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The League of Women Voters, Whitewater Area will hold the annual Holiday Dinner on Sunday, December 1, 2019. Please join us as we celebrate the honor bestowed on the winner of the 2019 Making Democracy Work award at the Holiday Dinner. This will be the 11^th year for the presentation of the award.

The winner of the award for Making Democracy Work is Kristine Zaballos, longtime Whitewater resident, who has been instrumental in making improvements in services provided for residents in need. In addition, Kristine is a founder of the City Market, a year-round effort to bring food and the community together!

The dinner will be held at 841 Brew House on Milwaukee Street. Cash Bar begins at 5:00 p.m. followed by dinner and entertainment; the presentation of the MDW award will be at 6:30 p.m. Reservations may be made using the registration form found in the November Newsletter of the League of Women Voters. Seating is limited so reserve early. Cost of the dinner is $20 per person. Access to the form can be found at the website of the local league: whitewaterlwv.org. Questions: please call 262-581-5411.

Come join us to celebrate the occasion with the 11^th award winning recipient of the Making Democracy Work award. The deadline for reservations is November 18, 2019. Mark your calendars for this upcoming event!

Congratulations Kacie Carollo, Catherine Skindingsrude, and Brianna Staebler for being selected by the Whitewater High School faculty to attend Badger Girls State (BGS) in 2020!!  BGS is a program coordinated by the American Legion Auxiliary to train outstanding junior girls in the science of government and to strengthen their leadership skills.  It will take place June 21 – 26, 2020 at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.  Thank you to the Whitewater American Legion, Rotary Club, & Breakfast Kiwanis Club for sponsoring three girls from Whitewater High School each year!!

Join the League of Women Voters-Whitewater Area on Thurs., November 21 at 6:30 pm at the Whitewater Municipal Building, 312 W. Whitewater Street, when we talk trash with representatives from the University, City of Whitewater, and John’s Disposal. Come ready to learn the 6 R’s of Sustainability: rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle and replace and how you can implement one or more of these practices to help the environment. Do you have a question about what is recyclable and what isn’t? Now’s your chance to ask it and have it answered by the experts.

The League has a long history with waste management. Policy work on solid waste began in 1971 when Leagues studied solid waste disposal and then turned their attention to national policy on reuse, reclamation and recycling.

Our program will be accompanied by an exhibit in the lobby of the Irvin L. Young Library during the month of November.

WE Energies has requested approval from the WI Public Service Commission to build liquefied natural gas peaking facilities near Whitewater and Ixonia. WE stated that it has not selected specific sites for the two plants, but said one would likely be in Bluff Creek, just southeast of Whitewater.

The plants would take delivery of natural gas by existing pipelines, cool it to -260 degrees F to liquefy it and then store it. The gas would then be heated to vaporize it and be used in the distribution system during high demand periods, often in winter. WE plans to begin construction in late 2020 and place the facilities into service in 2023 or 2024.

For the story in the BizTimes (Milwaukee), click here: https://biztimes.com/370-million-we-energies-project-would-build-natural-gas-facilities-near-ixonia-whitewater/

Saturday, 11/2

On a cold, snowy start to the event, Whitewater Whippet sophomore Gio Anello, competing at state for the first time, absolutely crushed his race. Gio was able to do what runners dream of: run their best race on the biggest stages. The Ridges Golf Course gets progressively harder as you go with the first mile relatively easy, the second mile has rolling hills and the third mile is tough. It has a way of eating runners up. Today it would not claim Gio as one of its victims. Gio survived the WIAA Sectional last Saturday as the last individual qualifier, today he thrived at State as he was the second-best runner from our sectional after finishing 10th one week earlier. Feeling strong from the start Gio positioned himself in 50th place at the mile mark. From this point on Gio was totally locked in and his grittiness showed its true colors. Throughout the next mile he passed 20 runners to close in on the top 30. In the final 1.1 miles, he slayed his way to an absolutely stellar 25th place finish in the Division 2 field with a new lifetime best of 17:00.8 in a Whippet uniform. Gio has a lot to celebrate after earning his first, 1^st team all RVC award a few weeks earlier and not only his first trip to state, but a great one at that. He finished as the second-best conference finisher in the field. A memorable day for sure!

D2 Results: https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Cross_Country/2019/d2bstateresults.pdf?ver=2019-11-02-143544-610

On Tuesday, Oct 29th, Alyssa Schumacher signed her National Letter of Intent to play softball at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.  Alyssa celebrated her signing surrounded by WHS teachers, family, coaches, and friends.

St. Ambrose University is a private, liberal arts university that is part of the National Association Intercollegiate Athletic (NAIA) Association.  St. Ambrose participates in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference.

Alyssa plans to pursue a degree in art with math and science working her way into the architecture field.

Additional information in the Daily Union article at https://www.dailyunion.com/sports/whitewater-softball-schumacher-signs-on-with-st-ambrose/article_9566d320-2528-52aa-af3a-9c798d790e93.html

Residents in the Palmyra-Eagle School District in southeastern Wisconsin voted Tuesday, 11/5 in support of dissolving their school district, according to preliminary results of an advisory referendum.  The vote was 1,218 in support of the district’s dissolution and 1,080 against. The vote was advisory and was placed on the ballot by citizens per a petition.

The school board voted in July to dissolve the 769-student district after an April referendum to increase the district’s operating revenue failed.

The School District Boundary Appeal Board (SDBAB) will make a final decision on whether to dissolve the district by January 15. The SDBAB’s first session will take place Thursday, Nov. 7. There is a meeting and orientation that day starting at 2 p.m. at Palmyra-Eagle High School and a public hearing in the gym from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. There will also be public hearings on Nov. 14 and 21.

Public school enrollment is declining in most Wisconsin districts, but in Palmyra-Eagle, it has declined more than 35 percent since 2007.

If the Palmyra-Eagle Area School District is dissolved, its students would be assigned to other area districts. Whitewater is among the possible districts, and the WUSD administration and school board have already begun discussions on that eventuality.