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Page 4, September 14, 1989 Regional News, Lake Geneva, W1 Parents Must Help Fight Drugs cltv member riarv WISCONSIN WNA NEWSPAPER JU1 ASSOCIATION Lake Geneva Regional News USPS 302 260 Published Every Thursday by the Lake Geneva Printing and Publishing Co. D.W. BEARDLR Publisher J. DOUG ELLIOTT Editor 31S Broad Street, Lake Geneva, WI 53147 Phone- 248-4444 Second Glass Postage Paid at Lake Geneva, WI Subscription: Lake Geneva and 20 Mile Radius Year 1 3 Wisconsin and Illinois Year $20 Other S. Areas Year $25 Term In Advance OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER CITY OF LAKE GENEVA Lake Geneva Area Elementary School Dist.

Bloomfield Township Badger High School District Williams Bay School Distort Village of Williams Bay-Village of Genoa City 1 I MEMBER umLp Association Founded 1885 Ci OW i me parents never know when theyve been drinking; -82 per pent of the 6th graders said their parents would be very or extremely upset if they found out the kids have been drinking at a party; 44 per cent of the 12th graders gave that answer; and -94 per cent of all students surveyed said their parents would be intolerant of tase of drugs other than alcohol. While tpese figures do not specifically include Badger High or Denison, they represent a broad cross section of the state's 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th graders. Statistics for Geneva area students probably would not differ greatly, because the schools chopen for the survey were carefully selected to provide an overall picture. The DPI said the samplings error ranges from plus or minus 0.7 per cent to plus or minus about 2.5 per cent. Considering the alarming extent of the alcohol and other drug use indicated by the survey, is it possible that parents are not aware of it? Even if they are not aware of such abuse, they surely should have The Denison Parents Network which has begun functioning at the middle school this fall can be an effective supplement to the other anti drug programs already established In the school district--but only if it receives sufficient parental support.

Its goal is to provide wholesome, drug free, chaperoned activities for the children. It's difficult to imagine why any parents would not want to give it full backing and participation. Abuse of alcohol and other drugs is a serious threat to Denison's students, though some parents may not want to admit it. It is as much a threat at Denison as it is at other area schools and throughout Wisconsin and the Nation. It would be folly for any parents to believe that Denison students do not have access to alcohol and other drugs, and that none have ever used them.

The "easy" way out is to say "Others' kids do, my kids don'tVeasy, that is, until it's too late. Evidence of how serious alcohol and other drug abuse is among young people is found in statewide survey results reported earlier this year by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. That compre hensive survey, which included Delavan-Darien but not Lake Geneva area schools, got information from Wisconsin 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th grade students on their attitudes toward and usage of alcohol and other drugs. Highlights of the survey show that: -53 per cent of Wisconsins 6th grade students have used alcohol at some point prior to or during 6th grade; I -94 per cent of the 12th graders have used alcohol during their lifetime and 37 per cent of them have had five or more drinks within the last two weeks; 1 -6 per cent of the 6th graders have used other illegal drugs; 47 per.1 cent of the 12th graders have; -6th and 8th graders said they got alcohol at home; I -12th graders said friends were the most common source of their alcohol; -All grades said they drank at home or at a party; -25 per cent of the students said their parents have never tried to talk to them about drugs; 32 per cent of the 10th graders said their enough concern to not want (their own children involved. They can do something about it-and one way is to get ihvolved with the Denison parents network.

The Network is a group of involved parents who'sup-port each other in discouraging the illegal use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs by their children through education, offering the students alternative activities and veloping guidelines and standards to follow. An important part of the network is its parents agreement. It is signed by ail Network parents, who agree to have only chemical free activities for their children within their I own homes; always chaperone hfome parties; and communicate via phone the activities their children. (They also agree to work with school administrators and public agencies in enforcing school policies and! laws on drugs; support andor sponsor parent education programs and activities; and have their nam, address and phone number in a Parents network directory. Every) Denison parent shotild join the 'network and sign the agreement as a show of support for efforts to protect the students against the threat alcohol and other dnljgs.

From the files of the LAKE GENEVA REGIONAL NEWS etter3 to tte Anvan Annexation Oppqsed To the Editor: I came to the open joint meeting of our board and the representatives of Anvans Geneva National Project still undecided on whether or not we should annex the Geneva National Project into the village of Williams Bay. By the end of the meeting was really wondering what we were all doing there. The difference between the objectives and goals of the village and those of Geneva National are so great that they are really incompatible. As I see it the objectives and goals jbf our village are to provide a community and an environment to meet jlhe needs of its residents. This has been well done by past and current village managements.

We have very good schools, good streets, a beautiful park Locals to To the Editor: Do local voters want a vote on consolidation of their school district? Do they want a vote on detachments from their school district? Do they want a vote on dissolution of their school district? Do they want a vote on their school district if it lies wholly in a territory annexed to certain municipalities? Do they want the School District Boundary Appeals Board in Madison to Sept. 15, 1966 Marine Lance Corporal Francis M. Massey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Massey, Highway BB, has been wounded in Vietnam, and is in the military hospital in Da Nang.

Badger High School Principal Karl Reinke, was appointed by the City Council to the Police and Fire Commission. Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Keller, Genoa City, are parents of their first child, Brenda Joanne, bom SepL 5.

Office Cat GREEN GABLES, th original mansion on the to William Wrigley, in 1911. Green Gables was present Wrigley estate on Geneva Lakes north razed in 1955. Wrigleys grandson, William and his shore, was built in 1892 by C.K.G. Billings. One of wife, Julie, have a home on the estate.

The view of its features was a four-story-high observation tower Green Gables shown here is from an old undated that provided an excellent view of the lake. W.H. postcard belonging to the Geneva LakeMuseum Mitchell bought it from Billings in 1906 and sold it of History. Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Kull, N.

Bloomfield Road, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Tom Schinke, Badger High School graduate, and Dick Thomas, Lake Geneva High School graduate, will meet at Camp Randall Stadium in the opening game of the football season. Schinke' plays for University of Wisconsin and Thomas for Iowa State University. After 50 years of service, the old Walworth mail boat will be used for the (please turn to page 5) 46 naiiJ'i- Uhc'X The Chatterbox On the other side of Highway 50, the objectives and goals of Anvans Geneva National Project are quite different. They are to be a profitmaking organization.

Now that is very understandable because no institutions, or group of companies, or men are going to invest $500,000,000 without making a good return on their investment-called I along the lakelront, good police and fire protection and a new water and sewer system that will take care of our needs for many years. The many past boards have done this with revenue received within the normal village procedures. JWe Jiavq not or, accepted "handouts" to make Williams Bay the lovely community in which to live and work that it is today. I Lose Vote? set the boundary lines of their school district? On Thursday, May 25, 1989, the State Assembly passed an amended version of Assembly Bill 146 relating to statutory procedures for changing school district boundaries, which did not include a binding referendum. The vote was 90 yes and 9 no (Representatives Hasenohrl, Holperin, Hubler, Krug, Loucke, Porter, Stower, Welch and (please turn to page 5) that their conversation was being recorded along with the minutes of the, meeting, which Ellis would be listening to the next day.

Further discussion about gifts came after the'meeting adjourned at 9 PM. I LOCUSTS ARE COMING Watching a couple preschool boys observing with spellbound fascination a cicada skeleton at- tached to a tree by the First Baptist Church one morning last week reminded us that the "big invasion" of 17 year locusts will be in 1990. "Seventeen year locust," as most if not all of you know, is the common name attached to the cicadas that appear the Geneva Lake area In Immense numbers once every 1 years. Some are seen-and heard-every sufnmer, but the big invasion are far apart. The last such occurrences here were in 1973, 1956, 1939 and on back into history at 17-year intervals.

Mehitabel was out of town when the invasion occurred in 1973, but he recalls the 1956 event when for a couple of weeks the deafening gin from the shrill "singing" of the cicadas drowned out most other sounds day and night nonstop. During that time, millions (probably more) of cicadas clear-plasticlike shells exoskeletons "decorated" every-thing-bushes; tree trunks, flowers, fence wires, house siding, anything that the insects could attach to while "shedding." Much the same occurred in 1973, according to newspaper ar- profit. The sheer size of the investment means that their, activities, their procedures, their plans and the implementation of them will always be different than ours of managing a village. There will always be misunderstandings and disagreements because of these differences. It will be like trying to mix oil and water, The presentation by Anvans personnel was fvery professional and their concept of tne development seemed well planned.

The project has already been approved by enough agencies to allow them to go (ahead with it. But let them proceed on the development by them. selves. I wish them well. Any time agreements are made to give revenues to the village, there will always be obligations, commitments and promises to go with it However in the long run these commitments may not be in the best interests of the residents of Williams Bay.

There is still no such thing las a "free lunch." We know what we have as a village today. Getting involved with Geneva National would make our future very uncertain during the coming years. We dont need them now. We don't need them in the future. I am against annexation! Let's "lust say no." George S.

Rehfield 17 Cedar Ploint Drive Williams Bay by tides. And much the same can be expected next summer. In the meantime, following is what the Regional News reported on its front paje June 9, 1939, about the "locust plague" that hit the Geneva farea that year. Under the headlinq, "Seventeen Year Locust Singing Last Love Song," the article read: A serenade, a balcony scene or a canoe ride in the moonlight keeps romance alive but a billion serenaqers chirping love songs that are a disturbing at a quarter mile or more is a problem that the singing dcada, 17 yearJo-cust, has brought to the lake region within the past few weeks. Report from gardens, farm and lake properties report the places knee deep in cicada and cicada cellophane-like skins, i This is the first major appearance of the Cicada Septemdecim since 1(922, E.L.

Chambers, state entomologist, declares. The first report of the cicada in Lake Geneva was made several weeks ago by F.M. Higgins, who discovered them while spading his garden. Samples at that time had the appearance of grub worms. A week later F.J.

Luedtke brought in samples and then the avalanche of the merging insects brought continual phone calls to the Regional News, "The cicada is certainly the! most virtuous of animals, since he must live in an underground dun-f geon for 17 years before he emerges into the sunshine," Cambers declares. "All this prepa-, ration for life in the upper world seems hardly worth while, since 1 MEHITABEL the he enjoys his freedom for only a few days, and then dies. During these few he makes as much noise as he possibly can, "singing" loudly and shrill. He is lucky in one respect, bdeause sound-making organs are not present in the female, and as the philosopher xenarchos remarked. "Happy is the) cicada, since his wife has no voice! DID YOU KNOW? In 1952, Bill Mosienko of the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, scored three goals in 21 seconds.

The average American ate 65.3 pounds of chicken in 1988. The motto, "In God Trust," first appeared on US cbins in 1864. Cats and elephants have such acute hearing that they can hear the footsteps of a mouse. Chewing gum didnt start with Wrigley. In ancient Greece, chewing gum-then called used by physicians for its "curative powers" in the First Century.

French explorer Jeaq Nicolet found Pottawatomie Indians living on the shore of Green Bay when he arrived there in 1634. iot long after that, the Pattawatomie lands were invaded by. the Men-omonees, Sauks, Foxes jand the Sioux. In response, the Pat-tawatomies moved south, some settling along Geneva Lake. The temperature of the Earth's interior increases by one degree for every 60 feet down.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Badger High School fans were understandably happy when their sophomore team beat Salem Central 14 to 8 last Thursday night. But none was happier than Coach Dick Nottestad. It also was his birthday and the crowd in the stands sang "Happy Birthday" to him. YAWN PATROL The predicted rain (which came) was bad enough for Regional News Sports Editor John Schumacher to anticipate, but even worse was the prospect of having to get up almost before dawn to photograph the triathletes as they started their swim event at 7AM Saturday. Discussing the big event with Chairman Frank Dobbs the previous day, Schumacher questioned, "You couldn't start this at noon, could you?" READY.

AIM-- A friend of Council President Dick Folman was among those who recovered Mayor Spyro Condos stolen boat at Fontana a couple weeks ago. When the subject came up at last weeks Committee of the Whole meeting, Folman quipped, "1 told him he should have shot a couple holes through it, below the water line, before returning it." Later in the meeting, Aider-man Bea Dale noted that the officials have received invitations to attend the wedding of City Business Administrator Gordon and Marie Renae Stronzewski Oct. 7 at Appleton. As the council members started talking about gifts, Dale cut in to remind them WHEN LUNCHTIME arrived at the County Fair, Dennis Harsh 7 Linn Township, discovered that he had to stay on the iob aM keen watch over his entry. Unable to head for one Sf the food SndlnS attractions.

Dennis did the next best thing-and relaxed on the next best thing to a chair-his calf. -Wally Schulz Photo.