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The Whitewater Arts Alliance’s Cultural Arts Center will host its fourth annual “Artrageous Birds” exhibit from September 6 to September 30 with 72 art pieces by 26 artists from Wisconsin and Illinois.  The gallery will be open to all art and bird lovers from Noon to 5 p.m. on Thursdays through Sundays, and features a wide variety of artistic styles, including photography, mixed media, watercolor, collage, oil, porcelain sculpture, polymer clay, and alcohol inks.  The exhibit is free and open to the public at 402 West Main Street at the Cultural Arts Center.

All 26 exhibiting artists are eligible to win one of several awards:  Award of Excellence I ($200), Award of Excellence II ($100), Award of Excellence III ($75), Humorous Interpretation ($50), the People’s Choice Award ($50), and Honorable Mentions.  The judge for the event is Mary Ann Inman.  Awards will be given at a reception on Sunday, September 30 at 2 p.m.

The City of Whitewater gained its Wisconsin Bird City designation in 2014. The Whitewater Urban Forestry Commission (UFC) is responsible for implementing and fulfilling the requirements to maintain this designation.

Bird City Wisconsin mobilizes citizens and public officials who already know that birds are more than beautiful – they are significant. A Bird City is a community whose government educates its citizens about birds while implementing sound conservation practices. Whitewater is one of them!  Bird City Wisconsin encourages its communities to address the decline of urban birds like the Chimney Swift and Purple Martin, species that have declined in Wisconsin by 32.3% and 92.7%, respectively, over the last 40 years. They support our community in our efforts to protect and manage green space, build and erect nesting structures, landscape with native plants, reduce threats like collisions, and generally make urban areas friendlier for breeding, wintering, and migrating birds.

The Cultural Arts Center is located on 402 West Main Street in the historic White building near the Birge Fountain. Parking is behind the building.  An elevator is available for access from the parking lot entrance.  More information about the Whitewater Arts Alliance can be found at www.whitewaterarts.org and on Facebook.

Clifford Witte of Whitewater was presented with the “Quilt of Valor” on Saturday, August 25. It was presented at his home by Jim Simons of Burlington, WI.

Clifford signed up and joined the Navy to help serve his country during WWII. The “Quilt of Valor” is a program that presents quilts to Veterans to honor and comfort those touched by war.

The Whitewater Friends of the Library will be holding a book sale in the Library Community Room from Tuesday, September 4, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm through Saturday, September 8, 9:00 am – noon. The sale will continue into the afternoon as volunteers move any leftover materials to the FOL Shop and place items on carts for sale in the lobby.

The Friends of the Library have been raising money selling books, music CDs, and DVDs to cover the costs for library programs and events. They have been selling books from carts in the lobby and the Friends Shop on an ongoing basis for several years.

The second year of tough municipal funding cuts brought about the decision to sponsor a week-long book sale in order to raise enough funds to support planned programming in 2019.  Library patrons have been generous in the donations they have provided for this sale. Numerous items have been withdrawn from the library collections in order to create space for new materials.

The plan is to have each item individually priced for the sale.

If you have time, please sign up at the Circulation Desk to volunteer for the sale.  In addition, sale customers will have the opportunity to join the Friends of the Library.  A lifetime membership is only $100.

FALL SIGN UP AT HAWK BOWL

1328 W. Main St., Whitewater

262-473-9980

Sign up – Saturday, September 22, 10 am to 1 pm;  $13.00 Yearly paid sanction, earns 2 free games.

League Start and additional Sign up – Saturday, September 29, 9:00 am; Yearly sanction $13.00 plus Weekly Fees $5.00 includes shoes.

Certified/Registered Coaches Provided – Please call Judy Rauls – 262-594-2780

All ages welcome, 5-8, 9-12, 13 and up.

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The Whippet CC teams got their feet wet and competed in their first 5000m race of the 2018 season under a mostly sunny sky and temperatures hovering around 80 degrees. The boys race was featured first and many runners did quite well given the difficulty of the UW-Whitewater course they call home. Trenten Zahn was the individual winner over 4-time defending alumni champion Brett Harms. Brett finished a fantastic cross country and track career at UW-Whitewater this spring and has enjoyed some much needed time away from intense training after 8 years of strong commitment to the sport. Trenten looked strong and steady in his first effort and cut significant time from his debut race last year as a freshman crossing the line in 18:56. Freshman Gio Anello was the team’s second runner and finished 3rd in 19:45. Junior Aidan Coburn, Senior Dan Trost, and Sophomore Will Hofmann rounded out the team score for the varsity as they beat the alumni team due to an incomplete score from the alumni. Jon Zimdars, Mark Schroeder, and Jack Downs also competed for the Whippet alumni.

Recent UW-Whitewater grad Liz Mielke took home her second alumni race title in 22:12. Nicole Tomomitsu was the team’s top finisher and second overall in 23:49. Junior Hailey Prager, Freshman Trinity Nickels, Sophomore Crystal Chan and Junior Jenna Lee solidified the team win for the varsity team as the alumni also had an incomplete team score on the women’s side. Alumnus Jen Taylor secured her top 3 finish crossing the line in 24:20.

Both programs had many new runners experience CC for the first time and will be looking to grow from their first experience as they travel to Verona for a large invite on Saturday, September 1st. The Whippets have two other home meets this season. The first is the Rock Valley Conference Championships on Thursday, October 11th followed by the WIAA Division 2 Sectional on Friday, October 19th. The road to the WIAA State Meet will go through Whitewater!

Dylan Pease handing off to Aldo Soto

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From maxpreps.com:

East Troy was the big favorite in their most recent match, and for good reason. They blew past Whitewater45-13. That result is just more of the same for East Troy, who also won the last time these teams played.

The win bumped East Troy’s record up to 2-0. The loss dropped Whitewater’s record to 0-2.

Next week, East Troy take on Big Foot at 7:00 PM. As for Whitewater, they will face off against Clinton.

For video highlights, head over to the recap at MaxPreps.com.