Thursday, November 5, 2015 • Vol. 134, No. 15 • Stoughton, WI • ConnectStoughton.com • $1 Courier Hub The Stoughton Courier Hub 848 Tipperary Road Oregon, WI 53575 (608) 835-5464 Featuring • Open Every Day, 9am - 5pm November 1st - December 24th (Including Thanksgiving!) • 1000s of Choose & Cut Trees • Fresh Wreaths and Garland • Pre-cut trees up to 18’ tall • Take photos with Santa & Mrs. Claus every weekend starting after Thanksgiving • The Christmas Store www.hannschristmasfarm.com Memories Of An Old Fashioned Christmas! Memories Of An Old Fashioned Christmas! www.hannschristmasfarm.com adno=434083-01 Board makes final offer to SEA Votes to declare ‘impasse’ on teacher contracts SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group School board members declared an “impasse” in negotiations with the Stough- ton Education Association for 2015-16 contracts Monday night and made a final settlement offer after months of disagree- ment on teacher compensation. Board members voted 5-3 on three items Monday night – offering the SEA a base wage increase of 1.62 percent per full-time employee, declaring an impasse in con- tract negotiations for this school year and approving an employee relations commit- tee recommendation on supplemental pay. The board split into two camps on all three votes, with president Liz Menzer, vice- president Donna Tarpinian and members Brett Schumacher, Scott Dirks and Bev Fergus supporting the resolutions and members Wanda Grasse, Yolibeth Fitzgib- bon and Allison Sorg voting in opposition. Board member Joe Freye, who has voted in the past to support the SEA, was not at Monday night’s meeting. Dirks said after district officials had two “very lengthy” meetings with SEA nego- tiators, “it certainly was the consensus of those involved in the discussions that fur- ther discussion wasn’t going to result in anything different.” “That’s why we’re at an impasse,” he said. The supplemental pay, which Menzer said should start appearing as pay raises in the next staff paychecks, offers no sup- plemental pay to 2015-16 new hires and a range of $1,063 to $1,600 for other teach- ers. Some teachers and district officials have been at odds over supplemental pay Stoughton Area School District Budget plan: small hike, added staff Insurance change allows more staffing in fire department BILL LIVICK Unified Newspaper Group Mayor Donna Olson and finance director Laurie Sullivan joke about hav- ing done “a happy dance” when they received the state’s official new growth numbers for the city. A growth rate of 1.1 percent might not seem like a reason to celebrate, but it’s better than the city has done in recent years, when it repeatedly failed to reach 1 percent in net new construction. Making it home Stoughton Vietnam vet honored Monday SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group In the mid-1960s, when Don Heiliger sat on a lonely South Korean run- way with just his thoughts and his nuclear-armed jet fighter, he had plenty of time to think about never returning home. A few years later, those thoughts turned into a haunting possibility dur- ing six years in captivity as a P.O.W. in North Viet- nam’s infamous “Hanoi Hilton.” On Monday, the long- time Stoughton area resident and former Dane County Board member was hon- ored by Gov. Scott Walker, Stough- ton Mayor Donna Olson and officials from the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs during “Don Hei- liger Day” at Stoughton VFW Post 328. The event was a part of a department initiative to honor Viet- nam veterans during the 50th Commemoration of the conflict. Heiliger, during his active service days Turn to Veterans/Page 12 Turn to SEA/Page 9 City of Stoughton Turn to Budget/Page 9 Destination Weekend Norwegian dancers, crafts and food Page 2 Photos by Samantha Christian Costumed characters Despite the cold, rainy weather, dozens of families participated in this year’s Halloween costume contest as well as trick-or-treating at downtown businesses on Saturday, Oct. 31. Above, the Urvens dressed up in a “Star Wars” theme for the cos- tume contest, with Ross as Luke Skywalker, Heather as Princess Leia and their 9-month-old son Jonah as an ewok. On the web See more photos from trick-or-treating and the costume contest winners: UNGphotos.SmugMug.com Karter Dennis, 7, shrugs after costume contest judges ask him if he knows how to use his police officer handcuffs. Sophia Rusch, 3, walks toward Dragon’s Glen Tattoos on Main Street as a giraffe to get candy.
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Thursday, November 5, 2015 • Vol. 134, No. 15 • Stoughton, WI • ConnectStoughton.com • $1
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Board makes final offer to SEAVotes to declare ‘impasse’ on teacher contracts
Scott De LarueLLeUnified Newspaper Group
School board members declared an “impasse” in negotiations with the Stough-ton Education Association for 2015-16 contracts Monday night and made a final
settlement offer after months of disagree-ment on teacher compensation.
Board members voted 5-3 on three items Monday night – offering the SEA a base wage increase of 1.62 percent per full-time employee, declaring an impasse in con-tract negotiations for this school year and approving an employee relations commit-tee recommendation on supplemental pay. The board split into two camps on all three votes, with president Liz Menzer, vice-president Donna Tarpinian and members
Brett Schumacher, Scott Dirks and Bev Fergus supporting the resolutions and members Wanda Grasse, Yolibeth Fitzgib-bon and Allison Sorg voting in opposition. Board member Joe Freye, who has voted in the past to support the SEA, was not at Monday night’s meeting.
Dirks said after district officials had two “very lengthy” meetings with SEA nego-tiators, “it certainly was the consensus of those involved in the discussions that fur-ther discussion wasn’t going to result in
anything different.”“That’s why we’re at an impasse,” he
said. The supplemental pay, which Menzer
said should start appearing as pay raises in the next staff paychecks, offers no sup-plemental pay to 2015-16 new hires and a range of $1,063 to $1,600 for other teach-ers. Some teachers and district officials have been at odds over supplemental pay
Stoughton Area School District
Budget plan: small hike, added staffInsurance change allows more staffing in fire departmentBILL LIVIckUnified Newspaper Group
Mayor Donna Olson and finance director Laurie Sullivan joke about hav-ing done “a happy dance”
when they received the state’s official new growth numbers for the city.
A growth rate of 1.1 percent might not seem like a reason to celebrate, but it’s better than the city has done in recent years, when it repeatedly failed to reach 1 percent in net new construction.
Making it homeStoughton Vietnam vet honored MondayScott De LarueLLeUnified Newspaper Group
In the mid-1960s, when Don Heiliger sat on a lonely South Korean run-way with just his thoughts and his nuclear-armed jet fighter, he had plenty of time to think about never returning home.
A few years later, those thoughts turned into a haunting possibility dur-ing six years in captivity as a P.O.W. in North Viet-nam’s infamous “Hanoi Hilton.”
On Monday, the long-t i m e S t o u g h t o n a r e a
resident and former Dane County Board member
was hon-o r e d b y Gov. Scott W a l k e r , S t o u g h -ton Mayor D o n n a Olson and o f f i c i a l s f r o m t h e Wisconsin
Department of Veterans Affairs during “Don Hei-liger Day” at Stoughton VFW Post 328. The event was a part of a department initiative to honor Viet-nam veterans during the 50th Commemoration of the conflict.
Heiliger, during his active service days
Turn to Veterans/Page 12
Turn to SEA/Page 9
City of Stoughton
Turn to Budget/Page 9
DestinationWeekend
Norwegian dancers,
crafts and food
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Photos by Samantha Christian
Costumed charactersDespite the cold, rainy weather, dozens of families participated in this year’s Halloween costume contest as well as trick-or-treating at downtown businesses on Saturday, Oct. 31.
Above, the Urvens dressed up in a “Star Wars” theme for the cos-tume contest, with Ross as Luke Skywalker, Heather as Princess Leia and their 9-month-old son Jonah as an ewok.
On the webSee more photos from trick-or-treating and the costume contest winners:
UNGphotos.SmugMug.comKarter Dennis, 7, shrugs after costume contest judges ask him if he knows how to use his police officer handcuffs.
Sophia Rusch, 3, walks toward Dragon’s Glen Tattoos on Main Street as a giraffe to get candy.
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Destination WeekendDestination Weekend in Stoughton was held from Oct. 30 through Nov. 1, featur-ing the Wisconsin Rosemaling Association’s holiday bazaar, a performance by the Stoughton High School Norwegian Dancers, mini workshops, presentations at the Sons of Norway-Mandt Lodge and sales at many local businesses.
Above, Allie Lee, 15, and Julia Lee, 12, chat while browsing the holiday bazaar.
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Library renovationsThe Stoughton Public Library recently renovated and updated its upper level with a new teen area, study rooms and adult services desk.
At left, Henry Schaefer, 6, and his sister Julia Schaefer, 9, relax in new chairs while reading books in the upstairs teen section Monday.
Above, Amber Pope, a 2014 SHS graduate, stocks the movie shelves while working at the library Monday.
The public is invited to attend an open house and check out the progress at the library at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5. Refreshments will be served, and there will be live music from The Impact of Brass.
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Staff changes at UNGReporter Kate Newton
has joined the staff of Uni-fied Newspaper Group.
Newton, a 2014 Universi-ty of Arizona graduate and native of Flagstaff, Ariz., takes over an opening left open by the exit of Mark Ignatowski, who moved to Minnesota. Newton has freelanced with the Isth-mus and has had internships with Arizona Public Media,
the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Weekly and has lived in W i s c o n s i n for about a year.
J a c o b B i e l a n s k i moved from a c o m m u -nity reporter
position to take over many
of Ignatowski’s government coverage duties, including public safety, planning and a variety of Fitchburg gov-ernment beats. Newton will take over that community reporter position, covering a variety of beats in all of UNG’s communities and handling website and social media updates.
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Stoughton Hospital
Hospital begins renovation, expansion effortFoundation launches fundraising campaignBILL LIVIckUnified Newspaper Group
S t o u g h t o n H o s p i t a l CEO and president Terry Brenny announced last week that construction has begun on a $13.2 million renovation and expansion project that he anticipates being completed in early 2017.
T h e h o s p i t a l h i r e d Janesville-based contrac-tor J.P. Cullen to renovate and expand the Emergency Department, Urgent Care and a new laboratory. Other improvements will include expanding outpa-tient day surgery facilities and physician specialist clinic space, which will be located in the ER/Urgent Care area.
Brenny told the Courier Hub earlier this year that the hospital has outgrown the facility’s current space and layout. When the hos-pital’s Emergency Depart-ment was constructed in the mid-1990s, the hospital
was averaging 8,000 vis-its a year to its emergency room and Urgent Care. It now has about 20,000 vis-its a year, Brenny said.
“Our current facilities simply weren’t designed for the nearly 20,000 annu-al visits we see each year,” he said during a ground-breaking ceremony at the hospital last Thursday, Oct. 29.
Other aspects of the project that “will directly impact care” include hav-ing all private rooms, mak-ing improvements to the lab and Ambulatory Infu-sion Center, and adding more space for day sur-gery and clinical offices for physicians and visit-ing specialists, as well as another ambulance bay, Brenny said.
The Stoughton Hospital Foundation has launched a fundraising campaign – Life.Giving.Care – with a goal of raising $2 million toward the project cost. The capital campaign is being led by co-chairs Bill Mans-field and Peter Sveum.
Sveum said last week the effort has already garnered $1.2 million and will con-tinue through spring 2016.
He announced that the Bryant Foundation has given the project a gift of $1 million, and the Wah-lin Family Foundation has contributed $100,000.
In July, the hospital completed reconstructing its main entrance, a project that increased the eleva-tion of the street leading to the entrance by more than five feet and reduced the elevation of a hill by the entrance and the emergen-cy room garage by almost two feet.
The entrance work, com-bined with reconfiguring parking areas and discon-tinuing Ridge Street and the top of Church Street as public thoroughfares, com-pleted a year-and-a-half of construction in front of the hospital.
The work cor rec ted some of the slopes to make the area more uniform, helping to alleviate runoff water in the winter months that caused hazardous icy spots for visitors and employees.
Cons t ruc t ion of the new entrance cost nearly $350,000, began in early May and was completed in mid-July.
Photo by Bill Livick
From left, Randy Olson, Steve Swanson, of McFarland State Bank, and Peter Sveum visit after Stoughton Hospital CEO Terry Brenny’s announcement last Thursday that the hospital broke ground on a $13.2 million project to renovate and expand the hospital’s emergency room and urgent care facility. The work is being done by Janesville contractor J.P. Cullen and is expected to be completed in early 2017.
Stoughton man gets two yearsFelonies include alcohol, attacking policeJacoB BIeLanSkIUnified Newspaper Group
Drinking and threatening police officers has earned a Stoughton man two years in prison.
Robert Crapp, 51, was convicted Oct. 20 in the Dane County Circuit Court for a fifth-offense oper-ating with a prohibited alcohol concentration. He face additional charges of attacking a police offi-cer during an earlier OWI arrest. In that case, officers allege he “growled” and kick at their knees while awaiting an alcohol blood test for which he refused to
give consent.The terms of his release
from those charges stipu-l a t e d t h a t Crapp have no a lcohol in his sys-t e m a n d , additionally, not visit any b u s i n e s s w h o p r i -m a r y p u r -pose is the
sale of alcohol. During his release, he was pulled over for doing approximately 20 miles over the speed limit on Hwy. 51 near McFar-land and admitted to hav-ing a few drinks. He told the arresting officer at the time that he was “probably screwed.”
After serving his prison term, Crapp will spend three years under state
supervision. He will have his licensed revoked for three years, and for three years af ter having his license re-instated, he must have an ignition interlock device installed. These devices prevent the vehicle from starting until the oper-ator blows cleanly into an alcohol breath analyzer.
Crapp was additionally found guilty of battery to a police officer and a misde-meanor 3rd-offense OWI. The judge ruled that he was eligible for the Substance Abuse Program.
Prosecutors asked to dis-miss felony charges of bail jumping, as well as a mis-demeanor charge of operat-ing with a revoked license. In addition to his sentence, Crapp was a l so f ined $1,569 by the court.
Crapp
Community forum to focus on school testing Stoughton Action Coali-
tion is sponsoring a com-munity forum about state mandated testing in public schools from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at Covenant Lutheran Church.
Learn about and discuss state legislation and fund-ing of the testing program, changes in state mandated testing, commercial and political influences on edu-cational testing policy, use of test results in the Stough-ton Area School District and parent perspectives on the impact of testing stu-dents.
Speaking as panelists will be Timothy D. Sle-kar, Ph.D., Dean, school of education at Edgewood College; Gary Hebl, WI State Representative 46th
Assembly District; Judy Singletary, SASD director of curriculum and instruc-tion; and Beth Weitner, par-ent.
Food and refreshments will be provided.
For information, visit stoughtonactioncoalition.org or call 445-1096.
If you goWhat: Community forum
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1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7Where: Covenant
Lutheran Church, 1525 N. Van Buren St.
Info: 445-1096
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Letters to the editor
Halloween decorations went too farLast night I took my children to
visit my father who is living in a nursing facility in your beautiful town. We had a very nice visit and always look forward to visiting Stoughton.
Unfortunately on our way home we passed a house that had a yard full of disturbing and horrifying Halloween decorations, that my two and four-year-old saw, especially because it was lit up with colorful lights to attract people’s view.
I would have pulled over and politely talked with the property owners if my children’s wouldn’t have been exposed more to their inappropriate decor.
Since seeing this, I have been wondering why you allow this type
of things to be displayed in your community for unsuspecting little children to see? Science is clear about how gore and these things psychology affect a child’s neuro-logical development.
What are you saying as a town when you allow these things to be displayed for the next generation of Stoughton residents? Movies and video games have ratings to warn parents of age appropriate viewing.
Why is it okay for your town to publicly display the same things with no warnings to unsuspect-ing families? I hope in the future this will be something you will change. What about children’s rights?
Theresa Brotzman
Correcting grammar was unneededI have just finished reading
“SUM to hold first ‘big’ fund-raiser” on page 7 of the Oct. 29 edition of the Hub – and as an erstwhile newspaper reporter and copy editor, I want to register my disappointment at the Hub’s holier-than-thou correction of an interviewee’s verbal grammar.
I restate the article’s 11th para-graph: “‘... Once they decide to ask for help, they do not know who(m) to turn to for assistance.’” Seriously – the copy editor saw fit to insert a parenthesized ‘m’ after the interviewee’s ‘who’?
The interviewee can be swiftly forgiven for using the subject pro-noun in conversation rather than the
object pronoun – the Hub’s copy-editing policy, however, which seems designed only to belittle the interviewee and to flaunt the news-paper’s command of English gram-mar, is a different matter. Especially since a cursory reread of the article turned up no fewer than 11 errors in editorial grammar/style/clarity…
The next time the Hub enter-tains such pedantry as insertion of a parenthetical ‘m’ following an interviewee’s colloquial use of ‘who’ instead of the King’s Eng-lish-prescribed ‘whom,’ would that the Hub endeavor first to scrub the numerous imperfections from its own copy.
Dave Dexter
Thanks, SHS, for helping us host 8-man eventMy name is Cory Anderson, and I am the ath-
letic director at Prairie Farm. We are a small farm-ing community, and our high school enrollment is right around 100 students. We have been fortunate enough to have a strong eight-man football pro-gram the past four years.
Last spring, I got a call from the eight-man state champions from Lawrence, Mich. It worked out that we had the same week open, and we decided to set up a game. We decided that the Madison area would be a great place to meet.
After about two months of trying to find a place to play, many phone calls and emails later I got the email I was looking for. Mr. Mel Dow, the athletic/activities director from Stoughton High School, emailed and told me to give him a call. I told him that we were looking for a place to host a game for us: It would be the Wisconsin eight-man Jamboree Cham-pions vs. the Michigan eight-man State Champions.
The next words out of his mouth knocked me on my heels! He said, “We can do it, what do you need
us to do?” He was excited to help provide a group of kids from separate states a great opportunity that most peers will never experience, the opportunity to play the best from another state.
Two strong football programs played four quar-ters of hard-nosed football and represented their schools and communities with great pride! After talking with Eric Adams, the athletic director from the Lawrence, Mich., administration, and coach-ing staff from both schools, they all agree that the Stoughton District provided a great experience for our student athletes.
The School District and Community of Prai-rie Farm would like to thank the community of Stoughton for making this possible and hosting an event that we will be talking about for years to come!
Cory AndersonPhysical Education/Athletic Director,
School District of Prairie Farm
Notes of nostalgia Stroll down memory lane at the chamber singers’ fall concert
The Stoughton Chamber Sing-ers, under the direction of John Beutel, will present their fall concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 and Friday, Nov. 13 in the Stoughton Village Players The-atre, 255 E. Main Street.
The concert’s theme, “Gersh-win and Friends,” aims to high-light 20th century composer George Gershwin and his brother Ira, a lyricist. The Gershwins blended popular songs and clas-sical traditions, writing famil-iar songs such as “Embraceable You,” “I’ve Got Rhythm” and “Someone To Watch Over Me,” and were among the “great Amer-ican (musical) geniuses of the century,” Beutel said.
In addition to works from the Gershwins, the concert will fea-ture more popular music from the 1920s through the 1940s taken from “The American Songbook,” a collection of prominent com-posers from that time period.
“We’ve never done a whole concert devoted to that time of music,” Beutel said. “It was a change of pace and just in keep-ing with our mission statement of doing a wide variety of music for the singers and the audience.”
Madison-based a capella group The Other Option, formed by two of the chamber singers, will per-form the interlude with several
selections from their repertoire. The Chamber Singers will then retake the stage, closing the show
by performing songs including Duke Ellington’s “Don’t Get Much Anymore,” Hoagy Carmichael’s “Georgia on My Mind” and Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow.”
Beutel said that while this is the Chamber Singers’ first show at the theatre, the venue has “a nice atmosphere for this con-cert” because of its art deco-style design that aligns with the time period of the musical selections.
Tickets are $5 and are avail-able from McGlynn Pharmacy, choir members and at the door.
–Kate Newton
Photo submitted
The Stoughton Chamber Singers will present their fall concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, and Friday, Nov. 13, in the Stoughton Village Players Theatre.
If you goWhat: The Stoughton
Chamber Singers’ fall concertWhen: 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
12 and Friday, Nov. 13Where: Stoughton Village
Players Theatre, 255 E. Main St.Info:
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The folks who run the Stoughton Opera House booked eight musical per-formances in November and all except three have sold out.
Those three acts have plenty of talent, however, in case you’d like to see a show and haven’t yet gotten your ticket.
Michael Perry and The Long Beds
Michael Perry is well established as a Wisconsin author, but his music career isn’t as widely known.
For the past decade, Perry has been leader of the Long Beds. He’s the group’s chief vocalist and songwriter, and along with his three band members has released a trio of albums in the past 10 years.
Perry and his band will make their first appearance at the Stoughton Opera House tonight in a show that he promises will be spontane-ous while featuring storytell-ing and humor along with the songs.
In a telephone interview, Perry said the band performs only 10 to 20 shows per year, depending on his writing and book-touring schedule. But he’s excited to bring his band to the Opera House, where he’s appeared several times to talk about his writing.
“I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to the show in Stoughton because I love that theater,” Perry said. “It’s such a great venue. I’ve had so many wonderful shows there, and now I get to share an evening with my friends on stage.”
Like his prose work, Per-ry’s songs often have a comi-cal bent that’s drawn from real-life experiences living on a farm in western Wis-consin. He bills himself as an author, humorist and amateur pig farmer.
A few years ago, Perry became the host of Tent Show Radio, a weekly pro-gram on Wisconsin Pub-lic Radio that features live
recordings of performances recorded at Big Top Chau-tauqua, near Bayfield. Perry and the Long Beds have performed there a few times and last year released a live album from one of their shows.
The band’s music falls somewhere between country and indie folk rock. Perry said he’ll bring along a cou-ple of accomplished musi-cian friends – Molly O on fiddle and Andy Dee on lap steel guitar – to fill out the band’s sound.
Perry is modest and self-deprecating about his skills as a musician. He credits his band for the group’s success.
“I play guitar with all the finesse of a man cut-ting brush,” he said. “It’s an insult to guitar players to say that’s what I do.
“While I’m not the great-est guitar player in the world, I have a great little band and I’m just really fortunate to have access to good musi-cians,” he added. “We’ve become friends, and so much of what I do is solo work. I write alone; I go on book tours alone, so it’s fun to have friends around to play music.”
David BrombergDavid Bromberg, the
Godfather of Americana, is coming to Stoughton Friday, Nov. 13, with his quintet in a show that will demonstrate the results of a lifetime at the highest level of American music.
A virtuoso on guitar, mandolin, fiddle and other stringed instruments, Brom-berg was a folk-rock main-stay through the 1970s. He was one of the music busi-ness’s most in-demand ses-sion players and performed on three of Bob Dylan’s albums, as well as hundreds of others over the course of his career.
Bromberg “retired” from performing in the mid-1980s and enrolled in the Kenneth Warren School of Violin Making in Chicago. Around 2000, he opened David Bromberg Fine Vio-lins in Wilmington, Dela-ware.
But his passion for music
never subsided, and by 2006 he was back in the s tudio making another album, “Try Me One More Time.” The album, Brom-berg’s first since 1990, was nominated for a Grammy as the Best Traditional Folk Album.
He returned to the stu-dio in 2013 to make his 13th album under his own name. “Only Slightly Mad” enlisted the help of the late Levon Helm’s former stu-dio and touring musicians.
On his website, Brom-berg says as a kid, he lis-tened to rock ‘n’ roll and “whatever else was on the radio. I discovered Pete Seeger and The Weavers and, through them, Rever-end Gary Davis. I then dis-covered Big Bill Broonzy, who led me to Muddy Waters and the Chicago blues. This was more or less the same time I dis-covered Flatt and Scruggs, which led to Bill Monroe and Doc Watson.”
I’m Not a Pilot Milwaukee-based I’m
Not A Pilot makes its Opera House debut Friday, Nov. 20 after performing in Rotary Gazebo Park last summer.
The quartet is led by front-man and founder Mark Glat-zel on keyboards and lead vocals. Glatzel formed the band eight years ago as a vehicle for a trove of angst-ridden songs he wrote in high school, explained the band’s cellist, Peter Thomson, in a telephone interview.
“He was in a rebellious state and needed space to find who he was,” said Thomas, who’s also a cellist with the Mil-waukee Symphony Orchestra. “His outlet was music.”
I’m Not A Pilot released a self-produced EP in 2009 followed by a full studio album in November 2010, “Need for Rocket Fuel.”
The album is the band’s best-seller so far and gained the attention of the music industry in Milwaukee and beyond for the “explosive rolls and crashes” of Steve Vorass’ drums and “lush tex-tures of piano and cello.”
Critics have lauded Glat-zel’s “dark lyrical content and warm vocal melodies,” as well as the band’s “unique sound.”
The band released a sec-ond EP in November 2013 and a full-length album, “I’m Not A Pilot Live,” in June 2014. The live album was recorded with accom-paniment by the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Thomas said the band’s unusual instrumentation wasn’t by design, but may have been influenced by one of Glatzel’s favorite artists, Sufjan Stevens.
“Mark really liked the instrumentation, how it wasn’t your typical bass gui-tar, lead guitar, drums and singer,” Thomas observed. “He liked the sound of strings, and that’s why he asked me to come and join.
“We never really intended to be a guitar-less band,” Thomas added. “It ended up being that way because of our instrumentation and because I kind of play hard stuff that can sound like a guitar player. It’s the instrumentation that makes us unique and has gar-nered us a bunch of different awards and attention.”
I’m Not A Pilot was voted Best Rock Band in Milwau-kee’s Shepherd Express in 2010, 2011 and 2013. In 2014, it was nominated for Band of the Year 2012 at the Wisconsin Area Music Awards.
Stoughton Opera House
Upcoming shows
MIChAEl PERRy ANd ThE lONg BEdSWhen: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5Where: Stoughton Opera House, 381 E. Main St.Tickets: $25; call 877-4400
dAvId BROMBERgWhen: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13Tickets: $35
I’M NOT A PIlOTWhen: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20Tickets: $20
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Michael Perry and The Long Beds make their first appearance tonight at the Stoughton Opera House.
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Baha’i FaithFor information: Alfred Skerpan, 877-0911
or Gail and Greg Gagnon, 873-9225 us.bahai.org Stoughton study classes.
Bible Baptist Church2095 Hwy. W, Utica 873-7077 • 423-3033
Sunday: 10 a.m. - Worship; 6 p.m. - Worship
Christ Lutheran Church700 Hwy. B, Stoughton
873-9353 • e-mail: [email protected] Sunday: 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worship,
9:10 a.m. Family Express followed by Sunday School
Christ the King Community Church401 W. Main St., Stoughton • 877-0303
christthekingcc.org • Sunday: 10 a.m. - Worship
Christian Assembly Church1844 Williams Drive, Stoughton • 873-9106
Saturday: 6 p.m. worship; Sunday: 10 a.m. worship
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
825 S. Van Buren, Stoughton 877-0439 • Missionaries 957-3930
Sunday: 9 a.m. Sunday school and Primary
Cooksville Lutheran Church11927 W. Church St., Evansville
882-4408 Interim Pastor Karla Brekke
Sunday: 10 a.m. Worship and Sunday School
Covenant Lutheran Church1525 N. Van Buren St., Stoughton • 873-7494
[email protected] • covluth.org Saturday: 5:30 p.m. Worship
Sunday: 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Worship Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.
Ezra Church515 E. Main St., Stoughton • 834-9050 • ezrachurch.com
Sunday: 10 a.m.
First Lutheran Church310 E. Washington, Stoughton 873-7761 • flcstoughton.com
Saturday: 8 a.m. weekly prayer breakfast Sunday: 8:30 & 10 a.m. worship
Fulton Church9209 Fulton St., Edgerton
884-8512 • fultonchurch.orgSaturday: 8 a.m. weekly prayer breakfast
Sunday: 8, 10:30 a.m. Worship; 9 a.m. coffee hour; 9:30 a.m. Sunday School; 12-3 p.m. Varsity (teens); 3-5 p.m. AWANA
Good Shepherd By The Lake Lutheran Church
1860 Hwy. 51 at Lake Kegonsa, Stoughton • 873-5924 Sunday Worship: 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.Education Hour for all ages: 9:15 a.m.
LakeView Church2200 Lincoln Ave., Stoughton
873-9838 • lakevc.org Sunday: 9 & 11 a.m. worship
Seventh Day Baptist Church of Albion
616 Albion Rd., Edgerton 561-7450 • [email protected]
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Stoughton Baptist ChurchCorner of Williams Dr. & Cty. B, Stoughton
873-6517 Sunday: 10:30 a.m. - Worship;
6 p.m. - Evening Service
St. Ann Catholic Church323 N. Van Buren St., Stoughton
873-6448 • 873-7633 Weekday Mass: Nazareth House and St. Ann’s Church
Weekend Mass: Saturday - 5:15 p.m.; Sunday - 8 and 10:30 a.m.
United Methodist of Stoughton525 Lincoln Avenue, Stoughton
stoughtonmethodist.org [email protected]
Sunday: 8 a.m. - Short Service; 10 a.m. - Full Worship
West Koshkonong Lutheran Church1911 Koshkonong, Stoughton Sunday: 10:30 a.m. - Worship
Western Koshkonong Lutheran Church
2633 Church St., Cottage Grove Sunday: 9:30 a.m. worship
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Parkinson Group• 1:30-2:30 p.m., fourth
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The Incredible Things We Believe
Christians believe a lot of things which many non-Christians find incred-ible, starting with the fact that God became man in the form of Jesus. That an all-powerful, all-knowing God would take the form of a human being is a stumbling block for many. Christians also believe that Jesus was perfect, never sinning during his thirty-plus years here on earth. At the end of this sojourn, Jesus allowed himself to be executed, and after dying, and being dead for three days, we believe that he rose from the dead and that he walked and talked and ate with his followers for a brief time before ascending bodily to heaven. Christians believe that God then sent the Holy Spirit to minister to us, and literally to enter into us. We believe that God is inside of us because we hear the still small voice of conscience, and believe that this is the voice of God. And we believe that we are guided by that voice, the Holy Spirit. Sometimes our faith is troubled by these things. They are indeed incredible in the literal sense that they can be hard to believe. But perhaps we believe them because we have God’s spirit within us. And per-haps that spirit within us is what makes us enthusiastic about these incredible things, and perhaps they ring true to us because they are true to our inmost
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“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwell-
eth in you?”—1 Corinthians 3:16 KJV
Flu vaccineStoughton Hospital will be offer-
ing flu vaccinations to the public in the lobby from 8 a.m. to noon Friday, Nov. 6.
The cost is $29 for the flu shot, $33 for nasal spray and $40 for a high dose (65 years and older). No appointment is needed. There will be refreshments, giveaways and health information.
For information, visit stoughton-hospital.com.
Pay it forwardThe Shalom Free Health Clinic
will hold its fifth annual fundraiser at the Stoughton Hospital Bryant Health Education Center, 900 Ridge St., on Friday, Nov. 6.
The event will begin with music and appetizers at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Stoughton native and local columnist Bill Wineke. Afterwards there will be a live auction and raffle.
For information about the event or to reserve a ticket, call Amy Hermes at 873-2308. For information about the clinic or to receive an applica-tion, call Dorothy Petersen at 205-0505.
Quilt displayQuilting by the River Friends of
Stoughton, WI will have a patriotic quilt display at American Legion Hall, 803 N. Page St., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7.
All quilts on display will be giv-en to patients at the VA hospital in Madison on Veterans Day.
Donations of fabric, blocks or patriotic quilt tops are appreciated.
For information, call Karen at 873-5100.
Yahara River ChorusThe Yahara River Chorus will
present its fall show “Wanted: Wed or Alive” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Stoughton High School audito-rium.
The show is a family-friendly musical romp set in Lena’s Bridal Shop. The show also features special guest quartet Off the Record.
Participate in a silent auction for a handmade quilt or win some cash in a 50/50 raffle.
Tickets are $15 each with a group rate of $12 each for groups of 10 or more. To purchase tickets, contact [email protected] or 585-615-1190.
Try hockeyStoughton Youth Hockey Asso-
ciation and USA Hockey invites kids ages 4-9 to try hockey for free at the Mandt Community Center from 3-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7.
Those who have equipment should bring it, but skates and other equip-ment may be available for kids to borrow. Otherwise bring a loose-fitting pair of sweatpants or snow pants, a pair of gloves and a helmet.
F o r i n f o r m a t i o n , v i s i t
stoughtonhockey.com or email [email protected].
Holiday craft showA holiday craft and vendor show
will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at Viking Lanes banquet room, 1410 Hwy. 51.
Some items include Tupperware, Steeped Tea, Scentsy, Thirty-One, It Works and holiday crafts.
For information, call 873-9497.
Turkey dinnerThe St. Ann’s Knights of Colum-
bus will host a turkey dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, at the school gym, 324 N. Harrison St.
The all-you-can-eat buffet costs $11 for adults, $9 for seniors, $8 for youth and free for ages 5 and under.
Edvard Munch presentationMichael Hecht will give a presen-
tation on “Edvard Munch: His Influ-ences and Legacy,” on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the Sons of Norway-Mandt Lodge, 317 S. Page St.
There will be a potluck supper at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program, sponsored by Skaalen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, at 7 p.m.
Hecht has had exhibits presented on Discovery Channel, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Madison Galler-ies and for the past decade has been a yearly speaker at the Stoughton Opera House.
For information, call 873-7209 or email [email protected].
Thursday, November 5• Noon, Lunch and Learn: How to Pick Gift Books for Children and Teens, senior center, 873-8585• 1-5 p.m., Personal Essentials Pantry, 343 E. Main St., pepstoughton.org• 3:15 p.m., Library Teen Chess Club (ages 10 and up), library, stolib.org• 5-7 p.m., Library open house with music from The Impact of Brass, library, 873-6281• 6:30 p.m., Adult Craft Club: Book Crafts, fire station meeting room, 873-6281• 6:30 p.m., Viking Series: Christendom on the Eve of the Viking Age, Sons of Norway-Mandt Lodge, 317 S. Page St., 873-7209
Friday, November 6• 8 a.m. to noon, Flu Vaccine Clinic, Stoughton Hospital• 1 p.m., First Friday Movie: “Black or White,” senior center• 6 p.m., Shalom Free Health Clinic “Pay It Forward” fundraiser, Stoughton Hospital Bryant Center, 873-2308
Saturday, November 7• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Holiday Craft and Vendor Show, Viking Lanes, 1410 Hwy. 51, 873-9497• 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Patriotic Quilt Display, American Legion Hall, 803 N. Page St., 873-5100• 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., State Mandated Testing in Public Schools community forum, Covenant Lutheran Church, stoughtonactioncoalition.org• 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Norwegian Dinner, Western Koshkonong Lutheran Church, 873-9670• 2 p.m., Yahara River Chorus Fall Show: “Wanted: Wed or Alive!” ($15), Stoughton High School audito-rium, 585-615-1190• 3-4 p.m., Try Hockey for Free, Mandt Community Center, stoughtonhockey.com
Sunday, November 8• 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Ann’s Knights of Columbus tur-key dinner, school gym, 324 N. Harrison St.
Monday, November 9• 6 p.m., City of Stoughton Planning Commission, Public Safety Building• 7 p.m., Town of Dunn Plan Commission meeting, Town Hall
Tuesday, November 10• 1 p.m., Senior center tour of Norwegian Heritage Center, 317 S. Page St., 873-8585• 6 p.m., City of Stoughton Finance committee, Public Safety Building• 6:30 p.m., Evening Story Time (ages 0-6), library, stolib.org• 7 p.m. City of Stoughton Common Council, Public Safety Building
Wednesday, November 11• 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Free Car Wash for Veterans, Baywash Stoughton Car Wash, 1704 Hwy. 51, grace-forvets.org• 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Free Lunch for Veterans, VFW, 200 Veterans Road, 873-9042• 11:45 a.m., Veterans Day celebration, senior center, 873-8585• 5:30 p.m., Potluck, Sons of Norway-Mandt Lodge, 317 S. Page St., 873-7209• 7 p.m., Michael Hecht Program on Edvard Munch, Sons of Norway-Mandt Lodge, 317 S. Page St., 873-7209
Thursday, November 12• 6:30 p.m., Thursdays With Murder book discussion, library• 7 p.m., Stoughton Chamber Singers Fall Concert ($5), Stoughton Village Players Theatre, stoughton-chambersingers.org
Friday, November 13• 9:30 a.m., Coffee with the Mayor, senior center, 873-8585• 7 p.m., Stoughton Chamber Singers Fall Concert ($5), Stoughton Village Players Theatre, stoughton-chambersingers.org
Saturday, November 14• 9 a.m. to noon, Personal Essentials Pantry, 343 E. Main St., pepstoughton.org
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Wozniak, Kittleson finish in top 100 at state meetJeremy JonesSports editor
Stoughton freshmen Anna Woz-niak and Abby Kittleson culminated their season together Saturday at the WIAA Division 1 girls state cross country tournament in Wisconsin Rapids.
For the first time this season it was Wozniak that crossed the 5,000 meter course first – albeit by only a few hundredths of a second, taking 95th place out of the state’s top 190 run-ners in 20 minutes, 29.30 seconds. Her time was 38 seconds faster than last week’s race at Ripp Park.
Kittleson, who sat at 88th place at the two-mile mark, fell back to 96th place – finishing two-hundredths of a second behind Wozniak in 20:29.32.
Her time was eight seconds faster than at last week’s sectional meet.
“Overall, I think they were very proud of their races,” Vikings head coach Susan Zaemisch said. “The first mile was extremely fast and miles two and three are challenging.”
Zaemisch said she spent the week leading up to state trying to prepare her runners for the experience, yet all the preparations can’t prepare a run-ner for the meet.
“The state cross country meet for any runner is a little overwhelming,” Zaemisch said. “This experience for two freshmen, who have never been seen the state meet in person, pro-duced wide eyes and extra nerves.
“It was particularly challenging for these two as they are used to running
stoughton takes fifth overallJeremy Jones Sports editor
Sophomore Maddie Kooima finished a team-best fourth place Saturday at the Badger South Conference swimming meet in Stoughton.
Kooima touched the wall of the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 21.99 sec-onds, finishing behind only Madison Edge-wood senior Maggie McNeil (2:15.87), Milton junior Olivia DeRemer (2:20.14) and McFarland junior Emma Linaberry (2:21.64).
Kooima added a seventh-place finish in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:05.18.
“Maddie was happy to be on the podium and proud to be representing Stoughton,”
head coach Katie Liebmann said. “We were pleased with her performance at con-ference, since she wasn’t fully tapered yet. We’re really looking forward to section-als.”
Stoughton’s only other varsity trip to the podium came via the 400 free relay team of Kooima, junior Ashley Foss, freshman Sophia Thompson and senior Sophie Pit-ney with a sixth-place time of 4:00.84.
The Vikings finished second-to-last out of the eight teams competing with 138 points – 10 ahead of Fort Atkinson.
Madison Edgewood, ranked No. 1 in Division 2, took home top honors, 128 points ahead of second-ranked McFarland 519-391. Monona Grove (326) rounded out the top three.
Stoughton’s JV team finished fifth over-all with 224 points, thanks in part to junior Bella Lenz taking fourth in the 100 breast-stroke and sophomore Amira Castillo’s finishing fifth in the JV 500.
The Vikings top JV relay finish came in the 400 free where Hailey Brown, McK-enzie Nisius, Amira Castillo and Erin McCune finished fourth.
Hannah Moody, Maria Mateus de Silva, Nisius and McCune took sixth in the 200 free relay. McCune also finished eighth in the 100 backstroke.
The Vikings’ JV 200 medley Aubrey Schleppenbach, Jessica Merzenich, Bella
Lenz and McKenzie Nisius added a sev-enth-place finish.
Overall, the Vikings nailed down 24 more best times with nine of the girls get-ting best times in both of their individual events.
Stoughton travels to Middleton at 1 p.m. Saturday for the WIAA Division 1 sec-tional where they will face the third-ranked Cardinals and second-ranked Verona Area/Mount Horeb. Madison West and Sun Prai-rie are also ranked from the sectional field.
“We’re surrounded by great teams at every postseason meet we attend,” Lieb-mann said. “That’s not a bad thing or a rea-son to make excuses for ourselves.
“It’s an opportunity to look at where we want to be and measure how far we need to go. If you surround yourself with great swimmers, you’ll become one.”
Cross country
Girls swimming
Photo by Joe Koshollek
Maddie Kooima finished fourth in the 200-yard IM Saturday at the Badger South Conference meet in Stoughton, posting a time of 2 minutes, 21.99 seconds.
Kooima splashes to fourth at conferenceIf you go
What: WIAA Division 1 sectionalsWhen: 1 p.m. SaturdayWhere: Middleton High School
Submitted photo by Brian Vasey
Stoughton freshmen Abby Kittleson (88) and Anna Wozniak (89) race at the WIAA Division 1 state cross country meet Saturday at the Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids. Wozniak finished 95th in 20 minutes, 29.30 sec-onds while Kittleson followed taking 96th in 20:29.32. Turn to State/Page 8
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in the front of the pack.” The Division 1 race had over 190 runners,
however, who all run similar times and pro-duced a little more contact than the girls were used too.
“The plan for the girls was the same plan that we have used all year,” Zaemisch said. “The only difference was we knew the first mile was going to be faster than normal.
“The state meet course provides a lot of chal-lenges with the hills and speed and quality of runners you are racing against.”
Kittleson and Wozniak had not raced against the majority of the field, so there was no famil-iar competition.
They ran within seconds of each other and in the final push crossed the finish line within two-tenths of each other.
“That showed the teamwork and effort that I have seen all year with these two,” Zaemisch said.
Eau Claire Memorial senior Aubrey Roberts was the only runner to break 18 minutes, cover-ing the course in 17:49.98. Whitefish Bay Cami Davre finished second and will return as the top runner next year. Sun Prairie senior McKensey Van Wie rounded out the top three.
Eleventh-ranked Eau Claire Memorial placed its five varsity scorers in the top 57 to top third-ranked Arrowhead 117-169.
Sixth-ranked Appleton North (174) topped seventh-ranked Sun Prairie (183) for third place. The 15th-ranked Divine Savior Holy Angels (193) finished fifth.
“I am excited about the future,” Zaemisch said. “We’re already planning on how to take this team to the next level as that is what will need to happen to get back to the state meet.”
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Smart golfersEmma Crowley, Haven Polich, Sam Zweck and Kelsey Taebel (pictured from left) were all named to the Academic All-State girls golf team this season.
Students are nominated by GCAW member coaches if they have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.25, participate in at least 75 per-cent of their team’s varsity matches and are at least a sophomore in high school.
The Wisconsin High School Golf Coaches Association announced 307 girls from 89 high schools have been honored this year for maintaining high academic standards in the classroom while competing in varsity golf. The average cumulative GPA of this year’s honorees is 3.8.
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and a “Career Ladder” sys-tem of compensation that was approved by the board earlier this year, but has been the subject of contro-versy since.
Board splitAfter making a motion
– which was ultimately defeated – to not declare an impasse in negotiations with the SEA, Grasse said there “seems to be a large group of the teachers vot-ing no” to the district’s offer.
“It feels important to continue to negotiate,” she said. “We’ve already got an unhappy workforce, we don’t want to continue to go down that road.”
In an email to the Hub o n T u e s d a y , M e n z e r said during the past few months , the employee relations committee made a “good faith effort” to negotiate with SEA lead-ership and reach a pay package that would be acceptable to all stake-holders, noting that the final offer represented the maximum increase to base wage allowable under Act 10. She said Monday night’s vote continues the board’s “track record” of providing educator com-pensation “that is both fis-cally responsible and very competitive with other Dane County school sys-tems.”
“Impasses are rare for us, but as a district, we cannot operate outside the legal constraints of Act 10, and we need to follow the compensation parameters
set by Career Ladder (the SASD staff compensation system),” Menzer wrote. “What the board approved last night will allow our district to reward our edu-cators for their great work, live within our means and honor the Career Ladder framework developed by our staff.”
In an email to the Hub on Tuesday, SEA spokes-man Jack Bernfeld said the group is “disappointed with the decision by the majority of the board,” and said the SEA’s offer provided a “fairer basis” for compensating teachers.
“The i r p lan exacer -bates an already highly
subjective and unfair com-pensation plan that is not in the best interests of students, teachers and the community,” he said.
Live from Stoughton, it’s Monday night
After a hiatus of about a year, school board meet-ings are once again being broadcast, said district administrator Tim Onsag-er , af ter new cameras were installed last week-end. To connect with live broadcasts, visit the SASD website at stoughton.k12.wi .us /page .c fm?p=503 and cl ick the “School Board Live Broadcast” tab on the left side.
SEA: Final offer max allowable under Act 10Continued from page 1
Supplemental payThe final supplemental pay plan approved by the
school board Monday calls for the following:• No supplemental pay to 2015-16 new hires;• Teachers in "Green"* range: $1,063 minus the
base wage increase;• Teachers in "Purple"* range: $1,213 minus the
base wage increase;• Teachers in "Blue"* range: $1,406 minus the
base wage increase;• Teachers in "Orange”* range: $1,600 minus the
base wage increase; and,• Teachers who opt out of teacher compensation
model placement: $1,213 minus the base wage increase.
*The color-coded categories are part of a new system of compensation that divides teachers into four categories – Initial Professional (green), Collaborative Professional (purple), Innovative Professional (Blue) and System Professional (yellow), depending on a variety of criteria and factors.
About $10 million in new growth in 2014 was evenly split between residential and commercial development, allowing the city to increase tax revenues by at little more than $75,000 in its 2016 budget. That means that no city services will be cut next year, Olson and Sullivan told the Hub on Monday.
In fact, an anticipated $125,000 gain in health insurance savings next year due to the city changing from a self-funded insurance program to an HMO would allow officials to establish a new daytime duty crew at the fire department and add seasonal staff in city parks, under the mayor’s proposed budget, which will go to a public hearing next week.
That would leave Stough-ton taxpayers with a 0.9 percent increase from 2014 taxes, at an estimated $8.63 per $1,000 of assessed val-ue. That number translates to an increase of 8 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, meaning the owner of a $200,000 property would pay $12.96 more than last year, for a total of $1,725.40 in city taxes.
In addition to the staffing increases, the budget being presented to taxpayers pro-poses to increase salaries for all full- and permanent part-time employees by 1 percent (a cost of about $48,000) and contribute another $28,635 to the salaries of 16 employ-ees to bring their wages up to the minimum market rate.
The revenue generated from new growth, coupled with the health-care savings, will also allow the city to increase operating expenses, including $80,000 more in funding support for Stough-ton EMS and adding $21,000 to the police department overtime.
The proposal anticipates increasing the funds the city allocates for retiree payouts next year by $70,000, for a total of $120,000.
“I normally budget about $50,000 for that,” Olson explained, “but we’ve got a few retirements coming up.”
Still, the reality of what remains one of the low-est rates of growth in Dane County means the city can’t fund everything department heads have requested. Streets superintendent Karl Man-the’s request for two new employees in his department failed to get the mayor’s
endorsement, and neither did additional staff hours requested for the fire depart-ment, in the human resources department and to add Sun-day hours at the Stoughton Public Library.
Olson said a “big initia-tive” for next year and the following four years will be to invest nearly $10 million in street improvements. The Capital Improvement Team has recommended increasing the city’s annual borrowing from $1.5 million for capital improvements to an average of $1.8 million per year for five years.
“It averages $1.8 million but next year it’s really $2.1 million,” Sullivan explained. “That’s total borrowing, mostly for streets.”
Sullivan added that bor-r o w i n g a n a d d i t i o n a l $300,000 annually would increase the tax levy begin-ning in 2017 by about 23 cents per $1,000 of property value, or $46 on $200,000 of value.
Olson also proposed again
adding $50,000 to the city’s equipment reserve fund. The city adopted a plan and has been adding that amount to the fund until it reaches $500,000, which will happen in two years.
Olson’s budget would fund about $13.25 million worth of city services in 2016. Those services consti-tuted 63 “offers” for services in the city’s annual Budget-ing for Outcomes process, which ranks suggested ser-vices as either “above the line” (intended to be funded) or “below the line.”
Under the mayor’s budget proposal, Stoughton’s total levy for 2015 would increase 4.55 percent to $7.9 million, a jump of $344,111 from the year before.
The Common Council, which has already reviewed the budget in Committee of the Whole sessions, will hold a public hearing on the budget at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10 in council chambers before voting on whether to approve the budget.
Budget: More borrowing for streetsContinued from page 1
Revenue increases
State expenditure restraint aid: $18,000
Cable franchise fee: $10,000
Building/Electrical/Plumbing fees: $55,000
Troll Beach revenue: $13,000
Net new construction: $75,000
If you goWhat: 2016 budget
hearingWhere: Council cham-
bers in Public Safety Building, 321 S. Fourth St.
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10
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Mill rates2010: 7.282011: 7.492012: 7.872013: 7.082014: 8.332015: 8.562016: 8.63
Added expenses
EMS support: $80,0001% Cost-of-living
raises: $48,000Wage adjustment:
$28,635Police overtime:
$21,000Daytime fire duty crew:
$11,700 Parks seasonal staff:
$6,000
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CIRCUIT COURT, FONd dU LAC COUNTY,
SMALL CLAIMS PUBLICATION SUMMONS ANd NOTICE
Case No. 15SC2199Plaintiff(s):National Exchange Bank and Trust130. S. Main StreetFond du Lac, WI 54935-vs-defendant:Jeffrey J. Tomlin433 Cherry StreetEvansville, WI 53536-1410
Publication Summons and Notice of Filing
TO THE PERSON(S) NAMEd ABOVE AS dEFENdANT(S):
You are being sued by the person(s) above as Plaintiff(s). A copy of the claim has been sent to you at your address as stated in the caption above.
The lawsuit will be heard in the fol-lowing Small Claims court: Fond du lac County Courthouse
Telephone Number of Clerk of Court: (920) 929-3032
Courtroom/Room Number: 2nd Floor Intake
Address: 160 S. Macy Street, Fond du Lac, WI, 54935
on the following date and time: No-vember 23, 2015 at 9:30 a.m.
If you do not attend the hearing, the court may enter a judgment against you in favor of the person(s) suing you. A copy of the claim has been sent to you at your address as stated in the caption above. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnish-ment or seizure of property.
You may have the option to Answer without appearing in court on the court date by filing a written Answer with the clerk of court before the court date. You must send a copy of your Answer to the Plaintiff(s) named above at their address. You may contact the clerk of court at the telephone number above to determine if there are other methods to answer a Small Claims complaint in that county.
Jacalyn A King, Vice President (920) 906-6875
October 29, 2015Published: November 5, 2015WNAXLP
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Mary Helen Copley
Mary Helen Copley, age 81, passed away sur-rounded by her loving family on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Skaalen Rehabili-tation. She was born on Oct. 10, 1934, in Sharp-burg, Pa., the daughter of Frank and Genevieve (Bachwierz) Gaza.
Mary worked at Naza-reth House for 24 years before she retired. Mary enjoyed spending time with her family, camp-ing, sunbathing, golfing, boating and shopping. She was an active member of the Stoughton American Legion Post 59 Auxiliary.
She is survived by her sons, Michael (Lucy),
David (Laura), and Don-ald (Kathy); grandchil-dren, Lisa (Juan) Olveda, Katl in (Rick) Gander, Ashley (Cory) Zweep, Ph i l Zweep , and Joe Zweep; and great-grand-children, Evan, Nadia, Sophia, and Gianna Olve-da.
Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Kim; son, Steve; s is-ters, Isabelle Black and Dorothy Baylour; broth-ers, Frank and Edward Gaza; and grandson, Kyle Zweep.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. on Sat-urday, Nov. 7, at Skaalen Home Chapel , 400 N. Morris St. , Stoughton. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until the time of services on Satur-day. Immediately follow-ing the service, friends and family are invited to a luncheon in the Friend-ship Room at Skaalen.
Memorials can be made out to Agrace HospiceC-are Madison.
Mom, Grandma, Grand-ma “C”, will be greatly missed by all her family.
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Jane Elaine Wikum
Jane Elaine Wikum, age 92, passed away peace-fu l ly a t her home on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. She was born on Dec. 7, 1922, in rural Evansville, the daughter of Arthur and Jennie (Higday) Jones.
Jane graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1940, and then earned her clerical degree from M A T C i n J a n e s v i l l e . After her schooling she was employed by the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture in Janesville and later
transferred to the USDA office in Madison for six years.
O n J u n e 1 0 , 1 9 5 0 , she married the love of her life Oyvind Wikum and together they raised four children. She was employed by Wisconsin Power and Light for 21 years.
She was a member of the Stoughton Hospital Auxiliary and a volun-teer for many years in the Stoughton Hospital gift shop. She also worked for many years as an election clerk for the Town of Rut-land. Along with her hus-band she was a life-time member of the Son’s of Norway and together they attended many National Conventions.
She is survived by her daughters, Shirley (Reg) Hi ldre th of San Jose , Calif., and Janet (Steve) Keller of Oregon; and son Allan Wikum of Stough-t o n . S h e a l s o l e a v e s beh ind many favor i te nieces and nephews.
Jane was preceded in
death by her parents, hus-band, Oyvind in 2012 and daughter Carol Ann in 2004. She was also pre-ceded in death by two sis-ters and four brothers.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, at Cov-enant Lutheran Church, 1525 N. Van Buren St., Stoughton, with the Rev. Mark Petersen presiding. A visitation will be held on Sunday, Nov. 8, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Cress Funeral Home, 206 W. Prospect, Stoughton and at the church on Monday from 10 a.m. until the time of services. Imme-diately following the ser-vice, family and friends are invited to a luncheon in the church fellowship hall. Jane will be laid to rest next to her husband at Roselawn Memorial Park in Monona.
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Heiliger, 78, was born in Madison, graduating from Madison East High School in 1954 and UW-Madison in 1958, where he was a part of the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps. And while he was destined to be a pilot, he said flying was the furthest thing from his mind when he signed up.
“When I went to col-lege you had to belong to ROTC,” he said. “I didn’t like the army hats and the navy was already set up so I chose the Air Force. Hon-estly.”
It took some time before Heil iger’s talents were realized in that arm of the services, though. At first, he failed the pilot’s test – before he figured out what Air Force officials were really after when they asked him what he liked to do in his spare time.
“I’d say, ‘Well, I like to listen to Beethoven sym-phonies,’” Heiliger said. “Ah, that’s not what they want. (They want) ‘I like to ride motorcycles.’ “So the next time I took the test, I wanted to ride motorcycles,” he chuckled.
The ThunderchiefAfter finishing at the top
of his class as a navigator, Heiliger began training as a pilot, where he also rose to the top of his class. Upon earning his wings in 1965, he was assigned to the 36th and 80th Tactical Fighter Squadrons at Yokoto Air Base, Japan. There, he would learn to harness the supersonic power of the bulky F-105 Thunderchief, the main jet he would fly during his career.
It was a fighter-bomber designed to carry – and deliver – a payload of nuclear weapons to targets either in North Korea or southern Russia. Heiliger said the bombs were up to 20 times the power of the one that leveled Hiroshima in World War II.
“That was a baby com-pared to what I carried,” he said.
For the several years, every other week Heiliger would fly from Japan to U.S. bases in South Korea, “sitting on nuke weapons,” prepared for a launch order he hoped would never come. Thankfully, it never did.
“Once you took off, you were on your way, you couldn’t come back,” Hei-liger said. “If we dropped ‘ e m , t h e r e p r o b a b l y wouldn’t be a place to come back. It was a one-way mis-sion. You do the best you can.”
By the end of 1966, though, Heiliger’s nuclear watch duty was broken up by more pressing matter for the Air Force in nearby Vietnam, where U.S. forc-es were becoming more engaged. They needed more pilots in the theater, and took many from Japan and other Pacific bases.
Heiliger – still flying the F-105 – flew from a base in Thailand, so far away that he required in-air refueling for every mission; which wasn’t made any easier, considering the Thunder-chiefs flew only at night.
“Kind of scary,” he said.
After 43 successful mis-sions, Heiliger’s luck ran on out May 15, 1967, when he and a co-pilot were fly-ing alone to bomb railroad yards northeast of Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capi-tal. As they began their bombing run, their F-105 was struck by something fired from the ground – to this day, he doesn’t know what it was.
“We were coming in on target from the Gulf (of Tonkin) and we could see the radar was on us, but that doesn’t mean they hit you, it’s just they’re vectoring you,” Heiliger said. “All of a sudden, about 30 seconds before bombs away, we felt a tug in the back of the air-plane – something hit us, so I climbed.”
Heiliger was also hop-ing to get back to open water, where U.S Navy ves-sels roamed, but before he could, the fire started by the enemy guns had reached his co-pilot, who had to eject while still over North Korea at around 19,000 feet . About a minute later, his cockpit in flames, Heiliger followed, “cussing all the way; typical fighter pilot.”
“ I was no t i n good shape,” he said.
Taken prisonerThe following day, Hei-
liger was captured, but he was heartened to see his co-pilot was alive, though also in captivity.
“That was good for both of us,” he said, noting he didn’t see the man again for five years.
The aviators joined hun-dreds of captured U.S. service members - mainly pilots - in the so-called “Hanoi Hilton” complex with other P.O.W.s like Air Force ace Robby Risner (who, coincidentally, was on the cover of Time Mag-azine this previous month) and future U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate John McCain, who Hei-liger didn’t see much of.
“(McCain) got shot down about five months after I did,” he said. “He was in pretty bad shape when he got shot down, and a few people took care of him – from our side – which prob-ably brought him through.”
While in captivity, the men tried to keep track of
who was there by memo-rizing names. They came up with a tapping code to communicate, using a five-by-five matrix of 25 letters (C and K were considered the same sound).
“A is one-one, B is one-two, F would be two-one and so forth,” he said.
During his first year, Heiliger had to share a 10-by-18-foot area with two other P.O.W.s. The routine was a simple one, he said.
“Get up and eat and clean up your room and go to bed,” Heiliger said. “Stay out of people’s way. You’re supposed to be pretty quiet, otherwise they come in and beat you.
Heiliger said the tor-ture applied to the pris-oners by the North Viet-namese guards was “very bad” when he first arrived, and was again after an ill-advised and failed escape a t tempt by one of h is roommates.
“Not good,” he said sim-ply of the incident and its aftermath, in which one of the escapees was tortured to death. “He and one of the guys picked a night in May, second year we were over there, and they left and the torture came again, bad. We all made it through, except for Ed Atterbury.”
Heiliger said his captors were “pretty weak in gen-eral in their methods” of torture.
“I’m not trying to sound brave or anything, it’s just I don’t think they were very good,” he said. “A lot of it was what they called ‘self-inflicted,’ because they have you sitting on your knees for hours and hold up your arms on a cement floor, and that’s hard. Of course, you had roommates, and they’d (check) the doors and the windows, and if nobody was around, you could get off your knees for a while.”
North Korean soldiers tried a bit to “brainwash” prisoners with propaganda, but Heiliger said both sides realized it wasn’t much use.
“They didn’t try to con-vince us they had the right system; they knew they couldn’t do that,” he said. “They knew what we had over here, and we knew how poor they were over here.”
For Heiliger, the hard part was not knowing how long the war would last, and how long he could make it.
“We all knew sometime we would get home; I don’t think were was much ques-tion of that,” he said. “The question was ‘How long are we going to survive this?’”
Going homeDuring Chr is tmas of
1972, Heiliger said he and his fellow P.O.W.s began to think the end of the war was near.
“The camp radio (North Korean propaganda radio station) ‘Voice of Viet-nam,’ would put out some-thing, and you’d kind of follow your news by that – as untrue as it was,” he said. “We knew (peace talks) were getting close.”
Around 300 of the men were moved to a camp near China, and were told they would return when the war was over. In January 1973, the men were brought back to Hanoi, and heard a reading of the Paris Peace Accords, which ended U.S. combat in Vietnam. The men were released on Feb. 18.
“(I t was) ‘Oh, good, we’re going home,’ and then we walked back into our rooms,” Heiliger said. “We tried to (take it in stride). We didn’t want to show ‘em.”
Back in the U.S., Heiliger continued his education, earning a Master’s Degree in Latin American Studies. In 1975, he started training for assignments in South America as an attache. He married his current wife, Cheryl, and spent several years in as an Air Force attache in Uruguay and later Chile; the senior Air Force representative to the country.
“When you come back, they give you a choice of what you want to do,” Hei-liger explained. “I wanted to stay and get more educa-tion, because I hadn’t seen books for so long.”
“It was with the Embas-sy, so it was a lot of enter-taining,” Cheryl Heiliger said with a laugh. “It was wonderful.”
“She’s the greatest host-ess you’ve ever seen,” Don added.
After several years, the couple returned to the U.S. and spent several years working at the Pentagon before Heiliger served a three-year stint as Defense and Air Attache to Israel before retiring as a colo-nel in 1985. In his military career, he logged more than 1,000 flying hours, more than 2,000 hours as a navi-gator, an impressive assort-ment of medals and honors, including a Purple Heart and Silver Star with an oak leaf cluster.
In 1987 , the coup le decided to return to Hei-l i ge r ’ s roo t s i n Dane County, though he stayed active, continuing to serve his country on State Board of Affairs as appointee of the governor, and also as a Dane County Supervisor from 1992 to 2004.
“You can never truly feel how great this country is until you have missed it,” he said.
Veterans: Heiliger ran numerous missions as pilot, navigator of nuclear-armed jetContinued from page 1 Don Heiliger Day
Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Veterans Depart-ment secretary John Scocos visited Stoughton VFW Post 328 Monday morning to honor Stoughton resident and Vietnam veteran Don Heiliger for his service. Hei-liger received an engraved plaque that will be displayed at the VFW.
“It was nice of him to come down to Stoughton,” Heiliger said of Walker.
In a press release, Walker cited Heiliger’s “excep-tional conduct.”
“Despite constant torture as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, Colonel Heiliger remained steadfast in protect-ing his country and refused to comply with his captors’ demands,” the statement read. “He did so at great per-sonal risk, and today, we honor his bravery and unwav-ering devotion to the United States of America.”
Veterans Day eventsSchool diStrict
Every year, a group of Stoughton area veterans in honor guard uniforms visit Stoughton schools. At 7:30 a.m., will veterans stand at the entrances to Stoughton High School to greet students. At 11 a.m., veterans will visit Fox Prairie Elementary School, where students will line up in the hallways to listen to a brief speech on the significance of Veterans Day, and taps will be played. Later, many veterans will head to other district schools to visit classes.
“This is special for those vets who have grandkids in those schools,” said Stoughton American Legion Post 59 member Bud Erickson.
Senior centerThe senior center will hold its annual tribute to
area veterans with a lunch and program at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11. Fox Prairie Elementary School students will provide entertainment. To register for lunch, call 873-8585 by Nov. 9.
Vietnam VeteranS VFW luncheonStoughton VFW Post 328 will serve a free
lunch for veterans from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, with a presentation of certificate of appreciation to Vietnam veterans by State Representative Gary Hebl at the end.
Veteran car WaShBaywash Stoughton Car Wash, 1704 Hwy. 51, will
hold free car washes for veterans from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11. The event is part of the Grace for Vets program, which honors veterans and service personnel across the nation with car washes. For information, contact [email protected] or visit graceforvets.org.
Wahlin donation boosts veterans’ memorial
With about a year to go until its planned opening, the Stoughton Area Veterans Memorial Park Fund received a “tremendous boost” last month with a $50,000 pledge from the Wahlin Foundation, said project spokesperson Bud Erickson. The money will be used to fund the arch-way entrance to the memorial park.
According to a press release from the Stoughton Area Veterans Memorial Park committee, the broad program of the Wahlin Foundation is to support the charitable needs in the general areas where the manufacturing plants of Stoughton Trailers are located. Wahlin Foun-dation executive director Betsy McClimon said the goal of the foundation is to “enrich the lives and promote opportunities in the communities where our employees work and live.”
According to a press release, Stoughton Trailers -- founded in 1961 by military veteran, Don Wahlin and his wife, Carol -- has awarded nearly $3 million to phil-anthropic efforts in Stoughton, Brodhead and Evans-ville since 1999.
Ground was broken Sept. 26 at the site, the corner of Country Club Road and County B in Pleasant Springs. The project goal is $800,000, and as of press time, Erickson said the group has raised around $230,000. The goal is to open the memorial Nov. 11, 2016.
For information about fundraising, contact Randy Robertson at 764-5881. Donations can be made to the Stoughton Area Veterans Memorial Park and sent to PO Box 16, Stoughton WI, 53589.
For more information about the project, contact Erickson at 873-5305 or visit the Legion’s website at post59.org.
Photo by Scott De Laruelle
At his home on Lake Kegonsa Monday afternoon, Don Heiliger shows a photo of he and his F-105 Thunderchief in action in a book called “The MiG Killers.”
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