Month: December 2018

Linda L. Boehning, age 73, of LaGrange, Wisconsin, entered into eternal peace December 23, 2018 at Delavan Health Services in Delavan, Wisconsin.

She was born December 19, 1945 in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

On August 15, 1972, she was united in marriage to James Boehning at the First English Lutheran Church in Whitewater.

Linda was a bookkeeper for Home Lumber Company, Schroeder Moving Systems, and later at Nasco in Fort Atkinson. She is a member of the First English Lutheran Church of Whitewater and the Milton VFW.

She enjoyed trapshooting, bowling, and ceramics in earlier years and putting together puzzles in her most recent years.

She is survived by her husband James Boehning, her children Scott (Melba) Garlock of Clinton, Wisconsin, Rob (Lisa) Garlock of Williams Bay, Wisconsin, Jamie (Stephanie) Boehning of Whitewater, Wisconsin and Mindy (Scott) Walker of Helenville, Wisconsin. She is further survived by her grandchildren Cody, Austin, Brooklyn, Brody, Madison, Scott, Kayla, Nathan, Jonathan, and Tristan and a great granddaughter Mae. She is survived by her sister Carol Knox of Cuba City, Wisconsin and many other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents Al and Frances Stotmeister, Clinton Watters, and mother and father-in-law Pete and Helen Boehning.

Funeral services will be held at 12:00pm on Saturday, December 29, 2018 at the Nitardy Funeral Home, 550 North Newcomb Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin, with burial to follow at Hillside Cemetery.

Visitation will be held on Saturday at the Nitardy Funeral Home from 10:00 am until the time of service.

Memorials can be made to First English Lutheran Church of Whitewater.

Nitardy Funeral Home is serving the family. www.nitardyfuneralhome.com

WHS Girls Basketball team drops game to Bigfoot

From Coach Lippens:

It was a hard fought battle, but unfortunately we were unable to pull out the win against Big Foot. We turned the ball over too much and our shooting percentage hurt us the most. We had plenty of open shots, they just wouldn’t fall. Defensively, we communicated well and hustled. Jaden Henneman had 6 steals, Cassidy Laue led our scoring with 11, followed by Abby Grosinske and Kacie Carollo both with 8.

Wisconsin Makers presents “Geek Week”

All Geeks Unite for Geek Week!

We are geeking out at Wisconsin Makers, December 26-28, 10am-5pm, Saturday, December 29, Showcase Day, 9am-2pm. This is a family event being held during the Holiday break. So, if your kids, grandkids and their friends are looking for something to do bring them down to the MakerSpace.

  • Featured Equipment
  • Mass Spectrometer
  • Harmonograph
  • Portable Electromagnetic Monitor
  • Holograph Booth
  • Magnetic Tape Drive (early 1990’s)
  • 2nd Generation Digital Camera (early 1990’s)
  • Cardboard City – Make Fest

We have something for everyone during Geek Week. Get those creative juices flowing. On Saturday, Showcase Day, we will be exhibiting your projects as well as projects from other makerspaces. Come down and make something with your friends and show it off on Saturday.

WHS swimmers earn 2 wins


Antonio Aranda (Photo by Bob Mischka)

Whitewater 126 vs PSC Aquatics 32

Whitewater 111 vs Delavan-Darien 55

Delavan-Darien 83 vs PSC Aquatics 53

From Coach Foucault:

Just like that the Whippets surge to 2-1 in the Southern Lakes Conference with two wins, beating both Delavan-Darien and PSC Aquatics. The Whippets were able to win 8 out of 11 races and posted 16 best times. Posting Top 10 times for All Time were Devin Bazeley in the 100 Butterfly and 100 Breaststroke and Young Liang in the 100 Freestyle. We had several swimmers try some new races with great success. Zach Tomomitsu swam the 200 Freestyle, Jon Chan swam the 200 Individual Medley, Wesley Salverson swam the 100 Butterfly, Shawn Chan and Antonio Aranda took on the long race of the night swimming the 500 Freestyle and Jonathan Manriquez tried out the 100 Breaststroke. It is important with a small team to have all the athletes be capable of swimming any event at any time. We are getting closer to that with every meet.

Winning events for the team were:

200 Medley Relay – Aidan Coburn, Young Liang, Devin Bazeley, Michael Kuhl

200 Freestyle – Jack Mayer

200 Individual Medley – Young Liang

50 Freestyle – Jack Mayer

100 Freestyle – Young Liang

500 Freestyle – Michael Kuhl

200 Freestyle Relay – Shawn Chan, Jonathan Manriquez, Antonio Aranda, Jack Mayer

100 Backstroke – Michael Kuhl

Swimming best times for the Whippets were:

Zach Tomomitsu and Jack Mayer, 200 Freestyle

Jon Chan and Wesley Salverson, 200 Individual Medley

Jon Zheng, 50 Freestyle

Wesley Salverson, Devin Bazeley and Jovany Manriquez, 100 Butterfly

Young Liang and Aidan Coburn, 100 Freestyle

Shawn Chan, Michael Kuhl and Antonio Aranda, 500 Freestyle

Michael Kuhl, 100 Backstroke

Jonathan Manriquez and Devin Bazeley, 100 Breaststroke

The swimmers are doing a great job competing on the relays, especially good splits or racing came from the following swimmers at this meet: Jonathan Manriquez in the 50 Backstroke and 50 Freestyle, Antonio Aranda in the 50 Freestyle and Zach Tomomitsu in the 50 Freestyle.

The Whippets won’t be back in action until Thursday, January 3rd at home starting at 6pm!

WMS hosts Geography Bee

(L-R) Carson Petitt- 3rd place, Marina Linos- 2nd place, and Emerson Ellenwood-1st place.

Whitewater Middle School hosted a school-wide National Geographic Geography Bee on Wednesday, December 19.

Special congratulations to 7th-grader, Emerson Ellenwood, for his first place finish. Marina Linos, also a 7th-grader earned second place. Third place went to 6th-grader Carson Petitt. Emerson will now complete a qualifying test to go on and compete at the state level National Geographic Bee where he has a chance to win a $50,000 college scholarship.

Congratulations to all of these students! Good Luck to Emerson as he advances to the next level of competition.