Elm Grove FREE NEWS- INDEPENDENT Vol. 8 No. 6 Serving Elm Grove, WI & Neighboring Communities August 2020 Freedom of the Press is Essential. Community News Matters.

Photo by James L. W. Bain /News-Independent Photo by Jane Kivlin A cautionary sign in an Elm Grove yard. Replica of a flag made by (1885-1977) an American women’s suffrage leader known for being the first  INSIDE  to propose an equal rights amendment • PAGE 2 – “I Know Where You Live!” to the U.S. Constitution. As each state WHO has announced her retirement? ratified the amendment Paul sewed on a star and unfurled the flag when • PAGE 3 – “Village Update” the 38th state, Tennessee, ratified it. WHO else has retired? Wisconsin ratified the amendment in WHAT is the status of the SSND 1919. From the collection of Elm Grove re-development… the new resident Jane Kivlin. Tonawanda gym… the Juneau Blvd. property issue…Elmbrook schools reopening… Should masks be  August 18, 2020  declared mandatory? the 100th Anniversary • PAGE 4 – “Past Times” Photo by Jeff Hughes of the passage of the WHEN did women first become U.S. Presidential candidates? th 19 Amendment The Eagle Has Landed… • PAGE 8 – “News Hounds” giving all U.S. Women While working from home during COVID-19, Elm Grove resident Jeff Hughes no- WHICH cute cats are up for adoption? the Right to Vote. ticed a bald eagle in his Froedtert Drive neighborhood and was able to take several photos • PAGE 9 – “Young Writers” th WHAT is Love? HOW is My Tree? (See Past Times – Page 4) of the majestic bird on July 10 . Hughes, who says that he has been active in the past with wildlife and deer within the village, told the News-Independent: “In 29 years here, NEW this month: “Designs to Color” “I never doubted that equal rights I have never seen nor heard of (a bald eagle) in the village, (although) nesting pairs are WHY? Fun for Kids (and Adults)! was the right direction. Most reforms, reported on Milwaukee River north of Milwaukee.” + “All the News there’s room to print…” most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” We are now offering curbside pick up! - Alice Paul To Place an Order Call:

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Call: (262) 782-6193 Page 2 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT August 2020 Elm Grove “I Know Where You Live!” News-Independent LLC Founder / Owner / Publisher / Editor Lisabeth Passalis-Bain ______News & Advertising [email protected] (262) 782-6193 www.elmgrove.news Lisabeth Passalis-Bain Click on ARCHIVE to read past issues. ______Photographer / Photo Editor A Decade & Counting… James L. W. Bain Next month’s September 2020 edition of the Elm Grove News-Independent Production & Distribution Assistant will celebrate the 10th ANNIVERSARY Christos Passalis-Bain of providing hyper-local news and Web Designer / Webmaster information about our community and Nicholas Passalis-Bain beyond. Production Artist The news industry of which I have been Chaysze Zee a proud part for many, many years has ______certainly changed over time. Some papers Photo by Lisabeth Passalis-Bain / News-Independent have gone dark, others have gone entirely Published monthly. Elm Grove Postmaster Jill Lipovsek in her element. Distributed via the U.S. Postal digital… yet the News-Independent is Service to every Residence, Business published both in print and online. The & P.O. Box in Elm Grove, Wisconsin value of local journalism remains constant Elm Grove Postmaster to Retire in September 53122. Additional copies available and is as important now as ever. Following a three-decades-long career at select locations within Elm Grove & What experience gives me the credentials neighboring communities. with the U.S. Postal Service, Elm Grove to run a newspaper? Why do I persist in resident Jill Lipovsek recently announced Online @ www.elmgrove.news keeping the paper going? What does it ______to the News-Independent her plan to retire take to publish an issue? I will answer Mailing address: next month and responded to a series of these questions and more with a special questions about her years of service, special Elm Grove News-Independent “The Making of the News-Independent” memories, and future plans. P.O. Box 372 feature in September. What do you want to Elm Grove, WI 53122-0372 know? Send questions by August 15. • When did you begin work with the ______And, PLEASE, help me to provide USPS? Copyright 2020 by news & information to our community. I began my career with the USPS on Elm Grove News-Independent LLC SUPPORT THIS PAPER via March 23, 1990. My first position was a All rights reserved. ADVERTISING. Request a Rate Sheet at clerk in the main processing plant, I worked Any reproduction without written permission [email protected]. 3rd shift, as it was very conducive for my from the Publisher is prohibited. family. 6 months into my career, upper Take care. Stay well! Wear a mask! Photo by Lisabeth Passalis-Bain Management asked if I was interested in upper mobility. After some thought, I An Eagle Award for Oustanding Service decided to go into management, as I knew I could make a difference.

Our Village • Why did you decide to have a career with the USPS? My brother, who recently completed his tenure with the U.S. Navy, began his career with the USPS, and advised me they were offering the test to the public, so I decided to take the test. I scored a 98 and within a few days the USPS contacted me to start the process. After some discussion with my husband, Guy, this would be an opportunity of a lifetime, to be employed with the USPS and endless opportunities for advancement.

• Date of retirement? My official date of my retirement with the USPS is September 30, 2020, however my last official working date is September 1, 2020.

• Did you work for the USPS in another community/communities prior to becoming the Postmaster in Elm Grove? Prior to becoming Postmaster of Elm Grove, my positions included: Supervisor of Distribution operations at the Milwaukee Plant; Supervisor of Customer Service at the Waukesha Post Office: Officer in Charge of Germantown, Brookfield, and Grayslake, Illinois and Des Plaines, Illinois; also, I did the hiring and interviews of new applicants for many offices in Wisconsin and Illinois.

• When were you appointed to the position of Elm Grove Postmaster? I began my career in Elm Grove as Postmaster in March, 2000 and was officially sworn in December, 2000.

• What awards / special recognition have you received? Among my awards are 3 Great Lakes Area AVP crystal “Eagles” (one is pictured above) for outstanding revenue growth in fiscal years 2014, 2017, and 2019. Photo by James L. W. Bain / News-Independent • What are a few of your best memories as our Elm Grove Postmaster? One of several similar signs displayed at Elm Grove residences. Being the Postmaster of Elm Grove has been very rewarding. I have been blessed to have the best staff serving the residents of the village, along with all the customers that ______come as far as Johnson Creek that utilize the Elm Grove Post office for their shipping needs, as I have been told many times that the Elm Grove Post Office is the best, great customer service, the facility is clean, and it’s a very friendly facility with the local kids ADVERTISE from various schools that have displayed their artwork here for the last 22 years for in the ELM GROVE NEWS-INDEPENDENT every holiday and different season. In years past, we would participate in the Elm Grove To request a Rate Sheet, Memorial Day parade. I held coloring contests and selected several kids from the Village to carry the American flag in front of the decorated postal vehicle and handed out coloring E-mail: [email protected] books along the route. or Call: (262) 782-6193 ______(See POSTMASTER – Page 10) August 2020 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT Page 3 Village Update Business By Neil Palmer, President – Village of Elm Grove Directory July was a remarkably busy month for Elm Grove Village government on a number of fronts. * Community Organizations

Mary Stredni, our long-serving Village Clerk retired. As Village Clerk, Mary was responsible for conducting elections, maintaining the property assessment records, and keeping the records of all Village Board and Committee meetings. Kiwanis – Golden K Mary was a great employee and fun to of Elm Grove Wisconsin work with. Come Join Us, men & women, Michelle Luedtke has been hired as to serve the children of our community. our new Village Clerk and will be starting We meet each Friday at 9:30 a.m. in the work soon. Michelle comes to us from St. Mary’s Senior Center in Elm Grove. Delafield where she served as Clerk. She We have wonderful speakers each week, also previously worked at the Village of and we have lots of fun. Menomonee Falls in the Zoning Department [email protected] and briefly worked in Elm Grove as an Photo courtesy of Joe Schumann / CG Schmidt www.kiwaniselmgrove.org Administrative Assistant in 2015. The new Tonawanda Elementary School gymnasium under construction, as seen from near Legion Drive. Several residents have contacted Elmbrook Senior Taxi Village Board members asking that • The main office secure entry exterior in person and protect the health of staff and we support a mandatory face mask window opening has been created and students. Need a ride… to a club or activity, declaration by Waukesha County. the new security equipment will be medical appointment, shopping, etc.? Coronavirus regulations must come from installed later this summer. We have received approval from the the Waukesha County Health Department state to open the new splash pad area Call (262) 785-1200 for communities like Elm Grove which do • The damaged wood fascia around the at the swimming pool once some minor Serving residents of Elm Grove, not have a health department. The Board PODs have been removed and the modifications are made. The splash pad the Town & City of Brookfield & Butler. will be discussing these requests soon. existing wrapped in break metal. should be open by the time you read this column. The pool reservation system I believe that requiring a mask be worn • The existing playground equipment is working well and there have been no * Insurance in public buildings and businesses, where will be re-arranged, and the playground significant issues in operations. adequate social distancing is not possible, asphalt will be resurfaced in the next few Woller-Anger & Company, LLC is a reasonable step to limit the spread of weeks. The Village Planning Commission 930 Elm Grove Road, Elm Grove, WI 53122 Covid-19. A temporary mask requirement has begun consideration of a proposal (262) 789-2500 will make it possible to get schools back • All work within the existing building to allow construction of up to four “Building Relationships … open sooner and more fully. A uniform will be completed prior to September 1st. new homes on a large lot on Juneau Insuring Success!” county-wide mask regulation will also Boulevard. The property has been vacant be easier for the public and businesses to • The shell structure of the Gym addition for 18+ years. As proposed, each of the manage. If you don’t believe you should is completed. four lots would be 3/4 of an acre or greater *Travel have to wear a mask, then do not go to in size. The Plan Commission heard from those businesses requiring one. • The new bus drop-off parking lot on the some neighbors preferring the lot remain south side of the school, with entrance a single home lot and the Commission The recent retirement of Fire Chief, from Legion Drive will be paved prior to has heard from residents who support the Bill Seltzer, has prompted the Fire and September. proposal because they have been seeking 13416 Watertown Plank, Ste 200, E.G. Police Commission to appoint Assistant property in the Village to build a new home. Chief David Kastenholtz as Acting Chief • The interior of the Gym addition is Any proposal will have to meet Village (262) 923-8120 while a search process for a new Chief is anticipated to be completed by the end requirements for storm water management U.S., Canadian & European Tours conducted. David grew up in the Village of October. The existing gym will still and zoning code regulations. This proposal **Special Discount Code EGAD20 and has served on the Fire Department for be utilized at the start of school until the will likely be discussed again at the August CountryTravelDiscoveries.com many years. addition is completed. 3, 2020 Plan Commission meeting.

Construction on the new Tonawanda The Elmbrook School District School No application for Conceptual Plan Elementary School gymnasium and Reopening Task Force continues their review for the School Sisters of Notre News other building upgrades are moving work with recommendations due to the Dame property has been filed yet. The along well. The project is on time and on Board on August 11th. The District is earliest I estimate the Planning Commission budget. preparing a continuum of options that could be reviewing a Concept Plan is at the Briefs range from face-to-face instruction September Planning Commission meeting • The six new Air Handler Units that to virtual learning 2.0. While some on September 14th. I have heard that the serve the existing building have been students can thrive in an online learning Mandel Development staff are continuing FREE Meal Service installed and will be started-up at the system, many others need a face-to-face outreach with Village organizations and beginning of August. These will provide environment to better grasp many subjects. individuals to seek planning input. Extended for greater climate performance and energy School attendance also provides other Children, Ages 2-18 efficiency for the building. important social development experiences that children cannot receive through virtual (BROOKFIELD) Elmbrook Schools • New LED lights are being installed learning systems. If parents and the school is offering all children ages 2-18 the throughout the existing building as well district work cooperatively and creatively, option of a free lunch for the duration of as a new fire alarm system. I believe it is possible to provide education the summer. Lunches will be served on Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday from p 10:30 a.m. to Noon. Business News To sign-up and for more information, please visit the school district website: Elm Grove Heights Senior Apartments Set to Open www.elmbrookschools.org/virtual/ mealsfor-students (ELM GROVE) – Nearly a year after dryer, spacious living areas and abundant convenience of an independent lifestyle breaking ground, Elm Grove Heights is set windows. Each apartment will also offer with easy access to all of their daily to open this month. Offering luxury one an outdoor patio or balcony to allow for shopping, dining and entertainment needs. Blood Drive Announced and two bedroom apartments, Elm Grove a lovely outdoor living space as well. The Heights is the first luxury, independent community will offer a complimentary In-person tours will be held in August. A Blood Drive, coordinated by Versiti senior community in Elm Grove. coffee bar, fitness center, clubroom, heated Blood Center of Wisconsin will take place underground parking. 24-hour emergency Elm Grove Heights was developed by on Thursday, August 6 from 3 to 7 p.m. at Located at 13040 W. Blue Mound Road, maintenance and professional, on-site Horizon Development Group; designed by Dixon Elementary School, 2400 Pilgrim the complex consists of 75 new apartment management. JLA Architects, constructed by Horizon Square Drive, Brookfield. Donors can homes for those 62 and older. Each Construction Group; management services make appointments online at apartment will boast premium finishes In close proximity to walking and biking provided by Horizon Management such as granite throughout, stainless trails and downtown Elm Grove, residents Services. (See AD – Page 7) https://bit.ly/dixonelementary080620 steel appliances, an in-unit washer/ of Elm Grove Heights will appreciate the or by calling 1 (877) 232-4376. Page 4 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT August 2020 Past Times The First Female Candidates for the U.S. Presidency By Stephen K Hauser A century ago, on August 18, 1920, the both houses of the U.S. Congress, the first 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution female to be accorded such a privilege. was ratified, following its adoption by the She was also accorded an audience with requisite number of states. It succinctly President Ulysses S. Grant to inform stated: “The right of citizens of the United him of her views on the issue. She argued, States shall not be denied or abridged by the interestingly, that since the Constitution United States or by any State on account of spoke of “citizens” and “persons” and sex. Congress shall have power to enforce made no reference to gender, women were this article by appropriate legislation.” already allowed to vote, even without a constitutional amendment. Although Students of the Constitution are well some in Washington found her arguments aware of its terse wording and of the intriguing, she made little actual headway year of its adoption. America is now in among the D.C. solons. the midst of an ongoing commemoration honoring the centennial of its passage, On May 10, 1872, delegates to the first which led to full participation of women in national nominating convention of the the presidential election of 1920. Equal Rights Party gathered at Apollo Hall in City and formally nominated What many do not know, however, it that Woodhull for President of the United there were two female candidates for the States. The crowd was small, and many of U.S. presidency in the 19th century. They the notable suffrage crusaders of the time Photo from the J. Doyle DeWitt Collection Photo courtesy: Library of Congress ran their campaigns for the White House were absent. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth decades before women were accorded the Cady Stanton and others found her bid for Victoria C. Woodhull campaign poster. Belva Ann Lockwood right to vote. The drive towards women’s the White House to be an embarrassment, suffrage was actually a very long one, a sideshow distraction from the serious beginning far before the passage of the issue of women’s voting rights. When the provided equal pay for equal work in the 1877 where she had wed John B. Martin, 19th Amendment. (For information about delegates chose former abolitionist and federal civil service system. The delegates a wealthy English banker. Her return to Wisconsin’s participation in this effort, ex-slave Frederick Douglass for vice- chose Marietta Lizzie Belle Stowe (a the United States was for the purpose of reference my Past Times column of president, Douglass himself was absent relation of abolitionist Harriet Beecher announcing her candidacy on May 6, 1892. October, 2019 at www.elmgrove.news.) and only learned of it be reading the Stowe, educator Catherine Beecher and A reception for reporters was scheduled In calling public attention to the issue of newspaper. Embarrassed, he asked a friend the ill-fated Rev. Beecher) as their vice- in a ballroom of the Wellington Hotel in votes for women, one of the most effective what he should do. The friend informed him presidential pick. Chicago. She claimed that her candidacy methods was to use marches, rallies, and that was an eccentric, would have the support of the National such tactics as might gain newspaper and he should refuse to acknowledge his Suffragists considered reputable, refined Woman Suffrage Association which was coverage. The novelty of a woman nomination. Douglass followed this advice Mrs. Lockwood to be a more responsible meeting across town. Shortly, it became announcing her candidacy for president and proceeded to ignore the party’s honor. nominee than the charismatic Victoria quite clear that it did not. would surely result in articles and feature Woodhull. Traveling along the east coast, stories in the press. While the suffrage movement at large she delivered precise, detailed lectures Her campaign of twenty years earlier had continued to ignore Woodhull’s candidacy, designed to demonstrate to all the logic been largely forgotten, and many younger The first to realize this was Victoria the nominee herself made speeches, of allowing women access to the ballot, suffragists had never even heard of her. The Claflin Woodhull, one of the more colorful gave lectures, wrote letters, and penned calming fears of those who worried that Chicago newspapers reporting on her latest personages of the 19th century. Born in editorials. This was something that mid- female voters would radically change venture published stories which dredged Homer, Ohio in 1838, she reportedly had 19th century presidential aspirants usually the results of American elections. (Her up old scandals and less than flattering only three years of formal schooling. She eschewed. Still, she did herself no favors reasoned approach was so compelling that family history. By the end of the month, and her sister, Tennessee, traveled the when she publicly embraced Spiritualism she would later be invited to address the Victoria and her husband had fled to New Midwest with her parents in a medicine as her religion and explained that she had territorial legislatures of several would-be York and made plans to return as quickly show. Her father, Buck, hawked potions experienced visions and messages from “the western states to present to them the merits as possible to Britain. She never formally and elixirs of dubious effectiveness, while other side”. On election day, the candidate sat of women’s suffrage.) Still, on election day withdrew from the presidential race, but Victoria and Tennessee read palms, told in jail, charged with violation of obscenity in 1884, Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood her brief foray into 1892 American politics fortunes and occasionally held seances for laws for exposing the sexual dalliances received no recorded votes for president as was effectively over. widows seeking contact with their departed of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the most Democrat went on to loved ones. As a teenager, she married noted evangelist of his day, in the pages of carry the day. Victoria Claflin Woodhull continued to “Dr.” Canning Woodhull, a prevaricator Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly. Meanwhile, reside in England until her death in 1927. who had purchased a human skeleton from President Grant won a second term in the Nonetheless, the Equal Rights Party Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood preceded a peddler and took to presenting himself as White House over his Democratic Party met again in convention to May 15, 1888 her in death in 1917. (Mrs. Lockwood a physician. The marriage didn’t last long, challenger Horace Greeley. Woodhull in Des Moines, Iowa to tap Lockwood to was accorded the honor of a U.S. postage as Victoria divorced him for drunkenness received no recorded votes. run for the White House a second time. As stamp featuring her visage in 1986.) Today, and abandonment. a way to stir up attention from magazines their quixotic presidential campaigns are The mainstream women’s suffrage and newspapers, a male suffragist (Charles remembered, if at all, as mere footnotes Despite this inauspicious start, she activists vowed that there would be S. Wells) was chosen as her running mate. to the struggle for women’s voting would go on to become one of the most no carnival-like distractions of a faux The 1888 campaign, however, drew rights. Perhaps, however, they should financially successful women of her time. presidential bid in 1876 or 1880, but less attention from the press than had both be recalled as having brought the In 1869, Victoria and her sister opened the by 1884 some came to see the publicity Lockwood’s first foray into presidential controversial issue of women’s suffrage first female-owned brokerage firm on Wall value of what Woodhull had attempted water four year earlier. Once again, she into the public square by making it a part Street in New York City. Her investment in 1872. A new Equal Rights Party (not received no recorded votes. Republican of the quadrennial jousting match of White decisions reportedly netted her clients affiliated with Woodhull’s earlier group) , meanwhile, won the House aspirants, ushering it center stage in profits in excess of $700,000 (equal to was organized along more moderate lines. White House. the process. about $20 million in today’s dollars.) One Its platform focused primarily on the right of her satisfied customers wasCommodore of women to gain the voting franchise. In 1892, Victoria Claflin Woodhull Stephen K. Hauser is a long-time Elm Grove Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad tycoon Other issues could be solved later on once decided to seek the presidency for a second resident, history professor, lecturer, and the and shipping magnate who was one of the women enjoyed a voice equal to that of time. She had moved to Great Britain in author of books and articles about local history. wealthiest men of his time. men on election day. The new party held its nominating convention in San Francisco, Victoria and Tennessee used the profits California on September 20, 1884 and “If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is from their commissions and their own chose noted suffragist Belva Ann Bennett but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to investments in stocks and real estate to Lockwood as its standard-bearer. Born in do but to become the mothers of the future government?” found a newspaper, Woodhull & Claflin’s New York state in 1830, she served as a Weekly, in May of 1870. The sisters school teacher until 1868 when she entered —Victoria Claflin Woodhull trafficked in scandals, investment tips, law school. Admitted to the bar 1873, she ______investigative reporting, and controversial relocated to Washington D.C. and began editorials. Among the latter were Victoria lobbying for a congressional bill which “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, Woodhull’s demands for equal rights for would allow female attorneys to argue women. cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. After the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. a decade of effort, the high court’s rules ... Men, their rights and nothing more; As a result, on January 11, 1871 Victoria were changed to allow this. Lockwood women, their rights and nothing less.” Claflin Woodhull, as an advocate of subsequently became the first woman to women’s suffrage, was invited to testify do so. Her own accomplishments also ―Susan B. Anthony before the Joint Judicial Committee of included successful passage of a bill which August 2020 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT Page 5 Calendar of Events for August 2020

Saturday – AUGUST 1 Tuesday – AUGUST 11 Friday – AUGUST 14 • Friday Flicks @ Elm Grove Village • Friday Flicks @ Elm Grove Village Public Safety Park Pavilion – 8:30 to 10 p.m., 2020 Partisan Park Pavilion – 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., featuring “Toy Story 4”. FREE. Primary Election featuring “Spider-Man into the Spider- Announcement Sponsored by Elm Grove Junior Guild. Verse”. FREE. Sponsored by Elm Grove Please remember to… Elm Grove residents Junior Guild. WALK can VOTE on Election Day Monday – AUGUST 3 “AGAINST” • Elm Grove Plan Commission from 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. Tuesday – AUGUST 18 Meeting – 7 p.m. @ Village Hall at the Lower Level *Elm Grove Building Board (in the opposite direction as) Agenda:www.elmgrovewi.org of the Elm Grove Public Library Meeting – 5:30 p.m. @ Village Hall TRAFFIC Access Live Stream Feed @ Agenda:www.elmgrovewi.org That way vehicles can see you https://elmgrovewi.org/656/live-stream OR Access Live Stream Feed @ coming & you can see them. (262) 782-6700 by Absentee (mailed) Ballot https://elmgrovewi.org/656/live-stream ______(262) 782-6700 Tuesday – AUGUST 4 OR RIDE A BIKE • Elm Grove Building Board via in-person Monday, AUGUST 24 “WITH” Meeting – 5:30 p.m. @ Village Hall Absentee Ballot • Elm Grove Board of Trustees (in the same direction as) Agenda: www.elmgrovewi.org from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Meeting: 7:30 p.m. @ Village Hall TRAFFIC https://elmgrovewi.org/656/live-stream Monday – Friday, Court Room. (262) 782-6700 Agenda:www.elmgrovewi.org Use designated walking or cycling August 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Access Live Stream Feed @ paths whenever possible. • Tunes on Tuesday – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Village Hall. https://elmgrovewi.org/656/live-stream ______@ Elm Grove Village Park Pavilion. (262) 782-6700 FREE. Call the Village of Elm Grove, DRIVERS: (262) 782-6700 Slow Down & obey the Speed Limit: Friday – AUGUST 7 with questions / concerns. CALENDAR 25 MPH throughout • Friday Flicks @ Elm Grove Village the Village of Elm Grove. Park Pavilion – 8:30 to 10 p.m., Or, Visit: www.elmgrovewi.org SPONSORED BY: featuring “Playing with Fire”. This is Watch out for walkers & cyclists Elm Grove Fire Department Night. Steve Wettstein, this summer and all year long. ______“Steve the Barber” Elm Grove Recycling Center Hours PEDESTRIANS IN of CROSSWALKS The Department of Public Works Recycling / Yard Waste facility, 900 Wall St., have the right of way will be open (with reduced hours due to the COVID-19 pandemic) on Tuesdays and Imperial Hair Care as soon as they start to cross. Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. of Elm Grove STOP FOR THEM. The center will now accept metal items for recycling. Working Tuesdays & ______Metal items cannot have any flammable liquids, freon or pressurized tanks. Wednesdays, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Please do your part For more information, visit: www.elmgrovewi.org or call (262) 782-6700. to keep everyone safe. (262) 784-4241 ______Community Crossword #3 By Lisabeth Passalis-Bain [email protected] (Solution on Page 7) ACROSS 2. Main feature on Page 3 (2 words) 5. Elm Grove insurance company (2 words) 6. Social group composed of relatives 7. Location of Sunset Playhouse (2 words) 10. Village Attorney ______De La Mora 11. Elm Grove Postmaster Jill ______12. Village Finance Director Monica _____ 13. A great place to check-out books/videos 14. Elm Grove ______Foundation 16. Walker 18. What you wear on your feet 19. Peter Cottontail is this animal 21. Elmbrook school on Pilgrim Square Dr. 22. Local place to adopt a pet (3 words) 23. Church & School on Terrace Drive 24. Recently retired Fire Chief Bill ______

DOWN 1. New E.G. Park water feature (2 words) 3. Building divided into individual dwelling units 4. He’s a Village Trustee & Waukesha County Supervisor (2 words) 8. Roses, Petunias, Zinnias, Coreopsis, etc. 9. Instructor 15. E. G. Village Manager David ______17. Top part of a house or other building 20. A two-wheel vehicle with pedals Page 6 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT August 2020 Clubs & Organizations

Photo by John Troglia Lenny Johnson (at left), Kiwanis Advisor to the Key Club and Norm Thorensen, Elm Grove Kiwanis President.

Elm Grove Kiwanis Club Awards Scholarships By Jerry McCormick During this year of unusual curtailment of many High School Key Clubs are a part of the Kiwanis family educational activities due to COVID-19, many things of community and youth Service Leadership organizations. have changed. The Kiwanis Mission to improve the Together these Key Clubs have the largest youth leader community and the world through youth service has not membership in the world. Brookfield Central Key Club changed. conducts about 350 service projects annually amounting to about 6,500 hours of service. One of the service The Elm Grove Kiwanis Club has awarded five projects was to make and distribute 7,000 coronavirus college scholarships to Brookfield Central Key Club masks. Brookfield Central High School has the largest members. This year a virtual meeting was held to Key Club in Wisconsin with annual membership between present the scholarships. The recipients were: Nicole 350 and 450 students. Co-Presidents of Brookfield Yeng, Sami Krutz and Riley Feng. Also, Anga Logan Central Key Club are Sami Krutz and Riley Feng. The and Mary Quinn were awarded the Bob Cummisford Brookfield Central and Brookfield East Key clubs are Memorial Scholarships. The late Bob Cummisford was sponsored by the Kiwanis Elm Grove Golden K. the sponsor and long-term Kiwanis Club advisor for the Key Club. The Elm Grove Kiwanis Club has about 65 members with the mission to improve the community and the During the virtual awards ceremony, presentations world through youth and community service. During were made by Norm Thorensen, Elm Grove Kiwanis the coronavirus pandemic, the regular club meetings are President and Lenny Johnson, Elm Grove Kiwanis held each Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. with Zoom Club Advisor to the Key Club. Ronn Blaha, Brookfield meetings. Central Key Club advisor also participated.

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70-YEAR JUBILARIANS at Notre Dame of Elm Grove ring a bell during the Jubilee Parade. Photo courtesy: School Sisters of Notre Dame Shown (left to right) are Loretta Bauer, Mary Faith Parkinson, Paul-Mary Draxler, Toni Voissem, Mariel Kreuzinger, Gina Redig and Margaret Mary Dohms. Cars in a parade were decorated with colorful signs to honor the Jubilarians. Jubilee 2020 Parade Honors Nuns at SSND

(ELM GROVE) A colorful caravan of cars and their According to remarks shared on the SSND website, Those wishing to join in the celebration may visit: enthusiastic occupants gathered at the St. Mary’s church “Jubilee is a special time to rejoice with our sisters as they https://www.ssndcentralpacific.org/who-we-are/ parking lot on the afternoon of July 4, then proceeded to the celebrate 40, 50, 60, 70, 75, or 80 years of faithful love jubilarians where you can send one or more sisters School Sisters of Notre Dame campus, 13105 Watertown and service to God through their vowed commitment. The an eCard, share a story about them, or make a financial Plank Road, to celebrate significant milestones in the lives Jubilee year of celebration and commemoration provides contribution in their honor. Gifts will be used to support of some of their sister Jubilarians. Some of those honored an opportunity for each Jubilarian to renew her vows… the sisters’ retirement and ministry needs. congregated on a balcony and rang a bell; many sisters and is also a time for all the sisters of the province and waved at the passing parade; one sister played a violin; international congregation to express gratitude to God and and all seemed delighted by the show of love and support. to our Jubilarian sisters…” Opening this month!

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Summer Events for Children at the Elm Grove Library (August 2020) Registration for select summer events is required. To register for a virtual performance, visit elmgrovelibrary.org or call the library by noon of the day before the performance. Please Note: In-person, live programs may be subject to change depending on safety requirements related to COVID-19. Please visit elmgrovelibrary.org for the latest updates to the schedule.

Wednesday, August 5, 10:30 a.m. – Colossal Fossils: Dragons and Dinosaurs. Live virtual program – Learn about dinosaurs and see actual fossils in this educational and entertaining program with a Q&A time at the end. Registration required by noon on Tuesday, August 4.

Thursday, August 6, 10:30 a.m. – Comedy Sportz Exhibition Match! Live Virtual Program –The Comedy Sportz Milwaukee two-person exhibition match is a fast-paced, fun, wild ride of improvised comedy! With Photo by Calvin Norman the use of fun-loving audience volunteers and scene suggestions, our players will make you laugh, giggle, Colorado Blue Spruce trees in a Brookfield yard. and laugh some more! Registration required by noon on Wednesday, August 5.

Friday, August 7 and Friday, August 21, 10:30 a.m. – Story Time outside the library (weather permitting Why are the Colorado Blue Spruce Dying? and social distancing required). By Calvin Norman State University - Forestry and Wildlife Extension Educator Tuesday, August 18, 10:30 a.m. – Great Scott: “Imagine the Impossible” Magic Show – In-person, in the library if it is safe for a group. Registration required because space may be limited due to distancing There has been a trio of Colorado the branches are usually the last needles to requirements. Call 262-782-6717 to register. blue spruce in my parents’ front yard in get infected and die. The lower branches Friday, August 28, 10:30 a.m. – David Landau, Musician – In-person, location TBA (inside or outside, Brookfield for the past 20 years. Until this tend to die first, as the fungus works its weather permitting). Dave usually performs his high-energy musical show for our preschoolers in the spring summer. That healthy trio has become a way up the tree. Rhizosphaera slowly kills but we were able to reschedule for the end of the summer. Recommended especially for ages 3 -7 years scraggly dual. The center tree is dead, trees, and it usually takes several years for and the other two were not far behind. to infected tree to die. My parents’ trees were not alone. Many of the other nearby Colorado blue spruces If an infection is caught early, you News’ Hounds were in similar shape. Their canopies might be able to control it by pruning & other beloved creatures were thinning, many of the needles near infected branches and having a fungicide the trunks were missing, and their lower at the beginning of the growing season. branches were dying. When I examined a It is important to keep dead needles and few needles from my parents’ trees, I saw branches away from the base of uninfected they were covered with small black dots. spruce, as the dead branches can be source All of these are sure signs of Rhizosphaera of infection. needle cast. Unfortunately, if the infection is not Rhizosphaera is a genus of six fungi caught early, it may be impossible to save that are native to Wisconsin and across the the infected tree. The best way to control northeastern United States. Their spores Rhizosphaera, is to prevent it by planting grow on wet needles in mild temperature— trees far apart in sunny areas to reduce known to most of us as spring or fall. moisture accumulation. If you do loose Rhizosphaera can infect many ornamental a Colorado blue spruce to Rhizosphaera conifers like Sitka spruce, Engelmann needle cast, take it as an opportunity to spruce, and most notably Colorado blue replace it with a native tree that is less spruce, which is highly susceptible to susceptible eastern white pine, white infection. Once a tree is infected, the older spruce, or balsam fir. needles near the tree trunk being to turn brown and die. Fresh needles at the tips of

Photo Courtesy Elmbrook Humane Society Cukie and Stefine Attention Business Owners! Adopt a Pet at the Elmbrook Humane Society A-D-V-E-R-T-I-S-E By Heather Gehrke Your Products, Services, Spaces for Rent, Cukie and Stefine are a bonded pair of Employment Opportunities cats in search of a new home. Cukie (grey) & More to Residents of Elm Grove and Stefine (black) have been in foster care since the middle of March. Their & Surrounding Communities! foster home has had wonderful things to share about both girls including that they For information & to request a Rate Sheet, are affectionate, lounge around the house most of the day, enjoy watching the world E-mail: around them in a comfy bed/blanket near a [email protected] window, or sleep – pretty low maintenance cats! They are happiest when someone is (262) 782-9261 or visit http://www.ebhs. or Call: with them, petting or brushing them. They org/index.php/adopt-2 to download and enjoy using their scratching posts and do complete and adoption application. not seem to be all that interested in toys. (262) 782-6193 The Elmbrook Humane Society is If you have room in your home and heart located at 20950 Enterprise Avenue, Visit the Elm Grove News-Independent’s website: for two wonderful felines, please call us at Brookfield, just off Barker Road. www.elmgrove.news Click on ARCHIVE to view current & many past issues. August 2020 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT Page 9 Young Writers & Cub Reporters

My Tree YOUNG WRITERS WANTED! By Elliott Bain rd Students in Kindergarten – Grade 12 (in public, private, parochial schools and Bannockburn School – 3 Grade those who are home-schooled) are invited to submit the following types of items: My tree is good for climbing. The branches look cool in the winter. The bark ARTICLES Reporting about School, Club, Neighborhood, Church, Scouting on my tree feels my smooth and Athletic activities. (200 words maximum) warm hands in the cold breeze. I climb higher than grandpa CREATIVE WRITING and grandma’s house. I’m a branch Short Stories (200 words maximum) of the giant tree POETRY holding onto the trunk. The tree Send submissions (noting the writer’s name, school/home-school, & grade) to: and I listen to [email protected] (subject line: Young Writers) Questions: Send an e-mail or Call (262) 782-6193. cars going by in the distance. Loving Families Love By Jianna Gropp By Olivia Webb 4th Grade - Tonawanda 4th Grade - Tonawanda Families love each other every day It is what cheers you up Parents are laughing happily and talking to each other after a hard day The kids are playing outside and being grateful It pulls us together from far, far away for one another It brightens the very darkest hour The pets are roaming around the house It is the superset superpower It is what connects the world And the cars are quickly zooming by houses one at a time It is much more than just a word Families are loved by each other no matter what happens It is love. Coloring for Kids (and Adults)!

“I never met a color I didn’t like.” – Dale Chihuly American Glass Sculptor Page 10 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT August 2020 Legal Issues Letters to the Editor

• Letters regarding issues of concern to the Elm Grove / Elmbrook / Waukesha County Estate Planning: Choosing Your Representatives community will be considered for publication on a space available basis. By Attorney Isabell Mueller • Submissions (200 maximum) must include the writer’s name, community & phone # Choosing someone to be your financial Impartiality: If possible, choose • Mail to: Elm Grove News-Independent, Letters to the Editor, P.O. Box 372, power of attorney, personal representative, someone who will be viewed by family or Elm Grove, WI 53122-0372. or the successor trustee for your trust is beneficiaries as impartial and fair. This will one of the most difficult aspects of estate help if disagreements arise and the person • E-mail: [email protected] (subject line: Letters to the Editor) planning. Often you end up choosing the you name has to step in to settle the matter. same person for each role. Depending on family dynamics, your best choice may be a trusted friend, or an Say ‘No’ to Highway Expansion Other times there might not be a good outside person or entity, to act in this role Governor Evers’ proposed expansion of on providing and improving access. choice and a trust company is most to maintain impartiality. I-94 is ill conceived, especially when he’s appropriate. These are highly personal also cutting the budget due to COVID-19. The Governor – as well as the Waukesha decisions and there is no right or wrong way Patience: The agents you name will have County Board and the Waukesha to go about it. There are, however, some to act during some of the most stressful The most important reason for not going County Business Alliance – ought to qualities that you should keep in mind: times in your family’s life. Because they forward with the expansion is that adding study Transportation for America’s five are in a position of authority, your agent lanes to congested highways does nothing policy recommendations, found here: Integrity: These should be people in whom may become the most obvious target to relieve the congestion. This is because http://t4america.org/maps-tools/ you have complete trust and confidence as when emotions run high. Consider naming of induced demand - essentially “if you congestion-con/. they will have access to your finances, and someone who understands this and can build it, they will come.” control over your assets after your death. remain calm. We do need to get workers easily from As Transformation for America points Milwaukee to Waukesha County for jobs Experience: While they do not have to be After choosing someone for each role, you out, eliminating congestion is the wrong but highway expansion isn’t the way to do experts themselves, some solid financial should also try to designate a successor goal. While severe congestion can have it. experience is necessary. Your agents will to serve in the place of your first choice real negative impacts, congestion is also be making significant financial decisions if your first choice is unavailable for one generally a symptom of a successful, Sister Barbara Pfarr, SSND for you or your beneficiaries. Also, they reason or another. vibrant economy—a sign of a place people Chair, SOPHIA Transit Task Force have to have the experience to know when want to be. Instead, we should be focused Elm Grove, WI and how to hire the right professionals, such as accountants, attorneys or realtors. 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The only beneficiary is the nuclear arsenal. The 2021 Pentagon budget Military Industrial Complex. Why not put Classifieds calls for $19.8 Billion dollars for the our money on better training in diplomacy, National Nuclear Security Administration, more peacekeeping techniques, and the use Listings are $25 per issue (up to 20 words) + 50 cents for each additional word. an increase of 18.4% over their 2020 of nonviolent strategies? budget. ‘Nuclear Deterrence’ may have $20 extra per photo or logo. been a good concept during Reagan and Paul-Mary Draxler, SSND E-mail: elmgrovenews @yahoo.com or call (262) 782-6193. Gorbachev’s time. Did it work? Are there Elm Grove, WI Home Improvement Greetings / Messages Tom’s Painting Happy 7th Birthday! Postmaster (Continued from Page 2) No Job Too Small! MAYA! Interior, Exterior, Caulking, Staining August 19th Small Drywall repairs Love, • How were you of special help to local We are looking forward to being able to Senior Discounts. Great referrals. 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It been a pleasure working with you, and • Items for Sale I know Leslie will continue serving with Keep Your Motor (and Morgan) running. • What do you look forward to doing her beautiful smile. I want to thank the • Items Wanted Head out on the Highway following your retirement? customers, or should I say the 1,000s of • Professional Services looking for Adventure friends I have met through the years. It has • Rummage Sales in whatever comes your way. My husband and I are looking forward been an honor serving as Postmaster of to the next chapter in our lives. We have Elm Grove. • Greetings / Messages LOVE from your favorite brother no immediate plans for travel at this time, • Etc. and sister-in-law but there are a few trips on our bucket list. August 2020 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT Page 11 News Briefs

Photo Courtesy Elmbrook School District Hannah Guth (at left) and Hannah Ziesemer Teachers Receive WACTE Early Educator Awards

(BROOKFIELD) Brookfield East Math Guth and Ziesemer were both selected Teacher Hannah Guth and Brookfield for their positive impacts on their schools Elementary First Grade Teacher Hannah and community, innovation in designing Ziesemer have been named this year’s learning experiences, and their advocacy recipients of the Wisconsin Association of for students. Outside of the classroom, Guth Colleges for Teacher Education (WACTE)’s is a Freshmen Girls Volleyball Coach and is Early Career Educator Awards. Guth was the chair for the BEHS AVID program, and awarded by Marquette University and Ziesemer created Brookfield Elementary’s Photo by Mark Frohna Ziesemer received her award on behalf of first-ever coding club and was the recipient A fashion design by Amanda Roessler entitled: Wisconsin Lutheran College. of the 2019 Engaged in Excellence Award “Nothing but Net”. for Excellence in Elementary Teaching. Art Student’s Work on Exhibit By Marie O’Brien

Brookfield Academy student Amanda Roessler (’20) was asked on behalf of the College Board to show three of her designs in the 2020-2021 Advanced Placement Art and Design Exhibition. The annual show honors the work of outstanding AP Art and Design students. From about 63,000 students, only 51 students’ work was selected for the exhibit which will be entirely digital this year.

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ---Aristotle “Green” is Good!

Ideas courtesy of The Waukesha County Green Team www.waukeshacountygreenteam.org

Photo courtesy: Brookfield Academy Simple, Environmentally-Friendly Suggestions

Brookfield Academy students practice new safety protocols while “Recycle” Your Water! How much water goes down your drain each day that could be used for other things? This attending Summer Days classes. week, collect the leftover water from dehumidifiers, drinking glasses, sinks and cooking pots and use it to fill up your watering can to water your plants and garden. Brookfield Academy to Welcome Students Wash Clothes In Cold, Full Loads. Back to Campus Bonus Points: Hang Dry Some Of Your Laundry! By Marie O’Brien Most of the energy spent washing clothes is in heating the water. Today’s detergents do just as well in cold. And waiting to do full loads means fewer trips to the washing (Brookfield Academy students from K3 faculty,” said Sharon Koenings, Head machine. By hanging up clothes to dry you will be saving even more energy! to Grade 12 will return to campus at the of School. “Our teachers will be guiding, end of the month with new protocols in teaching, and inspiring students while also Combine Weekly Errands Into One Or Two Trips This Week. place. Touchless hand sanitizer machines, implementing wellness protocols. In some Transportation accounts for 66% of U.S. oil use -- mainly in the form of gasoline. Several social distancing, and daily temperature ways, Brookfield Academy will operate a short trips, each one taken from a cold start, can use twice as much fuel as one trip covering the same distance when the engine is warm. By combining errands, you will not checks are just a few of the measures being bit differently, but in most ways everything only save time, but $$. (US Dept of Energy) implemented to keep students and faculty will be the same.” as safe as possible. Cook Food That Is Currently In Season. Students return to campus on Tuesday, Here in Wisconsin, fresh fruits can easily travel over 1000 miles just to get to our plates! “During the summer, we have been re- August 25. Unfortunately, excess food miles decrease the quality of our food while increasing searching the best ways for Brookfield negative environmental impacts. By buying food when it is in season locally, such as Academy to safely open for students and strawberries in the spring and apples in the fall, we can greatly reduce our food miles. Page 12 Elm Grove NEWS-INDEPENDENT July 2020

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