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New dog park will open soon

Will provide west side option for dog owners
by MATT GEIGER
Times-Tribune

Christmas is coming early for Middletons thousands of dog lovers. Canines, and their human companions, will soon have a new place to frolic, play fetch or just go for a leisurely stroll on the citys west side. All without the looming specter of getting a citation for not being affixed to a leash. The new L-shaped dog park which has no official name at this point but is being called Quisling Dog Park - is wedged between the citys airport and baseball fields to the west. Middleton Public Lands Manager Penni Klein said she expects the park, just off of Airport Road, to be open before Christmas. Chuck Nahn said he and other dog lovers had been calling for a new park west of Parmenter Street to accommodate dog park users in that part of the city and in the Town of Middleton, which has very few places where dogs even leashed ones are permitted. An already established 20-acre dog park off of Highway Q has long been a popular facility, but it exists in the hinterlands between the Good Neighbor City and Waunakee and isnt even technically within city limits. Nahn and two other dog advocates Rob Conhaim and Dolores Kester generated a petition to the City of Middleton asking for a new dog park on the other side of the community. The petiSee PARK, page 5

Times-Tribune photo by Matt Geiger

Reindeer games
Hundreds of jubilant children visited The Bruce Company Sunday to meet Santas reindeer. Pictured above, Eva and Lilly Scalisi had their picture taken with Cupid and one of Santas elves. The Bruce Company held the event in conjunction with the Downtown Middleton Business Associations First Annual Holiday Open House.

A passionate life cut short

I love football, I play football, I live football. Life is too short and too valuable to take seriously or take for granted. I like to treat every moment as a reward, not a gift, because in order to get anything in life you have to earn it through hard work and discipline, that makes life all the sweeter. Work hard so you can play harder. Fred Statz, as quoted in the program for his Nov. 17 funeral at St. Martins Catholic Church
by JOHN DONALDSON
News Publishing co.

Fred Statzs parents and siblings say his passion for football was contagious, and they all caught the bug. In fact, Statzs enthusiasm infected all of his football families, his immediate family as well as the teams he played on. People who have played football, or been around people who have played football, know that team is a code word for family. Maybe thats why after Statz was killed in a tragic automobile accident in Minnesota Nov. 12, more than half of the people who came to the church

wore their football jerseys. These honorary pallbearers came to bid farewell to their former player, their former teammate, and their former Statz coach. At the time of his death, Friedrich Joseph Statz was 25, but in that short time, he had touched many lives on the gridiron. The funeral was incredible, said Statzs father, Bill Statz. It was really something. It was standing-room-only, added

his mother, Kathy Statz. The outpouring of love from those Statz touched on and off the gridiron, said his family, was overwhelming. Their dining room overflows with memorabilia sent them by the football programs Statz was associated with. There are pictures, jerseys, signed footballs and helmets, and much more. The Packers sent a football signed by the players and coaches, and a signed photo of quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The Middleton Cardinals, the team that helped Statz develop into a college recruit, sent a helmet signed by all the players and coaches. See STATZ, page 8

Survey of MCP residents

P.O. Box 620006, Middleton, WI 53562

Free $25 Gift Certificate

with each $100 in gift certificates purchased November 1-New Years Eve Available online, by phone, or in person Available 10 am - 4 pm Xmas Eve

MIDDLETON TIMES-TRIBUNE

The Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District wants to hear from its citizens. The district will conduct a postreferendum survey starting Friday. The survey is open to adults over the age of 18 who reside in the school district. The survey will be available

until Dec. 24. Those eleigible can access the survey by visiting the district websites main page (www.mcpasd.k12.wi.us). A link to the survey is on the lefthand side, just below the referendum logo. See SURVEY, page 2

vrv-madison.com

Local:
City changes website contact info policy. Page 2

School:
Glacier Creeks latest honor roll. Page 19

Sports:
Boys basketball team routs West. Page 13

Inside this issue:

Dining Guide . . . . . . . . 6 - 7 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Classieds . . . . . . . . . . . 23