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Pulaski NewsPULASKI, WISCONSIN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2010 VOLUME LXX, NO. 4

Jill Coppersmith, Ray Kroc Award recipient, stands with supervisor Kim Parsons and restaurant owner/operator David Schanock.

The Ray Kroc Award is a prestigious honor awarded by the McDonald’s Corporation to exemplary restaurant managers. This award recognizes the top one percent of managers in the entire nation, meaning only 139 out of 14,000 stores receive this honor.

Due to her restaurant’s per-formance through undercover testing and a written recom-mendation from her supervisor Kim Parsons, Jill Coppersmith of the Pulaski McDonald’s has been honored with the Ray Kroc Award this year. This recogni-tion involves a cash prize, a Ray Kroc Award trophy and pin, and a trip to Chicago for an awards banquet.

Coppersmith has worked at McDonald’s for twenty one years. She began working in Ashwaubenon when she was sixteen years old and worked at a McDonald’s in Green Bay in 1989. In 2004, she became the store manager of the newly opened McDonald’s restaurant

Coppersmith wins Ray Kroc Award

By Annie Schanock and Colin Abendroth

in Pulaski. Coppersmith has already won

the Outstanding Store Manager Award multiple times, but she is extremely excited to receive this honor.

When asked what sets this Mc Donald’s apart from the rest, Coppersmith replied, “The hos-pitality and environment make this McDonald’s great. Our teamwork sets us apart from the rest.”

Coppersmith recognizes her crew for all of their hard work. Because she has such a great team in Pulaski, it was possible for Coppersmith to win this pres-tigious award.

Coppersmith said, “Everyone on my team is friendly, and I could not have earned this award alone.”

David Schanock, McDon-ald’s restaurant owner/operator, said, “It is an honor to have a Ray Kroc Award winner in our organization, and it couldn’t go to a more deserving person than Jill. I want to thank Jill and the crew at the Pulaski Mc Donald’s for their dedication.”

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Kathleen Gerds is the Pulaski News advisor, Leo Club advisor, and English teacher at Pulaski High School.

Harley Griesbach is the leader of the technology department at Pulaski High School, which was named the best technology department in the state of Wisconsin.

Liz Moehr is a Family and Consumer Science teacher at Pulaski High School.

Katie Titler is a Spanish teacher at Pulaski High School, who was featured in the Associated Press article “Teachers Begin Using Cell Phones for Class Lessons.”

Sarah Spitzer is a third grade teacher from Fairview Elementary.

Tracy Wiedeman is a second grade teacher from Glenbrook Elementary.

Pulaski district Teachers of Distinction are announced

By Margaret Pelton Partners in Education, a

program of the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, is proud to announce the recipients of the 2010 Golden Apple Teachers of Distinction Awards.

The Pulaski Community School District recipients are as follows: Kathleen Gerds from Pulaski High, Harley Griesbach from Pulaski High, Liz Moehr from Pulaski High, Katie Titler from Pulaski High, Sarah Spitzer from Fairview Elementary, and Tracy Wiedeman from Glen-brook Elementary.

The 2010 Golden Apple Awards Dinner Program will be Wednesday, April 21, at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center with the program tele-vised live on Fox 11 from 9 p.m to 10 p.m. Mark your calendars.

The purpose of the Golden Apple Awards Program is to improve community awareness of the quality of education in the Greater Green Bay Area by recognizing high standards of professionalism, leadership, and innovation in teaching.

The process starts in October when business people visit all of the area schools to present a token of appreciation to each of the K-12 educators. In the next phase of the process, community

people nominate area educators (individuals or teams of educa-tors). Nominated educators elect to enter the selection process by submitting an application.

Seven Golden Apple recipi-ents are selected annually from the Teachers of Distinction group by a multi-level screening of anonymous applications and personal interviews. Selection criteria is based on the National Board of Professional Teaching standards, which has identified essential knowledge, skills, and dispositions expected of experi-enced, quality teachers.

By Julian B. LaceraIn light of the recent disaster

in Haiti, the Pulaski High School Diversity Club immediately

Pulaski High School Diversity Club member Abbi Whalen hands over the donated money from wristband sales to Friends of Haiti representative Renee Malcheski and Assumption BVM principal Deanne Wilinski.

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Diversity Club helps Friends of Haiti

went to work in order help aid the efforts. Through the parent program Friends of Haiti and the help of Kathleen Gerds, the Diversity Club was able to suc-

cessfully provide much-needed assistance in Haiti.

In order to begin the project, the Diversity Club contacted the Friends of Haiti program and requested wristbands to distrib-ute. The wristbands had already been produced for an earlier project, so the leftovers were used. These wristbands were dis-tributed and sold for one dollar each and came in four assorted colors: blue, green, red, and white. At first, the efforts to help Haiti began solely in the high school, but they quickly began to course their way through to other schools. The project soon became a district-wide effort, ranging from the elementary schools to some of the local busi-nesses.

Along with the initial cam-paign that the Diversity Club started, there was a Penny Drive at Lannoye Elementary School, which summed up to a generous amount of $1,059.40. In total, the cumulative amount of money that was raised was around $3,700.

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Letters to the Editor

Letters should be no more than 200 words. All are subject to editing and must have your address and daytime phone number where we can confirm your letter. Letters will not be run without confirmation. Writers are limited to one letter every 30 days. Letters to the editor and articles submitted to Pulaski News may be published or distributed in print.Mail to: Pulaski News, 1040 S. St. Augustine St., Pulaski, WI 54162Fax: (920) 822-6726 E-mail: [email protected]

We would like to send a tre-mendous thank you out to all the people who volunteered their time and/or donated items for the annual Pulaski High School Music Boosters Chili Luncheon, February 7. We had an amazing turn out and the PHS music program will greatly benefit from the monies we were able to earn.

We would also like to recog-nize several people that put in extra effort to help with this fund-raising event: Sue House for the raffle, Carrie Kapla Otzelberger for the silent auction, Kathleen Fischer for the fabulous chili, and Mike Kawleski for being our Emcee. We are also grateful to our community and local busi-nesses which are always there to support the Music Booster activ-

Letter to the Editor

The Pulaski High School Choir entertains spectators with songs at the Chili Luncheon.

ities. We apologize if we missed any names, please know you are appreciated.

We feel the 2010 Chili Lun-cheon was a successful, fun-filled event. We were able to socialize with family and friends while listening to the wonderful talents of the PHS Jazz Bands, PHS Choirs, PCMS Jazz, PCMS Jazz Combo, and several piano students. Thank you music stu-dents, Keegan White, Kathleen Bader, Tim Kozlovsky, and Bev Heling for working with our chil-dren and entertaining our guests during the event. We hope to see everyone again next year!

Sincerely,Roy & Tyra SmithPulaski Music Boosters Co-

Presidents

P & D Sales & Service, LLC of Pulaski, WI, was recognized as one of Patz Corporation’s top dealerships in North America at the Patz Annual Awards Cele-bration held January 20, 2010 in Green Bay, WI. Paul and Deena Anderson, owners of P & D Sales & Service, LLC were pre-sented with several awards at the Evening with the Stars awards banquet which was held at the Comfort Suites Inn.

The dealership earned the fol-lowing awards based on their 2009 sales. The Gold Rising Star Dealer award, which recognizes newer dealers (four years or less) with the highest unit dollar sales; the Gold Wrench Dealer award for the highest repair parts sales; the Territory Champ award for the highest total combined machine and parts sales within their assigned territory; and a Gold Group dealer award for ranking among the top 10 dealer-ships achieving the highest sales volume for serial numbered units for the entire year.

P & D Sales & Service, LLC was established in 2008 after the Andersons purchased Ray-makers Inc. from Paul’s former employers, Gary and Ellen Ray-makers, upon their retirement. The Anderson’s have continued the tradition of success and ex-cellent customer service that has kept this dealership among the top Patz Dealerships in North America.

P & D Sales & Service, LLC is located at N3105 Cedar Road in Pulaski and on the web at www.panddsales.com. Paul and Deena Anderson appreciate and want to thank the many custom-ers that have put their faith and trust in P & D Sales and Service and haved planned a customer appreciation celebration on March 18th and 19th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Paul, Deena and employees hope to see you there.

P & D Sales & Service wins award

P & D Sales & Service, LLC of Pulaski, WI was recognized as one of the top Patz Dealerships in North America for 2009 at the Patz Annual Celebration Event. Presentation of the 2009 Gold Group Dealer Award from left to right: Jon Patz, Patz vice-president of marketing; Kevin Habeck, Patz district representative; Paul and Deena Anderson of P & D Sales & Service, LLC and Dale Pivonka, director of Patz ag sales.

Bay Tek, a local business in Pulaski, also offered to match whatever the total amount raised was from the fundraiser.

“Oh my goodness,” said Linda Wielgus of Friends of Haiti, “I can’t even find the words to express my joy and ap-preciation. I received a call with the total raised thus far, and the tears flowed down my cheeks. I am simply overwhelmed!”

“This is great,” said Superin-tendant Dr. Mel Lightener when describing the endeavor to aid Haiti.

Front/Friends of Haiti wristbands

By Kevin Ripley It is a good time to be a

member of the Pulaski High School bowling team. This year, both the girls and boys qualified for the state tournament in Wausau.

The girls entered sec-tional play at Willow Creek Lanes February 5 tied for third place with Ashwauben-on. After bowling very well with a fourth place finish at sectionals with 1618 pins, they finished fourth in the confer-ence, an achievement resulting in advancing them to state.

The girls team consists of, Rachel Huben, Krystal Ko-zlowski, Teri Lewins, Ashley Pyle, and Melissa Skalecki, and they are coached by Ron Ross.

Huben earned Second Team All-Conference and Lewins earned Honorable Mention Al-

Conference. “I am very proud of our

team’s season, and it was a great way to finish off my senior year,” said Pyle.

Lewins said, “As a freshman, going to state is a great and exciting oppor-

tunity.” “I am pleased with and

proud of both of our teams going to state, and I hope both teams and our singles

competitor Bert Lewins continue on farther in the state tournament,” said Coach Ross.

The champi-onship attracts teams from ten districts, Green Bay being Dis-trict 8 and the fourth

largest. Friday kicks the championship off with

the singles competitions, followed Saturday by the

team competitions. Those teams which bowl well enough to continue on to the Sunday finals will be televised on ESPN.

Pulaski girls bowling qualifies for state

CommunityThursday, Feburary 25, 2010

There can be distractions, but if you’re isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

~Mary Lou Retton (American gymnast, 1984 Summer Olympics)

Robert E Lee & Associates, an engineering, surveying, and environmental company from Howard, donned their winter boots and began staking out the stone barn property to gather data for a topographic survey map that would help the Stone Barn Committee design the future Chase Stone Barn Park.

Conducting the surveys were Jay Olson and Troy Hewitt.

“We use GPS (a Global Po-sitioning System) to gather data about the property which is accu-rate up to one centimeter in open spaces,” said Olsen.

Hewitt explained that the top-ographic map they create from this data will show the boundar-ies, elevations, and contours of the property. It will also show

Site planning for Stone Barn begins

which way the water flows which will help define any po-tential drainage issues.

The committee, along with a landscaping architect, will then use this map to design a site plan for the property. The topograph-ic map will help them determine where they can put the parking lot, driveway, playground, and other features of the park.

The town is currently trying to raise funds for the restorations of the stone barn and develop-ment of the park. If you would like to make a tax-deductible do-nation, please call Kris at (920) 822-5447. Donation informa-tion, as well as other informa-tion about the stone barn, is also available on the town website at www.townofchase.org.

The National Fraternal Con-gress of America (NFCA) is proud to recognize the following individual as a Fraternal MVP (Most Valuable Participant) for the week of December 21, 2009. Fraternal MVPs are “Fraternal-ists-in-Action” who volunteer their time, energy, and compas-sion to strengthen their commu-nities through participation in local lodge activities and other charitable endeavors.

Mike Drzewiecki of Pulaski has been a member of Catho-lic Knights for just two years. However, in that short time, he has managed to become indis-pensable to his branch – #299 in Pulaski-- where he currently serves as vice president. In 2008, he chaired the branch Join Hands Day project, where volunteers made and repaired shelves for

Drzewiecki is Fraternal MVP

the Pulaski Food Pantry. A total of 35 hours was donated by vol-unteers on the project.

According to Laura Hollister, president of Catholic Knights Branch #299, “Mike is a good friend and neighbor and would do anything for anyone.” Hollis-ter greatly appreciates the help Drzewiecki provides whenever the branch plans activities, par-ticularly fundraisers.

Drzewiecki also is an active volunteer for other community groups. He is involved with his ABVM parish, and is the deputy grand knight for the local Knights of Columbus council. His wife and family were re-cently presented with the Family of the Year Award from the

Course maps for all 2010 Cellcom Green Bay Marathon events are now available. The new 2.62 mile mini marathon, which begins at 8:30 a.m. on May 15, features a start line on Lombardi Avenue in front of Lambeau Field and finishes in the Lambeau Field parking lot using the same finish line as the full and half marathons. Similar to the former 5k, the race will include a lap around the track inside the stadium.

The half, full, and relay mara-thons will take place May 16 starting at 7 a.m. A few minor changes were made to the courses for 2010. The start line will be relocated closer to Oneida Street to provide a more spacious start-ing corral. The marathon route will pass through Downtown Green Bay on the new City Deck and cross the Nitschke (Main Street) Bridge instead of the Walnut Street Bridge. The last mile of the marathon, marathon relay, and half marathon will ap-proach Lambeau along Armed Forces Drive in front of the Resch Center, rather than Potts Avenue, which will be under construction.

Maps for all events are avail-able on the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon website. For more information visit www.cell-comgreenbaymarathon.com.

Green Bay Marathon maps available

Mike Drzewiecki

Jay Olson and Troy Hewitt conduct a topographic survey at the Chase Stone Barn.

By Josh Krueger and Margaret Pelton

Saturday, January 30, the Lambeau Field Atrium hosted the eleventh annual Superbowl of Safety for kids. The event was sponsored by Bellin Health and Safe Kids of Greater Green Bay.

Members of the Pulaski High School Leo Club were on site to assist young children learn common safety rules, such as stop, drop, and roll; look both ways before crossing a road; stop at stop signs; the importance of buckling up in a vehicle; and the dangers of electricity.

Chris Bania, a sophomore at Pulaski, said, “The children seemed anxious and excited to be there, which made it more fun for me.”

Some of the day’s events in-cluded face painting, learning

Emily Feivor and Margaret Pelton stand in costume by Josh Krueger at the Lambeau Superbowl of Safety.

Students instruct lessons in safety

street safety, hula hooping, and taking pictures with the volun-teers dressed in costumes.

Pulaski volunteers dressed up in costume walked around the atrium waving to children and taking pictures with the children. In addition, other Pulaski Leo Club volunteers, Chantel White, Katelynn Krueger, Trevor Rein-hard, Chris Bania, and Dakota White, taught children the rules of the road in Safety Town.

Not only were the events for children, but also adults also were able to have the opportu-nity to have their faces checked for skin cancer.

Given that about 1,600 people and 30 presenting organizations attended Saturday’s event, one can expect the Superbowl of Safety will be returning for years to come.

NFCA recognizes “Fraternalists-in-Action”

Shambe of the NEW Zoo enjoys Wisconsin winter weather.

By Ashley Smith, Dani McCole, and Leah Andreini

“The winter season is a chal-lenging time for the NEW Zoo,” said Carmen Murach, curator of animals.

Some of the more sensitive animals need to switch from their outdoor habitats into indoor environments. Giraffes and trop-ical birds are some examples of these animals. Giraffes are sen-sitive to the cold and slippery surfaces, so they need to stay inside until the ice is completely melted.

“All of the animals also have a heated area available for them indoors which includes straw beds and warm water,” said Murach.

People find it surprising that most animals, like the lions, actually become more active during the winter. They also need to be fed more so they can stay warm in the cold weather.

“Many of the animals put on weight for the winter climate in-cluding the bears, badgers, and

NEW Zoo feels winterraccoons,” said Murach.

The zoo is preparing for the possibility of new baby animals this spring. Hannah, the penguin, has recently arrived from the Denver Zoo. She is to mate with the NEW Zoo’s own Dassen, the African penguin.

The zoo is also expecting baby snow leopards arriving in the near future. The male snow leopard Buster is now living with Tammy, a female that arrived last summer through the SSP program.

“Buster is Tammy’s third mate, and though the first two didn’t work out, they really seem to like each other,” said Murach.

Both the zoo employees and the animals are excited for spring to arrive.

“We don’t get many visi-tors during the winter, and the animals can get lonely,” said Murach, “but we are excited for this upcoming spring because each season brings new opportu-nities and experiences.”

Knights of Columbus for their work to benefit the church and community.

Drzewiecki is an excellent role model for youth and enjoys working with them. For example, children from the school helped Drzewiecki remove food from the old shelves at the food pantry. Following the construction of new shelves by Drzewiecki, the kids helped refill the shelves. He also enjoyed working with children and their parents in the ice cream booth at Pulaski Polka Days and in the polka parade. Catholic Knights is proud of the work Drzewiecki does on behalf of his branch, his parish, and his community.

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Submitted by Chief of Police Randal Dunford

01/01/2010 8:57 am - Damage to Property - 188 Summit St. Officer requested for damage done to a garage door. Home owner had been gone since 4:00 PM on Thursday. When he arrived home this morning, noticed that damage. Damage had been done by a vehicle running into the door. Unknown suspect at this time.

01/01/2010 12:14 pm - Assist Citizen – Super Ron’s Food Center Officer requested to meet with a female in regards to her ex-husband who was to ex-change their children. Female state that her ex-husband was to meet her here in the parking lot but did not show up. The ex-husband lives in Oconto Falls and that all the custody paper work was filed through Oconto County. Officer advised female she would have to file the complaint with the Oconto County Court Commissioner on Monday. 01/04/2010 10:30 am - Theft - All Other – Pulaski High School Student reports that he left his I-Pod touch in a phy-ed locker that was not secured; person or persons unknown removed the I-Pod. Valued at over $200 01/04/2010 1:00 pm - Emergency Detention – Pulaski High School Student trans-ported to Mental Health Center, threatening to harm themselves by various means. 01/05/2010 11:51 am = 2nd Degree Sexual Assault of Child – 100 Block of Williams St. Sexual assault reported to St. Vincent Hospi-tal. Investigation Continuing. 01/07/2010 10:37 am - Assist Other Agency – Pulaski High School Officer requested at the Pulaski High School to trans-port a 16 year old male to the Brown County Secure Deten-tion Center. 01/08/2010 4:30 pm - Theft - Retail/Shoplifting – Radio Shack Retail theft, suspect was not truthful with officers upon arrival, subject in posses-sion of stolen merchandise, THC and Drug Para. The subject, Toby Madsen, 36, of Maribell Wisconsin was transported to Brown Co. Jail. 01/12/2010 2:00 pm – Truancy – Pulaski High School Warning letter sent

Citizen’s updateto parent for truancy, met with student and warned 01/13/2010 7:03 pm - Disorderly Conduct – Domestic – Rosemary Dr. Domestic Violence, disorderly conduct. Nathan Gilbertson, 17, of Pulaski, was arrested and taken to Shawano County Jail by Shawano County Deputy. 01/14/2010 8:30 am - Tobacco Violation – Pulaski High School Citation issued to an 18 year old male for chewing and spitting it on the floor at PHS. 01/15/2010 11:46 pm - Operator’s License Violation - S. Wisconsin St. @ E. Glenbrook Dr. Citation issued to an 18 year old male for op-erating after suspension and 1st for operating while intoxicat-ed. Verbal warning for speed. 01/16/2010 12:55 am - Alleged Child Abuse – Nancy Ln. Com-plaint of child abuse. 01/19/2010 8:30 am – Harassment – Pulaski High School Student was pushed to the floor by a juvenile female. Parents requesting informa-tion on temporary restraining order. 01/19/2010 5:17 pm - Emergency Detention – Pulaski High School Dispatched to meet with counselor from PHS and Crisis Center for female student. Female transported to Bellin Psychiatric. 01/20/2010 9:37 am - Emergency Deten-tion – Prevea Clinic Officer re-quested at the Prevea Clinic by staff for a juvenile female who had made statements to harming herself. Office was advised by the on duty nurse who had been with the juvenile and heard the statement the juvenile made. Upon getting a written state-ment from the duty nurse, officer then transported the juvenile to the Crisis Center. 01/20/2010 4:45 pm - Child Abuse - Injury Reported – Nancy Ln. Officer assisted Brown County Child Protection Services while they conducted an investigation on injuries to a two year old male. 01/23/2010 5:49 pm - Burglary - Nonresidential – Pulaski Food & Gas Forced entry from back door. Three males on camera and many items taken.

01/24/2010 12:19 am - Physi-cal Abuse of a Child – Westside residence Physical disturbance between father and 15 year old daughter. Father was arrested and transported to Brown Jail. Charges were subsequently dis-missed by Brown County Dis-trict Attorney. Municipal cita-tions for disorderly conduct will be issued to father and daughter.

01/28/2010 11:00 am - Tobacco Violation – Pulaski Community Middle School Cita-tion issued to an 18 year old male for smoking on school grounds.

Bruce Brzeczkowski gets interviewed by channel 2 news about his participation in Paczki Day.

Bruce and Tammy Brzeczkowski play polkas on their concertinas, in anticipation of getting a free Paczki at Smurawa’s Country Bakery.

Submitted by Elaine GrygielPlans are being finalized and

activities are being set up to cel-ebrate the 100 years of Pulaski’s incorporation as a Village.

Committee members met February 15 at the Village Hall and discussed plans along with the dates for each event. Keith Chambers, Village President, spoke about the Opening Cer-emony that will take place April 9 at 7 p.m. in the Pulaski Middle School Auditorium. A power point presentation about the village will be shown, and one of our state senators may deliver a proclamation.

The Village will then cel-ebrate for six months, starting with Memorial Day on May 31. The ceremony will start at 9 a.m.

Village centennial updatein the Ripley Performing Arts Center at Pulaski High School. Plan to come and honor our vet-erans.

June 6 is the date chosen for a Cemetery Tour at Assumption B.V.M. Cemetery. Prominent persons of the village who have died will be represented by vol-unteers who will dress in that time period and speak of how they were involved in the village. The tour will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. That Sunday, Fr. Patrick Gawrylewski, O.F.M., will bless the cemetery prior to the tour. You can contact Sue Winter at (920) 899-3680 for any questions regarding this event.

Sunday, June 27, there will be an Old Timers Softball Game at Memorial Park at 2 p.m. The

game will be played on Diamond C. Anyone 55 years or older can sign up to play. More informa-tion will follow in future editions of Pulaski News. Joe Sommers is the committee chairperson, and you can also contact him if you are interested in helping or playing at the game.

June is Dairy Month, along with the softball game, and Julie Jarock and Katie Kramer will be hosting an Ice Cream Social sponsored by the Pulaski Chase Coop. You can contact Julie or Katie if you are interested in helping them with this event.

Pulaski Polka Days is July 22 to 25. The parade is July 25 at 11 a.m. Now is the time to start thinking of ideas to incorporate this year’s theme of 100 years. Please contact Wayne Wood with your ideas prior to July 23. Businesses and organizations have a chance to show off their talents.

The Pulaski Centennial Music Festival will be held on August 21. The event will be on the main street of Pulaski. It will feature rock, country, and polka music. The Pulaski Red Raider March-ing Band will do a fifth quarter, and a Magic Show will be per-formed by none other then our own Bob Nowak, plus additional family activities. Tom Bush, Band Director at PHS, will be working on an Alumni Band. He is encouraging all former band members to be a part of this cele-bration. If your group or organi-zation would like to be involved, please contact Greg Matuszak at (920) 822-5527. This promises to be a fun time for all!

September 19, an Old Car and Antique Tractor show will be on display at Memorial Park. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Activities start with a Pancake Porkie Breakfast at 9 a.m. Many other ideas are in the works, including a booyah cook-off. Please contact Nora Scray at (920) 822-3033 for more infor-mation.

October will be the closing celebration with an Ecumenical Prayer Service followed by a dinner celebration at Zielinski’s Auditorium. The event will be highlighted by the wearing of vintage clothing from the 1910 era. For more information on the Ecumenical Service, you can contact Fr. Patrick Gawrylews-ki at (920) 822-3279. Elaine Grygiel and Gloria Morgan will have more information on the dinner in future editions of Pulaski News. All of this will take place on October 10.

Please make your plans around all the activities the Village of Pulaski has made to celebrate the 100 years of incor-poration.

Coming soon is a Commemo-rative Booklet of Pulaski that was written by Gina Sanders Larsen. Larsen is a former resi-dent who grew up in the village of Pulaski. She attended school here and is a 1989 graduate of PHS. She shares her talents of writing along with Marketing, Public Relations, and Content Development. The booklet will feature the history of Pulaski, along with human interest stories and datelines of times past and present, a cherished keepsake. Also, a future web page of Pu-laski’s 100 years is under con-struction and will be available soon. You may contact Arlen Thayse at [email protected] if you have pictures and a short personal story of someone or of the village for the memory page of the website.

Last but not least, Dynamic Design will have Centennial Memorabillia available for all the events with the new logo that was just announced.


By Laura DahmsLawrence and Margaret

Hilbert celebrated 50 years of marriage at Riversbend of Howard. They were married De-cember 12, 1959, at St. Joseph’s Church in Chase, Wisconsin.

The couple has seven chil-dren: Denise and John Sulli-van, Dan and Brenda Hilbert, Karen and Fred Boss, Annette and Jeff Pelegrin, Tammy

Hilberts celebrate 50 years

Lawrence and Margaret Hilbert have recently celebrated 50 years of marriage.

and Scott Willems, Craig and Dolly Hilbert, and David and Jill Hilbert. They also have 16 grandchildren.

Lawrence and Margaret farmed in the town of Chase most of their lives. Larry is now a County Supervisor and Mar-garet paints as a hobby. The couple also enjoys traveling with friends.

The Brewers game is on Thursday, May 27, at 12:10 p.m. A coach bus will be leaving the Oakbrook Drive parking lot of St. John Church at 7 a.m.

If you want to attend, send $50 to PACE at PO Box 36, Pulaski, WI, 54162 by May 3 to reserve your seat. This price will include the bus, soda, water, snacks for the ride, great seats by first base, and parking. Come share a fun day with the Pulaski PACE-Setters and friends!

PACE takes you out to the ball game

Class of 1985, will you be having a 25th class reunion? We have been contacted by one of your fellow classmates and she is wondering if someone is scheduling or planning an event to get everyone together again. If you have any information re-garding this event please contact Kathleen Gerds at Pulaski News, (920) 822-6802.

Class Reunion? Family reading night - Thursday, February 11, 2010 Pulaski Dairy

Queen owners Mary Jo Williams and Dale Royer sponsored and read to students and families of Glenbrook Elementary.

Bill Salutz, Lee Fredrickson, Ed Selissen, Don Monytte, and Mike Colburn, driver (not pictured) are members of Baylander Chorus. They are part of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. They came to PHS to provide a singing telegram and to give a rose to Kathy Gerds.

Submitted by Morgan AndreBefore the meeting

started on February 1, the 4-H club made Valentine’s Day cards for the Woodland Village Nursing Center of Gillett. They discussed ideas of community projects that the club could do. Members who attend-ed the 4-H Super Saturday event on January 16 at Shawano High School discussed what sessions they attended and how they liked them.

The next meeting will be held Monday, March 1 in the base-ment of St. Casmir’s Church in Krakow at 6:30 p.m. We will be decorating posters before the start of the meeting for our bake sale, which will be held on Good Friday at Citizens Bank of Pulaski from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Also, the Pulaski Police dog and an officer will be attending. Who ever wants to come is welcome to join.

Millennium Stars 4-H update

Next Pulaski News...March 11, 2010

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Community Announcements

FREE TAX PREPARA-TION BY AARP VOLUN-TEERS for Senior Citizens and low income households at Pulaski Senior Center on THUR-DAYS, March 4, 11, 18, and April 1, 8 and 15 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (last appointment starting at 3:00 p.m.) Call 822-8100 for an appointment.

MOVIE MONDAY on March 8 at Pulaski Senior Center. The movie is “That Touch of Mink” with Cary Grant and Doris Day. Movie starts at 12:30 p.m. Popcorn and bever-age provided.

SING ALONG at Pulaski Senior Center on Friday, March 5 at 10:15 a.m.

EASTER CRAFT at Pulaski Senior Center on Tuesday, March 16 from 9:00 a.m. to

11:00 a.m. Call 822-8100 for more information.

SKYLITE PLAYERS at Pulaski Senior Center on Thurs-day, March 25 at 11:30 a.m. Call 822-8100 to sign up for lunch.

CARDS every Monday at 12:30 p.m. at the Pulaski Senior Center. If you are interested in playing CRIBBAGE, call the Pulaski Senior Center at 822-8100.

BINGO at Pulaski Senior Center Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m.

RED CROSS VAN will take senior citizens to Super Ron’s, bank, etc. on Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m., to hair appoint-ments on Friday mornings, and to church on Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. If interested, call Kitty at 822-8100.

QUILTING WORKSHOP at Pulaski Senior Center on Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to

4:00 p.m. No quilting the third Wednesday of the month. (March 17)

BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENING at Pulaski Senior Center on Mondays from

11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Spon-sored by N.E.W. Rescue Service.

BENEFIT SPECIAL-IST, Mary Kay Norman from the Aging and Disability Re-source Center of Brown County, Green Bay office, will be at the Pulaski Senior Center the second Tuesday of the month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. She will be here on March 9. Do you have questions about benefits for

Seniors

meets every first Monday of the month from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. at American Legion Hall; 135 N. St. Augustine St. Girls ages birth to 18 years are welcome to join whose family members have served in the military forces. For membership information: call Dorothy at 822-5485 or Joan at 855-6486.

POLISH LEGION OF AMERICAN VETERANS AUXILIARY KRAKOW POST 178 meets the first Thurs-day of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion build-ing, 135 N. St. Augustine St. Pulaski. New members are always welcome. Call 865-7617 for information.

AMERICAN LEGION M I X T A C K I - J O H N S O N POST 337 meets the second Monday of the month at the Vet-erans’ Hall, 135 N. St. Augus-tine St. Pulaski. A social begins at 6:30 p.m. and meeting begins

at 7 p.m. with a delicious lunch after. All veterans and active service members are encouraged to visit us to find out what we are about. If eligible, we need you to join. Hall rentals – 822-6996. Membership information -822-2337/822-3017. Commander LeRoy Holl: 826-5334.

PULASKI AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE web site is: pulaskichamber.org

THE PULASKI COMMU-NITY FOOD PANTRY, INC. is in need of dry goods, canned fruit, cereal, past and pasta sauce. The pantry is open every first and third Tuesday of each month from 1 to 4 p.m. If you can help the pantry with these items, or any other food items, please call 822-6050. The pantry appreciates your willingness to help feed the hungry.

AMVETS POST 160 OF ANGELICA/PULASKI meets the first Wednesday of each

seniors that she may help you with? Call Kitty at

822-8100 or Mary Kay at 448-4308.

FOOT CARE CLINIC at Pulaski Senior Center on Tues-days March 9 & 23 starting at 9:00 a.m. Call 822-8100 to set up an appointment. Cost: $17.00

TOWN ‘N COUNTRY QUILT GUILD on Monday, March 15 at 7:00 p.m. at Pulaski Senior Center. Sew- in work-shop on Saturday, March 27 at 9:00 a.m.

SEWING SIMPLE QUILT TOPS at Pulaski Senior Center Fridays at 9:00 a.m.

Wii BOWLING at Pulaski Senior Center on Thursdays from 12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. All ages welcome. Interested in joining a Wii bowling league? Call 822-8100 for more information.

SMEAR CARD GAME at Pulaski Senior Center on Thurs-days from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Call 822-8100 for more infor-mation. All ages welcome.

KNITTING / CROCHET-ING at Pulaski Senior Center on Tuesdays from 9:00 a.m. to

11:00 a.m. Call 822-8100 for more information. All ages welcome.

SIT & BE FIT CHAIR EXERCISES on Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. at Pulaski Senior Center. Call 822-8100 for more information. All ages welcome. Sponsored by Prevea Health.

SENIOR STRIDERS Monday through Friday at 7:30 a.m. Held at Glenbrook gym. Sign up through P.A.C.E. at 822-6050.

BOOK GROUP at Pulaski Senior Center on Wednesday, March 10, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Light supper will be served for $2.00. February’s book will be My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Piccoult. Books available at the Senior Center. Call 822-8100 for more information. All ages welcome.

THURSDAY EVENING CARD GAMES. Anyone in-terested in forming a Thursday night card group? For more in-formation call the Pulaski Senior Center at 822-8100.

PULASKI SENIOR CENTER MEALS FOR Feb-ruary 26 – March 11. Meals served at 11:30 a.m. Suggest-ed donation of $3.50 per day. Meals are available for delivery to the homebound. Reservations required by 11:00 a.m. of the previous day.

Friday, February 26 – Baked fish

Monday, March 1—Sloppy Joe

Tuesday, March 2— Chicken Chop Suey

Wednesday, March 3—Salis-bury Steak

Thursday, March 4—Hot Shredded Pork on Bun

Friday, March 5—Vegetable Lasagna

Monday, March 8—Shredded Beef in Gravy

Tuesday, March 9---Baked Ham

Wednesday, March 10—Beef Stroganoff on Noodles

Thursday, March 11—Baked Chicken

month at 7:30 p.m. at the Ameri-can Legion building in Pulaski. We welcome all veterans from all E. R. A.’s. Delicious lunch served after each meeting. For more information: 822-5933.

JR. AUXILIARY UNIT 337 meets every first Monday of the month from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. at American Legion Hall; 135 N. St. Augustine St. Girls ages birth to 18 years are welcome to join whose family members have served in the military forces. For membership information: call Dorothy at 822-5485 or Joan at 855-6486.

WELCOME HOSTESS: The Welcome Hostess for Pulaski is Tiffany Rondou. If you know of any newcomers to the area, please contact Tiffany at 920-822-2119.

School Updates Thursday, February 25, 2010

An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any

World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.-Jeff Fenech (Australian boxer, 1984 Summer Olympics)

A Green Bay Gambler helps Lannoye students take hockey shots at Ace the mascot.

Four Green Bay Gamblers read to students at Lannoye.

Lannoye had the pleasure of meeting two sets of players from the Green Bay Gamblers, Febru-ary 9. The first presentation to kindergarteners through second graders was with four Green Bay Gamblers and Ace the mascot. The second presentation was for third through fifth graders.

The players read one or two books for each of the sessions and then answered questions. They followed up with activ-ity stations that were set up by Donna Jacobson, the Lannoye/Hillcrest Physical Education teacher. Students had the chance to make a goal against a Green Bay Gambler Player or Ace the mascot.

Green Bay Gamblers visit Lannoye

The Pulaski Knights of Columbus Council #4439 held its annual Knowledge Contest, January 22 at Pulaski Middle School. Students in grades five through eight competed in a spelling and/or math challenge. There were 123 students participating this year. The winners are Natalie Nickerson, grade five; Bryanna Ninham, grade six; Elizabeth Hartman, grade six; Mara Danner, grade seven; Luke Pelegrin, grade seven; Erik Johnson, grade eight; and Brett Zahn, grade eight.

Brianna Bliese and Haley Mahr answer questions for the eighth graders.

By Ashley Nischke and Kelli Badtke

February 8, eighth graders from the middle school came to Pulaski High School. They came to find out what classes they should take for the upcoming year. The Ag room welcomed them.

The Ag room had animals on display to show the eighth graders what is offered in the Ag program. The Ag shop was also on display. The kids in the class put their engines out on display as well. There was a power point about the Ag program with music. There were free cookies and FFA brochures for both students and parents. The FFA members helped out with the students questions. The night was enjoyed by everyone.

“I liked showing the eighth graders around the Ag Diesel shop,” said Josh Nooyen.

“Meeting the upcoming fresh-man was fun!” said Haley Mahr.

Eighth graders visit Ag Room

Trina Townsend teaches while passing out candy for right answers.

Diane Pryzybylski captivates students with changing technologies used to help solve everyday problems.

By Kayla Kraemer and Kat JohnsonJanuary 29, PCMS had some special visitors from various busi-

nesses to represent specific careers. The eighth graders got to choose four presentations that they were interested in through the day. Each presentation was 45 minutes and was repeated four times for every group of students.

There were 15 different presentations that included Ag/ natural resources with Dr. Pam Denzer of Veterinary House Calls; architec-ture/ construction with Jed Vandenlangenberg; arts/ AV technology communications with Sara Bonk of The Wagg Inn; business man-agement with Mark Linzmeirer of Business Solutions; education/ training with Jean McWey and Brea Huehnerfuss; finance with Vicki Vanniewenhoven; government public administration with Tom Hinz; health science with Nick Winkler of Bellin Health; human services with Ruth Fett of Parent Team LLC; info/ technology of Pulaski Community School Technology Department; law/ public safety/ security with William Fitzgerald and Donsia Stronghill of the District Attorney’s Office; manufacturing with Pamela Krumrei of MCL industries; marketing/ sales/ service with Trina Townsend of Greater Insurance Agency; science/ tech/ engineering/ math with Diane Pryzybylski; and transportation/ distribution/ logistics with Dr. Sherwood Williams of Cavu Aviation Inc.

Each business had presentations, some of which included power points and videos, while others consisted of hands-on activities and small group discussion. Pam Denzer of Veterinary House Calls had stations where the students looked at different x-rays of animals. Nick Winkler of Bellin Health talked about what it takes to be an athletic trainer, showed pictures of sports injuries, and also talked about the importance of triage.

The students were able to see the highlights of many different careers. The fair helped to show them which careers may interest them, and also which careers they maybe want to shy away from.

The eighth graders were chosen to be a part of the career day because they are old enough to understand the importance of edu-cation and also because they still have a lot of time to decide what they want to do. They are able to go into high school next year with a better understanding of classes they should take for a certain career field.

The day was a success and the students enjoyed the presentations. They left the day with a better knowledge of their upcoming futures.

PCMS holds eighth grade career fair

Dr. Pam Denzer talks about veterinary science as a career.

Student council members Isaac Higgins and Mikey Leidig catch pancakes at the second annual Pancake and Porky Supper during student-led conferences on February 2.

The Health and Wellness Committee at Lannoye offers basketball skill sessions in order to promote kids staying active and making healthy choices. Once a week, in the gym during lunch recess, students in third through fifth grade will get basketball tips from teachers. They will have practice time on dribbling, shooting, passing, rebounding, defense, offense, and at the end of the eight weeks, scrimmaging.


Samantha Heezen, an exer-cise science major and pre-phys-ical therapy student, was named to the dean’s list at Carroll Uni-versity for the fall 2009 semes-ter. To be named to the dean’s list, students must have a grade point average for the semester of at least 3.5 on a 4-point scale. Heezen is a 2008 graduate of Pulaski High School and daugh-ter of Richard and Mary Heezen of Sobieski.

Carroll, Wisconsin’s oldest four-year institution of higher learning, is an independent, co-educational comprehensive uni-versity grounded in the liberal arts tradition.

Heezen named to Carroll University dean’s list

At ABVM, Rosie Wenzel’s second graders operated a Classroom Store for three days. Kindergarteners through fifth graders were invited to shop, as well as teachers and staff too! Wenzel’s class raised $217 for diabetes. They are very blessed to be able to directly give the proceeds to our school nurse to serve our students who have diabetes! Thanks to all who helped make the store so successful!

Students from Jodie Walker’s fourth grade class at Lannoye helped make brush piles in the nature area using donated Christmas trees from Lannoye families. The brush piles will provide shelter for small animals.

Chris Drella of 3-D Driving School hands Pulaski High School junior Brittini Folkman a $10 certificate for driving safely.

Chris Drella of 3-D Driving School hands Pulaski High School junior Dylan Fleming a $10 certificate for driving safely.

Chris Drella of 3-D Driving School hands Pulaski High School junior Shelby Ridderbush a $10 certificate for driving safely.

Second graders at ABVM are learning about solids, liquids, and gases. They made Wave Bottles to learn about the results of mixing oil, water, and food coloring.

Hayden Gagnon at DeYoung family zoo is holding a baby spider monkey as part of his community service project.

Taylor Kaczrowski and Alyssa Schuld ring bells for the Salvation Army at Woodman’s for their semester project.

Leo Club and Spanish Club members work at the Glenbrook Food Pantry packing food for the needy.

Turner Ruechel and Dillon Pallex voulunteer at the Zoo Boo for their community service project.


Joel Schauske’s first grade class had the second highest reading minutes with a total of 3,793 minutes (253 minutes per student). Each class gets to keep the Lannoye Traveling Reading Trophy in their classroom for a month!

Susan Hancock’s third grade class had the most minutes read per student in Lannoye’s January Reading Calendars, with a total of 14,001 minutes (637 minutes per student)

Last January the Pulaski School Board voted unanimously to implement a four-year old kin-dergarten program in the Pulaski Community School District to begin in the 2009-10 school year. The district initiated the Pulaski Early Education Partnership (PEEP) program as a community collaborative approach where the preschool programming is conducted in private day care centers and select parochial and public schools located through-out the district. In its first year, the PEEP program services 201 students with classrooms located within the following partner-ing locations: Polka Tots Child Care Center, Assumption BVM Parochial School, Peaceful Be-ginnings Christian Child Care Center, Building Blocks Child Development Center, Hillcrest Elementary, Fairview Elemen-tary, and Glenbrook Elementary. An abundance of research sup-ports the value of four year old preschool for our children and in its first year the PEEP program has enjoyed tremendous success!

Enrollment for the PEEP program will be done on-line through the PEEP website at http://connect.pulaski.k12.wi.us/dist_stserv_4k.cfm. As part of the on-line enrollment process, you will be asked to complete the PEEP enrollment form, Ages & Stages Questionnaire, and a health history form.

On the enrollment form, parents will be asked to list their top three choices and we will try to honor one of your top three choices. The decision of place-ment will depend upon atten-dance area, availability of space, and transportation needs. If the family needs transportation, then the school district will decide upon the site.

A child is eligible for the PEEP program that is 4 years old by Sept 1, 2010 and is planning to attend kindergarten in Sep-

2010-11 PEEP Enrollment Information

tember 2011. If you are electing to enroll your child in kindergar-ten in 2012, then he/she would be eligible for this program in September 2011. This program is designed for the one year pre-ceding 5 year kindergarten en-trance.

In early April, parents will be sent a letter notifying you of your child’s placement. That letter will include the date of your child’s site’s May Parent Meeting and other information needed to complete the PEEP enrollment process.

As with any program, ques-tions do arise. Enclosed are Fre-quently Asked Questions, PEEP Transportation Brochure, PEEP Partnering Sites description, and a PEEP Program Brochure. Also be sure to check out the Pulaski Community Schools website and click on the PEEP link for information regarding each site as well as a map http://connect.pulaski.k12.wi.us/dist_glance_boundaries.cfm of the Pulaski Community School District and boundary area for each school/site.

If you are not interested in having your child attend a PEEP program for the 2010-11 school year or if you are choosing to delay entrance to the 2011-12 school year for kindergarten, please call Rorie Gauthier at (920) 822-6021.

We are excited for this won-derful opportunity for our four year olds and their families. If you have questions please contact Colleen Miner, Pulaski Early Education Partnership Co-ordinator at (920) 899-6300 or via e-mail at [email protected].

Sincerely,Colleen MinerPulaski Early Education Part-

nership Coordinator Principal and CounselorFairview Elementary School

Amanda Treml’s kindergarten class is a fun place to visit. Assumption BVM 4 year old preschoolers partnered up with a kindergarten buddy to make baby brontosauruses. The kindergarteners traced and helped cut out the different parts to make the dinosaurs. All had a lot of fun cutting, pasting, and laughing. The preschoolers learned how to work with a partner and complete a complex project. The brontosauruses are displayed proudly on the dinosaur wall outside the 4 year old classroom.

Lannoye held the PEEP Winter Wonderland, January 29. Forty PEEP students and parents came to Lannoye from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. There were three sectionals for the students and parents to enjoy. First, they had a crafts session where students painted, made letters from glit-tery play dough, and made fleece scarves. This session was led by Christy Lepinski, Lori Duval, and Holly Smith. After that, the children went to the library for

Jessica Belanger reads to children at Lannoye during story time at the PEEP Winter Wonderland.

Lannoye Hosts PEEP Winter Wonderland

story time with Jessica Belanger while the parents learned some home literacy strategies with Mary Chrisman. Then, the stu-dents went to the gym for some fun games with Donna Jacobsen and Joel Schauske. After all that fun, everyone went to the lunch-room for some hot apple cider, apple juice, and cookies. It was a great morning of fun learning for the students, families, and staff.

By Kevin Ripley As a long-standing tradition,

three of the Pulaski High School jazz ensembles attended the Uni-versity of Wisconsin—Green Bay Jazz Festival, January 30.

This competitive festival provided an opportunity for area jazz bands to showcase the hard work they have put into their music during the preced-ing months. Judges critiqued each band and awarded a rating, and a clinician worked individu-ally with each band to musically improve its members.

The PHS Jazz Combo, Jazz II, and Jazz III all proved their jazziness to the judges, but most notably was the combo whose members placed second overall and played during the awards concert at the Widener Center later that afternoon.

In addition, the following stu-dents received awards for being named honorable mention solo-ists: Aaron Schroeder on trom-bone, Jacob Abegglen on guitar, and Jonah Wallschlaeger on tenor saxophone.

Pulaski Jazz excels at festival

Jacob Abegglen

Aaron Schroeder

Jonah Wallschlaeger


Regular School Board Meeting

Wednesday, January 6, 2010Pulaski High School Library6 P.M.Official MinutesCALL TO ORDERBoard President Hendricks

called the meeting to order at 6:06 p.m. in the Library at the Pulaski High School.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCEThe Pledge of Allegiance was

recited by all present.ROLL CALLBoard members

present: Pam Denzer (6:16pm), Barb McKeefry, Mark Wer-nicke, Trina Townsend, Jeff Rasmussen, Cindy Hendricks and William Hynes

Board members absent: Administrators present: D r .

Mel Lightner, Jenny Gracyalny, Amy Uelmen, John Matczak, Mary King, Darlene Godfrey, Pat Fullerton, Lisa Misco, Marc Klawiter, Mary Connolly, Pam Engel, and Colleen Miner.

Guests attending: Terri Ainsworth, Patty Wasielews-ki, Luann Erb, Rita Skalecki, Mary Chrisman, Diane Char-trand, Jenny Kurczek, Nikki Gerth, Macy Roberts, Laura Fenendael, Dan Charniak, Beth Babik, Sylvia Pott, Geri Ma-jewski, Teresa Wargo, Erin Noble, Jackie Clark, Cheryl Ademino, Diane Van Lannen, Greg Derricks, Laurie Przybyls-ki-LaMere, Diane Traub, Tracey Szymanski, Denise Smurawa, Donna Serverson, Carlyn Haas, and Lois Selle

CITIZENS’ FORUMColleen Miner – Wanted

to let everyone know that the Krakow Advancement Associa-tion donated a cedar sign for the school

DISCUSSION AND / OR ACTION ITEMS

BOARD REPORT- Excel-lence Task Force has met four times now. Information has been presented on where we are now right now as a district and where we would like to be.

WASB state convention coming up - Cindy Hendricks and Dr. Mel Lightner will be at-tending.

2. PAY BILLSWernicke moved, McKeefry

seconded, to approve and pay the bills as presented.

6 voting aye, 0 voting nay, motion carried.

3. MINUTES Hynes moved, Townsend

seconded, to approve Minutes of the Regular Board Meeting (open and closed sessions) held on December 2, 2009.


4. PERSONNEL REPORT – CONTRACTS

Name Reason Position Location S t e p / L a n e Placement –

2009-10 Salary ScheduleMikel Cobb New Position

Tech Ed Teacher PHS MA6 (.258 FTE)(Limited-term) Step 6

University of WI-Madison – Bachelor of Science – Family and Consumer Education – De-cember 2009

Wernicke moved, Townsend seconded, to approve contracts as presented


ATHLETIC UPDATEFOOTBALL DIVISIONS

– Jerad Marsh - We would be in District B. We are opposed to the change in districting. Reasons: Lost of Conference Identity & Rivals for Foot-

ball only, Increase in travel, decrease gate and attendance, school atmosphere and environ-ment, loss of 9th game (goes to WIAA) Relativity of 9th game (vs another district) Unsure about JV and Freshman Sched-ule, Scheduling of homecoming, scheduling around sports already established (soccer) and many more.

HOCKY CO-OP – Jerad Marsh - Bay Port will request to dissolve BayPort/Pulaski Hockey Co-op following the 2009-2010 season. They will be able to sustain themselves in 2010-2011. Research and requests to co-op with other area schools, Ashwaubenon or Shawano have been pro-posed and accepted. Cost, fa-cility, and level of play have been looked into with no dis-trict monies needed for either program. Both are interested in creating a co-op with Pulaski. A meeting of current and future Pulaski Hockey families will be organized after the Athletic Di-rector’s meeting on the 13th of January to make a final recom-mendation.

SWIM MEETIS – Jerad Marsh - At the last FRCC con-ference swim meeting there was a motioned passed to include a triple dual swim meet. Coaches have requested that Pulaski and Ashwaubenon cannot host tri-ple-dual meets. Ashwaubenon because of a 5 lane pool and Pulaski because of depth and no starting boards. Discussion and request by coaches to deny Pulaski to host any conference meet was proposed and tabled.

DONATION TO PHS FROM LOGISTIC ASSEMBLY SO-LUTIONS

McKeefry moved, Hynes sec-onded, to approve a $5,000 do-nation from Logistic Assembly Solutions towards the purchase of the Horizontal Mill needed for the Tech Ed program, as pre-sented


EARLY GRADUATION REQUEST

Hynes moved, Wernicke sec-onded, to approve early gradu-ation of Kimberly Duncan as presented


WISCONSIN’S RACE TO THE TOP MOU

McKeefry moved, Wernicke seconded, to approve the Wis-consin Race To The Top MOU as presented


WASB DELEGATE AS-SEMBLY RESOLUTIONS – Cindy Hendricks will be attend-ing the WASB Convention as a voting delegate. If the board has an opinion on any of the resolu-tions please yet Cindy Hendricks know.

LIMITED TERM SUMMER SCHOOL ASSISTANT

Wernicke moved, Townsend seconded, to approve limited term summer school assistant as presented


2010-2011 BUDGET FORE-CAST AND DISCUSSION ON BUDGET PRIORITIES – Dr. Mel Lightner shared the budget forecast for the next few years.

CLOSED SESSIONTownsend moved, Wernicke

seconded, to consider adjourn-ment to closed session at7:41pm per Wisconsin Statute 19.85 (1)(c & e) to review performance of probationary teachers, memo-

randum of understanding with PEA regarding part-time teacher substitute pay, request from PEA regarding extension of retire-ment deadline, consideration of WRS penalty payment, bus driver overtime, and administra-tive contracts.


OPEN SESSIONRasmussen moved, McK-

eefry seconded, to reconvene into open session.


ADJOURNMENTRasmussen moved, McK-

eefry seconded, to adjourn the meeting at 9:18P.M.


Submitted by Trudy Wied – Secretary to the Board of Educa-tion

Wednesday, January 20, 2010Ripley Performing Arts

Center6 P.M.Official MinutesCALL TO ORDERBoard President Hendricks

called the meeting to order at 6 p.m. in the Library at the Pulaski High School.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCEThe Pledge of Allegiance was

recited by all present.ROLL CALLBoard members

present: Pam Denzer, Barb McKeefry, Mark Wernicke, Trina Townsend, Jeff Rasmus-sen, Cindy Hendricks, William Hynes and Student Representa-tive, and Kyle Forsberg

Board members absent: Mark Wernicke, Jeff Rasmussen

Administrators present: D r . Mel Lightner, Jenny Gracyalny, Pam Kercheval, Mary King, Darlene Godfrey, Pat Fullerton, Lisa Misco, Dan Slowey, Marc Klawiter, Mary Connolly, Pam Engel and Colleen Miner.

Guests attending: Terri Ainsworth, Patty Wasielews-ki, Luann Erb, Rita Skalecki, Mary Chrisman, Diane Char-trand, Jenny Kurczek, Nikki Gerth, Macy Roberts, Laura Fenendael, Dan Charniak, Beth Babik, Sylvia Pott, Geri Ma-jewski, Teresa Wargo, Erin Noble, Jackie Clark, Cheryl Ademino, Diane Van Lannen, Greg Derricks, Laurie Przybyls-ki-LaMere, Diane Traub, Tracey Szymanski, Denise Smurawa, Donna Serverson, Carlyn Haas, and Lois Selle

CITIZENS’ FORUMDISCUSSION AND / OR

ACTION ITEMSSTUDENT SCHOOL

BOARD REPRESENTA-TIVE’S REPORT – Kyle Fors-berg gave a report on what is happening at the high school.

BOARD REPORT- Dr. Lightner went to the WASB conference and shared about the workshops that he attended. There is an Effective Bargaining Seminar coming up, let Trudy Wied know if you want to go. There will be a special Board of Education Meeting combined with the Excellence Task Force Committee on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 24th.

3. PAY BILLSTownsend moved, Hynes

seconded, to approve and pay the bills as presented.


4. MINUTES Denzer moved, Townsend

seconded, to approve Minutes of the Regular Board Meeting (open and closed sessions) held on November 4, 2009


5. PERSONNEL REPORT – None

BUDGET REPORT – Pam Kercheval gave an update on how we are doing meeting our

budget for this year.JOB SHARE REQUEST-

McKeefry moved, Townsend seconded, to approve of the Job Share Request of Mary Chris-man and Sarah Schmidt as pre-sented.


MIDDLE SCHOOL UPDATE – We moved to LGI 1 were Pat Fullerton, Marc Klawi-ter and some staff members re-ported on updates of the middle school.

BUILD YOUR OWN CUR-RICULUM – Darlene Godfrey reported on the progress of Build Your Own Curriculum.

FIELD TRIPS – Darlene Godfrey shared some details on a new field trip policy she is working on.

CLOSED SESSION Adjourn Into Closed Session

as per Wisconsin Statute 19.85 (1)(c & e) to review perfor-mance of probationary teachers, employee resignations, discuss PEA grievance, PBDA griev-ance, administrative evaluation

February Optimist Winners Connor Beckard and Gracie Ficarri stand with Hillcrest Principal Jenny Gracyalny.

Nancy Salmon nominated Gracie Ficarri for the February Optimist Award. Salmon said, “I am very pleased to nomi-nate Gracie for the Optimist Award. Gracie has a smile on her face from the time she walks through our door until the end of the day. She just makes me want to smile. Gracie has such a happy cheerful attitude and always does her best. She is a friend and helper to every-one. We are so lucky to have her in our classroom and are very proud of you Gracie!”

The second Optimist winner chosen for this month is Connor Beckard, who is a student in

and administrative contracts.OPEN SESSIONMcKeefry moved, Townsend

seconded, to reconvene into open session.


EMPLOYEE RESIGNA-TIONS

Townsend moved, Denzer seconded, to approve resigna-tions of Brian Pinchart and Kris-tine Bogacz as presented.


ADMINISTRATIVE CON-TRACTS

Townsend moved, Denzer seconded, to approve the admin-istrative contracts as presented.


ADJOURNMENTHynes moved, McKeefry sec-

onded, to adjourn the meeting at 9:22P.M.


Submitted by Trudy Wied – Secretary to the Board of Educa-tion

Hillcrest February Optimists announced

Betty Kestly’s homeroom. She said, “I would like to nominate Connor for the Award as he comes to school everyday with a huge smile on his face and with a genuine excitement to learn. He is a wonderful class leader, helper, and hard worker who is always demonstrating and putting forth his best effort.” Kestly also said that his excite-ment and enthusiasm is catchy as he enters the classroom daily with statements such as, “That is so cool,” “This is going to be awesome,” and “I love school, it is so fun.” Kestly said, “It is a pleasure to be Connor’s teacher and share in his joy!


SENIORSHighest Honors: Erin

Holder, Kasarah Kabacin-ski, Leah Keyes, Brandon Kryger, Taylor Maccoux, Ashley Nischke, Andrew Pe-terson, Alecia Richards, Kevin Ripley, Katherine Schlender, Timothy Stone, Sarah Wallen-fang, Alexandria Wenninger, Chantel White.

High Honors: Adam Abegglen, Colin Abendroth, Jordan Aderholdt, Emily Al-ger-Feser, James Anderson, Michelle Anderson, Leah Andreini, Ethan Archam-bault, Alicia Aulik, Tyler Bartz, Ellen Berg, Dylan Bi-alozynski, Elijah Bloch, Joel Bluma, Ashley Caelwaerts, Michael Clausen, Brooke Coenen, Leigh Danner, Robert Dooley, Colin Duke, Kim-berly Duncan, Sam Egel-hoff, Jonathan Enderby, Kyle Forsberg, Kayla Fredrickson, Joseph Giesler, Kristin Halla, Nathanial Hansen, Briana Harter, Adam Herkert, Tanner Herkert, Reanna Hoida, Alex-ander Hoppock, Justin Huben, Andrew Huxford, Deedra Irwin, Trent Kapla, Morgan Kobylarczyk, Kraig Kolkows-ki, Joshua Krueger, Katelynn Krueger, William LaRock, Jacob Leigh, Erika Lem-erond, Mary Anne Malcheski, Vasisht Marada, Danielle McCole, Alixandra Molnar, Adrie Mullins, Kalie Mullins, Nathan Nelson, David Nooyen, Jenny Oxley, Margaret Pelton, Amanda R. Przybylski, Travis Przybylski, Trevor Reinhard, Hannah Roth, Anne Scha-nock, Emilie Schauer, Steven Schlender, Aaron Schroeder, Amanda Schuld, Nicholas Seglund, Shawn Sell, Bryan Sesko, James Shaline, Christo-pher Shaw, Blake Smith, Alex Smithback, Tyler Sylvester, Joseph Szczepanski, Andrew Teresinski, Brock Treankler, Carrie Trina, Brittini Uhlig, Marlo Vercauteren, Miranda Wallenfang, Samantha Weck-erle, Corey Whitt, Tyler Wood.

Honors: Justin Beckman, Katie Boerst, Devany Boydston, Matthew Brehmer, Samuel Caldwell, Brittany Cichocki, Megan Cleereman, David Coehoorn, Meghan Degeneffe, Emily DeVil-lers, Justin Enderby, Emily Feivor, Andrew Fredrickson, Tyler Gerhartz, Eric Gjerde, Ryan Hicks, Ryan Hoffmann, Krista Kamke, Laura Kawles-ki, Stephanie Klein, Charles Koehler, Timothy Koehler, Jonathan Kohn, Kayla Kraemer, Kortney Krajewski, Charlie Kralapp, Kyle Kubiak, Scott Ladow, Jamie Lardi-nois, Nicole Lasecki, Nicholas Leanna, Yoon Joo Lee, Daniel Lemerond, Kristen Lewan-dowski, Jordan J. Matuszak,

Pulaski High School first semesterhonor roll 2009-2010

Molly Mayer, Brian McMahon, Raymond Melotte, Warren Nor-dgren, Steven Nowak, Mariah Parker, Seth Parmer, Andrea Peot, Paula Peterman, Chase Phillips, Courtney Phillips, Sam Reed, Karissa Reinke, Kayla Reitmeyer, Karisa Rhoades, Jasamine Richardson, Antonio Rosa Torres, Tanner Ruechel, Matthew Salewski, Hanna Salmon, Talisa Schroeder, Nikolas Schwartz, Lisa Schwis-ter, Ashley Smith, Andrew Smurawa, Laura Stachura, Jacob Staszak, Ethan Steeno, Brian Sullivan, Austin Tisch, Justin VanBeckum, Joshua Wall, Jessica Wampler, Zachariah Webster, Ethan Wegner, Katie Wesolowski, Sandra Wied, Logan Worm, London Young, Joshua Zablocki, Romico Bianco Zapanta.

JUNIORSHighest Honors: Derek C.

Anderson, Brianna Bliese, Brian Boehmer, Leigha Flagstad, Katelynn Gohr, Kaitlyn Hilliard, Dustin Koepsell, Kelsey Lang, Jacob Pelegrin, Alex Rent-meester, Shelby Ridderbush, Shannon Schwenke, Cassandra Zahn.

High Honors: Jacob Abeg-glen, Melanie Aldrich, Jordyn Anklam, Kelli Badtke, Ryan Bartels, Zachary Beaver, Laura Becker, Brett Bellisle, Jacob Bloch, William Bowers, Sa-mantha Brabender, Lauran Brice, Luca Brilli, Sara Brown, Rebecca Buckmaster, Megan Buhr, Luke Button, Katie Chris-topherson, Alicia Cichon, Maran Collett, Laura Dahms, Benja-min DeGrave, Tamara Deneys, Gavin Denzer, Courtney Dettman, Ryan Dummer, Daisee Francour, Tasha Giese, Andrea Gjerde, Joseph Hames, Mark Hartman, Kaci Hoverson, Devin Hynes, Justanjot Kaur, Laura Kirby, Connor Kmiec, Michael Kurowski, Shannon Ladow, Brianna Lancour, Kayla LaPlan-te, Brooke Lauritzen, Michael Loberger, Lauren Lotter, Krista Neerdaels, Jessica Nelson, Race Noeldner, Stephanie Paape, Kayla Peterson, Rebecca Polum, Morgan Prentice, Briana Prieto, Ruthanna Ringel, Taylor Saari, Taylor Salamonski, Kelly Schwister, Joshua Sendra, Kevin Simoens, Meredith Simp-kins, Andrew Smith, Charles Smoot, Casey Stepien, Jena Stewart, Melissa Stiede, Emily Stone, Bryan Sundstrom, Laura Szela, Taylor Tassoul, Rebecca Tauscher, Derek Vandenhouten, Emily VerHaagh, Mitchell Wasielewski, Joshua Waupoose, Elli Whalen, Nicole Wied, Rachael Wilinski, Derek Wirta, Brittni Wirtz, Marley Worm, Adam Wrobleski.

Honors: Andrew Adamski, Skyler Adamski, Cassandra Alfheim, Andrew Ambrosius, Eric Babiarz, Jacob Bablitch,

Brendan Bahun, Victoria Bentz, Jason Blicharz, Hannah Bor-nemann, Brooke Bornhofer, Rachael Busjahn, Derren Carter, Parker Christiansen, Cody Clark, Callon Crump, Anna Deau, Aaron Delzer, Emily Dom-browski, Nicholas Douglass, William Durfey, Nicole Eagle, Travis Elkins, Rachel Everard, Dylan Fleming, Zoie Fossum, Timothy Frisch, Ryan Gerhartz, Dalton Gracyalny, Kody Habeck, Sean Hennessy, Kylee Hensrud, Taylor Jantz, Eman Jazayeri, Robert Johnson III, Megan Kac-zmarek, Caitlin Kafura, Jenni-fer Karrasch, Lindsay LaCount, Haley Mahr, Brooke Majew-ski, Taylor Mattson, Candice Matuszak, Stephanee Morales, Dalton Murphy, Cody Netzel, Kayla Nischke, Joshua Nooyen Wade, Sarah Olejniczak, Nicole Olesinski, Heather Pautz, Brett Radecki, Shane Reinhard, Brandon Reynolds, Isaiah Rob-ertson, Jamie Rodgers, Brent Rosner, Tyler Rusch, Daniel Rynish, Nicole Schiltz, Shea Sikes, Brett Smith, Chantre’ Smith, Tyler Smith, Robert Sobieck, Cameron Spinler, Cassandra Steichen, Kelsey Swanson, Kara Sylvester, Ben-jamin Thiem, Bradley Thomas, Isabel Thyne, Noah Vander-Loop, Matthew Vesco, Kelsey Wargo, Lucas Zablocki.

SOPHOMORES Highest Honors: Katelyn

Aumann, Luke Baranczyk, Emme Bertler, Alison Black-ford, Kendall Doersch, Elissa Harter, Brandon Hendzel, Rachel Hickson, Joseph Lhuilli-er, Paige Lightner, Haley Miller, Alyssa Rentmeester, Rachel Roth, Alexander Schuld, Cas-sandra Toellner.

High Honors: Kimberly Adams, Casey Alger-Feser, Derek D. Anderson, Weston Banker, Erik Beckman, Cla-rissa Blodgett, Evan Bluma, Emma Brudnicki, Ashley Burkel, Mariel Carlson, Al-exandra Carmichael, Megan Coenen, Theresa Cooley, Megan Dooley, Savanha Drew, Kevin Dunford, Alecia Erdmann, Kelsey Everson, John Fitzgerald, Michael Fleming, Brennan Gille, Sadi Gracyalny, Logan Hansen, James Hendricks, Zachary Hendzel, Jenna Herkert, Logan Hinderman, Rachel Huben, Alyssa Huxford, Danniel Irwin, Brett Janssen, McKenna Jensen, Laura Juszczyk, Dylan Kabara, Grace Kaiser, Natalie Kaiser, Kaira Kamke, Jordann Kaufman, Amy Kawleski, Michael Kennedy, Hannah Kestly, Erica Kuczer, Trevor Lardinois, Derek Leidel, Anna Loew, Brock Manning, Christopher McBride, Brady McGuire, Daniel Mellen-thin, Raegan Niemela, Michael Pelton, Bryce Penn, Briane Prentice, Nicholas Reed, Kristin Richards, Michael Richter,

Anthony Sarvello, Michael Schreder, Jocelyn Schroeder, Nicholas Schumacher, Samuel Schwartz, Amanda Simmons, John Skalecki, Erin Skalitzky, Megan Stephanie, Chantel Stre-blow, Victoria Sturzl, Adam Styczynski, Jacob Syndergaard, Craig Thompson, Adam Tisch, Nicholas Traub, Paige Vanden-Langenberg, Tanner Vannieu-wenhoven, Kari Wasielewski, Zachary Wech, Olivia Whitaker, Brianna Wichlacz, Mackenzie Wozniak.

Honors: Dalton Aderholdt, Christopher Bania, Jade Baran, Chelsea Bartz, Dylan Bersch, Sabrina Bialozynski, Amy Boerst, Kristin Boerst, Victoria Busch, Austin Bush, Reanne Castner, Beau Court, Rudy David-Weber, Cody Davidson, Nelson DeCleene, Tyler Engle-bert, Austin Eparvier, Angelica Fischer, Morgan Francois, John Harpt, Lexis Harris, Weston Hendzel, Jaleesa Henn, Mitch-ell Jarosinski, Alexander Kaster, Rachel Kennedy, Samantha Kinlen, Zachary Kobes, Nathalia Kohlhase, Ayla Kress, Alexis Krusic, Emily Lambert, Jasmine Lambert, Jessica Lambert, Ryan Lardinois, Dalton Larson, Brady Lepak, Logan Maciejewski, Theresa Malcheski, Taylor Ma-roszek, Jacob McLester, Erika Monette, Cole Motiff, Matthew Neily, Mackenzie Nickerson, Brianna Oelschlager, Benja-min Oliver, Robert Peterson, Abigail Priebe, Allison Reed, Kayla Reinke, Ciara Richardson, Brandon Roberts, Carly Scha-nock, Olivia Schmidt, Jordan Schroeder, Kelsey Shadick, Kaylin Shafer, Dakota Styczyn-ski, Cassey Szymanski, Leland Thyes III, Mallory Timm, Nich-olas Tomashek, Kelsey Trina, Paul Unger, Elana Urfer, Evan VanGheem, Ashlynn VanToll, Elizabeth Wenninger, Hayle Wery, Zachery Wroblewski, Alec Zambrowicz, Matthew Zey.

FRESHMENHighest Honors: Brenna

Adamski, Laura Aprill, Megan Archambault, Carly Borre-mans, Shelby Cornell, Rebecca DeValk, Ian Duke, Brian Ferrer, Nathaniel Hilliard, Sarah Hoffman, Zachary Klein, Dani-elle LaCount, Elizabeth Lemir-ande, Kelsey Pelegrin, Jordan Stiede, Liana Streckenbach, Xiao Wei, Teagan Wernicke.

High Honors: Ashley Allen, Neil Anderson, Katie Barth, Andrew Baumann, Ruth Becker, Marissa Bieda, Kayla Burdeau, Jaden Canales, Christa Charnon, Laura Cortright, Maria Deau, Katelyn DeStarkey, Alyssa Downey, Thomas Drake, Alexis Effert, Jacob Egelhoff, Sho-shoni Elbe, Michaela Enneper, Kendall Forsberg, Byron Foth, Sarah Giesler, McKenna Girtz, Kendra Gohr, Megan Greatens,

Kylie Gresham, Adam Guern-sey, Cameron Harrison, Dalton Hendzel, Brianna Hoppock, Alesha Huffman, Tyler Jessel, Andre Johnson, Sara Kacz-marek, Hailee Kapla, Navjot Kaur, Sierena Kloes, Michael Knauer, Austin Kosmal, Katie Kosmal, Joshua Kryger, Teri Lewins, Alicia Linzmeier, Peter Lundberg, Erin Mahr, Jennifer Maronek, Emily Matuszak, Sa-mantha May, Adam Morgan, Mallory Nickerson, Allison Olesinski, Melissa Olson, Anna Paradies, Nicole Petcka, Saman-tha Peters, Jennifer Peterson, Justin Przybylski, Taylor Przy-bylski, Andrea Quade, Jordyn Rasmussen, Danielle Robert-son, Turner Ruechel, Nicholas Salewski, Marie Salmon, Hanna Schommer, Laura Schott, Chantel Schubert, Alyssa Schuld, Molly Schumacher, Kalli Seglund, Emily Smith-back, Timothy Smoot, Adam Socha, Jacob Swiecichows-ki, Paige Sylvester, Taylor Tisch, Stephanie Uhlig, Tosha Wagner, Jonah Wallschlaeger, Britney Watermolen, Anthony Wendrick, Dakota White, Cody Wichmann.

Honors: Montana Ahls-wede, Eric Ambrosius, Bryana Babiash, Jacob Bader, Alyssa Bardouche, Brandon Bartels, Kyler Berg, Janelle Berna, Chloe Bessert, Hannah Bloch, Kacey Block, Emily Borzick, Dalton Bouzek, Brandon Buhr, Alyssa Busjahn, Lauren Byrnes, Alex Caelwaerts, Marissa Campbell, Sean Cropper, Jonathan DeBauche, Cody DeMuth, Anthony Deneys, Lauren Dettman, Pamela Doran, Tyler Ermis, Linda Faustino, Nikoll Fjelstad, Jena Gorr, Thomas Hartman, Gavin Henn, Alexus Holtz, Emily Hovell, Brad Hylok, Ashley Kaczma-rowski, Taylor Kaczrowski, Natalie Katers, April Keyes, Caelan King, Karissa Kosmal, Laci Kropp, Nathan Leigh, Drew Lewis, Brock McDer-mid, Brooke McDermid, Alex Nestor, Spencer Niemi, Steven Nooyen, Maia Oelschlager, Dillon Pallex, Kaylee Pallock, Ryan Paschke, Joshua Per-rault, Tori Phillips, Ashlyn Pias, Kristofer Richmond, Amanda Romanek, Lacey Ruechel, Ryan Scanlan, Jeremy Schmitz, Robert Schuettpelz, Heather Seiltz, John Seroogy, Matthew Shier, Angelina Smith, Sarah Smith, Rachel Smurawa, Zacha-riah Sobieck, Jay Steinbrech-er, Erin Stiede, Rylee Stocco, Brooke Sundstrom, Megan Sylvester, Andrew Thomp-son, Heather Tossava, Katelyn Vertz, Matthew Walgurski, Nicole Wanta, Brock Westgor, Karlye Whitt, Katelyn Winther, Peter Woodworth.

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Sports Thursday, February 25, 2010

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

~Mitch Gaylord (American gymnast, 1984 Summer Olympics)

By Nate HelmleThe Bay Port/Pulaski varsity

hockey team lost last week against two top 15 ranked teams.

The team took on Notre Dame in what was looking to be a great match-up, but lost 5-1. Follow-ing the loss to Notre Dame, Bay Port/Pulaski dropped a nail biter to Fond du Lac by just a point with two seconds left in the game.

As the regular season begins to wrap up, the team heads into the final week with games against the Fox Cities and Neenah.

Bay Port/Pulaski hockey drops two games

Twenty-two middle school students, high school students, and adults participated in the PEA Badminton Tournament, January 30. There were two groups of participants. The tournament was held in the Pulaski Community Middle School gym.

The Pulaski band plays during the first half of the boys basketball game against Southwest.

By Travis PrzybylskiFebruary 5, the Southwest

Trojans came to Pulaski for a conference game against the Red Raiders. Pulaski opened up the game on a 19-4 run; the score at the end of the first quarter was 23-10.

From there, the Raiders never looked back, they went into half-time with a 37-23 lead, feeling

Raiders blow past Trojansconfident in their abilities. During the third quarter, Pulaski and Southwest exchanged baskets. The score at the end of the third was 50-37. In the fourth quarter the Red Raiders managed to increase their lead. The final score was 67-46. Pulaski went 8-11 from the foul line. Adam Abegglen led all scores with 22 points and Cody Wichmann added 13 points.

Brittni Wirtz plays defense on Southwest’s Simbi Laaro as Tasha Giese guards the post up of Kristin Moesch of the Trojans.

By Brooke LauritzenFebruary 5, the Pulaski girls basketball team traveled to Green

Bay Southwest to take on the Trojans. The Raiders came home with a 60-22 win after a 26-8 halftime lead.

Brooke Lauritzen had 12 points and Brittni Wirtz scored 10 for Pulaski. The Lady Raiders (15-2, 11-0) are now first in the confer-ence because of De Pere’s loss to Green Bay Preble.

Lady Raiders defeat TrojansPulaski’s Laura Szela plays defense against a Phantom guard.

By Brooke LauritzenOn February 2, the West De Pere Phantoms traveled to the Fred

Kestly Field House to take on the Lady Raiders in a nonconference battle. The Raiders came out strong leading the Phantoms 30-5 at half which led to a 44-22 win.

Kristin Halla led all scorers with 11 points and Nicole Lasecki finished with 8.

Quick start brings a win over West De Pere

Josh Kryger, a freshman at Pulaski High School, was named one of the JV players of the week. He scored his first goal in the 7 to 1 win over Manitowoc.

The boys team took home silver, placing second in the state! Three of the five boys on the varsity were athletes from Pulaski: Jake Egelhoff, Sam Egelhoff, and Joel Egelhoff. Sam Egelhoff also took podium with a 10th place finish. Other Pulaski athletes on the boys team include Dusty Koepsell and Kyler Berg. Rachel Busjahn also raced for the girls.

Wrestler Kyle Kelsey reacts with joy after winning a match at the Pulaski Invitational January 30.

Nicole Lasecki goes after the ball in the Raiders’ game versus Manitowoc.

By Brooke Lauritzen The Pulaski girls basketball team continued its conference

winning streak with a victory over the Manitowoc Ships on Febru-ary 12, with a score of 73-34. The Raiders pulled away in the second half, outscoring the Ships 43-15.

Nicole Lasecki and Brooke Lauritzen each scored 14 points for the Red Raiders, and Kristin Halla added 13.

Lady Raiders sink Ships

Deedra Irwin took first at the Wisconsin State High School Nordic Championships this weekend in Wausau.


Adam Abegglen looks for a teammate against Southwest.

Nicole Lasecki shoots a wide open lay-up against the Pirates.

Girls basketball remains perfect in conference

February 9, the Pulaski Red Raiders traveled to Wausau to take on the number nine ranked team in Wisconsin, the Wausau West Warriors. The Raiders beat the Warriors with a score of 41 to 27 to keep their now 10-game winning streak alive.

Wausau came out strong, hitting a three early and getting to the basket. The Raiders soon responded with some tough

Raiders beat state-ranked Wausau West

Pulaski wrestler Nevada Skenandore wrestles an opponent at regionals. He placed first along with two other Pulaski athletes.

By Nevada SkenandoreAs the Pulaski Red Raiders

Wrestling team’s season winds down, competition becomes more important. The wres-tling team started off phenom-enal with 13 out of 14 athletes winning their first match. From there, they continued to wrestle well, with 7 of those 13 advanc-ing to the finals.

“Our team was wrestling extremely well,” said senior Caption, Justin Enderby. “We came out on fire and seemed to really want it.”

Pulaski advanced 10 people to next week’s sectionals held at Green Bay Preble, with three people placing first, three people placing second, and four people placing third. The people that took first were Justin Enderby, Jonathan Enderby, and Nevada Skenandore.

Wrestlers succeed at regionals

By Brooke LauritzenThe Bay Port Pirates traveled

to the Fred Kestly Field House, February 9, and got shut down by the Red Raiders with a final score of 50-33. At half, Pulaski scored 20 and only allowed 8 for the Pirates. The Raiders shined offensively in the fourth quarter, putting up 19 points.

Brooke Lauritzen had 21 points and Nicole Lasecki scored 11 for Pulaski.

defense and easy buckets to put them down by only four in the first quarter.

Coming out strong in the second quarter, the Raiders battled back and ended the first half with a strong finish at the hoop as time expired. It was all tied up to end the half at 18 to 18.

Determined to keep the winning streak going, the Raiders came out strong defen-sively in the second half, allow-ing no points in the third quarter and only nine points total in the second half.

Pulaski finished the game strong, knocking down bonus free throws to put the game out of reach. Adam Abegglen led the Raiders with 16 points; Wichmann added 10, Aben-droth 8, and Vanniewenhoven 4. The Raiders are now riding a 10-game winning streak as they enter a tough month of basket-ball ahead of them.

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January 16, the Pulaski Red Third Grade Boys PYO Team took first place. The team is coached by Todd Stiede. Also, on January 23, the Pulaski Black Third Grade Boys PYO Team took first place. The team is coached by Todd Gutzman. Pictured in the front row are Nick Redlin, Dylan Hendricks, Logan Lukasik, Alec Jonet, Trevor Stiede, Eli Armstrong, JD Johnson, Carson Williquette, Bryce Bishop, and Conrad Hillesheim. In the second row are Wesley Glime, Cade Gohr, Ian Vanderloop, Connor Warden, Thomas Melonja, Beau Warden, Cole Ahrens, Andrew Kane, and Cayden Egnarski.

The fifth grade Pulaski white team took first place at Seymour, February 6. Pictured are Darrell Splan, Roger Ripley, Ted Matuszak, Dakota Pickering, Tessa Dimity, Natalie Nickerson, Tatum Gallenberger, Sydney Ripley, Anne Matuszak, Hayley Splan, Emily Schuettpelz, and Marie Berna.

By Colin Abendroth In an emotional night, the

Pulaski boys basketball team beat Bay Port to clinch the Western Division in the Fox River Classic Conference. The Red Raiders held Bay Port score-less in the first quarter, leading 6-0. Bay Port quickly answered and evened up the score at 11 with a few minutes left to go in the half. The Raiders responded with an 11-0 run to end the half and never looked back. Pulaski won the game 44-28, and was led by senior Adam Abegglen scoring 16 points.

“Beating Bay Port twice my senior year is just an unbeliev-able feeling,” Abegglen said after the game. “They’ve always been our biggest rival, and I just can’t describe it.”

Pulaski tops state-ranked Bay Port

By Devin Hynes Friday night, the Pulaski

boy’s varsity basketball team (12-1 FRCC) traveled to Bay Port (10-3). In a game that would likely decide division champions, there was more than just the game’s final score that gave spectators a reason to never forget this game. During a timeout early in the fourth quarter, Tanner Vannieuwen-hoven, a sophomore guard at Pulaski, was reunited with his father Trevor, a member of the Army National Guard who was sent over seas last March. As play halted and the announcer

A win for everybody

The Pulaski Dance Team, coached by Michelle Reeb and Jessica Korth, placed fourth at the State Championship dance competition, February 5.

By Jenny OxleyWith the Pulaski dance team’s

season well underway, the girls traveled to Oshkosh North high school for the Eastern Regional dance competition, January 31. The state of Wisconsin is broken up into three regions. Dance teams all compete in their designated region on the same weekend. From there, the top 40 percent of teams in each division will advance to the state compe-tition.

The dance team competed at Regionals with two routines. They competed in Division 1 Jazz with their jazz routine “Walk the Walk.” The team gave it their all and felt good about their performance. The jazz routine has come a long way since their first performance in December. They placed sixth overall. Unfortunately, the girls

Dance team goes to regional and state competition

missed qualifying for state with their jazz routine by only six points.

The girls also competed in Division 2 Pom category with their pom routine “Just Can’t Get Enough.” There were a total of 11 teams in Division 2 Pom. Pulaski faced some tough competition this year. Some local teams in their division in-cluded Green Bay Southwest, Kaukauna, and De Pere. The Pulaski dance team placed third overall, qualifying the girls to go to the state competition with their pom routine.

The following weekend, Feb-ruary 6, the Pulaski dance team traveled to La Crosse for the 2010 State Championship Dance competition. Throughout the day, numerous teams competed in either one of the five pom divisions or in the kick, jazz,

Jenny Oxley and Emilie Schauer qualified for the Division 1 All-State team at the State Dance Championships, February 5.

By Erin Holder Emilie Schauer and Jenny

Oxley, senior leaders of the Pulaski Dance Team, were rec-ognized as members of the Wis-consin Association of Cheer/Pom Coaches (WACPC) Divi-sion 1 All-State Dance Team at the WACPC State Champion-ship, February 5.

This honor, the highest avail-able recognition for individual dancers, requires a live solo dance performance in front of four judges. All dancers are judged on technique, skills,

Oxley and Schauer earn WACPC All-State recognition

and/or hip hop categories. State college dance teams also pre-sented their routines following the high school dance divisions.

The Pulaski dance team com-peted in Division 2 Pom at State. There were a total of 16 teams in the division. The girls were extremely excited and nervous. Filled with emotions, the girls took the floor and were ready to give it their all. Walking off the floor, the team was over-whelmed with happiness. The dance team is extremely proud with its fourth place award.

With the 2009-2010 dance season coming to an end, the team is working hard to fix the remaining details and critiques in both their jazz and pom rou-tines. The girls will be traveling to UPA Nations in Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 19 to 21. This will be the final dance com-petition of the season. Good luck girls and congratulations!

introduced Trevor at center court, Tanner left his team’s huddle and locked arms with his father. As the two began to hug, the completely jam-packed gymnasium arose in an uproar of ovation. The two were reunited at last.

“Having my Dad gone for so long was more than tough. It made me truly value my family and everyone in my life,” said Tanner. “Seeing him at the game

came as a huge surprise for me. I wasn’t expecting it at all”

Tanner’s father was stationed at Fort Eggers in Kabul, Afghan-istan. He’ll get to watch Tanner and the Red Raiders compete for a possible conference champi-onship in the upcoming weeks. This is if the Raiders can uphold their 11 game win streak at Man-itowoc on Tuesday.

variety of movement, control, and choreography.

With a maximum time limit of one minute and 30 seconds, Oxley and Schauer showed off their talent. Schauer performed a stylized routine to the song “Fever,” and Oxley performed a jazz routine to “Better Not Touch.” Both girls are very proud of their placement.

Oxley said, “I was excited to have my skills as a dancer rec-ognized and hope to continue dancing in the future.”

Births and Deaths Thursday, February 25, 2010 I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more

fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.Mia Hamm (American soccer player, 2004 Summer Olympics)

BIRTHS

DEATHSBirths and deaths are a complimentary service from Pulaski News. If you wish to place a photo with your announcement, there will be a $20 fee. Contact Laurie at 822-6800 for more information.

Honzik, Lucille Lucille Honzik, 80, De Pere,

passed away with her loving family by her side at a local hos-pital February 2, 2010.

She was born December 6, 1929, in Two Rivers to the late Paul and Albertine (Lasperance) Larson. Lucille married Eugene Honzik in Two Rivers on May 2, 1953. She was a Music Min-ister at Word of Life Ministries. Lucille loved baking, cooking, crocheting, and knitting. She also liked eating out, shopping, and traveling.

Survivors include her loving husband of 56 years, Eugene; children, Mark (Jeanne) Honzik and their children, Jessina, Ashley, and Joshua; Deborah (Honzik) Reese and her children, Alana and Nicole; Karen (Tom) Bierke and their children, Chris-topher, Andrew, Sheldon and Kaylon; Paul (Abbie) Honzik and their children, Paul Jr. and Stephen; Eugene (Karen) Honzik Jr. and their children, Natalya and Jordan; Michelle Honzik and her children, Birttany and

Kasper, Lottie Lottie R. (Gawrylewski)

Kasper, 89, Flintville, passed away February 9, 2010. She was born in Pulaski on November 26, 1920, to the late Frank and Vic-toria (Holewinski) Gawrylewski. Lottie married Joseph Kasper on October 8, 1940. He preceded her in death on October 9, 1992. She devoted her life to her family and to serving the Lord. Lottie was blessed with a gener-ous heart. Whether it would be vegetables, fruits, or flowers from her garden, or fresh bakery from her woodstove oven, no one ever left her home hungry or empty-handed. She had many gifts and talents, and she constantly shared them with those in need. Lottie loved the Lord with all her heart, and prayed unceas-ingly. She also had a strong devotion to the Blessed Mother and prayed the rosary daily. She truly led a stewardship way of life and, in return, the Lord has blessed her with Eternal Life. Lottie is survived by her nine children; Mary & Roger Demeny, Houston, Texas, Joanne Jarvis, Flintville, Mike & Mary (Kielar) Kasper, Flintville, Paul & Judy (Kadrlik) Kasper, Flintville, Kathy & Gerald Hole-winski, Pulaski, Rosie & Ray Athey, Conover, Don & Brenda (Eastman) Kasper, Green Bay,

February 10, 2010 Houle, Michelle, and Marks,

Wayne, Sobieski, daughter

February 11, 2010Sobiesczyk, Therese and

Tony, Pulaski, son

Grand prize winners Josh Miller and Alec Johnson stand with their new scooters.

Youth Group Music Leader leads children and family in a singing of “Amazing Grace.”

By Kelsey TrinaFebruary 5, Corner Stone

Family Church hosted a family fun day at Suamico Elementary School. There was a multitude of different activities for the chil-dren to participate in. Members of the church ran a face paint-ing booth, a disk race, a fishing game, and much more. Christian music blasted from the speakers in an effort to add to the mood.

Pastor Richi Ray gave a sermon on word choices using honey and vinegar as symbols.

Corner Stone Church reaches out to youth

ASSUMPTION B.V.M. CHURCH, Pulaski. Saturday Mass: 4:00 p.m.; Sunday Masses: 8:00 & 10:30 a.m. Daily Masses: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Sat-urday 7:00 a.m., Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Thursday 8:15 a.m. Rite of Reconcilia-tion: 11:00 a.m. Saturday. Rev. Patrick Gawrylewski. (920) 822-3279

CORNERSTONE FAMILY CHURCH, 2780 School Lane (Cty. B), Suamico. Sunday morning service 9:30 a.m. Children’s service provided and nursery available. Wednesday evening service 6:45 p.m. Children’s activities provided and youth activities provided. Pastor Dennis Toyne (920) 662-1146, www.cfcgb.com.

ST. JOHN LUTHERAN - LCMS, 910 St. Augustine St., Pulaski. (across from Pulaski Middle School) Worship Services: Thursday 7:00 p.m.; Sunday 8:00 a.m. or 10:30 a.m.; S.S. & H.S. Youth Classes, 9:15 a.m.; Conf. Classes Wed. 6:00 p.m.; Advent & Lent Worship, Thurs. 7:00 p.m.; (A/C & wheelchair ac-cessible). Pastor Jeff Dobratz; Church office (920) 822-3511

ST. STANISLAUS CHURCH, Hofa Park. Masses: Tuesday 7:00 p.m. & Saturday 8:00 p.m. ; Vigil of Holy Day 8:00 p.m. ; Sacrament of Reconcilia-tion, Saturday 7:30 p.m. or upon request. Rev. Patrick Gawrylewski. Parish Office: (920)-822-5512

HOLY CROSS NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH, Pulaski. Mass 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month at 2:30 p.m. (715) 693-2241.

NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH, Sunday Worship Services and Kids’ Church at 10:00 a.m. Nursery provided. Meeting at the Pulaski Com-munity Middle School auditorium. Pastor Bob Wied, (920) 822-7117, www.PulaskiNewLife.com.

OUR SAVIOR’S LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) Lessor, Cty. Rd. S, Pulaski. 3 miles west and 3 miles south of Angelica on Cty. Rd. S. Sundays: Worship Services 9:00 a.m.; Last Thurs-day of the month 7:00 p.m.; Sunday School 8:45 a.m.; Communion 1st and 3rd Sundays, Pastor Dennis Ellisen.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Angelica. WI586 Cty. Trunk C, Pulaski. Sunday Worship Service at 8:30 a.m. Sunday School at 8:30 a.m. Pastor Loretta Waegli, Cell (715) 853-4444; Church (920) 822-1743.

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH, 1954 County Rd. “U”, Green Bay WI 54313. Worship Schedule: Thursday evening 7:00 p.m.; Sunday Morning 8:00, 9:30; Sunday School & Power Hour 9:15 a.m. Holy Communion is celebrated on the 1st & 3rd Sundays and Preceding Thursday evening service at 7:00 p.m. Pastor Don Behrendt. Member of ELCA

ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, W 1978 Church Drive., An-gelica. Sunday 8:30 a.m. Church Servic-es. Zachow location, Sunday 10:00 a.m. Pastor Phillip Geiger. (715) 758-2275

ST. CASIMIR CHURCH, Krakow. Rev. James Esser, OFM. Masses: Satur-day 8:00 p.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Holy Days 8:00 a.m. & 8:00 p.m. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 7:00-7:45 p.m.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, Little Suamico. (East of 41-141 on Cty. S, right on Cty. J ¼ mile) Church 826-7785. Sunday Service at 9:00 a.m. Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. Member ELCA.

ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH, Morgan. (920) 846-3453. Worship Sunday, Contemporary Service at 8:00 a.m.; Sunday School, 9:00 a.m. Adult Bible Class, 9:30 a.m.; Traditional Service, 10:30 a.m. Pastor Paul Heykes. Member ELCA

ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE (St. Jogn Cantius Site), Sobieski. Fr. Gerald Prusakowski, Pastor. Masses: Saturday, 4:00 p.m.; Sunday 8:00 a.m. & 9:45 a.m. Confessions: Saturday 10:30 a.m. or by appointment. Phone (920) 822-5255.

SS. EDWARD AND ISIDORE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 3667 Flint-ville Road (County M) Green Bay. Sat-urday Masses at 4:00 p.m.; Sunday 8:00 a.m. & 9:45 a.m. Confession: Saturday

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH GREEN VALLEY (LCMS) W1294 Nauman Road, Cecil, WI 54111 (715) 745-4558. Sunday Worship Services are 10:30 a.m.; Holy Com-munion the 1st & 3rd Sundays; Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. (Sept. - May 20)

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS), Hobart, corner of Overland and J. Worship services: Sunday 8:00 & 10:30 a.m. Sunday School & High School Youth Classes 9:15 a.m. Adult Class, Sunday 9:15 a.m. and Wednes-day at 7:30 p.m. Summer Schedule: May thru September, Thursday 7:00 p.m. and Sunday 9:00 a.m. P a s t o r Vern Heim, (920) 8 6 9 -2777.

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Brandon; four great-grandchil-dren; two sisters, JoAnn Carle and Romona (Tom) Boutwell; one brother, Deacon Samuel Larson; sister-in-law, Lorraine Mueller.

Lucille was preceded in death by her parents; two sons; broth-er-in-law, Harvey; sister-in-law, Adeline Tolksdorf.

Bernadette Goodine, Flintville and Germaine & Dale Lasecki, Krakow; many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Kasper and one grandson, Ben Kasper. Lottie was a lifelong member

of SS. Edward & Isidore Catho-lic Church in Flintville, where she served on the Altar-Rosary Society and sang in the choir. She also cooked for funerals, pro-vided altar flowers, and cleaned the church for many years. She was a true servant of the Lord.

The yummy honey stood for good words, God’s words, and the disgusting vinegar stood for the bad words, the Devil’s words. The children were given an opportunity to taste both the honey and the vinegar in order to help get the point across.

At the end of the day, a mul-titude of gifts were given away to the children in a drawing. The grand prizes of this drawing were two brand new scooters won by Josh Miller and Alec Johnson.

BusinessThursday, February 25, 2010

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

-Dawn Fraser (Australian swimmer, 3-time Olympic winner)

Cell phones have rapidly become an essential device. Smart phones and standard handsets are offering more func-tionality, and people are using their cell phones to do more things, including replacing their land line telephone.

With the advanced utility of cell phones comes added strain on battery life. With cell phones being the primary contact for 20% of the population, accord-ing to CTIA-The Wireless As-sociation™, having a phone with a charged battery at all times is becoming a necessity. Although progress is being made on the manufacturing side to increase the size and overall life of cell phone batteries, it’s often not enough to get the wear one would like from a charge.

The good news is there are steps a user can take to conserve battery life. Cellcom would suggest the following to help conserve the battery life on a wireless device.

On any phone you can change the back light setting to a shorter time frame. The longer the phone back light is on when it is not in use, the more power will be drained.

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are added features to help you connect to the Internet and to other devices with ease, but there are times when running these features are unnecessary. Trying to find a Wi-Fi connection isn’t going to be much help when driving the highway, and a Blue-tooth signal isn’t necessary if not trying to connect to another device. Turn off Wi-Fi and Blue-tooth when they are not in use.

Smart phones offer a lot of options for applications, from the Blackberry App World to the Android Market. These applica-tions add function and value to a cell phone, but also take a toll on battery life, especially when inadvertently left on in the back-ground. Using an App Manager or Task Killer application will let a user know which applica-tions are running and help turn applications off that are left on by accident.

These simple steps take seconds and can help a user get added hours from a cell phone battery.

Cell phones: conserving your battery

Scott Spinler loves being the Car-X man.

By Cameron SpinlerIn today’s employment con-

ditions, it can be certain that many people are experiencing similar feelings to those of Scott Spinler when he was just a teen-ager. Upon graduating from high school, Spinler soon found out that college was not for him. He started working full time for a home construction company, making what was considered “okay” money back then.

At age 20 and having put in a few years of work, he asked his boss about receiving a raise. After being denied, he was certain that working for someone else was not what he was looking to do the rest of his life.

Spinler has lived his life since that moment saying, “You will never be 100 percent satisfied with your income while working for someone else.”

Having been denied a raise, Spinler built up enough confi-dence from his experience with this company that he went into business for himself, creating Spinler’s Home Improvements, a life-changing experience from that point on. Already having the tools and equipment necessary to start a carpentry business, he was very optimistic about his success as a business owner. As he began to build up a customer base and slowly build his own business, he grew more confident and vi-sualized big things for himself. After obtaining good reputation in the community for his carpen-try work, he soon began building spec houses as additional models of his talent.

“Long hours and hard work always reaps rewards,” said Spinler. “My experiences have made me a much stronger person.”

Why did this all happen to him so easily? Spinler owes it to all of his talents and handiwork.

He said, “It was also fate, fate that I should be in business for myself and be happy with all that I can accomplish.”

After having his own business for some time, it was necessary for him to hire some extra help to keep up with his demand for new homes. He soon accomplished building three to four homes a year with only a three-man crew, which included himself. Having started his own business at 20 years old, he made a name for

Spinler builds on work ethic

himself and was extremely satis-fied with his career choices.

Being a major customer for Midwest Millwork in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, for several years, they started to see him as a leading carpenter in the commu-nity and offered him an agree-ment for set lumber and supply costs. ‘

“It’s the connections and re-lationships that you build while in business that brings about rewards and benefits,” Spinler said.

His strong work ethic has led to customer appreciation as well as self-satisfaction and confirmed that he had to build a business from nothing.

Upon all of Spinlers’ success as a young entrepreneur, there was one thing that he still would have changed.

“Even though I was success-ful in creating my own business, I would have liked to be more aggressive with it early on and have built it bigger than what I did,” Spinler said.

After working in home con-struction for over 15 years, Spinler was very satisfied with his business but wanted to look for a new challenge. Moving his family from Oak Creek to Green Bay required him to find a new business opportunity. Since the day that he was denied the raise, he says that he will never go back to working for someone else, leading to his opening of a Car-X Automotive Service in Green Bay. This business has been open for almost 10 years and doing well due to his ambi-

By Tammy BrzeczkowskiIt is amazing to me how many

individuals do not use their busi-ness cards to their full potential. In fact, just recently, I gave a business seminar and believe it or not half of the class did not even bring along with them their business cards. Such an easy and simple sales and marketing tool, and yet the cards were left at home…amazing.

Sometimes I think we get carried away with technology that we forget about the basics. So, back to the basics. Busi-ness cards are crucial to your business…to your advertising and marketing campaign, to your success. Listed below are reasons why you should use business cards, and why you shouldn’t forget them at home.

1) Business cards are inex-pensive. Where else can you get a marketing/advertising tool for just pennies? Business cards are probably one of the best returns on investments that you have as a business. It pays to have them with you where ever you go.

2) Business cards are porta-ble. You can actually take them wherever you go. They can fit in the smallest of spaces – a purse a wallet. You get the picture. There should not be a reason that you do not bring your business cards with you anywhere.

3) Business cards can be uti-lized anywhere, they are very versatile. You can staple them on to a bag of cookies, you can slide them into an envelope, you can even leave them on a table at a restaurant, or on a bulletin board…and they are sure to be noticed. Think outside the box

Business cards... a great marketingtool

with your business cards and see how creative you can be with them.

4) Business cards have a “shelf life”. Unlike a daily news-paper…people are not as apt to throw a business card away. It’s easy enough to hang onto, file or put away in your wallet to refer-ence at on a different day.

5) Business cards are great for referrals. I try to make it a point to give away two business cards, that way the person you just gave the card to, can refer your busi-ness to someone else. I make it a point to start conversations with people, where ever I go…and hand them a business card at the end.

6) Business cards are uni-versal – it seems like everyone knows what a business card is – even in another country. A busi-ness card has its own language. It identifies your business and what you do. You want to make sure that your contact informa-tion is correct and that your card tells your story.

7) A business card, in the eyes of many is a form or degree of professionalism. If you have a business card, you have a legiti-mate business. Make sure when you do your business cards, you do them right. Make sure they are done professionally. Ask others what they think of your card – get some constructive criticism while designing your cards. Re-member, this may be your cus-tomers “first impression” of you. You want to make sure that it is of high quality and portrays who you and your business are.

Again, back to the basics with business cards. Keep them with you wherever you go – and utilize them in every way pos-sible. Watch your connections and business grow because of it.

Tammy Brzeczkowski is co-owner of Dynamic Designs Un-limited. A family owned busi-ness specializing in embroidery, screen printing and promotional products. Dynamic Designs re-ceived the Retail Business of the Year Award for 2009 from the Shawano Country Chamber of Commerce.

tion to succeed. Spinlers’ closing words were, “Many years of hard work has brought a lot of satis-faction and happiness to me and I will never have any regrets in my business decisions thus far.”

Are you using yours effectively?


By Laura StachuraPremier Community Bank is

continuing its growth in Pulaski. Construction began on the 4,000 square foot addition on February 11.

The addition will create more room for the investment center and future tenants. Also, an ad-ditional conference/meeting/training room will be added on, which will be available to the community.

Planning for the expansion began in spring of 2009, to make more room for the investment group that became part of the Bank on September 1, 2008.

Premier Community Bank was first constructed in June

Dianna Cowell works at her desk while construction continues to work on the addition to Premier Community Bank.

Premier Community Bank grows

2003, with plans to expand in the future. Since then, they have grown and are in need of the ad-ditional space. Currently, there are two tenants residing in the building, Attorney WM. Vande Castle and Dale McDermid, CPA.

“We are very excited to finally begin the construction; once it’s complete, we will be able to fit the needs of the Pulaski Com-munity,” said Sam McMahon of Premier Community Bank.

Keller Construction is the general contractor for the ad-dition. Premier Community Banks is located at 745 Hwy 32, Pulaski, WI 54162.

By Lori Stephan, Country Pride Realty, Inc.

ABR,CRB,CRS, GRI Broker/Owner since 1999

See the house through the clutter. If you’re planning on selling your home this spring, there’s no better time than these few weeks left of winter to get rid of the clutter. Here’ a couple of tips on bedroom clutter:

Purge, baby, purge:If you haven’t worn it in a

year, dump it. If something doesn’t fit, it’s time for it to go. And if you just plain can’t decide, then at the very least, box it up and get it out of there.

Make it pretty:Sure, you might remem-

ber that walk in closet with the bowling pins, hula hoop, lava lamp and leopard print sweat-pants piled to the ceiling, but you’re doing so for all the wrong reasons. You want people to walk into your closet and imagine how great their life will be if they just buy your house. So catch that organizing bug – get matching hangers, wire bins and baskets and put them to good use.

For all your real estate needs, don’t hesitate to contact Lori Stephan, your Real Estate Broker since 1999. Call today at 246-3000 or 822-4663.

Sell Your Home In Style

Lori Stephan

Any business interested in selling Pulaski centennial sou-venirs should call Tammy @ Dynamic Designs 920-822-4450 for more infromation.

Centennial souvenirs

ClassifiedsThursday, February 25, 2010

Olympics - A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.Jesse Owens (American athlete, 1936 Summer Olympics)

FOR SALELIVING ROOM FUR-NITURE – love seat, 4 queen wingback chairs and end tables. 920-822-1760.

FOR RENT2 BDRM MOBILE HOME – NEAR PULASKI. Great shape. References re-quired. 920-822-5496.

WAREHOUSE SPACE – approximately 3,500 sq. ft.

or could be used for a busi-ness. Variety of options and located on the strip of downtown Pulaski. Afford-able!! Call Lori @ 246-3000.

497 PARK ST. Lower 2 bdrm apartment in quiet 4 unit building. LARGE YARD NEAR PARK. Free heat and water. No Pets. Drive by and call 569-6540 in interested in seeing.

PULASKI – OFFICE SUITES FOR LEASE. $295 month + utilities.

Call Lori @ 246-3000.

ONE BDRM APARTMENT – 109 S. St. Augustine St. Securi-ty entrance. Laundry facilities. $370. Call (920) 819-5057.

RENT TO OWN – 3 Bdrm, 2 BA. 888-238-4217. www.a-1housesolutions.com

ONE BEDROOM UPPER APARTMENT – KRAKOW. Stove & fridge included.NO PETS. $350. Call 920-994-9503, please leave message.

TWO BDRM APART-MENT – SOUTH CHASE SALOON. $450 – every-thing included but electric. Cats O.K. (920) 822-4342.

MISCELLANEOUSRIPLEY’S TAX SERVICE will be closed from February 23 until March 5. 920-899-3885.

NEED A CHANGE IN YOUR CAREER? We are in need of energetic and goal oriented li-censed Realtors to join in our road to success. If so, please contact Lori @ 246-3000 to speak about the endless pos-sibilities our company of 10+ years has to offer you!

EARN INCOME FROM HOME – Around your schedule. Make a Differ-ence. Call: 920-660-0097.

PERSONALThe family of HAZEL REDLIN wishes to thank all the friends, neighbors and rel-atives for their cards, calls and visits. They brought cheer to her heart and peace to ours as she went to her eternal home. The Hazel Redlin Family.

GOT AN AD?Do you have a classified Ad? Only $4 for 10 words. Call Laurie at (920) 822-6800


By Willy LaRock, Josh Wall, and Nick Fairchild

Heather and Jay Jaquet of Pulaski were named first runners up at the Wisconsin Outstand-ing Young Farmer Program, an honor they are proud to hold.

They received this award in April as the Outstanding Young Farmer for Shawano County. They acquired this farm by joining with Heather’s parents in 2004. They have three children named Mason, 10; Carter, 8; and Evan, 6. They hope that this will make lifestyles for both families better.

Today Synergy Dairy con-sists of 450 Holstein cows and 275 acres of land.

“We really like what we

Jaquets are proud

Cows standing in parlor waiting to be milked.Heather and Jay Jaquet stand proudly in front of their milk house.

do. We both grew up on dairy farms,” said Jay.

Jay and Heather both said, “We feel that we are carrying on

From the Teachers of Distinc-tion, another group of applicants are selected for personal inter-views. Through the interview phase, seven recipients (indi-viduals or team educators) are selected to be honored during the televised Golden Apple Awards Program, awarded $2,000, and a lifelong membership in the Golden Apple Academy.

Corporate sponsors for the Golden Apple Awards ceremo-ny and program are: Associated Bank; Green Bay Press Gazette; Humana, Inc.; Imperial Sup-plies, LLC; Schneider National Foundation; Schreiber Foods, Inc.; Shopko Stores, Inc.; United Healthcare; and WLUK Fox 11.

Partners in Education touches the lives of thousands of K-12 students in the 10 area school districts each year. Partners in

Front/2010 Golden Apple teachers

a family tradition and having day to day challenges on the farm.”

The farm currently employs five people for milking duties, three times per day. The farm currently provides all of its own forages for the cows.

Education programming helps to develop our future workforce and citizens by bringing work place knowledge to students and educators.

Congratulations to all of the Teachers of Distinction in the Pulaski area. Your dedication to students is appreciated. Thank you for teaching with such pro-fessionalism, innovation, and commitment.

The Golden Apple Fondation began in 1985 to honor

outstanding Chicago teachers just as Hollywood actors are

honored at the Academy Awards.

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