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Brooklyn Area Veterans Memorial
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A bittersweet
goodbye
Several OSD staff
members retiring
SCOTT DE LARUELLE
Unified Newspaper Group
After a years worth of

preparation, hard work,
frustration and joy, the
end of the school calendar
can be a welcome respite
for educators, even those
with a summer full of
teaching and professional
development.
But for several Oregon School District staff
members, the end of the
school year this month
means the end of a long,
valued relationship with
many colleagues and students, as they enter retirement. The many goodbyes
can be bittersweet.
Eight staff members
with more than 15 years at
OSD are calling it a career
Honor role
Photo by Samantha Christian
Inside
Marylou Lamb, right, points to the name of her husband, Virgil Lamb, left, on the World War II
section of the unveiled Brooklyn Area Veterans Memorial during the ceremony on Sunday, May
29. Their grandson and his wife flew to Wisconsin from California to witness the event, along
with nearly 400 other people.
More photos of area

Memorial Day events
Page 2
Officials want lead pipes replaced

BILL LIVICK
Village officials are encouraging property owners on South Main Street and
Elm Street to replace lead water pipes
when the village reconstructs the streets
this summer.
Officials are also considering adopting
an ordinance to require such water service replacements.
Its been shown that a spike in lead
levels may occur in a lead water service
following any type of disturbance, such
as replacement of a main, lateral service
or curb stop valve in the terrace, Public
Inside
$12 million DNR program
to target aging pipes
across state
Page 3
works director Jeff Rau explained in an
email to the Observer last week.
Even though it is not currently mandated by EPA, we believe we will see a
day when EPA mandates the removal of
all lead services, Rau wrote.
Rau estimates there are 227 lead water
service pipes also known as service
laterals in the village.

When the village reconstructs South
Main Street and Elm Street, it will be
responsible for replacing the water service from the water main to the curb
shut-off valve, typically located between
the curb and sidewalk.
The rest of the water service leading to
the home is the owners responsibility.
During an April 18 public forum,
Rau told homeowners the village will
replace the water main with new ductile
iron pipe and install new copper laterals
from the main to the curb stop. He said
during construction, if the village discovers that a homeowners water service from the curb stop into the house is
lead, it will notify the homeowner and
Inside
List of June
retirements
Lubbers,
Hetland reflect
on teaching
career
Page 16
at the end of the month,
including two with about
a quarter of century of
service in Oregon Netherwood Knoll Elementary School counselor Sara
Lubbers (25 years) and
Rome Corners Intermediate general music teacher
Pat Hetland (24 years).
Email Unified Newspaper
Group reporter Scott
De Laruelle at scott.
delaruelle@wcinet.com.
Art in the courtroom

OHS students
works now on
display
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What: OHS students
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Where: Oregon Municipal Courthouse, 383
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When: Ongoing
Info: 835-2206
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For many people, a

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something to look forward to.
N ow, t h a n k s t o t h e C o u r t h o u s e w i l l p r o efforts of Oregon High vide a pleasant artistic
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Brooklyn Area Veterans Memorial dedication ceremony

About 400 people attended the
Brooklyn Area Veterans Memorial
dedication ceremony on Sunday, May
29, along West Main Street.
American Legion Commander Lyle
Wanless welcomed the crowd to the
memorial, and James Snuffy Smith
played patriotic music.
Oregon/Brooklyn Veterans of Foreign Wars and Brooklyn/Oregon
American Legion Post 160 led the
honor guard salute around the memorial, and Misty Davis Johnson played
was the keynote speaker, and Sharon

Berge and state Rep. Sondy Pope also
spoke at the ceremony.
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The new monument, which features
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sketches of the evolution of Brooklyn
For information about the memorial or to donate from the Revolutionary War to the
recent War on Terror with names
to the project, visit:
of area veterans from each war on the
brooklynveteransmemorial.org
back, was unveiled, and people could
walk on the engraved bricks that famTaps.
ilies purchased.
Jason E. Johns, National Judge
Samantha Christian
Advocate, Order of the Purple Heart,
On the Web
Photos by Scott De Laruelle
Jason Johns, National Judge Advocate and Purple Heart recipient, speaks at Memorial Day ceremonies in downtown Oregon.
Photos by Samantha Christian
Memorial Day in
downtown Oregon
The Oregon area commemorated Memorial Day
with ceremonies held at
Mt. Hope Cemetery in
Brooklyn, the Veterans
Memorial in Oregon and
the Bob Schley Memorial and community center
Gavin Voice, 4, of Oregon, waves the flag at the dedication. Holding him is his mother, Heather Schuster.
Rose Legler, of Brooklyn, looks at the sketches under each war on the new
memorial.
in Fitchburg. The keynote

speaker was Jason Johns,
National Judge Advocate,
Order of the Purple Heart,
who talked about What
Veterans Expect of Americans.
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Commission will
also discuss lighting
ordinance change
SCOTT GIRARD
The Village of Oregon

Planning Commission will
continue its public hearing
on the assisted living home
proposed for 249 N. Main
St. at its June 2 meeting.
The commission will also
hold a public hearing and
vote on a proposed ordinance change that would
clear the way for the Oregon School District to build
lights for its new soccer
facility in Jaycee Park-East.
The meeting is at
6:30p.m. in Village Hall.
Sanctuary
A group of residents in
the neighborhood of the
Sanctuary proposal spoke
against the project last
month when the public
hearing began. The hearing had to continue to this
month because of a mistake
on the meeting notice.
The commission is
expected to vote on the
project, which would create
a 106-room assisted living
facility for mostly low-income elderly people, June
2.
Neighbors have expressed
concerns about parking and
traffic problems, especially,
while also worrying that the
building will not fit with the
neighborhood.
The proposal calls for 42
parking stalls, which the
developers told the commission would be enough
for employees and visitors.
They said in their experience with this sort of building, which they run in other
states, residents do not have
cars.
The neighbors doubted that claim, though, and
also said there is a lack of
demand for senior housing
in the area.
On the agenda
Conceptual discussion of Dorn Hardware
property redevelopment
Amending Oregon
Parks Lot 1 plan
Public hearing on
proposed Sanctuary assisted living facility
Public hearing on
proposed lighting ordinance change and related plan for Jaycee Park
lighting
Lighting
The commission will
hold a public hearing on
changing the villages lighting ordinance to allow for
higher light poles and higher intensity lights through a
conditional use permit.
Currently, the villages
ordinance prevents any
lighting from being taller
than 25 feet, even for athletic fields.
The change is needed to
accommodate the Oregon
School Districts plans for
a sports complex in Jaycee
Park East, which calls for
70-foot-tall lights around a
varsity soccer field and two
35-foot lights in the parking
lot.
The commission will also
have a public hearing for
that plan at the meeting.
The plan calls for one
each of a varsity and junior
varsity soccer field, a varsity baseball diamond and
two softball fields. The
parking lot would also be
used as a marching band
practice area.
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Lead: We encourage that all lead services be replaced

Continued from page 1
present the option of leaving the lead
service exposed for up to three days so
the homeowner can have a contractor
replace the service into the building.
We strongly encourage that all lead
services be replaced with new copper
water services at the time of the roadway construction, Rau said.
Rau reported that the village has
historically shown lead levels below

the contaminant level set by the EPA
during testing. He noted the agency
strongly encourages that all lead services be replaced.
Rau has also recommended that
the Village Board adopt an ordinance
requiring the replacement of lead services during roadway construction and
utility upgrades.
Hes been working with attorney
Matt Dregne to revise such an ordinance from the City of Kewaunee.

We have recommended to the Village Board that they pass an ordinance
requiring replacement of lead services
when the utilities are upgraded, Rau
wrote to the Observer. We continue to
work with our village attorney to iron
out details for special assessments and/
or options for the payment of the lead
service replacements.
DNR aims to remove lead pipes

$12M program will
help water utilities
DEE J. HALL
Wisconsin Center for Investigative
Journalism
The state Department

of Natural Resources
announced last month it will
target low-income areas with
$11.8 million in new grants
to replace aging pipes made
of lead that supply water to
homes.
The dangers of lead in
drinking water have been
highlighted by the crisis in
Flint, Mich., where corrosion from a new water source
sent unsafe levels of lead into
homes, doubling the rate of
lead poisoning among children. Lead exposure has
been linked to irreversible
brain damage in children,
miscarriages and other health
problems.
The DNR said it will
make money available to
water utilities to subsidize
or pay for replacement of
homeowners portions of the
lead service lines that run
from the curb to the house.
Replacement of those segments will cost about $3,000
per home, the DNR said.
At least 176,000 homes
and businesses in Wisconsin receive water from lead
service lines, the Wisconsin
Center for Investigative Journalism reported in February.
Madison is thought to be
the first city in the nation to
replace all of its lead service
lines. Milwaukee has about
70,000 lead service lines,
which the Milwaukee Water
Works has estimated would
cost half-billion dollars to
replace.
In a statement, DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp said the
agency recognizes that the
cost of replacement is a big
barrier to utilities and private

property owners alike. This
program offers an effective
way to fill the financial gap,
she said.
Details of the program still
are being worked out, but the
agency proposes that communities with 50,000 people or less could receive up
to $300,000; medium-sized
communities would get up
to $500,000 and Milwaukee could qualify for up to
$750,000. The program is
scheduled to begin July 1
and will be renewed in 2017
if it is successful, Stepp said.
The size of the grants will
be determined by factors
including median household
income and unemployment
rates.
Stepp said the program
was made possible by a
recent decision by the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency to allow states to use
federal funds for lead service
line replacements on private
property.
The Centers Failure at the
Faucet series found that the
current federal regulations
intended to safeguard drinking water from lead contamination fail to protect public
health. The Center found that
methods for sampling often
do not detect the highest level of lead in a consumers
home, too few homes are
sampled, and those that are
may not be in the neighborhoods most at risk.
The investigation also
found that requiring utilities to replace lead service
lines can cause dangerous
spikes in lead unless the
homeowners portion is
replaced as well. Recognizing the dangers posed
by partial pipe replacement, the DNR said the
funds will be used for full
replacement projects.
A Madison consultant
Photo courtesy Madison Water Utility
To check if your home has lead pipes, locate the pipe that leads
into your home and connects to the water meter, often coming up
through the basement floor. Use a flathead screwdriver to scratch
the pipe and remove any accumulated dirt or deposits. If the pipe is
shiny metal under the scratched area, it is lead. If it is copper-colored, it is copper. And if it remains dull, it is galvanized steel. Also, a
magnet will stick to steel, but it will not stick to lead.
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Get your exercise at

the library this summer
As a famous 18th century
Irish writer, Sir Richard Steele,
once put it, Reading is to the
mind what exercise is to the
body.
Surely, the brain is one muscle we wish to make and keep
strong.
As summer approaches and
Oregon Public Library prepares
to once again provide a unique
and fantastic season of
reading, fun,
prizes, and
activities, it
seems like a
great time to
reflect on just
how important
participation in
Busch
literacy-based
programs is for
our community.
Todays libraries are helping
to remind us of that in a variety of ways. One is by instilling early literacy skills in our
youngest learners by encouraging parents and caregivers to
read 1,000 books aloud to their
children before they reach kindergarten. Another is through
the Summer Reading Program.
We also have programs to help
keep adults sharp, as well.
Early Literacy is what children know about reading and
writing before they can actually
read or write. Research shows
that when we read and talk with
babies and young children, we
help to create brain connections
associated with language development.
When a child does not have
access to these critical building
blocks of learning, they are
at risk of beginning schooling behind their peers. Early
gaps only grow larger over the
course of a childs education,
and without early intervention,

eventually influence the trajectory of that childs later working
life and beyond putting them at
a comparative disadvantage.
Happily, we in Library Land
have made this one of our
longtime, long-term goals. In
addition to offering literacy
skill development and plentiful
books in cost-effective manner,
we specialize in providing programs like Summer Reading
Program, which instill in children a love of reading.
Once a reader, one can always
be a reader.
This years Summer Reading
Program theme reminds us all
of the importance of reading
and literacy skills throughout the course of our lives. It
encourages each of us to get out
there this season and: Exercise
your mind. Read!
The annual Summer Reading
Program is a great opportunity
for students of all ages to make
friends and stay connected to
their reading skills during the
summer months. Scheduled
to begin June 6, this years
program is a continuation of
an effort that was first offered
many years ago.
Oregons SRP has encouraged
more than 1,400 local children,
teens and adults to read during
the summer, and these readers
have read more than 13,000
minutes a summer.
Through the use of reading
logs, prizes, coupons from local
businesses, drawings, entertainers and other efforts, children
not only visit the library each
week during the summer, but
they maintain or improve their
reading skills while school is
not in session. According to
the California Library Associations recent e-publication Why
Summer Reading Programs

Matter, when young people
arent engaged in educational
activities during the summer,
they experience learning loss,
but reading just five books over
the summer can prevent (it).
You may have noticed that in
recent years, libraries have been
placing more and more emphasis on reading and literacy programs for adults, too.
Keeping the reading habit is
important as we age. Neuroplasticity (also known as brain
plasticity) is how experiences
or learning new things can
reorganize neural pathways in
the brain throughout life, not
just in ones formative years.
As research into this and other
areas such as aging, and even
dementia continue to expand,
the importance of lifelong
learning appears to be more and
more significant to continued
quality of life.
Reading and learning benefits
all members of the community
throughout the trajectory of
our lives. The information and
skills we gain from both print
and electronic sources empowers everyone from adolescents
and teens to job-seekers and
business owners. The worlds
explored by life-long learners and pre-K students alike
enhance our imaginations and
keep our minds supple and
healthy.
At Oregon Public Library,
we hope that you will join us
this summer and Exercise Your
Mind. Read!
Nikki Busch is the director
of the Oregon Public Library.
For a complete schedule of
the summers activities and
performers for all ages, visit
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Register for Summer Fest activities

Registration is now open for competitive activities during this years
Summer Fest, set for June 23-26 on
the festival grounds at Kiser Park,
245 Brook St.
R u n n e r s c a n r eg i s t e r f o r t h e
10-mile, 5K/10K classic and 1K kids
run with courses running through
Oregon until the early deadline on
June 19. All races will be held Saturday, June 25; the cost for adults to
register is $30 for the 10-mile, 10K
and 5K races, and increases to $35
after the early deadline. Youth registration is $20 for the three races; kids
8 and under, meanwhile, can participate in the 1K run for free.
The fee to participate in the walking 2-mile event is $20; strollers
are welcome on the paved trail that
traverses through soccer and baseball/softball fields.

Pre-packet pick up will be held on
the festival grounds in front of the
Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce
trailer at Kiser Park from 5-8p.m.
Friday, June 24. Day-of registration
and packet pickup will also be available from 7-8a.m. Saturday, June 25.
The 10-mile race begins at
8:30a.m., the 5K/10K and 2-mile
walk start at 9a.m., and the 1K kids
run begins at 10:30a.m.
Announcements and awards will
following, with trophies awarded
to the top male and female overall
finishers and the top youth boy and
girl overall. Chip timing for all runners will be provided by Race Day
Events.
To register for the races, visit

active.com, set the location to Oregon, WI and search 2016 Oregon
Summer Fest.
Registration is also open for the
Summer Fest Volleyball Tournament, beginning at 9a.m. Saturday,
June 25. The tournament is held on
a grass court, with teams of three
men or three women competing for
cash prizes. To register, visit oregonwisummerfest.com and click on
Events, then Volleyball Tournament.
For information on Summer Fest,
contact the Oregon Area Chamber of
Commerce at 835-3697.
Kate Newton
Oregon Observer
OHS student earns Tommy

Award nomination
Oregon High Schools
Annika Victorson received
a Tommy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead
Performer for her work in
Little Shop of Horrors.
The Tommy Awards,
organized by the Overture
Center, honor participants
in high school musical
performances throughout
southern Wisconsin. At
6p.m. Sunday, June 12,
the seventh-annual Tommy Awards ceremony will
be held at Overture Hall.
The event is named for

Wisconsin-born Broadway performer and TV
star Tom Wopat. Seventy-five schools across 23
counties participate in the
contest.
Tickets for the award
ceremony are $25 and
may be purchased at
ove r t u r e c e n t e r. o rg , a t
the Overture Center box
office or by phone at 2584141.
Tom Alesia
Berry promoted to
USAF Master Sergeant
2016 OHS grad
works with NORAD
Kathleen Berry, a 2001

graduate of Oregon High
School, was recently promoted to the rank of United States Air Force Master Sergeant (E-7).
A 15-year veteran, she

is part of the NORAD
/ Northcom Group stationed at Peterson Air
Force Base in Colorado
Springs, Colo., according to an Air Force press
release.
Scott De Laruelle
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First Presbyterian holds musical church picnic
June 1316
First Presbyterian Church held its annual potluck picnic

Church member Ralph Stromquist said the weather
on May 22. Country Music Sunday also featured musi- was perfect and everyone went home in a good mood
cian Snuffy Smith and his band.
with a full stomach.
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Marit Klapsetke and Snuffy Smith dance to the country music at the church picnic.
Good Shepherd
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Can you fill these boots?

Oregon Area Fire/EMS
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Coming up
Cruizin for a Cure
Support efforts towards a cure for
Crohns and colitis during the sixth
annual Cruizin for a Cure event from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 4 at Prairie
View Elementary School, 300 Soden Dr.
Registration begins at 9 a.m. and the
cost to participate is $10 per car, bike
or truck. There will be live music from
Captn Bob and Arlo, as well as food and
drinks. All proceeds support the Crohns
and Colitis Foundation of America.
For information, call 669-8860.
Putts for Paws
Churches
reading program during kick-off week
from Monday, June 6 through Saturday,
June 11 at the library.
The library offers reading programs
for all ages, and registration in-person
and online begins June 6 for the readto-me (ages 0-3), children (ages 4-12),
teen (ages 12-17) and adult programs.
Library users will have a chance to win
$10 in Chamber Bucks, with library staff
drawing the name of a new winner each
day who has registered for a reading program or checked out library materials.
For information, 835-3656.
Veterans benefits
Golf to raise funds for the Oregon

Police Department K9 Unit during the
third annual Putts for Paws Golf Outing
from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 4 at
Foxboro Golf Club, 1020 County Road
MM.
The cost to participate is $235 per
foursome or $65 per golfer. Registration
will be held from noon to 1 p.m. with a
shotgun start at 1. The cost includes 18
holes of scramble golf, a golf cart, picnic dinner and prizes. There will also be
a silent auction; all proceeds will support
the Oregon PD K9 Fund and canine officer Vende. Space is limited.
For information or to register, contact
Josh Kohlman at jkohlman@vil.oregon.
wi.us or at 835-3111.
who have difficult behaviors. Childcare

will be available during the workshops,
which cost $40 per family. Registration
is required.
For information or to register, visit
oregonsd.org/community or call 8354097.
Friends of Brooklyn Fire/EMS

The June meeting of the Friends of the
Brooklyn Fire/EMS will be held at 6:30
p.m. Wednesday, June 8 at the Brooklyn
Fire Station.
Plans to assist with the June 26 pancake breakfast for the EMS 20th anniversary celebration will be discussed,
as well as an update on the Rescue Kids
class, recruiting program and Friends
link on the Brooklyn Fire/EMS website.
For information, contact Dave Hall at
davehall@tds.net.
Only two out of 10 veterans who qualify for a Veterans Affairs pension actually collect it. Learn more about income
benefits available to veterans and their
widows at 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 6 at
the senior center.
Presenter and attorney Dan Krause Street drag racing
will discuss income assistance available
The Madison International Speedway,
to certain veterans.
1122 Sunrise Road, will host Thursday
Night Street Drags this spring and summer on Thursday, June 9, and continuing
Nurtured Heart class
on July 14, August 18 and September 15.
The events will feature one-on-one
Parents of children ages 3-18 can
explore the Nurtured Heart Approach racing on a 300-foot track on the front
and learn ways to improve their relation- stretch, allowing people to come out to
ship with their children from 6-7:30 p.m. the track and see who has the fastest car,
Tuesdays from June 7 through June 28 truck, van or motorcycle. Pit gates open
at Netherwood Knoll Elementary, 276 at 6 p.m., with practice and grudge
Soden Dr.
runs beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by
Summer reading
The Nurtured Heart Approach has bracket racing at 7:30 p.m.
Mark the beginning of the summer been shown to be effective with children
Community calendar
Thursday, June 2
6:30-8 p.m., Free Living Trust

workshop, Krause Donovan Estate
Law Partners,116 Spring St., 2685751
Friday, June 3
10 a.m., Third annual dog show,

senior center, 835-5801
10:30 a.m., Great Beginnings
Book Club: The Light Between
Oceans by M. L. Stedman, senior
center, 835-6268 or skosharek@
oregonlibrary.org
7 p.m., Comedy Club at HQ
(adults only at 8:30 p.m.; reservations required), Headquarters Bar
and Restaurant, 101 Concord Dr.,
hq.com
Saturday, June 4
11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Cruizin for a

Cure, Prairie View Elementary
School, 300 Soden Dr., 669-8860
Noon to 6 p.m., Putts for Paws
Golf Outing ($235/foursome or
$65/golfer), Foxboro Golf Club,

1020 County Road MM, 835-3111
Monday, June 6
Summer Reading Program kickoff week begins (through June

11; register in-person or online),
library, 835-3656
2:30 p.m., Veterans benefits presentation, senior center, 835-5801
Tuesday, June 7
6-7:30 p.m., Nurtured Heart

Approach workshop begins ($40
per family; through June 28), Netherwood Knoll Elementary, 276
Soden Dr., register at oregonsd.
org/community
7 p.m., Concerts in the Park,
Waterman/Triangle Park, 101
Janesville St.
Wednesday, June 8
10-11:30 a.m., Free Living Trust

workshop, Krause Donovan Estate
Law Partners, 116 Spring St., 268-
Community cable listings

Village of Oregon Cable Access TV channels:
WOW #983 & ORE #984
Phone: 291-0148 Email: oregoncableaccess@charter.net
Website: ocamedia.com Facebook: ocamediawi
New programs daily at 1 p.m.
and repeats at 4, 7 and 10 p.m. and 1, 4, 7 and 10 a.m.
Thursday, June 2
Monday, June 6
WOW: Brooklyn TracWOW: Norse Aftertor Pull (of Sep. 2015)
noon of Fun! 2016
ORE: OHS Girls Varsity
ORE: OMS Chorus
Soccer vs. Milton (of May Concert (of May 5)
26)
Tuesday, June 7
Friday, June 3
WOW: Tom Wopat @
WOW: Maggie Mae OHS (of Dec. 2007)
and Heartland Band (of
ORE: Snow White
March 5)
NKE Musical (of April 22)
ORE: PVE Pioneer Day
(of May 20)
Wednesday, June 8
WOW: Olbrich BotanSaturday, June 4
ical Gardens (of Aug.
WOW: Blue Sundays 2010)
Band (of Aug. 2013)
ORE: Donald Driver @
ORE: BKE Move-a- BKE (of May 12)
Thon (of May 26)
Thursday, June 9LAST
Sunday, June 5
DAY OF SCHOOL!
WOW: HMC Catholic
WOW: Across the
Church Service
Fence: with Fred Willard
ORE: Oregon/Stough- (of 1990)
ton Rugby vs. Waukesha
ORE: OSD Staff Retire(of May 18)
ment Program (of May
26)
5751
6:30 p.m., Friends of the Brooklyn Fire/EMS meeting, Brooklyn
Fire Station, davehall@tds.net
Thursday, June 9
6:30 p.m., Thursday Night Street

Drags, Madison International
Speedway, 1122 Sunrise Road,
835-9700
6:30-8 p.m., Joy of Living meditation group, State Bank lower level,
744 N. Main St., 345-1597
Saturday, June 11
10-10:30 a.m., Dads and Donuts

(kids under 6), library, 835-3656
Tuesday, June 14
6-7:30 p.m., Create Oregon!:

T-Shirt Bags (ages 12 to adult;
registration required), library, 8353656
7 p.m., Concerts in the Park,
Waterman/Triangle Park, 101
Janesville St.
Senior center
Monday, June 6
Sloppy Joe on Bun
Buttered Broccoli Flowerets
Coleslaw, Fruit Cup
Ice Cream
VO: Soy BBQ
Tuesday, June 7
BBQ Chicken
Baked Potatoes
Buttered Green Beans
Jello w/ Fruit Cocktail
W.W. Bread
VO: Baked Potato w/
Cheese Sauce
Wednesday, June 8
Potato Beef Casserole
Buttered Carrots
Apple Juice, W.W. Bread
Cherry Crisp
VO: Soy Noodle Casserole
Thursday, June 9
Stuffed-Green-Pepper
Soup, Crackers
Turkey and Cheese on Rye
Fresh Fruit, Cookie
VO: Meat-Free Soup,
Cheese Sandwich
SO: Garden Salad
Friday, June 10
Chicken Macaroni Salad
Three Bean Salad
Fresh Orange, W.W. Roll
Lemon Dessert
VO: Pasta Salad w/ Cheese
*Contains Pork
Monday, June 6
AMDiabetic Foot Care
9:00 CLUB, Planning Committee
10:00 Dominoes
10:30 StrongWomen
1:00 Get Fit
1:30 Bridge
2:30 Veterans Benefits Talk
3:30 Weight Loss Support
Tuesday, June 7
8:30 Zumba Gold
9:00 ST Board Meeting
12:30 Sheepshead
12:30 Stoughton Shopping
1:00 Movie: Lady in the Van
6:30 Pickleball at Oak St. Courts
Wednesday, June 8
9:00 CLUB, Wellness Walk
9:00 Veterans Group
9:00 Cards with Katie
1:00 Get Fit, Euchre
2:00 Knit/Crochet Group
Thursday, June 9
8:30 Zumba Gold
9:00 Pool Players, COA
10:30 StrongWomen
12:30 Shopping at Bills
1:00 Diabetic Support, Cribbage
6:30 Pickleball at Oak St. Courts
Friday, June 10
9:00 CLUB
9:30 Blood Pressure
All Saints Lutheran Church
2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg

(608) 276-7729
Pastor Rich Johnson
SUNDAY
8:30 a.m. classic service
10:45 a.m. new song service
and Whitney Way

SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 8:15, 9:30 and10:45
a.m. Worship West Campus: Corner
of Hwy. PD and Nine Mound Road,
Verona
SUNDAY - 9 &10:15 a.m., 6 p.m.
Worship (608) 271-6633
Brooklyn Lutheran Church
101 Second Street, Brooklyn

(608) 455-3852
Pastor Rebecca Ninke
SUNDAY
9 a.m. Holy Communion
10 a.m. Fellowship
Community of Life Lutheran

Church
PO Box 233, Oregon

(608) 286-3121, office@
communityoflife.us
Pastor Jim McCoid
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Worship at 1111 S. Perry
Parkway, Oregon
Hillcrest Bible Church
752 E. Netherwood, Oregon

Eric Vander Ploeg, Lead Pastor
(608) 835-7972, www.hbclife.com
SUNDAY
8:30 a.m. worship at the Hillcrest
Campus and 10:15 a.m. worship
with Childrens ministries, birth
4th grade
Holy Mother of Consolation

Catholic Church
Community United Methodist

Church
201 Church Street, Brooklyn

(608) 455-3344
Pastor Aaron Alfred
SUNDAY
9:30 a.m. Worship
Faith Evangelical Lutheran

Church
143 Washington Street, Oregon

(608) 835-3554
Pastor Karl Hermanson
SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship
Holy Communion 2nd & last Sundays
First Presbyterian Church
408 N. Bergamont Blvd. (north of CC)

Oregon, WI
(608) 835-3082 - fpcoregonwi.org
Pastor Bob Vetter
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Service
10:15 a.m. Sunday School
11 a.m. Fellowship
11:15 a.m. Adult Education
Fitchburg Memorial UCC
5705 Lacy Road, Fitchburg

(608) 273-1008, www.memorialucc.org
Pastor: Phil Haslanger
Associate Pastor Twink Jan-McMahon
SUNDAY
8:15 and 10 a.m. Worship
Good Shepherd Lutheran

Church ECLA
Central Campus: Raymond Road
651 N. Main Street, Oregon

Pastor: Fr. Gary Wankerl
(608) 835-5763
holymotherchurch.weconnect.com
SATURDAY: 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY: 8 and 10:15 a.m. Worship
Peoples United Methodist

Church
103 North Alpine Parkway, Oregon

Pastor Jason Mahnke
(608)835-3755, www.peoplesumc.
org
Communion is the 1st & 3rd
weekend
SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship and
Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. Worship
St. Johns Lutheran Church
625 E. Netherwood, Oregon

Pastor Paul Markquart (Lead Pastor)
(608) 835-3154
SUNDAY - 8 and 10:30 a.m.
Worship
9:15-10:15 a.m. Education Hour
Vineyard Community Church
Oregon Community Bank & Trust,

105 S. Alpine Parkway, Oregon Bob Groth, Pastor
(608) 513-3435,
welcometovineyard.com
SUNDAY - 10 a.m. Worship
Zwingli United Church of

Christ Paoli
At the Intersection of Hwy. 69 & PB

Rev. Sara Thiessen
(608) 845-5641
SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Family Worship
Support groups
Alcoholics Anonymous
meeting, First
Presbyterian Church,
every Monday and
Friday at 7 p.m.
Caregiver Support
Group, Oregon Area
Senior Center, third
Monday of each month
at 9 a.m.
Diabetes Support
Group, Oregon Area
Senior Center, second
Thursday of each month
at 1:30 p.m.
Parents Supporting
Parents, LakeView
Church, Stoughton, third
Tuesday of every month
from 6:30-8 p.m.
Relationship & Divorce

Support Group, State
Bank of Cross Plains,
every other Monday at
6:30 p.m.
Veterans Group,
Oregon Area Senior
Center, every second
Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Weight-Loss Support
Group, Oregon Area
Senior Center, every
Monday at 3:30 p.m.
Navigating Life Elder
Support Group, Peoples
United Methodist
Church, 103 N. Alpine
Pkwy., every first
Monday at 7 p.m.
Nice Try!
When the expression Nice try isnt being used sarcastically, or as a putdown for a near miss, it can actually be
very encouraging. No one ever succeeds all the time, and in
most games there is a winner and a loser. Oftentimes the
loser did his or her best and perhaps even learned something by the experience of losing. Its wise to praise effort
when the results werent great. Think of how many failures
you had to experience to become good at the things you
are good at. Most elite athletes have fallen down hundreds
or even thousands of times on the way to their fully developed skill. No one is born knowing how to read or write,
and thus we patiently correct children when they make mistakes in grammar or pronunciation, and over time, with persistent practice, they learn how to use their native tongue.
The same is true in virtually every area of life, perhaps more
so in areas of faith and morals. On the way to proficiency
we are going to fail often as we achieve higher levels of skill
and self-control. So remember to encourage yourself and
others by praising the effort, and when the effort wasnt
there, encourage harder work. We are destined for great
things.
Christopher Simon, Metro News Service
Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and
virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and
self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly
affection with love. 2 Peter 1:5-7 NIV
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All Wheels Show and

tractor pull
The Brooklyn Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the
second annual All Wheels Show to coincide with a tractor pull, run by the Community Antique Tractor Pullers,
at Legion Park on May 28. The show featured dozens of
cars, trucks, tractors and motorcycles, and there were also
concessions, raffles, music and a flea market.
Photos by Samantha Christian
Brynlee Becker, 3, of Caledonia,

Ill., watches the tractor pull.
On the web
To see more photos of the All
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Chuck Humphery, of Mount Horeb, competes in the tractor pull.
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Oregon High School recently named its top 10 scholars for the 2015-16 school year, based on
the top 10 grade point averages of graduating seniors. Students are, from left (including the
college theyll attend this fall): Ben Janes (University of Minnesota), Alexander Wirtz (University
of Wisconsin-Platteville), Elliot Jacobs (University of Southern California), Sam Schaeffer (Notre
Dame), Meghan Sharkus (St. Thomas University), Kate Spierings (Iowa St. University), Veronica
Frank (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Amanda Robinson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
and Megan Lindloff (St. Thomas University); not pictured, EmmaLeah Hardin (American University).
Art: Exhibit part of local arts initiative

Oregon High School top

10 scholars recognized
Oregon High School recently
announced its top 10 scholars for the
2015-16 school year, based on the top 10
grade point averages of seniors.
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reporter Scott De Laruelle at scott.
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July
August
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12 noon - 12:45pm Rooftop
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7 Tuesday
9 Thursday
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15 Wednesday
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16 Thursday
Concerts On The Rooftop*
7-9pm
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21 Tuesday
22 Wednesday
Lakeside Kids! Kehl School Of
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10-11am Rooftop
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10-11am Exhibition Hall
30 Thursday
7-9pm
Too White Crew
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7 Thursday
7-9pm
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13 Wednesday
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experience, and perhaps some

inspiration to stay out of trouble.
The Oregon School District and the Oregon Municipal Court recently announced
the beginning of Art in the
Court, a joint project featuring a rotating display of
student artwork exhibited in
the Oregon Municipal Courtroom. The project, which is
part of the Districts Arts initiative and is jointly funded
by the court and the district,
focuses on the creative and
positive aspects of students,
according to a joint press
release. Student artwork went
on display a few weeks ago.
Oregon Municipal Judge
Beth Cox said shes enthusiastic about projecting the
creative side of young people and offering juvenile
court defendants something
positive to see when they
appear for hearings.
Too often and by necessity juvenile and truancy
court sessions focus on negatives, she said. I want the
opportunity to point to the
positive things young people
can produce and offer that as
alternative behaviors.
School board member
Gwen Maitzen, a retired
Student art
at welcome
center
During June and July,
Netherwood Knoll Elementary and Oregon High
School students will have
some of their artwork on
display at the Oregon Welcome Center. The center
will be open on the weekends starting in June from
1-3p.m. and will also be
open from 6-7p.m. on
band concert nights.
teacher and artist, said of the
project is just one of the first
in a community-wide effort.
The arts initiative is a
cross-generational effort to
give Oregon a variety of public art in the form of murals,
sculpture, more opportunities
to display and a way of sharing the power of art, she said.
District art teachers and
the general student population will be invited to submit
works for exhibition. Student artists will be asked to
submit a title for their work,
with all work identified only

by the grade and school of
the participant. All students
who submit a piece of art will
receive a certificate of appreciation from the court.
The exhibit will be changed
four times a year, and each
will have a theme. A formal opening of the area is
planned for later this month.
In an email to the Observer, Cox said she got the idea
for the display when a young
person have her a piece of artwork after shed given a talk
to a community group. She
said it was serendipitous
that the school district was
also doing a community arts
initiative, and the two sides
got together to develop the
project, which is open to the
community.
Its important for the community to have places where
we can showcase the great
things young people do,
Cox said. Its particularly
important to have reminders
of their positive contributions
in a place like the municipal
court, where, by definition,
we deal with negative acts.
Its important for young people to actively choose the
future they want. Its our jobs
as adults to help them design
a plan to get there.
OHS dancers perform in anniversary recital
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Art from Oregon students ranging from fifth grade to current and former Oregon High School students
hangs in a courtroom inside the Oregon Municipal Court building.
A f ew O r e g o n
High School students recently competed with Marys
School of Dance in
the Midwest Starz
Dance Competition in Wisconsin
Dells in April. They
joined a few OHS
grads for the 40th
anniversary recital,
Flashback Friday,
on May 6.
OHS students
who participated
in the competition
include Amanda
Starr, Jordan Merry,
Jordan Beyler and
Samantha Liechty.
They won numerous golds and
high golds along
with other awards
for perfect precision in the chain tap
Fugette and utilizing their skills in the
team jazz I Cant
Do It Alone.
Photo submitted
Marys School of Dance members include Amanda Starr, Jordan Merry and
Samantha Liechty, from Oregon High School as they practice the jazz routine, Circle of Life.
The three OHS

alumni who participated in the anniversary recital held
at the Performing
Arts Center include
Kayley Outhouse
(2012), Christa Sigman (1995) and
Angie Norton Elmer
(1993).
For information
a b o u t
t h e
studio, visit
maryschoolofdance.
com.
Samantha
Christian
Jeremy Jones, sports editor
845-9559 x226 ungsportseditor@wcinet.com

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Anthony Iozzo, assistant sports editor

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Fax: 845-9550
Girls track and field
Sports
Thursday,
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Boys track & field
Panthers head
to state meet
with big goals
JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Photo by Anthony Iozzo
Sophomore Taylor Schmidt runs the second leg of the 4x800 relay Thursday in the WIAA Division 1 Stoughton sectional. Schmidt along with teammates senior Maddie
LeBrun, senior Emma Hughes and junior Madelyn St. Clair helped the 4x800 finish second in 9 minutes, 44.06 seconds and advance to state.
Strong showing at sectionals

Jackson, Oregons 800
relay seeded amongst the
states elite
JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Sophomore Alexis Jackson won

the 100- and 300-meter hurdles
Thursday at the WIAA Division 1
Stoughton sectional to secure herself a trip to the state meet in both
events.
She also added the 800-meter
relay as the sophomore will carry

three events into this weekends
state meet at the University of
Wisconsin La Crosse.
Jackson won the 100 hurdles at
Collins Field in a school-record
14.95 and though she claims to
not like the 300s they may end up
being her best event as she posted
a second school record in 45.23.
I didnt really expect to do
the 300s at the beginning of the
year, but knowing I can do well in
them, it feels good now, Jackson
said. Now that Im doing well,
Im definitely starting to like that
race a little more.

Jackson, who clipped a hurdle
in the 110s at sectionals last year,
will be making her individual
debut at state this year after running on a relay last season. She is
seeded second in the 100 hurdles
and first in the 300s.
I look at the times, but obviously Im nervous, she said.
There are a lot of other really
good competitors, but I think Im
in a good spot. I just need to do
even better at state.
Scarlet Egwuonwu finished
third to qualify in third place
in both the 100- and 200-meter

dash. The freshman posted a personal best 12.73 in the 100 and
then bested Lisa Golembs (25.5)
35-year old 200 dash record in
25.41.
It was special and really fun
to be here tonight with my team,
Egwuonwu said. Im really
looking forward to going to La
Crosse.
Egwuonwu is seeded seventh in
the 200.
Senior Maddie LeBrun, junior
Danica Keisling, Jackson and
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The Oregon boys track

and field team broke seven
school records Thursday at the
WIAA Division 1 Stoughton
sectional and head coach Ned
Lease said the Panthers may
have left another on the Collins Field track.
All in all, it was part of a
stellar evening in which Oregon scored 68 points and fell
two points behind Madison La
Follette for top honors. Janesville Craig rounded out the top
three with 62 points.
Senior Alex Duff was
part of three Panther school
records, breaking his
110-meter hurdles benchmark
in 14.76. He later added the
300s in a record 38.17.
Ive worked hard all year,
Duff said. Hopefully, if I
keep working I can win or at
least get up on the podium in
the 300 hurdles. The 4x400
relay definitely has a shot and
Ill need to keep working in
the 110s to get up there.
Duff is seeded sixth in the
110s and the fastest in the
state in the 300s, where he has
had the goal of breaking the
state record of Lechin Neblett
of Madison Memorial (2010)
and Chris Pearson (1991),
who both went 37.49.
Still competing in four
events at sectionals, Duff
failed to equal his regional
distance and did not qualify
for state in the triple jump,
taking fifth with a leap of 42.
His regional jump of 44-0 1/2
would have earned him second place at sectionals.
Duff came back to anchor
the 1,600 relay team of Logan
Meier, Hudson Kugel, Chris
Cutter, to a school-record
3:21.6 and third sectional title.
The boys 4x4 broke their
own school record, which
was nice for those guys after
that group just missed going
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Boys tennis
Panthers advance four

flights to individual state
JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Junior Calvin Schneider and the Oregon boys tennis team believed they would
be chasing Verona for a shot at qualifying
for their second state team tournament
in the last three years. Just how close
the match was between the Panthers and
Wildcats surprised just about everyone.
Deadlocked through subsectionals,
Oregon and Verona continued their stalemate all the way up until the final three
matches at Thursdays WIAA Division 1
Madison Memorial sectional meet.
Pitted against each other in championship matches at No. 2 singles and No. 3
doubles and a third-place match at No.

1 doubles, Oregon lost all three on its
way to a 38-34 loss that sent Verona back
to its first team state tournament since
2004.
I was just surprised we were even in
the mix with Verona today, Schneider
said. Their two flights were the No. 1
seeds and they lost. I was just happy that
we had a chance at it today.
When you know its in our power to
win, its not easy to lose. Its a little disappointing finishing second, but overall I
think it was a good year for the team.
Photo by Jeremy Jones
Junior Charles Donovan and senior Spencer Kresbach attempts to put an overhead away in front of his No. 2 doubles teammate Logan
Piper against Milton Thursday at the WIAA Division 1 Madison Memorial sectional tournament. They
Turn to Tennis/Page 12 won their flight and advanced to this weeks WIAA Division individual state tennis tournament.
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Girls soccer
Panthers earn No. 1 seed, clinch conference outright

on Thursday to clinch the
Badger South Conference
outright (the fifth straight
The Oregon High School title for the Panthers), but
girls soccer team not only Oregon also earned a No.
knocked off Milton 3-1 1 seed in the top half of
ANTHONY IOZZO
Assistant sports editor
sectional 3 in the WIAA

Division 2 soccer playoffs.
The Panthers (12-3-4
overall, 6-0 Badger South)
host No. 8 Poynette-Portage at 7p.m. Thursday in
the regional semifinal. The

winner will play the winner of No. 4 DeForest/No.
5 Baraboo Saturday in the
regional final.
The other games in the
top-half of the sectional

are No. 2 Waunakee/No.
7 Reedsburg and No. 3
Monona Grove/No. 6 Sauk
Prairie.
The No. 1-No. 8 seeds in
the bottom of the sectional are Burlington, Elkhorn,

Milton, Waterford, Stoughton, Westosha Central, Fort
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Freshman Scarlet Egwuonwu celebrates with teammates after helping the girls 4x200 relay take first
in 1:41.76 Thursday at sectionals. Egwuonwu was joined by senior Maddie Le Brun, junior Danica
Keisling and sophomore Alexis Jackson.
Girls track: Podium in the sights of several

at state
Egwuonwu won the 800
relay in yet another school
record with their time of
1:41.76. They enter this
weekend with the fastest
sectional time in the state.
The first two legs kind
of took care of business and
handed it off to Alexis, and
it was pretty much off to the
races, Lease said. Scarlet
finished strong.
Senior Emma Hughes,
sophomore Taylor Schmidt,
junior Madelyn St. Clair and
LeBrun finished runner-up
in the 3,200 relay with a
time of 9:44.06.
Those girls ran a fantastic race, Lease said. We
were ranked sixth entering
sectionals and they all PRed
to get the job done, which
was really impressive and
set the tone for the evening.
Oregon sophomore Jenna

Igl, Schmidt, St. Clair and
LeBrun finished two spots
shy of state in the 1,600
relay with a time of 4:05.38.
The 4x4 we knew were
going to be tight. The girls
still ran a 4:04 which is their
best time of the year by five
seconds, Lease said.
Sophomore shot putter
Alyssa Milski also placed
fifth with a two-foot PR and
fellow sophomore Bree Bastian took seventh in the mile.
We had a lot of kids like
Bree and Alyssa who may
not have qualified for state,
but PRed, Lease said.
The WIAA Division 1
state meet June 3-4 at Veterans Memorial Stadium in La
Crosse. Competition begins
at 9:30a.m. Friday.
Ticket prices for the meet
are $8 for each session
or $12 for both sessions
Friday if purchased at the

stadium. Tickets may also
be purchased online with
an applicable convenience
fee. To order online, access
the ticket link on the WIAA
website homepage or go to
expressoticketing.com/wiaa/
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You look up in the stands
and there are so many people, Jackson said. Its
amazing. Knowing that they
are all there to watch you is
pretty cool.
The 3,200 relay kicks
off the running events at
9:30a.m. Friday in a timed
final.
Jackson will also compete
in the 100 and 300 hurdle
preliminaries followed by
Egwuonwu in the 100, 200
and the 800 relay. The top
10 finalist advance to Saturdays finals.
Senior Chris Cutter passes the baton to senior Alex Duff after the third leg of the 4x400 relay Thursday
in the WIAA Division 1 Stoughton sectional. The 4x400 team (inlcuding junior Hudson Kugel and junior
Logan Meier) won and advanced to state in a school-record time of 3 minutes, 21.6 seconds. Cutter
also won the 800, while Duff won the 110 and 300 hurdles. Meier advanced to state in the 400, and
Kugel also advanced to state in the 800.
Boys track: Oregon takes runner-up in

Stoughton sectional
to state last year, Lease said.
They came out tonight and
crushed it. I think that time is
fastest or second fastest in the
state right now.
The relay is seeded eighth
at state.
Cutter broke his own OHS
school record in the 800,
winning the event with a
time of 1:54.99. Junior Hudson Kugel tied Cutters old
school records to finish third
in 1:55.32, which earned the
final state qualifying spot
from the sectional.
Hudson and I were talking
before the race. We knew one
of us was going to need to go
out and set the pace, Cutter
said. I didnt really know
how fast our times were until
after the race. I knew Hudson

had it in him. And I know he
has it in him to probably break
my record next year.
Cutter is seeded fourth in
the 800 and Kugel is ninth.
Its awesome to be going
to run with him in the fast heat
at state, Cutter said. Its a
really cool experience to have
someone there to train with
you all season and then see
them have good results at the
end of the season.
Oregon junior Logan Meier
finished runner-up to Veronas
Obi Ifediora in the 400 dash
with a time of 51.42.
I know Logan put a lot
of pressure on himself to
come through with a big race
tonight, Lease said. He sure
came through with a nice race
in the low 51s. It had been his
goal all night to qualify in the

400.
Senior Brenen Womack,
who has battled a hamstring
injury all season, earned the
third and final spot in the 100
dash with a time of 11.41.
Given his injury, I was
really happy to see him move
on as a senior, Lease said.
It wasnt all good news
for the Panthers, though as
the 800 relay dropped their
chance at a possible eighth
school record.
Sam Anders jumped in and
ran a great first leg on the 800,
but the relay team of Jonas
Temte, Kardelle Phillips and
Lucas Mathews ended up
missing the second exchange
as the team finished sixth.
Senior Elliot Jacobs finished eighth in the 400.
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Softball
Panthers no-hit by Burlington

in regional semifinal loss
JEREMY JONES
Sports editor
Thirteenth-seeded Oregon softball played well,

but struggled to get the
bat on the ball on May 25,
being no-hit in a 4-0 WIAA
Division 1 regional semifinals against fourth-seeded
Burlington.
Dani Koenen pitched
a s eve n - i n n i n g n o - h i t ter and drove in a pair of
runs in leading Burlington. Koenens big hit came
a four-run fifth inning.
Talyn Lewis drove in the
Demons other run and had
two hits in the game.
Koenen also dominated
on the mound, striking out
12 and walking three.
The Demons went on
to defeat Janesville Parker 9-2 to advance to the
sectional semifinal game
Tuesday against top-seeded
Union Grove.
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Chaos win Mountain Bay Cup
Badger South
All-Conference
Oregons U13 boys soccer team, the Oregon Chaos, went undefeated to win the Mountain Bay Cup tournament in Wausau May 7-8. The
Chaos beat teams from Portage (5-3), Niagara (8-0), Marshfield (3-1) and Howard (3-1) to win their division. Team members (front,
from left) are: Forest Wendt, Kieran Sweeney, Patrick Brognano, Johnie Thysse, Liam Mandli, Connor Wright and Jayson Howard; (middle) Alex Jameson, Eli Molot, Christian Wirtz, George Wiedeman and Yordi Zelinski; (back) Leo Krause, Aaron Lebakken, Lincoln Martin,
Nicholas Kipp, Aidan Scott and Ben Schaefer; (not pictured) coach David Brown.
Name
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Jenna Gratz
Cailyn Schmidt
Jayme Zander
Baseball
Oregon ends regular season with win

Memorial.
Oregon 9,
T h e O r e g o n H i g h Evansville 5
School baseball team

was supposed to travel to
No. 8 Milton for a WIAA
Division 1 regional semifinal Tuesday, but thunderstorms forced the game
to be postponed.
The game was played
We d n e s d a y, a f t e r t h e
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The D1 regional final is
at 5 p.m. Thursday at No.
1 Janesville Craig, which
had a first-round bye.
Sectionals is Tuesday,
J u n e 7 . T h e s e m i fi n a l
is at 11 a.m., while the
final is at 5 p.m. at Beloit
The Panthers closed the

regular season Friday in
a makeup game against
non-conference Evansville
and pulled out a 9-5 win.
Oregon scored four
times in the bottom of the
fifth to get the victory.
Eric Modaff (2-for-2) singled home Pat Sommers,
while Mason Sergent had
an RBI sacrifice fly to
score Dominic Maurice.
Modaff later stole home
after a pick-off attempt

to first, and Sam Mueller (3-for-4) scored after
an errant throw from the
outfield on a Ben Weiland
(2-for-4) single.
T h e Pa n t h e r s s c o r e d
three in the fourth to tie
the game at 5.
Jared Jones scored on an
error, and Mueller singled
home Ian Schildgen.
Steven Davis tied the
game with an RBI single
that brought home Mueller.
Mueller scored another
run in the first on a double
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by Sergent, and Sergent

scored in the first on a
double by Logan Hurda.
Schildgen picked up the
win. He allowed an earned
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innings, striking out one
and walking one.
Jordan Helmkamp started. He allowed two earned
runs on four hits in three
innings, striking out three
and walking three.
Cedric Girard finished
the game. He struck out
two and walked one in an
inning.
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Koenen struck out 14

more than half of the
batters she faced as
the Demons won a WIAA
Division 1 regional championship game 9-2 over
Janesville Parker on Friday
at Burlington.
Oregon finished the season 9-14 overall and had
four girls named to the
Badger South All-Conference team.
Junior Marissa Kleckler
earned first-team all-conference honors at shortstop. She was the first Panther to earn first-team honors in the past five years.
F e l l ow j u n i o r s J e n n a
Gratz, Cailyn Schmidt
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Gratz earned second-team honors, while
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Boys lacrosse
Oregon gets No. 10 seed

ANTHONY IOZZO
The Oregon High

School boys lacrosse team
earned a No. 10 seed for
the Wisconsin Lacrosse
Federation Division 2
playoffs and traveled to
No. 7 Tomah Wednesday,
after the Observers Tuesday deadline.
If the Panthers win,
they will travel to No. 2
Stoughton at 12p.m. Saturday, June 4, in the sectional final.
The state semifinals are
at 6p.m. Wednesday, June

8, and the state final is at
1p.m. Saturday, June 11,
at Carroll University.
Two - t i m e d e f e n d i n g
state champion Catholic
Memorial drew the No. 1
seed, while Sauk Prairie
and DeForest were No.
3 and No. 4. University
School of Milwaukee (No.
5), Notre Dame Academy
(No. 6), Baraboo (No. 8),
Oneida (No. 9), Green
Bay Southwest (No. 11)
and Heritage Christian
(No. 12) round out the
field.
Girls lacrosse
Panthers earn No. 18 seed

ANTHONY IOZZO
Photos by Evan Halpop
Oregon senior Taylor Martin (6) takes a shot on goal in the first half Thursday against Milton at Oregon High School. Martin scored two
goals in a 3-1 win that clinched the Badger South Conference title outright.
Soccer: Playoffs begin Thursday

Atkinson and Wilmot Union.
Oregon 3, Milton 1
After a scoreless first half, the
Oregon offense came alive in the
second half as the Panthers won
3-1.
The Red Hawks came in with
a chance to share the title with a
win, but junior Holly Kaboord and
senior Taylor Martin both scored
to make it 2-0 with 20 minutes left.
Martin and junior Carolyn Vogt
both had assists on those goals.
Milton notched a goal in the 72nd
minute to make it 2-1, but Martin
scored once again in the 82nd minute with an assist to junior Meagan
Brakob to clinch the game.
Junior Abby Breitbach finished
with five saves.
Milton finished 4-2 in the Badger Oregon junior Holly Kaboord races past midfield before scoring Oregons first goal in the
second half against Milton.
South.
The Oregon High School

girls lacrosse team earned a
No. 18 seed in the Wisconsin
Lacrosse Federation playoffs last week and traveled to
No. 15 Madison Westside on
Tuesday in the first round..
Results were unavailable
by the Observers Tuesday
deadline but will be in the
paper next week.
Back-to-back champion
Hartland Arrowhead red is
the No. 1 seed, while the
WNS Wolfpack received the
No. 2 seed.
University School of
Home Talent League
Orioles drop two games over

Memorial Day weekend
ANTHONY IOZZO
The Oregon Home Talent team dropped to 1-4 in

the North Division of the
Western Section after falling 3-1 to Wiota and 10-0
to West Middleton Sunday
and Monday, respectively.
Ben Riffle allowed two
earned runs on eight hits
in nine innings Sunday
Tennis: Oregon finishes runner-up at sectionals

Alex Pletta squared off in the No. 2 singles
championship match. And while Pletta rolled
in the first set, Donovan took three straight
games to start the second, following a medical timeout for a nosebleed.
Pletta fought back to tie the game at 5-5
before breaking Donovans serve and eventually closing out the match 6-3, 7-5.
Despite the loss, Donovan (21-6) received
the sectionals one singles special qualifier
and will face Monona Grove freshman Cole
Lindwall (13-7) at 10:30a.m. Thursday in the
opening round of the WIAA Division 1 state
tournament.
Schneider qualified for his third individual state tournament with a 6-0, 6-0 victory
against Beloit Memorial senior Drew Collins.
Schneider went on to add a 6-1, 6-2 win
over Monona Grove freshman Cole Lindwall before falling 6-2, 6-2 against Madison
Memorial sophomore Colt Tegtmeier.
Tegtmeier and Xavier Sanga earned the No.
4 and No. 7 seeds, while Veronas Will Tennison was named the 10th at No. 1 singles.
Local player James Paradisin of Waunakee
is seeded 13th. Schneider (19-6) will play
DePere sophomore Benny Glezer (31-0).
Going to state is always a privilege,
Schneider said. Hopefully, I can play well
Milwaukee is the No. 3 seed,

and Middleton earned the
No. 4 seed.
Waunakee (No. 5), Arrowhead white (No. 6), Sun
Prairie (No. 7) and Waukesha (No. 8) were the other
teams to get a first-round
bye.
The winner of Oregon and
Westside travel to take on the
Wolfpack at 5 p.m. Thursday.
The sectional final is Saturday, June 4, and the state
semifinal is Wednesday, June
8.
The final is at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at Carroll
College.
against Wiota, striking out

six and walking one.
Logan Laski allowed
nine earned runs on 10 hits
in seven innings in Mondays loss, striking out one
and walking three.
Ian Galloway was 2-for4.
Oregon (1-4) travels to
Dodgeville (3-3) at 1p.m.
Sunday.
MIS
and win a few rounds. It just depends on the

draw.
Seniors Logan Piper and Spencer Kresbach
cruised 6-0, 6-1 at No. 2 doubles against Milton before knocking off Madison West 6-4,
6-1 in the championship match.
Piper and Kresbach (20-2) will battle
Waukesha South seniors Ben Graichen and
Hunter Louis (22-15) 1p.m. Thursday at individual state.
Seniors Drew Christofferson and Matt
Reisdorf qualified for individual state at
No. 1 doubles, defeating Fort Atkinson 6-1,
6-4 before falling 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to eventual
champions of Luke Nelson and Andrew Zhou
Monona Grove the same team they will face
at 2:30p.m. Thursday.
Christofferson and Reisdorf are 18-5 this
season, while Nelson and Zhou are 14-2.
Locked in a battle with Verona to reach
the WIAA team state tournament, Oregon
dropped its No. 1 doubles third-place match
and Donovans No. 2 singles championship
match.
Kyle Rehrauer and Sam Ast rolled 6-2, 6-1
over Lake Geneva Badger but then fell 6-3,
6-1 to Verona in the No. 3 doubles champiPhoto by Jeremy Jones
onship.
Oregon No. 2 singles player Charles Donovan suffered
All finals matches are on Saturday at Niel- a nosebleed between the first and second set Thursday
sen Tennis Stadium.
at sectionals. Donovan took the first three game of the
second set but dropped the match 6-3, 7-5.

to pick up his first win of the
season.
The two-time track champion, who set a new track
record in qualifying last
week, set fast time again.
Scott Luck won the heat and
the dash.
Kyle Stark of Cambridge
topped a 23-car field of four
cylinders in the Midwest
Compact Touring Series
30-lap feature. Starting 17th
in the field, Stark showed his
talent by working his way
through the field and took the
lead from Don Rufener III
on lap eight. Despite some
smoke coming out of his car
at times, Stark was able to
survive and hold off John
Handeland to pick up the win.
Trevor Chilson of Madison
won the 12-lap feature for the
6Shooters.
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June 2, 2016
Top bicycling rating for Dane County

Oregon has a recent
addition to trail
system
By the
numbers
With warm weather finally

here, flowers in bloom and
(relatively) few bugs buzzing, theres no better time
to explore the many bike
trails of Dane County, which
recently won top honors from
a national bicycling group.
The League of American
Bicyclists gave Dane County its Bronze Level designation, recognizing it as one
of top counties in the nation
for biking: one of just seven
to be so honored. In a press
release, County Executive
Joe Parisi said the county has
invested millions of dollars in
new off-road trails over the
past several years, including
the recently-started construction of the Lower Yahara
River Trail, a waterfront path
with the longest bike and
pedestrian bridge of any project in the state.
Biking is a big part of our
quality of life and a way for
people to get out and enjoy
our lakes and countryside,
Parisi said in the release.
Biking is good for our
health, for our environment,
and for our communities.
In 2011, Parisi started the
PARC and Ride Bike Trail
grant program, which provides matching grants for
projects such as expanding
645 According to
the Madison Metropolitan Planning
Organization, there
are more than 645
miles of bike facilities in Dane County.
On the Web
For more on the League of
American Cyclists, visit:
Bikeleague.org
bike trail interconnectivity, creating destination-oriented regional bike trails,

and improving bike safety,
according to the release.
Since the inception of the
program, $3.2 million in
county funds have been
awarded to local municipalities.
Wisconsin Bike Fed executive director and former
Madison mayor Dave Cieslewicz said the recognition is
well-deserved for Dane
County, and credited Parisi
and county board members.
(He) has made cycling a
priority in his administration
from the beginning and the
County Board has supported
that direction, Cieslewicz
said.
The Oregon Trail

One of the more scenic
stretches of bike trails in

Dane County is the recently
completed Oregon Rotary
Bike Trail which runs 3.4
miles from West Netherwood Road to its end at Fish
Hatchery Road. The project,
finished last summer, was
several years in the making
and cost around $890,000,
with the village paying a
bit less than half the bill
and other sources, including
Dane County, the Town of
Oregon, the Oregon Rotary
Club and American Transmission Company, providing funding.
The trail begins at Alpine
Business Park and passes across the Keller Alpine
Dairy and land owned by
the Wisconsin Department
of Corrections and U.S.
Fish and Wildlife. Scenery
along the way includes Lake
Barney, Swan Pond near
Fish Hatchery Road and the
extensive wetlands owned
by Fish and Wildlife, as well
as a heavily wooded, hilly
area adjacent to the path on
its south side.
Another stretch that
opened last year was
Brigham Trail, an off-road
path around 1.5 miles from
Whats
next?
Construction on the
Lower Yahara River
Trail is progressing on
schedule, with the first
phase set to be completed by early next
year, according to a
Dane County press release last week. Subsequent phases will wind
south down along the
Yahara River and eventually link Lake Farm
County Park with the
City of Stoughton, with
an accessible fishing
pier near the railroad
trestle on Lake Waubesa, and rest stops and
observation areas.
the Military Ridge State
Trail to Brigham County
Park in the Town of Blue
Mounds. According to the
press release, the trail was
built at a cost of $400,000
and connects to the Cave of
the Mounds, a National Natural Landmark.
Scott De Laruelle
Oregon Observer
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Nearly 1,000 kids at Oregons two

elementary schools participated in
a fundraiser May 19 that boosts the
communitys Neighbors in Need of
Assistance Fund.
Raising $3,600, the kids in kindergarten through fourth grade at
Netherwood Knoll and Prairie View
acquired pledges during the two
weeks leading up to the third annual
NINA Fun Run/Walk.
Each committed to walking or
running for about 45 minutes on the
playground track during school.
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Obituary
Dylan J. Anderson
Dylan Anderson
Dylan J. Anderson, age

21, was killed the early
morning of Wednesday,
May 25, 2016, from substantial injuries from a
tragic vehicle accident.
He was born on March
15, 1995, in Madison,
Wis., the son of Derek
Anderson (Oregon) and
Dinyel Walrath (Edgerton). He is survived by
a b r o t h e r, D r ey s o n J .
Anderson (Milwaukee);
two half-brothers, Branden J. Walrath and Blayde
J. Whiteaker (both of Edgerton); paternal grandparents, Dennis Anderson
(Mcfarland) and Doris
Stabenow (Albany);
uncle, David Anderson
(Meg); and other special
family and lots of friends.
Dylan was a kindhearted and loving person,
always caring more about
other people than himself
and never asking anyone
for anything. He had a
very contagious smile and
a twinkle in his eye; he
was a comedian and loved
to make people laugh.
In his school years, he
wrestled and played baseball, football and basketball. He graduated with
the Oregon High School
Class of 2013. Dylan
loved playing softball,
and through the years has
played on many teams and
he was on several teams
this year. He loved his
video games and gamed
a lot. He also enjoyed

watching sports, especially the Golden State
Warriors, the Wisconsin
Badgers and the Packers.
Basketball was Dylans
passion and he played a
good game. He was very
athletic and an active
young man.
He also liked fishing
and hanging out with
his friends and spending
time with his girlfriend,
Taylor Milz (Evansville).
Dylan was very intelligent, and was exceptional in math and loved
history. He loved word
p u z z l e s a n d wa s ve r y
inquisitive. Dylan was an
all-around social guy, he
made friends easily and
everywhere he went. He
was genuinely loved by
all who knew him, and he
will be missed dearly.
A Celebration of Life
will be held at 3p.m.
Saturday, June 4 at Gunderson Oregon Funeral
Home, 1150 Park St., with
C h a p l a i n S t eve Z w e t tler presiding. Visitation
will be held at the funeral home from noon until
the time of the celebration on Saturday. In lieu
of flowers, the family is
asking for donations for a
park bench at the Oregon
softball fields in Dylans
memory, where he has
been playing since elementary school.
Yo u r w i n g s w e r e
ready, Dylan, but my heart
was not.
Online condolences
may be made at www.
gundersonfh.com.
Hook (Kristina Engel, 14) and Smee (Stacy Anderson, 13) try to get Wendy (Isabella Nowka, 13) to walk the plank.
Photos submitted
Oregon Area Homeschoolers perform Peter Pan

Oregon Area Homeschoolers performed the play Peter Pan on April
23 at Hillcrest Bible Church. The
kids also had a full dress rehearsal on
April 22, which was also well attended.
The play was an adaptation by

OAH is a parent-led coop for
Susan Nanning-Sorenson, based h o m e s c h o o l e r s i n k i n d e rga r t e n
on the play by James Barrie. It was through 12th grade who live in Oredirected by Joann Nowka with assis- gon and the surrounding community.
tance from Gretchen Cook, Beth
Samantha Christian
Sherven and Zabrina Smith.
Gunderson Oregon
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Peter Pan (Carissa Hui, 13),
center, asks Tinkerbell (Julianna
Cox, 9), John (Peter Nowka, 9),
Michael (James Sherven, 8) and
Wendy (Isabella Nowka) if they
will fly to Neverland.
Legals
TOWN OF RUTLAND
ADVERTISEMENT FOR
SEALCOATING
(CHIP SEALING) BIDS
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the

Town of Rutland is seeking bids for 2016
sealcoating (chip sealing) of several
Town roads as identified below.
All bids shall be marked Seal Coating Quote, and submitted to the Town
Clerk, whose offices are located at 4177
Old Stage Road, Brooklyn, WI 53521 up to
and including 5:00 p.m. on June 6, 2016.
Bids will be opened at _7:00_ p.m. on
June 7, 2016 at the town hall which is located at 785 Center Rd. Contracts will be
awarded on the same night. The Town of
Rutland Board reserves the right to reject
any/or all bids and to select the lowest
responsible bidder.
1. Project Description
The attached map shows the roads
proposed to be seal coated (chip sealed).
The Town may choose to do only the
highest priority roads, depending on
cost and budget considerations. Bidders
may wish to arrange a road inspection
trip with the Towns patrolmen to better
understand individual project needs and
to prepare a more accurate quote. Lead
Patrolman Nels Wethal may be reached
at 577-5691.
The possible candidates for 2016
seal coating are:
1. Center Road (CTH A-Old Stage Rd.
11,140 ft.
2. Lake Kegonsa (Hwy 138-Rutland
Dunn Townline) 4963 ft.
3. Old Stone .(Oak Ridge Center)
2,693 ft.
2. Specifications:
* Based on use of 3/8 aggregate
* length and width of each road proposed
* estimated gallons of oil proposed
to be used and cost per gallon of oil to be
applied (gal./sq. yd.)
* estimated number of tons of stone
to be used and the cost per ton of stone
* all quotes to include power brooming prior to application of the seal coat
3. The award will be based on
* the proposed cost
* the proposed materials to be used,
* the references submitted and
* the warranties provided.
The Town Board will determine
which proposal is deemed to be in the
best interests of the Town.
The Town reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
The successful bidder, upon notification, must provide the Town with
* a Certificate of Insurance naming
the Town as an additional insured.
* a statement holding the Town
harmless from any litigation or claims

resulting from the execution of this bid.
4. Scheduling
The Town wishes to have this work
completed during the 2016 road work
season, meaning done prior to September 1. 2016.
Attach a proposed time schedule
showing how soon the work can be started after bid acceptance, and how many
days or weeks it will take before completion.
5. Payment
Payment to the contractor will be
made within 30 days of the completion of
the seal coating and an approved inspection by the Town.
Published: June 2, 2016
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TOWN OF OREGON
PARK COMMITTEE AGENDA
MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016
6:30PM
OREGON TOWN HALL
1138 UNION ROAD
OREGON, WISCONSIN
1. Call meeting to order.

2. Reading and approval of minutes
from the last meeting.
3. Public Comments and Appearances.
4. Discussion and possible Action
re: Eagle Scout Project.
5. Discussion and possible Action
re: recommendations/decisions from the
Town Board.
6. Review of potential work projects.
7. Set next meeting date.
8. Adjournment.
Please note: The regular Town
Board meeting will be held on Tuesday,
June 14, 2016 at 6:30 p.m..
Note: Agendas are subject to
amendment after publication. Check the
official posting locations (Town Hall,
Town of Oregon Recycling Center and
Oregon Village Hall) including the Town
website at www.town.oregon.wi.us. It is
possible that members of and possibly
a quorum of members of other governmental bodies of the town may be in attendance at any of the meetings to gather
information; however, no action will be
taken by any governmental body at said
meeting other than the governmental
body specifically referred to in the meeting notice. Requests from persons with
disabilities who need assistance to participate in this meeting or hearing should
be made to the Clerks office at 835-3200
with 48 hours notice.
Steve Root, Chairperson
Posted: May 25, 2016
Published: June 2, 2016

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ORDINANCE NO. 16-09

VILLAGE OF OREGON
AN ORDINANCE TO
REPEAL AND RECREATE
SECTION 7.02
RELATING TO LARGE
VEHICLE PARKING
RESTRICTIONS
The Village Board of the Village of

Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin, ordains as follows:
1. Section 7.02 (8) of the Village
Code of Ordinances relating to large vehicle parking restrictions is repealed and
recreated as follows:
(8) LARGE VEHICL E PARKING.
(a) Definitions.
1. Large vehicle means a motor vehicle, trailer, or combination of motor
vehicle and trailer that is over 26,000 lbs.
licensed weight or gross vehicle weight
rating.
2. Residential zoning district includes the ER-1, SR-3, SR-4, SR-5, SR-6,
TR-6 and MR-8 Residential Districts, as
identified in Chapter 17 of this Code.
3. Park or parkingmeans the halting
of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and
while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers.
(b) Street parking.
1. Except as provided in subsections (b)(2), no person owning or having
control of a large vehicle shall park such
large vehicle upon any street, avenue or
public way located in a residential zoning
district between the hours of 6:00 p.m.
and 7:00 a.m.
2. The village board may designate
specific truck parking zones.
2. This ordinance shall be effective
upon passage and posting as provided
by law.
Adopted by the Village Board of the
Village of Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin at a regular meeting held on May 2,
2016.
APPROVED:
____________________________
Steven L. Staton, Village President
ATTEST:
____________________________
Peggy S. K. Haag, Village Clerk
ADOPTED: May 2, 2016
POSTED: May 27, 2016
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2016
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The lost boys get tied up by pirates. From left are Will Harpin, 5, Sam Harpin, 7, Micah Smith, 7, and
Judah Cox, 6.
Student musicians selected

as exemplary soloists
Three Oregon High School student
musicians were selected as exemplary
soloists at the 2016 Wisconsin School
Music Association State Solo and Ensemble festival.
They are Annika Victorson (alto solo
and music theater-female solo), Emma
Hannibal (music theater-female solo) and
Jaelan Wilson (marimba or xylophone
solo).
Adjudicators nominated hundreds of
students whose performances were truly
exceptional beyond what is typically

expected for the age group at the festival at UW-Platteville on April 30.
The 610 students selected for the award
among the 8,036 vocal and instrumental solos will receive a certificate from
WSMA in recognition of their outstanding performance at the state festival.
For information on the festival visit
wsmamusic.org.
Samantha Christian
ConnectOregonWI.com
CLEANING LADY for larrge house in

Town of Middleton, 608-833-4726
DISHWASHER, COOK,
WAITRESS, & DELI STAFF
WANTED.
Applications available at
Sugar & Spice Eatery.
317 Nora St. Stoughton.
FORT LITTLEGREEN Youth Camp &
Nature Center, in Stoughton, is hiring
camp counselors for summer. Full and
part time available. Email resume to fort.
littlegreen@gmail.com.
PART TIME SCHOOL BUS Driver
Oregon-area 3-4 times per week, for
sporting events. CDL-preferred, but will
train. Excellent pay. 608-669-2618
STUDENTS NEEDED for general landscaping. $12.00/hr. Dunkirk. 608-3352750 leave message.
434 Health Care, Human

Services & Child Care
COMFORT KEEPERS IN MADISON
Seeking caregivers to provide care
to seniors in their homes. Valid DL/
Dependable Vehicle required. FT & PT
positions available. Flexible scheduling.
UP TO $2000 Sign-On Bonus!
Call 608-442-1898
UNITED CEREBRAL Palsy of Dane
County is looking for experienced, confident care providers. We support a wide
variety of children and adults with developmental disabilities throughout Dane
County. Part-time positions available
immediately! For more information, or to
request an application, please visit our
website at www.ucpdane.org or contact
Shannon at shannonmolepske@ucpdane.org or (608) 273-3318. AA/EOE
446 Agriculture,
Landscaping & Lawn Care
AGRONOMY SALES and Service Specialist Responsibilities include sales,
blending, delivery and service. CDL
required, salary with benefits. Qualified
applicants send resume to mfcoop@
chorus.net Middleton Farmers Coop, PO
Box 620348, Middleton, WI 53562-0348
www.middletoncoop.com
451 Janitorial & Maintenance

EVENING CLEANING help needed in
Oregon WI. Part time shift can start 4,5 or
6pm. 4 hours per night. Monday through
Friday. NO WEEKENDS! Vacuuming,
dusting, mopping, restrooms, etc. Apply
at DIVERSIFIED BUILDING MAINTENANCE, 1105 Touson Drive, Janesville,
WI 53546 or call 608-752-9465
452 General
OFFICE CLEANING Team lead available in Stoughton Mon-Fri 4 hours/night.
Visit our website: www.capitalcityclean.
com or call our office: 608-831-8850
506 Beauty & Supplies

J.R. WATKINS Products for sale. Call
JoAnn 608-873-8779
516 Cleaning Services

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

A&B ENTERPRISES
Light Construction Remodeling
No job too small
608-835-7791
DOUG'S HANDYMAN
SERVICE
Gutter Cleaning & Gutter Covers
"Honey Do List"
No job too small
608-845-8110
HALLINAN-PAINTING
WALLPAPERING
**Great-Spring-Rates**
35 + Years Professional
Interior/Exterior
Free-Estimates
References/Insured
Arthur Hallinan
608-455-3377
TOMAS PAINTING
Professional, Interior,
Exterior, Repairs.
Free Estimates. Insured.
608-873-6160
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602 Antiques & Collectibles

COLUMBUS ANTIQUE MALL
& CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
MUSEUM
"Wisconsin's Largest Antique Mall"
Customer Appreciation Week!
June 6-12 20% Discount!
Enter daily 8am-4pm 78,000 SF
200 Dealers in 400 Booths
Third floor furniture, locked cases
Location: 239 Whitney St
Columbus, WI 53925
920-623-1992
www.columbusantiquemall.com
652 Garage Sales

FITCHBURG- 2364 S Syene 6/2-6/3
8am-6pm, 6/4 8am-noon See Craigslist
FITCHBURG- 5012 County RD M, June
3rd-4th 7am-3pm Many Items
OREGON- 315 N Perry Parkway June
3-4 7am-5pm June 5 7am-noon Big Boy
Toys. Boating, fishing, hand made toys.
Much More
OREGON- 686 N Oak St Thurs 6/2
noon to 5 pm. Fri 6/3 8 am to 5 pm Sat
6/4 8am to noon. Tools, yard implements
furniture, John Deere lawn tractor, home
decor, and more!
OREGON- BERGAMONT Neighborhood garage sale Augusta, Riviera,
Oakmont, Inverness, Winged Foot &
More! 6/3-6/4, 8am-2pm. Infant/Kids/
Adult clothes: Baby items, toys, sports/
camping equipment; furniture & more!
STOUGHTON 1825 Lakeview Terrace
6/2-4, 9-5pm. Upscale glassware, art,
housewares. Dog crates, hand-tools,
hunting knives, other hunting items.
Antique meat block, chests, office
machines & crocks.
STOUGHTON 625 East Main St., 6/36/4, 9-5pm. Huge Moving Sale!
688 Sporting Goods

& Recreational
THE NEW NIRPC Gun Show:
Winnebago County Fairgrounds,
Pecatonica, IL, June 4th 8a-4p and June
5th 8a-3p, $5 admission. Email:
gunshow@nirpc.com for flyer.
696 Wanted To Buy

WE BUY Junk Cars and Trucks.
We sell used parts.
Monday thru Friday 8am-5:30pm.
Newville Auto Salvage, 279 Hwy 59
Edgerton, 608-884-3114
705 Rentals
GREENWOOD APARTMENTS
Apartments for Seniors 55+, currently
has 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $750 per month, includes
heat, water, and sewer.
608-835-6717 Located at:
139 Wolf St., Oregon, WI 53575
THE Oregon Observer CLASSIFIEDS,
the best place to buy or sell. Call 8736671 or 835-6677.
STOUGHTON 1616 Kenilworth Ct.

Large 2-BR apts available now.
Pets welcome. Many feature new wood
laminate flooring.
$775-$825/mo. 608-831-4035.
www.madtownrentals.com
STOUGHTON 2 bedroom Upper. $850/
mo + utilities $850 security deposit. 608873-3679
VERONA 2 Bed Apts. Available 2
bed/2 bath luxury apartments at West
End with in-unit laundry, stainless appliances, wood floors, fitness center,
on-site office, 24/7 emergency maintenance. Large dogs welcome. From
$1,440/mo. Details at 608-255-7100 or
veronawiapartments.com.
VERONA- 538 Melody Lane: 3 bedroom
Duplex. Living room, kitchen/dining room,
heat/water furnished. 1 car garage, storage area, patio. NO Pets $825.00 Available Now 608-845-6159
720 Apartments
ROSEWOOD APARTMENTS for Seniors
55+. 1 & 2 bedroom units available
starting at $750 per month. Includes
heat, water and sewer. Professionally
managed. Located at
300 Silverado Drive, Stoughton, WI
53589 608-877-9388
STOUGHTON SENIOR Apts, Cottage
style 2 bdrrm. $715 plus utilities. Private
entrance and patio All Appl inc/W/D. No
Pets No Smoking. 608-873-0884
750 Storage Spaces For Rent
McCarthy Nursing Home

Mike 608-873-7462 after 2 pm.
801 Office Space For Rent

OFFICE SPACES FOR RENT
In Oregon facing 15th hole
on golfcourse
Free Wi-Fi, Parking and
Security System
Conference rooms available
Kitchenette-Breakroom
Autumn Woods Prof. Centre
Marty 608-835-3628
TRUCK DRIVER
Metal Culverts, Inc. - Evansville Division, a
manufacturer and distributor of corrugated
metal pipe and highway products has an
opening for an hourly truck driver. Qualified
applicants should possess Class A CDL, flatbed
trailer experience and be reliable, self-starters.
Excellent benefits including health, dental,
vision, life, AFLAC insurance and 401(k) plan.
VINCENZO PLAZA
-Conveniently located at corner of
Whalen Rd and Kimball Lane
-Easy access to Epic and Hwy 151 to
downtown Madison
-Currently have 5 office suite with
reception/waiting room, conference
room, private bath/shower
-Can be sub divided
-Individual offices possible
Metro Real Estate
608-575-9700
845 Houses For Sale

OREGON- CONDO for Sale by Owner.
1910 sq/ft 2 bed/2/12 bath. Finished
basement w/egress New paint, new flooring. 608-345-5003
WEST MADISON - Country Grove.
3,410 sq.ft. 3 bed+den, fireplace, wooded/landscaped lot, 3-car garage. 608335-8940. $434,900+
Applications can be completed at

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WALMERS TACK SHOP

16379 W. Milbrandt Road
Evansville, WI
608-882-5725
975 Livestock
DAIRYMEN: Overcrowded?Short on
feed, space, time? Let us raise your heifers to meet your needs. Years of dairy
experience; heifers raised healthy and
well-fed. Small numbers welcome. Located West side of Madison. Call Gordy at
608-516 5495. Click on Custom Raised
Heifers tab at www.rescuefortheoverwhelmed.com
C.N.R. STORAGE
Located behind
Stoughton Garden Center
Convenient Dry Secure
Lighted with access 24/7
Bank Cards Accepted
Off North Hwy 51 on
Oak Opening Dr. behind
Stoughton Garden Center
Call: 608-509-8904
FOR SALE: 60 Holstein milk cows, all in

good production. Home-raised, artificially
bred; used top bulls from the county's
top herds. Bartelt's Dairy, since 1966.
815-367-2761
DEER POINT STORAGE

Convenient location behind
Stoughton Lumber.
Clean-Dry Units
24 HOUR LIGHTED ACCESS
5x10 thru 12x25
608-335-3337
980 Machinery & Tools

10FT DISK 2 bottom plow, 200 gallon
sprayer, Tree toad spade. McCormack
10 ft seed planter, King Kutter 7 ft blade,
rear tractor fork lift. Sunset Acres Tree
Farm. Stoughton. 608-719-7068 or depsatf@gmail.com
FRENCHTOWN
SELF-STORAGE
Only 6 miles South of
Verona on Hwy PB.
Variety of sizes available now.
10x10=$60/month
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June 2, 2016
June 2, 2016
Retirements
Oregon Observer
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Lubbers wraps up career caring for kids No regrets
OSD
June
retirees
SCOTT DE LARUELLE
Carol Bride,
district administrative assistant
(27 years)
Laura Flood, NKE
teacher (5)
Patricia Hetland,
RCI music teacher
(24)
Sara Lubbers,
NKE school counselor (25)
Elizabeth
McKenna, BKE
reading instructor
(17.5)
Amy Schleinz,
PVE teacher (16)
Jule Vogel, Food
service (18)
Anita Walker,
PVE health instructor (10)
Judith Wohlleber,
PVE school
counselor (18)
Growing up as a busy babysitter,

retiring Netherwood Knoll Elementary School counselor Sara Lubbers
said shes always loved
working with children,
and knew since she
was a teenager that she
would find a career
where I could help
others and work with
kids.
Before coming to Lubbers
Oregon in 1991, Lubbers taught special
education for seven years and spent a
year in Taiwan, teaching English as a
second language to college students.
When she was hired in 1991, she was
the districts first elementary school
counselor, and she said it was a privilege to pave the way for the current
strong K-6 comprehensive school
counseling program.
Judy Wohlleber, school counselor at
Prairie View Elementary, is also retiring this year, and Lubbers said that
means new opportunities and growth
for others to continue our profession at
both NKE and PVE.
I am grateful to have worked with
amazing professionals across the district during these past 25 years, who
continually keep children front and
center, she said.
I am blessed to have spent this
length of time helping learners grow
and learn. I also feel extremely grateful
to have worked with dedicated administrators, families and colleagues.
One of her favorite memories at
Netherwood is working with staff, parents and students to reinvent the outdoor arboretum at NKE.
Throughout my career, I have found
great pleasure and inspiration in having children process difficult situations
through nature, being active and learning about healthy choices, Lubbers
said.
After the first years tomato harvest,
Lubbers made salsa for teachers and
students.
I will never forget going out in the
arboretum with a group of students
from Andrea DeNures classroom, she
said. We gathered cherry tomatoes
and small yellow tomatoes, (and) they
were so excited to be able to pick the
fruit from the small seedlings they had
planted in the spring. Learning experiences like this have brought me much
joy during my career.
Lubbers said shell miss all the hugs,
for Hetland
smiles and high fives from the children each day, as well as the camaraderie with her fellow educators who
have truly become dear friends. At the
same time, she said she looks forward
to spending some time following tennis
with her husband (both are huge fans),
and will travel to New York City at the
end of the summer to watch the U.S.
Open.
This has been on my bucket list for
25 years, but since the open takes place
over Labor Day weekend and before
this has never become a reality, Lubbers said. Now it will.
Oregon School District director of
instruction Leslie Bergstrom said Lubbers brought joy to others, while caring for district students and families
as if they are her own.
Her empathy and considerable skill
made her a leader at Netherwood Knoll
and throughout the OSD as she served
on various all-district committees,
Bergstrom said. She always brings
a student-centered, common-sense
approach. She is just a gem of a woman, educator, and friend to so, so many
people.
SCOTT DE LARUELLE

director of instruction Leslie Bergstrom, who
worked with
Pat Hetland
when she
was the principal at RCI,
said Hetland
is a joyful
p e r s o n b y Hetland
nature who
worked hard every day to
bring that to others, using
music as the conduit.
She takes learning very
seriously and is a true pioneer of personalized learning, Bergstrom said. She
offers students choice and
gives them opportunities to
follow their passions. She
brings just as much zest to
her interactions with colleagues, who adore her for
her wit and compassion.
Hetland, general music
teacher at Rome Corners
Intermediate School, was
interested in music from
a young age. She initially
intended to become a piano performance major, but
shifted to a music education
major after realizing she
suffered from crippling
stage fright.
I have not regretted it for
a moment, Hetland said.
Now, shes been in the
long enough to teach second-generation students.
I love that Ive been
here long enough to meet
the children of the children
I taught in the early years,
she said.
Hetland said shell most
miss laughing with her
music colleagues at RCI,
and the spontaneous joyful
moments that happen all the
time in my classroom.
I think its hilarious
when cool sixth-grade
boys dance uninhibitedly
as music moves them, she
added. And Ill also miss
lesson- and unit-planning.
Im a nerd.
Hetland said her only
plans for retirement are
Livin la vida loca, baby.
She offered a message to
her fellow educators.
Solidarity, brothers and
sisters, Hetland said. You
work harder than everyone
else, and you are changing
the world for good.
RCI principal Jason
Zurawik said even though
he only worked with Hetland this past year, hes
blessed for having had the
opportunity.
It was wonderful to
work with such a talented
educator, he said. Pat has
created an engaging educational experience for students that will be hard to
replicate. Pat, thank you for
putting your heart and soul
into your craft and making
RCI a special place for your
young learners. You will be
missed.
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