A Path of Understanding: Project Offers Challenges, Opportunities To Businesses

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City/county
budgets
Pages 3, 5
Community
Little Free Library

by walnut tree
honors late grandpa
Page 6
Schools
Grades continue to
draw controversy
at SOMS
Page 9
Sports
VAHS girls golf

makes state, looks
to defend title
Page 11
Lacy Road
A path of understanding
Months of debate lead to compromise resolution with no sidewalks
SCOTT GIRARD
Unified Newspaper Group
Mike Holmes and many of his

Lacy Road neighbors dont want a
path cutting through their yards on
a road thats felt like a rural hideaway for the decades many have
lived there.
But after a summer of arguing
with the city, theyve accepted that
is what will be required for the city
to receive a federal grant to help
cover the cost of repaving a road
thats seeing growth at both ends.
Many of us didnt want a pathway on either side of the road
because we didnt think it was necessary given the already existing
network of paths, Holmes told the
Star this week. Im not pleased
with the fact that Ill have a pathway in the front of my house but
at the end of the day, Im putting
that aside for the greater good.
Holmes lives on the south side of
the road, where a pathway is part
of the resolution expected to go
before the Common Council Tuesday, Oct. 13. That broadly supported compromise came after months
of sometimes heated discussions
about what accommodations are
appropriate for the road between
the city center, where City Hall
and the library sit, and Syene Road,
where new apartment buildings are
being built and more developments
are expected in the near future.
Getting approval that night could
be necessary for keeping the $2
million or more of federal funding
the city has secured, with a 2017
deadline for the construction. If
City administrator
embraces next
challenge
Page 18
Photo by Samantha Christian
One of the goals of the Lacy Road reconstruction project is to lower average speeds on the road, but the proposal for a multi-use
path and discussions of sidewalks over the past few months have generated the most controversy.
the city is unable to get the project

engineered, bid and started by then,
it could lose the funding altogether.
The project also faces some
uncertainty because of its lack
of sidewalks on both sides of the
street. The regional body that distributes the federal funds added a
Complete Streets requirement
earlier this year, though Dist. 2

Ald. Pat Stern sits on that board
and said he believes the proposal
will be accepted.
But without the compromise, the
project might not be happening at
all.
Turn to Lacy Road/Page 17
If you go
What: Common Council meeting
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13
Where: City Hall, 5520 Lacy Road
Watch online:
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Verona Road
Project offers challenges, opportunities to businesses

JACOB BIELANSKI
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But its taken him almost two
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hundreds of businesses that have
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Though many see the project as
a large positive, shifting budget
priorities and changing timeframes
have left many businesses with
costly uncertainty.
From lost parking to blocked
signs, many businesses face an
uphill battle keeping their businesses healthy while waiting for
the proposed benefits of a new
highway. And with state budget
cuts, the project itself is facing
delays that could further imperil
the redevelopment and stretch out
the adjustment period.

If the city and business leaders
cant react quickly enough, it could
have adverse impacts on the future
of the corridor. And as new challenges arise, business are finding
creative ways of moving ahead.
Hard to navigate
Stage 1 of the project has already
begun, and the effects have been
noticeable. Though the DOT has
managed traffic, the impact on
businesses is a different story.
At a conference held to prepare
other Verona Road businesses
particularly those bracing for Stage
2, which will rebuild the road from
the end of the current phase to
McKee Road attendees heard the
warnings.
Seminar organizer Cindy Jaggi,
who also serves a project manager for the Verona Road Business
Coalition, said some businesses,
like McDonalds saw as much as
a 40 percent drop in business as a
result of the Beltline interchange
construction. Every other business
in the area, including Home Depot
and U-Haul, was also experiencing
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They found they had to get creative in their marketing, Jaggi
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October 9, 2015
The Fitchburg Star
Mayors budget proposes 10 percent hike

Fire stations weigh
heavily on plans
JACOB BIELANSKI AND JIM FEROLIE
New firefighters and police, added mass transit lines, increasing

debt from prior years and plans for
two new fire stations all add up to
a budget that could have Fitchburg
residents doing a double take when
they open their tax bills.
Mayor Steve Arnolds over 600page proposed budget, published
late last month, explains that even
keeping city services as they are
would result in some monetary
penalties for the city, and with a
new fire station coming on line and
only modest growth in 2014, there
isnt much room to maneuver.
As a result, Arnolds plan shows
a whopping 9.7 percent increase
in the mill rate. In order to accomplish that, the city has to dip into
some leftover ability from prior
years to raise the tax levy beyond
the 2 percent net new construction
the city experienced.
A budget is a moral document,
his proposal states. Local government has a responsibility to provide opportunity for everyone.
Arnolds budget is only the starting point, however. It will need
to go through the citys Finance
committee and then be passed by

the Common Council. In some
prior years, those budget meetings have gone all night or even
two nights as alders haggled over
amendments.
This years public hearing is
Oct. 13, with proposed amendments due Oct. 15 and adoption set
for Nov. 10-11.
Arnolds proposal defends the
large numerical increases by stating that he is prioritizing moneysaving projects over one-time
projects and noting that this years
council is inheriting several structural deficits, including midyear
hirings of EMS personnel, debt
increases, a new full-time fire
chief and planned wage increases.
But the biggest impact on this
years budget is a one-time transfer of $1.2 million related to the
land acquisition cost of two fire
stations. That transfer, Arnold
explained, is to keep the citys
fund balance within its policy limits.
He also notes that new proposals
he favored deriving from department head requests total $380,000.
Arnold explained in his submission that cuts have to be made in
order to meet expenditure restraint
requirements. Expenditure restraint
is a state program that incentivizes
the limitation of growth in a city
budget. Arnold noted that the cost
to continue current operations for

the city would already disqualify it
from that program.
In addition, merely staying
under the 8.1 percent cap the city
would have even with using all of
its prior-year debt service allocation requires using additional debt
for $200,000 worth of projects that
normally would come out of the
annual levy. These include Verona
Road street lighting, maintenance
facility equipment, and upgrades
to traffic signals.
The overall proposed budget
falls just under $20 million, up 12
percent from last year.
Whats in
The budget proposes hiring
two additional full-time firefighters will be hired, as well as the
promotion of three firefighters to
lieutenants.
Four new mass transit lines are
proposed, connecting the Verona
and Fish Hatchery corridors in
mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
Arnold said in his letter that this
complements the proposed funds
for an outreach librarian in a twopronged effort to provide equitable access to the library for all
Fitchburg citizens.
Police departments requests
for a new detective and a crime
data analyst are funded under the
proposal.
With record turnout expected

for the 2016 presidential election,
additional election workers will be
needed for an extra polling place at
Candlewood Suites. Arnold made
equitable access to voting opportunity a key platform in his election
campaign.
After two high-profile rejections of positions within the city,
as well as noted difficulty attracting a diverse pool of candidate for
police positions, the proposed budget now funds additional hours for
a recruitment specialist.
Funding is also proposed for
an assistant city attorney to handle
more routine tasks.
Whats out
Fitch-Rona EMS had previously suggested adding a community
paramedic that would do lowerlevel check-ins for some patients.
It has been deferred a year.
The police department had
requested an extra patrol officer,
but the department told the mayor
that it prioritized a new detective.
Funding for a new police station
was delayed indefinitely when the
council earlier this year voted to
remove $25 million from the fiveyear capital improvement plan.
Despite the addition of transit
routes, Arnolds budget does not
fund peak-hour, evening, weekend
and paratransit services.
Woman accused of killing teen, dumping body in Ind.

Daughters search
turns cold case into
Fitchburg homicide
charge
SCOTT GIRARD
The unidentified, burned

body of a mutilated teenager
found nearly a decade ago
in Indiana has turned into a
homicide charge for a substitute teachers aide who used
to live in Fitchburg.
Taylin Hill, formerly
known as Minnie Hill and
Marie Hill, of Madison,
faces charges of first-degree
reckless homicide for a
2007 incident that allegedly
occurred on Red Arrow Trail
in Fitchburg. Hill also faces
six charges of child abuse
relating to other incidents
from 2000 to 2005.
She was in custody last
week after the Dane County
Circuit Court set her bail at
$500,000.
Taylin Hill faces up to
103 years in prison if found
guilty of all charges.
The dots were connected
after one of Hills children,
who claimed to have helped
her mother dump the body
of 15-year-old Erika Hill in
Gary, Ind., came forward
to Gary police in August,
according to the criminal
complaint from the Dane
County Circuit Court. Taylin Hill had adopted Erika in
2001, according to the complaint.
To this day, (the womans) mother has not provided her with any explanation
as to how Erika died, the
complaint reads, referring to
Taylin Hills daughter who
came forward.
Whats online
The Gary coroner determined the cause of death

was suffocation from a cloth
found in Erika Hills mouth
when police discovered
the body,
according
to the complaint.
T h e
daughter,
now 25, is
identified
throughout
Taylin Hill
the report by
initials only,
as KMH, and she claimed
she and her siblings were
threatened in order to keep
their information a secret.
Taylin Hills mother had
raised Erika Hill until she
died, in 2001. Taylin then
took over custody of Erika
Hill, who was her cousins
biological child. KMH told
police that while her mother
abused her and her siblings,
Erika Hill got the worst of it,
as she could do no right,
the complaint states.
Until the charges were
brought, Taylin Hill had
been working as a substitute
teachers aide in the special
education department in
the Madison Metropolitan
School District.
Hiding the body

After arriving home one
day in February 2007, Taylin
Hill told her daughter to go
to the bathroom, where she
then found Erika Hills body
on the floor, unresponsive,
according the complaint.
KMH said that she confronter her mother, asking
repeatedly, What did you do
to her? the complaint states.
She said that her mother
claimed to have just found
her there.
Taylin Hill later asked her
children to bring the body

down to the garage, where it
remained for a couple of days
in trash bags on top of a freezer, the complaint states. Taylin Hill talked about removing
some of Erika Hills teeth to
make identification harder,
according to the complaint.
After a couple of days,
Taylin Hill and her children
drove the body down near
the Illinois-Indiana border,
burned it and left it under
a highway overpass, the
daughter told police. But
a couple of days later, the
complaint read, Taylin Hill
became concerned an old
person would find the body
and have a heart attack, so
the family returned, found the
body, and moved it to what
they thought was an abandoned building in Gary, Ind.
Soon after, two men driving by noticed what looked
like a pair of burned legs
sticking out from under a
garage, and reported it to
police in Gary, according to
the complaint. Police recovered the body, but it remained
unidentified until this year.
Abuse charges
Hills daughter recounted troubling details of
the alleged abuse she, her
siblings and Erika Hill
received at the hands of
Taylin Hill.
(KMH) said that they
were frequently punched
or slapped and considered
that to be a good day, the
complaint reads.
The criminal complaint
outlines the abuse Taylin Hill allegedly enacted
upon her own children, but
the daughter recalled that
Erika Hill got the worst of
it, and Taylin Hill faces
abuse charges for acts taken
Merriman pleads not guilty
toward all of the children.

KMH also told police an
older sister of hers committed suicide in the Dane
County Jail in 2004, causing
depression for Taylin Hill.
The sister had multiple runins with the police and told
them about the abuse, she
said in the complaint, adding that they wrote it off as
an excuse because (she) was
an adolescent and wanted to
do her own thing.
The daughter also told
investigators that Taylin
Hill would often bar Erika
Hill from eating and that by
the end of Erikas time with
the family, she appeared
gray, the complaint states.
Four of the six abuse
charges relate to incidents
involving her own biological children, while the other
two relate to Erika Hill.
Nearly discovered
The Department of
Human Services had two
2004 reports on Taylin Hill
and her treatment of the
children, according to the
criminal complaint, including a mention of suspicious circumstances.
A Sept. 23 report included information about suspicions of abuse reported
by Erika Hills school and
addresses listed for the family that were empty. Eventually, the kids were all withdrawn from their schools
and social workers were
unable to contact Taylin.
The social worker closed
the case because he or she
could not conclude whether
any maltreatment was actually involved. Other explanations were possible.
The worker noted that
the children had been
withdrawn from Madison
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schools, but no other districts had asked for their

academic information,
Coming forward
After Erikas death, Taylin Hill had told her children
that if they shared the information with anyone, they
would be next, KMH told
a Fitchburg officer, according to the complaint.
But after talking with a
therapist earlier this year,
KMH began an online
search in May to see if there
had been unidentified bodies found in Gary, Ind., the
complaint states.
Once she found Erika
Hills case, she called the
police department, according to the complaint. After
weeks of waiting for the
department to get back to
her, she contacted the homicide department and the
process began.
Both of KMHs siblings
initially denied KMHs story when police interviewed
them, but another sibling
eventually offered details
similar to what KMH said,
The siblings other than
KMH were both in attendance at Hills preliminary
hearing Wednesday, Oct. 7.
After-school
fight sparks
large scuffle
Police: 75-100
people involved in
King James Way
incident
JACOB BIELANSKI
A fight-turned-disturbance involving up to 100

people on King James Way
on the evening of Sept. 22
may have had its roots in a
fight the night before and
continued tensions the next
morning at Verona Area
High School.
According to a release
from the Fitchburg Police
Department, the incident
began around 5:40 p.m.
Sept. 22 when two boys
identified as VAHS students confronted one another near their school bus
drop-off spot. The situation
grew to involve as many
as 100 family members,
adults, friends, et cetera
who also began confronting one another, Fitchburg
Police Lt. Chad Brecklin
told the Star.
Police were able to
respond quickly, as units
had recently been on the
scene after taking a report
from one of the boys
families for a similar incident that occurred the
day before, according to
a news release from FPD.
That fight was not initially
reported to police.
In addition to Fitchburg
police, five or six Verona
Police Department units
also responded, said Lt.
Dave Dresser of the Verona
Police Department. No officers were injured, and two
people were treated at the
scene for minor injuries,
police said.
In addition to the fights
on Tuesday evening and
Monday afternoon, Verona
police were notified of an
incident that occurred earlier Tuesday morning at
VAHS involving the same
boys.
Verona Area School District superintendent Dean
Gorrell told the Star the
morning incident involved
an exchange of words as
the students got off the bus,
and not a physical fight.
They were kind of jawing at each other a little
bit, he said. The staff
intervened, got them in and
counseled them and then
we went on with our day.
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Opinion
The Fitchburg Star
Letters to the editor
Scripture teaches love and acceptance

despite judgemental response to Orion
In response to Susan
Stewarts letter to the
editor published in the
Sept. 11 edition, where
she insists she knows better than Orion, his family,
and his supportive church
community what God
wants for his life, I have
two Bible verses:
Matthew 7:1, Judge
not, that ye be not judged.
Galatians 3:28, There
is neither Jew nor Gentile,
neither slave nor free, nor
is there male and female,
for you are all one in
Christ Jesus.
I quote these because
Ms. Stewart seems
comfortable preaching to
others about what His
rules, His Will, and His
gifts are, but the God
she claims to represent is
not the one I know. I am
not surprised to see her
judgmental response, but
I would hope she would
meditate on the Word of
God to better know His
Love and acceptance.
Thank you, Fitchburg
Star, for this important
article demonstrating one
persons courage.
Johanna
Draper Carlson
Fitchburg
Too many vetoes make Fitchburg

unwelcoming to development
Our mayor ran on the
idea that he didnt like
Chicago politics.
Well, the dictator
Don Veto is against
all construction in the city
unless it meets his wishes.
He is getting a fine
reputation for himself and
the City of Fitchburg. The
welcome sign is not out in
the city any longer.

Even if you follow the
rules for construction in
this city, the mayor will
veto your project to get his
way.
We need a new mayor.
Thomas Burke
Fitchburg
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Batteries now included

My family is always on
the hunt for batteries
9-volt, AA, AAA, C or D.
We try to keep the
drawer stocked, but invariably the size or voltage
needed wont be there, or
therell be just one, or its
been in there so long that
half the charge is gone.
Rechargeable batteries are
available at roughly double
the upfront cost, but try as
I might, I cant keep them
from getting thrown out
sometimes, or misplaced.
The good news is weve
got an appropriate place
for used batteries when
its time for them to go
Fitchburg City Hall.
Thats right, now
you can take your dead
updated annually. Its your

handbook for easy disposal
and recycling information
and located on the citys
website, fitchburgwi.gov.
There are other ways
to dispose of batteries,
including larger ones, too.
Batteries Plus (East and
West in Madison) will take
batteries, rechargeable or
nearly any portable batnot, to 5520 Lacy Road
tery for about a dollar a
and drop them in the handy pound and your compact
receptacle located on the
fluorescent (CFL) bulbs
first floor (hallway to right too. Other Dane County
when you walk in the front drop-offs include; Clean
door).
Sweep (7102 U.S. Hwy.
You can find more infor- 12), Battery Mart (3721
mation about recycling
E. Washington Ave.), and
batteries and many other
even closer to home, Home
things through municipal
Depot and Brunsell Lumservices in Fitchburgs
ber (Verona Road and the
Recycling Guide, which is Beltline frontage road).
But there are still good

reasons to go rechargeable.
Even if the bottom line
for your household is
purely financial, rechargeable batteries may still be
right for you. By and large,
the financial payoff comes
after about two years of
use, when the upfront cost
of high-quality batteries
and recharger are more
than offset by the longterm savings.
And of course, theyre
certainly greener.
Tony Hartmann is an
alder representing District 4 and a Resource
Conservation Commission
member.
Legislative opinion
Indexing the gas tax can help

states crumbling infrastructure
Over the last couple weeks, Wisconsinites have received some troubling
news regarding our states transportation infrastructure.
The Wisconsin DOT announced
that several major road projects across
our state are being delayed by at least
two years, including the Verona Road
reconstruction project in the 47th
Assembly District which I represent.
A delay of at least
two years means the
businesses which
relay on these roads
to bring in customers will continue to
struggle to make
ends meet. This in
turn, will place the
employees of these
Kahl
businesses at potential risk of losing
their jobs.
It also puts the jobs of the construction workers who are building these
roads at risk, as the funding for their
work dries up.
The delay in these projects is caused
by one thing: a lack of investment
in Wisconsins aging transportation
infrastructure. Instead of properly funding our transportation needs, Wisconsins elected leadership has continued
to cut funding, and the funding that has
been provided, is being paid for with an
unsustainable credit card approach.
This transportation problem has ripple effects. Road and building projects
are a central component to the states
economy, both directly and indirectly
contributing to the states job creation.
If we have a well maintained and quality infrastructure, were more likely to
attract private business investment and
grow our economy.
However, according to the U.S.
Department of Transportation, Wisconsin has the third-worst roads in
the nation, with 71 percent of roads in
poor or mediocre condition, and 1,970
structurally deficient or functionally
obsolete bridges.
Our infrastructure is crumbling and
we need to find a long-term solution to
this problem.
To address this crisis, Im introducing a bill that will work to restore long
term funding for our transportation
infrastructure by reestablishing the
indexing of the gas tax. The indexing
will be linked to the change in the U.S.

consumer price index and will take
effect on May 1, 2017.
Indexing of the gas tax was repealed
in 2006. Had it not been repealed, the
price of gas would be $2.36 a gallon,
instead of where it is now at $2.30.
Paying an additional 6 cents per gallon is cheap compared to the economic
costs of having a crumbling transportation infrastructure.
While this wont immediately fix
our transportation funding shortfall, by
restoring the indexing of the gas tax,
well ensure that we will have a strong
infrastructure in the future, without
having to pay for it with the states
credit card and burdening our children
with a mountain of debt.
This is a responsible course of action
for the long-term funding of our transportation infrastructure, which will in
turn help grow Wisconsins economy.
Robb Kahl (D-Monona) is the State
Representative for the 47th Assembly
District. He is the ranking Democratic member on the Assembly Transportation Committee and a member of
the State Building Commission.
Council approves Benjamin Plumbing TIF

JACOB BIELANSKI
Fitchburg taxpayers will finance

roughly $1 million of a new office
building at County Hwy. PD and
Verona Road.
The Common Council voted unanimously Sept. 22 to provide taxincrement financing in the form of a
bond of $1.03 million for the roughly
52,000-square-foot building and up
to $290,000 in rent guarantees over
the first two years. The vote was the
source of some division earlier in the
month, when Mayor Steve Arnold
vetoed the councils original decision
to pursue the deal.
Under the terms of the developer
agreement the city will guarantee
50 percent of the buildings rent for
one floor for up to two years, up to
approximately $290,000. The original
plan Arnold vetoed included a oneyear, 100 percent rent guarantee.
Dale Benjamin, president of Benjamin Plumbing and part-owner of
Benjamin Investments, which sought
the deal, said the Class A building,
which generally has higher-end finishes, active building management
and state-of-the-art amenities, should
be up and running with tenants in it
before construction begins on Verona
Road in late 2016. It will include 116

underground parking stalls, according
to the developer agreement.
The company initially sought the
financing in response to changes
coming to the Verona Road business
corridor.
We had a number of different ideas
of what we were going to do with (the
building), with or without TIF, Benjamin told the Star. We still had intention of doing an office building, but
with so many things in question, we
werent sure what was going on.
TIF is a form of taxpayer financing
that collects increased property tax
revenue from all underlying districts
(including schools, the county and
state) for projects that would not exist
but for the use of the TIF. It is often
used to build infrastructure but it can
also be used to assist developers with
plans that need financing help.
Ald. Jake Johnson opposed the original version of the deal. He and Ald.
Dorothy Krause (D-1) sided with the
mayor in a failed attempt to override
Arnolds veto, stating that when she
cast her initial yes vote to the deal in
Aug. 25, she had thought the city could
still negotiate additional terms.
I told Dale I would support TIF
funding for his building given the
road project I did not expect that
hed come in with an ask for 10 percent of the project, Krause told the
Star in an email. I would have preferred to vote for something more in
line with past TIF funding, i.e. 3-5
percent of costs.
The building is anticipated to be
valued at no more than $12.5 million,
meaning the TIF district should pay
off the bond in about 15 years.
The revised version of the deal
also adjusts the terms of payment
of the pay-as-you-go TIF, at Benjamins request. It caps the internal rate
of return for the project at 15 percent instead of 13 percent, and anything beyond that will be split 25/75
between the citys bond obligation
and Benjamin Investments.
In a letter to the council, attorney
Mark Sewell defended the 13 percent cap, noting that the city accepted
the value of the land at $1.8 million,
or $19 per square foot, instead of its
assessed value of $1.04 million, or
$11 per square foot. Sewell warned
that if the council approved 15 percent, then it should anticipate that
future agreements will be proposed
with the same IRR.
Benjamin said he already has an
engineering firm and a software company interested in renting two of the
buildings three floors.
October 9, 2015
Dane County
The average mill rate per

$1,000 in assessed property value
2016*
$3.14
2015
$3.12
2014
$3.11
2013
$3.01
2012
$2.87
2011
$2.73
2010
$2.55
2009
$2.37
2008
$2.38
2007
$2.44
2006
$2.55
* County executive proposed
Overall county tax rates.
Actual rates will vary by community because of different
assessment methods and the
appropriation of special levies
(i.e. library and public health).
Hwy. PD a more urban

roadway between Hwy. M
and Maple Grove Road.
The county share is $2.8
million, while the City of
Madison will pay $3.2 million, with the remaining $6
million covered by federal
funds.
County Board supervisors will review the proposal this month, offer amendments and vote on the budget before Thanksgiving.
In his budget announcement, Parisi touted the
success of partnerships
between county and local
governments, as well as
with businesses, community, civic and faith groups.
I developed my budget
View budget details and a line-byline copy of the proposed 2016

budget at the county executives
website:
countyofdane.com/exec/
budget.aspx
for 2016 with a focus on
identifying partners that
when teamed with the
resources of county government could accomplish the
greatest amount of good for
the people we work for,
Parisi said.
Those partnerships
allowed this proposed
budget to remain roughly
$500,000 under the stateimposed revenue limit cap
while providing a cost-ofliving increase for some
employees and $0.87 perhour wage increase for all
county employees, he said.
Taxpayer impact
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October 9, 2015
The Fitchburg Star
Calendar of Events
Friday, October 9
11 a.m., Silly Stories and

Crafts (ages 2-5), library, 7291760
Saturday, October 10
8-11 a.m., Fall Paper Shred

Day, 5951 McKee Road, 2704277
10 a.m. to noon., Meet and
Greet with Fitchburg first
responders, Nine Springs Golf
Course, 2201 Traceway Dr.,
271-5877
Pavilion, 5511 E. Cheryl Pkwy.,

277-2606, fitchburgcenter.com
Friday, October 16
9-11 a.m., Public Flu Clinic,

senior center, 241-7279
Noon to 5 p.m., Friends Book
Sale, library
8:30 a.m., Ghoulish Gallop

10K/5K Run/Walk, McKee
Farms Park, ghoulishgallop.
com
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friends
Book Sale, library
270-4290
3-6 p.m., Fitchburg Center
Farmers Market, Agora
6 p.m., Guys Read (ages
7-11), library, 729-1760
6:30 p.m., Agriculture and
Rural Affairs Committee open
house, city hall, 270-4258
Friday, October 23
10:30 a.m., Craigslist like a

Pro with David Hill, senior center, 270-4290
Sunday, October 11
11 a.m., Collage Art (ages
8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Fitchburg
Sunday, October 18
3-5), library, 729-1760
Flea Market, McGaw Park, 332
8
a.m.
to
1
p.m.,
Fitchburg
6-8 p.m., Wisconsin
9905
Flea Market, McGaw Park, 332- Science Festival: Fun with
11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fitchburg
9905
the stars, Allied Family
Kite Festival, McKee Farms
Center, 4619 Jenewein Road,
Park, 271-8265
Monday, October 19
wisconsinsciencefest.org
7 p.m., Facebook class,
Monday, October 12
library, 729-1760
1 p.m., Cards with Katie
9
a.m.
to noon, Great
($10), senior center, 270-4290
Tuesday, October 20
Pumpkin Give Away, Oak
6 p.m., Candy Sushi (for
2 p.m., Learning Annex: Epic, Bank, 5951 McKee Road, 250teens), library, 729-1760
5513
7 p.m., Gmail Basics, library,
5 p.m., READ to a Dog (sign
9 a.m. to noon, Forever in
729-1760
up), library, 729-1760
Our Hearts Remembrance
5 p.m., LEGO Mindstorms for Day, BTC Events,
Tuesday, October 13
Teens, library, 729-1760
5445 E. Cheryl Pkwy.,
2 p.m., Mens Group, senior
foreverinourheartsmadison.com
center, 270-4290
Wednesday, October 21
10 a.m., Wednesday Morning 6-8 p.m., Halloween Hunt,
Wednesday, October 14
library, 729-1760
Book Discussion and Movie:
11:30 a.m., UW Extension
Wild by Cheryl Strayed,
Sunday, October 25
Nutrition with Tonia: Enhancing library, 729-1760
8
a.m.
to 1 p.m., Fitchburg
Food Flavor, senior center,
5:30 p.m., Cress Advance
Flea Market, McGaw Park, 332270-4290
Funeral Planning dinner and
9905
6:30 p.m., Madison Opera
discussion, Quiveys Grove,
Preview: La Boheme, library,
Monday, October 26
6261 Nesbitt Road, 238-8406
729-1760
7
p.m.,
Job Search Basics,
6:30 p.m., Neighborhood
library, 729-1760
Thursday, October 15
Center study open house,
9 a.m., Collect Prairie Seeds, Fairways Apartments Office,
Tuesday, October 27
Dawley Park, 3401 S. Seminole 2301 Traceway Dr., 270-4258
2 p.m., Active Womens
Hwy., 224-3601
7 p.m., Mother Daughter Book Group, senior center, 270-4290
11 a.m., Storytime (ages 2-5), Club (ages 8-11), library, 729 5 p.m., Bucky Book Swap,
1760
library, 729-1760
1 p.m., Bouncing Babies
(ages 0-1), library, 279-1760
1:30 p.m., I Love A Mystery
10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Red
Book Club: Billy Boyle by
Cross Blood Drive, Tri-North
James R. Benn, senior center,
Builders, 2625 Research Park

Dr., 1-800-733-2767
11 a.m., Cookbook Club:
Apples, library, 729-1760
1 p.m., Bouncing Halloween
Babies (ages 0-1), library, 7291760
1-3 p.m., Internet Safety,
6 p.m., Wand Making (for
teens), library, 729-1760
Friday, October 30
12:30 p.m., Halloween with

Bob the Bird, senior center,
270-4290
3 p.m., Candy Science (ages
6-12), library, 729-1760
5-8 p.m., Trick-or-Treating,

City of Fitchburg, 270-4200
Monday, November 9
7 p.m., Device Advice, library,

729-1760
Wednesday, November 11
6 p.m., Read Like a Girl Book

Club (ages 5-8), library, 7291760
Thursday, November 12
1 p.m., Bouncing Babies

(ages 0-1), library, 729-1760
6 p.m., Climate Change
Discussion Group, library, 7291760
6 p.m., Teen Library Council,
library, 729-1760
Friday, November 13
11 a.m., Fun with Feelings

(ages 3-5), library, 729-1760
4:30 p.m., Library Book Swap,
library, 729-1760
Monday, November 2
1 p.m., LEGOS (ages 5+),

library, 729-1760
1:30 p.m., Fitchburg Historical

Society meeting: Wisconsin
Rural Ethnic Architecture,
library, 729-1760
9:30 and 11 a.m., Preschool
Storytime (ages 2-5, Mondays),
library, 729-1760
5-7 p.m., Teen Paint Night,
library, 729-1760
7 p.m., Shopping Online,
library, 729-1760
Tuesday, November 3
11 a.m., Lapsit Storytime

(ages 2-5, Tuesdays), library,
729-1760
10 a.m., Build It (ages 2-5),

library, 729-1760
Thursday, November 5
Noon, Crafternoon: Simple

Times by Amy Sedaris, library,
On the web
Boy builds library in
honor of late grandfather Learn more about Little Free Libraries:
littlefreelibrary.org
When 11-year-old Henry Ahl

looks out of his bedroom window
on Buttonbush Drive, he sometimes sees owls or sandhill cranes
at the Black Walnut Preserve.
Now hell also be able to watch
families pick up and drop off
books at the newly constructed
Little Free Library that he helped
install in front of a majestic tree
near the bike path.
The Gary Kavanagh Memorial Little Free Library was built
in honor of Henrys late grandfather, who was an avid reader.
Henry and his mother (Garys
daughter), Rebecca Ahl, came
up with the idea to build a Little
Free Library in their neighborhood, and Henry will maintain
the library.
Gary, who passed away two
years ago, would have celebrated
his 75th birthday on Sept. 30,
which was the date the family
selected to unveil the library. But
Garys twin brother, Tom Kavanagh, of Middleton, was able
to be there to celebrate with his
niece and great nephew. Also in
attendance were other neighbors,
family and friends who enjoyed
snacks and dropped off books to
fill the library.
Tom donated the materials and
built the frame of the library,
Rebecca did the shingling and
Henry and his 8-year-old sister,
Wendy, painted the library blue,
just like the color of their house
across the street.
Rebecca said that her father
Friday, November 6
11 a.m., Book Boogie (ages

1-4), library, 729-1760
Sunday, November 1
Buttonbush Drive gets Little Free Library

SAMANTHA CHRISTIAN
729-1760
6:30 p.m., Green Thursday:
Home energy workshop, library,
270-4274
See more photos from The Gary Kavanagh

Memorial Little Free Library unveiling:
loved to read with his grandchildren, which was evident by
photographs of the family strung
around the trunk of the black
walnut tree for the special event
with the message, Share a book
with someone special.
He was Henrys only baby
sitter, Rebecca added. And his
best friend.
Henry, who is home-schooled,
said his favorite book series is
The Heroes of Olympus by
Rick Riordan. He loves to read
and said he often uses Little Free
Libraries.
They are popping up all over
the place. I think its a great
idea, he said. I wanted to contribute.
He said although the library
will have books for all ages, it
will be focused on children. The
family has a 16-foot-long bookshelf in the basement, which is
where many of the books will
come from to restock the library.
Tom said he thinks his brother would really like the take a
book, return a book concept of a
Little Free Library.
It causes you to look at a lot
of books you might not have
gone for at a regular library,
Photo by Samantha Christian
Tom said. That would really Henry Ahl, 11, and his great uncle, Tom Kavanagh, built the Gary Kavanagh
light Gary up.
Memorial Little Free Library on Buttonbush Drive at the Black Walnut Preserve.
Saturday, November 14
Monday, November 16
6 p.m., Thankful Turkey

Books (ages 6-12), library, 7291760
Tuesday, November 17
5 p.m., READ to a Dog (ages

5+, sign up), library, 729-1760
10 a.m., Book Discussion,

library, 729-1760
10 a.m., Toddler Art, library,
729-1760
6 p.m., Estate Planning: Be
Prepared, library, 729-1760
6 p.m., Guys Read (ages
7-11), library, 729-1760
In brief
MS top fundraiser
The 23 members of the UW
Health Reds Riders, led by Jocelyn Wilke of Fitchburg, rode
in this years Bike MS: Toyota
Best Dam Bike Tour Aug. 1-2.
The team pledged to raise
more than $20,000 and so far
has raised more than $27,000.
Because of its commitment to
raise $20,000, the team was designated one of the events Silver
Spokes Teams, joining nine other teams who pledged that level
of giving. The money raised
helps fund multiple sclerosisrelated research, programs and
services.
More than 1,700 registered
riders and volunteers participated in the 32nd annual event,
which traveled from Pewaukee
to Whitewater to Madison over
two days.
For information or to donate,
visit bestdambiketour.com.
Brew fest winner

Don Fleischman, of Fitchburg, participated in the University of Wisconsin-Richland
Alumni Associations third
annual Home Brew Fest Oct. 3.
His World Without End
Trinity Pale Ale won first
place for the home brewers
choice award. His two other ales
included John Knox Bondage
of Sin Scotch Ale and Backyard Hops Amber Ale.
The event, which drew more
than 350 people, featured 10
area home brewers and included
displays and free samples from
area microbrewers, wineries,
apple orchards and cheesemakers.
For information, visit
uwralumnibrewfest.com.
October 9, 2015
The Fitchburg Star
City gets spooky
Halloween-themed events planned

annual Halloween Hunt the evening
of Saturday, Oct. 24.
This year the event will feature
a Wizard of Oz-themed haunted
house and The Great Rondini, who
will demonstrate several illusions
with an assistant as well as an escape
trick in his Halloween-themed show.
From 6-8 p.m. there will be a scavenger hunt, haunted house, balloon
twisters, spooky storytellers, games,
crafts and a FACTv photo shoot.
The magic show will take place from
6:30-7:30 p.m., and a movie will
play from 8-9:45 p.m.
Costumes are encouraged for the
event. For information, call 729-1760.
There will be plenty of events happening in the City of Fitchburg in

October for those who want to celebrate Halloween.
Ghoulish Gallop
The 21st annual 10K/5K Ghoulish
Gallop and Irv Stein Memorial Walk
will take place on Saturday, Oct. 17,
at McKee Farms Park. The run and
walk will start at 8:30 a.m. with registration at 7 a.m. Awards will follow the run.
The Halloween-themed event raises funds for Realtors Association of
South Central Wisconsin Housing
Foundation to improve the supply of
affordable housing.
For information or to register, visit
ghoulishgallop.com or call 240-2800.
Pumpkin give away

Oak Bank, 5951 McKee Road, will
hold the 15th annual Great Pumpkin
Give Away from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 24.
Families are welcome to enjoy
kids activities, refreshments, inflatable bounce houses and horse and
carriage rides. There will also be
special guest appearances from
Bucky Badger, Maynard the Mallard
and Crash Helmet.
When you make a cash donation to Common Threads Family Resource Center, which offers
Halloween bird
Join Fitchburg resident and tropical bird entertainer Jim Cozzi and
File photo by Samantha Christian Bob the Bird at 12:30 p.m. Friday,
Oct. 30, at the senior center.
Leah Severtson, 11, walks along Placid
Bob, a blue and gold macaw, has
Street in search for homes that were handbeen on The Today Show and places
ing out candy for Halloween last year.
like Las Vegas, Door County and
school and mental health programs childrens hospitals.
geared toward individuals affected by
Call 270-4290 the day before if you
autism, behavioral disorders and men- would like to have lunch at noon.
tal health challenges, you will get a
Trick-or-treating
pumpkin just in time for Halloween.
For more information, call 441The City of Fitchburgs official
6000.
trick-or-treating hours are from 5-8
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31.
Halloween hunt
For information, call 270-4200.
The library will host the eighth
Photo submitted
Hole-in-one
Dan Carpenter, a Dist. 3 alder, hit a hole-in-one at Hole #2 at Nine
Springs Golf Course at 8:25 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4. Carpenter used his
9-iron from 115 yards out. The event was witnessed by his friend
George Emmert. Carpenter has been golfing for 21 years and this
was his first hole-in-one. He told the Star, It wasnt the best looking tee shot but it hit the green just right and rolled about 15-20
feet into the hole. George and I started cheering and high-fiving
each other and I dont think it totally sunk in until I walked up and
saw the ball in the cup. It was such a thrill and its a memory Ill
have the rest of my life.
Coming Up
Paper shred
Residents will have the
opportunity to have their
paper documents shredded
behind Oak Bank, 5951
McKee Road, from 8-11
a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10.
The 2015 Fall Shred Day
allows residents of Fitchburg to bring up to five
bankers boxes of documents to the location to be
shredded and recycled, free
of cost. When approaching
the location, visitors should
look for the Pellitteri Shred
Truck around the corner of
Executive and Marketplace
Drives.
For information, call 2704277 or email felipe.avila@
fitchburgwi.gov.
Meet first responders
qualified and trained pharmacist on Tuesday, Oct. 13.

You can qualify for this
free service if you are over
65 years old with a household income less than
$45,000, you live in Dane
County and you take three
or more medications that
include prescriptions, herbals and over-the-counter.
To sign up for an appointment, call 270-4295.
Falls prevention
The senior center will
hold a falls prevention
class, an abbreviated version of the evidence-based
No Falls Class offered in
the past. The class will
incorporate balance, flexibility and strengthening
exercises that are proven to
reduce falls.
Classes will be held from
12:30-1:30 p.m. Wednesdays Oct. 14 to Dec. 9, no
class on Nov. 11. The fee is
$35 and is due at sign-up.
For information, call 2704290.
The Fitchburg and FitchRona Police, Fire and EMS

Departments and K-9 Unit
will be at Nine Springs Golf
Course, 2201 Traceway
Dr., from 10 a.m. to noon
Saturday, Oct. 10, for a
meet and greet.
Food and drinks will be Opera preview
available for purchase. For
Join Madison Opera
information, call 271-5877. for an informative and
entertaining look at their
Kite festival
upcoming production of La
The 30th International Boheme at the library at
Kite Fly for Peace: One 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.
Sky One World will be 14.
held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Set to a ravishing score,
Sunday, Oct. 11, at McKee Puccinis classic opera (the
Farms Park, featuring kite inspiration for Rent) tells of
fliers from over 50 coun- the lives, loves and losses
tries.
of a group of young artists
There will be many beau- in a Bohemian quarter of
tiful kites flown by region- Paris.
al kite fliers, banners and
For information, call 729ground displays, bird glid- 1763.
ers that drop from the sky
and kite-making for kids Collect seeds
from 1-2 p.m. Bring your
The Dane County Seed
kites, friends and picnic Collection Program is looklunches.
ing for volunteers to colFor information, call 271- lect prairie seeds at 9 a.m.
8265.
Thursday, Oct. 15, in Dawley Park, 3401 S. Seminole
Medication reviews
Hwy.
The United Way and
Sturdy shoes, drinkFitchburg Senior Center ing water, long pants and
will be providing medi- long-sleeve shirts are recc a t i o n r e v i e w s w i t h a ommended. Bring along
gloves, mosquito repellant

and pruning shears if available.
For more information,
contact Stangel-Maier@
countyofdane.com or 2243601.
Family Center, 4619 Jenewein Road, from 6-8 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 23.
The evening begins with
a talk about modern astronomy and the importance of
science in our lives. After
the talk, weather permitFlu clinic
ting, telescopes will be set
Home Health United will up outside for stargazing
conduct a public flu clinic and viewing the sky.
from 9-11 a.m. Friday, Oct.
wisconsinsciencefest.org.
16, at the senior center.
All vaccines are always
administered by nurses. Remembrance Day
The fifth annual Forever
A no shot nasal spray is
available for healthy people in Our Hearts Rememages 2-49 years old com- brance Day will be held
ing in October. Flu shots from 9 a.m. to noon Satcost $31 and are covered by urday, Oct. 24, at 5445 E.
Medicare Part B and Med- Cheryl Pkwy.
icaid. Cost for intranasal
The event is being
vaccine is $33. A high dose planned by local bereaved
vaccine is available for $50. parents and Madison area
For a complete sched- nonprofit Mikayla's Grace
ule of HHU public flu to support families who
immunization clinics visit have lost babies through
HomeHealthUnited.org or pregnancy, stillbirth, or in
early infancy. The event
call 241-7279.
features memorial and
Learning Annex: Epic kids activities, an inspiThe senior center will rational speaker, reading
hold its next Learning of the babies names and a
Annex at 2 p.m. Tuesday, remembrance walk.
This years speaker is
Oct. 20, featuring Jodi Farritor from the Epic imple- Sherokee Ilse, an international speaker, bereaved
mentation service team.
She will discuss the his- parent and author of the
tory of Epic, its growth and book, Empty Arms: Copits unique position in the ing with Miscarriage, Stillmedical tech world. There birth, and Early Infant
Death, one of the first
will be time for questions.
For information, call 270- guides ever written for
newly bereaved parents.
4290.
To purchase tickets, visit
Zumba class
foreverinourheartsmadison.
T h e n e x t e i g h t - w e e k com.
session of Zumba Gold
starts Friday, Oct. 23, from Internet safety
The senior center will
10-10:45 a.m. at the senior
host Dave St. Amant, the
center.
The cost is $44. Payment owner of mobile tech supis due upon sign-up. For port company Community
information, call 270-4290. PC in Fitchburg, for people
to learn about internet safeFun with the stars
ty.
The program, which will
The Wisconsin Science
Festival will be held around touch on topics of utilizing
online resources amidst the
the state from Oct. 22-25.
The Madison Astronomi- scare of hacking, theft and
cal Society will lead partici- online fraud, will be held
pants in a journey through from 1-3 p.m. Thursday,
the night sky at the Allied Oct. 29. To reserve a spot,
call 270-4290.
Green Thursdays
This year marks a change
in the Green Thursday
program at the library.
While the goal of presenting engaging and relevant
programs about a variety
of sustainability topics
remains the same, the program will be shifting from
monthly films to quarterly
workshops.
The first event, at 6:30
p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, is
a home energy workshop
covering simple strategies
to save energy and money
for apartment and house
dwellers alike.
Send topic ideas to erika.
kluetmeier@fitchburgwi.
gov or 270-4274.
Fitchburg Historical
Society
The Fitchburg Historical
Society will hold its next
meeting, Wisconsin Rural
Ethnic Architecture, at
1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1,
at the library. The speaker
will be retired UW professor and Fitchburg resident
Bill Tishler.
Tishler was with the
department of landscape
architecture for 42 years,
teaching and researching.
He was also instrumental
in finding and preserving
some of the more than 60
historic buildings that are
now at Old World Wisconsin.
For information, call 7291760.
Teen paint night

Teens in grades 6-12
are invited to participate
in Teen Paint Night at the
library from 5-7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2.
Artful Escapes will teach
teens the necessary brush
strokes and techniques to
create a specific painting.
Space for this free program
is limited, so call 729-1762
to register.
Shopping online
Learn about the basics
of Internet shopping at the
library at 7 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 2.
This class covers important security and privacy
issues that you should be
aware of when making purchases online as well as
where and how to shop.
For information or to register, call 729-1763.
Climate change policy

Come to the library
for discussions about the
impact of human activities on climate change and
public health, as well as the
benefits to climate change
mitigation. This program
is for those enrolled in Climate Change Policy and
Public Health, a UW-Madison MOOC (coursera.org/
course/ccandph), as well
as anyone interested in the
topic.
The first two discussions
will take place in the conference room at 6 p.m. on
Thursdays, Nov. 12 and 19.
For information, call
729-1784 or email rebecca.
swanson@fitchburgwi.gov.
Library book swap

Looking for a great new
book to own, or wishing to
get rid of a few extra books
around your home? Come
to the librarys book swap
at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov.
13.
Youll be able to trade
your gently used (or never
used) books with items
previously owned by the
library or by other program
participants. This is a great
way to trade back items
you may have purchased at
the Friends Book Sale Oct.
16-17, or to pick up some
more gems that you may
have missed.
Light refreshments will
be available. For information, call 729-1782 or email
kayce.henderson@fitchburgwi.gov.
October 9, 2015
Oregon schools
The Fitchburg Star
Slight increase for 2015-16 levy
Whats online
Board will finalize

budget later this
month
SCOTT DE LARUELLE
Photo by Scott De Laruelle
Russian teachers Olga Dorokhova and Elena Shipilova, far right, talk with students at Brooklyn
Elementary School.
Read more OSD stories at ConnectFitchburg.com:
Russian teachers visit Oregon

Just months after globetrotting Oregon High School teacher Lou Kindschi visited
and lived with a group of Russian educators during a trip there last winter, she ended
up playing host to a group of them visiting Oregon.
Homecoming photos
See photos from Oregon High Schools Sept. 25 homecoming parade and pep rally.
The football team won the homecoming game that night, 33-13 over Fort Atkinson.
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Though it was unclear

whether it was due to the
Monday night Packers game
or a general satisfaction
about the districts finances,
only a handful of people
showed up for the Oregon
School District annual budget hearing to set this years
tax levy and hear from
officials on whats ahead,
including a likely teacher
compensation referendum
next fall.
The meeting is largely
symbolic, as school board
members still can change
the levy before they must
approve it later this month,
but its a good opportunity
for district officials to hear
from residents. About a
dozen residents, along with
seven school board members, unanimously approved
a $24.3 million tax levy for
the 2015-16 school year,
keeping the amount that was
in the districts preliminary
budget approved last month.
If unchanged, the mill rate
would rise 12 cents per
$1,000 of assessed value.
For a $200,000 home, the
districts tax increase would
be $24.
District business manager
Andy Weiland was pleased
at the results, considering the district received no
OSD mill rates

Year
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Rate
10.12
10.63
10.53
10.94
11.73
11.99
12.20
12.31
11.98
12.10*
*proposed
(Source - Oregon
School District)
additional funding from

the state above last years
amount. The district did get
an increase in revenues of
$366,071 from open enrollments for this school year
271, compared to 219 for
the 2014-15 school year.
District enrollment has
increased by 32 students
from last year, to 3,646.
Weiland said board can
still change the tax levy at
its next meeting, before the
budget must be approved
later this month.
November 2016
referendum on track
In his annual state of the
district talk, OSD superintendent Brian Busler talked
about the recent Visioning
2.0 session held in August,
and what the next steps for
the district will be, based

on that input from district
stakeholders. He said the
major topics mentioned
at the sessions included
increasing student mentoring opportunities, expansion
of personalized learning,
expansion of business/community partnerships, helping students grow through
community experience, and
increasing teacher pay.
Busler said district officials plan on addressing
those topics in the near
future with the boards
visioning committee taking the lead including
a planned referendum in
November 2016 on teacher
compensation. A teacher
compensation model study
committee has been looking
at the issue for the past two
years.
This is something that
the board and the (Oregon
Education Association)
agreed to, he said, referring
to the creation of the committee. The goal is to create a compensation model to
retain and attract and develop highly qualified teachers
in the Oregon School District.
Busler said a community
survey and focus groups on
teacher compensation in the
past year has brought back
some great feedback on
the issue.
Hopefully we can turn
all that data into a successful informational packet
and then were off to referendum in November 2016,
he said.
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October 9, 2015
The Fitchburg Star
2015-16 enrollment
up 12 from 14-15
GE grows rapidly;
elementaries down
SCOTT GIRARD
Despite a 72-student
increase at Glacier Edge
Elementary School, the
Verona Area School District saw an overall drop
at the elementary school
level for this year.
VASD has 13 fewer elementary students, including Pre-K, in the 2015-16
school year than it did in
2014-15, according to the
third Friday count done
by the states Department
of Public Instruction. But
overall, the district grew
by 12 students, with 18
more at the middle schools
and seven more at the high
school level.
The final tally, which
the state will use to determine per pupil funding for
the district, is above what
the district had projected
for the year, but did not
bring VASD back to its
record year of 5,440 students in 2013-14.
The good news is were
up in enrollment, the bad
news is not as much as
we thought, superintendent Dean Gorrell told
the school board Monday
night.
While GE grew to 585
students and is bursting
at its seams, with every

available room in use, all
of the other attendance
area elementary schools
lost students. Sugar Creek
lost 35, Country View lost
23 and Stoner Prairie lost
14.
At the middle schools,
Badger Ridge grew by 24
students, but both Savanna Oaks and the middle
school portion of Core
Knowledge lost three students each.
Verona Area High School
gained four students over
last year, while the Exploration Academy grew by
three.
Vanta funds finalized

The board approved
issuing the final bonds
approved in the April referendum for land purchases.
The $3.75 million in
bonds will be used to purchase the Vanta property,
which the district recently
finalized the purchase of
without using eminent
domain. The purchase
means the district will
soon officially own each
of the three properties
the board approved purchase options on in 2013,
including the neighboring Erbach property and
the Herfel property to the
south, which will likely
be used for an elementary
school.
VASD attendance
School
Sept. 2015
Change
Early Learning Center
20
-3
Pre-K
287 23
CKCS
265 6
Country View
448
-23
Glacier Edge
585
72
New Century
126
7
Sugar Creek
464
-35
Stoner Prairie
391
-14
VAIS
94 0
Badger Ridge
509
24
Savanna Oaks
504
-3
CKCS
150
-3
VAHS
1,511 4
Exploration Academy
74
3
Total
5,428 12
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Read more VASD stories at ConnectFitchburg.com:
Transgender committee meets

The districts new ad hoc committee on transgender
policy met for the first time Thursday, Oct. 1. It was a
short meeting that members left with plenty of reading
assignments to prepare for the next meeting.
Considering moving TWI

As the space crunch at Glacier Edge continues to
increase, the district is looking at two main options:
moving the Two-Way Immersion program or redrawing
boundaries.
Planning for a new school

The board is expected to vote later this month to
authorize a consulting agreement with Eppstein Uhen:
Architects to do more facilities studies and communication planning for a referendum on a new school building. An initial proposal included a referendum in April
2017.
No-cut for VAHS freshman sports

The district has begun considering no cuts for freshman sports at the high school, in an effort to keep everyone involved in school activities. Funding and space,
however, remain big hurdles to any potential change.
Photo by Scott Girard
Dot Day
Stoner Prairie Elementary School celebrated International Dot Day Wednesday, Sept. 16, by bringing student creations to a new dimension. Students filed in and out of the schools step room throughout the day, and after hearing a reading of the book The Dot, colored
their own on a piece of paper. After their creation was done, students and teachers used an iPad app, Quiver, to bring the dot they created
to life, with a rotating 3-D model showing up on the devices screen. For more information on International Dot Day, visit thedotclub.org.
Above, Kean Ehiorobo and Mason Rausch color their dots after hearing the reading of The Dot in English and Spanish.
SOMS parents: Return to letters doesnt make the grade

SCOTT GIRARD
When Savanna Oaks

Middle School administrators said the school would
once again offer grades on
an ABC scale this year,
parents thought they had
accomplished their goal.
After a recent principal
and community informational meeting and through
a month of school, theyre
not so sure anymore.
Last year, SOMS offered
only mastery-based
grading, which ran on a
scale from beginning level to mastery, as part of
the transition to personalized learning. After parents told the school board
of their concerns with the
system this summer, the
school said it would be
adding letter grades to help
supplement the mastery
standards, and tied the letters to the different mastery standards.
Michelle Gigot Puent,
who has a seventh-grader
at SOMS, spoke to the
school board Monday night
on behalf of the 500-member group Verona for Positive Change and said the
approach has only been an
attempt to appease concerned families.
As we SOMS parents
were told repeatedly by
administration last year,
the mastery scale does not
equate to ABC scale, yet
thats what theyve done,
Gigot Puent said. The few
parents at a recent informational meeting learned that
getting everything correct
100 percent on a presentation or quiz is (Mastery) and will be reported
as B.
SOMS principal Sandy Eskrich told the Press
Tuesday morning that a
20-out-of-20 on a geography quiz, for example, would indeed be a
SOMS grading scale

Standard Score
Letter Grade
Exceeds Mastery
A

Mastery
B

Near Mastery
C

Beginning Level
D

No Evidence
N/A

mastery, which equals a
B.
That demonstrates mastery, great, Eskrich said.
That suggests the student has memorized those
things and is ready to build
on them. Its rote memory.
Rote memory is not a highlevel skill.
Eskrich also said letter
grades are not our priority, and pointed to the
descriptions of the different mastery standards on
the SOMS website as an
outline to help understand
what the different grades
mean.
Were using letter grades as additional
descriptors of student
progress, she said. Our
priority is ensuring that
kids have a solid mastery
of foundational skills on
which to build.
An A, or an Exceeds
Mastery on the mastery scale that was put in
Description
I can fluently explain how to do the task in my words.
I can consistently connect concepts to my life or to
other learning.
I can persevere in problem solving and tasks.
I can go beyond standards, demonstrate further learning.
I can explain how to do the task.
I can complete the task without help.
I can show that I understand.
I can correct my own mistakes.
I can complete the task with help or with an example
in front of me.
I may still make a few mistakes.
I can correct my mistakes with help from someone.
I can follow the task while someone explains it to me.
I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong.
I cannot figure out how to start.
I have not engaged in work to provide
evidence of learning.
place last year at SOMS,

is a subjectively defined
feat of expressing that
your understanding of a
standard goes above and
beyond, Gigot Puent said.
It may be as hard for you
board members to believe
as it was for us as parents, but examples of what
might qualify as (exceeds
mastery) that were given
included inviting ones
teacher to lunch to discuss
a love and interest of cells,
she said. Or spontaneously
writing in the margin of a
test expressing a connection of a question to another
course or experience in
life.
Eskrich maintained that
there are multiple ways to
achieve an A, and all of
them demonstrate a higher
level of understanding, like
fluently explaining a concept in the students own
words or taking a concept
in one subject and applying
it to another.
When they are really
excited kids do that naturally, she said.
The issue came up
over the summer at board
meetings and curriculum,
instruction and assessment committee meetings,
where it was agreed the
school would return to letter grades.
Eskrich emphasized last
year when people questioned the system that
mastery standards allow
for deeper understanding
among students and parents of what a student does
or does not understand.
But parents said the system was too subjective and
inconsistent.
Gigot Puent emphasized
that the parents want letter
grades so their students are
prepared for that same kind
of grade in high school,
when it counts from
freshman year on.
10
October 9, 2015
Madison schools
The Fitchburg Star
West homecoming set for Oct. 16

Friday deadline to
purchase dance
tickets
Madison West High
School students and staff
will celebrate Homecoming
Friday, Oct. 16, and Saturday, Oct. 17.
The celebration begins
with a parade on Chabourne
Avenue in Madison from
1:20 to 2:25 p.m., followed
by a pep rally in the gym
until 3:35 p.m.
That night, the football team will face Janesville Parker at 7 p.m. at
Dance prices
Tickets can be purchased at the schools
visitor window.
Oct. 12-13
$5
Oct. 14-15
$7
Oct. 16
$10
Mansfield Stadium.
The dance will be in the
schools cafeteria the following night at 8 p.m.
Students must buy tickets
in advance, as none will be
available after 12:45 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 16. Ticket sales
will begin Monday, Oct.

12, at the schools visitor
window.
Ticket prices will vary
throughout the week, with
them costing $5 Monday
and Tuesday, $7 Wednesday and Thursday and $10
on Friday.
Students must also have
a Dance Agreement Form
on file in their SLC office
signed by both the student
and their guardian by Friday, Oct. 9.
For more information,
visit west.madison,k12.
wi.us/homecoming-2015.
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Leopold teaches behaviors to keep kids in class

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JENNIFER GRAGG
Madison Commons
Children with behavioral

problems are not necessarily bad kids. More often
than not, they just need to be
taught how to behave.
Leopold Elementary is
putting that idea into practice, teaching behavioral
skills to prevent future problems.
The goal is to be restorative, proactive, and supportive upfront, rather than
reactive and punitive at the
back-end, said assistant
principal Mathew Thompson.
The school has set aside a
special room known as the
Ranch. All students visit it
daily during their 30 minute What I Need, or WIN
blocks. WIN allows students
to work on their own needs.
Though some students use
this block for enrichment
activities, others receive
PBS, or positive behavioral
supports. Students with very
disruptive behavioral issues
also visit the Ranch outside
of their WIN blocks.
Students behaviors play a
role in every aspect of their
day. The Ranchs teaching
strategies must account for
that.
We assume nothing, and
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we teach everything, said
Thompson. How to conduct yourself when transitioning in the hallway,
using the bathroom, being
in the cafeteria, being in
the library, everything. We
teach every routine.
The Ranch staff also
keeps data on when and
where behavioral problems
occur in the school. The
areas with the most problems, known as hotspots, get
more supervision.
The data showed that
our 5th graders had a spike
of behavioral issues during gym time, said cross
categorical teacher Stephanie Nagel. Knowing that
hotspot means the Ranch
staff can be right there when
it happens and prompt the
students to remember the
skills we taught them. Thats
something weve never been
able to do before.
Tito Paws, named after
the schools mascot, also
reinforce positive behaviors.
Staff award Tito Paws to

students when they show
positive behaviors.
We explicitly teach what
were rewarding, says Principal Karine Sloan. Otherwise students wont know
how to repeat it.
Examples of positive
behaviors fill the school.
Posters with the phrase Be
respectful, be responsible,
be safe are a common sight.
Similarly, the rules for the
playground hang near the
door. Hallways and classrooms even hang flowcharts
for handling emotions.
If these examples fail
to spread the message, the
school can use an alternative
strategy like PBS assemblies to address school-wide
issues.
All of this is founded on
the premise that kids should
be in class learning, said
Thompson.
Sometimes, disruptive
behavior goes beyond the
ability of teachers to handle
it in the classroom. Because
education schools focus
almost solely on how to
teach curriculum, teachers
can be unprepared to deal
with the behavioral components of the classrooms they
teach, but the Ranch staff
will continue to work with
them and make changes in
the schools outlook.
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VAHS girls golf
Low scores lead to sectional title
Defending champs make

state for the third straight
year
If you go
What: WIAA Division 1 state golf
tournament
When: Monday-Tuesday, Oct.
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Where: University of WisconsinMadisons University Ridge Golf
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ANTHONY IOZZO
Assistant sports editor
There have been different heroes

all season for the Verona Area High
School girls golf team, and at Tuesdays WIAA Division 1 Madison
West sectional, it was seniors Hanna Rebholz and Emily Opsal that
made the difference.
Rebholz, the No. 4 golfer, finished as a medalist with a 74, while
Opsal, the No. 3 golfer, was second
on the team with a 79 at Odana Hills
Golf Course.
Those scores helped the Wildcats
edge Middleton 319-320 for the
sectional title and the third straight
state berth as a team.
I am really excited. I definitely
didnt think I would shoot that low
today, Rebholz said. I knew I
always had it in me, and it is just
exciting it came out at the right time.
Hopefully, I can stay this low.
The Wildcats No. 1 golfer, senior
Bailey Smith, and the No. 2 golfer,
senior Melissa Biesmann, shot a
little higher than usual with a pair of
83s. But as a team, Verona has had
balance and consistency throughout
the lineup.
Sophomore Lauren Shorter finished with a 90 as the No. 5 golfer
and her score thrown out.
We always have someone that
will go low and come through for
us, Rebholz said.
Verona came into sectionals
ranked No. 4 in the state, while
Middleton was ranked No. 2. Both
teams exchanged finishes all year,
including the Cardinals edging the
Wildcats at regionals by a stroke.
We have been in the mix all
year, and they know what the experience is like. And they know what
We are definitely a lot more

confident now, Rebholz said. We
have been confident all season, but
this definitely boosts it.
Regionals
Photo by Anthony Iozzo
Senior Hanna Rebholz tees off on the 14th hole Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the WIAA
Division 1 Madison West sectional at Odana Hills Golf Course. Rebholz finished with
a meet-best 74 and helped the Wildcats edge Middleton by a stroke for the sectional
title.
it takes mentally to do it, head

coach Bailey Hildebrandt said. But
it has been a dogfight all season
with the Miltons and the Arrowheads and the Middletons. You
definitely cant count anybody out.
It is state golf, so everyone is
going to bring their best, but I think
this a good score to head into that
meet with some confidence.
The state meets first round is at
8 a.m. Monday, Oct. 12, at the University of Wisconsin-Madisons
University Ridge Golf Course.
The second round is at noon

Tuesday, Oct. 13.
Monona Groves Mikayla Hauck
(75), Beaver Dams Ashley Kulka
(76) and Oregons Taylor McCorkle
(79) were the individual qualifiers
from the Madison West sectional.
No. 7 Franklin, No. 5 Brookfield
Central, No. 2 Hartland Arrowhead,
No. 6 Milwaukee Homestead, No.
1 Milton, Union Grove, Green Bay
Notre Dame, Green Bay Preble,
Onalaska and Eau Claire Memorial
are the other team qualifiers.
The Wildcats traveled to Portage

Country Club on Sept. 30 for the
WIAA Division 1 Portage regional
and advanced to sectionals with a
runner-up finish.
Verona (325) was one stroke
behind regional champion Middleton, led by the overall medalist
Smith (73).
Besides Madison Memorial individual qualifier Kelly Elmes, who
finished tied for seventh overall
with an 87, the top 10 finishers were
all from Middleton or Verona.
Biesmann was tied for third overall with a 79, while Opsal was sixth
with an 85. Shorter finished the
scoring and was ninth overall with
an 88, and Rebholz with her score
thrown out took 10th overall with
an 89.
Middletons Loren Skibba was
second with a 76, and Payton Hodson was tied for third with a 79.
Alexis Thomas was fifth with an 82,
and Morgan Miles was tied for seventh with an 87.
The other teams to advance were
Portage (392) and Waunakee (395).
Besides Elmes, Memorials Lauren
Krieg (97), Reedsburgs Olivia Fry
(97) and Madison Wests Maddy
Morrison (97) also advanced to sectionals.
MWHS football
Regents drop out of playoff race, fall to 1-6

EVAN HALPOP
The Madison West Regent football team is no

longer a playoff contender after losing to Madison Memorial 28-6 on Sept. 18. Two weeks later
after knocking off Beloit Memorial, the Regents
dropped to 1-6 with a 27-14 loss to Middleton on
Oct. 2.
Turnovers plagued the offense in a season with
high hopes, including seven interceptions by
senior starting quarterback Daelon Savage and
a pair of fumbles from junior wide receiver Terrence McNeal Jr. and sophomore running back
Jaden Stephens.
Defensively, West allowed more than 20 points
in five of the losses, while the offense didnt score
more than 20 four times.
Regent head coach J.C. Dawkins did not return
calls for comment.
Sun Prairie 43, West 34

The Regents lost to Sun Prairie on Sept. 11 at
Mansfield Stadium.
A 34-yard pass from Sun Prairie quarterback
J.P. Curran to wide receiver Marquis Reuter
sealed the victory for Sun Prairie in the fourth
quarter.
The Regents kept the game close up until the
fourth quarter, never falling behind more than
eight points. Savage completed 21 of 39 passes for
415 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.
Savage threw all three of his touchdowns to
junior wide receiver Terrell Carey. Carey caught
seven passes for 210 yards. Senior running back
Greg Wright rushed for 88 yards on 19 attempts
quarter, with another rushing touchdown from

eight yards out by Memorial senior running back
Jason Weah and a 10-yard passing touchdown
from Enright to Memorial junior wide receiver
Jake Ferguson.
The Regents avoided being shut out in the third
quarter as Savage threw a 53-yard touchdown to
McNeal Jr.
Savage completed 10 out of 33 passing attempts
for 88 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions.
West 69, Beloit Memorial 26

The Regents won their first game of the season
against Beloit Memorial (0-7) on Sept. 25.
While Savage only threw for 128 yards, completing nine of 16 passing attempts with four
touchdowns, the Regents rushed the ball for a
combined total of 283 yards on 31 carries.
Most notable rushers were McNeal Jr. (36 yards
on three carries and a touchdown), Wright (209
Photo by Evan Halpop yards on 18 carries and four touchdowns) and Stephens (23 yards on six carries).
Madison West senior defensive lineman Jamin Brown
Regents junior defensive back Xavier Miller
(right) tackles Beloit Memorial junior quarterback
intercepted Beloit Memorial quarterback Steven
Steven Makinen (left) on Sept. 25 at Mansfield
Makinen and returned the ball 13 yards to the
Stadium. West won 69-26 over Beloit.
Regents 40-yard line. Carey caught two passes for
and two touchdowns.
47 yards, while McNeal Jr. caught three passes for
36 yards and two touchdowns.
Memorial 28, West 6
Senior wide receiver Sam Meyer hauled in an
The Regents lost to Madison Memorial on Sept. 11-yard touchdown catch, while sophomore wide
receiver Keishawn Shanklin caught three passes
18 at Mansfield Stadium.
The game was scoreless until Memorial senior for 34 yards and a touchdown.
quarterback Emmett Enright rushed three yards
for a touchdown in the third quarter.
Turn to MWHS football/Page 14
Memorial scored two more times in the third
Junior Taylor McCorkle tees off

on the 17th hole Tuesday in the
WIAA Division 1 Madison West
sectional at Odana Hills Golf
Course. McCorkle finished with
a 79 and advanced to state.
OHS girls golf
McCorkle
breaks 80,
makes state
ANTHONY IOZZO
Junior Taylor McCorkle

wanted to stay away from
double bogeys Tuesday, Oct.
6, in the WIAA Division 1
Madison West sectional at
Odana Hills Golf Course.
McCorkle said that in previous meets there would be
two or three bad holes that
would hurt her score, and in
one of the toughest sectionals
in the state, she had to keep
away from doubles in order to
advance.
McCorkle didnt have
any double bogeys Tuesday,
but she also only had eight
bogeys and added a birdie to
finish with a 79, making the
cut as the third qualifier to
the D1 state tournament the
first state berth of her career.
I am really looking forward to (state), Taylor
McCorkle said. It makes me
feel a lot better knowing that I
am playing with the top people in the state.
Taylor McCorkle had
opportunities to shoot even
lower but had a couple of
tough holes with her putter.
So she said that working on
her putting will be a priority
for the state tournament next
Monday and Tuesday at University Ridge Golf Course.
Senior Jenny Johnson was
not able to get through to state
in her final attempt despite
shooting an 84 in a loaded
field.
Sophomore Andi
McCorkle was third on the
team with a 104, and senior
Olivia Davis concluded her
high school career with a 109.
Taylor McCorkle said that
the other girls on the team
were vital in keeping her
composed, especially when
she had a bad hole or two.
It was really fun and was
probably one of the best
years, Taylor McCorkle
said. They always kept me
positive ... I dont think I
would be able to this without
them.
Freshman Sydney McKee,
who shot a 122, had her score
Turn to OHS golf/Page 14
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The Fitchburg Star
OHS football
MWHS girls tennis
Regents finish third at conference Panthers close to securing

JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Madison West finished third overall

with 35 points thanks to runner-up finishes at No. 2 and 3 singles, as well as No. 2
and 3 doubles last week at the Big Eight
Conference tournament.
Sun Prairie swept all four singles flights
to hold off Middleton 39.5-38.5. The Cardinals won all three doubles flights.
Madison West finished runner-up at

No. 2 and 3 singles, as well as, at No. 2
and 3 doubles to take third place. Madison Memorial was fourth.
Second-seeded Ellie Kaji of Fitchburg
rolled to a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Janesville
Parker in the first round and then survived a 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 match against Madison Memorials Ingrid Goldstrand in the
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Badger South title

JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Quarterback Trent Ricker didnt go into Friday

evenings Badger South
game at Stoughton thinking hed be the focal point
of the Panthers offense,
but the two-year starter
certainly didnt wilt under
the pressure.
Coming into this game
I wasnt expecting up to
throw the ball much,
Ricker said. I was expecting a low scoring, ground
and pound style game, but
as soon as we got that first
touchdown I think coach
really realized we had an
advantage over that defensive backs.
Half of Rickers six
completions, however,
ended up in the end zone
and the senior quarterback
rushed for a pair of touchdowns for good measure
to lead Oregon to a 41-33
victory over the rival
Vikings.
Ricker finished with
a season-high 220 yards
passing, finding senior
wide receiver Alex Duff
on touchdown strikes of 78
and 38 yards.
That first one was originally a hitch pass, but Alex
saw the corner was pressing. We made eye contact,
called a little audible and
changed it to a go route,
Ricker said. I think that
got the confidence up for
both of us.
The second play from
scrimmage, saw Stoughton defensive back Darvell
Peeples jump early, leaving a wide open field of 78
yards for Duff.
I knew that ball was
going to soar a little further than he had planned
on, Duff said. When I
turned around there was no
one there and just a wide
open field.
Oregon continued to
come up with explosive
plays through the air to
Photo by Joe Koshollek
Senior wide receiver Alex Duff celebrates his second touchdown

catch of the evening in the third quarter Friday at Collins Field in
Stoughton. Duff caught two balls for 116 yards and a pair of scores
from quarterback Trent Ricker as Oregon won 41-33.
build an 18-point lead (2810) through two quarters

on a 47-yard pass to Sam
Mueller, while Ricker added a 9-yard Ricker touchdown run, following which
he as flagged for taunting after pretending to rip
open his jersey ala Cam
Newton of the Carolina
Panthers.
I know we talk about
not being selfish, but that
was definitely a selfish
move on my part, Ricker
said. I apologized to my
team for that. Im sure Ill
be paying for it in practice
next week.
Stoughton rallied from a
three-touchdown deficit in
the fourth quarter Friday
without starting quarterback Jake Kissling thanks
in large part due to the
effort of sophomore running back Brady Schipper.

Schipper accounted for
194 yards and a pair of
second half rushing touchdowns to pull the Vikings
within an on-side kickoff
and a touchdown.
Its to bad we couldnt
send our 21 seniors out
with a win on Senior Night
and in our last home game,
but weve got to refocus
for Monona Grove for this
week, Vikings head coach
and former OHS alumni
Dan Prahl said.
A win Friday would
have given Stoughton a
third conference win and
made the team playoff eligible for the second straight
year, while an Oregon
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MWHS tennis: West scores 14 points at subsectionals

Continued from page 12
quarterfinals. Kaji ran out of gas in

the championship game against topseeded Lats Sysouvanh of Sun Prairie, falling 6-0, 6-0.
Spencers Harrison entered the
conference tournament as the top
seed at No. 3 singles but had to
settle for second after falling to Sun
Prairies Julia Hernesman 6-4, 6-4
in the championship match.
Harrison rattled off a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Madison La Follette and
then 6-3, 6-3 over Middleton.
Olivia Berns and Olivia ODea
took second place to Middletons
Lauren Coons and Maddie Clark,
falling 6-1, 6-2 in the No. 2 doubles
title bout. Berns and ODea breezed
through a first-round match against
Janesville Craig 6-0, 6-0 and then
defeated Veronas Eve Parker and
Meghan Anderson 7-5, 6-1.
Madison Wests Katie Goetz
and Sumin Yang added another
runner-up finish to Middleton at

No. 3 doubles, dropping the title
match 7-5, 6-0. Goetz and Yang
only dropped two games through
the first two rounds, defeating
Janesville Parker 6-2, 6-0 and Sun
Prairie 6-0, 6-0.
Karolina Lungova cruised to a
6-1, 6-1 win over Veronas Carissa
Witthuhn at No. 1 singles before
falling 6-4, 6-1 against secondseeded Polina Zueva in the second
round. Lungova then capped her
third-place performance with a 6-2,
6-1 victory over Madison Memorials Kelly Spielman.
Hoi Lee-McVey and Laura Nicholas of Fitchburg played their way
to a third-place finish at No. 1 doubles, defeating Madison La Follette
6-0, 6-3.
West defeated Janesville Parker
due to an injury default in the first
round before falling to Veronas
Greta Schmitz and Lauren Supanich.
Nyah Banik played her way to a

fourth-place finish at No. 4 singles,
falling 6-1, 6-4 against Veronas
Allison Blessing in the third-place
match.
victory officially locked up a second

playoff spot for the Panthers.
Stoughton outscored Oregon 23-13 in
the second half, but was unable to keep
the Panthers out of the end zone, finding itself in a 24-point deficit early in the
fourth quarter despite second half Schipper touchdown runs of 3 and 9 yards
and a fourth quarter touchdown rushing
touchdown of 5 yards by junior back-up
quarterback Noah Guerin.
Guerin found Adam Krumholz on a
pair of fourth quarter 2-point conversion
touchdown passes to pull Stoughton
within eight points, but the Vikings were
unable to recover a late on-side kick and
watched Oregon run out the clock.

Noah came in and stayed the
course, Prahl said. He played an
excellent second half and gave us a shot
at the end.
Krumholz caught four balls for a
team-high 65 yards and senior receiver
Gage White hauled in one ball for a
3-yard touchdown in the second quarter.
These guys love each other like a
family and they dont want this ride to
end, Kissling said.
Oregon (4-1) hosts undefeated Milton
(4-0) at 7 p.m. Friday. A win by the Panthers would guarantee Oregon at least a
share of the conference title for the first
time in 25 years.
Its a huge game. Last year we went
scoreboard for the entire second half.

Richardson said the adjustments
at halftime were executed perfectly,
allowing the Wildcats to not only pick
up a huge conference win now being
a game behind Middleton (6-1) and tied
for second with Madison Memorial and
La Follette at 5-2 but also become
playoff eligible.
That is a good football team that can
score a lot of points. To shut them out
in the second half, kudos to the coaches
and the players. I am just over on the
side hollering that they are passing the
ball, and they were making plays,
Richardson said. Trayvonn (Johnson)
was all over the field, and Sam made
that huge pick, which was beautiful.
We just played a really good second
half, probably one of the best second
halves we have seen in awhile here.
Near the end of the third quarter, the
defense forced a 3-and-out, and with

the La Follette punting into the wind,
the Wildcats received great field position on the Lancers 49-yard line.
After Fink rolled out for a 14-yard
run, juniors Nick Lawinger and Drew
King and Parks all were able to gain
positive yards on the ground with
Parks finishing the drive on a 3-yard
touchdown run.
We started to spread them out a little bit with formations and running the
ball a little wider and getting some positive yards, Richardson said. Secondand-6 is a lot better for us than secondand-10, and once we do that we can hit
that inside trap to Carson.
The game started out fast with La
Follette junior Elias Sobah running
back the opening kickoff 93 yards
to give La Follette a 7-0 lead, but the
Wildcats bounced back on the next
drive on a 53-yard touchdown run by
King.
La Follette came right back with a
Middleton 27, West 14
The Regents scored 14 points

Monday at the WIAA Division 1
Waunakee subsectional tournament
inside Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
Lungova (20-9) won her only
match of the day to advance at No.
1 singles, while Lee-McVey and
Nicolas (18-10) also advanced with
a win at No. 1 doubles.
Waunakee scored 24 points for
top honors, advancing at all seven
flights. Middleton sits in second
place with 22 points after advancing
six of seven flights (everything but
No. 2 singles). The team with the
highest combined score from subsectionals and sectionals advances
on to the WIAA Division 1 state
team tournament.
The Regents traveled to

Brietenbach Stadium on Oct.
2 to take on first-place Middleton and fell to 1-6.
In the second quarter,
Middleton punt returner C.J.
Fermanich returned a Regent
punt 68 yards for a touchdown, which put Middleton
up 20-0 before halftime.
Savage threw two touchdowns in the second half, one
in the third quarter and a second in the fourth.
down there and took it to them pretty

good and almost knocked them out of
the conference race, but they came back
and won two more ball games at the
end to beat MG and tie them for conference, Kissling said. Right now, were
in the drivers seat. Weve played two
back-to-back decent games together. I
think we can play with anybody, we just
have to finish the game. I guarantee Milton is going to be all fired up because of
what we did to them last year.
Monona Grove (3-1) hosts Stoughton
and then finishes the regular season Oct.
16 at Milton (4-0).
The Panthers end the season Oct. 16
at DeForest (4-3) in a Badger Conference crossover game.
26-yard touchdown catch by senior

Braden Jorenby from junior Julian Patton. Verona blocked the point-after
attempt, however, and that was the last
time either team would score until the
fourth quarter.
I am so excited. Last year, I sat out
most of the time, but I know the playoffs are a great atmosphere and are so
fun, Fink said. It couldnt be with a
better group of guys.
Verona is also still hoping for a Big
Eight title and a home game for the
playoffs, and it all starts with a homecoming game against Sun Prairie (4-3)
at 7 p.m. Friday.
Just keep winning. Just keep rolling, Fink said. We have to keep our
momentum on offense. The defense
played fantastic. They need to keep
playing and doing what they are
doing.
Madison La Follette travels to Breese
Stevens Field at 7 p.m. Friday to take
on Madison East (4-3).
McNeal Jr. caught three

passes for 76 yards and a
touchdown, while junior
wide receiver Sam Jeschke
caught one reception for
23 yards and a touchdown.
Wright caught 8 passes for 93
yards.
Savage was 20-for-36 with
287 yards, two touchdowns
and an interception.
The Regents play Janesville Craig (2-5) at Monterey
Stadium at 7 p.m. on Oct. 9
before their final game at 7
p.m. on Oct. 16 at Mansfield
Stadium against Janesville
Parker (3-4).
OHS golf: Panthers take

second at regionals
VAHS football: Wildcats move to second in the Big Eight

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Subsectionals
OHS football: Panthers now playoff eligible

MWHS football: West has
thrown out.
Oregon finished fifth overall with a 376. Verona won
the sectional, edging the other team qualifier Middleton
319-320.
Monona Groves Mikayla Hauck (75) and Beaver
Dams Ashley Kulka (76)
were the other individual
qualifiers to state.
Regionals
Head coach Frank LaVoy
knew that the WIAA Division 1 Oregon regional was
going to be tough Wednesday, especially with windy
conditions making Foxboro
Golf Course tougher than it
already was.
But he still looked at the
matchup as favorable for
the Oregon girls golf team,
especially with the steady
play from the top two golfers, Johnson and Taylor
McCorkle.
And the Panthers did play
well, finishing second and
advancing to sectionals with
a 363, but LaVoy expected
the girls to be a lot closer to
regional champion Monona
Grove (334).
I felt that we gave away a
lot of strokes, but we ended
up with pretty good scores,
LaVoy said. We have really
been working hard to cut out
those giveaway strokes, and
they just didnt manufacture
them.
It is there, and we will
keep building and maybe
it will work out for us next
week at Odana.
Even with the thought that
Oregon could have finished

better than it did, LaVoy still
saw lots of positive signs
from the girls.
On the fifth hole, in particular, the girls demonstrated
sound judgments, he said.
They hit it up the middle.
They didnt try to bomb it all
the way up, and they went
next to the green and got out
in three, he said. That is
smart golf. I saw that more
and more today.
Taylor McCorkle ended up
third overall with a 77, while
Johnson was fourth overall
with an 83. Behind them was
Davis (101) who LaVoy
said played fantastic and
McKee (102).
Andi McCorkle shot a 105
but had the score thrown out,
but she nearly made a holein-one on the fourth hole,
missing the cup by about four
inches before tapping in for
birdie.
It was the best hole-in-one
I have ever seen that didnt go
in, LaVoy said with a laugh.
All the girls had to battle
through some tough holes on
the day, including the par-3
11th hole and the par-5 14th.
The entire field struggled on
those holes, as the wind was
blowing out and to the left on
11 and in their faces on 14.
On hole 11, there were only
six pars and no birdies in the
entire field. There were many
tee shots that went over and
to the left or out of bounds to
the right due to a nasty wind.
On hole 14, there were
only four pars and no birdies.
But two of the six pars on 11
came from Johnson and Taylor McCorkle.
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In brief
MadPower Training moves to bigger space along Verona Road

MARK IGNATOWSKI
Inside a 2,000-square-foot
studio, 60 people are pushing
their heart rates to the upper
limits in 100-degree heat.
Just a few hours before,
a handful of volunteers and
contractors were breaking
a sweat getting ready to
open that night.
Amy Sanborn, along with
friends and family, has spent
the past six months putting
in a lot of sweat equity to
get her new 8,600-squarefoot MadPower Training
building open this month in
the former Dry Bean Saloon
between Verona Road and
Anton Drive.
Its been an amazing
group of friends that have
been scrubbing and helping,
Sanborn said. Its crazy
how awesome its been.
The business which
offers high-intensity cardio and strength-building
classes in a heated studio
opened in November last
year at the Verona Athletic
Center. The business will
now be able to offer more
yoga classes, on-site massage therapy and will have a
nail salon. Members will be
able to socialize at the clubs
bar after a hard workout.
Sanborn always had plans
to expand, but popularity of
her programs and the availability of the former night
club made it the right time
to move, her husband, Bill
Kohl, said.
The City of Fitchburg
has been great to work
with, he said, adding that
it has helped the couple
work through the rezoning
and liquor license approval
process.
The studio held a soft
5264 Verona Road

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Classes
Not all the classes are the
high-heat, high-intensity
MadPower program. Some
classes with an elevated
room temperature but different focus include:
Armed and Dangerous:
A head-to-toe strengthbuilding class
Fast and Furious: A
cardio class designed to
Fitchburg business
appreciation
luncheon Nov. 12
The City of Fitchburg
business appreciation
luncheon is planned for
Thursday, Nov. 12.
Anthony Gray, serial
entrepreneur and president and CEO of the
Institute for Global Ethics, will be the featured
speaker for the annual
event held on Promegas
campus.
More details and invitations are forthcoming.
MadPower
Training
opening Monday, Oct. 5, but

work will continue over the
next month or so as they finish painting, installing lockers and finishing 100 other
little things, Sanborn said.
But that hasnt stopped club
members from signing up for
classes.
MadPower Training had
almost 170 members of the
tribe, as Sanborn calls it,
join in roughly two months
when the business first
opened in Verona. Sanborn
said she hopes the business
will grow virally, and would
like to see how things work
with 300 members.
We want every friend to
bring a friend, Sanborn said.
Sanborn said theyll keep
adding classes in order to
make sure everyone can get
the workout they want.
I have no interest in members who just pay and never
come, Sanborn said. I want
people who want to be here.
The new space gives
Sanborn and her group of
instructors a chance to offer
even more classes.
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October opening
Photo by Mark Ignatowski
Friends and family of MadPower Training owners Amy Sanborn and Bill Kohl have spent countless
hours alongside contractors working to get the new fitness club up and running this month. The business had a soft opening this week.
improve speed
Barre Time: A lowimpact, dance-based class
that infuses elements of
ballet with traditional exercises
Power Barre: A traditional bar-based class mixed with
weights and resistance bands
More yoga
One of the biggest benefits
of the new club is a private
yoga room known as the Zen
Den. Instructors can offer
more yoga classes without
competing for studio space
with the higher-intensity
classes. Soundproofing and
a new HVAC system should
let yoga class participants get
a full work out in one of the
three classes:
Vinyasa Flow: A yoga
class that synchronizes
yoga moves with breathing patterns
Yin: A restorative yoga

class
Yoga Express: A
45-minute instructors
choice class
Added equipment
The fitness club will also
add more traditional fitness
equipment something not
previously offered at the
Verona location. There will
be six treadmills, six bikes
and a variety of weights and
functional fitness equipment,
Sanborn said.
Classes are taught by
Sanborn and a group of other fitness instructors with

various backgrounds. Each
instructor brings a different
style to the classes, but they
all pitch in to make the business run smoothly.
Sanborn is a six-time Ironman finisher and 50-mile
ultramarathon runner. She
started Amys Play Group,
a triathlon club. Her work as
a triathlon coach led her to
opening MadPower Training in November and to the
expansion to Fitchburg this
fall.
SoHo, a popular Madison food cart, plans to

open a restaurant this
month in Fitchburg.
Work on the Hatchery Hill spot has been
progressing since
owner Rocky P.H. So
announced his plans in
July.
SoHos food is
described as Asian
meeting the Midwest
and features dumplings,
soups, salads and rice
dishes.
For updates, search
for SoHo Gourmet Cuisines on Facebook.
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will see a similar problem, as
road changes cut off access
to the facility. Jaggi said the
company will go from three
potential entrances to only
one.
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have, you
know, 500
employees to
be able to get
in and out of
there (as well
Benjamin
as) trucks and
logistics,
she said.
And now to be down to one
entrance?
The city has worked to mitigate the impacts where it can
by lifting some restrictions.
Ordinances normally limit
the size and amount of time
signs can be displayed. No
sign can be larger than 150
square feet, and temporary
signs cannot be displayed for
more than 45 days. Those
rules have been waived.
They have really lightened
up their signage ordinances,
Jaggi said. The City of Fitchburg has been very supportive
of the effort here.
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roads, said while its good
to have people stopped at a
stoplight right outside of your
business, the reduction of
traffic congestion is ultimately a good thing.
Though Stevens worries
for his own future, he agrees
that the project will make
things safer for the community. A recent report funded
by the Transportation Development Administration and
conducted by the UW-Whitewater Fiscal and Economic
Research Center found the
crash rate on Verona Road
from the Beltline to PD was
two to three times higher
than similar corridors in the
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The same report found the
upcoming renovations to that
stretch would amount to a net
increase of $6.6 million in
labor output, or roughly 152
new positions.
This is why, in spite of
some criticisms and concerns,
many business are equally
as worried about delays in
the project at the state level.
The latest biennial budget,
for 2016-17, which allocated
significantly less towards
road construction projects
than was requested, and Jaggi
pointed out that an additional
$90 million in potential bonding for Verona Road is being
held up by the state Joint
Finance Committee.
Jaggi said the VRBC and
its members are working to

encourage the use of that
bonding. In the meantime, the
Wisconsin DOT has pushed
the timeframe for completion
of the current phase to McKee Road has been extended,
from 2019 to 2021.
Five years is a long time
for any (business) to hold on,
Jaggi said.
The TDA report noted
that every year the project is
delayed both limits businesses ability to make money and
potentially makes the project
more expensive.
Benjamin himself had held
off finding permanent tenants
for a building he owns at the
corner now planned to be
torn down and converted into
a Class A office building in
anticipation of the changes.
He now said they expect to
have the new building up
long before Stage 2 of Verona
Road begins, with an engineering firm and a software
company already expressing
interest in the site.
I think some developers,
or even tenants are putting their stuff on hold until
this intersection gets redone,
Benjamin said.
In the meantime, Jaggi
hopes something else will
come from the road construction: unity.
Weve got this nice,
ground-level organic movement of people working
together, talking to each other, and helping each other,
referring business to teach
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Stevens said his options are
limited. Building a third floor,
for example,
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costly, and
though the
state assesses
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and value.
A similar acquisition by
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General Beverage will cost
that business roughly 40 parking spots. The payment from
the state wont help the drink
distributor find parking for its
employees.
In addition to a reclassification, the company sought
approval from the city in July
to use land along the Cannonball bike path to accommodate employee parking under
a permit agreement with the
city.
In a letter to the mayor,
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maintained and perhaps
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city but further warned that
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A survey of businesses along
the road done by VRBC,
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most were worried about having a voice at the Wisconsin
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The Fitchburg Star
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Lacy Road: 7 of 8 alders sponsor compromise resolution set for Oct. 13 vote
Angry concerns from residents of Lacy Road and the
East Fitchburg Neighborhood Association this summer over Mayor Steve
Arnolds proposal to fund
potential sidewalks or parking lanes as early as next
year sparked a monthslong campaign by residents
to fight what they saw as
overreach from the city.
The residents, many of
whom have lived on the
road for decades, agreed
that the road needs repair
but did not feel the process
had included them. Some
accused Arnold and staff
of unilaterally deciding to
include the sidewalks and
parking lanes, a charge he
has denied repeatedly.
Were not doing this to
spend money, Arnold said.
We are doing this because
the road is in serious disrepair and there are no
safe bicycle or pedestrian
accommodations on it.
While no one the Star
spoke with said the final
product was perfect, it
earned the endorsement of
residents and a neighborhood association who had
questioned the process
throughout, as well as the
districts alders, city staff
and Arnold. It also has led
to improved communication between the city and
the neighborhood.
Were happy with that
resolution language, said
East Fitchburg Neighborhood Association president
Patrick Cheney.
No sidewalks
Behind much of the
acrimony thats taken
place since the reconstruction project showed up in
Arnolds capital improvement plan proposal in June
is a disagreement on when
and how residents should
be involved in the process.
In that CIP proposal,
parking lanes and sidewalks
were mentioned as possibilities, both pieces the
residents thought had been
previously decided against.
We were not happy,
Holmes said. Essentially
we were being told what
it was going to be so I
think we pushed ourselves

into the process.
Arnold said city staff
were simply including the
maximum amenities possible in the project for budgetary purposes and that no
actual decisions had been
made at that point. There
is still is no final design,
he noted, as that will come
from the engineers after
they know what features are
supposed to be included.
People said that there
was a conspiracy, that there
was a hidden agenda, that
there was already a design,
and there wasnt, Arnold
said. So you just have to
get through that.
The final resolution
reflects some continued
suspicion of motives from
City Hall, with language
reinforcing a 2010 council
decision that says neighborhoods will decide whether
they want sidewalks. City
staff and Arnold pointed
out throughout the process
that the city attorney had
been of the opinion that
policy did not apply to this
project, and some residents
took offense to that interpretation.
Lacy Road was not
the genesis for resolution
75-10 (the sidewalks resolution), but Lacy Road was
certainly factored in for
the same protections as
any other neighborhood,
Holmes said. I asked our
alders to provide us a reaffirmation so that we dont
have to fight this fight five
years down the road (if
another council wants to
put sidewalks in).
The resolution now
includes three clauses
affirming the resolution and
another specifically forbidding sidewalks or parking
lanes.
Complete streets
That lack of sidewalks
brings the $2 million grant
into question, though city
staff and officials told the
Star they dont expect it to
be an issue.
The Madison Area Transportation Planning Board,
the federally designated
Metropolitan Planning
Organization that can give
out federal grants, approved
Planned features
The resolution that will go in front of the Common
Council Oct. 13 includes the following features for
Lacy Road:
2-foot curb and gutter
Two 10-foot car lanes
Two 4-foot on-road bike lanes with 2-foot
buffers
One 8-to-10-foot shared-use path on the south
side of the road
the citys grant last fall
when it had some money
left over that couldnt fund
any other major, higherscoring projects, city transportation project engineer
Ahnaray Bizjak said.
They had allocated a
certain amount of their
money to other bigger projects and had this kind of
leftover amount that really
filled the potential for Lacy
Road to be funded, Bizjak
said. It kind of fell into our
laps.
This spring, however, the
MPO changed its requirements for projects to fall in
line with the state of Wisconsins since-removed
Complete Streets requirement, which calls for sidewalks and bikeways on all
road construction projects
funded in part or in whole
by state and federal funds,
with certain exceptions
for specific situations. The
state Legislature officially
removed the law in this
years state budget.
Stern, who sits on the
MPO board, told the Star
that he was not concerned
Fitchburg would be at risk
of not receiving funding
with only the 8-to-10-foot
multi-use path and 4-foot
bike lanes with 2-foot buffers that are in the plan
now.
The standard as I understand it is not Thou shalt
have sidewalks, Stern
said. Its that you will
make as many accommodations as is practicable
for multifaceted transportation.
Bizjak and public works
director Cory Horton were
scheduled to present to
the MPO board about the
project and its changes
Wednesday night, after the

Stars print deadline, and
the MPO is also considering increasing the projects
funding to $2.85 million.
Even if that funding is
secured, though, its no
guarantee it actually would
come through given the
tight timeline. The MPO
has told the city the project
must be finished by 2018,
but the state Department of
Transportation has said it
would not have staff available to oversee the grant
that year.
So if its not done by
2017, it could get pushed
to 2019, when its unclear
whether MPO would still
offer the money.
If (the project) doesnt
happen in 2017, we would
be advocating for DOT to
fit it in 2018, Bizjak said.
If it doesnt go in 2018,
well have to be prepared
for understanding what that
means. I dont know what
that means.
unlikely for a final vote on

anything related to Lacy,
and Horton told the council
that would make it impossible to complete the project
in 2017.
I called our consultant
tonight and I said, Can we
get this project done if we
take two weeks off of the
schedule? Horton told the
council. They said, No,
we cant.
But the council did, anyway, and Alds. Dan Carpenter and Jason Gonzalez,
who represent the Lacy
Road area, began talking with residents and the
neighborhood association
the very next day, Carpenter said.
We knew we had a short
timeline to work with,
Carpenter said, adding that
he and Gonzalez built off
the original proposal from
that Sept. 22 meeting.
Whats happened since has
left the residents and EFNA
much more comfortable and
with a continued role in the
process as it moves forward,
as the resolution includes a
mandated monthly update
meeting with city staff and
the public.
The staff actually
offered that, and I thought
that was in the spirit of
compromise and partnership, said Holmes, who
was among a group of residents that wrote letters to

the editor railing against
communication on the project last month.
Carpenter called the final
resolution submitted Monday, Oct. 5, after a meeting
he attended with Gonzalez,
residents, EFNA members,
the mayor and city staff the
Friday before to iron out
final details an excellent
example of democracy in
action.
Cheney praised how the
final parts of the process
went, noting the time the
alders and public works
staff took to talk with residents in recent weeks and
months.
We couldnt independently have gotten anywhere without both cooperatively working with (public works director) Cory
(Horton) and to be able
to work with our alders,
Cheney said.
Holmes and Arnold both
pointed to parts they did not
support, but Holmes called
it a compromise position.
Perhaps this will serve
as a template for future considerations when projects of
this nature are considered,
Holmes said. To put citizens on the front end.
Democracy in action
If the council passes the
resolution, which is expected, given that seven of the
eight council members having signed on as co-sponsors, city staff will begin
design work, putting out
bids and acquiring the necessary right-of-way from
private property owners,
all with a goal to maintain
2017 construction, Bizjak
said.
Two weeks ago, the 2017
timeline looked to be in
serious jeopardy, however,
as the Common Council
voted 4-3 to delay a resolution on the project after a
contentious hour-and-a-half
discussion.
That made Oct. 13 look
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The Fitchburg Star
October 9, 2015
An unexpected opportunity
Second chance brings new administrator to Fitchburg
JACOB BIELANSKI
When Patrick Marsh first

applied for Fitchburgs open
city administrator position,
he thought it was the perfect
fit.
The Illinois native and his
family had long come to call
Wisconsin their home, and
it was a rare upward move
in the Madison metropolitan
area, where they wanted to
stay.
But an illness in the family
forced the Monona administrator to withdraw in March,
and the city chose another
candidate.
In June, after Fitchburgs
new administrator was
already supposed to start,
Marsh took a shot in the dark
and called Tony Roach, the
retiring administrator, to ask
how the search was going.
As it turned out, the top candidate had backed out unexpectedly, and Marsh was
back in the running.
A fitness enthusiast who
has spent his entire career in
public service and 20 years
as a municipal administrator,
Marsh got the job and started
Sept. 1.
I thought all along, this
would be the right place
for me, professionally, and
the right move for my family, Marsh said. I think
everything works out for a

reason.
great, the staff has been good

to work with, Marsh said.
Illinois to Wisconsin
Making a home
Marsh said he vacationed

regularly north to Wisconsin since his college days at
Northern Illinois University,
falling in love with the Madison area.
As he prepared to graduate
in 1988, he took an internship with the city of Moline,
Ill., and began a position
with a metropolitan planning
organization immediately
after graduation.
In various Illinois cities
throughout the 1990s and
2000s, Marsh encountered
the challenges of trying to
grow smaller, more traditional communities, through
annexation the process by
which towns and cities claim
land for their tax base, often
resulting in costly political
battles.
During those stops, he
married his wife, Gina. The
couple has four children
two grown daughters and
two younger sons.
In 2007, Marsh finally got
the opportunity to make the
Madison area his home, taking a position as the administrator of Monona.
My family loves it up
here, he said. I knew that
any additional movement or
growth professionally would
A tradition of physical
fitness runs in the Marsh
household. Patrick said he
developed a passion for
physical fitness and wrestling, particularly, while
in college, where he both
played and coached.
Today, he spends his nonCity Hall time coaching his
7- and 10-year-old sons in
baseball, flag football and
wrestling. One of his daughters, Kourtni, now works
for the Madison School
and Community Recreation
department.
The kids enjoy what they
do, and I think thats the
best part about it, he said.
Theyre having fun, theyre
learning different sports.
Though the family currently lives in Monona, and
Marsh said hes not required
to live within the city limits,
he said the family is looking
for a place in the area.
In the meantime, though,
the new admin is looking forward to developing a routine.
Its been a bit of a whirlwind and Im look forward
to it normalizing, Marsh
said. Its been great, though;
everyones been great to
work with Ive felt very
welcomed coming here.
Photo by Jacob Bielanski
New administrator Patrick Marsh said his transition to Fitchburg has been great.
be done, hopefully, in this had to work to redevelop

metropolitan area.
areas of the city. He said that
while Fitchburg has plenty
Two cities, two worlds of open space to develop and
Fitchburg is almost three rarely has to rely on redetimes the population of velopment because of its
Monona and almost 10 times unusual solidly defined borders that allows city leaders
the area.
In many ways, however, to look inward for expansion,
he finds the two cities simi- rather than outward.
Having the borders in
lar.
Marsh noted that Monona place makes things a little
is landlocked, unable to simpler, he said.
Still, there is a lot thats
expand its borders through
traditional annexation, so he new, and Marsh said the first
City to discuss agriculture,

neighborhood center plans
12-unit housing project approved along Anderberg Drive
Because we
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For 25 years, the
Fisher House Foundation
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a home away from
home for military and
veteran families.
Public open house

Oct. 21-22
Rendering courtesy Sieger Architects
The 12-unit multifamily housing project on Anderberg Drive will have two-car garages on the ground
level with living space above. The houses will overlook the Nine Springs E-Way.
unanimous support to the

project.
According to city documents, each of the units will
have two bedrooms, with
approximately 672 square
feet of living space. The
garages will add another
578 square feet to each unit.
In addition to the garages,
eight parking spots will be
included, along with bike
parking areas.
Exterior finishes include
a shingle roof and modernlooking cement board siding, aluminum trim and
fiberglass sunscreens above
some of the windows.
Construction is anticipated to begin this fall with
completion by May 2016,
according to developer Bob
Siegers application. Sieger
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Social
Media
Monday, 10/19
7:00-8:30 PM
The City of Fitchburg will

be holding two open houses
and workshops for the public
later this month on the development of its agriculture and
neighborhood center plans.
At the meetings, staff
intends to gather feedback
from the public to answer
questions about the plans.
For information, contact Agriculture
With more than 11,000
the citys resource/project planner Wade Thomp- acres of land used for agriculson at wade.thompson@ ture in the city, the Agriculfitchburgwi.gov or 270-4258. ture and Rural Affairs Committee and Planning and ZonNeighborhood center ing Department are developThe City of Fitchburg, in ing a long-term ag plan.
The purpose of the plan is to
partnership with a student
provide
coordinated direction
group in UW-Madisons
graduate program in urban on how to preserve the citys
and regional planning, is agricultural resources, and susdeveloping a North Fish tain and enhance its agriculturHatchery Road Neighbor- al community and economy.
A public information open
hood Center Initial Develophouse is scheduled for 6:30
ment Study.
The preliminary study p.m.,Thursday, Oct. 22, at
will look at existing condi- city hall. The workshop will
tions and potential ways to follow at 7 p.m.
address various needs in the
citys North Fish Hatchery f i t c h b u r g w i . g o v / 2 0 8 /
Road neighborhood. The city Agriculture-Rural-Affairshas made no commitment to Committee.
In accordance with the transportation policy adopted by the Verona Area

School District Board of Education, transportation costs will be paid for those
qualified resident students attending private schools within/outside the district.
Parents wishing to receive compensation are required to sign transportation
contracts. Please call Patti Fenske at 845-4331 for more information.
Monday, 11/16
7:00-8:30 PM
Funded by the Wisconsin United Methodist Foundation
developing any sort of city

center, but staff are looking
for input on the study.
There will be an open
house on the study scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the Fairways
Apartment Office, 2301
Traceway Dr. A workshop
will begin at 7 p.m.
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local community publication
and PaperChain.
told the Plan Commission

that a similar project he
owns on Seminole Highway
has mostly single professional renters and that he
expected the same type of
tenants for this project.
A rezoning request was
approved by the council
Sept. 22 as the property was
previously listed as transitional agriculture use.
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The Common Council last month approved a

group of three four-unit
buildings near Hwy. 14
along Anderberg Drive.
The buildings will overlook the Nine Springs
E-way and will have twocar garages on the ground
level with living spaces
above. Despite concerns
from a neighbor about traffic and the impact on the
nature conservancy, the
citys Plan Commission
and Common Council gave
month has been a learning

process.
His first Common Council
meeting ran unusually long,
going beyond three hours as
alders discussed city financing for a new building project. Since then, he said hes
been meeting with different
departments, learning their
budgets and better understanding their priorities in
preparation for the citys
budget discussions.
The transition has been
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UPCOMING LISTENING SESSIONS

WITH MAYOR STEVE ARNOLD
Tuesday, Nov. 3rd District 3, The Crossing @ The Crossing Clubhouse, Pond View Way
Each Listening Session runs from 6:30 8:00 p.m. and is open to the public. They follow an
open house format, so attendees may drop in at any time. Come as you are and share your
hopes and concerns for your neighborhood and the city as a whole. Your voice is important.
FALL PAPER SHRED DAY SET FOR OCTOBER 10TH

The City of Fitchburg, Pellitteri Waste Systems and Oak Bank are
sponsoring a paper shredding event on Saturday, Oct. 10th from 8-11
a.m. Please join us in the parking lot behind Oak Bank, 5951 McKee Rd,
at the corner of Marketplace & Executive Drives. This event provides
free shredding and recycling to destroy no more than five boxes of
confidential paper documents.
For more information, contact Felipe Avila, Engineering/GIS Specialist
at 270-4277 or felipe.avila@fitchburgwi.gov.
WATER MAIN FLUSHING

Fitchburg Utilities will be flushing water mains
from Monday, October 5th thru Friday, October
16th. Due to the flushing, the water may be temporarily discolored. Discoloration can be cleared
by opening the cold water tap to full flow for a
few minutes. Please do laundry in the evening
when water is clear to avoid damage to clothes.
GREEN THURSDAY SERIES

KICKS OFF AT THE FITCHBURG LIBRARY
DANCE FOR DEMENTIA

Thank you to everyone who
came out for the Dance for
Dementia fundraiser on Saturday,
September 19th. With just over
80 participants, the initiative
raised over $1,000!
Thank you to Golds Gym
(the 2nd business in Fitchburg to become
Dementia Friendly) for donating the time, space and amazing

instructors to host the event:
Monica Avila, Trish Marks and
Kirk Nichols!
Thanks also to the Alzheimers
Association South Central
Wisconsin and St. Marys Care Center for their
support with the event.
Our wonderful raffle sponsors included: Tom & Karen Johnson, Barry Stables,
Benvenutos, Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream,
Mooyah, Curry in the Box, Blow Dry Style
Lounge, Kneaded Relief, Hometown Pharmacy,
Lilianas, Dairy Queen, Great Dane, Culvers
and Madison Physical Therapy & Consulting.
We could not have done this without all of
you. Thank you for helping to make this event
a huge success!
This year marks a change in

Green Thursday program at the
Fitchburg Public Library. While
the goal of presenting engaging
and relevant programs about a
variety of sustainability topics
remains the same, the program
will be shifting from monthly
films to quarterly workshops.
Mark your calendar for our first
event on Thursday, Nov. 5th at

6:30 p.m. - a home energy workshop covering simple strategies
to save energy and money for
apartment and house dwellers
alike.
Please send any topic ideas to
Erika Kluetmeier, Sustainability
Specialist, at erika.kluetmeier@
fitchburgwi.gov or 270-4274.
FLU SHOTS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

Mark your calendars for an easy in &
out flu shot on Friday, October 16 from
9:00-11:00 a.m. in the lower level of
the Senior Center. Home Health United
vaccination is $31 for an injection, $33
for intranasal mist. Medicare B/Medicaid
is accepted as payment. Bring your identification card with as you will need to
present your card.
RECREATION DEPARTMENT
For more information and to register visit www. fitchburgwi.gov/recreation, call the
Rec. Dept. at 608-270-4285 or visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/fitchrec
Welcome to Spanish
Spanish for Preschoolers
Children ages 3-5 learn Spanish vocabulary

and basic phrases in a fun and active way with
these lively classes. Award-winning teacher,
Marti Fechner of Grow into Spanish LLC,
incorporates music, movement, games, stories
and more to make learning Spanish easy and
engaging for preschool-age children. It is easy for
children to learn a foreign language at this young
age, and SO beneficial. Come try it! Its a great
way to prepare your child for a bilingual future.
Days/Times Wednesdays, 12:45-1:30 pm,
Oct. 28-Dec. 9
Location Fitchburg Community Center
Ages 3-5 years old
Fee - $58
Soccer Fields
Ages 4 & 5
Fee - $20
Youth Basketball Leagues
Recreation basketball leagues are now open

for registration. We have leagues for boys and
girls from 1st grade up to 8th grade. Leagues
for the younger grades start in early November
and the older grades start in early December.
Days/Times Saturdays and weeknight
practice
Location Stoner Prairie and Savanna
Oaks Schools
Grades 1st-2nd, 3rd-4th, 5th, 6th,
7th-8th Grade
Fee $30 (1st-2nd), $40 (3rd-4th),
$55 (5th, 6th, 7th-8th)
Kids Painting Classes The Witches are Coming!
Each child will create a beautiful multimedia

project on an 11 x 14 canvas. The children will
paint their canvases and then will use scrapbook
paper, newspaper, stamps, words and poems to
personalize their canvas. They will coat their
canvas in modge podge to give it a beautiful

finished look. This is a fun project that will be
a beautiful piece of art to hang in your house!
Days/Times Saturday, Oct. 31, 9-11am
Ages 7-12 years old
Fee - $38
Babysitters Training
This class, offered

in cooperation with
the American Red
Cross, will provide
youth who are planning to babysit with the
knowledge and skills necessary to safely and
responsibly give care for children and infants.
This training will help participants to develop leadership skills; learn how to develop
a babysitting business, keep themselves and
others safe and help children behave; and learn
about basic child care and basic first aid.
Days/Times Saturday, Nov. 7th, 9am-4pm
Ages 11-15
Fee $100
Basketball Holiday Skills Camp
Shooting is fun, but making

a shot is even more fun. More
skills = more fun!! When it
comes to basketball, do you
know how to make yourself
better?
This camp is designed to help younger
players improve their offensive skills, increase
self-confidence, and leave with a lot of tools
and a plan for self-improvement.
Days/Times Mon.-Wed. Dec. 28th-30th
Mornings
Location Savanna Oaks Schools
Grades 1st-2nd, 3rd-4th, 5th-6th
(All Coed)
Fee $25
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October 9, 2015
The Fitchburg Star
Taste of
Fitchburg
The annual Taste of Fitchburg
was held on Sept. 19, at McKee
Farms Park, featuring a variety
of food samples, live entertainment, crafts for kids and a silent
auction. The event was a fundraiser for 4-C, a local nonprofit
childcare resource and referral
agency that serves families,
early childhood professionals,
businesses and the community.
Left, Joe Daniels, of Fitchburg,
offers a sandwich from Grays
Tied House to his daughters
Zooey, 3, and Penny, 2.
Right, Parker LaRue, 3, of
Madison, tries Kona Ice without
a spoon.
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