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Study: Triple size

of library, double
senior center
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Leo Schleck, left, and Liam Hedeman kick and push a giant soccer ball toward a set of stacked cones to knock it down. The activity was one
of many in the TOPSoccer sessions that involved some sort of soccer equipment but was not completely focused on the game itself.

More Than Soccer

TOPSoccer program offers outlet for children with special needs

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Most childrens sports programs are too

rigorous for 6-year-old Keira Hubert,
who cant participate in contact sports.
Hubert was diagnosed with scoliosis
when she was 1 and also is on the autism
spectrum, leaving parents Natasha and
Chris always looking for activities for her.
When Keiras teacher at Brooklyn Elementary School emailed Natasha about a
TOPSoccer program a classmate had tried
out the previous Sunday, it was a welcome
and nearby opportunity.
Keiras never done anything like sportsy, really, Natasha told the Observer. I
know theres some kids that start soccer at
3 years old, and we never did that, so when
I heard that, it was an opportunity to kind
Nikki Busch
is the Oregon
Public
Librarys
new director,
who succeeded Susan
Santner after
her retirement
last month.
Photo by
Scott De Laruelle

of get a feel for what soccer was like. I was

really excited, and she was, too.
The program, a local version of the
national TOPSoccer program from U.S.
Youth Soccer, began its rotation in Oregon
early in January and met every Sunday.
The group previously met at Savanna Oaks
Middle School in Fitchburg, and this April
will have a four-week session in Belleville
before likely heading back to Fitchburg.
TOPSoccer is a community-based
training and team placement program for
young athletes with disabilities, according
to the U.S. Youth Soccer website. Volunteers, many of whom were high schoolers
or even younger in Oregon, pair up with
the children with disabilities and help Keira Hubert, who is on the autism
them through a set of activities to get them spectrum and has scoliosis,
knocks down her stack of cones

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His study, as a leadin to planning a new
civic campus, indicates
the size of the Oregon
Public Library should be
increased by 240 percent
from its present 10,360

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Brooklyn woman killed

in Town of Oregon crash
An 80-year-old Brooklyn woman died Saturday
afternoon near the intersection of county highways MM and A, in the
Town of Oregon.
According to the Dane
County Medical Examiner, Audriene E. Smith
was pronounced dead at
UW Hospital shortly after
a head-on collision.
The Dane County
Sheriff's Office said it
responded to reports of
a crash around 3 p.m,
involving a 2014 Dodge
Caravan driven by a
72-year-old man, also
from Brooklyn, and a
2000 Mercury Grand
Marquis driven by Smith.
According to reports, the

minivan was traveling

south on Cty. Hwy. MM
when it crossed the center
line and struck Smith just
north of Cty. Hwy. A.
Smith was transported
from the scene via Medflight, according to the
sheriff's office.
The driver and two passengers two women,
aged 49 and 72 were
also transported to UW
Hospital for serious, but
non-life-threatening, injuries.
According to the sheriff's office, the crash
remains under investigation, though alcohol does
not appear to be a factor.
Jacob Bielanski

Finding her way to Oregon

Fun start for new library director Busch
Scott De Laruelle
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Not many librarians paths take

them through the Himalayan region
of Nepal to find their ideal job, but
Nikki Buschs journey is anything but
ordinary.
The new Oregon Public Library

director, who succeeded the retiring

Susan Santner last month, has loved
reading since she was a girl. But even
after serving as library volunteer in
middle school and a student council
representative to the library in high
school, the idea of actually becoming
a librarian didnt hit her until later in
life.

Those travels that took her to the

other side of the world and back.
It wasnt a direct path, Busch
said, sitting in her office Monday.
I probably should have known earlier in life I was destined to become a
librarian.

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The public library and

Oregon Senior Center
both need significantly
more space, a study
commissioned by the
village has concluded.
While thats hardly a
surprise to anyone, the
facility study, conducted
by Cliff Goodhart, of
Eppstein Uhen Architects, puts some numbers to his conclusions,
and he summarized the
report for the Village
Board on Monday.

February 4, 2016

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A simple question
Presenter at OHS encourages action to stop sexual assault
Scott Girard
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Ellen Martin signs the pledge before the rest of the freshman and
sophomore students leave the auditorium.

Photos by Scott Girard

Presenter Mike Domitrz, right, talks about how egos can

lead people astray in romantic situations after Oregon
High School students Kardelle Phillips, left, and Addie
Schipper acted out a scene. Domitrzs message to the
students was that a look or gut feeling can be misinterpreted, but a question offers everyone a choice.

wanting to irritate a friend

and worrying about misreading a situation. But Domitrz
put in clear terms why thinking of that situation as anything other than potentially
setting up a sexual assault
makes it easier to not intervene.
They call it taking
advantage, and as long as
they call it taking advantage,
nobody cares, he said. We
dont call it what it is.
Domitrz shares his program with students as young
as the middle school level,
and has even brought it to
military personnel overseas.
Sexual assault impacted his
own life in 1989, recalling a
phone call from his mother
when his older sister was
assaulted.
Suddenly my mom said,

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Mike, um, Sheris been
raped, he said. (It was)
1989, 27 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday.
He said his sister inspired
him when she called, four
hours after the assault, and
asked if he was OK and how
she could help him.
All survivors of sexual
assault are extremely strong
individuals, he said.
Throughout the presentation, Domitrz tried to dispel
the notion that asking for
a kiss, or anything further
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Can I kiss you?

That question, asked by a
role-playing Oregon High
School student to another
on stage Monday morning,
brought plenty of laughter
from the audience.
But it shouldnt, said presenter Mike Domitrz, who
was at the school to share
his story of his sister, who
was raped, and explain how
students can help ensure that
rape and sexual assault dont
happen in their community.
The idea started with a
simple step, but one perhaps
not commonly used in many
romantic interactions: Asking a question.
Body language is interpreted by your ego, Domitrz
told the students, after they
said a look tells them if
their partner is interested in
kissing. Your ego will lie
to you just to make you feel
good.
Domitrz went on to
explain the bystander problem, presenting potential
dialogue at a party between
two people and asking the
crowd if it seemed like a sexual assault could take place
there. Students answered yes,
but also provided answers
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intervene in situations where
one person may be too drunk
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Those reasons included not

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February 4, 2016

Village of Oregon

Commission to again
consider banquet facility
Proposal now includes
requested parking,
layout details
Scott Girard
Unified Newspaper Group

A proposed banquet facility for the

old Union Sports Club building is
returning to the Village of Oregons
Planning Commission Feb. 4.
The commission first heard about
the proposal at its November meeting,
and since then it has scheduled two
public hearings for the facility and
requested further information each
time. The public hearing is scheduled
to continue at Thursdays 6:30 p.m.
meeting at Village Hall.
Commissioners will also hold a
public hearing for a detached Jefferson Street garage, further discuss
the timeline for the proposed sign
code and consider scheduling a public hearing for the idea of lighting the
Tin Man water tower.
The banquet facility will come first,
as Oregon resident Crystal Zuniga has
provided the information commissioners previously requested, according to a Jan. 26 memo from public
works director Jeff Rau, including
parking information and a detailed
layout of how the space would be
used.

The conditional use permit for the

banquet facility would allow Zuniga
to host receptions, ceremonies, banquets and parties in one large event
room, with the current racquetball
space used for smaller events.
It would be one of three new banquet facilities in the village to open
in 2015 or 2016, with one thats part
of Charlies on Main and another
attached to Headquarters on Concord
Drive.
Zunigas proposed facility would
share the building with the Madison
56ers Soccer Club, but her parking
layout indicates the banquet facility
would have use of 87 stalls, with the
soccer club maintaining access to 30.
The yet-unnamed banquet facility
would be available from 8 a.m. until 2
a.m. seven days a week, though Zunigas application noted most events
will be scheduled. The 8 a.m. opening time is for larger events, such as
weddings, or events that are four-plus
hours.
This is what I expect to offer as
a maximum range of hours, Zuniga
wrote in a letter to the commission
last month.
Rau noted in his memo that the
commission will have to determine
the capacity for the banquet facility,
which would be 350 by the fire code
between the large and small banquet
rooms, but could be smaller because
of the available parking space

restrictions.
The space is the former site of the
Union Sports Club, which closed in
2014 after the Village Board voted
against renewing its liquor license.
That past caused one neighbor business, Wisco Industries, to write to
the commission in December about
potential problems for the facility
and outlined what the company would
like to see to ensure successful use of
the building.

Other items
The proposed 1,200-square-foot
Jefferson Street detached garage
would include room for two cars and a
heated space above to use as an office
space.
Rau recommended approval of a
permit to construct the garage with
conditions, including that the garage
not be used a residence for another
family on the property.
The commission and Village Board
members have discussed a potential
sign code since the middle of last year,
and after a U.S. Supreme Court decision that affected the original proposal, are expected to make a decision on
the code in the coming months.
Organizer Randy Glysch has proposed lighting the historic Tin Man
water tower above the renovated
welcome center, and commissioners
plan to discuss setting a March public
hearing date for the project.

Oregon Observer

Water main fix took

hours in the cold
Bill Livick
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Several village employees worked eight or nine

hours in frigid weather to repair a water main break
near the intersection of North Main Street and Richards Road in January, according to a memo from public works director Jeff Rau read at Mondays Village
Board meeting.
A crew worked from about 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18
to 1 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, with temperatures down
around 0 degrees to repair a major break.
When I arrived at the site, a significant amount of
water was coming out of a seam in the asphalt, Rau
wrote.
He added that it was a difficult repair, and an
exploratory trench was required to isolate the source of
the leak.
The leak was found about 20 feet from where the
water was flowing, in a seam in the asphalt, he said.
Our public works crew worked very hard to isolate the leak and make the repair in extremely difficult
working conditions.
Rau said he and his crew notified affected businesses
of the leak, including Kwik Trip north and nearby auto
repair businesses, and told them their water would be
shut off until the repair was accomplished. He said that
followed standard protocol.
He recognized employees Jeff Johnson, Gene Schultz, Don Gray, Amos Odegard, Billy Hanson and Gary
Disch for their hard work under extreme cold conditions.
We sometimes take for granted the fact that we
turn on a faucet and consistently get reliable and clean
water, Rau wrote.
He praised his entire staff for their hard work and
dedication to the village.

Department rolled out police cameras Jan. 22

by the Stoughton Police
Department in 2013. Fitchburg and Madison continue to look into options
for outfitting their police
departments with the technology. Deputy chief Don
Bates of the Fitchburg
Police Department told the
Observer last week that it
was still evaluating a timetable that worked for the
department.
Demands from citizens
for police use of body cameras grew throughout Dane
Photos courtesy Oregon Police
County in the last year,
Department
after the high-profile shootThese photos, posted to
ing death of Madison teen
the OPD Twitter account (@
Tony Robinson by a MadiVillageOregonPD) Jan. 22, show
son Police Officer almost
the new cameras being used by
a year ago. Advocates for
officer Jeremy Larson.
Robinson said a body camera would have shown
on-officer, or body, cam- whether the Madison police
Police Department. A pol- eras. Chest-mounted body officer Matt Kenny needicy for using the cameras cameras were deployed ed to fire the seven shots
was approved by the Village board and went into
If you see digger man
effect Jan. 11, Uhl said.
Other departments
Bob around, wish him a
throughout Dane County
have also been looking into
th

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ultimately kill, Robinson
inside a Madison apartment. After a review of the
evidence, which included
911 calls and dashcam footage, Dane County District
Attorney Ismael Ozanne
chose not to press charges
against the officer.
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Residents might notice a

new kind of equipment on
its police officers.
As of Saturday, Jan. 22,
officers began wearing a
small camera mounted on
their ears as part of their
standard equipment. Oregon Police chief Chief Brian Uhl told the Observer
that after a short training
session, the cameras were
deployed.
Uhl said the department
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one for each officer and a
spare. Last week, the Village Board authorized the
use of $22,000 to purchase
the cameras, which had
been included in the 2016
budget.
Board members had indicated when Uhl was hired
last August that they were
interested in getting the
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Letter to the editor

Letter misidentified business owner

In response to last weeks letter to the editor, Sign code lacks
common sense:
Just for the record My name is not Jeff DOrazio, its Steve
DOrazio.
Steve DOrazio,
Village of Oregon

Corrections
Last weeks story on Academy
of Sound incorrectly listed the date
of the fire at 101 S. Main St., and
the location the company moved
to temporarily as a result. According to the owner, the fires occurred

in 2008, not 2011, and Academy of

Sound moved to the Peoples United Methodist Church, not the First
Presbyterian Church.
The Observer regrets these errors.

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Community Voices

Question your own limits

toward being tolerant
Tolerance is one of those concepts like Mom and apple pie.
Standing up for tolerance looks
great in campaign slogans, on bumper stickers and in Facebook postings.
Of course, its
wonderful to be
tolerant. How
could anybody
possibly not be?
It is supremely
easy for a person
like me, an aging
white guy who
lives in a fairly
Noeldner
wealthy, very
white suburban
community. Theres no reason not
to say I care about all those disadvantaged, downtrodden people who
arent like me people who live in
places where I would never want to
live, with levels of misery and crime
that terrify me, exposed to attitudes,
behaviors and customs I couldnt
stand for more than 10 minutes.
If I can convince people Im tolerant, Im one of the good guys.
But something about that feels
cheap, like taking a stand against
toothaches without going through
the work of brushing teeth. Simply
put, tolerance has limits for any of
us.
It doesnt extend to hate, murder
and extremism, for example. Or
even other peoples intolerance.
Sure, any enlightened soul who
dons the mantle of tolerance
automatically gains the moral high
ground and there is an awful lot
to like about that. Among other
things, one can accuse other people
of being intolerant. Hateful. Closeminded. A bunch of greedy, selfish
racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes,
right-wing nationalists, gun nuts,
you name it.
Needless to say tolerance does
not include tolerating people who
are guilty of such offenses.

With that in mind, my first reaction to Governor Walkers decree

that Wisconsin will not accept Syrian refugees was outrage. I even sent
him a hand-written letter chastising
him for appealing to fear and xenophobia.
Given what I have seen of the
man, I think these charges are fair.
But I decided I should look in the
mirror, too.
I asked myself what it meant for
Hans Noeldner to say he wants Wisconsin to welcome Syrian refugees.
I considered what it would mean
to welcome a Syrian family to live
in our house. Sure, my wife and I
have over 1,800 square feet a lot
more housing per person than most
people on Earth have. But it started
to feel uncomfortable, a sure sign
that I was discovering something
disingenuous about myself.
If not the Noeldner Manor, my
next thought was building housing
for a Syrian family somewhere else
on our yard. We have about a third
of an acre, and we dont really need
so much paved driveway or lawn to
mow. Uh-oh, here I go, squirming
again.
How about the family farm over
on Fish Hatchery Road? Same reaction.
I kept it local, and got a bit less
personal. Would I welcome a million Syrian refugees living somewhere else in Dane County especially if they all wanted as big a
house and yard as my wife and I
have?
Yikes, there wouldnt be any
farmland or open space left!
Then I realized I shouldnt stop
with Syrians. Shouldnt goodhearted, tolerant people (like us)
welcome unlimited numbers of refugees from virtually everywhere?
God knows there are far more people living in misery than a few million Syrians.
And if the atmospheric scientists

are right about climate change, the

refugee crisis will explode. Hey
Florida, hey Bangladesh, wanna be
a Badger with me?
I also had to consider terrorism
and extremism. The politically correct thing to say is that I oppose all
profiling, but deep down, I think it
would be idiotic to not delve deeper
into terrorist connections among
Syrian refugees than, say, Chinese.
One thing I know: If Islamic
fundamentalists settled in Oregon
in sufficient numbers to pass local
laws mandating that women must
wear the veil, I wouldnt be the only
indigenous person who objected.
Heres the truth. There are limits
to the number of people any of us
wants living in our house, on our
block, in our state and nation.
There are even more severe limits
to the kinds of attitudes and behaviors any of us is willing to put up
with. Earth itself and her many local
and regional ecosystems have limits too they are called carrying
capacity.
Spouting idealistic platitudes
about tolerance sounds a lot better
than candidly discussing our own
levels of intolerance, and delving
into the complexities of limits is a
lot more work than accusing others
of being close-minded and hateful. But if we want our republic to
endure, the harder way is the only
way.
Of course tolerance is important.
But so is intolerance. The art of life
in this realm indeed, the art of life
in all realms is to find a good balance.
I, for one, dont know what that
balance should be, but I would
welcome open and yes, tolerant
public discourse on the matter.
Hans Noeldner is a Village of
Oregon resident.

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Elementary art fair

returns Saturday
For 15 years, students at Netherwood
Knoll and Prairie View elementary
schools have had the opportunity to showcase their artistic talents at the annual art
fair.
This years event continues to encourage kids to utilize those skills outside the
confines of the classroom. The public is
welcome to peruse the students 2D and
3D creations at the fair from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at Prairie View, 300 Soden Dr.
The fair will also feature a performance show in the Little Theater from
3-3:30 p.m. and various hands-on crafting tables, where kids can make animal
masks, scratch-off bookmarks, glass bead
magnets, watercolor paintings and other items. A photo booth and concession
stand will be open during the fair and kids
can get their faces painted by Paint My
Face while adults participate in gift basket raffles.
For $1 per ticket or six for $5, attendees
will have the chance to win art supplies,

If you go
What: 15th annual Prairie View
Elementary School and Netherwood Knoll
Elementary School art fair
When: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6
Where: Prairie View Elementary School,
300 Soden Dr.
Info: Ali Head at alih75@yahoo.com
gift cards and other items from businesses including the Chocolate Caper, Natural Spaces Framing and Gallery, Infinity
Martial Arts and Madison International
Speedway. All proceeds will go toward
the Oregon Elementary PTO.
For information, contact Ali Head at
alih75@yahoo.com.
Kate Newton

Photos by Samantha Christian

Above, Joy Schmidt, dementia care specialist with the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Dane
County, gave a Train the Trainer presentation to a dozen people that represent Oregons government, businesses, churches and schools at Sienna Crest on Jan. 27, as part of the villages dementia-friendly initiative.

Dementia-friendly community
coalition takes shape
Businesses can sign up for
training

File photo

Jeffery Thomas and Kathryn Small welcome guests as king and queen during last years madrigal
dinner.

A journey into the past

Imagine yourself back in
the time of the Renaissance,
dining with the king and
queen and their royal court
in the great hall of a castle.
You sit back and enjoy a
five-course meal brought to
you by the royal servants,
and as you feast, you are
entertained by songs, the
humor of the court jester
and theatrical entertainment.
All this and more is part
of the pageantry and fun of
the annual Oregon Middle
School Madrigal Dinner,
performed by seventh and
eighth-graders at 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 12 and 13 at the OMS
cafeteria. OMS teacher
Heather Rattman (who
along with Julie Hutchinson
is the event co-director) said
that historically, a madrigal
dinner was a celebration
of the coming spring, with
the king and queen inviting their subjects to share a
feast and be entertained by
the royal court.
That is what we are
doing inviting our

If you go
What: Oregon Middle
School Madrigal Dinner
When: 6:30 p.m. Friday,
Feb. 12 and Saturday, Feb.
13
Where: Oregon Middle
School Cafeteria
Tickets: $14 (students/
staff/seniors); $16 general
admission
Info: 835-4800

kingdom to come share our

feast, she said. The people who attend will enjoy
a complete dinner theater
experience where they not
only feast on a terrific meal,
but are very involved with

the performance as well.

Rattman said she enjoys
seeing the enthusiasm of
students and the camaraderie in putting on such an
extensive show.
It is so fun to see the
kids come together from
many different social
groups and develop friendships that last into high
school and beyond, she
said.
Tickets are $14 for
students, staff and seniors
and $16 for general
admission. Doors open at
6 p.m. Tickets will not be
sold at the door, so contact
Sue Tierman at 835-8263 or
suetierman@charter.net to
order tickets before Friday,
Feb. 5.

The dementia-friendly training session provided

various resources to trainers.

organizations have expressed interest in

becoming dementia-friendly: Village of
Oregon departments, Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce, The Chocolate Caper,
State Bank of Cross Plains, Firefly Coffeehouse, Mueller Dental, Hometown
Pharmacy, Oregon Manor and Sienna
Crest.
Those interested in joining the initiative
can sign up for a free presentation with
members of the coalition. For information,
contact Oregon Area Senior Center
director Alison Koelsch at akoelsch@vil.
oregon.wi.us.
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A task force of nearly a dozen people

representing the Village of Oregon and
Dane County recently made progress on
Oregons dementia-friendly initiative.
Delegates from the Village of Oregon, chamber of commerce, businesses,
schools, churches, assisted living facilities
and the Aging and Disability Resource
Center of Dane County (ARDC) joined
to form the dementia-friendly community
coalition. Its goal is to bring awareness to
the effects of dementia and Alzheimers
disease so people can be more compassionate, supportive and accepting of those
with memory loss and their caregivers.
The group met for a Train the Trainer session with Joy Schmidt, an ARDC
dementia care specialist, on Jan. 27 at
Sienna Crest Assisted Living. Schmidt
taught the group how to best communicate the initiative with others, and how to
train members of organizations and businesses who want to become more accommodating of those with dementia.
Those who have been trained will
receive a certificate and a purple angel
logo for the window or door of their organization or business, meant to show that
they are aware of the signs of dementia,
that they will be welcoming and accepting and that they have the tools to better
serve their customers. The training will
also provide a review of the environment
for suggested changes that might make
the business safer and its products more
dementia-friendly.
So far, the following businesses and

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Churches

Coming up
fruit, email fotofruitsale@gmail.com or discussed, as well as an update on the
call 291-0866. An email order form can Rescue Kids class.
Learn how to play pickleball at the be sent upon request.
For information, contact Dave Hall at
OHS Field House, 456 N. Perry Pkwy.,
davehall@tds.net.
on Sundays from 10 a.m. to noon.
Candlelight hike
For $2, racquets, balls and instructions
Join the Oregon Area Wellness Dolley Madison show
will be provided on this game, which is Coalition for a candlelight hike from
Come watch performer Jessica
played a badminton court with a solid 6-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5 at Keller Alpine Michna as she brings first lady Dolley
paddle and whiffle ball.
Meadows Trail.
Madison to life in The Lady Who
Parking is available at Peoples United Saved Washington at 2 p.m. Thursday,
Open mic
Methodist Church, 103 N Alpine Pkwy. Feb. 11 at the senior center.
Join the Oregon Area Progressives for Free smores and hot cocoa will be
Charming and strong-willed, Dolley
an open mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. provided.
was born into a Quaker family and
5 at Firefly Coffeehouse, 114 Main St.
raised to be obedient and well-behaved.
The open mic will focus on the Chili dinner
Widowed at an early age, she would
refugee crisis, with Mary Flynn, program
Brooklyn Cub Scout Pack 352 will later be courted by Congressman James
manager for the Refugee Resettlement host its 33rd annual chili dinner from Madison and would eventually become
at Lutheran Social Services, speaking 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7 at the the Grand Dame of Washington.
about the resettlement program and Brooklyn Community Center, 102 N.
For information or to register for the
the refugee crisis. An additional staff Rutland Ave.
free program, call 835-5801.
member who has been resettled will also
All-you-can-eat chili will be available
speak.
for $7 per person, and children 4 and Meditation group
Music will be provided by folk duo under can eat for free. The menu
The Joy of Living Meditation Group
Fendrick and Peck. Food and beverages includes mild chili, hot chili, super hot welcomes both new and experienced
will be available for purchase.
chili and chili dogs, as well as no-bean practitioners to its monthly meetings,
For information, call 469-4843.
and vegetarian options. Beverages, which will repeat from 6:30-8 p.m.
desserts and sides are also included with every month on the second Thursday in
Fruit sale
the ticket price.
the lower level of the State Bank, 744 N.
Friends of the Orchestra (FOTO) is
Main St. Its next meeting is Thursday,
running its annual fruit sale to benefit Friends of Brooklyn Fire/EMS
Feb. 11.
orchestra students and programming in
The group is free and open to the
The February meeting of the Friends
the Oregon School District.
of the Brooklyn Fire/EMS will be held public. Meetings will includes short
The deadline for orders is Friday, Feb. at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10 at the presentations on the basics of meditation
5. The fruit will be delivered from 8-11 Brooklyn Fire Station.
practice, guided meditations and group
a.m. Saturday, Feb. 20 at the OHS Field
Plans to continue ways to assist discussion. No registration is required.
House, 456 N. Perry Pkwy.
For information, contact Kelly Petrie
the departments with fundraising
If you would like to place an order for and progress on grant writing will be at 345-1597.

Pickleball practice

Community calendar
Concord Dr., 291-0750
Thursday, February 4
7:30 p.m., Splash pad planning
Sunday, February 7
meeting, State Bank of Cross Plains 1 p.m., Movie Matinee: War
community room, 744 N Main St.,
Room (PG, 120 min.), senior cenoboptimists@gmail.com
ter, 835-5801
Friday, February 5
11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Brooklyn Cub
10 a.m., Mix It Up Storytime (ages Scout Pack 352 annual chili dinner
($7 per person, kids 4 and under
0-6), library, 835-3656
eat free), Brooklyn Community
6-8 p.m., Oregon Area Wellness
Center, 102 N. Rutland Ave.
Coalition candlelight hike, Keller
Alpine Meadows Trail
Monday, February 8
6-8 p.m., Oregon Area
3:30 p.m., Maker Monday: Robots
Progressives open mic, Firefly
(grades K-4), library, 835-3656
Coffee House, 114 Main St., 469Tuesday, February 9
4843
10 a.m., Teetering Toddlers
Saturday, February 6
Storytime (12-36 months), library,
10-10:30 a.m., Dads and Donuts,
835-3656
library, 835-3656
11 a.m., Bouncing Babies
1-4 p.m., Oregon Elementary PTO Storytime (0-12 months), library,
art fair, Prairie View Elementary
835-3656
School, 444-5546
6-7:30 p.m., Create Oregon!: Used
8 p.m., Decades Rock Band,
Book Art (ages 12 to adult; registraHeadquarters Bar and Grill, 101
tion required), library, 835-3656

Community cable listings

Village of Oregon Cable Access TV channels:
WOW #983 & ORE #984
Phone: 291-0148 Email: oregoncableaccess@charter.net
Website: ocamedia.com Facebook: ocamediawi
New programs daily at 1 p.m.
and repeats at 4, 7 and 10 p.m. and 1, 4, 7 and 10 a.m.

Thursday, Feb. 4
WOW: Oregon Village
Board Meeting (of Feb. 1)
ORE: Snow White
NKE Musical (of Apr.
2012)
Friday, Feb. 5
WOW: Paris Blues
Music @ Senior Center
(of May 2012)
ORE: Cinderella NKE
Musical (of Mar. 2007)
Saturday, Feb. 6
WOW:
Oregon
Chamber of Commerce
Awards (of Jan. 2015)
ORE: Cinderella NKE
Musical (of Feb. 2013)
Sunday, Feb. 7
WOW: Faith Evangelical
Lutheran Church Service
ORE: Little Mermaid
NKE Musical (of Apr.
2009)
Monday, Feb. 8
WOW:
Eleanor
Roosevelt @ Senior
Center (of Feb. 2015)
*5 p.m. LIVE Special
Oregon Village Board
Meeting

Monday, Feb. 8 (cont.)

ORE: Little Mermaid
NKE Musical (of Apr.
2014
Tuesday, Feb. 9
WOW: Dietitian Tour
@ Bills Foods (of Apr.
2015)
ORE: OHS Boys Varsity
Basketball vs. Edgewood
(of Feb. 6)
Wednesday, Feb. 10
WOW: Dietitian Tour
@ Bills Foods (of May
2015)
ORE: Girls Varsity
Iceberg Hockey vs. Rock
Co. Fury (of Jan. 11)
Thursday, Feb. 11
WOW: 1- Special
Oregon Village Board
Meeting (of Feb. 8)
2- Dietitian Tour
@ Bills Foods (of June
2015)
ORE: Oregon School
Board Meeting (of Feb. 8)

7 p.m. 8th grade orchestra recital,

OMS

Wednesday, February 10

9-11 a.m., Rubber stamping

cards with Katie ($10, registration
required), senior center, 835-5801
10 a.m., Mix It Up Storytime (ages
0-6), library, 835-3656
10-11:30 a.m.., Free Living Trust
workshop, Krause Donovan Estate
Law Partners,
116 Spring St., 268-5751
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Computer
Class: Computer Lingo ($20), senior
center, 835-5801

Thursday, February 11

2 p.m., Jessica Michna presents The Lady Who Saved

Washington, senior center, 8355801
6:30-8 p.m., Joy of Living meditation group, State Bank lower level,
744 N. Main St., 345-1597

Senior center
Monday, Feb. 8
Chicken Alfredo over
Fettucine Noodles
Buttered Winter Blend
Mandarin Oranges
Whole Wheat Bread
Vanilla Ice Cream
VO: Veggie Alfredo
Tuesday, Feb. 9
*Sliced Ham
Sweet Potato Nuggets
Buttered Brussels Sprouts
Sliced Peaches
Multi-Grain Bread
Butterscotch Pudding
VO: Veggie Dog on Bun
Wednesday, Feb. 10
Cheeseburger on Bun
Buttered Corn, Grape Juice
Confetti Cake
VO: Veggie Burger
Thursday, Feb. 11
Meat Sauce over Spaghetti
Buttered California Mix
Pineapple Tidbits
Garlic Bread
VO: Veggie Spaghetti Sauce
SO: Taco Salad
Friday, Feb. 12
*Pork Cutlet with
Mushroom Gravy
Mashed Potatoes
Buttered Broccoli
Cinnamon Applesauce
Valentine Cookie
VO: Hummus Wrap
*Contains Pork

Monday, Feb. 8
AMReflexology
9:00 CLUB, Wii Bowling
9:00 Planning Committee
10:00 Dominoes
10:30 StrongWomen
1:00 Get Fit
1:30 Bridge
4:00 Weight Loss Support
Tuesday, Feb. 9
8:30 Zumba Gold
12:30 Sheepshead
12:30 Stoughton Shopping
1-4:00 Energy Assistance (by
appt.)
5:30 StrongWomen
Wednesday, Feb. 10
9:00 CLUB, Veterans Group
9:00 Cards with Katie
11:00 Computer Lingo
1:00 Euchre, Get Fit
2:00 Knit/Crochet Group
Thursday, Feb. 11
AMChair Massage
8:30 Zumba Gold
9:00 Pool Players, COA
10:30 StrongWomen
12:30 Shopping at Bills
1:00 Cribbage, Diabetic Support
2:00 Dolley Madison
5:30 StrongWomen
Friday, Feb. 12
9:00 Club, Nutrition Education
9:30 Blood Pressure
9:45 Gentle Yoga
11:00 Chair Yoga
1:00 Get Fit

ALL SAINTS LUTHERAN CHURCH

2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 276-7729
Pastor Rich Johnson
SUNDAY
8:30 a.m. classic service
10:45 a.m. new song service
BROOKLYN LUTHERAN CHURCH
101 Second Street, Brooklyn
(608) 455-3852
Pastor Rebecca Ninke
SUNDAY
9 a.m. Holy Communion
10 a.m. Fellowship
COMMUNITY OF LIFE LUTHERAN
CHURCH
PO Box 233, Oregon
(608) 286-3121
office@communityoflife.us
Pastor Jim McCoid
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Worship at 1111 S. Perry
Parkway, Oregon
COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
201 Church Street, Brooklyn
(608) 455-3344
Pastor Aaron Alfred
SUNDAY
9:30 a.m. Worship
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
CHURCH
143 Washington Street, Oregon
(608) 835-3554
Pastor Karl Hermanson
SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship
Holy Communion 2nd & last Sundays
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
408 N. Bergamont Blvd. (north of CC)
Oregon, WI
(608) 835-3082 - fpcoregonwi.org
Pastor Bob Vetter
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Blended Worship
11 a.m. Coffee Bar/Fellowship
11:15 a.m. All-ages activity
FITCHBURG MEMORIAL UCC
5705 Lacy Road, Fitchburg
(608) 273-1008
www.memorialucc.org
Pastor: Phil Haslanger
Associate Pastor Twink Jan-McMahon
SUNDAY
8:15 and 10 a.m. Worship
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
CHURCH ELCA
Central Campus: Raymond Road and

Whitney Way
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 8:15, 9:30 and10:45
a.m. Worship West Campus: Corner
of Hwy. PD and Nine Mound Road,
Verona
SUNDAY - 9 &10:15 a.m., 6 p.m.
Worship (608) 271-6633
HILLCREST BIBLE CHURCH
752 E. Netherwood, Oregon
Eric Vander Ploeg, Lead Pastor
(608) 835-7972
www.hbclife.com
SUNDAY
8:30 a.m. worship at Oregon High
School PAC and 10:15 a.m. worship
with Childrens ministries, birth fourth grade
HOLY MOTHER OF CONSOLATION
CATHOLIC CHURCH
651 N. Main Street, Oregon
Pastor: Fr. Gary Wankerl
(608) 835-5763
holymotherchurch.weconnect.com
SATURDAY: 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY: 8 and 10:15 a.m. Worship
PEOPLES UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
103 North Alpine Parkway, Oregon
Pastor Jason Mahnke
(608)835-3755
www.peoplesumc.org
Communion is the 1st & 3rd
weekend
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship and
Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. Worship
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH
625 E. Netherwood, Oregon
Pastor Paul Markquart (Lead Pastor)
(608) 835-3154
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worship
9:15-10:15 a.m. Education Hour
VINEYARD COMMUNITY CHURCH
Oregon Community Bank & Trust, 105 S.
Alpine Parkway, Oregon - Bob Groth,
Pastor
(608) 513-3435 welcometovineyard.
com
SUNDAY - 10 a.m. Worship
ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF
CHRIST - Paoli
At the Intersection of Hwy. 69 & PB
Rev. Sara Thiessen
(608) 845-5641
SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Family Worship

Support groups
Alcoholics Anonymous
meeting, First
Presbyterian Church,
every Monday and
Friday at 7 p.m.
Caregiver Support
Group, Oregon Area
Senior Center, third
Monday of each month
at 9 a.m.
Diabetes Support
Group, Oregon Area
Senior Center, second
Thursday of each month
at 1:30 p.m.
Parents Supporting
Parents, LakeView
Church, Stoughton, third
Tuesday of every month
from 6:30-8 p.m.

Relationship & Divorce

Support Group, State
Bank of Cross Plains,
every other Monday at
6:30 p.m.
Veterans Group,
Oregon Area Senior
Center, every second
Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Weight-Loss Support
Group, Oregon Area
Senior Center, every
Monday at 3:30 p.m.
Navigating Life Elder
Support Group, Peoples
United Methodist
Church, 103 N. Alpine
Pkwy., every first
Monday at 7 p.m.

Holiness is Our Essential Purpose

Most religions consider it a fundamental tenet of faith
that our essential purpose here on earth is to serve God
and man, and to seek to be truly holy in this life, so that
we might see God in the hereafter. Despite this being a
near universal tenet of faith in virtually every religion,
modern man appears to have forgotten his essential
purpose. Everywhere we see men, women and children
rushing about busily and haphazardly pursuing disparate goals, but without any overarching purpose, and as
a consequence many of these same people are radically
dissatisfied with life, and go through life with a nagging
sense that something fundamental is missing. But then
we occasionally catch sight of a truly holy person, and
we begin to discern that they have grasped this fundamental truth of existence: that we are created to serve
others, and are most at peace when we heed that calling. We all have different stations in life, and yet all of us
are called to be holy by serving God and our fellow man.
Christopher Simon, Metro News Service
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil
desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just
as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do.
1 Peter 1:14-15 NIV

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Photo submitted

International photo exchange

Oregon High School students in Michael Derricks adventure photography class completed an exchange
project with a school in Russia, with the assistance of OHS global education teacher Lou Kindschi. Students
were asked to photograph their favorite place at home, and then share the photo and their thoughts to give
a little insight about each others way of life. They learned even teenagers halfway around the world are
very much alike, Derrick said. Participating students were, front row, from left: Mackynzie Gleichauf, Jaelan
Wilson, Bryce Schipper, Dan Wingert and Sierra Purdy; second row, from left: Sara Shvec, Vera Omestad,
Loran Schultz, Jeff Aurit and Bobby Corliss; third row, from left: Maddy Knaack, Joe Schwartz, Zach Stone,
Ryan Wood, Nate Ironmonger, Sam Piper and Sam Mueller.

Photo submitted

Concert raises money for food pantry

The Nashville-based country and pop band Kassie performed at Charlies on Main on Jan. 9, and all
admission fees were donated to the Oregon/Brooklyn Food Pantry.
The food bank could use some funding to be replenished after the holiday season, said Oregon
resident Jeff Nachreiner, who hired the band. The event raised just over $1,000 dollars for the food
pantry.

Academic Achievements
Spring 2015 academic honors
Ripon College
Oregon
Mallory Krumrei, deans list

Boston University
Oregon
Kandyce Graber, deans list

Jessica Hanson, Sigma Tau Delta inductee; Rochester Community and Technical College
Amanda McKelvey, Psi Chi inductee
Oregon
Dustin Lee, deans list

Fall 2015 academic honors

Missouri State University

UW-Eau Claire
Oregon
Rochester Institute of Technology
Oregon
Yanique Rowe, Multicultural Leadership
Oregon
Brittny Deegan, deans list; Melissa Eyers, Scholarship
Jonathon Stone, deans list
deans list; Cody Waters, deans list; Shane
Whittemore, deans list
UW-Madison
Wheaton College
Oregon
Oregon
University of Minnesota Duluth
Abigail Meier, Gordon J. Flesch Scholarship
Daniel Schwartz, deans list
Oregon
Ashley Evans, deans list; Brooks McMahon, UW-Eau Claire
Southwest Tech
deans list
Oregon
Oregon
Hunter Klus, Gordon J. Flesch Scholarship
Brittany Wethal, deans list
Michigan Tech
Oregon
Ottawa University
Marquette University
Matthew Sampson, deans list
Oregon
Oregon
Chloe Marie Crubaugh, deans list
Kristina Hagstrom, deans list
UW-Oshkosh
Brooklyn
St. Norbert College
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Jacob Schlangen, honor roll
Oregon
Brooklyn
Oregon
Carson Torhorst, deans list
Cory Byrne, honors; Nicole Darga, honors;
Jennifer Deegan, deans list; Grace Flavin,
Haley Hyames, high honors; Mariah Isola, hon- deans list; Dawn Gray, honor roll; Sawyer Lewis University
ors
Holthaus, deans list; Kali Jahn, honor roll; Piper
Oregon
Oregon
Poe, honor roll
Jason Fourdraine, deans list
Anna Brukner, honors; Emily Janes, highest
honors; Michelle Lindsay, highest honors; Anna UW-Platteville
UW-La Crosse
McCartney, highest honors; Minji Olson, honOregon
Brooklyn
ors; Laura Risser, high honors; Max Schmidt,
Megan Dietrich, chancellors list; Claire Joyce,
Jeffrey Jaeggi, deans list; Cara Knipfer,
highest honors; Alexia Szabo, honors
chancellors list
deans list
Iowa State University
Oregon
Jennifer Zernick, deans list
St. Olaf College
Oregon
Amanda McKelvey, deans list

Fall 2015 graduates

UW-Milwaukee
Oregon
Mitchell
Robert
Auping,
BS,
Engineering
and
Applied
Science;
Aaron Kenneth Kluz, BBA, business
UW-Stout
Oregon
Casandra Carroll, BFA, art; Isaac Lindert,
BS, construction; Randall Way, MS, career and
technical education
Iowa State University
Brooklyn
Jason Russell, Doctor of Philosophy,
Nutritional Sciences
Lawrence University
Oregon
Kelsey Webber, Instrumental Music Education,
Bachelor of Music, Magna Cum Laude
UW-Stevens Point
Brooklyn
Cory Byrne, BS, forestry management
Oregon
Anna Brukner, BS, health science-health care
administration, Spanish

Summer 2015 academic honors

Upper Iowa University
Oregon
Marcus Bales, deans list
St. Olaf College
Oregon

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part of the Oregon Library.

In an email to the Observer, Oregon Public Library

Board president Loretta
Himmelsbach said Busch
will continue Santners
legacy and vision of making Oregon Public Library
a community hub for people
of all ages.
Nikki is an excellent proponent of libraries as a community resource, Himmelsbach said. She understands
the nuances of community
libraries and the integral
role they play in everything
from village government to
household resources.
In an email to the Observer, Library Board vice president Brian Busler who
chaired the search committee that recommended
Busch cited her collaborative approach as a reason
why she will be the perfect
leader to help our staff and
community plan for a new
Oregon Library, he said.
She makes everyone feel a

New worlds
The Algoma native always
enjoyed books growing up,
but around fourth or fifth
grade, she really became an
avid reader.
It was like a whole new
world for me to explore, she
said. Especially because
Algomas very pretty, but
its not the biggest place in
the world. So you get to see
more of the world that way.
There is no better view
of the rest of the world than
atop the Himalayas, which
run through the South Asian
country of Nepal. As a University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate studying
cultural anthropology, it was
there she spent a year trying
to hone language skills she
figure shed need for a career
as a cultural anthropologist.
You have to be able to
talk to folks, Busch said. I
was very broadly interested
in different ways of looking at the world I was

interested mainly in south

Asia, and I chose Nepal.
Busch quickly found the
value of communicating with
people on their level which
happened to be a fairly broad
one, as the country has large
populations of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and native
religions. The problem
wasnt a clash of cultures,
though, it was oddly, in
ancient Nepal modern technology.
It was the dawn of the
Internet you could even get
the Internet in Nepal, she
said. So it was starting to
seem like it would be rather
pretentious of me to think
that I ought to be the one to
represent someone elses
culture, when the world was
becoming so interconnected.

A new start
Returning to Madison
after earning her degree,
she was working at Community Pharmacy. There,
she saw how the workers

cooperative operated
everyone was an owner
and started thinking about
their really cool mission,
and how it might apply to
her interests. There, on State
Street she realized her path
was to be a librarian.
(Its) basically about
connecting people with
whatever kind of information they want to make their
own best health decisions,
Busch said. And thats
kind of what librarianship
is giving people whatever access they want for
their own lives, and not just
saying, This is what you
should do.
Deciding on another
career turn, she headed back
down the street to UW,
where she earned a masters
of library and information
studies degree and focused
on some career goals.
I knew I really wanted
to work with teens and I
wanted to work in a public
library environment, Busch
said.

She spent seven years

with the UW as an academic librarian, then became a
youth librarian before moving on in 2012 to lead the
Brodhead Memorial Public
Library. When she heard
of Santners retirement, her
thoughts flashed back eight
years to a visit to a friend in
Oregon, and to a library that
made a big impression.
Busch who lives just
outside of Brooklyn
smiled when she thought
back to that first trip to the
library and getting the feel
of the kind of place the Oregon area was. When asked
what drew her to the opening at the OPL she was
unanimously chosen over 20
other applicants she called
it the whole package.
The people were so
friendly and outgoing, and
you just feel welcomed in,
Busch said. It has to do
with the community as a
whole and the library within it as kind of this microcosm.

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leader at the library. Busch
said shes very fortunate
Santner was her predecessor, and thats been one of
the reasons her job has been
all fun so far.
(Santner) really helped
make this a very welcoming
place, she said. Theres a
lot of closeness among the
staff, and thats a great environment to walk into.
Busch, a film and animal
fan who is looking forward
to biking on Oregons many
trails, said her own journeys
and life experiences have
helped her become a flexible person who enjoys
relating to people something she said is important in
her new role.
You never know whats
going to happen next, she
said. Its great for a library
director or anyone else in
a position where you just
never know whats going to
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window in Buschs office
that reminds her about the
kind of library she wants
to lead. It says: Not your
grandmothers library.
Its a bit of a mission
statement for Busch, as ultimately, she said, libraries
must be responsive to the
publics needs and available technologies.
Once upon a time, there
were scrolls or tables, and
if you were a librarian
then, you were in change
of scrolls and tablets, or
oral histories, Busch said.
We had LPs (long-playing
albums) once upon a time
in our libraries. Right now
things seem to be moving
much faster, and changing
at a quicker pace, but we do
try to be responsive.
Busch also believes in
the concept of a library as a
third place in a community; a meeting space as much
as a place to quietly search
for a good book to read.
Thats gotten to be very
important because we
have home and work, but
we are also looking to interact with other humans, and
this is a place where you
can drop in and learn something or drop in and socialize. We try to accommodate
whatever those needs are.
In terms of future plans
for the library, Busch said
she simply wants to continue the programs that Santner had in place, and just
increase the good things we
already are doing. However, citing more questions
than answers, she said one
of the future challenges of
the growing library will
be the its limited amount
of space something she
views as an opportunity, as
well.
Moving forward how
can we make sure we have
the space and resources we
need? Busch said. What
might that look like? How
might we be able to engage
and reach out to even more
folks, and what input might
they want to have into what
their library would look
like?

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Oregon falls to rival Stoughton

Panthers defense
allows 49 points in
the second half
Anthony Iozzo

Girls hockey

Girls basketball

Panthers
remain a half
game behind
Stoughton
Anthony Iozzo

Assistant sports editor

It wasnt the offense that

hurt the Oregon High School
boys basketball team Tuesday
in a Badger South Conference game at rival Stoughton.
Head coach Jon Nedelcoff said a team that scores
62 points should win in the
Badger South. However, the
Vikings went on a 12-0 run
in the second half and built a
15-point lead as the Panthers
eventually fell 76-62.
Defensively, we were
poor all night, Nedelcoff
said. We let them get to
where they wanted to go. We
didnt take many strengths
away.
Oregon led 30-27 at halftime, and senior Charlie
Soule, who finished with
17 points, scored to make it
32-27 to start the second half.
But Stoughton kept coming back, eventually grabbing
a 43-40 lead after sophomore
Brady Schipper (15 points)
hit a 3-pointer.
Senior Alex Duff who led
Oregon with 32 points hit
a 3-pointer to tie the game at
43, but that is when the rails
came off.
Stoughton senior Tommy
McGlynn (11 points) hit a
3-pointer to start a 12-0 run,
and juniors Darvell Peeples
(12 points) and Troy Slaby
(eight points) both hit baskets.
Duff scored, got a steal and
scored again to cut Oregons
deficit to 60-50 with 3 minutes, 22 seconds left, but that
was the closest the Panthers
would get.
Even when we were
leading, we never played
defense, Nedelcoff said. If
you dont have the common
denominator defense and
rebounding it becomes phyed basketball. We have had
that problem ... We did that

Assistant sports editor

Senior Leah Koopman and sophomore Ellen

McCorkle combined for 30
points as the Oregon High
School girls basketball
team remained a half game
behind Stoughton in the
Badger South Conference
with a 44-35 win over Fort
Atkinson Friday.
The Panthers took a
10-point lead into halftime,
and they did enough in the
second half to pull away for
the victory.
Koopman ended up with
18 points, and McCorkle
added 12. Senior Morgan
Yaun and junior Abbie
Schofield each chipped in
five points.
Junior Miah Garant and
sophomore Taylor Romens
each scored 10 points for
the Blackhawks.
Oregon is now 8-8 overall (7-2 conference), a half
game ahead of Monona
Grove (14-3, 6-2) for second place. Stoughton (152, 7-1) leads the Badger
South.
Fort Atkinson fell to 8-10
(1-7).
The Panthers travel to
Jefferson at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday and to Mount
Horeb at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
They host Monona Grove at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9.

Photos by Anthony Iozzo

Above, junior Christian Bultman dribbles into the lane before kicking the ball out to the perimeter in the second half Tuesday at
Stoughton High School.; (at right) junior Steven Moravec drives
into the lane for a layup in the second half. The Panthers lost 76-62.

against Watertown. We did

that against DeForest. We did
that against Edgewood.
You have to take pride
in guarding your man and
make sure they dont beat you
in the one-to-two drill. We
didnt get it done tonight.
Sophomore Max Fernholz
and junior Kyle Goodman
added 17 and 10 points for
Stoughton, respectively.
Oregon (10-7 overall, 4-4
Badger South) hosts Madison
Edgewood at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Oregon 54, Monroe 51

The Panthers traveled to
Monroe Thursday and edged
the Cheesemakers 54-51 for
their fourth conference win of
the season.

Badger South
Team W-L
Madison Edgewood 6-1
Monona Grove
6-1
Stoughton 6-2
Oregon 4-4
Fort Atkinson
3-4
Monroe 1-6
Milton 0-8

Badger South
Team W-L
Stoughton 7-1
Oregon 7-2
Monona Grove
6-2
Madison Edgewood 4-4
Monroe 3-6
Milton 1-7
Fort Atkinson
1-7

Seniors Ben Weiland and

Duff both scored 15 points
to lead Oregon, while Soule
added 12. Junior Michael
Landry chipped in eight
points.
Junior Carter Sawdey led
Monroe with 16 points.

Icebergs end chippy game in a stalemate

Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

The Icebergs girls hockey co-op

twice rallied from a two-goal deficit
Monday evening inside the Mandt
Community Center, but ultimately
ended up settling for a 4-4 tie against
non-conference opponent Brookfield
Glacier.
Trailing 4-2 with a little less than 9
1/2 minutes remaining, the Icebergs
received a spark from senior defenseman Maddy Hess, who scored twice
over a four minute span to force OT.
They were getting physical and
kind of beating me up a little bit and
I got mad and ended up skating down
Photo by Jeremy Jones and scoring the first goal, Hess said.
My dad always tells me to cut in and
Oregon sophomore forward Samantha Eyers (left) battles Brookfield
shoot. I did and it went in.
defender Bailey Sandahl for control of the puck in the third period Monday
Getting Brookfields Grace Elliot
inside the Mandt Community Center. The Icebergs and non-conference
moving
to her right, Hess slipped the
Glacier skated to a 2-2 tie.
puck between the goalies legs to pull

the Icebergs within a goal with 4 1/2

minutes remaining.
While Brookfield continued to play a
chippy brand of hockey in search of its
fourth win of the season, the Icebergs
remained composed and Hess once
again came up big.
Someone punched me in the face
and then everyone had my back, Hess
said. Everyone was definitely running
out of gas, but I definitely think that
gave us some extra adrenaline.
Hess saw open ice ahead of her and
surged ahead, splitting the defense and
scoring on the blocker side of Elliot.
It was nothing new to head coach
Carl Helmich who said Hess can be a
one-woman show.
Everyone worked hard tonight, but
sometimes it takes seeing a teammate
go out there and lead by example,
Helmich said. We could have gotten
down on ourselves going down twice
tonight, but weve been short-handed

(with only five girls on the bench) so

many times this season we never gave
up.
Down two goals in the first period,
the Icebergs went 32 minutes without
a goal before Oregon sophomore Shannon King and McFarland junior Kat
Olson popped in two quick goals 55
seconds apart in the second period to
tie the game.
Anytime you get a pair of quick
goals like that it shows you can do
what you set out to do, Helmich said.
The momentum shift was shortlived, however, as Glacier battled back
to regain its two-goal cushion only to
falter down the stretch once again.
Both McKenzie Nisius of Stoughton and Elliot were solid in overtime as
the game ended in a stalemate. Nisius
stopped 26 shots for the Icebergs and
Elliot saved 25 for Glacier.

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Wrestling

Boys hockey

Conference tournament Oregon ices McFarland, now 12-9

set for Saturday
Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

Anthony Iozzo

If you go

Assistant sports editor

The Oregon High School

wrestling team will have had
two weeks off to prepare by
the time Saturdays Badger Conference Tournament
begins at 9 a.m. at DeForest
High School.
The Panthers will have
their work cut out in a meet
that features 33 ranked individuals and Division 1 ranked
teams Stoughton (fifth),
Sauk Prairie (sixth) and Milton (ninth).
Stoughton is the leader of
the Badger South and boasts
seven ranked wrestlers
freshman Hunter Lewis (106,
sixth), junior Brandon Klein
(113, first), junior Kaleb Louis (120, fourth), junior Tristan
Jenny (126, sixth), junior Garrett Model (138, fifth), senior
Collin Kraus (145, first) and
sophomore Tyler Dow (152,
fourth).
Sauk Prairie is the leader of
the Badger North and boasts
eight ranked wrestlers
sophomore Zeke Smith (106,
seventh), sophomore Dylan
Herbrand (113, ninth), junior
Drew Fjoser (132, third),
sophomore Aaron Hankins
(132, 12th), freshman Bryant Schaaf (145, honorable
mention), senior Eddie Smith
(152, first), senior Austin
Powell (182, fourth) and
junior Logan Moore (220,
honorable mention).
Milton (Badger South) and
DeForest (Badger North)
are next with five ranked
wrestlers each. The Red
Hawks have junior Dalton
Shea (113, seventh), senior
Tristan Woods (138, 10th),
junior Nick Richards (145,
honorable mention), sophomore Vince Degennaro (152,

What: Badger
Conference Tournament
When: 9 a.m. Saturday
Where: DeForest High
School
honorable mention) and senior
Billy Pitzner (170, 10th).
The Norskies have junior
Will Gahnz (152, ninth),
junior Jackson Hemauer (160,
first), senior Alex Schodin
(170, eighth), senior Kevin
Rauls (182, honorable mention) and senior Nathan Kemp
(195, 12th).
Waunakee has three ranked
wrestlers senior Preston
Ernst (145, 12th), senior
Trevor Statz (195, fourth)
and senior Mason Ripp (220,
12th). Baraboo freshman
Pablo Ramirez (113, honorable mention) and senior
Zach Raymond (160, ninth)
and Reedsburg sophomore
Mason McMillen (120, ninth)
and junior Dalton Hahn (195,
third) both have two.
Fort Atkinson has the other
ranked wrestler senior Austin Kind (170, honorable mention).
For the Panthers, freshman
Steele Mellum (106) has had
the best season so far with
over 20 wins, while sophomore Devin Keast (138) has
over 15 wins. Junior Parker
Ehn-Howland (170), sophomore Connor Brickley (126)
and freshman Robbie Ruth
(152) all have 10 or more
wins this season. Sophomore
Sam Pieper (132) has nine
wins, and sophomore Steven
Norland (145) has seven.
Senior Tristan Williams
(182) battled injuries this season but is now healthy.

Rivalries come and go,

but the Oregon and McFarland boys hockey teams have
done their best to keep tensions high between the once
co-oped programs.
Though the teams split
back before the 2003-04 season and havent played in
the same conference since
2013-14 season, a piece of
hardware has helped keep the
rivalry alive and well. And it
was enough to fuel the Panthers to a 6-1 victory over the
Spartans on Tuesday.
Named the Jerry Swanson
Cup in honor of the long-time
Learn to Skate coach at the
McFarland Community Ice
Arena its a trophy that the
Panthers have dominated.
Some of the guys on our
team grew up playing in
McFarland and knew these
guys, but for most of us it
isnt a huge rivalry anymore, junior forward Alex
Verhagen said. I think
McFarland has won the trophy twice since 2006 and we
wanted to keep our name on
it and keep it in Oregon for
another 12 months.
Verhagen was a big reason the Panthers took the cup
back home, scoring twice,
including a goal 14 minutes

Photo by Jeremy Jones

Senior Max Dosher slides what proved to be the game-winning

goal through the legs of McFarland goaltender Tucker Jarrett 11
minutes into the second period Tuesday inside the McFarland
Community Ice Arena. Oregon won the game 6-1.

into the second period which

give the Panthers a 3-1 lead.
Two-and-a-half minutes
after Max Dosher scored
what proved to the gamewinner, Verhagen flipped an
insurance goal up and over
the pad of McFarland freshman goaltender Tucker Jarrett, who was sprawled out
on his chest across the crease.
The puck was just sitting
in front of the net. I was just
able to get in there and hit the
puck into the net, Verhagen
said. My teammates were
able to get the puck down
low for me and I just put it
home.

Verhagen, who setup two

other goals added a second
10 minutes into the third
period.
Senior leading-scorer
Dylan Ziomek also scored
twice and assisted on another
in the win.
Despite the final score
the game has a few tense
moments in the first period as
the Spartans came out buzzing and tied the game 1-1
going into the first intermission.
Oregon junior goaltender
Henry Roskos was solid from
that point, finishing with 20
saves on the night.

Jarrett finished with 32

saves in the loss.
The victory improved Oregon, which could be seeded
anywhere between seventh
and 10th at next weeks seeding meeting, to 2-5-0 against
teams in its playoff bracket.
The Panthers (12-9-0 overall, 4-4-0 conference) conclude the Badger South Conference regular season 7 p.m.
Friday at Monroes SLICE
Arena and at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, against Madison
Edgewood at Oregon Ice
Hockey Rink.
Monroe has one win on the
season (1-15-0) but hasnt
won a conference game (0-70). Edgewood (13-5-3, 8-0-0)
on the other hand hasnt lost a
conference game this season.
We definitely want to
focus on Monroe first and
get that game out of the way
before we go into the Edgewood game, which is also
senior night, Verhagen said.
Wed definitely like to help
sent our seniors out on a high
note.
Oregon (12-9-0 overall,
4-4-0 conference) concludes
the Badger South Conference
regular season 7 p.m. Friday
at Monroes SLICE Arena
and at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.
9, against Madison Edgewood at Oregon Ice Hockey
Rink.

Boys swimming

Panthers travel to Stoughton for conference meet Saturday

Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

The Oregon High School boys

swimming team looks to continue
its success this season on Saturday
at the Badger South Conference
meet in Stoughton.
The meet begins at 1 p.m., and

the Panthers, which only lost one

conference dual to Monona Grove
this season, will be looking to crack
the top three for the first time in
school history.
Oregon which has a program
that is almost 20-years old won
its first invitational earlier this
year.

If you go
What: Badger South Conference
meet
When: 1 p.m. Saturday
Where: Stoughton High School

MSO: Icebergs shut out against Appleton in non-conference game

Continued from page 9
The Icebergs (2-16-1 overall, 1-61 conference) will look for their third
win of the season Friday when they
host the first-place Middleton co-op
(12-4-4, 7-1-0) at 7 p.m.
We havent had a lot of wins, but

the girls on the team are all great,

Hess said. Ultimately, thats why I
play hockey. The scoreboard doesnt
really mean that much to me.
While the Icebergs expect to be
seeded toward the bottom of their
playoff bracket when the postseason starts in mid-February, the girls

remain optimistic.
Honestly, I think its hard to tell.
Were like a different team every
game, Hess said. As long as we
play like we did tonight and push
ourselves, I think we can play to the
level of almost any team weve competed against. We have the skill. We

just dont have the numbers.

Appleton 6, Icebergs 0
Junior forward Maddi Schultz
scored a goal in each period and
assisted on another Saturday as the
Appleton United co-op rolled 6-0
over the Icebergs.

Lisa Cramer added a goal and an

assist, while Greta Brown and Anna
Duehring also scored for United.
Mekenzy Hosington stopped 10
shots for the shutout for Appleton
Untied (8-1-3-0), while McKenzie
Nisius turned away 42 of 48 in the
loss.

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Will centralize
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Photos by Scott Girard

Angelos Restaurant took over the former location of Holstein, which moved to Oregon last year. The Italian restaurant opened Nov. 3 and
was busy during its first week.

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Recreational Concepts Inc. will no longer

have its operation spread
among four locations.
With the purchase of th
building on the villages
southeast side that used to
house the Waterfall Restaurant, the pool and landscaping company plans to
soon centralize into that
single location. The company bought the buildings
last month, with plans to
eventually build a new
warehouse and showroom
at the site.
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pains, so this will help
ease those pains a little
bit, said owner Jeff Kjelland. The company, which
has been in Oregon for 13
years, currently has three
locations in Oregon and
another in Verona that
would all close when the

new building opens, he

said, though the timeline
is yet to be determined.
(We need to figure
out) when the project
starts, and were discussing TIF funds from Oregon and stuff like that,
Kjelland said. Were
probably about three
weeks away from knowing if were going to start
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Kjelland added the land
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to be worked out with the
village that will affect the
building process.
He didnt know the
size of the entire building yet, as that will be
part of those ongoing discussions, but noted the
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feet.
The location will also
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Early on, in part because of coupons offering 20 percent off, the
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recalled, adding things have settled
down since.
Garcia said hes focused on giving the customers a good experience,
and is thankful for the opportunity to
open his own location with a business
and owner hes come to know well.
At first its just work, Garcia said
of his relationship with Augustine,
Then its more like a friendship.

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Holstein Kitchens move to downtown Oregon did more than change

the landscape of dining in the village.
It also created an opening for
another business to move into its former site at the edge of the Village
of Brooklyn on Hwy. MM. Angelos Italian Restaurant did just that,
expanding beyond its Monona and
McFarland locations and opening
Nov. 3.
Owner Patrick Augustine, who
runs the original Angelos location in Monona, said he hopes to not
have that title for long, at least for the
chains newest location in Brooklyn.
Augustine recently sold the McFarland location to the employee who
helped open it, and hopes to eventually do the same in Brooklyn with
manager Yoni Garcia.
For me, its seeing someone like
Yoni who worked for me for 12 years,
16-year-old kid, grow up and have
the opportunity to go into business
for himself, he said. Really good
kid, hard worker and smart. Thought
we can do the same thing in Brooklyn
that we did in McFarland.
Augustine said he had been talking with Garcia for over a year about
opening a new store, but had to wait
for the right location. While at Mothers Day brunch at Holstein, Augustine recalled overhearing the waitress tell another guest that they were
moving into Oregon.
The location kind of fell in our lap,
and we drove around and liked it,
Augustine said.
Garcia told the Observer the community has been really welcoming
so far.
They were very excited to have
Angelos here, Garcia said.
The location will eventually expand
to delivery, which Augustine said fit
Garcias skill set best, but is currently

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Obituary
Grace B. Youngblood

Grace B. Youngblood,
age 105, of Oregon, passed
away on Monday, Jan. 25,
2016, at the Oregon Manor
in Oregon.
She was born on March
29, 1910, in Brillion, Wis.,
the daughter of Harry and
Angie Coleman. Grace was
married to Vance Pluntz as
well as Floyd Youngblood,
both preceding her in death.
Mrs. Youngblood was a
Pharmacy Technician for Eli
Lilly Pharmaceutical Co. for
many, many years. In retirement, she and Floyd resided
in Indiana. Grace enjoyed
ballroom dancing, trips to
Florida and being surrounded by her friends and family.
Grace is survived by her
grandson, Richard Pluntz;
four great-grandchildren,
Alexandra, Maddie, Ellie
and Teo; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins;
daughter-in-law, Kathleen
Pluntz; and other relatives
and friends.
She was preceded in death
by her parents; husbands;
son, Richard Pluntz; daughter, Lois (Vernon) Sjoblom;
her brother, Arnold Bud;
and sisters, Effie, Nina and
Esther; and a special niece,
Judy Copus.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, Feb. 2 at Gunderson
Oregon Funeral Home with
the Rev. Jason Mahnke officiating. Burial followed at the
Nora Cemetery in Rice Lake.
Those wishing to make
a memorial contribution in
Graces name are encouraged
to do so to the Oregon Senior
Center, 219 Park St., Oregon,
WI 53575. Thank you to Oregon Manor and staff for all
the years of excellent care.
Online condolences may be
made at gundersonfh.com.
Gunderson Oregon
Funeral & Cremation
Care
1150 Park Street
835-3515

100 years ago (1915)

The First National Bank of
Oregon reminded those with relatives and family still in the old
country this holiday season, that
foreign drafts reasonably priced
are available at the bank.
Local merchants were selling
the annual Red Cross Christmas
Seals to help raise funds to fight
tuberculosis. Merchants participating in the campaign were J. P.
Connor, B. McDermott & Son,
Cowdrey & Buche, A. M. Anderson, Dan Benson, Eugene Sweeney, W. H. Dunn, Anna Nelson
and Oregon Drug Co.
Dr. Rodney Fox sponsored a
dance in his large, new barn located northwest of the village. About
250 people attended. Thompsons
Orchestra of Madison provided the
music. The barn will house Foxs
prize winning herd of Shorthorn
cattle. J. H. Gallagher manages the
farm.
Due to the failure of the corn
crop in the area, many farmers
were selling their cattle and hogs
before they were ready for market.
In one week, local dealers, Richards and Roberts, shipped 35 carloads of stock to Chicago and Milwaukee. The shipments consisted
of hogs, cattle and sheep.
The high school basketball
season started. Oregons Junior
team beat the Waunakee Juniors
31-11. The players of the Junior
team were Ted Elliott, Arbie Peterson, Raymond Comstock, Richard Clark, Max Wolfe, and Arthur
Sholts, Jr. The Senior Team also
won their game over the Waunakee Seniors by a score of 49-15.
The players on the Senior Team
were Alex Johnson, Erwin Tijpple,
Burr McWilliams, Roy Cowdrey,
and Lyman Jackson A dance followed the games.
Thomas Walsh was appointed
to a four-year term as postmaster
of the Oregon Post Office; taking over from Donald McGill.
He appointed Miss Catherine
Moran as his assistant. The position of postmaster was a political appointment. Donald McGill
had been appointed by President
Howard Taft in November 1911.
Mr. Walsh, a good Democrat, was
appointed by President Woodrow
Wilson upon the recommendation
of Wisconsin Senator, Paul Husting.
The Oregon Chapter of the
Eastern Star held their installation
ceremonies. C. W. Netherwood
was the installing officer and Mrs.
Adell Shampnor, installing marshal. Installed to head the group
for the coming year were Emma
Fisher (W.M.) and C. R. Fisher
(W.P.). Those elected/appointed to
other positions in the organization

included Mona Paulson, Alice

Wolfe, Mary Gray, Alta Buche,
Lucile Hanan, Nettie Wilkins,
Jennie White, Nona Ellis, Bernice Hanan, Stella Hillstad, Ione
Anthony, Augusta Christensen,
Anna Fincher, Margaret Devine,
and J. B. Devine.
50 years ago (l965)
Jerry Swinehardt, manager
of the Midland Service Station
(located at the present downtown
Kwik Trip), advised residents to
prepare for snowy and icy roads
by purchasing steel-studded snow
tires.
Kenneys Bowling Team set a
season record in league bowling
completion at the Oregon Bowling Alley. The team posted 2955
while competing against the R.
& L. Beverage Team. Members
of the Kenney team were Jim
Flint, Larry Beers, Ken Cox, Tom
Arnold, and Erv Olson.
Girl Scout #509 held a Candlelight Ceremony at the home
of Mrs. James Wolowicz. Those
attending included Joyce Clup,
Connie Ringen, Nancy Schwann,
Lita Wolowicz, Ann Nielson,
Susan Attwell, Karen Emling,
Kristine Hansen, Karen Rygh,
Darlene Zimmerlee, Cheryl
Smith, Charlene Lawson, Suzanne
Schneider, Kathy Bruha, Kristine
White, and Diane Waefler.
Oregon TV, owned and operated by George Hecox, held an
open house featuring special
pricing for Motorola and Emerson Televisions and Channel
Master Transistor Radios. Prize
winners at the event were Mrs.
Richard Detra, Lois Lindholm,
Dick Nicolson, Mrs. Erwin West,
James Burmeister, and Betty
Raha.
Cynthia Gefke was the Wisconsin winner of a trip to the
National 4-H Club Congress for
the Home Improvement Project.
Maurice Moler of Route 1,
Oregon, won first place at the
recent International Livestock
Exposition at Chicago for his
Dorset eve lamb. The lamb also
took honors as the reserve overall
grand champion.
Santa arrived in Oregon on
Dec. 18, escorted by an Oregon
Fire Truck. The Chamber of Commerce had Santas headquarters
set up in the downtown area where
they took free photos of about 400
youngsters visiting Santa.
A daily commuter bus service was started from Stoughton
and Oregon to Madison. Commuters could ride from Oregon to
the University area, the Capitol
Square, East Washington Avenue
or the Hilldale area. Fees were
60 cents for a one way trip; $1.10

for a round trip, and $4.25 for a

weekly pass. Pickups in Oregon
were made at The Waterfall Restaurant, The Corner Store, the A
& W Root Beer Stand, and Kellors Store.
The Rotarys winners in their
holiday decorating contest were,
in the religious category, the Neil
Denton home (1st place); Dr.
Dukerschein home (2nd place);
the Gerald Knobeck home (3rd
place); the Ralph Cross home (4th
place); and the Everett Gouker
home (5th place).
Those winners with just a decorative theme were: the William
Berger home (1st place); the Orrill
Ferguson home (2nd place); the F.
E. Madsen home (3rd place); the
Lloyd Bavery home (4th place).
25 years ago (1990)
A major winter storm hit the
area on Monday, Dec. 3, dumping a record 17.2 inches of snow
within a 24 hour period of time. It
was accompanied with wind gusts
of over 60 miles a hour.
Bisbee Carpet opens a store
and showroom in Oregon at 156 N.
Main St.
Alice Seeliger, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, along
with Miss Oregon, Deb Bossingham, Miss Oregon welcomes
The Chocolate Caper to the Chamber of Commerce.
Scott Anderson was named to
the All-State soccer team. He was
the lone representative from the
Badger Conference to be named to
the All-State Team.
OHS senior, Josh Tyre, placed
first in the science fiction/fantasy
category at the Creative Writing
Festival at UW-Whitewater for
his composition, Blood on her
Hands.
The Village Board authorized
$5,000 to be allotted for a study
and the making of preliminary
drawings for a new library facility.
Oregon Middle School students, Laura Pitt and Andrea
Brown, received honorable mention for their composition, Christmas Hoedown. The recognition
was given at the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestras concert on Dec.
18.
The Swan Creek Sewing Circle
celebrated their Jubilee Anniversary. Their first meeting was held
75 years ago on Dec. 1, 1915 at
the home of Mrs. Fred (Amanda)
Culp.
The DNR approved the purchase of 2,400 acres of land
encompassing Hook and Grass
Lakes in the Town of Dunn.
10 years ago (2005)
Chris Ziemba becomes the new
executive director of Three Gaits,

Inc., a therapeutic horsemanship center between Oregon and

Stoughton.
A new book club is formed
with plans to meet at the Firefly
Coffeehouse. The book they are
discussing this month is Alibi by
Joseph Kanon.
The Oregon Area Senior Center announced card party winners:
Euchre (women) Bonnie Stout,
first, and Doris Hanson, second;
Euchre (men), Virgil Monte, first,
and Rick Lund, second. 500 (women) Roberta West, first, and Betty
McConnell, second; (men) Bill
Brickner, first, and Ray Lawry,
second. Brandie White won the
door prize.
The Lioness held their
annual Holiday Tour of Homes.
The homes included on the tour
were those of Christine and Scott
Copus; Elizabeth and Matthew
Seeliger; Kopecky /Friebert;
Arlen and Dorothy Milestone;
and the Mortensen home. The
proceeds were designated for two
$500 scholarships to be given to
two Oregon High School seniors.
Peoples United Methodist
Church hosted a labyrinth walk
in their sanctuary. The labyrinth,
laid on the floor, is a winding path
that help walkers focus inward to
its center where they can meditate and/or pray, then leave with a
renewed sense of peacefulness and
understanding.
The Brooklyn Sno-Hornets
Snowmobile Club celebrated their
35th anniversary. The Club was
formed on Nov. 4, 1970. The first
officers were Bill Martinson, president; Phil Mortensen vice-president; Richard Behnke, treasurer;
and Sandy Mortensen, secretary.
Tom Bjoraker and Clay
Schmidt were awarded the rank
of Eagle Scout and elected to the
Order of the Arrow, Scouting's
National Honor Society. Both
were members of Troop #168 of
Oregon, chartered by St. Johns
Lutheran Church.
Jane Peschel, former principal of Prairie View Elementary
School for the previous five years,
has now taken the job as director
of instruction. She had worked as a
building administrator in the Oregon School District since 1976.
The Oregon Public Library,
through the Wisconsin Public
Library Consortium, can now offer
to patrons digital book downloads
using the newly developed software program OverDrive.
Compiled by the Oregon Area
Historical Society. Hours are 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and noon
to 4 p.m. the first Saturday of the
month from September to May.

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Space: Study

Village of Oregon

will inform
decisions on
buildings

Civic campus progress continues

Bill Livick
Unified Newspaper Group

As part of an effort to create a civic campus in downtown Oregon, village officials plan to reach out to the
public with forums and workshops.
The goal is to develop a master
plan by disseminating information
and garnering ideas for it.
Initially, the Village Board hoped
to hold its first public workshop at
the end of February, but on Monday,
the board decided to push it back to
Monday, April 25. It will start at 5
p.m. in the Village Board meeting
room in Village Hall.
The board also met in closed session Monday to discuss the possibility of acquiring Oregon Bowl on
Spring Street, directly across from
Village Hall, which could open up
more options for designing a civic
campus.
The campus would likely consist of the Village Hall, the Oregon
Public Library, the Oregon Senior
Center and possibly a redesigned
Oregon Youth Center and Oregon/
Brooklyn Food Pantry, which would
be in close proximity to one another.

Growth brings need

Photo by Jim Ferolie

Village officials are contemplating ways to create a civic campus, possibly in the two-block area that contains Village Hall, the
senior center, public library, fire station and post office downtown.

just outside Madison has been

growing more steadily and faster
than the rest of the state and nation
on average, Slavney reported. That
growth is generating a need for the
village to use its space wisely, he
said, because space in downtown
Oregon is limited.
Were running out of room
downtown and so have to be more
efficient in redevelopment, he
said.
He reported that Dane County is
the steadiest growing county in the
United States.
Its really noticeable that the
first ring of communities outside
Madison Middleton, Verona,
Oregon, Sun Prairie, Cottage Grove
have all shared the very steady
growth trend, Slavney said.
He said Dane County was among
the first counties to come out of
the recession in Wisconsin and the
nation.
We dont boom and bust, he
said. The county has been a model
of consistent and steady growth.
But, he said, wages have
remained relatively stagnant, especially for public employees.

Municipal planner Mike Slavney

recommended delaying the workshop in his report to the board
Monday. He commented on a space
needs study the village has just
received, saying, Its in line with
the newer facilities in your peer
communities.
A big reason for that is expected
population growth in the village, as
well as throughout Dane County.
Slavney said steady growth puts
pressure on small communities and
their downtowns because they tend
to run out of space. And Oregon is
no exception.
Since 1991, weve added about
6,000 people per decade, Slavney Complex demographics
told the board. But our growth rate
In response to a question from
has accelerated since 2010, and the
village has been averaging around Trustee Jeff Boudreau, Slavney
said about 15 percent of the vil7,300, rather than 6,000.
lages
growing population is in the
A ring of first-tier municipalities

If you go
What: Kickoff workshop for the
civic campus master plan
When: 5 p.m. April 25
Where: Village Board meeting
room, Village Hall, 117 Spring St.
Info: Call administrator Mike
Gracz at 835-6280
low- to moderate-income range.
It depends on how you define
low to moderate income, he said,
noting that free and reduced lunch
in schools has been increasing.
Boudreau asked how senior citizens and Baby Boomers would
affect the villages needs. In the
past, Boudreau told the Observer
that growth in those areas would
create more demand for services
from the senior center and also the
library.
Slavney responded that were
midway through the Baby Boom,
and in Dane County, Boomers
tend to retire later than elsewhere
because more tend to work office
jobs versus blue-collar jobs.
He said the hottest sectors
nationwide in terms of jobs and
salaries are the strongest sector in
Dane County.
The growth is broader than

simply Epic which is about

one-quarter of the countys job
growth, he said.

Looking at space in Oregon

Slavney and his colleagues at
Vandewalle and Associates have
been talking with downtown property owners about properties the
village might consider acquiring
to increase the options for a civic
campus.
He noted that the south side of
Jefferson Street is becoming tight
for parking, and there is probably no available property on the
block near Kwik Trip and BMO
Harris Bank. He said that leaves
the block on Spring Street, with
Village Hall, and the block to the
east, with the current library and
senior center, as most likely area
for development of a civic campus.
Were getting to the point of
narrowing the options, he said.
Slavney suggested an April
meeting on the civic campus
would not be an open-ended discussion, but instead should focus
on locating the key buildings that
would compose the campus.
He hopes the public can propose
ideas that he and his colleagues
havent considered.
Creative ideas tend to come
forward when planners arent
involved, he said.

Proposed hotel size reduced to 52 rooms

Financial adviser
still analyzing TIF
request, which had
been $1 million
Bill Livick
Unified Newspaper Group

A proposed hotel on Oregons south side has been

downsized from 75 to 52
rooms.
The change was presented to the Village Board
Monday, which accepted
it without much comment.
In fact, several officials,
including Village President Steve Staton, said a
three-story hotel with 52
units seems more reasonable.
Im certainly no hotel
expert, but that 70-room
hotel seemed kind of big to
me, Staton said.
Eric Lund, owner of
S&L Hospitality in Verona, had asked the village
for $1 million in financial
assistance on the original
proposal, a Sleep Inn and
Suites Hotel on the site

where the former Waterfall Restaurant sits on Park

Street. But that number is
likely to be reduced.
Lund told village administrator Mike Gracz in an
email that with parking, the
site wouldnt accommodate
the larger hotel, and that
Oregon is an unproven
market with no existing
hotels.
The brand wants to
make sure the developer
and the brand are successful, and they feel much
more comfortable building
a 52-unit prototype, he
wrote in the email.
However, he wrote to
Gracz that the public space

within the smaller building

would be identical to the
one he initially proposed.
We will offer guests a
complimentary breakfast,
an indoor pool, business
center and fitness room,
he wrote.
Gracz said the villages
financial adviser has been
conducting an analysis on
the tax-increment financing proposal to determine
whether the project merits
TIF assistance by passing
the state-mandated but
for test of whether it could
or would happen without the taxpayer money or
without the full amount.
He said financial adviser

Mike Harrigan of Ehlers

would continue to analyze
the TIF request and that the
amount of TIF would be
reduced to reflect a smaller
project.
The analysis would tell
us when the hotel would
start to help pay the debt
service on the loan, Gracz
explained. A lot of times,
if you dont do a pay-asyou-go TIF loan, then the
village is fronting the first
couple of years until the
hotel value hits the full
assessed value.
TIF is a public financing method that is used as
a subsidy for redevelopment, infrastructure, and

other community-improvement projects by capturing

property tax revenue from
all underlying taxing jurisdictions (the city, county,
state, technical college and
the school district) of the
newly developed property.
Village officials would
like to see a hotel built
here to provide rooms for
visitors and because a hotel
room tax would help fund
tourism promotion efforts.
Gracz said developers have
shown interest in developing a hotel in Oregon
numerous times, but so far
nothing has come of their
inquiries.

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square feet to 35,226

square feet. He determined
the senior center should
be increased by 115 percent and that Village Hall
should be 25 percent larger,
including a Village Board
meeting room twice the size
it is now.
The Oregon/Brooklyn
Food Pantry serves 125
families per month and
needs to increase its space
by 125 percent, Goodhart
said in his report.
He also looked at the villages staffing needs and
indicated that by 2030, the
village will need a fulltime planner and a building inspector, as well as a
personnel director. He projected the need for two new
staff members in the clerk
and finance offices, as well.
Village administrator
Mike Gracz said the study
will help get the campus
planning started. Village
officials are drafting a plan
for the villages public
facilities downtown.
If we hadnt done the
study, wed be trying to
guess what the different
needs would be for the
future buildings, Gracz
said. It doesnt mean
were going to build exactly that square footage, but
at least weve got an idea
of what we think would be
the ultimate goal for each
building.
Goodhart told Village
President Steve Staton the
requests for more space
are in line with what other
prosperous, modern communities have or seek.
On Tuesday, Staton told
the Observer that Goodharts conclusions kind of
met what we thought would
be coming our way as far as
the need for space.
He said its exciting to
see the data and know that
work toward a civic campus
plan is progressing.
The consultants feel that
things can be configured so
that a civic campus would
work, Staton said. Were
a long ways from making
those decisions, and there
may be some more land that
we look at, who knows?
Members of the Village
Board didnt have many
questions for the architect.
Gracz told the Observer
he wasnt surprised by anything in the report, but still
Im amazed at how undersized the library is. We
always knew that, but when
you see it on paper its still
shocking.
When they built it back
in the 90s, already it was at
capacity, he said. And its
been extremely popular and
more busy over the years.
He added that the Senior
Center would love to have
more than just one room for
events.
He noted its so much
manual work to put up and
take down tables and chairs
for events, and its just
really time-consuming.
The village is planning
a public workshop for the
civic campus plan in April.

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All reports taken from the log book at the Dec. 8

Oregon Police Department.
4:25 p.m. A 33-year-old Stoughton woman
was charged with retail theft and resisting or
Dec. 1
obstructing an officer after she allegedly fled
10:40 p.m. An 18-year-old woman reported during a theft from Kwik Trip. Police arrested
being sexually assaulted by her 16-year-old the woman in the cemetery after she ran. The
ex-boyfriend in October. The 16-year-old woman had injured her foot while jumping a
overdosed on prescription medications and fence. She also had about eight warrants for
was transported to UW Hospital. No charges her arrest.
had yet been filed, according to online court
records.
Dec. 9
7:14 p.m. Police gave a warning to five
Dec. 4
teenage boys after they took a cover off of a
3:46 p.m. A 24-year-old man reported concrete post at Kwik Trip and were throwing
someone using drugs in the Kwik Trip bath- it around.
room, but the suspect was gone when an officer arrived.
Dec. 10
10:17 p.m. A 25-year-old Fitchburg man
10:55 a.m. An 18-year-old man was cited
was cited for his first-offense OWI. The man for theft after allegedly stealing a candy bar
was also cited for an expired registration and from Kwik Trip. The man admitted to stealing
a passenger was cited for possession of mari- the bar.
juana.
3:11 p.m. A 75-year-old man reported
repeated threats due to his research on govDec. 5
ernment conspiracies, which he said often
3:30 p.m. Police conducted 18 alcohol com- upsets people. The man said he was delivered
pliance checks, and issued citations to nine a package and because he had gotten them
individuals for selling alcohol to a 20-year-old in the past he knew it would contain a plastic
man. An employee at Bills Food Center, Mulli- duck. The man said he sent a similar package
gans Bar and Grill, The Legend at Bergamont, he recently received to a postal inspector in
Kwik Trip, Senor Peppers, Charlies on Main, Florida to have him look over. The man just
Holstein Kitchen, another Kwik Trip and Pizza wanted the incident documented, and said he
Pit were cited.
did not know who sent the package.

Dec. 17
12 p.m. An officer spoke with a 12-yearold at Oregon Middle School about the consequences of stealing. The boy had allegedly stolen a pair of headphones. After initially denying
that, the boy acknowledged he had stolen the
headphones and lied.

between 3:30 p.m. Dec. 22 and 5 a.m. Dec.

23. A new buck knife was missing.
2:52 p.m. A 17-year-old Madison man
reported his fathers house on the 600 block
of Bergamont Boulevard appeared to have
been burglarized. The man and his 22-yearold brother reported two windows and a sliding door were damaged. Three game systems
Dec. 18
and a shoe signed by Michael Jordan appeared
1:20 a.m. A 19-year-old DeForest woman to be missing.
was cited for her first-offense OWI, as well
as possession of marijuana and drug para- Dec. 24
phernalia. The woman had called 911 because
1:35 a.m. The stop sign at the intersecshe smoked marijuana and ate brownies and tion of Monroe and North Main streets was
thought she was dying, and admitted to driv- knocked down.
ing before calling.
10:58 p.m. A 58-year-old Brooklyn man Dec. 25
was cited for his first-offense OWI.
2:29 p.m. An officer attempted to repair
the broken fence on a chicken pen on the 200
Dec. 19
block of East Lincoln Avenue after observing
5:44 p.m. An unknown car damaged a numerous chickens out of the pen while on
pedestrian crossing sign on Jefferson Street patrol. A neighbor helped get the chickens
at Alpine Parkway. There were car parts in the back into the pen while the officer fixed the
fence. The officer was unable to contact the
road way.
homeowner.
Dec. 21
10:52 a.m. Someone threw three or four Dec. 27
7:51 p.m. A 31-year-old Madison man
eggs at a residence on the 400 block of South
Burr Oak Avenue the previous evening, caus- was cited for his second-offense OWI after
ing the paint on the garage to chip.
being pulled over for speeding on Netherwood
11:18 p.m. A 24-year-old man was arrested Street.
for his first-offense OWI after he was stopped
for driving 47 mph in a 35 mph speed limit Dec. 30
Dec. 6
zone.
Dec. 14
3 p.m. An unidentified man stole five bottles
9:18 p.m. Officers were unable to locate a
11:35 a.m. A 32-year-old Evansville man
of liquor from J.L. Richards and left in a car
reported group of three juveniles destroying allegedly stole a Red Bull from Kwik Trip after Dec. 23
without license plates.
Christmas decorations on the 400 block of drinking it in the store and leaving the empty
1:40 p.m. A 37-year-old woman reported
South Burr Oak Avenue.
Scott Girard
can in the bathroom.
someone entered her husbands unlocked
vehicle on the 400 block of Walnut Street

Historic
winter
scenes
Tuesdays snowstorm
paled in comparison to
blizzards of years past,
judging by these photos
from the OAHS.
At left (from left to
right), Flora Gilbert,
Milton Wischhoff, Sr.
and his wife, Ethel, are
all dressed to the nines
and warmly while
getting ready for a ride
in the winter weather in
this undated photo.
Photos courtesy Oregon Area
Historical Society

Above, this scene west of the village (most likely Hwy. CC, says OAHS Jerry
Neath) shows the aftermath of a heavy snowstorm in 1959, and the difficulties of keeping two lanes plowed.

Legals
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
CIRCUIT COURT,
DANE COUNTY, NOTICE TO
CREDITORS (INFORMAL
ADMINISTRATION) IN THE
MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
Lucille D. Outhouse

Case No. 16PR38

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for Informal Administration was filed.
2. The decedent, with date of birth
December 28, 1914 and date of death December 6, 2015, was domiciled in Dane
County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 5099 CTH A, Oregon, WI
53575.
3. All interested persons waived notice.
4. The deadline for filing a claim
against the decedents estate is May 6,
2016.
5. A claim may be filed at the Dane
County Courthouse, Madison, Wisconsin, Room 1000
Lisa Chandler
Probate Registrar
January 19, 2016
Sharon O. Christensen
4827 Rome Corners Road
Brooklyn, WI 53521
608-835-5810
Published: January 28,
February 4 and 11, 2016
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Oregon Plan Commission
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
6:30 p.m.
Oregon Town Hall
1138 Union Road
Oregon, WI 53575

NOTICE HEREBY GIVEN for a PUBLIC HEARING to be held on Tuesday,

February 9, 2016 at 6:30 p.m., before the
Town of Oregon Plan Commission at the
Oregon Town Hall, 1138 Union Road, Oregon, WI 53575.
1. Land Division and Rezone Request. Petition # DCPREZ-2015-10939;
Parcel #0509-264-9500-1; 296 Union Rd.,
Brooklyn, WI 53521. The request is for
shifting of property lines between adjacent land owners. The property would
be rezoned from A-1Ex to A-4 on 27.34
acres. Petitioner and Owner is Marshall

Brothers, 296 Union Rd., Brooklyn, WI

53521.
2. Land Division and Amendment of
Conditional Use Permit. Petition # DCPCUP-2016-02335; Parcel #0509-091-86001; 1350 S. Fish Hatchery Rd., Oregon, WI
53575. The request is divide commercial
property into two lots and amend the
conditional use permit. Petitioner and
Owner is County View Enterprises LLC,
1350 S. Fish Hatchery Rd., Oregon, WI
53575.
3. Conditional Use Permit Application. Petition # DCPCUP-2016-02334; Parcel #s 050936 -185010, 280010, 180610,
190010, 195010, 180510 and 050936
-481000, 480020; 157 County Highway
MM, Brooklyn, WI 53521. The request is
for a thirty (30) year Conditional Use Permit to allow nonmetallic mineral extraction and processing, i.e. sand and gravel
pit. Petitioner is Payne and Dolan Inc.,
N3W23650 Badinger Road, Waukesha,
WI 53187. Owner is Wingra Real Estate,
LLC, PO Box 44284, Madison, WI 53744
and Klahn Revocable Trust, 157 County
Highway MM, Brooklyn, WI 53521.
An effort has been made to notify
neighbors of this proposed change. To
ensure that everyone has been notified,
please share this notice with anyone who
you think would be interested.
Note: Agendas are subject to amendment after publication. Check the official
posting locations (Town Hall, Town of
Oregon Recycling Center and Oregon
Village Hall) including the Town website
at www.town.oregon.wi.us or join the
Towns e-mail list to receive agendas at
townoforegon@mailbag.com. It is possible that members of and possibly a quorum of members of other governmental
bodies of the town may be in attendance
at any of the meetings to gather information; however, no action will be taken by
any governmental body at said meeting
other than the governmental body specifically referred to in the meeting notice.
Requests from persons with disabilities
who need assistance to participate in
this meeting or hearing should be made
to the Clerks office at 835-3200 with 48
hours notice.
Denise R. Arnold
Clerk
Posted: January 28, 2016
Published: January 28 and
February 4, 2016
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NOTICE TO TOWN OF
OREGON RESIDENTS
PUBLIC TEST OF
ELECTRONIC VOTING
EQUIPMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a

PUBLIC TEST of the automatic tabulating equipment will be held on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. at the
Oregon Town Hall located at 1138 Union
Road. This equipment will be used at the
Spring Primary to be held on Tuesday,
February 16, 2016. This public test is
open to the general public and includes
a demonstration of the DS200 and AutoMark electronic voting systems.
Denise R. Arnold
Town of Oregon Clerk
Posted: January 13, 2016
Published: February 4, 2016
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NOTICE TO RESIDENTS
VILLAGE OF OREGON
PUBLIC TEST OF
ELECTRONIC VOTING
EQUIPMENT

Notice is hereby given that the public test of the automatic tabulating equipment will be held on Tuesday, February
9th, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. at the Village Hall
located at 117 Spring Street. This equipment will be used at the Spring Primary
Election to be held on February 16, 2016.
The Villages DS200 and AutoMark electronic voting systems will be tested at
that time.
The public test is open to the general public.
Peggy Haag, Village Clerk
Village of Oregon
Posted: February 1, 2016
Published: February 4, 2016
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Town of Oregon
Plan Commission Agenda
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
@ 6:30 PM
Oregon Town Hall,
1138 Union Road,
Oregon, WI 53575

1. Open Public Hearing:

a. Land Division and Rezone Request. Petition # DCPREZ-2015-10939;

Parcel #0509-264-9500-1; 296 Union Rd.,

Brooklyn, WI 53521. The request is for
shifting of property lines between adjacent land owners. The property would
be rezoned from A-1Ex to A-4 on 27.34
acres. Petitioner and Owner is Marshall
Brothers, 296 Union Rd., Brooklyn, WI
53521.
b. Land Division and Amendment of
Conditional Use Permit. Petition # DCPCUP-2016-02335; Parcel #0509-091-86001; 1350 S. Fish Hatchery Rd., Oregon, WI
53575. The request is divide commercial
property into two lots and amend the
conditional use permit. Petitioner and
Owner is County View Enterprises LLC,
1350 S. Fish Hatchery Rd., Oregon, WI
53575.
c. Conditional Use Permit Application. Petition # DCPCUP-2016-02334; Parcel #s 050936 -185010, 280010, 180610,
190010, 195010, 180510 and 050936
-481000, 480020; 157 County Highway
MM, Brooklyn, WI 53521. The request is
for a thirty (30) year Conditional Use Permit to allow nonmetallic mineral extraction and processing, i.e. sand and gravel
pit. Petitioner is Payne and Dolan Inc.,
N3W23650 Badinger Road, Waukesha,
WI 53187. Owner is Wingra Real Estate,
LLC, PO Box 44284, Madison, WI 53744
and Klahn Revocable Trust, 157 County
Highway MM, Brooklyn, WI 53521.
2. Close Public Hearing.
3. Call Plan Commission meeting to
order.
4. Discussion and possible Recommendation to the Town Board:
a. Land Division and Rezone Request. Petition # DCPREZ-2015-10939;
Parcel #0509-264-9500-1; 296 Union Rd.,
Brooklyn, WI 53521.
b. Land Division and Amendment of
Conditional Use Permit. Petition # DCPCUP-2016-02335; Parcel #0509-091-86001; 1350 S. Fish Hatchery Rd., Oregon, WI
53575.
c. Conditional Use Permit Application. Petition # DCPCUP-2016-02334; Parcel #s 050936 -185010, 280010, 180610,
190010, 195010, 180510 and 050936
-481000, 480020; 157 County Highway
MM, Brooklyn, WI 53521.
5. Approval of minutes from the last
meeting.
6. Public Comments.
7. Discussion and possible Action
re: TORC procedures.
8. Update on Anderson Park.
9. Communications.
10. Adjournment.
Note: Agendas are subject to amendment after publication. Check the official

posting locations (Town Hall, Town of

Oregon Recycling Center and Oregon
Village Hall) including the Town website
at www.town.oregon.wi.us or join the
Towns e-mail list to receive agendas at
townoforegon@mailbag.com. It is possible that members of and possibly a quorum of members of other governmental
bodies of the town may be in attendance
at any of the meetings to gather information; however, no action will be taken by
any governmental body at said meeting
other than the governmental body specifically referred to in the meeting notice.
Requests from persons with disabilities
who need assistance to participate in
this meeting or hearing should be made
to the Clerks office at 835-3200 with 48
hours notice.
Posted: February 2, 2016
Published: February 4, 2016
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OREGON SCHOOL DISTRICT

BOARD OF EDUCATION
DATE: MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
TIME: 6:30 PM
PLACE: ROME CORNERS
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Order of Business
Call to Order
Roll Call
Proof of Notice of Meeting and Approval of Agenda
Presidents Address
AGENDA
A. CONSENT CALENDAR
NOTE: Items under the Consent Calendar are considered routine and will be
enacted under one motion. There will be
no separate discussion of these items
prior to the time the Board votes unless
a Board Member requests an item be
removed from the calendar for separate
action.
1. Minutes of Previous Meeting
2. Approval of Payments
3. Treasurers Report, if any
4. Staff Resignations/Retirements,
if any
5. Staff Assignments, if any
6. Field Trip Requests
7. Acceptance of Donations
B. COMMUNICATION FROM PUBLIC
1. Public: Board Policy 180.04 has
established an opportunity for the public to address the Board. In the event
community members wish to address

the Board, 15 minutes will be provided;

otherwise the agenda will proceed as
posted.
C. INFORMATION ITEMS
1. OEA Report
2. Student Report
D. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND ACTION
ITEMS
1. Public Hearings to Alter School
District Boundaries:
A. Detach Property from Stoughton
School District and Attach to Oregon
School District: Petitioners: Joann and
Peter Nowka, 1216 Sunrise Road, Oregon, described as:
- Parcel No. 0510-092-9210-0, TOWN
OF RUTLAND, LOT 2 CSM 9682 CS56/19
& 20 5/8/2000,
B. Detach Property from Belleville
School District and Attach to Oregon
School District:, Petitioners: Denise Fortier and Michael Boyle, W1565 State Road
92, described as:
- Parcel No. 0122.0211; TOWN OF
BROOKLYN, SECTION 16 CSM 4810 (V21P140) LOT 1 CONT 5.73A BNG PRT NE4
NW4 (W1565 State Rd 92);
- Parcel No. 0122.0212; TOWN OF
BROOKLYN, SECTION 16 CSM 4810 (V21P140) PT LOT 2 CONT 17.68A BNG PRT
NE4 ;
- Parcel No. 0122.0213, TOWN OF
BROOKLYN, SECTION 16 CSM 4810 (V21P140) PT LOT 3 CONT 1.00A BNG PRT
NE4 NW4
E. OTHER ACTION ITEMS
1. 2015-2016 Dane County School to
Work 66.0301 Contract
2. Fab Lab Grant Approval
F. DISCUSSION ITEMS
1. Committee Reports:
a. Policy
b. Human Assets
c. Financial Assets
d. Physical Assets
e. Vision Steering
2. 2016 State Education Conference
(Following Information Items)
G. INFORMATION ITEMS
1. Update on March 7th Dane County
Youth Survey Summit
2. Superintendents Report
H. CLOSING
1. Future Agenda
2. Check Out
I. ADJOURNMENT
Go to: www.oregonsd.org/board
meetings/agendas for the most updated
version agenda.
Published: February 4, 2016
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February 4, 2016

402 Help Wanted, General

508 Child Care & Nurseries

CAREGIVER/CNA. If you have a heart

for the elderly, enjoys helping others, join
our team in helping our residents live life
to their fullest potential. Remember, "put
a song in the hearts of others and you'll
always have one in yours." Call Andy
608-290-7347.

CHILD CARE Verona Area. Non-Smokers. 35 years experience. 845-9288

CLEANERS NEEDED for Stoughton

Area offices. Mon-Sat, 2-5/hrs per night.
Please call 608-246-9665 or 608-4381386.

HENNA TATTOOS!
==========
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didn't want to go into
Madison to get it?
====
Now you don't have to!
I will come to you!
...or to a local bar, coffee
shop, library, etc.
==
Prices start at $10
and go up depending on size
Evening and Weekend
appointments OKAY!
Party rates also available!
====
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or to set up an appointment use one
of these platforms:
facebook.com/hobohenna
@hobohenna on Twitter
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==========
(addit'l charge of $1/mile may apply
if travel is more than 10 miles from
Downtown Stoughton)

516 Cleaning Services

KT CLEANING
House and office cleaning,
errand-running,
yardwork,
dog-walking.
Free estimates.
608-514-4510.

548 Home Improvement

DISHWASHER, COOK,
WAITRESS, & DELI STAFF
WANTED.
Applications available at
Sugar & Spice Eatery.
317 Nora St. Stoughton.

A&B ENTERPRISES
Light Construction Remodeling
No job too small
608-835-7791

EXCLUSIVELY ROSES is seeking drivers for Valentine's Day deliveries February 11th, 12th and 13th. Routes go to
Chicagoland. $200/route + gas. Drivers
must use their own vehicle. STRICTLY
LIMITED to minivans and cargo vans.
For further inquiries, please contact us at
608-877-8879.
EXPERIENCED DISHWASHER WANTED. Apply at Sunrise Family Restaurant
1052 W. Main, Stoughton.
JOIN EXCLUSIVELY Roses in Valentine's Day bouquet production February
3rd-10th in a bright, energetic work environment! We offer flexible shifts, days,
evenings and weekends. Starting at $9/
hr + referral & completion bonus. For
more information, contact us at 608877-8879.

434 Health Care, Human

Services & Child Care
COMFORT KEEPERS IN MADISON
Seeking caregivers to provide care
to seniors in their homes. Need valid
DL and dependable vehicle. FT & PT
positions available. Flexible scheduling.
Sign-on bonus.
Call 608-442-1898
FULL-TIME HOUSEKEEPING/
Laundry, STOUGHTON
$8.60-$10.04/hr.
Health Insurance,
Dental and Vision.
Call Rebecca
262-685-7113

DOUG'S HANDYMAN
SERVICE
"Honey Do List"
No job too small
608-845-8110
HALLINAN-PAINTING
WALLPAPERING
**Great-Winter-Rates**
35 + Years Professional
European.Craftsmanship
Free-Estimates
References/Insured
Arthur Hallinan
608-455-3377
RECOVER PAINTING currently offering
winter discounts on all painting, drywall
and carpentry. Recover urges you to join
in the fight against cancer, as a portion of
every job is donated to cancer research.
Free estimates, fully insured, over 20
years of experience. Call 608-270-0440.
TOMAS PAINTING
Professional, Interior,
Exterior, Repairs.
Free Estimates. Insured.
608-873-6160
THEY SAY people dont read those little
ads, but YOU read this one, didnt you?
Call now to place your ad, 873-6671 or
835-6677.

554 Landscaping, Lawn,

Tree & Garden Work

441 Sales & Telemarketing

LOOKING FOR eager persons to work
at a call center on Madison's West side,
paid weekly, flexible hours. For more
info, call 608-268-3695.

449 Driver, Shipping

& Warehousing

COMPLETE LAWN AND GARDEN

SERVICE offers professional pruning
services for your ornamental trees/
bushes/fruit-bearing trees. Properlytimed pruning will extend the life of
your plantings and encourage the
development of desirable characteristics,
such as blooming or fruit bearing. Call
Greg
today! 608-835-9541.

572 Snow Removal

LOOKING FOR Experienced CDL semidriver. Our business has expanded. We

are adding new equipment. Must be
professional, courteous and have clean
MVR. Runs from Madison area to Arizona and S. California. No touch freight,
paid mileage and insurance. Serious
inquries only. 608-516-9697

451 Janitorial & Maintenance

EVENING CLEANING Help Needed
in Oregon, WI. Full and Part-time shifts
available. Monday-Friday, NO WEEKENDS. General cleaning such as vacuuming, dusting, mopping, etc. Apply at
Diversified Building Maintenance, 1105
Touson Drive, Janesville, WI. 608-7529465.

452 General
OFFICE CLEANING in Stoughton
Mon-Fri 4 hours/night. Visit our website:
www.capitalcityclean.com or call our
office: 608-831-8850

PLOWING BLOWING
Residential & Commercial
20+yers exp. Fully Insured.
608-669-0025

576 Special Services

DANCE PARTY! 608-220-4025 for your
next party. Mobile DJ.
CLASSIFIED AD DEADLINE IS Noon
Friday for The Great Dane and Noon
Monday for the Oregon Observer unless
changed because of holiday work schedules. Call now to place your ad, 873-6671
or 835-6677.

We recommend septic
pumping every two years

646 Fireplaces,
Furnaces/Wood, Fuel
FOR SALE Oak firewood, seasoned and
split. Delivered. 608-843-5961

696 Wanted To Buy

WE BUY Junk Cars and Trucks.
We sell used parts.
Monday thru Friday 8am-5:30pm.
Newville Auto Salvage, 279 Hwy 59
Edgerton, 608-884-3114

705 Rentals
GREENWOOD APARTMENTS
Apartments for Seniors 55+, currently
has 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $750 per month, includes
heat, water, and sewer.
608-835-6717 Located at:
139 Wolf St., Oregon, WI 53575
STOUGHTON 1616 Kenilworth Ct.
Large 2-BR apts available now.
Pets welcome. Many feature new wood
laminate flooring.
$775-$825/mo. 608-831-4035.
www.madtownrentals.com
STOUGHTON 3-BEDROOM lower level
of two-flat, near downtown, River Bluff
School. Newly renovated. Central air.
W/D, water included. No pets. $855/
month+security deposit. 608-873-7655
or 608-225-9033.

ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors

55+. 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $750 per month. Includes
heat, water and sewer. Professionally
managed. Located at
300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI
53589 608-877-9388
STOUGHTON LOWER Flat, 2 bdr,
BIG back yard, new carpet/paint, $650
month-to-month. Call 608-235-3887.

750 Storage Spaces For Rent

ALL SEASONS SELF STORAGE
10X10 10X15 10X20 10X30
Security Lights-24/7 access
BRAND NEW
OREGON/BROOKLYN
Credit Cards Accepted
CALL (608)444-2900
C.N.R. STORAGE
Located behind
Stoughton Garden Center
Convenient Dry Secure
Lighted with access 24/7
Bank Cards Accepted
Off North Hwy 51 on
Oak Opening Dr. behind
Stoughton Garden Center
Call: 608-509-8904
DEER POINT STORAGE
Convenient location behind
Stoughton Lumber.
Clean-Dry Units
24 HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS
5x10 thru 12x25
608-335-3337
NORTH PARK STORAGE
10x10 through 10x40, plus
14x40 with 14' door for
RV & Boats.
Come & go as you please.
608-873-5088

OREGON SELF-STORAGE
10x10 through 10x25
month to month lease
Call Karen Everson at
608-835-7031 or
Veronica Matt at 608-291-0316
OREGON SELF-STORAGE
10x10 through 10x25
month to month lease
Call Karen Everson at
608-835-7031 or
Veronica Matt at 608-291-0316
FRENCHTOWN
SELF-STORAGE
Only 6 miles South of
Verona on Hwy PB.
Variety of sizes available now.
10x10=$60/month
10x15=$70/month
10x20=$80/month
10x25=$90/month
12x30=$115/month
Call 608-424-6530 or
1-888-878-4244
RASCHEIN PROPERTY
STORAGE
6x10 thru 10x25
Market Street/Burr Oak Street
in Oregon
Call 608-520-0240
UNION ROAD STORAGE
10x10 - 10x15
10x20 - 12x30
24 / 7 Access
Security Lights & Cameras
Credit Cards Accepted
608-835-0082
1128 Union Road
Oregon, WI
Located on the corner of
Union Road & Lincoln Road
DANE COUNTYS MARKETPLACE.
The Oregon Observer Classifieds. Call
873-6671 or 835-6677.

15

801 Office Space For Rent

OFFICE SPACES FOR RENT
In Oregon facing 15th hole
on golfcourse
Free Wi-Fi, Parking and
Security System
Conference rooms available
Kitchenette-Breakroom
Autumn Woods Prof. Centre
Marty 608-835-3628

840 Condos & Townhouses For

Sale
VERONA DUPLEX FOR RENT. 3/Bed,
1.5/Bath, newly remodeled throughout. Call 608-239-5505 for details and
appointment.

970 Horses
WALMERS TACK SHOP
16379 W. Milbrandt Road
Evansville, WI
608-882-5725

975 Livestock
PURE BRED Red Angus Bulls, open and
bred heifers for sale. Pick your bulls now
for summer delivery. Shamrock Nook
Red Angus 608-558-5342

990 Farm: Service &

Merchandise
RENT SKIDLOADERS
MINI-EXCAVATORS
TELE-HANDLER
and these attachments. Concrete
breaker, posthole auger, landscape rake,
concrete bucket, pallet forks, trencher,
rock hound, broom, teleboom, stump
grinder.
By the day, week, or month.
Carter & Gruenewald Co.
4417 Hwy 92
Brooklyn, WI, 608-455-2411

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ads, but YOU read this one, didnt you?
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HELP WANTED

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(608) 835-8195

602 Antiques & Collectibles

720 Apartments

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HELP WANTED- TRUCK DRIVER

HIRING EVENT CDL-A Drivers, Des Moines-based TMC will
be onsite at Black Bear Casino Resort, 1785 Highway 210,
Carlton, MN 2/6/2016, 10 a.m. -5 p.m. Hiring boat haulers. Need
CDL Class A, 1 year OTR Experience. Full Benefits Package,
Employee-Owned Company. Call 855-409-3630 (CNOW)

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KOJAK EXCAVATING & TRUCKING LLC COMPLETE CLOSE-OUT AUCTION

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Powers Auction Service: (608) 439-5761 or (608) 214-3765

INSPECTION DATES: Mon. Feb. 15th Fri. Feb. 19th : 9 A.M. 5 P.M.
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Office: 608-439-5761 or 608-439-5764

Have you seen our construction progress?

All Saints Neighborhood on Madisons west side is growing, developing a Main Street and
new living options opening Summer 2016. Were accepting applications for the following:

Campus Administrator - Manage the daily operations of our senior living campus.
Admissions Coordinator - Coordinating the campus admissions process.
Care Coordinator - LPN or RN required. Providing care management.
Cooks - Experience Preferred. Preparing delicious meals for campus residents.
Resident Assistants - Full and part-time positions available now for a variety of shifts.
We offer great shift differentials including $1.00/hour nights & weekends!

Maintenance Technicians - Performing scheduled & unscheduled maintenance.

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to request an
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to download
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Soccer: Program pairs special-needs kids with athletes, builds friendships
Continued from page 1
moving around and having
fun.
And the program benefits
more than the families with
a child with disabilities, as
the volunteers like 14-yearold OHS soccer player
Colin McCombs learned.
He said friendships were
built between the athletes
and volunteers who helped
them.
I learned that even
though these kids have a disability, they still know how
to be happy and find the
good things in life, he said.
Oregon High School boys
varsity soccer coach Kevin
May, one of the two area
coaches who helped bring
the program to Oregon, said
its a great leadership opportunity for volunteers like
McCombs, some of whom
were as young as elementary
school-age.
Its such an awesome
feeling for me just knowing that theyre learning this

Get involved
To volunteer or get
your child with special
needs involved, email
topsoccer.madison@
gmail.com.

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first session at Rome Corners Intermediate School last
month. But as soon as her
parents got her out the door,
she was gushing.
Shes like, I had so much
fun, Mommy, Natasha
Photo by Scott Girard said, adding that on the ride
home, Keira brought up her
Oregon High School boys varsity soccer coach Kevin May, center, helped bring the TOPSoccer profavorite parts of the event
gram to the Oregon area.
without any prompting.
kind of stuff, he said. A where theyre at, All right, An outlet
Natasha said the commulot of high school or even youre in charge here with
nication from the leadership
Keira,
typically
a
quiet
middle and younger kids this special needs kid to
and shy kid, did not show a in the program was outstanddont get an opportunity make them have fun.
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just a simple exchange of
emails with May. She said
when they walked in, he
treated them like old friends.
It was really cool right off
the bat, remembering Keira
and us, she said.
That good communication helped to create a lowpressure, high-reward
atmosphere, Chris noted,
which helped alleviate some
shyness for the kids. That
included an emphasis on
rewarding what the athletes
did, which May asked all
volunteers to do.
Celebrate a lot as often as
possible, he said. It makes
those kids feel so good.
Natasha said even though
Keira did not especially care
for soccer at the beginning
opting to simply pick up the
ball and carry it by the last
week, she chose to dribble
the ball with her feet.
It was awesome to see her
in the last session, Natasha
said. She actually kicked it
with her right foot, kicked
it with her left foot, kicked
it with her right foot all the
way to the goal.
Although soccer is in its
title, May said he focuses on
the bigger picture of what
TOPSoccer accomplishes.
He said if there are certain
activities certain kids dont
like, its no big deal.
Let them do whatever
they want to do, he said. If
theyre moving and theyre
having fun, its like, Whats
our purpose here?
Each session ended with
a sharing circle, followed
by a group game of Duck,
Duck, Goose, which was
one of Keiras favorite parts.
Other activities included
making waves with a giant
parachute, games of knocking
down cones and variations of
tag, all of which Chris noticed
and appreciated.
It was more like, Were
going to get together and let
the kids play, he said.
The idea began when
May was at the Wisconsin
high school all-star soccer
game last summer and saw
an example of the program
and figured there had to be
something like it around
Madison. He contacted Chris
Lay of the Madison Area
Youth Soccer Association
(MAYSA), who told him
a coach in Belleville was
also interested in starting
a program. Lay offered
funding from MAYSA if
they could run it.
Since then, May has
worked to find homes for the
program in different areas.
He expects the program to
return to Oregon at some
point in the future, and would
like to expand it beyond the
current triangle of Fitchburg-Oregon-Belleville if the
demand is there.
The program is currently
free for participants, and
May said theyd like to keep
it that way, though theyre
also hoping to find funding
to purchase their own equipment, instead of using RCIs
gym equipment as they did
for the Oregon session.
Regardless of how big
theyre able to make the program, he said it feels good
to be part of offering an outlet for children with special
needs.
As long as theres one
athlete there, I feel like were
doing some good, May said.