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Plan and Architectural Review Commission – Monday, October 8, 2018, 6:30 pm, Whitewater Municipal Building.

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Public Works Committee – Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 6:00 pm, Whitewater Municipal Building.

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Finance Committee – Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 6:00 pm, Whitewater Municipal Building.

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Finance Committee – Thursday, October 11, 2018, 6:00 pm, Whitewater Municipal Building.

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The 2018 Diversity Forum will be held on October 7-9 at UW-Whitewater and will kick off with an awards reception on Sunday, October 7. Community members are invited to celebrate three pioneering Warhawks, Dr. Fannie Hicklin, Dr. Roger Pulliam, and Mr. John Truesdale, who have made significant strides for change during their tenure at UW-W.  The event will be held in the Hamilton Room in the University Center beginning at 4:00 pm on Sunday, October 7. Appetizers will be served.  Please join us!

More details on the events during the forum, including workshops on Monday and Tuesday, can be found at this link: https://announcements.uww.edu/Details/13649.

Nelson’s Bus Service, Inc. and the Whitewater FFA Chapter have teamed up for the 10th year to Stuff the Bus. The main objective of this annual food drive is to get the students of Whitewater Unified School District, local area businesses and the Whitewater community involved by donating food and monetary contributions to Stuff the Bus in an effort to fight hunger. The donations will be collected and totaled by the Whitewater Food Pantry. Together with your partnership, please help the Whitewater FFA Chapter and Nelson’s Bus Service, Inc. make Stuff the Bus more successful than ever.

Schedule of Events:

• Monday, October 1st through Friday, October 5th
  • WUSD Elementary & Middle School Food Drive – Bring Food Items to School
• Friday, October 5th & Saturday, October 6th
  • Stuff the Bus will be at the Whitewater Walmart
  • Friday – Noon until 6:00 PM
  • Saturday – 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM
  • Saturday Activities Include: Pumpkin Decorating, Petting Zoo, Meet the Mascots & Live Broadcasting with 104.5 WSLD

Walmart will be selling pre-bagged items beginning October 5th

• Pre-bagged items will be available for purchase for either $5 or $10.

Homecoming 2018 – Dance your way to the bus and stuff it!

Whitewater High School Student Council Food Drive – October 8th – October 11th

Come out and support the WHS home athletes the week of Homecoming.

Tuesday, October 9th

• 4:45 PM – Football JV
• 6:00 PM – Girls Varsity Swim Meet

** Bring one nonperishable food item per person and get free admission.

Thursday, October 11th – 3:30 PM – Co-Ed Cross Country – UW-Whitewater

** Bring one nonperishable food item per person

Friday, October 12th – 7:00 PM – Homecoming Football Game

**Bring one nonperishable food item per person & get into the football game for $1.

When: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2018

Where: Fairhaven Senior Services; 435 W. Starin Road

Check-In: 12:30 pm @ Fairhaven Senior Services

Walk starts at 1:00 pm

Routes: 1 mile or 3 miles

Destination: Whitewater Downtown Armory; 146 W. North Street

Celebrate with Refreshments!

Participation in the Whitewater’s 28th CROP Hunger Walk is a wonderful service project for students of all ages!

Register for the Walk, Donate Online, or learn more about CWS/CROP, visit the website:   www.CROPHungerWalk.org/whitewaterwi

Our goal is $5,000.

Questions:  Patty – 262-949-8116 or harmon000333@yahoo.com.

In 2017, the 79 “Whitewater CROP Hunger Walk” walkers raised $3,540 with 25% or $885 for our local community food pantry. As we approach the year 2020, Whitewater’s 30th anniversary of participation, our goal is to raise $5,000 each year through 2020. By reaching the annual goals, we will reach a collective total of over $200,000 raised since 1989.  The collective total to date is $186,243.94.

Whitewater Food Pantry benefits from all the money raised.  As of 2017, the local food pantry portion of the collective total is $36,616.  If the challenge is met, the collective total to our Whitewater food pantries will be $63,434!

OUR CHALLENGE:  If each Walker collects $10 each from 10 people…and 75 people commit to Walk (each year for the next 3 years)…the potential total is $22,500 bringing the lifetime collective total of $200,000 and then some!!!                                     

ARE YOU READY TO TAKE THE CHALLENGE???

UW-Whitewater head football coach Kevin Bullis and retired head coach Bob Berezowitz will join a post-game reception and fundraiser for local brain injury survivor Thomas Hapka after the Warhawk football game against Oshkosh on Saturday, October 6.

The event, organized by Life Beyond Brain Injury, will be held immediately after the Warhawk football game at the Willow Brook Golf Course (formerly Whitewater County Club) located at N9035 WI Highway 89 in Whitewater. Coaches Bullis and Berezowitz, as well as unspecified Warhawk players, will be on hand to meet fans.

There will be appetizers, a 50/50 cash raffle, and a silent auction of UW-Whitewater sports items, including a game-used helmet, two 2014 Championship commemorative footballs, team-signed footballs, and other Warhawk memorabilia. The event is open to the public and there is no admission fee, but donations are welcome and all proceeds from the event will go to Hapka’s medical fund.

Hapka, a UW-Whitewater graduate, was critically wounded when a chiropractor tore an artery in his neck and a nearby emergency room failed to diagnose his brain injury for almost three days. Hapka never received a legal settlement, and the ongoing complications from his brain injury have financially devastated Tom and his family.

Starr Lee, a founding member of Life Beyond Brain Injury and a journalism student at UW-Whitewater, said the group planned the post-game fundraiser as part of UW-Whitewater’s Family Day festivities.

“Family Day is all about UW-Whitewater families, and Tom’s family has a deep, longstanding connection to this university,” Lee said. “Tom’s dad, who died last year, worked at the campus for more than 37 years, and the Hapka family as a whole has provided more than 100 years of dedicated service to UW-Whitewater. Now the Hapka’s need their Warhawk family to rally around them, and that’s our call to action for this year’s Family Day.”

Those interested in learning more about the Life Beyond Brain Injury event at Willow Brook Golf Course (formerly Whitewater Country Club) are encouraged to email info@LifeBeyondBrainInjury.org or call 262.458.4090.

Do you have questions about the November referendum?

Please attend tonight’s Community Listening Session. The event starts at 7 p.m. in the Whitewater High School Auditorium.

The Whitewater Police Department is excited to participate in the 3rd Annual National Coffee with a Cop Day from 7 am to 10 am this Wednesday, October 3, 2018.

Coffee with a Cop Day is an opportunity many law enforcement agencies participate in to open up lines of communication and establish relationships within their communities. This community outreach program was created to allow citizens and officers to have conversations in a calm and comfortable setting to discuss anything from safety and concerns to sports and pets. The goal is good conversation and good company.

The Whitewater Police Department has partnered with two great local establishments, Jessica’s Family Restaurant and The Sweet Spot Café. An officer or two will be stationed at both locations and all citizens are welcome and encouraged to pull up chair, order some breakfast or coffee and enjoy some conversation.

“Whitewater is a small community where the police are not only here to serve and protect, but they are also neighbors and friends,” said PR & Communications Manager, Kristin Mickelson. “We feel it is important to recognize, at the end of the day, we are all people and many of us just trying to live a happy life and get home safe to our families. We hope this new initiative to connect with the community is a success.”

The Whitewater Police Department is looking forward to this new opportunity to build relationships with the community and citizens they serve.

Jessica’s Family Restaurant
140 W. Main Street

The Sweet Spot Café
226 W. Whitewater Street