NORTHWEST REGION

Northwest Region ‘Xtreme Bulls vs. Broncs’ Event Shaping Up to be a Wild Ride

RICE LAKE – A special memorial edition of the Xtreme 2021 PRCA “Buckin Mania” Tour is coming to the Barron County Fairgrounds in Rice Lake for an action-packed night on Saturday, Sept. 11. Professional cowboys will compete in bareback riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding. A share of more than $30,000 in prize money will be the incentive for these riders to be at the top of their game. Of course, the bulls and broncs will be looking to send their riders flying onto the arena floor. Also featured will be F-16’s flying over the site, Sergeant Dana Bowman parachuting into the rodeo arena, Miss Rodeo America, Miss Rodeo Wisconsin, BBQ Fest in afternoon and so much more. It’s shaping up to be the best and largest PRCA-sanctioned Xtreme Bulls & Broncs Riding Event ever presented in Wisconsin, according to the event organizer. The rodeo will be televised on the Cowboy Channel. For more information and to purchase tickets in advance, visit barroncountyxtremebull.com or call 715403-5162. Gates open at 5 p.m. Throughout the day there will be crafts and vendors, classic car show, antique tractor show, live music, raffles, kids bounce house, hayrides and helicopter rides. Don’t rush home to feed the hombres as they can tie on the feedbag right there at the arena.

Put Cable Area Fall Fest on Your Road Trip List

CABLE – Wisconsin’s fall festivals are nearly ripe for the picking. Among the more popular ones you surely must visit is the Cable Area Fall Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 24-25. The woods in and around Cable will be ablaze with Mother Nature’s handiwork, transforming the landscape into the brilliant colors of orange, red and yellow that mark “Colorama” in the Northwoods. Cornstalks, hay bales and pumpkins will line the roads throughout the Cable community. Activities kick off Friday with local stores offering specials, and a Fall Harvest dessert contest. The evening concludes with a community dinner, beer and wine garden, and live music. Bring your dancing shoes. Saturday kicks it up a notch with a pumpkin pecan pancake breakfast, art and craft vendors (some will be demonstrating), car/motorcycle/truck show, live music, bounce houses and carnival games. You’re welcomed to talk “shop” with the owners of the show vehicles and help decide the People’s Choice Award. The Food Court features many different cuisines. A tent will feature local restaurants’ bestselling pies, burgers, turkey legs and more. Watch local chefs whip up their personal delectable dishes and give them a taste!

Jack’s Back and With as Much Fun as Ever WaterMania is Back and Wetter than Ever!

SPOONER – Jack Pine Savage Days celebration in Spooner is back and none the worse for wear after a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sponsored by the Spooner Area Chamber of Commerce, the 2021 version will be Aug 6-7. There will an arts & crafts fair (both days), carnival games for kids, family bingo, food booths and live music on Friday. Then on Saturday morning, grab a pancake breakfast at the fire station. Saturday’s events include a 5K race, duck race, sand volleyball tournament, horseshoe tournament, beanbag tournament, kid zone and carnival games, family chalk contest, and more live music in the evening hours. CHETEK – Chetek Lake will be buzz’n’ with excitement come the weekend of Aug. 28 & 29 in Chetek. The Twin City Power Boat Association (TCPBA) will return to the lake with some of the fastest competitive powerboat racing in the Midwest. The races (boats can reach 135 mph!) will take place in front of the Hydroflites Water Ski Show Team’s site. The water ski club itself will have a Saturday night show. Admission is free with vehicle parking at $5. Beer and other concessions will be available, as well as WaterMania t-shirts. More information about the race series is available at tcpba.org.

Scheers Lumberjack Shows is a great family adventure. Lumberjacks invite kids from the audience onstage during matinee intermissions to cross-cut saw with the lumberjacks.

The canoe joust is one of the events in the Lumberjack Shows that keeps the crowd laughing.

Don’t Miss a Highlight of the Summer – a Lumberjack Show!

HAYWARD – It was 39 years ago Fred Scheer and his brother, Robert, created a new form of family entertainment, a lumberjack show, for northern Wisconsin visitors. The two brothers and their four sisters had spent numerous summers as kids balancing and rolling on the logs on Lake Hayward in the bay of North Wisconsin Lumber Company. Their summer fun trained them to become fierce competitors in the logrolling event (birling) of the Lumberjack World Championships (LWC) held in Hayward every July. The young Scheers expanded their activities and became skillful at the boom run and pole climbing, as well as other events that were part of the LWC. In 1981, the two brothers established the original Scheer’s Lumberjack Show and used their lumberjack skills to entertain area tourists. More than a demonstration, the show features a competition between two lumberjack teams as they do 10 different events, including logrolling, pole climbing and crosscut saw. Cheering the teams on gets the crowd involved in the show and down-home humor has everybody chuckling. The original venue for the show in 1981 was a small dock on the shore of Lake Hayward, behind what was then Windmill Square. The show’s lumberjacks delighted small crowds and it soon became apparent the production needed more space. With encouragement from Tony Wise, the legendary Hayward promoter, Fred and Robert Scheer moved the show to its present location, Lumberjack Village. After that the Woodruff location opened up. Fred is now the sole owner of Fred Scheer’s Lumberjack Shows and the Lumberjack Village. Training young athletes to be lumberjacks is still a fulfilling role for Fred. Through the years many lumberjacks have come, performed and moved on to other careers. Numerous world champion logrollers, pole climbers and boom-runners had their start as apprentices in Fred Scheer’s Lumberjack Show and the cast has always included world champion lumberjacks. A world champion log roller himself, Fred occasionally delights audiences by personally participating in a show. For all the years Scheer’s Lumberjack Shows has been in Hayward, it continues to draw crowds. One might say that a visit to northern Wisconsin isn’t complete without seeing a Scheer’s Lumberjack Show.

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