November 2015

An Open Letter to Interested Citizens,
Once again, we are excited to announce the grant we have received for three concerts during the summer of 2016. This grant will allow us to offer concerts by Mad City Jug Band on July 10; First Brigade Civil War Band and Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln on July 24; and on August 14, MAUI (Madison Area Ukulele Initiative). We are grateful for the overwhelming support of this project and look forward to weather that will allow us to sit outdoors in the Village Park of New Glarus to enjoy the music that these groups will perform.

Veterans at the New Glarus Home and Campus will be awarded a Quilt of Valor on Saturday, December 5, 2015, at 9:30 a.m., for their military service at the New Glarus Home MPR/Chapel. The original Veterans Day event had to be cancelled because of visitor restrictions at the Home due to a flu outbreak.
Each veteran will individually be honored with a Quilt of Valor in conjunction with the annual Veterans Day Ceremony conducted by the Stuessy-Kuenzi American Legion Post #141.

Kevin Ross Schneider, age 59, passed away on November 11, 2015, in Attica. He was born on April 1, 1956, at the Stoughton Hospital to his parents, Kenneth and Dorothy (Gempeler) Schneider.
Kevin graduated from Belleville High School in 1974 and then went on to serve in the United States Marine Corps from 1974 to 1976. In June of 1977, he was united in marriage to Deborah White in Los Angeles, CA. The couple later divorced. Kevin was a member of the Duppler-Smith American Legion Post #460 in Belleville.

Barb has finished calculating, but what we haven't finished is getting all of our 'ducks' in a row. This means we are still very busy and want to make sure we have all our people listed that we want to thank, and all the details so we can properly tell the story. Life has been very busy for the both of us so please be patient and we will have the final article for you next week with results and other tidbits of rally stories!