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PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (July 18, 2022) -The University of Wisconsin-Platteville awarded diplomas to more than 800 students from its three campuses for the spring of 2022.  Founded in 1866, UW-Platteville is located in Southwest Wisconsin and has branch campuses in Richland Center and Baraboo. UW-Platteville is ranked the best public institution in Wisconsin for value by Payscale. For more information on the university, visit www.uwplatt.edu. Students from this area who graduated include: 

Whitewater, WI

 Joseph Creanza, Soil & Crop Science, UW-Platteville
 Alexa DuClos, Forensic Investigation and Chemistry, UW-Platteville

“Death on the Nile”
Tuesday, July 12, 1 p.m.
(Crime/Drama/Mystery) Rated PG-13; 2 hours, 7 minutes (2022)
Based upon the novel by Agatha  Christie.1937: while on vacation on a cruise on the Nile, Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) investigates the murder the murder of a young heiress. Among the suspects: Annette Benning, Gal Gadot, and Armie Hammer.

It’s time once again for #FlashbackFriday with the Whitewater Historical Society.

Remember when the “Circus Train” came through Whitewater on its way to the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee? The circus parade in Milwaukee ran between 1963 and 1973 and then was revived in the 1990s. Every summer, the Circus World Museum in Baraboo would load up its collection of historic circus wagons on a special train and head for Milwaukee. Between 1996 and 2003, this train would stop in Whitewater, usually around July 7 or 8. In this July 8, 1996 photo from the recently donated Dan Sable photo collection, one of the rail cars with historic circus wagons is shown at its stop in Whitewater. The event would always draw a big crowd of spectators and fun was had by all.

Join us next week for more from the Whitewater Historical Society.

(Dan Sable photo collection, 2022, Whitewater Historical Society)

Friday, July 8 • 12:00 – 3:00 p.m.

SHOW YOUR COLLEGE PRIDE DAY WITH ONMILWAUKEE, CW18 AND MY24 MILWAUKEE

All patrons who arrive between 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. wearing a shirt or hat representing a participating college or university, or present their High School ID, will receive one FREE admission ticket. Tickets are only valid for the day and time of the promotion. Stop by the Mid Gate Promotions Booth to receive your ticket, then head over to your school’s booth to say hello and show your support! Only shirts or hats from the following colleges or universities will be accepted:

• Cardinal Stritch University
• Carthage College
• Marquette University
• Milwaukee Area Technical College
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• University of Wisconsin – Parkside
• University of Wisconsin-Platteville
• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
• Western Governors University

Editor’s note: The following information was provided by UW-Whitewater.

Continuing a proud tradition of producing international caliber wheelchair basketball players, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater will be represented by nine current and former Warhawks on the latest roster of Team USA.

The players and coaches will compete in the 2022 International Wheelchair Basketball Federation America’s Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil on July 9-19. The event serves as the qualifier for the 2022 world championships taking place Nov. 16-27, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Current UW-Whitewater women’s coach Christina Schwab, who has won three Paralympic gold medals as a player and recently coached the American men to gold in Tokyo, will helm the women’s team as head coach. She’ll be assisted by alum Desiree Miller of Monroe, Wisconsin, a gold medal winner in Rio de Janeiro who earned a master’s degree in counseling in 2014.

Students Josie DeHart, a physical education major from Fruita, Colorado, and Mandy Willmore, MBA candidate from Rock Springs, Wisconsin, will join alum and bronze medal winner Lindsey Zurbrugg of Portland, Oregon, on the roster.

On the men’s Team USA roster, Warhawks include Talen Jourdan, a general business major from Deerfield, Wisconsin; Jeromie Meyer of Woodbine, Iowa, who graduated in May with a degree in education; alum Dylan Fischbach of Vermillion, South Dakota; and John Boie of Milton, Wisconsin, a UW-Whitewater alum from the Class of 2014 who also earned an MBA in 2019, and currently works as an academic adviser at the university.

“Our wheelchair basketball program at UW-Whitewater is truly powered by tradition,” said Jeremy “Opie” Lade, who is an alum, former player and coach, and also a Paralympic medalist. “Elite athletes and coaches have built this program to its current status — and elite athletes and coaches will continue to be produced and keep our tradition alive moving into the future. Being a Warhawk is something that is said with a great amount of pride.”

Collectively, the men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball teams at UW-Whitewater have won 16 national championships.

According to an article in The Journal Times, Chris Bennett, the neighborhood services director for the City of Whitewater since March, 2021, is one of five finalists for the position of village administrator of Union Grove. Bennett has also served for over thirteen years as an elected trustee for the Village of Rochester, where he resides. The Union Grove administrator resigned in March after three years on the job. Union Grove is located in Racine County, and in the 2020 census was found to have a population of 5031.

The other finalists are:

• Will Kolschowsky, a management analyst for the City of Urbana, Illinois.
• Todd Willis, economic development coordinator for the City of Brookfield.
• Theresa Loomer, village administrator for the Village of Fontana.
• Kerry Bennett, interim village administrator for the Village of Union Grove. [Kerry Bennett is not related to Chris Bennett.]

Union Grove is also in the process of hiring a new village clerk.