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Bethel House
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The next Wright House Concert is on October 17 at 7pm. The Star Cat Lovers (Alerdale & Katy Daixon Wimer) are performing live!
A Story of a Shared Life
Through songs, poems, tunes, and anecdotes, this warm duo tells the story of their life together.
Alerdale Wimer is a musician and teacher. Katy Daixon Wimer is a poet and healing artist who sings. They’ve been secretly performing together for 22 years. Now they’re bearing their emotional insides to the world. Be prepared to swim the depths with them and allow disgustingly cute love to fill your heart holes.
Register on Eventbrite: https://starcatlovers.eventbrite.com
Edgerton Hospital’s Urgent Care in Whitewater officially opens on Monday, September 15th. The facility is ready to provide convenient, same-day care to meet Whitewater’s healthcare needs close to home. X-ray imaging services will be available starting November 1st.
The clinic is located at 757 E. Milwaukee Street, Suite C, 608-561-6740.
The Whitewater High School Robotics Team hosted 23 Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts from Jefferson, Fort Atkinson, and Cambridge at Whitewater High School on Saturday, September 13, helping the girls earn their Coding Basics and Programming Robots badges. The girls worked through a variety of activities in the morning and then spent the afternoon focused on using LEGO Spike Essentials kits to solve some of the missions from the last two FIRST LEGO League games. They ended the day with the opportunity to drive the Ferradermis robots before being awarded their badges and selecting door prizes for their troops.
Ferradermis members planning and assisting with the event included Sam Raupp, Erison Dreksler, Elora Wildermuth-Breitzman, Nina Heim, Rae Breisath, Emilie Bruns, Letty Trautman, Virginia Nelson, Ace Hudec, Cooper Housel, Preston Miller, Carson Miller, Mason Genung, and Vivian Harris.
Article and Photos Submitted by Laura Masbruch
Whitewater High School Robotics Advisor and Banner Volunteer
lmasbruch@wwusd.org
Please join the UW-Whitewater Women’s Basketball team for our 6th Annual Pig Roast Tailgate Fundraiser happening on October 25! Join us for a tailgate full of fun, friends, and family! There will be a silent auction and raffle full of great prizes! We are looking to raise money for team travel, meals, and freshening up on our gear and jerseys! We hope to see you there!
The Music Mosaics Concert Series kicks off at 3pm on Sunday, September 14, in Light Recital Hall!
Join the UW-Whitewater Piano Trio for an evening of inspiring and dynamic chamber music featuring works by Mozart and Ravel. The trio—comprising UW-W faculty members Leanne Kelso (violin), Benjamin Whitcomb (cello), and Diana Shapiro (piano)—brings deep interpretive insight and technical finesse to these piano trio gems.
Experience this intimate and powerful performance that highlights the deep emotional resonance and intricate interplay of violin, cello, and piano. Whether you’re a longtime chamber music lover or new to the genre, this concert promises a compelling musical journey. All proceeds benefit the Music Department’s Scholarship Fund—helping our amazing music students reach their full potential.
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the League of Women Voters Whitewater Area will hold the first of three Book Club discussions on our fall book selection, American Madness: Fighting for Patients in a Broken Mental Health System
by Alice Feller, M.D., on Thursday evening, September 18, 6:15PM-7:45 PM, at The Book Teller, 171 W Main Street, in Whitewater.
The book explores the complex realities of mental health care in the United States. Our discussion on September 18th will cover the introduction through Chapter 4. SAVE THE DATES – additional discussions will be held on October 9 (Chapters 5 – 9) and
November 13 (Chapters 10 – Epilogue) at the same time and location.
ACQUIRE THE BOOK TODAY! A limited supply of books are available at The Book Teller (call 262-269-9109 to hold a copy to purchase) and local libraries. You can also order the book from Amazon.
The LWV Book Club was formed to help our members and friends engage in meaningful discussions of current notable books dealing with public policy issues of interest to the League. You do not need to be a member of the League to participate
and refreshments will be served. For questions or further information please contact Dwight C. Watson, dwight.watsondcw@gmail.com, or Deb Gamble, shebagam@gmail.com
The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues and influences public policy through education and advocacy. Visit our website at https://my.lwv.org/wisconsin/whitewater-area and like us on Facebook!
“Beat the Devil”
Wednesday, September 17, 1 pm
(Action/Adventure/Comedy)
Rated PG; 1 hour, 29 minutes (1953).
Our final Wednesday art/foreign film of the season.
Written by Truman Capote, directed by John Huston, and bankrolled by Humphrey Bogart’s Santana Productions company, this is a droll satire of the Maltese Falcon, and was Huston’s and Bogart’s sixth and last collaboration. On their way to Africa, a group of rogues and swindlers hope to get rich by outsmarting each other in their chase for uranium. Filmed on location in Italy, this film has become a Bogart cult classic. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre and Robert Morley.
Seniors in the Park is located in Starin Park, 504 W. Starin Road. Although there is no charge to attend, regular participants are encouraged to join Seniors in the Park. The annual fee for residents of the Whitewater Unified School District is $10 and non-residents is $15. The funds support about half of the cost of our front desk staff person for 15 hours per week. The rest comes out of our fundraising monies. If you cannot afford the fee, we have a fund that will cover it for you. Fees are accepted at the Starin Park Community Building or online at https://schedulesplus.com/wwtr/kiosk/
On Saturday, September 20th from 8 am to 10 am, the City of Whitewater, Rock River Stormwater Group, Protect Wisconsin Waterways, and University of Wisconsin Whitewater students will host a river clean-up event in conjunction with waterway clean-up efforts across the Rock River watershed. The local waterway clean-up event also coincides with the start of the second annual statewide Wisconsin Stormwater Week and National Clean Up Day. The City of Whitewater clean-up will start at Cravath Lakefront Park. Volunteers are encouraged to sign up online and meet at this location at 8 am on Saturday, September 20th.
Community members are invited to join the clean-up efforts to pick up trash and help revitalize Cravath Lake, Trippe Lake, and Whitewater Creek in Whitewater, which feed into the Rock River. Community members or groups interested in volunteering for the clean-up event can learn more details and register online at Protect Wisconsin Waterways Clean Up.
The September 20th event will be the seventh annual clean-up organized by the Rock River Stormwater Group and marketing students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater as part of its Protect Wisconsin Waterways campaign. Last year’s clean-up events included over 290 volunteers across multiple communities within the Rock River watershed. This year’s clean-up events will take place in similar locations spanning from Beloit to Monroe, including Beloit (two locations), Janesville, Milton, Fort Atkinson, Whitewater, Beaver Dam, Waupun, and Monroe. In the past, volunteers have removed basic trash like plastic bottles to the more exotic – rubber tires, a boot, TV, and a parks and recreation barrier from area waterways. The September 20th clean-up events will serve as a local kickoff to Wisconsin Stormwater Week, a statewide initiative focused on raising awareness about stormwater runoff and how Wisconsin residents can make a difference to reduce the environmental toll of stormwater runoff pollution.
About The Rock River Stormwater Group: The Rock River Stormwater Group includes fifteen municipalities within the Rock River Basin stretching from Waupun, WI to Beloit, WI along with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the City of Monroe. The group launched the Protect Wisconsin Waterways campaign in January 2017 with help from Creative Marketing Unlimited, a student-run marketing consulting group affiliated with the UW-Whitewater American Marketing Association chapter. The Protect Wisconsin Waterways campaign is part of the Rock River Stormwater Group’s public outreach efforts to educate the public and improve stormwater practices in the Rock River watershed. Wisconsin’s communities are interconnected through the waterways, so what happens in Waupun on the Rock River ends up affecting each municipality down the river. Recognizing this, the Rock River Stormwater Group advocated that community members pay attention to how their day-to-day activities such as cleaning up pet waste, keeping grass clippings out of the street, and minimizing fertilizers and salt use can make a difference in our area waterways. UW-Whitewater students representing Protect Wisconsin Waterways have attended community events to raise awareness and will use the clean-up events on September 20th to kick off the school year and Wisconsin Stormwater Week while making a difference.
The Rock River is a 284-mile river that encompasses many communities and has become a staple of Wisconsin’s waterway system. The September 20th event is an important group effort to revitalize the Rock River and will help leave a positive footprint on our environment. Protect Wisconsin Waterways will be partnering with the Wisconsin Stormwater Collaborative, a group of 200+ stormwater collaboratives, municipalities, and nonprofits from across the state, to promote the second annual Wisconsin Stormwater Week. The City of Whitewater as part of its involvement in the Rock River Stormwater Group identified the clean-up event as the perfect way to combine common interests in protecting Wisconsin’s natural resources that we value so much.
For more information on the event, visit https://protectwiwaterways.org/
About Stormwater Runoff Pollution: Stormwater runoff impacts our rivers, lakes, and drinking water. With every rain event, pollutants like fertilizers, soil, pet waste, oil, leaves, and other organic material get washed into our surface waters. These pollutants cause excessive weed and algae growth in our waters, harmful algae blooms, sedimentation, and many other problems.
For Additional Information Contact:
Brad Marquardt
Director of Public Works
(262) 473-0139
Bmarquardt@whitewater-wi.gov
Olivia Nanni
Protect Wisconsin Waterways Account Executive Creative Marketing Unlimited UW-Whitewater Student
815-543-6062
NanniOB02@uww.edu
Dr. Andy Dahl
Chair of Marketing Department
Faculty Advisor, Creative Marketing Unlimited UW-Whitewater
262-472-6950
Dahlaj18@uww.edu
