News & Events

By Al Stanek
Whitewater Banner volunteer staff
whitewaterbanner@gmail.com

Needy families in Whitewater will soon have their choice of organic edible pumpkins and squash courtesy of the Whitewater Kiwanis sponsored Middle School ‘Builders Club.’

Roughly three dozen Whitewater Middle Schoolers under the direction of Associate Principal and Kiwanis member Ben Holzem harvested the produce Wednesday September 22. After washing and inspection, the produce will be available at the Whitewater Community Space on East Milwaukee Street as early as this weekend.

Local organic farmer Rollie Cooper, another Whitewater Kiwanis member, provided equipment, seeds and oversight on the project. The pumpkins are mostly New England pie pumpkins which can provide both family fun as Jack-O-Lanterns and as a food source.

“The Builders Club provides our students with the opportunity of getting out into our community and serving others,” said Holzem. “We are finding that it promotes leadership and good citizenship, and we are genuinely proud of them and their efforts.” The group has 56 active members. Not all were able to attend Wednesday’s harvest because of other after school activities.

The Whitewater Kiwanis Club is made up of volunteers interested helping children in the Whitewater community and the world. Along with supporting the Builders Club, the WHS Key Club, and a UW-Whitewater auxiliary group they have been instrumental in providing hundreds of thousands of dollars in projects that benefit area children and enhance Whitewater’s quality of life.

Incoming Whitewater Kiwanis Club President Patrick Taylor stressed that 100 percent of funds raised go directly to projects with no raised funds used for administrative costs.  Each year, the club distributes approximately $20,000, with over half going to various Whitewater Unified School District programs.

Funds are raised through annual Pancake Breakfasts that have been served continuously since the 1950s along with yearly poinsettia and lily plant sales. The club is currently looking for additional members.

The Whitewater Kiwanis will be offering a free-will offering drive-through Pancake Breakfast sale this Saturday at the Whitewater City Armory on North Street in Downtown Whitewater. More information can be found on the Whitewater Kiwanis Breakfast Club Facebook page.

Garage sale September 25 and 26th 8 a.m. till closing
@ 692 N Walton Dr, Whitewater

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Household Sale
Jean Zuill
944 Conger Street
Whitewater
Saturday, October 2 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 3 9:00 a.m. – noon
(Numbers, used to control number of people in the house, issued one hour prior to sale on Saturday, 1/2 hour prior to sale on Sunday.)

Glassware: Blue Corn Flower Corningware, Pyrex covered casseroles, Fenton, Rockdale & Rowe Pottery, Willow Tree figures

Antiques & Collectibles: Fran Achen Photo, Cane seated chairs, Sterling silver flatware, Wool braided rugs, Mosler, Bachmann & Co. safe, Pressback high chair, Dropleaf table & chairs

Furniture: Sterns & Foster sofa, End tables, Wing back chairs, Maple dresser, Desk

Household Items: Transport chair, Dehumidifier, Nesco roaster, Holiday decorations, Usual kitchen items

Garage: Lawn Boy mower, Rubbermaid Roughneck lawn cart and much much more

See Craigslist or estatesales.net for complete listing and pictures.

Sale conducted by Shirley Erdman
All sales final / No refunds / Cash / Sold in “As Is” condition / No early sales / Not responsible for accidents
Please bring help and tools for removing your items on the day of purchase – our staff is unable to lift or load items.

For any questions contact Shirley Erdman, 920-563-9039.

Editor’s note: The following information was provided by the UW-W College of Arts & Communication, Dept. of Music

Sonict presents Ogni Suono Saxophone Duo

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is pleased to announce that Ogni Suono Saxophone Duo will be presented by Sonict on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 7:30 pm in the Light Recital Hall. Tickets are on sale and can be purchased online at tickets.uww.edu or by calling (262) 472-2222. Masks are required for anyone entering a campus building and each performance in the Light Recital Hall will have a social distance seating option. The Light Recital Hall is located in the Greenhill Center of the Arts at 950 W. Main Street, Whitewater, WI 53190. Do not come to campus if you are ill. For the most up to date campus safety information, visit the Warhawks are Back webpage at the link below. uww.edu/warhawks-are-back.

Formed by American saxophonists Noa Even and Phil Pierick in 2010, Ogni Suono is committed to expanding and promoting repertoire for saxophone duo by commissioning and performing new works. The duo values the longevity and repeated attention to new works over the novelty and revolving door of mass commissioning. Their debut album, “Invisible Seams,” features some of the duo’s first collaborations with composers. Supported by a grant from New Music USA, Noa and Phil launched “SaxoVoce” in 2015, commissioning works that explore the wide-ranging musical, dramatic, and theatrical possibilities inherent in the synthesis of saxophone and voice. From haunting whispers to nonsensical shouts, each composer uniquely integrates the human voice. Many of these works can be found on the duo’s 2018 album, “SaxoVoce,” on New Focus Recordings.

Ogni Suono celebrates ten years together with the premiere of /tele/path by Atlanta-based Singaporean composer Emily Koh alongside a retrospective of the twenty-some works commissioned by the duo from the past decade and Shelley Washington’s BIG Talk. This includes selected works from our 2018 album “SaxoVoce” (New Focus Recordings) and our 2015 release “Invisible Seams”. The full program includes “Two Broken Records: by Hong-Da Chin, “Chroma” by Chris Fisher-Lochhead, “BIG Talk” by Shelley Washington, “Dart: don’t be his shadow” by Quinn Collins, “Walking After Midnight” by David REminick, and the world premiere of “/tele/path” by Emily Koh.

“The saying ‘sound like a broken record’ means to say something over and over again. In ‘Two Broken Records’, each saxophone is treated as a broken record that is constantly in a love-hate relationship with the other. Argument and harmony can be heard back-to-back, or even overlapped during the emotional interaction between these two mischievous broken records.” —Hong-Da Chin

“Chroma explores a series of questions relating to color and time: Is color an intensive or an extensive phenomenon? Is our experience of color an instantaneous apperception or does it unfold temporally? At what temporal level do rational durational relationships create the experience of implied rhythmic striae? When does harmony become color and color harmony?”  —Chris Fisher-Lochhead

“‘BIG Talk’ was written for two baritone saxophones as a personal response to the repulsive prevalence of rape culture that can be observed in catcalling and sexual harassment that female-identifying persons experience and endure on a daily basis. Many women experience these situations enough to psychologically alter their self-perception and their perception of others in a long-lasting negative way: fear, anger, depression—emotions that seep deeper into the self and permeate deeper into society. This unrelenting, churning duo is written to be somewhat of an endurance piece that incorporates all aspects of the body—the muscular ability to play the piece, the wind to power the horn, the focus to see it through… I carefully considered the everyday endurance of a constant barrage of physical and verbal abuse, how we as women bear the brunt of the cultural burden, how we are expected to silently maintain physical and emotional poise to align with many “social graces” and how sick of it I am. How sick of it we are. The piece, the poetry, and the visual components are all linked to send a very clear and targeted message: stop perpetuating rape culture by any and every means necessary.” —Shelley Washington

“‘Dart: the verb. don’t be his shadow’: In 2001 or 2002, when I was still living in Cincinnati, I went to see a Juilliard jazz trumpeter play a guest concert at the Blue Wisp. A local trumpeter showed up (presumably uninvited) to sit in. At one point an aging hipster, donning a beret and smoking a Black and Mild, got up from the bar and confronted the intruder while he was playing, pointing at him and saying, ‘Don’t be his shadow, man. Don’t be his shadow.’ And so much of the piece focuses on heterophonic close canons and near-unison playing, sometimes slipping into true unisons. The end of the piece quotes ‘A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond’ from Captain Beefheart’s 1980 album Doc at the Radar Station.” —Quinn Collins

“‘Walking After Midnight’ deals with the unsettling and mysterious phenomenon of somnambulism, or sleepwalking, as it’s commonly known. The text for the piece’s two movements comes from a pair of autobiographical stories by a friend of mine. For the past year or so, nearly everything I’ve written has been part of a massive evening-length cycle of pieces about sleep called Sleep Cycle. Each work in the cycle deals with a different sleep-related topic (sleep-talking, sleepwalking, dreams, lullabies, and lucid dreaming) and each is for a different instrumentation (singing flutist, singing saxophone duo, vocal quartet, singing string octet, and a sixteen-piece ensemble made up of all of the above musicians plus a percussionist). The first story is about my friend’s childhood experiences of sleepwalking. In the absence of caregivers he could count on throughout a traumatic childhood, there emerged from within a support figure in the form of his own ghost—a floating Doppelgänger whose radiant smile provided him comfort and reassurance through it all. In the second story, my friend—now an adult—is the one in the supporting role, soothing and protecting his young son through his recurrent night terrors. The stories are a testament to my friend’s resilience and courage, and I feel honored and grateful for his trust, his generosity, and most of all, for his continued friendship.”       —David Reminick

“‘/tele/path’ is dedicated to the saxophone duo Ogni Suono on the occasion of their 10th anniversary. The word ‘telepath’, made from the Greek roots ‘tele’, meaning distance, and ‘pathos’ meaning feeling, perception, passion, affliction, or experience, describes the duo’s pandemic situation, and the circumstance of this collaboration—working together over a distance. The general form of the work echoes the trajectory of Ogni Suono’s becoming—in the beginning, both saxophones are in close proximity on stage and play strictly in time together, but as the piece progresses, the saxophonists move further apart on stage, each playing more freely and soloistically, but still with the ebb and understanding of an established duo. “ —Emily Koh

Ogni Suono has appeared on concert series such as Permutations (New York), Journeys in Sound (Boston), Frequency (Chicago), Sonic Circuits (Washington, DC) Outpost (University of California-Riverside), Switchboard Presents (San Francisco), nienteForte (New Orleans), Interference (Flagstaff), and SONICT (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater). The duo’s international performances include a 2019 tour through China and Taiwan, the inaugural Singapore Saxophone Symposium, Romanian-American Musical Days Festival in Sibiu (Romania), Berlin University of the Arts, Felicja Blumental Music Center in Tel Aviv, Night of the Museums Festival in Budapest, and World Saxophone Congresses in Scotland and France.

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Autumn, also known as Fall in North American English,^[1] is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere). One of its main features in temperate climates is the striking change in colour for the leaves of deciduous trees as they prepare to shed.

Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as “mid-autumn”, while others with a longer temperature lag treat the equinox as the start of autumn.^[2] In the English-speaking world, autumn traditionally began with Lammas Day and ended around Hallowe’en, the approximate mid-points between midsummer, the autumnal equinox, and midwinter. Meteorologists (and Australia^[3][4] and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere)^[5][6] use a definition based on Gregorian calendar months, with autumn being September, October, and November in the northern hemisphere,^[7] and March, April, and May in the southern hemisphere.

In North America, autumn traditionally starts with the September equinox (21 to 24 September)^[8] and ends with the winter solstice (21 or 22 December).^[9] Popular culture in the United States associates Labor Day, the first Monday in September, as the end of summer and the start of autumn; certain summer traditions, such as wearing white, are discouraged after that date.^[10] As daytime and nighttime temperatures decrease, trees change colour and then shed their leaves.^[11] In traditional East Asian solar term, autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on or about 7 November. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are September, October and November.^[12] However, according to the Irish Calendar, which is based on ancient Gaelic traditions, autumn lasts throughout the months of August, September and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In the Irish language, September is known as Meán Fómhair (“middle of autumn”) and October as Deireadh Fómhair (“end of autumn”).^[13][14] Persians celebrate the beginning of the autumn as Mehregan to honor Mithra (Mehr).

(Source: wikipedia)

Editor’s note: The following was written by Nancy Wendt.

The First English Lutheran Church quilting group is proud to have set a record of making 287 quilts this year.  Most of the quilts will be shipped to Lutheran World Relief.  However, fifteen will be donated to Bethel House, along with ten others going to the Salvation Army in Janesville.  We are so grateful to the women who help by sewing quilt tops at home and to all who so generously donate fabric and/or sheets so this ministry can continue.  We are always in need of both material and sheets to use as backs for our quilts.