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Make sure to check out our website for the latest information, 100+ vendor pages, photos and more! 237731007 By Arthur Thomas Freeman Staff PEWAUKEE – While underclassmen were taking tests recently at Pewaukee High School, seniors spent the morning get a crash course in personal finance and the challenges they could face in the near future. The event, called Reality Store, takes students through some of the basic financial situations they will face. After selecting a job, students write a check to themselves to represent their monthly salaries. Their first stop after that is a station where payroll taxes are taken out. From there, students move on to address investments, purchasing a car, insuring it and keep it fueled, buying a home, handling a mortgage and finding insurance. They also deal with purchasing gro- ceries, having a pet and a number of other common life occurrences. The program also has obstacles like ill- ness or legal troubles that are thrown at students. "There are those chance kind of situa- tions built into it," said personal finance teacher Cheri Frankwick. Student Lindsay Scanlon was only three stations into the event and she already felt the day was worthwhile. "I don't know how to do any of this stuff, so it's good," Scanlon said. Macie Woods added that it was a lot different from sitting in class. "I think it's better to do it hands on," Leah Thomson said. "It's easier to learn." Frankwick said about 50 students each year take her personal finance class. "This is a great way to have a greater exposure about personal finance because a lot of kids, if they don't learn it from home, they don't learn it," she said. The school had help from Kevin Wolf, a market development officer at First Bank Financial Centre, in putting the event. Wolf has participated in other events at schools in Oconomowoc and Menomonee Falls. He said students often help each other through the day by find- ing creative solutions, like having one person buy a house and others rent rooms from the homeowner. "At the very least it just gets them thinking," business teacher J.J. Heesch said. Frankwick said students will need per- sonal finance skills to be productive citi- zens and she makes sure students are aware of the cost of even basic items, like toilet paper. Wolf said his bank is limited in what it can do when new clients come in. "We can only do so much in the 20 min- utes to a half an hour that we have with them at the new accounts desk when they open up that first account," he said. Woods said it was a good lesson to get a foreshadowing of what life will be like in the near future. "It's kind of crazy how much every- thing costs," Thomson said. Email: athomas@conleynet.com Charles Auer/Freeman Staff Kevin Wolf of First Bank Financial Centre, right, talks with Pewaukee High School senior Riley Sheahan about taxes during Reality Store. Pewaukee HS seniors get glimpse of life's financial challenges Charles Auer/Freeman Staff An insurance agent shows the insurance rates for dif- ferent cars during Reality Store at Pewaukee High School. Charles Auer/Freeman Staff Financial adviser Greg Alft of Waddell and Reed talks with Pewau- kee High School students about the need to save for retirement during Reality Store. 'It's kind of crazy how much everything costs' Charles Auer/Freeman Staff Pewaukee High School senior Leah Thomson talks about what she learned during the Reality Store event. By Katherine Michalets Special to The Freeman DELAFIELD – In a very close race April 1, Alderwom- an Michele DeYoe defeated political newcomer Kent Attwell for Delafield mayor. DeYoe earned 936 votes or 53 percent, while Attwell had 826 votes or 47 percent. There were six write-in votes. DeYoe will replace Ed McAleer, who did not seek re- election after seven non-con- secutive terms as mayor. During her campaign, DeYoe touted her experience serving on the Common Council representing Dis- trict 4 and on several city and county commissions. DeYoe also won re-election as alderwoman against chal- lenger Laura Schult. If elect- ed mayor and alderwoman, DeYoe had said she would accept the mayor's position. The Common Council could appoint someone to fill the aldermanic District 4 seat or hold a special election. At times, the race between DeYoe and Attwell, who serves on the Plan Commis- sion and is chairman of the Lake Welfare Committee, became somewhat rough and tumble. Attwell spent the evening watching the results come in at the Delafield Hotel. He acknowledged it was a close race and sounded disap- pointed after the results were reported. "I just want to thank my supporters and I look for- ward to improving the city of Delafield," Attwell said. He didn't answer whether he would run for office again. While campaigning, DeYoe had said the question she was asked the most was where she stands on dredg- ing. "The answer that I have been giving people is that we do need to do dredging – there are areas that need dredging – I do not deny that," DeYoe had said, how- ever, she wants to take a more comprehensive approach to lake welfare. She said she recognizes that issue also concerns other city departments, as well as other communities. DeYoe had said if she were elected mayor, on the first day she would set up appointments with various department heads and chairs of committees and ask them, when appropriate, to develop their own long-range plans with her. "Let's talk about where we want to be in the next few years and how to get there," she said. DeYoe defeats Attwell in close race for Delafield mayor

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