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Donating to the Little Free Pantry is an opportunity to help build a sense of community while providing for your neighbors in need.

The Library Little Free Pantry, located in the lobby of the Whitewater Public Library at 431 W. Center Street, is often stocked with nonperishable food items, hygiene products, and household items for neighbors who need them. Right now, supplies are very low.

If you are able to help refill our pantry, donations can be brought to the library and left in the box across from the returns desk. Items especially popular include: Peanut butter

• Canned tuna and chicken
• Canned vegetables
• Boxed pasta and jarred sauce
• Bags of rice, lentils, and beans
• Soup packets
• One box complete meal kits
• Toothbrushes
• Toothpaste
• Feminine hygiene supplies
• Bars of soap
• Dish soap
• Laundry detergent

Urban Forestry Commission  – Monday, July 17, 2018, 4:30 pm, City of Whitewater Municipal Building – Cravath Lakefront Room. For agenda, 

WUSD School Board – Monday, July 23, 2018, 7:00 pm, Whitewater Unified School District Central Office. For agenda, 

CDA Board of Directors – Thursday, July 26, 2018, 5:30 pm, Innovation Center, Room 105. For agenda, 

Wisconsin Makers, 200 E. Clay Street, is having a mini workshop on July 25, from Noon to 2 pm and again from 3 pm to 5 pm.  We will build a Zombie Apocalypse Tool like the one shown in the photo. It will be custom fit to your hand using power tools.   No experience necessary.   Stop in and make this tool so that you are prepared for the next Zombie Apocalypse. There will be a Zombie Tool maker on hand to instruct you. Like us on https://www.facebook.com/wisconsinmakers/ and join our Meetup https://www.meetup.com/WisconsinMakers/.

Join UW-Whitewater today, Friday, July 20, from 4:30 – 6:30 pm, as we celebrate 150 years in the community with our next free concert — the acoustic country-folk trio the WhiskeyBelles. Also featured:

• Catering by the SweetSpot, including wraps, grain bowls, desserts, and wrap pinwheels for the kids
• Beverage tent with soda, water, lemonade, beer, wine, Wisconsin Old Fashioned
• Free balloon artist and Warhawk Alley will be open with free bowling, billiards, and ping pong!
• Free 30-minute campus history walking tours starting at 5 and 6 p.m.
• Tabling includes the University Bookstore, the Ice Age Trail, Roberta’s Art Gallery, and UW-Whitewater’s Summeround theatre season

Bring your own picnic or purchase a meal from our vendors — just no carry-ins of alcohol, please. Because rain is expected, all events will take place in the University Center. Free parking is available nearby in lots 1 and 12, and drop off is available at the center.

The Summer Concert Series is one of many ways UW-Whitewater is marking its Sesquicentennial. For details on other upcoming events, visit uww.edu/150.

An outdoor nature exploration event for children will take place at 2 PM on Sunday, July 22, in the picnic shelter at Natureland County Park, W8338 Territorial Road (at the southwest end of Whitewater Lake).  The telling of Eric Carle’s popular audience-participation story “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and Lois Ehlert’s “Waiting for Wings” will be followed by hands-on craft activities.  Finally, we will explore the park to discover and examine butterflies, caterpillars, and other insects — and observe what they are doing.  Bug boxes, magnifying glasses, and butterfly nets welcome!

Children should be prepared to walk in wooded and open prairie areas.  Water bottles, protective shoes, long pants, sunscreen, and insect repellant are recommended.  Parking, a water pump, and restrooms are on site, with an overflow parking area just up the hill.  This family-friendly event is presented by the Walworth/Jefferson County Chapter of the Ice Age Trail Alliance.

For additional information, contact Barb Converse at 262-473-7304.

A young boy proudly holds two insects:  a Japanese beetle and a mystery bug.

Results of the Fran Achen Photo Competition are as follows:

Best of Show: Jeff McDonald, “Sturgeon Bay Light”

Accomplished – 1st Place: William Eklund, “Test 4 Echo”
Accomplished – 2nd Place: Mary Ellsworth, “Hen and Chicks”
Accomplished – 3rd Place: Karl Mohr, “American Homestead”
Accomplished – Honorable Mention: Everett Long, “Snowy Egret in Breeding Plumage”
Accomplished – Honorable Mention: James J Marsala, “Wheels of Change”
Accomplished – Honorable Mention: David Throgmartin, “Great Horned Owl”

Amateur – 1st Place: Joseph Suchy, “Fire and Ice”
Amateur – 2nd Place: Sandy Ott, “Barn Ghost”
Amateur – 3rd Place: Robert Buell, “Winter Scene – Bark River”
Amateur – Honorable Mention: Robert Buell, “The Forest Floor”
Amateur – Honorable Mention: Signe Trewyn, “Morning’s Work”

Youth/Teen – 1st Place: Cambell Alexander, “Resting Butterfly”
Youth/Teen – 2nd Place: Morgan Janovec, “Scintillam”
Youth/Teen – 3rd Place: Linnea Tabaka, “On the Web”

Click on the graphic to go to the Market’s Facebook page for more details on today’s market.

Brass Knuckles

July 19 at 11:30 am

 Birge Fountain in front of the Cultural Arts Center, 402 W. Main St.

Brass Knuckles Brass Quintet with Percussion is comprised of professional musicians who are also educators and have taught in public schools, universities, and colleges, as well as teaching in a private lesson studio. The musicians’ variety in performance background venues lends to a wide variety of styles in their repertoire. Their experiences include other brass ensembles, concert bands, touring bands, jazz ensembles, drum and bugle corps, percussion ensembles, and orchestras. All have been on numerous recordings with a variety of ensembles and will be recording their first Knuckles CD in 2019. They currently are available for concerts, weddings, wedding receptions, parties, memorials, special events, school events, and anything else you can imagine and Savory Sounds is excited to have them perform on the series.

The WAA is grateful to our partners-Fairhaven Senior Services, First Citizens State Bank, Fort Community Credit Union, Olm and Associates, and PremierBank–for helping to make these events possible.