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22 — The Beacon also at www.readthebeacon.com March 22, 2013 Kathy Baumbach Shorewest Realtors ® Shorewest Realtors Shorewest-Lake Geneva 623 Main Street Lake Geneva, WI 53147 Jane Dulisse Keefe Real Estate, Inc. Ryan Simons Beloit Snappers mascot, Snappy, visits with Wileman Elementary School students to welcome them into Snappy’s Reading Club. (Photo furnished) Students at Darien Elementary School and Wileman Elementary School are among approximately 7,000 peers from throughout Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois participating in Snappy’s Reading Club. The club, sponsored by the Beloit Snappers Minor League Baseball team and McDonald’s, is encouraging students throughout the region to read, read and read some more. Teachers and schools can sign up to be a part of the club. Students are encouraged to “Read around the bases.” For every base they reach, or every goal they accomplish, the Beloit Snappers provide prizes to those readers, said Natalie Tobey, director of community relations for the team. Individual teachers can decide the requirements for students to reach certain bases. One teacher might require students Kathy Baumbach Assistant Sales Director OFFICE: (262) 248-1020 DIRECT: (262) 248-5564 ext. 127 CELL: (262) 745-5439 kbaumbach@shorewest.com www.shorewest.com Shorewest Realtors ® Shorewest Realtors Shorewest-Lake Geneva 623 Main Street Lake Geneva, WI 53147 Jane Dulisse OFFICE: (262) 248-1020 DIRECT: (262) 248-5564 ext. 204 CELL: (262) 206-5532 jdulisse@shorewest.com www.shorewest.com Darien, Wileman students to ‘Read Around the Bases’ Ryan Simons Realtor Associate LAKEFRONT SPECIALIST CELL: (608) 852-3156 OFFICE: (262) 728-8757 rsimons@keeferealestate.com Keefe Real Estate, Inc. 1155 E. Geneva Street Suite A Delavan, WI 53115 www.delavanlakeproperty.com Richard Geaslen to read a certain number of books within a time period. Another might require students read a certain number of hours. It’s completely up to the teachers, Tobey said. At the end of the school year, teachers provide their students’ “stats” to the team, and the team awards the prizes — a Reading Club pencil for making it to first, a ruler for making it to second, a game ticket to a Snapper’s home game for third, and a half-price ticket plus a McDonald’s Happy Meal for making it around the bases. Tobey and Snappy, the team’s mascot, visited with students at Darien Elementary (March 8) and Wileman Elementary (March 14) to explain Snappy’s Reading Club and the importance of reading, weather that’s in the classroom, or on the baseball field.The students also listened to Tobey read the popular baseball book, “Casey at the Bat.” Shorewest Realtors ® Shorewest Realtors Shorewest-Lake Geneva 623 Main Street Lake Geneva, WI 53147 Richard Geaslen Broker Associate, GRI OFFICE: (262) 248-1020 DIRECT: (262) 248-5564 ext. 161 CELL: (262) 949-1660 rgeaslen@shorewest.com www.rgeaslen.shorewest.com www.shorewest.com Dorothy Higgins Gerber Shorewest Realtors ® Shorewest Realtors Shorewest-Lake Geneva 623 Main Street Lake Geneva, WI 53147 Brian Hausmann Dorothy Higgins Gerber Realtor OFFICE: (262) 248-1020 DIRECT: (262) 248-5564 ext. 199 AGENT MOBILE: (262) 949-7707 dgerber@shorewest.com www.shorewest.com FOR RENT or SALE NEWLY RENOVATED Loramoor Estate ON GENEVA LAKE Shorewest Realtors ® Brian Hausmann Realtor OFFICE: (262) 728-3418 DIRECT: (262) 740-7300 ext. 1218 CELL: (262) 441-1811 EMAIL: bhausmann@shorewest.com Shorewest Realtors ® Shorewest - Delavan 830 E. Geneva Street Delavan, WI 53115 www.shorewest.com 16,000 sq. ft. on 2 acres, 7 bedrooms, boat slip, pool, tennis court, terraced gardens, theater, furnished SUMMER RENTAL $ 18,000/month or $ 40,000 for full summer season SALE PRICE $ 1.2 Million Call (262) 203-0755
The Beacon also at www.readthebeacon.com March 22, 2013 — 23 Westwords Continued from page 3 women have enough to worry about without something like this? Does anyone remember when the word Christian wasn’t synonymous with wacko? • • • • And we thought Muslim countries were bad. According to the New York Times, in India, about 100,000 women are burned to death each year by husbands or families. Another 125,000 die from injuries inflicted in domestic violence that’s never reported to police. • • • • The U.S. is not a student-friendly place. According to HuffingtonPost. com, college textbooks have risen in price by 812 percent since 1978, far outpacing even the 559 percent increase in tuition and fees over the same period. The average student at a four-year college pays $655 per year for textbooks and supplies. • • • • According to The New Yorker magazine, last year, for the first time, the percentage of U.S. women with tattoos – 23 percent – surpassed that of men, at 19 percent. • • • • Some prices from a grocery ad in 1913 were: milk, 32 cents a gallon; eggs, 30 cents a dozen; bacon 33 cents a pound; potatoes, 9 cents for 5 pounds and; sirloin steak, 24 cents a pound. Of course, the average annual wage in 1913 was $1,296, or $24.92 per week. • • • • The question of the week is “what was Noah’s last name?” According to one website, “Noah would have had a surname in accordance with Semitic practice. Noach’s father was Lamech, thus Noah would have been known as Noach ben Lamech, Noah son of Lamech. But after many years of research, we recently decided that his last name would have either been Carpenter or Arkwright. Delavan Alderman Ryan Schroeder, Ava and Debra Cross serve up corned beef and cabbage, roast chicken and more during the Delavan Lions Club St. Patrick’s Day fundraiser on Sunday, March 17 at The Village Suppere Club. (Beacon photo) NOW, WHEN EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS... ...IS NOT THE TIME TO BE WASTING MONEY ON INEFFECTIVE PROMOTION. Advertising in is LESS EXPENSIVE AND MORE COST-EFFECTIVE THAN MANY OTHER AREA PUBLICATIONS. Call 245-1877 for details 245-1877 Real Estate Advertising in The Beacon is effective because it doesn’t get lost in the clutter of hundreds of other ads. Call 245-1877 today for rates. This lavish interurban trolley, originally manufactured for the Sheboygan Light Power & Railway in 1908 and meticulously restored by East Troy Electric Railroad volunteers in 2005, can be seen at the museum in East Troy. (Photo furnished) East Troy Electric Railroad announces summer events Celebrating 106 years of riding the rails through Southeast Wisconsin’s Kettle Moraine countryside, the East Troy Electric Railroad has planned a number of special events for the upcoming season showcasing its stable of interurban rail treasures, as well as the addition of a pizza train to its dinner train schedule allowing young rail fans the opportunity to dine aboard former coaches of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad. [The foregoing won the longest-sentence-ofthe-year award. Editor.] A variety of antique trolleys and interurban coaches that once whisked passengers from major cities to surrounding towns and nearby summer retreats will be featured during the season including Chicago’s workhorse “El” cars that debuted in the 1920s, a rare trolley built for the Milwaukee Transport Company in 1920 and a lavish interurban trolley from 1908 originally manufactured for the Sheboygan Light Power & Railway. All special events are included in the daily unlimited ride fare: $12.50 for adults; $10.50 for seniors; $8.00 for children ages three – 11; children under three, free. The East Troy Electric Railroad, one of only three electric interurban railways in the U.S. that have maintained electric operations for more than 100 years, is home to over 20 rail treasures including open cars, locomotives, streetcars and interurban coaches. The railroad continues to be operated and managed by a legion of volunteers committed to the operation and preservation of historic trolleys and interurban railcars. The 2013 summer events calendar includes: North Shore Day June 22 Celebrate the famed North Shore Line that once whisked passengers from Milwaukee to Chicago and all points inbetween. Photos and memorabilia of the North Shore Line, which ceased operation 50 years ago, will be on display including a retrospective from noted railroad photographer John Gruber from the Center for Railroad Photography & Art in Madison. Historians from Classic Trains magazine will also be on-hand to discuss the interurban era and classic railroading in general. Avariety of historic railcars will be on display and ferrying passengers from the railroad’s depot and museum to the turn of the century-styled terminal at the renowned Elegant Farmer. North Shore Day will serve as the launch of a fundraising campaign to restore Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad coach 761, which will be on display during the event. Chicago Day July 27 Celebrate Chicago’s railway history during Chicago Days as the East Troy Electric Railroad features its collection of rapid transit cars that once whisked people around Chicago and its suburbs. Riders of Chicago’s “L” line prior to 1978 will remember the iconic 4000-series cars with its interesting interiors, old-time light fixtures, walkover leatherette seats and “bowling alley seating at the ends. The historic Pullman-built cars of the famed Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad will also be running the rails during the weekend ferrying passengers from the railroad’s historic depot and museum to the turn of the century-styled terminal at the renowned Elegant Farmer. Milwaukee Day September 21 Home to the last remaining streetcar from the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company still in operation, the East Troy Electric Railroad celebrates Milwaukee’s rich railcar history during Milwaukee Days. Joining the 1920 built streetcar, which once whisked residents from the greater Milwaukee area to the ballpark and shopping centers, is a 1907 line car equipped to respond to trolley emergencies. Also featured during the weekend is L8, a stately locomotive built in 1935 that once served as a secondary work car called on to help in track maintenance and brush cutting, as well as serving as a yard goat and backup locomotive. Dinner Trains Recreating the time when commuter trains offered lavish meals served on china atop white table cloths. The East Troy Electric Railroad offers guests a two-hour, four-course exquisite dining experience. Home to the last remaining electric interurban dining car train in North America, dinner train service for the 2013 season will take place on June 15, September 14 and 28, and October 5, 12, 19 and 26. Tickets are $72 per person and prepaid reservations are required. New this year, the railroad’s familyfriendly pizza train will ride the rails on June 13 and August 17. The two-hour casual dining experience, taking riders from the railroad’s historic depot to Phantom Lake in Mukwonago, WI and back, includes pizza, beverage and garlic bread. Ticket price varies per number in party. Prepaid reservations are required. The East Troy Electric Railroad’s dining cars are former coaches of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Built in 1927 and acquired by the railroad in the early 1990s, each Pullman car underwent extensive renovation by museum volunteers resulting in mahogany trimmed, beautiful Art Deco interiors complemented by an exterior color scheme featuring the railroad’s colors of red and silver. For complete details on all East Troy Electric Railroad special events and dinner trains, visit www.easttroyrr.org.
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