Kian Sonn works at the Whitewater Food Pantry and makes a yearly donation. This year he wanted to buy local and bought from a local Farmer.
On Thursday morning, August 29, Kian got a ride to work from John and Ethan Hookstead and delivered 67 lbs of one-pound packages of chopped beef direct from the John, Kelly, and Ethan Hookstead Farm in Lima Center.
Pictured left to right are Ethan Hookstead, Nam Vo, John Hookstead, Kian Sonn, Mike Krebs, Pat Chaput, Barbara Quast, and Darlene Wood.
Two coolers filled with 67 one-pound packages of delicious ground beef
The Hookstead Farm sells fresh, locally grown, nicely marbled Black Angus Beef raised in a non-confined environment on Momma’s milk, grass, hay, and corn. There are no hormones; the beef is antibiotic free, and is fresh and full of flavor.
The Ice Age Trail Alliance is sponsoring a free Fall Wildflower Hike on Saturday, September 7, at 9:00 a.m. This is really is not a hike for exercise, but one meant for those with wildflower ID books and cameras.
Lady’s tresses orchids grow in damp shady places with acidic soil.
Meet
at the Hwy. 12 Ice Age Trail parking lot (just east of Sweno Road), and then
carpool to the trail with the most wildflowers.
Bring
your field guide books, cameras, hats, water, and a snack. The hike could be as
long as 3 1/2 miles — muddy trails possible!
We
hope to see both blue and cream gentians, a great variety of asters,
goldenrods, and sunflowers — plus coneflowers, lobelia, ladies’ tresses
orchids, grass of Parnassus, rattlesnake master, and more.
This
event is sponsored by the Ice Age Trail Alliance, Walworth/Jefferson County
Chapter. Contact: Ellen Davis at
262-740-1113.
Winner of the AARP Movies for Grownups Best Foreign Film Award. A taut, twisty Danish detective story: a dial 911 police dispatcher answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman…and is suddenly disconnected. With a phone as his only tool, it’s a race against time to search for and save the endangered woman. A riveting, harrowing, and haunting film shown in Danish, with English subtitles.
When: Wednesday, September 4, 12:30 p.m.
Where: Seniors
in the Park
Movie Information: Rated R (Language); Crime/Drama/Thriller ; 1 hour, 25 minutes (2018)
The September exhibition, “Meet the Board,” will be an executive board member and gallery manager highlight show with artists and displays of dedicated art-enthusiast board members from the Whitewater Arts Alliance. This exhibition replaces “The Road Less Traveled” show, and will have 10 participants including: Sylvia Linton, Taylor McDarison, Megan Matthews, Jeff McDonald, Robert Mertens, Christine Hayes, Daniela Porras, Michael Dugan, Jason Miklik, Marilyn Fuerstenberg, and Mary Nevicosi.
The Cultural Arts Center will be
closed August 29 to September 1 in preparation for this show, which will run September 5
to September 29. There will be a
reception to meet the Whitewater Arts Alliance Board of Directors on Sunday September
15 from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Whitewater Arts Alliance Board
Member Megan Matthews said, “This is a wonderful opportunity to give people an
insight into our Board members, and the different perspectives and skills they
bring to the organization. I hope people will be able to stop by and get
to know us better!”
The
mission of the Whitewater Arts Alliance is to promote the visual and performing
arts through an alliance of artists, individuals, educational resources, and
organizations to promote creativity and diversity that will serve to educate
and enrich the lives of the residents of the Whitewater community and surrounding
areas.
The City of Whitewater Office of Emergency Management is adding three new outdoor warning sirens during the week this week. The city’s provider, Emergency Communication Services, will be installing the new sirens. One siren will be located on Coburn Hill, the second will be located near the corner of Florence Street and Tratt Street and the third is scheduled to be installed on Burr Oak Trail near Fremont Road. During the installation process, each of the sirens will be tested with about a 10-15 second sounding of the siren. The sirens are designed to provide overlap coverage to the city’s existing, aging siren system. The goal is to replace the existing system with the newer system without losing coverage. The new sirens will have battery back-up for times when and if the city loses power. The current sirens will remain in place and functional until they are no longer economical to maintain.
“Outdoor warning systems such as these sirens are designed only to alert those who are outside that something dangerous is approaching; they are not intended to provide coverage inside buildings,” says Todd Lindert, Whitewater Emergency Management Coordinator. “When a siren is sounded it means that something lifethreatening is happening and you should go indoors and get more information.” Whitewater’s Office of Emergency Management and the National Weather Service recommends a National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Emergency Weather Alert Radio for use indoors. A NOAA Weather Radio is like a smoke detector for severe weather; it will wake a person up when a warning is issued for their area to take appropriate action. Contact Todd Lindert at 262-473-0570 or TLindert@whitewater-wi.gov for questions.
The City of Whitewater would like to share the Diggers Hotline information with you in order to properly locate underground lines prior to work on your land. This is crucial to protecting the safety of family, neighbors and the general public. Skipping this step is dangerous and costly. The Diggers Hotline service is Wisconsin’s statewide one-call notification system that was developed in order to provide excavators and the general public the ability to inform multiple owners of underground facilities of excavation with a single call. Wisconsin Statute 182.0175 requires residents to notify Diggers Hotline before beginning excavation, grading, trenching, digging, drilling, use of an augur, tunneling, scraping, plowing cable or piping on your land. Excavation, according to law, classifies anything that moves, removes or displaces earth, rock, or other material in or on the ground. To contact Diggers Hotline dial 811 or 1-800-242-8511, or visit their website at http://diggershotline.com/.
The Department of Theatre/Dance at UW-Whitewater is excited to host the Br!NK New Play Festival reading of Wisconsin female playwright Karen Saari’s ‘RAIN ON FIRE, 2019’. The performance is a staged reading on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. on The Barnett Theatre Stage in the Greenhill Center of the Arts, 950 West Main Street, Whitewater, WI 53190. No tickets are necessary but donations will be accepted at the door. Following the staged reading there will be a question and answer session and an opportunity to talk with the playwright, dramaturge, director, artistic director and helpers. A moderator will accept questions and critique about the performance; this is one of the most important aspects of the event.
Playwright Bio:
Karen Saari’s IN A CLEARING premiered at Magnetic Theatre
Company (Asheville, NC) in 2018 following development via Last Frontier Theatre
Conference and Wisconsin Wrights New Play Festival and was an O’Neill
Conference semi-finalist. Her one-acts have been performed across the country.
Her comedy, BAD IN BED (A Fairy Tale), premiered with Acadiana
Rep (Lafayette, LA) in 2018. She is a member of Dramatists Guild and
Playwrights Center.
‘RAIN ON FIRE Synopsis: Marie, a failed musician, returns home to plan
her pill addict mother Lorraine’s funeral. She discovers “Rain,” a
closet poet, left a surprising final request for Marie to carry out with her
cousin Caleb. Caleb is a meth user that cared for ‘Rain in her final months.
They must compose a song out of one of Lorraine’s poems to perform at her
funeral in this sometimes funny, sometimes painful look at the opiate crisis in
Michigan’s north woods.
Directed by: Libby
Amato
Cast: Maddie
Wakely, Carrie Hitchcock, Shayne Steliga, Jim Gallagher, among others TBA
The Br!NK New Play
Festival is an engaging theater-going experience suitable for anyone who loves
live theater, supports women, and is interested in new works. Audiences are
encouraged to give feedback and mix and mingle with the cast and playwright
following the reading. These are new plays in various stages of development
presented as staged readings. This is to allow the play to stand on its own
without the added production elements of a set, costumes, lights, etc.
Now in its sixth
season, Br!NK is Renaissance Theaterworks New Play Development Series designed
to advance the works of Midwestern women playwrights.
Each year,
Renaissance Theaterworks puts a call out for Midwestern women playwrights to
submit their work. Two playwrights are selected to receive the Br!NK Residency
Award to develop and advance their scripts. The Br!NK Resident Playwrights
spend a week with a professional director, cast, and dramaturg workshopping
their play. Following the workshop week, the plays are presented as
staged-readings for the public at the week-long Br!NK New Play Festival
(Touring September 3-6 and at NŌ Studios September 7-8, 2019).
The Whitewater Dementia Friendly Community Initiative (WDFCI) is excited to announce the awarding of the Purple Angel recognition to Studio 84 and Seniors in the Park.
Studio 84 is a nonprofit art studio that supports the creative development of people with disabilities. Some students come for the day programing and others come to create a business selling their art. Artistic mentors assist them with it all and look at their abilities to help them be successful with their art. They opened doors in July of 2009.
The Seniors in the Park program has been in
existence for 38 years. Its mission is to promote and enhance a vital aging
community by providing programming and services that enrich the lives of older
adults.
Studio 84
Seniors in the Park
The Purple Angel is an international symbol
recognized around the world, which says employees have received dementia
awareness training and are sensitive to customers and care partners who are
affected by dementia or Alzheimer’s. An engaged community seeks to honor, value
and include all of its members. Look for the Purple Angel award wherever you
go. If you don’t see it, ask “Why
not?”
A Dementia Friendly Community is one that engages people with dementia, making them feel welcome, respected and improving their quality of life, while also supporting their unique interests and those of care partners and family members. This enables those with dementia to safely find their way around town, access local facilities, and maintain their social connections. This sense of belonging eases the fear and isolation associated with dementia and increases access to the resources people need to live well with dementia. By helping everyone in a community understand what dementia is and how it affects families, each of us can make a difference for the people touched by dementia.
The number of businesses taking the steps necessary to be designated as dementia friendly is continuing to grow. One of the principal purposes for the WDFCI is providing free training programs to those who live and work in Whitewater, as well as businesses, faith communities and organizations serving area residents.
The WDFCI mission is to create a Dementia Friendly Community that features effective, ongoing programs to include and support individuals with dementia and their care partners. To-date the WDFCI has offered memory screens; published an informational brochure; started a memory café, a twice monthly respite site; has provided, in partnership with Mulberry Glen, Dementia Live, a virtual dementia experience; and is working with the Irvin L. Young Memorial Library to provide distraction boxes for checkout. The Whitewater Community Foundation has given the group two grants to assist with startup costs.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, the
estimated number of people in Walworth County with Alzheimer’s/dementia in 2020
is 2,132 of which approximately 200 live in Whitewater. By 2040, the county
estimate will have grown to 4,432. It is important to know that Alzheimer’s is
not a normal part of aging, however aging is a risk factor
For more information, to become Purple Angel recognized or to join the WDFCI, please contact Deb Weberpal at 262-473-0535 or email dweberpal@whitewater-wi.gov or check out our Facebook page Whitewater Dementia Friendly Community Initiative. The WDFCI is assisted and supported by the Alzheimer’s Association of Southeast Wisconsin and the Dementia Friendly Community Initiative, Inc – Walworth County.
The City of Whitewater provides efficient and high quality services which support living, learning, playing and working in an exceptional community. Visit www.whitewater-wi.gov for community information and updates.
