24455 3rd Street Trempealeau, WI 54661 Tel: 608-534-6434 Fax: 608-534-6280 E-mail: info@trempealeauwi.

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www.trempealeauwi.com ADMINISTRATORS NOTE S
The Village Board met for its regular meeting on Tuesday, September 4th to a full agenda. The meeting was opened with public hearings for a rezone and conditional use permit request from Corey Feyen to construct self-storage condominiums at 11th and Emmons St. Hearing no opposition to the planned project, the hearings were closed. The Board later approved the CSM, rezone and conditional use permit for the project. The Board heard from Gary McLaren of Hydro Designs Inc. on cross connection control services for the water utility. The Board later voted to hire Hydro Designs for cross connection inspection for a 2 year term. In other business, the Board approved a CSM for a lot division, reviewed the year end pool season report and heard reports from Trempealeau County Solid Waste and the Library Board. The final agenda item of the evening authorized President Wood to sign purchase agreements between the Trempealeau Municipal Electric Utility and Xcel Energy for the line that feeds power to the Village. Trempealeau Municipal Electric will be purchasing customized smart strips for our electric customers. A smart strip prevents appliances and electronic devices from using HYDRANT FLUSHING electricity when theyre not in use. You can expect your smart strip to Trempealeau Utilities will be delivered before the end of the year. be performing routine The next regular Village Board meeting is flushing of hydrants during the week of September Monday, October 1st at 7:00 PM

VOLUME 22, ISSUE 9 SEPTEMBER 2012

VILLAGE OFFICIALS Kurt Wood, President 534-6822 Trustees: Joan Koelbl Tom Scherr Bob Stellpflug Lois Taylor Ted Litsheim Cindy Wegner Village Office 534-6034 534-6665 534-6266 534-5008 386-3866 534-6286 534-6434

The Village Office will be Closed on Thursday, September 13th for Software Training. Payments may be deposited in the drop box outside the building.

10th, 2012. Residents may experience discoloration of water after this has been done and should not be alarmed. Running your faucets should clear the water.

Travis Cooke, Administrator admin@trempealeauwi.com Vicki Freeman, Clerk clerk@trempealeauwi.com Village Police 534-6875 Rick Niedfeldt, Chief of Police tremplopolice@centurytel.net TMU Electric Kim Ganz Superintendant Sewer/Water Todd Lakey Superintendant Electric Sewer/Water (608)792-1735 (608)386-3731

POLICE BLOTTER
The Trempealeau Police Department wants to inform everyone that we will be collecting medication to assure it is disposed of properly. This is a great opportunity for those who have subsequently accumulated unwanted, unused prescription drugs, to safely dispose of those medications. This also prevents theft, accidental poisoning of children and pets, and protects the environment. Individuals are asked to bring medication to the Trempealeau Police Department on September 29, 2012 between 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. The Trempealeau Police Department is located in the Village Municipal Building. If you are not able to drop of your medications on the above date, please contact Chief Rick Niedfeldt or Officer Nathan Casper at 608-534-6875 and we will still accept medications throughout the year.

STATISTICS FOR AUGUST 2012

Total Calls for Service: 66 Animal Complaints: 4 Assist Other Agency: 14 Juvenile Violations: 4 Open Door: 2 OWI: 1 Suspicious Activity: 3 Traffic Accidents: 2 Traffic Stops: 17

Community Oriented Policing : August: 216 Year to Date: 1,505

EMERGENCIES ONLY
534-6388 534-8370

Check Businesses Residential Security Check Check for Open Doors

Monthly Statistics Breakdown: 17 Total Traffic Stops

Reason for the Traffic Stop Defective Headlight: 4 Defective Tail Lights: 1 Expired Vehicle Registration: 1 No Lights on at Night: 1 Speeding in Fixed Limits: 9 Squealing Tires: 1 *Out of those 17 traffic stops, the following was the disposition. Total Citations Issued: 4 Total Warnings Issued: 13 Citations Operating without required lights illuminated: 1 Speeding in Fixed Limits: 2 Squealing Tires: 1

Schedule of Meetings
STCSWC Streets and Alleys COW General Government
Regular Village Board STCSWC COW (Budget Working) COW (Budget Working) Regular Village Board Special VB (Budget Hearing)

The program accepts pills, inhalers, capsules, sprays, drops, ointments, creams and pet medications. Over the counter medications are okay. We wont accept liquids, biological waste, syringes, or health-care waste. Individuals can remove or black out names, but should leave the medication name and dose on the bottle. Empty Rx bottles can be placed in recycling.

Sept 10 , 6:30 pm Sept 18, 5:15 pm Sept 18, 6:00 pm Oct 1, 6:00 pm Oct 1, 7:00 pm Oct 8, 6:30 pm Oct 22, 5:30 pm Oct 24, 5:30 pm Nov 5, 7:00 pm Nov 19, 6:00 pm

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SHIRLEY M. WRIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRARY 534-6197 http://www.wrlsweb.org/trempealeau/

Visit our NEW website at www.wrlsweb.org/trempealeau or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ trempealeaulibrary . Our big news at the library this month is that we have new hours! Many of you participated in our patron survey during July and August, and we listened. We heard that many of you wanted later hours and many of you wanted earlier hours. Not only that, you wanted hours that were easier to remember! So, at the August Library Board meeting, the following hours were approved beginning September 1, 2012: children, as well as our 4K friends. School-age children in our community can participate in our after school LEGO club starting Friday, September 28. If your child would like to attend and you would be interested in being on a rotation as a parent volunteer, please call the library.

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

Friends of Trempealeau Library will meet Tuesday, September 18, 5pm at the Library. Among items to consider: the librarys centennial celebration, our winter fundraiser, and long range direction of the Kids and Family tent. Fall is a great time to think about active Starting in October, we will be launchinvolvement. Its easy to become a Friend. ing Unplug & Play. Unplug & Play is Simply express your interest in and willinga program featuring table-top board ness as you attend a meeting, ask to be ingames and card games for adults and cluded on the Friends email or mail listing, children ages 10 and up. On the third Monday of each month, from 6:00pm - and/or volunteer to help with any of the 8:00 pm, turn off your TVs, phones, Friends events. and computers, and join others at the Monday 1-8 pm Great things can happen when good library for some gaming fun! Chess, Tuesday 1-8 pm checkers, Euchre, Settlers of Catan Friends get together! Wednesday 1-8 pm the options are endless! If you are able Thursday 9am -6 pm to donate any board or card games to the library for this program, we would Friday 9 am -6 pm be very thankful! Watch for more deSaturday 9 am-12 pm For those that are tails to come! interested in donating to Storytime will start on Friday, September Thanks, the G-E-T Food Pantry Jessica Schoonover 14 at 10:00 am. Come for stories, songs, there is a donation bin and fun! Storytime is open to preschool located in the Village Office sponsored by Trempealeau Chamber of Commerce. We accept any dried or canned goods to deliver to the Pantry. Three county agencies are working together to sponsor the free Stepping On workshop which will be held at the Community Center in Trempealeau. The seven-week workshop will be The Food Pantry is located at First Presbyterian Church, 20237 W Ridge Avenue, Galesville for conducted by Paula Hentges, registered occupational therapist at the Trempealeau County the needs of residents in the Galesville Ettrick Health Care Center. We encourage anyone age 60 and older who have had a fall or have a fear of falling Trempealeau area. to consider attending the Stepping On workshop, said Hentges. Participants will become em- Hours are Wednesdays 10 am to Noon and last Wednesday of the month 5:307:00 pm. powered and feel more confidant as they learn how to reduce the risk of falls. If emergency service needed at other times call The Stepping 608-582-2991.

G-E-T FOOD PANTRY

STEPPING ON WORKSHOP

On workshop is sponsored by Senior Services of Trempealeau County, the Trempealeau County Health Care Center and Trempealeau County Public Health. For more information, or to register, call Public Health at 715-538-2311 or toll-free at 877-538-2311, ext. 220. The workshop is limited to only 12 participants.

MT. CALVARY BLOOD DR IVE

Location - Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Trempealeau When - Thursday October 25th - 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. For an appointment call 1-800-733-2767 or go to RedCrossBlood.org

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THIS MONTH IN THE VI LLAGE

SEPTEMBER
Saturday Monday Tuesday Wednesday CITY WIDE RUMMAGE SALE 8 GALESVILLE Mahjong 6:30 pm STCSWC 6:30 pm 10 VFW Auxiliary 7 pm Sizzling Seniors 9-10 am Garbage & 11 Recycling Pick-Up 12 Garden Club 7pm YOGA 5:30 pm Sizzling Seniors 9-10 am Farmers Market 3-7 pm Trempealeau Sportsmans Club 7 pm Trempealeau Boy Scout Pack 101 Trempealeau Elementary Can Collection Day VILLAGE WIDE RUMMAGE SALE VFW Post #1915 7 pm Mahjong 6:30 pm Sizzling Seniors 9-10 am Garbage & Recycling Pick-Up YOGA 5:30 pm Sizzling Seniors 9-10 am Chamber of Commerce 7:30 am VFW Post #1915 7 pm BOY SCOUT WREATH ORDERS START Mahjong 6:30 pm Sizzling Seniors 9-10 am Garbage & Recycling Pick-Up YOGA 5:30 pm Sizzling Seniors 9-10 am Heritage Society 1:30 pm Village Board Mtg 7 pm jong 6:30 pm Sizzling Seniors 9-10 am bage & Recycling Pick-Up YOGA 5:30 pm Sizzling Seniors 9-10 am VFW Post #1915 7 pm MahGar-

TREMPEALEAU BOY SCOUT TROOP 101 WREATH SALES ORDERS: SEPTEMBER 22nd OCTOBER 21st DELIVERY WILL BEGIN NOVEMBER 21st Watch for a Boy Scout in your Area! Trempealeau Pack 101 is calling all 1st-5th grade boys, scouts, families, friends and neighbors to Central Park on Thursday Sept. 13th at 6:30pm. We will be registering new Cub Scouts and building rockets for the space derby. We will also have information for the upcoming scout year.

Thursday Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday Wednesday

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Farmers Market in Central Park Thursday's 3:00pm to 7:00pm Vegetables, Flowers, Jewelry and much more.... Buy Local, buy Fresh!

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OCTOBER
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STCSWC Fall Clean Up October 13th 8 am Noon Reduced prices on everything!!

Appliances TV's Computers Old furniture --We take it all !!

SIZZLING SENIOR NEWS

Fall is fast approaching, so wouldnt it be a good time to consider getting some extra exercise!! We meet Tuesday and Thursday mornings at the Village Hall 910 am. On August 7th we met at the Trempealeau Fitness Center on Fremont Street. Kathy Gilberg gave us a wonderful and informative tour. She explained and showed the class how to use the machines. Some of the members tried out the equipment. It was very informative. Then we went out to the Trempealeau Mountain Golf Club for Coffee. The scenery was beautiful and we had a great time. Remember you are always welcome at the classes no attendance taken and no dues.

We buy cans 4 free car tires per Family !! Refreshments STCSWC Hazardous Waste Agricultural Waste Clean Sweep October 20th 9 am -11 am
Free Drop Off of Old Paints, Chemicals ,Fertilizers etc......
Call with ????s 582 4710

Operation Shoebox
Just a reminder that were still packing! Any support is appreciated. Anybody having rummage sales with items left that would be acceptable for the boxes, call Doreen at 534-6118 or Kay at 534-6510.

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