Federal Junior Duck Stamp contest

Student Reporter: Nikki Klahn



A seventh grade student, Erin Bagatta, received an Honorable Mention in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp contest for the state of Wisconsin. This contest consisted of students drawing a duck, hoping to make their creation into a postage stamp. Bagatta is a very artistic and creative middle school student and also has a piece of artwork at the Sate Youth art show at the State Fair this summer. Congratulations Erin!

8th Annual Litter Pick-Up and Papermaking

Student Reporter: Samantha Lamers


With global warming and other environmental issues on the rise, many do not understand the danger that that occurs with these problems. Fortunately, this year was the 8th annual Litter Pick-Up and Paper Making which is held by the Art Club of Cedar Grove – Belgium HS.


Mr. Urness and many students met on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 10:00am on S. Commerce St. in Cedar Grove to begin their activities for the day. They walked along State Road 32 heading eastward towards Interstate 43 continually clearing out the area of its litter.


After the students were done with the litter-picking up portion of the day, they went back to the school for lunch followed by a group activity of paper-making. With the paper-making, they use some of the debris that they found earlier that morning and intertwine into their theme. This year, their theme for their paper-making art project is outer space.

April Bada Bing Student of the Month

Student Reporter: Lyndsey Weyker


Another month has passed, and once again it’s time to pick a new Bada Bing student of the month. Teachers vote for a student that stood out to them and has shown great academic achievement. They also look for involvement in extracurricular activities and school functions.


This month they chose Alannah Bruggink, daughter of James and Judith Bruggink. In addition to being a top-ranked student, Alannah is involved in National Honor Society, band, choir, CLC Honors, and teacher assistant. Her favorite classes are choir, Spanish IV, band, and advanced Chemistry. When asked her feelings about receiving this honor, she stated, “I’m very glad to have received this award. I’m also thankful to Mr. Epping for always voting/ for nominating me.”

Student Government Day

Student Reporter: Jarred Lucas


Student Government Day was held at the Sheboygan County courthouse in Sheboygan Wisconsin on April 15, 2009. Students from various high schools around the county were invited to participate in an advanced look into local and county wide government operations. Students were brought into the county council meeting room where they participated in a mock debate led by local 4-H leaders and a few county officials. At this debate everyone was given the opportunity to voice their opinions on the subject at hand.


After the debate was finished all the attending students were brought into the Sheboygan County Jail and shown around the facilities including holding cells, the navigation center, as well as the emergency center. While in the jail, students were given opportunities to have various questions answered by the Chief of Police in Sheboygan County. From this point the students were led into the courthouse and where allowed to again ask questions to the assistant District Attorney. Finishing up the court experience was Judge James Bolgert. He put together a mock trial and used this trial to teach the students of the trial procedure.


After the trial was over everyone in attendance was provided with a lunch, donated by the local lions clubs. The lunch was followed by a seminar about local opportunities for kids to help out in government. With lunch being over, the students where led in their two groups to the records offices and were allowed to look up local records and land ordinances. Many students seemed interested and spent a lot of time looking through land blue prints and were even allowed to take old land prints home with them. On behalf of everyone that attended Student Government Day we would like to thank the Sheboygan County 4-H club and the Lions Club of Sheboygan.

Acuity Business Challenge

Student Reporter: Kayla Zimmer


On Saturday, March 7th, 48 teams of 96 students gathered at Acuity to compete in the Acuity Business Challenge. Students from nine area high schools competed to sell an imaginary product called the “Holo- Generator”. Students needed to use their brains and a lot of creativity to sell their product in different financial situations and real life economic times like booms and recessions. Not only did they have to make economic decisions, but they also had to deal with financial issues and running a business.


Teams were made up of two students and one adult business coach who could assist the students when they needed help. The students needed to run their business wisely, work hard, and make wise on the dime decisions to try to be one of the few to make it to the top.


Among the top contestants were Jordan Vrubley and Amanda Isken, who were runners up. They each won two year scholarships to UW-Sheboygan and were automatically entered into the state business challenge on April 30th. Also among the winners were students James Gallager and Alex Isken, who were Industry C winners of the groups ranging from A to F.


All of the students who participated in the event had a good time. Andy Post said, “The Business Challenge was a fun and exciting event, and I learned a lot from it.” The Acuity Business Challenge was an opportunity to learn how businesses are really run and at the same time have fun interacting with other people in the business world.

Badger State

Student Reporter: Eddie Guevara


This summer, Wisconsin will hold its 66th annual Badger Girls State and its 68th annual Badger Boys State events. This year, the Cedar Grove-Belgium representatives are Tyler Weavers and Kelly DelPonte for Sheboygan County and Jake Shanahan and Erika Kirst for Ozaukee County. When asked about being selected, Erika Kirst replied, “I’m honored to be chosen as Badger Girl rep and I’m looking forward to attending the program in June.
Badger State is a school of government training which divides students into two political parties which are the Federalist and the Nationalists. From there students will contrive their own issues, giving them the opportunity to learn government strategies firsthand.
The girl’s event, which is sponsored by The American Legion Auxiliary and the Department of Wisconsin, will be held from June 21-26 at the University of Oshkosh. Badger Boys State, which is sponsored by local American Legion Posts, will be held the week prior from June 13-20 at Ripon College campus.
Congratulations, Kelly, Tyler, Jake, and Erika!

Jarred Lucas Receives Honor

Student Reporter: Tim Baumann


One of Cedar Grove–Belgium’s high school seniors, Jarred Lucas, has been honored with Unanimous First Team All Badger Land. This is an honor for the five best and hardest working hockey players in the Badger Land conference. Being unanimously selected means that every coach in their conference agreed he deserved first team. The conference had a lot of great players, including Matt Pappe from state ranked number one Appleton United, Casey Holmes from the number six Fon du lac Cardinals, and Max McCormick from the number 12 Notre Dame tritons.


Jarred ended the season with 4 goals and 22 assists; great numbers for a defensive player. It is not all about the amount of points they have on the year, but also has to do with the effort and how much they contributed in their team’s success. Jarred averaged forty eight minutes of the fifty one minutes possible during the games. During the games Jarred helped the goalie out protecting the net, and only let 2.9 goals a game.


“It’s an honor to receive this award and it was fairly unexpected, but I have to give a lot of credit to my teammates, I couldn’t have done it without them,” said Jarred Lucas when asked about his award.


On behalf of everyone in the Cedar Grove-Belgium community, congratulations Jarred and good luck to you in the future.