Time Machine Trip to April 1982

Kaukauna Times April 1972

By Lyle Hansen

April 1, 1982

Matt Welhouse set a new school record at Kaukauna High School by clearing 6-feet, 6 2/3 inches in the high jump at Manitowoc track meet last week.

 

A parent support group will begin at Kaukauna high school on Tuesday April 13th and run for eight consecutive Tuesdays. It is being offered for parents experiencing serious difficulties with their teenage children. The small group meetings will be for 1 1/2 hours to cover various effective parenting skills.

 

Employees of the Kaukauna Times had the fun of being in pictures when a movie making crew came to tape a story about the newspaper’s recovery from the fire of last June 7th. The finishing product will be part of an advertising promotion for the makers of the keyboard equipment that is used in the electronic typesetting process at the Kaukauna Times. The Micro-Tek company of Wichita, KS is the company headquarters.

 

Mayor Robert L LaPlante has thrown his support behind Thomas J Schaefer in the Kaukauna race for mayor. LaPlante said “After hearing the two candidates for mayor of the city expressing themselves it is my opinion that Mr. Thomas Schaeffer is the best qualified candidate for this important position.”

 

April 6, 1982

Corporate cash donations to the 1000 Island Environmental Center will be set toward the purchase of a small tractor for use in the conservancy zone. Members of the environmental committee made that recommendation and heard a proposal for the creation of a muskie rearing pond in the area.

April 8, 1982

Ronald L. Van De Hey became Kaukauna’s new mayor winning by better than a 2 to 1 margin over Thomas Schaffer.

 

“Coach of the Year” is becoming a familiar title to Lindy Kemp. The 1963 Kaukauna High School graduate who now coaches’ girls’ basketball has been selected to receive the honor a second time. She was the first recipient of the annual Freeman coach of the year award at the conclusion of the 1976-77 basketball season and again chosen this year for the same award in recognition for her outstanding work as coach of the Brookfield East High School Girls’ basketball team.

 

April 13, 1982

Ted Malkowski was picked as the Most Valuable Player on the varsity boys basketball team at Kaukauna high school for the 1981-82 season. The 5-foot 10-inch senior guard was the leading scorer in the Fox Valley Association and earned a spot on the second team in the all-conference voting of the league’s coaches.

 

Jerry Bryant, an associate athletic director who also coaches cross country for the boys’ and girls’ team and an assistant track coach at Kaukauna high school, was in Madison this past week to donate a kidney to his brother.

 

April 15, 1982

A wage hike of 7.6% for employees at the Heart of Valley Metropolitan Sewerage District was approved Tuesday evening by the district’s commission. Included in the package was an across the board $0.36 per hour hike retroactive to January 1st.

 

April 22, 1982

Reigning as King and Queen of the Kaukauna High School Junior Prom this Saturday evening will be Tom Vondracek and Lisa Pfister.

 

After presiding over his first, council meeting Tuesday, Mayor Ronald Van De Hey indicated that a review of the future of the Wisconsin Ave. lift bridge and a public meeting to discuss the city's financials would be his first two projects.

 

April 27, 1982

Army Corps of Engineers personnel prepared this week to flood the Fox River canal system for what appears to be an abbreviated final season of navigation. Due to federal budget cutbacks, the budget for the Fox River project office has been cut from $1.5 million to $420,000 which would necessitate the closing of the system.

 

April 29, 1982

Wisconsin Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus is firmly convinced that there should be no move to select his successor. Dreyfus announced this week that he would not run for a second term in Madison and that he had decided there would be no federal post on his horizon.