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Board approves
teacher contracts
Supplemental pay
plan still in flux
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Photos by Scott De Laruelle

A Rome Corners Intermediate School student uses a green flag to help alert drivers that students are using the crosswalk on South
Perry Parkway after school last week. The flags were added as a safety measure earlier this year after the school got several complaints
about drivers not stopping for students waiting at the crosswalk. Below, students head home from school using the crosswalk.

A voice heard

School district, police help solve driving issue near school

Scott De Laruelle
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When he looked out his window

toward Rome Corners Intermediate
School to watch his daughter walk
home to and from school, what Robert
Zimmerman saw instead was trouble.
A resident of South Perry Parkway,
Zimmerman lives in front of a crosswalk established a few years ago when
athletic fields were moved closer to the
school. The area had been set up to give
students the right of way to cross before
and after school, but what Zimmerman
and his wife were increasingly seeing
were drivers instead plowing through
the intersection while students waited.
It was an accident waiting to happen,
and he wasnt about to let one occur.
So he contacted school district officials to let them about the problem.
What he didnt expect, though, was
how quickly they sprang into action
and with the help of the Oregon Police
Department turned the problem area
into a problem solved.
It started with the beginning of the
school year in September, when Zimmerman noticed many more kids
from the neighborhood now in fifth
grade, walking to school using the
crosswalk. But he really noticed some
poor, dangerous driving.
Ive seen some girls down the
street stand there forever; they dont
even want to stand close to that crosswalk because theyre scared, he said.

Finally one car will stop, but you

almost have to wave them across.

Speedy solution
Zimmerman emailed Oregon School
District superintendent Brian Busler
about his concerns in early September,
and was pleased at the quick response.
(Busler) said hes had kids at the
school and he understands, but they

couldnt afford to put a crossing guard

there because they have one at the
four-way stop, Zimmerman said.
Busler took a couple days to search
for solutions, while keeping Zimmerman in the loop as the process went
on, with district officials seeking the
recommendations of the Oregon Police
Department. Acting police chief Dale
Burke said while the safest option
for students would be to cross at the
four-way stop sign with a crossing
guard, he suggested placing a portable
pedestrian sandwich sign in the middle of the street, and well as some extra
patrols in the area by police.
Within days of Zimmermans email
to the district, school officials had
painted yellow a 6-foot section of the
curb to help attract drivers attention
and keep them from parking too close
to the crosswalk. Within two weeks, a
movable sandwich sign was purchased
and placed in the middle of the street
before and after school and green
flags were put up on both sides of the
street for kids to carry when they walk
across.
Zimmerman said he had nothing
but high accolades for school district
and police department on how quickly
they acted, noting that two days after
his email to Busler, the superintendent
emailed him back on the steps the district was taking; steps that were quickly followed through.

If getting the teachers

contract done earlier in the
year is any sign of recent
progress between the school
board and educators, things
are looking up.
Still, board members
were starkly divided on
which staff should get a
supplemental pay increase,
shedding light on an issue
some say is causing friction among teachers.
The board unanimously
approved a contract with
the Oregon Education
Association at its meeting
Monday night, about four
months earlier than last
years deal, which had been
reached just weeks from
the end of the school year.
The districts human assets
committee and OEA had
reached a tentative agreement in December during
a session with a Wisconsin Employment Relations
Commission mediator,
which was ratified by OEA
members last month.
Under the agreement, all

teachers in the OEA will

receive a 1.46 percent base
wage increase, the maximum amount allowed by
the state law under Act 10.
While the first resolution
passed quickly, a second
one dividing up an additional 1 percent supplemental
pay increase not subject
to negotiations under Act
10 was met with much
dissent and failed 4-2.

Pay delay
The measure, which
according to information
in the boards packet had
been requested by the OEA
in the interest of fairness,
called for the supplemental
pay to be withheld from a
handful of middle school
and high school tech ed and
ag teachers who had gotten
separate supplemental pay
increases last spring, up to
$10,000.
Those pay increases were
designed to even market
forces that made it difficult
to find qualified personnel
at those positions, according to district officials.
District business manager Andy Weiland said
all district staff members

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Cyberbullying presentation
Dr. Justin Patchin from UW-Eau Claire and the Cyberbullying
Research Center visited Rome Corners Intermediate School, Oregon
Middle School and Oregon High School Monday to share information about cyberbullying and internet safety. He also gave a presentation at the high school Monday night.
Far left, Patchin talks to OHS students during an assembly Monday
afternoon about being careful what information they put online
and how big social media is getting. You should be proud whats
online about you, he told students. Your online ID represents
you.
At left, Patchin gave examples of social media sites, such as
MySpace, where people could potentially gather private information
about someone.
Photos by Scott De Laruelle

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To help letter carriers

safely deliver mail, the
U.S. Postal Service is
asking customers to clear
snow and ice from sidewalks, stairs and mailboxes.
Snow and ice can make
delivery dangerous and
slow, the USPS said in a
news release.
Maintaining a clear
path to the mail box
including steps, porches, walkways and street
approach will help letter carriers maintain consistent delivery service
and help them get those
cards and packages delivered in time for the holidays, the release read.
Customers receiving door delivery should
make sure their sidewalks, steps and porches
are clear.
Customers receiving
curbside delivery should
remove snow piles left
by snow plows to keep
access to their mailboxes
clear for letter carriers.
Delivery service may
be delayed or curtailed
whenever streets or walkways present hazardous
conditions for letter carriers or when snow is
plowed against mailboxes.
The Postal Service
curtails delivery only
after careful consideration, and only as a last
resort, the news release
read. Any curtailed mail
is attempted the next
delivery day.
Blue collection boxes also need to be kept
clear for our customers to
deposit their mail and for
the Postal Service to collect the mail for delivery.
Residents and businesses with collection
boxes near their property
are asked to keep them
clear of snow and ice.
The Postal Service
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operating expenses and
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Commission approves
pump house improvements
Lights, sign to be
installed
The restoration and
improvement of the Oregon
Pump House will continue
after several additions to
the property were approved
last week by the Village of
Oregon Plan Commission.
The commission
approved plans to install
outdoor lights on the building, as well as a new sign.
Energy-efficient gooseneck style lighting will be
installed on the buildings
roof and will illuminate
the front of the building.
The gooseneck-style lights
are similar to other buildings downtown, including
Peaceful Heart books and
gifts and Firefly Coffeehouse. The lights will be
either red or black, village
documents show.
The building will also
get a new sign advertising the Oregon Welcome
Center. The two-sided,

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Two homes damaged

in separate fires
Two homes in the Town
of Oregon were damaged
recently in separate fires.
No injuries were reported in either fire, which
happened Jan. 28 and Feb.
3.
The first fire was reported in the afternoon by a
neighbor along Sugar Hill
Road, according to a news
release from the Dane
County Sheriffs Office.
The 911 call originated
from a concerned neighbor who noticed smoke
and flames emanating
from the residence, Sgt.
Ira Simpson said in the
news release. The fire is
believed to have originated in the rear of the home,
and is not believed to be
suspicious at this time.
None of the residents
were home at the time,
however, several pets
were killed in the fire.
The home was considered
a total loss with a damage estimate of around
$225,000.
Oregon, Stoughton,

Verona, McFarland and

Belleville Fire Departments responded to the
fire.
The second fire happened around 10:30 p.m.
along Bellbrook Road,
Dane County Sheriffs
Office Lt. Chris Nygaard
said in a news release.
The preliminary investigation indicates the fire
originated from a vehicle
parked inside the attached
garage, Nygaard said.
The occupants smelled
smoke and safely exited
the home.
The home suffered
smoke damage, and the
garage portion and two
vehicles were considered a total loss of about
$150,000.
Responders from Oregon, Brooklyn, Belleville,
Evansville and Albany all
helped put out the fire.
The fire is not considered suspicious, Nygaard
said.
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Officer hurt in struggle with woman

investigating the incident,
he contacted Ragos father,
who told the officer the
vehicle was owned by his
daughter and registered to
her boyfriend, according to
the complaint.
The officer went to the
womans residence, where
he found her asleep and
attempted to wake her up,
the complaint said.
When she awoke, the
officer stated, he smelled
intoxicants and she stated
no one cared for her and she
did not wish to live anymore. She then reached for
a bottle of vodka, which the
officer grabbed away before
she could drink, according
to the complaint.
While the officer called
to arrange counseling for
Rago, she ran to the kitchen

Scott Girard
Unified Newspaper Group

An Oregon police officer

checking on the welfare of
a 22-year-old Oregon woman ended up with a cut hand
after a Feb. 3 struggle at her
home.
The woman, Danielle
Rago, has been charged
with felony resisting an
officer causing substantial
bodily harm to officer and
attempted battery of an officer and misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
The officer first responded to Ragos home after
finding a car in a ditch at
the corner of Market and
Braun Roads, according
to a criminal complaint
filed Feb. 6 in Dane County Circuit Court. While

and reached for the block of

kitchen knives. The officer
and Ragos father attempted
to grab her arms to restrain
her, though she was able to
hold knives in each hand.
After taking the woman
to the floor in restraint, the
officer noticed blood on the
floor and observed cuts on
his left hand.
A second officer arrived
at the scene and detained
Rago, though she struggled
with him and EMS personnel as well while the first
officer received treatment
for his cuts, which required
three stitches, according to
the complaint.
Rago is next scheduled to
appear in court March 2. If
convicted on all counts, she
faces up to nine years in jail
and $16,000 in fines.

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Whatever happened to
that talk of Peak Oil?
$
belief that growth is the answer.
To question any form of consumption is to attack the legitimacy of all the associated jobs,
businesses, profits, pensions, tax
revenues, and yes, government
spending. The more that we have
mechanized, automated, and
outsourced production of things
we actually need, the greater
our desperation for increases in
luxury consumption.
No, it is worse than that: Every
luxury is a need now especially
the fuel we need to drive to the
mall.
Are Earths limits a thing of
the past? More specifically,
is there so much oil left in the
ground that worrying about it is a
waste of time?
No.
Contrary to all the fossil fuel
company hype, man cannot
produce oil. God and Mother
Nature have done all the producing, and it took them hundreds of
millions of years to deposit what
Man has managed to burn up in
less than two centuries. All Man
can do is withdraw oil from the
bank or cook it out of stuff like
coal, as Hitler did.
True, Man has gotten very
good at breaking open the more
remote and case-hardened deposits of oil he is never more
ingenious than in matters of force
escalation.
But this escalation comes at
a price. The deeper the oil, the
smaller and more scattered the
deposits and the lower their quality, the more oil it takes to wring
out a barrel of oil.
Forty years ago in the United
States, it took one barrel of oil
energy to extract 30 barrels or
more. Now an energy input of
one barrel yields less than 10
for tar sands it is around five.
Oil will cease to be an energy
source long before the input to
output ratio reaches 1:1. The
geophysical and thermodynamic
limits are there, and no amount of
technological wizardry can overcome them.
So why did prices plummet
recently?

The history of oil is rife with

cycles of boom and bust, supply
gluts and price implosions, fantastic accumulation of wealth followed by widespread bankruptcy.
The only periods when conditions have been relatively stable
have been when a cartel has managed to limit extraction rates.
First, there was Rockefeller
and the Standard Oil Company,
then the Texas Railroad Commission and most recently
OPEC.
It is worth remembering that
todays glut and price implosion catalyzed by the fracking boom in the United States
amounts to a mere 3 percent
increase in extraction rates
worldwide. And many of those
fracking companies are hemorrhaging cash at todays oil prices.
The race to drill new wells has
slowed to a crawl and layoffs in
Fracktowns are imminent. Its
just another bubble, and no doubt
Wall Street will extort Uncle
Sam into bailing them out of this
one too.
It takes years sometimes
more than a decade to find and
develop oil extraction plays. It
takes seconds for Wall Street to
move money around. The combination of the two adds up to wild
oscillations low prices choking
off development of new deposits,
extraction rates falling relative
to demand, rising prices, demand
destruction, new investment in
oil plays, a glut of supply, falling
prices again, rinse and repeat.
The long-term trend will be
rising prices, but overall it will
probably feel like a roller-coaster
ride.
That is, unless we get smart
and start weaning ourselves off
oil before we cant afford it anymore. Before we further destabilize Earths climate.
Are you willing? God knows,
our political leadership isnt.
Hans Noeldner is a Village of
Oregon resident and a member
of Sierra Club Wisconsins Clean
Transportation Committee.

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Contracts: Board divided over extra pay

Raise for all teachers

Ramin said he saw no
reason to exclude the tech
ed and ag teachers from
the supplemental pay
increase. Zach said the
board had already voted
on the issue in October,
following the finance committees recommendation
to give all staff a 1 percent

New staff
hired

Dan Krause

supplemental pay increase

for this school year.
As a matter of board
policy, we ought not to
be going back and redoing votes that weve taken
without some change or
basis for change, which is
not present here, he said.
Krause said he was
torn on the supplemental pay measure that would
exclude a small group of
educators, even if they
had previously gotten pay
increases when others
hadnt.
Back in April we
decided tech ed and ag
(teachers) we really
needed to keep them here,
he said. It cost us quite a
bit of money, but its worth
it. The fact is, though, that
the market was going to
drag them away and quite
possibly ruin a very good
program that we have at
our school.
The result of that decision, made with a small
group outside of the official bargaining framework has caused a friction among teachers,
Krause said.
I can understand the
desire to keep peace within
the teachers when some
are being paid more and
its not because theyre
doing more work, he
said. Its because the market has said that, and its
something that hasnt happened before now, because
of the state of the law in
this state.
Krause said in the interest of moving forward and
getting past this division,
he would like to treat all
the teachers the same

The board also

approved addition of
three staff members
Monday. Katie Poch
was hired as a full-time
advanced math teacher at Oregon Middle
School. A December
2014 graduate from
UW-Whitewater, she
just completed student
teaching in the DeForest
Area School District.
Lorraine Best was
hired as a full-time
interim English teacher
at Oregon High School.
She is a 1988 UW-Madison graduate who had
been working as a substitute teacher in Madison, Broadhead and
Oregon for the past eight
years.
Kayla Kumm was
hired as a part-time
interim band teacher at
Rome Corners Intermediate School. A December 2014 graduate of
UW-Whitewater, she
recently completed student teaching in the Milton and Jefferson school
districts.
The new hires were
added to fill in for
two teachers on leave
and one teacher who
resigned to take a fulltime job elsewhere.
from here on out.
Its important for us
to listen to the OEA on
everything that has to do
with our teachers, but not
necessarily always follow
the request of the OEA,
because there are other
things we need to take into
consideration, he said.
And they know that. They
have a position, and its
not always going to be the
schools position on everything.

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McKenzie Parks recently spent two weeks in Nicaragua to volunteer with local physicians in clinics that
lack basic medical equipment.

Grad offers aid in Nicaragua

Seth Jovaag
Observer correspondent

A study-abroad trip for a

recent Oregon High School
graduate last month offered
a first-hand glimpse of how
much good health care matters.
McKenzie Parks, 20,
spent two weeks in Nicaragua with classmates from
Carthage College in Kenosha, where she is a junior
studying health care administration.
The college sends students to the island of
Ometepe on Lake Nicaragua twice a year to volunteer with local physicians in
clinics that lack some of the
most basic medical equipment, Parks said.
A lot of the time the doctors didnt know what was
wrong with these patients,
because they didnt have
blood tests, they didnt
have x-rays, she said.
They basically just had to
go off what the patient was

saying.
The school also sent
about $30,000 in medical
supplies, including vitamins and common, overthe-counter pain medications that are hard to come
by in Nicaragua, she said.
About 30 student volunteers rotated between
four clinics. Parks said she
encountered patients struggling with ailments ranging from back aches or sore
throats to tumors or illnesses caused by parasites.
Besides their volunteer
work, the students also

hiked up a dormant volcano, rode horses on the

beach and visited a town
market, she said. But the
work in the clinics was
most meaningful.
We actually felt like we
were making a difference,
she said.
Parks was a top golfer at
OHS, earning a spot on the
second team All-State team
her senior year. She transferred to Carthage in 2013
after playing for Chicago
State University as a freshman.

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other than teachers have

received the supplemental pay increase for this
year. Board president Dan
Krause said a decision was
made in November not to
give teachers the supplemental pay increase until
possible concerns from the
OEA were resolved.
Board members Charles
Uphoff and Gwen Maitzen voted for the resolution, with Barb Feeney,
Steve Zach, Jeff Ramin
and Krause voting no. Rae
Vogeler was not present.
Uphoff said in conversations with OEA members,
excluding the tech ed and
ag teachers from the supplemental pay was not an
issue for those teachers.
He said the idea is to provide a measure of fairness
across the board to all
teachers in the district.
We really tilted the
tables substantially back
in April of last year, when
basically, we treated a
small group of teachers
very differently than the
rest, Uphoff said. This is
a very modest effort to try,
in a sense, to restore a little
of that balance.
Maitzen said there are
also teachers not in the
OEA who are very upset
with the boards decision
made under fire in April
on giving supplemental
pay to a few teachers.
Its a sensitive reality,
she said. When we are
told now to treat everybody the same well, we
didnt. Im sorry that market value was the thing that
drove the decision-making,
rather than personal and
more compassionate ways
of dealing with personnel
matters and how we treat
our teachers, because we
knew what was going to
happen.
And its already divided teachers, which is very
unfortunate this is an
educational system and not
a corporate system.

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OEA on everything
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Churches

Coming up
OMS Madrigal Dinner
The Oregon Middle School Madrigal Dinner is set for 6:30 p.m. Friday,
Feb. 13 and Saturday, Feb. 14, at the
middle school cafeteria, 601 Pleasant
Oak Dr.
There will be plenty of music, song
and good times, provided by the middle schoolers, dressed in period attire.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $12
for seniors, students and staff.
Only advance tickets to the event
will be sold. Forms are available at
the OMS office or by emailing steve.
oregonwis@yahoo.com.

they work to perform Julius Caesar.

The class meets from 3:30-4:45
p.m. Mondays, Feb. 16 through April
27, at Oregon Middle School. Register for $34. To register, go to oregonsd.org/community or call Scott at
835-4097.

Zumba and Pi-Yo

Change up your workout with

Zumba or Pi-Yo. Zumba combines
dance and fitness with fun steps to a
fun musical soundtrack while Pi-Yo
(pilates and yoga) builds strength,
conditioning and flexibility.
Drop in to either class for $7. Classes meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at
Family movie night
Netherwood Knoll, Pi-Yo from 4:15First Presbyterian Church, 408 N. 5:05 p.m. and Zumba from 5:15-6:16
Bergamont Blvd., will hold its free p.m. Register for the full session and
family movie night at 6:30 p.m. Sat- save. Go to oregonsd.org/community
urday, Feb. 14.
or call Scott at 835-4097.
Pizza and other concessions will be
available for a small fee.
Art explorers class
Email fpcmovies@gmail.com or
The Afterschool Art Explorers class
call 835-3082 for the movie title. still has a few openings for students
Food donations for the Oregon/ in grade 1-5. Explore 2D and 3D art
Brooklyn Food Pantry are welcomed. forms in this six-week class, which
meets Tuesdays from 3:30-5 p.m.
Drama club
Feb. 17 through March 24 at NetherThe Royal Shakespearean After wood Knoll.
School Drama Club is looking for
The class fee of $52 includes all
young actors. Students in grades 4-8 materials. To register, go to oregonare welcome to learn the fundamentals sd.org/community or call Scott at
of drama through creative exercises as

835-4097.

Crochet class
Learn a new craft and get hooked
on crochet. Learn basic stitches like
chain, single crochet and double crochet as you work on a simple project.
The class fee of $34 includes all
three class sessions, which meet from
6-8 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 17 and 24
and March 3 at Netherwood Knoll.
To register, go to oregonsd.org/
community or call Scott at 835-4097.

Friday night musical

Children in grades 1-6 will have
fun from 6-8 p.m. Fridays Feb. 20
to March 20, at Prairie View with
country music as they learn song and
dance routines and create simple costumes and props.
There is a cost of $49. Register at
oregonsd.org/community or call Scott
at 835-4097.

Aging health talk

This months aging health talk presentation at 10:45 a.m. Friday, Feb.
20, at the senior center by Rho Chi
Pharmacy Honor Society includes
descriptions of preventive disease
screening opportunities.
Call 835-5801 by 1 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 19, to register for lunch.

Community calendar
Thursday, February 12

2 p.m., Eleanor Roosevelt portrayal by Jessica Michna (register),

senior center, 835-5801

Friday, February 13

6:30 p.m., OMS Madrigal Dinner

(advance tickets only), Oregon
Middle School, steve.oregonwis@
yahoo.com

Saturday, February 14

6:30 p.m., OMS Madrigal Dinner

(advance tickets only), Oregon
Middle School, steve.oregonwis@
yahoo.com
6:30 p.m., Free Family Movie
Night, First Presbyterian Church,
408 N. Bergamont Blvd., fpcoregonwi.org

Monday, February 16

3:30-4:30 p.m., Monday Funday:

Board games, library
7 p.m., Town of Dunn Board
meeting, Town Hall

576-4111
Tuesday, February 17
6:30 p.m., Saturday Card Party
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Silver
Threads Among the Gold Club ($18 ($3), senior center
couple, $12 single), senior center,
Monday, February 23
835-3536
1 p.m., Retro Swing band concert,
Wednesday, February 18
senior center
3-5 p.m., Computer class:
3:30-4:30 p.m., Monday Funday:
Facebook Advanced ($15), senior
LEGO free build, library
center, 835-5801
6:30 p.m., Oregon School Board
meeting, RCI Intermediate School,
Thursday, February 19
1 p.m., Third Thursday Afternoon 835-4300
Euchre Card Party ($3), senior
Tuesday, February 24
center
7 p.m., Water Wellness Day
(free), Oregon Pool
Friday, February 20
9 a.m., UW Extension Nutrition
Wednesday, February 25
Education: Make Half of Your
3-5 p.m., Computer class:
Grains Whole, senior center
Facebook Pages ($15), senior cen 10:45 a.m., Half Hour Health Talk: ter, 835-5801
Health Implications with Aging,
Thursday, February 26
senior center, 835-5801
1:30 p.m., New Diabetes Support
Saturday, February 21
Group, senior center
10-11:30 a.m., Try Hockey For
3-7 p.m., Oregon/Brooklyn Food
Free, ages 3-12, Oregon Ice Arena, Pantry distribution, 1092 Union Road

Community cable listings

Village of Oregon Cable Access TV channels:
WOW #983 & ORE #984
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New programs daily at 1 p.m.
and repeats at 4, 7 and 10 p.m. and 1, 4, 7 and 10 a.m.

Thursday, Feb. 12
WOW: WI Women
Cheesemakers (of Sept.
2014)
ORE: Oregon School
Board Meeting (of Feb. 9)
Friday, Feb. 13
WOW: Open Mic:
Race Relations in Dane
County (of Feb. 6)
ORE: OMS 8th Grade
Orchestra Concert (of
Feb. 10)
Saturday, Feb. 14
WOW:
Eleanor
Roosevelt Portrayal @
Oregon Senior Center (of
Feb. 12)
ORE: Little Mermaid
NKE Musical (of April
2014)
Sunday, Feb. 15
WOW: Peoples United
Methodist Church
ORE: Cinderella NKE
Musical (of Feb. 13)

Monday, Feb. 16
WOW: 6 p.m.
LIVEOregon Village
Board Meeting
ORE: Snow White
NKE Musical (of April
2012)
Tuesday, Feb. 17
WOW:
Universal
Sound
Band
@
Concert-in-the-Park (of
Aug. 2014)
ORE: OHS Girls Varsity
Basketball vs. Monona
Grove (of Feb. 13)
Wednesday, Feb. 18
WOW:
Dang-Its
Band @ Concert-in-thePark (of Aug. 2014)
ORE: Beauty & the
Beast NKE Musical (of
March 2010)
Thursday, Feb. 19
WOW: Oregon Village
Board Meeting (of Feb.
16)
ORE: Little Mermaid
NKE Musical (of April
2009)

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Senior center
Monday, Feb. 16
Meat Sauce over Spaghetti
California Mix
Tropical Fruit Salad
Garlic Bread
V.O: Soy Spaghetti Sauce
Tuesday, Feb. 17
Swiss Steak
Rice
Broccoli Flowerets
Peaches
Bread Stick
Cookie
VO: Soy Strips w/Onions &
Peppers
Wednesday, Feb. 18
Garden Vegetable Minestrone
Crackers
Ham Salad on Bun
Pineapple
Jell-O with Topping
VO: Veggie Dog on Bun
Thursday, Feb. 19
Meatloaf
Boiled Red Potatoes
Spinach
Banana
W.W. Bread
VO: Veggie Burger
SO: Chinese Chicken Salad
Friday, Feb. 20
Breaded Chicken Breast
Twice Baked Potato
Green Beans
Pear Half
Cloverleaf Roll
Red Velvet Cake with
Cream Cheese Frosting
V.O. Veggie Ribbet

Monday, Feb. 16
9 a.m., CLUB
9 a.m., Wii Bowling
9 a.m., Rubber Stamping
9 a.m., Caregivers Support
10 a.m., Dominoes
1 p.m., Get Fit
1:30 p.m., Bridge
4 p.m., Weight Loss Support
Tuesday, Feb. 17
8:30 a.m., Zumba Gold
11:30 a.m., Silver Threads Potluck
12:30 p.m., Sheepshead
12:30 p.m., Stoughton Shopping
Wednesday, Feb. 18
9 a.m., CLUB
11:45 a.m., February Birthday Cake
1 p.m., Get Fit
1 p.m., Euchre
3 p.m., Facebook Advanced
Computer Class
Thursday, Feb. 19
8:30 a.m., Zumba Gold
9 a.m., Pool Players
12:30 p.m., Shopping at Bills
1 p.m., Cribbage
1 p.m., Card Party
5:15-6:15 p.m., Market Day Pickup
Friday, Feb. 20
9 a.m., CLUB
9 a.m., Wii Bowling
9 a.m., UW Ext. Nutrition
9:30 a.m., Blood Pressure
10:45 a.m., Health Talk
10:45 a.m., Gentle Yoga
1 p.m., Get Fit

ALL SAINTS LUTHERAN CHURCH

2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 276-7729
Pastor Rich Johnson
SUNDAY
8:30 a.m. classic service
10:45 a.m. new song service
BROOKLYN LUTHERAN CHURCH
101 Second Street, Brooklyn
(608) 455-3852
Pastor Rebecca Ninke
SUNDAY
9 a.m. Holy Communion
10 a.m. Fellowship
COMMUNITY OF LIFE LUTHERAN
CHURCH
PO Box 233, Oregon
(608) 286-3121
office@communityoflife.us
Pastor Eric Wenger
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Worship at 1111 S. Perry
Parkway, Oregon
COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
201 Church Street, Brooklyn
(608) 455-3344
Pastor Dave Pluss
SUNDAY
9:30 a.m. Worship
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
CHURCH
143 Washington Street, Oregon
(608) 835-3554
Pastor Karl Hermanson
SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship
Holy Communion 2nd & last
Sundays
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
408 N. Bergamont Blvd. (north of CC)
Oregon, WI
608-835-3082 - fpcoregonwi.org
Pastor Bob Vetter
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Blended Worship
11 a.m. Coffee Bar/Fellowship
11:15 a.m. All-ages activity
FITCHBURG MEMORIAL UCC
5705 Lacy Road, Fitchburg
(608) 273-1008
www.memorialucc.org
Pastor: Phil Haslanger
Associate Pastor Twink JanMcMahon
SUNDAY
8:15 and 10 a.m. Worship
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
CHURCH ELCA

Central Campus: Raymond Road and

Whitney Way
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 8:15, 9:30 and10:45
a.m. Worship West Campus: Corner
of Hwy. PD and Nine Mound Road,
Verona
SUNDAY - 9 &10:15 a.m., 6 p.m.
Worship (608) 271-6633
HILLCREST BIBLE CHURCH
752 E. Netherwood, Oregon
Eric Vander Ploeg, Lead Pastor
(608) 835-7972
www.hbclife.com
SUNDAY
8:30 and 10:15 a.m. worship service
at Oregon High School PAC
Childrens ministries, birth-4th grade
HOLY MOTHER OF CONSOLATION
CATHOLIC CHURCH
651 N. Main Street, Oregon
Pastor: Fr. Gary Wankerl
(608) 835-5763
holymotherchurch.weconnect.com
SATURDAY: 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY: 8 and 10:15 a.m. Worship
PEOPLES UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
103 North Alpine Parkway, Oregon
Pastors Jason and Johanna Mahnke
(608)835-3755
www.peoplesumc.org
Communion is the 1st & 3rd
weekend
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship and
Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. Worship;
5 p.m. The Gathering Sunday night
service with simple supper to follow
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH
625 E. Netherwood, Oregon
Pastor Paul Markquart and Pastor
Emily Tveite
(608) 835-3154
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worship
9:15 a.m. Sunday School
VINEYARD COMMUNITY CHURCH
Oregon Community Bank & Trust,
105 S. Alpine Parkway, Oregon - Bob
Groth, Pastor - (608) 513-3435
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SUNDAY - 10 a.m. Worship
ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF
CHRIST - Paoli
At the Intersection of Hwy. 69 & PB
Rev. Sara Thiessen
(608) 845-5641
SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Family Worship

Support groups
Alcoholics Anonymous
meeting, First
Presbyterian Church,
every Monday and
Friday at 7 p.m.
Diabetes Support
Group, Oregon Senior
Center, 320 Fair St.,
882-0407, fourth
Thursday of each month
at 1:30 p.m. (starting
Feb. 26)
Parents Supporting
Parents, LakeView
Church, Stoughton, third

Tuesday of every month

from 6:30-8 p.m.
Relationship & Divorce
Support Group, State
Bank of Cross Plains,
every other Monday at
6:30 p.m.
Veterans Group,
Oregon Area Senior
Center, every second
Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Weight-Loss Support
Group, Oregon Area
Senior Center, every
Monday at 3:30 p.m.

Cultivate a Sense of Leisure

Work and Productivity may be important, but
they arent the only important things in life, or even
the most important things in life. Most of us would
probably agree that God and our family should come
before our job, and that the whole point of work is to
help us support ourselves and our families. A much
neglected area of many peoples lives today is leisure.
We are so busy with work and the workaday aspects
of life (e.g., cooking, cleaning, etc.) that we dont
find time for play. Play can be anything from playing
catch with your children to enjoying music to playing
games. The arts are also an important aspect of leisure, and simply going to a museum or to the movies
can be a nice break from the monotony of our work
lives. Children are often better at playing than adults,
so you might just let the kids decide on the playtime
activity. Try something you havent tried before. Throw
a Frisbee or make up a new game. Put on a play with
your family or friends, or play a guessing game. There
is no end to the ways in which we might enjoy our
leisure time.
Christopher Simon
I know that there is nothing better for people than
to be happy and to do good while they live. That each
of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all
their toilthis is the gift of God.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13

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Community quilt
project ends April 1
at the Firefly

In February, the Firefly

Coffeehouse is displaying
local quilts, including many
from Oregon resident John
Bonsett-Vealm, who is also
assembling a Community
Quilt.
People are asked to send
quilt squares to be attached
to the finished quilt, which
will be displayed prominently at the Firefly (114
N. Main St.), according to
a press release from the coffeehouse.
The deadline to par ticipate is April 1, and the
theme is Community, CofPhotos by Samantha Christian
fee, Love, Oregon.
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Boys swimming

Wrestling

Pieper,
Brickley place
at conference
Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor

Photos by Jeremy Jones

Oregon/Belleville junior Eli Rule swims to victory in the 100-yard breaststroke at Saturdays Badger South Conference meet in Fort Atkinson. Rule smashed the Oregon
school record in 1 minute, 1.35 seconds. Rule medaled in all four if his events at Saturdays meet, including the medley relay, ending an eight year drought without a title.

The drought is over

Panthers crown four

champions at conference

If you go

Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

Juniors Jacob Larsen, Eli Rule,

Jackson Marsden and freshman
Ian Charles didnt waste any time
ending the Oregon boys swimming
teams eight-year drought on Saturday.
The quartet, which had gone
undefeated during the Badger
South Conference dual meet season, continued to dominate the
opposition Saturday at the conference meet in Fort Atkinson.
Marsden, who later shared the
50-yard freestyle title, posted a
lifetime best 21.88 seconds to
anchor the relay to victory in a
pool record 1:41.40, which also
tied the conference record.
It was the fourth time the quartet has broken the team record this

What: WIAA Division 1 sectional

swimming
When: 1 p.m. Saturday
Where: Middleton High School
season.
Just being together as a team
and knowing you can trust those
guys and that they have your
back to swim fast is a great feeling, Larsen said.
Having not crowned a conference champion since Matt Olp
back in 2007, the Panthers carried
the momentum over throughout
the meet, adding three more individual titles on the day.
Larsen was back in the pool
one event after the medley relay,
swimming to a third-place medal
in the 200 free (1:51.81), while
Charles added a fourth-place finish Oregon boys swimming coach Scott Krueger presents Jake Larsen with his first-

Turn to Conference/Page 10 place medal for the 100-yard butterfly Saturday at Fort Atkinson High School.

The Oregon High School

wrestling team wrestled seven
at Saturdays Badger Conference meet at Milton High
School, and it was able to
place two in a tough field that
included 31 ranked wrestlers.
Freshmen Samuel Pieper
(120 pounds) and Connor
Brickley (113) finished seventh and eighth, respectively.
Pieper pinned Bailey Lara
(DeForest) in 4 minutes, 31
seconds in his seventh-place
match.
Brickley who had pinned
Cameron Eyre (Mount Horeb)
in 1:17 and Travis Konopacki
(DeForest) in 2:56 earlier in
the tournament lost his seventh-place match by pinfall to
Sam Kind (Monroe) in 1:55.
Senior Omar Sacramento
(145), junior Tristan Williams
(170) and freshman Jeremy
Bonno (106) all picked up
wins at the tournament despite
not placing.
Sacramento won a 9-1
major decision over Caleb
Porter (Baraboo). Williams
pinned Connor Reefe (Waunakee) in 3:35, and Bonno
defeated Cole Suckow (Portage) 8-6.
Stoughton won the meet
with 335 1/2 points. Milton
(310) and Sauk Prairie (285
1/2) took second and third,
respectively.
Oregon will next wrestle at
regionals at 9 a.m. Saturday at
Stoughton High School. There
will be 24 ranked wrestlers.
Elkhorn, Fort Atkinson,
Oconomowoc, Stoughton,
Sun Prairie, Verona Area and
Watertown join Oregon at the
regional.

If you go
What: WIAA Division
1s
When: 9 a.m. Saturday
Where: Stoughton High
School

Boys hockey

Sophomore shouldering the load in goal

Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

Perhaps no other team in the

state amidst a conference playoff
run can say its success is more
tied to one goalie than the Oregon
boys hockey team.
With Henry Roskos starting all
22 games between the pipes this
season, the sophomore certainly
hasnt complained about ice time,
playing every minute in net for the
Panthers this season.
Still at a modest 5-8 and 127
pounds, it has been a bit much for
the underclassmen at times this
season.
It wears on me a little bit
sometimes, but obviously its
fun, Roskos said. It beats sitting on the bench any day, and

we have a great group of forwards

and defensemen that have my
back the whole time.
Being the only goaltender on
the roster, Roskos feels a bit more
pressure to perform well.
Inside the Panthers locker
room, he has the full support of
his teammates.
If I ever do get down, I have
guys like Cole (Hefty) and Joey
(Andriacchi), who step up and tell
me to keep going, Roskos said.
I know they all have my back.
For his part, Roskos has been
solid in goal, only giving up more
than four goals twice this season,
while earning five shutouts to go
along with an .899 saves percentage and a 2.59 goals against average.
Henrys done a phenomenal

job for us, and our team has done

a good job in front of him, as
well, Oregon head coach Rick
Fleming said. We talked to the D
about being a shield in front anytime he has the puck and making
sure theyre aware of our situation
because our situation is a scary situation. Hes basically our lifeline.
I think weve done a pretty good
job weathering that storm up to
this point.
Fleming added there is an
emergency plan in case of injury
or illness.
We have other guys that have
played youth hockey or Bantams,
but its certainly not what we
Photo by Jeremy Jones
would like, he said.
In the midst of flu season, Ros- Sophomore Henry Roskos, shown in a Dec. 5 file photo against Appleton United, has
kos said he drinks lots of water, started all 22 games in goal for the Panthers this season as the teams only goaltender.
Roskos led Oregon to an 11-11-1 overall record and a second-place finish in the Badger

Turn to Roskos/Page 12 South Conference.

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Signing to
play at the
next level
Six Oregon High School athletes
announced they would be playing
collegiately on National Signing
Day last Friday. Panthers going
on to play collegiate sports this
fall (from left) are: Paityn Fleming
(soccer, Indiana-Purdue University
Fort Wayne), Riley Rosemeyer
(basketball Winona State) and
Kelsey Jahn (soccer Valparaiso);
(back) Josh Sromovosky (football Illinois State), Andrew Pliner
(baseball Winona State) and
Ryan Machonga (soccer Indiana
University-Purdue University
Indianapolis).
Photo by Jeremy Jones

Abe LincoLn

Photo by Jeremy Jones

[wishes he]

Oregons Jackson Marsden and Monona Groves Alex Kimmell celebrate tying for the championship in the 50-yard freestyle Saturday
at the Badger South Conference swimming meet.

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in 1:53.69.
I think todays performance just shows how much
better weve gotten as a
team over these last few
years, Larsen said. I also
think it shows that were an
up-and-coming swim program.
The Oregon/Belleville
tandem upped the ante in the
100 butterfly, this time turning in a 1-2 finish in 55.46
and 55.71, respectively.
Rule went on to garner
medals for Oregon/Belleville in all four of his
events, including a thirdplace finish that he admitted
was surprising in the 200 IM
(2:07.54) and a conference
championship in the 100
breaststroke, smashing the
school record with a time of
1:01.35.
Ive been wanting to win
the breaststroke all year, but
to come out and actually do
it was a good accomplishment, Rule said.
Marsden, who entered
the meet seeded third in the
50 free, added the teams
most unexpected title, tying
Monona Groves Alex Kimmell for first in 22.57.
The quartet of Larsen,
Charles, Rule and Marsden
nearly capped Saturdays
meet with a fifth conference title in the 400 free
relay only to ultimately fall
eight seconds off the pace of
Monona Grove in 3:26.18.
Other swimmers with
season- or career-best times
were: Ryan Wood (500, 50
free, 50 breast, 100 breast),
Joe Schwartz (50, 100 free,
50 back), Jimmy Lutz (50,
100 free, 100 breast), David
Heim (50 Fly, 50, 100, 200
free), Josh Greene (50, 500
free), Ryan Detra (50, 100
free, 100 breast), Baptiste
Corno (50, 100 free), Tony
Akale (50, 100 free), Rule
(50, 100 breast, 200 IM,
100 free), Marsden (50,

100 free) and Larsen (50

back, 100 fly, 100 free) and
Charles (50, 100 fly, 100,
200 free).
The Panthers saw seasonor career-bests times in 22
of 24 individual events and
22 out of 24 relays splits.
Despite four champions,
Oregon/Belleville was once
again hurt by its lack of
depth, finishing second-tolast in the six-team meet,
missing fourth by 10 points.
We scored over 100
more points then we did a
year ago crown and crowned
four conference champs,
head coach Scott Krueger
said. That hadnt been done
since the 2007 season.
Monona Grove, ranked
No. 2 in the Division 2
state poll, dominated the
meet with 529.5 points,
while fifth-ranked Milton
took second (374). The host
Blackhawks (354) rounded
out the top three.
Oregon/Belleville travels
to Middleton High School
for the states toughest Division 1 sectional meet at 1
p.m. Saturday.
Among the stacked field
are Madison Memorial and
Madison West, ranked No.
1 and 2 in the state, respectively, and seventh-ranked
Middleton.
You have to go into the
meet knowing the time you
need to get, but you cant
compare yourself to those
guys because they are just
insane, Larsen said.
The Panthers qualified
diver Jake Schultz to the
2013 Division 1 diving
meet, but havent qualified a
swimmer for state since Olp
back in 2007.
I think todays performance at conference really
gets us in the right mindset
to want to succeed at sectionals, Rule said. For
sure our medley relay, and
hopefully and individual
event, are going to end that
drought this year.

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Boys basketball

Photo by Anthony Iozzo

Senior Kelsey Jahn wins the battle for a loose ball with Stoughtons Payton Kahl in the first quarter Tuesday in a Badger South
Conference matchup at Stoughton High School. Jahn finished with 18 points as the Panthers won 60-50.

Photo by Anthony Iozzo

Junior Alex Duff fights for an offensive rebound Friday in a Badger

South matchup with rival Stoughton at Oregon High School. Duff
scored 16 points, but the Panthers fell 47-36.

Strong start, clutch finish propels Oregon Panthers miss opportunity

Badger South
against rival Stoughton
Anthony Iozzo

Assistant sports editor

Team W-L
Madison Edgewood 9-1
Oregon 9-2
Stoughton 7-3
Monona Grove
5-5
Monroe 2-8
Milton 2-8
Fort Atkinson
1-8

during Edgewood, where our

defense broke down because
of the help side.
We worked on that
all week, prepared for it
and obviously it pulled us
through.
Oregon forced 13 turnovers in the first quarter and
jumped out to a 25-9 lead.
Stoughton started the scoring with a basket by Kahl, but
Jahn later drilled a 3-pointer
and added a jumper to make
it 8-2.
Junior Leah Koopman and
freshman Taylor Schmidt
later knocked down 3-pointers Schmidt with two and
Rosemeyer capped the strong
start.
The Panthers went up by
as much as 19 in the second
quarter, and they led 35-21 at
halftime.

far in the playoffs.

We have a great chance of
playing this team again in the
playoffs.
Oregon hosts Monona
Grove at 7:30 p.m. Friday
and travels to non-conference
Evansville at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17. The seeding
meeting is on Sunday, Feb.
15.

Oregon 56, Monroe 40

The host Panthers kept
pace in the conference race
with a 56-40 win over Monroe Thursday.
Oregon jumped out to a
19-7 lead after one quarter
and outlasted the Cheesemakers.
Senior Riley Rosemeyer
finished with 16 points, four
steals and seven rebounds,
while sophomore Danica
Keisling chipped in 10 points
and three steals.
Freshman Ellen McCorkle
added seven points and six
rebounds, and sophomore
Abbie Schofield also picked
up seven points. Juniors Leah
Koopman and Cassidy Nikolai each scored six points.

Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor

Badger South

Fridays matchup was not

only a chance to knock off
Badger South rival Stoughton
but an opportunity to move
into first place in the conference.
But the host Oregon High
School boys basketball team
could never string together
enough productive possessions, trailing the whole game
and ultimately falling 47-36.
We, bottom-line, did not
show up tonight, Oregon
head coach Jon Nedelcoff
said. We had an opportunity
to make something happen,
and tonight we didnt answer
the bell. You cant have that
many guys not play at a consistent, competitive level.
The Panthers (13-4 overall,
6-3 conference) trailed by 14
with 5 minutes, 20 seconds
left, but juniors Alex Duff and
Charlie Soule who finished

Team W-L
Stoughton 7-1
Monona Grove
6-2
Oregon 6-3
Fort Atkinson
5-3
Monroe 4-5
Madison Edgewood 1-7
Milton 0-8
with 16 and 12 points, respectively helped get the deficit
back down to 10.
That is when senior Peter
Kissling was fouled on a
3-point attempt with two minutes left. Kissling, however,
missed all three free throws.
Soule did hit a couple of
free throws to cut Stoughtons
lead to 42-34 with 1:28 left,

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Senior Kelsey Jahn stepped

up to the free-throw line as
the Oregon girls basketball
team held onto a three-point
lead Tuesday at Stoughton.
Jahn was fouled and was
looking to stretch the Panthers lead which was once
19 with a 1-and-1 bonus.
Jahn not only knocked
down both free throws but
added six more, helping
Oregon seal a 60-50 Badger
South Conference win.
I picture it like when I
am at practice and shooting
10 free throws like normal,
Jahn said. Obviously it is
a big moment, but you just
have to stay calm and composed.
The Panthers (12-7 overall, 9-2 Badger South) and
Stoughton (14-6, 7-3) needed
a win to remain in the hunt
for a conference title, and
it looked like Oregon was
going to cruise to the victory
early on.
However, a couple of baskets by Stoughton junior
Hannah Hobson and another
by sophomore Kendra Halverson cut Oregons doubledigit lead to just four with
five minutes left.
Senior Riley Rosemeyer,
who finished with 23 points,
stretched the lead back to six
before Stoughton sophomore
Payton Kahl picked up a
steal and a layup and Hobson
added a free throw, cutting
Oregons lead to 50-47 with
2:38 left.
That is when Jahn took
over. She finished 8-for-8
from the line in the fourth
quarter and collected 18 total
points.
Jahn was also a catalyst for
the defense in the first quarter, picking up three steals
and scoring seven of her 18.
We worked on defense all
week, so that was really key,
Jahn said. And our help
side was unbelievable this
game. We talked about that

Koopman kept the momentum going in the third with

a 3-pointer, and Jahn added
one of her own to push Oregons lead to 16.
But that is when the
Vikings started to claw back,
with Kahl cutting the lead
to 10 twice before an 11-2
run made it a one possession
game.
One of our keys to the
game was weathering the
storm, Oregon head coach
Corey Sielaff said. Stoughton is a team of runs and is
a high-energy, high-intensity
team ... We jumped out to
that big lead, but it is not
going to last against a team
like this that has so many versatile scorers.
They went on a run in the
first, and we came back with
a big run of our own.
The win was big for the
Panthers as they now need a
win against Monona Grove
Friday and Stoughton to
knock off Edgewood in a few
weeks.
It also might have sealed a
home game for the regional
semifinal with the seeding
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These girls arent just OK
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Sielaff said. They have their
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Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

The Icebergs girls hockey

co-op opened Friday evenings Badger Conference
road game with a four-goal
first period en route to a 6-0
win in Viroqua.
Samantha Kinsler, Samantha Eyers, Maddy Hess and
Sara Wollin accounted for
four-unanswered goals over
a 14-minute span in the first
period.
Casey Marsh and McKenzie Nisius added a secondand third-period goal in the
blowout.
Senior goaltender Kenzie
Torpy faced 14 shots on goal,
including seven in the second
period. Freshman Ivy Shanka
stopped 18 goals in the second and 15 in the third for a
total of 42.

Playoff seeding
The Icebergs (8-11-3)
earned a four seed at Sundays WIAA seeding meeting and will host the fifthseeded Baraboo co-op (9-132) at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb.
19. The winner will most
likely move on to play topseeded Onalaska (13-5-3) on
Feb. 24, though the Hilltoppers must first beat the winner between eighth-seeded
Beaver Dam (4-14-0) and
ninth-seeded Viroqua (1-140) on Feb. 19.
Were looking forward

to the opportunity this year,

Icebergs head coach Mike
Jochmann said. :I think we
have a shot at a pretty good
run.
Badger Conference champion Sun Prairie (13-4-3)
earned the second seed, while
Middleton (7-8-5) took the
third spot. Despite their playoff seeding, sixth-ranked Sun
Prairie was actually a spot
ahead of Onalaska on the
wisconsinprephockey poll.

Central Wis. 2,
Icebergs 1
Stoughton lost a very close,
hard fought game against the
third-ranked Central Wisconsin Storm (14-6-1) Tuesday
inside the Mandt Community
Center.
Deadlocked 1-all after
Tasha Martin popped in a
goal three minutes into the
third period, the Icebergs
(8-14-1) kept pace with Central Wisconsin all the way to
the final 28 seconds.
Thats when Maggie Plaza
was finally able to slip a puck
past Torpy for the game-winner.
Kenzie had an amazing
night in goal, turning away
45 of 47 shots, Jochmann
said.
The Icebergs close out
the conference and regular
season at 7 p.m. Saturday at
home against the Rock County Fury.

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Despite being outplayed by a bigger

and faster Madison Edgewood boys
hockey team throughout the first 20
minutes, Oregon senior Joey Andriacchi and Dylan Ziomek scored two quick
goals to give the Panthers an early lead
in the second period Tuesday evening
inside LaBahn Ice Arena.
That was before the Crusaders
answered with a controversial goal and
then tacked on two more in a 4-2 win
over Oregon.
Sporting a 3-1 lead after Andriacchi
and Ziomek scored 50 seconds apart
in the first four minutes of the second
period, the Panthers quickly saw their
momentum dissipate when Edgewood
senior Eliot Friedow knocked the puck
past Oregon goaltender Henry Roskos.
The referee told me it wasnt a kicking motion, but from what I remember
reading, even if you are driving in with
your pads or using your body to redirect
the puck into the net its a no-goal.
It is what it is. They did a nice job
getting to the net, but if we could have
sustained a little more momentum, it
could have been a different game coming into the third period tied 2-all.
Edgewood senior Johnny Van
Gemert scored the game-winner fourand-a-half minutes later before adding
an insurance goal 59 seconds in the
third period.
Even if the Panthers had managed the
upset and closed out the regular season
with a win at rival Stoughton on Friday,
Oregon would have still finished a point
behind the Crusaders in the final standings.
Instead, Edgewood capped an undefeated 10-0-0 conference season with
the victory.
The Panthers (11-10-1 overall, 6-2-1
conference) officially end the regular
season at 7 p.m. Friday in Stoughton.

Oregon 15, Monroe 0

Collin Hughes recorded a hat trick
and added an assist Thursday in a 15-0
victory against Monroe.
Dylan Ziomek and Max Doscher
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Oregon sophomore defenseman Lucas Hefty (17) tries to detour Madison Edgewood forward Johnny Van Gemert in the first period Tuesday. The Panthers lost the Badger South
Conference game 4-2.

assists, while Lucas Hefty and Ian

Schildgen had a goal and an assist. Ryan
Michek and Alex Verhagen also scored
as 12 different players recorded at least
a point against the Avalanche.
Roskos made 10 saves in a 15-0 win
against Guilliams and the Avalanche. In
two games against Monroe this season,
the Panthers outscored their rivals 42-0.

Playoff seeding
Somehow, despite defeating Monona
Grove and Waunakee late in the season,
the Panthers ended up seeded behind
each at Sundays WIAA seeding meeting.
The Silver Eagles earned the sixth
seed one spot ahead of the Warriors,
and two spots ahead of Oregon.
I hoped that we were the sixth seed,
but in the power rankings we were still
behind MG and Waunakee, Panthers
head coach Rick Fleming said. Unfortunately, you get to a point where it
seems to always come down to the
power rankings. If it doesnt change,
Im going to suggest, why do we even
go then?
I really believed that we deserved
the sixth seed after beating and tying

MG and then beating Waunakee. I think

our schedule is very comparable to
theirs, if not better than Waunakees, in
my opinion.
Big Eight Conference champion Middleton, as expected, earned the top seed
and will face the winner of Oregon and
ninth-seeded Sun Prairie at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20 inside Capitol Ice Arena.
Madison Memorial, Madison West
and Verona, who have already beaten
the Panthers this season earned the second, fourth and fifth seeds, respectively,
while conference rival Madison Edgewood sneaked into the third position.
Oregon found out last Thursday it
wont be getting senior defenseman
Nate Anderson back for the rest of the
season. Anderson played in just five
games this season before suffering a
concussion against Verona. Shortly after
he was diagnosed with mononucleosis.
For as much adversity as weve
faced this year, I think weve done a
great job, Fleming said. I know we
dont have the firepower that maybe
some other teams do, but if we play
detailed hockey, limit turnovers and create a few turnovers, who knows?

Boys BB: Stoughton stops multiple Oregon rally attempts

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but the Vikings finished off the Panthers

at the line.
This was one that didnt come as
easy, but you have to love the fight from
our kids down the stretch, even when we
werent executing at a level that I would
think is proficient, Stoughton head
coach Matt Hockett said.
A 3-pointer by senior Markus Tobias
in the second quarter was the last time
the Panthers were within one possession. The Vikings finished the first half
on an 11-5 run, which included seven
points by sophomore Troy Slaby.
Oregon was down by seven at one
point in the third quarter, but Stoughton
came back with a 9-1 run, capped by a
3-pointer by freshman Brady Schipper.
The Panthers trailed 37-24 after three
quarters.
I didnt get them to respond, and

when you cant get them to respond,

it doesnt matter if they are playing
Stoughton or the Harlem Globetrotters,
Nedelcoff said. You have to engage
and fight through the tough times. We
have for most of the year, but tonight,
we didnt respond at all.
Duff scored six points in the first quarter, but Stoughtons Slaby and senior
Nick McGlynn combined for 13 to give
the Vikings an early 13-8 lead.
Slaby led Stoughton (15-3, 7-1) with
25 points, while McGlynn finished with
10 points, reaching 1,002 for his career.
The Panthers now look to get back on
the winning track, which is something
Nedelcoff said is a part of a season.
It isnt going to get easier because as
the season goes on, teams see weaknesses or see lapses and they try to duplicate
it, he said. We have responded well
from losses. It is about getting guys to
play on longer consistent spurts.

You can either respond like we have

been or we can struggle, but that is part
of being a team. All 14 have to respond,
and I will look forward to them responding.
Oregon next travels to Mount Horeb
at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and to Madison
Edgewood at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.
17.

Oregon 50, Jefferson 43

The Panthers traveled to Jefferson on
Tuesday in a non-conference game and
pulled out a 50-43 win.
Oregon outscored Jefferson 17-9 in
the third quarter to grab a 10-point lead.
Soule led with 18 points, while Tobias added 11. Senior Mitch Morhoff
chipped in eight, and Duff finished with
six.
Senior Vinny Cincotta led Jefferson
with 19 points.

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and doesnt share drinks so
the Panthers dont have to
explore the teams back up
options.
Although its an unusual
situation for most varsity
boys hockey programs in the
state, the Panthers are not
alone in the Badger South, as
half the conference is in the

same situation.
A recent addition to the
conference three seasons
ago, Monroe (1-18-0, 0-8-0)
has played sophomore Dan
Guilliams in net every game
this season. Unlike Oregons
situation, however, Guilliams
had never played goalie until
this season.
A first-year WIAA program this winter, Milton
(3-11-0, 1-6-0) has found

itself in a slightly better position with freshman Justin

Burke.
The Panthers thought they
had a second goaltender
entering the preseason in former Midget player George
Jolley, who eventual was
unable to commit to the team.
Despite missing eight players for one reason or another
this season, the Panthers
still found themselves in the

Badger South hunt until the

final game of the year against
Madison Edgewood.
Winning conference was
absolutely a goal of ours.
We just needed to focus and
keep pushing, Roskos said.
We lost a couple of guys
from last year. Obviously,
that hurt. We had some illness early on this season, but
everyone stepped up and we
havent missed a beat.

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February 12, 2015

Oregon History
Tony Byers, an Oregon
Junior High seventh-grade
student, won the schools
geography bee. Others placing in the competition were
Sarah Halverson, runner-up
and Brian Connery, third place.
Oregon Rotarians judged
the AAA National Traffic Safety
posters competition. The winning students were Heather
Stenson, Adam Waskowski,
Carmen Dollar, Tammy
McGaw, Eric Gaukel, Jennifer
Stoffel, Jon Seeliger, Jennifer
Broadley Jason Olson, Aaron
Schreiber, Katie Zimmerman
and James Vaughn.

The
Oregon
FFA
Parliamentary Procedure Team
placed first at the regional
contest held at Edgerton High
School. Members of the team
included Steve Clark, Steve
Dunn, Bill Laughlin, Dana
Marshall, Heidi Neis, Laura
Shotliff, Matt Marshall and
Blayne Outhouse.
The winners in the Oregon
School District spelling bee
were Julie Wood, Jason
Barnes, Tony Byers and
Michael OBrien.
2005 (10 years ago)
Mike and Deb Pecosky
of Oregon finished fourth
at the Professional Musky
Tournament Trail. They were
one of 50 teams invited to participate in the year-end Ranger
Boat World Championships on
Lake Chautauqua. They estimated that over the years they have
competed against 400 to 500
teams from 14 different states.
A new fitness center, It
Figures, located at 280 W.
Netherwood Road held its
grand opening. Its advertisement noted that it catered to
women of every age and fitness level.
The OHS Drama Club presented The Boys Next Door by

Tom Griffin. The play takes up

the issues of cognitive and mental disabilities. During their activities the plays cast held a basketball scrimmage with the Oregon
Special Olympics Basketball
Team. The cast included Scott
Clark, Drew Fish, Ryan McDaniel,
Chad Russel and Matt Forsberg.
The group was directed by Kathy
Tissot. Proceeds from the show
were donated to support Special
Olympics.
The Oregon School
Districts fundraiser for the
victims of the tsunami raised
$1,269.21. Karen Ludvigsens
geometry class took top honors, collecting $133.61. The
monies were forwarded to
UNICEF.
The village received a
$3,000 grant from the state
of Wisconsin to establish a
residential historic district on
West Lincoln Street.
OHS wrestler Donnie
Beers, competing at the Badger
Conference Tournament, finished as conference champion
at 171 pounds. Donnie, along
with Brian Zimmerman and
John Jones, would later qualify
at the Lake Geneva Sectional
Tournament to advance to the
state competition.
Four OHS swimmers,
Matt Olp, Nick Jones, Marcus
Thoma and Greg Thelen, competed at the 81st Annual WIAA
State Boys Swim Meet held at
the UW Natatorium in Madison.
Competing at the Badger
State Games figure skating competition in Wausau
were Brenna Stoltenberg,
Katie Radcliffe and Caroline
McCormick. They were all
members of the Southern
Wisconsin Figure Skating Club.
The Brooklyn Fire and EMS
Protection District approved a
construction loan of $1.5 million for the building of a new
facility.

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published the week of JAN. 27, 2015:
GENERAL: Supreme Court, mandatory electronic filing, Jan. 29; Estate, Eve. B. Street, Jan. 27;
WisDOT, long-range multimodal freight transportation plan, Jan. 27; need determination request,
Rogers Memorial Hospital, Feb. 1; confidential statues, Bemis Films, Jan. 29; Pollutant Discharge
Information System, Jan. 30; Board on Aging and Long Term Care, Agenda, Feb. 2; Public
meeting notice, Board of Regents, Feb. 2; WHEDA, RFP, Jan. 29.
PUBLIC HEARINGS: State Trunk Highway System Change, Jan. 28; Draft environmental
assessment, WisDot, Jan. 28; WHEDA, 5-Year and Annual Plans, Feb. 1.
Air Pollution Permit Application Reviews: Appleton Medical Center, Jan. 27; Printpack, Jan. 28;
Smart Sand Inc, Jan. 27; CLCM, Jan. 28; McCain Foods USA, Jan. 29; Air Products Performance,
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age 91 died Sunday, Feb.
8, 2015, at Agrace HospicCare in Fitchburg. He was
born on Feb. 22, 1923, in
Oregon, the son of John
and Marion (Manson)
Berman. He attended and
graduated from Oregon
High School. He married
Kathleen Kennan and she
preceded him in death in
1991.
He worked for the Oregon School Distinct as a
custodian for 36 years until
his retirement. Robert was
a member of St. Paul's
Catholic Church in Evansville. He enjoyed music,
especially banjo and accordion, and watching squirrels and birds. He was an
avid Milwaukee Bucks,
Green Bay Packers and
Wisconsin Badgers fan. He

STATE OF WISCONSIN,
CIRCUIT COURT,
DANE COUNTY, NOTICE TO
CREDITORS (INFORMAL
ADMINISTRATION) IN THE
MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
Debra L. Pierce

Case No. 15PR43

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
1. An application for Informal Administration was filed.
2. The decedent, with date of birth
December 31, 1955 and date of death
December 31, 2014, was domiciled in
Dane County, State of Wisconsin, with a
mailing address of 656 Rinpoche Lane,
Oregon, WI 53575.
3. All interested persons waived notice.
4. The deadline for filing a claim
against the decedents estate is May 1,
2015.
5. A claim may be filed at the Dane
County Courthouse, Madison, Wisconsin, Room 1000
Lisa Chandler
Probate Registrar
January 22, 2015
Leslie Young
656 Rinpoche Lane
Oregon, WI 53575
(608) 341-6155
Published: January 29, February 5 and
12, 2015
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PLEASE TAKE NOTICEthat the Village of Oregon Plan Commission will

conduct a public hearing on an application for a rezoning request for property
located at 290 Orchard Drive. The public hearing will be held onThursday,
February 19, 2015 at 7:00 a.m. The proposed rezoning request would allow the
property at 290 Orchard Drive currently
zoned SR-4 Single Family Residential to
be zoned as PD Planned Development,
permitting a five unit multi-family building pursuant to Section 17.105(2)(c)
Single Family Residential to 17.105(4)(b)
Planned Development Multi-Family of the
Village Code, described as:
Parcel #: 165-0509-013-0800-9. The
property is zoned Single Family Residential (SR-4).
Assessors Plat PRT Outlot 40 COM
126.85 FT W OF SE COR NE1/4 SW1/4
SEC 1-5-9 TH W 68 FT N 132.2 FT E 67.5
FT S 132.2 FT TO POB
The proposed GDP and SIP are
available for review at Village Hall in the
Clerks Office. Office hours are 7:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Subsequent to the hearing, the Commission intends to deliberate and act
upon the request.
Peggy S.K. Haag
Village Clerk
Published:February 5 and 12, 2015
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Robert William Berman

loved to travel up north to

his brothers cottage.
He is survived by his
companion Mary Schulz
of Evansville; his stepchildren, Wendy (William
Carter) Kennan, Laure
(Michael) Berman, both
of Town of Dunn, Michael
Kennan of McFarland and
Kevin (Shaheen) Kennan
of California; sister in-law
Patricia Berman; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in
death by his parents; a
brother, Willie; and a sister, Kathleen Severson.
Funeral services will be
held at 11 a.m. Saturday,
Feb. 14 at St. Paul's Catholic Church Evansville with
the Rev. Kevin Dooley
officiating. Burial will
be held in Dunn Burying
Ground Cemetery Dunn
Township. A visitation
will be held from 10 a.m.
until the time of service
on Saturday at the church.
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1990 (25 years ago)

Lucas Osmond was
selected as the 1990 Youth
Ambassador for the Easter
Seal Society of Wisconsin.
Lucas was a fifth-grader at
Oregon Middle School.
The Town of Dunn honored
Ron Larson at a reception for
his services since 1977 on the
towns Planning Commission,
serving as its land use planner.
The Village Board took
action to resolve the issue concerning noise emanating from
a large open door at WISCO
Industries, causing excessive
noise for residents in the area.
It was resolved that in the
future the door would only
be opened during those times
when large manufacturing
equipment was being brought
in or moved out of the facility.
However, later in the month
they retracted the decision and
appointed an Ad Hoc committee consisting of area residents
and representatives of WISCO
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1965 (50 years ago)

Congressman
Bob
Kastenmier announced that
house-to-house mail delivery
had been approved for Oregon.
Deliveries would start in May.
People were dancing to the
music of Don Peachey and his
orchestra at Edwards Park in
McFarland.
Dr. John W. Plummer
announced that he has moved
his dental practice to 150 East
Lincoln St., the offices of Dr.
Robert Gross. Dr. Gross will be
leaving for Albuquerque, N.M.,
in the near future.
The Oregon Rotary
Club sponsored its annual
Sportsmens Night following the Oregon and Waunakee
basketball game. Serving
sandwiches, cold cuts, cheese,
milk and ice cream to both
teams and their cheerleaders
were Rotarians Paul Kohlman,
Owen Richards, Bill Hagstrom,
Earl Gransee, Allan Gasner and

Walter Waffler.
The Chamber of Commerce
displayed for the first time its
official emblem and trademark,
a show horse illustrated on
a round and pointed background along with the lettering, Chamber of Commerce,
Oregon, Wisconsin. The Ralph
Timmons Advertising Agency
of Madison helped develop the
design and artwork.
Approximately 500 Oregon
High School students participated in career day, the first
of its kind for the school district. Some of the local business people who participated
included Don Bates from
Bon Don Beauty Salon; Judy
Richards, W.P.& L. home
economist; Cletus Brown,
barber; Dr. Frank Dukershein,
doctor; Tom Brown, attorney;
Mrs. John Statz, nurse and Art
Schrock, state patrolman.
The Bank of Oregon
announced new opening
hours effective March 1. The
most notable change was that
the bank would now be open
through the lunch hour, from
noon to 1 p.m.
A production of Arthur
Millers play, All My Sons, was
presented by the OHS Panther
Players. The cast included Jon
Christensen, Becki Jallings, Joe
Sheil, Laurel Black, Ken Heller,
Jim Bossingham, Barbara Black,
Todd Anderson, Pat Powers and
Ted Pasell. The student director was Candy McKinstry and
the teacher/director was Mrs.
Sandra Ott.

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Obituary

February

1915 (100 years ago)

The Laurel Range was
described in an advertisement as The Stove of a
Womans Heart and The
Worlds Greatest Fuel Saver.
It was noted that a special
damper control and twin flue
construction could save over
33 percent off your fuel bill.
The stoves were being sold
by the local hardware dealer,
Prichard, Cusick & Barry.
The Oak Hall Social Center
Club presented the drama Our
Awful Aunt. A performance was
held at the Oak Hall Church and
later that month at Wendts Hall
in Fitchburg Station. The cast
included Mrs. Ed Sholts, Mrs.
Hans Sorenson, Roy Jones,
Frank Devine, Leslie Jones, Viva
Jones, Mrs. William Bethel,
Harry Coggins, William Bethel
and Ed Sholts. The proceeds
went toward the purchase of an
organ for the Oak Hall Church.
The annual meeting of the
Oregon Fire Company was held.
The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
P. H. Cusick, chief; Chas. West,
first assistant; E.G. Booth, second assistant; D.I. Riddle, treasurer; E. F. Kramer, secretary
and Geo. Theobald, steward.
Roy Richards, prominent
businessman and village president, was killed in a railroad
accident at the Northwestern
Railroad Yards in Madison. Mr.
Richards frequently traveled
to Madison on Saturdays to
confer with his buyer, Norman
Hook. Those times when he
was too late to catch a passenger train back to Oregon,
he would catch a freight train
back. The accident occurred in
the railway switch yards about
midnight of Feb. 20.
The Storytown creamery
reopened after being closed
for several weeks because of
the foot and mouth epidemic
and their lack of facilities to
pasteurize milk. Ernest White
has been placed in charge of
the Storytown plant.

Oregon Observer

Town of Oregon
Plan Commission Agenda
Tuesday,
February 17, 2015
6:30 PM
Oregon Town Hall
1138 Union Road
Oregon, WI 53575

1. Call Plan Commission meeting to

order.
2. Approval of minutes from the last
meeting.
3. Public Comments.
4. Discussion and possible Action
re: Review of town ordinances.
5. Discussion and possible Action
re: TORC procedures.
6. Update on Anderson Park.
7. Communications.
8. Adjournment.
Note: Agendas are subject to amendment after publication. Check the official
posting locations (Town Hall, Town of
Oregon Recycling Center and Oregon
Village Hall) including the Town website
at www.town.oregon.wi.us or join the
Towns e-mail list to receive agendas at
townoforegon@mailbag.com. It is possible that members of and possibly a quorum of members of other governmental
bodies of the town may be in attendance
at any of the meetings to gather information; however, no action will be taken by
any governmental body at said meeting
other than the governmental body specifically referred to in the meeting notice.
Requests from persons with disabilities
who need assistance to participate in
this meeting or hearing should be made
to the Clerks office at 835-3200 with 48
hours notice
Posted: February 10, 2015
Published February 12, 2015
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Town of Oregon
Park Committee Agenda
Monday, February 16, 2015
6:30 pm
Oregon Town Hall
1138 Union Road
Oregon, Wisconsin

1. Call meeting to order.

2. Reading and approval of minutes
from the last meeting.
3. Public Comments and Appearances.
4. Discussion and possible Action
re: Eagle Scout Project.
5. Discussion and possible Action
re: Review of Town Ordinances.
6. Discussion and possible Action
re: recommendations/decisions from the
Town Board.
7. Review of potential work projects.
8. Set next meeting date.
9. Adjournment.
Note: Agendas are subject to amendment after publication. Check the official
posting locations (Town Hall, Town of
Oregon Recycling Center and Oregon
Village Hall) including the Town website
at www.town.oregon.wi.us or join the
Towns e-mail list to receive agendas at
townoforegon@mailbag.com. It is possible that members of and possibly a quorum of members of other governmental
bodies of the town may be in attendance
at any of the meetings to gather information; however, no action will be taken by
any governmental body at said meeting
other than the governmental body specifically referred to in the meeting notice.
Requests from persons with disabilities
who need assistance to participate in
this meeting or hearing should be made
to the Clerks office at 835-3200 with 48
hours notice.
Steve Root, Chairperson
Posted: February 10, 2015
Published February 12, 2015
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Crosswalk: District recently added paint, flags and removable street signs
Continued from page 1
I was expecting a couple
of weeks, and theyd put
something in the budget to
order a sign, he said. It
was amazing how well all
departments worked together
and how fast, for the safety
of the kids.
It made me proud to live
in the village, to see that so
many of these government
officials and entities work so
well to take care of the situation for a concerned parent in
the area.
Busler said he, in turn,
appreciated the quick
response time from Burke
and Ruti Trace from the Oregon Police Department.
We appreciate the solid
working relationship that we
have and their direction on

how to plan the best route for

students to walk to school,
he said. We encourage drivers to be alert and exercise
extra caution in the area,
since we have over 500 students attending RCI.

Proactive approach
Burke said in the past few
years, some officers had
noticed a slight increase in
people using the crosswalk
because of the new location
of the athletic fields, though
no accidents were reported.
Still, he appreciated the
heads-up from Zimmerman.
I think it took somebody
paying a little closer attention saying, Before this gets
any worse, lets make it better, he said. When we all
communicate with each other and work together to solve

problems, were 99 times out

of 100 going to come up with
a better solution.
While adding a crossing
guard is often the first solution suggested in this type
of case, Burke considers it
a last resort because of
the need to keep them at the
areas of heaviest traffic.
That location is very
wide-open and easy to see
in all directions, so theres
no excuse for a driver not
being able to see a pedestrian
and for pedestrians not to be
able to see vehicles, he said.
Unfortunately, that also
leads people to tend to speed.
Lets face it, in the morning,
people are in a hurry to get to
work or drop off their kids so
they can get to work, (and)
they tend to be distracted.
So how do we break

that?
One of the ways is putting
visual cues in place to get
drivers attention, like the
bright yellow paint and sign
in the middle of the street,
which he likes because its
used only when students are
walking to and from school.
If its something you
leave out there all the time
eventually people ignore
it, Burke said. Those
sandwich-type board are
pretty good for these types
of issues; you can plop them
right out in the middle of the
street, and theyre pretty easy
to notice and get peoples
attention.
In addition, school
employees suggested using
bright green flags students
now can take across, giving
drivers one more thing to

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catch their attention.

These are not expensive
and are pretty easy to do, he
said. In a lot of these cases,
the answers to problems can
be very simple.
Ultimately, though, all the
signs and precautions are useless if both drivers and pedestrians arent paying attention.
Dont be speeding; dont
be so distracted that you
dont know whats in front of
your car, he said. And its
the simple mantra, Dont hit
anything and dont step out
in front of a car. We cant
guarantee anybodys safety,
but we can do our best to
minimize risk.

bad habits in recent weeks,

Zimmerman said, possibly
because the paint is now covered with snow.
The other day my wife
stood there and watched 10
cars go back and forth while
the kids were standing there,
he said. It still needs more
attention for parents and people around there when they
see that big sign in the middle
of the road, they should be
acknowledging there could
be kids. We understand they
cant keep an officer down
there all the time.
Burke said he plans to sit
down with district officials
at the end of this school year
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Apparently that hasnt
Despite the curb paint, sign
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