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Country View Elementary School fourth-grader Angie Cruz, left, looks at classmate Elizabeth Bluemner’s lithophane design, which Bluemner was seeing 3D printed for the first time Tuesday, March 12. Students are selling the designs online, with most of the proceeds going to the American Family Children’s Hospital.
‘Give back spirit’
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Stoner Prairie Elementary School fifth-grader Lucy Justo Garduno finds it challenging for someone her age to make a difference in the community, especially when it comes to donating money.
She and her classmates at SPE, along with a group of students at Country View Elementary School, have found out this year it’s easier than they thought. The group has raised more than $175 for the American Family Children’s Hospital already through sales of “lithophanes,” custom-designed nightlights, printed on the schools’ 3D printers. “It’s great that at such a young age we can help out even though we don’t have jobs or we aren’t adults yet,” Justo Garduno said. “It means a lot. I usually don’t have these
opportunities.” The groups have websites set up to sell their current designs until the beginning of spring break – with an order deadline of Friday, March 21, with new designs coming after spring break. Each item costs $15, with $12 of that going to the hospital in the name of a SPE student currently at the hospital, and the rest to materials. Karie Huttner, the educational technology coordinator at both schools, said the four 3D printers have been
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City of Verona
Council: Valley OK, but no big boxes
Speed skating championship returns to Verona
Traffic, stormwater top concerns with 95-acre plan
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JIM FEROLIE
Championships were held at the Verona Ice Arena in 2015 and 2016, and in 2006 a decade earlier. What: National Short Track Championships Verona Area Chamber When: March 22-24 of Commerce director Le Jordan said banners will Where: Verona Ice Arena, 451 W. Verona Ave. be placed throughout the Info: veronaice.com, teamusa.org/US-Speedskating city to create a welcoming atmosphere for visiting skaters – including 25 from team must receive a quali- prior to this year’s champi- China, who will be staying fying score within their age onships. in Verona for two weeks class at the event, as well The event is free to spec- prior to the championship as another prior qualifying tators. time after July 1, 2017, but The National Short Track Turn to Skating/Page 5
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Visitors from around the world will glide into Verona next weekend for the National Short Track Championships. From March 22-24, speedskaters from ages 7 to older than 70 will compete at the Verona Ice Arena, 451 W. Verona Ave., during the three-day event. Any competitor looking to qualify for the next Olympic
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A commercial center might work southwest of the U.S. 18-151 bypass, but not with a big-box store, alders told a developer Monday. We l t o n E n t e r p r i s e s ’ plan to develop part of a 95-acre tract along Valley Road – called The Valley – got some positive reactions from the Common Council, just as it had a
week earlier with the Plan Commission, but also drew concerns about traffic and environmental impact. Alders particularly liked the idea of a future medical center, which has been planned on that Dean/SSM Health-owned property for more than a decade and would not be part of Welton’s development. Some also agreed with putting housing next to the wetlands that are northwest of the property. The developer’s president and vice president sat quietly in the front row while alders brought
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Students create, sell lithophanes to raise money for children’s hospital
Two Verona Area High School students each had one of the top 10 responses of more than 2,000 entries in a recent nationwide New York Times contest. And a third achieved runner-up status, putting her in the top 25. Kylie Magnus and Zaria Roller each were featured in an online New York Times article March 7 recognizing their writings, which connected books from their curriculum at VAHS to the world in 2019, specifically with an article in the Times. Both wrote about topics related to gender roles, with Magnus covering responsibilities at home in heterosexual marriages and Roller discussing toxic masculinity. Magnus told the Press in
an email she initially did not realize how selective the contest had been. “I got an email that I was a finalist, and I didn’t really think it was that important,” Magnus wrote. “I assumed there were tons of finalists, and I actually forgot about it until I got a follow-up email. I told my mom, and when we realized there were only 10 winners we were pretty excited.” Sarahi Garcia was recognized as a runner-up, writing about immigration. It was the paper’s second annual December contest on the topic, Times Learning Network editor Katherine Schulten wrote that the entries were “just as insightful and imaginative as last year’s.” “Whether the connections these teenagers made were obvious, or whether they were so oblique it’s likely no one else has ever made them, what delighted us most was seeing the thinking in action,”
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