Eid Mubarak to those who are celebrating Eid al-Adha.
Eid al-Adha, Arabic for Festival of the Sacrifice, is the latter of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam. It honours the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God’s command. Before Ibrahim could sacrifice his son, however, God provided a lamb to sacrifice instead. (From Wikipedia)
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City of Whitewater Equal Opportunities Commission – Monday @ 5:00 p.m.
VIRTUAL MEETING AGENDA includes Police Accreditation Process,
Whitewater Police Department Use of Force Policies and Operations, and Current or Recent Legislation Pertaining to Police Use of Force
Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
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United States: 1 (872) 240‐3412
Access Code: 761‐211‐725
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Irvin L Young Memorial Library Board of Trustees – Monday @ 6:30 p.m.
Community Room and Virtual
431 W. Center Street
Agenda includes library building project
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 897 5258 2839
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Or dial 1 3126266799
Meeting ID: 897 5258 2839
Passcode: 76045674
City of Whitewater Common Council – Tuesday @ 6:30 p.m.
Agenda includes amendment to charter ordinance regarding Community Development Authority, renegotiated agreement between city and school district for Aquatic Center, and purchase of command vehicle for Fire Department.
This will be an IN PERSON MEETING as well as a VIRTUAL MEETING
Citizens are welcome (and encouraged) to join us in person, or via computer, smart phone,
or telephone. Citizen participation is welcome during topic discussion periods.
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Passcode: 790202
Or One tap mobile :
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Or Telephone:
Dial 1 929 205 6099 or 1 833 548 0282 (Toll Free)
Webinar ID: 878 9193 8515
Passcode: 790202
City of Whitewater Parks & Recreation Board – Wednesday @ 5:30 p.m.
Virtual Meeting
Agenda includes capital improvement projects plan discussion
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United States: 1 (571) 317-3112
Access Code: 923-055-077
City of Whitewater Community Development Authority Board of Directors – Thursday @ 5:30 p.m.
Agenda includes Deliberating sale of vacant land (Lot 1, Certified Survey Map No. 4442 located on
East main Court) and Deliberating sale of vacant land (Lots 2, 3 and 4, Certified Survey Map
No. 3236 located on Bluff Road)
Location: Municipal Building – 1st Floor – Community Room
312 W. Whitewater Street, Whitewater, WI 53190
This will be an IN‐PERSON MEETING as well as a VIRTUAL MEETING.
Citizens are welcome (and encouraged) to join us in person, or via computer, smart
phone, or telephone. Citizen participation is welcome during topic discussion
periods.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81456778842?pwd=bXBvdFExQzB4Z2NYVFJCVmc5cmVhQT09
Passcode: 897793
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Or Telephone:
Dial 1 312 626 6799 or 1 877 853 5257 (Toll Free)
Webinar ID: 814 5677 8842
Passcode: 897793
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post features a familiar location for summer fun!
Pictured here is the State Central Baseball League field, Starin Park’s first-class baseball facility of the early twentieth century. The Central State League, a local amateur league comprised of many area teams, including Fort Atkinson and Jefferson, was first organized in about 1915. Whitewater continued to field a team for only a few years after that; however, Whitewater’s baseball legacy continues on today with the park’s current first-class baseball facility, Treyton’s Field of Dreams.
Join us next week for more from the Whitewater Historical Society collection!
(5431PC, Whitewater Historical Society)
The Whitewater Historical Society collects, preserves, and interprets the history of Whitewater and the surrounding area. Be sure to join us next week for more from the Society’s collections. Please “like” us on Facebook, and check out our website at whitewaterhistoricalsociety.org!
UW-PLATTEVILLE Announces Chancellor’s List
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (July 15, 2021) – The University of Wisconsin-Platteville announced its Chancellor’s List, honoring those with perfect 4.0 grade-point averages for the spring 2021 semester. Students from this area who earned the 4.0 grade-point average include:
Whitewater, WI
Autumn Bultman, Elementary Education
Alison I Heckert, Health & Human Performance
UW-Platteville also announced its Dean’s List, honoring those full-time students who earned high honors in the spring 2021 semester. College of Business, Industry, Life Science and Agriculture and the College of Liberal Arts and Education require grade-point averages of 3.75 and above for Dean’s List honors, while the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science requires students to reach at least a 3.50.
Whitewater, WI
Autumn Bultman, Elementary Education
Allison Heckert, Health & Human Performance
Rachel Mason, Civil Engineering
VITERBO UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES SPRING SEMESTER DEAN’S LIST
LA CROSSE, Wis.— Seven hundred thirty five students have been named to the Viterbo University 2021 spring semester dean’s list.
Full-time students must complete a minimum of 12 semester hours of credit for letter grades and receive at least a 3.50 GPA with no incomplete grades to qualify for the dean’s list. Part-time students must have completed a total of 15 semester hours of credit for letter grades at Viterbo with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. Part-time students must also complete a minimum of six semester hours of credit for letter grades and achieve a semester GPA of 3.5 or above with no incompletes.
Whitewater
Jacob W. Lee
(Whitewater Unified School District submission) On Monday, May 10, the WUSD School Board approved the following future athletic facilities upgrades: Turf Stadium Field; Turf Varsity Baseball Field; Turf Varsity Softball Field; Tennis Court (Mill/Pulverize and Replace); Track Resurfacing; and Contribution for Future Turf Replacement.
The Whitewater Unified School District will break ground on the future turf facilities on Monday, July 26 at 5:00 p.m. on the Whitewater High School Softball Field. Members of the School Board, District Administration, Coaches, and the general contractor, Midwest Sport and Turf Systems will be present to celebrate this event. The public is invited to attend the event.
The project is scheduled to be completed in stages throughout the summer and early fall of 2021.
Superintendent, Dr. Caroline Pate-Hefty said, “Our future facilities will be used with pride by our students and our community. This project will benefit our community for years to come. Thank you for your advocacy and support for the Whitewater Unified School District.”
Advertisement: Please see below for the auctions on Sunday, July 18: Household items auction @ 10 a.m. and Real estate auction (ranch style home) at 2:00 p.m. For complete listings of the household auction click here. For a more complete description of the house click here.
Rummage sale
Saturday only 7/17 9-4
1236 Tower Hill Pass, Whitewater
Many items to include sunglasses (coach and Kate spade),
Purses( coach, grace adele), pampered chef, lia shopia, scentsy and lots more.
Walworth County Treasurer, Valerie Etzel, would like to remind all Walworth County property owners that the final installment of the 2020 real estate taxes is due to the Walworth County Treasurer by July 31, 2021. Include your payment stub(s) or indicate parcel number(s) that you are paying on your check or in a separate memo so we may apply your payment(s) correctly.
Please note: The building is open to the public but masks are required if not vaccinated. The following payment options are available to property owners:
It is important that property owners meet the July 31st deadline. If you miss the deadline, the balance on your account will be considered delinquent and subject to interest and penalty of 1.5% per month retroactive to February 1st (10.5 %).
Specific questions may be directed to the Walworth County Treasurer’s Office. (262)741-4251; email treasurer@co.walworth.wi.us
Jefferson County residents may apparently pay their property tax at this link. Those taxes are also due on July 31.
Tom Ganser shared this photo, which was taken at Cravath Lakefront Park on June 30 at a practice for 2021 Miss Whitewater participants. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen pink clouds like this,” Tom stated.
Our thanks to Tom Ganser for sharing another of his beautiful pictures.
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Curt Patrick, 37, of 225 S. Maple Lane in Whitewater was arrested on June 25 and has been charged with three counts of delivery of cocaine, possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Patrick’s name may be familiar to area residents. He has been employed as the manager of a popular downtown Whitewater tavern that will be facing a two-month suspension of its liquor license. The suspension is the result of a Whitewater Alcohol Licensing Review Committee’s recent hearing regarding what Whitewater (WW) Police Chief Aaron Raap described as a “pattern and practice” that generated an unusually high number of police involvements. One of those police contacts was a highly publicized reported physical assault of a female tavern employee by a student athlete who is no longer enrolled at the university.
The charges against Mr. Patrick were the result of a June 24 search warrant of his home by the Walworth County Sheriff’s Drug Unit. Mr. Patrick was under investigation after three alleged sales of cocaine to a Sheriff’s Drug Unit informant in May. The drug sales reportedly occurred at undisclosed locations in Whitewater. Mr. Patrick was released on a signature bond, with a preliminary hearing in his case set for August 2.
It is unclear if Mr. Patrick is still employed as the manager of the college-oriented establishment known as Pumpers & Mitchell’s. The ‘Banner’ contacted the establishment’s licensee, Gregory Condos, about Patrick’s employment status but he provided only a “No comment” response. Visits to Pumpers & Mitchell’s Facebook page on Tuesday produced a “No Longer Available” response.
In other WW Police related news Chief Raap reports a significant increase in police calls to the general area of the Super 8 Motel that has been honoring vouchers for homeless individuals in Rock and Walworth County.
“We are seeing a marked increase in police calls in the area,” said Raap. “They include panhandling, theft, attempted fraud, domestic abuse, drug overdose and Operating While Impaired (OWI) charges.”
WW Police reported a total of 48 incidents in the area of the motel between May 1 and July 11 this year. That compared with only one incident in the same time period last year and only one incident in the area the year before.
Raap stressed that the motel operator is doing nothing illegal by accepting publicly funded vouchers for housing homeless individuals. Motels can reportedly choose to honor vouchers and can limit the number of vouchers that they honor according to Raap. He says his department estimates an average of between 20 and 30 homeless rooms are purchased every day at the eastside motel under its arrangement with Community Action.
The ‘Banner’ reached out to City Manager Cameron Clapper for a comment regarding the concerns with this situation, to which he responded, “The City is very sympathetic to the needs of those participating in the voucher program. It can mean the difference between life and death for some participants. We don’t want to impede the potential good that can come from a program like this. However, the extent of placements in our community is putting stress on our resources.”
“In response to the increased calls for service and concerns voiced by neighboring businesses and residents, we reached out to Super 8. Representatives from Super 8 as well as Community Action were readily available to meet with city staff and discuss our concerns. We are hopeful that, as a result of our meeting, business practices will be put in place at Super 8 that will resolve our concerns. We will continue to closely track the demand on public safety services as well as concerns voiced by residents.”
“If newly discussed measures do not resolve the current drain on law enforcement resources and restore a sense of security for residents and businesses in the area, we may need to address these issues via municipal ordinance,” Clapper concluded.