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June 6, 2019
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The Verona Press
Remembering the 2014 tornado
At the April VAHS meeting, Lyn (Kahl) Elver and Lorlene (Kahl) Pulver talked about their family’s farm, named for its location on Maple Drive, a road lined with long rows of maple trees. Maple Drive later was renamed North Nine Mound Road. The family farm of 160 acres encompassed the area now known as Cross Country Heights. Chris Kahl and his wife bought the property in 1908 and lived in the original house there for six years. Only the very large
Next week See how things have changed for people affected by the tornado
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From left, Verona Area High School student Max Beardsley, Waunakee graduates Ryan Badger and Emma Deppen, and Lake Mills High School student Everett Karlen will perform in the Rockonsin competition on Thursday, June 27, at Summerfest.
house built by Chris in 1914 remains at the corner of Nine Mound and Aspen Drive. Chris Kahl’s son Vernon and his wife, Vera, joined in the farming operation in the mid-1930s. Their children, Lyn and Lorlene and siblings Maynard, twins Verna and Vera and Ken, grew up in that farmhouse. The dairy was formed around 1937 to deliver milk to residents in Verona, Madison and Middleton. The raw milk produced was still bottled by hand, capped with a small cardboard, tabbed disc, placed in crates and cooled before it was delivered. As the business grew, the family acquired a milk delivery truck and expanded to five hired hands. The dairy business was sold to Bowman Dairy in 1943, but the family continued to farm the land. Lorlene was married at the house, and she and husband raised their six children there. By 1953, some of the land was sold, but Vernon retained 40 acres and Chris kept 80 acres. Later the land became a housing subdivision. – Scott De Laruelle
VAHS student snags second straight year at Rockonsin KIMBERLY WETHAL Unified Newspaper Group
Verona Area High School student Max Beardsley and his band, Quick and Painless, are getting a second chance to play on one of the world’s biggest stages. Beardsley and his band, the defending champions from last year’s “Rockonsin” competition, will play at Summerfest again this year after being named one of 12 finalists. “It’s just a really great experience overall,” Beardsley said. “Last year it really helped us grow as a band.” Rockonsin is a state-wide garage band competition
for students in grades 7-12, where the top 12 finalists get a 15-minute set at Milwaukee’s Summerfest in late June, and the winner of the competition gets a second 45-minute set and studio time for a professional recording session. This year’s competition will take place on Thursday, June 27, and Friday, June 28, on the Johnson Controls World Sound Stage on the Summerfest grounds. Bands that perform all genres of music are eligible to compete in the Rockonsin competition. Quick and Painless is comprised of Beardsley and three other students from local high schools: Everett
SUMMER FARM TOY SHOW
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THANK YOU
to the kind woman who paid for our lunch at the Great Dane (Cahill Main) on Wednesday, May 29th.
June 7 & 8, 2019
Dyersville, Iowa
National Farm Toy Museum & Beckman High School
(563) 875-2727 or summerfarmtoyshow.com
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connected well as a group, Deppen said. “Really the only criticism they had was our outfits, and how we needed to look more like a band, which is pretty funny,” she said. Karlen told the Press that performing in the Rockonsin competition last year really solidified the members’ desire to keep moving forward with the band. “Playing ... a professional show like that really helped us realize, ‘Wow, this is really, really fun, we should get serious with this and put work into it,’” he said. “If this is what it’s like to take it to the next level, then that’s what we want to do.”
34 th Annual
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Show Hours: Friday 10am-5pm Saturday 9am-3pm
The June 2014 tornado through Verona ripped apart a section of Country View Elementary School. It was fortunately a week after the school year had ended, and the building was fully ready by the first day that fall.
Karlen from Lake Mills High School, and two recent graduates from Waunakee High School, Emma Deppen and Ryan Badger. Beardsley plays drums for the band, with Karlen performing lead guitar and lead vocals, Deppen on the bass guitar and Badger on keyboard. Quick and Painless was selected as a finalist out of around 70 applicants, Beardsley said. The application process was “educational” for the band members, Deppen said, as the judges gave the band feedback on its performing style. They were told that as a band, Quick and Painless had a good stage presence and
Your kindness means a lot to us veterans from Noel Manor! Mike Schwanz, Verona
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Maple Drive Dairy
What: Verona Area Historical Society June meeting When: 10 a.m. Saturday, June 15 Where: Country View Elementary School, 710 Lone Pine Way Info: saveveronahistory@ gmail.com
2019 Show Tractors
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In the early hours of Tuesday, June 17, 2014, an EF-3 level tornado tore through northwestern Verona, touching down on Epic’s Farm Campus and skipping north before heading east through the Cross County Road neighborhoods, ending at Country View Elementary School. The anniversary of the tornado will be the topic of this month’s Verona Area Historical Society meeting, held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 15, at the school, 710 Lone Pine Way. Verona Area School District superintendent Dean Gorrell will be the guest speaker. Gorrell, who toured the school after the tornado, will show his video walk-through of the destruction of several classrooms and discuss the effort to rebuild and be open in time for fall classes less than three months later. Gorrell will take people on a tour of the rebuilt classrooms. The society invites anyone to share their memories or photographs of the event, the community’s response and the months or years of rebuilding that followed. People with photographs or short written memories can send them to SaveVeronaHistory@ gmail.com.
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VAHS superintendent Gorrell to talk about 5-year anniversary