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Remembering the Bulge

Oregon veterans earned WWII Purple Hearts in Europe 70 years ago
Scott De Laruelle
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Of all the medals awarded by

the United States military, the
Purple Heart is perhaps the most
sacred. A tradition started in
1917, it is given for U.S. military
personnel wounded or killed
That more than a million were
earned during World War II is
a testament to the extent of the
American sacrifice. Two of those
medals belong to Stan Gefke and
Frank Bachim of Oregon, who
were just 18 years old when they
survived the famous Battle of
the Bulge in the frozen forests of
Belgium 70 years ago. They have
carried both the stories and scars
from the experience ever since.
When 1944 started, Stan Gefke,
89, was a senior at Oregon High
School. When it ended, he was
freezing in a Belgian forest, trying not to get killed by the subzero temperatures or roaming
German soldiers during one of the
biggest battles in U.S. history.
Bachim, 88, who grew up in
an orphanage in Sparta after his
mother couldnt care for he and
his brother, was drafted a few
months after he graduated from
high school at the age of 18.
Shipped to Fort Sheridan, near
Chicago, his fate was determined
by an unknown captain who randomly divided the soldiers into
two groups, starting with him.
I stood in the middle of the
line and he put his hand next to
me and said, This bunch goes to
Fort Knox for tanks, this bunch
goes to Camp Blanding (for
infantry training), he said.
The infantry wasnt exactly the
safest job in the army, but once he
experienced combat, Bachim was
glad he hadnt been standing on the
other side of the line that day.
After I saw some of those guy
burn up in those tanks infantry,

Photo by Scott De Laruelle

Oregons Stan Gefke started 1944 as an Oregon High School senior and ended
it in the Army, freezing and fighting his way through Belgium during the Battle
of the Bulge in Belgium. The battle began 70 years ago this week.

WAR STORIES

Meeting a friend

Photo by Scott De Laruelle

World War II Army veteran Frank Bachim looks at a photo of himself in uniform
on Friday morning in his rural Oregon home. An infantryman, he fought in the
Battle of the Bulge, losing half his toes in the process.

you live a tougher life, but at least knees to regain his flexibility.
you dont burn to death, he said. He tried the armys physical
again, and this time was acceptOff to war
ed as combat infantry.
By then, they had too many
Gefke, who grew up on a
250-acre dairy farm just outside pilots, he chuckled. It was a
Oregon, never wanted to be an shock.
After undergoing basic traininfantryman. He wanted to be a
pilot and enlisted in the Army Air ing, in November 1944, Gefke
Corps but flunked his physical was sent overseas to join the
30th Infantry Division, which
because of bad knees.
Gefke was determined, though, was fighting its way through
and soon found a doctor in MadiTurn to Bulge/Page 5
son who put hot coils around my

The cold at the Battle of the Bulge was a surprise, but nothing prepared
Stan Gefke for when his old high school buddy dropped in. Literally.
Conklin, who graduated one year ahead of Ray Conklin and entered
the war as a paratrooper, was sparring partners with Gefke, and the
two became close because of the bond between fighters who spend a
lot of time staring at each other.
Id watch his eyes to see where he was going. Gefke said.
One day in January 1945, when his unit called for airborne support,
the men had an unexpected reunion.
Down come the parachutes, and he landed right beside me, he said. I
said, Dizzy, you trying to kill me? he said, How in the hell did you
recognize me? He had on a camouflage white uniform; all that was sticking out was his eyes. To this day, he doesnt know how I recognized him.

Christmas Eve, 1944

German propaganda DJ Axis Sally, listened to sometimes
unavoidably by American soldiers, gave the soldiers a unique realization that it was Christmas Eve when through nearby loudspeakers
pointed at their lines , they heard her play, Silent Night, along with a
message to the men, of course.
Sometimes you didnt know what the hell day it was, but then we
heard Silent Night and Axis Sally saying, Why dont you guys surrender and come sleep in a nice, warm bed? Gefke said with a chuckle.

Oregon Police Department

Chief looks to purge unused military gear

Seth Jovaag
Observer correspondent

A glut of military gear

stashed at the Oregon
Police Department over the
past decade ranging from
camouflage coats and backpacks to helmets and rifles
is being cleared out by the
new police chief.

Right now, those things

are taking up space that
should be and could be better utilized, said interim
chief Dale Burke, who took
over for retired chief Doug
Pettit in June. Im not
keeping it.
Local police obtained
the gear through the federal 1033 program, which

offers surplus Department

of Defense gear to police
agencies free of charge.
Oregon is hardly alone
in using the program. Since
2004, 219 law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin
have received $28 million
of supplies, according to a
report in August by Gannett
Media Wisconsin.

But Oregon used the program more than most suburban Dane County police
departments. In all, the
department acquired scores
of items totaling more
than $55,000 over the past
Photo by Scott Girard
decade, according to a database compiled by Gannett. The Oregon Police Department used the federal 1033 military surplus program to get items including these insulated bags, which

Turn to Police/Page 14 have not gotten much use, said Sgt. John Pierce.

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December 18, 2014

Oregon Observer

Village of Brooklyn

Village of Oregon

Attorney
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than $7K

Board begins search for police chief

The Village of Brooklyn

paid its attorney more than
$7,000 during a contentious period earlier this year
when a trustee and the village president faced removal petitions.
Trustee Sue McCallum,
the board member who
faced removal, first made
an open records request in
July for emails and documents related to the attorneys work on the petitions
against herself and Village
President Nadine Walsten,
but it had not been complied with until this month.
The records released
included a bill from April
that was more than $2,000,
but village clerk Carol
Strause said Tuesday the
total spent on attorney
Michael Christophers services related to the removal
petitions was $7,468.20
from January to October.
Walsten, who faced her
own removal petition, used
Christopher for advice on
agenda changes and other matters related to the
removal petitions against
herself and McCallum, the
emails show.
McCallum said in an
email she initially requested the records because she
questioned whether the village should be responsible
for the attorney bills given
the content of his conversations with Walsten.
In my opinion, the attorney was never given board
approval prior to the work
done, based upon these
emails and taped recordings
I have of the board meetings, McCallum wrote in
the email.
The board approved the
attorney bills earlier this
year, however.
Walsten had refused
to release the emails for
months, and the board
voted in November to not
release them despite the
records request.

Police report
Info taken from Oregon found her passed out in her car
police log books:
on the 100 block of Elliot Lane.
Dec. 1
10:30 a.m. The Oregon
Senior Center reported someone illegally dumping trash into
its Dumpster. Police identified
a 65-year-old man as a suspect
but were unable to locate him.
12:33 p.m. A 31-year-old
woman overdosed on an
unknown drug and was transported to UW Hospital.
7:15 p.m. A 51-year-old
woman was arrested for her
first offense OWI after an officer

Dec. 2
2:08 p.m. Police observed
a 58-year-old man complain
about bills from the village to
Village Hall staff.
12:25 p.m. Two girls, 15 and
16, were charged with disorderly conduct after a fight on the
200 block of North Oak Street.
Police learned of the fight from
Oregon High School staff later
in the day, and cited a video of
the fight as evidence.
Scott Girard

The Village Board Monday authorized village

administrator Mike Gracz
and acting police chief
Dale Burke to conduct a
search process for a new
chief of police.
Gracz and Burke will
work with the villages
Police Commission in
searching for candidates
for the villages top law
enforcement position.
The board also approved
a requirement that the new
chief live within 15 miles
of the village.
Prior to the vote, Gracz
explained the board had the
option of hiring a recruiter
to begin the job search or

work. That law was written

to enable the municipality
to draw from a wider range
of candidates than if a
police chief were required
to reside in the village.
The law also allows a
city or village to create
incentives that would make
living in the municipality a
more attractive option for
potential candidates, such
as more pay or prohibiting the chief from driving
a squad car between work
and home.
The Village Board hired
Burke in May to serve as
acting police chief after
former chief Doug Pettit
began a leave of absence
while being investigated
by both the village and the
Wisconsin Department of
Justice.
Pettit retired Sept. 1, and
on Dec. 2 was charged with
two felony counts of filing
fraudulent tax returns.
Burke has said he would
serve the village until a
new police chief is in place.

Village votes to end police sharing deal with town

The board unanimously
approved a plan Monday to
notify the Town of Oregon
that the Village of Oregon
Police Department would
discontinue its service
agreement with the town
in 2015. Village police
officers have been providing 20 hours per month of
police service to the town
since sometime in the late
1990s, according to village officials.
In November, the Town
Board decided to cut those
service hours to 10 per
month.
Gracz told the board an
intergovernmental agreement between the village
and the town is out of date.
But, he said, its not worth
hiring an attorney to revise
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Also Monday, the board
unanimously approved a
motion to order two new
radar speed signs, at a cost
of $7,000.
A similar sign has been
up for the past couple of
years on County Hwy.
MM (North Main Street)

entering the village from

the north. The idea to purchase a second speed sign
was included in the 2015
budget discussions, and
Bollig suggested buying a
third.
Officials plan to place
one of the new radar signs
on the west side of Ash and
Jefferson streets on the villages west side. The other
will be placed on Janesville
Street to alert drivers entering the village from the
east.
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Gracz noted that village
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He said he and Burke
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Gracz said.
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had earmarked $10,000 in
his proposed version of the
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But Burke persuaded
him it wasnt necessary to
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said.
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having Burke and himself

perform the task.
He clarified that members of the Police Commission could decide they
would rather hire a consultant, but Gracz doubted commission members
would question the boards
recommendation. He added
that the commission has
never hired a police chief
because Doug Pettit had
been the police chief since
1985 before retiring in September.
Gracz and Burke are
planning to meet with the
commission in February to
begin discussing the search
process.
The board had included $10,000 in the villages 2015 budget to
hire a recruiter, but Gracz
explained that Burke had
persuaded him that it
wouldnt be necessary to
hire a consultant.
Dale and I talked about
this a few times, and he
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Records released
to trustee after
5-month delay

I find that an amazing

violation of state statutes,
McCallum wrote.
She and Trustee Pat
Hawkey were the only two
board members to vote for
the records release.
The Observer requested
the documents after reading through
the minutes
in December, and they
were provided within
a day.
According
to meetWalsten
ing minutes
from the
November
board meeting, Walsten
did not want
to release
the records
because she
McCallum
saw it as a
way to keep
the conflict going and she
wanted the Board to heal
and put it behind them.
The original issue was
over McCallums alleged
disruptive behavior and
an issue over violating the
confidentiality of a closed
session. McCallum denied
the allegations, and another
citizen sought Walstens
removal in response.
Neither petition was successful, and both remained
in their seats.
The emails show Walsten and Christopher mostly discussed the villages
handbook policy on adding
agenda items after trustee
Pat Hawkey requested to
add a public comment item
on Walstens removal.
They also discussed procedural rules regarding the
removal petitions.
An additional note Walsten sent to McCallum with
the emails asked McCallum
to not continue the dispute.
My hope now and always
is, whatever conflict we
have, we let go of it and put it
in the past, Walsten wrote.
McCallum said in her
email to the Observer she
did not plan to take any
action with the emails,
instead using it as a good
learning tool for future
boards.

Administrator,
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discuss process,
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Opinion

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Letters to the editor

Brooklyn taxes will lead to a ghost town

I see the people of Brooklyn are
going to get it stuck to them again!
In times when the economy still
is in recovery, Nadine Walsten
is spending our tax dollars like a
drunken sailor.
As far as this business park
goes, I fail to see anybody moving
in. It seems to me you should have
had companys lined up or at least
interested before you make this
leap with taxpayers money.
She has done nothing but cost

this village money. With her, its

her way or no way.
When people voted to keep the
court and judge, she still did what
she wanted, not what the voters wanted. If she stays in charge
people will no longer afford to
live here and this village will be a
ghost town.
Gary Muckler
Village of Brooklyn

Nedelcoff, Busler deserve praise

I was happy to read in the Dec.
11 Oregon Observer that the Oregon School Board has exonerated
coach Jon Nedelcoff of bullying
behavior. Mr. Nedelcoff has been
a great coach and teacher.
My son was privileged to have
Mr. Nedelcoff as a high school
teacher. He was, and still is, a
great teacher and coach. In fact,
he went above and beyond to help
my son succeed in school and,
to quote my Brett, a graduate of
Oregon High School, he found
a way to reach out to every kid in
school.
As for Mr. Brian Busler, he
does a great job as superintendent

of schools in Oregon. He has

also gone above and beyond to
help see that students have every
opportunity to learn and succeed.
Thank you to the Oregon School
Board and the district for listening to the majority of families
who have nothing but the highest
respect for Mr. Nedelcoff and Mr.
Busler.
Thank you for exonerating these
fine men as both are an asset to
the Oregon School District and
show great interest in the future of
our children!
Jeff Larson
Village of Oregon

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include learned helplessness, and
in some cases, aggression.
Other trainers use only forcefree methods, based on rewarding
dogs for desirable behavior. This
is the same concept that you enjoy
in your workplace, when the boss
hands out paychecks.
Food is commonly used as a
reward, though access to valued
resources can be used. Some dogs
go bonkers when given a Frisbee, a
tennis ball, a tug toy or a belly rub
as a reward for training. Jake loved
them all.
Various research studies affirm
punishment affords no advantage
over rewards but does put dogs at
risk. Force-free training works better and produces no ill effects.
A competent trainer can help
your dog behave better and help
you develop a closer, lasting bond
with your family pet. Have fun
with it!
Daniel H. Antolec, CPDT-KA
is the owner of Happy Buddha
Dog Training.and is a member of
Force-Free Trainers of Wisconsin,
the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and
a board member of Dogs on Call.

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Bulge: Men battled sub-zero temperatures, desperate German soldiers for weeks
Continued from page 1
Belgium.
Bachim was back in Florida, spending 17 weeks preparing for jungle warfare in
the Pacific. In late November, his unit was loaded
onto a train and shipped
west, but after a few hours,
it stopped, then headed
back the other direction.
We thought, This is
strange, he said.
The train kept going east,
all the way to Camp Gilbert, N.Y., where the troops
traded their tropical weather gear for winter clothing.
They were soon heading to
France aboard a converted
passenger ship on what
turned out to be anything
but a pleasure cruise.
It reminded me of when
I rode hay wagons on the
farm and theyd rock all
over, Bachim said. You
had to have a reservation
around the rail to puke,
because everybody was
sick. We ate Thanksgiving (dinner) on the ship. It
was interesting to keep it
down.
After Bachims ship
docked in France, the men
rested for about week
before being packed on a
rickety train heading for the
front.
I thought, God, thats
quite an antique until
they started loading us on
it, he chuckled.
As they arrived at Strasbourg, near the German
border, the soldiers disembarked to a sobering warning.
They said, The Germans just left here a halfhour ago, so dont touch
anything, he said.
Ordered to check nearby
houses for enemy soldiers,
Bachim and his group got
through about three before
they heard a nearby explosion.
This guy had picked up
like a pipe bomb, and it
blew his hands off, he said.
He never had a chance to
make that mistake twice.

At the front
The German attack that
began Dec. 16 in Belgiums
Ardennes Forest surprised
the American troops holding the middle of the Allied
line, forcing them back
while inflicting thousands
of casualties, Gefke said.
It was a shock, because
all of a sudden, we heard
we were cut off, and we
were running short of supplies, he said. Theyd
drop supplies to us, but we
couldnt go out in the daytime, youd get shot. Sometime we had five or 10 minutes of sleep.
To stay warm, men would
pour gasoline on the ground
and light a match and jump
in there to keep warm.
Wed stuff newspapers
or pine boughs or anything
else in our uniforms, he
said, It was rough. It was
the worst winter Germany
had. Wed cook a K-ration
back in the rear, and by the
time it was done and back
to the front, it would be frozen solid.
Gefke said he and his fellow soldiers were told their
heavier winter gear was
coming, but it never did.
We didnt have field
jackets or anything, he
said. You do the best you
can.

The Americans were

rushing more troops into
the breach, including
Bachim and the 90th Division. Their last day in Strasbourg was Christmas, but
instead of a present, they
got an unwelcome surprise
when they were ordered to
give up their winter gear
and were sent to the front
lines in open trucks in subzero temperatures.
Man, it was cold, and
those guys were really
moving about 50 miles an
hour, night and day for two
days, stopping every hour,
he said, You were so stiff
, you could hardly stand
up.
Once in place, the men
had to march to the tops of
large, snow-covered hills to
look for signs of retreating
Germans.
It was a hell of a job
climbing those steep hills
with all that snow, Bachim
said. It was snowing so
hard, you could hardly see.

Hitlers
final gamble

After a promising
start to World War
II, the once-powerful
German war machine
was under siege by the
end of 1944, with the
armies of the Soviet
Union, United States,
Great Britain and
Canada closing in from
three sides.
Ignoring his generals advice to fight
defensive battles,
German leader Adolf
Hitler instead ordered
a desperate, all-out
assault designed to
divide and destroy
Allied forces gathering
in the west.
It would strike,
he thought, where
and when they least
expected it in midDecember, through
Belgiums heavily
forested, lightly
defended Ardennes
Forest.
On the morning of
Dec. 16, the Germans
unleashed a massive
artillery barrage,
preceding an attack
of more than 200,000
troops and 1,000 tanks
that created a bulge
in the American lines
that gave the battle its
historical name.
After several weeks
of bloody fighting in
temperatures that
plunged far below zero,
the lines were restored,
but at a tremendous
cost. The U.S. suffered
an estimated 75,000
casualties; Germany
around 80,000, according to the U.S. Army.
While initially
successful in pushing the Allies back,
the gamble proved a
failure, as irreplaceable
German losses ultimately sealed its fate.
Germany surrendered
on May 7, 1945.

Relieving Bastogne
At the top of one hill
was the Belgian village
of Bastogne, a vital crossroads and site of a recent
desperate battle between
surrounded Americans and
attacking Germans under
orders to take the position
at all costs.
The 90th helped relieve
the beleaguered defenders,
whose defense of the village became legendary in
American military history.
It was really blown
to pieces, Bachim said.
Those guys were happy to
see us. They were prettywell beat up.
The men pushed forward,
fighting in dense woods,
trying to survive both the
elements and constant German artillery, mortar and
rocket fire. Digging as best
they could into the frozen
ground, the men learned to
improvise life-saving shelters as they advanced.
Theyd fire up in the
trees and the shrapnel
would come down, so we
dug a foxhole four or five
feet and threw logs over the
top of it, Bachim said. It
was cold, down below zero,
and about four feet of snow
on the ground (but) you
didnt dare light up anything.
As U.S. reinforcements
were rushed to the area, the
main German army retreated, leaving fanatical Hitler
Youth to harass the Americans.
Most who we picked up
were 16, 17, 18 young kids,
and smart, too, they could
talk real good English, he
said. But they were, Heil
Hitler and all that crap.
They didnt know what they
got themselves in for.
As the German armys
losses became more
apparent, their desperation increased, with tragic
results. Near the village
of Malmedy, Gefkes unit
came across the frozen
bodies of more than 80
U.S. prisoners of war who
had been led to a field and
machined-gunned the day
before by Nazi SS troops.
That was terrible, he
said. It was a shock to see
those guys laying there.
Gefke and his unit continued over the Rhine River
into the heart of Germany,
steadily advancing toward
Berlin.

Photos by Scott De Laruelle

Shown above at the Oregon

Senior Center Monday morning,
Battle of the Bulge veteran and
1944 Oregon High School graduate Stan Gefke holds a picture
of himself taken when he was in
Army basic training in the fall of
1944 at Fort Blanding, Florida.
Below, World War II Army veteran Frank Bachim describes
how doctors grafted skin from
his leg to cover his foot where
his toes were amputated from
frostbite. With no winter clothing and unable to light fires to
stay warm because it would
attract enemy fire, he and his
unit fought under sub-zero conditions for days during the Battle
of the Bulge.

Wed bomb at night and

wed go in during the daytime and throw grenades in
windows, he said. Id carry a Tommy (Thompson
machine) gun, and wed go
in and take care of them in
there and kept moving on.

Long road home

Germany surrendered to
the Allies in May, but both
Bachim and Gefke were
home by then, recovering
from serious injuries sustained on the front lines.
While Bachim ended up
losing half of his toes to
frostbite, he can thank his
compassion for a fellow
soldier for perhaps saving
him from a worse fate.
One night, in an abandoned German foxhole, he
woke up to hear a soldier
crying nearby. Crawling
over, he saw a young man
lying there with his shoes
off; his legs black and swollen from his knees down.
With the help of another
soldier, they got him to
a nearby field hospital,
where a concerned doctor

also insisted on checking

Bachim.
He stuck me with a pin
in the hand and I couldnt
even feel it, he said. I
took my shoes off, and had
a layer of ice in the bottom.
He said, Youre staying
here. I thought I was just
getting used to the cold. I
never realized I was froze
up like that.
By morning, Bachims
feet had swollen up, with
big blisters. He was given
painkilling shots and taken
to a plane. The next thing
he knew, he woke up in a
Paris hospital with four
live hand grenades still in
his pockets.
I told the doctor and
he said to give them to the
nurse, Bachim chuckled.
So I tossed her a hand grenade and she passed right
out. I was so doped up, I
didnt realize it.
The next day, he was
flown to England, where
he recuperated for the next
several months. Doctors
were able to save some of
his toes, but he lost four on

one foot and the big toe off

his other foot.
They were black like
coal, so they just cut them
off and left them drain to
get out all the gangrene, he
said.
Two months later, doctors
grafted skin from his leg to
repair the end of his feet.
Through it all, for months,
he had to lay on his back,
both in England and in the
United States, where he was
soon discharged missing
half his toes, but otherwise
no worse for the wear.
That is, of course, when
he went bowling.
That bothered me,
though, because your big
toe is your balance toe, he
chuckled.
For Gefke, the cold didnt
get him, but the Germans
did. Wounded in January,
he went back into action
two weeks later, only to be
hit and seriously wounded
by shrapnel during a night
attack. He had to wait
until the next morning for
a medic to find him, packing snow on the wounds to

slow the bleeding.

I was just in the wrong
place at the right time,
Gefke said. (It) blew up
my back and knee and took
half my shoulder off. I
almost saw the light at the
end of the tunnel. I said,
Boy, this is it.
At a nearby field hospital, doctors plucked bits of
metal out of him. A sciatic
nerve on one leg was cut,
causing permanent damage,
but the rest of him jumped
in pain as doctors probed to
find all the pieces.
I was like, Hey I can
feel that, he said. I heard
them taking stuff out and
throwing it to the ground. I
survived, anyhow.
Recovering in England,
Gefke traveled back to the
U.S. on the luxury liner
Queen Mary, converted
into a troop transport during
the war. He enjoyed a state
room and plenty of room
service as he looked back on
his experiences in the war.
It was a nice trip home,
he said. Better than the
one over.

December 18, 2014

Oregon Observer

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Churches

Coming up
Holiday play and meal

Lifeguard class

Watch as Mrs. Claus and her helpers cope with todays technology,
have some hare-raising adventures
and meet some interesting characters
in the tundra. Its a sit-on-the-edgeof-your-chair thriller at the senior
center at 11 a.m., Friday, Dec. 19, as
you wait to see who will save the day.
After the play, enjoy a holiday meal
of ham, au gratin potatoes, glazed
baby carrots, applesauce and a Christmas cookie.
Oregon Community Bank and Trust
will be on site from 10 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. with calendars and holiday cash
gift envelopes. They will exchange
your old bills for new crisp ones for
your holiday giving.
Call 835-5801 by 1 p.m., Tuesday,
Dec. 16, to reserve your meal. The
snow date is Dec. 22 at 11 a.m.

The Oregon Pool, 249 Brook St.,

will offer a blended learning lifeguard
class to anyone over 15 years old for
$175.
As a blended class, those interested
must complete part of the class online
before coming in to do the physical
part of the class, which is held from
8 a.m. to noon, Monday, Dec. 22; 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 23;
and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday,
Dec. 29.
To register, visit oregonsd.org/pool.
All participants will need to pass a
pre-test before entering the physical
part of the class.

Skate with Santa

Santa is back again this year to
skate with everyone at the Oregon
Community Sports Arena, 100 N.
Perry Pkwy., from 8:30-10:30 a.m.,
Saturday, Dec. 20. Enjoy a pancake
breakfast and a morning of skating for
$5 per person (free for children under
2 years old). Proceeds will benefit
Oregon Youth Hockey.

Health trip
Registration is now open for Oregons Health Trip 2015, a team-based
fitness challenge that rewards you for
exercising two to three hours each
week for 18 weeks starting Jan. 1.
Form a team and support and challenge your teammates to stick with
the program and meet your goals
while you track your progress on
the Ice Age Trail map. Any exercise
counts, so walk, run, dance, swim and
bike your way to fitness.
The registration fee of $12 ($9
for youth) includes annual T-shirt,

incentives and up to three free fitness

classes. Register as a team (up to 6
members) or as an individual and a
team will be selected for you.
For more information or to register,
visit oregonsd.org and look for Health
Trip under the Community tab or call
Scott at 835-4097.

New Years Eve party

The third annual Community New
Years Eve Party will be held from
5-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31.
At the library, there will be crafts,
board games, a scavenger hunt and
music by Distant Cuzins from 6-7
p.m.
At the senior center, there will
be food from Lil Buddys Popcorn
available for purchase. Events include
toss games, face paintings and tattoos available all evening. There will
also be music at 5:30 p.m. from Drum
Circles and Kitchen band, with John
Duggleby. Then there will be music
together at 6:45 p.m. with Eliza Tyksinski.
Games and activities will be available all evening long from 5-8 p.m. in
the Netherwood Knoll big gym.
Kids in fifth, sixth, seventh and
eighth grades can enjoy a free swim
at the Oregon pool from 5-7 p.m.

Community calendar
Thursday, December 18

1 p.m., Third Thursday Afternoon

Euchre Card Party ($3), senior center

Friday, December 19

Players Amahl and the Night

Tuesday, December 30
Visitors, Peoples United Methodist 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Oregon Area
Church, 103 N. Alpine Pkwy., osh- Historical Society is open, 159 W.
ponline.org
Lincoln St.

Monday, December 22

5 p.m., Public Works and Utility

Meeting, Village Hall
5:45 p.m., Public Safety Meeting,
Village Hall

Wednesday, December 31

11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Rink in the New

Year, Oregon Ice Arena, 100 N.
Perry Pkwy., $15/family or $5/person
2 p.m., New Years Eve Senior
Party, senior center
Tuesday, December 23
5-7 p.m., Free swim, 5th-8th grad 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Oregon Area
ers only, Oregon pool
Historical Society is open, 159 W.
Saturday, December 20
5-8 p.m., Scavenger hunt, crafts
Lincoln
St.
8:30-10:30, Skate with Santa and
and board games, library

6
p.m.,
library
closed
Pancake Breakfast, $5 per person,
5-8 p.m., Toss games, face paintunder 2 free, Oregon
Wednesday, December 24
ings and tattoos, senior center
Community Sports Arena
Senior center closed
5-8 p.m., Games and activities for
3-5 p.m., Academy of sound holi Library closed
all ages, Netherwood Knoll big gym
day recital, Oregon High School PAC
(enter by district offices)
10-11 a.m., First Presbyterian
Sunday, December 21
Church Christmas Cantata Sunday, 5:30 p.m., Drum Circles and
10 a.m., Come Messiah
Kitchen Band with John Duggleby,
Thursday, December 25
King Christmas cantata, First
senior center
Library closed
Presbyterian Church, 408 N.
6 p.m., Distant Cuzins, library
Senior center closed
Bergamont Blvd.
6:45 p.m., Music together with
10:30 a.m., Oregon Straw Hat
Eliza Tyksinski, senior center

Community cable listings

Senior center

Village of Oregon Cable Access TV channels: WOW #983 & ORE #984
Phone: 291-0148 Email: oregoncableaccess@charter.net
Website: ocamedia.com Facebook: ocamediawi
New programs daily at 1 p.m. and repeats at 4, 7 and 10 p.m. and 1, 4, 7 and 10 a.m.

Monday, Dec. 22
Turkey & Bean Chili
Marinated Veg. Salad
Mandarin Oranges
Cornbread
Raspberry Sherbet
VO: Veggie Chili
Tuesday, Dec.23
Baked Fish.
Rice Pilaf
Vegetable Blend
Apricots
W.W. Bread Cookie
VO: Rice W/ Soy
Wednesday, Dec. 24
Closed for Christmas Eve
Thursday, Dec. 25
Closed for Christmas Day
Friday, Dec. 26
Cheeseburger on Bun
Carrots
Cranberry Juice
Confetti Cake
V.O. Veggie Burger on Bun

Thursday, Dec. 18
WOW: Oregon Village Board
Meeting (of Dec. 15)
ORE: Orchestra & Chorus
Concerts 1-NKE (of Dec. 15)
2-BKE (of Dec. 16)
Friday, Dec. 19
WOW: Universal Sound
Band @ Oregon Summer
Fest (of June 26)
ORE: OHS Boys Varsity
Basketball vs Whitewater (of
Dec. 16)
Saturday, Dec. 20
WOW: Miracle on 34th
Street OHS Radio Play (of
Dec. 13)
ORE: OHS Boys Varsity
Wrestling vs Evansville (of
Dec. 18)
Sunday, Dec. 21
WOW: Community of Life
Church Service
ORE: OHS Boys Varsity
Basketball vs Ft. Atkinson (of
Dec. 19)

Monday, Dec. 22
WOW: Mrs. Claus &
Helpers Play @ Oregon Senior
Center (of Dec. 19)
ORE: OHS Boys Varsity
Hockey vs Edgewood (of
Dec. 19)
Tuesday, Dec. 23
WOW: The Snow Queen
by Playtime Productions (of
Dec. 5)
ORE: OHS & OMS Chorus
Concert (of Dec. 4)
Wednesday, Dec. 24
WOW: The Nutcracker
Dream Ballet by A Leap
Above Dance (of Dec. 7)
ORE: OHS Band Concert
(of Dec. 14)
Thursday, Dec. 25
WOW: White Christmas
OHS Musical Hilites (of Nov.
9)
ORE: OHS Orchestra
Concert (of Dec. 11)

Call 835-6677 to advertise on the

Oregon Observer Church Page

Monday, Dec. 22
AMReflexology
9:00 CLUB
9:00 Wii Bowling
10:00 Dominoes
11:00 Holiday Play Snow Date
1:00 RSVP Sewing
1:30 Bridge
4:00 Weight Loss Support
Tuesday, Dec. 23
8:30 Zumba Gold
9:00 Pool Players
9:00 Arthritis Movement
9:30 Bingo
12:30 Sheepshead
12:30 Stoughton Shopping
1:00 Holiday Sing-Along
Wednesday, Dec. 24
Closed for Chritmas Eve
Thursday, Dec. 25
Closed for Christmas Day
Friday, Dec. 26
9:00 CLUB
9:00 Wii Bowling
9:30 Blood Pressure

Good Shepherd by the Lake

Lutheran Church
1860 US Hwy. 51, Stoughton
(608) 873-5924
Christmas Eve
Candlelight Services
4:00pm and 7:00pm
Christmas Day Service
of Readings and Carols
9:00am

BROOKLYN LUTHERAN CHURCH

101 Second Street, Brooklyn
(608) 455-3852
Pastor Rebecca Ninke
SUNDAY
9 a.m. Holy Communion
10 a.m. Fellowship
COMMUNITY OF LIFE LUTHERAN
CHURCH
PO Box 233, Oregon
(608) 286-3121
office@communityoflife.us
Pastor Eric Wenger
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Worship at 1111 S. Perry
Parkway, Oregon
COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
201 Church Street, Brooklyn
(608) 455-3344
Pastor Dave Pluss
SUNDAY
9:30 a.m. Worship
FAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
CHURCH
143 Washington Street, Oregon
(608) 835-3554
Pastor Karl Hermanson
SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship
Holy Communion 2nd & last
Sundays
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
408 N. Bergamont Blvd. (north of CC)
Oregon, WI
608-835-3082 - fpcoregonwi.org
Pastor Bob Vetter
SUNDAY
10 a.m. Blended Worship
11 a.m. Coffee Bar/Fellowship
11:15 a.m. All-ages activity
FITCHBURG MEMORIAL UCC
5705 Lacy Road, Fitchburg
(608) 273-1008
www.memorialucc.org
Pastor: Phil Haslanger
Associate Pastor Twink JanMcMahon
SUNDAY
8:15 and 10 a.m. Worship
GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN
CHURCH ELCA

Central Campus: Raymond Road and

Whitney Way
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 8:15, 9:30 and10:45
a.m. Worship West Campus: Corner
of Hwy. PD and Nine Mound Road,
Verona
SUNDAY - 9 &10:15 a.m., 6 p.m.
Worship (608) 271-6633
HILLCREST BIBLE CHURCH
752 E. Netherwood, Oregon
Eric Vander Ploeg, Lead Pastor
(608) 835-7972
www.hbclife.com
SUNDAY
8:30 and 10:15 a.m. worship service
at Oregon High School PAC
Childrens ministries, birth-4th grade
HOLY MOTHER OF CONSOLATION
CATHOLIC CHURCH
651 N. Main Street, Oregon
Pastor: Fr. Gary Wankerl
(608) 835-5763
holymotherchurch.weconnect.com
SATURDAY: 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY: 8 and 10:15 a.m. Worship
PEOPLES UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
103 North Alpine Parkway, Oregon
Pastors Jason and Johanna Mahnke
(608)835-3755
www.peoplesumc.org
Communion is the 1st & 3rd
weekend
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 9 a.m. Worship and
Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. Worship;
5 p.m. The Gathering Sunday night
service with simple supper to follow
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH
625 E. Netherwood, Oregon
Pastor Paul Markquart and Pastor
Emily Tveite
(608) 835-3154
SATURDAY - 5 p.m. Worship
SUNDAY - 8 and 10:30 a.m. Worship
9:15 a.m. Sunday School
VINEYARD COMMUNITY CHURCH
Oregon Community Bank & Trust,
105 S. Alpine Parkway, Oregon - Bob
Groth, Pastor - (608) 513-3435
welcometovineyard.com
SUNDAY - 10 a.m. Worship
ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF
CHRIST - Paoli
At the Intersection of Hwy. 69 & PB
Rev. Sara Thiessen
(608) 845-5641
SUNDAY 9:30 a.m. Family Worship

Support groups
Alcoholics Anonymous
meeting, First
Presbyterian Church,
every Monday and
Friday at 7 p.m.
Diabetes Support
Group meeting,
Evansville Senior Center,
320 Fair St., 882-0407,
second Tuesday of each
month at 6:30 p.m.
Parents Supporting
Parents, LakeView
Church, Stoughton, third
Tuesday of every month

from 6:30-8 p.m.

Relationship & Divorce
Support Group, State
Bank of Cross Plains,
every other Monday at
6:30 p.m.
Veterans Group,
Oregon Area Senior
Center, every second
Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Weight-Loss Support
Group, Oregon Area
Senior Center, every
Monday at 3:30 p.m.

Do We Discover or Invent Ourselves?

There is a sense in which we find ourselves in the
world with a very definite nature, a nature that is a product of both our biological inheritance and the society we
are born and raised in.
We can no more throw off our genes or the contributions of our society than a Zebra can throw off its
stripes. But, we are also more than just our genes and
our social upbringing.
We make choices from a young age which determine
the direction and shape of our destiny.
Geneticists now know that certain genes are in fact
turned on or off in response to certain events, and
some of those events are things of our own choosing.
Our wonderful journey through life is both a journey
of self-discovery and a process of self-invention.
Who we are and who we will become are always
struggling with and playing off of each other. Strive to
know yourself, but also become the best person you
can be.
Christopher Simon via Metro News Service

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Education, senior center
8 p.m., Oregon Straw Hat Players
Amahl and the Night Visitors,
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ALL SAINTS LUTHERAN CHURCH

2951 Chapel Valley Rd., Fitchburg
(608) 276-7729
Pastor Rich Johnson
SUNDAY
8:30 a.m. classic service
10:45 a.m. new song service

Your vision will become clear only when you can look
into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who
looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung

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Buckets for Hunger food pantry challenge

The Oregon/Brooklyn Food Pantry
is participating in the Buckets for
Hunger Food Pantry Challenge.
Donations must be received by
Tuesday, Dec. 23, to be eligible for
the additional challenge funding.
Buckets for Hunger Inc. will match
at least 25 cents for each donated dollar and send the total donation to the
local food pantry.
The number of people served by
the Oregon/Brooklyn Food Pantry
has increased 15 percent over the past

year.
Please help us to wipe away the
tears of hunger and to replace them
with a glimmer of hope, a news
release said.
Over the last 19 years, Buckets for
Hunger has helped purchase more
than 11 million pounds of food for the
needy and sent out nearly $1.7 million
of grants to food pantries and food
agencies to help purchase food, buy
equipment for food storage and cover
the cost of transporting donated food.

To donate
Write a check payable to:
Buckets for Hunger, Inc, Challenge
for the Oregon/Brooklyn Food Pantry
Send the check to: Oregon Food
Pantry c/o Lisa Butters, HMC Church,
651 N. Main St., Oregon, WI 53575
Deadline: Donations must be
received by Dec. 23

First Presbyterian Church,

408 N. Bergamont Blvd.,
will present a Christmas
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A longtime sandwich
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as the building owner plans
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Girls basketball

Panthers
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defensively

Sports

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Boys hockey

Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor

After last Tuesdays

loss at Stoughton, Oregon High School girls
basketball head coach
Corey Sielaff made
defense a priority of the
practices.
And it paid off as the
host Panthers defeated
Milton 46-32 Friday to
move to 2-3 overall (2-1
Badger South).
We werent anticipating where we needed to be, and then we
were being lazy with
our hands, Sielaff said.
We worked on defense
anticipating and jumping and being much more
active with your feet, and
that was the difference
between Stoughton and
Milton.
Just the defensive
intensity, the communication and the wantto they really wanted
to play defense in this
game, and you can see
it. Ellen McCorkle and
Taylor Schmidt, our
freshmen, I think figured
out that their defense is
going to help them play
better offense, and they
both had big defensive
games, as well.
Besides defense, the
overall scoring attack
also improved from the
Stoughton loss, Sielaff
said. Rosemeyer led Oregon with 18 points, 11
rebounds and six steals
though the rest of the
offense also played more
consistently.
Junior Leah Koopman
was also big part of that
with 11 points, but there
were eight different players who scored.
People looked to
score the ball, Sielaff
said. We were much
less timid. Madelyn

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Photo by Jeremy Jones

Oregon senior captain Cole Hefty (25) and Ian Schildgen try to steer Verona forward Grant Smith away from the puck Thursday during the second period. The Panthers lost
the non-conference game 4-1.

Panthers keep battling

Jeremy Jones
Sports editor

Oregon boys hockey traveled to

Hartmeyer Ice Arena on Tuesday
searching for the Panthers second
Badger South Conference win.
Despite taking the lead twice,
including a two-goal advantage midway through the third period, Oregon
had to settle for a 3-3 draw.
Goals from seniors Colin Hughes
and Collin Bundy in the third period
helped the Panthers retake the lead
before Jordan Gerothanas scored less
than a minute later to force overtime.
Bundy scored the first goal two
minutes into the second period, but
the Silver Eagles scrapped back with a
goal later in the period and eventually

took the lead 37 seconds into the third.

Oregon (2-3-1 overall, 1-1-1 conference) had 12 saves from sophomore
Henry Roskos, while Monona Grove
(2-1-1, 1-1-1) picked up 28 from
Andryi Nahirniak.
Our team has had some distrations
lately with Nate Anderson and Dylan
Ziomek both out night, Panthers head
coach Rick Fleming said. I thought
our boys gave a galiant effort tonight
and well grow from it.
The Panthers host eighth-ranked
Homestead (6-0-0) at 7 p.m. Friday
and Madison Edgewood (4-1-0, 3-0-0)
at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 23. Reedsburg/Wisconsin Dells (4-2-1) host
the Panthers inside Reedsburg Arena
Community Arena at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 30.

Verona 4, Oregon 1
Oregon hosted the defending state
champion Verona Wildcats on Thursday. And though the visitors had a lot
of turnover from last season, the Panthers were unable to keep pace, falling
4-1.
The scariest moment of the game
happened a little more than two minutes into the second period, however,
when Anderson lay motionless on
the inside the Oregon Ice Arena ice
absorbing a check.
Eventually helped to the bench by
assistant coaches, an obviously rattled
Anderson was taken to urgent care
shortly after.
Perhaps motivated by their fallen
teammate, Oregon knotted the score

four minutes later at 1-all as Hughes

shot ricochet off the pipe and trickled
through Verona goaltender Nathan
Cleghorn.
Verona had too much firepower
though, as freshman Sam Renlund,
son of long-time Panthers head coach
Tony Renlund, scored twice and
assisted on another. Renlunds second
goal a one-time from Jack Anderson with a little more than two minutes remaining in the second period
proved the difference as the Wildcats
never trailed again.
Jake Keyes added an insurance goal
21 seconds later, while Brodie Roehrig scored the final goal 1:44 into the
third period.
Roskos finished with 29 saves,
while Cleghorn had 18 for Verona.

Girls hockey

Icebergs carry offensive struggles into USM Hockey Classic Tournament

Jeremy Jones
Sports Editor

Despite a blowout win in the

first round of the University
School of Milwaukee Hockey
Classic Tournament on Friday,
the Icebergs suffered through a
pair of tough losses on Saturday.
The Icebergs opened the tournament blowing out Brookfield,
7-0, thanks to Stoughtons Casey
Marsh, who jump-started a fourgoal first period with two goals.
Teagan Rupiper and Sammy
Eyers also added first-period
goals. Kit Olson, Sam Kinsler
and Tasha Martin scored in the
second period to cap the win.
Tons of credit to the Brookfield club, Jochmann said.

Even down by seven goals to

start the third period, they never
gave up and continued to press
our players for opportunities.
They really played hard despite
being way behind after two periods.
Kenzie Torpy finished with 12
saves, while Lauren Ragon had
12 for Brookfield.
Stoughton Junior Savannah
Kopf suffered a concussion in
the third period of this game,
and was unable to play in the
two games on Saturday.
Markie Ash and Mandy Tomlinson had a goal and an assist
Saturday to hand the Icebergs a
3-1 loss in Milwaukee.
Tomlinson and Ash are the
stars for this Waupaca (9-1-0)

team. Prior to this game they

were both in the top two in the
state in assists and goals, Jochmann said. We managed to
match up well against them, but
couldnt completely keep them
off the scoresheet tonight.
Despite cutting 10th-ranked
Waupacas lead 2-0 lead in half
midway through the second period thanks to a Sara Wollin goal,
the Icebergs couldnt find the
strength to clear the defensive
zone for much of the game in the
face of a relentless forecheck.
Torpy kept the Icebergs in
the game with more stellar play
in goal, turning away 30 shots.
Cassie Rasmussen faced just 10
shots from the Icebergs.
Shes our backbone, but we

have to find a way to generate some offense in these close

games, Jochmann said. Our
defense is veteran, but even the
most talented defense need a little help from the front three.
Well be working on breakouts
over the coming weeks.
Stoughton dropped to 2-3-1 on
the season later Saturday with an
8-0 loss against the host USM
Wildcats.
From what he saw, Jochmann
said he expects the secondranked Wildcats (5-1-0) to compete for a state title this season.
USM is the real deal this season. They are fast, strong, smart,
talented, relentless, and have
a very deep roster, Jochmann
said. They have three solid

combinations of forwards and

at least two sets of solid defenders.
USM was missing one of their
top players the only girl from
Wisconsin to be selected to USA
Hockeys National Development
program, which is designed to
prep high school-aged players
for entry into the Olympic Team
programs.
It was an uphill battle for
our girls from the start, and they
gave their all to try to keep it
close late in the game, Jochmann.
Nicole Unsworth scored
two goals and chipped in two
assists. Sloan Sullivan and Nina

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Wrestling

Keast, Sacramento pick up lone wins at Fort Atkinson

Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor

Freshman Devin Keast

and senior Omar Sacramento highlighted the Oregon High School wrestling
team Friday in a 70-12 loss
at Fort Atkinson.
With eight forfeits, the
Panthers needed all the
bonus points they could
get and instead gave up
four pins. However, Keast
and Sacramento did their
part.
Keast pinned Jacob Willey in 1 minute, 59 seconds, while Sacramento
won by an injury default
over Sam Lenz.
Both wrestlers look to
continue that success as
the rest of Oregon looks
to improve at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday against Evansville at home. Oregon also
travels to the Mount Horeb
invite at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

Bob Downing Scramble

Keast (126) placed the

highest Saturday at the

Bob Downing Scramble at
Sun Prairie, but his fourthplace finish was done with
a 1-3 record on the day.
Senior Noah Engelhart
(145) and sophomore Eriq
Christensen (132) actually
had more wins but lost early and settled for the consolation bracket.
Engelhart was sixth with
a 3-2 record. He won by
a 19-2 technical fall over
Xavier Pilon (Waukesha
South) and defeated Zach
Perrich (Sun Prairie) 8-6.
He also won by 17-8 major
decision over Dylan Oldenborg (Kettle Moraine).
Christensen was 2-2 and
took 10th. He won by a
15-5 major decision over
Hailey Valleskey (Kettle
Moraine) and a 12-1 major
decision over Ron Drews
(Beaver Dam).
Keast won 7-5 over
Nathan Fens (Appleton
East).
S a c r a m e n t o w a s s e venth overall at 152 pounds.
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Staying out of foul trouble

and capitalizing on the freethrow line were big differences for the Oregon High School
boys basketball team Saturday
in a 57-49 win at Milton.
In a previous loss to Monona Grove, head coach Jon
Nedelcoff said that foul trouble hurt because the Panthers
dont have a lot of depth in the
frontcourt.
Add 18-for-29 shooting at
the line, and it was a complete
reversal for Oregon (3-1 overall, 1-1 Badger South) against
Milton, Nedelcoff said.
Defense on Milton leading scorer Tyler Westrick
was also key, as seniors Pete
Kissling, and sometimes
senior Mitch Morhoff, did
well keeping Westrick out of
sync.
Westrick, who scored
34 points once this season already, was held to 11
against Oregon.
Morhoff and junior Charlie
Soule also were part of the
reason the offense was able to
rebound at the line and at the
rim. Soule led the Panthers
with 19 points, including 11
points from free throws, and
Morhoff added 18 by attacking the gaps.
Mitch attacked the bucket
well, Nedelcoff said. He got
into a flow, was able to get to
the rim and finish numerous
times.
Oregon jumped out to a
12-point lead in the second
quarter, but Milton came back
to grab a 1-point lead in the
third. That is when the Panthers put the game away with
a 10-0 run.
Part of the reason for losing the lead was something
Nedelcoff said Oregon needs
to work on to be more consistent rebounding and securing the ball.
The biggest thing is to

continue to have better position and securing the ball

when we create something,
Nedelcoff said. In the Milton game, when we had the
ball and didnt secure it in
the scramble, they capitalized
on a possession when we had
the ball or defended well and
didnt finish.
Until we have that as a
common denominator, things
are going to be tough, almost
like a 50-50 situation. We
dont want to put ourselves in
that situation.
As for the foul trouble,
Nedelcoff said the Panthers
still need to work on defense
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The Panthers hosted Whitewater in a non-conference
game Tuesday and won
54-31. Nedelcoff said the big
takeaway from the win was
how Oregon handled Whitewaters methodical approach.
We responded by taking
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Boys swimming

Board authorizes public hearings regarding Eli rules the day at Fort Atkinson Invitational
Deer Trustees Report rule package
Jeremy Jones
meet with a 10th-place thanks to its depth. Fellow
The Natural Resources
Board has authorized public hearings to provide the
public an opportunity to
provide input regarding
the proposed Deer Trustee Report permanent rule
package.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
plans to hold nine public hearings at locations
throughout Wisconsin,
slated for January 2015.
These hearings will allow
for public comment before
the department requests
adoption of the permanent
rule in February.
Gov. Scott Walker contracted with Dr. James
Kroll to produce the
Deer Trustee Report, an

in-depth review of Wisconsins deer management

program. Released in
2012, the report proposed
over 60 recommendations
for improving deer management in Wisconsin.
Many of these recommendations were implemented
during the 2014 deer seasons under emergency
rule. However, these rules
are set to expire in June
2015.
Hunters experienced
some of the more prominent rules regarding
County Deer Advisory
Councils (CDACs), the
Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP),
seasons, units and tagging
in 2014. However, these

Sports editor

regulations and programs

were set up under and
emergency rule, and now
a follow-up permanent
rule package is necessary
for the 2015 seasons and
beyond.
Following public hearings, the Natural Resources Board may adopt the
permanent rule package. If
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Junior Eli Rule turned

in the Panthers top finish
Saturday at the Fort Atkinson Invitational, posting
a fifth-place finish in the
100-yard breaststroke with
a season-best time of 1
minute, 6.92 seconds.
Sophomore Jackson
Marsden turned in Oregon/
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free.
The Panthers also saw
Tony Akale, Jimmy Lutz
and Baptiste Como post
season-best times.
Freshman Ian Charles,
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David Heim posted a
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and
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in the 100 free.
Other best times were
turned in by Josh Greene
and Ryan Wood in the 500
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breast.
McFarland (430) didnt
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Peach came off the bench

and drained a 3-pointer
right before the end of
the half, which was huge
momentum for us. I think
we just really played more
confident.
We are starting to get
comfortable with each other They started to make
the tougher passes, trusting their teammates to be
there and really started to
click, Sielaff added.
And that was one of the
reasons Koopman also
started to play more into
her role against Milton.
(Koopman) is a scorer
and she just needs to be
confident, and she really
was, Sielaff said. She
played much more under
control, much less frightened and much less on her
heels. She was on her toes
and ready to go, and when
we needed her to score she
really stepped in that role.
We didnt have to force
her into that this game,
which is how we need her
to play.
Senior Kelsey Jahn added six points, while Bailee
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Badger South rival Monona Grove (334) won three

events to finish second.
Verona finished 26
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Oregon finished second
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Police: No plans for department to purchase body cameras for officers
Continued from page 1
Body cameras a long ways off
Surplus gear
Verona and Sun Prairie police
havent participated in the program, while Stoughton police
have acquired 20 ground troop
helmets, 20 backpacks, lights,
sandbags and firing-range spectacles totaling about $7,100.
Middleton got about $8,800
in gear, including two pairs
of night-vision goggles worth
$8,600 and single pairs of cold
weather boots ($105), overalls
($33.50), socks ($13.60) and binoculars ($50). Fitchburg in 2006
got two floodlights worth more
than $21,000.
Only McFarland has obtained
nearly as much as Oregon. More
than $48,000 in gear included .45
caliber pistols and M-16 rifles,
a $10,795 floodlight, a $3,800
computer, and a used truck worth
$5,000, according to the database.
Oregon hasnt used the program since late 2012, Burke said.
And that wont change any time
soon.
During my time here, we will
not be taking anything from the
1033 program, he said.

Unopened boxes
The 1033 program has been
around since the 1990s but
gained attention this summer
after authorities in Ferguson,
Mo., used military-style vehicles and weapons to quell protests over the fatal shooting by
a police officer of 18-year-old
Michael Brown. Some critics
said the tactics were too heavyhanded and raised concerns that
police were too militarized.
In Oregon, no individual items
exceeded $10,000 in value.
Informed of the database by the
Observer, Burke said it helped to
explain the origins of many items
sitting unused in the department.

Photo by Scott Girard

Oregon Police Department Sgt. John

Pierce shows off a camouflage bag the
department got through the military
equipment program.

Twenty-eight camouflage
coats and 75 pairs of cold
weather trousers are sitting in
unopened boxes in the 383
Park St. headquarters, he said,
and will likely be tossed out
unless the village finds another
use for them. Another 20 large
backpacks could find a similar
fate, though Burke hasnt located
them yet.
Other equipment has found a
home. Fifteen pairs of ballistics
spectacles were previously given
to officers for weapons training.
Forty sandbags and two Honda
four-wheelers were handed over
to the public works department.
Three tool chests worth a combined $1,245 are still used by
police.
The department also plans to
auction off a trailer and used

Oregon police have

acquired more than $55,000
in military-grade equipment
since 2004. Some is still
utilized, some went to other
village departments and
some will be disposed of.
Examples include:
20 large backpacks
(combined value of $1,787)
15 ground troop
helmets ($2,241)
28 long camouflage coats
($586)
75 pairs of cold-weather
trousers ($3,300)
Two low-speed ATVs
($20,000)
40 sand bags ($1,667)
Five 7.62-millimeter M14
rifles ($690)
Six folding cots ($977)
Utility truck with missing
parts ($7,073)
Three tool kit chests
($1,245)

pickup truck acquired years ago,

he said.
When we have found stuff
that can be used, weve tried to
do that, he said.
Five M-14 rifles that cant be
returned to the 1033 program
will likely be destroyed, as
well. Burke said it appears former chief Pettit acquired them
in hopes of forming an honor
guard, which never materialized.
After consulting with longterm staff, Burke said he determined that Pettit often applied
for the free items without a concrete use for them in mind.
It wasnt anything the

Protests sparked by police killings of unarmed men in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City have cast a spotlight on another law
enforcement issue: the use of body-mounted cameras.
For now, Oregon isnt planning to buy them, said acting chief
Dale Burke.
I think were a long ways from that, he said.
Earlier this month, President Obama asked Congress to spend $75
million to help pay for 50,000 small cameras that could be mounted
on police officer uniforms. Proponents say the cameras could foster
public confidence that police are doing their jobs correctly, though
critics see it as a costly requirement that raises privacy concerns.
In Dane County, only Stoughton and McFarland police departments have body cameras, said McFarland chief Craig Sherven,
president of the Dane County Chiefs of Police Association. Madison is studying whether to purchase them.
Oregon police already have cameras in squad cars that activate
when the siren or lights are turned on.
Oregon will likely take a wait and see approach to body cameras, Burke said. Questions such as the costs to maintain and replace
cameras and the servers needed to store the videos need to be
answered first, he said.
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department was looking for, it
wasnt anything the village was
asking for, he said. This was
really based on an individual
preference by the former chief.
Attempts to reach Pettit, who
officially retired Sept. 1, were
unsuccessful. Pettit is facing two
felony charges for tax evasion
for allegedly failing to report
income he earned in 2010-12 for
off-duty security he provided at
an Oregon dance club.
Statewide, 24 law enforcement
agencies including Madison
police obtained mine-resistant armored trucks in the past
year through the 1033 program,
according to the Wisconsin State
Journal. That raised eyebrows in

small cities like Neenah, whose

armored vehicle was highlighted
in a New York Times article in
June. Some departments have
used the program to obtain
assault rifles, grenade launchers
or even, as in Kenosha County, a
helicopter valued at $916,000.
But most of the 1033 gear,
which would otherwise be disposed of, is more mundane.
Gloves, trousers, cabinets, rope
and sandbags are common examples.
If Oregon police had room to
store some of the old gear, they
might keep it, Burke said.
But we dont have that.

Legals
MINUTES OF THE REGULAR
MEETING OF THE SCHOOL
BOARD OF THE OREGON
SCHOOL DISTRICT HELD ON
NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The regular meeting of the School

Board of the Oregon School District was
called to order by the President, Mr. Dan
Krause at 6:31 PM in the Rome Corners
Intermediate School in the Village of
Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin. Upon
roll call, the following board members
were present: Ms. Barbara Feeney, Mr.
Charles Uphoff, Ms. Gwen Maitzen, Mr.
Jeff Ramin, Ms. Rae Vogeler and Mr. Dan
Krause, The following board members
were absent: Mr. Steve Zach. (Mr. Zach
arrived at 6:37 p.m.) Administrators present: Dr. Brian Busler, Mr. Andy Weiland,
Mrs. Candace Weidensee, Mr. Dan Rikli,
Dr. Leslie Bergstrom, Mr. Jon Tanner, Ms.
Jina Jonen, Ms. Kelly Meyers, Ms. Heather Sveom, Ms. Dawn Goltz, Ms. Mary Weber and Ms. Kerri Modjeski.
Proof in the form of a certificate by
the Oregon Observer of communications
and public notice given to the public and
the Oregon Observer and a certificate of
posting as required by Section 19.84 Wisconsin Statutes as to the holding of this
meeting was presented by Mr. Krause.
Mr. Uphoff moved and Ms. Vogeler
seconded the motion to proceed with
the meeting according to the agenda as
posted. Motion passed 6-0.
A. CONSENT CALENDAR:
Mr. Krause requested to move A1
minutes from the Consent Calendar. Mr.
Uphoff moved and Ms. Feeney seconded
the motion to approve the following items
on the Consent Calendar.
2. Approve payments in the amount
of $ 582,879.88;
3. Treasurers Report, if any - none;
4. Staff Resignations Ms. Lisa Barleen
5. Staff Assignments, if any none;
6. Field Trip Requests, if any;
7. Acceptance of Donations Tri 4
Schools, Inc. - $77.45; James
Peterson Sons, Inc. 25 Chromebooks;
8. Open Enrollment Exception Applications, one;
In a roll call vote, the following board
members voted yes: Mr. Uphoff, Ms. Feeney, Ms. Vogeler, Mr. Ramin, Ms. Maitzen
and Mr. Krause. (Mr. Zach absent from
vote). Motion passed 6-0.
1. Minutes of October 25, 2014 - discussion held. Mr. Krause moved and Ms.
Feeney seconded the motion to approve
the minutes with Mr. Krauses changes.
Motion passed by 6-0 vote.
B. COMMUNICATIONFROM PUBLIC:
No one from community present to
speak.
C. ACTION ITEMS:
1. 2014-2015 Transportation Contracts - Mr. Uphoff moved and Ms.
Feeney seconded the motion to approve the District Conditions of Payment
with the Oregon School District Transportation Contractors to include a 2.45%
increase in base changes for the bus and
shuttle routes. In a roll call vote, the following members voted yes: Mr. Uphoff,
Ms. Feeney, Mr. Zach, Ms. Vogeler, Mr.
Ramin, Ms. Maitzen and Mr. Krause. Motion passed 7-0.
2. Annual Audit and Fund Balance

Report : This item will be placed on

the November 24th board meeting
agenda.
D. DISCUSSION ITEMS: Student
Achievement
1. Committee Reports:
a. Policy - Ms. Maitzen reported
there would be a meeting in
November.
b. Human Assets - Mr. Uphoff reported HAC would be meeting with OEA
on November 20th regarding collective
bargaining agreement.
c. Financial Assets- Ms. Feeney reported.
d. Physical Assets - Mr. Uphoff reported he would be meeting with the
Hockey Group.
e. Vision Steering- Mr. Ramin reported VSC will be meeting Nov.
19th.
2. Board Feedback on 2013-2014
School Reports: Building principals
answered questions from Board
members regarding the Strategic
Learning Updates presented earlier
in the year.
E. DISCUSSION ITEMS: Other Topics
1. Location of Future School Board
Meetings:
F. INFORMATION ITEMS:
1. From OEA President-not present.
2. Referendum Update: Mr. Joe Donovan from Donovan Group, Matt Bruenig
and Christin Mlsna from Findorff Group
congratulated the District on a successful referendum and gave a brief update.
3. Superintendents Report: Dr.
Busler gave recognition and appreciation
on the work with the facility master plan
and with the referendum passing at 63%.
G. CLOSING:
1. Future Agenda was established.
2. Check Out - Mr. Zach congratulated Mike Ducett and students on their performance of White Christmas. Mr. Zach
further mentioned an upcoming event
with Straw Hat Players at the Methodist
Church on December 19th. Ms. Vogeler
thanked Lisa Barleen for her commitment
to the students of the Oregon School District. Mr. Krause shared he participated in
a Girls on the Run 5k with his daughter in
Waunakee. Ms. Maitzen shared information on the OASIS newsletter. Mr. Uphoff
shared a poem.
H. EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEMS:
1. Teacher Compensation Plan - Discussion held.
Consideration to move into closed
executive session on item H1 as provided under Wisconsin Statutes 19.85 (1)
(c) & (e).
At 9:24 p.m. Ms. Feeney moved
and Mr. Uphoff seconded the motion to
move into closed executive session as
stated above. In a roll call vote, the following members voted yes: Ms. Feeney,
Mr. Uphoff, Mr. Zach, Ms. Vogeler, Mr. Ramin, Ms. Maitzen and Mr. Krause. Motion
passed 7-0.
I. ADJOURNMENT:
Mr. Zach moved and Ms. Maitzen
seconded the motion to adjourn the
meeting. Motion passed 7-0. Meeting adjourned at 10:52 p.m.
Jeff Ramin, Clerk
Oregon School District
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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR

MEETING OF THE SCHOOL
BOARD OF THE OREGON
SCHOOL DISTRICT HELD ON
NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The regular meeting of the School

Board of the Oregon School District was
called to order by the President at6:32
PMin the Rome Corners Intermediate
School in the Village of Oregon, Dane
County, Wisconsin. Upon roll call, the following board members were present: Mr.
Charles Uphoff, Mr. Jeff Ramin, Ms. Rae
Vogeler and Mr. Dan Krause.
The following board members were
absent: Mr. Zach, Ms. Feeney, and Ms.
Maitzen.
Administrators present: Dr. Brian
Busler, Mr. Andy Weiland,, Mrs. Candace
Weidensee, Mr. Dan Rikli, Mrs. Shannon
Anderson, Dr. Leslie Bergstrom, Mr. Jon
Tanner, Ms. Jina Jonen, Mr. Jason Wilhelm, Mr. Jason Zurawik and Ms. Kerri
Modjeski,
Proof in the form of a certificate by
the Oregon Observer of communications
and public notice given to the public and
the Oregon Observer and a certificate of
posting as required by Section 19.84 Wisconsin Statutes as to the holding of this
meeting was presented by Mr. Krause.
Mr. Uphoff moved and Ms. Vogeler
seconded the motion to proceed with
the meeting according to the agenda as
posted. Motion passed 4-0.
A. CONSENT CALENDAR:
Ms. Vogeler moved and Mr. Uphoff
seconded the motion to approve the following items on the Consent Calendar.
1. Approve minutes of the November
10, 2014 meeting;
2. Approve payments in the amount
of $ 992,314.90;
3. Treasurers Report ending October 31, 2014;
4. Staff Retirement: Bus Contractor,
Karen Parsons, at the end of 2014-2015
school year;
5. Staff Assignments: Patricia Thorp
- .50 FTE Interim RtI Teacher at NKE;
6. Field Trips - none;
7. Donation Requests - OMS Potency for Poetry Donations - $20 Debra and
Vance Kapalczynski; $25-William Boerigter and Maureen Rowe; $20 Mark & Ruth
Mortenson; $100 Ryan and Shannon
Anderson; $50 Trimothy and Rudi Trace;
$25 Lani Denu; Tri$Schools - Rome Corners totaling $154.90;
8. Open Enrollment Exception Application;
In a roll call vote, the following members voted yes: Ms. Vogeler, Mr. Uphoff,
Mr. Ramin and Mr. Krause. Motion passed
4-0.
B. COMMUNICATION FROM PUBLIC:
None.
F. INFORMATION ITEMS
1. OHS Marching Band; Mr. Nick
Lane, Band Director and Rebecca Compton-Allen, Shadow Armada Coordinator
presented an update of the OHS Marching Band program.
Mr. Zach arrived at6:43 p.m. and Ms.
Barbara Feeney arrived at6:55 p.m.
C. ACTION ITEMS:
1. Consideration of CancellingDecember 22, 2014Board Meeting: Mr.
Zach moved and Ms. Vogeler seconded
the motion to cancel theDecember 22,
2014Board meeting and authorize ad-

ministration to make payments. In a roll

call vote, the following members voted
yes: Mr. Zach, Ms. Vogeler, Ms. Feeney,
Mr. Ramin, Mr. Uphoff and Mr. Krause.
Motion passed. 6-0
2. Annual Audit and Fund Balance
Report;: Tara Bast from Johnson Block &
Co., Inc. reported on the 2014 Audit. Mr.
Zach moved and Mr. Uphoff seconded
the motion to accept the June 30, 2014
Audited Financial Statements and Management Letter and to accept the Fund
Balance Report. In a roll call vote, the following members voted yes: Mr. Zach, Mr.
Uphoff, Ms. Feeney, Ms. Vogeler, Mr. Ramin and Mr. Krause. Motion passed 6-0.
3. 2015-2016 School Year Calendar;
Mr. Ramin , on behalf of the Policy Committee, moved to approve Calendar A2 as
the 2015-2016 School Calendar. Motion
passed 6-0.
4. Food Service Pricing: Mr. Ramin
moved and Ms. Feeney seconded the
motion to approve an additional 5 cent
increase to our lunch pricing as follows:
K-4 $2.40; 5-8 $2.65; 9-12 $2.85. In a roll
call vote, the following members voted
yes: Mr. Ramin, Ms. Feeney, Mr. Uphoff,
Ms. Vogeler, Mr. Zach, and Mr. Krause.
Motion passed 6-0.
5. From Policy Committee: No other
items.
6. From Vision Steering Committee:
No items;
7. From Human Assets Committee:
No items;
8. Contract Proposal with Donovan
Group; Mr. Ramin moved and Mr. Uphoff
seconded the motion to approve the initial payment of $2,500 with the actual language of contract to be discussed with
Joe Donovan and district administration
regarding additional payments and time
table to be approved at the December 8,
2014 meeting. In a roll call vote, the following members voted yes: Mr. Uphoff,
Ms. Vogeler, Mr. Ramin, Ms. Feeney and
Mr. Krause. Mr. Zach voted no (his vote is
not referenced on how he feels about the
contract). Motion passed 5-1.
9. Reimbursement Resolution for
November 2014 Referendum: Mr. Uphoff
moved and Ms. Feeney seconded the motion to approve the Resolution Declaring
Official Intent to Reimburse Expenditures
on School Building and Improvement
Program from Proceeds of Borrowing.
In a roll call vote, the following members voted yes: Mr. Uphoff, Ms. Feeney,
Mr. Zach, Ms. Vogeler, Mr. Ramin and Mr.
Krause. Motion passed 6-0.
D. DISCUSSION ITEMS: Student
Achievement
1. Teacher Compensation Plan: Ms.
Jina Jonen, Ms. Colleen Christenson and
Mr. Jon Fishwild reported on the Teacher
Compensation Plan.
2. From Vision Steering - Potential
School Board Position Paper on One
Room School House Proposal Initiatives:
Discussion held. More discussion will be
held with the full board at a later date.
3. Committee Reports:
a. Policy - Committee chair not present to report.
b. Human Assets - Mr. Uphoff reported that HAC and OEA met last week
on the initial bargain. Future meetings to
be scheduled.
c. Financial Assets-Ms. Feeney reported there will be a FAC meeting on
Dec. 10 at 8 AM to talk about bonds.
d. Physical Assets-Mr. Uphoff reported he will be scheduling a meeting in

the near future.

e. Vision Steering-Mr. Ramin reported the VSC discussed the One Room
School paper. There is another VSC meeting scheduled onDecember 17, 2014.
E. DISCUSSION ITEMS: Other Topics
None.
F. INFORMATION ITEMS:
2. Election Notice-Dr. Busler reported Notice has been published in the
paper on the April School Board election.
We have two seats that are up for election; Area I - Village of Oregon (Steve
Zach) and Area IV - Village of Brooklyn,
Towns of Oregon, Montrose, Brooklyn
and Union (Jeff Ramin).
3. Referendum Update - Dr. Busler
reported an update on the referendum.
4. OEA President - none.
5. Superintendents Report: Dr.
Busler reported that Ms. Dawna Wright
was a featured speaker at a recent out
of district workshop;Response from
staff to work on design teams has been
outstanding; We continue work on the
2014 referendum project; We have biweekly meetings with Bray/Findorff; Recent article in Oregon Observer; Teacher
Compensation project is critical to our
success; April referendum is around the
corner.
G. CLOSING:
1. Future Agenda was established.
2. Check Out
H. EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEMS:
1. Personnel Matter - Policy 163
Complaint - Investigation Status
Consideration of Adjourning to
Closed Session on Item H1 as Provided
Under Wisconsin Statutes 19.85 (1) (c),
(f) & (g).
This item was not addressed due to
the time and that a special board meeting
is scheduled for December 4th.
I. ADJOURNMENT:
Mr. Zach moved and Mr. Uphoff seconded motion to adjourn the meeting.
Motion passed by unanimous voice
vote. Meeting adjourned at10:02 p.m.
Jeff Ramin, Clerk
Oregon School District
Published: December 18, 2104
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The regular meeting of the Oregon

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scheduled forMonday, December 22,
2014has beencancelled.
The next regular meeting of the
Board of Education will beJanuary 12,
2015. A complete agenda will be published in theJanuary 8, 2015issue of
theOregon Observer.
Published: December 18, 2014
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City of Fitchburg
City of Middleton
Town of Dunn
Town of Pleasant Springs
Village of Oregon
Village of Waunakee

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Members of the Oregon FFA

Chapter were one of 37 teams
and 209 members from across
the country participating in the
National FFA Agricultural Issues
Forum Career Development Event
(CDE), held in conjunction with
the 87th National FFA Convention
and Expo in Louisville, Ky. The
team, led by advisor Jillian Beaty,
was awarded a bronze emblem.
Pictured from left are Jillian Beaty,
agriculture education instructor, and team members Jordan
Beyler, Jenna Keiser, Moriah Bell
and Abby Klahn with Gary Fuller,
marketing consultant for Elanco.

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