Williams Bay student wins car
By Tom Ganser
Correspondent
More than 80 high school students, parents, teachers, school administrators and area law enforcement personnel gathered together at Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan April 24 for the annual Walworth County Operation Click banquet.
Near the end of it, Andrew Olson from Williams Bay High School was the first in a line of 16 students from eight high schools to try starting a 2006 Kia Spectra. With a quick twist of the key, Olson started his new set of wheels, provided by Kunes Country Chevrolet, including tax, title and license.
The schools represented at the banquet and students randomly selected for keys included: Badger – Bridget Bartal and Jacob Berhorst; Big Foot – Kathryn Colby and Courtney Jass; Catholic Central of Burlington – Cole Kresken and Kevin Maus; Delavan-Darien – Gage Wuttke; East Troy – Jenna Bornfleth, Jonathon Brehn and Adam Rhode; Elkhorn – Shane Biernin and Jesse Larson; Whitewater – Andrew Gildner and Landon Walker; and Williams Bay – Olson and Sabryn DeNotto.
Nicholas Pyam, vice president of Operation Click, said that for each school with a 95 percent seat belt compliance average for the school year, a student was randomly selected to pick a key. A second student, if applicable, was selected based on the approval of the school’s end-of-year report by the Board of Directors for Operation Click. In addition, Rhode, of East Troy, was chosen as Operation Click’s Student of the Year.
Operation Click president Sean McGrath in1998 in Crystal Lake, Ill. with the program currently including 29 Illinois high schools in five chapters. In addition to the Walworth County chapter, Craig, Edgerton, Evansville, Parker and Parkview high schools make up the Rock County chapter. Pyam said at the banquet two new Wisconsin chapters are forming in Kenosha and Waukesha counties.
