September 2022

MIDDLETON–Mary Diana Helt passed away on Aug. 29, 2022 at age 77. She was born in Kenosha on September 25, 1944. 

Mary married Donald Helt on April 20, 1963. Don preceded her in death in 2015.

Mary was a caregiver her whole life beginning with taking care of her siblings and into her adult years caring for her family and the elderly. She enjoyed gambling, cards and crafts. Most of all she loved spending time with her children and grandchildren. 

She will be dearly missed by her children: Donald, Jr. (Kathleen), Gregory (Dawn), Michael (Jennifer), Brian (Merri) and Andrea (Richard) Ziegler; 15 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; sister Phyllis (Everett) Duvall; sister-in-law, Sandy Hinkle; and other extended family and friends. 

She was preceded in death by her parents William and Kay Cole, husband Don, and brother Bruce Hinkle. 

MIDDLETON–Kathleen Ann Ballweg, 70, of Middleton, passed away on July 6, 2022. She was born at Madison General Hospital in Madison. on June 5, 1952, the eldest daughter of George Edwin Ballweg and his wife Margaret Gertrude (Coghlan) Ballweg.

She was raised in Middleton and graduated from Middleton High School in 1970. She was smart, adventurous, and confident, and she loved her family and friends very much.

While living in Madison, she went from cooking at Rennebohm’s while in high school to selling shoes at Manchester’s department store. Then, she fell in love with San Francisco and moved to California where she continued to work in the shoe business. She managed The Little Daisy in the Embarcadero Center then in Strawberry Village in Mill Valley, CA.

TOWN OF MERTON — The season is young.

The postseason remains six weeks away.

So Middleton boys cross country coach Brian Finnel didn’t get too excited when he learned his Cardinals had jumped to No. 1 in the latest Wisconsin Cross Country Coaches Association poll.

What did excite Finnel, though, is how Middleton backed up that lofty ranking at the Arrowhead Invitational on Sept. 8.

The Cardinals ran a tremendous race and finished first with just 63 points as a team. No. 2 Mukwonago was second with 76. Brookfield East (161), Pewaukee (167) and host Arrowhead (183) — who are all ranked in the top-20 — rounded out the top five at the 18-team event.

“We came out ready to race, both mentally and physically,” Finnel said. “This was a great team accomplishment and edging out No. 2 Mukwonago is a good confidence builder, too.”

Middleton’s girls, who are also ranked No. 1, finished third at this star-studded event.

VERONA – It was a clash of the two teams expected to vie for the Big Eight Conference championship, and Middleton had host Verona right where it wanted.

But too many penalties, which led to missed opportunities, cost the Cardinals dearly.

Former soccer player Drew Chorlton booted two field goals in the fourth quarter to lift Verona to a hard-fought 13-7 victory over Middleton in a prep football battle last Friday evening.

“We left a lot of plays on the field,” Middleton head coach Jason Pertzborn said after the Cardinals were penalized 13 times for 105 yards. “That game should not have been the way it was. That’s for sure.”

Chorlton kicked a 37-yard field goal with 6 minutes, 16 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, then drilled a 31-yard field goal with 2:12 to play to help extend Verona’s winning streak to three games.