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Thursday, April 4, 2019 • Vol. 54, No. 46 • Verona, WI • Hometown USA • ConnectVerona.com • $1.25
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After-school excellence NCS students start drama club, origami, science and art lessons SCOTT GIRARD Unified Newspaper Group
City discussing Llanos-Main intersection options April 8
Seven New Century School students crowded around teacher Heidi Konop as she sprayed water on a coffee filter. They watched closely as the colors a student had drawn on her filter began to spread around the filter, creating an unexpected design, before going back to their tables and creating their own pieces of art. The activity was the first of the “Art and Science” after-school program at NCS, one of four classes that began Monday, April 1, and will run weekly through May 20. In rooms around the school, students spent time on homework, folded paper into baskets in origami lessons and began reading lines for plays in drama club. The classes, with nearly 30 students enrolled this year, run from 2:35-4 p.m. each Monday, with much of the cost covered by a grant from Epic. Parents enrolling their students do have to pay a fee to help offset some of the operating costs, and parent volunteers help make the classes workable for the teachers.
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Four lanes of uninterrupted traffic, a school parking lot on one side of the road and another signalized intersection just 1,000 feet away. Those are among the “standout” challenges of changing anything at the intersection of Llanos and Main streets, where cars turn into and out of Badger Ridge Middle School, as city planner/interim administrator Adam Sayre described them. But the mother of a 12-year-old who was briefly hospitalized after being hit in a crosswalk by a car traveling
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S u g a r R iv e r U n i t e d Methodist Church will continue to welcome LGBTQ individuals with open arms. That’s the view of the Rev. Gary Holmes, despite a General Conference
on Main Street three weeks ago wants a change there – she prefers traffic lights – so it doesn’t happen to someone else’s child. The Common Council had a preliminary discussion on the matter five days after the accident and is waiting for options from its engineering consultant, AECOM. The firm plans to present those options at its next meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. April 8 at City Hall.
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Carly Haas sprays water on a coffee filter colored with marker to see how the color will spread during the Science and Art after-school program Monday, April 1, at New Century School.
Local church welcomes LGBTQ despite global vote Sugar River pastor calls worldwide vote ‘toxic’ to UMC
What: Common Council meeting When: 7 p.m. Monday, April 8 Where: City Hall, 111 Lincoln St. Info: ci.verona.wi.us
vote within the worldwide church to continue excluding them from being married in the church or becoming clergy. Holmes told the Press l a s t w e e k t h e Ve r o n a church opposes the decision that was made in late February during a special worldwide General Conference session. It was during this session global church leaders affirmed that the denomination would adhere to the traditional teachings of the The
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Bible, barring LGBTQ individuals from being full members of the church, which includes being married or ordained as clergy unless they are celibate. The General Conference, held in St. Louis, was called to specifically address how the church wo u l d a p p r o a c h s ex u al identity, Holmes said. Global leaders chose between the “Traditional Plan” or the “One Church Plan,” which would have allowed churches to decide
their own stances of sexuality and whether they want to ordain and perform marriages for members of the LGBTQ community. The vote in favor of the Traditional Plan added “teeth” to the church’s s t a n c e o n s e x u a l i t y, Holmes said. It adds disciplinary actions for clergy who perform samesex marriages, something Holmes said he and other clergy at local churches
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216 years of experience set to retire
approved for retirement Monday by the school board are continuing a trend in recent years here, with the fourth straight of more than 200 years of experiSCOTT GIRARD ence leaving. Last year, it was 217 years total, with Unified Newspaper Group an average of about 24 per The Verona Area School retiree — below this year’s District will lose 216 years 27 years average service. The retirements hit the of certified staff experience high school the hardest, at the end of this year. The eight staff members
Three staffers have been in VASD for more than 30 years
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The Canadian Brass:
They have truly earned the distinction of the world’s most famous brass group. Their music ranges from Baroque to Dixieland, including patriotic music.
Friday, Yes Friday! April 5, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Verona Area High School PAC 300 Richard St.
Verona Area Performing Arts Series
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More photos from the New Century after-school classes
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