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THURSDAY, NOVembeR 26, 2015
Veterans Memorial breaks

ground at Lakeview Park
City budget
is approved
-Read more on page 5
by CAMERON BREN
Times-Tribune
Thursday night.
The final numbers will be
worked out by city accounting
staff and released in December,
though tentatively it appears the
City leaders ask

tough questions
about racism...
The middleton Common
Council approved the 2016
budget in a five to three vote on
by CAMERON BREN
Times-Tribune
Area leaders held a community workshop recently that focused on racial inequities that
persist locally and across the
nation - and what can be done
within the community to address them.
Percy brown, director of equity and student achievement
for the school district, middleton Police Chief Chuck Foulke,
Rev. miranda Hassett of St.
Dunstans episcopal Church,
Rev. James Iliff of middleton
Swing City
The Swing City Dolls will come
to Performing Arts Center Dec. 5
-Read more on page 7
See BUDGET, page 15
Community United Church of

Christ, Al Ripp, executive director of middleton Outreach
ministry, and Laura Love, director of secondary education
for the school district, all spoke
See RACE, page 10
Fossil
hunter
Jerry Gunderson
by MATT GEIGER
Times-Tribune
Flanked by native prairie

yards and nestled in the heart of
downtown middleton, the
homes exterior looks like that
of any other. but inside is a
staggering array of primordial
curios to rival that of the finest
museum.
Items from the dawn of life
on earth. The teeth of ancient
eels. Sea lilies. Trilobites. Teeth
from the mouths of cave bears,
wooly mammoths, and sharks
that swam in seas that once covSee HUNTER, page 11
Santa Claus
comes to town
-See page 2
Photo by Jeff Martin
City of Middleton kicks off the holiday season

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MIDDLETON TIMES-TRIBUNE
Photos by Jeff Martin
The City of Middleton celebrated the start of the holiday

season Saturday with the annual tree lighting, a visit from
Santa (both at City Hall),
games and activities at the
Middleton Public Library
across the street, and plenty of
good cheer.
Clockwise from top left:
Making cone ornaments for
the Holiday Tree are: Tabby
Hickman, Taylor Samuelson
and Edie Balster, all from
Middleton; A large crowd celebrates the annual lighting of
Middleton's Holiday Tree;
Abby Evans, Gwen Wiltzius
and Ava Puxer, all from Middleton, sold a variety of handmade items; Having his first
visit with Santa is young Declan Waldschmidt from Middleton.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2015
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Winter clothing Electrical issue Meet the author

drive at the
likely cause of
Middleton
Springfield fire
Public Library
The middleton Public Library is hosting a winter clothing drive through December 17.
New or used Coats, boots,
snowpants, hats, mittens, and
other winter gear for all ages
(babies through adults) are
gratefully accepted. Donations

will be distributed to area institutions serving families and individuals in need. The drive has
been organized by the librarys
Acts of Kindness Club, a group
of middleton youth in grades 2
through 6.
The club meets once a month
on a Friday afternoon; if youre
interested in joining us, call
(608) 827-7402 for more details.
At approximately 12:24
a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21,
Dane County Sheriffs Office deputies along with
Town of middleton and Village of Waunakee Fire Departments responded to
Quality erectors & Sheeters
at 6073 USH 12 in the Town
of Springfield for a commercial building fire that
was called in by a passerby
on USH 12.
When deputies arrived at

the scene, a truck that was
parked inside the building
was fully engulfed and part
of the building where the
truck was parked was on
fire. The preliminary investigation indicates an electrical issue with the truck that
caused the fire.
The truck is believed to
be a total loss and the building has approximately
$350,000 in fire damage.
middleton resident and novelist

Nick Chiarkas will join margaret
Goss at mannna Cafe and bakery,
611 N. Sherman Ave. in madison,
on Wednesday, Dec. 2 from 6:30-8
p.m. for a meet the author event.
Chiarkas Weepers is a gritty
tale of crime set in New York in the
middle of the 20th Century.Visit
NickChiarkas.com for more.
Chiarkas
m IDDLeTON O UTReACH m INISTRY
Make giving your holiday tradition

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by AL RIPP
Middleton Outreach Ministry
Sharing
your holidays
can be one of
the most meaningful things
you do this
season. every
year, donors
Ripp
tell us that giving back to
their community over the holidays is their favorite tradition.
mOm offers many opportunities for you to be involved in
giving this season, whether its
on #GivingTuesday or any
other day!
Make an impact:
You love the community you
live inbut where would you
turn if you became unemployed
or a tragedy struck? So many
people in our community are in
that situation today. make an
impact by donating to mOms
year end campaign.every donation prevents homelessness
and ends hunger for people in
this community.
MOM Gifts of Hope:

Still have people on your
shopping list? Connect your
wish to honor friends, family or
business associates with a gift
that mOm links to those in
need! With donation amounts
that start as low as $10, you can
share the meaning of giving
with everyone on your list
through mOms Gift Catalog. Thanks to a generous

donor, all gifts purchased
through this program (up to a
grand total of $5,000) will be
matched, allowing your gift to
help twice as many people in
need. Find out more about how
mOm Gifts of Hope work
atgiftcatalog.momhelps.org.
Shop the Creating for a

Cause: A Holiday Art Fair:
Over 60 local artists are donating 20% or more of their
proceeds to mOms homelessness prevention and hunger
fighting programs. Come and
shop for a cause December 5
and 6 at the mOm Food Pantry,
with items all created by local
artists. mOm ornaments, Remitts (warm mittens made by
local volunteers out of recycled

sweaters), Food Fight gift cards,
and Gifts of Hope will all be for
sale and will directly benefit
people in our community.
bucky badger will join us on
Sunday from 1-2pm, so grab
your camera and your family
for a holiday photo!
mOm ornaments are also
available at the mOm office
and at both Dinys Jewelers and
Z.bella boutique in downtown
middleton.
Sharing Christmas:
When we think of the holidays, most of our thoughts tend
to veer towards warm memories
of family sharing a spectacular
home-cooked meal and, of
course, gifts spilling out from
beneath an ornate tree. but for
many of our friends and neighbors, the holidays mean something entirely different. For
many, the holidays carry an unmanageable financial and emotional burden. Children and
parents alike could go without
gifts of any kind.
mOm would like to change
that reality for hundreds of families in our service area and
you can help!The 16th annual
Sharing Christmas programwill
once again match donors with
hundreds of local families who
have successfully registered
through mOm. each family
will be screened and then
matched with donors who are
willing and able to spend $50
per family member to ensure
that each receives something
special for the holidays. Donors
may deliver their gifts directly

to the family with whom they
have been matched or may drop
them off at the mOm office for
the family to pick up.
Register online at sharingchristmas.momhelps.org.
Warm hands, Warm hearts

Its cold outside and mittens,
hats, and other warm winter
items are much needed. Dig
through your boxes for gently
used items and make warm
hands your gift to your community this holiday season.
There are even more ways
you can help. Check out our
website
at
holidays.momhelps.org
for
even more opportunities.
Artists work to help neighbors in need
Holiday Art
Fair will take
place Dec. 5-6
Over 60 local artists, including featured artist Scott Draves

of Door Pottery, are donating 20
percent or more of their proceeds to mOms homelessness
prevention and hunger fighting
programs. Come and shop for a
cause December 5 and 6 at the
mOm Food Pantry, with items
all created by local artists.
Also featured at the event
will be mOm Gifts of Hope, an
alternative gift program perfect for purchasing for the person who has everything.
Purchasers receive a card to
give to their gift recipient explaining that a donation was
made in their honor. Thanks to
a generous donor, every gift

purchased through this program
will be matched (up to a total of
$5,000), so your gift will help
twice as many people in need.
Purchases of mOm Gifts of
Hope can also be made through
our online gift catalog and will
also be matched.
This year we are happy to
have the young artists from the
boys and Girls Club Allied
Drive Family Center, beading
Club as participants in Creating
for a Cause. They are selling
some of the jewelry that they
have created to help those in
need.
Join them for photos with
bucky badger! bucky will be
joining us at the Art Fair on
Sunday from 1-2pm. bring
your camera and your family
for a holiday photo.
The event is sponsored by
American Girl.
Creating for a Cause

Holiday Art Fair:
A benefit for MOM
MOM is a local non-profit organizationthat leads a community-wide effort to prevent homelessness and end hunger for
our neighbors throughout Middleton, West Madison and Cross
Plains.Through our business partners, affiliated churches,
area schools, community service clubs, and numerous individuals, we provide food, clothing, housing assistance, emergency
financial assistance, and special services for seniors.All programs are provided free of charge to neighbors in need.
Photo contributed
December 5, 10am-5pm
(Brass Arts performing from 12-1:30pm)
December 6, 11am - 4pm
(Brass Arts performing from 1:30-3:00pm)
Event is free and open to the public
MOM Food Pantry, 3502 Parmenter St. (past
the PDQ) - Free Parking
Free entrance
Visit holidays.momhelps.org for more
Sheriffs Association
contract reached
Dane County executive

Parisi announced recently
that the County has
reached a tentative agreement with the Dane
County Deputy Sheriffs
Association through collective bargaining. The
new agreement on a labor
contract
will
run
through December 10,
2016. The County employs
400 full time equivalent
employees in this bargaining unit.
I am happy we have
been able to come to an
agreement with the Dane
County Deputy Sheriffs
Association, said Dane
County executive Joe
Parisi. This shows that
collective bargaining can
work. Giving employees a
voice in the process is important to maintaining and
attracting a talented workforce.
The principle item
agreed to was an acrossthe board wage increase of
2.99% for regular employ-
ees beginning in the second year of the agreement.

The increase for the bargaining unit is the equivalent to the $.87 an hour
wage increase for non-represented employees recommend in the County
executives proposed 2016
operating budget. The
wage increase and other
economic items agreed to
are within the Countys
budgetary constraints.
Dane County Sheriff
Dave mahoney added, As
our deputies serve and protect our citizens I applaud
Dane County for recognizing their dedicated service
by ensuring we protect
their families and their future by negotiating a fair
collective
bargaining
agreement. Dane County
has shown that by sitting at
the table we can make collective bargaining work.
It will be reviewed by
the Dane County board
committees in the coming
weeks.
Theres no such thing as a free lunch.
But there is FREE graphic design !

When you place your display ad in our
newspaper, FREE graphic design is
included with the cost!
Need something for your

bundle of joy?
Stroller? Toys? Clothes?
Furniture?
Check the classifieds...
you never know what
youll find!
Work on veterans memorial underway

William Sonny Simon

VFW Post 8216 broke ground
last week on a special memorial
at Lakeview Park that will
honor veterans young and old.
The project is being spearheaded by former middleton
mayor and marine (as well as
current post commander) Doug
Zwank and Jim Kurtz, a former
U.S. Army Captain and past
commander of the post, along
with countless veterans, donors
and community members.
Our country was founded
because of citizens who were
willing to stand up for their beliefs and their vision for our
country and, in some cases,
made the ultimate sacrifice,
said Zwank. This tribute is to
recognize and honor all of the
men and women who have followed in peace and in war and
who were willing to serve our
country as well as the families
left behind who supported
them. This tribute is not to glorify war but for our community
to honor all of them.
The middleton Sonny
Simon VFW Post 8216 owes a
big debt of gratitude to the City
of middleton and all of the
donors who have so generously
supported this project, Zwank
continued. As Commander of
the middleton VFW, I and my
fellow members would like to
thank everybody who made this
possible.
To date, the VFW has raised
$318,000 in cash and another
$54,600 in pledged contributions for the project.
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Top: Some of the local veterans who turned this dream into a reality. Above: Steven F. Short,
vice president of The Bruce Company, center, goes over plans for the memorial, which is expected
to be complete sometime in 2016.
Times-Tribune photos by Matt Geiger
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L OCAL T HeATeR
A great show!
Photos by Lori Roden
Middleton High School Drama presented The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee November 12, 1 and 14 at7:30 p.m.in the Performing Arts Center, 2100 Bristol St. The show was
also selected as this years showcase musical at the Wisconsin High School Theatre Festival
(WHSTF) onFriday, November 21.
L IVe m USIC
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Swing City Dolls come to PAC
They will bring their classic sound

to the Middleton-Cross Plains
Performing Arts Center Dec. 5
The Swing City Dolls with

members Natalie Carson, Robin
Vincent and Connie murray
combine three voices in their
unique style for a musical act
that appeals to all ages.
For over ten years, The
Swing City Dolls have appeared
across the Las Vegas Valley and
have opened for Lionel Richie
at the Wynn Hotel and Casino,
and were featured as vocalists
for Frankie Avalon and bobby
Rydell at the (then) Las Vegas
Hilton. They have sung with numerous recording artists including bJ Thomas, Leslie Gore,
marilyn mcCoo, billy Davis Jr.
and Lou Christy.
Reminiscent of the tight harmonies of the Andrews Sisters,
The Swing City Dolls combine
a vintage look and choreography with original musical
arrangements. The Swing City
Dolls present themselves as the
1940s version of the Dream
Girls. The group just added new

swinging arrangements of songs
by Queen, Chicago, beatles and
The Doobie brothers to their
song list by arranger and musical director Jim belk. Their
repertoire even includes Holiday songs to get you in a festive
mood.
Swing City Dolls will perform at middletons own Performing Arts Center, Dec. 5 at
7:30 p.m. presented by The
Friends of the middleton Performing Arts Center. Tickets
are available for seniors $30,
adults $35, and students $10.00.
Tickets can be purchased at
middleton Community bank
(cash or check only), at the
Friends
website:
www.friendspac.org, or the
night of the show at the box office.
For more information you
can call the Friends of the PAC
at 608-886-3103.
Little Matchstick Girl
Artwork by Kerry Dennis
Dancers from Central Midwest Ballet Academy in Middleton will perform The Little Matchstick Girl, and original
ballet based on the classic fairy tale, at The Bartell Theatre
in Madison, Dec. 3 and 4 at 7 p.m. Call 608-661-9696 for
ticket information.
2016 Pheasant Branch Phenology Calendar

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Annual calendar, available now, includes stunning images by local photographers

by DALE KLUBERTANZ
Special to the Times-Tribune
This time of year a very

unique and special calendar is
published here in middleton,
ready for the holidays and the
New Year. It is much anticipated by some, while others are
still discovering it for the first
time each year on the Friends
website or at the various local
retailers who make it available
in their stores.
The calendar is published by
the Friends of Pheasant branch
Conservancy and this year is
filled exclusively with the work
of the middleton HS students. It
is a creative process that brings
together an intergenerational
team of individuals, blending
the knowledge and skills of
middleton youth and adults
alike, through art, writing and
science.
making up the heart of the
calendar are pages full of phenology and fun. Phenology is
defined as the study of cyclic
and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life.
It is filled with color and illustrations tailored to open up a
world of exploration with the
wilderness. each month comes
with a list of what plant and
wildlife species are emerging in
the Conservancy. There is space
to mark day-to-day observations, changes and discoveries
while walking along the paths.
From January to December, the
pages are packed with information dedicated to understanding the natural world, especially
the small stufffrom the farthest reaches of the universe to

the microbes under our feet (A.
Gargas).
At the center of the calendars design, theme and material is creator Andrea Gargas, a
biologist (mycologist) and former UW-madison professor.
She has been the creator and designer of the Friends phenology calendar since its first
edition in 2007. each year,
Andrea turns her talents as
both artist and scientist, working from summer through early
fall to fashioning a new edition
of the phenology calendar. She
draws from a diversity of subject areas that include mammals, birds, fungi, reptiles,
insects, geology, astronomy,
photography, weather, history,
restoration ecology - even
mathematics and physics. betsy
True, a local scientific illustrator and graphic designer, extends her expertise in a final
tweaking of the colors, text,
photos and illustrations.
Alongside the pages of phenology are student photos,
poems and prose from cover to
back illustrating the essence of
each season. board member,
Deb Weitzel, a former middleton-Cross Plains High School
science teacher, has worked
closely each year with teachers
and students to inspire aspiring
young photographers and writers to capture the Conservancy
through their personal art and
writing. The students creations
become a central hallmark to
each years calendar.
As a part of this opportunity,
the students works are entered

in photo and writing contests.
Award recipients are celebrated
during a spring reception. With
each round of seasons, participating youth are afforded new
ways to engage with the Conservancy and the chance to join
an intergenerational effort to
protect the land for future generations.
The Friends 2016 Phenology
Calendar is now ready for purchase and makes a great gift.
They are available for purchase
through the Friends webpage
and at local businesses including Willy St. Coop, Wild birds
Unlimited, UW-Arboretum,
Prairie Caf, UW-bookstore,
Fontana Sports, eagle Optics,
Orange Tree Imports, The Regal
Find, momentum, Wolff-Kubly,
Chauette and the Wisconsin
State Historical Society bookstore.
The Friends of Pheasant
branch Conservancys yearly
phenology calendar will always
be more than just a calendar.
beyond photos, dates and holidays, it reaches to consider
natural history with the touchstone of Pb Conservancy, beginning with the bedrock, water
table and soil through the plant
layer and extending to our atmosphere, out to our location in
the solar system (A. Gargas).
moreover, it is an effort that
represents cross-generational
investment in a fragile and
changing environment and opportunities to know and support
the Pheasant branch Conservancy, both for the present day
and the future.
The Friends Phenology Calendar is available at www.pheasantbranch.org.
Photos contributed
Friends of Pheasant Branch award $1,500 grant

Friends of Pheasant branch
Conservancy President Dagny
myrah announced plans to develop an outdoor education program for students enrolled area
pre-kindergarten programs.
The $1500 cost will come
from the Glen C. Pulver endowment, funded by gifts from the
friends and family of the late
UW-madison educator.
This gift will expand our already extensive cooperation
with school districts in Dane

County, myrah said. educators know that it is not too early
to introduce children to environmental concepts and experiences at four years, an age of
great wonder.
The Pulver funds will be
used to develop a field curriculum and materials in cooperation with middleton/Cross
Plains School District teachers
and library staff. Volunteers
and naturalists who work with

the Friends will also be involved.
We expect the cooperative
development of the concept will
help assure that implementation
will be smooth, said Deb
Weitzel, chair of the Friends
education Committee.
The goal is to have a program
up and running by 2017.
This is an amazing opportunity, said middleton/Cross
Plains 4K/early Childhood

Principal Kari Gault. We continue to be so very grateful for
the generosity of the Friends toward our young people.
Dr. Glen Pulver was a University of Wisconsin-madison
faculty member and Dean who
was known as the father of
community economics. Dr.
Pulver had an avid interest in
the Pheasant branch Conservancy. When he died in 2000,
friends and family began making gifts to the Friends of

Pheasant branch Conservancy
in his memory. In 2008, the
Friends used those accumulated
gifts to establish the Glen C.
Pulver endowment fund. The
principal currently exceeds
$26,200.
Income from this endowment
is intended to support the educational work of the Friends of
Pheasant branch Conservancy.
This Fund, together with a

similar fund dedicated to the
Friends restoration mission, is
managed by the madison Community Foundation. Income is
allocated by the Friends board
of Directors.
Its heartening to us to be
able to keep Glens memory
and his life work as an educator
alive in this way, President
myrah said.
Celebrating 20 years protecting the conservancy

On Sunday, Nov. 15, Friends board
member John Daly welcomed an audience of approximately eighty community members to the middleton PAC.
The primary purpose of this special
afternoon event was to celebrate the
20th Anniversary of the Friends of
Pheasant branch as a non-profit organization.
This free public event began with a
social mix and multiple table displays
that shared visuals and text materials
focused on the current efforts of the
Friends four standing committees (Development & marketing, education,
Restoration & management and Watershed) and the initiatives of our environmental partners (Dane County Parks,
middleton Public Lands, Recreation &
Forestry and the middleton High
School ecology Club).
In 2015, two video documentary

projects were created that looked at the
Pheasant branch Conservancy (PbC)
from two perspectives. Students from
middleton High School did a current
review of the impact the PbC has on
the community. A second video documentary researched the original acquisition of the PbC through interviews of
early neighbors along the Creek Corridor and some the original members of
the Friends of Pheasant branch Conservancy organization.
Complimentary DVD copies of both
video documentaries were presented to
all in attendance. Additional copies
will be given to the public library, the
school district for distribution to the
schools, and to our intergenerational
partners in the community - Heritage,
middleton Glen, the Senior Center and
Roughly 80 people attended a special Friends of Pheasant Branch event at the Middleton-Cross Plains Performing
Arts Center on Nov. 15.
Photos contributed
Attic Angels.
The students video documentary
project was supported by a grant award
from the American Girl Fund for Children. The November 15th celebration
event was supported by a grant award

from the middleton endowment.
If your organization is interested in
receiving these DVDs, please contact
FoPbC board member, John Daly (jh-
daly@charter.net) or write to the

Friends of Pheasant branch Conservancy, Inc. at P.O. box 628242, middleton, WI 53562-8242
GEIGER
Counter
by Matt Geiger
My babys
shrinking head
I used to think my daughters head

was shrinking.
It began with a casual visit to the
doctors office shortly after she was
born. The kind at which people in
smocks weigh, measure and poke your
child.
Anyone who has tried to obtain the
exact measurements of an infant knows
the task is roughly as easy as figuring
out the precise number of angels that
can dance on the head of a needle.
Nurses tend to make a loose loop of
flexible measuring tape, then attempt
to lasso your infants cranium like
someone in a Wild West show roping a
bucking calf.
During one visit, the nurse, satisfied
that my squirming daughters head had
briefly occupied the space inside the
loop, jotted down an arbitrary number
and went on with her day.
Three months later, at the next
checkup, we saw a different nurse. The
kind who I doubt cuts many corners in
life. This was the type of woman who
weighs flour when baking, because air
pockets in a measuring cup might lead

to tiny, unacceptable irregularities. The
kind of person who makes appointments for times like 5:43 p.m.
She measured our daughter with the
intense gravitas I usually only show
when selecting my annual Thanksgiving turkey.
She insisted on wrapping the tape
tightly around little Hadleys head,
then cinching it like an equestrian
trying to get a saddle onto a bloated
horse - before carefully writing down
the measurement. She marked the
number with her thumb, then looked at
it from several different angles to make
sure it was correct.
This all seemed fine until the doctor
arrived several minutes later. Looking
quizzically at a computer-generated
chart that showed our daughters head
shrinking by several inches over the
course of three months, she uttered the
most terrifying sound a medical professional can make.
Huh?
Im 36 years old, and I still think
back with vexation and horror at the
time, when I was a kid, that a doctor
quietly muttered hhmm while giving
me a physical. Three decades later I
sometimes wake up in the middle of
the night wondering: What was it?

What about me was so strange that
someone who had read thousands of
pages of medical texts was so surprised? What is wrong with me?
Hadleys doctor was eventually able
to collect herself, and this time I wasnt
leaving without an explanation.
It would appear, if you just look at
the chart, that your daughters head is
much smaller than the last time she visited us, she said without any of the
horror that should accompany those
words spoken in that order.
I knew something terrible was
going to happen, I thought. The universe couldnt just let me have this one
thing. Well thats just great.
There were two possibilities, as far
as I could tell.
The first was that Hadley had the
benjamin button disease, and she was
aging in reverse. but that seemed unlikely, since most of Scott Fitzgeralds
writing has little or no connection to
the actual world.
The other, far more likely scenario
was that someone had placed a curse or
hex on my family. People threaten that
type of thing all the time, usually after
they show up in the court report of the
local newspapers I edit. It was only, I
mused as I examined my daughters
forehead, a matter of time before something like this happened.
Then I remembered hearing about a
condition called microcephaly. It was
on one of those television shows that
pretend to be educational but are really
designed to make viewers realize that
momentarily shaky cell phone reception or the barista getting their order
wrong that morning do not, in fact,
All Manner
of Things
by Deb Biechler
Middletons
lasting
impression
Its been a very long while

since I contributed an All
manner of Things column to
the Middleton Times-Tribune.
Since writing last, my life has
gone through an incredible
shift.
As part of the shift I have left
middleton and have taken up
residence in Waterloo, WI.
Little by little, through the
months of August, September
and October, I packed a few belongings into my car and carried
them to my new residence on
the other side of madison.
On October 17, the U-Haul
was rented. Friends and family
helped to shift the last of my
possessions to my new residence and to a storage unit at
the edge of the city I will now
call home.
During the following weeks,
I went back to clean behind and
under the places my furniture
sat.
because there were only a
few cabinets in my middleton
apartment kitchen, one of the
first pieces of furniture that I
purchased was a credenza. It is
made of teak wood and is quite
heavy.
The back is long and straight.
The sides curve toward a
slightly rounded front.
I was too busy on the day of
the move to notice then, but,
when I walked into the dining
area on cleaning day, I was
struck that where the credenza
sat, the carpet was indented in
the shape of my initial D.
I took a photo of it and for a
few moments, hoped that the
impression that I made on middleton was a good one.
What flowed to me, immediately after that thought, was a
parade of ways that middleton
left an indelible impression on
me. my heart overflows with
gratitude for my time in your
community.
And, since this is the week of
Thanksgiving, I thought it appropriate to write about the
many people, places and things
in middleton that I have been
thankful for.
Firstly, my apartment in the
original Parmenter Circle building was a prime location for
traveling by foot in middleton
and by bus to madison. The
people who lived and worked
there were friendly and helpful.
Another boon was that its location allowed me easy access
into the Pheasant branch Conservancy.
I spent countless days there,
walking alone or with friends,
viewing wildlife, learning about

birds from Lisa mettel and
mike mcDowell, participating
in a 5K, or just sitting on one of
the benches and contemplating
life.
If you havent donated to the
Friends of Pheasant branch yet,
Thanksgiving is a great time to
do so to show thankful support
for the work that this group
does to keep the conservancy in
prime condition.
middletons Outreach ministry, mOm, also made a huge
impression on me. Through
that organization, an amazing
group of people, with an amazing amount of energy, serve residents in meaningful ways.
The part that I was tucked
into was mOms mentoring
garden. my contribution was
minimal, at best. For mentoring
two families in their efforts to
grow vegetables, I was allowed
a plot of my own.
more precious than the vegetables that I grew there, were
the relationships that I grew
with the families that I worked
with and with the garden manager, Dan Johnson. His commitment, expertise and energy
are boundless.
I am so grateful to him for
teaching me so much more
about growing vegetables, and
for his generosity of both spirit
and produce! Not only did he
make sure that I had a garden
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make them the unluckiest people on

earth.
but those afflicted with microcephaly simply have small heads. Their
heads are tiny from the start. I couldnt
remember anything about heads that
were actively getting smaller.
After staying silent for long enough
that I was able to think all these horrifying thoughts, the doctor smiled and
shrugged: I wouldnt worry about it.
Wiggly babies can be hard to measure.
Well just keep and eye on it and
makes sure her head has grown next
time we see her, she added, a little too
flippantly for my taste.
Or what? I wondered. Is there
treatment if her head is getting smaller,
or do I just bring her straight to an early
20th Century carnival sideshow and try
to raise money for many small but
fashionable hats.
I have long wondered why people
whisper when they pray. Is the idea that
God has really good hearing, so He can
hear you all the way from His heavenly
throne without the need to shout? Or is
it and this is the more likely answer that most people are hoping none of
their mortal peers will hear that they
are asking a supreme being for thicker
hair rather than world peace?
In any case, thats the voice I heard
in my head that afternoon, sitting nervously in the doctors office.
If her head grows, I will be so
thankful, I whispered to myself within
the relative privacy of my brain. So
truly appreciative.
This all happened a year ago, and it
turns out the doctor was correct. An
plot for three years, but he often

shared his own garden produce
with me as well!
The middleton Public Library is another gem. The selection of books, programs and
DVDs, provided much of my
alone time entertainment while
living there. If youve not tuned
into the library and all that it offers, youre missing out on a
lot!
There are so very many people, too numerous to mention,
who welcomed me to the community and who reached out in
friendship by inviting me to
potlucks, afternoons of Scrabble, conversations over coffee
and more.
I attended great events at
Holy Wisdom monastery and at
the High Schools Performing
Arts Center. And I ate at many
of middletons great restaurants
- too many to name!
One person who I feel the
need to mention by name is editor of the Middleton Times-Tribune, matt Geiger.
After
sending in several letters to the
editor, I met matt and asked if I
could contribute to the paper as
a writer.
He took me on board, giving
me the space for this column,
and later inviting me to freelance. middleton is lucky to
have a paper of this caliber and
especially matts award winning columns.
When I typed the word credenza earlier in this column, I
stopped writing for a few minutes to look it up in the dictionary.
The word comes from the
english word credence and the
imprecise measurement or perhaps

an overly precise measurement, if you
share my view on the matter was the
culprit. After all, the initial measurement, slapdash though it was, didnt
cause any consternation until the more
rigorous nurse showed up.
Just further proof that most of the
worlds problems are caused by people
who take their jobs far too seriously.
either way, I could safely rule out
black magic.
Today, Hadley has grown into a robust, full sized toddler with a matching
head. In fact, her cranium is practically
bursting right now, as the brain encased
in it races to ponder every word she
hears, every sight she sees and every
household item she shatters.
She splits her time between trying to
master language, and running around
our house performing trust falls without warning the rest of us that we are
expected to catch her as she plummets
off the dinner table.
The early magic of child rearing is
often replaced by the physical and
mental exercise of keeping her alive
and entertained. After all, your child
looks slightly less angelic when she
kicks you in the face on the way to the
urgent care clinic, or when she is flushing your favorite book down the toilet.
but this week, as Hadley and I head
down to the supermarket to select our
Thanksgiving turkey, Ill remember the
time I briefly thought her head was getting smaller. As I weigh, measure and
poke the big birds carcass, displaying
all the assiduity of a very serious nurse,
I will take a moment to give thanks for
my daughters growing head.
Italian word for belief. The first

credenzas were used in Italy to
hold food that needed to be
tasted to test for poison before
it was served up to the VIPs of
the time.
Its a bit of a stretch to keep
this credenza connection going.
but, Im going to do it anyway.
middleton serves up an incredible place to live and work.
It has made a lasting impression

on me that I will always be
grateful for. It is a place where
people believe in and invest in
each other.
I plan to visit often and thank
matt and the Middleton TimesTribune for allowing me to continue in my capacity as a writer.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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RACE
at the event at the police station

titled, equity vs. equality: an
examination of the racial inequities that exist in Dane
County.
The racism and racial disparities that exist across the nation
impact Dane County more than
many people realize, they said.
In the United States, the unemployment rate for African
Americans is four times higher
than that of whites. A stunning
41 percent of blacks live in
poverty, compared to 10 percent
of whites. African American
adults are eight times more
likely to be arrested than whites
and black youth are fifteen
times more likely to be arrested.
but community leaders in
middleton are joining with
other groups throughout the
county to initiate a communitywide attempt in fuel change,
they said.
The workshop was a follow
up to a community panel held at
the middleton Public Library
discussing the issues raised in
the book Just mercy, by
bryan Stevenson. The book
was featured in this years Go
big Read program, co-sponsored by UW-madison and the
madison Public Library. Panel
members at the workshop included brown, Foulke, Urban
League CeO Ruben Anthony,
Dane County Sheriff Dave mahoney, and Dane County Judge
Josann Reynolds.
In the context of national and
local history, the speakers discussed the roots of racism in
America and how it has manifested over time. The speakers
shared presentations, videos,
and discussion to offer a
glimpse of the work being done
in the school district and com-
munity to address these issues,

and to begin to identify additional opportunities for change.
Foulke said the workshop
was a much needed step and
added that he is dedicated to
taking on some of the issues. In
may he presented city officials
with numerous options to reduce the racial inequities that
are found in middletonscriminal justice system. He proposed
modifying city fines and forfeitures, eliminating or reducing
cannabis possession fines, and
changing policing trends and
hiring practices.
The racial and ethnic disparities in our country, county and
community are getting the attention and action that are
sorely needed, Foulke said.
The equity vs. equality training is a logical step in maintaining the momentum that
community leaders have been
building to address this very
real problem. I am pleased to be
part of the planning team for
this training and feel the middleton Police Department can
be part of the solution.
The attendees participated in
a number of activities that
demonstrated implicit bias they
said people have but arent
often aware of.
We have these associations
deep within us as a result of
things we have been taught intentionally and unintentionally,
Love said. There are many
sources, and then this unconsciousness operates in the background and belies our good
intentions.
Part of our task as we go
forward is to critically question
what we are seeing and hearing
and even hearing in conversation, Love explained. It is to
continued from page 1
Percy Brown, director of equity and student achievement for the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, speak during a
November 14 discussion at the Middleton Police Station.
Times-Tribune photo by Cameron Bren
be more aware and more conscious about the words that are
chosen to portray certain people
in a certain way.
brown and Love detailed
what a racial micro-aggression is and how over time it
can have a major impact on
people of color. brown shared
a personal example of microaggression, describing how
whenever he meets with another
African American colleague,
someone in a leadership role
will always interrupt and ask if
they should be part of the conversation. He said he wouldnt
give it much thought if it didnt
happen literally every time.

The crazy thing about it is
often times it is unintended,
brown explained. In the work
environment you may be the
only person of color, little
things like that can happen 50
times a day and that is exhausting. Its like how do you get
that off and prepare yourself to
come back the next day?
In explaining racial microaggression, Love caught herself
making one, she said: One
thing we can do is teach our
own racism, she said. I said
something that was a micro-aggression - I mean Ive been
studying this stuff for years trying to unlearn what has been engrained in me.
What Love said before almost immediately correcting
herself was: What we can do in
our community is tell the other
story, the positive stories over
and over of the good things all
people are doing,despitetheir

backgrounds.
Love said that she should not
have used the word despite.
We are doing good work,
but we have a long, long way to
go, Love said. In middletonCross Plains, as Percy mentioned, we dont have one black
teacher - thats crazy. We need
to do a lot of work around that
sort of thing.
brown described how micro
aggressions could play out for
students of color in the district.
He said when African-American students dont see a teacher
that looks like them and deal
with micro-aggressions daily, it
can lead to poor behavior. He
said if they try to tell a teacher
about something they felt was
racist it will usually shut down
the conversation. He says its a
snowballing effect that gets
worse over time.
brown says its a difficult

and sometimes daunting task but he knows that if he focuses
on the students it could have a
major impact on their lives
going forward.
Love listed efforts that are
being made within the school
district, including a committee
in the district that is working on
raising the voices of students
and bringing in people of color
who are part of our community
who can say what the district is
doing wrong and how it feels
when they walk through the
doors.
She also mentioned the districts partnership with a national group called the minority
Student Achievement Network,
eliminating fees for students,
working with board members to
realign resources, community
partnerships and training for all
groups.
HUNTER
Jerry Gunderson inspects microfossils (left) and holds a mammoths tooth (right) at his Middleton home.
ered modern-day Alabama. Insects from Colorado. A laboratory filled with glass beakers
and staunch chemicals to break
apart ancient rocks and reveal
the mysteries frozen inside.
And 1.8 billion-year-old
Stromatolites. Theyre the critters that made the oxygen for us
to breath, explains 73-year-old
Jerry Gunderson, holding so
many eons of history in the
palm of his hand.
This is Gundersons home,
and it is where he spends his
free time peering gleefully back
into the murk of primordial
epochs. At floral and fauna that
predate the dinosaurs. And microfossils so minute you can fit
10,000 on a single microscope
slide.
Like a less mercurial Sherlock Holmes, he spends his
leisure time sleuthing through
history, finding preserved life
forms that were locked in time
by volcanic ash or shale, trading
with other collectors, and donating countless items to academia.
Theyre so elegant, Gunderson says with an impish grin
that belies his age. They look
like pieces of art.
Gunderson, who grew up in
Appleton, WI, came to the
Good Neighbor City in 1969,
teaching math and science for
26 years at Kromrey middle
School in the middleton-Cross
Plains Area School District.
Once I figured it out, it was
a lot of fun, he recalls. I found
that middle school students had
more energy, and they were
more curious. High school students didnt want to show that
they knew anything, or they
wouldnt raise their hand because they were afraid of being
wrong.
Gunderson had already been
interested in fossils for much of
his life when he arrived in middleton. but he wanted his passion to remain a hobby, rather
than a day job that might eventual grow dreary.
It worked, as his enthusiasm
for archeology is stronger than
ever these days.
It all began when he visited a
quarry one day during his
youth, coming home with pockets spilling over with fossils he
founds there. That day opened
his eyes to the fact that we are
literally surrounded by relics
from earths history.
All you have to do, Gunderson explains, is look.
Fossils are all around us,
PAGE 11
he says. They are, for the most

part, very small. You often need
to crack rocks open to find
them. but they are everywhere.
We talk about this a lot
when we collect, he continues.
About being the first person to
see something hundreds of
thousands of years old.
Fossils, in simple terms, are
living organisms that die and
are quickly covered up and
therefore protected from the decaying effects of things like
bacteria, oxygen and scavengers.
It is something that happens

to astonishingly few things
the vast majority of living organisms are simply consumed
by the planet right after their die
but when it does, Gunderson
is often there, millions of years
later, to unlock their mysteries.
A member of the midwestern
American Paleontological Society, Gunderson is aided by an
impressive memory that allows
his to catalogue the items he
finds.
I have a visual memory, he
says. Anything I see, I dont
forget. I could take you back to
a place I visited in the 50s and

show you exactly where I found
it.
While many fossil hunters do
it for the money, Gunderson has
donated a staggering number of
items to the University of Wisconsin.
The thing is, I never really
needed much money, he reflects. I never needed to make
a quick buck.
Stephen Hesselbo, a geologist with the Universities of Oxford and exeter, even named a
fossil after Gunderson.
While fossils are ubiquitous,
Times-Tribune photos by Matt Geiger
they are also very special and,

as Gunderson puts it, dazzling.
Think about all the things
that are now living, he says.
Whats the chance they will
become fossils? One in a million?
Still spry, Gunderson says he
is as excited by fossils today as
he was the day he came home
with his pockets full of his first
finds.
Its the adventure, he says.
exploring. Discovering. He
says his interests go in
phases.
Right now Im into microfossils, he says. Things so

small that if you dumped a
thousands of them onto a table
you wouldnt know they were
there.
Looking through a microscope, Gunderson marvels at
them and recites, from memory,
what they are and where they
came from.
He has praise for the big fossils he finds, too. After all, as
Gunderson puts it with a smile:
I never found a fossil I didnt
like.
PAGE 12
m IDDLeTON A ReA H ISTORICAL S OCIeTY

The massive fire that devastated Middleton
Tuesday night, June 19

[1900] will long be remembered
by Middletonians. At about 6:30
p.m. on that date, W. Hoffmans
mill ominously tooted the fatal
toot, and there was a rush for
the mill from all directions.
Men and women, boys and girls
trying to outstrip each other in
their eagerness to get there first,
some had chemical fire extinguishers and some buckets, but
all had blanched eager faces,
for they knew danger was ahead
of them but at that time few realized the terrible strain they
would have to undergo before
the night was past and the desolation old Sol would reveal
when he next showed his shining face.
This colorful passage was

part of a long article that appeared in the June 29, 1900 edition of the Waunakee News
describing the great fire in
downtown middleton and its aftermath. middletons newspaper, the Times-Herald was
unable to publish for a while because the print shop had burned
along with many other business
structures; therefore, the story
was featured on page one of the
Waunakee News which was also
published by Middleton TimesHerald
Publisher/editor,
Thomas A. everill (who most
likely wrote the dramatic copy).
The June 19 fire destroyed a
large part of downtown middleton with about 19 buildings and
12 barns or outbuildings going
up in flames. The blaze started
in William Hoffmans grist mill
(middleton Roller mills) located on the south side of elmwood Ave. (in the 7400 block,
near todays Senior Center).
With a strong east wind, the fire
quickly spread to other buildings on Hubbard Ave. and Parmenter St.
Weisenbergs
blacksmith shop next door
caught fire and windblown cinders and flaming debris were
soon everywhere as building
after building was consumed.
The fire burned all buildings on
elmwood west to Parmenter,
and all of them on Parmenters
east side north to University
Ave. (including the middleton

Hotel). It also turned south and
burned everything along the
east side of Parmenter to Hubbard Ave.
The fire also jumped across
elmwood from the mill site and
soon burned John Dahlks
blacksmith shop, the Coolidge
barn (but spared Dr. Coolidges
house) and the wheelwrights
shop next door. The wheelwright, Henry G. Wolf, saved
his home with the aid of all
family members. He placed a
large carpet, ripped from the
living room, onto his roof and
wet it down with well water
provided by his wife, son and
three daughters who formed a
bucket brigade. The old carpet,
with a few burn marks, has survived and is now on display at
the middleton Fire Station on
University Ave.
The fire jumped across Parmenter St. at the University
Ave. intersection and burned
another large building on the
southwest corner containing
mattresses and furniture stored
there by the buildings owner
Frank Durkopp. In addition, the
building also housed Thomas
everills printing shop where he
published the Middleton TimesHerald.
At the time, middleton had
no Fire Department, and soon,
as the fire raced through the village, word went out to madison
for help. Although madison
firefighters hopped on a train,
they arrived about an hour later
and had forgotten to bring hoses
long enough to reach a big well
beneath the distillery. Therefore, they provided little assistance to the desperate bucket
brigade volunteers. Later that
evening, as the fire died down,
some looters arrived on the
scene and caused added problems for the police and property
owners. business losses from
the fire ranged from a few hundred dollars to $17,000; insurance payments helped some,
but not everyone had coverage.
but out of the ashes a new
middleton soon rose up; construction began throughout the
commercial section of down-
town. As the Waunakee News

story suggested, part of
middleton will soon assume a
new garb that will put to shame
the old even as it appeared before the fire steps have been
taken to rebuild on a larger scale
than before... This optimism
proved true as many business
owners quickly started to rebuild: Dahlk, Gruen, Prien,
brumm & brumm, muetz,
Durkopp and DuFrenne brothers were among those who soon
began the reconstruction of
downtown middleton.
most of the new buildings
were of brick construction and
many of the remaining commercial buildings are dated to after
the fire 1901-1902. Several
prominent buildings survived
the fire along Parmenter St. and
some are still used today. Three
notable structures can be seen in
the photo on page one (labeled
A, b and C) can you identify
them? building A was first the
Weinberg bldg. and by 1890 the
Schroeder bldg. (or Hall),
building b was the DuFrenne
bldg. and building C, the
American House.
In the same Waunakee News
story, Publisher everill pleaded
for middleton to organize a
hook and ladder company with
a small hand engine and plenty
of ladders, long enough
His plea was soon heeded and
on February 4, 1901 in August
Schroeders Hall, middleton
Fire Company No. 1 was officially organized. Article I of the
Company charter stated that the
first 22 signers (Village residents over 16 years of age)
would become Department
members. Ironically, the following meeting notice had appeared in the Middleton
Times-Herald on may 26, 1899
(nearly one year before the
great fire occurred):
There are quite a few of our

citizens who are desirous of organizing a fire department for
the benefit of this village A
meeting for this purpose will be
held at William Hoffmans Hall
Saturday evening
Top: Viewing the ruins soon after the fire in 1900. Today, buildings A, B and C still stand
along Parmenter Street and are part of the downtown business community.
Above: The Fires Origin - in Hoffmans Middleton Roller Mills
Middleton Historical Society Archives photos
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Fruit sale supports student musicians

Would you like to support local
music education and enjoy some
very fresh fruit this winter? Then the
middleton High School band and
Orchestra Parents Associations annual fruit sale is for you.
Fruit can be ordered from any
mHS band or Orchestra student
through November 29. Your order
will be delivered to your home or
work, beginning on Saturday, Dec.
12.
Thirteen options are available,
with prices ranging from $10 to $45.
This years offerings include Texas
Rio Red grapefruit, California
navel oranges, apples, pears and citrus medleys and very popular varietal Gift Packs. This is some of the
best fruit you will eat this winter!
The citrus is on the tree less than a
week before the delivery day in middleton. It is top-quality fruit, shipped
by semi to the high school and handsorted and packed by parent and student volunteers. The fruit keeps very
well and makes great holiday gifts.
As in the past, you can designate
all or part of your order to be donated
middleton Outreach ministrys food
pantry and the students will deliver
it there for you.

The proceeds from this sale provide funds for student music camp
scholarships, guest performers and
clinicians, and uniform and equipment upkeep for band and orchestra
students at mHS. The proceeds also
help pay for the biennial band and
orchestra tour trips, which combine
musical performance and listening
opportunities in a well-organized
program over the students spring
break.
Last year, band and orchestra students traveled to London and participated in a number of events,
including the London New Years
Day Parade and the Cadogan Hall
Gala Concert Series.
Dont know a band or orchestra
student? Call (608) 622-2757 or
email mhsfruitsale@gmail.com with
your name, address and email address by November 29. A student
will contact you to take your order.
Or visit www.mhsfruitsale.org to see
all that is available and place your
order.
Get a start on your winter vitamin
C needs and order some fruit from
the band and orchestra today.
Call (608) 622-2757 or email mhsfruitsale@gmail.com with your name, address and email address by November 29 to
order your fruit.
Photo contributed
Students show how much they care
Photos contributed
Operation Kids Care Gang of Six includes Audrey Alexander (3rd grade, Northside), Jack Alexander (6th grade, Kromery), Karysn Gibson (5th grade, Kromery), Jaxon Martin (5th grade,
Kromery), Nate Martin (6th grade, Kromery) and Bianca Porras (6th grade, Kromery). For more information on Operation Kids Care, please contactOperationKidsCareWI@gmail.com.
Operation Kids Care was
started by six area kids who
joined forces to help homeless
people in the middleton area.
At the beginning of the
school year, three of the friends
repeatedly saw homeless people
on their way to dance classes.
Rather than ignoring the prob-
lem, these budding community

leaders began weekly car ride
discussions on how they could
help. Their call to action expanded to a big brother plus his
two friends and, as a result, the
gang of six was born. motivated to make a difference, they
sprang into action with a plan.
After researching ways to

provide meaningful assistance,
the gang of six decided to assemble Care Kits to be given to
people in need. On a
Saturday night in November,
they launched their first Care
Kit party. each child brought
several items to be included in
the kits and they assembled the

packages as a team. The gallonsized Care Kits included a water
bottle, socks, toothbrush/toothpaste, chap stick, hand wipes,
granola bars, fruit snacks,
peanut butter crackers, and a
personalized note from the kids.
Perhaps the most rewarding part
of the night was writing their

personalized notes of compassion such as Dear friend, I
hope you enjoy these goodies
that were packed with love and
care.
At the end of the night, each
member of the gang of six left
with Care Kits for the parents
cars and a desire to do even

more.
With a plan to expand their
vision and assemble additional
Care Kits in the near future,
these young philanthropists
show no signs of stopping.
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Operating vehicle without insurance, 01/02/2015, $0.00,
1715 Laurel Crst, madison, WI
53705
Alderman, Andrew D, 63,
Non Registration, 01/02/2015,
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Allen, Lakeem A JR, 22, Operating vehicle without insurance, 01/20/2015, $124.00, 301
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Allen, Lakeem A JR, 22, Operating while Suspended,
01/20/2015, $124.00, 301
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WI 53532
Alvarez
Gasca,
Victor
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2120 High Ridge Trl # 105,
Fitchburg, WI 53713
Alvarez
Gasca,
Victor
Noe, 19, Operating vehicle
without insurance, 01/15/2015,
$124.00, 2120 High Ridge Trl
# 105, Fitchburg, WI 53713
Alvarez
Gasca,
Victor
Noe, 19, Unsafe backing Of
Vehicle, 01/15/2015, $98.80,
2120 High Ridge Trl # 105,
Fitchburg, WI 53713
Aurit, Anthony G, 55, Operating
While
Intoxicated,
01/21/2015, $861.00, 2522 8Th
St, monroe, WI 53566
Aurit, Anthony G, 55, Operating With/PAC .08-.099,
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8Th St, monroe, WI 53566
bermea Saldana, Omar
A, 18, Operating vehicle without insurance, 01/24/2015,
$124.00, 3618 Valley Ridge
Rd, middleton, WI 53562
bermea Saldana, Omar
A, 18, No Drivers License on
Person, 01/24/2015, $0.00,
3618 Valley Ridge Rd, middleton, WI 53562
bohen, mary L, 70, FTS/Improper Stop at Stop Sign,
12/22/2014, $98.80, 5819
Woodcreek Ln, middleton, WI
53562
brito Cacerez, Ana V, 43,
6612 elmwood Ave, middleton, WI 53562
brito Cacerez, Ana V, 43,
Failure to Keep Vehicle Under
Control, 01/26/2015, $136.60,
6612 elmwood Ave, middleton, WI 53562
Campbell, michael e, 34,
battery, 11/05/2014, $691.00,
312 Wisconsin Ave, madison,
WI 53703
Carranza morales, Leoncio, 22, motor vehicle liability
insurance required, 01/14/2015,
$10.00, 6327 Pheasant Ln # 43,
middleton, WI 53562
Carranza morales, Leoncio, 22, FTS/Improper Stop at
Stop Sign, 01/14/2015, $98.80,
6327 Pheasant Ln # 43, middleton, WI 53562
Carranza morales, Leoncio, 22, Operating vehicle without insurance, 01/14/2015,
$124.00, 6327 Pheasant Ln #
43, middleton, WI 53562
Chardon, Gabriela elise, 18,
Auto Following Too Closely,
01/21/2015, $136.60, 7102
Park Shores Ct, middleton, WI
53562
Clacks, Stanford Latrail, 28,
C ITY C OURT R ePORT

512 W Wilson St Apt b3,

madison, WI 53703
Vehicle
Registration
Revoked/Suspended/Cancel,
01/24/2015, $98.80, 512 W
Wilson St Apt b3, madison, WI
53703
Operating while Suspended,
01/24/2015, $124.00, 512 W
Wilson St Apt b3, madison, WI
53703
Cuahutepitzi Pichon, Fulgencio, 44, exceeding Zones and
Posted Limits, 01/21/2015,
$174.40, 4613 Crescent Rd # 3,
Fitchburg, WI 53711
Cuahutepitzi Pichon, Fulgencio, 44, Operating w/o a Valid
Drivers License, 01/21/2015,
$124.00, 4613 Crescent Rd # 3,
Fitchburg, WI 53711
Cuahutepitzi Pichon, Fulgencio, 44, Operating vehicle without insurance, 01/21/2015,
$124.00, 4613 Crescent Rd # 3,
Fitchburg, WI 53711
Dennard, Andre L, 54, Retail
Theft/ Shoplifting, 06/06/2014,
$345.90, 1490
martin St,
madison, WI 53713
Dorsey, Gregory L, 30, Vehicle
Registration
01/13/2015, $98.80, 1116
emerald St, madison, WI
53715
Fish, Julie A, 40, Operating
vehicle without insurance,
01/17/2015, $124.00, 667 S Ira
St, Richland Center, WI 53581
Fish, Julie A, 40, Vehicle
Registration
Revoked/Suspended/Cancel, 01/17/2015,
$98.80, 667 S Ira St, Richland
Center, WI 53581
Fleres, Amy L, 51, Auto Following
Too
Closely,
01/20/2015, $124.00, 4530
Stein Ave, madison, WI 53714
Flynn, Kara D, 40, FYR to
Pedestrian/bicyclist/ePAmD at
Uncontro, 01/15/2015, $250.00,
7714 brule St, madison, WI
53717
Glenn, Quentrell T, 23, Operating w/o a Valid Drivers License, 01/18/2015, $124.00,
1033 Gammon Lane, madison,
WI 53719 2210
Green, Lawanda V, 37, Vehicle Owners Liability for Fleeing Officer, 03/09/2014, $0.00,
709 Vera Court, Apt. #7, madison, WI 53704
Green, Lawanda V, 37,
Owner Liability FYR to emergency Vehicle, 03/09/2014,
$0.00, 709 Vera Court, Apt. #7,
madison, WI 53704
Harrison, April D, 33, Operating
while
Suspended,
01/08/2015, $124.00, 201
Kearney Way # 206, Waunakee,
WI 53597
Harrison, April D, 33, Fail-
ure To Report Accident,

01/08/2015, $313.00, 201
Kearney Way # 206, Waunakee,
WI 53597
Henslin, matthew m, 21,
Prohibited Noise Disturbance,
01/17/2015, $187.00, 3007
Patty Ln, middleton, WI 53562
Hildreth, Tyler D, 19, Operating vehicle without insurance,
01/14/2015, $124.00, 426 mineral St, mineral Point, WI
53565
Hubbard, Travis D, 43, exceeding Zones and Posted Limits, 01/19/2015, $98.80, 1127
Gils Way, Cross Plains, WI
53528
Inderdahl, Jade D, 24, Issuance Worthless Checks,
09/23/2014, $1,951.00, 1261 e
Hiawatha Dr, Wisconsin Dells,
WI 53965
Inderdahl, Jade D, 24, Issuance Worthless Checks,
09/27/2014, $1,321.00, 1261 e
Hiawatha Dr, Wisconsin Dells,
WI 53965
Irish, Anne V, 72, exceeding
Zones and Posted Limits,
01/24/2015, $98.80, 3900
Sumac Cir, middleton, WI
53562
Jacobs Frank, Amy K, 57,
Improper
Right
Turn,
12/02/2014,
$0.00,
7451
Franklin Ave, middleton, WI
53562
motor vehicle liability insurance required, 12/02/2014,
$0.00, 7451 Franklin Ave, middleton, WI 53562
Operating While Intoxicated,
12/02/2014, $811.00, 7451
Franklin Ave, middleton, WI
53562
Jilot, Thomas C, 45, Non
Registration,
01/11/2015,
$98.80, 2507 middleton beach
Rd, middleton, WI 53562
Juric, Sonja R, 42, method
of Giving Signals, 12/30/2014,
$98.80, 3502 Valley Ridge Rd,
middleton, WI 53562
Karampudi, Sriharsha, 28,
method of Giving Signals,
01/23/2015, $98.80, 303 N
Hamilton St Apt 113, madison,
WI 53703
Kessenich, Jeremy J, 35,
FTS/Improper Stop at Stop
Sign, 01/23/2015, $98.80, 6525
Hubbard Ave, middleton, WI
53562
King, Alvin b, 38, Vehicle
Registration
$98.80, 1530 Jenifer St, madison, WI 53703
King, Alvin b, 38, motor vehicle liability insurance required, 01/13/2015, $10.00,
1530 Jenifer St, madison, WI
53703
Kinsey, Gretchen m, 33,
Disorderly
Conduct,
01/21/2015, $250.00, 5250
brindisi Ct # 8, middleton, WI
53562
Kolkovich, Lee A, 32, Non
Registration,
01/06/2015,
$98.80, 300 Frances Ln, Waterloo, WI 53594
Kostas, evangelos, 46, exceeding Zones and Posted Limits, 01/19/2015, $98.80, 3640
Flagstone Cir, middleton, WI
53562
Le, bryan, 26, No Drivers
License on Person, 12/30/2014,
$98.80, 909 W Pleasant St,
Portage, WI 53901
marquardt, Colin J, 24, Failure to Keep Vehicle Under Control, 01/23/2015, $136.60, 5158
brindisi Ct # 4, middleton, WI
53562
mc Arron, marcia m, 65,
Operating While Intoxicated,
12/20/2014, $861.00, 814 bowman Avenue, madison, WI
53716
mc Arron, marcia m, 65,
Operating Left of Center Line,
12/20/2014, $0.00, 814 bowman Avenue, madison, WI
53716
miller, brian J, 36, Theft,
11/30/2014, $274.00, 6237
University Ave # 7, madison,
WI 53705
miller, Timothy A, 55, Non
Registration,
01/12/2015,
$98.80, 5135 Sunrise Ridge
Trl, middleton, WI 53562
moen, Zachary C, 20, Underage Consume/Possess Alcoholic beverages, 01/17/2015,
$187.00, W11097 Deer Run
Dr, Lodi, WI 53555
Nachreiner, Jason T, 40, Non
Registration,
12/31/2014,
$0.00, 307 Topeka Trl, Waunakee, WI 53597
Nebel, marc A, 36, Possession of Controlled Substance,
01/12/2015, $281.50, 7440
Century Ave Apt 6, middleton,
WI 53562
Patrick, Logan J, 19, Underage Consume/Possess Alcoholic
beverages,
01/17/2015,
$187.00, W10932 bayview Dr,
Lodi, WI 53555
Pavia Dunn, Dana L, 51, exceeding Zones and Posted Limits, 01/15/2015, $98.80, 2638
Park Pl, madison, WI 53705
Pekovich, Robert T, 22, Failure to Keep Vehicle Under Control, 01/22/2015, $136.60, 4494
Oak Valley Rd, Cross Plains,
WI 53528
Pincheira berthelon, Tania
A, 20, motor vehicle liability
insurance required, 01/19/2015,
$10.00, 1013 N Westfield Rd,
madison, WI 53717
Pittman, Nicole A, 24, exceeding Zones and Posted Limits, 01/16/2015, $149.20, 7246
Lilly Lane, middleton, WI
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Pittman, Nicole A, 24, Operating w/o a Valid Drivers License, 01/16/2015, $124.00,
7246 Lilly Lane, middleton,
WI 53562
Raffel, Kelson A, 25, Non
Registration,
01/19/2015,
$98.80, 8535 elderberry Rd,
madison, WI 53717
Randall, Peter Teal, 19, Operating vehicle without insurance, 01/23/2015, $124.00, 426
Presidential Ln, madison, WI
53711
Rasmussen, Shane T, 33, Improper Right Turn, 01/13/2015,
$98.80, 2555 N Williams St,
Appleton, WI 54914
Rezai, Abdi Reza, 46, Display Unauthorized Registration
Plates/Tags,
01/08/2015,
$161.80, e12209 Waters edge
Ct, Prairie Du Sac, WI 53578
Rezai, Abdi Reza, 46, Non
Registration,
01/08/2015,
$98.80, e12209 Waters edge
Ct, Prairie Du Sac, WI 53578
Rojas Carranza, Luis A, 19,
1313 Tempkin Ave #6, madison, WI 53705
Vehicle
Registration
01/14/2015, $98.80, 1313
Tempkin Ave #6, madison, WI
53705
01/14/2015, $124.00, 1313
Tempkin Ave #6, madison, WI
53705
Rooney, marilyn A, 72, Traffic Control Signal Violation red,
01/09/2015, $98.80, 6120 Century Ave #207, middleton, WI
53562
Ross, Rachel m, 26, Operating

after
revocation,
01/10/2015, $124.00, 402
Sethne Ct, monona, WI 53716
Rowin, Christian Lee, 28,
Operating w/o a Valid Drivers
License, 01/09/2015, $124.00,
5248 brindisi Ct #6, middleton,
WI 53562
Ruff, William C, 71, Obstructing Traffic, 12/23/2014,
$98.80, 2826 Richardson St,
Fitchburg, WI 53711
Scheider, Harrison W, 26,
$98.80, 118 Tomahawk Trl,
middleton, WI 53562
Schott, Tyler R, 27, Operating w/o a Valid Drivers License, 01/23/2015, $86.20,
6245 middleton Springs Dr,
middleton, WI 53562
Schott, Tyler R, 27, motor
vehicle liability insurance required, 01/23/2015, $10.00,
6245 middleton Springs Dr,
middleton, WI 53562
Schrimpf, matthew Carl, 34,
$10.00, 308 Pine meadows Ct,
Cross Plains, WI 53528
Shultz, Jeffery S, 47, Non
Registration,
01/18/2015,
$98.80, 2186 Allen blvd, middleton, WI 53562
Sipple, Jennifer S, 51, Non
Registration,
01/16/2015,
$98.80, 770 Westbridge Trl,
Waunakee, WI 53597
Smith, Abigail R, 24, Operating vehicle without insurance,
01/16/2015, $124.00, 2020
Overlook Pass Apt 3, middleton, WI 53562
Smith, Abigail R, 24, Non
Registration,
01/16/2015,
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BUDGET
PAGE 15
Times-Tribune photo by Cameron Bren
The Middleton Common Council vote narrowly to approve the 2016 budget last week. City staff expect it will lead to about $2,652 in city taxes on a local home valued at $400,000.
approved budget will lead to a
3.65 percent increase in operating expenses, a slight decrease
in the mill (tax) rate, and an increase of somewhere between 3
and 4 percent in municipal
taxes on the average property
tax bill. The tax rate is down
while actual tax bills are up because of higher property assessments.
The common councils final
budget deliberations centered
around four staff positions city
administrator mike Davis recommended council create and

budget for. The council ultimately did not include any new
staff positions in the final
budget.
The positions proposed by
Davis were an assistant city administrator, a public works operations manager, a streets crew
worker, and a parks crew
worker. While the alders expressed that they agreed these
positions were needed they
could not agree on which ones

should get priority in 2016.
Four alders asked the city finance director John Lehman to
crunch the numbers for four different scenarios to discuss at the
meeting before final approval.
Alder JoAnna Richard requested an estimate for hiring
the assistant city administrator,
public works manager and
adding a parks crew worker.
Alder Gurdip brar requested an
estimate for just a street crew
worker. Alder mark Sullivan

requested an estimate for a
street crew and a parks crew
worker. Alder Kathy Olson requested an estimate for wage
parity and the library.
In a previous meeting the
council realized that hiring all
four positions would be feasible
in the 2016 budget but would
create a shortfall in the future.
In Richards scenario the 2017
shortfall would have been
$53,114 and $30,653 in Sulli-
vans. brars scenario would

have resulted in available revenue of $18,283 and Olsons a
leftover revenue of $40,541.
each alder with a scenario made
their case for why there should
be supported though all they
could finally agree on was waiting to create the new positions
for 2017.
The vote included maximizing the levy allowed under the
statutory limits, so that the city
can retain the prospect of future
staffing increases if it can keep
non-personnel costs reasonably
low in 2016.
City Administrator mike
Davis thanked the council and
city staff, both of which have
put in months of calculations
and discussions in the budget
process.
I wish to thank all of you
and our elected officials for
your hard work throughout this
budget process, Davis said. I
especially want to thank John
Lehman and melissa bohse for
their diligence and thoughtfulness in bringing it all together.
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The Middleton Optimist Club recently recognized its latest Middleton High School Student of the Month. Akashi Pattnaik is
a senior with amazing credentials and potential. UW-Madison and Princeton are some of the schools seeking to admit him. Pictured are Dr. Brad Hartjes (Middleton Optimist Club), Mr. Tim Davis (Social Studies teacher at MHS), Akash, mother Leena
Pattnaik, father Bikash Pattnaik and sister Akshita Pattnaik.
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COURT
$98.80, 2020 Overlook Pass

Apt 3, middleton, WI 53562
Sorenson, evan P, 24, Disorderly Conduct, 12/30/2014,
$124.00, 4323 Redtail Pass,
middleton, WI 53562
Sparks Ward, Freddie e, 27,
01/19/2015, $124.00, 529
Northport #2, madison, WI
53704
Sparks Ward, Freddie e, 27,
exceeding Zones and Posted

Limits, 01/19/2015, $174.40,
529 Northport #2, madison, WI
53704
Stanek, James H, 44, Vehicle
Registration
$98.80, 10434 Sutcliffe Rd,
black earth, WI 53515
Stricklen, Timothy D, 41,
Improper
Right
Turn,
01/13/2015, $98.80, 14677
Carleton Rd, Hudson, mI

49247
Sylvers, Alicia K, 32, Disorderly Premise, 01/21/2015,
$313.00, 312 Wisconsin Ave,
madison, WI 53703
Thompson, Kalisha m, 36,
$98.80, 6117 Dell Dr, madison,
WI 53718
Tillotson, Sean A, 40, Operating
While
Intoxicated,
01/04/2015,
$811.00,
S47W34845
Shangrila Dr,
Dousman, WI 53118
Tillotson, Sean A, 40, Operating With/PAC .08-.099,
01/04/2015, $0.00, S47W34845
Shangrila Dr, Dousman, WI
53118
Tysk, micah James, 19, Operating Left of Center Line,
09/17/2014, $136.60, 8065
Stagecoach Rd, Cross Plains,
WI 53528
Tysk, micah James, 19, Possession of Controlled Substance, 09/17/2014, $0.00, 8065
Stagecoach Rd, Cross Plains,
WI 53528
Tysk, micah James, 19, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia,
09/17/2014, $0.00, 8065 Stagecoach Rd, Cross Plains, WI
53528
Washington, Kelvin L, 26,

$10.00, 3607 Napoli Ln # 8,
middleton, WI 53562
Weitzel, Colton J, 20, Underage Consume/Possess Alcoholic
beverages,
01/17/2015,
$187.00, 6788 Kopp Rd, Waunakee, WI 53597
Wilke, Thomas J, 20, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia,
01/12/2015, $187.00, 2110
Allen blvd., Apt. #21, middleton, WI 53562
Witzig, mary K, 43, Auto
Following
Too
Closely,
01/08/2015, $124.00, e12209
Waters edge Ct, Prairie Du Sac,
WI 53578
Zepeda, Jaime, 38, Theft,
10/11/2014, $124.00, 1929
Northport Dr # 3, madison, WI
53704.
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T I M E L O S T I S B R A I N L O S T.
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immediately: Numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg,
especially on one side of the body Confusion, trouble speaking
or understanding Difficulty seeing in one or both eyes
Trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
Severe headache with no known cause
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CHURCH NOTES
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Beautiful by Nature is on display
Photo by Michael Knapstein
An exhibition of images by
award-winning photographers
and middleton residents Annette and michael Knapstein is
currently on display at the The
Prairie Caf & bakery, located
at 6720 Frank Lloyd Wright Avenue in middleton.
The duos exhibition is entitled middleton: beautiful by
Nature and features 30 nature,
landscape and wildlife photographs that were all taken in the
middleton area, most within a
few miles of the Caf at locations such as the Pheasant
branch Conservancy, Strickers
Pond and Tiedeman Pond. The
exhibition will run through the
end of December.
The exhibition includes photographs that have won awards
from a variety of groups, in-
A portion of all proceeds will benefit

the Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy, in recognition of their 20th
Anniversary. The Prairie Caf & Bakery is open to the public from Tuesday
thru Friday from 7 a.m. 3 p.m. and
on weekends from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m.
cluding the Friends of Pheasant
branch Conservancy, Four
Lakes Wildlife Center, UW- Arboretum, Wisconsin Trails, Witness to Nature, the masters Cup
International Color Awards, The
Pollux Awards, the Center for
Fine Art Photography, The

Lucie International Photography Awards, the Nature Conservancy
and
National
Geographic.
All of the photographs are for
sale.
Photo by Annette Knapstein
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Orphan Train author to speak

at annual Middleton Area
Historical Society gathering
New Book Chronicles The Life Of Emily (Reese) Kidder One Of The Many Thousands
Of Children Sent West On An Orphan Train From The Streets Of New York City
Alex Haunty named Young

Philanthropist of the Year
Photo contributed
Alex Haunty (right) with Ted DeDee, president and CEO of Overture Center, who nominated
Haunty for the award.
Alex Haunty, a student at

edgewood College, has been
named the Young Philanthropist of the Year by the madison
chapter of the Association of
Fundraising
Professionals.
Haunty was honored at todays
National Philanthropy Day
luncheon at the Overture Center
in madison.
Alexs generosity and spirit
are inspirational to us all, president Scott Flanagan said. He
exemplifies the sense of selfless
service edgewood College
strives to cultivate in all of our
students. I cant think of anyone
more deserving of such recognition than Alex.
Haunty is a native of middleton and a student in the Colleges Cutting Edge program.
An aspiring artist, he is honored
for his unique approach to helping others enjoy the arts.
Haunty sells his paintings and
uses the proceeds to host dozens
of fellow students and others to
attend musicals at the Overture
Center. He was recently commissioned by the Overture Cen-
ter to create a work to thank arts

benefactors Pleasant Rowland
and Jerry Frautchi. That painting, Take A bow, now hangs
in the Center.
more information about this
remarkable young person may
be found atwww.inspiringartbyalex.com.
The Cutting edge program
was initiated in 2007. It is the
only program in Wisconsin and
one of only about 40 programs
nationwide that offers a fully integrated higher education experience for adult learners with
intellectual challenges and other
developmental disabilities like
Down syndrome, autism spectrum, traumatic brain injuries,
and cerebral palsy. Using a
structure of student-centered individualized advising and peer
mentorship with graduate and
undergraduate students, Cutting
edge students are encouraged
and assisted in their efforts to
take courses, live independently
on campus and in the community, take part in campus social
events, clubs, interest groups
and activities, and participate in

community service, internship,
and employment opportunities.
The goal of the program is to
offer students a full college experience that helps them develop
the
skills
and
self-determination necessary for
post-school success.
Located in madison, Wis.,
edgewood College is a liberal
arts Catholic college in the Dominican tradition. We serve approximately
3,000
undergraduate and graduate students at our monroe Street and
Deming Way campuses, and online.
The College offers more than
40 academic and professional
programs, including masters
degrees in business, education,
and nursing, and doctoral degrees in educational leadership
and nursing practice.
For more information about
edgewood College, please
visit www.edgewood.edu, or
call ed Taylor in marketing &
Communications at 608-6632333.
Join the middleton Historical Society for its Annual meeting at the
middleton Senior Center,
7448 Hubbard Ave., onSaturday,December 5.
The meeting starts at 10
a.m. and as usual they will
have plenty of holiday
treats.
They are delighted to announce that the guest
speaker will be Clark Kidder, who will tell the story of
his grandmothers journey
to the midwest on one ofthe
famous orphan trains.
It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in
Americas not-so-distant
past that nearly 200,000
children could be loaded on
trains in large cities on our
east Coast - sent to the rural
midwest - and presented
for the picking to anyone
who expressed an interest in
them.
That is exactly what happened between the years
1854 and 1930. The primitive social experiment became known as placing out,
and had its origins in a New
York City organization
founded by Charles Loring
brace called the Children s
Aid Society. The Society
gathered up orphans, halforphans, and abandoned
children from streets and orphanages, and placed them
on what are now referred to
as Orphan Trains. It was
brace s belief that there was
always room for one more
at a farmers table.
The stories of the individual children involved in this
great migration of little emigrants have nearly all been
lost in the attic of American
history. In this book, the author tells the true story of his
paternal grandmother - the
late emily (Reese) Kidder who, at the tender age of
fourteen, became one of the
aforementioned children
who rode an Orphan Train.
In 1906, emily was plucked
from the elizabeth Home for
Girls, operated by the Children s Aid Society, and
placed on a train, along with
eight other children, bound
for
Hopkinton,
Iowa.
Kidder
emilys journey, as it turned
out, was only just beginning.
Life had many lessons in
store for her - lessons that
would involve overcoming
adversity - of perseverance,
love, and great loss.
emilys story is told
through the use of primary
material, oral history, interviews, and historical photographs. It is a tribute to the
human spirit of an extraordinary young girl who became
a woman - a woman to
whom the heartfelt phrase
theres no place like home
- had a very profound meaning.
Clark Kidder resides in
southern Wisconsin. He is a
freelance writer for International publications, and has
authored several books, including marilyn monroe
UnCovers (Quon editions,
1994); marilyn monroe
Cover To Cover (Krause
Publications, Inc., 1999);
marilyn monroe Collectibles (HarperCollins,
1999); Orphan Trains and
Their Precious Cargo (Heritage books, Inc., 2001);
marilyn monroe memorabilia (Krause Publications,
Inc., 2001); marilyn monroe
Cover To Cover, 2nd ed.
(Krause Publications, Inc.,
2003); A Genealogy of the
Wood Family (Family Tree
Publishers, 2003, and Higginson book Company,
2007); A Genealogy of the
butts/butz Family (Higginson book Company, 2007),
emilys Story: The brave
Journey of an Orphan Train
Rider (2007), and A History
of the Rural Schools of

Rock County, Wisconsin (6
volumes), 2014. His magazine articles have appeared
in The Wisconsin magazine
of History, Family Tree
magazine, Fancy Fowl (in
england), Avicultura (in
Holland), and Poultry Press.
Kidder was the recipient
of the Hesseltine Award in
2004 for his article titled
West by Orphan Train,
which appeared in the Winter 2003-2004 issue of the
Wisconsin magazine of History.
Kidder has been interviewed by numerous reporters for articles in such
newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, and the
Chicago Tribune. His television appearances include
mSNbC, PAX, WGN, Wisconsin Public Television,
and Iowa Public television.
He has been interviewed on
numerous radio shows
around the nation, including
Wisconsin Public Radio and
Iowa Public Radio. Kidder
was host of his own television show called book Talk
on JATV, in Janesville, Wisconsin. In addition, he has
provided consultation and
photographs for documentaries and television shows
produced by CbS, and October Films in London, england.
Kidder won the 38th Annual Hesseltine book Award
for his article titled West by
Orphan Train in the Wisconsin Magazine of History
(Winter 2003-2004).
Kidder has co-written and
co-produced a film based on
his book Emilys Story: The
Brave Journey of an Orphan
Train Rider. It was released
in 2014 and is titled West by
Orphan Train. The film won
two national awards in 2015
- the prestigious Leadership
in History Award from the
American Association for
State and Local History, and
a Clarion Award.
On October 3, 2015 the
film won a Regional emmy
Award.
PAGE 23
Tips for a fun, delicious Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is just a day
away, which means its time to
start planning your meal. Depending on who you have invited and what they insist on
having for dinner, a traditional
Thanksgiving dinner featuring
roast turkey with dressing,
mashed potatoes and gravy, lots
of veggies, rolls, cranberries
and, of course, pumpkin pie, is
going to be a winner. While
there is certainly a lot of work
involved in hosting the holiday
meal, planning ahead and keeping food safety a priority makes
the labor easier and guests satisfied.
First things first: grocery
shopping. The rule of thumb for
the size of a turkey to buy is to
allow one pound per person.
However, I always allow a little
more than that so there are
plenty of leftovers. Keep in
mind that the larger the turkey,
the longer it will take to thaw
and cook but dont let that stop
you from buying a nice big gobbler and having plenty to go
around.
make sure your grocery list
includes all the extras like potatoes, bread crumbs or a good
loaf of French bread, squash,
sweet potatoes, green beans and
those onion-ring things you use
to make green bean casserole,
cranberries, rolls, the ingredients to make pumpkin pie and
whipped topping or even just
buy a pie. Dont forget to get
something for everyone.
Planning what to do and
when with smooth out preparation. Turkey takes the longest,
both in thawing and baking. A
lot of things can be made ahead
of time like pies. Potatoes can
be peeled and put in the refrigerator in cold salt water for a
day or two. making everything
from scratch is fun but more
work. easy can be good, too, so
cut corners where you need to
and dont feel bad if you dont
make everything yourself. buy
a pie or use canned cranberries.
Asking guests to bring something also lightens the load.
Dont be afraid to try everything
from scratch, though. While
most family legends have it that
Thanksgiving dinner is a really
difficult meal to make, its really not. Its just that our mothers and grandmothers wanted us
to appreciate everything they
did for us. Guilt trips about how
they slaved away in a hot
kitchen seemed to work as well

as anything else in most families to get hard won acclaim.
most turkeys are purchased
frozen, although many stores
now carry fresh turkeys. Fresh
is wonderful but must be purchased very close to Thanksgiving to make it is actually fresh.
There are three safe ways to
thaw a turkey, according to the
United States Department of
Agriculture: in the refrigerator,
in cold water or in the microwave.
For refrigerator thawing,
place the turkey in a pan and
allow about 24 hours for each
five pounds of turkey. Once
thawed, it can sit safely in the
refrigerator for a day or two.
For cold water thawing, make
sure the turkey is in a leak-proof
bag and submerge it in cold,
never hot or warm, water, allowing 30 minutes per pound to
thaw. Change the cold water
every 30 minutes or so. For microwave thawing, place the
turkey in a microwave safe dish
and follow the microwave manufacturers directions on thawing. Plan to cook the turkey as
soon as it is thawed to prevent
bacteria from growing.
The day before Thanksgiving, go out to dinner so you
have a clear kitchen to work in.
before your dinner on the town,
you can bake pies and peel potatoes. The rule of thumb on potatoes is one large potato per
person but peel extra because
there never seem to be enough
potatoes and you can always
make potato fritters with leftovers. If possible, iron the
linens and set the table ahead of
time, too. Set out serving dishes
and utensils, get out the tools
youll need to make the meal
and dont forget to have a nice
bottle or two of wine chilled.
The easiest way to make a
pumpkin pie is to get a can of
pureed pumpkin and follow the
directions on the can. If, however, you want to be a purist,
you can do it the hard way. A
few days ahead of Thanksgiving, take two or three small-ish
pumpkins.
Scrub
the
pumpkin(s) with a vegetable
brush. With a large carving
knife, chop off the top (stem
portion) of the pumpkin. Then
split the pumpkin down the
middle and carve lengthwise
into pieces, removing the innards with a large spoon or
scoop. (The seeds make a wonderful treat so be sure to save

them in a separate bowl to roast
later.) Place the pieces on a baking sheet and bake in a 350 degree oven four about 40
minutes, or until tender. After
the pieces have cooled, peel off
the skin and run the pieces
through a food processor.
make one pie crust by mixing two cups of flour with twothird of a cup of some kind of
shortening. (Tradition calls for
lard and it tastes great but has a
lot of fat. butter is fine but I like
butter-flavored Crisco.) Using a
pastry cutter, cut the butter into
the flour and sprinkle in a teaspoon of salt. Add cold water
(maybe a half cup) a little at
time, mixing as you go, until the
dough is formed. Roll the crust
out on a floured surface, place
in a deep pie pan.
mix one and a half cups of
the pumpkin (reserve the rest in
a tightly sealed container in the
refrigerator) with cup sugar,
teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ginger,
teaspoon each of nutmeg and
cloves. Slowly add three beaten
eggs, 1 cup of milk and one can
of evaporated milk. Pour the
mix into the pie crust and bake
for about 60 minutes in a 375
degree oven. The pie is done
when a knife inserted in the
middle comes out clean. Refrigerate until served.
If youre interested in adding
calories (and flavor!) plan to
make homemade whipped
cream between the time the potatoes and vegetables are cooking but before you make the
gravy. In a sturdy bowl, mix 1
cup whipping cream, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and a tablespoon of powdered sugar with a
mixer until its light and fluffy.
Put in the refrigerator and top
the pie with it right before you
serve it.
There are many ways to cook
a turkey besides roasting.
Turkey can be grilled, smoked,
deep fried, microwaved, cooked
in an electric roaster or a slow
cooker or even in a pressure

cooker. Oven roasting remains
my favorite. A fully thawed, unstuffed turkey is prepped by taking any giblets or gravy packets
out of the cavity and rinsing it
in cold water. Place the unstuffed turkey in a traditional
roasting pan or on a flat wire
rack in a large pan. Tuck the
wing tips under the should of
the bird or trim them off, then
roast in a 325 degree oven for
about 20 minutes per pound if it
is frozen, thawed or 15 minutes
per pound for fresh. Add five to
10 minutes of cooking time per
pound for a loosely stuffed
turkey. Cover the turkey with
the lid of the roasting pan or foil
for either the first hour and a
half or after it is browned. The
turkey is done with it reaches an
internal temperature of 165 degrees. Check it by sticking a
meat thermometer in the thickest part of the thigh. Take it out
of the oven and let it rest for 20
minutes or so when its finished.
While the turkey is cooking,
prepare dressing or, if you prefer, make stuffing before you
roast the turkey. There are lots
of possibilities for dressing and
stuffing. many people like the
heat and serve kind. buying a
package of bread cubes and following the directions works
well. If baking the turkey
stuffed, stuff it before putting it
in the oven and dont pack the
stuffing in tightly.
To make dressing it from
scratch, try slicing up a nice loaf
of French bread and baking the
buttered slices until they are just
getting crisp. Chop the slices
into cubes, seasoned with whatever takes your fancy: sage,
rosemary, basil, parsley, youname-it. Saut one large
chopped onion and three or four
chopped stalks of celery in butter or olive oil. When tender,
mix with the bread cubes, one
egg, one can of chicken broth
and some freshly ground
parmesan cheese. A lot of people like oysters, giblets, mushrooms, raisins, sausage or
nearly anything in their dressing. Dressing should bake for

30 minutes at 350 degrees.
Dont forget to butter or grease
the pan you make it in.
After the dressing is done,
put the potatoes in a large pot.
Dont get them going until you
estimate that the turkey is about
30 to 45 minutes off, then bring
them to a boil. Theyre done
when they are fork tender. Pour
the water into a measuring cup
to use with the gravy, the add a
stick or so of butter, enough
milk to make them creamy, and
set them on the back of the
stove to keep warm until everything else is ready.
bake or cook your vegetables
after the potatoes are going.
Steamed broccoli and cauliflower, green bean casserole,
corn on the cob, you name it.
The list of potential vegetables
is endless.
The biggest issue with making a meal like this is that everything is going to be done all at
once and require your last
minute attention. Once the
turkey and potatoes are done,

everything else should be close
to being ready so do the gravy
before the veggies are soggy.
Pour the turkey drippings into a
large, deep frying pan. Add the
potato water until you have as
much gravy as you think youll
need and bring it to a simmer. In
another cup, add two tablespoons of corn starch to about a
half cup or so of cold water and
stir until the starch is dissolved.
Add to the drippings, stirring
constantly. Once the gravy
thickens, turn the heat down and
stir occasionally while you set
the turkey on a platter and transfer all the food into serving
dishes and onto the table. Set
the gravy on the table last.
After the meal, its tempting
to sit down and watch football
or take a nap. before you do, be
sure to pack up the leftovers
into air tight containers and refrigerate them. Turkey especially can go bad fast. As soon
as everything is safely put away,
sit down and relax.
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Ready
to roll
Boys basketball
team has high
hopes as new
season begins
by ROB REISCHEL
Times-Tribune
Twelve months ago, there

was virtually no returning
experience, there were questions everywhere and expectations were extremely low.
boy, what a difference a
year makes.
Today, middletons boys
basketball team is one of the
more veteran-laden bunches
around. And after a surprising
campaign that saw the
Cardinals finish third in the
ultra-competitive big eight
Conference,
hopes
are
extremely high for the 201516 season.
middleton, which went 177 overall last year and 13-5 in
the league, begins its season
Dec. 3 at Janesville Parker.
We are quite ahead offen-
sively from where we were at

the same point last year,
middleton 10th year coach
Kevin bavery said. We do
have the ability to turn defense
into offense and to score in a
variety of ways. And we seem
a lot more aggressive in the
press, on the boards, and in
attacking the glass.
Were a long ways from
getting in great shape, so
bringing
a
tremendous
approach to practice every day
is going to be absolutely critical to our success. No matter
how practices are structured,
human nature can take over
and ultimately every player is
their own quality control person. If they are willing to go
hard and push one another to
get to another level of fitness
and conditioning, we have a
chance to play the way we
want to play.
middleton played the way
bavery hoped a year ago.
bavery believed that depth
was the strength of his team,
so he substituted liberally
almost like a hockey coach
See BOYS BB, page 34
Continued
dominance
Storm Murphy and Middletons boys basketball team begin their season Dec. 3 at Janesville Parker.
Boys volleyball
team lands six
players on the
all-Big 8 team
by ROB REISCHEL
Times-Tribune
Times-Tribune photo by Mary Langenfeld
Middleton senior outside hitter Kevin McMahon was named the Big Eight Conferences Player of the Year.
Once again, they were the

beasts of the big eight
Conference and a force across
the state.
So it was certainly no surprise that middletons boys
volleyball team was well represented on the all-conference
team.
Senior outside hitter Kevin
mcmahon was named firstteam all-conference, was the
leagues Player of the Year and
received honorable-mention
all-state honors.
Senior middle blocker
blake Sprecher was a firstteam all-conference selection,
received high honorable-men-
File photo
tion all-state honors and was

voted middletons mVP.
Sophomore libero Thomas
Robson was named first-team
all-conference. Senior middle
hitter Pace balster and sophomore setter Andrew Lepage
were named second-team allbig eight, while junior middle
blocker Cole Spitler was
named honorable-mention allconference.
middletons ben White was
also named the big eights
Coach of the Year.
mcmahon led middleton
with 303 kills and had a terrific .294 kill percentage.
mcmahon was also second on
the team in digs (160), second
in blocks (48) and third in aces
(19).
Kevin did absolutely
everything for us except drive
the bus to and from matches,
White said of mcmahon. but
he might be able to because he
does have a pretty nice miniSee BOYS VB, page 30
ALL-BIG EIGHT CONFERENCE

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL
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Name
Victoria brisack
Claire Chaussee
Sydney Stroud
Logan Welti
Kylie Schmaltz
Allie Peterson
Lily Welti
Julie Touchett
mel Tinker
Grace mueller
Name
Kielyn Kapugi
Kendall Fellers
megan Corcoran
Asia Green
Kara epping
Andrea Lawrence
Meghan Bayer
evan Laun-Smith
Amanda Carlson
Keely brown
Five for
fighting
Girls spikers
land five on
all-Big 8 team
by ROB REISCHEL
Times-Tribune
middletons girls volleyball

team had five players named to
the all-big eight Conference
team.
Senior outside hitter Logan
Welti and freshman outside hitter Lily Welti were named firstteam all-conference. Senior
middle blocker meghan bayer
was named second-team allleague, while senior middle
blocker molly Zeinemann and
senior
setter/outside
hitter elizabeth Keller were
named honorable-mention allconference.
Logan Welti was a four-year
varsity player and a tri-captain
this season. She received honorable-mention all-state honors
for a second straight year and
was named middletons most
Valuable Player.
Logan Welti led middleton
with 336 kills, an average of
3.1 per game. Logan Welti also
led middleton with 433 digs,
was second in aces (53) and
will now play collegiately at
New Hampshire.
Logan has been a key player for us for four seasons,
middleton coach Franco
marcos said.She was not only
our main passer and defender,
but also our primary outside
hitter.
She was one of our captains and a great leader.We will
miss her and wish her all the
best at New Hampshire as a
libero. She is ready to play in
college.
Lily Welti had a sensational
freshman season, finishing second on the team in kills (280).
Lily Welti was also first in aces
(67), third in total blocks (23)
and third in digs (237).
She is the hardest hitter on

the team, marcos said of Lily
Welti.She is already a force to
be reckoned with in conference
and around the state.
She continued to improve
in her passing and defense as
the season went on.Lily has a
bright future and should help
our team get back to the top
where we belong.
bayer was one of the
Cardinals hardest working and
most improved players. bayer
was third on the team in kills
(162) and second in blocks
(57).
bayer will play next season
at Loras College in Dubuque,
Iowa.
meghan is one of the hardest workers that I have ever
coached, marcos said. She
has elevated her game and play
from barely making the team to
starting at the middle blocking
position with the option to play
right side if needed.
She is very aggressive in
her play and hates to
lose.every coach likes a player
like her. She leaves it on the
court and is a great motivator
for her teammates and us
coaches.
Zeinemann led middleton
with 73 total blocks and was
fifth on the team in kills (86).
She was a three-year varsity
player he left a terrific imprint
on the program.
She showed a lot of promise and started these last two
years in the middle, marcos
said of Zeinemann.She jumps
effortlessly and could take over
a match at times with her
blocks and kills.
molly was also a great
teammate and liked by her
teammates and the coaches.We
wish molly well with her
future and we will miss her.
Keller led the Cardinals
with 466 assists and was fourth
with 35 aces.
elizabeth is an outside hitter that volunteered to set this
year, marcos said. We lost
FIRST TEAM
School
Yr.
Verona
Sr.
Sun Prairie
Soph.
madison memorial Sr.
Middleton
Sr.
Verona
Sr.
Sun Prairie
Sr.
Middleton
Fr.
Verona
Sr.
Janesville Craig
Sr.
Verona
Sr.
SECOND TEAM
School
Yr.
Sun Prairie
Jr.
Sun Prairie
Sr.
madison La Follette Sr.
madison West
Jr.
Janesville Parker Sr.
Middleton
Sr.
beloit memorial Jr.
Janesville Craig
Fr.
Sun Prairie
Sr.
Pos.
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OH
OH
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S/RS
MB/RS
OH
OH
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School
Yr.
Janesville Craig
Jr.
madison La Follette Jr.
Middleton
Sr.
Verona
Sr.
Sun Prairie
So.
Verona
So.
Janesville Craig
Jr.
Middleton
Sr.
beloit memorial Jr.
Janesville Parker So.
Pos.
S
S
OH
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MB
OH
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L
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HONORABLE MENTION
Name
Jenna brandt
Kayla Daggett
Allie matzke
Sydney Helle
Molly Zeinemann
Karly Pabich
Liz maastricht
Hannah Worley
Annie Schumacher
Elizabeth Keller
Addison brickson
Reave myszewski
emma Vaughn
Coach of the year TJ Rantala, Sun Prairie

Player of the year Victoria brisack, Verona
Times-Tribune photos by Mary Langenfeld
Logan Welti (top) and Lily Welti (above) were both named
first-team all-Big Eight Conference.
our two starting setters to graduation and we were young and

inexperienced in that skill set.
As a senior, she decided to give
up her outside hitters position
and take on the challenge of
setting. She did a great job for
us and lead the team in assists.
Unfortunately, she reinjured a leg muscle during the
WIAA regional finals against
monona Grove and was sidelined for the last three sets of
the match. elizabeth is a team
player and very coachable. We
are going to miss her!
middleton also handed out
several team awards at its
recent postseason banquet.
Gabie buechner received a
three-year varsity award.
Gabie is one of the hardest
hitting lefthanders that we have
had during my tenure as a
coach here at middleton,
marcos said.She played right
side and did a great job for us.
Freshman
Hannah
Flottmeyer
received
middletons most Improved
Player Award.
Hannah is one of our other
freshman on the varsity team,
marcos said.She is very talented and should be a key player
for us next year and the years to
come.
Junior Olivia Nyffeler
received
the
Cardinals
Sportsmanship Award.
Olivia is a player that every
coach dreams of coaching,
marcos said. She listens well,
doesnt complain and is always
cheering and smiling.
middleton finished the season third in the big eight
Conference and lost in the
regional
finals.
marcos
believes the Cardinals will be
improved next season.
We should have a young
team next year, he said. We
have a number of players that
are going to make an impact
and I am very optimistic about
our chances in conference and
sectionals.
Pos.
S
OH
OH
OH
OH
RS
OH
mb
S
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Lucky
seven
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Boys soccer
team has seven
players named
all-Big Eight
by ROB REISCHEL
Times-Tribune
middletons boys soccer

team had a surprisingly successful season.
And the Cardinals were
rewarded when it came to
postseason honors.
middleton junior forward
bradan Allen and sophomore
midfielder Derek Waleffe
were named first-team all-big
eight Conference.
Senior midfielder Zach
Whritenour, junior defender
Ryan Payton and junior goalie
brendon martin were named
second-team all-league. And
senior midfielder Colin Ledin
and junior defender max
Raisleger were named honorable-mention all-conference.
The All-Conference voting reflects the youth of our
team, middleton coach ben
Kollasch said. Only two seniors were represented here.
We generally only started
three seniors all year. These
seniors, however, were critical
pieces in our midfield. They
will be missed. They cannot
be copied, but we have players lined up to replace them
and live up to their legacy.
Allen had a memorable
year in which he led the
Cardinals in goals (33) and
total points (73). Allen was
also named the big eights
Player of the Year, joining
Taylor Diem (2007) and Tyler
Guse (2004) as Cardinals to
earn that honor.
Waleffe finished second on
the Cardinals in goals (13),
See SOCCER, page 27
File photo
Middletons
Bradan Allen
was
(right)
named the Big
E i g h t
Conferences
Player of the
Year.
SOCCER
assists (eight) and total points.

Whritenour led middleton
with 17 assists, added two
goals, and finished third overall with 21 points.
Keeper brendon martin
posted an 0.88 goals against
average and had an .853 save
percentage.
Payton keyed a defense
that posted seven shutouts and
steadily improved throughout
the season.
Ledin tied for second with
seven assists, was fourth on
the team with four goals and
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BOYS SOCCER
finished fifth in total points

(15).
Raisleger also helped
solidify a defense that made
steady gains throughout the
year.
middleton finished the season 16-4-1, and three of its
losses came to teams that
reached the WIAA Division 1
state tournament. With five
players back that earned allconference honors, and a solid
cast of players around them,
hopes will be extremely high
for the 2016 Cardinals.
FIRST TEAM
School
Yr.
Middleton
Jr.
madison West
Soph.
madison memorial Soph.
beloit memorial Sr.
madison West
Sr.
Middleton
Soph.
madison West
Jr.
Sun Prairie
Soph.
beloit memorial Sr.
madison east
Jr.
madison east
Jr.
Pos.
F
F
F
m
m
m
M
D
D
D
D
G
Name
Andres Delatorre
Robleh Omar
Victor Lombardino
Hozai Ceballos
Nicholas Jatta
Zach Whritenour
Daniel Gutierrez
Ryan Peyton
Alex King
Kalen balas
Hans Kromanaker
Brendon Martin
School
Yr.
beloit memorial Jr.
madison West
Sr.
Sun Prairie
Sr.
Janesville Craig
Sr.
Sun Prairie
Jr.
Middleton
Sr.
Middleton
Jr.
Sun Prairie
Sr.
madison West
Sr.
Middleton
Jr.
Pos.
F
F
F
m
m
M
m
D
D
D
D
G
Name
Isioma enwemnwa
RobertWagman
Zach Currie
Jose Gomez
Connor melzer
Garrett Risch
Chris bajek
Alberto martinez
Ryan Rohlke
Nick Johnston
Jacob Asbjornson
Noah Herkert
marco Arambula
Colin Ledin
eduardo Pacheco
Kevin Hanauer
Jake Genskow
Max Raisleger
Alex Alvarado
School
Yr.
madison La Follette Jr.
Verona
Sr.
Janesville Craig
So.
madison east
So.
Verona
Sr.
Sun Prairie
Sr.
madison West
Sr.
beloit memorial Jr.
madison east
Soph.
madison Weast
Soph.
Verona
Soph.
Middleton
Sr.
Janesville Parker Jr.
madison memorial
madison memorial
Middleton
Jr.
madison West
Fr.
Pos.
F
F
F
F
F
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
M
D
D
D
D
G
Name
Bradan Allen
Frankie Herrera
Demetrius Kigeya
Dominick mesdjian
Jose barron
erik Dahl
Derek Waleffe
Nate brody
Davis Green
Austin Grover
Harrison Van Hout
Conor Schlicting
SECOND TEAM
File photo
Middleton senior midfielder Zach Whritenour was named second-team all-Big Eight Conference.
HONORABLE MENTION
Middleton picked for third

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Editors Note: The following story is a preview of the

big eight Conference compiled by Wissports.net.
1. MADISON
MEMORIAL
On paper, this could be the

year memorials stranglehold
on the big eight Conference
title finally ends.
With just one starter back
from last years club that went
19-6 and rallied to win its 12th
straight league crown, the
Spartans will get pushed to the
wire by many of their counterparts in the 10-team league.
but never count out the
Spartans, who found themselves three games behind the
league leader in the big eight
early last season before playing strong down the stretch to
capture the title by one game
over runner-up madison east.
Junior Jake Ferguson (6-6)
is the lone returning regular
for coach Steve Collins. The
athletic forward averaged 6.2
points and 4.6 rebounds per
game as a sophomore.
Junior Chris Knight (6-7) is
a talented transfer from
DeForest who owns NCAA
Division I scholarship offers
from Green bay, IUPUI and
milwaukee.
Juniors matt Caropreso (67), billy Wilson (6-0) and
Logan Knecht (5-10) also
return for memorial.
Size is our biggest
strength, while shooting, lack
of experience, rebounding and
defense are all concerns,
Collins said.
2. MADISON EAST
Coming off an appearance

in the WIAA Division 1 state
tournament and with four
starters back from a 20-7
squad, the Purgolders certainly
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figure to be in the mix for the

big eight Conference title.
Coach matt miota also welcomes talented newcomers
from a JV squad that finished
20-2.
Seniors Deang Deang (63), Tre Irby (5-10) and
Courtland Cuevas (6-5) were
regulars last season along with
sophomore Keshawn Justice
(6-4). That talented group
gives east plenty of athleticism, skill and versatility.
Toss in juniors Steve
Wooten (6-6), Cameron Cratic
(5-10), Kenny Jones (5-11)
and Chris Warren (6-2) and
east appears primed for bigtime success.
We have solid experience
and will be solid defensively,
miota said. We need to develop team chemistry and learn
how to play with high expectations.
3. MIDDLETON
An exceptionally strong
backcourt makes the Cardinals
among the favorites to win the
big eight Conference title.
Coach
Kevin
bavery
begins his 10th year at
middleton with two of the better backcourt juniors in
Wisconsin in Storm murphy
(5-11) and CJ Fermanich (511). both are experienced,
mentally and physically tough
and primed to lead middleton
to a big season.
murphy, Fermanich, junior
Tyree eady (6-4) and seniors
Cody markel (6-5) and Cam
maly (5-10) are returning
Tyree Eady and Middletons boys basketball team were picked for third place in the Big Eight Conference.
players for middleton, which

finished 17-7 a year ago.
Depth, energy, enthusiasm, experience, commitment
to playing style and hungry
underclassmen are among our
strong points, bavery said.
Our biggest challenge is
developing several Aaron
Craft-like defenders.
4. SUN PRAIRIE
This is a club that figures to

be exciting to watch as coach
Jeff boos has a solid mixture
of size, length, experience,
skill and depth.
Seniors Sam Kerr (6-1) and
Rod Johnson (6-6) are return-
ing starters from a club that

went 14-10, as are juniors ben
Hauser (6-3) and Nate
Verstegen (6-6).
Kerr and Johnson have
developed into solid collegiate
prospects with big upsides as
they continue to mature.
Junior Sean Suchomel (511) and senior DeShawn black
(6-5) could play key roles
along with newcomers from
solid JV and freshmen teams.
Team chemistry, depth and
the willingness to share the
ball are strengths, boos said.
Developing our inside game,
rebounding
and
interior
defense are keys to our sea-
son.
5. MADISON WEST
With just one senior on its

roster a year ago, madison
West returns the vast majority
of its scoring and rebounding
from a club that went 9-14.
Coach Keith Stewart welcomes back five starters and
all are capable of scoring in
double figures on any given
night.
Senior forward Sam meyer
(6-4) is a two-year letter winner who averaged 8.1 ppg and
5.8 rpg.
Senior Ari Davis (5-10) and
juniors Simeon Parker (5-10),
File photo
Terrell Carey (6-2) and Larry

Hawkins (6-5) also return to
the starting rotation.
Seniors Greg Wright (6-0),
Juwon Pettigrew (6-3) and Sirmichael Smith (6-3) provide
strong depth for the Regents.
6. JANESVILLE
CRAIG
A very strong junior class

figures to play a key role in
helping the Cougars move up
from their ninth-place finish of
a year ago.
Juniors SanTrell Payton
(5-10), Jake Negus (6-1) and
See BIG 8, page 29
BIG 8
Adam Anhold (6-7) are returning starters for Craig and form
a solid nucleus along with
improved senior Riley Jensen
(6-8).
Seniors Robby Hoppe (6-1)
and Connor Wright (6-4)
along with junior Nick Lynch
(6-3) and sophomore Jacob
Ngobi (5-11) also figure to
make solid contributions.
We will have a good mix
of speed and size, coach
mike miller said. We should
have good depth. We will have
strong leadership with returning players. We have excellent
guard play. Team strength and
speed are among our concerns.
7. VERONA
Perimeter scoring figures to

be one of the top assets for the
Wildcats, who welcome back a
pair of gifted backcourt performers in senior Cole
Schmitz (6-4) and junior
Nathaniel buss (5-10).
Schmitz enters his senior
season as a three-year letter
winner. He averaged 13.5
points and 4.7 rebounds per
outing as a junior and earned
second-team all-big eight
honors.
buss, the son of Verona
coach Alan buss, is a quick
and skilled point guard who
can make perimeter shots.
Also returning for Verona
are seniors Keaton Knueppel
(6-1), Kwan Clements (6-3),
Josh Hernandez (6-2) and
DaQuan bunch (6-3).
Perimeter scoring is our
top strength while a post presence, depth, rebounding and
leadership are among our
question marks.
8. MADISON
LA FOLLETTE
The Lancers boast some

size and solid guard play, but
they also lack varsity experience.
Curtrel Robinson begins his
second year as head coach at
La Follette with a pair of
returning starters from a club
that went 10-13 in senior forward David Turner (6-6) and
junior guard elias Sobah (58).
Sobah finished third on the
team in scoring at 8.4 ppg
while Turner ranked among
team leaders in rebounding.
Seniors montrell Hannah
(5-7), Ashton miller (6-1) and
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Travell ewing (6-4) also
return for the Lancers.
We are long, athletic and
quick, Robinson said. Our
biggest concern is our lack of
varsity experience.
9. BELOIT
MEMORIAL
Though the Knights are

predicted to finish ninth in the
10-team
big
eight
Conference, they figure to
field a highly competitive
squad under veteran coach Jay
bryant.
Junior point guard Drew
Freitag (5-10) is a two-year
varsity letter winner who averaged 8.1 points per game as a
starter last season when beloit
went 12-11.
Freitag was joined in the
starting lineup by seniors
Lamont Patton (6-2) and
Dremond Long (5-11). Patton
can score and rebound, while
Long joins with Freitag to give
the Knights an experienced
backcourt.
Also returning are four juniors with solid potential in
Fred brown (6-0), Jequan
Pegeese
(5-7),
Anthony
Johnson (6-5) and miguel
betancourt (6-1).
Defense and hustle will be
strengths, said bryant, now in
his 10th year as the Knights
head coach. Rebounding and
overall speed are question
marks.
10. JANESVILLE
PARKER
Coach Keith miller has

some experience to work with
as three starters and six
reserves return from a club
that went 5-19.
Seniors marquise brooks
(6-3), Carlos Campos (6-0)
and Darin empereur (6-0) are
returning starters for the
Vikings with brooks returning
as the top scorer (9.4 ppg) and
rebounder (6.5 rpg) in the program.
Seniors Darion Young (63), Austin Zane (6-3), Hunter
Yerke (6-1) and Vernon Davis
(6-1) also return along with
sophomores Jadyn ellis (6-2)
and Jordan bailey (6-1).
miller, who served as the
freshmen coach at Parker last
winter, takes over the head
coaching duties from Ryan
masterson, now an assistant
girls coach at Janesville
Parker.
Middleton junior guard C.J. Fermanich is a two-year letterwinner who seems poised for a big season.
File photo
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BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Name
Kevin McMahon
Blake Sprecher
Kevin Dunn
Andrew DeKok
matt Caropreso
matt munns
Grayson Coleman
Thomas Robson
Name
Dylan Thompson
Seamus Doyle
Pace Balster
Gavin Gilson
ben Steffen
TJ brickson
Andrew Lepage
Gage Krumbach
FIRST TEAM
School
Yr.
Middleton
12
Middleton
12
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madison memorial 11
madison West
12
Fort Atkinson
11
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10
madison memorial 10
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School
Yr.
Fort Atkinson
12
madison memorial 9
beloit memorial 11
madison east
12
beloit memorial 11
madison West
11
Fort Atkinson
10
madison memorial 12
madison West
12
Middleton
11
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SECOND TEAM
HONORABLE MENTION
Middleton senior middle blocker Blake Sprecher was named first-team all-Big Eight Conference.
Photo courtesy of Robert Squires
BOYS VB
van.
It wasnt just his offense
that helped carry us, it was his
defense, as well. besides filling the stat sheet, Kevin was a
leader on and off the court.
He is a member of the
schools Link Crew and a
mentor to freshmen in the
school. He showed these
younger players how you can
balance academics with athletics and be successful at both.
Kevin is one of the best allaround players to come
through this program. His consistency is what will be missed
on the court. His leadership
will be tough to replace off the
court.
Sprecher had a remarkable
senior season, finishing second on the team in kills (218)
and first in blocks (69).
Sprecher averaged 2.80 kills
per game, led middleton in
aces (24) and was sixth in digs
(44).
Not many people in the
state could match-up with
blake, White said. He
earned the name big Rig this
year and it is a great description, because once he gets
going, just get out of his way
because hes going to take
over.
What was so impressive
about blake was his ability to
take the younger players on
the court under his wing and
lead them. We had a lot of
young players on the squad
and blake could be both forceful and encouraging and he did
it at the appropriate times.
When blake was on, he
was unstoppable and we rode
him to the state tournament.
He and Kevin were the toptwo vote getters in the conference and it was really welldeserved. Proud to see blake
receive high honorable-men-
Times-Tribune photo by Mary Langenfeld
Middleton sophomore libero Thomas Robson was named first all-Big Eight.
tion all-state as one of the top20 players in the state.

Robson was one of the top
liberos in the state. He led
middleton in digs (309) and
was one of the top serve
returners anywhere.
Not often you have a
sophomore who can take over
a match in the back row,
White said. Thomas earned
his way into the starting lineup early in his freshman year,
and he hasnt done anything
but excel as a libero since he
was put in the line-up. He now
owns the record of most digs
in a season and will hold the

career record early sometime
next season.
After the state tournament,
I told Thomas if I was a sophomore I would be pretty proud
of what I accomplished and
proud that New berlins game
plan was to keep the ball away
from him. He was only served
twice the whole match. but it
also shows that Thomas needs
to be more aggressive in the
back row and that will come in
time hopefully next year.
Im really excited that he has
two years left.
balster was third on the

team with 140 kills and his kill
percentage was a solid .272.
balster was also third on the
team in blocks (45).
Pace was given a gift. It
wasnt just a gift in his ability
to jump, its his ability to
hang, White said. Its almost
like he flies. Its spectacular to
watch. And once he figured
out how to hit while flying, he
became a force.
Pace did everything we
asked of him and more. I hope
he continues to play the sport
as his best volleyball is ahead
Name
Dylan Gray
Nick Caroprseo
Noah Davis
Luke Schwendemann
Ashton miller
Avery Lewis
Ryan Disch
Keegan epping
Jesse Kutz
George Weitz
James brown
Cole Spitler
Coach of the Year ben White, middleton

Player of the Year Kevin mcmahon, middleton
of him.
Lepage led the Cardinals
with 554 assists, an average of
6.80 per game. Lepage was
also fourth in aces (18) and
fifth in digs (68).
No player grew more this
year as a player than Andrew,
White said And he still has a
huge ceiling these next two
years.
He earned more and more
playing time and a bigger role
on the team because of his
abilities and decision-making.
And he earned the trust of his
teammates. Andrew is gaining
confidence each and every day
and he knows what he needs to
do to help lead this team in the
future.
Spitler took on a prominent
role after an injury to Jordan
Futch and he made the most of
it. Spitler finished fourth on
the team in kills (78) and
fourth in blocks (27).
Cole was thrown into the
fire this year as soon as we
knew Jordan was out for the
season, White said. What
was supposed to be a learning
year for Cole turned into a
year of productivity and
becoming a weapon out of the
middle. by the end of the year
it was my belief after watching
all these teams in the postseason that we had one of the best
middle combinations in the
state and it was our goal to
have the ball run through the
middle to beat the other teams.
The best part of Cole was
his consistency. He was
always going to give you
100% and give you everything
he could on the court. And
Cole is still in the early stages
of figuring this game out.
Hopefully with a year under
his belt on the varsity level
and some club volleyball in
his future, hell come back

with more confidence in his
playing ability.
middleton also handed out
two other awards at its postseason banquet.
Senior outside hitter Jacob
Ross received the Coaches
Award.
every year we hand out an
award to the player that best
represents the middleton
Volleyball program, White
said. Hands down the winner
this year was Jacob Ross.
Jacob did all the little
things that you never asked
anyone to do both on and
off the court. He is a naturalborn leader and isnt afraid to
speak his mind.
Jacob went from a defensive specialist to an all-around
player due to the fact we
couldnt afford to take his hustle and determination off the
court. No player played above
their bounds more than Jacob.
A true class act and great kid
the type of player that you
would take 15 of and field
your team with in a heartbeat.
Junior defensive specialist
ben miller was named
middletons most Improved
Player.
every player on this team
improved physically, White
said. No player improved
more mentally than ben. He
went from questioning everything about his play, pushing
and pressing too much, to
becoming confident in his
abilities and focused on his
strengths.
Once ben adopted the
mindset that he was going to
become the best player he
could be and not worry about
trying to impress anyone, he
became a solid defensive specialist that we knew he was.
Shes going places
Photo submitted
Middleton senior girls volleyball standout Logan Welti (front left) recently signed a volleyball scholarship to play at
New Hampshire. Welti is shown here (clockwise, from back left) with her mother Pam, father Shawn and sister Lily.
Onward and upward
Photo submitted
Middleton senior standouts Loren Skibba and Kaisey Skibba recently signed scholarships to continue their terrific
athletic careers.
Loren (top, center) received a golf scholarship from Northern Arizona. Kaisey (above, center) earned a tennis scholarship at Winona State. The Skibba girls are pictured with their mother, Marsha, and father, Allen.
PAGE 31
Girls basketball team wins opener

PAGE 32
Hockey Cards
roll to easy win
by ROB REISCHEL
Times-Tribune
middletons girls basketball

team opened its season with a
thrilling, come-from-behind
77-70 win over Stoughton last
Tuesday.
We did some good things
and also saw areas where we
need to improve typical first
game, middleton coach Jeff
Kind said. Stoughton has an
excellent team. They have size,
good guard play and a very
experienced team. As the game
went on we started to get better
rotations on our press. That
helped to keep the game going
at our pace and I think it took a
toll on Stoughton as the game
wore on.
The Cardinals trailed, 4133, at halftime. but middleton
outscored the visiting Vikings,
44-29, in the second half.
Junior guard Alexis Thomas
led the Cardinals with 20
points, while junior guards bria
Lemirande
and
Alyssa
Lemirande both scored 15
M IDDLETON
R OUNDUP
points. Junior guard Carlee

Lemirande added 14 points.
I was pleased with our
resilience, Kind said. We
stuck to our style and kept after
them the entire game, even
though we were down early.
We shot the ball well and
passed well for the most part.
The result was some open
looks from three-point range
and we knocked them down.
Rebounding was an issue.
We were soundly outrebounded
and that's something we have
to improve because most
games we are going to be the
smaller team. We have to
toughen up our blockouts and
be more aggressive on the
offensive boards. All in all, a
good start against a very good
veteran team.
middletons
game
at
Janesville Parker last Friday
was postponed due to snow.
That game was rescheduled for
Dec. 1.
Hockey:
middleton
opened its season with a 7-2
win over baraboo/Portage last

Friday.
Davis bunz had a pair of
goals for the Cardinals, while
Colin butler, Garrett Graf,
Nolan Kouba, Casey Harper
and Keaton Shaw all added
goals.
middleton built a 5-0 lead
late in the second period and
cruised home.
Tony Wuesthofen got the
win in net for middleton.
The Cardinals were at Kettle
moraine/Oconomowoc
Tuesday, then are at the
University School tournament
Friday and Saturday.
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Middleton senior forward

Cody Markel is one of several
key returnees for the
Cardinals this season.
substituting four and five

players at a time every two or
three minutes. The goal was to
wear down foes and compensate for a potential talent gap
at the top of the roster.
bavery will have the depth
to play in a similar manner
again. And the change from
four quarters to two halves
which added four minutes to
the game should help
middleton.
but a handful of Cardinals
proved to be standouts a year
ago, which will make it more
difficult to take them off the
floor this winter.
We did a little shifting of
all five when there was a long
stretch without the clock stopping, but really tried to keep
running two, three or four
players in at a time, bavery
said. This season the change
to two halves really changes
the game and should fit right
into what we do.
The guys know that a lot
of people will need to contribute, and getting into our
opponents bench is part of
what we are trying to do. With
that said, it doesnt mean equal
minutes, but it does mean
when you get your opportunity, whether its heavier minutes or a short stint in either or
both halves, you better go hard
and not be afraid to bring your
strengths to the court!
A trio of junior standouts
forward Tyree eady and
guards Storm murphy and C.J.
Fermanich will lead
middleton.
eady was middletons leading scorer last season (11.7)
and was a second-team allconference player. Fermanich
was a steady point guard who
earned honorable-mention allconference honors.
And murphy improved as
much as anyone on the roster,
and by the end of the season
was arguably middletons
most dynamic player.
This season, all three
should be even better.
All three have changed
physically, bavery said.
They are stronger and leaner
and it shows in their ability to
attack more aggressively on
both ends of the court.
They put a lot of time in
their skill development as certifiable gym rats. As long as

they play hard, good things
will happen for them and the
attention they draw will make
their teammates better as well.
C.J. is shooting it well and
attacking the basket stronger.
Tyree is getting after both
boards and is showing a more
confident
catch-and-shoot
game to add to his driving
ability. And Storm is at another level of confidence in all
phases of his game.
middleton has several other
key contributors and talented
newcomers to add to the mix.
Senior forward/center Cody
markel led the Cardinals in
rebounding last season. Senior
guard Cam maly is arguably
middletons top defender.
Senior forward mitch
bacon is one of the Cardinals
most explosive players. And
senior guard brady Thomas is
a streaky, albeit deadly shooter.
markel (broken finger),
maly (hip) and bacon (finger)
are out for the time being.
markel should be back by the
Cardinals second or third
game, while maly and bacon
could be out until Christmas.
When they all return,
middletons depth should be
top notch.
In the interim, several players will have a chance to shine.
Travis Raffel is a gifted
combination guard whos
returning from a torn ACL.
Junior forward Jack Smith
brings size and athletic ability,
while senior Kevin Ripp is a
solid shooter.
Junior myron Ashford is a
strong rebounder, while sophomore brogan brunker has
surprised early with his
aggressive play, ability drive
the ball, and rebound and
score both inside and out.
Juniors ben Jackson and
Parker Sigmon both have
three-point ability. Senior
Jacob Ross is a solid shooter,
while senior max Collien is a
high-energy player.
We love our depth,
bavery said. And (the
injuries) are an opportunity for
others to contribute, especially
early.
madison memorial has
won 12 straight big eight
titles and remains the favorite.
madison east returns several
players from its state qualifying team, while Sun Prairie,
Janesville Craig and madison
West should have strong outfits, as well.
We think we can play with
everyone, but so many games
will be decided in the final
minutes that we cant afford
stretches where we dont play
hard or dont play together,
bavery said. In that regard
anyone is capable of beating
us.
On the flip side, middleton
is capable of beating anyone
and everyone in the
league. The Cardinals are a
year older, wiser and better.
For now, bavery wont play
the prediction game and will
simply try getting his team
better every day. If that happens, good things will almost
certainly follow.
Surprisingly to many, our
expectations for the season

remain very simple, bavery
said. be great in practice
every day and respect the privilege of being a part of a team.
If we are humble in that
regard, and if we are extremely coachable and do things the

right way, we can be satisfied.
It really is a tremendous group
of young men who love the
game and who are great to be
around every day.

Our entire coaching staff
appreciates being able to be a
part of that experience. We
think that they are going to be
very exciting to watch and
hope that we see tremendous

support from the best student
body and community fans in
the big eight.
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