The Bridge
News of Newburg

It’s a new year and the real estate taxes are due again. If you have a dog, a license may be obtained when you pay your taxes. All dogs must have a rabies vaccination and licensed by April 1^st yearly. Licenses obtained after April 1^st are subject to a $25.00 late charge. A license is required for all dogs, whether you own or rent at your residence.

The Newburg Lions is again planning their annual Car Show/Village Rummage Sale. The tentative day is Sunday, August 17^th. The Lioness will again be approaching all village residents for a commitment to be included in the Rummage Sale. They also ask for a $5 donation to help defray expenses for advertising and other miscellaneous paper products. The Car Show will again be FREE to all and bigger and better than ever. This year we are planning on having the Newburg Fire Departments New Fire Truck on display with Firemen on hand to explain the functions. We are inviting all the neighboring departments and their families to Newburg for the day as well as the residents from Newburg and the Town of Trenton. The concession stand in the Firemen’s Park will again be run by the Lion/Lioness. The Lioness are planning on having their kids fair again and is open for suggestions. Contact any Lion/Lioness if you have any ideas that will help us promote our Fall Fest.

The Lions Club is closing out their year and are pleased with their accomplishments. We finished the Shelter in the Firemen’s Park and added Picnic tables which we plan on leaving there year round. We also purchased a washing machine for the Newburg Fire Department which they will use to wash their firefighting/rescue apparel. The machine cost in excess of $10,000. We gave out scholarships for The West Bend Vocational School and one to the St Johns Lutheran Tuition Assistance Program. We are helping a Town of Farmington young boy with a speech problem. We sent a young boy with cancer to the Lions summer camp. We were involved in the Relay for Life, Leader Dog School, Fingerprinting young children, Big Brothers and Sisters Foundation, and many other locally involved donations. We also placed a Lifesaving Defibulator at the West Bend Lakes Golf Course. We and other Clubs from our Zone placed a computer scanner at the Cedar Campus Foundation. We donate to the Union Cemetery annually. We and several other area Lion Clubs sponsored a Christmas Party for the Blind including transportation by bus, entertainment, a meal, gifts and of course Santa. The Newburg Lions have donated over $93,000 to the local community and to other Lion functions since they were formed. We again will be holding our annual raffle with tickets being sold for $50 each and by now you now what we do with our money. We hope you participate in all our events and buy one of our tickets.

The Newburg Lioness also conduct many fund raising events such as selling Poinsettia at Christmas and Geraniums in spring. They are placing mints in different business places for sale and collect used or old

eyeglasses which are recycled and distributed to the needy in other lands. At Christmas they sponsor "Get your picture taken with Santa". They donate money to families in need at Christmas. They sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt each year. They are around when help is needed and donate or sponsor many local charities. The Lions and Lioness are not like other organizations or clubs, they don’t own anything. We don’t have big expensive clubhouses with bars and pools. We rely on local establishments for our meeting places such as the West Bend Lakes, Parkside Inn, and of course the Newburg Firemen’s Hall. All of our profits go back into the community and must be spent at the end of our fiscal year and then we start all over again. If you care to join the Lions or Lioness call 338-8204 for information. Thank You – Roger Krell (Lions President)

The Newburg Sportsmen's Club has completed another successful and enjoyable year. We've gained new friendships with new members and have lost a few also. It has been an honor and a challenge to support charitable fundraising activities within the community. We could use a bigger building and a lot more parking space.

Members are busy preparing for the winter archery leagues which start in January. An organizational meeting will be held at the clubhouse on January 6th at 7:00 pm for the adult leagues which run on weeknights for up to 13 weeks. If you are not on a team but might be interested this would be a good night to stop in to find out how the league runs and what nights may have team or single person openings.

The junior archery league will begin on Saturday, the 18th of January, at 8:00 am for sign-up. If you have junior archery equipment to sell or give away, this is a great opportunity to help someone else get started or move up in size.

Will someone be 12 years old by next fall hunting season? Sign up for Hunter's Education classes will begin after January 1st. at Sager's Men's Apparel in West Bend. Classes usually fill within two weeks; so don't procrastinate.

Coming up faster than we'd like to think will be our late winter/early spring Hunt and Cover trap league on Tuesday nights. It will start on March 4th and run for 6 weeks. Traps will open from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. An entry fee of $10.00 per team is due on the first night. Cash prizes will be given out for Class A, B, and C team winners. Shooting fees will be $3.50 per round for members and $4.00 per round for non-members. To sign up or get more information, call Tony Zechmeister at 675-6139.

2003 will be a big year for construction inside the Village limits. The Village itself will continue with phases of two large reconstruction projects and Washington County will undertake the Main Street Bridge replacement project.

In 2003, the Village will continue the downtown street reconstruction project started in 2000. The next part of that project includes Salisbury Street from Main Street to Division Street and Division from Salisbury to Highway 33. Design of this project will commence shortly after the first of the year. One or two public meetings will be held with the intent of sharing information with the residents of Newburg, especially those living or doing business on or around Salisbury and Division. The construction start is tentatively scheduled for mid-June. The final product will likely be completed by Labor Day 2003.

The sanitary sewer interceptor project will also be continued. The next leg includes a crossing of the Milwaukee River. The eventual goal of this project is to eliminate Lift Station #3 (on Carmody Ct.) and provide a larger sanitary sewer service area to the Village. Construction will begin early in 2003.

The County Trunk Highway "MY" (Main Street) Bridge replacement project will begin in mid-August. Washington County will be replacing the bridge and the raceway structure. Main Street will be closed at the bridge with detour routes planned for Highway "M" and Highway 33. Also Hickory is planned to be closed to through traffic during construction. Main Street will be open to traffic beginning in December.

By Diane Miller

Welcome, HOME Bed and Breakfast - in a House Of Modification Examples

Anyone else find it amazing that we¹re now in the year 2003? It wasn¹t that long ago that we were writing the year 19something, was it...?

Even more unbelievable to me is the fact that Welcome, HOME - House Of Modification Examples - was created 15 years ago. Our original intent was to have a unique program operated entirely by volunteers. Today we STILL operate via volunteer power. We are extremely proud of this accomplishment and could not possibly do this without all of YOU - the friends and neighbors who have helped! What do the volunteers do? It varies from season to season and the time, skill, interests of the individual volunteers. Rick Gramoll and Nick Mathieu are devoting National Honor Society community service hours to Welcome, HOME. One fall day Rick and his Dad, Harry, shoveled pounds of bark chips around our dwarf fruit trees. These trees were planted seven years ago to give kids who use wheelchairs the opportunity to reach the fruit - worm and all - from their chair.

One day in December a whole crew of neighbors - Marg, Miller, Marie, Armella, Bob, Ernie, Leo, Doris, Arlene - stuffed and licked envelopes. It was time to mail our newsletter. Welcome, HOME sends out over 750 of these each fall.

On Halloween we had an all day work party. The goal was to put this 18 acres to sleep for the winter. The weather co-operated and "we" - 16 fellows from around southeastern Wisconsin including our local neighbors - Bill Kupkovits, Bob Schwinn, Leo Miller and Ernie Pochert - did chores like wrapping young tree trunks and putting a new layer of bark chips on the trail in the woods, stacking firewood, fixing flat tires... We’ll plan a spring work day in April or May to greet the warmer weather (which can¹t get here any too soon for my taste). Join us if you have the time and interest.

Right now we’re looking for assistance with our new color brochures. The first thing you can do to help is tell us if you know of any appropriate places (therapists, clinics, doctors, rehab centers, social workers, teachers, clergy, case managers, etc.) that would display our literature or would make them available to people who may benefit from our services, please let use know.

The second way you can help us out is by funding our printing costs. We’re currently attempting to raise $2,300 to defray this expense. Any and all $500 (or more) donations of will acknowledged on the back of 10,000 Welcome, HOME brochures. Want to see a copy – I’ll gladly get one - or several - to you.

Remember, Welcome, H.O.M.E.’s lower level is available to you for your next get -together. The windows on the south side of the house provide natural light, while the glass door exits onto the path through the prairie. While we do not charge a set fee for the use of this room we do appreciate a donation! The space includes: a kitchen corner with refrig, stove, large coffee pots and miscellaneous cooking utensils.

* a kids play corner

* a rest room

* several seating groupings - dining tables, sofa, rocking chairs

* TV - VCR, slide projector and screen

The Newburg Lioness Club annually holds a dinner meeting at Welcome, HOME. The Port Washington Lion¹s use our grills to cook brats and burgers. Other groups have hosted pot luck dinners, dessert meetings, had pizzas delivered or have had a full meal catered in. Your choice.

We invite you to consider this option for your meeting. While a tour of the wheelchair friendly demonstration home may be incorporated into your meeting - this is not required. Interested, or have questions ? Call me, Diane, for more information 675-2525. I¹d be delighted to show you what we have to offer.

Planning your summer activities? Are you expecting family and friends to visit and you don¹t have enough beds (or bathrooms) for everyone? Although we are VERY wheelchair friendly, the B & B is open to the public. Guests do not need to be disabled to stay overnight at Welcome, H.O.M.E. We’re already booked for the Labor Day Harley Birthday Celebration - physicians coming from Phoenix, Arizona and air traffic controllers riding up from Olathe, Kansas.

The B & B wing of the house has a family room with kitchenette, screened porch, 2 bathrooms and 2 bedrooms. The JCPenney Room has a full size bed and a twin water bed. The Sara J. Miller Room has a queen bed plus a fold-out single sleeper. Our rates are still only $50 per night per room. Come on up to see for yourself - get a better idea about what we offer. It might be good to call first since we DO NOT take tours through the B & B when the rooms are occupied.

If you’re doing some spring cleaning and have items (IN WORKING ORDER please) that you¹d like to donate to Welcome, HOME we can use - tools for our workshop, a riding lawn tractor (the mower does not need to be working), kitchen things - especially flatware, a slide projector cart, sturdy dining table chairs. We¹re always collecting vintage hats which are on display in the "Sara" room. Bill Krell keeps adding interesting items to our antique shelf. My favorite, of his latest additions, is a Pepsi Cola transistor radio.

January 5, 2003 is your last chance to buy an Entertainment Coupon book. Buy your book, or thumb through a sample book, at No No’s. For any of you unfamiliar with the Entertainment book this is over 600 pages - many with 3 coupons per page - of two for one or 50% off coupons. These offers include restaurants - fine dining to fast food - (use the coupons from No No¹s, El Rey and the Jail House and you’ve already saved the $35 purchase price of the book). Then use coupons to go golfing, to the movies, to professional and college sporting events, Road America, skating, summer festivals, to the Dells, to the theater and much more. Keep saving money with your coupons until November, 2003. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each book goes to Welcome, HOME.

All of us at Welcome, HOME hope the holidays were enjoyable and that 2003 is kind to you.

By Phyllis Damrow

WHEN: Saturday, March 1st from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 8th from 9 a.m. to noon

WHERE: Newburg Fire Department

We have Coed, Pee Wee for ages 5-8.

Girls Slow Pitch for ages 9-15.

Boys Midget Fast Pitch for ages 12-13 and

Boys Pony League for ages 14-16.

We do have candy bars and pizza sales for our fund raiser to help with the expense of the leagues, and these will be available at sign up.

We have a great program and many coaches that work very well with our program. If you are interested in helping with coaching, umpiring, food stand or anything else or for more information, call Phyllis Damrow at 675-2493.

The Myraneers 4-H Club would like to say "thank you" to everyone who donated clothes to our semi-annual clothing drive. With all the help from everyone, we had a total of 7,517 pounds of clothing. Almost a half a semi load!

We will be having another clothing drive in 2004 (not a typo). So watch for flyers and articles in our "Bridges" Newsletter and the West Bend Daily News.

Thanks again for all your donations.

We would like to thank everyone who helped make the benefit dance for Chuck Dickmann, Jr. a HUGE success.

It would not have been possible without the Newburg Sportsmen’s Club donating their facility. We are just happy we didn’t bust out the walls with the large turnout of people attending. Also, the Newburg Lioness took on a big job of preparing and serving the food. These local organizations are a GREAT asset to our village and we are proud to have them.

The band, "Sturgeon Edy" did a great job of playing music and getting the crowd going. We would like to thank them for coming and helping raise money.

It’s amazing how the word spread when we talked about getting this organized and people were calling and asking to help. All the people that helped from getting the band, to delivering posters, ordering supplies and setting up before the dance did a great job. We had a great group of volunteers for bartending, ticket taking, running the raffles and games and clean up the next day. Everything really ran smoothly and we are thankful for these people for donating their time for this cause.

The amount of donations, be it cash or raffle prizes, was just unreal. We never thought when we started this, that we would get such a great response. "This is getting out of control" was said many times, but in a good way. So, a big THANK YOU to all the businesses, families and individuals who were so very, very generous.

And, finally for all the people that attended, your generosity was overwhelming. It was very heartwarming when a community pulls together like it did.

We know Chuck, Brenda and Ashley greatly appreciated this, and our thoughts and prayers are with them.

Thanks again – Paul & Linda White, Linda Chesak, Amy Habersetzer and Holly Gerner.

By Mary Ann Ihm

Available right in your neighborhood. Wellspring raises certified organic vegetables and herbs. You are welcome to buy a share in the garden for the 2003 season. A share is a grocery bag of produce that’s available from late May to early November. Give a call to Mary Ann at 675-6755. Also, those of you who dropped leaves off at Wellspring to help support the compost-soil building for our gardeners. Thanks!

Ski and Snowshoe at Riveredge. Over 7 miles of tracked trails will be available to cross-country skiers. Snowshoers will have a special area – the Mayhew Woods across the Milwaukee River from Riveredge. Conditions permitting, the trails will be freshly tracked for weekend skiers. Trails are open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4:00 p.m. (weather permitting). Several evenings are scheduled for night skiing when a section of the trails will be lit by oil lanterns.

Night Skiing nights are January 3, 10, 24 and 31st. A warm fire awaits you at the end of the trail. There will be a moonlight snowshoe program on Friday, January 17th from 5-9 p.m. If you have never experienced the wintry Riveredge trails in the light of the full moon, now is your chance. Track the creatures of the night on this guided snowshoe hike with a Riveredge naturalist. Afterwards, hot chocolate and cider will be served in he warmth of a wood-burning stove. Riveredge will provide the snowshoes. Limited space – call early to register.

Socially Responsible Investing – Sunday, January 26th from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Do your investments reflect your values? Joan Schilke, CFP, will introduce you to socially responsible investing and how you can use your money to make a difference. This is where your personal values and your personal finances come together. We’ll explore screening, shareholder advocacy and community investing. Securities offered through Mutual Service Corp. Member NASD/SIPC.

Riveredge Bird Club – brings together those who enjoy observing and learning more about birds and sharing these interests with others. All activities are free and open to the public. Meetings are held at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month.

Whether your pace is fast or slow, your gear high or low tech, your trail experience maximal or minimal, you are invited to join the walk. The hiking club is a loosely-organized group of divers ages and abilities who share an enthusiasm for recreational walking. To register for hikes and to receive detailed information about where to meet, please call Mary Nolan or LaVonne Suring at Riveredge.

Photographers Anonymous brings together those who enjoy snapping pictures and sharing knowledge and experiences. The group is led by Don Gilmore, professional photographer. The meetings are held the last Tuesday of each month.

Garbage and recycling collection has been contracted now with Superior Services. The collection date will now be on Fridays. This will begin on Friday, January 3^rd.

Will be held at the Village of Newburg Village Hall on Tuesday, April 1^st. This is for Village Trustees and Village President. Polls open at 9 a.m. and will close at 8 p.m. Please exercise your right to vote.