November 2018 Around the Area

Shorelines A Publication of the Lauderdale Lakes Improvement Association (LLIA), an all volunteer organization devoted to keeping a careful watch on water quality and water safety, preserving the lake's natural habitat, creating a superbly stocked fishery, and keeping lake area homeowners up-to-the-minute on what's happening November 2018 around the area. For more information visit our website at: www.llia.org Volume 41 - No. 4

SHORELINES NEWSLETTER GETS A FACELIFT

Keep an eye peeled. Next spring, Shorelines will get a brand new look and feel—more color, more photos and, hopefully, a little more fun to read.

As an example, we'd like to try a new column titled Lake Views. And you can be a contributor. In 75 words or less, email us your thoughts, observations, reflections and suggestions specifically about life on Lauderdale Lakes and we'll select a few for publication. If you wish, you may submit your thoughts anonymously.

Email us at: lakeviews@llia. org

The new spring issue is expected to hit your mailbox or your email by early April 2019.

MARK YOUR 2019 CALENDARS! IN THIS ISSUE

From the LLIA... News from the LLIA... News from Around the Lake... Fishapalooza Sat, Feb 2nd Ice Safety Tips 2 Lake Management District 10 LLIA Annual Meeting Sat, June 8th Honoring Bud Vance 3 Yacht Club 10 Kids Fish Jamboree Sat, July 20th LaGrange Fire Dept 3 Sailing Club 11

From Around the Lake... Cement Shoes: Gangsters Lutherdale 11 Yacht Club Cocktails with the at our Lakes 4 LaGrange Change in Bulk Commodore Sat, June 1st Yacht Club Fireworks Sat, July 6th Fish Committee 5 Pickup for 2019 Back Cover (rain date July 7th) LaGrange Highway Dept 6

Lake Management District Ticks! 8 Annual Meeting Sat, Aug 31st Roles of Lakes Orgs 9

NEWS FROM THE LLIA ...

Ice Safety Tips by Dave DeAngelis - Chair, Water Quality

Winter is upon us and that means that our lakes will be icing over in the very near future. We at LLIA want to promote safety for you and your family. Here are some Ice Safety Tips for those of you that ice fish. These tips also apply to those of you that snow mobile, ice skate, or just like to walk around on the ice.

1. Share your fishing plans. It’s a good idea to share your plans with your family, friends, or neighbors. Let them know which lake you will be fishing on, the location of your fishing spot, and when you plan to possible for you to climb out. Don’t battery. A quality charger can save arrive home. skimp on this inexpensive life saving the day. To avoid permanent 2. Bring a friend. When going out on device. damage, turn your phone off in the ice, never go alone. A friend can 7. Carry a throw rope. A throw rope extremely cold temperatures. provide an extra set of hands, help can be used to pull someone to 11. Respect the ice auger. Ice augers are you stay focused on safety and alert safety that has fallen through the built to drill holes quickly and authorities if something goes wrong. ice. efficiently. Before operating it for 3. Talk to the locals or folks that are 8. Leave the lake before the first time, read the owner’s frequently out on the ice. They can dark. Navigation at night can be manual. In addition, avoid wearing provide information on ice thickness, treacherous. Without familiar visuals loose clothing or jewelry. When you water movement, and other or a navigation device, you can are finished with the auger, store it information pertinent to the lake. If become disorientated making it in a safe place. Lastly, always there are fisherman already on the difficult to find your way off the ice. maintain sharp blades to avoid injury lake, ask them what the ice thickness while drilling. is. 12. Stay 4. Follow these ice thickness hydrated. Staying guidelines. Remember, ice is never hydrated is very 100% safe. Ice thickness can change important. very quickly. Dehydration can 2" or less - STAY OFF! happen quickly in cold 4" - Ice fishing or other activities weather because your on foot body is working hard 5" - Snowmobile or ATV to stay warm. NOTE: 8" - 12" - Car or small pickup Beer does not count. 12" - 15" - Medium truck Drink water. 5. Bring a flotation suit or device. A 13. Layer flotation suit is the best way to go. If up. Selecting the right you fall through the ice, a flotation 9. Install proper ventilation in your ice number of layers is important. suit will keep you warm and make it shanty. If your ice shanty is heated, Beginners to winter activities tend to easier to escape the frigid water. make sure you have good underdress, especially if it’s a sunny Option B is to carry a life vest or ventilation. A poorly ventilated day. Choosing the right number of throw cushion. shanty can lead to carbon monoxide layers, based on temperature, can 6. Carry a pair of ice picks/rescue poisoning. only be accomplished through trial claws. Keep a quality pair of ice 10. Bring a portable power bank battery and error. Before venturing out on picks with you at all times. If you fall charger. Cold temperatures can the ice, practice on shore around the through the ice, ice picks make it quickly drain your smartphone house.

Honoring Bud Vance Bud loved Lauderdale Lakes and the recreational opportunities of boating, UPDATE ... Key Box Service Bud Vance passed away on Tuesday fishing, swimming, and the opportunity In the August Shorelines the Lauderdale- October 16, 2018 surrounded by his wife to share this with his entire family and LaGrange Fire Department announced a Pauline and their children. Bud loved friends. He was especially proud of the long-term arrangement with The KNOX spending time at Lauderdale lakes and LLIA Annual Children’s Fish Jamboree and Company to assist homeowners with key enjoyed having Pauline and their children how the LLIA Fish Committee became a boxes that enable the Fire Department to and grandchildren at their Lake Home. strong supporter of the event. In have access to your home if you are not addition, he was pleased to have the there. Fire Fighters encourage more Yacht Club and Kettle Moraine Land Trust homeowners to install this box. If a also become co-sponsors. smoke or fire alarm is activated the Department will generally be dispatched Bud was a very proud Captain of his boat, to Investigate. It is usually necessary to and he was a dedicated leader and enter your home to determine the cause supporter of improving and preserving or ensure there is not a fire. If there is no Lauderdale Lakes for all to enjoy now and one available to allow the Fire for the foreseeable future. We are all Department entry, it MAY be necessary thankful for the opportunity to have for us to gain access by breaching a door known and worked with Bud through the or window which will usually cause years. The LLIA extends our sympathy to damage to your residence. This box his wife Pauline and the family. We look allows you to safely store a spare door forward to having you continue to enjoy key or even a keypad code for us to gain Lauderdale Lakes. entry without damage or delay. It is also a good idea to include a reset code for the fire alarm system in this box or near the keypad. The box is also a great idea Lauderdale LaGrange Fire for someone who is home alone and may be having medical issues, as it allows our Department EMS members to gain access to the by Don Henderson - Chair, Planning & building quickly and without damage. Zoning The box is locked and only accessible by the Fire Department. For more info, Equipment Needs The Lauderdale Lakes Improvement please contact Chief Dave Nelson at 262- All Fire Fighters appreciate and thank the Association members and many lake 495-8400 or the Knox company at Town residents and property owners for residents fondly remember and respect www.knoxbox.com/residential- their ongoing support. Your generous the many contributions that Bud knoxboxes. They also make Commercial financial contributions have kept the provided during his lifetime. Bud served quality boxes that can store multiple keys Department operating with modern as the LLIA President four years and and be tied to your alarm system to updated equipment for many years. This served on the LLIA Board for over 18 detect any tampering with the key box. coming year the Department will focus years. We as members of the LLIA will on replacing an older outdated Heart always remember Bud for his wisdom, Monitor/Defibrillator used on nearly total commitment to our lake every EMS call in some fashion, and can preservation and dedication to save the life of someone in cardiac arrest. excellence in all that our Association A new monitor will cost between $30,000 undertook. and $35,000.

The LLIA Shorelines newsletter became a Our Department is classified as a 501c3 valued communication source under organization. Your gifts are generally Bud’s guidance as editor. Through the 18 eligible for tax deduction, and a years he served as editor he successfully confirmation letter will be provided for gathered news articles from and about larger gifts. If your employer provides the entire lake community including the matching gifts, please notify them of Town of LaGrange and Walworth County. your gift so that they may also make a The Shorelines became the respected matching contribution. “Your past newsletter that our community residents support has been great, and I extend my valued and looked forward to receiving personal thanks to each of you for and reading. making the Department very successful”

said Chief David Nelson.

Cement Shoes: Gangsters at Our Lakes, An Initial Discussion by Kathryn Ingle Calkins - Chair, History

Over the past decade, stories and rumors have occasionally reached the History Column about sightings of shady characters boating, fishing or hiding out on Lauderdale, especially during the first half of the 20th Century. It makes sense. As close as they are to Chicago, our lakes must certainly have appeared attractive to organized crime members looking to get away from law enforcement, each other or the pressures of their lifestyle. This column recounts some stories and provides a little context for them.

Certainly mobsters visited nearby Lake parties could be heard across Middle northwestern Cook County, which Geneva and its surroundings regularly Lake, according a reminiscence by one initially fell outside Al Capone’s sphere of during Prohibition. Baby Face Nelson, for owner of Keystone. Current owner of the influence. Since northern Cook County example, frequented a hotel that still Deakin house, Jeff Adams, found extends west to Elgin, Ill., the territory stands on Lake Como near Lake Geneva. evidence during a recent restoration that places the Touhy gang pretty close to Now known as The French Country Inn, the house had been outfitted with Walworth County on the other side of the hotel recounts its colorful history on amenities designed to help those evading the state line. Lifelong Lauderdale its webpage. The gangsters sought out the law (see History Column, November summer resident, Kenneth Ingle, recalls such secluded locations to relax, hold 2014). These included an upstairs his aunt telling him that on a trip with her meetings or escape federal agents bedroom with a secret panel hiding a father to Lauderdale, they were passed searching for them. Even the legendary telegraph machine as well as a secret by three black cars full of men speeding Al Capone likely visited Lake Geneva, room in the boathouse that appeared to in the other direction. She was later told although he had his own hideout much communicate with the ballroom above that the men had been the Touhy gang, further north in Wisconsin as well as one via a ladder attached to the wall. shooting their way out of a hideout back in Michigan. in the springs at the end of Middle Lake. One Camp Wandawega, just south of our own gangster Ed Sorenson, another Don Jean Bay on Lake Wandawega, was whose Lauderdale “lifer”, built in 1925 by Chicagoans expressly for name remembered a story selling liquor illegally. “The place is surfaces in that Touhy had once outfitted for the distribution of liquor, several been pulled over by prostitution and gambling,” the website separate Elkhorn policeman states. “We’re talking multiple exits, accounts Harry Ward for a trapdoors and hidden hatches to conceal related to minor traffic violation. stockpiles.” A Federal raid in 1931 even Lauderdale Ward had Touhy shut the camp – then a hotel -- down for is Roger follow him back to the a period. “The police station to Terrible” complete paperwork. It is no wonder, then, that various people Touhy and There, officers interviewed about the history of his gang. discovered guns in Lauderdale have mentioned some Touhy was Touhy’s car and incidents and sightings of organized one of arrested him. crime members. One of the better several According to Sorenson, known, probably, isn’t so much a sighting brothers people said that if as a description of a place they would who began Ward had known who have found it difficult to keep away from. selling beer he was pulling over he Earl Deakin’s white house on Deakin during would have “wet his Island saw its share of wild parties during Prohibition pants.” In Prohibition. Complete with appearances in confirmation of the by the Ziegfeld Follies dancing girls, those

story, a perusal of a blog devoted to Fish Committee raffle at the end of the day, including a Touhy revealed a mug shot of the By Jim "Corky" Corcoran - Chair, Fish grand prize to be named later. Meat gangster with the caption “Touhy in Committee raffles, 50/50, and others will be part of Elkhorn” and no other explanation. the day’s events as well. The entry fees

Roger Touhy appears on the FBI’s History for fishing will be 100 percent paid back Hey all, Corky here. The end of the open webpage, having escaped prison later in to the winning fish in the various water season is upon us. I took my his career and been captured by the categories! The Landing will host a band pontoon out this past weekend and had agency. that evening, so come out early to fish to break a little ice in doing so! Lots of and stay late for the party! We raised a great stuff has happened this season: A Washington D.C. columnist and journalist significant amount for the stocking effort successful crib building year where we Georgie Ann Geyer, who grew up living at last year and all who came out seemed to completed and dropped four cribs into Lauderdale in the summers, wrote in really enjoy themselves, we hope for an Green Lake. The Kids Fish Jamboree was Shorelines in 2014 that her brother had equally great time this year. a success with 61 kids registered and an encounter with someone back in the many fantastic catches were brought in! springs when he was a teenager. The 2019 Plans ... Crib Building We also raised a bit of money for fish man, she wrote, was reputed to be a Our crib building efforts will continue stocking. This fall we stocked “colleague” of Al Capone’s. Her brother next year, with hopes of building and approximately 400 Northern Pike and was paddling around rather aimlessly dropping 4 more. The sites to drop are around 2000 Perch! The Northern were when someone with a shotgun appeared becoming more difficult to find, the healthy and large “extended growth” from the only shack on that part of depth and the bottom contour has to be yearlings, about 16 inches on average. Middle Lake. He told her brother to, just so. We will continue to look for The perch were also large fingerlings and “Get out of here.” Geyer writes that days areas and if you have any suggestions about 4-6 inches! Both of these species later, the man was driving recklessly on feel free to share. We also are always have fast growth rates and the chance of Highway 12 and hit a light pole. He, too, looking for more help, so volunteer if survival is optimal due to the size at was arrested by Elkhorn police. possible. The dates will be published in stocking. And finally we are looking the upcoming Shorelines or just catch me forward to planning this upcoming year’s Geyer also remembered exploring the at the Landing and ask. It is a great way events. basement of the Sterlingworth Hotel at a to give back to the lake community and time when it was closed down. She had to get the heard that it was a den for Mafia coordinates gambling and, sure enough, she recalls of the cribs! finding gambling tables “still uncovered.” As said Even better, the walls of the room “were before, the covered with smocked pink satin.” A true cribs are very den. effective and the fish are Chicago’s organized crime history using them as extends beyond Prohibition, of course. habitat as In a book called Operation Family Secrets soon as they (2011), former Chicago Outfit mobster are dropped. Frank Calabrese Jr. recounts how his The panfish father hid money from his illegal as well as the operations in the family’s summer home, Walleye and Calabrese Cottage, near Lake Geneva as Bass can be recently as the 1980s. The Outfit was the caught off the organization run by Capone in the 1920s cribs. that continued as a forceful presence in Chicago for decades afterward. It’s reach 2019 Plans ... Kids Fish Jamboree 2019 Plans ... Fishapalooza slowly contracted, but Lauderdale and The Kids Jamboree will be the third I will begin with our plans in order of the environs may still have tempted Saturday in July as usual. We have an calendar. Fishapalooza is set for organized crime elements as an easy nd interesting proposal from the Yacht Club Saturday, February 2 . We are currently getaway. Thus, the History Column this year to host a combined party looking for Fish Committee members to welcomes more gangster stories if between the Fish Committee and the volunteer for various roles to assist in readers would like to submit them. But Yacht Club following the Jamboree. planning and running this awesome don’t get us in any trouble! More details to come soon, JJ and myself event. We will hope to have pre- are hammering out the details and we registration the evening before at the will post in an upcoming Shorelines next Landing, as well as register the day of year. The idea is to get both clubs also. We plan to have plenty of prizes to

together and to build a relationship, Some last thoughts, hopefully you all the snow far off the road into the ditch attract more members and volunteers, have a great holiday season! Good Luck where possible. One person operates and just plain have fun! As for the in the upcoming ice fishing season, each plow truck. As the plows and Jamboree, I have a new idea I want to remember no ice is “SAFE” so be careful! sanding equipment are hydraulically try. For the complete novice anglers And as always, take a kid fishing! controlled the operator just needs to (parents), I would like to host what I call move electrical switches to raise or lower “Corky’s School of Fish”. It will be a the plow and wing and start or stop the learning experience for parents to bring sander. Still it takes a lot of operator skill their kids and we can give basic Town Of LaGrange Readies for to drive the plow truck successfully on instruction of how to tie knots, what bait slippery roads with visibility limited by Winter to use for which fish species, what lures swirling snow and make the roads safe by Don Henderson - Chair, Planning & may work, how to cast and where fish for all to use during winter weather. Zoning might be hiding, and more. We will charge a nominal fee and the instruction The LaGrange Town Board passed an will happen after the registration in the The Town Highway Department has Ordinance regulating the placement of morning and will happen around the already been preparing for winter for snow on roadways by Town Residents in docks at the Landing for approximately several weeks. Highway Commissioner March 2008. Excerpts taken from an hour. There will be time afterward to Pat Hoffman and his crew have been ORDINANCE NO. 2008-01 are as follows: go fish elsewhere after the class and mowing the grass and cutting back brush register the kid’s catch! More to come and trees along the road sides. SECTION 1 states there shall be no regarding this, and registration will be placing of snow limited to a workable number of kids on any roadway based on number of instructors available. in the Town of LaGrange that 2019 Plans ... Fish Stocking would create a Stocking will be a priority again in the fall, hazardous and this upcoming year we will stock condition for Smallmouth Bass. We are part of a vehicle travel and stocking program from the Wisconsin persons shall not DNR for Walleye and we hope to receive plow snow across a generous number of Walleye this the roadway from upcoming year so our focus will be on their driveway. Smallmouth. We also will stock Perch again. The idea is to create a healthy This ordinance Perch fishery in the next few years. was put in place Perch are an easy target for all skill levels to assure that during both open water and through the when the Town ice and provide a tasty fish fry! As far as Highway the stocking of Smallmouth with our Bass Maintenance initiative in place, the Smallmouth utilize Department different habitat than the Largemouth. Trucks plow the They are not usually targeted nor caught snow off the road by the casual angler, and are just plain and they sand/salt the roads generally at hard to catch on Lauderdale. Stocking The tractor shown above has a flail the same time, the salt and sand stay on will enhance the fishery and provide mower mounted at the end of a boom. the highway. The ordinance is enforced anglers a very fun fish to catch but will This flail mower is controlled by the by the Sheriff Department and/or the not be harvested like the Largemouth as operator in the tractor cab and it may be Town Highway Commissioner often. So, with our regulations in place positioned vertically to cut back brush to harvest Bass under 14 inches, that and trees limbs or horizontally to mow Plowing snow from a driveway and should not influence the Smallmouth the grass in the ditches beside the road pushing it across the highway/Town road population as it will with the or even in behind guard rails. will also scrape the sand and salt off the Largemouth. Again, Smallmouth are roadway. This creates a potentially utilizing different habitat than the Mounting snow plows and sanding hazardous situation for vehicles being Largemouth, not targeted nor caught as equipment on the three town work driven on these roads. The road surface often, and will be able to enhance the trucks used for winter snow removal is where the snow was pushed across the fishery. another fall work project. The three highway when plowing your driveway no Town Trucks shown all have front plows longer has the Highway Department salt to remove the snow from the road and and sand to prevent icing, and it will very the side mounted wing plow that pushes

likely become slippery. In addition, when Plowing snow off the many winding and the snow is being pushed across the hilly Town roads around the Lakes is the highway some snow remains on the greatest challenge. Pat asks all of us to roadway which also contributes to the please keep our boats, utility vehicles, slippery road condition. ATVs, cars and trucks, and garbage and recycling containers well back from the The homeowner or renter is responsible road side. It is important to have area for snow placement, and you are alongside the road free to plow snow responsible for the snow regardless if onto so that the road width is not you hire a person to plow snow for you. reduced during the winter months. Snow on your property should stay on your property, and it must not be The garbage and recycling containers pushed across the road when you clear continue to be used, and John’s Disposal your driveway and walkways. Please Service will make the collection on the inform your snow plowing contractor if regular assigned day which is Monday for you hire this work. most of the Lake properties. Please place your recycling and garbage bins on the PLEASE DRIVE WITH CARE WHEN end of your driveway next to the road, FOLLOWING A SNOWPLOW TRUCK not on the road. And PLEASE ASK A

NEIGHBOR THAT LIVES NEAR YOU YEAR Pat has three snow plow routes and in AROUND TO MOVE YOUR CONTAINERS total over 66 miles of Town roads are BACK TO YOUR HOUSE AFTER cleared and sanded with each snowfall. COLLECTION IF YOU ARE THERE ONLY ON Driving a snow plow truck is demanding WEEKENDS. The containers may as the snow often swirls up across the interfere with snow plowing and cab and limits visibility both forward and certainly they detract from the beauty of backward. Wisconsin law requires our property when left next to the road motorists following a Snow Plow Truck all week. to stay back 500 feet. Town Highway Department employees ask all motorists Following these procedures will make to use extra caution and please stay back The Town Highway Department snow the required distance. This is especially plowing more effective and our Town important at intersections when snow roads will be safer for all to use. plow trucks often need to plow around a corner and then back up before turning Compost Site to plow the other direction. The Town Compost Site closed for the winter before deer season on November 17, 2018.

Ticks! Petersen Island Woods Preserve and increases your defenses. Herb confirms Information Shared by Herb Sharpless - other properties owned or maintained by its effectiveness after three seasons of Chair, Stewardship Committee, Kettle KMLT. Needless to say, Herb has become use in our area. Moraine Land Trust very familiar with ticks that inhabit our yards, brush, and woods, carrying some Herb also identified the following article

nasty diseases like Lyme disease. which offers other suggestions. You Word on the street (more accurately on might want to consider these options as the ground and in the woods) is that ticks Herb shares one tip he received from you plan landscaping improvements over are alive and well in the Lauderdale Lakes Gerry Petersen to repel ticks when the winter. The following article was area. Herb Sharpless, LLIA Treasurer, working around the yard. The insecticide written by Mitchel Block, a UW-Stevens works on behalf of the LLIA to control Permethrin has been found effective Point Student. It appears in Lake Tides, a invasive species along our shorelines. He against ticks and other pesky insects. quarterly publication of the Wisconsin also serves as KMLT's Stewardship While you should always wear long pants Lakes Partnership (Volume 43, No. 3 Committee Chairperson. That role and long sleeves as a deterrence, Summer/Fall 2018). involves significant efforts to maintain applying Permethrin to your clothing

The August 2018 Shorelines included the chart on the following page, created to clarify the roles of the many organizations that exist in and around the Lauderdale Lakes community. If you have questions or concerns we hope this helps you determine where to get assistance. We have included the web site address for each, where you can find contact information.

8 ROLES OF LAUDERDALE LAKES ORGANIZATIONS

Government Units Community Organizations Social / Special Interest LL Lake Management District LL Improvement Association LL Yacht Club (est 1991) (est 1902) (est 1953) Funding: tax levy & charges, user fees, Funding: annual memberships, donations & Funding: annual memberships, event DNR grants & reimbursements, Town of Directory advertisers fees, donations LaGrange • Monitor water quality • Numerous social events on and • Lauderdale Lakes Country Club & • Annual fish stocking / habitat off lake Community Center • Support water safety • Co-sponsor Kid's Fishing Jamboree • Water Safety Patrol • Preserve natural habitat Safety & Education Fund • Weed Harvesting • Communication includes all groups • Annual 4th of July fireworks • Dam • Monitor legislation impacting lake; display • Septic pumping engage where appropriate Communications: The Flag Hoist • Pier inspector • Document history of lake area www.llyclub.com • Clean Boats Clean Waters Communications: Shorelines & Lauderdale • Identify, monitor & manage Lakes Directory pollutant sources www.llia.org LL Sailing Club Communications: District Dialogue (est 1967) www.lauderdalelakedistrict.com Funding: annual memberships, event

Kettle Moraine Land Trust fees, donations (est 2000) • Race each Sunday from first Funding: tax deductible memberships & Other Government Units Impacting Lake Sunday in June to Labor Day donations, private grants Community: • Social events Towns of LaGrange & Sugar Creek • Was Lauderdale Lakes Conservancy Communications: via website • All local laws including but not • Accredited land trust serving www.lauderdalesailingclub.com limited to boating, piers, Walworth County fireworks, boat launches, buoys, & • Works with public & private land- sensitive environmental areas owners to protect critical resources Walworth County • Owns 4 preserves, holds • Zoning (including Shoreland) conservation easements & partners • Law Enforcement (Sheriff) to maintain additional properties Other Social/Special Interest Groups: State of Wisconsin • Connects people with nature & Lauderdale Lakeriders (snowmobiling) • Laws covering fishing, boating & education activities for all ages LAS Water Ski Team all water related structures & Communications: Nature News activities in and on water (DNR) www.kmlandtrust.org

NEWSNEWS FROM FROM AROUND THE THE LLIA L AKE......

Lauderdale Lakes Lake The DNR will help with grant funding Management District and we will be looking for volunteers to help work with our engineer in by Jack Sorenson - Chairman, Lauderdale gathering and preparing information Lakes Lake Management District to be assembled for such a study. This project will likely be a three year I am very pleased to announce that the effort, but one that we feel is Dam repair is all set to proceed as extremely important at this time. For weather and water flow allow. The more information please contact any documentation has been finalized and of the Lake District Commissioners. after years in the process this improvement will be partially funded by At the last board meeting I announced planning this fun party. The dance floor DNR grant and make the dam safer. We that we would be forming a golf was packed and everyone enjoyed the will keep you posted on the committee, to help with various festive atmosphere. improvements. improvement decisions, possible fund raisers, golf outings etc. I will try to have Event planning is underway for 2019. We are working on a thorough review of a representative of each Lake District golf After a hiatus of 8 years, the LLYC is the Club House to determine the existing league participate. Please contact me if planning a Lake Home Tour for August structural limitations and the cost of you are interested. 2019. Attendance will be limited to LLYC remodeling. We have had estimates in members only, so be sure to look for the the past but this review will give us The Lake District has a website where membership application in the spring. accurate information compiled by a much of the information about the structural engineer from which to have District may be found. Please go to Fortunately, you don’t have to be a LLYC discussions and base a decision on lauderdalelakedistrict.com. member to donate to the 2019 Fourth of moving forward. From this review we July Fireworks! Mark your calendars for will also receive costs for rebuilding the July 6, 2019 (rain date is July 7). The building. This information combined fireworks are funded through local with previous information should help us Yacht Club in 2019 - Fireworks & Lake Home Tour return! businesses and homeowner donations. to accurately predict and assess the job The quality of the display is solely by Laura Allen - Commodore, Lauderdale conditions we encounter whether we dependent on YOUR donation. This is a Lakes Yacht Club remodel, repair or rebuild all or part of it. treasured We will provide more information as we summer gather it. tradition on Lauderdale “What would we like the lake to be like in Lakes. Please the next two or three generations?” As a donate so that part of the purpose of the Lake District it this tradition is our job to protect and maintain the not only environmental and recreational values of continues, but the lake. The Lake is the head water of gets better the Honey Creek and is spring fed, it also every year. takes in waters from all of the Watch for a surrounding watershed areas that flow letter from into the lake. In the past the District has LLYC Safety & been part of studies to identify Ed in the watershed runoff and potential spring so that pollutants. In response the District has you can bought and created a settling basin for Lauderdale Lakes Yacht Club held their contribute! farm land water runoff, prior to the last party of the season on October 6th at water entering into the Lake. We are 841 Brewhouse in Whitewater. We will kick off the summer on June 1st also working with other farmers to insure Costumes were optional, but nearly at Cocktails with the Commodore at minimal runoff. These Water Shed everyone attending was dressed in Ivan’s in East Troy. Hope to see you studies have a limited life and we feel Halloween costumes. Reid Patterson & there! that it is time to prepare a new study. his committee did an outstanding job

laughing at all of us after he rounded the anything. Give our office a call if you Lauderdale Sailing Club island, and was on his way back to Green, have a possible donation. by Glenn Hansen - Commodore, just as the rest of us entered Mill Lake. Lauderdale Lakes Sailing Club Jack won this race handily on a windy 2019 is going to be an exciting year as Sunday and then he and Nancy hosted a work continues on the new lodge and

terrific end of year picnic. The team conference center. The building Another great season has come to an Truman trophy was won by their next foundation is going in this fall and then it end, but not without some great door neighbors, Joe and Bunny Kovarik. will sit for the winter. In May performances. The only thing missing Great race guys! construction will start on the lodge with from the second half of our the arrival of the 20 manufactured season was WIND!!! On bedroom units that will be crane lifted multiple Sunday mornings we into place. The ELCA Mission Builders looked out across the lake to will be overseeing the project. They are a absolute glass. Great great group of retired folks who do conditions for water skiing but construction projects for Lutheran not so much for sailing. When organizations. The new center will open we can't sail on a Sunday sometime in 2020. morning we are forced to make up races the following Each year something new gets added to weekend. With some tight our beautiful campus. This year the scheduling we were able to get Groen & Stanfield memorial was almost all of our scheduled completed. The picture shows the races completed. wonderful sitting area that has been

added. Second half winners include:

Christian Zenger - RoJo Cup Another great season comes to an end During the off season of fall, winter and Doug Ward - Budweiser Trophy and we wish everyone a safe and happy Jim Johnson - Ladies Appreciation Trophy holiday season. Doug Hood - Walsh Trophy

See you back on the water in the spring! Bob Wojda won a race and tied with

Mike Fuller for second in the Yacht Club sponsored Regatta Series. Michael Engel had 6 top five finishes and did great again Lutherdale Looks Toward Big this summer. Changes in 2019 by Jeff Bluhm - Executive Director, But no one had a season like Peter Van Lutherdale Kampen. Peter won 2 club races and a Regatta series race. He was first overall We had another great summer camp in the Regatta series as well as the season here at Lutherdale. It was great Summer series and was declared our to see many of our neighbors and friends Sailor of the Year. Not only is he a great throughout the summer. It is always sailor but he gets up early to set the great to welcome you to one of our marks with Bill Crist and when we had a Friday night dinner events. We have scheduling snafu, he hopped off of his such a great view of the lake to sit and sailboat and ran race committee from his enjoy a meal and conversation. We look spring, Lutherdale remains very busy pontoon so we could complete a race. forward to seeing you back again next with a host of weekend conferences and He sets a great example. Thanks again, year. retreats. There is always something Peter. happening around here. Wishing you

We would also like to thank many of our peace and blessing until we see you back Our final race on the regular schedule is lake neighbors who offer to help next season. the Harry Truman race. You may have Lutherdale with donations and in kind seen us sailing through the channel and gifts. We get calls every year wanting to around the small island in the middle of know if we can re-use an item that is Mill Lake. This can be a fun race but also being discarded or replaced. We have frustrating. You can be flying around and received boats of all kinds over the years. then hit the channel and just park. This We have also received washers, dryers, did not happen to captain Jack Sorenson. furniture, household items, extra He flew through the channel and was construction supplies and almost

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TOWN OF LAGRANGE CHANGES BULK PICKUP FOR 2019 Please Remember ...

The Town of LaGrange has recently accepted a proposal from Johns Disposal Service to change the way bulk items will be collected. SUPPORT OUR Previously, bulk items were collected on the last pickup of each ADVERTISERS! month. Town of LaGrange residents will be also receive this information directly from the Town. Their support in our Lauderdale Lakes Directory is critical to the publication of Effective January 1, 2019, residents are required to call Johns our biennial Directory and they at 262-473-4700 and schedule each bulk items collection. appreciate each of us support their business. When you purchase goods or Each residence will still receive up to one bulk items collection per services from an advertiser, please month at no additional cost. Contract collection limits remain the remember to thank them for their same. Residents must call at least 72-hours in advance of their desired support of the LLIA. Many advertisers pickup date and options will be made available by Johns. Under this have been purchasing an ad in our new program, residents will be able to dispose of electronics with Directory for a very long time and we their bulk items. Each scheduled bulk items collection may include thank them for their continued support. EITHER one (1) household electronic item OR multiple bulk garbage / We also welcome our new advertisers recycle items. If you have any questions regarding this change in (or those we have not seen for awhile), service, please call Johns Disposal Service at 262-473- 4700. who look forward to your business.