E-PC’s Track Team Regional Champs, Heading for State Competition
The Elmwood-Plum City Red Devils completed their tasks of running over the competition this past week in Colfax, during Regional on Tuesday, and Sectional Competition on Thursday. The Boys team became Regional Champions for the very first time in School History. The Girls did very well also. Everyone in attendance had to deal with very warm temperatures at the two events. Some of the results are as follows.
Regional’s for the Girl’s squad, brought home 1st place finishes in the 100m dash (Jenna Reitz), she also won the 200m dash. Triple Jump (Jordyn Mark). They had 2nd place finishes in the 800m run (Becky Hartung), 4x400m relay (Heather VonHoltum, Marah Boyer, Jenna Reitz, Becky Hartung). They also had top 5 finishes in 4x800m relay (Becky Hartung, Abbie Hartung, Morgan Sweeney, Sarah Claflin), 1600m run (Morgan Sweeney), 400m dash (Heather VonHoltum), and the High Jump (Marah Boyer). The Team finished 5th of the 9 teams attending.
The Boy’s had 1st place finishes in 4x800m Relay (Allex Gilles, Jordan Jones, Tanner Bechel, Tim Talford), 100m Hurdles (Nick Kernstock), 200m Dash (Gabe Rodriquez), 1600m Run (Tim Talford), 400m Dash (Gabe Rodriquez), 300m Hurdles (Tyler Churchill), 800m Run (Allex Gilles), 4x400m Relay (Allex Gilles, Tyler Churchill, Jaylen Case, Tim Talford), and the Long Jump (Lance VonHoltum). They took 2nd place in the 4x200m Relay (Tim Wayne, Nick Kernstock, Vance VonHoltum, Tyler Churchill), High Jump (Jaylen Case), Shot Put (Alex Hartung), and the Triple Jump (Tyler Churchill). Having top 5 finishes were the boys 100m Dash (Tim Wayne and Jesse McKune), 400m Dash (Jaylen Case), 4x100m Relay (Tim Wayne, Nick Kernstock, Hayden Kernstock, Lance VonHoltum), 300m Hurdles (Chase Lanz), and the 800m Run (Seth Jones).
Sectional’s for the Girl’s on Thursday had 1st place finishes in the 100m and the 200m Dash (Jenna Reitz). 2nd place finish by the 4x400m Relay (Heather VonHoltum, Marah Boyer, Jenna Reitz, Becky Hartung). They also had a top 10 finishes in 800m Run (Becky Hartung), 4x800m Relay (Abbie and Becky Hartung, Sarah Claflin, Morgan Sweeney), 400m Dash (Heather VonHoltum), and the Triple Jump (Jordyn Mark), The Squad finished 5th of 31 teams at the event.
The Boy’s had 2nd place finishes in 4x400m Relay (Allex Gilles, Tyler Churchill, Gabe Rodriquez, Tim Talford), Shot Put (Alex Hartung), 4x800m Relay (Allex Gilles, Seth Jones, Tanner Bechel, Tim Talford). The squad also had top 10 finishes in Triple Jump (Tyler Churchill), 110m Hurdles (Nick Kernstock), 100m Dash (Tim Wayne), 1600m Run (Tim Talford), 4x200m Relay (Tim Wayne, Hayden Kernstock, Lance VonHoltum, Tyler Churchill), 400m Dash (Gabe Rodriquez), 4x100m Relay (Tim Wayne, Nick and Hayden Kernstock, Lance VonHoltum), 200m Dash (Gabe Rodriquez), High Jump (Jaylen Case), and the 800m Run (Allex Gilles and Seth Jones). The Boy’s finished the competition in 3rd of 31 teams.
Next up will be the State Competition in LaCrosse, June 4th and 5th. Good Luck to all the athlete’s and coaches attending.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Special Board Meeting
5/20/2010 6:00:00 AM
Village Of Elmwood Application For Liquor And Malt Beverage License 5/25
A Special Village Board Meeting was held on May 25th for a Beverage License for non-other than Robert Rupakus, former board member of Elmwood. It has always been known that any special meetings to be held, had to be paid for by the person requesting the meeting. Now I wonder if the Citizens have to pay for him and his request for the license. Being there is only a couple weeks before the next meeting of the Board, I do not see why they had to hold a special meeting that will cost the citizens in paying the members to attend the meeting.
I guess this also make it official that Rupakus in planning on running against his buddies as a bar owner in Elmwood. I will point out to everyone, that Rupakus caused many problems for the previous owners of the Longbranch with their Licenses and also with the Rules he pushed against the same bar, while standing outside the bar to get citations against them for after hours violations. This was a well known fact by people of the community. It was also noted that there have been rumors of Rupakus running for Village President in the next election. Wouldn't that be perfect....then he could run the village from behind the bar.............Just a thought, being the village has been run from the bar meetings for the past several years....
We'll see soon enough.......
Village Of Elmwood Application For Liquor And Malt Beverage License 5/25
A Special Village Board Meeting was held on May 25th for a Beverage License for non-other than Robert Rupakus, former board member of Elmwood. It has always been known that any special meetings to be held, had to be paid for by the person requesting the meeting. Now I wonder if the Citizens have to pay for him and his request for the license. Being there is only a couple weeks before the next meeting of the Board, I do not see why they had to hold a special meeting that will cost the citizens in paying the members to attend the meeting.
I guess this also make it official that Rupakus in planning on running against his buddies as a bar owner in Elmwood. I will point out to everyone, that Rupakus caused many problems for the previous owners of the Longbranch with their Licenses and also with the Rules he pushed against the same bar, while standing outside the bar to get citations against them for after hours violations. This was a well known fact by people of the community. It was also noted that there have been rumors of Rupakus running for Village President in the next election. Wouldn't that be perfect....then he could run the village from behind the bar.............Just a thought, being the village has been run from the bar meetings for the past several years....
We'll see soon enough.......
Friday, May 21, 2010
May 2010
It seems the Elmwood Village Board is again having trouble getting their minutes published in a timely manner. To this point I have been watching the Elmwood Argus for the April minutes and I have yet to see anything put to print.
UPDATE: 5-21-10
I picked up this weeks paper dated 5-19-10 and the minutes are actually printed. Now the May meeting happened Monday night, so they are plenty late getting this done. It is a little hard for anyone to respond to what is written at a meeting, when the posting is done after the following months meeting.
It was stated by another citizen that Bill Stewart made comments that the money he receives for being the Village President is far from what it should be for all he does. In my opinion this is a statement by an over paid individual, being that every person that is voted into the Village Board should be doing it, without any pay. They put their names into the balloting to serve the Village and make things better for the community, not to get a check. I have always believed that every member should give their time to the community without taking the funds, for the much needed programs within the Village. To me, this shows GREED, as well as a largely swelled head of a Village President. Maybe the budget would not be in trouble every year if the members were not dipping into it themselves. In the minutes Bill claims it was good to see so many people at the meeting, yet most were there with complaints.
I have many times done many things for people without asking for any pay, and the "Thank You" you get is plenty enough.
It was also stated that the Village President was attempting to make a big story about how they should promote themselves for the food pantry getting funds from the citizens of the community. There was nothing said about the Village Board donating a single penny, but Mr. Stewart was pushing that a story should really be written up about this to talk up the Board. A member of the board pointed this out to the Herald reporter, stating the Argus should really write an article up. The Herald reporter responded by telling the member they could do that, but she was not with the Argus.
It was also told to me that Mr. Rupakus took it upon himself to go after a citizen that had a verbal agreement with the Village President in regards to a fence he put up, that appears to be too high. The landscaping of the property was going to be completed throughout the summer and he spoke directly to the Village President to keep from any problems with the fence before all the work was completed. This did not matter to Rupakus apparently, because he had the Village Clerk send a Violation of Ordinances letter to the Citizen. This is just one of many personal targets that happen when no one communicates with one another, or just has a simple grudge against an individual. Maybe it was simply because a friend of Mr. Rupakus had a problem with the fence without having any knowledge with the agreement that had already been made.
Hopefully things will start to get a little better now that "Polaris" Bob is no longer on the Village Board....OOOPS, he is no longer "POLARIS" Bob either now I am told. I have been told that he is purchasing the Longbranch bar in Elmwood now. This will be interesting to see if he follows every rule he was enforcing against the bars while being the head of the Police Committee. He sat outside the bar until closing then walked in with the Village Officer to write citations for being open after hours. Many believed he was simply setting up the bar owner of the Longbranch at that time, because their was conflicts between he and the owner. The other two bars in town were not watched like this one was.
I will keep in touch with community members to get as much information as possible to keep updating the blog, so keep watching and Thank You for continuing to read The Elmwood Citizen.
Seeing the minutes finally in print, I can see the Clerk is covering some butt already. A citizen went into the meeting and told the Board how he thought they were doing such a good job, and called those who complained to or about the board "Nothing but a bunch of Jerry Springer Want a Be's"
Donna Lein and Delorse Radtke also spoke over the mess they live next to, yet they did not tell how they were eye witnessed on the property taking items that did not belong to them. The Elmwood Police Officer did not follow up with any kind of investigation either with this complaint, even though he was contacted and told there was an eye witness to this. Jodell Marson was also viewed with them on the property.Her husband John once again took a chainsaw to his neighbors shrub line and cut them to the ground, even though he did this once before and a survey was forced to be done, proving they were not his to touch at all. Much of the mess and damages to the property have happened since the residents left. Everything the trio complained about while the residents lived there is now destroyed. "Funny how that seems to have happened" Even the Business sign that hung in the front yard disappeared, and was found later floating in the River down by the school. This is a block in the community many want to stay away from, and the new people that move in, need to get informed quickly about.
The Board of Review was not able to be done as needed, due to the Village did not get the assessments done on time.
The Board also went into a closed session meeting to speak over the fee's in regards to the lawsuit with the Leader Telegram. They made sure not to state the actual costs to the public for their actions with refusing to release public information over the Jodi Pulk suspension, they claimed was only a resignation over stress. ( all a story made up by Bob Rupakus. This was finally told after the paper filed the suit.) It is said this went over $4,000.00 . This will probably never be known how much they actually cost the citizens of Elmwood. This is alot like the case with Ex-Chief Adam Meyers. Reading the minutes, I find the Member of the Board that caused the problem was the person making all the motions to pay for the damages he caused. REAL NICE
UPDATE: 5-21-10
I picked up this weeks paper dated 5-19-10 and the minutes are actually printed. Now the May meeting happened Monday night, so they are plenty late getting this done. It is a little hard for anyone to respond to what is written at a meeting, when the posting is done after the following months meeting.
It was stated by another citizen that Bill Stewart made comments that the money he receives for being the Village President is far from what it should be for all he does. In my opinion this is a statement by an over paid individual, being that every person that is voted into the Village Board should be doing it, without any pay. They put their names into the balloting to serve the Village and make things better for the community, not to get a check. I have always believed that every member should give their time to the community without taking the funds, for the much needed programs within the Village. To me, this shows GREED, as well as a largely swelled head of a Village President. Maybe the budget would not be in trouble every year if the members were not dipping into it themselves. In the minutes Bill claims it was good to see so many people at the meeting, yet most were there with complaints.
I have many times done many things for people without asking for any pay, and the "Thank You" you get is plenty enough.
It was also stated that the Village President was attempting to make a big story about how they should promote themselves for the food pantry getting funds from the citizens of the community. There was nothing said about the Village Board donating a single penny, but Mr. Stewart was pushing that a story should really be written up about this to talk up the Board. A member of the board pointed this out to the Herald reporter, stating the Argus should really write an article up. The Herald reporter responded by telling the member they could do that, but she was not with the Argus.
It was also told to me that Mr. Rupakus took it upon himself to go after a citizen that had a verbal agreement with the Village President in regards to a fence he put up, that appears to be too high. The landscaping of the property was going to be completed throughout the summer and he spoke directly to the Village President to keep from any problems with the fence before all the work was completed. This did not matter to Rupakus apparently, because he had the Village Clerk send a Violation of Ordinances letter to the Citizen. This is just one of many personal targets that happen when no one communicates with one another, or just has a simple grudge against an individual. Maybe it was simply because a friend of Mr. Rupakus had a problem with the fence without having any knowledge with the agreement that had already been made.
Hopefully things will start to get a little better now that "Polaris" Bob is no longer on the Village Board....OOOPS, he is no longer "POLARIS" Bob either now I am told. I have been told that he is purchasing the Longbranch bar in Elmwood now. This will be interesting to see if he follows every rule he was enforcing against the bars while being the head of the Police Committee. He sat outside the bar until closing then walked in with the Village Officer to write citations for being open after hours. Many believed he was simply setting up the bar owner of the Longbranch at that time, because their was conflicts between he and the owner. The other two bars in town were not watched like this one was.
I will keep in touch with community members to get as much information as possible to keep updating the blog, so keep watching and Thank You for continuing to read The Elmwood Citizen.
Seeing the minutes finally in print, I can see the Clerk is covering some butt already. A citizen went into the meeting and told the Board how he thought they were doing such a good job, and called those who complained to or about the board "Nothing but a bunch of Jerry Springer Want a Be's"
Donna Lein and Delorse Radtke also spoke over the mess they live next to, yet they did not tell how they were eye witnessed on the property taking items that did not belong to them. The Elmwood Police Officer did not follow up with any kind of investigation either with this complaint, even though he was contacted and told there was an eye witness to this. Jodell Marson was also viewed with them on the property.Her husband John once again took a chainsaw to his neighbors shrub line and cut them to the ground, even though he did this once before and a survey was forced to be done, proving they were not his to touch at all. Much of the mess and damages to the property have happened since the residents left. Everything the trio complained about while the residents lived there is now destroyed. "Funny how that seems to have happened" Even the Business sign that hung in the front yard disappeared, and was found later floating in the River down by the school. This is a block in the community many want to stay away from, and the new people that move in, need to get informed quickly about.
The Board of Review was not able to be done as needed, due to the Village did not get the assessments done on time.
The Board also went into a closed session meeting to speak over the fee's in regards to the lawsuit with the Leader Telegram. They made sure not to state the actual costs to the public for their actions with refusing to release public information over the Jodi Pulk suspension, they claimed was only a resignation over stress. ( all a story made up by Bob Rupakus. This was finally told after the paper filed the suit.) It is said this went over $4,000.00 . This will probably never be known how much they actually cost the citizens of Elmwood. This is alot like the case with Ex-Chief Adam Meyers. Reading the minutes, I find the Member of the Board that caused the problem was the person making all the motions to pay for the damages he caused. REAL NICE
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