The Mukwonago Area Community Choir will be performing at Fairhaven on Saturday, May 11 at 6 p.m. The theme is “Songs of Americana” and we are celebrating the folk and less formal music from America’s past. Our selections will include: God Bless America, He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, Erie Canal, America the Beautiful, Cindy, I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Streets of Laredo, and many more. Our hope is to show how we can unify our people through song no matter their political ideology, socioeconomic status, race, gender, religion, etc. We are a nation of one people, “E pluribus unum,” and together we are stronger than we are as individuals. Music has the power to bring us together for the greater good of our nation and these songs are our heritage and strength. A free-will offering will be taken to support the UW-W InterVarsity Christian Ministries.
The City of Whitewater celebrated 25 years as a member of Tree City USA on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
City Manager Cameron Clapper read a proclamation of the Arbor Day Celebration to commemorate the planting of a new Red Oak. City streets staff planted the tree near the playground and Senior Center building at Starin Park.
Olivia Witthun, Urban Forestry Coordinator for the Department of Natural Resources, was in attendance to present the 25th Tree City Award to city staff. She discussed the positive environmental, economic and social benefits trees in the urban forest have for communities. The Red Oak tree planted will provide many years of these benefits to Starin Park and the community.
Citizens can view the video of the proclamation on the city’s Facebook page.
City staff encourages citizens to reach out to the Department of Public Works for questions relating to terraces, parks or private trees in the City.
Art by students from ages 4 to 18 was featured in the April exhibit at the Whitewater Arts Alliance’s Cultural Arts Center.
The exhibit included a variety of two and three dimensional artwork by students from area schools. The art teachers displaying their students’ art were: Mareta Hale (Washington), Sara Sixel (Lincoln), Sara Brautigam (Lakeview), Sarah Heyer (Middle School), and Crystal Gill (High School).
Also featured were the Lincoln Elementary School’s World Drumming Ensemble, the Washington Elementary School’s K/1 singers, and the Washington 2/3 singers.
L-R Front – Jazmin Cederberg, Emma Clarksen, Cole Schlicher, Jared Apgar
Back – Emilia Houwers, Afton Clapper, Silas Baker, Emerson Ellenwood
Congratulations! Whitewater Middle School’s 7-8 Math Team won 1st place in Class B for the State Math Meet sponsored by the Wisconsin Mathematics Council. Several individual team members were recognized for how many points they scored and have received ribbons. Earning Class B First Team All-State status was 7th grader Jared Apgar. Earning Class B Second Team Status were 8th graders: Emma Clarksen, Cole Schlicher, and Jazmin Cederberg. Other team members contributing to this success were: Silas Baker, Emerson Ellenwood, Emilia Houwers, and Afton Clapper. Great job Whippets! You make us proud!
The Annual Meeting of the League of Women Voters, Whitewater Area will be held on Saturday, May 11 from 9-noon at Fairhaven Fellowship Hall. Featured this year will be a viewing and discussion of the documentary entitled “Race – the Power of an Illusion.”
A short business meeting which includes a summary of the year’s events and the election of a new slate of officers will be held as well. A brunch will be served. The meeting is open to anyone who would like to learn more about the League.
A little snow couldn’t stop the fun Saturday, April 27, as members of WCFP, a nonprofit K9, community fundraising group joined forces with staff at Premier Bank, Whitewater for “Brats at the Bank for K9 Tilla.” Bank staff and the fundraising group raised nearly $1000 to help the Whitewater Police K9 Unit with training needs which include Bite Suit, Bite Sleeve and Decoys. Handler Justin Stuppy and K9 Tilla were on hand for kid’s games, face painting, food and fun.
Police K9 Fest will be held at Spring Creek Golf Center Saturday, July 20th.
An 11-member search and screen committee, led by Regent Tracey Klein and UW-Whitewater Associate Professor Eric Compas, recommended a list of finalists. The Special Regent Committee determined that the finalists shown below will continue in the selection process.
The four candidates will participate in separate public forums, from May 2-10, offering opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and community members to interact directly with them. There will also be opportunities to provide feedback on the candidates to the search committee.
The Whitewater open forums will be live streamed. Faculty, staff and students who are unable to attend in person will be able to access the livestreams using their NetID and password. Community members can request livestream access here >>
FINALISTS (Listed in the order they will visit campus) All community receptions will be held from 6:00-6:45 p.m. at the Innovation Center at Whitewater University Technology Park.
Dwight C. Watson – Provost & Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs, Southwest Minnesota State University – Community Reception, Thursday, May 2
Philip K. Way – Provost & Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs, Slippery Rock University – Community Reception, Monday, May 6
Guiyou Huang – Chancellor, Louisiana State University of Alexandria – Community Reception, Tuesday, May 7
Cheryl F. Green- Interim Chancellor, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater – Community Reception, Thursday, May 9
For further information on the candidates and a schedule of the public forums, please click here.
The Easter bunny models with two siblings after the hunt.
As soon as the hunt began, children ran to find as many eggs as they could before claiming their prize.
Parents helping their children get goodie bags after the hunt.
The Easter bunny and McGruff the Crime Dog waving to children just prior to the hunt.
Despite Wisconsin’s cold and windy weather, on April 13 from 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m., approximately 150 individuals attended the UW-Whitewater/Community Optimist Club’s Easter Egg Hunt located at Whitewater Middle School. UW-Whitewater Student Optimists and service-learning students also helped facilitate the event.
As the event began, the Easter Bunny and McGruff the Crime Dog were ushered in on a Whitewater fire truck and stayed to have fun and take photographs with the children. As soon as the hunt began, the children sprinted to the Easter eggs as fast as they could. This event was aimed towards 5th graders and under, and all the children in attendance were given a goodie bag once they turned in their Easter eggs. Hidden within the goodie bags were a few golden eggs for each age group. If a child found the golden egg, they were given an Easter Basket.
Lakeview’s fifth graders had a wonderful first-ever camp out at Timber-lee! We would like to say thank you to the entire community for your support during our fundraisers and for all the help you gave in enabling us go on this fun, memorable trip!
Karolyn
Alexander’s solo show of more than 100 acrylic abstracts and collage and
watercolor paintings, “Art From My Heart,” will be exhibited at the
Whitewater Arts Alliance’s (WAA) Cultural Arts Center (CAC), 402 West Main
Street from May 2-26, Thursdays
through Sundays from noon until 5 p.m.
Karolyn will host an Artist’s Reception on
Sunday May 5 from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. at the CAC. The reception is free and open to the public.
Karolyn is a lifelong Whitewater resident and with the encouragement of her father, the late Richard Kettwig, has had a passion for art starting in childhood. She has enjoyed mixing colors and making plain surfaces more colorful since her first box of Crayola crayons. As a youngster she experimented with creating new colors by layering one crayon color over another. The passion for color and color mixing remains today as she uses watercolor, acrylic and collage to make watercolor paper and canvas surfaces more colorful.
Cherry Blossoms by Karolyn Alexander
An
early retirement from UW-Whitewater as an IT training coordinator permitted her
to focus on art. In April of 2003 she began taking watercolor classes from the
late Marilyn Keating at L’Atelier Art Studio in Janesville. Since then she has
taken workshops with Kari Anderson, Shelby Keefe, Ratindra Das, Karen Ragus and
Laura Lein-Svencner among others. In addition to watercolor, she enjoys doing
collage and most recently creating acrylic abstracts. Regardless of the medium
she finds delight in experimenting with and using color.
Karolyn
said, “I have written a book titled ‘Watercolor Cookbook-Recipes for Mixing
Delicious Color’ which includes tips on mixing watercolor paints plus over 60
full color photographs of my watercolor paintings. Many of my paintings can be
viewed on my web site www.karolyn.biz. I teach adult
watercolor and collage classes in Whitewater and Janesville and on occasion in
other locations such as Milwaukee and Jefferson. Color is everything!”
This exhibit of her work at the
Whitewater Cultural Arts Center includes watercolor, collage and acrylic
paintings, with varied subject matter from representational to abstract. The
abstracts are from some of the series on which she has been working. The series
represented in this exhibit include Rhythm, Mark Making and Texture.
WAA President Megan Matthews said,
“Karolyn’s artwork is a wonderful, colorful mix of ideas and concepts that
invite us to see the world in a new way. I encourage everyone to stop by
during the show, to see the incredible talent of one of our local artists.”
Photo of Karolyn Alexander taken by Hogan Alexander
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.
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.
