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Volunteers keep CUP of good works overflowing

By Tony Ends Editor

So many people in Green and Rock counties help CUP, which stands for Christians United ORFORDVILLE — When a for People, feed those in need, community unselfishly pours out DeForest has a tough time namits love, it can leave a person ing them all. speechless.

Yet she feels compelled to try.

That’s how volunteer coordi“Words cannot adequately nator of CUP Food Pantry Sheila express our gratitude to the De Forest feels a lot, but espe- many individuals who assisted cially in the wake of recent holi- the CUP Food Pantry’s efforts to feed 60 families with holiday days. food baskets this year,” De Forest stated recently.

“Special thanks to Stables Bar and Grill, the Wellnitz Family, the Hellers, Sons of the American Legion, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Beloit Piggly Wiggly, Orfordville Fire Department, Parkview School District Staff and AFSCME Local 938,” she said.

CUP is an ecumenical ministry to people across Parkview School District.

Participating churches sponsor the program, which is completePatti and Phil Wellnitz share ly volunteer-run. CUP’s pantry their CUP donation – 80 is housed at Orfordville Lutherpounds of cheese. an Church, 210 N. Main St., in

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“Last year, our volunteers packed more than 500 food orders for families who found themselves temporarily in need,” DeForest said. “All yearround, area churches of different denominations work together to ensure that no individual or family goes hungry in our comCourtesy Photos munity.”

Churches United for People food pantry volunteers serve CUP Food Pantry’s church- year-round with volunteer coordinator Sheila DeForest, seces represent the communities ond from right. of Orfordville, Footville, Brod“Most of the able-bodied head, Plymouth, and Newark not afford the transportation to get to the food pantries in adults who visit the food panwith a variety of denominations. try are working. However, they Each participating church com- Beloit.”

Janesville’s largest food pan- are struggling to make ends munity dedicates volunteers who try, ECHO, won’t serve residents meet, or they are facing a temserve on a rotating basis to keep outside of Janesville, so that’s not porary setback because of an the pantry running. an option either. When western unforeseen circumstance, such Each church also helps donate Rock County people run short as a medical emergency or car food and money to purchase food to fill the gaps in marinat- of food and the basics, CUP fills repairs.” the gap.

These individuals who get ing a staple supply.

About 3 years ago, however, help from CUP only receive panArea boy scouts, post offices, school groups and fire depart- De Forest learned that the coordi- try food basics once a month. ments help with huge food nator of the pantry needed to step It’s designed to supplement their meals and help stretch their food drives CUP undertakes. Local down because of health issues.

Due to the reporting and docu- dollars, not meet all of their farmers donate excess produce, cheese, eggs and chickens. Area mentation needed to keep the needs, De Forest said.

“The most heart- warmbusinesses also make financial pantry in compliance, most volunteers connected to CUP’s ing experiences occur when famand food contributions.

“I found out about the pantry work didn’t feel up to taking on ilies who have received support from the food pantry in the past,” about 5 years ago,” said De Forest the coordinator’s challenge.

“No one could be identi- she said, “come back to provide said, who has been doing teaching and social work her entire fied who was willing or had the a donation when they are back adult life and works for UW time to take it over, so I volun- on their feet again.”

Rock County Extension Service, teered,” De Forest said. “I didn’t working on nutrition education want to see this service, which is so badly needed, lost. with low-income families.

“I’ve been serving as a volun“In meeting the many beautiful volunteers,” she said, “I was teer in the role of coordinator of struck by how each Thursday, the pantry for about 3 years now. a crew of individuals from difWe serve all ages, ranging ferent faiths comes together to from families with young chilserve all of the people who can- dren, to single elderly adults.

Will 2016 mark death of town board powers?

By Tony Ends Editor

MADISON — A proposal that cripples Wisconsin’s most democratically controlled government body is poised for a hearing in the first weeks of 2016.

Assembly Bill 582 has nine elected supporters in the 99-member state house of representatives, three in the 33-member state senate.

It is before the Legislature’s Committee on Housing

and Real Estate, veiled under “shore land zoning” and “real property rights” designations.

Yet its provisions will effectively tie up abilities of all 1,259 of the state’s town boards to regulate their own land use Mike Eggleston, of Neighbors and zoning.

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So many people in Green and Rock counties help CUP, which stands for Christians United ORFORDVILLE — When a for People, feed those in need, community unselfishly pours out DeForest has a tough time namits love, it can leave a person ing them all. speechless.

Yet she feels compelled to try.

That’s how volunteer coordi“Words cannot adequately nator of CUP Food Pantry Sheila express our gratitude to the De Forest feels a lot, but espe- many individuals who assisted cially in the wake of recent holi- the CUP Food Pantry’s efforts to feed 60 families with holiday days. food baskets this year,” De Forest stated recently.

“Special thanks to Stables Bar and Grill, the Wellnitz Family, the Hellers, Sons of the American Legion, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Beloit Piggly Wiggly, Orfordville Fire Department, Parkview School District Staff and AFSCME Local 938,” she said.

CUP is an ecumenical ministry to people across Parkview School District.

Participating churches sponsor the program, which is completePatti and Phil Wellnitz share ly volunteer-run. CUP’s pantry their CUP donation – 80 is housed at Orfordville Lutherpounds of cheese. an Church, 210 N. Main St., in

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“Last year, our volunteers packed more than 500 food orders for families who found themselves temporarily in need,” DeForest said. “All yearround, area churches of different denominations work together to ensure that no individual or family goes hungry in our comCourtesy Photos munity.”

Churches United for People food pantry volunteers serve CUP Food Pantry’s church- year-round with volunteer coordinator Sheila DeForest, seces represent the communities ond from right. of Orfordville, Footville, Brod“Most of the able-bodied head, Plymouth, and Newark not afford the transportation to get to the food pantries in adults who visit the food panwith a variety of denominations. try are working. However, they Each participating church com- Beloit.”

Janesville’s largest food pan- are struggling to make ends munity dedicates volunteers who try, ECHO, won’t serve residents meet, or they are facing a temserve on a rotating basis to keep outside of Janesville, so that’s not porary setback because of an the pantry running. an option either. When western unforeseen circumstance, such Each church also helps donate Rock County people run short as a medical emergency or car food and money to purchase food to fill the gaps in marinat- of food and the basics, CUP fills repairs.” the gap.

These individuals who get ing a staple supply.

About 3 years ago, however, help from CUP only receive panArea boy scouts, post offices, school groups and fire depart- De Forest learned that the coordi- try food basics once a month. ments help with huge food nator of the pantry needed to step It’s designed to supplement their meals and help stretch their food drives CUP undertakes. Local down because of health issues.

Due to the reporting and docu- dollars, not meet all of their farmers donate excess produce, cheese, eggs and chickens. Area mentation needed to keep the needs, De Forest said.

“The most heart- warmbusinesses also make financial pantry in compliance, most volunteers connected to CUP’s ing experiences occur when famand food contributions.

“I found out about the pantry work didn’t feel up to taking on ilies who have received support from the food pantry in the past,” about 5 years ago,” said De Forest the coordinator’s challenge.

“No one could be identi- she said, “come back to provide said, who has been doing teaching and social work her entire fied who was willing or had the a donation when they are back adult life and works for UW time to take it over, so I volun- on their feet again.”

Rock County Extension Service, teered,” De Forest said. “I didn’t working on nutrition education want to see this service, which is so badly needed, lost. with low-income families.

“I’ve been serving as a volun“In meeting the many beautiful volunteers,” she said, “I was teer in the role of coordinator of struck by how each Thursday, the pantry for about 3 years now. a crew of individuals from difWe serve all ages, ranging ferent faiths comes together to from families with young chilserve all of the people who can- dren, to single elderly adults.

Will 2016 mark death of town board powers?

By Tony Ends Editor

MADISON — A proposal that cripples Wisconsin’s most democratically controlled government body is poised for a hearing in the first weeks of 2016.

Assembly Bill 582 has nine elected supporters in the 99-member state house of representatives, three in the 33-member state senate.

It is before the Legislature’s Committee on Housing

and Real Estate, veiled under “shore land zoning” and “real property rights” designations.

Yet its provisions will effectively tie up abilities of all 1,259 of the state’s town boards to regulate their own land use Mike Eggleston, of Neighbors and zoning.

Helping Neighbors, pauses It will also encumber board from making food deliveries. voting with unworkable rules, add to small town expenses and bar boards from employing their own comprehensive plans

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Avalanche Bantam A team ties Spartans MONROE — Appreciation Day at SLICE drew many grandparents, teachers, and sponsors Jan. 2 to see the Avalanche Bantam A team host McFarland Spartans’ Bantam A players.

Tessa Janecke opened game scoring, assisted by Travis Edmunds and Hayden Roth in the first period.

Hayden Roth, assisted

by Roman Bauer and Tessa Janecke, lit the lamp at the top of the second period. The Spartans added a goal, followed by another Avalanche goal by Travis Edmunds, assisted by Cade Janecke and Broc Kuberski.

The Spartans fought back, adding two goals near the end of the second period.

Both teams were aggressive in the third period and fought hard. Time dwindled, with the

game ending in a 3-3 tie. Goaltender Heath Bear recorded 23 saves.

Wildcats PeeWee A team tops Avalanche VERONA – Avalanche PeeWee A team traveled to Verona to take on the Wildcats PeeWee A team. Thirty-five seconds into the game, Hayden Roth made an excellent pass to Tessa Janecke for the first goal.

The Wildcats responded with a goal. From the blue line Roman Bauer fired one into the back of the net with assists from Alvin Buholzer and Tessa Janecke. The Wildcats went on a scoring streak, adding four goals. Hayden Roth, assisted

by Alvin Buholzer, scored the last goal, falling to the Wildcats 5-3. Goaltender Jack Leverton recorded 32 saves.

PeeWee A shuts out Dod-

geville Back from an injury sustained early in the season, Alyssa Knauf opened the game scoring on a pass from Tessa Janecke 1:06 into the game on Dec. 27 against Dodgeville Ice Wolves PeeWee A. Hayden Roth scored with :05 left of the first period, assisted

by Tessa Janecke.

Avalanche continued to dominate, scoring three goals in the second period with goals

by Alyssa Knauf, Hayden Roth, and Tessa Janecke. Earning assists were Tessa Janecke for a playmaker and Roman Bauer.

Avalanche continued the streak into the third with five more goals, shutting out the Ice Wolves 10-0.

Scoring in the third were Rob Schroeder, and hat tricks each for Tessa Janecke and

Hayden Roth.

Avalanche outshot the Ice Wolves 43-9. Goaltender Jack Leverton earned his second shutout of the season.

Bantam A shuts out Dubuque Avalanche Bantam A team

improved their season record to 11-6-0 after shutting out the Dubuque Jr. Saints Bantam team.

Tessa Janecke scored the first two goals, each assisted by Hayden Roth and from Payton Stauffacher on the second goal.

Travis Edmunds lit the lamp in the second period; Hayden Roth earned a playmaker with another assist. Hayden Roth scored the last game goal in the third, assisted by Tessa Janecke and Broc Kuberski.

Goaltender Heath Bear recorded 23 saves.

Death Notice

Allen C. McCartney

DURAND — Allen C. McCartney, 96, of Durand, Ill., passed away on Saturday, Dec. 26, at Woods Crossing Nursing Home, Brodhead.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Durand. Visitation was held Courtesy Photo Tuesday before the time of serRob Schroeder of Albany vices at the church. The D.L. plays on the PeeWee Ava- Newcomer Funeral home in Brodhead assisted the family. lanche team.

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Brodhead-Juda High School wrestlers who went 4 and 1 for the day Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Evansville Holiday Dual tournament were, from left, Russell Waeffler (106 lbs.), Trent Davis (220 lbs.), Tyler Hoesly (160 lbs.), Dakota Taber (285 lbs.), and Blake Burns (120 lbs.).

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period in the 106-pound weight class.

With Evansville-Albany clinging to a 28-23 lead, the Blue Devils picked up the biggest pin of the night. Evansville-Albany’s Adam Staver pinned BrodheadJuda freshman Alex Gobeli at the 53-second mark of the second period.

In the120-pound weight class, Brodhead-Juda junior Blake Burns delivered a huge pin for the Cardinals. Burns pinned Evansville-Albany’s Hunter Georges on 1:13 into the opening period to cut the Blue Devils’ lead to 34-29 with two matches left.

Evansville-Albany secured the dual meet win in the 126pound weight class. Blue Devils’ Chase Katzenmeyer pinned Brodhead-Juda freshman Theodore Polvehstro at the 31-second mark of the first period. The pin extended the Blue Devils’ lead to 40-29 with one match remaining.

In the 132-pound weight class, Evansville-Albany’s Tyler Aasen beat Brodhead-Juda sophomore Kaleb Erb by decision, 7-2, in a hard-fought match.

Brodhead-Juda travels to Whitewater this week on Saturday, Jan. 9, for a Rock Valley crossover matchup.

Friday, Jan. 8 *No events scheduled.

Saturday, Jan. 9 *High school wrestling invitational at Lodi, 9:45 to 10:45 a.m.

Sunday, Jan. 10 *No events planned.

Monday, Jan. 11 *School board meeting, 7 to 9 p.m. in the Media Room.

Tuesday, Jan. 12 *PTO meeting, 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria. *High school wrestling at Verona, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 13 *Adult open gym in the high school gym, from 7 to 9 p.m.

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EVANSVILLE — Cardinal wrestlers couldn’t overcome an early deficit as Evansville-Albany beat Brodhead-Juda 43-29 in a Rock Valley Conference crossover dual meet contest last Wednesday.

In the 138-pound weight class, Evansville-Albany’s Nolan Kicmol pinned Brodhead-Juda freshman Jeremiah Darwin at the 33-second mark of the opening period.

The Blue Devils’ lead extended to 12-0 in the second match of the meet. Evansville-Albany’s Jordan Meyer secured a pin against Cardinals’ junior Tommy Grabowski 1:38 into the first period in the 145-pound weight class.

Evansville-Albany racked up a third straight pin in the 152-pound weight class. Tyler Schmidt pinned Brodhead-Juda junior Nick Hack at 1:17 in the third period.

In the 160-pound weight class, the Cardinals picked up their first win of the meet. Junior Tyler Hoesly beat Evansville-Albany’s Johann Kleisch by major decision, 8-0, to cut the Blue Devils’ lead to 18-4.

In the 170-pound weight class, the Cardinals inched closer with another major decision. Junior Noah Steinmann secured the win, 12-2, against EvansvilleAlbany’s Austin Anderson.

The Blue Devils regained the momentum in the 182-pound weight class. Evansville-Albany’s Dakota beat Brodhead-Juda junior Logan Ford by major decision, 11-3, to extend the Blue Devils’ lead to 22-8.

In the 195-pound weight class, Evansville-Albany’s Lucius Rinehart secured a pin against Brodhead-Juda junior Joe Stout 1:25 into the opening period.

Over the next three matches Brodhead-Juda made the meet tight. The Cardinals started the comeback in the 220-pound weight class. In the most exciting battle of the night, BrodheadJuda sophomore Trent Davis edged Evansville-Albany’s Clay Spooner by decision, 6-5.

In the 285-pound weight class, the Cardinals picked up their first pin. Senior Dakota Taber pinned Blue Devils Branden Lange at the 1:02 mark of the second period. With the pin, Brodhead-Juda sliced the deficit to 28-17.

Freshman Russell Waeffier pinned Evansville-Albany’s Jared Miller 1:59 into the third

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MILWAUKEE — Two students from Albany received academic honors from Milwaukee School of Engineering for the 2015 Fall Quarter: Logan Anderson, who is studying mechanical engineering at the school made the MSOE honors list. Lilian Horn, studying software engineering, made the MSOE dean’s list.

Undergraduate students who have earned at least 30 credits and have a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or higher (out of 4.0) are on the Dean’s List. Students who have maintained a 3.70 or higher receive “high honors.”

Undergraduate students on the Honors List have

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Recovering, keeping lost occupations for those we love I’ve worn many hats in life.

I wore them for comfort against sun, wind and rain.

I wore them occupationally, often two and three at a time, to provide for those I loved.

Hardest hats of all to keep upright on my pate were those of father and farmer.

Greatest of all teachers I’ve had in life – my five children and their mother – motivated me endlessly to serve and protect life in my home, life in my community, life in the soil.

My own stubbornness has been the reason I failed many times – and also the reason I never gave up trying, to fill each role.

In my mind, in my heart, I’ll always cling to the hands of my children, cling to the tools that “till and keep” God’s gardens and fields.

I came late to fathering and farming. I was ill-equipped, unprepared, without essential resources.

With innocent, trusting children looking on at each step, I confronted problems, tackled challenges, puzzled my way through

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start-ups and breakdowns.

I grasped unfamiliar tools, took hold of foreign objects and pieces of equipment. I discovered ways to put things together, tinkered till things worked.

In the early years, there was something akin to fear, an awful apprehension of failure, in my stomach a good bit of the time.

How in the world was I going to fix this, overcome that, succeed so clueless of solutions!

Early on, a neighboring spouse of a long line of farmers consoled me, repeating her veterinarian’s wisdom: Farming is typically three mechanical breakdowns of some sort a day; you prepare yourself for that reality each morning in the mirror. Any night you turn

in and realize you’ve had fewer things break or fall apart than that, well, you’ve had a pretty good day!

It was 20 years ago this dear woman told me that, as her husband welded the broken drawbar on our first used tractor. I never could have employed that tractor properly without their help.

As I look back, I’m not sure I could have made my way forward without that sweet insight and good-natured humor, as well. I recalled it – every day and every night.

Dela and the children contributed immeasurably to my ability and confidence, too. With wonder, amazing kinship and union, each placed miraculous seeds, bedding plants, chicks, lambs, kids, piglets as if extensions of their own hands into my clumsy hands. Thanks to them, it all gradually became so valuable and natural to me, too, in time.

Industry of any kind that limits its purpose to creating monetary profit without these human values, this human spirit, misses an important truth here.

FSA hosts CRP informational meetings of improving wildlife habitat.

December 2015 marks the 30th anniversary for the nation’s most successful voluntary conservation program.

CRP is a federally funded program that assists agricultural landowners and producers with the cost of restoring, enhancing and protecting certain land by establishing grasses, shrubs and trees to improve water quality, prevent soil erosion and reduce loss of wildlife habitat.

As of September 2015, 24.2 million acres were enrolled in CRP nationwide. CRP also is protecting more than 170,000 miles of streams through riparian forest and grass buffers. That represents a distance that would stretch around the world 7 times.

CRP General Sign-up 49 started in early December. Offers will continue being accepted for enrollment into the Conservation Reserve Program through Feb. 26.

Under the CRP General Signup, all bids nationwide will be evaluated. The highest ranking offers will be accepted. If accepted, the new contract will become effective Oct. 1.

Farm owners and operators are encouraged to call and make an appointment to meet and look at

all the different options available with CRP. Landowners may want to enroll an entire field, install a grass waterway, place a small part of the farm in pollinator habitat, create a wildlife scrape, or choose from many more environmentally-friendly practices.

Eligibility requirements will be reviewed during the office visit.

This meeting is free and open to the public. No preregistration is required to attend. For more information about theCRP informational meetings, contact Green County FSA at (608) 325-4195.

Anyone with disabilities who requires accommodations to attend or participate in the meetings should contact Teresa Zimmer, (608) 325-4195 extension 2, or Federal Relay Service at 1-877-387-2001.

erations to come.

The movie, the book, provide powerful reminders of truths I hear voiced daily in people I cover – in their shops and businesses, in their school board and government meetings, in their under- and unemployed young people. $34.4 trillion in wealth lost – about $5 trillion of it in assets people counted on for retirement.

6 million home mortgages foreclosed. 8.8 million good-paying jobs eliminated.

It all happened in little more than 1 ½ years. A nation, a world, has not recovered.

Locally, I do not believe we shall ever recover – sustainably, justly, in ways we can see, believe, experience locally.

That is, we won’t recover unless we fully reprise, with the help of our children and partners, our most vital occupations close to home.

Only spiritual wealth in fathering and farming can help us recover. Only by these occupations can we feed those we love.

Only those hats can never be taken from our heads, unless we let them fall.

Obituary

Dolores H. McKillip

BRODHEAD — Dolores H. McKillip, age 90, of Janesville, formerly of Brodhead, passed away at Huntington Place, Janesville, on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015.

She was born on July 11, 1925, in Shullsburg, the daughter of Paul and Francis (Kemmerick) Lehman. She married James H. McKillip on May 19, 1972, at St. Thomas Catholic Church before Monsignor Wahl, in Freeport, Ill. James passed away on July 9, 2000.

Dolores had worked for Sunstrand Corp. of Freeport. She and her husband moved to Brodhead in 1982. She was a member of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Brodhead, and enjoyed gardening and playing cards.

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MONROE — Green County Farm Service Agency (FSA) is sponsoring two informational meetings on evaluating options available to landowners and operators under the 2014 Farm Bill Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).

The meetings will be held today, Wednesday, Jan. 6, starting at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Lower Level Multi-Purpose Rooms of the Green County Justice Center, 2841 6th Street in Monroe.

Participants in CRP establish long-term, resource-conserving plant species, such as approved grasses or trees (known as “covers”) to control soil erosion, improve water quality and develop wildlife habitat.

In return, FSA provides participants with annual rental payments and cost-share assistance to establish those covers.

At times that commodity prices are low, enrolling land in CRP can be especially attractive to farmers. Contract duration is between 10 and 15 years, depending on the cover enrolled.

The long-term goal of the program is to re-establish native plant species on agricultural lands for the primary purpose of preventing soil erosion and improving water quality and related benefits

Life’s cycle (provided, of course, that there is access to clean water, natural minerals, sunlight in a reliable climate, and quality organic matter) is endless.

Dollars for dollars’ sake, are forever going as quickly as they are coming. They’re terminal.

America and the world’s economic collapse of 2007, powerfully demonstrate this in the new movie “The Big Short.” The movie is based on the non-fiction book of the same name, written

by Michael Lewis.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine recounts the housing and credit bubble buildup and bursting during the 2000s.

W.W. Norton and Company published the book March 15, 2010; it had 28 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list.

If you Google “The Big Short,” and scroll to the Wikipedia entry, you’ll find an excellent summary of the major characters in the true-life story. Better yet, you can and should see the movie, read the book.

Realize that it all unquestionably impacts our lives to this moment. It cannot but negatively dominate economic life for gen-

She is survived by seven nephews and one niece. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and four sisters.

Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. today, Wednesday, Jan. 6, at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Brodhead, with Father Michael Moon presiding.

Burial will be in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Dodgeville.

Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. today, Wednesday, until time of services at the church.

D.L. Newcomer Funeral Home of Brodhead is handling arrangements. Online condolences may be made at www.dlnewcomer-

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State program to highlight little ones’ needs touches local hearts

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which 80 percent is preventable, according to an American Heart Association coordinator of the Little Hats, Big Hearts program.

“The program really touched my heart, so I started knitting,” Myers said. “I finished my first huge bundle of red yarn and completed 21 little red hats.”

She planned to mail off the 21 hats she knitted Dec. 31, 2015, to the Red Cross in Milwaukee, and she more than met that goal.

The hats were mailed, destined for distribution to babies born in Aurora Health Care birthing centers across the state during February – American Heart Month.

When she got the first batch of hats finished and mailed early, Myers decided to keep going, with a new goal of making and donating 42 to 45 hats in honor of Next Generation 4-H Club.

She may finish those hats this week or next.

“I’ve been knitting forever, but I’ve never gotten involved in anything like this,” Myers said.

“I decided I’d also knit some hats for the Monroe birthing unit, so I made four hats to take to them, too.”

Myers has also learned since

MONROE — A new year means new days of customer service at Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Service Centers in Monroe and Darlington.

Beginning this week on Monday, Jan. 5, Monroe DMV center will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays. In Darlington, the new days are Monday and Wednesday.

Hours remain the same at both locations, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Customers in Monroe and Darlington can visit their local DMV service center during hours that start very early and go later than most DMV service centers in the state,” said Jill Reeve, DMV operations manager for the Wisconsin Department of Trans-

portation, Southwest Region.

“We switched the days of service to optimize resources and provide better service to our customers.”

Many customers are surprised to learn most routine DMV-tasks can be done online at www.wisconsindmv.gov.

“Customers really only need to visit a DMV service center once every 8 years to renew their driver license,” Reeve said. Tasks such as renewing an ID, titling a vehicle, renewing license plates, and others can be done online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

During regular business hours (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) online chat and phone support are available to answer questions.

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starting her personal initiative that if the statewide program is really low in numbers of hats contributed, more hats will be accepted after a Jan. 15 deadline.

The program in Wisconsin sought hats in both newborn and preemie sizes made of yarn that is red, cotton or acrylic, medium to heavy weight and machine washable and dry-able. Donations of yarn were also accepted.

Myers has been a general leader in Next Generation 4-H for 3 years, an adult leader for 8 years.

She is president of the adult leadCourtesy Photo ers group across the 18 Green Some of the red hats knitted for Little Hats, Big Hearts proCounty 4-H Clubs, which held gramming and donated in honor of Next Generation 4-H Club its first meeting of 2016 earlier of Juda. this week.

Myers raised four children in stand what these programs like said.

Projects in which the club Juda 4-H during the time she the community meal and Family members have engaged can be farmed here after first purchas- Promise are for, what they do.”

A lot of other families in the seen at the group’s Facebook ing a farm in Juda in 1983. As she’s found more time to get Juda area share Myers’ commit- page, with contact information, involved as an adult leader, she’s ment for 4-H Club community meeting hours and location and service. Next Generation has other details available through done so.

“Our club is also donating 40 grown from 9 families, to 20 Green County 4-H Extension blankets to the children’s ward at families, to 37 families, Myers Service.

Monroe Hospital,” Myers said.

“We want our kids to be very active in community service projects. We teach by example.

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Haffel scored 20 points, direct links to DMV vehicle regincluding 17 in the second half.

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In the championship battle, 21 points, with 17 coming before In addition to the expanding intermission. Goecks added 10 junior Skyler Stuckey led the services on its website, WisDOT points for Juda.

Panthers with 21 points. connects with customers on Schmitt added 12 points, Sophomore Hailey Kammerer Facebook (http://www.facebook. chipped in eight points, including including 10 in the opening half. com/WisDOT) and Twitter @ 6-for-8 from the charity stripe.

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ly to pick whose names appear on the ballot for supervisor, clerk and treasurer to represent them in conducting the town’s business.

Citizens can do this directly without going through a political party, often insulating decisionmaking from outside, exploitative influence.

As the nation approaches its 240th birthday, Assembly Bill 582 seems set, however, to eviscerate direct democratic control in Wisconsin’s towns.

It neutralizes and diminishes town powers in five ways that Wisconsin Towns Association staff laid out for their members in email alerts late last year.

For 1.7 million people who make their homes in Wisconsin’s towns (more than 30 percent of the population and 95 percent of the state’s surface area), this bill’s effects will be far-reaching.

Under present law, property owners who sit endlessly, speculatively, without using or developing their land cannot avail themselves of a “vested right” that courts commonly recognize.

The moment property owners seek a building permit, however, and comply with local rules to get that building permit their rights become “vested.”

Local government gives these land owners permissions under existing zoning or land rules that the government cannot take back. It vests their rights by time.

Assembly Bill 582 takes this “vested right” from a building permit and extends it to all permits – permits for: a frack sand mine, a massive livestock facility, a highway road access, high capacity wells, asphalt plants, a housing development, aerial spraying of liquid manure, waste dumps, and on and on.

The proposed law also extends the vested right on one parcel of land in one locality to all the permit applicant’s holdings, anywhere in the state – anywhere that the applicant claims land is part of the original, local project.

“A landowner in a county in southern Wisconsin could obtain a permit to link a driveway to a highway,” Koles said, “and under this law freeze all regulation on his project, including on property in another county at the other end of the state. He could freeze regulation on a project area – self-defined by the permit applicant everywhere he owns land in the state.”

Assembly Bill 582 also holds town boards, which frequently have only 3 elected members,

JUDA — Prompted by a story on babies born with heart defects, which she read in the Wisconsin State Journal several months ago, Debbie Myers was moved to act.

“I decided that I would help the program by making stocking caps for premature and full term babies that are born with heart defects,” Myers said, “in honor of the healthy youth that we have in our 4-H Club, the Next Generation 4-H Club of Juda.”

What Myers read about was an American Heart Association effort called Little Hats, Big Hearts. It sought volunteer help from people who knit or crochet, to make and contribute red hats to draw attention to babies born annually in Wisconsin with congenital heart defects.

Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect in the United States, and health officials say most of these problems can be treated if addressed right away.

The effort aims to raise public awareness about heart disease, of

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Continued from page 1 in prohibiting conditional uses.

“We’ve been actively negotiating with this bill’s sponsors,” said Mike Koles, executive director of the Wisconsin Towns Association, in a phone interview last week.

“We anticipate all our concerns will be addressed, but in its present form, Assembly Bill 582 would be very bad for our towns. We’re opposed to the draft as it stands.”

Koles’ association represents all but five of the state’s 1,259 towns. That includes Rock County’s 20 towns and Green County’s 16 towns.

Town board structure is modeled after the nation’s first town boards in New England. It’s thus a cornerstone of American democracy.

Town government gives local citizens – where they live – the greatest means of being heard and of exercising local control of any level of government.

Residents of the state’s townships can meet in their neighborhood town hall and vote on the budget their elected supervisors propose.

They can caucus semi-annual-

to a ¾ vote when they seek to enhance zoning regulations.

In other words, Koles points out, local town voting will have to be unanimous, even when two of three supervisors on a town board want to decrease allowable development density of land, or reduce permitted uses.

There won’t be majority rule; a single vote will be able to block town decisions.

“The bill also provides a developer’s discount, a holding zone for development, unfair taxation, and destroys the farmland preservation component of use value taxation,” Koles stated, in behalf of Wisconsin towns.

“AB 582 also increases the costs of towns in providing notice to property owners if town decisions impact their use, and it prevents town boards from using a comprehensive plan to prohibit conditional uses.”

Representatives Jarchow, Allen, Craig, Czaja, Knodl, Nygren, Petersen and Tauchen first proposed on Dec. 7, 2015 that AB 582 become state law, and Rep. Shrada joined on as a co-sponsor, Dec. 17. State Sen. Lasee, LeMahieu and Nass are listed as co-sponsors in the other side of the legislature.

“It will be a 5- to 6-week

sprint to the end of this legislative session,” said Koles, who still hopes state lawmakers can be persuaded of this bill’s negative impact on Wisconsin’s town governments.

“There are four floor sessions scheduled. Of course, it would be helpful to have town citizens voice their concerns to lawmakers or turn out for the bill’s hearing,” he said.

Some Green and Rock town and county supervisors have expressed concerned about this proposed law to the Independent Register.

Wisconsin Farmers Union and the League of Conservation Voters have also tried in recent weeks to rally opposition to bills like AB 582, especially Assembly Bill 600/ Senate Bill 459 (authors Lasee and Jarchow again).

League staffers say AB 600 (under the guise of storm water containment) will allow vast liquid waste structures to be built on lake beds and near waterways, and emptied into waters or wetlands if necessary.

A committee hearing for AB 600 was set yesterday, Tuesday, Jan. 5 in the Capitol. Jennifer Giegrich, is WLCV legislative director, 608 208-1130, Jennifer @conservationvoters.org

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Alumni from the Parkview High School basketball teams in the 2000s and 1990s stand ready to be recognized in Orfordville.

Parkview High School Alumni from teams in the 1980s, 70s, 60s and 50s line up to be recognized at the annual game last month.

Alumni night at Parkview draws big crowd to 5 games ORFORDVILLE — Parkview’s Second Annual Basketball Alumni night, held on Tuesday, Dec. 29, had a great turnout.

There were players from each decade – the 1950s to the 2000s.

Several past and present coaches were present, as well.

Some of the coaches were pre-

viously players and later became coaches at Parkview. The head coach of the Belleville Varsity Boys team, Jarod Wichser, was also a Parkview basketball alumnus.

The Alumni night was held the night of a double header basketball game between both the Parkview Girls and Boys basket-

ball teams against the Belleville Girls and Boys teams.

A total five basketball games were played: Boys Varsity, Junior Varsity I and II and Girls Varsity and Junior Varsity I. Athletic Director Shane Suehring said that the third annual Alumni Night will be held during Christmas Break 2016.

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In the 160-pound weight class, sophomore Gavon Brown pinned Du-Pec’s Noah Keller 53 seconds into the final period.

Parkview extended the lead to 12-0 in the170-pound weight class. Senior Patrick Engen secured a pin against Cory Leman at the 1:26 mark of the opening period.

In the 182-pound weight class, freshman Cameron Naglus received a forfeit to push the Vikings’ lead to 18-0.

In the tightest match of the night, Colton Manning beat Parkview senior Nicholas Shepherd by decision, 7-5, in the 285-pound weight class.

In the 113-pound weight class, freshman Jackson Hauri received a forfeit to extend the lead to 24-3.

Sophomore Conner Nolan picked up the Vikings’ third

pin of the meet in the 120pound weight class. Nolan pinned Du-Pec’s Hunter Foster with 25 seconds left in the opening period.

Parkview junior Colton Peterson picked up a forfeit in the 126-pound weight class.

The lead ballooned to 36-3.

In the 132-pound weight class, senior Collin Hatlevig secured a pin. Hatlevig picked up the pin against Easton Demus at the 1:23 mark of the second period. 42 Du-Pec’s Grant McCorkle dominated the match, cruising to a major decision win, 14-0, over Parkview senior Samuel Gorton in the 138-pound weight class to trim the Cardinals’ lead to 42-7.

In the 145-pound weight class, Parkview senior Aaron Hatlevig delivered the quickest pin of the night. Hatlevig pinned Du-Pec’s Ethan Flores 45 seconds into the match.

Junior Byron Brown racked up another pin for the Vikings in the 152-pound weight class.

Brown pinned Du-Pec’s Trent Hendricks at the 30-second mark of the first period.

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ORFORDVILLE — The Cougar girls’ basketball team pulled away in the second half to beat Parkview, 66-54, in a Rock Valley Conference south matchup on Dec. 18.

Junior Alex Thole led the Vikings with 15 points, including nine in the opening half. Senior Katie Harnack added 11 points including two three-pointers.

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The 4th of July Parade theme for 2016 will celebrate 150 great years; the festival tent will feature Chicken Chaser Lager.

This custom craft brew will celebrate the day in September 1901 when a leopard escaped from the local circus run by George “Popcorn” Hall. The beast led pursuers for several days before being brought back to town after chasing chickens and more farm animals through Magnolia Township.

Music will return to take the forefront in 2016 celebrations.

Cherry Pie, The Jimmys, and local cover band, Pink Houses are already on the schedule.

More are expected to be signed soon. The 4th celebration will begin on Friday night and end on Monday after the fireworks show, which Discover Wisconsin touts as one of the 10 best shows in the state.

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There are more family fun activities throughout the festival every year. The Grove Chase Fun Run to benefit JDRF and the Evansville Soccer Club have been combined with the Grove Gallop to create one big running event on the morning of the 4th.

It’s always good to burn those calories early in the day to make room for the Lion’s Club Chicken BBQ and the EUMC Pie Sale later in the day. Both are held every year.

Sundays in the park feature more than karaoke. The Rumble in the Park Car Show celebrated its 10th year in 2015, with more than 200 entries. An ecumenical church service in the Upper Park followed a tasty pancake breakfast. The Youth Fishing Contest on Saturday morning drew a record number of entries in 2015.

It wouldn’t be the 4th of July without baseball. Evansville’s festival didn’t disappoint, featuring Co-ed softball, Home Talent Baseball, and travelling team and All-Star games from Baseball Youth of Evansville.

The 4th of July celebration in 2016 is shaping up to be bigger than ever.

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More than 10,000 people lined the main streets of the city for the legendary parade July 4, 2015.

They saw floats and units from local businesses, youth, and service groups celebrate the nation’s independence.

Evansville High School Marching Band was one of those units. The theme for the parade was “The Music of Evansville,” in honor of a reunion recalling 50 years of musicals in city schools.

Music and the 4th of July have gone together for a long time in Evansville. The tradition was revived early in the first decade of this century, with a music festival just off Main Street to attract people downtown.

By 2015, the music festival had become part of the bigger party at Lake Leota-Leonard Park in celebration of Independence Day. Six live bands and local karaoke singers took the stage over the 4-day festival.

Madison super group Cherry Pie took the spotlight under the Festival Tent with a mix of new and old rock and roll. Two country acts, Jamie Campbell & the Redneck Romeos and The Gary McAdams Band, highlighted the second day of the celebration.

Blues favorites The Jimmys rocked on the afternoon of the 4th, laying the groundwork for the danceable rock and roll of Falcon and Lube on the third day.

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The online testing tabulates students’ results more quickly, centers examinations on student growth and provides results that can be compared with previous testing, according to Brodhead Superintendent Lenny Lueck.

High school show choir Guys and Dolls performers previewed their 2015 show ahead of a day-long competition with other schools at Burlington High School.

Proposal to meet fire district needs by implementing a $500 response fee, drew criticisms from citizens in a district meeting with the city council.

Fire Commission President Ron Schwartzlow told the crowd on hand for the city council meeting that the district wanted to find ways other than a fire protection district tax levy increase to cover firefighting costs.

Orfordville capped a

10-year community and fundraising effort, moving its public library into a roomy new library space at 519 E. Beloit St. on the village’s south side.

Brodhead Senior Citizens Center enjoyed a new look over Exchange Street thanks to Custom Quality Windows of Albany.

The Brodhead public library held a kick-off party for a new “1000 Books before Kindergarten” reading program to encourage families and care-givers to guide children into reading before they start school.

Green County UW Extension Community Resource Development Educator Victoria Solomon presented a demographic tool capable of helping business owners and merchants plan by its predictions into the year 2040.

Solomon debuted the tool in a PowerPoint presentation, as guest speaker in the 68th Brodhead Chamber of Commerce annual meeting.

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raised $18,000 for the mill race area improvement between Brodhead and Decatur Lake.

Concern of a leaking Middle School roof prompted a public hearing for residents of the school district.

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Wisconsin School News featured Albany School District and its cooperative JAM with Juda and Monticello.

The trio of schools received grants from Wisconsin technology Initiative to buy telepresence equipment, including high definition television screens, Smart-boards, and video equipment to collaboratively teach advanced and college-credit classes in shared instruction and programming.

Juda’s Got Talent night to support its highly successful Math Team and an active Spanish Club braved a snowstorm to showcase school talent and entertain the local community.

Parkview 5th-graders promoted math studies in a novel cookie exchange project.

With a forecast that Wisconsin’s minority population will more than triple by 2060, UW Extension Family Living Educator Bridget Mouchon-Hum-

phrey under-scored importance of sensitivity to diversity and training for that.

A 170 percent increase in Hispanic/Latino student enrollment in Brodhead Schools this year demonstrates this trend and need.

The Fire District advised the City of Brodhead that its commissioners had passed a resolution to collect fire response fees.

City Council offered the job of police chief to Christopher Hughes, formerly police chief of Cottage Grove. Council members also approved a $10,000 request to study needs of a proposed senior – community center.

An annual Soup Bowl Dinner netted $1,000 for Brodhead High School Art Department.

This senior project of students Felicia Belmontes and Bri Scheidegger culminated many months of potting, glazing and finishing more than 100 bowls for the benefit meal with community volunteers and instructor Barb Miller.

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About a dozen people from the Brodhead School District turned out for a forum to address an aging Middle School’s structural problems.

Problems with the school, built in 1957, include a leaking roof, as well as boiler system, window and plumbing concerns.

The school board authorized the district to pay off $195,000 in debt, saving the schools $13,000 in interest, and freeing up $1 million in borrowing capacity within limits allowed by law. Fixing three-fourths of the roof’s repairs was put at more than $500,000.

Brodhead-Juda wrestlers Brady Colden took state wrestling championship at the 170 lb. weight level, and Logan Maurer finished in second place in Division 2 at the WIAA State Wrestling Championships. With 48 wins and one loss, Maurer became the record holder for most career wins in Brodhead wrestling history.

Lady Cardinal basketball players celebrated a regional championship repeat, in a close match with Big Foot, 48 to 47.

Erin Kloepping won the Brodhead Optimist Essay Contest titled “Optimism Should Be a Priority.”

Brodhead Farm and Home changed hands from Ernie Webnar, to fourth generation Gasser Hardware Store owner Rob Schmidt, whose family has founded or opened stores in Blue River, Boscobel, Hazel Green and Lancaster, Wis., as well as Galena, Illl, and Maquoketa, Iowa.

Pinnow Pharmacy owners Doug and Lavonne Pinnow reached an accord to link with Hometown Pharmacy, which owns and operates 20 pharmacies in Wisconsin. The move gives the local pair, who’ve owned the local pharmacy since the mid 1980s, more time with family, and Doug more time to serve as Brodhead’s mayor.

Teresa Withee, who graduated Juda High School and earned a B.S. in business management from Concordia College, was named Brodhead City Clerk-Treasurer.

She began training for the position to replace Roseann Meixelsperger, who will retire

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City Council backed a resolution to include the city in a Youth in Government program, which allows selected youth to attend council and committee meetings, ask questions, share opinions on community issues and cast non-binding votes on

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Committees worked to develop the plans for buildings and grounds, curriculum, finance, school safety and technology, and the district posted the entire set of strategies on its website.

Dale and Louise Roenneburg, who were married in St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brodhead, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary.

Brodhead Community Gardens, which cover an acre by the former Brodhead Farm and Home store on the city’s southeast side, got its season under way with a meeting at the public library.

Plots to grow vegetables were made available for $15 to anyone in the community.

Brodhead High School’s business and special education departments helped students set up, manage

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Town of Decatur residents honored Board of Supervisors Chairman Arthur Riese for 30 years of service.

Area law enforcement cooperating with Brodhead Police Department undertook a drug interdiction enforcement campaign, making 54 traffic stops, issuing 26 traffic citations, warning 60 drivers of traffic violations, arresting 12 on drug charges and making 10 criminal arrests.

Officers, agents, troopers and deputies from 10 agencies and departments, including K-9 units from four authorities took part in the intense 5-hour effort.

American Legion Post Commander Bruce Sutherland presented Charles McManus with a 70-year membership certificate for service to the Legion, including three stints as

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City Common Council approved a contract with new Chief of Police Christopher Hughes and swore

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Committee members for a combined senior citizen and community center identified core needs of a proposed facility for Brodhead. Senior architect Joseph R. Benesh of a Des Moines, Iowa, firm conducted a site analysis with the committee, studying two possible buildings for the proposed facility. The group toured the former Brodhead Junior High School and the former Health and Fitness Center during Benesh’ recent visit.

John and Jaine Winters set off for California where they will begin a 4,000-mile bicycle trip from San Francisco to Kitty Hawk, N.C. The pair set a goal of raising $1 million to restore Brodhead’s connection to the Sugar River, Decatur Lake and Mill Race.

Brodhead becomes the first confirmed siting of the Emerald Ash Borer in Green County, since the invasive insect was first found to be killing ash trees in Wisconsin back in 2008.

Public Works Supervisor Rich Vogel sought permission from City Council to remove 50 suspect trees, of more than 400 ash trees believed in and around the city. Determining how to budget the initial $18,000 cost of removal was referred to the city’s finance committee.

Four high school students Dawson Keller, Christopher Dodd, Cheyenne Brady and Magali Jimenez Hernandez were approved as appointees to the city’s first Youth in Government representatives.

Wisconsin has only four such programs in the state.

Veterans of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the recent conflicts in the Middle East were recognized and honored during Brodhead’s Memorial Day service in the high school auditeria.

A LOOK BACK AT 2015 - June

From the Independent Register and the communities it serves Brodhead Historical Society marked the 150th year end of the Civil War with an exhibit Memorial Day weekend opening the Depot Museum.

Museum curator Betty Earleywine and a volunteer committee put two new exhibits

together for the season.

Students and educators reported a dramatic change in student behavior attributed to paper chains, representing more than 10,000 acts of kindness that have been tallied since mid-January, the

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start of a Rachel’s Challenge project.

Teri LaBorde, cross-categorical teacher and student council co-advisor at Brodhead High School, helped students organize the chain’s display.

Rachel Joy Scott was the first person killed in the Columbine High School shooting incident in Jefferson County, Colo., which shocked the nation in April 1999.

Rachel’s five goals in life were to look for the best in others, dream big, choose positive influences, speak with kindness and start your own chain reaction.

Brodhead Elementary School received a 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant for $75,000 over the next 5 years.

The federal funding helps districts establish community learning centers for students attending high poverty and low-performing schools.

Brodhead has maintained a 40 percent poverty level for several years since the historic economic downturn in 2007, which resulted in 9,000

layoffs and plant closings in the state-line region.

Common Council members adopted a Decatur Lake Dam safety policy, specifying when city workers can or should put in place barriers to increase height of the structure in fluctuating water levels.

Mayor Doug Pinnow spends his last day on the job at Pinnow Pharmacy, which his family sold earlier this year to Home Town Pharmacy, based in Rio, Wis. High School softball player Erin Kloepping was named a Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association All-Star.

An electronic waste recycling event nets huge containers of discarded television sets in Brodhead.

Businesses helped paint the town purple in honor and support of Green County Relay for Life efforts to benefit American Cancer Society programs.

Efforts in Brodhead this month included a benefit silent auction and the relay race held at the high school track.

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A LOOK BACK AT 2015 - July

From the Independent Register and the communities it serves Garden in the heart of Brodhead.

Environmental education and wildlife rescue – including a tarantula, parrot, frog and python – wowed children as part of the community heroes 6-week summer library program.

Staff from the nature’s Niche LLC Animal rescue in Stevens Point provided the program.

A competitive Advance Disposal offer to the City of Monroe threatened viability of Green County’s landfill, located in Decatur Township on County Highway SS west of Brodhead.

While Monroe accounted for 50 percent of the landfill’s joint use with 11 other local governments, but was reported to be seeking less expensive waste disposal services with Advance.

Eagle Scout projects of Sebastian Adams, Holden Whitledge and Brett Hammon, including a beacon tower, generator shed, landscaping and fencing were dedicated during an Experimental Aircraft Association memorial to charter members.

Friends of Brodhead Airport hosted the event open to the public.

Common Council members gave the green light to move forward on plans and a bidding process to construct a covered bridge over the Mill Race at Putnam Park.

Estimated cost of the steel

and wooden bridge was put at $450,000, with funding sufficient to install footings in an initial phase of construction at no cost to the city.

Home school students Ami and Espere Echard-Lee were featured speakers on a silent movie they filmed at Brodhead Historical Society’s Depot Museum.

The International Buster Keaton Society supported the pair’s filming of the silent movie, which was undertaken in fall 2014.

Juda FFA Club member Kelsey Cramer’s 4-year-old Holstein called Rebel captured many awards, including Grand and Senior Champion Registered Holstein at the Green County Fair.

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Veterans Memorial Park bandstand, first built in 1934, underwent extensive refurbishing thanks to city Building Improvement District board efforts and a restoration committee.

Constructed at a cost of $850 as a Works Progress Administration project of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic New Deal, the refurbishments totaled about $3,400.

Improvements included eight cement finials, or decorative cement globes and installation of historic photos of the 1st Brigade Band from the Civil War, Clarence Covered Bridge and Brodhead’s train depot.

Juda Future Farmers of America Club chapter won the state dairy foods contest.

Club chapter member Jason Roth was selected to serve as a Section 5 state FFA officer for the 2015-2016 year at the annual convention in Madison.

Newly named curator of the Kelch Aviation Museum at Brodhead Airport laid out the history of aviation, the legacy of Alfred and Lois Kelch, and the vision of the museum, which is located on the 88-acre airport established in 1946 south of Brodhead.

City Business Improvement District board members with the Park and Recreation Department began improvements to Tinker’s

A LOOK BACK AT 2015 - August From the Independent Register and the communities it serves

Attendance doubled at the second annual Brodhead Police Association’s “Night Out” that was held at Jaycees Park.

Part of a national program, the event is held to bring law enforcement and public safety personnel and agencies together in a social and recreational outlet, as well as informational opportunity, with those they serve.

Brodhead Sports Boosters volunteers constructed a new bathroom and concession facility for cross country, track, football, baseball and softball games at the high school. Brian Cook of Cook Construction and Mike Menzel with high school Principal Jim Matthys were captured in photo hard at it during the hot August work.

Josie Picard, 8-year-old daughter of Matt and Karen Picard of Brodhead, sang the National Anthem during Family Night at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers football team.

Christina Bray received Best in Show award at the 5th annual Wildflower Art Festival, which drew artists from three states.

A car show drew 115 entries from as far away as Wisconsin Rapids to a Chamber event, held in conjunction with Covered Bridge Days.

John and Jaine Winters finish and return from a 4,000-mile bike trip

between San Francisco and Kitty Hawk, N.C., to raise money for Pearl Island Recreational Corridor.

Citizens took requests for health and safety ordinances to protect water, livestock and residents from liquid manure to Decatur Town Board.

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Decatur Lake and Mill Race Association members have been monitoring water quality along Searles and Norwegian creeks and want to protect health and safety from runoff.

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Coverage of a grassroots effort in opposition to proposed construction of a 5,800-cow dairy facility west of Brodhead reported turnout of 120 people to a first meeting.

A farm couple, Bryce and Jen Riemer, hosted the informational and organizational meeting of Green County Defending our Farmland just east of the proposed Pinnacle Dairy, which the Tuls family of Nebraska wants to add to three mega-milking operations.

The Tuls already milk a combined 15,000 cows they have at two sites in Nebraska and a third site southeast of Janesville in Rock County, Wis. Brodhead acted to update the city’s lift stations at the city’s 20-year-old sewage treatment plant.

Trevor and Tia Long presented a check for just under $7,900 to Family Promise Network, which serves homeless families in Green County.

Family Promise was selected to benefit from this summer’s Wings of Hope Walk, held annually in memory of Adelyne Long, infant daughter of the Longs.

Horse-drawn historical tours were featured in the annual Covered Bridge Days Festival, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and narrated by volunteers of the Historical Society.

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Albany, Juda and Monticello public school teachers joined Brodhead School District educators at an in-service program of workshops and speakers.

The first-time collaborative effort let staff from the four school districts share professional development and resources. Brodhead Chamber of Commerce treated participants to

lunch in the program held at Brodhead High School.

Scott Anderson of Juda Schools was named one of six Wisconsin 2015 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching finalists.

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Parkview Schools hosted a public open house for new facilities that were part of $17 million in new school construction and renovations approved in an Orfordville area referendum.

Kid Connection completes Phase I of Albrecht Elementary School Parent Teachers Organization playground improvements in Brodhead.

The rubber mulch project helps protect children in falls, reduces stress on joints and bones, provides superior drainage, minimizes dust and keeps children clean.

Brodhead was among four school districts selected from 112 applications for new after-school activities.

The district joins 21 other school systems in Wisconsin sharing $1.6 million in 21st Century Community Learning Center funds.

Programming in this funding targets improved student achievement, attendance and behavior with school enrichment activities after normal school hours.

Decatur Township resident Jen Riemer was inducted into UW Platteville Athletic Hall of Fame. The 2000 graduate of UW Platteville holds three school records. She competed in both track and field and cross country teams while a student in Platteville.

Green County Tourism Committee members visited Brodhead to learn

about the Pearl Island Recreational Corridor project, which encompasses nearly 150 acres on the city’s western edge.

Brodhead Water and Light Superintendent Jeff Peterson, PIRC administrator Richard Benesh and Public Works Director Jerry Elmer described needs and potential of the mill race, Sugar River and Decatur Lake Dam area.

A new sign and sunflower sculpture, part of David Keller’s Brodhead High School senior project, were installed at the 22-year-old native prairie garden in front of Albrecht Elementary School.

Sylvester Township Board of Supervisors passed a 6-month moratorium on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations to allow a study panel time to prepare health and safety ordinances to put public protections in place.

Attorneys for the Tuls family’s proposed Pinnacle Dairy in Sylvester told the board that they had submitted application for a 5,800-unit dairy cow operation a week earlier.

Yet Green County Land and Water Conservation staff found the application incomplete and lacking nutrient management, land spreading contracts and other required detail.

The proposed dairy will generate on a single farm between 70 and 80 million gallons of liquid manure a year, a waste stream equivalent to a city of more than 100,000 people.

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With funding from a 3-year referendum coming to an end, Brodhead School Board members set a November hearing date on another 3-year funding measure.

District Superintendent Lenny Lueck and Comptroller Cathy Pfeuti laid out concerns, including a history of falling student enrollment and lagging state revenue, which is based on a per-pupil formula.

Local school expenses were projected to exceed revenue by the 2016-2017 school year, based on a Baird budget forecasting model that the district employs.

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Sylvester’s three-person board thus set in place its own process – parallel to Green County and the state of Wisconsin – for licensing and administering permits for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

The action brought the township current with a 2004 state law, which set up uniform standards and provided for state technical guidelines to permit CAFOs in Wisconsin.

The law allowed local governments to require health and safety standards based on scientific findings, however, and a study committee charged with determining such measures for Sylvester began its inquiry.

Even closer to Brodhead, in the Town of Decatur, the board of supervisors put adoption of protective measures similar to Sylvester’s on hold.

Decatur supervisors cited correspondence strongly opposing the ordinances from attorneys representing Pinnacle Dairy LLC. The proposed Pinnacle operation has been seeking to build a 5,800cow dairy facility in Sylvester Township, with a more than 6,000acre land base for spreading liquid manure in Sylvester, Decatur and other townships.

Decatur officials voted to seek

legal advice on the health and safety ordinances before adopting them.

Brodhead Common Council members approved a housing stock improvement program to help homeowners who qualify for assistance to update their homes.

Up to 90 percent of Brodhead homes are more than 25 years old.

The new program is geared to generating affordable housing to attract future house buyers at the same time that it keeps properties up to current codes.

For the first time in Cardinal history, Brodhead-Juda Girls’ Cross Country Team qualified three runners for the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state finals.

Senior Taylor Bluemel and sophomores Cora Perdue and Madelyne Harding all advanced out of the WIAA district meet to the top competition.

In another distinction for Brodhead High School, student musician Katie Flory was selected to play with a State Honors Band and Orchestra in an annual concert of 426 of Wisconsin’s finest young musicians.

Her selection followed an intense audition, summer camp and rehearsal process.

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Brodhead Middle and High School parking lots and student lockers passed the test of law enforcement in a periodic drug sweep that detected no presence of illegal drugs.

K-9 dog units from Monroe, Beloit, and Janesville city police departments and Green, Rock and Lafayette Sheriff departments took part in the cooperative inspection.

Straight Forward, a telephone services company that operated in Brodhead for 2 years, announced that it would close its call center in Brodhead.

The company, based in Sauk City, with another call center in Whitewater, informed its 45 employees of the decision to end operation in Brodhead and consolidate services to other cities.

Residents and elected officials, many of them from eastern Green County, packed Turner Hall in Monroe to hear an agricultural economist, Dr. John Ikerd, and Kewanee beef farmer Lynn Utesch speak out against concentrated animal feeding operations.

A grassroots citizens group based near Brodhead called Green County Defending our Farmland hosted the speakers and evening rally.

Brodhead Common Council voted to move forward on repairs and maintenance to the Decatur Lake dam.

The cost will probably range between $30,000 and $40,000

depending on Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approval of engineering bids submitted to the city.

Only about 20 of Brodhead’s 3,290 residents turned out for a school district hearing on a proposed referendum to maintain facilities and programs and pay down debt.

A packed crowd, however, turned out at Albrecht elementary School for an annual Veteran’s Day commemoration that included more than 30 honored former and current members of the military service members.

High school principals in a 9-to-3vote at a meeting in Edgerton gave Palmyra Eagle and Parkview school districts permission to leave the Rock Valley Conference.

The vote, pending permission of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, seemed likely to force many changes on the other schools, including Brodhead-Juda in the conference during the 20162017 academic year.

City Council members gave permission to inclusion of a rare 1936 Russell Lightplane in the annual Fire and Ice Fest.

Supporters of Kelch Aviation Museum, which cares for the plane along with many other antique aircraft at Brodhead Airport, are making the exhibition possible.

Brodhead Library Board approved

using an online program for reserving public rooms at the library. The program, called Spaces, indicates when various rooms such as the community room are available and then allows people to put in their request for the meeting space.

Green County Clerk Mike Doyle delivered new voting machines to rural townships and municipalities.

Doyle rented a truck and managed to deliver all but three of the 22 leased machines in two trips the same day.

He held back three of the leased machines for local town, village and city clerks, as well as 22 chief election inspectors, to receive training at the courthouse in Monroe in the New Year.

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A series of volunteer glazing sessions began after support from nine people – community members, parents, retired teachers, artists – from Green, Rock and Walworth counties, produced 130 bowls in a throw-a-thon at the high school.

The success was brought about

by Brodhead High School seniors Savanna Lamb, Chey Brady, Tori Foecking and Paige Sanchez and their instructor Barb Miller, for an annual benefit meal to support the art program.

School board members gave unanimous backing to a $950,000, 3-year, fixed referendum.

The measure – to maintain current programming without making additional cuts, address building needs of structures more than 50 years old and to pay down debt – will go to voters in April of the New Year.

Pinnacle Dairy, a proposed 5,800cow dairy facility on land west of Brodhead, got an extension to address 11 Department of Natural Resources concerns.

Engineers for the massive facility believe they can satisfy severe water issues at the mega-dairy site on 130 acres of land in Sylvester Township.

The Wisconsin DNR must grant a waste pollution elimination discharge permit to the dairy in order

for it to build and operate its fourth such facility in Green County.

The Tuls family of Nebraska already milks more than 10,000 cows in two facilities in that state, as well as a third with 5,000 cows since 2011 in eastern Rock County, southeast of Janesville.

Public Service Commission members approved a 12 percent utility rate hike for Brodhead residents.

Brodhead Library Director Nikki Busch held her last board meeting locally, ending 4 years of service to the city to become director of Oregon Public Library in Dane County.

Juda FFA Club members sold more than $22,000 of fruit and food items, a record fund-raiser for the 129-member club in more than 25 years of holding this sale.

A pair of 210,000-lb. fermenting tanks manufactured in China, shipped by freighter to New Orleans, barged up the Mississippi River to East Dubuque traveled safely across southern Wisconsin and through Green County to a DuPont plant in Beloit.

Taking up both sides of the twolane highway, the semi tractor-trailers – each with a load just under 150 feet long, more than 26 feet wide, with tanks nearly 20 feet tall on their sides, passed just south of Brodhead on State Highway 11.

An entourage of support vehicles, police and at times a string of traffic backed up or snaking around side roads followed the two huge tanks at a 10-mph crawl.

Brodhead, Juda, Albany and Monticello school districts collaborate on teleconferencing classes to help students get expanded

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Parkview Elementary School Student Council members lead a successful food drive, delivering two truckloads of food to the community food pantry at Orfordville Lutheran Church.

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STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT GREEN COUNTY U.S. Bank National Association, Plaintiff, vs.

Patrick Turner; Citifinancial, Defendants.

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Case No. 13-CV-168 By virtue of a judgment of foreclosure made in the above-entitled action on January 2, 2015, I will sell at public auction in the ground floor, multi-purpose room of the Green Co. Justice Center located at 2841 6th St, Monroe, WI 53566, on January 14, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., all of the following described premises, to wit: Lot One (1), Certified Survey Map No. 4532, recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Green County, Wisconsin, in Volume 19 of Certified Survey Maps, page 71, as Document Number 525579, located in Village of New Glarus, Green County, Wisconsin. f/k/a Unit A, in Heidi Condominium(s) created by a “Declaration of Condominium” recorded on September 9, 2002, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Green County, Wisconsin, in Volume 746 of Records, at Page 64, as Document Number 433187 and any amendments and/or corrections thereto, and by its condominium plat and any amendments and/or correction thereto. Said land being in the Village of New Glarus, Green County, Wisconsin.

Tax Key No. 23161-0530.2000 THE PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD SUBJECT TO ALL LEGAL ENCUMBRANCES. TERMS OF SALE: CASH or CASHIER’s CHECK (10% downpayment at sale, balance due within ten (10) days of Court approval).

DATED at Monroe, Wisconsin, on December 1, 2015. /s/ Mark Rohloff Sheriff of Green County, Wisconsin BASS & MOGLOWSKY, S.C., Attorneys for Plaintiff The above property is located at

214 14th Avenue, New Glarus, WI 53574.

Bass & Moglowsky, S.C. is a law firm / debt collector representing a creditor in the collection of a debt that you owe to said creditor. We are attempting to collect such debt and any information obtained from you will be used for that purpose.

The Independent Register 12/23, 12/30/2015, 1/6/2016 WNAXLP 228042 Notice Albany Township Residents Important 2015 Tax and Dog Licensing Information The Township of Albany has again contracted with Green County for processing the collection of first and full payments of real and personal property taxes for the 2015 tax bills. Payments can be made in person at the Green County Treasurer’s Office located in the Green County Courthouse, 1016 16th Ave, Monroe, Wisconsin, Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Payments may be mailed to the same address. If you require a receipt, please include a self addressed stamped envelope with your payment.

Additional payment methods are available on the Town of Albany website. Click “2015 Important Tax and Dog Licensing Info” under Resolutions and Notices section.

Dog Licensing Effective for 2015, all Green County dog licenses must be purchased via U.S. Mail. Cost is $5.00 per spayed/neutered dog and $10.00 per unaltered dog. Multiple dog licenses are available for $35.00 for 12 or fewer dogs and an additional $3.00 for each dog in excess of 12. Remit payment along with a copy of your most recent Vet Certification for each dog showing date of rabies vaccination to: Grace Spangler Albany Township Treasurer W155 Boots Drive Albany, WI 53502 Make checks payable to Township of Albany. Allow 10 days for processing.

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Pursuant to Section 174.052 Wis. Stats., notice is hereby given to all owners of dogs in Green County that rabies vaccinations and dog licenses are required under the Statutes. Vaccination by a Veterinarian against rabies of all dogs is required {Section 95.21(2)} at no later than 5 months of age and revaccinated within one year after the initial vaccination. The owner of a dog shall have the dog revaccinated against rabies by a veterinarian or, if a veterinarian is physically present at the location the vaccine is administered, by a veterinary technician, before the date that the immunization expires as stated on the certificate of vaccination or, if no date is specified, within 3 years after the previous vaccination. CERTIFICATES OF CURRENT VACCINATION MUST BE PRESENTED WHEN OBTAINING DOG LICENSES IN MUNICIPALITIES WHERE LOCAL ORDINANCE DEMANDS SUCH PROOF. The owner of a dog more than 5 months of age on January 1 of any year, or 5 months of age within the license year, shall annually, or on or before the date the dog becomes 5 months of age, pay the dog license tax and obtain a license.

The minimum license fee for neutered males or spayed females is $4.00 upon presentation of evidence attesting to the same and $9.00 for the unneutered male or unspayed female dog. These minimums may be supplemented by local municipal action. Multiple Dog licenses are $35.00 for 12 or fewer dogs plus $3.00 for each dog in excess of 12.

The collecting official shall assess and collect a late fee of $5.00 from every owner of a dog five (5) months of age or over, if the owner failed to obtain a license prior to April 1 of each year, or within 30 days of acquiring ownership of a licensable dog or if the owner failed to obtain a license on or before the dog reached licensable age. All late fees received or collected shall be paid into the local Treasury as revenue of the Town, Village or City in which the license was issued.

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The Independent Register 12/9/2015, 1/6/2016 WNAXLP 228391 AGENDA SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BRODHEAD REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING Wednesday, January 13, 2016 DISTRICT OFFICE BOARD ROOM 7:00 P.M. I. CALL TO ORDER II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE III. ROLL CALL IV. APPROVAL OF AGENDA V. APPROVAL OF MINUTES VI. APPROVAL OF BILLS VII. INFORMATION REPORTS VIII. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AGENDA IX. AUDIT REPORT X. DRAW LOTS FOR BALLOT ORDER XI. REVIEW POLICY JICDA [CODE OF CONDUCT K-12] XII. REVIEW POLICY JFB [PUBLIC SCHOOL OPEN ENROLLMENT] XIII. APPROVAL OF HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM OF STUDIES FOR 2016-17 XIV. REVIEW WASB RESOLUTIONS XV. REFERENDUM DISCUSSION a. Pass Resolution Providing for a Referendum Election of the Question of the Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the School District Budget to Exceed Revenue Limit for Non-Recurring Purposes b. Pass Resolution Authorizing the School District Budget to Exceed Revenue Limit for Non-Recurring Purposes XVI. ACCEPT DONATION(S) XVII. RESIGNATIONS(S) XVIII. EMPLOYMENT RECOMMENDATION(S) XIX. VOLUNTEER RECOMMENDATION(S) XX. FUTURE AGENDA XXI. CLOSED SESSION WI. STS. 19.85, (1), (c) a. Staffing Updates XXII. ACTION ON CLOSED SESSION ITEMS XXIII. ADJOURNMENT The Independent Register 1/6/2016 WNAXLP 230002 AGENDA SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BRODHEAD Finance Committee Meeting Wednesday, January 13, 2016 HIGH SCHOOL FAMILY & CONSUMER ED. ROOM 6:15 P.M. AGENDA I. REVIEW BILLS II. REVIEW BUDGET UPDATE III. ADJOURN The Independent Register 1/6/2016 WNAXLP 230004 Accepting Proposals The Green County Highway Department will be accepting proposals for two (2) dump bodies, two (2) reversible high-speed snow plows, two (2) hydraulic wings, and two (2) under tailgate spreaders, to be attached to two (2) trucks 46,000 G.V.W.R., already purchased.

Sealed proposals will be accepted until 8:30 a.m., Monday, January 18, 2016, at which time they will be opened and read aloud.

Specifications and proposal forms can be picked up at the Green County Highway Department, 2813 6th Street, Monroe, Wisconsin 53566, or by calling (608) 328-9411.

Green County reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals.

An equal opportunity employer, the County of Green will not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to, or treatment of employment or in its programs, services or activities.

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Accepting Proposals The Green County Highway Department will be accepting proposals for two (2) trucks 46,000 G.V.W.R. Sealed proposals will be accepted until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, January 18, 2016, at which time they will be opened and read aloud.

Specifications and proposal forms can be picked up at the Green County Highway Department, 2813 6th Street, Monroe, Wisconsin 53566 or by calling (608) 328-9411.

Green County reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals.

An equal opportunity employer, the County of Green will not discriminate on the basis of handicapped status in admission or access to, or treatment of employment or in its programs, services or activities.

Jeff Wunschel Green County Highway Commissioner The Independent Register 12/30/2015, 1/6/2016 WNAXLP 230186 NOTICE TOWN OF ALBANY Regular Monthly Board Meeting January 12, 2016 6:30 p.m.

1. Proof of posting verified – Town Hall, Clerk’s residence, Town Recycling Center and published.

2. Approval of December minutes.

3. Treasurer’s Report 4. Public Input.

5. Website.

6. Plan Commission Report: 7. Roads and Driveway Permits: 8. Building Inspector.

9. Assessor.

10. Insurance.

11. Library: 12. Recycling.

13. Other Business: 14. Payment of bills.

15. Adjournment.

The Independent Register 1/6/2016 WNAXLP 230410 TOWN OF DECATUR PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Tuesday, January 12, 2016 – 7:00 PM At the Town Hall 1408 14th Street AGENDA 1. Call to Order 2. Approval of Minutes of November 10, 2015 3. Land Division Application Maveus 4. Adjournment Ann L. Schwartz Clerk/Treasurer The Independent Register 1/6/2016 WNAXLP 230458 STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT GREEN COUNTY

NOTICE IN REPLEVIN Case Code 31003 Case No. 15-SC-540 To: VALERIE A. WYTTENBACH You are hereby notified that a summons and complaint has been issued to recover possession of the following described goods and chattels, to wit: 2014 DODGE DART; ID# 1C3CDFBB5ED723723 of which I, the plaintiff am entitled to the possession, and which you have unjustly taken and unlawfully detain from me.

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Dated at Milwaukee, WI this 29th day of December, 2015.

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Obituaries

Irene Blackford BRODHEAD

— Irene Blackford, 97, of Brodhead, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, at her home.

She was born on July 18, 1918, in Decatur Township, the daughter of Major Judson Boardman and Myra (Dunaway) Blackford.

She was the youngest of nine children. Both of her parents were descended from early Green County settlers.

She attended a one-room rural school and graduated from Brodhead High School. Irene was an excellent student and always maintained a high grade point average.

She obtained a B.A. from UW Madison, graduating with honors, and followed this with a master’s degree in library science, also from UW Madison Library School.

After 7 years at the Lima Public Library in Lima, Ohio, she returned to Wisconsin. She was employed by the Janesville Public Library for the next 28 years, first as a reference librarian and for the last 11years, director.

Her tenure as administrator was marked by the move from

the old Carnegie Library to a new building, and by the beginning of the Rock County Library System, for which Janesville and Beloit were named “Libraries of the Year” She retired in 1977 and returned to Brodhead 10 years later. She remained in Brodhead until her death.

Irene enjoyed her Whitewater Lake cottage for many years.

She had a keen interest in politics and world affairs and was a past member of the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women, as well as the Wisconsin Library Association and the American Library Association.

She was also a member of the Paper-Weight Collectors Association for many years and enjoyed collecting the work of both antique and modern glass artists.

She is survived by two nieces, Nancy Tierney and Carol Anderson Condon; four nephews, Dennis (Lani) Tierney, Clifford (Susan) Anderson, William (Mary Jane) Blackford, and Ron (Joanne) Blackford.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Howard, Byron and Kenneth Blackford; five sisters, Gladys Anderson, Merle Fischer, Thelma Olin, Marjorie Blackford, and Irma Tierney; two nieces, Ruth Blackford Hartmann and

Beatrice Blackford Marshall; three nephews, Donald Olin, Michael Tierney, and Terence Tierney.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, Jan. 8, at the D.L. Newcomer Funeral Home in Brodhead.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the Brodhead Public Library. Online condolences may be made at www. dlnewcomerfuneralhome.com

Marvella D. Stefanik

BRODHEAD — Marvella D. Stefanik, age 95, of Brodhead, passed away on Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, at Woods Crossing Nursing Home in Brodhead.

She was born on Oct. 19, 1921, in Milwaukee, the daughter of Charles and Lydia (Schendel) Radtke.

She married Paul D. Stefanik on May 3, 1941, in West Allis.

He passed away on June 19, 2013.

Marvella was a homemaker, enjoying baking, sewing and flower gardening. She was very active at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Brodhead. She taught Sunday school and was also in the choir.

She is survived by her children, Judy (Gary) Studer, Monroe, Peggy (Lorin) Jordan, Juda, Larry (Kathy) Stefanik and Neil (Jackie) Stefanik, both of Albany; a brother, Ronald (Joan) Radtke of Brookfield; 9 grandchildren and 14 greatgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and brother Kenneth Radtke.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 2, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Brodhead, with Pastor Mark Neumann officiating.

Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery, Brodhead.

Visitation was held on Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. until time of services at the church.

A memorial fund will be established. D.L. Newcomer Funeral Home of Brodhead assisted the family. Online condolences may be made at www. dlnewcomerfuneralhome.com

Betty Lou “Thelma” Wentzel

BRODHEAD — Betty Lou “Thelma” Wentzel, age 74, of Brodhead, passed away on Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, at Mercy Hospital, Janesville. She was born on Dec. 30, 1940, in Curry, Minn., the daughter of George and Hattie (Skyberg)Wentzel.

Betty Lou was a devoted

mother and grandmother.

She enjoyed music, dancing, fishing, spontaneous rides, her kids and her grandchildren.

She is survived by her children, Dennis (Shannon) McKinney, Torrence, Calif., Kathy McKinney, St. Anne, Mo., Teresa (Frank) Mikos, Crystal River, Fla., Kim (Rodney Patnoe) McKinney, Janesville, Lisa (Alan Melin) McKinney, Luck; sisters, Phyllis Conway, Brodhead, Joyce Simmons, Ariz.; brothers, Stanley, Boyd and George Wentzel, all of Mich.; 16 grandchildren; and 32 greatgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, 2 brothers, Danny and Frank “Lloyd” Wentzel, and her former husband, Jack McKinney.

A memorial service was held at 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, at the D.L. Newcomer Funeral Home in Brodhead.

Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery, Brodhead. Visitation was held from 10 a.m. until time of the service at the funeral home.

A memorial fund will be established. Online condolences may be made at www.dlnewcomerfuneralhome.com

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