Leave it to a group of marketing students to come up with one of the more interesting fundraisers at Port Washington High School.

    The school’s DECA club is sponsoring a Mr. PHS pageant at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 11, to raise money for its trip later this month to the DECA International Career Development Conference in Anaheim, Calif. Two of the club’s members have qualified to compete in events during the conference.

    The pageant will feature 11 male Port High students who will compete in categories that include group dance, formal and casual wear, talent and personal interview.

    They will be judged by a panel of area residents and teachers.

    The audience will be asked to select a people’s choice winner, with proceeds from this portion of the pageant benefitting the winner’s charity of choice.

    Tickets are $3 and may be purchased in the high school office or at the door on the night of the event.
    The school is at 427 W. Jackson St.

A teenager was struck by a vehicle while walking to Port Washington High School Wednesday morning, and police are asking for help in finding the motorist who hit her.

    The girl, a freshman special-needs student, told officers she was crossing Grand Avenue at Webster Street between 7:15 and 7:20 a.m. when a vehicle passing on the
right side of the road struck her left leg and ran over her foot, according to police.

    The girl, who was in the crosswalk, described the vehicle as a small silver or white car with a round, blue-and-white sticker on the back.    

    The driver stopped initially, but then left the scene, police said.

    The student did not fall and kept walking to school, reporting the incident once she got to the school office, police said.

    The girl was not seriously injured.

    Other vehicles were waiting for the girl to cross the road when the incident occurred, and police hope these motorists or other pedestrians may have information about
the accident.

    Anyone with information is asked to call the department at 284-2611 and refer to incident report 13-2009.

Sentry Foods, McDonald’s report getting phony $100 bills

Port Washington merchants are being warned that counterfeit $100 bills are being circulated in the area.

    Two local businesses — Sentry Foods and McDonald’s — reported to police that counterfeit bills were passed to their clerks Thursday and Friday, March 21 and 22.

    The bills were confiscated and turned over to the Secret Service, which investigates cases of counterfeiting.

    According to Port Washington police, the bills were created by bleaching $5 bills and then altering them to appear to be $100 bills.

    The pens used by businesses to check the authenticity of currency won’t pick up the problem because the bills are real — just the wrong denomination, police said.

    Clerks are urged to check the watermark and hologram. According to police, an authentic $100 bill will not only have a security strip on the left side but a hologram of Benjamin Franklin on the right.

    Anyone who discovers a counterfeit bill is asked to contact police at 284-2611.

    In other police news:

    • A 16-year-old student at Port Washington High School was cited for possession of alcohol shortly before noon March 20 after it was discovered she had four 50-milliliter bottles of liquor in her locker.

    According to police, school authorities received a tip that the girl had alcohol and checked her locker. They notified police after finding it.

    A breath test revealed the girl had no alcohol in her system, police said.

    • A 23-year-old man was cited for damage to property March 20 after his car got stuck in a snowdrift in St. Mary’s Cemetery on West Beutel Road.

    According to police, the driver placed a heavy book on the accelerator of his Cadillac Deville and pushed his car out of the snowbank. However, because of the weight on the gas pedal, the vehicle rapidly traveled backward with no driver to control it, striking two gravestones before coming to rest atop a concrete marker.

    The vehicle had to be towed from the scene, police said.