FRIDAY: AUGUST 5, 2016 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER: 2008, 2010, 2011 JSOnline.com M ILWAUKEE q WISCONSIN Sunny Mostly Partly Mostly cloudy Cloudy Scattered Rain Scattered T-storms Rain/snow Sleet Snow Scattered snow Snow Sunny cloudy WEATHER showers T-storms mix !urries showers Views of a Hall of Outdoor foods Fame quarterback 8 spots to check out before summer has vanished 83 / 70 Columnists Bob McGinn and Pete Partly sunny Dougherty look at Favre’s career Map, details back of Sports Sports Tap Weekend Soldiers Home Trump visits amid feud BY CRAIG GILBERT paigning Friday. AND JASON STEIN Candidate’s strategy questioned “He did the same thing in the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL Republican primary (when) he getting ahead of rally in Green Bay went after Scott Walker,” said When Donald Trump last U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy in an inter- campaigned in Wisconsin four Mike Pence will hold a Friday nized other GOP leaders in the view on CNN Thursday. new life months ago, he clashed openly night rally. “It’s impossible to state, few of whom are attend- with the state’s leading Repub- understand what the strategy ing the Green Bay rally. See Page 8A Veterans housing licans on his way to a resound- is.” Even some of his more en- ing primary defeat. Trump arrives here after thusiastic supporters in Wis- ■ Paul Ryan: Endorsements aren't to be built on site “It worked so well for him picking a fight with Wisconsin’s consin say Trump is making his 'blank checks' 8A last time, he decided to do it all most popular Republican politi- own task tougher in this tough ■ Milwaukee's Muslim female TOM DAYKIN over again,” said Mark Graul, a cian, House Speaker Paul Ryan battleground state, where Dem- leaders speak out. 9A MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL GOP strategist in Green Bay, of Janesville. ocratic vice presidential candi- ■ Clinton surges ahead of Trump in where Trump and running mate In doing so, he has antago- date Tim Kaine is also cam- new poll. 10A Six historic buildings at the former Milwaukee Sol- diers Home grounds will be redeveloped into around 100 apartments for veterans and Olympic their families under a $40 million proposal an- club failed nounced Thursday. Cheers Wes Hotchkiss of The buildings are on or Beaver Dam holds to ears of corn during near Mitchell Blvd., between to report I-94 and W. National Ave., on the opening day of the grounds of the Zablocki State the 165th Wisconsin Veterans Affairs Medical State Fair at State abuse Center. They include Old Fair’s Fair Park in West Main, the Soldiers Home Allis on Thursday. 165 See more at USA Gymnastics completed in 1869, and other historic buildings that are jsonline.com/ shelved complaints unused and in danger of fall- years photos. ing apart. MARISA KWIATKOWSKI, The Soldiers Home MARK ALESIA grounds were declared a na- AND TIM EVANS tional historic landmark by THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR the National Park Service in 2011, with the National Trust Top executives at one of for Historic Preservation America’s most prominent adding the buildings to its list Olympic organizations of most endangered historic failed to alert authorities to places. many allegations of sexual Since then, the VA has re- abuse by coaches, relying on paired Old Main’s roof and a policy that enabled preda- made repairs to other build- tors to abuse gymnasts long ings. But public funds to after USA Gymnastics had fully restore the buildings received warnings. weren’t available. An investigation by the Thursday’s announce- Indianapolis Star uncovered ment amounts to “a turning multiple examples of chil- point” in efforts to restore dren suffering the conse- Old Main and the other build- quences, including a Georgia ings, said Genell Scheurell, case in which a coach preyed senior field officer for the on young female athletes for trust. seven years after USA Gym- “It would have been a nastics dismissed the first of great tragedy not to find a four warnings about him. good use for the buildings,” In a 2013 lawsuit filed by one of that coach’s victims, See Page 6A two former USA Gymnastics officials admitted under oath that the organization routinely dismissed sexual To Our Readers abuse allegations as hearsay unless they came directly The Journal Sentinel will from a victim or victim’s par- be converting its presses ent. over the next month to Legal experts and child fit the newspaper MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL advocates expressed alarm industry’s new standard A group of friends walks through the Wisconsin State Fair during its opening day Thursday with their new about that approach, saying page size, which is cow-spotted hats purchased near the Original Cream Puff Pavilion. The group, all of Milwaukee, is John Flores slightly narrower. (from left), Nikki Gucciardo, Josh Bierce, Kara Gucciardo and Travis Riesop. See Page 7A During this conversion Obituary NEWSWATCH process, some readers in the Milwaukee metro LOCAL area might not get all the late-night sports Nicholas generous to others » Ageless piano teacher: scores and breaking A reunion is planned for Philanthropist Brightstar Foun- Church in Wauwatosa, Nicholas’ Frieda Hart and her more news they’re dation for invest- long-time parish. accustomed to than 900 piano students remained humble ment in the A tall man with a long gait, from the past 78 years. receiving. state’s emerging Nicholas often left his down- Jim Stingl / 3A KATHLEEN GALLAGHER growth compa- town Milwaukee office for MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL nies; and to many lunch, nodding and smiling at We hope to minimize BUSINESS Nicholas other causes. his many acquaintances as he this impact by keeping Albert O. “Ab” Nicholas, a But his kind- strode down Water St. our deadlines as late as » Corners project: The prominent philanthropist and ness went be- He was a standout basketball last big concrete pour takes possible and appreciate nationally known Milwaukee yond the financial. player in college, but Nicholas your patience during place at The Corners, keep- money manager, died Thursday. “He was generous with his in- chose an investment career ing the eye-catching Town the transition, which is Nicholas, who was 85, donat- terest in other people, generous over professional basketball. of Brookfield retail and scheduled to end by ed millions to the University of with his friendships, generous He formed Nicholas Co. in 1967 Aug. 22. Thank you. Wisconsin-Madison, his alma with his laughter and generous and built it into a firm that man- residential project on track mater; to the Boys & Girls Clubs with his family,” said Gary Man- to open next spring. 1D of Greater Milwaukee; to ning, rector at Trinity Episcopal See Page 5A INDEX Comics .........................2C Deaths ..........................4D Green Sheet .................1C Movies...........................3E TV listings.....................3C $1.50 CITY AND SUBURBS 5 SECTIONS Crossword....................3C Editorials .....................11A Stocks ...........................2D Sports on TV ................6B Weather ...Back of Sports $1.75 OR HIGHER ELSEWHERE 6A Friday, August 5, 2016 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Heyden. Much of the opposition Soldiers Policies stemmed from the fear that male students would claim to be trans- gender so they could sneak into the girl’s bathrooms. Home debated “I didn’t have any kids come forward who were concerned,” he said. “It was all parents and revived Continued from Page 3A people from out of town.” Since implementing the new policy, VanderHeyden said the Continued from Page 1A codes. district has not had any problems. Verona School District Super- The Sparta Area School Dis- intendent Dean Gorrell said its trict, east of La Crosse, also faced said Robert Cocroft, a retired board debated whether it should a strong backlash when it tried to brigadier general and presi- take up the policy or wait until a create a policy to protect trans- dent of the Center for Veter- decision was reached in the law- gender students. ans Issues. suit, but decided to move for- Superintendent John Hen- The Milwaukee Soldiers ward. dricks called the ensuing dispute Home is one of the nation’s “We have transgender stu- “ugly” and “a flash point for the three original Soldiers dents in our school district and we district.” Homes. The homes were built want to do right by them,” he said. “It was a lost opportunity to be for Civil War veterans with According to Juchems, about proactive and supportive of physical and mental disabili- 80 districts around the state have transgender students,” Hen- ties, and later served other at least some kind of policy in dricks said. “I felt it was morally military veterans. place regarding transgender stu- the right thing to do.” The Gothic Revival-style dents. But only a handful would He said school board members Old Main was designed by RICK WOOD / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL comply with the new federal received dozens of phone calls Milwaukee architect Edward A VA employee walks past the closed and fenced-in historic Old Main guidelines, he said. from people opposing the policy. Townsend Mix, who also de- on the Milwaukee Soldiers Home grounds. He points to Shorewood and “My board took a lot of abuse, signed the Mackie Building. Menasha as among the districts from local (residents) , but a lot of The VA used Old Main until that would clear that hurdle. abuse came from people around 1989. restored buildings will be the Shorewood’s policy, for exam- the state who had no real ties to The buildings will be rede- Administration Building Veterans will get ple, clearly explains that trans- the district,” Hendricks said. veloped by the Alexander Co., (also known as Building 1), more housing gender students may use any “People were concerned if we a Madison-based develop- built in 1896; the Catholic Old Main and other historic bathrooms or locker rooms they adopt a policy for transgender ment firm, and managed by Chaplain’s Quarters (Build- buildings on the Milwaukee choose.