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The FREEMAN & ENTERPRISE Lake Country THIS MONTH INSIDE OCTOBER 2013 Zion Elementary's original kindergarten class reunites PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID WAUKESHA, WI PERMIT NO. 3 Tells tales of shenanigans, teachers and camaraderie By Josh Perttunen Freeman Staff Healing Haven helps cancer patients cope with hair loss 2A Barbara Eash antiques column 5A Calendar of community events 6A Hello, Lake Country! CITY OF PEWAUKEE – Several members of the original 1959 kindergarten class of the Zion Elementary School, which is now the Prairie Hill Waldorf School, toured the facility recently as part of a reunion. They squeezed through the door just before the rain came down in sheets. Josh Perttunen/Freeman Staff Once inside, they were safe Mike Czarnecki (left) shows Chuck Burkholz the chair he found while touring the Prairie Hill Walfrom the deluge, but swept dorf School in Pewaukee. The chair still has Burkholz's initials, a remnant from when the two men away by a flood of memowere in kindergarten at Zion Elementary School together in 1959. ries. Among the first places and milk," she recalled. the members of the origiOf lunchroom behavior, nal kindergarten class just she said, "I remember sithad to see was the ting in the corner with a crawlspace in the basement. Eyes lit up when they dunce cap every day for not eating my vegetables." saw that the space, dubbed Even Alice Williams, who "the tunnel," was still everyone agreed was the intact. smartest and best-behaved Mike Czarnecki, who litin the class, remembered erally lives right across her brush with trouble. from the street from the "The kindergarten teachschool, said everyone had er Mrs. Wolfgram had spent time in the tunnel, called us all in from recess, which stretches out of but my twin brother Allen sight to just under the and I hadn't heard her," she lunchroom. "I should go in there," he remembered. "Our play joked. "I probably still have was interrupted by this noise that sounded like a stuff on the other side." crash. We looked up to see Administrators, snacks the teacher banging on the and shenanigans were also window and wagging her remembered vividly. finger at us. She was not Jane Packard, now of Members of the kindergarten class of 1959 at Zion Elementary happy." Woodland, said the snack School in the City of Pewaukee gather around an original class was always the same. See ZION, PAGE 5A photo Saturday as part of the class' reunion celebration. "We had graham crackers Don't be left out in the cold this season... Lake Country This Month is free and will arrive in your mail the third week of each month. In each month's edition we will take an indepth look at an issue, person or other story in Lake Country. We will also provide other important information such as community activities and updates on local stories. We encourage you to subscribe to the daily Freeman or the weekly Enterprise for coverage of Lake Country and other parts of our area. To subscribe, to reach one of the editors with story ideas or for photo reprints, call 542-2500. We hope you enjoy this month's edition. – Freeman and Enterprise editors Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WaukeshaFreeman Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WaukeshaFreeman 232169006 Pewaukee Dental presents our 6th Annual Let Master Z's outfit YOUR game room!! We will pay $1.00 per pound Home Theater Seating From (up to 10 pounds) for your UNOPENED Halloween Candy. 499 $ Pool Tables From 1499 Must be accompanied by an adult. $ Great Specials ALL THIS WEEK CHILDREN & ADULT FREE RAFFLES WITH AWESOME PRIZES DONATED BY LOCAL SPONSORS!! Package Deals! This candy will be sent to OPERATION GRATITUDE. They will make individual holiday packages for our troops & ship them overseas to our military stationed in war zones. What a great way to brighten the day of an American Hero! Shuffleboard Tables From 1499 $ LARGEST selection IN THE STATE! 1000 Sunset Dr., Waukesha 262-521-8004 www.masterzs.com OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Candy will be collected Saturday, November 2, 2013 from 9:00 am - 11:00 am PEWAUKEE DENTAL Michael J. Schneidler, D.D.S. & Associates 1231 George Towne Dr. Pewaukee, WI 53072 www.pewaukeedental.com 262-691-9832 Proudly Serving the Lake Country Area Since 1985 233493002

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