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www.unifiednewsgroup.com 3June 2, 2016 The Verona PressHometown Days

Kids run the townKATE NEWTON

Unified Newspaper Group

Each day of HometownDays offers plenty of activ-

ities for children, but Sat-urday’s schedule puts extraemphasis on entertainingVerona’s youngest residentsand visitors.

Beginning at noon, thekids area of Hometown USACommunity Park will act asheadquarters for a series offamily-friendly activities.Kids can get a henna tat-too (available from noon to7 p.m.) to show off whilethey hop from one activityto the next.

First, they can play agame of free laser tag, anew addition to the sched-ule sponsored by UltrazoneLaser Tag (open from noon

to 5 p.m.), or jump in a kid-die pool to sift through pilesof sand and snatch up all thepennies they can in 30 sec-onds during the Kids PennyFind, a returning event. Vol-unteers will be on hand fromnoon to 7 p.m. supervisingpools filled with pennies,and participants can keep allthe pennies they find.

The competition contin-ues during the tractor pedalraces from 12:30-2 p.m.,which will be open to vari-ous age categories on a first-come, first-serve basis. Theraces are returning after amulti-year hiatus, and are

free to participate in.

Kids looking to wind

down after the race or getinvolved in a more cre-atively focused activity canhead over to the “Wall ofArt,” another event return-ing after several years, topaint pictures based on var-ious themes from 1-4 p.m.Meanwhile, Zoozort will beon hand for two live stageshows at 2 and 4 p.m. with aselection of exotic animals –birds, reptiles and mammals– for kids to engage hands-on with while learning moreabout them.

And while adults can lookforward to several sets oflive music during the festi-

val, kids get to take charge

and lead their own music

activity with help from KimWeiss of the Rhapsody ArtsCenter. Kids ages 4-7 (noonand 2 p.m.) and ages 8-12 (1and 3 p.m.) can participatefor free in drumming activ-ities with a variety of per-cussion instruments, whileWeiss discusses the originsof the instruments and thecorrect way to play them.

Le Jordan, executivedirector of the Verona AreaChamber of Commerce, toldthe Press she and Home-town Days coordinator Jen-nifer Miller decided whileplanning for the festival thisyear that they wanted to put

a greater emphasis on free

kids programming.“Since I’m new to the

chamber and HometownDays, as my coordinator andI were talking, it was one ofthose things that we thoughtwould be nice for this year,”Jordan said. “I know whenmy children were little, itwas always nice to go tothings and not break the

bank.”

Jordan added that thekids area is the product ofa true “community effort,”and volunteers from numer-ous local schools, organi-zations and businesses –including Verona Area HighSchool, the Verona YoungProfessionals, the VeronaOptimists Club and Vero-na Lions Club – will be on

hand to assist families with

the activities. She said thechamber will continue toprioritize adding more kidsactivities at future Home-town Days fests.

“We hope to continue toexpand on this each year,”Jordan said. “Our only lim-itations really, are space, sowe’ll have to watch that aswe continue to grow this

(kids) area.”

Saturday children’s activities include animal show, penny find, laser tag

Saturday kids activities All activities will be held in the kids area of Hometown

USA Community Park on Saturday, June 4:

• Rhapsody Arts Drumming Fun Group performances(Noon and 2 p.m., 4-7 age group; 1 and 3 p.m., 8-12age group)

• Noon to 5 p.m., Ultrazone laser tag

• Noon to 7 p.m., Kids Penny Find

• Noon to 7 p.m., Henna tattoos

• 12:30-2 p.m., Tractor pedal races

• 1-4 p.m., “Wall of Art” painting activity

• 2 and 4 p.m., Zoozort Exotic Animals live stage show

File photo by Samantha Christian

Zoozort is one of the returning popular kids activities, with stage shows at 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday and2:30 p.m. Sunday.


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Familiar food options at Hometown DaysThe food options for this

year’s Verona HometownDays celebration will largelybe the same as last year.

Verona Area Chamber ofCommerce executive direc-tor Le Jordan said she’s newto the job and decided to go

with tradition for at least thefirst year that she plans thefour-day event.

“We have a lot of vendorsthat would love to come inand sell food,” she said. “Weleft it with the ones we’vehad the past.”

The food is “pretty muchall in one area,” she added.“There will be a tent withkettle corn and shaved ice,and the carnival has its ownfood – popcorn and cottoncandy and all of the otherthings that carnival’s have.”

The food court will openat 5 p.m. on Thursday andFriday, noon on Saturday

and Sunday and close short-ly before the beer tent closes– 11 p.m. Thursday, 1 a.m.Friday and Saturday, and at6 p.m. Sunday.

The Verona Optimist

Club is among the returningfood vendors and will offerhamburgers, brats, chicken

and sweet corn, while theVerona Area Senior Centerwill return with strawberry

shortcake and custard fromCulver’s.

In addition to pizza, AJ’spizzeria will offer sub sand-wiches, mac and cheese,walking tacos and chips.Owner AJ Ramirez said anyfood sold will benefit theVerona Area High Schoolhockey program, and thathockey players will staff theevent and sell the food.

The Badger Prairie NeedsNetwork will also be at theevent with their Flags forFood program. Orange Leafis donating frozen yogurt

to the network to sell as a

fundraiser, Jordan said.She added the beer tent

will sell products from Wis-consin Brewing Companyand Anheuser-Busch.

W i s c o n s i n B r e w i n goptions will be InauguralRed, Yankee Buzzard, Nec-tarine and Old Reliable.

Anheuser-Busch wil linclude Bud, Bud Light.Bud Light Lime, MichelobUltra, and flavored drinkssuch as Best Damn Rootbeerand Seagram’s Jamaican MeHappy.

“There’s a cover charge for

the beer tent while the bands

play Friday, Saturday andSunday,” Jordan said.

The beer tent will be open:5-11 p.m. Thursday, 5 p.m.to 1 a.m. Friday, noon to1 a.m. Saturday, and noon to6 p.m. Sunday.

– Bill Livick

Food

options

• Hamburger stand

• Shortcake standincluding Culver’s icecream

• Frozen yogurt

• AJ’s Pizza

• Sandwiches

• Walking tacos

• Cheese curds

Beer tent

options

• Wisconsin BrewingCompany: InauguralRed, Yankee BuzzardNectarine, Old Reliable

• Anheuser-Busch:Bud, Bud Light, BudLight Lime, MichelobUltra, flavored drinks

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Favorites back at paradeSCOTT DE LARUELLE


The Verona HometownDays parade – a staple of thefestival since 1968 – is setfor another run on Sunday.

The parade route is thesame – starting at SouthNine Mound Road, mov-ing to Paoli Street, north onSouth Main to the intersec-tion, and then west on WestVerona Avenue and endingat Legion Street.

Molly Solie of the Vero-na Area Chamber of Com-merce said there will be

plenty of familiar favorites,including Culver’s Clydes-dales, the New Glarus Fire

Department Ladder Drill(a must-see), Taiko drum-mers, the Cripple CreekCloggers, Jolly Giants StiltWalkers, and representationfrom many businesses andorganizations in the Veronacommunity. There will alsobe some new acts, includinga 1930s truck and antiquetrailer pulling a patrioticband, courtesy of the Bad-ger Prairie Needs Networkand Scaryland/Escape-In-Time limo vans.

“We’ve got a qualityparade lined up this year,”she said.

If You Go

What: Verona HometownDays parade

When: Noon, Sunday,June 5

Where: See parade mapbelow

Info: 845-5777, [email protected]

Football team to serve pancakesFootball players will pass

out pancakes downtownbefore the Hometown Daysparade on Sunday from8 a.m. to noon.

The breakfast, sponsoredby the Verona High SchoolWildcat football program,

will include a plate of pan-cakes, sausage, yogurt andchoice of drink served in theparking lot of Park Bank.

The cost is $8 for adults,$5 for kids and seniors andfree for children ages 2 andunder.

All of the proceeds will goback to the football programfor field upkeep, equipment

costs and to help pay formeals during summercamps, practices and games,said organizer Julie Murphy.The team will also be sellinghats, blankets, T-shirts andother merchandise there.

Murphy, who is also

involved with Verona AreaCommunity Theater (whichrevived the event last year),called the fundraiser a “gold-en opportunity” that cametogether in the last couple ofweeks after VACT and thefire department decided notto organize it this year.

For information, contactMurphy at 345-8533.

– Samantha Christian

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When: 8 a.m. to noonSunday, June 5

Where: Park Bank park-

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Info: 345-8533

File photo by Jacob Bielanski

The Cripple Creek Cloggers are among the familiar acts that will be back to perform in the VeronaHometown Days parade Sunday.


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Music lineup expands its reach

TOM ALESIA


Opening night will be jumpi n’ at Verona Hom e-town Days with the bandLove Monkeys, Milwau-kee’s seven-piece, pop-rockdynamo performing.

Adding this prominentregional act to the beertent on Thursday, June 2,enhances the fest’s stellarmusical lineup.

“Thursday is one of theslower nights in the tent. Iwas looking to liven it up,”said Le Jordan, executivedirector of Verona Chamberof Commerce. “That’s howwe landed on hiring anotherbig band on Thursday.”

Jordan, working withHometown Days coordina-tor Jen Miller, also bookedWisconsin favorite PatMcCurdy, a veteran sing-er-songwriter with com-ic leanings, to play from2-4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 5in the beer tent.

“A lot of people recom-mended Pat (McCurdy) tous for Sunday,” Jordan said.“That’s another day that’sa little slower. We wantedsomething to entice people.It was my goal to step it upa notch.”

The Love Monkeys willbe performing as part of

their 25th anniversary tour.

They’ve been a staple atregional events.

“Every time I mentioned(Love Monkeys), peoplewould say, ‘Wow, I lovethem,’” Jordan said.

M u s i c w i l l e n d a t10:30 p.m. on Thursday

because it’s a weeknight.

Hometown Days also fea-tures two of the Madisonarea’s most popular groups:country band MadisonCounty (Friday, June 3) and’80s and ’90s “hair band”cover group Cherry Pie.

The latter act has filled

the Verona beer tent in

recent years, performingcover tunes of bands fromBon Jovi to Poison.

Hometown Days droppedits cover charge from $6to $5 this year. The movewas made to make it moreconvenient at the beer

tent entrance and charge a

similar price to other areafestivals, Jordan said.

Still, she said, “Theseacts aren’t cheap. That’swhy the re i s a cove rcharge.”

Jordan is already hopingto add music throughout

the day on Saturday next

year. “It wasn’t possible todo that this year,” she said.“But we’ll eventually high-light lesser-known bands,maybe three to five bandson Saturday.”

For now, Jordan expectsbig crowds at the coveredtent.

“We’re one of the firstfestivals this summer andthese bands play at a lot ofdifferent places,” she said.“It’s nice we’re one of thekickoffs for the season.”Contact Tom Alesia at tom.

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Music schedule

Thursday, June 2: LoveMonkeys (pop rock),

7:30-10:30 p.m.Friday, June 3: MadisonCounty (country), 8 p.m.to 12:30 a.m.

Saturday, June 4: CherryPie (’80s and ’90s “hairband” hits), 8:30 p.m. to12:30 a.m.

Sunday, June 5: PatMcCurdy (singer-song-writer with comic twist),2-4:30 p.m.

Where: Beer tent

Cost: $5 cover charge;free on Sunday

Info: VeronaHometownDays.com

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Friday againThe move of fireworks to Friday

night looks to be a permanent one,as the attraction will again fall onthat day this year.

The chamber switched the night of

the annual fireworks last year, whenthe festival’s weekend was changedas well. That caused the weekendto fall during the school year, andthen-Verona Area Chamber of Com-merce executive director Karl Curtiswanted to avoid keeping kids up lateon a school night.

The show will begin at 9:30 p.m.,with Saturday as a rain date.

No parents night outParents will have to make other plans to have a night

out during Hometown Days this year.Last year Verona Area Community Theater held a

“Parents Night Out” program on Friday and Saturdaynights for parents to drop their kids off to watch a mov-ie, play games and have snacks while the adults wentto the festival grounds for a few hours for some “grownup” time.

Although VACT would have liked to offer that pro-gram this year, organizer Alyssa Dvorak said, gettingthe building ready in time did not seem possible, espe-cially with the big set pieces from the “Mary Poppins”show filling up the space.

She said the program will tentatively be held forHometown Days next year, because by then VACT willbe moved into its new building within walking distanceof the festival grounds.

– Samantha Christian


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Verona’s Hometown Days will onceagain have a Marketplace for part ofthe weekend.

The event, which allows local ven-

dors to sell their homemade

crafts and goods, will be on both Sat-urday and Sunday beginning at 12 p.m.

Verona Area Chamber of Com-merce executive director Le Jordansaid the chamber brought back theevent as a chance for people to showoff their talents.

“We would like to make sure that’s

a part of the event every year,” Jordansaid.

She knows, though, that bringingback an event after an off-year lastyear will take time to build up.

This year, there will be around eightvendors selling goods in HometownUSA Community Park.

Chamber hopes to build event

back up in coming years

File photo by Jim Ferolie

This year’s marketplace will have around eight vendors.


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Fun runs Sunday morningSunday morning will once again play

host to three runs and a walk.The Annual Fun Run, which includes

a 5K and 10K run and walk, begins thefinal day of Hometown Days weekendat 7:45 a.m. Registration for the eventsbegins at 7 a.m. at Harriet Park.

The 5K and 10K are sponsored by theVerona Area High School boys and girlscross country teams.

Age group and overall top finishers

receive medals and ribbons.Just before the parade, younger kids will

get their chance to show off their speed aswell in the annual Kids Fun Run.

The run begins at 11:40 a.m. and followsthe parade route. Registration for the eventbegins at 11:15 a.m. at the Sugar RiverUnited Methodist Church.

Email [email protected] withany questions about the event.

File photo by Jacob Bielanski

Kids in the fun run get to hear cheers from parade watchers all along the route.

Safe ride bus back againfor Friday, Saturday nights

There’s good news forthose who want to enjoythe beer tent without wor-rying about how they’llget home safely.

The “Safe Ride Bus,”which returned last yearafter years off due to alack of funding, will be

back again for those livingwithin five miles of theHometown Days site.

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9 p.m. and run until 1 a.m.Music ends in the beertent at 12:30 a.m. bothnights.

The bus is a partner-ship between the VeronaPolice Department andDane County Sheriff’sOffice, with additional

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Why is it‘Hometown

Days?’Verona earned its nickname

a few years before its annual

festival began, but the namedidn’t stick right away.“Hometown U.S.A.” was

the title bestowed on Veronain 1966 by members of theU.S. Army’s 101st AirborneDivision serving in Vietnamafter the Verona Press printeda letter to the editor from oneof its servicemen, DonaldSchmidt.

Because of the freesubscription sent to him(partially paid by the AmericanLegion Auxiliary), the printingof his letter and other nostalgicthings his fellow servicemennoticed in Schmidt’sdescription, the unit declared

Verona “the perfect example ofHometown U.S.A.” They askedto adopt it as their honoraryhometown.

The title was informal untilthe Verona Area Chamber ofCommerce adopted it in 1985and created a logo. That yearthe city designated June 9Hometown U.S.A. Day.

The annual festival started in1972 as a quasquicentennial,and a parade was heldannually. Eventually, thetwo were tied together andHometown U.S.A. Daysbecame shortened by mostpeople as Hometown Days.

Spin the Wheel for prizesA partnership continues

for Hometown Days 2016between the Verona AreaChamber of Commerce andthe Verona Lions Club thatwill have the Spin the Wheelgame as big as ever.

This year a variety of cham-ber businesses have donatedover 80 prizes ranging fromgift certificates to toys to patiofurniture to high-end electron-ic devices, all available to bewon by each player.

The difference betweena standard raffle and thechamber’s Spin the Wheelgame is the player chooseswhich prizes he would liketo vie for.

If you really want a laptopcomputer for your kids. Sim-ply take all your tickets andplace them in the drawingbucket for that item. Say youwant to win a new gas grill,but your husband wouldrather win a new crock pot,

the pair of you can divideyour tickets between the twoitems. Players can spreadtheir tickets between fiveprizes, 10 prizes, or everyprize offered. The choice isup to you.

The Verona Area Chamberof Commerce uses the fundsraised at Hometown Days tofund its operations and activ-ities throughout the year.Among the public events thechamber has funded is a $500

scholarship for a Verona AreaHigh School senior and Vero-na’s Concerts in the Park.

By coming to the Spin theWheel Tent and trying towin one of the many prizesavailable, you will not onlyhave fun but you will alsobe helping the chamber andthe Lions Club to carry ontheir work in the communi-ty. The tent is located justpast the food stand near theCommunity Park entrance.

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prizes

Some of theprizes donat-ed by Chambermembers in-clude:

• Wisconsinbasketball auto-graphed photo

• FramedGreen BayPackers photo

• Gift cards tolocal restaurants

• WisconsinBrewing Compa-ny tour and beerfor group of 10

• Hop Hauspint glass, two

beer tokens anda large growlerwith a fill giftcertificate

• Gas grill

• Overnightstays at localhotel chains

• Familyfour-pack andVIP passes toUltrazone

• XBox

File photo by Mark Ignatowski

The Verona Area Chamber of Commerce and Verona Lions Club will again partner for Spin the Wheel.


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VeronaHometown Days

2016 Schedule of Events

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Thursday, June 2, 20165pm Food Court Opens

Kids Penny Find, 5-6:30 pm

Beer Tent, 5-11pm

Wenzel Amazements Carnival Wristbands, 5-10pm

Spin-the-Wheel, 5-10 pm

6pm Love Monkeys 7:30-10:3- pm

Friday, June 3, 20165 pm Food Court Opens

Beer Tent, 5 pm-1 am

Wenzel Amazements Carnival Wristbands, 5-10 pm

Kids’ Penny Find, 5-6:30 pm

Spin-the-Wheel 5-10 pm

8 pm Live Music by Madison County 8 pm-12:30 am, $5 cover charge

9:30 pm ***FIREWORKS***Saturday, June 4, 201512 pm Food Court Opens

Wenzel Amazements Carnival, Wristbands 12-5 pm

Beer Tent, 12 pm-1 am


Craft/Vendor Fair, 12-5 pm

Kids’ Entertainment

ZOOZORT Exotic Animals

Kids Penny Find 12-7 pm

Tractor Pedal Races 12:30-2 pm

Henna Tattoos, 12-7 pm

Ultrazone Laser Tag 12-5 pm

Rhapsody Arts Drumming Fun, 12-4 pm, 7 yr olds

1 pm Rhapsody Arts Drumming Fun 8-12 yr olds

Kids’ “Wall of Art” Painting Activity 1-4 pm2 pm ZOOZORT Live Stage Show

Rhapsody Arts Drumming Fun 4-7 yr olds

3 pm Rhapsody Arts Drumming Fun 8-12 yr olds 4 pm ZOOZORT Live Stage Show

8:30 pm Live Music by Cherry Pie8:30 pm-12:30 am $5 cover charge

Sunday, June 5, 20157 am Annual Fun Run - 5k/10k Run/Walk Register Now!

8 am Pancake Breakfast at Park Bank hosted by the Verona Area High School Touchdown Club, 8 am-12 pm

11:15 am Kids’ Fun Run Registration - Wildcat Lanes11:40 am Kids’ Fun Run - Parade Route

12 pm Verona Hometown Days Parade

Wenzel Amazements Carnival Wristbands 12-5 pm

Food Court & Beer Tent 12-6 pm


Craft/Vendor Fair 12-4 pm

1 pm ZOOZORT Exotic Animals

Live Stage Show, 2:30 pm

Kids’ Entertainment

Kids’ Penny Find, 1-3 pm

Henna Tattoos, 1-5 pm

2:30 pm Pat McCurdy 2-4:30 pm No cover!

4:00 pm Spin The Wheel Drawing

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