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1. Tornado hits
elementary school
2. Economy picks
up steam
3. Swimmer sets
national record
4. School district
plans to grow
5. Local hoopster
meets LeBron James
6. State champs in
three sports
7. New fire station,
end of lawsuit
8. Election and
council changes
9. VACT and VANN
look to expand
10. First steps for
downtown plan

Destruction and construction

In this year's look back at the most

important stories of 2014, we had so many
big ones, we had to combine a few just to
1.
keep the list manageable.
Of course, it starts with the tornado that
drew statewide and even national attention
and brought volunteers from all over the
county and beyond for several weeks. But
Verona had plenty of other things going
on this year: resurgent growth, big moves
by the school district, amazing sports feats
and some big moments in the political
landscape.
It wasnt just Epic keeping Verona moving this year, but the more than $200 million in added tax base from its gargantuan
auditorium sure made things easier for the
citys budget. Plenty more is on the way,
including what could be one of the biggest
hotels in the county.
One local sports star set a national
File photo by Scott Girard
record, and another met the most famous
basketball player in the world at the Brad- A wall destroyed in the June 17 tornado offered an unwanted view of the Country View Elementary
ley Center while recovering from cancer. School playground, which had to be replaced due to pieces of glass strewn about. The school district
The school district planned for a huge also replaced the schools entire roof during the reconstruction.

campus, the fire department started building a $10 million station, two local nonprofits prepared to make major expansions
and three sports teams won state titles.

1. Tornado
Nothing captured the attention of Verona
quite like the EF3 tornado that badly damaged Country View Elementary School
and the surrounding neighborhood in June,
almost exactly three years after a smaller
tornado stirred up some neighborhoods on
the opposite side of the city.
Stunningly and fortunately, just like in
2011, nobody was hurt. Roofs were torn
up, cars smashed, trees twisted and torn
up, and the majority of one neighborhood
was evacuated for the better part of a day.
But for most people around the area of
Tamarack Way and Lone Pine Way, life
got back to normal rather quickly.
The school sustained about $3.4 million in damage, but it opened Sept. 2 as

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Verona Area Needs Network

County offers $100K grant, low-cost lease for move

Dane County recently awarded VANN
a $100,000 economic development block
grant, helping it reach more than twothirds of its fundraising goal to renovate
the building. And next month, the County
Samantha Christian
Board will consider a resolution to approve
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a lease of the former administration building
at Badger Prairie Health Care Center in
Everything seems to be falling into place
for the Verona Area Needs Network to get Verona.
That roughly 20-year-old facility would
a new home at the old county hospital next
more than double the space for VANN to
year.
carry out its mission. VANN, which runs
The

Verona Press

the Verona Food Pantry, has been operating out of a cramped, dark basement of the
citys former library on Franklin Street.
For just $20 per year, VANN would
lease the underutilized county building on
East Verona Avenue. VANN could choose
to extend the 15-year lease for another 10
years.
Supervisor Jenni Dye introduced the
resolution during the Dane County Board
meeting Dec. 18 and said the county is
excited to partner with VANN.

VANN is going to be expanding their

existing food pantry by moving to this
location as well as providing the opportunity for growth with complementary services that are really aimed at the causes of
poverty and addressing generational poverty, she said at the meeting.
Earlier that day, Dane County Executive
Joe Parisi and VANN board president Bob

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Town of Verona

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City creates new pay structure

Jim Ferolie
Verona Press editor

The city will spend nearly

$140,000 in 2015 bringing
its pay scales in line with
those of comparable municipalities and setting a new
structure.
The 2015 budget included a contingency for a
compensation study that
was performed this fall by
Springsted Inc. in conjunction with five other Dane
County communities. The
study worked with 28 other
public employers to determine a set of 25 job grades
and nine longevity-based
steps, some of which will
involve significant raises
for current employees. The
move also includes a 2 percent cost-of-living adjustment.
Most city positions were
previously union jobs, but
with the advent of Act 10 in
2011, only non-supervisory
police and fire positions
remain so. The new compensation program creates
some elements of the union
style of longevity-based pay
in a now mostly non-union
workplace.
Though that structure was
adopted unanimously at last
weeks Common Council
meeting, it actually inspired
about 20 minutes of debate
after Springsteds half-hour
presentation.
Ald. Mac McGilvray
(D-1) expressed serious
reservations because of
specific situations he said

he was not at liberty to

discuss. Pressed further, it
became clear that there was
at least one employee whom
he felt it would be inappropriate to provide whatever
the resulting raise would be,
but city administrator Bill
Burns and Springsteds Ann
Antonsen both replied that
it would be bad policy to
modify a citys entire compensation structure based
on a single employee. They
also noted that the plan
requires a satisfactory
evaluation to receive the full
pay raise.
McGilvray and Ald. Evan
Touchett (D-4) both asked
about merit pay-based systems and Ald. Jack Linder
(D-2) asked outright why
merit pay wasnt part of the
study.
Antonsen explained that
this system is a first step.
She noted that merit pay is
far more complicated than
simply giving automatic
raises, requiring extra processes, clearer definitions,
training and additional
structure.
The first goal was (creating) a plan, she said.
Antonsen had explained
at length at the beginning
of the discussion how the
objective was to develop
a compensation system
that not only adjusts wage
and benefit guidelines but
addresses internal equity
and market competitiveness. Part of that, she
explained, was the pay
philosophy, or the policies
determining such things
as the citys competitiveness with other employers, expectations of performance and how the system
is administered.

The study involved

detailed analysis of every
positions duties and current compensation and compared them with 49 benchmark positions at other
public sector organizations,
most of which were cities or
villages.
The final report came
after a Nov. 5 meeting with
the Personnel committee
provided feedback. Among
the studys findings:
Most city positions do
not have established salary
ranges
City salaries are typically below average
Recruitment and retention are concerns here in the
emerging economy
The new job grades start
at just under $25,000 for the
lowest level and the lowest
tier of longevity, and the
top tier, Grade 25, goes to
a maximum of more than
$125,000. No city employees are currently in the top
two or bottom four tiers,
allowing some flexibility
for future positions.
Under the adopted plan,
all employees will get a
2 percent cost-of-living
adjustment Jan. 1. Employees will then move into the
new scales at their anniversary dates.
Eight employees are currently paid less than the
minimum for their position,
and bringing those into compliance will cost more than
$21,000. The city also chose
to put each employee into
a step, based on years of
service with the city, costing a total of $138,222. That
is just under the $140,000 in
the personnel contingency
adopted last month during
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Letters to the editor

Kudos to local officials for

bringing property tax bills down
I just received my property tax
bill and I was pleasantly surprised
by the amount that it went down.
What I am more grateful for
is the fact that all of our elected
officials worked together to bring
about this very good budget for
2015 while maintaining our excellent services and in many respects,
enhancing them.
None of the one-ups-manship
occurred like last year and I can
tell by the increases given to city
departments, they were generous

and based on the needs of those

departments, not wants.
The Verona School district and
the Town of Verona also deserve
kudos for the work on their
respective budgets, all in all it is a
win for all of us.
Working together toward a
common goal makes Verona a
much better place to live! Thank
you all!
Gordon C. Disch
City of Verona

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Verona History
September
40 years ago
Bids for the Verona fire station came back lower than
expected, at a total of $210,000.
Daniels Construction built the
12,000-square-foot building, which
is now in the process of being
replaced by a 42,000-square-foot,
$10.5 million facility.
The location was still subject to
debate. Firefighters wrote letters to
the editor in favor of finding a more
centralized location than the edge
of town, on Lincoln Street, where it
ended up being built.
The Verona school district began
discussing the sale of the former
Camp Badger School, located in
Fitchburg, and whether it would
have to go to the highest bidder. The
school had closed in 1964 and the
district stopped using it as a school
in 1971.
But at the same time, the Town of
Fitchburg began working on changing its zoning to a Conservancy
District, which would have negated
its resale value. The town had asked
to buy the building without bidding
but was told the district didnt have
that authority.
The building is now the site of the
nonprofit Fitchburg Serenity Club.
Veronas Donald Dreger was
arraigned for reckless endangerment
for chasing two young women aged
14 and 21 on horseback with his
automobile.
Police said the man kept honking
his horn, causing the horses to gallop at 30 mph until one of the girls
horses slammed into a tree, throwing its rider and severely injuring
itself.
The Town of Verona approved
adding 4-foot-wide paved bicycle
paths on both sides of County M.
They were among the first bike
paths in the area along local roads.
Verona firemen held community
water fights at Harriet Park.
Local student Barbara Faber spent
her junior year of college studying in
Rome.
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30 years ago
Verona physician Dr. James Van
De Grift died at 80 after serving 39
years in Verona and 10 years prior
to that in Wausau.
He was one of the last physicians
to make house calls, and he had
served as the attending physician
for every Verona Indian home game
since arriving in 1945.
As a member of the Verona Park
Board, he was part of the decisionmaking process for developing the
outdoor swimming area, and he personally provided playground equipment for parks.
The Common Council voted 5-3
to expand the library on its present
site, but Mayor Thomas Moore said
he would probably veto the motion
to discuss further the best location
for the library, including the possibility of putting it in Verona City Hall.
An administrative error kept that
from happening, but Moore promised to veto funding if the council
were to ignore whatever the states
recommendation ended up being.
That state report said moving to City
Hall would be a poor choice for residents but it warned that the Harriet
Street (actually Franklin Street) location might not have enough space in
the future.
The city approved the creation
of a second tax-increment financing
district, this one downtown after
postponing it for two months earlier
in the summer.
It was designed to encourage
property owners who wished to
expand, modernize, rebuild or
improve the central business district,
but it had run into objections from
landowners in the district.

Mayor Art Cresson asked the

city to hire a full-time administrator
the following year.
He did not get his wish, however,
Verona History is being
with that position not beginning
printed late because of
until 1998. Those duties were being
space limitations in previous
performed by a combination clerkissues.
manager-treasurer.
In the interest of
The Kelly-Miller Circus brought
continuity, we are continuing
a traditional circus bigtop to
where we previously left off,
Hometown USA Park. The show
in September.
featured high-wire acts, elephants,
a bareback riding show and various
novelty and animal acts.
It was never successful, and a
The Bank of Verona drew 2,000
new TIF district put in its place years
people to a party celebrating its 90th
later.
anniversary.
A report from Verona principal
The bank survived past 100, getLloyd Hornbacher said attendance
ting sold in 2006 to State Bank of
hit a record high of 566 students, up Cross Plains.
4 percent from the previous year.
The Common Council voted
Former Verona hockey club
5-3 to rezone a property to allow a
player Dick Feldt signed with the
Culvers on East Verona Avenue.
Rockford U.S. Devils, a Class A
A high school freshman was
junior college hockey team.
suspended after administrators dis Fitch-Rona EMS held its annual
covered he had brought a BB gun to
picnic at Harriet Park, featuring a
school and stored it in his locker for
variety of kids activities.
protection.
Jim Ferolie
Jim Ferolie
10 years ago
20 years ago
The Independent Bank of Verona
The Verona Area School District marked its 100th year. The bank
voted unanimously to begin purlasted two more years before it was
chasing land for a new elementary
sold to State Bank of Cross Plains.
school at Jamestown-Huegel Park.
When the bank opened in 1904,
But the Fitchburg City Council
the town had about 500 people, a
backed off its initial support.
large majority of which were farmThe plan stemmed from coners.
cerns with another proposal, on
Fitchburg fire chief Randall
King James Way, and one of the
major concerns with that was heavy Pickering proposed an ambitious
plan to combine the Fitch-Rona EMS
truck traffic near the quarry. But
Jamestown residents, worried about into the Fitchburg Fire Department
losing their neighborhood park, had in order to improve speed and effisigned a petition against it.
ciency of services.
About 35 residents told the city
The plan would have replaced
they expected it would always be
an ambulance with two full-time
a park when they purchased their
paramedics, though it would have
homes, and the council voted 4-3
also still based an ambulance in
to rescind its resolution from two
Fitchburg. At the time, there was no
weeks earlier.
ambulance based in Verona.
Instead, Fitchburg gave up one of
The high school unveiled its
its
ambulances that was at the King
$14.25 million addition and remodeling with a public tour of the facility. James Way fire station and put it at
the Verona fire station, running 12
It included a two-story structure
hours a day.
housing 32 classrooms, a kitchencommons area, new locker rooms,
The city approved the Westridge
an auxiliary gym, a new football field Estates subdivision in the northwest
with bleachers and press box and a corner of Verona with 356 housing
700-seat auditorium.
units and a small area for commerAs part of the ceremony, band
cial construction. That comprised
director John Georgeson led a
156 single-family homes, nine
160-member choir and orchestra
duplexes and 17 multi-family buildperformance in front of about 500
ings.
people. Supreme Court Justice
Sugar Creek student Annamarie
Shirley Abramson gave the keynote.
Kenoyer won five prestigious awards
A developer proposed a
from modeling for international
140,000-square-foot office commodel and talent agents. She also
plex to house employees of a large
received four requests to model and
Madison software company with
act for magazines and commercials.
250 employees that was planning
Kenoyer currently plays the role of
on expanding. The companys name Becca in the ABC Family show The
was never disclosed, and the project Fosters.
disappeared.
The city renewed its agreement
The Dane County commissioner with the school district to fund
of highways declined to drop the
police-school liaison officer.
speed limit on County Hwy. M below
Verona residents R. Douglas and
55 mph. A local woman tried to have
Charlene Ray celebrated their 50th
it reduced to 40 because of all the
wedding anniversary.
dead animals she saw on the road,
but she was told that 85 percent of
Former Verona resident Sandra
drivers go even faster than 55.
Lampman was named chief executive officer for the countys American
A new ordinance outlawed
burning rubber and other displays Red Cross Badger Chapter.
of power on city streets. It came
Verona Area High School senior
along with a package that included
Sara Mrkvicka was awarded the
prohibitions on parking large vehiPaderewski Medal by the American
cles overnight and cutting through
College of Musicians National Guild.
private businesses to avoid traffic.
The award is given to students who
The curfew for Verona teens was have completed 10 years of piano
auditions in the Guild, playing a
extended by one hour to midnight.
Many teens stopped previously had national program of 10 pieces and
receiving a rating of superior each
been told that their parents told
year.
them midnight was acceptable.
The Verona Public Library hired
A 17-year-old from Verona
Maggie Kenaley as a childrens
was charged with OWI after police
discovered that the car he was driv- librarian. She is still with the VPL, as
a reference librarian.
ing had skidded about 120 feet and
came to a stop on a lawn on Linden
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Holiday helping hands

Gift drive makes season brighter for VASD families

of the toys are packaged in
garbage bags for each family,
with approximately three gifts
going to each child.
To protect anonymity,
names are not written on the
bags. The family is assigned
a number so that only the
number and the age range
and boy or girl is marked
on the outside of the bag for
volunteers to quickly find and
distribute.
Some of the toys came
from the Operation Toy Drive
held at Farm and Fleet, while
many others came from families in the district and various
people in the community.
Hoffman said the program
has expanded and evolved
over the years, but its goal
remains the same: to help others in need.
Its very impactful and
really makes a difference,
he said. (The families) are
genuinely grateful.

Samantha Christian
Unified Newspaper Group

Hundreds of garbage bags

stuffed with toys took the
spot of plants in the greenhouse at Verona Area High
School last week. The greenhouse was gift distribution
central during the annual
VASD Helping Hands Holiday Gift Drive on Dec. 17.
The gift drive is made
possible through the help of
dozens of volunteers and toy
donations from area businesses, churches and organizations. The toys are distributed to children within the
school district whose families
do not have the means to provide mounds of boxes with
bows under the tree.
When Kevin Hoffman,
a retired FFA adviser, first
started helping with the
VASD Helping Hands Holiday Gift Drive, fewer than 40

Photos by Samantha Christian

Above left, bags of toys replaced plants on the tables of the Verona Area High School greenhouse during the VASD Helping Hands Holiday
Gift Donation. Above right, Verona police officer Ryan Adkins, left, sorts through a box of toys alongside other officers throughout Dane
County during the Operation Toy Drive at Farm & Fleet in Verona on Dec. 11. Some of the items collected there were donated to the VASD
Helping Hands Holiday Gift Donation.

families had signed up for the

program.
In the nearly 30 years since
then, that number has multiplied considerably. This year

there were approximately 275

families in the school district
participating, with 695 children receiving gifts.
Families in need signed up

to participate in the program in

advance through the schools
social workers, who later
helped distribute the gifts.
Toys and other donations,

such as food and books, were

dropped off at the high school,
and then the FFA Club and
other volunteers sorted the
gifts by age and gender. All

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This section is full of area children and
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It is sure to be a treasured keepsake!

VASD social worker Chris Mand finds a garbage bag full of toys
packaged for a family during the Helping Hands Holiday Gift
Donation on Dec. 17. The distribution was held at the greenhouse in
Verona Area High School.

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want you to be aware of the following public notices
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Coming up

Churches
Communities, will talk about living well
with chronic conditions in Dane County.
This free series at the senior centeris a six-week evidence based program
where adults with chronic conditions
learn to better manage their lives.
If you want to enroll, the only cost
is $20 to purchase the textbook. Call
Jennifer at the senior center, Registration is not needed.

New Years Eve party

Its time to ring in 2015. The senior

center will host a formal celebration
from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday,
Dec. 31, to ring in the new year. Lunch
will begin at 11:45 a.m., and there will
be a countdown to noon afterwards.
Please RSVP to the senior center,
845-7471, no later than noon, Tuesday,
Dec. 30, for the meal. To keep this a
formal event, please dress in your Sun- Chinese/English storytime
day best. Enjoy reviewing highlights
Listen to a special bilingual storytime
from 2014 and other fun events.
presented by staff at the Verona Area
International School at 10:30 a.m. MonHy-Vee nutrition tour
day, Jan. 10, in the librarys story room.
Do you want a healthier diet in the
This is a great time to ask questions
new year? Registered dietician Kara about their Chinese immersion program.
Hoerr from Hy-Vee will give a guided
tour at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7, Hockey game trip
through the store with a focus on teachThe senior center purchased ticking you how to read labels and choose ets for the Jan. 21 Madison Capitols
healthy food options. A carpool from the USHL hockey game against the Linsenior center will leave at 9:45 a.m.
coln Stars. The game is at the Alliant
If you would like to attend, RSVP to Energy Center and starts at 10 a.m.
Jennifer at 846-7471 by Monday, Jan. 5 The cost for the game is $10 for a tickLiving with chronic conditions et only or $15 for a ticket and food.
Carpools to the game will leave the
Have you felt at the mercy of a health senior center at 9:15 a.m. If you would
condition and want to feel more in con- like to attend, contact Jennifer Miller
trol of how you feel? Consider enrolling at [email protected].
in a Living Well workshop series.
Money needs to be collected no later
At 10 a.m., Friday, Jan. 9, Lynne than Jan. 15 if you wish to attend.
Robertson, Outreach Specialist for Safe

Choosing a better life

Relieving stress, building resilience
and enjoying life all sound like good
goals for the new year. Tina Hallis,
Ph.D., owner of The Positive Edge,
LLC, and Cathy River, a neurofeedback
technician from the Madison Brain Center, will give a presentation at the library
from 7-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 20.
They will discuss how choosing an
attitude for a better life is easier with
the help of scientifically based strategies and practices. They will also share
details on these strategies and give
people opportunities to practice them.
The program is free and open to the
public. For more information or to register, visit veronapubliclibrary.org or
call 845-7180.

Snag the job of your dreams

Find out how you can land your
dream job from 6:30-8:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 26, at the library.
Laura Gmeinder, certified human
resources professional, will share tips,
tricks, and insider secrets to help you
hone your skills, reach your potential and
land the job youve been dreaming of.
This program is free and open to the
public. To register, or for more information, visit veronapubliclibrary.org,
or call 845-7180.

Community calendar

senior center, RSVP by noon, Jan.

Friday, December 26
Tuesday, January 20
27, 845-7471
2 p.m., movie, How the Grinch
2 p.m., watercolor art class,
7-8 p.m., energy saving discusStole Christmas, PG, senior center senior center
sion, library, register at veronapub
7
p.m.,
Choosing
Your
Attitude
for
Tuesday, December 30
liclibrary.org or call 845-7189
a Better Life, library, register
1:30 p.m., Free Kids Movie, library

Wednesday, December 31

7 p.m., library closed for holiday

Thursday, January 1

All city facilities and library closed

Saturday, January 10

10:30 a.m., Chinese/English storytime, library

Wednesday, January 21

9:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Madison

Capitols hockey game, senior center, 845-7471

Monday, January 26

6:30 p.m., Snag the Job of Your

Dreams in 2015, library, register

Monday, February 9

10:30-11 a.m., Chinese/English

storytime, library

Thursday, February 12

6-8 p.m., Be Prepared! get your

will and other legal documents in
order, library

Wednesday, January 28

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1 a.m. Capital City Band
8 a.m. Common Council
from 12-15-14
11 a.m. Amanda Zieba at
Senior Center
1 p.m. 2012 Wildcats
Football
4:30 p.m. Verona
Characters at Historical Society
6 p.m. Common Council
from 12-15-14
9 p.m. Amanda Zieba at
Senior Center
10 p.m. Verona Characters
at Historical Society
11 p.m. Pickers Holiday
Music at Senior Center
Sunday, Dec. 28
7 a.m. Hindu Cultural Hour
9 a.m. Resurrection Church
10 a.m. Salem Church
Service
Noon Common Council
from 12-15-14
3 p.m. Amanda Zieba at
Senior Center
4:30 p.m. Verona
Characters at Historical Society
6 p.m. Common Council
from 12-15-14
9 p.m. Amanda Zieba at
Senior Center
10 p.m. Verona Characters
at Historical Society
11 p.m. Pickers Holiday
Music at Senior Center
Monday, Dec. 29
12 a.m. Singing Santas at

Senior Center
1 a.m. Capital City Band
7 a.m. St. James
Preschoolers & I Hear Singing
at Senior Center
1:30 p.m. Chatting with
the Chamber
3 p.m. Amanda Zieba at
Senior Center
4 p.m. A Taste of Theater
5 p.m. 2012 Wildcats
Football
9 p.m. Hindu Cultural Hour
10 p.m. Retro Swing at
Senior Center
11 p.m. Pickers Holiday
Music at Senior Center
Tuesday, Dec. 30
7 a.m. Retro Swing at
Senior Center
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m. Pickers Holiday
Music at Senior Center
3 p.m. Daily Exercise
4 p.m. St. James
Preschoolers & I Hear Singing
at Senior Center
5 p.m. A Taste of Theater
6 p.m. Resurrection
Church
8 p.m. - Words of Peace
9 p.m. - Chatting with the
Chamber
10 p.m. Verona Characters
at Historical Society
Wednesday, Dec. 31
12 a.m. Singing Santas at
Senior Center
7 a.m. St. James

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5 p.m. Common Council
from 12-15-14
7 p.m. Capital City Band
8 p.m. Amanda Zieba at
Senior Center
10 p.m. Retro Swing at
Senior Center
11 p.m. Pickers Holiday
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Thursday, Jan. 1
12 a.m. Singing Santas at
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1 a.m. Capital City Band
7 a.m. Retro Swing at
Senior Center
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m. Pickers Holiday
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3 p.m. - Daily Exercise
4 p.m. St. James
Preschoolers & I Hear Singing
at Senior Center
6 p.m. Salem Church
Service
8 p.m. Daily Exercise
9 p.m. Chatting with the
Chamber
10 p.m. Verona Characters
at Historical Society

THE CHURCH IN VERONA

Verona Business Center
535 Half Mile Rd. #7, Verona
(608) 271-2811
livelifetogether.com
Sunday: 9 a.m.
FITCHBURG MEMORIAL UCC
5705 Lacy Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 273-1008
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Pastor Phil Haslanger
Sunday: 8:15 & 10 a.m.
Sunday school 10:15 a.m.
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
CHURCH ELCA
(608) 271-6633
Central: Raymond Road & Whitney
Way, Madison
Sunday: 8:15, 9:30 & 10:45 a.m.
West: Corner of Hwy. PD & Nine
Mound Road, Verona
Sunday: 9 & 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m.
DAMASCUS ROAD CHURCH WEST
The Verona Senior Center
108 Paoli St., Verona
(608) 819-6451
[email protected],
damascusroadonline.org
Pastor Tim Dunn
Sunday: 9:30 a.m.
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
201 S. Main St., Verona
(608) 845-7125
MBCverona.org
Lead Pastor Jeremy Scott
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
REDEEMER BIBLE FELLOWSHIP
130 N. Franklin St., Verona
(608)848-1836
redeemerbiblefellowship.org
Pastor Dwight R. Wise
Sunday: 10 a.m. family worship

ST. CHRISTOPHER CATHOLIC

PARISH
St. Andrew Church
301 N. Main St., Verona
St. William Church

1371 Hwy. PB, Paoli

(608) 845-6613
stchristopherverona.com
Fr. William Vernon, pastor
Saturday: 5 p.m., St. Andrew, Verona
Sunday: 7:30 a.m., St. William, Paoli
Sunday: 9 & 11 a.m., St. Andrew,
Verona
Daily Mass, Tuesday-Saturday: 8
a.m., St. Andrew, Verona
ST. JAMES EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH
427 S. Main St., Verona
(608) 845-6922
stjamesverona.org
Pastors Kurt M. Billings and Peter
Narum
Office Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 8 a.m.noon Wednesday
Saturday: 5 p.m.
Sunday: 8:30 & 10:45 a.m.
SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF
CHRIST
502 Mark Dr., Verona
(608) 845-7315
salemchurchverona.org
Rev. Dr. Mark E. Yurs, Pastor
Laura Kolden, Associate in Ministry
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
Sunday school: 9 a.m.
Staffed Nursery: 8:45-11:15 a.m.
Fellowship Hour: 11:30 a.m.
SPRINGDALE LUTHERAN
CHURCH-ELCA
2752 Town Hall Rd. (off Hwy ID),
Mount Horeb
(608) 437-3493
springdalelutheran.org
Pastor Jeff Jacobs
Sunday: 8:45 a.m. with communion
SUGAR RIVER
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
415 W. Verona Ave., Verona
(608) 845-5855
[email protected],
sugarriverumc.org
Pastor Gary Holmes
9 & 10:30 a.m. contemporary worship.
Sunday School available during worship. Refreshments and fellowship
are between services.
WEST MADISON BIBLE CHURCH
2920 Hwy. M, Verona
Sunday Praise and Worship: 9:15 a.m.
Nursery provided in morning.
Sunday school (all ages): 10:45 a.m.
Small group Bible study: 6 p.m.
ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF
CHRIST
Hwy. 92 & G, Mount Vernon
(608) 832-6677
Pastor Brad Brookins
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF
CHRIST
Hwy. 69 & PB, Paoli
(608)845-5641
Rev. Sara Thiessen
Sunday: 9:30 a.m. family worship

The Second Birth

The transforming power of spiritual experiences has
made metaphors of birth or rebirth common in religious literature. Saint Pauls conversion on the road to
Damascus is perhaps the paradigm of being born again,
but we see it throughout the Bible.
In the Old Testament, Jacob is renamed Israel after
wrestling with God, surely a sign that he has been transformed in the process. But these transformations are not
always so sudden or dramatic.
Sometimes they take months or even years to occur,
and while there is a tendency to be impressed by the sudden change when someone goes from being a profligate
drunkard to a sober penitent overnight, usually these
changes take time to occur and time to settle in.
Perhaps it is better to think of conversion as an ongoing
process of God working continuously to bring us as near
to perfection as we are capable of. Those who are quickly
converted are sometimes also quick to relapse into old
habits, while those in whom God makes slow but steady
progress may be more unswerving in their faith.
Williams James remarks in The Varieties of Religious
Experience that The real witness of the spirit to the second birth is to be found only in the disposition of the genuine child of God, the permanently patient heart, the love of
self eradicated. The true test of the conversion experience,
or of any religious experience, is the fruit which it bears.
- Christopher Simon
So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become
new!
2 Corinthians 5:17

FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Pastor Bob Vetter
SUNDAY
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11:00 am: Coffee Bar/Fellowship
11:15 am: All-Ages Activity
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Thursday, Dec. 25
12 a.m. Singing Santas at
Senior Center
7 a.m. Retro Swing at
Senior Center
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m. Pickers Holiday
Music at Senior Center
3 p.m. - Daily Exercise
4 p.m. St. James
Preschoolers & I Hear Singing
at Senior Center
5 p.m. A Taste of Theater
6 p.m. Salem Church
Service
7 p.m. Words of Peace
8 p.m. Daily Exercise
9 p.m. Chatting with the
Chamber
10 p.m. Verona Characters
at Historical Society
Friday, Dec. 26
7 a.m. St. James Preschoolers
& I Hear Singing at Senior Center
1:30 p.m. Chatting with
the Chamber
3 p.m. Amanda Zieba at
Senior Center
4 p.m. A Taste of Theater
5 p.m. 2012 Wildcats
Football
8:30 p.m. Amanda Zieba at
Senior Center
10 p.m. Retro Swing at
Senior Center
11 p.m. Pickers Holiday
Music at Senior Center
Saturday, Dec. 27
12 a.m. Singing Santas at

THE CHURCH IN FITCHBURG

2833 Raritan Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 271-2811
livelifetogether.com
Sunday: 8 & 10:45 a.m.

RESURRECTION LUTHERAN
CHURCH-WELS
6705 Wesner Rd., Verona
(608) 848-4965
rlcverona.org
Pastor Nathan Strutz and Assistant
Pastor Steven Pelischek
Thursday: 6:30 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.

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ALL SAINTS LUTHERAN

CHURCH
2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 276-7729
allsaints-madison.org
Pastor Rich Johnson
Sunday: 8:30 & 10:45 a.m.

430 E. Verona Ave.

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Bringing the heat

More
business
news

MadPower Training turns up the temp to improve performance

Mark Ignatowski

MadPower
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(Inside the Verona Athletic
Center)
See website for schedule
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include:
Barre Time: A dancebased class that infuses

elements of ballet with traditional exercises. Workouts focus on the legs and
core that aim to chisel lean
muscle, Sanborns website
reads.
Vinyasa Flow: A yoga
class that synchronizes
yoga moves with breathing
patterns
Armed and Dangerous:
A head-to-toe strengthbuilding class
Fast and Furious: A
cardio class designed to

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country coach. Her work as

a triathlon coach led her to
opening MadPower Training in November.
And business has been
good. Sanborns husband,
Bill, said they had hoped to
have 50 members join when
they opened. In just two
months, more than 170 people have joined the tribe,
as Sanborn calls it.
In order to meet demand,
Sanborn said theyll keep
adding classes, and eventually might look for

The Verona Area Chamber of Commerce

recognizes the Business of the Month!

Tim Pederson, FIC

Lead Financial Consultant
Badger Prairie Associates
230 Horizon Dr., Ste. 101A
Verona, WI 53593
Office: 608-848-5150
Cell: 608-217-9375

additional space. In January, MadPower Training

will offer nearly 40 different classes.
Not all the classes are
the high-heat, high intensity MadPower programs.
Some classes with a more
normal room temperature

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The warm-up is crucial to

just about any type of exercise whether youre just
starting a walking program
or are about to race in the
Ironman.
Veronas new fitness studio MadPower Training
takes the warm up concept to another level. With
the thermostat cranked up
to 100 degrees, a room full
of nearly 40 people follow owner Amy Sanborns
high-intensity interval
training program.
As an athlete, youre
always looking to push that
VO2 max and blood volume, Sanborn said, adding
that theres a lot of research
showing that higher temperatures help people reach
that maximum oxygen
usage level.
Classes are popular with
high school athletes, Sanborn said, especially those
who need to be ready compete in hot temperatures.
But the high-heat, highintensity workout isnt just
for athletes looking for
an edge. Sanborn said the
workouts are a great way
for people to lose weight
quickly and to feel like part
of a fitness family.
We can really tailor the
workout, Sanborn said.
Anybody in there can have
their own experience.
The fitness studio has
a very social atmosphere,
Sanborn said. People will
stop by, take a class, hang
out in the lobby and have
some refreshments and
then take another class an
hour later. The people that
show up for classes are like
a family, and that its easy
for new people to feel welcome, she said.
High workout temperatures arent a necessarily a new idea hot yoga
is popular in the Madison
area. But the high-intensity,
high-heat concept is something that Sanborn said no
one else offers.
Sanborn a 1982 Verona
Area High School grad is
no stranger to fitness. Shes
a six-time Ironman finisher
and 50-mile ultramarathon
runner. She started Amys
Play Group, a triathlon
club, and has worked as
an assistant VAHS cross

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Legals
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
CIRCUIT COURT,
DANE COUNTY, NOTICE TO
CREDITORS (INFORMAL
ADMINISTRATION) IN THE
MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
Elaine K. Geiger

Case No. 14PR847

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for Informal Administration was filed.

2. The decedent, with date of birth

October 12, 1926 and date of death November 19, 2014, was domiciled in Dane
County, State of Wisconsin, with a mailing address of 420 Edward Street, Verona, WI 53593.
3. All interested persons waived
notice.
4. The deadline for filing a claim
against the decedents estate is March
13, 2015.
5. A claim may be filed at the Dane
County Courthouse, Madison, Wiscon-

sin, Room 1000

Lisa Chandler
Probate Registrar
December 5, 2014

Atty. Marilyn A. Dreger

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Verona, WI 53593
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improve speed
Classes are taught by
Sanborn and six or seven
other instructors, Sanborn
said. Each instructor is certified to teach their class
and each person brings a
different background to his
or her class.

For example, one instructor is a former semi-professional football player;

another is a mixed martial
arts fighter. Two instructors are former VAHS cross
country runners that Sanborn coached.
Those interested in joining
can try a class for free, or can
get an unlimited one-month

trial for $40. Unlimited membership is $69 per month for

individuals, $59 for students
and $99 per month for couples. Single classes are $17,
and a 10-class pack is $150 or
$120 for students. A 20-class
pass is $260.
For an updated schedule
and information, visit MadPowerTraining.com

The Verona location was

the companys third, and it
will continue to expand in the
Madison area in 2015, with a
Waunakee location expected
to open in February.
Day said sales at the Verona location were 30 percent
above projections in the first
six months of operation.

Witt will move to Verona

in January, according to an
email from Park Bank.

In brief
Brew pub gets new
name
A brew pub new to Verona
in 2014 already got a name
change.
The former Brews Brothers tap house in Hometown
Circle is now Mr. Brews Tap
House.
Owner Steve Day said the
change comes as he looks
to franchise and expand the
business nationally.
An attorney Day hired
to check the copyright of
Brews Brothers found
the name was used in other
states.

Witt joins Park Bank

A soon-to-be Verona resident has joined Park Bank
as the companys vice president of private banking.
Ryan Witt takes the position with 12 years of financial experience.

Chamber seeks
nominees for awards
The Verona Area Chamber of Commerce is seeking
nominees for membership
awards.
Awards given out are the
Presidents Award, Volunteer of the Year, Community
Contributor and the Chamber Participation Award.
Email chamber executive
director Karl Curtis at [email protected] with
nominations.

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

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Volleyball

Bowling

Brisack earns
first-team
All-State
selection
Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor

Photo by Anthony Iozzo

Verona Area High School graduate David Drews (right), who currently attends Bemidji (Minn.) State University, celebrates his National Letter of Intent signing Friday,
Dec. 19, to bowl at Robert Morris University with the head coach for the Eagles, Dale Lehman. Robert Morris is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics (NAIA).

Earning his strikes

VAHS grad, Drews, signs

National Letter of Intent
to bowl at Robert Morris
Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor

Verona Area High School graduate David Drews showed up to bowl

a few games for Robert Morris University head bowling coach Dale
Lehman.
Thinking he was going to need
to impress Lehman, he showed up

about 30 minutes early to bowl a

few games and get loose on the lower numbered lanes at the alley.
That is when a man came over
after seeing him throw a few balls
down the lane and asked if he was
the one that came to bowl for Lehman.
Not thinking anything of it, Drews
later was surprised the man was
actually Lehman, and Lehman had
already seen what he had to see.
Drews, who bowled for the
VAHS team that won a state title
in 2010, cemented his next step in

life by signing a National Letter

of Intent to bowl at Robert Morris,
where he will also major in Business
Information Systems/Entrepreneurial Studies.
I said to (Lehman), Thanks for
the opportunity. He said, I didnt
give you anything. You earned it,
Drews said. These things dont just
come up for any reason. You have
to earn these things and go out there
and get them.
Just to reach a level like this is
something I used to dream about as
a kid. And now that it is happening,

it is like everything is paying off.

Early games
Drews began at 4 years old as the
youngest sanctioned bowler in Wisconsin.
He spent a lot of time at Wildcat
Lanes which used to have a day
care center to take care of children
while parents or babysitters bowled
in a league watching his brothers
bowl.
He wanted to play but couldnt

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Verona Area High School

junior Victoria Brisack earned
a first-team
All-State volleyball selection this season.
Brisack,
who had
2,192 assists
in her career,
finished 2014 Brisack
with 125 kills,
65 aces, 41 total blocks (seven
solo), 161 digs and 838 assists.
She had career highs in
kills, digs and assists this season while helping the Wildcats win the Big Eight Conference and earn a No. 2 seed
in the WIAA Division 1 playoffs.
It took a lot of hard work
and dedication for the whole
team to finish like we did,
Brisack said. I wouldnt be
here without the effort of the
entire team.
Brisack said she was very
happy to not only make the
All-State list but to also have
junior Kylie Schmaltz join
her.
Schmaltz was named an
honorable mention All-State.
She finished the season with
286 kills, 61 aces, 20 blocks
(four solo), 317 digs and 19
assists in 2014. All of those
numbers were career highs in
a season.
All the individual accolades and stats werent what
Schmaltz was thinking about
when she entered the season.
Instead, she was thinking
about the teams goal of getting to state for the first time
since 2010.
I couldnt have done it
without my teammates,
Schmaltz said. Being named
an honorable mention really
shows how my hard work has
paid off.

Boys swimming

Wildcats swim to fourth place

at Beloit Memorial invite
Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

Verona/Mount Horeb boys

swimming team cruised to a Big
Eight Conference win Friday
against a Madison La Follette
squad missing several swimmers due to illness.
Even with the Wildcats swimming in several different events,
V/MH won every event en route
to an overwhelming 140-13 conference win over the Lancers.
The final event provided a
first in the coaching career of V/
MH head coach Bill Wuerger as
two Wildcats relays tied for first

place in the 400-meter freestyle.

Junior Grant Wightman,
freshman Luke Hagelin, sophomore Bryce Hoppe an senior
Cullen Meurer tied teammates
Magnus Kittleson, Zeke Sebastian, Will McMillan and Glen
Hook in 4 minutes, 9.26 seconds.
Verona swept six events on
the evening, including a pair by
Hook, who led a sweep of the
100 butterfly (1:12.67) and the
100 backstroke (1:14.46).
Senior Jimmy Conway led
a sweep of the 50 free (26.91),
while Sebastian, Angaran and
Hoppe lead a sweep of the 200

free (2:20.35), 100 free (57.38)

and the 400 free (4:59.39),
respectively.
Sophomore Jacob Wellnitz
guided a 1-2 Wildcat finish in
the 100 breaststroke (1:22.86).
Hagelin, Wellnitz and Hoppe
and Conway opened the meet
with a meet-best 2:05.61 in the
200 medley relay.
Though only the top relay
scored, senior Donald Ditzenberger, Wellnitz, Wightman and
McMillan led a Wildcats sweep
of the 200 free relay in 1:51.8.
Photo by Jeremy Jones
The Wildcats JV team rolled Verona/Mount Horeb Zeke Sebastian swims to victory in the 200-meter freestyle Friday evening against Madison La Follette with a time of 2 minutes, 20.35 seconds. The Wildcats won

Turn to Swimmers/Page 10 the Big Eight Conference dual 140-13.

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Gymnastics

Girls basketball

Jeremy Jones

improve to 5-2 overall

Molitor finishes third in all-around against West Cats knock off Beloit, East to
Sports editor

Juniors Cassie Hei, Cheyenne Trilling, Kira Opsal

and Heather Rudnicki all
The Verona Area High chipped in nine points.
School girls basketball
team impved to 5-2 overall Verona 75, East 55
The Wildcats defense
(4-2 in the Big Eight Conference) with wins over had their hands a little bit
Beloit Memorial and Mad- more full Saturday, but
host Verona was still able
ison East last week.
The Wildcats scored 151 to pull out a 75-55 win.
The Wildcats jumped
points combined in both
games while holding East out to a 15-point lead at
and Beloit to 71 combined halftime and put the game
just 16 for the Purple away in the third quarter.
Opsal led with 22 points,
Knights.
while Mueller added 18.
Verona 78, Beloit 16
Sophomore Alex Luehring
V e r o n a t r a v e l e d t o chipped in 12, and CheyBeloit Thursday and won enne Trilling scored eight.
Verona traveled to
78-16.
The Wildcats held the Edgewood Tuesday but
P u r p l e K n i g h t s t o j u s t the game did not meet the
three points in all quarters P r e s s e a r l y C h r i s t m a s
expect the second and nev- deadline. Look for results
in the next issue.
er trailed.
The Wildcats host
Junior Grace Muell e r s c o r e d 1 8 p o i n t s , Stoughton at 7:30 p.m.
while sophomore Grace Tuesday, Dec. 30.
Schraufnagel added 14.
Anthony Iozzo

Assistant sports editor

for the girls to really settle into

those changes, I think.
Regent Louisa Forrest won the
vault (8.975) and bars (8.225) to
secure the varsity all-around title
with a 33.725. Teammate Claire
Curley won other two titles, taking
the balance beam (8.9) and floor
competition (8.5) to finish second
with a 33.500.
The Wildcat/Crusaders were only
competing half a JV team since
Edgewood has finals and some
of the squads newest members
werent ready with their routines
yet.
Vanessa Wagner won the JV

beam and floor with identical scores

of 7.550 as Verona/Madison Edgewood lost 106.350-81.400.
We should be full strength after
holiday break, Hauser said.
The Wildcat/Crusaders return
to competition at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 8
inside Glacier Edge Elementary
against conference rival Janesville
Parker.
Going into winter break now, we
can focus on growing our difficulty
and adding bonus so that by the end
of season we can hopefully contend
for a top two finish at sectionals,
Hauser said.

Swimmers: Cats sink Lancers

Continued from page 9

Beloit Invitational

127-12.
Verona/Mount Horeb will
practice over winter break,
but doesnt have a meet until
Jan. 3 at the Marquette Invitational.

Junior Bryce Angaran

turned in Verona/Mount
Horebs lone first-place finish Saturday at the Beloit
Invitational, winning the 100
backstroke in 57.12. Angaran
added fifth-place finish in
the 200 IM (2:12.83) as the
Wildcats finished fifth with
387 points.
Waukesha South/Catholic
Memorial posted a meet-best
546.5 to hold off McFarland (513). Waunakee (436)
rounded out the top three.
The Beloit Invitational
included longer, college-distance events that are usually
not included in high school
meets (400 medley relay,
800 free relay, 1000 free, 400
IM, 200 back, 200 breast,
200 fly).
Some of our guys did not
enjoy swimming these longer
events, but hopefully it helps
make them stronger swimmers and they benefit later in
the season, Wuerger said.
The Wildcats best finish
Saturday came via a pair of
top three finishes in the 100
breaststroke. Glen Hook finished runner-up to McFarland senior Sam Mischio by
.13 with a time of 1:06.96.
Sophomore Bryce Hoppe
added a third-place finish in
1:09.51.
Hook earned a top three
finish in the 200 breaststroke,
taking third in 2:31.67.
Wellnitz meanwhile, added a pair of fourth-place in
the 1,000 (10:54.49) and 500
free (5:14.72). Wellnitz and
Angaran joined Cullen Meurer and Luke Hagelin to finish fifth on the 400 free relay
(7:59.21).
Jimmy Conway was fifth
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Verona/Madison Edgewood gymnasts Maddie Molitor competes on the uneven bars

Thursday against Madison West. Molitor finished third overall as a varsity all-around
competitor. The Wildcats lost 131.800-130.675.

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Verona/Madison Edgewood
kicked off the Big Eight Conference
season with 131.800-130.675 Big
Eight Conference loss Thursday
against Madison West inside Madison Memorial High School.
Our focus for the team last
night was to just get out there and
give a clean performance. Being
early in the year, we arent as worried about filling the routines with
bonuses or going for the big skills
yet, especially with the freshmen or
girls new to the team, head coach
Rachael Hauser said. We had a
goal of hitting 130, and Im happy
to say we accomplished that goal.
Edgewood newcomer Maddie
Molitor finished third in the varsity
all-around competition with a combined 33.250 points. She finished
second on the balance beam (8.775)
and tied teammate Sammy Seymour
for second on vault (8.450).
I was really impressed with
everyones performance last night.I
think the girls were a little nervous,
but honestly, it didnt really show
in their routines; they looked confident, Hauser said.
Mandy Michuda finished runnerup on the uneven bars (8.225) and
third on floor (8.425) en route to a
fifth-place finish as a varsity allaround (32.400).
Hannah Semmann placed second
on floor (8.5).
We have some new floor routines this year, and with changes
to the rules (they change every two
years), we have had to modify our
beam and bar routines a bit, Hauser said. It will take a couple meets

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Boys hockey

Wrestling

Coons, Johnson take first Wildcats earn second conference win

Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor

Senior Dakin Coons (195) and junior

Trayvonn Johnson (220) led the Verona
Area High School wrestling team Saturday with first places at the Mount Horeb
Invitational.
Coons and Johnson both finished 3-0,
helping the Wildcats take second as a
team with 196 points, behind Fennimore
(232). He pinned Isaac Kysely (Madison
Memorial) in 1 minute, 18 seconds, Jacob
Robinson (Cambridge)in 1:18 and Austin
Collins-Martin (La Crosse Central) in 26
seconds.
Johnson pinned Cody McCollough
(Fennimore) in 1:22 and Will Utesch (Big
Foot) in 5:54. He also defeated Jackson
Middleton (Madison West) 6-1.
Senior Eric Schmid (160), junior Tyler
Udelhoven (126) and junior Matthew
Maier (113) all took second.
Schmid pinned Graham Brennan
(Parkview) in 12 seconds and Travis
Syvrud (Mount Horeb) in 1:12. He lost
8-6 in a sudden victory overtime, 8-6.
Udelhoven pinned Everett Anderson
(Madison Memorial) in 52 seconds and
won 3-2 over Jake Obert (La Crosse Central). He fell to Alston Nutter (Fennimore)

by fall in 2:42.
Maier defeated Kent Myerson (Big
Foot) 13-9 but lost by pin to Ben Gobel
(Cambridge) in 1:57.
Senior Jackson Bryant (170), junior
Garrison Stauffer(heavyweight), junior
Dom Sabbarese (182) and sophomore
Brandon Daniels (120) all finished in
third place.
Bryant pinned Karter Etchin (Madison
Memorial) in 1:17, Raul Reyes (Big Foot)
3-2 in 35 seconds and Wyatt Thompson
(Mount Horeb) in 2:10.
Stauffer defeated Collin Faretta
(Adams-Friendship) 4-0, won in a 9-1
major decision over Mark Bogle (Madison West) and defeated Collin Faretta
(Adams-Friendship) 3-1.
Sabbarese pinned Jeffery Knudson
(Parkview) in 16 seconds, Mike Perez (La
Crosse Central) in 34 seconds and won a
7-3 decision over Matt Jensen (Deerfield).
Daniels pinned Chase Grieser (Cambridge) in 46 seconds, won in an 8-0
major decision over Tyger Frame (Mount
Horeb and pinned Alex Wilfong (Deerfield) in 2:14.
The Wildcats next wrestle Dec. 29-30
at the Bi-States Invitational at the La
Crosse Civic Center. Matches get underway at 9:30 a.m. on both days.

Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

Senior captain Brodie Roehrig scored a goal

and assisted on another Friday as the Wildcats
defeated Beloit Memorial 5-2 inside the Verona
Ice Arena.
Sam Renlund, Grant Smith and Josh Novotny
both chipped in a goal and an assist.
Renlund scored five-and-a-half minutes into
the first period. Beloit and Tyler Jensen answered
five minutes later on the power play, however.
Smith iced the Purple Knights with four-anda-half minutes remaining, scoring Veronas
go-ahead goal off an assist by Jake Keyes and
Novotny.

Anderson and Novotny tacked on goals three

minutes apart in the second period.
Alternating goalies week to week, junior Alex
Jones stopped 21 shots on goal for the Wildcats
(4-5-0 overall, 2-4-0 conference). Brennan Bescup faced 53 shots, turning away 48 for the Purple Knights (3-5-0, 1-4-0). Jensen scored a goal
and an assisted on Brady Wrights score in the
loss.
The Wildcats drop the puck against Eau Claire
Memorial (6-2-0) Monday, Dec. 29, inside Rochesters Graham Arena in the opening round of
their Kiwanis Hockey holiday tournament. Verona continues play through Wednesday, Dec. 31,
against Fargo South and Rochester Lourdes.

Boys basketball

Verona falls short at Beloit Memorial

The Verona Area High School boys basketball team traveled to Beloit Memorial Friday
and lost 72-69.
The Wildcats trailed by seven heading into
the fourth before outscoring the Purple Knights
28-24. But it wasnt enough for a comeback.
Junior Cole Schmitz led with 27 points, while
senior Will Kellerman chipped in 25.

The Wildcats traveled to Burlington Monday

night but results were unavailable for the Press
early holiday deadline.
Look for results in next weeks issue.
Verona hosts Madison Edgewood at 2:45
p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, Madison East at 7:30
p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, and Madison La Follette
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6.

Girls hockey

Metro Lynx undone by penalty kill in three-goal loss against Minneapolis

Sports editor

The Middleton girls hockey co-op lost one game and

tied its other last weekend
inside the Hudson Civic Ice
Arena.

Alex Gaffney scored

once on the power play and
assisted on an even-strength
goal Friday as Minneapolis
defeated the Metro Lynx
4-1.
Minneapolis first two
goals came via the power

play.
Middleton, which trailed
3-0 through two-and-a-half
periods, final scored a goal
with two minutes remaining.
Brenna Gladding scored
the Lynx lone goal before

Drews: Bowling for Robert Morris

said. He is already a pretty good bowler, but
we look forward to taking those tools and
advancing them to make him an even better
until he became sanctioned to bowl in the bowler.
league.
Drews kept on bowling into high school, Ready to compete at Robert Morris
where he joined the VAHS team, and it was
Drews still has a semester left at Bemidji
then, that he started to make a name for him- before he travels to Chicago, and besides
self.
only being a few hours from family in VeroHe helped the Wildcats win a state title in na, he is also looking forward to compete
2010 and also added a gold medal at the Bad- again.
ger State Games in the youth division.
Lehman said he expects Drews to start
Drews shot a 262, a 248, a 226 and a 228 competing for the team right away, but it
en route to a first-place finish at the Badger really comes down to what he does to earn it.
Games that year, winning by over 100 pins in
There are 37 bowlers on the roster, with 25
the championship.
making the travel roster. Lehman said Drews
But Drews decided to focus on academ- will probably make the travel roster and
ics after he graduated from Verona, going will have a shot to make the A team if he
to Bemidji State (Minn.) University which shows results. But regardless, Lehman said
didnt have a bowling team.
he expects Drews to at least start on the C
team when he makes it to Chicago.
The road from Bemidji
However, Drews said he knows he has a
Bemidji is a small town in northern Min- long way to go before he can compete at the
nesota, about two hours from Canada.
level he wants to.
There isnt much to do there, so Drews
The one thing he hopes to work on is the
said he got back to his roots a little bit hunt- mental side of the game, one that comes with
ing and fishing and doing anything outdoors making the correct lane adjustments and havto entertain himself.
ing confidence that the changes will work
And although he didnt bowl competitive- throughout a tournament.
ly, he still worked at a bowling alley while
One second of doubt and your ball might
attending and practiced when he could.
not make it. If that is what you think, it probAs a sophomore, he decided to further ably wont, Drews said. But if you think,
pursue his academics by getting into a good Yeah, this is going to be there and is going
Masters program.
to strike. I am going to hit the exact board
Looking in Chicago, he found Robert Mor- on the lane that I want to hit, exactly where
ris, which had one of the better Business I want to hit it. Then, that is probably what
Information Systems/Entrepeneurial Studies it will do.
degree in the country.
Reading the lanes and making the right
But as fate would have it, Robert Morris adjustments are some things I am hoping
also had one of the best bowling teams in the they will teach me there.
nation a team that has won four national
Drews is going to bowl in some tournatitles and has been ranked in the top 5 sev- ments over the summer and hopes to qualify
eral times in the 10 years since the team was for the USBC to get some work in before
founded.
joining Robert Morris.
I kind of realized that I wanted to get back
But what also helps is having four years of
to what it was that I started with when I was eligibility still while he goes for a Masters
really young, Drews said.
degree.
So Drews called the coach and set up a
What will happen after Drews completes
practice, and that is when Lehman noticed his time at Robert Morris? He said that will
something special.
depend on where bowling takes him in the
He has very good fundamentals, is a good future.
spare shooter and has a nice strike release. He
Regardless, he added, I do see bowling as
has a lot of tools we can work with, Lehman having a place in my life for my entire life.
Continued from page 9

Minneapolis iced the game

with its fourth goal less than
a minute later.
Sophomore goaltender
Erin Webb stopped 28 shots
on goal, while Lilah Schultz
stopped 26 of 27.
Julia Dragoo struck first

against Mahtomedi, scoring 54 seconds into the first

period Saturday.
The Metro Lynx had to
settle for a tie, however,
playing to a 1-1 deadlock.
Webb had seven saves
Annika Ziemer stopped

three of four shots for

Mahtomedi.
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Culvers Cup on Dec. 27-29,
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File photo by Jim Ferolie

Construction at Epic this year included the start of Campus 4, the

Harry Potter-themed set of five 300-unit office buildings. Epic also
contributed to a boost in Veronas tax base with its auditorium.

File photo by Jeremy Jones

File photo by Scott Girard

Five businesses opened in a new complex in front of Farm and Fleet

in June. Four of them Brews Bros., Little Caesars, Orange Leaf
Yogurt and Great Clips were new businesses.

Verona Area High School junior Beata Nelson and teammates celebrate their state championship in the 200-meter freestyle. Nelson
set national records in the 100-meter butterfly the same weekend.

2014: Years highlights include commercial development, record-breaking swimmer

Continued from page 1
planned. Regional and state
media swarmed the area for a day
or two, volunteers from far and
wide helped people sort through
their possessions and contractors
filled the streets for weeks, fixing up torn up siding, demolished
roofs and, in a couple of cases,
totaled homes or garages.
There were so many people
out there, said Jane Knudsen,
who lost her pickup truck, parts of
her roof and a barn that held six
classic cars at her Nine Mound
Road home. All of them were so
helpful. It was just wonderful.
Most people on the north side
of Verona were huddled in their
basements, many without power, when the 140 mph twister
touched down on the Epic campus
shortly after midnight of June 17
and tore its way northeast toward
Madison, where it did additional
damage.
Almost immediately, police
blocked off the neighborhood as
a precaution, with some downed
power lines and a report of a
possible gas leak. Police set up
a staging area in front of Badger
Ridge Middle School and emergency and work vehicles lined
Cross Country Road as people
tried to sort out the mess.
By the morning of June 17,
much of the surrounding debris
was cleaned up, buses were transporting people to a local church
to wait out the evacuation and
emergency and public works
personnel had arrived from all
over the county. By that afternoon, the governor had toured the
damage, construction crews had
removed much of the debris from
inside the school and most people
were back in their homes and the
streets were alive with activity
trimming and roofing contractors,
insurance adjusters, media, neighbors gathering for outdoor meals
and volunteers everywhere.
A few Town of Verona homes
outside that neighborhood got
badly hit particularly along
Country View Road but the
damage at Epic was mostly limited to shattered windows.
The months that followed saw
a slow retreat of the contractors
crowding the area as homes were
repaired and the school opened in
time for the school year.
They also brought fundraising
efforts, especially by the Country View PTO to help replace

File photo by Jim Ferolie

A home is being built in the Meister Addition to Westridge Estates, one of the few remaining properties left on the west side.

materials damaged or lost in the

classrooms hit by the storms.
Those efforts brought in thousands of dollars through lemonade stands, bracelet and T-shirt
sales and business donations.
Whether it was those donations,
the schools rebuilding effort or
the volunteers who responded
almost immediately after the
storm, it brought out the best in
many around the community.
Its just amazing, said Anita
Brouwer, who had moved into her
Kettle Woods Drive home with
her husband just weeks before
the storm. Weve only lived here
three weeks, and you dont even
know anybody we just feel that
we did move to the right place.
Jim Ferolie and Scott Girard

2. Economy starts roaring

again after a hiatus
Verona is used to having a
stout economy, and even during
the Great Recession, Epic helped
buoy us by continuing to grow
while most of the community was
stagnant.
But in 2014, Verona really got
moving again.
Yes, Epic was still a huge part
of it the completion of its $400
million Deep Space auditorium
and the start of its fourth set of
1,500-office buildings accounted
for a good chunk of the countys
overall growth but there was

still plenty of commercial and

residential growth.
With limited areas available for
new homes, Verona stopped being
among of the fastest-growing cities in the state, but it still pushed
above 11,000, according to state
estimates that are typically more
conservative and accurate than
the U.S. Census projections. Two
subdivisions on the south side
took in most of the single-family
homes, and dozens of apartments
started going up on the south and
north side.
One commercial developer,
Vanta, gave up on its years-old
vision of a shopping center on
the west side, offering to sell
most of its land to the Verona
Area School District. But another
began putting up buildings one
after another and making plans
for an enormous hotel.
Liberty Business Park held
groundbreaking ceremonies for
two buildings totaling more than
50,000 square feet and announced
signed contracts with at least a
dozen companies, including a pair
of restaurants. Two more buildings have been approved, including a 231-room hotel that remains
in the planning process and would
likely break ground after the
ground thaws in the spring.
If that roughly $20 million
project comes to fruition, it could
spur all sorts of growth on the
southeast side of the city and

everyone else who watched her

as she cruised to state championships and national records.
Already the defending record
holder in three individual events,
Nelson went a step further at
the WIAA Division 1 girls state
swimming and diving championships in November, breaking
Katie McLaughlin of St. Margarita (Calif.) High Schools national
high school and 15-16 national
age group record in the 100-meter
butterfly in 51.7 seconds.
I didnt want to put too much
pressure on myself, but I really
wanted the record, she said.
When I saw my time flash I just
wanted to cry. Im speechless.
Shortly after her records-shattering swim, Nelson received a
standing ovation from the capacity crowd of 1,500 spectators.
The defending state champion
in the 100 backstroke, as well,
Nelson broke her own state record
by four-hundredths of a second
with a 53.15.
Every time I swim an event,
my jaw just drops when I look at
the board, she said.
After just missing the 200 freestyle relay state record a year ago,
sophomores Maizie Seidl and
Kristi Larsen and senior Shelby
Rozeboom joined Nelson to broke
the 6-year-old state record of
Madison East and shock Arrowhead with a time of 1:33.51.
Nelson and her teammates
broke another school record in
the 200 medley relay at 1:44.63,
but they settled for silver behind
Arrowhead.
Jeremy Jones

triple hotel tax revenues, which

were over $200,000 last year.
Another small retail/office
building at Liberty Park is up for
review next month, and more will
assuredly be on the way if the
hotel comes through.
Across County Highway M,
Wisconsin Brewing Company,
which opened in late 2013, built
momentum both for its rapidly
growing beer sales and its on-site
parties.
On East Verona Avenue, four
new businesses settled into a new
strip mall in front of Farm and
Fleet, joining an existing business
that moved and expanded.
4. VASD expanding despite
And on West Verona Avenue,
construction started on a 91-room stagnating enrollment
For years, the Verona Area
Fairfield Inn and Suites that will
complement the Holiday Inn School District saw triple-digit
Express just down the street. Its enrollment increases, but this year
surprisingly defied that trend.
expected to open in late spring.
By the time those numbers
Jim Ferolie
came in, the school board had
3. World Beata
already planted its flag in the idea
Wherever Verona Area High of expansion with a $3.4 million
School girls swimming stand- land purchase agreement in May
out Beata Nelson went this year, and two more at the end of September.
records seemed to fall.
The 129 acres of purchases are
And they got bigger and bigger
contingent on voter approval in
as she went along.
Some 629 days from potentially an expected referendum in the
swimming in the Olympics in Rio spring election, but district offide Janeiro, Brazil in August 2016, cials have repeatedly pointed to
and with the Olympic time trials the long-term importance of getearlier that summer, the 16-year- ting the land while its available.
When you have an
old Verona Area/Mount Horeb
standout amazed herself and
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opportunity, you want to
jump at that opportunity,
superintendent Dean Gorrell told the Press in September.
The district also created a
Future Schools Committee
to look at potential grade
realignment or changes to
where the districts charter schools are housed
if the land purchases are
approved. That committee
met for the second time in
December and will likely
hear from other area districts that have recently
undergone the changes
the district is considering, such as a grades 10-12
high school or 5-8 middle
school.
Enrollment, after all, is
still expected to increase by
at least 1,000 students in the
next 10 years, based on projections from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Applied Population Lab.
So when preliminary
numbers showed small
growth, it came as somewhat of a surprise to those
inside and outside the district. The final third-Friday
count numbers in September brought even worse
news: the district actually
saw a loss in resident students, used to determine a
districts revenue cap by the
state.
It didnt have a major
effect on the budget, but
one casualty appeared to be
what would have been the
fourth year of innovation
grants.
Scott Girard

5. #LeBronMetEbony
Verona Area High School
senior Ebony Nettles-Bey
made national headlines
during the 2013-14 girls
basketball varsity season
as she courageously battled
stage 4 rhabdomyosarcoma,
a cancer of the muscles.
Nettles-Bey received
community support, was
granted a Make-a-Wish
shopping spree and split
time receiving radiation
therapy and being a key
piece in Veronas runner-up
finish in the Big Eight Conference and a No. 2 seed in
the WIAA Division 1 playoffs. But she had one wish
that sparked a new Twitter
hashtag, #LeBronMeetEbony.
That wish, to meet her
idol LeBron James who
played for the Miami Heat
at the time came true
March 29 when the Heat
visited the Milwaukee
Bucks. And subsequently,
the meeting created a new
hashtag, #LeBronMetEbony.
Nettles-Bey was able
to meet the entire Miami
Heat team. She came out
with them to the floor, shot
jumpers with James during
warmups and stood with the
players during the national
anthem.
James told her he
couldnt leave the floor
until she hit a shot, and just
like she had done all season, rose up with that pressure and drained a shot.
Afterward, Nettles-Bey
also received a special message with photos of her and
James on the Heats Instagram account after the
game.
Ebony your strength,
courage and energy is out

Photo by Miami Heat/Instagram

Ebony Nettles-Bey stands in front of LeBron James and next to

Chris Bosh during the National Anthem March 29 before the Miami
played the Milwaukee Bucks at the Bradley Center. Nettles-Bey,
who was battling cancer, had a wish to meet her idol, James, that
caused Twitter hashtag #LeBronMeetEbony to go national.

File photo by Jeremy Jones

Senior assistant captain Philippe Fromberger and the rest of the Verona Area High School boys hockey
team celebrate with their WIAA state championship trophy following their 6-1 victory over Onalaska.
The Wildcats allowed one goal in wins over Superior, top-ranked Notre Dame and the Hilltoppers at
state inside the Alliant Energy Center Coliseum.

of this world, and you will

win and defeat this, read
part of the message.
Nettles-Beys cancer is
now in remission as she
finishes up her high school
career, but the only thing
that might come close to
meeting James would be a
trip to state or one day playing in the WNBA.
Anthony Iozzo

6. State champs
everywhere you look
It was a great year to be
a Verona Wildcat, as several programs hoisted state
championship trophies in
2014.
The boys hockey and
girls golf teams each won
their first ever state titles,
hockey in the late winter
and golf in the late fall.
Boys lacrosse added another school state title in the
spring.
The boys hockey team
entered the state tournament with the third-highest
scoring offense, but it was
the Wildcats defense that
carried the program to its
first state title, allowing one
goal over three games.
Sophomore goaltender
Alex Jones even shut out
Notre Dame, the states topscoring offense, in the second round on his way to the
second-best goals-against
average of anyone in state
tournament history and a
tournament MVP nod.
Philippe Fromberger,
meanwhile, was not only
one of the Wildcats top
defenseman of the tournament, but was also the
teams leading scorer. He
scored twice and assisted
in two more goals in a 6-1
victory in the championship
game, against Onalaska.
The girls golf team,
which was the 2013 Division 1 runner-up, finally
was able to get to the top
of leaderboard this year at
the University Ridge golf
course.
Two-time individual
state champion senior Jessica Reinecke, who signed

File photo by Anthony Iozzo

The Verona Area High School girls golf team won the WIAA Division 1 state tournament for the first
time in school history in October, led by two top-10 finishes by senior Jessica Reinecke (fifth) and
junior Bailey Smith (tied for sixth).

to play college golf at the

University of WisconsinMadison, led the way with
a fifth-place 155 (74-81)
as the Wildcats won by
eight strokes over Hartland
Arrowhead, 648-656.
Four juniors, Bailey
Smith, Emily Opsal, Hanna
Rebholz and Melissa Biesmann helped the girls win
their first Big Eight Conference title, along with
regional and sectional titles
in 2014. And all five made
the all-Big Eight Conference list, while Reinecke
(first-team), Smith (thirdteam) and Rebholz (honorable mention) all made the
All-State team, as well.
Boys lacrosse won its
fourth state title in school
history after falling short
the previous few years.

Jack Cioci, who was

injured in 2013, scored the
game-winning goal in a
7-6 win against Waunakee
June 14 at the University
of Wisconsin-Whitewaters
Perkins Stadium.
Cioci also scored four
goals in the semifinal
against Marquette University High School, the team
that defeated Verona in
2013, as the Wildcats won
13-12.
Anthony Iozzo and
Jeremy Jones

7. Fire station built and

a lawsuit put to rest
Maybe youve driven
down East Verona Avenue and noticed a building
going up across from Culvers.

Despite a lawsuit with

the union representing firefighters from the old Verona Fire District, the city
marched forward with plans
to expand and renovate its
fire department including a new $10.5 million,
42,000-square-foot station
that will also accommodate
FitchRona EMS.
At the beginning of the
year, fire chief Joe Giver
was unable to proceed with
plans to shake up his staffing structure, which was
intended to get the department to its longtime goal
of 24/7 coverage. By the
time the budget was set in
late November, the lawsuit
was settled and everything
was set for major changes
on July 1, 2015, about when
the new station will be

finished.
The citys largest municipal project ever will replace
the 12,000-square-foot station built in 1974. The old
apparatus bays behind the
new building will remain
until the new station is able
to hold the department and
all its equipment in late
spring or summer.
With the station now facing East Verona Avenue,
the public safety facilities
ad hoc committee agreed on
a more modern, showy look
than City Center, with varied rooflines, lots of glass
facing Verona Avenue and
a public monument near the
corner of Lincoln Street and
Verona Avenue. Antique
equipment will highlight
the northwest corner of the
building, the spot closest to
the road.
The size of the station
and the extra visual features, designed by Five
Bugles Design, brought
some criticism about public
spending, but city leaders
have focused cost-cutting
measures in other areas,
including staffing. The
ability of the new building to accommodate live-in
interns and overnight paid
on-call personnel is expected to allow 24/7 staffing to
be more cost-effective than
a fully professional department.
Throughout the year-anda-half-long planning process, the ad hoc committee
waded through details and
was charged with recommending the best and most
cost-effective station for
the fire and Fitchrona EMS
departments. The design
was approved in May and
the bids approved in chunks
over the summer.
The fire apparatus bays
are located on the east end
of the building and are not
only designed to meet modern fire station standards,
they will have extra-fast bifold doors that are expected
to save about 40 seconds
when trucks are ready to

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go. Trucks will exit onto
Verona Avenue and will be
aided by preemption technology at the traffic signals.
Two EMS bays will be
housed toward the middle
of the station, with access
on the East Verona Avenue,
as well.
Jim Ferolie and Mark
Ignatowski

8. Election and council

changes
On the heels of a tense
year among city leadership,
Verona had its first mayoral
election in eight years.
Though Mayor Jon
Hochkammer kept his seat
against challenger Chad
Kemp, an upstart with no
prior City of Verona government experience, things
didnt exactly stay the same
at Verona City Center.
Ald. Mike Bare, who had
been appointed the previous June in a contentious
process that burned some
bridges, lost his seat to former alder Evan Touchett,
who had himself lost
an election the previous
April. The new chemistry
including the decision of
File photo submitted
Ald. Scott Manley not to
run again combined with Verona Area Community Theater members on Sept. 25 erected a lighted fund-raising sign in
redoubled efforts from all Community Park, not far from where the groups new building is planned to be built. From left, Dick
sides at reconciliation to Vock, Terry Dvorak, Dee Baldock, Steve Nickels and Dale Nickels.
help ease some tensions
that had lasted for several
months the prior year and
resulted in some bruised
egos and loss of decorum.
Since the election, the
still diverse council has
been much more placid and
agreeable, even when they
dont agree.
It came with a cost,
though, as the four April
city candidates combined
to raise more than $40,000,
quadruple the previous
years total, when there
were eight candidates for
four seats. In addition to
the candidates spending,
a Madison Area Builders
Association-backed group
put out postcards all over
the city supporting both
Hochkammer and Touchett.
Jim Ferolie

9. Expanding
nonprofits
Two familiar local
nonprofit institutions
announced plans this year
to expand and move into
new buildings.
Verona Area Community
Theater, fresh off a 20th
anniversary celebration,
spent most of the year looking for and finally finding
land it could move into in
order to build its own small
auditorium to give it more
flexibility to rehearse and
hold smaller shows. And
Verona Area Needs Network, the parent organization of the local food pantry, began soliciting donations to move out of the
basement of the old library
and into a much larger, currently empty county building.
Both earned some support from the city, and both
moves would come with
a significant expansion of
their services.
VACT hopes to add
community classes on acting and more shows to its
schedule, plus open its
facility for some community use, including for recreation department programs.

File photo by Mark Ignatowski

Mayor Jon Hochkammer speaks during a mayoral candidate forum in March. Hochkammer held off a
challenge from Chad Kemp (left).

no visible changes, but the

city finalized it and then
put some money and specific plans in the budget for
2015.
In March, it became final
after dozens of meetings
and getting comment from
hundreds of interested people including a group of
more than 70 people who
forced a change in a plan to
extend Silent Street through
St. Andrew church. But
most of the plan contained
suggestions and long-term
ideas, rather than specific
action plans.
In August, the Common
Council narrowed its priorities and started with a
cleanup of the downtown
sidewalks and landscaping that will take place in
2015. Another identified
priority was parking, so it
10. First steps for
purchased one old house
and started negotiations on
downtown plan
another that will allow it
Nearly two years after to create a common parkthe city started its down- ing area between Main and
town plan, there are still Franklin streets.

VANN has been looking to

expand for a few years and
plans to offer an extended
support network far beyond
food for the hungry, including social support and
health and legal services.
VACT got plans
approved to share the fire
station lot on Lincoln
Street, made a deal with
the city to sell its current building for $360,000
and began a campaign to
raise money to build a new
14,000-square-foot facility. And VANN earned a
$40,000 pledge from the
city and $100,000 from the
county toward its $400,000
capital campaign and began
soliciting financial support
from other area municipalities and organizations.
Jim Ferolie

Despite a strong focus

on transportation and traffic while the plan was being
formulated, any significant
changes to the street configuration are being put
off. Instead, a final shortterm priority identified was
changing city economic
development programs
to encourage investment
downtown.
In another move somewhat contrary to another
major emphasis of the plan
building up the Verona
Avenue corridor into a
commercial center alders
chose to allow a church to
move into the old Wildcat
Lanes building and to allow
a large commercial area on
the west side of the city
to become land for a high
school.
But the city did budget
$35,000 to hire a consultant
to seek out economic development, including in the
downtown area.
Jim Ferolie

File photo by Samantha Christian

Bill Lease, of Village Lanes in Monona, disassembles bowling alley equipment from Wildcat Lanes in Verona on Aug. 20.
The lanes will eventually become the sanctuary for Sugar River
United Methodist Church.

Honorable mentions
Bowling alley becomes church
Verona said goodbye to a beloved bowling alley and hello
to a church this summer as the former Wildcat Lanes became
the new place of worship for Sugar River United Methodist
Church.
The church had previously been renting the former library
building, but the congregation had outgrown the space and
was searching for a permanent place to call home. Since the
bowling alley was double the size and had been in foreclosure,
it seemed like the right fit.
We as a church just felt that instead of trying to build
another building, to repurpose a building made more sense
good stewardship, said pastor Gary Holmes.
Another nearby church, Redeemer Bible Fellowship, quickly
filled the void at the former library and moved there just up
Franklin Street a month later.
Services and most other activities at Sugar River UMC are
being held upstairs while the downstairs is being renovated.
The same area where bowlers knocked down strikes is where
churchgoers will sing hymns in the new sanctuary.
Even as renovation work continues, volunteers said that
many people still pop in hoping for a bite to eat or a ball to
bowl. But not everyone unaware of the changeover has been
disappointed.
While disassembling the lanes this fall, volunteers found
a wedding ring that had been lost below one of the gutters
for eight years and returned it to a shocked and overjoyed
Madison couple.
Samantha Christian

Chamber takes over Hometown Days

Two years after it decided against running Veronas annual
summer festival, the Chamber of Commerce took over
Hometown Days for 2014.
Brava Enterprises had run the event for two years after
Verona Community Betterment folded in late 2011. Chamber
executive director Karl Curtis and Brava president Brad Zaugg
got together in late 2013, though, and decided the chamber
was a better long-term home for the festival.
But the change in management didnt bring many noticeable changes for festival-goers, aside from a pre-festival
Medallion Hunt the chamber organized during the week
leading up to the June 12-15 festival and a cornhole/beanbag
tournament organized by the Wisconsin Brewing Company.
Scott Girard

Senior center changes

The Verona Senior Center had to replace its two most visible faces in 2014.
Not only did it lose its founding director
and leader for the past two decades, Diane
Lanaville, to retirement, but activities director
Chris Nye a finalist to be her successor
left to head the senior center in Fort Atkinson.
Both served on more than just a local
level. In 2012, Nye was elected president
of the Wisconsin Volunteer Coordinators Hanson
Association. Lanaville was a long-time member of the Wisconsin Association of Senior
Centers standards and accreditation committee, and was the groups representative on
the delegate council of the National Institute
of Senior Centers.
The new director, Mary Hanson, said shes
focusing on listening and facilitating.
The most important thing is making the
links between all the different things that hap- Miller
pen here, she said. I love building bridges
and making the connections between people
and different roles.
New activities director Jennifer Miller is a personal fitness
trainer who works with a broad range of people, finding just
the right things to do at a busy center.
There are folks from 55 to 90, 100 one person is 105,
said Hanson. Shes got to figure out and arrange programming that works for everybody.
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December 25, 2014

The Verona Press

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VANN: County supportive of organization expanding to include a variety of social services

Continued from page 1
Kasieta announced a partnership between the county
and VANN to help address
the issue of inequality.
In addition to managing
the food pantry, VANN
hopes to expand its programming to possibly
include job training, nutritional education, health and
legal clinics and community gardening.
Theres poverty across
our county; and we have to
be comprehensive at where,
when and how we address
the issue, Parisi said.
This year VANN came
to us because they have an
increased need from the clients they serve.
Kasieta said the food
pantry serves about 10,000
people during the year, up
180 percent from just over
four years ago. As the need
has grown, VANN has outgrown its space, which the
City of Verona has provided to the nonprofit free of
charge since 2006.
If we dont have this
new space available to us,
a lot of people will go hungry and the problem will be
worse than it presently is,
Kasieta said.
Kasieta, a former mayor
of Verona who made the
resolution to provide space
for the pantry back in 2006
as a city alder, declined
to catalog the shortcomings of the current building. Rather, he expressed
gratitude toward the city,
county, community and

Photo by Samantha Christian

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, center, announces a partnership between the Verona Area Needs Network and the county during a
press conference Thursday, Dec. 18, at the former administration building at Badger Prairie Health Care Center. Looking on are several
public officials and volunteers associated with the food pantry, including pantry coordinator Karen Fletcher, second from right, and from
left: Mayor Jon Hochkammer, VANN president Bob Kasieta and Verona area county Sup. Mike Willett.

volunteers for their ongoing

support, as well as focused
on the opportunities the
new facility would provide.
Were thinking of all
kinds of opportunities that
will permit people coming
to us with certain needs to
have a one-stop shop where
we can address not only the
issue of nutrition, which is

release, VANN reports that

64 percent of the families
served live in Fitchburg/
South Madison and 34 percent live in the town or city
of Verona.
Kasieta told the Verona
Press the county facility
will meet VANNs needs
because it is more accessible to the public and

vital, but also very much

the question of those other
needs that are central to
somebody who is suffering
as so many of our clients
are, he said.
VANN serves the
Verona Area School District, and nearly half the
people it serves are children. According to a news

large enough for VANN to

increase the size of its pantry store and storage capacity to save money by buying
food in bulk.
It is a conveniently
located, single-story structure in good condition
that will permit us to provide clients and volunteers with a dignified, safe

environment, a statement
on VANNs website says.
VANN has been in the
midst of its Move the
Food capital fundraising
campaign, and as of Monday, it had reached 68 percent of its $420,000 goal.
Donations will help VANN
with renovation efforts and
to serve more families and
reduce operating costs.
To date, VANN has
received more than
$120,000 from local businesses and individuals,
along with the countys
grant, another $40,000
from the City of Verona
and another $20,000 from
Wal-Marts Food Pantry
Holiday Makeover online
contest.
To raise the remaining
one-third of its goal, VANN
will be searching for more
grants, knocking on doors
and holding more fundraisers in the coming months.
Parisi said VANN is a
boots-on-the-ground, grassroots organization with a
broader vision.
In addition to being a
food pantry, VANN has a
vision of being a hub for
services ... so people can
get (and connect to) the
support they need, he said.
If the board approves
the lease and the weather
cooperates for construction
efforts this spring, Kasieta
told the Press hes optimistic the food pantry will be
set up at the facility by July.
For information on
upcoming events or to
donate, visit vanncares.org.

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