Would you know what to do if you encountered an active shooter in a public setting?
Officer Valadez from the Whitewater Police Department will be at the library to teach you how to respond in an active shooting event, how to recognize signs of potential violence around you, and what to expect after an active shooting takes place.
This program is free and open to everyone.
When: Thursday, April 19, 2018, at 6 pm
Where: Irvin L. Young Public Library
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The League of Women Voters-Whitewater Area presents “National Parks at a Crossroads” on Thursday, April 19 at 7 PM, at the Whitewater City Council Chambers. The focus is on what climate change means for our National Parks. While much of the news on climate change focuses on how it will impact the way we live or what will happen to the polar bears, there has been little public discussion about what it will mean for our national parks. During this one-hour program, you’ll hear from Dr. Eric Compas about the obvious and subtle ways in which climate change is reshaping our nation’s first national park, Yellowstone.
The projections for the region’s vegetation and fire patterns, changing ecosystem definitions, and the policy response to date are all fundamentally challenging the way we think about nature, wilderness, and our relationship to it. While park managers have significant control over what a future Yellowstone will look like, they don’t yet have the tools to make these decisions—and that has brought us to a significant crossroads for defining what it means to be a national park in the 21st century.
Since the 1960s, the League of Women Voters has been at the forefront of efforts to protect air, land and water resources. As citizens of the world, we must protect our planet from the physical, economic and public health effects of climate change while also providing pathways to economic prosperity.
Dr. Eric Compass is an Associate Professor in the Geography, Geology, and Environmental Science Department at the UW-Whitewater. He studies public and private land conservation both in Wisconsin and the Yellowstone region, and he teaches courses in environmental policy and geographic information systems.
She was born in Janesville on June 2, 1944; the daughter of Harold and Elfie (Baker) Jensen. Peg graduated from Craig High School in 1962, and worked at her parents’ restaurant, the “Jensen Café,” in her youth. She also worked as the student employment supervisor in the UW-Whitewater library for about 30 years. Peg married her husband, Ken Conner, on September 1, 2007, and together they enjoyed traveling and volunteering their time at the Rotary Gardens in Janesville. Peg was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, and she will be greatly missed.
She is survived by her husband, Ken Conner; son, Ryan (Sara Gerend) Murray of Wheaton, IL; grandson, Jack Ryan Murray; and nieces, nephews, and friends.
Peg is predeceased by her parents; and brother, Fred Jensen.
Peg’s family would like to express their heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the staff members of Huntington Place and Agrace Hospice for all of their loving kindness.
Funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM on Thursday, April 19, 2018, at SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY. Burial will follow to Oakhill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM on Wednesday, April 18 at the funeral home and will continue at 10:00 AM until time of service on Thursday.
Memorial donations can be given to the Rotary Gardens of Janesville or the Humane Society of Wisconsin.
For online obituary and registry, please visit www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Our 4K and Kindergarten registration is coming up on April 19th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM at the Central Office (419 S. Elizabeth Street, Whitewater, WI).
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Thank you for choosing The Whitewater Unified School District!
Llamando a todos los estudiantes 2018-19 4K y Kindergarten
(que viene de fuera de nuestras actuales programas de Whitewater 4K)!
Marque su calendario:Nuestro registro 4K y Kinder se acerca el 19 de Abril 09 a.m.-1:00 pm y 03 p.m.-7:00 pm en la Oficina Central (419 S. Elizabeth Street, Whitewater, WI ).
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A new course is being offered to 7th and 8th graders this summer. Students will design and build an app that will allow anyone in the community to play a city-wide scavenger hunt on their mobile phones.
This course will teach life skills in a fun way. The rigors of the course will challenge students to explore their personal character and learn to persevere through failures. By the end, students will have new skills for making difficult life decisions and a deeper compassion for themselves and others.
There will an information meeting to help answer any questions you might have about this course on April 24th at 7:00pm in the Middle School cafeteria.
In the video below, one of the college mentors will tell you more about the course.
Observing early spring wildflowers will be the object of a free hike — or possibly a choice of hikes — to begin at 12 noon on Sunday, April 22. Participants will meet at the Highway 12 Ice Age Trail parking lot located between County Roads P and O on a large hill, about 2 1/2 miles east of Whitewater.
We may begin the hikes from the parking area, or we may drive to another location or a different trail with a broader selection of wildflowers. We will be looking for tiny jewel-toned hepaticas, white wood anemones and rue anemones, tall yellow bellwort, delicate pin-striped spring beauties and more. In damp areas, we may see golden marsh marigolds and odd-looking dark red skunk cabbage blossoms. A trillium sighting — and maybe even a morel — are possible, but not likely this early in this unusually cool spring weather.
Hikes will be approximately three miles long over mostly hilly wooded terrain. Hiking boots or other sturdy footwear, long pants, tick spray, water, and a snack are strongly recommended. Cameras and interested children are welcome, but please, no dogs this time! A State Parks parking sticker could be required but can be purchased at the parking area.
This event is sponsored by the Walworth/Jefferson County Chapter of the Ice Age Trail Alliance. For further information about other local Ice Age Trail activities and volunteer opportunities, please explore http://www.iceagetrail.org/volunteer/chapters/walworth-jefferson-county/
For questions or further information, please contact hike leader Ellen Davis at 262-740-1113.
Volunteers helped control invasive plants and assisted with priority land acquisitions to enlarge Chiwaukee Prairie State Natural Area in Kenosha County, while Madison area volunteers wrapped up six years of cutting and treating more than 50,000 bundles of invasive Phragmites at Cherokee Marsh State Natural Area.
These are just two examples of how volunteers help care for State Natural Areas, which represent some of Wisconsin’s best remaining prairies, oak savannas, wetlands and lakes and are home to 75 percent of the animal species and 90 percent of the plants listed as threatened or endangered in the state.
Efforts by 35 volunteer groups in 2017 directly impacted 3,464 acres at 43 sites and represented $121,147 in value, according to the recently released State Natural Areas Volunteers 2017 Annual Report [PDF].
For the complete story from the WI DNR,
Team Ferradermis traveled to LaCrosse from Wednesday, April 4, through Saturday, April 7, to compete in the Seven Rivers Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. This was the team’s second scheduled regional of the year after winning the Wisconsin Regional in Milwaukee in late March. The LaCrosse competition featured 53 teams from 5 states (Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri). Competition was stiff and the team did not make the playoffs, but the team’s robot performed well and can now complete several tasks in the game that it could not successfully do in Milwaukee, including shooting a “power cube” onto the 7-foot-high scale in the center of the arcade and delivering a cube to the switch in autonomous mode. These new “skills” will serve the robot well in the next level of competition! Students were also involved in a variety of other tasks in LaCrosse. Bennett Miles and Zach Brantmeier participated in the Dean’s List interviews and Cassi Hoxie, Maribel Pena, and Mina Truesdale gave their Chairman’s Award presentation to a panel of judges, while Gwynne Sahyun served as Ambassador and gave tours to VIPs and Gabe Schemmel and Jakob Klawitter took turns in the mascot costume. The team demonstrated gracious professionalism at every possible opportunity after so many teams had helped us in Milwaukee, helping rookie teams with scouting data and sharing equipment, parts, knowledge, and skills with other teams at every opportunity.
The team is currently fundraising for its trip to Detroit for the FIRST Championships from April 24 through April 29. If you would like to help support the team financially, there are two options.
Don’t forget to follow the team on Facebook at facebook.com/Ferradermis. If you have electrical, mechanical, CAD, or programming experience and are interested in helping mentor the team next season, please contact Laura Masbruch at lmasbruch@wwusd.org.
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JEFFERSON HIGH 4, WHITEWATER HIGH 3
Singles
No. 1 — Tyler Seisser, JEFFERSON HIGH, def. Slate Spear, WHITEWATER HIGH, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 12-10; No. 2 — Cole Kinson, WHITEWATER HIGH, def. Mason Lindemoen, JEFFERSON HIGH, 6-4, 6-1; No. 3 — Austin Kaja, WHITEWATER HIGH, def. Blake Drays, JEFFERSON HIGH, 6-1, 7-5; No. 4 — Vinny Bonofiglo, JEFFERSON HIGH, def. Christian Knedler, WHITEWATER HIGH, 7-6 (2), 6-3;
Doubles
No. 1 — Matthew Thoma-Ben Hesse, JEFFERSON HIGH, def. Colin Chenoweth-Anthony Reed, WHITEWATER HIGH 6-2, 6-3; No. 2 — Sam Kolehouse-Matthew Thompson, JEFFERSON HIGH, def. Henry Bresser-Nicolas Kuzof, WHITEWATER HIGH 6-7, 6-4, 10-6; No. 3 — Broderick Frye-Weston Lema, WHITEWATER HIGH, def. Eric Bredlow-Brody Pogantsch, JEFFERSON HIGH 6-3, 2-6, 10-7;
Comments from Coach Dittmer:
“Austin Kaya and Cole Kinson both looked solid in their wins. Our #3 doubles also played well as they got a close win. Our team did a lot of good things, but there was also a lot of room for improvement. We will continue to work hard in practice to correct some of our mistakes and move forward. Overall, we played hard and lost some tough matches to a good school in close fashion.”
