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From Coach Chenoweth:

The Whitewater High School Boys Soccer team took the two hour trip to Platteville / Lancaster to play in the first round of regionals. Whitewater went in as the 12th seed in our sectional, with Platteville/Lancaster being the 5th seed. Based on our records against common opponents we knew it would be a competitive game with a chance for the Whippets to pull off the upset.

We came out playing quality soccer and Juan Cuellar put the Whippets up with a goal in the 24th minute for the only score of the first half. The Hillmen built some momentum with a goal in the 4th minute of the second half and had some strong support from their local fans. But, the Whippets were able to hold the home team back and the evenly matched game ended regulation time with a 1-1 tie.

We then headed to overtime. Unfortunately, the Hillmen struck early in the half and then built on that momentum with the same player finding the net twice more in the next 6 minutes. While it’s never fun to lose, the Whippets put up a solid game in regulation. Hopefully, the results will be motivating for our returning players next year to come into the season prepared to compete from day one and to have some high goals.

We appreciate all of the support from our parents and supporters throughout the season. And, we wish our senior players well as they finish up their last year of high school and move on to other opportunities.

Whitewater 1, Platteville/Lancaster 4 (OT)
Whitewater 1 0 (0 0)
Platteville/Lancaster 0 1 (3 0)

Congratulations to Lincoln Elementary School for being selected to host a Regional 7 Habits Training on December 5th and 6th. Lincoln Elementary is the first Leader in Me school in the state of Wisconsin. The Leader in Me model empowers students with the leadership and life-skills to thrive in the 21st century based on Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This is Lincoln’s third year as a Leader in Me school. Another result of being part of the Leader in Me is the development of teacher leaders. Justin Stewart has taken an active role in the program’s success and serves as the primary contact for its programming.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Amy Goldstein will be presenting “Janesville – An American Story” Monday, October 22, 2018, at 7 pm in the Young Auditorium as part of the UW-Whitewater College of Letters and Sciences Contemporary Issues Lecture Series. The event is free and open to the public.

In over 30 years as a staff writer at the Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Amy Goldstein has focused on stories that lie at the intersection of politics and public policy and explore the effects of both on ordinary people. Her first book, “Janesville – An American Story”, reflects this interest. In writing this book, Goldstein spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin, where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors assembly plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession. She is currently the Post’s national health-care policy writer and has reported on a number of other social policy issues. Goldstein has been a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a visiting journalist at the American Institutes for Research, and a fellow at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor.

Voting and Elections

www.lwvwhitewater.org

The League of Women Voters, Whitewater Area invite you to go to their website and click on the link “voting and elections” to find answers to questions like who is on the ballot and how to register to vote.  In addition, a candidate questionnaire for State Assembly District 43 is available that candidates representing both parties were invited to complete.  A link to the recent candidate forum in which incumbent Don Vruwink and challenger Gabriel Szerlong participated can be accessed at the League website also.

Become more informed by clicking on the local League’s webpage.

As part of the state’s 100 million dollar school safety funding initiative, Whitewater received over $102,000 in the first round of funding. This week the Wisconsin DOJ announced that Whitewater will receive an additional $106,388 to continue to enhance the safety of our schools. Much of the funding from the second round of funding will be geared toward mental health training as well as threat assessment training for our District.

In addition to that training, the District will be adding additional products to windows in the schools that will allow for our welcoming daily use and also increase security in an active threat situation. Other approved grant purchase includes training staff on the use of specialized wound kits that have been proven to save lives in the event of an actual emergency.

While the largest amounts of time and energy will be focused on mental health and prevention of school violence, these additional resources, along with the purchases from our first round of funding, will help to make sure our schools are ready if the unthinkable were to ever happen here.

WUSD is grateful to receive these additional dollars which will continue to help enhance our school safety practices. A special thank you to David Brokopp and Lanora Heim for being the primary writers of the grant.The DOJ has announced our award to media in a press release which can be found here: https://www.doj.state.wi.us/news-releases/ag-schimel-announces-nearly-12-million-school-safety-grant-funding-167-schools-and

Congratulations to the 2018 Whitewater High School WIHA (Wisconsin Interscholastic Horse Association) team.  Emma Hageli, Grace Ejnik, and Andrea Kuhl are Grand Champions in District 1 Division C competition held at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on October 13 & 14.  They will now be going to the Alliant Energy Center in Madison on November 2, 3, and 4 for state finals.  The girls are coached by Tracy Hageli in showmanship, speed, agility, and horsemanship.

Pictured are the new officers for the 2018-2019 year: Amber Krebs – President; Grace Raupp – Vice President; Tyler Huehne – Secretary;

 Abigail Matteson – Treasurer; Connor Raupp – Reporter; Caitlyn Huehne and Sophia Raupp – Historians; Autumn Robb – Sunshine

Are you interested in community service, meeting new people or learning new things?  Lima 4-H meets the second Sunday of the month at 3 pm at Lima Township Hall. Our club is open to any child grades 4K-12th grade.  It doesn’t matter what school you go to, county you live in or if you are on a farm or in town.

•        Community Service
•        Meet New People
•        Rock County 4-H Fair
•        Learn New Things:
  • Woodworking
  • Electricity
  • Mechanical Science
  • Food Science
  • Animal Science
  • Photography
  • Gardening
  • And MUCH, MUCH MORE!!

If you are interested, contact us at lima4h1@yahoo.com or stop by our next meeting!  

The Library is in the process of strategic planning. As part of that, we need you, our community, to let us know how we are doing and what we could do better. Click on the link below to take you to a short survey. Your input is important to us!

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