM Underwater Circus Sea Monkeys from Atlantis Crew December 28 9:00 AM Bulletin Board 9:30 AM Guitar Recital

Photo by Chris Mertes

This group of kids held hands going down one of the sledding hills at Sheehan Park on Saturday, Dec. 22 after 15.2 inches of snow blanketed the area on Thursday, Dec. 20.

Production Club offered Heads up Sun Prairie youth ages 15-18: Looking for something creative to do?

Want to have a voice in the media? Or explore the possibilities of creating your own TV show?

Are you interested in television, video editing or making your own movie? Sign up for Sun Prairie Media Center’s (SPMC) Media Production Club. Sun Prairie Media Center is pleased to offer a club designed to connect youth with the skills to create student-produced media.

The club will be held in SPMC’s studio where students will have access to all video production equipment and video editing workstations.

Space is limited so reserve your spot today. Call SPMC at 837-4193 or visit www.sunprairiemediacenter.com for workshop details and registration information.

The deadline for registration is Thursday, Jan. 3.

The mission of Sun Prairie Media Center is to provide service to the community of Sun Prairie in the form of original

local programming on the KSUN and KIDS-4 channels.

KIDS-4 is dedicated to providing continued media literacy education to the Sun Prairie youth through KIDS-4 crews and programming. KSUN is the designated Public, Education and Government (PEG) channel.

It encourages community involvement in, and provides information about, city government, local schools, service groups and area churches.

For more information, log on to sunprairiemediacenter.com.

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11/27/12 10:30 AM Middle & High School Orchestra Concert 10/11/12 11:30 AM Students of Jeri Brown - Winter Piano Recital 2010 12:30 PM Patrick Marsh Middle School Band Concert 12/6/12 1:00 PM Patrick Marsh Middle School Orchestra & Choir 12/10/12 2:00 PM Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School Orchestra 12/11/12 3:00 PM Prairie View Middle School Orchestra & Choir 12/13/12 4:00 PM Patrick Marsh Middle School Choir Concert 10/23/12 5:00 PM Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School Band Concert 10/22/12 6:30 PM Prairie View Middle School Band Concert 10/16/12 7:00 PM Middle & High School Orchestra Concert 10/11/12 8:00 PM Westside 5th Grade Graduation 2012 9:00 PM PVMS Band Concert 6/2/11 9:30 PM Bulletin Board 10:00 PM PVMS Band Concert 12/8/11 11:00 PM Royal Oaks Orchestra Concert 3/12/12 December 29 9:00 AM Bulletin Board 9:30 AM Underwater Circus Sea Monkeys from Atlantis Crew 11:30 AM BananaRams Crew Compilation

2:00 PM Blob Crew 4:30 PM Royal Blob Crew Compilation 7:00 PM The Winners Crew 7:30 PM What Just Happened Crew 8:00 PM Air Journey Crew 8:30 PM Do You See Us Crew 9:00 PM Back in Time Crew 9:30 PM Bulletin Board 10:00 PM G.W.A. Crew Compilation December 30 9:00 AM Bulletin Board 9:30 AM Prairie View Middle School Orchestra & Choir 12/13/12 10:30 AM Patrick Marsh Middle School Orchestra & Choir 12/10/12 11:30 AM Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School Orchestra 12/11/12 12:30 PM Prairie View Middle School Band Concert 12/6/12 1:30 PM Patrick Marsh Middle School Band Concert 12/6/12 2:00 PM Patrick Marsh Middle School Choir Concert 10/23/12 3:00 PM Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School Band Concert 10/22/12 4:30 PM Prairie View Middle School Band Concert 10/16/12 5:00 PM Middle & High School Orchestra Concert 10/11/12 6:00 PM Madison Country Day School,

Thoroughly Modern Jr. 7:30 PM Sacred Hearts Talent Show 4/24/07 9:00 PM PVMS Band Concert 6/2/11 9:30 PM Bulletin Board 10:00 PM Madison Dance Academy presents “The Nutcracker” December 31 Special Programming Happy Holidays January 1, 2013 Special Programming Happy Holidays January 2 9:00 AM Bulletin Board 9:30 AM CHUMS Band Concert 10/24/11 11:00 AM CHUMS Choir Concert 2/23/12 11:30 AM CHUMS Band Concert 3/8/12 1:00 PM CHUMS Jazz Concert 2/18/11 2:30 PM Eastside 3rd Grade Concert 5/3/12 3:00 PM Eastside Music Concert 5/5/11 4:00 PM SPASD Kindness Celebration 5:30 P Madison Country Day School, Talent Show 6:30 PM Middle Level Honors Band Concert 11/18/11 7:30 PM Northside 4th Grade Concert 4/20/11 8:30 PM PMMS Band Concert 6/2/11 9:30 PM Bulletin Board 10:00 PM Royal Oaks Musical - “On the Radio” 10:30 PM Royal Oaks Concert 1/17/12