The Bridge
News of Newburg

Electric karts not only can match gas karts for top speed on straight-aways, but their low-end power provides head-snapping acceleration throughout the entire range of speeds.

Timing and scoring system measures each lap by the thousandth of a second. At the end of each race, all drivers receive a printout of lap times and placement in the race. The karts can go from zero to 26 in 3 seconds.

Stocky’s is also a great place to hold customized corporate or group events. Bachelor parties have been very popular. Our facility is indoors, meaning we race "rain or shine". There is no air or noise pollution with the battery powered karts.

Stocky’s will provide positive experiences for the entire community, including family, youths, adults and seniors. We provide the latest in indoor technology in a safe, clean environment.

Hours of Operation:

Mondays - Closed
Tuesday-Thursday - from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Friday and Saturday - from noon to midnight.
Sunday - from noon to 8 p.m.

Phone Number: 262-306-0100

There is no parking on Main Street from 2:30 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. every day. Also, there is no parking on the paved portion of Enge Drive at anytime.

If you notice that there are 2 households on Main Street that the grass is out of control. Just to let you know that the Village is working on this problem.

The event is sponsored by the Newburg Lions and Lioness in conjunction with the Lions Car Show on the same day. Register for this event. The yard sale will be organized the same way as the Jackson community yard sale.

The cost is $5. Mail a check payable to the Newburg Lioness to 7105 Hickory Road, West Bend, WI 53090. The sign up sheet (copies are at Tri Par) must be received by August 1^st to be included on the map. Your address will be put on a map that will be distributed the week before the sale at local businesses and at the concession booth at the LIONS CAR SHOW. There will be advertisements in all the local papers for this event. You will receive a number to identify your place on the map of the yard sales after you mail in your form. You will need to make your own number and display it at your sale location. (If you live outside of the immediate Newburg area, you will be listed on the back of the map with your address). Contact Barbara McHugh at 675-2520 and leave a message.

The Newburg Lions & Lioness are sponsoring a Car Show along with the above listed rummage sale. There is no charge to the Car Show and the Lioness are contacting village residents about the 1st Village of Newburg Rummage Sale. We hope all village residents and the general public will visit the Firemen’s Park for the festivities. They will have a Food Court, games, crafts, antiques, fresh produce, fun vendors for the kids, a Lions Rummage Sale and MUSIC by our own ROCKIN’ RON all day. Everyone is invited. Anyone wanting to donate an item, help out in the park or donate prizes can contact Roger Krell at 338-8204.

Another Lions Fund Raising Event is the Big Raffle which is one of our main fund raisers. Recently, we built the shelter in Firemen’s Park along with picnic tables for the young and old. We donated to 8 major charities and helped out many local residents. Most of the money we raise – stays local. We still have many tickets to sell and ask for your help. We will be raffling off these tickets on September 7th at the West Bend Lakes Golf Club. We are also co-sponsoring a Golf Tournament and Steak Fry that day. Other forms of entertainment will be provided and you don’t have to golf to join the fun. All types of food and drink will be available. Everyone is invited.

By: Margaret Anderson-Washington County Health Dept.

Water is essential to life and we need to take the time to think about what we do or do not do everyday to protect our water supply. The Washington County Health Department, along with the Washington County Land Conservation Department, is encouraging the citizens of Washington County to think about one of our most valuable resources, our drinking water. Water is essential to life and although most of us don’t take an abundant water supply for granted, as we may have 30 or more years ago, we should still take the time to think about what we do or don’t do everyday to protect our water supply.

Water is a daily necessity for all living creatures. It falls as rain and snow from the sky where it then collects in rivers, streams, and lakes. Water also collects under ground in aquifers. An aquifer is a rock or soil formation that can store or transmit water efficiently. This same water is pumped out of wells to be used for drinking, cooking, bathing, laundry, washing cars, recreation, and cooling industrial parts in factories. There are hundreds of uses for water, the most important of which is drinking. The same water we use every day evaporates and eventually forms into more clouds that again fall to Earth in some form of precipitation. This constant cycling of water from the sky to the earth back into the sky is called the "water cycle."

The water that flows into aquifers and collects in the soil is called groundwater. In Washington County, all of our drinking water comes from groundwater. Some communities, such as Milwaukee, get their drinking water from lakes or surface water. Washington County residents depend on groundwater to supply both our municipal wells and our private wells, so it is important that it stays clean.

Because the rainwater that eventually becomes groundwater or surface water washes over the earth, anything that is put on the ground can eventually end up in our drinking water. Chris Mechenich, groundwater educator at the University of Wisconsin-Extension Central Wisconsin Groundwater Center states, "Our drinking water, whether it’s from groundwater or a lake, is a local resource and local people are the only ones who can choose to pollute or protect it, we all need to actively participate in protecting our drinking water." Because it is a local resource, we need to make keeping it clean a local effort.

The following activities will to help assure that your drinking water remains safe to drink:

The following publications are available at your local City, Village or Town Hall for your use. Please stop by and pick these up. Do what you can to protect our valuable water resource.

Please call the Washington County Health Department at 335-4706 or the Washington County Land Conservation Department at 335-4804 if you have any questions.

By Phyllis Damrow

Our season is off to a great start. We had a few cancellations due to rain, but all is going well.

This year we added a new midgets team and a peewee team. We have around 258 ball players in our leagues.

Come on down any Wednesday, Thursday or Friday evening at the Firemen’s Park to watch games from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Also, most Wednesdays and Thursdays we also have peewee games at Dr. Weber Park from 6-8 p.m.

Our Sport’s Day is set for Saturday, July 13^th. Games will be played from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. We also serve a great variety of food at the Firemen’s Park during games.

Our awards night for the Pony League Traveling Little League, Midgets and Girls softball will be on Friday, August 9^th starting with a Girls All-Star game at 6 p.m. and followed by a game with the Boys Midgets Game at 7 p.m. and Awards will be at 8:30 p.m.

Peewee Awards Day is set for Saturday, August 10^th with games starting at noon and the awards program will be at 4 p.m. followed with a Parents games.

If you want any information or even a schedule, you can call Phyllis Damrow at 675-2493 or you may also get one at the park on any game night.

The Newburg Fire Department is looking to recruit new personnel for their department. If you are interested in becoming a fireperson or an EMT, please call the Newburg Fire Department at 675-2626. There will be EMT classes starting this fall.

Don’t throw out those old clothes, curtains, blankets, etc. We will take any clothes – worn or in good condition. Having a rummage sale? Don’t get rid of the "leftovers" we will take them. Proceeds will go towards club activities and community service project.

Bring all clean items in large plastic trash bags and place in trailer any time. Usable/wearable donations go to the US and Third World countries; others will be made into rags or recycled. What a great way to help out others in need while at the same time cleaning out those closets.

The drive will be held Friday, October 11 through Sunday, November 10^th. It’s a ways off, but now is the time to start saving your used/old clothes.

Drop off point will be 241 Highway 33, Newburg. For more information, call Deb Wollner (675-2508) or Phyllis Damrow (675-2493).

By Diane Miller

All of us at Welcome, H.O.M.E. offer our condolences to the Enright family. Chuck and Flicky spent many hours wiring this entire house - both levels - for cable TV. They donated their time and all the materials. I often say this house has a soul - created by all the kindness of all the people (and there were 100’s) that built it. A small piece of Chuck will be here forever. We’ve planted a rose bush in his honor along Memory Lane - the split rail fence leading to our driveway on Hwy Y.

Thanks to our friends and neighbors (Phil and Mary Ann - welcome to Newburg, Roger and Lynn, Marie, Millie, Ernie, Leo) who volunteered their time on Saturday, May 18th to make "Experience Spring on the Prairie" a successful event. We could not have done it without you - roasting marshmallows, popping popcorn, shuttling, giving tours, making our guests feel truly welcomed !!! I’m still hearing from people that they had a marvelous time. Think we just might do this again next spring...

Wednesday mornings are still Volunteer Day up here. Typically at 8:00 am you¹ll find Leo, Ernie, Guenther and Orv sharing coffee and bakery in the basement as they plan their "To Do’s" of the day. They work until 11:00 or so doing whatever needs to be done - - and there is always something that needs tweaking or repairing. Since we’re continually trying to upgrade the accessible designs we offer inside and outside larger projects periodically present themselves, like our current challenge. Howard Hoel spent a weekend in June digging out a new 250 foot wheelchair friendly trail in the woods for us. It leads from the driveway near the house to a huge boulder the glacier must have dropped. Howard not only moved the earth, he placed the base layer of stone and some of the traffic bond that will be the top layer. Now we need to put the rest of the TB on the trail before it can be used.

If you (individuals, families, teenagers needing volunteer hours for school, church, scouts...) want to help with this, stop up some Wednesday morning. If you can¹t make it on a Wednesday but would still like to help call me - Diane - 675-2525. We’ve got the TB, shovels, wheel barrel - you just need to bring your muscle - or a small skid loader would make the job much easier!

As I meet more people in the community I realize not everyone is familiar with Welcome, H.O.M.E. - Welcome, House Of Modification Examples, Inc. is our legal name. Our unique (the only one-of-it’s-kind in the country, maybe the world) wheelchair accessible design demonstration home with Bed and Breakfast wing has been open to the public for 4 years. The house was under construction for a full two years. The fund raising efforts required to make all this possible took 8 years. So, some of you have been hearing about this for at least 14 years! We, Welcome, H.O.M.E., is a 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation run by a board of directors. Our primary purpose is to demonstrate the "How To’s" of creating a wheelchair accessible home to meet an individual¹s specific needs - whether building a new home or remodeling your current place. Tours of our house are free of charge to anyone. Appointments are suggested. We have no paid staff. In order to meet the requirement of our state issued Bed and Breakfast license someone MUST live in the home to operate the B’n B. This, too, is a volunteer position. While the B and B is open to the public, (we charge $50 per night, per room and have 2 guest rooms) because of our wheelchair friendly design we provide the opportunity for people with physical disabilities to enjoy a truly accessible get-away in the country.

Funds that support Welcome, H.O.M.E., that paid for the land and for the construction of the house, come entirely from "private" sources - no government, tax or United Way dollars. Newburg has been very supportive. You - as individuals, service organizations, businesses, church groups - have and continue to, unselfishly donate your talents, time, labor, equipment, cash, bakery, vegetables from your gardens, support, smiles... We are genuinely grateful for all of this. Our latest thank you goes to No No¹s for sharing your Firemen¹s parade float prize money with us!!! In return for your generosity as a community we like to share our place with you. For example, the Newburg Lioness Club has held their annual Easter Egg hunt at Welcome, H.O.M.E. for the past several years.

The trails in the woods, picnic tables, Porta-Potty are all paid for and maintained by Welcome, H.O.M.E. Feel free to enjoy these amenities. We do ask you to help us by : 1) not riding bikes on the trail 2) leaving your dogs at home when you come to take a walk or attend an event and finally, 3) if you have a picnic please take all of your litter home with you. By the way, it is the Welcome, H.O.M.E. non-profit corporation that owns the land (just under 18 acres) including the prairie and woodland and the house. We have no official affiliation with Riveredge Nature Center although we are good friends, neighbors and some of the same people who volunteer at Welcome, H.O.M.E., including a number of our board of directors, are also active volunteers at Riveredge. Hope this answers some of the questions you may have. If you’d like a tour of Welcome, H.O.M.E., would like more information about volunteer opportunities, have guests coming to visit and not enough room to put them up at your house... give me a call. We still have some vacancies this summer in the B’n B.

By Mary Ann Ihm

Fall Festival at Wellspring will be held on Sunday, September 29^th from 12-2 p.m. A family event. Hayrides, music, food, games, garden tours, river trail and labyrinth walks. Free. Donations for food and beverages. Come, rain or shine. Wellspring is at 4382 Hickory Road. For more information, call 675-6755.

Starting August 27th. It will run Tuesdays through October 8th. Games start at 6 p.m.. Open to girls and boys ages 6-9 in the Town of Trenton and surrounding area. Sign up is Saturday, August 3rd at Town of Trenton Town Hall. Town of Trenton residents register from 9-10 a.m. and non-residents register from 10-11. Registration is first come first serve basis until the 80 children has been reached. Late registration is an additional $5 Cost is $20 which includes a T-shirt and the banquet at the end of the season.

Father Nuttmann served the parish for 10 more years. During this time the rectory was enlarged and an addition was added to the west side of the house and it was completely remodeled. In 1919 he was transferred to the parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary at St. Martin’s, Wisconsin. Following Father Nuttmann and Rev. Stephen Zohlen, he remained for three years. In 1922, he was appointed to St. Cloud, Wisconsin. After him, Rev. Anthony Bertram brought his pastorate improvements of the parish. Since the school was erected by Father Stupfel it had become inadequate to house the increase of children and an addition to the school was built. A central heating system for the church, school and rectory were installed. The church basement was remodeled to have entertainments and for other purposes. On November 23, 1926, Father Bertram died at St. Mary’s Hospital, Milwaukee. For several months the parish was without a pastor.

In February, 1927, Rev. John J. Grasser was appointed to succeed Rev. Bertram. Rev. Grasser remained until June, 1932. During his term, the church was newly redecorated for $2,700. He was followed by Rev. Joseph Bittle. During his pastorate, the parish celebrated its Diamond Jubilee.

During the seventy five years, the parish had grown from 25 families to 145 families. During three quarters of a century, the Sacrament of Baptism was administered to 1,910 persons. There were 459 Christian burials and 461 marriages were performed. Very few remained of those who saw the humble beginnings. The others have passed to their reward, honored and revered by their posterity for having begun a work that endures to this day and has meant untold blessings to thousands. Priests came, labored and left, but all live in the grateful memory of the parishioners, whom today reap what those have sown in the course of their priestly ministrations. The blessing of God evidentially rested on the labors of these pioneers who founded Holy Trinity Parish, upon those who followed them, and on told blessings will continue to descend on its members in the years to come. Truly the parish to the Most Holy Trinity has every reason on the Diamond Jubilee to rejoice, to praise and thank the Lord for his goodness in the past and to hope in every confidence that God will continue to shower spiritual and material blessings upon the present and future generations.

It is indeed a blessing that our forefathers understood the need of religious training for their children to their love of the faith and their willingness to make sacrifices. The children of Holy Trinity Parish have enjoyed, except for a short space of time, the blessing of a Catholic school, where they received an education which fitted them not only for success in life, but especially one that enables them to become good Christians and a credit to their church.

No resident pastor had been appointed until 1867. Nothing was done about building a school but with the coming of Father Engle as pastor, steps were immediately taken to accomplish this project. On March 19, 1867, a meeting was called to consider a school. A committee was chosen, naming the following members: J. Boyung, J. Schloemer and Mathias Lauterbach. On December 8th of that same year, another meeting was called and it was decided that each member would be a certain amount of lumber or pay $1.50 each.

The building project was delayed and on February 28, 1968, Wolfgan Fechter was empowered at a special meeting to purchase the old district school in the Village for the sum of $200. This building was used as a parish school with some additions added. Father Engle, taught school for one year. At that time, 30 children were enrolled. In 1869, three Sisters from the convent of St. Agnes, then in Barton, taught school for one year. The Sisters were: Sr. M. Constantine, Sr. M. Christina, and Sr. M. Petra. Sister M. Constantine was the teacher. This was a one room school, one half of which was partitioned off for the Sisters.

When the Mother House was moved from Barton to Fond du Lac, the Sisters left Newburg. Then the children were taught by lay teachers for 20 years. The first was Mr. Weiss from 1870 to 1871, then Mr. Klaus from 1871 to 1872, then came Sisters of Agnes for two years, then lay women taught for two years. The teachers names were not listed who taught from 1872 to 1881. But after that - they are Joseph Schild from 1881 to 1882; then George Flierl from 1882 to 1887. The last teacher, Constantine Baltzer taught school until the new school was built by Father Struppel, then the Notre Dame Sisters instructed the children. The home of Mathias Goeden was purchased for the Sisters.

During the last year of his pastorate, Father Stuppel began to agitate to build a new school, but there was also talk of a new church. A meeting was called in 1888 in which it was decided to delay the building of a new church and instead erect a two story brick building. Father Dieringer became pastor in 1888 and he obtained the Sisters of Notre Dame for the parochial school, 81 pupils at the time. They remained from 1890 to 1917, when a lay teacher was again engaged for teaching purposes. Miss Anna Hund taught 2 years and in 1922, Notre Dame Sisters returned to Newburg and remained there until 1924, when the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph Convent in Milwaukee took over and continued to teach up to the present time. Their names are Sister M. Adelaide, Sr. Leonella, Sr. S. M. Florida, Sr. M. Angeline and sr. M. Manuel. Sr. M. Leonella was the first teacher to teach the two year commercial high school course, which the Sisters inaugurated at Holy Trinity School.

When Father Bertram came to Newburg in 1922 and he faced a problem. The old Sister’s home no longer met the needs of modern times and at the same time the accommodations for the pupils had become inadequate. First they wanted to buy Fred Eisenmenger’s home for the Sister’s. The price was too high and another factor was it was no improvement over the old house. It was decided to remodel the upper floor of the school for the Sister’s quarters and build an addition to the school properly.

The old Sister’s house having been sold to Mrs. Sherer for $1,280, the upper floor of the school was remodeled to living quarters for the Sister’s for the sum of $1,282.19. Bids were then let for an addition to the school and the contract was let to West Bend Construction for the sum of $8,668.25. This solved the problem of a Sister’s home and school. At the same time, Father Bertram installed the central heating system at a cost of $3,360 and remodeled the church basement for $360.39 - the work being done by the members.

A strip of land 180 by 120 was bought for playgrounds. Now the parish was well equipped with all the necessary buildings and grounds.

1896 to 1919
Rev. Bernard Nuttmann
Built new church in 1899 for a cost of $11,400

1919 to 1922
Rev. Steven Zolen

1922 to 1926
Rev. Anthony Bertram died November 23, 1926

No Pastor for Several Months

1927 to 1932
Rev. John Grasser

1932 to 1950
Rev. Joseph Bittle

1950 to 1957
Rev. Edward Ziegler

1957 to 1962
Rev. Paul BertrandIn 1961, the old school and convent was removed and 6 new classroom school and 13 convents were built

1962 to 1982
Rev. Edward Geiskopf

1982 to 1985
Rev. Cletus Kaiser

1985 to 1994
Rev. George Fleischman

1994 to 2002
Rev. Robert Sampon

2002 to Present
Rev. Guy Gurath

This concludes the Village of Newburg book by Clarence Bretschneider. Thank you to Clarence and his family and all who helped put this big piece of our history together.